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How AIDA Can Increase Sales
AIDA – Attention, Interest, Desire and Action
Those who are new to marketing are often at a loss on how to best go about selling their product or service. There are so many options to consider, but without a correct strategy it is like shooting an arrow into the air. With no system in place, your selling tactic is as likely to succeed as that randomly shot arrow.
One of the best ways to start your learning is knowing one of the oldest—but still one of the most helpful—tools in selling. This is AIDA, an acronym for "Attention, Interest, Desire and Action."
Some writers have modified AIDA by adding additional steps, like "S" for customer satisfaction and retention, saying that selling is not the end of the process if you are to maximize future sales. Other marketing authorities have even made more radical changes to the model. These developments are inevitable as improvements will always occur sooner or later. It is up to you to study what is best for your needs. For now, let us discuss the basic AIDA model.
Catching Your Market's Attention
The "A" in AIDA, which is grabbing the "attention" of potential customers, is one of its most crucial points. Although seemingly obvious, many new entrepreneurs ignore this principle. One of the most glaring blunders on attention-grabbing is the use of non-descriptive business names. Since your business name is one of the first things people see about your company, it is highly advantageous if it is instantly clear what your company is about.
This point also includes your decision in terms of advertising and promotion. Often, a lot of cash is wasted on reaching people who are not good prospects for your product. Being visible to a hundred thousand people may be less desirable than being noticed by a thousand highly qualified prospects.
In writing your advertisement, special care must be taken so that your headline catches attention. Many copywriters believe that the headline is more critical than the rest of the copy. So important is the headline, that in the copywriting trade jargon, they often call it the "hook"—an analogy to fishing. While it is possible to overdo it and make your heading too loud, devaluing your brand image, usually the error is on the side of being too bland.
Before we get to the next letter in AIDA, another common violation I have observed is that small business owners have a tendency to create signage that is either too small or unattractive. This is understandable because of the limited funds. However, I believe that if the entrepreneur knows how much sales are lost because of this, they would invest in this more. Remember that your product must be noticed before anything else.
Next Steps
The letter "I" is developing "interest" in your offering. Creating interest means making content that is relevant to your market's needs and desires. There is some confusion as to the difference between the "interest" stage and the "desire" stage. The truth is, in some cases, there is no clear demarcation. Nevertheless, there is a difference; and it is important you be aware, as each stage requires a different approach. The interest stage is where you present information that is interesting to a potential consumer of your product. You are laying the groundwork for the desire stage.
"D" for "desire" is where you convince your audience that they should purchase the product or service. You have to show that your particular product is the answer to the problems or needs you have previously mentioned. The mindset of the customer at this stage should be that of possessing your product.
The last is "A"—getting action for the purchase—which is the icing on the cake. If you have done the preliminary steps, then this should be less difficult. In the case of personal selling, however, there are some people who falter in this final step. For other types of sales, it is simply a matter of making clear and easy what the buyer has to do to obtain the product. Since the sale is highly probable at this point, it would be easier to justify more costly measures to close the sale.
There are many situations that do not follow the usual pattern. You do not need to be bound strictly by the sequence of AIDA. If the customer already desires the product, then you can already focus at once on the action stage.
Generating sales requires investment of both money and effort. Having no sales model to guide you is a surefire formula for disaster.
*Originally published by the Manila Bulletin. D-4, Sunday, February 16, 2014. Written by Ruben Anlacan, Jr. (President, BusinessCoach, Inc.) All rights reserved. May not be reproduced or copied without express written permission of the copyright holders.


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Is It Time for Your Security Team To Start Seeing Red? | Infosecurity Professional INSIGHTS
This is a very interesting article featuring the good friends at the Red Team Journal.
This section is one of the key points, in my opinion.
Skills Required for a Red Team
Devost cautions not to view - or convey - a red team as a pass or fail experiment but as a vehicle in an ongoing learning experience to continuously improve the company's security posture and business line.
A critical skill of a red team member is the ability to see an overall system, not just stovepipes, and to be mentally facile at thinking like a bad guy to develop and discover exploits.
Another important trait is effectively communicating findings in a way that encourages action, not animosity.
"Red teamers do themselves a disservice if they play Chicken Little and keep telling people the sky is falling," Mateski said. "Communicating with decision-makers from a risk-driven perspective is critical. That's one thing that separates the novice from the experienced red teamer, who has the ability to communicate in risk language."

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text: Human Rights Observatory Malaysians Brace Themselves as Government Cuts Key Subsidies Malaysian authorities are slashing subsidies on fuel, natural gas and sugar in a bid to get government debt under control. As the steps take a hit on consumers' finances, critics say authorities should instead target government waste and graft. The Malaysian government has been running deficits since the Asian financial crisis in 1998. Late last year, it took its first major step to reign in spending by slashing huge fuel subsidies. People, like mother of two Chan Sook Peng, say...Read complete article© Voice of America - Wednesday, January 8, 2014


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In its effort at eradicating criminality and drug abuse in the country and states, the National Drug Law Enforcement Agency (NDLEA) in Kwara State said it has uncovered a warehouse in Ilorin metropolis where 4.336 tons of cannabis sativa were allegedly stored.
According to Ceoafrica, the state commander of the drug enforcement agency, Reuben Apeh, said the warehouse which was stocked with 396 bags of cannabis sativa (hemp), weighing 4.336 tons was uncovered in Osere area, along Asa Dam road in the metropolis, in which no arrest was made.
"We are still doing the best we can, to ensure that the culprits do not go out of hands, we are still trailing them," he said, adding that the seizure was made on the 9th of January, 2017 after about two weeks of acting on tip off from members of the public.
"The seizure was a great relief to humanity considering the effects the use of such drugs could have on the socioeconomic development of the state and Nigeria as a whole.
"Cannabis sativa is a very highly controlled drug not only in Nigeria, whose effects are synonymous with cocaine," he said, urging journalists to always educate the public particularly the youths about the negative effects of the use of such drugs on the family, the society, state and country as a whole.


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Luckily for humanity, insects can drown, except for fire ants. And in the U.K., citizens are being asked by researchers to drown wasps in beer, in the name of science.
Ecologists are asking U.K. citizens to leave a glass of beer in their gardens to attract and kill wasps, so that they can be examined. Wasps are notorious drunks. The researchers want to do a sort of headcount on wasp species, and figure this is a good way to do it.
Predictably, animal rights activists are upset that scientists are asking the public to kill wasps, saying that the alcohol traps will kill other insects, like honeybees.
But the only real concern here should be that this plan involves wasting perfectly good beer, albeit for a noble cause.


