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I'm writing this because quite a few people have asked me about it and even though I am not a launch expert, I do feel I have some lessons to share. In short, I made some money, I spent some money, I helped a lot of people, I gained some fans and some haters (oh yes!) and I learned a LOT. (trying not to swear as my Ma reads this, hi Ma!)
I have been reading up and learning about big launches for years. My goodness, it is quite something else actually doing them! I realised half way through this launch just how I've avoided trying to make 'too big a deal' out of my own launches and therefore have not reached my targets in order to make them as financially successful as possible.
When it comes to the actual delivery of whatever I'm selling, I'm fine, I blimmin' love teaching and when the people who buy from me action what I teach, they get great results. But first, you have to get people to trust you enough to buy from you, right?
I have done many different types of launches but this particular model I learned as a combination from learning from Faye Cornhill and Lisa Johnson, both marvellous business coaches and if you haven't heard about them, go Google them. They're completely different styles, but hey, I enjoy both flavours of ice cream.
So, how did I get this launch to happen? I've listed 10 but of course there are countless others. Some of them are predictable, some of them surprised me, all of them I found valuable, so you might too 🤪
1. You have to believe you can do it
This one sounds the cheesiest of all but it's 100% true. Here's what helps me believe in myself:
- Reading happy testimonials + feedback
- Affirmations
- Reflecting & meditating (this is the one I've subscribed to for 9 years)
- Repeating my sales goal over and over (writing it out, saying it out loud)
- Sharing with my friends & family over WhatsApp (validation / emotional support)
- Asking for support from business coach friends
- Resting as much as possible so you reserve your energy
- Snacks
2. You have to set boundaries
Something I learn more and more about every day of running my business. If you don't set boundaries you run the risk of burnout. I've been there, it ain't fun. Every evening during this launch I would delete my social media apps from my phone and every morning I would re-download them. In fact, I've been doing this some weekends to give myself a break and oh boy does it feel good. See also: not checking the phone as soon as I open my eyes in the morning. Also, I made sure I rested as much as possible.
3. You have to be prepared to spend time and money planning it all
In launches prior to this I've used 99% organic posts only. In this launch, I used a mix of paid AND organic posts. I not only had paid campaigns running to get people to sign up for my challenge, I also posted a lot organically (which I do anyway):
- posts on FB page
- posts in my main FB group
- posts on Instagram profile & Stories
- Q+As on Stories and email
- emails to my list (hi!)
I don't want to mention figures openly here actually, because if I read the figures I'd spent on this campaign and I wasn't in this position then I would actually be put off from launching. You have to figure out what your own targets are, what kind of effort you're willing to put in to make it happen, and what your own price points are.
My target was to get 1000 people engaged with my challenge (I got 742 in the end), and then my target was 1% conversion rate of 10 sales which I got! You might think the conversion rate is low but it was a high price point. Your conversion rate may be higher if your price point is lower and your audience is warmer (I learned a lot about warm audiences on this one).
4. You cannot do it alone
I continue to work with a number of coaches, and a mentoring group, and this time I hired Jackie Muscat & her team who helped make this launch happen. Next time I want to hire a VA to help me with the day to day running of everything. But also, I took great solace in my support network, see also: group WhatsApps cheering me along.
5. Don't let pride stand in your way
This was a big mistake where I've gone wrong before and I see that originally I didn't make the sales funnel specific enough. I have a free training on my site - Let's Make You Shine, and I was sending cold traffic there with a video ad, to watch the free training video and expecting them to book a call with me to book onto the course (which is self guided) and then wondering why I wasn't converting very well. Indeed those people weren't even hanging around on my emailing list. It just felt unnatural and not like me. My audience is very used to being sold to and therefore much more savvy but I didn't know what else to do.
(Fact: I did really, I just didn't want to admit I was wrong. See also my blog post about asking for sex on the first date - it doesn't create a long lasting relationship! And yet I still hadn't practiced what I preached).
I also realised I was scared of bothering people and again had to swallow my own advice and realise that those who were interested wanted to hear from me. So I put on my big girl pants and did the work.
.....which brings me to next lesson....
6. I followed a process
I have read advice about launching before and didn't want to follow it step by step because it felt like a) copying b) unoriginal and c) predictable.
But hey guess what? Following a process makes life so much easier plus it works! There's a reason it's a process! I made my content original and my audience loved it. I'll tell you a few basics of the process:
- I created a detailed target audience profile complete with pain points
- I thought about the hell + heaven of my audience (what challenges do they face, where would they like to be)
- I collected testimonials + case studies of successes
- I wasn't afraid to use video ads
7. I wasn't afraid to give away a lot of information for free
I designed a 5 day challenge (I'd only ever done 3-4 days before) and with no webinar at the end this time, and instead open the doors to my live course. This time the challenge would be in its own popup FB group too.
Before the challenge, I wanted to increase email subscribers and gain more engagement traction on socials, so I updated a freebie "How to tell Google I exist" and it worked really well (see a problem, offer a solution, people want the solution). But... I didn't have a welcome sequence set up for that which would automatically go out to them before adding them to my master list, so I found it hard to hold onto those subscribers. Not impossible, just unnecessarily harder.
8. Recognise 'what's the cost of not doing this?'
The challenge campaign was going well, but I was stressing OUT because my website kept breaking. The back end of it was literally held together with brown sticky tape. I knew I would have to move the teaching materials away from my site but at the same time it felt expensive.
Then I realised my own advice: what's the cost of not doing this?
- To my own sanity
- To my bank balance
- To my clients who kept (patiently) letting me know they were having problems accessing the course content
The challenge campaign increased my mail subscribers to the point where ActiveCampaign stopped accepting new subscribers (but didn't email me to let me know!) and I had to pay to upgrade with a bill of £350 (that means I'll be paying £900 or so in October when it comes to renew).
My developer was incredibly patient and worked with me through my favourite system, Asana, to sort out all the tech problems, and find good solutions.
9. Don't be afraid to look bad
Tech gremlins crept in to the last 2 days of my 5 day challenge and so I offered to redo the last video again. This got a lot of traction which was great. I was afraid to look bad (I was afraid to sell something people didn't want, but I knew they did, fearful that I made the challenge too thorough). I had to really get confident with what I was selling and follow up with leads - some ghosted me which happens, but others appreciated that I was persistent because they were busy but knew they wanted a solution to their problem.
10. There are no shortcuts
It comes down to this - there are no shortcuts. You have to be prepared to put in the work. Create the content to show your value and to actually go ahead and show up.
This was the biggest one for me and the running theme throughout the whole launch - you have to show up.
What do you think? Was this helpful to learn more insights? Hit me back with a reply and let me know.
Maddy x
Whilst you're here....come and say hi!
I wanted to let you know about 3 things I'm speaking at next month, I'd love to see some friendly faces there 🙂
- Cake Makers - this one's for you! Organised by Christine and Phil of Peboryon cakes, the Cake Professionals Conference is a day to invest in yourself and your cake business. Leave refreshed and inspired! Taking place in Reading UK on 2nd March, you can get your ticket here
- South West Wedding Suppliers - here's one for you! I'm speaking alongside some brilliant people at South West Wedmeetup on 3rd March at Rockbeare Manor in Devon. You can get your ticket for the one day event plus a gala dinner in the evening 🍾you can book your ticket here
- Female Photographers, listen up - there's a 3 day conference happening in Manchester UK next March with your name all over it. I'll be there giving a talk along with an incredible line up of speakers. There are different ticket options which you can check out here and when you book, mention my name in the booking form and I'll buy you a drink at the bar.


