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Shine on, you beautiful diamond! From now through the end of the season, festive holiday light trails adorn Texas Hill Country, and we've discovered the best and brightest dazzlers around.
We adore Trail of Lights at Zilker Park, but this article goes above and beyond for my kind of people who are truly extra in their love of shiny objects. I'm eternally beguiled by the night and mesmerized by shiny objects, so I'm way into the holiday light trail scene.
These aren't your subtle, modest light displays, but rather full-on Clark Griswold affairs. If you crave holiday glitz and are up for a quick road trip, then these nine Hill Country destinations will satisfy your quest to shine on.
1/ Bastrop River of Lights and Lost Pines Christmas
Breaking news: Bastrop, Texas, is changing its name to The Little Town That Loves Christmas! Okay, not really, but it totally could. Lost Pines Christmas highlights include the Lighted Christmas Parade, snow day, wreath-making day, Krampus Christmas Haunts, and a Christmas cookie "make and take" event at the YMCA.
The library, opera house, and several small businesses embrace the season with special events throughout the month of December.
The Lighted Christmas Parade is Dec. 8, 2018, and includes hundreds of participants.
The star of the show is the half-mile walking trail, River of Lights. River of Lights runs through New Year's Eve. Local groups decorate the entire walk for the season, while area businesses completely sponsor the parade and lighted walking trail. The trail and several events are free and open to the public.
Historic Downtown Bastrop – Website
2/ Winter Wonderland at Circuit of The Americas
Winter Wonderland at Circuit of The Americas will bedazzle even the Grinchiest among you. Winter Wonderland at the Circuit is now open for its second year.
Circuit of The Americas has incorporated the world-famous Chinese Lantern Festival, created over several weeks on-site by artists and engineers from China, to rev up its light show this year (car puns, hee hee).
You'll be walking in a selfie wonderland as you meander around the track taking in all the illuminated beauty. Prepare yourself to ooooh and ahhhh for this one!
Don't skip the dazzing tunnel of lights, where you can dance to the beat of groovy music while the lights dance with you. Family-friendly highlights also include the largest outdoor ice skating rink in Texas, Santa's Workshop, petting zoo, singing trees, and carnival rides. And that's only the beginning.
Winter Wonderland's traditional Chinese lantern festival, complete with a giant, colorful dragon, is outstanding. COTA brings in several food trucks, too. I'm so excited about this event, like a kid on Christmas morning—that's a thing, right?
Remaining 2018 dates are Dec. 6-9 and Dec. 13-30. On Dec. 7, all veterans, active duty military, and first responders get in free! Admission to the track and light trail is normally $16, but children five and under are free.
Additional activities, such as ice skating, carnival rides, and visiting the North Pole (the top of the tower) cost a little extra.
9201 Circuit of the Americas Blvd. – Website
3/ Santa's Ranch in New Braunfels
Dinosaurs, space shuttles, and monster pickup trucks, oh my! Those whimsical lighted exhibits alone should make the trip to New Braunfels worth it. Drive through Santa's Ranch along a mile or so of winding country roads. Animated, custom-made displays feature more than 1.5 million lights a-glowing.
Apart from Christmas dinosaurs, all of the yuletide favorites appear. You'll see angels, Christmas trees, the North Pole, Bible stories, and nativity scenes. The designers throw in some added fun with less traditional exhibits that make us giddy with glee.
Andre Lenartowicz, a.k.a. The Austin Spotter, notes, "As Tom Petty would have sung, the waiting is the hardest part…Unless you pack a patient crew and/or snacks (and your favorite Christmas tunes), your best bet is to go during the work week."
Santa's Ranch is open through Dec. 30, 2018. Cost is $28 plus tax per car, or $56 plus tax for a one-car season pass.
9561 IH 35 North, New Braunfels, TX – Website
4/ San Saba Christmas Park
Nestled at the top of Texas Hill Country, San Saba goes all out with its Mill Pond Christmas Extravaganza. Who needs the Bellagio fountain when you have 10 acres of dancing shimmer and glimmer right here in the Hill Country?
San Saba flashes more than one million lights in time to music. You know you're going to hear Christmas standards along with popular hits.
Visitors can walk or drive through the light display. The wintry wonderland is full of fun visual goodies, including tunnels and digitally-animated scenes. San Saba also hosts several holiday-themed events throughout the season.
A big night to visit is Dec. 8, 2018, when local businesses host a Sip n' Stroll through downtown. The event will feature Texas wineries, the River City Holiday Band Concert on the square, and a lighted Christmas parade.
San Saba Christmas Park is free and open nightly through Jan. 6, 2019.
110 Thomas Stewart Dr., San Saba, TX – Website
5/ Johnson City Lights Spectacular
The Lights Spectacular people in Johnson City don't play when it comes to Christmas lights. The proof these lights are out of this world lies in actual images from outer space! Holy holiday spirit, Batman! Johnson City turns into a proper holiday village during the free Lights Spectacular.
The courthouse wears a draped array of thousands of lights, while Pedernales Electric Cooperative wraps more than one million lights around a large stand of oak trees. Almost every home and business in town dresses up for December.
Visiting the Lights Spectacular is free, but you can pay for a horse-drawn carriage ride or tractor-pulled hayride through the area. The Lights Spectacular event runs through New Year's Day 2019.
Downtown Johnson City – Website
6/ Wimberley Holiday Trail of Lights
EmilyAnn Theatre & Gardens in Wimberley hosts this celebration of the season. The eight-acre Wimberley Trail of Lights winds up with a traditional marshmallow roast around a yule log. Don't forget the free hot chocolate.
This glittery gorgeousness is a true community effort. Numerous local businesses and community members come together each year to decorate the trail. It is interactive with character cutouts for fun photos, musical garden, and life-sized chess/checker board. There's a fun human snow globe, too!
Wimberley Trail of Lights runs through Dec. 28, 2018, and is free. Donations are welcome, though, as this is the town's biggest fundraiser of the year.
1101 Ranch Road 2325, Wimberley, Texas – Website
7/ Marble Falls Walkway of Lights
More than two million lights and 400 lighted sculptures sparkle on the banks of Lake Marble Falls. The annual Walkway of Lights is a free event in Lakeside Park, but donations are welcome.
Local nonprofit organizations sell holiday goodies and Santa photos (cash only) at the park. For those wanting to make a weekend of it, Horseshoe Bay Resort is offering free shuttle service from their expansive grounds to Walkway of Lights nightly.
Walkway of Lights is open through Dec. 26, 2018.
305 Buena Vista Dr., Marble Falls, TX – Facebook
8/ San Antonio River Walk Holiday Lights
San Antonio's popular River Walk lights, illuminated from dusk to dawn through Jan. 6, 2019, are a classic. Stroll along the River Walk for free, or book a boat to maximize your sparkly glee. Admire the lights over chips and salsa, and perhaps a margarita at one of the riverside restaurants.
The City of San Antonio and Paseo del Rio Association sponsor the light show every year.
849 E. Commerce St., San Antonio, TX – Website
9/ Old West Christmas Light Fest
In its fifth year, this drive-through holiday haven is at Enchanted Springs Ranch in Boerne, northwest of San Antonio. If you love the old west, this one's for you. Old West Christmas Lights Fest has more than 40 old west buildings decorated in Christmas lights. Plus, there are mechanical bull rides, even for the kiddos.
Tickets are $15 per adult and $10 for children four and older. Family packs for five people are $49.
Open Thursday through Sunday nights until Dec. 16, 2018, and every night between Dec. 20-30, including Christmas Eve and Christmas night.
242 State Hwy. 46 W, Boerne, TX – Facebook
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December is the sparkliest month of all with lights, colors, and pretty little packages. Plenty of local courthouses and downtown areas have holiday light events throughout the season. Round Rock and Lakeway each have tree lightings and pretty light shows going on.
Crank up your cell phone camera, explore the Hill Country, and Instagram your heart away! Or simply enjoy the show and sip hot cocoa with loved ones. Your call. Ho ho ho!
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Start with a healthy dose of nostalgia and vintage charm. Add a cool contemporary twist. And a great big dollop of fun. That's Ridley's Games all over. A happy blast from the past, when toys were proper toys and designed to last.
The Ridley's range of classic games, toys and tricks combine a vintage charm with a cool contemporary twist. There's hours of fun for kids and big kids alike! Roll the dice and shuffle the decks – the games are about to commence! The Ridley's striking collection of games and quiz sets have designer appeal and are presented in stylish, vibrant patterned boxes perfect to give as a gift for both kids and adults. Ridley's Games and Novelties are just the ticket for a game or activity on a weekend away or when you don't know what to get, they are great teacher gifts, Christmas stocking fillers or Secret Santa gifts.