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Hurd tells CNBC that he's happy at Oracle
NEW YORK — Oracle President Mark Hurd says he's not planning on becoming Microsoft's next CEO.
Hurd tells CNBC that he's happy at the business software maker and doesn't expect to be going anywhere.
Microsoft Corp. CEO Steve Ballmer announced in August that he planned to step down as head of the Redmond, Wash., company within the next year.
Hurd's name has been floated as a possible replacement. Other potential candidates include current Ford Motor Co. CEO Alan Mulally.
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Groene at the Legislature: Teacher absences, substitutes
Mail: Southern statues symbolize suppression
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Jesus (Jesse) Montana was deemed incompetent Monday to answer charges of theft by shoplifting-third offense, as well as second-degree trespassing.
The Lincoln County attorney's office previously requested a mental evaluation of Montana and presented the report to Lincoln County District Judge Richard Birch.
Birch said the evaluation report will be sealed, but Montana will receive "whatever treatment the regional center recommends."
Montana, 51, is homeless. He has been regularly seen around town for several years, often sweeping the downtown sidewalks during the evenings and telling fantastical stories about his life to anyone who would listen. He is also well known in the court system, having served 701 days in jail from December 2011 through August 2016 on a variety of minor charges -- 10 trespassing charges, seven disturbing the peace, five shoplifting, two drinking on public property, one assault, one criminal mischief and one carrying a concealed weapon.
He has been in jail 148 days on his latest shoplifting and trespass charges.
Birch scheduled Montana for a court appearance on Feb. 26 to review the outcome of his treatment and the status of his case.
Failure to appear: Perdomo
A man who tried to open a bank account with a large fraudulant check from Beirut did not show up for sentencing Monday.
Rudy Perdomo, 27, is convicted of attempted conspiracy to commit theft and second-degree forgery.
According to the North Platte Police, Perdomo, 27, was arrested after officers met with an employee of North Platte Farmers State Bank on Rodeo Road on Jan. 28, 2016, about a fraudulent check that Perdomo asked to be deposited in his account.
Perdomo told the clerk that the $2,580 check from the American University of Beirut was his payroll check.
The bank was suspicious and put a 10-day hold on the check, police said.
On Feb. 5, investigators met with the bank employee, who said that the check was returned on Feb. 1 as altered/fictitious. The bank employee said Perdomo came in that day and asked why there was no money in his account. When he was told the deposit was invalid, he said he would close his account.
Perdomo was found and arrested on April 14, 2016.
Following a series of hearings and continuances, Perdomo pled no contest to the reduced charges on July 10. A presentence investigation was ordered and sentencing set for Sept. 11.
In court Monday, Defense Attorney Blaine Gillett asked the court to continue the arraignment, giving his client a chance to appear. Deputy County Attorney Kortnei Hoeft objected.
Birch denied Gillett's request, revoked Perdomo's bond and issued a warrant for his arrest.
Also, Carman Farley was convicted Monday of attempted possession of marijuana with intent to distribute and sentenced to 24 months' probation.
Farley, 51, pled no contest in a plea deal. A charge of possession of hashish was dismissed.
In exchange for Farley's plea, the county recommended probation.
Defense Attorney Kent Florom said his client, a wheelchair bound disabled 20- year Army veteran, would be a good candidate for probation.
Farley previously lived in Arvada, Colo. and recently moved to Minnesota.
According to court records, she was arrested April 3 after the Nebraska State Patrol stopped her car for displaying expired Minnesota plates. Officers found marijuana and packages of hash in the car. Farley, a passenger, admitted that the drugs belonged to her.
Florom asked for her probation to be transferred to Minnesota.
Birch said the transfer "seemed reasonable" and with no objections from the county, honored Florom's request.
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My mother doesn't drink. Yes. We call this Ironic.
I used to see her drink, there is photographic evidence, but one day in her 40's, she decided to stop her weekly glass of white when she found out her thyroid was out of whack. That's my mother's way, if something isn't right, in her life, she'll just change it. She's pretty good at change.
My mother left her home in her Barbados and the only life she knew to live in Canada in 1960. She was fortunate that her two older sisters had already come up here, but she was significantly younger than them – and just a wee bit rebellious.
My mother in the 60s… drank. There was a time she was out at every West Indian social club in the city (and the Scotian one for good measure). I'm still trying to find out more about the time she went to a club in Detroit and got stranded there when her ride – her friend's boyfriend – got into a fight and he said "find your own way home!" To Toronto.
In the late 60s my mother drank Martinis at the Four Seasons Bar each Friday with the girls from the office. New dress every week. Standing in line at Azan's to get her hair pressed and curled to perfection.
When her roommate introduced her to my father, she wasn't impressed. She had a good life; what could HE offer? In fact, when my father rang my mother up to ask her out on a date, she declined saying she didn't have anything to wear…
While looking at three dresses in her closet with the tags still on them.
My mother in the 70s spent her life living between Toronto and Jamaica for months at a time. The jet setter life was one my older sister experienced, but by the time I showed up, those days were done, and so was my parents' marriage.
(Thank goodness)
Ask my mother about the time she "forgot" she was married, and instead of going home to cook dinner for my father, she went for cocktails with the girls. Came home to find my father struggling to make scrambled eggs on the stove at 11:30 pm.
My mother in the 80s saw her world crash right along with the economy. That's when she started making changes and fighting back. She regrouped at her older sister's house with her two kids. Got a couple of jobs. An apartment. A rhythm.
A survival system.
One day, my mother looked in the cupboards. She was between paycheques, and the cupboards showed how bad the situation was. She doesn't know that I remember, but I watched my mother swallow her pride and call a friend for a loan. He was an old friend of my father's who would check in on us. I remember him handing her the $50 and taking her to the Knob Hill Farms to buy food. My mother swore through gritted teeth and tears that the cupboards would never be empty again.
She's kept that promise.
I don't know how much my mother went without because I never knew we were lacking. I never missed a birthday. Or a Christmas. We had vacations. She sent my sister and I out to get our hair done (we had a lot of hair, and she didn't have that much patience).
I never went without food, clothing, or knowledge. When I started asking questions she couldn't answer, she bought the encyclopedia set in installments. Don't ask me about stuff after F though.
My mother in the 80s saw that technology was going to make her job obsolete, she got a loan, went back to school, and learned what was next. When the layoffs hit, she was ready.
When I was in grade 4, I caught a vicious cold, the kind that lingers in your chest for weeks. Finally the cold was gone, along with my voice. About a week after the worst of it, my mom woke me up to get ready for school. I got out of bed and hit the floor.
"Stop playing. It's time to get up."
"I can't. I can't feel my legs."
It was March. There was a lot of snow on the ground. My mom didn't know how to drive. She called my doctor, called her job to tell them the situation, picked me up and carried me.
She carried my 9 year old paralyzed from the waist down body on public transit from Jane n' Finch to Bathurst and Lawrence. For non-Toronto residents, that's about an hour of travel. In the middle of winter. At the doctor, who couldn't figure out what was wrong, she kept her cool while they put me in a cab to go to SickKids. She kept her composure while they poked and prodded. By four o'clock I could walk again, so we got back on transit and headed home. She made me my favourite foods and let me stay up late.
When teachers told her that her little Black girls would be better off in remedial classes or taking up trades, she took time off work to cuss them in person. You have not lived until you see a 5'2 Bajan woman cuss out a 6'2 school principal in the school's atrium, waving proof of his lack of a high school diploma in his face calling him a hypocrite.
There's flight and there is fight. My mother will choose fight every single time. So will I. So we're gonna skip over the 90s because well…lots of fights.
In fact, there is only one time I saw my mother choose flight. When the doctor looked at the clock in the ER and called the time of death for my sister one New Year's Day. She ran from the room screaming. It was the second time she lost a child and it was too much to bear.
She fought back from the lowest depths of depression for one reason: me. I overheard her say to a friend that she had to stay strong for me. I went into my room and cried silently. The irony was that I had been trying to stay strong for her, following her example that you must always fight.
So I do. In her honour.
Yes. #mymothermakesmedrink…
Each time I do, I raise a glass in her honour.