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Following on from our last few blog posts about the importance of risk assessments and the potential liability for organisations, I thought that I would share with you an e-mail that I received from Mark Williams who ran the ERB, Soft-Cuff and Handcuff Trainers Course in January and who is running another on on the 21st March.
Mark is an extremely competent and experienced individual and his expert opinion is widely sought after by many organisations here in the UK. Therefore, please take the time to have a look at what Mark wrote in his e-mail to me [Mark Dawes] by clicking here: http://www.nfps.info/_blog/NFPS_Blog/post/An_Experts_Opinion_on_Risk_Assessments_by_Mark_Williams/


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It's just a pet!" Some individuals assume that pet loss should not hurt as much as human loss, or that it is someway inappropriate to grieve for an animal.
Dealing with loss and grief is a course of that's particular person for each of us and each of our animal companions, and while some members of the family may be prepared instantly for a brand new pet, others might not be.
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What A Woman Aspires To
I read the Huffington Post to keep up with current events. On Mother's Day, I was treated to this article.
Let's see, now that I'm 50, the most important thing for me to do is to be a MILF. If I'm not sexually attractive to teenage boys I might as well just hang it up and move into the nursing home.
What utter bull. Is this what the feminist movement was about, being sexy after 40?
My entire life I've wanted to be recognized as a person, with a brain. I wanted to be attractive, sure, but I didn't feel like it should be the most important thing in my life. Getting old has almost been a relief (except for the arthritis, ick) because I have a secure and loving marriage and I don't care about being attractive to anyone but my husband.
And let's not forget the obvious, that there are a lot more important things for women to be striving for than looking like an anorexic supermodel. Trivial things like feeding families, being protected from domestic violence, equal pay for equal work, and so on.
Our society doesn't have much respect for women, especially older women.
Women as Victims
Okay, now that Edwards is out I'm really going to step in it.
If, like me, you read blogs by Women of Color (most notably BlackAmazon), you're familiar with the never-ending tension between White feminists and WoC.
Basically, it goes like this: White feminist says something dismissive about our issues, tells us to wait our turn, or says something that perpetuates a stereotype. Feminist of Color calls her out on it. White feminist cries "I'm not a racist! You're being mean to me!"
By so doing, the White feminist puts herself in the position of Victim, and there is much rallying to support the poor flower of womanhood and much chastisement of the mean old Feminist of Color.
Seems to me, you can't have it both ways. Playing the victim is pandering to patriarchy, where (white) women are fragile and need protection. Not the best path to empowerment, in my opinion. Yet it happens over and over. To me it looks like using privilege to advance.
Watch for this to happen, now that the Democratic primary is between Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama. Hillary already capitalized on this when she cried, before the New Hampshire primary. Oh, wait, it's already begun.
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Will Universities suffer from the 'squeezed middle' and how can strategic marketing help?
The term 'squeezed middle' has become very topical, currently in relation to the coalition government's economic policy and the recent Budget. In his first speech after becoming Labour leader, Ed Miliband coined the phrase 'squeezed middle' and this was picked up to such an extent that the Oxford English Dictionary nominated it as 'word of the year' in 2011!
In the world of marketing and communications, the issue of the 'squeezed middle' has been with us for many years. There are examples in numerous sectors where those products or services occupying the middle ground have struggled to establish and maintain a sustainable rationale and, ultimately, to justify their existence.
In retailing, for instance, the middle ground is particularly unforgiving when times are tough and many of the retailers who have fallen by the wayside in recent months, without naming names, have consciously or otherwise occupied this space. The retailers that survive and thrive are those that stay closest to their customers and are able to develop and articulate a clear offering and proposition to a well-targeted group of customers (the John Lewis Partnership, including Waitrose, being a prime example).
Within HE, a similar situation may be emerging. On the one hand, deregulation is expected to result in increased competition for the brightest students, with quotas for individual institutions related to the 'AAB+' bar being removed. On the other hand, many institutions have also lost quota places because of earlier reform which re-distributed 20,000 places to low-cost universities and FE colleges.
The 'squeezed middle' of universities is, and will increasingly be, under pressure if their student numbers decline. This may be compounded by the rise in tuition fees, if this results in greater polarisation between the premium and low cost segments, or groups of universities.
So, what can marketing departments do to support their institutions? Let's qualify that immediately by talking about strategic marketing because this challenge requires strategic as well as marketing communications capability.
Firstly, all organisations, whether in the public, private or voluntary sector, benefit from regularly reviewing their customer or value proposition, to ensure its clarity and saliency. We summarise a customer proposition as 'what can you (university x) do for me (target customer)? A value proposition is typically described as a promise of value to be delivered and a belief from the customer of value that will be experienced.
This requires market and customer research, so that, importantly, insights are gathered from the 'outside: in', from the customer's perspective, rather than from 'inside: out', the institution's perspective.
Secondly, the insights can then be used as part of a debate about, and refresh of, the university's strategy and positioning, where positioning can be summarised as 'what is different about you (university x)'?. From a marketing perspective, this is about ensuring a meaningful differentiated positioning and one that genuinely reflects the university's strengths versus its competition.
Two interesting current examples of differentiated positioning in HE are Northampton and London Met. Northampton has a particular focus on subject specialisms and has set out its stall to be the 'top university in the UK for social enterprise by 2015'. London Met has used the opportunity of increased tuition fees to introduce differential pricing for its courses, in support of its 'affordable quality education' proposition.
Finally, it's about developing or modifying communications in line with the customer proposition and positioning, and promoting a consistent message to the various stakeholders and target audiences through the appropriate media and channels.
A university may decide it wants to avoid, or alternatively thrive in, the 'squeezed middle'. Either way, its marketing team should be able to provide valuable insights and support.


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Hawaiian LuauAn imaginary journey to the Islands provides bright and colorful inspiration for two little surfer girls who are also neighbors and best friends - one of whom will be moving with her family back to the West Coast over the summer. Therefore, an art vacation was just the ticket for a memorable time together.
The theme for this week was a surfing trip to the Islands which highlighted our love for the ocean and things related to the beach.
Hand built pottery surfboards and pottery wall hooks.
|Cut out surfboard shapes from a slab of clay and smooth edges of surfboard design.
|With tropical themed cookie cutters, create out clay designs and attach them to the surfboard.
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|Paint fired pieces with non-toxic pottery glazes, then refire in the kiln.
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Romero Britto Beach Painting
|Sketch beach design onto 16x20 inch canvas.
|Outline all shapes with a black sharpie. Using bright, tropical colors add paint to the canvas.
|Enjoy the company of your best friend as you paint something special together.
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Foam core surfboards
|Cut surfboard shape from a large piece of foam core board, draw design with pencil, outline with black sharpie and paint with acrylic paints.
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Cupcake time
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|Mix together all ingredients, pour into cupcake pan, place into the oven, cook and...
|Aloha girls - thanks for a great week.