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In 1971, Carolyn Davidson, a graphic design student, was asked by Phil Knight to design a logo for his company, Nike. Davidson charged Knight $75 for the design and worked for the company until 1980. After leaving Nike, Knight gave Davidson shares of Nike stock for her contribution. For years, the value of the stock was unknown.
Counterkicks got a hold of a recent Nike shareholders meeting transcipt in which Knight reveals exactly how much stock he gave Davidson and the value of that stock today...
"...we hired a graphic art student at Portland State University, and told her to come up with something that connoted speed, and we gave her $75.00 for what she came up with. When we went public in 1980, we called her back up and gave her 500 shares of stock, which she has never sold, and is worth close to $1 million this day."
For the sake of accuracy, NikeBiz.com reports that Davidson charged $35 for the original sketch. They also note that the stock was given to her in 1983 and Davidson says the stock has split three times since then.
The world of graphic design is littered with stories of artists getting paid very little for logos that have gone on to iconic status. For example, Milton Glaser never got paid for his iconic "I (heart) NY" logo. So it is nice to see that at least one graphic designer got some of her just reward.


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Although I am not currently at London Fashion Week (and I am ACTIVELY working on that for next season, folks – BELIEVE ME,) it doesn't stop me from dreaming about what it would be like to attend the collections of some of my favorite British designers. As in, Christopher Bailey and the magic he works every season for Burberry Prorsum.
Well, you can join me for the best seat in the house on this one. Sit back, relax and enjoy highlights from the Burberry Prorsum Spring 2012 Collection..
…or, if you have time, take in the WHOLE COLLECTION! Keep your fingers crossed for me next February as I hope to attend and review in person in good old Londontown!


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September is here, which means summer is nearly over, but Community Questions isn't! This month's episode features the environmental impact of Seedlings, food production, and CCTV - straight from the minds of Seed's Discord community.
Community Questions #14 - June 2019
Some of the most fascinating answers to-date are right here, in this episode of Community Questions! The Seed Discord is constantly growing, which means so is the intrigue and diversity of the questions proposed to Klang.
Community Questions #13 - May 2019
Community Questions #12 - April 2019
Community Questions #11 – February 2019
After a small break, Community Questions is back for 2019...and back with a banger! Shout out goes to the Seed community over on Discord for asking us super inspiring and enthusiastic questions about the project. There was a lot of go through, so we mainly focused on topics that had not been covered before. Check it out!
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Community Questions #9 – November 2018
This month's Community Questions brings some of the most diverse – and random – topics to date. We've finally sifted through all the questions posted over on the Seed Discord and answered them in, what is now, the ninth edition of the series...
Community Questions #8 - October 2018
Wow, where has the time gone? It's all of a sudden October, which means it's time for another round of Community Questions! If you didn't already know, the Seed Discord is packed full of fascinating questions and dialogue about the project. We've picked out a few questions from the thread and answered them below...


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Through a Final Rule effective November 28, 2018, the Federal Highway Administration (FHWA), Federal Transit Administration (FTA), and Federal Railroad Administration (FRA) will amend their National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA) and Section 4(f) regulations governing highway, transit, and railroad projects. The purpose of these amendments is to improve the efficiency of the NEPA process by streamlining the environmental review process and allowing for cross-agency coordination.
With respect to the FRA, the amended regulations will only apply to environmental reviews initiated after the effective date of the Final Rule. The Final Rule also states that the FRA will issue further direction clarifying what information should be included in the FRA's environmental documents. In the meantime, the FRA will continue to rely on certain sections of existing FRA Procedures for Considering Environmental Impacts. (See 64 Fed. Reg. 28545, as modified by 78 Fed. Reg. 2713 (Jan. 14, 2013)). Once the FRA has completed the environmental review for all projects initiated before the effective date of the Final Rule, the FRA plans to rescind its old regulations. Aligning the FRA's procedures with the FHWA and the FTA will provide a more consistent and predictable process for potential project sponsors, especially those that engage in environmental reviews for more than one mode of surface transportation.
The Moving Ahead for Progress in the 21st Century Act (MAP-21) and the Fixing America's Surface Transportation (FAST) Act imposed requirements that the FHWA and FTA must meet related to NEPA and Section 4(f).
On November 20, 2015, the FHWA and FTA issued draft amended regulations intended to conform their regulations with the NEPA and Section 4(f) requirements in MAP-21 and the FAST Act, and after receiving and considering public comments, the FHWA, FTA, and FRA (collectively, referred to as the "Agencies") issued the Final Rule. Specifically, the Agencies changed NEPA implementing regulations at 23 CFR Part 771 – Environmental Impact and Related Procedures – to implement various procedural changes, such as combining final environmental impact statement/record of decision (FEIS/ROD) documents, and to improve readability and reflect current practice. (See Pub. L. 112-141, 126 Stat. 405 ("MAP-21"), §§ 1302, 1305, 1315, 1319, 1320(d), 20003, 20016, and 20017; Pub. L. 114-94, 129 Stat. 1312 ("FAST Act"), §§ 1304 and 11503). The Final Rule also amends Section 4(f) implementing regulations at 23 CFR Part 774 – Parks, Recreation Areas, Wildlife and Waterfowl Refuges, and Historic Sites to reflect exceptions created by MAP-21 and FAST Act. (See MAP-21, §§ 1119(c)(2) and 1122; FAST Act, §§ 1303 and 11502).
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The Languages and the Media conference is here yet again!
On November 22-23rd 2012, the conference will be held in Berlin and media access experts come from all over the world to show you new ways to combine both academic research and important and practical information about technology. The CEO of Media Access Australia, Alex Varley, will be presenting at the conference along with keeping the audience updated via the website and tweeting during the two day event.
The main components of the conference are separated into two categories: disability access and translation. Disability access involves captioning, audio description and sign language; translation includes subtitles and dubbing. A major feature for the conference is the new ideas of technology that could into light and this year is no different. This year, Languages and the Media agrees to focus strongly on the competing demands of customizing media for audiences and the constant need to search for efficiency and cost savings by both broadcasters and access providers.
The conference starts with a discussion about public broadcasting. Then, the next session involves looking at the growing field of access to the arts. It will mainly focus on the emergence of captioning and audio description for live theatre and the impact of translation of subtitles for theatre. After that session, the conference will switch to technology and its impact on revoicing, which is a common method for delivering live captions. Usually revoicing occurs at a conference or during a live broadcast of some kind.
The events range on different topics on all kinds. The conference takes place every 2 years, so the next time that you will be hearing anything about this is in the year 2014. That's much too far away! If you can't watch the presentations, then follow them on Twitter (@mediaaccessaus and #languagesmedia). Make sure to follow up on the conference and then discuss your favorite or least favorite parts in the comments section. I'm excited; are you?