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|Featured in this EMEA Hospitality Newsletter - Week Ending 4 February 2005
|Silken And Accor Descend On London
|A first trip to the UK beckons for Spanish company Silken Hoteles. Foster and Partners has secured permission to build a luxury 170-room hotel behind the facade of Marconi House on the Aldwych in central London. To the Spanish the centre of town, and to the French the Surrey suburbs: Accor is to give Sutton a 200-room Ibis hotel and what will probably be a 100-room Novotel. Golfrate Property Management will build the Ibis on top of the St Nicholas Shopping Centre and the Novotel within the Sutherland House office block.
|Conrad Hotels Hopes To Celebrate Its 50th In 2010
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|Conrad Hotels has at present 17 hotels to its name around the world. It is the earnest wish of Hilton Hotels Corporation (HHC) and Hilton International that this figure should be 50 in five years' time, and so the pair have acted now in an attempt to make the wish come true by appointing Dieter Huckestein to the position of Chairman and Chief Executive of Conrad Hotels. Mr Huckestein, formerly the president of HHC's owned and managed hotel operations, will lead the expansion, which will come about through Conrad's traditional method: that of securing management contracts.
|For Sale: The London Marriott Hotel Park Lane
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|The gradual sale of some of its hotel assets is part of Marylebone Warwick Balfour's plan, and as The Times reports this week the next lot on offer is the London Marriott Hotel Park Lane. The newspaper reports an asking price of up to £110 million for the 157-room, five-star property. Marriott International's management contract would be unaffected by any deal.
|Banyan Tree Grows
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|Anyone quietly contemplating the Banyan Tree Group recently will have felt the tremor caused by the roots, so firmly sunk in the Far East, beginning to burrow westwards. The first new example of this species of luxury resort and spa operator has already bloomed in the emirate of Dubai in the shape of the Angsana Spa & Health Club Dubai Marina. The developer Emaar Properties did the nurturing. Dubai Properties and Muzoon Holdings have the 2007 show in mind, working as they are on, respectively, the 50-villa Banyan Tree Resort and Spa at Jumeirah Beach and the 150-room Banyan Tree Hotel near Dubai Media City. Dubai will receive seven of the total of more than ten properties that Banyan Tree expects to develop over the next few years. Egypt, Kuwait and Morocco are the other countries that Banyan Tree has targeted.
|Starhotels Gets The Keys To The Door Of The Hotel Castille
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|Starhotels decided it would do something a little bit different for its twenty-first; after all, the luxury chain already has 19 hotels in its native Italy and has been to New York. So the company headed for Paris and paid €31.4 million for the 107-room Hotel Castille. Starhotels will spend some €1 million on renovation work on the renamed Starhotels Castille. Also stepping out into the hotel arena this week is the Spanish shoe company Camper, which has opened the €11 million Casa Camper in Barcelona. The 25-room boutique hotel is part of the design hotels portfolio.
|Mövenpick Enters Tanzania
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|Last month came reports that Tanruss Investment had sold the Royal Palm Hotel in the Tanzanian port of Dar es Salaam. But who was the unnamed buyer and to whom did South African company Legacy Hotels & Resorts hand the managerial reins? Both questions have now been answered. The buyer who took a 96% stake in the 251-room hotel was Kingdom Hotel Investments (KHI) and the new manager is Mövenpick Hotels & Resorts. KHI will treat the renamed Mövenpick Royal Palm Hotel Dar es Salaam to a renovation programme costing US$2 million.
|Old Hotels Never Die
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|Those Muscovites who witnessed the demolition of the Moskva Hotel and reflected sadly that they would not see its like again may have cause to wipe the mix of tears and brick dust from their eyes. The Moscow Times reports that the city's mayor Yury Luzhkov, who had earlier flirted with the idea of transforming the space left by the 1,000-room relic of the Soviet era into a public square, has reverted to the plan for a new hotel. The newspaper notes that developer Decmos is to be encouraged to re-create the Moskva Hotel, with the only difference expected to be that the exterior of the new-build will be lighter in hue. Elsewhere in eastern Europe, Bulgarian company Mirad is celebrating the arrival of the Park Hotel Vitosha, in which it has invested a reported US$6.7 million. The company is said to be trying to interest either Best Western International or InterContinental Hotels Group in the 161-room hotel in the Bulgarian capital Sofia.
|All Go In Newcastle And Darlington
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|Restaurateur Terry Laybourne and developer Peter Candler have reportedly begun work on the conversion of the Grade II listed Jesmond Dene House into a luxury hotel. The 41-room hotel, which is set to open in Newcastle upon Tyne this September, will be the result of work costing a reported £7 million. Working on Grade II listed properties would appear to be a popular pastime in the northeast of England at present. Wharton Construction has been bitten by the bug in the town of Darlington; it is to add 16 guest rooms and a function suite, in work costing a reported £1 million, to Bannatyne Hotels' 45-room New Grange Hotel.
|Starwood Had A Good Year
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|Starwood Hotels & Resorts rounded off 2004 strongly with RevPAR across its portfolio of owned, leased and joint venture hotels in the fourth quarter 11.1% ahead on the comparable period in 2003. The Sheraton hotels were the star performers of the quarter, with marketwide RevPAR up 11.8%, closely followed by the W hotels on 11.7%. Net income of US$100 million for the fourth quarter was an improvement of 14.9% on the fourth quarter of 2003. Net income for the full year (after discontinued operations) was US$395 million, an increase on 2003 of 27.8%.
Absolute Share Price Performance Over the Past Week 27/01/05-03/02/05
Sol Meliá - The share price remained buoyant after last week's expression of optimism by Sebastián Escarrer about the company's prospects.
Jurys Doyle Hotel Group - There was improved sentiment on the market for the company and the hotel sector in general.
Whitbread - The market worried about the possible effect of foreign exchange rates.


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Awesome Potatoe Soup
Trina Aragon
This is a great recipe. You can add anything you like once you have the basic recipe down.
★★★★★ 1 vote5
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25 Min
- 7-9
- large potatoes cut into cubes
- 2 can(s)
- chicken broth to cover potatoes ( you may add water if needed to cover)
- 1/2 c
- onions- diced
- 1 can(s)
- chedder cheese soup
- 3 Tbsp
- butter (or more to taste)
- 1/2-1 c
- millk or heavy cream (or to consistancy)
- 1 tsp
- salt and pepper to taste
- 1 tsp
- celery salt (or more to taste)
- 1 tsp
- garlic powder (or more to taste)
- dollop of sour cream on top of each bowl
- small handfull of shredded cheese on top of each bowl
- 1/4 c
- bacon bits (or real bacon cooked and crumbled- for garnish)
- 2 Tbsp
- green onion for garnish (optional)
How to Make Awesome Potatoe Soup
- 1Cut potatoes into one inch cubes and cover with chicken broth and water if needed to cover over 1/2 to 1 inch over potatoes. Add salt, pepper, garlic powder, and celery salt. Boil until potatoes are tender.
- 2Add cheddar cheese soup, milk and butter. Smash potatoes just a little with a potatoe masher it helps thicken soup. If soup is too thin, you may add some corn starch and water to thicken.
- 3Ladle into a bowl and add a dollop of sour cream, bacon bits, shredded cheese and green onions and enjoy!
About Awesome Potatoe Soup
Course/Dish: Cream Soups
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Is there a beach, lake, river or waterfront where I can lay out in the sun?
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Carolina Herrera is the iconic American fashion designer. She founded his named brand Carolina Herrera in 1980. Firstly she introduced their outfit's collection for ladies. Then she showcased the ready-to-wear collection. She becomes also famous for fragrance, shoes, bags and many other fashion accessories.
She designed the short and long dresses for modish ladies. Carolina Herrera also ready stylish outfits with sleeveless knee length dress, strapless mermaid gown, pencil skirt with shirt, back fall ruffled gown, off shoulder layered ball gown, skirt with open jacket style, fit and flare gown, off shoulder sheath gown, heart shape A-line gown, cape sleeves long gown, full sleeves open style gown, cape sleeves white frock.
These outfits are designed with simple plain, check printed, polka doted, floral printing, 3d flowers, beaded work and swarovski work. These outfits are ready with chiffon, georgette, sheer, tulle, organza and satin fabrics. Carolina Herrera collection glimpses the charm with brown, navy blue, yellow, peach, copper, white, blue, black and red colored costumes.