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8.15pm LeftWatch: Shadow Cabinet election results in – Ex-Cabinet ministers Bradshaw, Hain and Woodward all fail to be elected Updated at 8.30pm with numbers showing that Yvette Cooper topped the ballot and at 9pm with full figures for all candidates
5.30pm ToryDiary update: CCHQ confirms that party membership has dropped to 177,000
4pm ToryDiary: An overlooked section of Theresa May's conference speech
1.45pm WATCH: George Osborne on the Hutton Commission: Pensions must change
1pm: ToryDiary: The Government mustn't means-test Child Benefit
10.45am WATCH: Ex-Labour Cabinet minister Lord Hutton says that public sector final salary pension schemes can no longer be deemed reasonable and fair
ToryDiary: ConservativeHome's 10-point review of party conference
Also on ToryDiary:
- Treasury pours cold water on FT suggestion that spending cuts might be delayed
- Three cheers for the Freedom Zone – the home of the real conference fringe
- If Ancelotti was negotiating to buy Wayne Rooney, he wouldn't discuss the details live with Gary Lineker
Azeem Ibrahim on Platform: The law should recognise that terrorists are not just criminals, they are traitors
WATCH: The President of the World Bank, Robert Zoellick, praises the British Government's "courageous" action to tackle the deficit
David Cameron tells Britain: Your Country Needs You!
"David Cameron issued a call to arms to the public yesterday to help build a nation of "doers and go-getters" from the mess of the deficit crisis and change forever the way Britain is run. The Prime Minister hinted at pre-election tax cuts even as he braced voters for lost jobs and axed government programmes from the looming cuts… Evoking Lord Kitchener, Mr Cameron used his speech to the Conservative party conference to tell Britons: "Your country needs you." – The Times (£)
"He told the party faithful in Birmingham that "the spirit of the big society" could "blast through" if everyone pulled together in the national interest." – The Guardian
"David Cameron urged the people of Britain to join the Government in repairing the nation's damaged economy, telling voters: "It takes two". – Daily Telegraph
"He told the Tory conference his vision was to make the UK great again. And he stole Labour's clothes by boldly declaring "we are the radicals now" before saying his coalition government was "breaking apart the old system". – The Sun
How the papers and commentariat reacted to the speech
"He spoke as a man on the edge of history rather than as someone who has already made it. The Coalition he leads is about to announce the biggest cuts in public spending ever imposed by a government. But the argument he advanced as a prelude was the same one he has been advancing for several years, the same one he advanced in opposition: the argument for a smaller state and big society." – Steve Richards in The Independent
"Mr Cameron's speech was impressive and impressively delivered. It was humorous where it needed to be and rousing when required, it made a proper argument, broke new ground and was lethally political. It was a prime minister's speech." – Times editorial (£)
"After the "Look Mum, no notes" performance that made him five years ago, Conservative delegates now enter a conference hall waiting to be wowed by David Cameron's oratorical gifts. This time, giving his first conference speech as prime minister, there were no such fireworks. He stuck to the lectern and read from a text." – Jonathan Freedland in The Guardian
"After the Prime Minister's stirring performance, planting the Tories squarely in the centre ground, it is hard to see where Labour fits in. The week's best-received news for most voters was axing handouts to the wealthy, proving Mr Cameron understands what being fair means to Sun readers caught in the storm." – Sun editorial
"This was not vintage David Cameron, for he has set the bar high. But he succeeded in ending a difficult conference on a high note. His innate optimism shone through." – Daily Telegraph editorial
"I admire Cameron. He has the stuff of greatness. But I do wish he'd give the Big Society a rest." – Max Hastings in the Daily Mail
"David Cameron is going hell for leather on a five-year campaign to transform the country, and we'll all have to keep up. Conservatives leaving their conference after an hour-long call to arms from their leader may be no wiser about what the Prime Minister means by the "big society spirit" or his desire for a "conversation about fairness". But what emerges from the murk is a big picture of revolution on all fronts. So much of it, in fact, that it is no wonder we find it easier to focus on one thing at a time, such as child benefit, and thereby miss the wider context. The ambition of what he is attempting is terrifying." – Benedict Brogan in the Daily Telegraph
"It is hard to believe that the optimism that suffused Mr Cameron's speech will emerge unscarred from the storms into which the government is heading." – Guardian editorial
"Undeniably, Mr Cameron deserves all the applause he won yesterday. But as he knows better than anyone, his real test begins in a fortnight, when the Coalition spells out where the cuts are to fall. Of course, they must be tough — painfully so. But if Mr Cameron wishes to keep the nation with him, they must also be fair." – Daily Mail editorial
"David Cameron came to the Conservative conference with three big objectives. The prime minister wanted to sell the coalition to his party, to stiffen its spine about the coming austerity and to frame the government's overall mission for the nation. He leaves with only two of the three accomplished. This was not for the want of trying. His speech encompassed all of them. But while he reassured his party about the partnership with the Lib Dems and the cuts, he struggled to articulate the government's broader objective." – FT (£) editorial
> Yesterday's coverage of David Cameron's speech on ConHome
- Highlights of David Cameron's speech to the Conservative Party conference
- Forgettable speech from Cameron ends a party conference season that was good for the Conservatives
- Mixed reaction from the blogosphere to Cameron's big speech
- ITN's three minutes of highlights of David Cameron's speech to Tory Conference
'Transparent' Tories silent over falling membership
"There has been no confirmation or denial of the interesting claim by the editor of the ConservativeHome website, Tim Montgomerie, that party membership has declined by 80,000 under David Cameron's leadership… With this revelation buzzing around the conference, you would think that the Tory party chairman, Sayeed Warsi, would have thought of something appropriate to say before being interviewed live by Andrew Neil on the Daily Politics programme. But no, "kamikaze Warsi" walked in unprepared. On being asked, for the third time, whether or not membership had fallen, the Baroness replied: "It depends. How are you defining membership?" Neil had, in fact, already told her several times." – The Independent
> Last night's ToryDiary: Tory membership down by a third to 177,000 since Cameron became leader
Jeremy Hunt: The state "should not finance" big families on benefits
"Culture Secretary Jeremy Hunt told BBC Two's Newsnight that the state should not support families who get more in benefits than the average family earns… "The number of children that you have is a choice and what we're saying is that if people are living on benefits then they make choices but they also have to have responsibility for those choices," he said. "It's not going to be the role of the state to finance those choices." – BBC
Child benefit cut could hit millions more when tax band falls
"Hundreds of thousands more families than expected could be hit by the decision to withdraw child benefit, it emerged yesterday. Almost two million workers who are currently basic-rate taxpayers, including tens of thousands of teachers and policemen, are expected to become higher-rate taxpayers over the next five years because the starting level for the top-rate band is set to fall from next year. This means that hundreds of thousands of families could find that by 2013 they, too, will lose the weekly payment." – The Times (£)
"Ministers are close to agreeing plans that will see the age at which children
receive benefit fall from 18 to 16. The change would save up to £2 billion and is considered "an easy win"
for George Osborne, the Chancellor, as he prepares to unveil the
comprehensive spending review in two weeks' time." – Daily Telegraph
Child benefit will be means tested, says Iain Duncan Smith – The Guardian