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Janice feels privileged to be given the opportunity to walk in her God-given assignment, using her gifts of encouragement, communication, teaching and writing. She knows first-hand why it is important to follow your path in life as she stays connected to the things that make her soul and spirit exclaim, "yes."
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Archaeology [Greek: archaiologia = ancient history] is a relatively new science concerned with the excavation and analysis of artifacts, texts, structures and organic material (such as skeletons) from past civilizations.
The birth of archaeology is often associated with J. J. Winckelmann's Geschichte der Kunst des Altertums (History of Ancient Art), published in 1764.
When it first appeared, carbon dating was sometimes upheld as the miracle tool that would pinpoint precise dates for discovered objects. But the accuracy of carbon dating is now debated. Almost all agree that carbon dating becomes less precise as we go further back in time.
Others maintain that carbon dating results sometimes can be misleading due to the hoarding and biased interpretation of artifacts and, in some cases, an overzealous desire to advance a career by "proving" a pet theory.
International politics and profit incentives may also come into play with archaeology as ancient remnants are often found in poor, politically sensitive, volatile and even war-torn nations. Local politicians are usually required to authorize certificates for archaeological materials requested for investigation or release from a site, which sometimes slows things down.
The term archaeology was also used by the psychologist Sigmund Freud. Freud employed the image of ruins within an ancient city to portray the relation between the unconscious and the ego (i.e. consciousness).
More recently, the French poststructuralist Michel Foucault used the metaphor of archaeology quite loosely to suggest the possibility of ideologically "buried" forms of knowledge. Foucault's use of archaeology does not refer to questions like: "Did aliens build the pyramids?" or "What was the location of ancient Atlantis?"¹ Rather, Foucault's work deals with reconstructing a network of connections, assumptions, expectations, techniques, values and beliefs assumed to exist in a given historical place and time.
Foucault's archaeological metaphor is directly applied to a historical text, which he calls an "open site." The notion of an open site suggests that the task of reconstructing historical meaning from texts is necessarily incomplete.
¹ Foucault did not ask these questions, but contemporary postmoderns might. Postmodernism and critical theory are slowly moving toward a greater appreciation of mysticism and esoterica. A good example of this integrative shift can be found in the work of G. E. Gallas.
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Walk and feast in Clevedon/
This is one of our favourite things to do on a Sunday: A walk in the Scenic Reserve in Clevedon, followed by the best pizza in all of Auckland on the very popular Clevedon market. We decided to stay home over the long weekend for Labour day instead of rushing out of Auckland city like almost everyone else and because we already went mountain biking in Woodhill on Saturday and planned to go for a hike in the Waitakeres on Monday, we didn't want to overdo it for Sunday while still having an active element.
So we got up early-ish and headed eastwards. It only takes us around 40 minutes via the very windy scenic drive. When we arrived in Clevedon, it was raining. Perfect excuse to grab a coffee at our favourite local café (called "With Relish") before hitting the trail.
The Clevedon Scenic Reserve lies slightly out of the town center. It's a little hidden and if you don't know about it, you'll drive past. It's one of our most favourite walking tracks in Auckland, because it's a lovely bush walk, it's a challenging walking track as it is steep, and it rewards us with amazing views over Coromandel Peninsula and Auckland City.
We park in our regular spot and strap on our hiking boots (it can get very muddy at times, better leave your Sunday Best at home for this). There are Kauri trees in the reserve, so please don't forget to disinfect your shoes at the bridge to prevent kauri dieback. At first, the path leads through a picturesque park that's perfect for family picnics. After a few minutes, the walk forks in 3 directions: right, middle and left. The middle one leads into a little quarry with a pretty waterfall and two picnic tables. It's about 5 minutes each way. The left and right paths both reach the top of the hill and make a nice loop. Many people only use the right hand path for up and back down because it is said to be less muddy, with stairs leading through the forest until about half way. However, so far I found both ways to be muddy and your shoes get dirty anyway, so why not making it a loop.
By the way, the walk to the top takes about 30 minutes and is approximately 1.5km long. Sounds nice and easy, if it weren't so steep.
I walked up the path on the right with the stairs, while Chris decided to take the path on the left. He wanted to run up the hill while I found it breathtaking enough (literally) to just walk. We parted and I started my climb. The atmosphere in the forest is lovely, everywhere around you there are hundred shades of green. The Tuis and other birds are chatting and apart from your own breath, that's all you hear as you make your way up. I stopped every now and then to catch my breath take pictures and a little more than half way Chris already came running on his way down. We arranged to wait for each other at the top and off he ran again.
The view from the top is breathtaking! There is a wooden stand and from there you can see 360°, from the Coromandel peninsula on one side to the Skytower on the other. That's at least how I know it from the last times. This Sunday, the view wasn't so great. I could watch the rain cloud coming closer and closer, which was kind of spectacular, too.
After Chris came back up and had a little rest and water, we made our way down again. This time the "unloved" side really was muddier but our GoreTex shoes didn't really care.
Back down, we had just about enough time to drive over to the Clevedon Farmers' Market. They are one of the most popular sunday markets in Auckland and always lovely to visit. It closes at 1pm, which usually makes it a very close call for us as we don't like to get up at 7am on a Sunday. The market is heaven for those who like fresh produce and street food. And pizza. It might sound silly but we come here for the pizza magic. There is no other like it in Auckland. Even though I'm pretty sure no Italian works there, it's proper Italian wood fired pizza like they eat it in Napoli. Fresh dough, tomato sauce, buffalo mozzarella and fresh basil leaf. If you like, you can add Prosciutto. So! Very! Good! Plus, I already pre-trained off those calories on the walk, so it's double yummy.
Because I like to drive home on different routes than how we got here, we usually take the road that leads towards the pretty Maraetai beaches. There are some nice cafes and walks along the water, which is ideal to make your day really perfect.
Clevedon is about an hour from Auckland central. There are several ways to get there, just pick the one that's the most suitable for you.
The town of Clevedon is worth a visit, too. I's very artsy with cute little shops and pretty things to buy. There is even another market on Sundays, in the town hall in the center.
Clevedon Farmers' Market is open Sundays from 8.30am to 1pm
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Having worked with the sweet Brady family before, we were thrilled when they came to us again for Celeste's wedding. From the moment we walked into the Mountain Brook Club, where Lagniappe Designs created the most beautiful, timeless arrangements for the reception, we knew it was going to be an incredible wedding day. We were so happy when Leslie Hollingsworth Photography sent us a sneak peak of their photos, and we couldn't be more excited to share with all of you!
Planning, Coordinating, Design: Handley Breaux Designs | Photography: Leslie Hollingsworth Photography | Bride's Dress: The White Room | Hair & Makeup: Abby Moorer | Groom's Attire: Mr. Burch Formalwear | Bridesmaids Attire: Bella Bridesmaids Birmingham | Floral Design: Lagniappe Designs | Cake: Magic Muffins | Ceremony Venue: Cathedral Church of the Advent | Reception Venue: Mountain Brook Club | Paper: The Scribbler


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Leading designer houses and designers have come forward with their pre fall collections for the year 2011. It gives us a sneak preview of what to expect in their fall and winter collections. The pre fall collections carry forward the flair of the spring collections with bright moody colors and a reminder of all things feminine and yet comfortable.
One of the major trends showcased by designers like Vera Wang, Vivienne Westwood, Chloe and Oscar de la Renta is the schoolgirl look. Short hemlines worn with knee high socks and tights are the way to go. The bold and bright colors seen in the spring trends continue into the pre fall collections. Red is a hot favorite with most of the designers and with subtle silhouettes this bold color looks classy in creations by Thakoon, DKNY and Jenny Kayne.
Classic men pants have found their way to the pre fall collections too, pair them with formal shirts or blouses for office wear and flaunt your attitude with satiny shirts and pants for an evening out. The 70's hangover continues with the maxi dresses. Bold and powerful prints were a hot favorite with Tory Burch, Burberry Prorsum and Tibi.
The pre fall collections generally hits the store in June so they need to be light enough for summer wear too. This was the focal point for designers like Adam J. Mendel, Thakoon and Rag and Bone who came out with lovely creations that look great by themselves and will look stunning when paired with tight knits or layered for the fall.


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Encouraging Chinese travellers to visit Eastern European countries could be an opportunity in the battle against overtourism in Western Europe.
Speaking at the Responsible Tourism and China session at World Travel Market London today, Wolfgang Georg Arlt, director of China Outbound Tourism and Research Institute (COTRI), said that the Chinese market is key to discussions about overtourism.
He explained that this was due to its current size, which COTRI has predicted to reach 160 million arrivals globally in 2018, plus its rapid growth rate – COTRI believes that by 2030 half of the additional outbound travellers forecasted by UNWTO in the next decade will be Chinese.
Arlt said this was partly due to easing of visa restrictions and increased airlift from second-tier cities.
He explained that there is an opportunity for these tourists to visit other places once they have ticked off the likes of Paris, London and Milan.
"For the Chinese it is easier to give them specific adapted product, for example you might say, 'go to Sarajevo at this particular time in November as there's something there that you'll be interested in', unlike European travellers who have more ingrained ideas about where is good to visit when."
He added that in focus groups of Chinese travellers, they often said they want to go somewhere where there aren't lots of other Chinese visitors.
Arlt caveated this however saying they want to go somewhere that knows what they want.
"Criticism of Chinese tourists is often because they have a need that is not answered. It is a question of how to satisfy their needs," he said.