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The self-driving cars are coming. Probably.
At the moment, no auto manufacturer has managed to produce anything that goes beyond what's called "Level 2" autonomy — effectively just very advanced cruise control. Think Tesla's Autopilot, which enables the car to handle mostly freeway driving.
Cadillac will soon debut SuperCruise, promising similar capabilities.
The path to marketable Level 4 or 5 autonomy still looks quite long; humans will be hands-on-the-wheel and eyes-on-the-road for at least a few more years. But that doesn't mean that a lot of experimentation isn't underway. Some of it is futuristic, but some of its has been, well ... sort of odd.
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Videocon has launched their latest Android flagship smartphone A55HD in India. It features a 5 inch HD display with One Glass Solution (OGS). The display has a resolution of 1280 x 720 pixels and a pixel density of about 295 ppi.
The phone runs on Android 4.2 Jelly Bean OS and it is powered by a 1.2GHz quad core processor along with 1GB of RAM. It has a 8 megapixel back camera along with LED flash and a 3.2 megapixel front facing camera.
The phone comes with 4GB internal storage which can be expanded by using a microSD card slot. It is a dual SIM Android Smartphone. A55HD comes with the V-store, which allows the users to access their favorite apps, games, mail , social networking and much more.
Videocon A55HD Specifications
- 5 inch HD capacitive touch screen display
- Android 4.2 Jelly Bean OS
- 1.2 GHz quad core processor
- 1GB RAm
- 4GB internal Storage
- Supports microSD card
- Dual SIM
- 8 MP back camera with LED Flash
- 3.2 MP front facing camera
- Supports 3G, WiFi, Bluetooth 4.0 and GPS
- 2000 mAh battery
The Videocon A55HD is priced at Rs. 13,499 in India.


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I had just gotten into work for the morning, cold and tired from the chilly winter air. I had barely clocked in, hadn't even taken off my cap, and moved to the computer in the lobby to get logged in to start my day when the woman began to berate me.
Working at a hotel offered no short supply of instances which tested your emotional patience. She rattled off reason after reason why her hotel room was the worst she had ever been in: Nothing worked, outside noise was too loud, just about everything you could think of. I was listening to this while also logging into the computer so I could check out which room she was in and what her stay looked like in order to possibly accommodate when she very rudely remarked, "Look at me when I'm talking to you."
Even thinking about those words gets me all in a huff, even though this happened years ago. My emotions stirred and I stood upright, puffed my chest out, and red-faced, I attempted to solve the situation the best I could.
That day gave me many lessons in what it means to be emotionally intelligent. This is a common problem many of those who work in retail have to face. If you want to waste a good amount of time and have a love for getting angry, just head to Reddit's Tales from Retail section for more examples.
Emotions can be overwhelming sometimes, but it is through emotional intelligence that we can turn troublesome situations into opportunities for growth. It is also through emotional intelligence that we are able to mature and handle ourselves more authentically.
This article will show seven steps to building emotional intelligence.
What Is Emotional Intelligence?
Emotional Intelligence is the ability to be self-aware, control, regulate, and evaluate our emotions and the ability to navigate these different emotions in a social setting.
Someone who is emotionally mature is someone who is able to authentically and correctly react to a given situation. They are able to control or regulate that emotion in such a way that helps resolve any outstanding issues.
The analysis of multiple studies shows a strong relationship between emotional intelligence and job performance, which makes emotional intelligence (EI) something very valuable.
Building Emotional Intelligence
Improving your EI, like any skill, requires a deliberate attempt to do the necessary learning and development. Emotions, being a complex and lifelong subject, require patience and consistency.
While I do outline the seven steps I believe most important, this is far from a comprehensive study on the subject. I invite you to use this information as a platform for further learning and to get you started on a path towards improving your EI.
1) Study the Emotions
The first step to conquering your emotions is knowing what you're dealing with. Emotions are very complex and have been studied thoroughly by many experts, but there is still much that we don't know.
However, the more you know about the history, purpose, and types of emotions, the better able you are to identify what you are feeling and the better you will be able to communicate those feelings with others.
For a great place to start, visit the Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy's page on Emotions.
2) Take Part In Emotional Activities
This one's easy. Step 2 might as well be "Live." Unless you are hiding away in a cave you are going to eventually encounter situations that make you emotional. The loss of a loved one, an angry coworker yelling in your face, losing the championship game, telling someone you love them, etc.
You're going to run into life and find that you react strongly to some things naturally. At this point in time there is not much you can do. You can't really prepare much for many of the emotional challenges life throws at you as some can be extremely devastating.
However, there may be certain things you can try to do in order to aid your further growth:
Be Mindful
Practicing mindfulness meditation has many positive effects on your day to day living, but one stands out for dealing with emotionally trying times:
"While when we experience stress, we usually have the tense mobilization of fight-or-flight response, people with a little meditation training are able to instead bring to mind what psychologists call the relaxation response to stress, allaying anxiety and hypertension." ~ Drake Baer, The Big Chill Out: How Meditation Can Help with Everything, FastCompany.com
Withhold Judgment
Many of the strong emotions we feel are the result of initial miscommunication, misinformation, or strong biases we may have. Hold off for just a couple extra minutes before throwing punches and see if what your feeling actually matches the situation.
Lean on Others
Look to those around you to give you advice or help you around the situation. You may be completely confused, but remember there are others that can help you out. Whether it's a good friend, a coworker, a sibling, or even an online community, others may have some experience with what you are feeling and can help you get re-oriented.
Everyone initially goes through the first stage of learning about their emotions by experiencing them. This can be troubling, traumatizing, crippling, exciting, etc. The key to growth and emotional maturity comes from the work done in the steps after.
3) Reflect and Ruminate On Your Experiences
Think about yourself and the emotions you have experienced. How you react to certain things can tell you a lot about yourself. You may find you actually do care for Stacy after you see her with her arms wrapped around Steve, your arch-nemesis.
The emotion we feel is a mirror by which we can view ourselves. Using this mirror, we can think about the situation and how we reacted.
- What was I feeling?
- Do I believe this is important?
- Am I frustrated because I don't want to be doing this anymore?
This is the time to ask ourselves the tough questions. We may have thought one thing about ourselves but our knee-jerk emotions showed us another. To make sense of this we have to reflect on our current values and if we are on the right path.
4) Evaluate Our Emotions
Now is the time to be critical!
We have to be honest about those emotions that are hindering our ability to build relationships and mature.
Take anger for instance. Anger is a very strong emotion that can take control of us and make us act irrationally. Many times we get angry to protect our ego, but it is that very ego we must let go of in order to grow up and mature. It takes an honest moment in an individual to let that ego go and look for better ways to solve a situation.
The evaluation of our emotions is a very important step in our building of EI. It is when we discover what it means to correctly feel an emotion, when it is the right circumstance, how strongly we must feel, and whether or not that emotion has a place in a life well-lived.
5) Build Better Emotional Habits
Having evaluated ourselves and determined the kinds of emotional reactions we would like to have, we need to start planning ahead. More trying times are coming and unless we pursue a better way of conducting ourselves, we will react the same time and time again.
Setting up good emotional habits is similar to how we set up other kinds of habits and the same tips and tricks can apply here.
Know What "Triggers" You
Through reflection you can see what kinds of situations cause you to go overboard. If these are avoidable and unnecessary, there is no reason you should be involving yourself in them. However, we don't live in bubbles and as such we need to mentally prepare ourselves to do the right thing.
Go into these situations knowing that you may be emotional but stay focused on how you would like to act.
Set Up Cues
If you are prone to anger, calm yourself through breathing techniques or by "counting to ten." If you are the office Negative-Nancy, force yourself to think about the good outcome of a project before you look at the bad. You need some influence in order to remind you that you have pledged to change your behavior.
Cues can be your "emotional alarm clock" and give you a chance to become aware of your actions, allowing you the chance to break bad habits.
Deliberately Practice
Focus on the emotion you want to mature and the conduct associated with it. When issues arise that you know will cause an emotional spike, you must actively think about a better way to act, in spite of yourself. This can be pretty difficult which is why understanding the emotion and its current place in your life beforehand is extremely important.
For more habits of emotionally intelligent people visit this article.
6) Use Feedback For Further Learning
Use trusted sources of feedback to gauge the efficacy of your methods and continue to reflect upon your emotional life.
Examples of positive feedback may include:
- You find the group dynamic at work is improving.
- More cooperation and less negativity.
- Situations do not escalate as quickly as they used to.
- You are a bit less anxious.
- You respond appropriately to certain situations.
Staying aware of yourself and how your actions are affecting those around you will give you some reassurance that your methods of taming yourself are working.
Furthermore, feedback gives you more information by which to reflect just how emotions can be regulated and controlled, deepening your understanding and awareness of them even more.
7) Empathize and Understand Others Emotions
Emotional Intelligence is not just a personal endeavor. It is through your personal endeavors that you can begin to understand others' struggles as well.
One of the reasons EI is so important for success is because a person who understands the emotional dynamic of a group is able to utilize those emotions in a positive manner. They know when to piss the group off a little bit or when to cool things down so that important things get done while keeping everyone interested.
They are also capable of navigating their way though tough situations, knowing when to ask a coworker if they need to vent or if they should just be left alone. They know when to speak up and when to keep their mouth shut.
They know this because they understand emotions on a deeper level, having not only experienced them but also thought deeply about them. They have attempted to reign in the troublesome emotions, learning just what it takes to overcome one's natural urges to react strongly to certain things. They also understand how differently people feel and react to the same kinds of emotions.
Things to Consider
"It is very important to understand that emotional intelligence is not the opposite of intelligence, it is not the triumph of heart over head — it is the unique intersection of both." ~ David Caruso, From "Emotional What?"
This process of building emotional intelligence is by no means a journey with a definite start and finish. If you are reading this article it is most likely because you are already involved in the process and would like to improve your emotional life.
Also, we must look to continually alter our views if our reflection and feedback provides a strong enough case to do so. We can never be afraid to change our opinion or be honest that maybe we are overlooking an issue.
When you understand the journey and how to build intelligence the right way, this intelligence becomes wisdom. Emotions are not just tools by which to succeed or get ahead, but constitute the medium by which our experience of the world becomes laced with meaning.
Our mind works with our heart to determine what we find truly important and through the things we find meaningful we can build a life truly worthy of living.