Ex-Labour minister Lord Hutton proposes end to public sector final salary pensions
"The Government looked to be on a collision course with unions today after a report called for an end to final salary pension schemes for public sector workers. Former Labour Cabinet minister Lord Hutton said long-term structural reform was needed to public sector pensions, including an end to the current final salary schemes." – The Independent
William Hague's sovereignty pledge
"New laws will spell out the British Parliament's sovereignty over Brussels, William Hague vowed yesterday. The Foreign Secretary said Westminster's powers would be clarified – and its legal abilities will be formally put on the statute book for the first time. Tory activists cheered as he told the party conference: "EU law has effect in this country because, and solely because, Parliament wills that it should." – The Sun
"But the move is unlikely to satisfy Eurosceptics who fear the self-amending nature of the Lisbon Treaty will allow Brussels to seize more powers without the need for new treaties. Tory MP Douglas Carswell said there had already been four significant transfers of power to the EU since the general election, including powers which will hand aspects of bank regulation to Brussels… Stephen Booth, of the think-tank Open Europe, said: 'These safeguards are not enough in order to inspire public trust on their own. There are still areas under the Lisbon Treaty, such as justice and home affairs, where there is still a day-to-day risk of powers being ceded to Brussels and EU judges in particular'." – Daily Mail
> WATCH: William Hague says that Britain's sovereign parliament can undo what it has given to Europe
Liam Fox: MoD cuts will not be easy
"Cuts to defence are unavoidable, Liam Fox says, but the Trident nuclear deterrent will go ahead and veterans will get more support… The Defence Secretary, speaking at the Conservative Party Conference, said the legacy from Labour made cuts unavoidable. "It is not an easy time to be at the Ministry of Defence," he said." – Channel 4 News
National Security Council to meet over defence budget – BBC
> Yesterdays ToryDiary: Liam Fox lambasts Labour for the inheritance it has bequeathed him at the MoD
> WATCH: Liam Fox says that Trident will be replaced
Danny Alexander criticises Police Federation over attitude to cuts – Press Association
Government may allow hospitals to undercut each other to attract patients – The Guardian
Results of shadow cabinet elections due out tonight
"Labour will reveal the 19 MPs who will join new leader Ed Miliband's shadow cabinet on Thursday. In opposition, the party's top team is voted in by its MPs although the leader gets to allocate specific jobs. Voting closes on Thursday and ballots will be counted from 1700 BST with an announcement expected hours later." – BBC
And finally… Punters cash in on Pickles' curry
"The conference diary noted on Monday that Ladbrokes had been taking money on local government cabinet minister Eric Pickles to be photographed enjoying a curry in Brum. The portly Pickles did his duty and tweeted a picture of himself eating a curry. Anyone who took up the 5/6 odds is now in pocket, but Ladbrokes should have known better. When it tried a similar stunt in Brighton during the spring conference, Mr Pickles posted a picture of himself at the fish and chip shop with the sign "pay up Ladbrokes". – The Scotsman
Please use this thread to highlight other interesting news and commentary and visit PoliticsHome.com for breaking political news and views throughout the day.


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Smiling inmate accused of biting CO makes request of judge
Asked for her phone call, saying her "rights ain't been met here"
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LOUISVILLE, Ky. — An inmate accused of biting a Louisville Metro Department of Corrections officer made a request of a judge Thursday morning.
"As long as I get my phone call, because my rights ain't been met here," inmate Kiana Beard said, according to WDRB. "That's why I got this assault charge."
Police say Beard became combative yesterday, attacking a corrections officer and biting the officer on the arm.
The arrest report stated that Beard bit so close to a major artery that, if damaged, could have caused serious issues.
A not guilty plea was entered on her behalf.
It's not the first time Beard has been known to bite – she was originally arrested for threatening to kill and biting a 67-year-old woman in the face during a robbery of a Cash Advance in Louisville, Ky, according to WAVE.WDRB 41 Louisville News
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This past weekend I visited my little sister (who is not so little anymore) and her boyfriend, who are living in Wheaton, IL while she finishes her undergrad degree at Wheaton College. We spent the weekend snuggled in her adorable college apartment (man I miss those days), walking around a surprisingly warm Chicago, going to the Shedd aquarium, and carving pumpkins. It was a great bonding time....check out some pictures below!
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Garden Watering: February 16th, 2013Posted: February 17, 2013 Filed under: Garden tasks, Watering | Tags: Garden watering, Strawberry Leave a comment
Hello all.
Today was a fairly dry day, and so the plants needed extra watering. Things are looking good in the garden. A lot of the carrots seem to be growing! I also found the lone strawberry in the patch. Can't wait until it grows more!
As I was watering, I noticed a lot of empty containers (some filled) on the left side of the garden. Are there any uses for those? I also noticed that some cabbages are getting really cramped in their spaces (especially the ones in the pots). There are 2 unused garden beds, so we should probably move them at the next garden visit.
Garden Update : February 15th, 2013Posted: February 15, 2013 Filed under: Garden tasks, Watering | Tags: e3, Gardening, Strawberry Leave a comment
Hello everyone!
A sighting! Today I saw a beautiful bright red strawberry growing off of one of our strawberry plants. It was beautiful. I'm not going to show you my picture of it, because I think a real-life viewing will be so much more gratifying for you all. Also, I lost the chord that connects my camera to my computer.
It was quite hot today, so the plants were particularly thirsty. I spent a long time watering. In total I think it was about 15 trips with the watering can to get the job done. Only then did I realize why our prof was saying in class that there should be paid student jobs for maintaining the garden — it's work!
Other than that, I saw a lot of our recently sowed seeds have begun to sprout. Carrots, arugula, and a few other herbs in our herb box.
It's really cool to see our garden growing and getting more organized. Our work is really starting to show everyone!
The strawberry was beautiful.
Garden Visit: Friday, January 25thPosted: January 26, 2013 Filed under: Watering | Tags: Chives, Radish, Strawberry, watering Leave a comment
On Friday afternoon I visited the gardens. It had been raining earlier in the day, giving all of the plants fresh water. When I got to the gardens I started out going to each bed and removing unwanted items like seed pods from the trees above, pine cones, large pieces of bark, and even a piece of glass!
I went around to each spot that we had planted seeds in and monitored their progress. So far, the chives haven't come up yet but a neat line of Radish have sprouted and are looking wonderful!
I also noticed that on one of the Strawberry plants (which was already up at the garden before we created the new beds) has produced its first Strawberry! I will keep an eye on the plant and on any more new strawberries that appear.
What needs to be done: The next visitors to the garden should continue removing unwanted debris from the beds and keep an eye out for the new seedlings.


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MANCHESTER, N.H. -- New Hampshire takes center stage for GOP 2012 rivals Newt Gingrich and Mitt Romney campaign Monday as they battle it out to win the crucial state's vote that is just weeks away.
Romney, who is a former governor in neighboring Massachusetts, had been holding a commanding lead in the state, but Gingrich is edging in on him.
New Hampshire's key newspaper, The Union Leader, endorsed Gingrich over Romney a few weeks ago, which was a blow to the former governor, who was passed over for John McCain by the paper in 2008.
Monday morning Manchester's mayor Ted Gatsas will endorse Romney.