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In my heart, I thought Waterford were going to win the All-Ireland this year. This was based on two utterly ridiculous ideas. The first was a bit of déjà vu experienced in the run-up to the game, a perfect vision of myself standing in the bottom left of Hill 16 and seeing a Waterford half-forward galloping clear towards goal, egged on the thrilled Waterford fans. He gets within range and languidly bats the ball over the bar. With that, Eoin Kelly – yes, I can see who it is now – wheels away in triumph. We're four points up in injury time, the fabled insurance score. We had done it. This vision was allied with a longer running theme, that of Chelsea win the European Cup. Repeatedly Chelsea had gone to the well and been repeatedly denied. And just when their star was beginning to dim, they get every piece of luck going to finally land the big one. Was it too unreasonable to expect such a fate to befall Waterford?
And arriving at Thurles, you got another sense that something big was brewing in the world of hurling. We came in along the Two Mile Borris road having spent the previous evening/current morning at a wedding in Carlow and recent experience told me that coming off the motorway with about an hour to spare would be time enough. A crowd of 20,000 or so would be plenty, especially given the habits of our betters in Kilkenny and Cork of waiting until September before opening up their wallets. So imagine my surprise as the traffic was bumper-to-bumper right at the motorway. Even more surprising was to get to the ground and find not a single stand seat available. And you know what? It was great to see. I've been to enough games in recent years where you could hear individual voices echoing around the venue to be able to take a simple pleasure from the thought that there was going to be a close-to-capacity attendance. Hopefully everyone saw something in Waterford that I hadn't rationalised up until this point.
We scampered up the Killinan End a few second after throw-in and a barely-overheard radio commentary suggested that "it went in off the post" so it felt almost like a success when we got in and saw that no-one had scored. Such a pessimist/realist to think that early goals would always go to Cork. They took the lead soon enough with a simple tap-over for Patrick Horgan but John Mullane soon had us level as he hooked over a score from under the stand. The early stages felt a little bloodless with Shanahan and Horgan swapping frees and Waterford giving Cork a bit too much room in the half-forward line. Such space nearly proved damaging early on as Horgan got in for a shot but Liam Lawlor stood tall/got his arse in the way to block the goal-bound effort and get the ball clear via the goalkeeper. It was a brief respite as Pa Cronin scored a splendid point from a long way out and it was obvious that Waterford were struggling in the half-back line. Jamie Coughlan added another score and it was he who was given the freedom of the park to stroll through the half-backs and around the full-backs and drill the ball past Stephen O'Keeffe. It was bad, even if only because they didn't chop him down when it was clear he was motoring.
I was seriously worried at this point that we were going to be stuffed. The fate of the underage teams in recent weeks has added to the fear of 5-31 style results and missed efforts from Mullane and Shanahan, the latter from a free that had the Cork intelligentsia on the Town End whooping with delight, added to the sense of impending doom. You need someone strong in the circumstances, and who currently competing in London is more citius than Tony Browne who landed a long-range free to steady a few nerves. I'm going to save a few superlatives for the inevitable retirement post.
It helps as well when management do something clever and around this time John Mullane moved out to the middle of field allowing Waterford to staunch the loss of blood in that part of the game. Kevin Moran flexed a few muscles, a thunderous clearance allowing Shane Walsh to bat the ball to Maurice Shanahan for a score then another fine effort from Moran, this time a rampaging run, caused consternation in the heart of the Cork defence before Maurice Shanahan opted to tap the ball over. A super effort from Paudie Mahony from under the stand reduced the gap still further. Points had been exchanged from frees but Mullane's bossing of the midfield continued to keep Cork on the back foot and a wonderful catch allowed him to set up Stephen Molumphy for the equalising score from distance.
It scarcely seemed believable, all done with an economy of effort – no wild pulls, no rushed shots, no crappy wides – that would have done the great Waterford teams of yore proud. It is perhaps typical of our low expectations that when Cork reacted to Shanahan putting Waterford ahead from an easy free by retaking the lead themselves, Cian McCarthy scoring a great point from out wide then Horgan knocking over a simple free just before half-time, I was still thrilled with the way things had panned out. We were dead and buried. Now a hammering was improbable. How's that for a glass-half-full way of looking at things?
The half-time buzz on the terrace was about the remarkable sight of John Mullane out in the middle of the field. It seemed blatantly obvious now that you were looking at it – employ Mullane's incredible ball-winning skills in the heart of the action where they could do the most damage. When Cork midfielder Daniel Kearney was replaced at half-time, I couldn't suppress a snort of indignation as the thought rose up that someone was being sent on to dish out some timber to our new Lory Meagher. This was (mostly) a jestful thought, and in fairness to Michael Ryan and co it wasn't a long-term strategy. Just as playing the best centre-back in the country at centre-forward during the League was never a runner, playing the best corner-forward of his generation in the midfield was a nice wildcard, but Cork would be wise to it now so it made sense to revert to normal for the start of the second half. The point was emphasised early on as Thomas Ryan went from being anonymous to actively poor, making a hash of a splendid through-ball from Seamus Prendergast. Oh, for Mullane to have had that chance. He was taken off and Eoin McGrath came on, a decision that made me frown. Had Gavin O'Brien been so bad in the Munster final that he was being ignored in favour of what not so much a blast from the past as a mild breeze from the Stone Age?
The early exchanges had been even enough, Cian McCarthy scoring a fine point from range only for Walsh to manufacture a great score at the right end and Shanahan to level matters after Molumphy had eschewed all efforts at finesse by barrelling through the Cork defence and earning a rather soft-free. Horgan restored Cork's lead after being set up by the evergreen Seán Óg Ó hAilpín before Walsh nearly engineered a goal from nothing, his tap-down producing a half-chance for McGrath and the follow-up from Walsh ending up in the side netting. It would have been an astonishingly good goal to have gone in, but it was a sign that Walsh was well on his game and he demonstrated it again as he came deep shortly after Shanahan pointed from a 65 to put Waterford in front.
Now recall all the blarney at the top about channeling the spirit of chav mercenaries and fantasies that would have put Gerard Manley Hopkins to shame. It was all nonsense of course, but the feelings were real enough and now Waterford were about to put together a period of play that was tangibly real. Allied with the dreams, hope swelled in my heart, not just about this game but about the possible ending of 53 years of hurt. A point from Paudie O'Sullivan levelled matters but Waterford were clearly on top. The full-back line looked unperturbed, Moran and Molumphy were driving forward at every opportunity, Paudie Mahony was now looking like the summer hurler we always hoped he could become, Shanahan was keeping the frees ticking over, Walsh was a hair-trigger ready to wound Cork at every opportunity and Mullane . . . he was Mullane. A super solo effort from Mahony put us in front, Shanahan engineered and scored from a free and a point of impudent genius from right in the corner by Himself put Waterford three points clear with only fifteen minutes to go. I didn't just think we had a chance. I thought we had them.
It's easy to see what went wrong in retrospect, although even at the time things happened that dented such a feeling of confidence. Shane Walsh going off to be replaced by Shane Casey was worrying. Shanahan missed a decent free chance and Mullane hit a wide when perhaps there were better options available. Either would have been the insurance score. Okay, there was still plenty of time to go but in a relatively low-scoring affair it would have been advantageous to put Cork in a position where they might feel the need to go for goals. What had happened though, and you would have needed to have been a soothsayer to have seen it coming, was that Cork had emptied their bench in the manner of a baseball team determined to start a fight. It was one-part desperation on Jimmy Barry Murphy's part, two-parts plan – the players that came on could not have been plucked randomly from the team sheet. But whatever it was, the contrast between the quality of the fresh legs Waterford brought on was stark. Cathal Naughton – remember how he broke our hearts in 2006? Will we ever forget? – got a fine point then we had to rely on a fantastically composed piece of goalkeeping from Stephen O'Keeffe to prevent a Cork goal. There was one more moment when Waterford could have landed a sledgehammer blow, Kevin Moran's pinpoint clearance should have created a two-on-one situation but McGrath couldn't take the ball and the chance was gone and with it, were we only to know it, the match.
Cork were now totally on top and everywhere there seemed to be a red jersey with a number 2 on its back. Waterford were forced to drag down Luke O'Farrell to prevent a goal chance and Horgan slotted over the free. O'Farrell put over a score himself after another great run from Naughton and the teams were level. Horgan and Naughton added two more points and we were two points down only three minutes after being ahead by that much.
Amidst the turmoil, Tony Browne departed to be replaced by Richie Foley. I managed to get arsey that the Cork fans didn't afford him the standing ovation that the Tipperary fans had done in the Munster final but I quickly realised this showed the game was probably still on. In previous years I've scoffed at any suggestions that he might be about to pack it in and I've been proven right. Now I think this might be it. To play into your forties just doesn't seem possible, even for him.
Ó hAilpín struck a blow for old men with a point and after Horgan and Shanahan swapped points from frees we needed a goal. Casey had a chance to pull the trigger but inexplicably opted to bat the ball towards goal and it went harmlessly wide. There was a half-chance for McGrath which bobbled out for a 65 although everyone had eyes for the sight of Mullane in heap with a Cork back. Had he been fouled? We had no way of knowing and the 65 was still to come so there wasn't time to get bitter over it. Foley took it and it was clearly too high but hit the post and bounced into the one part of the small square where there wasn't a Waterford forward loitering with intent. The clearance was whipped out for a sideline ball and the ref, perhaps hedging his bets over the Mullane incident, allowed the sideline to be taken but it was blocked and that was that.
Being the world's greatest fatalist, it says much about Waterford's performance that I was convinced we'd close it out when we so purposefully hit the front midway through the second half. It seemed to me that barring a calamitous fluke, Cork were not going to get the goal they needed. We had looked so good, but I hadn't banked on Cork being able to bring on a number of players who were almost as good as what was on the pitch – perhaps even better, some of them are bound to start against Galway. And it's worrying for the future that we can't match that ability to blitz teams with fresh legs. Still, we're still a good team and even if we can't match the likes of Cork from 1 to 15 we have talented hurlers. Stay competitive, and maybe we'll have our Chelsea moment after all.
Waterford: Stephen O'Keeffe, Noel Connors, LiamLawlor, Stephen Daniels, Tony Browne (0-1f; Richie Foley), Michael Walsh, Kevin Moran, Stephen Molumphy (0-1), Philip Mahony, Maurice Shanahan (0-9, 0-6f, 0-1 65), Seamus Prendergast (0-1), Pauric Mahony (0-3), John Mullane (0-2), Shane Walsh (0-2; Shane Casey), Thomas Ryan (Eoin McGrath)
Cork: Anthony Nash, Shane O'Neill, Stephen McDonnell, Brian Murphy, Tom Kenny, Eoin Cadogan (John Gardiner), Seán Óg Ó hAilpín (0-1), Daniel Kearney (Darren Sweetnam), Pa Cronin (0-2), Niall McCarthy (Cathal Naughton, 0-2), Cian McCarthy (0-3; Lorcan McLoughlin), Jamie Coughlan (1-1; Stephen Moylan), Paudie O'Sullivan (0-2), Luke O' Farrell (0-1), Patrick Horgan (0-7, 0-4f)
HT: Waterford 0-11 (11) Cork 1-9 (12)
Referee: Barry Kelly (Westmeath)