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SAN SALVADOR — A former left-wing guerrilla leader took a strong early lead in El Salvador's presidential election Sunday, early results showed, but he could still face a runoff against a conservative rival who wants to deploy the army to fight powerful street gangs.
Salvador Sanchez Ceren, a rebel commander who became a top leader with the now-ruling leftist Farabundo Marti National Liberation Front (FMLN) during El Salvador's civil war, had 49.2 percent support with votes in from about 45.4 percent of polling booths. His right-wing opponent, former San Salvador Mayor Norman Quijano, had 38.9 percent.
If no one wins more than 50 percent of the vote, the two leading candidates will go to a runoff March 9.
Two foreign election officials said they expected the vote to go to a runoff given a closer race in El Salvador's two most populated districts. The FMLN took power after the last election in 2009, and Sanchez Ceren's campaign was helped by its popular welfare policies, including pensions and free school supplies.
Even if he falls short of first-round victory, Sanchez Ceren appears to be in a strong position ahead of a runoff. The third-place candidate, Antonio Saca, who was president from 2004 until 2009, had about 11 percent support. But it was not clear whether more of his supporters would back Sanchez Ceren or Quijano in a second round.
After leaving office, Saca broke away from Quijano's Nationalist Republican Alliance (ARENA) party. The FMLN turned into a political party at the end of the civil war in 1992, and Sanchez Ceren has tried to appeal to moderate voters in this campaign as he tries to keep his party in power.
But the tight race reflects a deep divide that dates to the 12-year war, which killed 75,000 people, and sluggish economic growth has contributed to the surge of violent street gangs.
Quijano is ARENA's candidate and has campaigned on a promise of tough policies to crack down on the gangs.
Sanchez Ceren rejects the idea of deploying the army to fight the gangs and instead vows to forge a political pact to break through gridlock that has kept a divided Congress from carrying out reforms to tackle crime and weak economic growth.
"More than ever we need a new national accord, so that we do not have partisan policies but policies that are backed by all the people of El Salvador," he said after voting Sunday.