Sunday Gatsas said, "[Romney] has the skills and the executive experience that the next president will need to turn around our struggling economy" and that he's "impressed with the time and effort that [Gov.
Former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney is giving President Obama a "welcome" ahead of his trip to New Hampshire on Tuesday, arguing in full-page newspaper ads and a new television commercial that Mr. Obama's policies have failed to create jobs and spur investment.
"Your policies have failed," Mr. Romney writes in an "open letter" to the president that is running in the state's three biggest newspapers — the Union Leader, Concord Monitor, and The Telegraph — less than two months out from New Hampshire's first-in-the-nation primary.
The full-page ads are part of a broader offensive that coincides with Mr. Obama's visit Tuesday to the Granite State and includes Mr. Romney's first television spot of the campaign season, which blasts Mr. Obama and features snippets of Mr. Romney's campaign speeches.
"I am confident that we can steer ourselves out of this crisis," the ad shows Mr. Obama saying in the old footage, before "He failed" spills across the screen.
MANCHESTER, N.H. - Nevada Republicans have shifted their presidential caucuses to early February, a move that ends an increasingly bitter standoff among rival states and for the first time clarifies the path to the Republican presidential nomination.
There will be no voting before Christmas. That's despite warnings from New Hampshire's top election official that Nevada's initial insistence to host its contest in mid-January could force the Granite State to schedule the nation's first Republican primary election in roughly six weeks.
But facing boycott threats from campaigns, incentive offers from the Republican National Committee, and the private blessing of the Mitt Romney campaign, Nevada Republicans voted Saturday to set their caucuses for Feb. 4. It will be the West's first stop in the race for the Republican presidential nomination and the fifth contest overall, after Iowa, New Hampshire, South Carolina and Florida...
Florida decided Friday to hold its Republican presidential primary on Jan. 31, snubbing a party rule against fast-track delegate-selection for 2012 and triggering angry responses from traditional early voting states which will now likely rejigger their calendars to stay ahead.
The move actually thwarts efforts by both major political parties to delay presidential primaries and caucuses. Their aim has been to avoid a repeat of the 2008 scenario, when states jumped ahead of each other at that time in attempts to increase their influence in the process.
In Florida, a special nine-member committee appointed by legislative leaders and Gov. Rick Scott voted 7-2 to set the January date two days after House Speaker Dean Cannon announced that's what it was expected to do.
Cannon and other Florida GOP leaders said they didn't want to jump the traditional early states but wanted to make sure Florida was fifth, even the move was a violation of party rules...
Former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney is so far ahead of the other Republican presidential candidates in the first-in-the-nation primary state of New Hampshire that the other candidates may have to rethink their strategies.
According to a Suffolk University/7NEWS poll of 400 likely Republican primary voters, Romney has a 27-point lead over his nearest rival, with Ron Paul in second place at 14 percent. Jon Huntsman marched up the poll coming in third with 10 percent and Rick Perry is idling in fourth place at 8 percent.
The rest of the field, including undeclared potential candidate Sarah Palin, earned 6 percent or less. Eleven percent of likely New Hampshire GOP primary voters were undecided.
"Mitt Romney is saying 'get out of my back yard' and making New Hampshire his strong firewall despite showing some weakness in the other states' early primaries," said David Paleologos, director of Suffolk University's Political Research Center.
Late Tuesday, the Obama administration made a decision to force New Hampshire taxpayers to fund the Planned Parenthood abortion business after the state's Executive Council voted to revoke a $1.8 million contract.
The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services announced it will provide the contract for family planning with Planned Parenthood directly from the federal government to the abortion business rather than routing the money through the state and letting New Hampshire officials determine who should receive the Title X grants.
Joblessness looms large in the 2012 race for the White House and with unemployment hovering above 9 percent, on September 6 former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney is poised to release his plan to put Americans back to work just days before President Obama plans to unveil his latest jobs bill.
In a Keene, New Hampshire town hall meeting on Wednesday, Romney touted his business experience before a crowd of 200 people, saying it would help him create jobs if he's elected president.
"I think that if you want to create jobs it helps to have had a job, and I have," Romney said. "I want to make this the most attractive place in the world to grow a business"...
DES MOINES, Iowa – Seven Republican presidential contenders will try to use Thursday's debate, sponsored by Fox News and the Washington Examiner, in the leadoff caucus state of Iowa to cast themselves as the strongest alternative to one rival: front-runner Mitt Romney.
A Fox News Poll released Wednesday showed that the former Massachusetts Gov. remains Republican primary voters' preferred candidate.
But all risk being overshadowed by one Republican who won't be on the stage -- Texas Gov. Rick Perry, who has signaled he's likely to join the field in the coming days and will visit the early nominating states of Iowa, New Hampshire and South Carolina this weekend...
Two new polls show former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney with a comfortable lead over his Republican presidential opponents following Monday night's debate in New Hampshire, the site of the second primary election contest.
A new Rasmussen Reports poll shows Romney, who asserted his pro-life views during the debate, leading and pro-life Rep. Michele Bachmann of Minnesota placing second following her entry into the presidential nomination battle on Monday night during the debate. The poll of likely voters has Romney earning 33% support with Bachmann at 19 percent, while pro-life Georgia businessman Herman Cain is in third place with 10% of the vote.
Looking at other candidates in the race, pro-life former House Speaker Newt Gingrich picks up nine percent support, followed by pro-life Texas Congressman Ron Paul with seven percent, and pro-life former Minnesota Gov. Tim Pawlenty and pro-life former Pennsylvania Sen. Rick Santorum with 6 percent.
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In a move designed to keep Rockdoor at the forefront of the A Rated composite doors market, we have retested all our door sets through Build Check and Certass to ensure they are compliant with new CE legislation.
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On the 22nd of March 2019, ICEI promoted a one-day job shadowing experience for 11 migrant/asylum seeker youngsters in the city of Milan, in collaboration with his local partner CasciNet (https://cascinet.it/), a social enterprise/non-profit organisation working in the areas of sustainable agriculture, participatory re-generation of local neighbourhoods and sustainable development.
The goal of the job-shadowing day was to increase their job and soft skills, while promoting environmental awareness.
The youngsters visited the Vetabbia Park located in the outskirt of Milan, where CasciNet, in collaboration with the municipality of Milan, is promoting a campaign to regenerate fallow lands through syntrophic agriculture techniques*. The project, called Agroforestiamo (Let's Agroforestry), will provide the area with more than 1.300 fruit trees, vegetables and other plants that will be pre-purchased by the local neighbourhoods.
After a brief theoretical introduction on sustainable and syntrophic agriculture, the youngsters accompanied CasciNET experts in their daily work and observed simple but innovative agro-ecological practices, such as how to fertilize the soil in sustainable ways without any use of chemicals.
Following the job shadowing procedure, most of the time was dedicated by acquiring new skills through practical actions directly on the field. This methodology gave the opportunity to learn about agro-ecological principles even to those who were not able to speak the Italian language fluently. Thanks to the job shadowing experience, the young people were able to learn new knowledge and skills in the field of sustainable agriculture – which is becoming a key sector of the Italian labour market – as well as strengthen their soft skills, such as like working in group.
Drawing on the different experiences from the youngsters involved, which come from various countries, final reflections were made about the link between intensive agriculture and desertification.