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Fashion and the Catholic imagination. . .
This was one of the days I knew retrograde wasn't going to hold back this time around. I knew it was going to beat my ass & feel no remorse. But yet somehow through every storm it has put me through it has had beauty at the end of it. I don't know why but it's helped me a great deal as how to complain less. I fully embody that god will not put you through anything you can not handle.
On this day July 27, one of my dear friends Clarine asked me to meet her at this address "9AM SHARP". Rushing to get ready, I thought it was go time, thought it was her wedding day. Not only did I rush to be there on a 90 degree day, I did a full face of make up at 7AM only to be in the field alone for an hour in HEELS! No back up flats, nothing. While in the eye of the storm called retrograde I looked up to see a castle. Walked inside, low and behold it was an extension of The Met! Inside was the latest amazing exhibition: Heavenly Bodies - Fashion and the Catholic Imagination (this years theme for MET GALA)! Two hours later when she arrived I learned I was there to help Clarine and direct her wedding shoot. I was just so happy the Lord offered me art + fashion to learn and read about as a trade for my understanding and not complaining.
Needless to say if you're ever uptown and love architecture, fashion history, and The Met. . visit The Cloisters building. It will be on display until October!
all these were taken my me on iPhone 7+ edited in Vsco. Theres sooooo much more gowns and history to learn that I simply could not have all captured. It's worth the visit!
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It is breathtakingly insolent that Donald Trump has christened Hillary Clinton, his dignified and ethical opponent, with the sobriquet "Crooked Hillary," given that he is a shameless thief.
On the opening night of the Republican Convention, Melania Trump gave an address that clearly plagiarized Michelle Obama's "One Nation" speech. Irrespective of whether it was written by her with a little help, as she claimed, or penned by a speechwriter, it should have been thoroughly vetted by her husband's campaign. The buck stops with Donald.
When he came onstage to introduce her, Donald made a dramatic entrance set to Queen's "We Are the Champions," despite the fact that the band has repeatedly asked him to stop using their music.
Donald is the nominee of a party whose platform is rife with bigotry. He has eagerly embodied and embraced that bigotry, displaying it like a badge of honor. So it's hardly shocking that day one of the Republican convention featured the unabashed theft of the intellectual property of a Black woman and a queer man.
This is, of course, only the beginning of Donald's illustrious career of thieving.
His Trump Institute plagiarized materials.
Donald himself plagiarized his former primary opponent Dr. Ben Carson earlier in this very campaign.
He spent decades stealing people's labor, refusing to pay them for their work.
He has stolen people's homes from them.
He has stolen people's money via the giant fraud that was Trump University.
He has stolen from vendors by wriggling out of compensating them in full.
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And he is a sinister projectioneer who incessantly asserts that "other people" are stealing—stealing jobs, stealing away rights, stealing people's safety and futures.
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It is not "those other people" who have burgled away struggling people's security and prospects, but him and others like him who have gotten ahead by taking whatever they please.
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I'm Kevin Carney of Inbound Marketing University.
Today's Inbound Marketing Minute addresses the question of… as a small business owner with limited time, money, and energy, where should you devote your energies, your time, money, and energy, relative to online marketing.
And there is a definite order in which it makes sense to do thing.
So, first and foremost, the center of all of your online marketing activities needs to be your blog, on your website, under your URL.
And I'll go one step farther and say "Make it WordPress", but that's addressed in a different video so I won't elaborate on that here.
And the reason it needs to be your blog and your website under your URL is that's the only place on the entire Internet where nobody can change the rules on you.
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OK, number 2 is email.
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And start gathering email addresses.
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I believe the LinkedIn short updates are not indexed, but the long ones are.
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If you can't find it, it probably didn't.
So to summarize, priority number 1 is your blog on your website under your URL, where you publish original content which is interesting and useful to your desired audience.
Number 2 is email. Get the mechanism put in place and start capturing addresses.
Number 3 is social media sites where Google indexes the social media updates.
And number 4 is social media sites where Google doesn't.
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'Always treat your employees exactly as you want them to treat your best customers.' --
Stephen Covey
The most important decision you make about your business is what people get to be a part of it.
That's a fact.
But if you're an entrepreneurial venture or startup, there's a barrel of other important decisions
and urgent problems to deal with at the beginning: cash flow, strategic planning, production,
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beginning, and by the time it's time for partners, leaders, and employees there's no strategy or
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The solution to this is having a strategy and process from the very beginning. In this class you'll
- what an HR function should look like
- common talent issues facing entrepreneurs/startups and some solutions
- an effective and proven hiring process
- how to think about and approach interviews
- a strategy for building jobs/positions and scaling
- important issues for staying compliant
People impact everything: production, ideation, culture, finances, customers, technology, sales
-- every aspect of your company. Have a plan for them from the very start.
About the teacher:
Tyler Howell is a consultant with Pamper Garner & Associates. PG&A has been helping companies hire, manage, and develop their people for over 20 years in the Chattanooga area, and has worked with a diverse set of clients from across the business spectrum: industrial manufacturing, restaurants, non-profits, community banks, utilities, churches, and universities. Tyler is passionate about providing his clients with solutions that fit their needs, and is an expert in using assessments to help companies improve their hiring, reduce turnover and conflict, and assemble effective teams. He lives in Red Bank with his wife, Lindsey, and their precocious two-year-old, Oliver.