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Hello! I'm Tom. I designed a game called Gunpoint, about rewiring things and punching people, and now I'm working on a new one called Heat Signature, about sneaking aboard randomly generated spaceships. Here's some more info on all the games I've worked on, here's the podcast I do, here are the videos I make on YouTube, here are some of the articles I wrote for PC Gamer, and here are two short stories I wrote for the Machine of Death collections.
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"The simultaneous ambush and galaxy-wide hangar theft inflicted financial damage upwards of 30 billion ISK – $16,500 US dollars at IGE.com's prices. The value of the stolen assets utterly dwarfed the original fee for the job. And yet the only item the Guiding Hand's anonymous client requested for himself was the cold, dead body of the target. It's safe to say this was personal."
A prompt two years after it was originally published, my story about the Guiding Hand Social Club assassins is finally (legally) online. At the time a lot of bad J-PEGs of it cropped up online, and since we didn't actually have a website of our own then, we tolerated the ones that actually bothered to note the piece came from PC Gamer. But now it's in actual html and – in a column of that width – about as good as I can humanly make it look.
My favourite bit of it, inevitably, is the bit I didn't write: the responses to the heist from the Intergalactic Summit. Eve players reacted to the hit with genuine disgust or admiration, but also stayed in-character. So their comments are coloured with wonderful subtexts drawn from Eve's backstory about the slavery of the Minmatar, and subsequent rebellion.
Coupled with Eve's extraordinarily evocative character portraits, it gives each commentator such a strong and believable personality that, reading it, I find I can imagine exactly what kind of voice each of these people would have, how they would deliver their judgements.
Look at Zhou Yu! He looks like Jesus. Of course he's appalled. He'd talk like Neil from the Young Ones, by the way.
Look at Nanus Parkite! He's wearing aviator shades – of course he's unimpressed. And if you look closely at the full-size version of his portrait, you can actually see his eyes behind the lenses: they're keen and angry, matching his Godwin-fulfilling disdain for the Guiding Hand.
Look at Zaridin! That smarmy, crisp-lipped villain. Of course he loves it, and of course he's reserved and eloquent in his praise.
And man, look at Eddie Gordo. Can't you just hear his thick, exotic accent? He speaks in simple, black-and-white truths, with the weight of suffering behind them. He's the only one who doesn't see this as a discussion of methods: he doesn't care how it was achieved, only that the people who enslaved his race suffered.
In fact, check out Istvaan Shogaatsu, leader of the most vicious band of contract killers in the universe:
It kind of shows, right?
It's baffling to me that a five-year-old space game still lets you create the most human and distinctive player-designed artificial faces. Why can't we make faces like this in games where we actually have a body and face rather than a spaceship, where we can walk around and see other people's? Instead, three years later, we get a blockbuster character-driven RPG in which the emperor of the world looks like this:
Anyway, that other site I'm working on – this one. It's coming. It's remarkable just how much progress you can make, and how quickly, without even coming close to finishing. I'd add that I am close to finishing now, except that I have felt close to finishing for around three weeks. It seemed nearly done half-an-hour into the process. I suddenly have a newfound sympathy for games that miss their release dates.
Grill: Yeah, Septim's nose needed real work. As did all Oblivion's facial animation TBH. However, I've gotta say that all those Eve faces look like psycho-killers to me, except for Eddie Gordo.
roBurky: The portraits of Istvaan Shogaatsu, Arenis Xemdal and Mirial are probably the most recognisable portraits in Eve, having been splashed all over print and the web from this story.
Cian: You're probably aware of this yourself, but those faces will soon be attached to more than forum posts. It's a while off yet but Eve will be expanding into station enviroments with characters walking around their personal hangars, communual enviroments and their own Corporation quarters. I can't wait to see the 'actual' size of my ship in comparison to my character or hanging around in the bar chatting with other Mercs.
Tom Francis: Awesome. I'd heard ages ago that CCP had let slip they'd like to do this one day, but didn't know if that was anything more than idle musing. Will you be able to walk around your ship? That's always what I wanted to do: stand on the bridge and look out at the nebulae on those long trading runs.
Istvaan Shogaatsu: Well, this is a blast from the past. I owe you a beer for that article, Mr. Francis!
Tom Francis: No problem Istvaan, but I make it a rule not to take drinks from contract killers. Learnt that one the hard way.
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Tom Francis: Cheers for spotting. Fixed. Looks like CVG don't accept article specific URLs without the www now?
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Apple's Operations Center in Austin is move-in ready
February 26, 2014 by Mark
It has been reported on the AppleInsider website that the company has completed the initial stage of its Americas Operations Center in Austin. After spending a little over $27m the buildings are move-in ready.
The Austin Business Journal issued a report, complete with photos, about the two new buildings at the Apple site. According to that publication, certificates of occupancy have been issued by Austin city officials.
These two structures hold office space of approximately 290,000 square feet. As large as that might sound, it is only a little more than 25% of the campus' expected one million square feet at completion.
The project was announced in 2012. Last October the AppleInsider ran a detailed article about how the work on the site was progressing. Now, in February 2014, the final touches such as the linking of the new buildings via central plaza and installing vehicle-stopping bollards are being finalized.
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Digi Times — Shipments of smartphone application processors in the China market are expected to grow 9.7% and 16% on quarter, respectively, in the third and fourth quarters of 2015, according to Digitimes Research. Overall, China's smartphone-use AP shipments will increase 23.5% on year to 300 million units in the second half of 2015, Digitimes Research estimated.
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Xiaomi Technology is likely to rely more on China-based Leadcore Technology for the supply of low-cost chipset solutions for the production of entry-level LTE smartphones as a means to ramp up its shipments in 2015, according to a China-based OFweek.com report. Xiaomi launched recently its entry-level model, the Hongmi (Red Rice) 2A, which is powered by Leadcore's quad-core L1860C processor and sports 4.7-inch display.


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Alfred Hitchcock's classic "The Birds" was released on this date in 1963 — for children of the era starting many love affairs with horror movies.
I was three years old and it scared the bejeezus out of me. I recall never looking at flocks of birds the same way for a very long time.
It's held up remarkably well over the years, gaining a 7.7 rating on IMDB and a 96% on Rotten Tomatoes.
Of course, those are the scores of movie lovers who can still appreciate what a work of art it was for the genre at that time.
If you are used to blood and gore in scary movies, it might not do much for you. General horror audiences are a bit more demanding today than a movie in which the blood is mostly measured in droplets.
For me, watching it again is worth it if for nothing else to see how Alfred Hitchcock dressed Tippi Hedren. What a dish she was.
Note also the hints of a nascent environmentalist movement, largely unheard of at the time, in the dialogue.
Crazy that we have not progressed as far was one might expect on that issue and, in fact, are now going backwards thanks to the current resident of the White House.
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"Gotham" season three is set to premiere in fall but no specific date has yet been set. There is speculation in the media that the series' release date can be postponed to March next year. However, no official announcement has yet been made.
Meanwhile, several new villains have been teased to terrorize the city in the upcoming season.
Aside from Fish Mooney (Jada Pinkett Smith) and Hugo Strange (BD Wong), there are other known villains from the Batman universe who are about to appear in"Gotham," Zap2it reported.
According to Comic Book Resources, executive producer John Stephens confirmed that more villains will be introduce in the series.
"We'll be seeing Mad Hatter in Season 3. We'll be seeing the Tweedle Brothers, too, if we're going to bring the Hatter in. In line with the Court of Owls, we'll be seeing Talon. And, we should be seeing Solomon Grundy," Stephens told CBR.
CBR wrote viewers had speculated that Solomon Grundy made a cameo in the "Unleashed" episode of "Gotham" season two as a prisoner at Indian Hill. The villain has made several appearances in some DC adaptations such as "Smallville" and "Arrow."
The Tweedle Brothers, on the other hand, have yet to be teased on "Gotham." The criminal twins have been known to team-up with Joker and Mad Hatter. Talon (a.k.a. William Cobb) is a new creation from Scott Snyder and Greg Capullo's 2011 "Court of Owls" storyline, Stephens said. Talon has been described as a highly-skilled assassin that was sent to kill Batman on behalf of the Court.
Meanwhile, fans were also curious if Jerome "Proto-Joker" Valeska (Cameron Monaghan) will come back in season 3. The character has been killed in the previous season. However, Zap2it noted that resurrecting those who are dead is the expertise of Hugo Strange. The site added that it was previously revealed that Jerome was one of the bodies Hugo was keeping on ice.
Morning News USA added that Jerome's return in season three has been hinted in the finale of the second season. The character's signature creepy laughter can be heard in the background while an image of person's face was being shown. Although the face was concealed, there have been speculations that was Ed Nygma, the site added.