The one-day job shadowing experience represented the testing by ICEI of a new good practice learned from the Upload your Dreams project leader Salva Vita Foundation.
*What is Syntrophic Agriculture?
This term was coined by Swiss farmer Ernst Gotsch in the mid of the '80s. It is a regenerative agriculture system to contrast deforestation, soil degradation, wasteful water consumption, pollution, and erosion produced by other techniques such as chemical intensive agriculture. Syntrophic agriculture allows harvesting crops in harmony with earth necessities.


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You can't go wrong with the 118 MB Gamer Build. Of course, with its size, it is suitable for all high and low-end devices. For those with a firestick, it is certainly worth a second glance. Of course, the backgrounds are great because they highlight gamers. You will also find that the add-ons are among some of the best available in the community. To take this one for a spin, use our guide to help you download and install it.
Before we start the tutorial, note that the is not developed by the official Kodi team. Don't even try to ask questions related to it on Kodi official forum. Instead, you can easy ask any out to the development team if you have questions.
How to Install the Gamer Kodi Build on KRYPTON
- Launch Kodi first. Next, click on the Settings icon (it looks like a gear). In the rows of icons, choose File Manager.
- Now, you want to go to add source, since we are going to install the wizard.
- Once you click the add source heading, the Add Files source box pops up. Click inside the blue box, so you may enter your info.
- For the source, enter http://grindhousekodi.tk/repo/ as you see here, and call it grind.
- Hit ok, to add it. Next, go back to your home screen, and click the system or Gear icon. Then choose add-ons.
- Select Install from zip and choose the grind file.
- From here, click on the file that says repository.grindhousekodi-x.x.zip.
- Wait for the message and select Install from repository.
- Now, select Grindhouse Repository > Program add-ons > GrindhouseKodi Wizard.
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Alright, well, I've been trying to do a little bit here and there with kanji… but really, I barely know any of it. I can identify numbers 1 through 10, and Japan vs Japanese (People and Language!), but not a whole lot else has stuck as I never did make it a habit to start memorizing them.
The things that seem bananas to me are:
1. there's a ton of symbols that need to be learned
2. each symbol has multiple pronunciations
3. names can be whatever the heck the parents wanted to use
Chapter 42: Kanji
There are two main readings: the on-yomi, and the kun-yomi
When a word becomes joined word such as hitotsu (ひとつ), we can use 一 as the kanji (which represents the number 1). So it reads like: 一つ (and pronounces as ひとつ). In this case, we use the kun-yomi pronunciation. We know this because at the end of the kanji character, is the つ which acts as an okurigana. An Okurigana serves two purposes: to inflect adjectives and verbs, and to force a particular kanji to have a specific meaning and be read a certain way.
On the other hand, when the kanji reads all alone as it's own word, it then uses the on-yomi. I this case, いちがつ (January), can be made of two separate kanji, 一月, and each uses it's respective on-yomi pronunciation.
月 is a kanji that means "moon". I actually discussed this kanji a little bit in January, but I hadn't gone over on-yomi (げつ、がつ) or kun-yomi (つき) at that point. It's interesting to note the link on that previous blog post which points to the old month names where ずき is also used instead of just つき
月 means moon all by itself, but is used in different ways which changes it's pronunciation from げつ to がつ.
In the first instance, it is the word "next month" and so is pronounced differently from "January" when it is a compound. These are both variations of the on-yomi.
In this case, the second instance of the word is used to mean "moon"… it stands alone, and thus uses the kun-yomi.
行 means "to go" - On-yomi: こう - Kun-yomi: い
Unfortunately, verbs still require lots of okurigana:
行きます still has all of きます appended to it, and by itself takes more effort to write than い would have!
ひこうき is the word for "airplane". It's a three-part compound where the second part means "go". This is where the beauty of kanji comes in, since it can sometimes be possible to derive meanings of words based on the compounds. In this case 飛 fly 行 go 機 machine hints that it's a machine for traveling through the air. This is similar to English how airplane is a compound of the noun air and the verb plane.
As for learning kanji… the author suggests that how he learned is the hard way. Buy a book with all the kanji, and learn them one at a time drawing them and repeating the readings to memorize them. Every day review the ones you had learned in the past.
In order to learn them, you can't just memorize from a dictionary, you need to see them in context… but to read them… you will need to laboriously look each character up and hope you can make sense of the grammar. Hard to learn unless you can read, hard to read unless you know them.
The author's goal with Human Japanese Intermediate is to teach kanji… so seems like a good way to continue studying.
Chapter 43: Adverbs
This is the FINAL grammar lesson in the app!
In English, adverbs often use "ly" at the end of them – "really, flatly, practically" There is something similar that happens in Japanese: any true adjective can have the い changed to a く to create an adverb. If たかい means "high" then かたく means "highly". If すごい means "incredible" then すごく means "incredibly". If わるい means "bad" then わるく means "badly".
There is still an exception with いい.. use よい instead of いい to arrive at よく instead of いく.
Adverbs are standalone and so can go anywhere in the sentence.
ーひこきはとびました。 「The plane flew.」
In English, we would say "the plane flew high" (which of course has no 'ly' but is an adverb nonetheless). In Japanese, we can start with たかい but change the ending to く
ーひこきはたかくとびました。 「The plane flew high.」
ージョンさんはピアノをよくれんしゅうしました。「John practiced piano well.」
ーよくわかりません。 「I don't understand well.」
よく is a special adverb which can also mean "often". You'll need to recognize the context to tell which it means.
ーアメリカによくいます。 「I go to America often.」
ーよくしんぶんをよみます。 「I often read the newspaper.」
ーテレビをよくみません。 「I don't watch tv often.」
One hint, is that if the verb is habitual present tense, it likely means "often" instead of "well"
Another common adverb is すごく used with an adjective すごくおおきい – incredibly big or すごくおいしい – incredibly delicious.
ーこのうどんはすごくおいし。 「This udon is incredibly tasty!」
ーあのビルはすごくたかいですね。 「That building is incredibly tall, isn't it?」
ージョンさんはすごくつよい。 「John is incredibly strong.」
ーおてんきはすごくいいですね。 「The weather is incredibly good, isn't it?」
People will also often use すごい instead of すごく. This intentionally breaks the rules but people in English do the same thing if they say something is "real tasty" instead of "really tasty". People do this on purpose to get a casual feeling.
Pseudo-adjectives, which don't end with い take a different approach. Some common examples might be:
ーほんとう 「real」(extremely common)
ーたしか 「certain」
ーぜったい 「definite」(extremely common)
ーじつ 「true/actual」
ーじっさい 「actual」
Adding a に to the end can make these into adverbs. So ほんとう means "real", but ほんとうに means "really". に again acts as an "ly"
ーほんとうにそうですか。 「Is that really so?」
ーたしかにほんがすきです。 「I certainly like books.」
ーぜったいにいきたい。 「I definitely want to go.」
ーじつにすごいひとですね。 「He is a truly amazing person, isn't he?」
ーじっさいにいぬをたべました。 「He actually ate a dog.」
ーほんとうにがっこうにいました。 「I really was at school.」
ーきみがほんとうにすきですよ。 「I really like you.」
ーせったいにそうじゃない。 「It is definitely not so.」
ーせったいにすしをたべません。 「I definitely will not eat sushi.」
Always keep an eye out to make sure to use the proper ending to turn an adjective into an adverb.