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Shopping for newborn baby gifts can be a nerve-wracking experience. There are no creatures as indecisive and moody as new babies, except for their parents. So when getting new baby gifts, you really should play it safe. Don't try to get subtle things for newborn baby gifts, but get something that the parents will deffinitely really appreciate. Unfortunately, it is hard to predict what newborn baby gifts will go over best because babies are so indecisive, and their parents will like it if the kids find them entertaining. So you should try to find a new baby gift that you as a baby would have liked, or if you have had the chance to meet the baby, try to figure our what would fit that baby best, unisex nappy cakes are always a great idea as they contain a selection of useful items for mum and baby.
Of course the best, or at least the most popular newborn baby gifts are the expensive and complicated bright plastic electronic ones, big and clunky with lots of loud noises and electric lights. You can pay anything from 20 dollars to 200 dollars for these newborn baby gifts, but there is a good chance that the baby will like them, even if the noises of the beeping and squaking speakers sometimes drive the parents crazy. They are also great gifts to develop a baby's skills and coordination. The babies can push different buttons to make different sounds, or to hear different words, and sometimes can even fit different objects into different shaped holes to develop spatial reasoning.
Other great newborn baby gifts are stuffed animals. New baby gift stuffed animals are really great for infants, and will last for a considerable amount of time, because the baby will come to treasure its stuffed animals for years. Stuffed animal newborn baby gifts can be depended on to soothe the baby and be an affectionate, if somewhat chewed on and drooled over companion. Of course, clothing always makes a good newborn baby gift as well. New babies are notoriously messy creatures, and creatures which one strives mightily to dress up in the most adorable of attire. Therefore, a new baby needs a considerable amount of clothing which is warm, comfortable, and easy for the parents to put on and to take off. This is why if you buy clothing for newborn baby gifts the parents will inevitable meet it with their thanks and gratitude, giving you ample reason to feel proud of your gift.


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Gareth Keevill BVSc MRCVS
Gareth has worked at Towcester Veterinary Centre since 2000 after graduating from the University of Liverpool. He joined the partnership in 2009 and heads up the large animal department. He enjoys all aspects of his job, especially the interaction with farmers and being able to make a difference on the farm. He has a particular interest in herd and flock health planning and has a great interest in cattle fertility and mastitis. He is a registered plan user of the Dairy Co Mastitis Control Plan.
Gareth enjoys all sports and plays football regularly. He is a keen rugby fan and wishes he had been good enough to play for Wales. He lives in Towcester with his wife and two children.
Rebecca Edwards BvetMed Bsc (Hons) MRCVS
Rebecca graduated from the Royal Veterinary College in 2009, joining the Farm Team at Towcester in 2011 following two years focussing on farm animal and camelid work through internships. Rebecca works with a wide range of farm species and appreciates the varied aims and interests of our clients; everything from much loved farm pets to high level production units. She is a keen member of the British Veterinary Camelid Society, and following over two years of further study, Rebecca now holds a qualification in Advanced Veterinary Practice for Camelids (CertAVP(CP)). This allows her to direct the camelid (mainly alpaca and llama) work in the practice, and she enjoys the challenge of finding new ways to provide the practice's camelid patients the best treatment possible.
Rebecca lives in Towcester with her husband and two spaniels, who love getting out and about in the countryside together. On Sundays she can be found at church, where she occasionally plays the drums and loves to sing… Earplugs, anyone?!
Katie Goodfellow BVSc MRCVS
Katie qualified from Bristol Vet School in 2004, and after seven years in farm practice in Wiltshire joined the Towcester Farm Vets in 2011. She enjoys the varied nature of life as a farm vet, with special interests in surgery, fertility and embryo transfer work but is happiest when kept busy with the wide range of challenges that farm practice offers.
Outside of work Katie lives with her husband Mark and two daughters, who know more than they probably should about farm vetting!
Nikki Moore BVM&S MRCVS
Nikki worked in mixed practice in Worcestershire for 4 years after graduating from the Royal (Dick) School of Veterinary Studies, Edinburgh in 2009. Having enjoyed the challenge of treating all creatures great and small, she was keen to pursue her long held enthusiasm for farm practice further and joined the Towcester Veterinary Centre farm team in May 2013. Nikki has a keen interest in health planning and infectious diseases particularly the control of BVD and Johne's in cattle herds.
Nikki lives with her partner Matt and together they spend most of their free time playing or watching rugby!
Elizabeth Hodges BVMS MRCVS
Els graduated from the University of Glasgow in 2015 after graduating from a three-year degree from the Royal Veterinary College in 2010. She initially worked in a mixed practice in Lincolnshire before moving to a large animal only practice based in Worcestershire. Els always wanted to work with farm animals having grown up amongst the dairy cows of Shropshire and joined Towcester Veterinary Centre farm animal team in November 2016. Els enjoys working with farmers to aid in husbandry especially in calf health and reproduction efficiency.
Els lives outside Towcester with her cocker spaniel Isla. In her spare time she enjoys walking, baking, hand sewing and various different sports.
Katie Platts BSc BVetMed MRCVS
Katie has joined our farming team in March 2019 after graduating from the Royal Veterinary College in 2016. Growing up with a farming family in the West Country, Katie always had a strong passion for farm work. This led her to working in a mixed practice but doing predominantly farm work in Oxfordshire prior to joining our team. Katie has a strong interest in bull fertility, young stock and nutrition which will help our team deliver the best service to our clients.
Katie has recently moved to South Northamptonshire with her boyfriend and cocker spaniel called Rolo. In her spare time she enjoys watching the rugby and supporting the Exeter Chiefs!
Emil Cristinel Popescu
Emil has worked for our farm team as a locum TB tester and is now joining us on a permanent basis. He graduated in 2014 from the University of Agricultural Sciences and Veterinary Medicine in Iasi, Romania and is looking forward to dealing with a number of different large animals in his new role. After graduating he worked as a farm manager on a Danish pig farm and moved to the UK in 2018 to join our team.
Emil grew up on a dairy farm in Romania and was always surrounded by animals which inspired him to become a vet. In his spare time he enjoys travelling to historical sites and going to the gym.