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If you're a Republican running for president, prepare yourself. The next reporter who corners you at a diner might pop the question. No, she doesn't want to marry you. But she might ask whether you'd attend a gay wedding. In the last week, that question has been posed to at least five candidates: Sens. Ted Cruz and Marco Rubio, Govs. Scott Walker and John Kasich, and former Sen. Rick Santorum. In general, their answers have been weak. Here's what they've said, and how you can handle the question better than they did.
When Hewitt posed the same question to Santorum on Thursday, the former senator flatly said no:
Q: Would you, Rick Santorum, attend a same-sex wedding of a loved one or a family friend or anyone who you were close to?
A: No, I would not.
Q: Well, why not?
A: Because ... as a person of my faith, that would be something that would be a violation of my faith. I would love them and support them, but I would not participate in that ceremony.
Santorum gets points for candor. And he draws the approved Christian distinction between loving and condoning. But for listeners who have gay friends or family, Santorum seems to offer nothing. Compare his answer with this one, delivered by Walker on Saturday night:
Q: Would you attend a gay wedding?
A: Well, in terms of—that's certainly a personal issue. For a family member, Tonette and I and our family already had a family member who's had a reception. I haven't been at a wedding. But that's true even though my position on marriage is still that it's defined between a man and a woman, and I support the constitution of the state. But for someone I love, we've been at a reception.
Doesn't that sound better? Substantively, Walker gives no more ground than Santorum does. He opposes legal recognition of same-sex marriage, he's never attended a gay wedding, and he isn't saying he ever would. But for people who disagree with him, he can say—and does say—that he's been to a reception. Apparently he's referring to his wife's cousin, who married another woman last year. According to the New York Times, "The governor was away on business when the wedding occurred, but he later attended a reception for the newlyweds."
See how nicely that works out? Schedule your travel to miss the wedding but make the reception. Then you can sound like a decent guy without losing support on the religious right.


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CGPSC Recruitment 2016
Chhattisgarh Public Service Commission (CGPSC) has been issued a notfication for CGPSC Recruitment 2016 to fill 35 vacancies of CGPSC Transport Officer and Transportation Sub Inspector. So all those candidates of Chhattisgarh state who are waiting for CGPSC jobs 2016 can apply online through official website. Chhattisgarh PSC Recruitment Notification has been published on 27th July, 2016, so candidates can get whole details from this article. CGPSC Transport Officer Application form will begins from 3rd August, 2016. Candidates are advised to read whole details like application procedure, eligibility, application fee etc. before applying for recruitment.
CGPSC Recruitment 2016 Details
Name of The Organization: Chhattisgarh Public Service Commission (CGPSC)
Post Name: Transport Officer and Transportation Sub Inspector posts
Number of Posts: 35
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Chhattisgarh Public Service Commission will be uploaded CGPSC Transport Application Form on official website www.psc.cg.gov.in on 3rd August, 2016. So all candidates who are eligible for recruitment and want to apply can visit website on or before 3rd August, 2016. Aspirants should be remember that application form will be accepted on or before 1st September, 2016, after this period application form will not be accepted.
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All aspirants can follow given steps to fill application form:
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[…] of the commercial activity is the many satellites found in Geosynchronous Earth Orbit, or GEO. SatelliteTVGuru talks about the concept of Free-to-Air television broadcasts from various satellites. Many channels […]
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Conclusion: If your looking for the lowest priced Satellite TV service out there, I recommend checking out DISH Network. With plans that start at just $9.99 a month, you can get all of the same channels as with cable or DirecTV but for much less. You can find out more and sign up for DISH Network here.
Every month, we receive a large amount of emails that ask if it's possible to get Free Satellite TV. Many people have heard rumors that it is possible, but few people know the facts. So with that The Guru set out to see if it was possible, and if so, to find out exactly how. When we set out on our quest to find free Satellite TV we decided that any methods we tried would have to be 100% legal. This eliminated one of the options below because as we started researching it, it became clear that it was illegal and clearly in violation of both DirecTV and DISH Networks terms of service.
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The first thing we came across on our quest to find free satellite TV was FTA satellite service. FTA stations, which stands for Free To Air are satellite television stations which are not encrypted, like conventional DISH Network and DirecTV channels. To receive FTA signals you can use a DISH Network or DirecTV satellite dish, and you will also need a rotor. FTA works by pointing the dish at a different satellite for each channel, this means that the satellite dish needs to be able to automatically rotate to a certain position. This is where the rotor comes in.
Unless you are a hardcore satellite television fanatic we don't recommend FTA. The setup can take days, and you need to have a good amount of technical knowledge. FTA has a pretty big following on the internet, but if you're looking to casual watch the football came on Sunday this isn't really a viable option.
Overall Free to Air Satellite was a pretty big disappointment. Most of the channels are actually pretty pointless, and FTA didn't have the premium channels we were trying to get for free. This option was clearly not the full "Free Satellite TV" that we were looking for.
Continuing on our quest to find Free Satellite TV we came across Satellite descramblers. We didn't get very far in exploring this option before it became clear to us that attempting to unencrypt DISH Network or DirecTV signals was highly illegal. It is basically stealing satellite service. So that was the end of the road for this option.
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Published: Friday 1st May 2015 by The News Editor
Manufacturing growth posted a surprise slowdown to its weakest pace for seven months in April in a blow to George Osborne just six days before the General Election.
The sector posted a reading of 51.9 on the closely-watched CIPS/Markit purchasing managers' index (PMI) survey – where 50 separates growth from contraction. It was down from 54 in March.
Sterling fell by a cent against the dollar and the euro. The survey comes days after official figures showed that wider UK gross domestic product (GDP) growth had slowed to 0.3%, its weakest pace in more than two years, in the first quarter of 2015.
Today's data showed that while consumer goods were still performing strongly, activity producing intermediate goods – those produced for sale to other companies – fell into contraction.
Manufacturing firms said that while the domestic market was doing well, the strength of the pound was hitting competitiveness in the eurozone, the UK's largest trading partner. New export orders contracted at their worst pace since January 2013.
Jobs continued to be added but at the slowest pace since June 2013. Meanwhile firms were hit by a decline in output prices, which saw the steepest rate of deflation since September 2009.
Rob Dobson, senior economist at Markit, said: "Coming on the back of weaker-than-expected GDP numbers on Tuesday and only six days before the General Election, today's UK PMI delivered less than positive news on the health of the manufacturing sector.
"Rates of expansion in production and order books both slowed sharply in April, meaning manufacturing is again unlikely to provide much of a boost to broader economic growth.
"A key challenge for the next Government is to revive manufacturing and help it at least regain its pre-crisis peak, as any signs of rebalancing the economy towards manufacturing and exports remain frustratingly elusive."
Latest GDP figures show that while the wider economy has now surpassed its pre-recession peak in 2008, manufacturing remains 4.8% below where it was seven years ago. It is the dominant services sector that has led the UK to recovery.
Lee Hopley, chief economist at EEF, the manufacturers' organisation, said: "Recent data points to a marked loss of momentum in manufacturing activity since the start of the year.
"While consumer facing sectors are still forging ahead thanks to low inflation and a pick-up in wage growth, any sign that export growth was about to turn around at the end of last year now looks to have been a false dawn."
Samuel Tombs, of consultancy Capital Economics, said the slump in output prices was most worrying of all.
He said: "With overseas demand still weak, manufacturers are being compelled to offer deep discounts merely to stand still."
Howard Archer, of IHS Global Insight, said the figures were likely to reflect increased business caution ahead of next week's election and "highlights the importance for the economy that a sustainable government emerges" from the poll.
"Prolonged political uncertainty could take a significant toll on the economy," he said.
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Deep-fried foods may be causing trouble in the Deep South. People whose diets are heavy on them and sugary drinks like sweet tea and soda were more likely to suffer a stroke, a new study finds.
It's the first big look at diet and strokes, and researchers say it might help explain why blacks in the Southeast — the nation's "stroke belt" — suffer more of them.
Graeme McDowell, Martin Kaymer, K.J. Choi and Rory Sabbatini have committed to play in the RBC Heritage.
They will be joined in the field by former winners Carl Pettersson (the defending champion), Brandt Snedeker, Stewart Cink, Glen Day, Jim Furyk, Justin Leonard and Boo Weekley, the Heritage Classic Foundation announced Thursday.
McDowell, the 2012 U.S. Open champion, will be making his fourth appearance at Harbour Town Golf Links. The Northern Ireland native also has six international victories since 2002.
Football coach and author Larry Beckish will be the guest speaker at the Athletic Club of the Lowcountry's monthly meeting Monday at Lord of Life Lutheran Church.
The meeting begins with a 6:30 p.m. social gathering, followed by the program at 7 p.m.