ーこのセーターはすごくきれいですね。 「This sweater is super pretty, isn't it?」
ーそうですね。 「Yes, it is!」
ーかいますか。 「Are you going to buy it?」
ーほんとうにきたいけど、あかねがない。 「I really want to buy it, but I don't have any money.」
ーわたしがかいましょうか。 「Should I buy it?」
ーほんとうに? 「Really?」
ーすごくうれしい。 「I'm super happy!」
ーありがとう。 「Thanks.」
ーどういたしまして。 「You're welcome.」
ーきょうのひるごはんはどこでたべましょうか。 「Where should we eat lunch today?」
ーきょうぜったいにどんぶりをたべたいです。 「I definitely want to eat a rice bowl today.」
ーどんぶりをよくたべますね。 「You eat rice bowls often, don't you?」
ーわたしはてんぷらがたべたいですね。 「I think I'd like to eat tempura.」
ーじゃ、いきましょうか。 「Ok, shall we go?」


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The following appeared in an announcement issued by the publisher of The Mercury, a weekly newspaper.
"Since a competing lower-priced newspaper, The Bugle, was started five years ago, The Mercury's circulation has declined by 10,000 readers. The best way to get more people to read The Mercury is to reduce its price below that of The Bugle, at least until circulation increases to former levels. The increased circulation of The Mercury will attract more businesses to buy advertising space in the paper."
Discuss how well reasoned… etc.
A newspaper publisher is recommending that the price of its paper, The Mercury, be reduced below the price of a competing newspaper, The Bugle. This recommendation responds to a severe decline in circulation of The Mercury during the 5-year period following the introduction of The Bugle. The publisher's line of reasoning is that lowering the price of The Mercury will increase its readership, thereby increasing profits because a wider readership attracts more advertisers. This line of reasoning is problematic in two critical respects.
While it is clear that increased circulation would make the paper more attractive to potential advertisers, it is not obvious that lowering the subscription price is the most effective way to gain new readers. The publisher assumes that price is the only factor that caused the decline in readership. But no evidence is given to support this claim. Moreover, given that The Mercury was the established local paper, it is unlikely that such a mass exodus of its readers would be explained by subscription price alone.
There are many other factors that might account for a decline in The Mercury's popularity. For instance, readers might be displeased with the extent and accuracy of its news reporting, or the balance of local to other news coverage. Moreover, it is possible The Mercury has recently changed editors, giving the paper a locally unpopular political perspective. Or perhaps readers are unhappy with the paper's format, the timeliness of its feature articles, its comics or advice columns, the extent and accuracy of its local event calendar, or its rate of errors.
In conclusion, this argument is weak because it depends on an oversimplified assumption about the causal connection between the price of the paper and its popularity. To strengthen the argument, the author must identify and explore relevant factors beyond cost before concluding that lowering subscription prices will increase circulation and, thereby, increase advertising revenues.
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Former Congolese warlord Bosco Ntaganda on trial before the International Criminal Court
Today the former Congolese warlord, Bosco Ntaganda, goes on trial today pleading not guilty to 18 charges, including murder, rape and the recruitment of child soldiers.
Ntaganda is on trial before the International Criminal Court (ICC) after turning himself in in 2013.
The prosecutors argue that he played a central role in the violent ethnic attacks on civilians in the north-eastern Congolese province of Ituri between 2002 and 2003. Since 1999 it is believed that the conflict has left around 60,000 people dead.
Fatou Bensouda, the ICC's chief prosecutor said that Ntaganda "recruited hundreds of children… and used them to kill and to die in the fighting."
He added that girl soldiers were "routinely raped."
The BBC reported that more than 2,000 victims have been cleared to take part in his trial. Some of them include former child soldiers called as witnesses.
Stephane Bourgon, Ntaganda's lawyer, said in a press conference at the ICC's headquarters in the Hague, "Mr Ntaganda maintains his innocence in respect of every charge laid against him. He intends to present a thorough defence."


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For some, the writer's plight may be staring at a blank page, fear of rejection, or resistance presented in various forms. For me, the writer's plight is being available morning, noon, and night to welcome a steady stream of pop-in visitors with expectations of providing conversation, cooking, cleaning, even childcare for hours on end.
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One of my favorite games
to play as a child
was seeing shapes
in the clouds:
Dogs, cats,
elephants, giraffes,
airplanes, unicorns...
It was one of the
few pleasures
of my childhood.
As I grew up,
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scarier things:
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Cha-Chi Legacy
I inhale the tears
welling up in my eyes.
Feeling like I don't have
the right to cry for
letting so much time go by
without saying hi,
how are you doing,
what's new in your life?
I "kept in touch"
watching your
on social media,
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and food for
people who didn't
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Picture of army officer consoling martyred soldier's father leaves social media teary eyed
Srinagar, Nov 29: War has no winner. And it was proved again in the disturbed state of Jammu and Kashmir recently when a picture of an army officer consoling the grief-stricken father of a soldier who was martyred while on duty went viral. In the picture, the officer is seen embracing the father of Lance Naik Nazir Ahmad Wani, who lost his life during a recent operation carried out by the army in J&K's Shopian district.
Ahmad, 38, was a resident of Kulgam and a two-time winner of the Sena Medal. He had been with the Territorial Army but joined the operation with 34 Rashtriya Rifles on Sunday, November 25. Once an Ikhwan (a terrorist who surrenders and becomes involved in counter-insurgency operations), Ahmad had surrendered before the army and became a highly decorated personnel in due time.
The picture was posted on Twitter by ADG PI of the army during Ahmad's funeral and he captioned it: "You are not alone".
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Ahmad received 21-gun salute on Monday at the time of his burial in his hometown, PTI reported. He is survived by his wife and two kids.
Seven militants, including three alleged top commanders, were neutralised in two separate encounters with the security personnel on Sunday.
A serving #IndianArmy officer consoling father of Lance Naik Nazir Ahmad of 34 Rashtriya Rifles, who lost his life fighting terrorists in #Shopian in Kulgam district of J&K. #IndianArmy #SalutingtheBraveheart #Braveheart @PIB_India @SpokespersonMoD pic.twitter.com/k2Yklmf1Ev— ADG PI - INDIAN ARMY (@adgpi) November 28, 2018
The Twitterati came up with emotional response to the moving picture. Here are some reactions:
No words can describe this picture.— A 🇮🇳 (@MoiSherni) November 28, 2018
Only the two men in it can feel the pain and the loss.
Brother Nazir, you'll be remembered as as a hero.
May you find peace in God's arms now.
Salute! https://t.co/80a29dljLq
Painful and Heartbreaking. :((( Prayers and More! https://t.co/vtm2E4grja— Abhijeet kar (@karabhijeet_kar) November 28, 2018
May God give him strength to bear this loss.🙏— Jatinder Chhauda (@JatinderChhauda) November 28, 2018
Such a poignant moment. Heartfelt salutes to Lance Naik Nazir Ahmad 🙏🇮🇳#IndianArmy #Braveheart— Newton (@BhandarkarNitin) November 28, 2018
None of the member of defence personnel is alone. Entire nation is with them in all odd.— Goverdhan Singh (@GoverdhanSinghS) November 28, 2018


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Sponsor a conference as a means of hiring?