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Every business owner needs and benefits from leadership at various stages of growing their business.
In this blog post you'll be introduced to practical leadership tips for staff management and smoother business growth. You'll learn a powerful employee motivation strategy and also why doctors are great examples of leaders.
Leadership is an undervalued topic in smaller businesses so it's well worth putting some time into to learn more about it.
Leadership from other people's examples are what inspires us to grow our businesses or to take it to another level.
Can you name half a dozen leadership skills that are seriously important for building your business? There are probably more ways leadership skills are beneficial than you can imagine.
One example to start with is that Leaderships is what your potential and existing clients want and need from your business (but will not ask for).
To understand the relevance and power of leadership as a significant, competitive and growth advantage it's best to start with clarifying leadership skills and how that relates to business management and owning and growing your business.
Business Leadership Definition
A leader is first of all a person with a clear vision of a better future. They see (with their mind) well into the figure of what's possible. They imagine a better business and a better world from their vision.
Elon Musk is one such leader. Look at his "hyper-loop" idea. He envisioned a way to make transportation easier.
The leader then needs to speak with passion and conviction to 'position' themselves as the person for the job to then guide, inspire and support their followers to achieve that vision.
A "visionary" is a leader but without the know-how to achieve it, and that's what sets them apart from leaders. If you notice, Elon Musk then took his vision and started to make it a reality by using his Boring Company to bore the holes necessary for the hyper-loop.
All leaders have to deal with resistance to their vision, in the form of doubt and skepticism and possible strong (or violent) opposition, but that's 'par for the course' and more than likely expected with the title of 'leader'.
Leaders aren't concerned with the opinions of others, they're too busy taking action to achieve their vision.
Leaders don't have all the answers though, just ideas on how it can be started and potentially achieved but what makes them different is their self-confidence and ability to back themselves to think on their feet, and keep the vision active in their mind so it's not forgotten in tough times, and to keep inspiring followers.
This may sound like a leader has 50 or 10,000 followers but it's not necessarily that grandiose.
A leader and leadership is required in many areas of a business, such as…
- a business owner talking to a prospect about their needs
- answering incoming phone calls by any person for the business
- copywriting on the home page, other pages or blog posts on a website
- out in the field where a supervisor has other employees to manage
- being the business owner to lead, teach and inspire employees in team meetings
All of these situations require and benefit leadership thinking.
The Role of Leadership with Prospects and Clients
Although leadership is not spoken about with prospects or clients, it's exactly what they want and need.
The prospect who hasn't purchased from your business is doubtful about how to obtain what they want from your business. This is especially so when you are a service provider selling intangibles.
To sell any intangible service trust of the service provider is desired by prospects. As prospects are not experts or fully educated about what service providers do in carrying out the work requires in a purchase they have doubts (from ignorance) about what they are paying for.
A leader reassures people and in selling to people, this is absolutely essential as part of the sales process, especially if you want to win sales as high or higher than competitors. Mind you this 'reassurance' is not spoken of in these words, its more of a process or steps taken in a sales process that reassure prospects to the point they wish to buy.
Demonstrating authority, competence and skills of the service process all help to reassure prospects they are in the hands of an expert (company or person) that they are paying for.
Demonstrating your leadership skills is important and it's where a lot of businesses fail at doing so, both with their marketing and 'sales' skills, such as answering the phone or during a face to face meeting.
First of all, a fact about leader is they are always confident, or appear to be. Confidence directly relates to competence in most people's eyes and if the person assisting a prospect doesn't sound confident then they feel the 'salesperson' isn't competent and neither is the company that delivers the service.
Confidence is obviously a separate personality trait to competence and yet the two are directly interrelated.
Speaking softly and slowly is interpreted as not-confident in society. Keep this in mind with who answers the phone in your business!
You know this yourself as you would have phoned companies, received a quiet-spoken greeting and probably felt like hanging up immediately. Everyone has had this experience, so the evidence is there that the phone answering person is critical for your business success. The annual revenue could be effected by 10% to 20% just by this one decision.
When greeting people on the phone in your business, it's also important to not say the word "speaking" at the end. People know you are speaking and telling your name and speaking lowers your "authority", which lowers respect and potentially trust and that hurts sales.
As mentioned about leadership is about very important subtleties in communication that have a big impact in results.
Leaders are rarely identified as "leaders", yet they are everywhere in society.
Doctors Are a Great Example of Leadership in Action
When you go to a doctor you are wanting leadership towards a health solution and doctors are excellent at leading you to one.
Relate how a doctor deals with patients compared to how the typical business deals with prospects. The process should be the same, but it rarely ever is.
When businesses answer phones, they typically wait for the caller to ask the first and following questions. It's the same face to face in a meeting or quote scenario at the person's premises.
The person in the meeting typically talks to the prospect, and during the meeting answers their questions.
Now compare that to a doctor's appointment.
First of all the doctor doesn't expect, or want you to ask any questions, have you noticed?
In fact, they ignore your questions and will almost never answer them.
To answer questions, without knowing great details about your situation would be a guess as to exactly what the issue is you're having.
What does a doctor do instead? They 'diagnose' your situation with a couple of dozen or more questions.
Leaders ask questions so followers can recognise where they are, and understand what they need to do to get to where they want to be.
A doctor, only after asking a lot of questions will eliminate possibilities to reach one conclusion and then 'treat the problem' with one solution.
Leaders understand exactly where the follower is and what they need to do to get to where they want to be.
In a sales situation when someone calls your business, and asks a question, don't do what you normally do and answer it. Because if you do, the person will often ask another question, then another and price will often be the last one, and then they end the conversation with "thanks, I need to think about it'.
The person asking questions is the leader, not the one answering them. So why let people ask multiple questions when they call your business?
Instead, if they call and ask how some service you offer, reply with "Just do I can help you best, do you mind if I ask you a few questions?"
They always say yes. Because they want help, and you've just said 'just so I can help you best'.
Next, start with simple questions such as, 'Can I have your name please?', or 'Can I ask if you've purchased from our business before' or something similar and easy.
It's best if you don't answer their first question immediately, until you have asked a couple of others, like 'How did you find our number', or 'have you purchased (their inquiry) previously'?
You may need some more training to make this work great, but it does work great! People start to relax as they don't feel they have to come up with all the questions, to be their own leader. This is very important, and very beneficial when you carry this out expertly.
Sales will increase by using this process, and you'd be amazed at just how much they can.
A blind manufacturing company used to answer all questions of all callers about their blinds, but the end result, including giving them an idea of price, was no sales and lots of "I'll think about it", in regards to organising a quote in their home.
After putting in place a full SYSTEM of communication (leadership) on the incoming phone calls, the sales from lead to client increased massively (over 1,000%). The phone calls were longer, but it doesn't matter if sales result – do you agree? What matters is winning sales from phone calls.
There are leadership tips in meetings or quote situations too, but there are too many details on this to type them all out. Our course is built to teach every-day employees how to lead in sales situations, on the phone and face to face.
Let's now look at leadership in regards to employees.
The Importance of Leadership with Employees
Employees want and need leadership as much as clients and perhaps even more, although they won't use the word leadership or ask for it.
Employees look to you as their leader (as you own the business that employs them) and you have power and authority in your role as their leader.
As a leader there are powerful methods or strategies you can introduce that will improve your business overall by creating a better leader-following environment.
One such strategy is to introduce regularly, weekly team meetings. A team meeting is where ALL employees speak (about their role and tasks), it's not a lecture where the business owner speaks and everyone nods.
When everyone speaks, in turn, this gives them recognition, which has been proven to be one of the most important (and therefore motivating) employee desires.
That said, a good leader understands recognise of both effort and positive results is super important, and criticism needs to be kept to a minimum and individually discussed (never in a group).
Introduce a weekly team meeting where everyone speaks to see what happens. Keep in mind introducing numbers or KPIs may be necessary to see a truly remarkable difference in attitudes, participation and interest in team meetings (all supplied with details in the Academy of Business Mastery).
All leaders are very dependent on their followers to carry out their vision. It all begins with the leader stating what that vision is, (and your first step too).
Have you clearly defined your vision for your business? What that simply can mean is, your two-year goal for your business.
Do you want it to grow? By what amount in two years?
How many more employees would you have by that time?
These are the simple, easy to start with questions.
Unfortunately it's tough to set goals if you have no real idea or strategies to achieve them and this prevents a lot of business owners from even setting goals.
It's where leadership from outside of the business is very beneficial.
Having worked with business owners for over two decades, its become very apparent that only a tiny percentage (about 2%) of all business owners have a very clear vision of what they want and are striving towards achieving.
The primary reason why they don't have a clear vision is because there's a lot of doubt (from ignorance) about what goals to set, what 'realistic' goals are and how to achieve them (why state a goal if you don't know how to achieve it).
Leaders play a very important role in all success ventures, and self-leadership may involve knowing when to ask for help and guidance from another leader yourself.
There's no 'one size fits all' method of growing your business by 50% to 100% in one or two years, however a lot of experience has shown what is possible to achieve is a lot greater than what business owners typically believe is achievable.
For example, did you know…
- You can increase net profit a lot easier than total income
- Clients (and income) are much easier to increase than leads
- Nearly every service business can increase net profit by 50% within one year
- Strategies are what grow any business and there are 21 strategy "types" – apart from lead generation
- The best strategies to increase profit cost absolutely zero to implement
- 'People skills' are one of the best strategy types to learn (and one of the lest indulged in)
To have a healthy respect for what you don't know is also a great personality trait of a leader, in other words they have humility.
If a person thinks they're a leader, and no one is following them, they're just a dictator, going for a walk, on their own!
Leadership is one word – servitude. Leaders are there to serve their followers, and leading by example is highly recommended.
If a leader doesn't know what to do but pretends to know, followers, when they are leaders will do exactly the same.
This is seen in businesses that have supervisors, that may become arrogant thinking their way is always the best way to carry out any task.
A great leader understands the importance is on results, not just the process.
To achieve an ideal, efficient result does it really matter too much exactly what path was taken to get their (if it's ethical, honest, legal etc.)?
The leader is actually there in a position of influence, not for themselves so they can bask in the glory of their accomplishments, but to serve their followers needs. The good leader knows this and this is where humility becomes important.
Humility requires courage as to admit one's limitations or to recognize one's mistakes and own up to them generates respect. Wanting to command respect is more about control and being a dictator than it is leadership.
A great leader is loved by their followers for they make them feel and what they achieve, and may not always be lived at a given moment. The leader's vision of a better outcome in the future needs to be passionately promoted not just once but sometimes regularly (for long term goals) so the followers start to 'see' it in their mind too.
The way you make your employees feel is extremely important to your long term business success. That's because the exact energy you give to your employees is the energy they will pass onto your clients.
Some business owners feel they need to 'treat them mean, to make them keen', but that's not the case, not for smart leaders. Yes, it works to a level, but nowhere near the level of positive energy towards employees.
If you want happy clients, think about ways to make your employees happy because your employees are in effect working for your clients because that's where their wages come from.
That's a good point to raise in your new team meetings while working together to achieve your business and common goals.