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Bread your pan-fried fish with Honey Bunches of Oats cereal (Original flavor). The Explorer's favorite cereal that we always have in our home, it is sweet and nutty -very good on rock fish.
Dad, who loves fishing off of the Southern California coast, came up with this method.
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Ok, I've been having this problem for a LOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOONG time now. Its like...impossible to fix!
Basically, any distro i attempt to install it fails miserably. It started a while back when Windows and Linux were going crazy on my old harddrive and crashing constantly. Also, files would fail to install correctly. Everything I downloaded and install would either say that it is corrupted or wouldn't work right when installed. I would try reinstalling operating systems, but it just wouldn't. It would either stop installing at some point in time. I noticed that the DVD drive would also stop spinning as if it had nothing else to do. And during installations, I would get a few damaged packages (mainly critical ones like xorg) Then, I got a new harddrive for my birthday (which was on December 7th) since someone suggested that my harddrive was corrupted (which didn't seem illogical since both Windows and Linux were crashing alot for no apparent reason). Once I put in the new harddrive, I tried installing Windows. Low-n-behold, It was able to install, but it STILL had a few damaged files. It can't be the CD because how could every 40 or so CDs/DVDs be damaged? So, discouraged, I just ran Windows anyways. But, I noticed it didn't crash much and I could install most things easily. I only had to download a few critical files to fix things up.
After a while, I downloaded kubuntu since it was small and i felt like checking it out. But, what happens when I try to install it? Yes... The same problems I had before.
So, to sum it up, how come I can't seem to install any operating systems and why are the packages corrupted? And if it does somehow get installed, but is missing a few important files like xorg, how can I fix it? Kubuntu did install the stuff from the CD, but it messed up on the installation when it booted from the harddrive. SuSE is impossible to install since it is so huge.
Btw, when the installation just seems to stop, the graphics are still working. Its not like it is frozen or locked up. Its just the installation....stops.


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Was reading about a study the other day, one whose sad and startling results I wanted to share with readers of my distracted driving web site. Problem was, the article's author didn't identify the study -- by title or sponsor or anything -- a flunking matter in any Journalism 101 class. Even worse, although the article was online, there was no link to the study. The first offense is unusual in professional publishing, but sadly the second is not. Newspapers are among the biggest offenders … [Read more...]
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Billy Graham Endorses Mitt Romney, But Graham Magazine Says Mormons Aren't Christians
[update 10/15/2012: as I explain in a new story, the Billy Graham Evangelistic Association website itself appears hard-coded to identify Mormons as members of a cult]
"We heard from Christians who were once Mormons" -- from the subtitle of an article published May 2008, in the Billy Graham Evangelistic Association magazine Decision
Are Mormons Christians? According to a 2008 article in the Billy Graham Evangelistic Association's Decision magazine, authored by the CEO of the Southern Baptist Convention's publishing wing LifeWay Resources, the answer would seem to be "no".
This new revelation of high-profile evangelical anti-Mormon bigotry comes immediately in the wake of an embarrassing discovery, by a gay rights group, that the website of the Billy Graham Evangelistic Association has also branded Mormonism a "cult". On October 11, 2012 superstar evangelist Billy Graham emerged from semi-retirement to pray with, and in effect endorse, presidential candidate Mitt Romney.
Then, on October 12, the LGBT rights group The New Civil Rights Movement broke the news that even as Graham was meeting with Romney, a page on the website of Graham's nonprofit the Billy Graham Evangelistic Association identified Mormonism as a "cult".
While the offending page pointed out by the New Civil Rights Movement story was almost immediately scrubbed from the BGEA website (a cached version of the page can still be viewed at the Internet Archive), it was not the only page on the Graham organization website that claims Mormonism, a religion which now encompasses millions of members around the world, is not Christian.
Attempts by Graham and his BGEA to walk back these anti-Mormon slurs will be complicated by the fact of widespread anti-Mormon bigotry within American Protestant evangelicalism, and because within the global evangelical Lausanne movement that Graham helped launch in 1974, the teaching that Mormonism is a cult has become accepted doctrine.
A May 1, 2008 story published in Decision magazine, by author Thom S. Ranier, with the title "The Unexpected Journey" featured a subheading which clearly identified Mormonism as non-Christian:
"A few years ago, my wife, Nellie Jo, and I traveled across America listening to Christians who formerly held other beliefs. We heard from Christians who were once Mormons, Hindus, Jehovah's Witnesses, agnostics, witches, Buddhists, Unitarians, New Agers, Muslims, Satanists and non-Messianic Jews."
Thom S. Ranier is President and CEO of Lifeway Christian Resources, the main publishing wing of the Southern Baptist Convention, a denomination which claims 16 million members, in 45,000 churches across the U.S.
LifeWay publishes several books explicitly attacking Mormonism and advising believers on how to evangelize Mormons, including Philip Roberts' 1998 Mormonism Unmasked. In an October 2011 Baptist press op-ed, Roberts wrote,
"Mormonism is clearly, absolutely, completely, and thoroughly a "religious cult." And while the word "cult" may be less than academic, it still carries popular meaning when used in a doctrinal sense as Dr. Jeffress has done. "
In 2011 at the high profile Voter Values Summit in Washington D.C., prominent Texan Southern Baptist Convention pastor Robert Jeffress, shortly before Mitt Romney took the stage for a speech, declared Mormonism to be a "cult". Jeffress subsequently endorsed Romney's presidential candidacy.
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Details were spared save for the fact that the girls will be returning with summer song, and that they recently finished shooting a part of their MV.
Thankfully, especially for all the Oh My Girl fans who have been dying for additional info about the girls' comeback, TV Report provided some of the finer details.
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According to an exclusive article released by the media outlet on July 24, Oh My Girl collaborated with Skull&HaHa for a reggae-influenced song! The reggae duo added some rap lines in Oh My Girl's new track, so we should be looking forward to the infusion of the girls' singing plus Skull and HaHa's rap.
If what TV Reports says is true, then this sure should make for an interesting comeback from Oh My Girl as the girls haven't really experimented with the reggae genre!