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I was perusing the posts in our Sisterhood Facebook group this morning and saw one that made me smile. It read, 'Stay strong sisters! The holidays are coming. Enjoy yourself, but don't over-indulge and keep up working out! :) We can do this!'
The support in our group is amazing and real.
This little reminder was followed by this graphic:
Funny, cute, and probably true, because yes, this is the toughest season of the year when we're trying to watch our weight or even LOSE weight. It's easy to get caught up in the hustle and bustle and before we know it, we've gained a few (okay TEN) pounds, leading to feelings of failure, anger, and frustration. We've all been there, probably multiple times since those pesky holidays come every year.
I'm just going to say it: Thanksgiving is 11 days away, and Christmas is 39 days away. I KNOW, but with support and motivation from our fellow Sisters, and a little mindfulness of our own, we can do this. We can navigate mountains of mashed potatoes, the rivers of gravy, and the seemingly unending supply of desserts and whipped topping. We an celebrate the holidays and enjoy them without feeling anxiety about how much we'll weigh when it's all said and done.
Everything in moderation. Moderation with food (and drinks!), and moderation with worrying about each bite, lick, and taste.
This year at the Sisterhood we're trying to head off the holiday gain off at the pass by hosting a DietBet game that starts just before Thanksgiving, and a Virtual Marathon called the Holiday Hustle that runs (ha ha) through December.
If you're interested in joining our DietBet, we'd love to help keep you on track by motivating and supporting you. Our games are fun, and our participants are so willing to lift each other up. If you lose 4% of your weight in 4 weeks, you WIN, and our DietBet ends just before Christmas, so you can use your winnings for a few extra presents under the tree.
If you'd rather not DietBet with us, then please think about joining our Facebook Group. It's a secret group, so nothing you post will be seen by anyone other than the members of the group. It's our safe place to discuss weight loss – the victories and struggles, the highs and lows. I also highly recommend using a food tracker like MyFitnessPal or LoseIt to keep track of your daily intake. Know what you're putting into your body is the first hurdle to weight loss. It's often eye opening to see your daily journal, especially around the holidays. Even if you don't plan to lose weight over the holidays, tracking is a good way to keep it all in check so you don't end of gaining.
So how do you avoid the holiday weight gain anxiety? By being mindful of what you're eating and keeping moving. By making a plan ahead of time and sticking with your goals. Having a support group or person helps immensely, too.
Those are the keys to successfully navigating AROUND the holiday weight gain. Together we can do this. Let's start with setting a goal for Thanksgiving. Whether it's creating a lighter meal with recipes from our own Shrinking Kitchen, getting up to exercise the morning of, or just skipping the seconds and leftovers.
How do you plan to make better choices this Thanksgiving?


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30 håndplukkede film. En ny hver dag
A group of men trap wild animals in Africa and sell them to zoos. Will the arrival of a female wildlife photographer change their ways?
1963 | Kandidat: Best Cinematography, Color
Another of Hawks's paradises, an outpost on the edge of the world where the camaraderie of men at work is enhanced by a spunky femme who might conquer their leader's heart. It's a wonderful place to spend time, and the first three-quarters contain fond, worldly, delicate wisdom that the film promptly undermines with one of Hawks's lamest endings. But it's an old-timer's reverie, to be sure.
This was a nice change of pace for John Wayne, instead of herding cattle and drunks, he's on a safari and man is it a wild time.
Based on the Hawks I've seen, Hatari! seems to be a fully realized evolution of his catalog that becomes less driven by plot or conflict, in a classical narrative sense, as his career matured, and more a beautiful documentation of the loveliness of human interaction at work. Initially slightly put off by what felt like shoddy acting, I came to love them for their flaws, as I would any of my friends.
This isn't a masterpiece, but it is a real touchstone in the craft. I'd even call it a lark. One big lark. Enormous, as its run-time and serial narration suggest. I see why many take this to be a producer of brilliant formal ideas, and I see it having a lot of fun while doing that, but I also see - and why not bring it up - animal cruelty, sexism, and post-in-neo-colonial racism on display. Why go to all the trouble?
3,5. Except for an embarrassing Mama Tembo blackface, animals under stressing conditions and ubiquitous misogyny, Hawk's offspring is an Ode to True Cinema (almost perfect cinematography; flawless direction; heart beating action takes; glorious score etc). PS: I loved John Wayne's neck flap!
At this point in his career, Howard Hawks wasn't really making movies but mixing them: combining Bringing Up Baby, Only Angels have Wings, and Rio Bravo, stripping them to their essence and bloating them in glorious widescreen technicolor, but most of all, renewing with the sense of wonder of the classic western, the undiscovered country in the motorized modern age. So it's basically the precursor to Mad Max.
Thrilling filmmaking full of camaraderie with in-your-face camera work during the missions...made completely weird by the inherent evil of game hunting (even if it is for "zoos" lol)
I love the score. There's some signature Hawks charm, too. The run time is long though, and while it somehow feels like it needs the scope to get where it's going, I found the film ultimately a bit laborious.


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M.A. Candidate Matt Fennelly will perform in the Old Library Theatre's production of "Catch Me If You Can" in Fair Lawn, NJ October 20-29, 2017.
About the Show
Seeking fame and fortune, precocious teenager, Frank Abignale, Jr., runs away from home to begin an unforgettable adventure. With nothing more than his boyish charm, a big imagination and millions of dollars in forged checks, Frank successfully poses as a pilot, a doctor and a lawyer – living the high life and winning the girl of his dreams. When Frank's lies catch the attention of FBI agent, Carl Hanratty, though, Carl pursues Frank across the country to make him pay for his crimes.
WHEN: October 20th-22nd, October 27th-29th, Fridays & Saturdays @ 8pm, Sundays @ 2pm
WHERE: Old Library Theatre, 10-10 20th Street, Fair Lawn, NJ 07410


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We have produced on-brand designs for Cakesmiths for a rather useful giveaway - cake tongs for their coffee shop clients to use to serve their cakes.
The design is actually branded into the wooden tongs. They are given away at the numerous catering shows and food fairs the company attends.


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Design - Creating a Business that Attracts Clients
In our last article, we talked about creating a vision for your business with a compelling brand and a strong sense of who your target clients are. The only thing left to do is make it happen by coming up with a great design for your business. No small feat, but if you remain true to your vision and have a nice little roadmap, it will all come together.
An Introduction to the Roadmap for Becoming a Personal Chef
This article is part of our 5 part series on The Roadmap to Becoming a Personal Chef. In this series, we break down the steps to launching your Personal Chef Business. The series is based on the year-long work to create our foundational course, Becoming a Personal Chef.