There's an interesting dynamic here @ Kubecon. Some of the sponsors are nearly certainly only here in a talent-acquisition mode. For example, apple, shopify. They are not meeting their customers here, their presence is small (apple has a 5x10' tabletop w/ a curtain backdrop... big marketing$$$!).
Interestingly, there's a big whiteboard you can scribble out an ad-hoc job ad. Shout out to my friends @ Macnica, your ad is there on the right!
Now, I was kind of tired, so no, I didn't troll the board with some fake ad. Hopefully no one else did 🙂 But this is 100% a sellers market... there are far more 'help wanted' than 'job needed' ads.


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The next milestone in the plan by the world's largest furniture retailer to become carbon neutral by 2030 is to invest an additional €200m (£171m) in green energy and forest planting. That's another big investment on top of their €2.5bn into renewable energy already.
They have a two-phased approach to this investment, with the first 100 mill going towards new renewable energy projects including electricity generation, heating, and cooling. The second is to focus more efforts on reforestation and responsible forest management.
With extra money pumping into Ikea's sustainability goals, alongside textile and mattress recycling and investments in a plastics recycling plant, it seems this giant is making some solid efforts to help our planet.


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Ireland - F.O. (Nigeria) H.O.O (Nigeria)(an infant suing by his mother and next friend F.O.) -v- Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform, the Refugee Appeals Tribunal, Ireland and the Attorney General
The case dealt primarily with the standard of reasoning required in credibility assessment among other issues (travel findings and best interests of the child). In quashing the RAT decision, the High Court ruled that the RAT had not met the standard of reasoning required in assessment of the credibility of oral testimony (as established in the jurisprudence of the Court and EU law), reiterating the obligation upon the decision maker to ensure that each negative credibility finding is accompanied by an adequate rationale clearly outlining the reasons for such findings.
This Case examines the refusal to grant refugee status to a Nepalese national. The Tribunal failed to provide clear, cogent reasoning for the decision. Documentation and explanations provided by the Applicant were not included in the decision. Unreasonable assumptions were made by the Tribunal including: as the Applicant's wife, children and brother were safely residing in the country of origin, this inferred that the Applicant could do the same; since the applicant spent 6 years living safely in India, he could continue to live there safely. The High Court criticised the procedural...
UK - Upper Tribunal, MK v The Secretary of State for the Home Department, 10 October 2013, UKUT 00641 (IAC)
A determination must disclose clearly the reasons for a tribunal's decision. If a tribunal finds oral evidence to be implausible, incredible or unreliable or a document to be worth no weight whatsoever, it is necessary to say so in the determination and for such findings to be supported by reasons. A bare statement that a witness was not believed or that a document was afforded no weight is unlikely to satisfy the requirement to give reasons.
Ireland - High Court, 20 November 2012, J.N.A. v Refugee Appeals Tribunal & Minister for Justice and Equality, Ireland and the Attorney General [2012] IEHC 480
In a challenge to a decision to refuse subsidiary protection and humanitarian leave to remain, the Court considered the obligation on the decision maker to consider relevant documentation, the obligation to give reasons for a decision to dismiss such evidence, reliance by the Minister on credibility findings by the RAT in denying the earlier application for refugee status and whether an Applicant is required to challenge the RAT findings in a subsequent application for subsidiary protection. The Court found that the Minister had failed to weigh the apparently corroborative documentation...
A foreigner who wishes to be placed under the special protection of refugee status must show the Administration, with reasonable clarity and in an objectively reasoned way, that there are specific facts which cause him to have a fear of persecution for reasons of race, religion, nationality, social group or political opinion. If such substantive claims have not been submitted, but only general, vague or manifestly unfounded claims; or if specific facts have indeed been cited but these do not establish grounds for refugee status, then there is no obligation to give specific reasons for...
Application for annulment of a decision by the Minister of Public Order
This case concerned the interpretation of Presidential Decree 61/1999 in light of Directive 2004/83/EC andexamined the reasoning of the Administration's decision in an application for recognition as a refugee, in an appeal for annulment. The minutes of the Advisory Committee should cite not only the interested party's claims but also the content of the questions put by members of the Committee and the alien's responses, as well as a detailed assessment of the claims and of any documentation or other...
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Erasmus Tech Community
Given the rising interest from industries and students in next generation technologies, the Erasmus Tech Community (ETC) was established to raise awareness and educate students in Erasmus University Rotterdam about technology changes taking place. Technologies that are re-shaping the world, such as Blockchain, Artificial Intelligence, IoT and Big Data are at the heart of our discussion.
We actively collaborate with private sector companies to organize events where companies share their expertise implementing the above mentioned technologies in their business. Beyond large scale lectures and workshops, ETC also aims to help companies solve their real business problems by connecting them to the bright talent available at the university


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The Environmental Policy Teams help develop and ensure that the latest noise and air quality impact evaluation tools are used in assessing environmental impacts of FAA's airspace projects.
- Aviation Environmental Design Tool (AEDT)
- AEDT 2c was released on September 12, 2016 and is available for download on the AEDT Support website.
AEDT 2c is the latest version of AEDT and is a free upgrade for existing AEDT 2b licensed users. All FAA actions requiring noise, fuel burn or emissions modeling and for which the environmental analysis process has begun on or after September 12, 2016 are required to use AEDT 2c. Additional information on the use of AEDT versions and their modifications is outlined in a versioning memo (PDF) available on the AEDT website.
AEDT 2c includes a new capability designed to assist in the identification of potential environmental justice (low-income and minority) populations for the purpose of community outreach. Guidance on the use of the environmental justice capability (PDF) is available.
AEDT 2c release includes new features, updates, and a series of bug fixes and usability improvements, in part identified by the user community. Highlights from this Release include the following:
- Number above noise level
- Background emissions concentrations
- Environmental justice population identification
- Updated User Guide (PDF) and Technical Manual (PDF)
A full list of new features, updates, and bug fixes is included in the Release Notes.
AEDT 2b licensed users can download the 2c installer and the updated documentation from the Downloads page. An AEDT account is required to access the Downloads page. If you need assistance with logging into your AEDT website account, please contact us at firstname.lastname@example.com.
- AEDT: Frequently Asked Questions
- Approval of AEDT Plug-in within TARGETS for Environmental Screening (PDF)
- AEDT 2c was released on September 12, 2016 and is available for download on the AEDT Support website.
- Area Equivalent Method (AEM)
- The screening Tool is based on INM methodology. Used for changes in aircraft type and number of operations
- Produces % change in contour area
- 17% or more change in contour area is equivalent to a 3dB increase in noise and may signal impact in noise sensitive area.
- Noise Integrated Routing System (NIRS) & NIRS Screening Tool


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Ethics: Navigating the Grey Matter
- Refresher on the AICP Code of Ethics (What is it?)
- Why the Code of Ethics is important (Why should we care?)
- How to effectively apply the AICP Code of Ethics and steer clear of situations that could damage your career (How does it affect my work?)
Planners face ethical challenges frequently, often unbeknownst to them. Navigating the somewhat murky waters of "right vs. wrong" can only be made easier through life experience and regular discussion. This course meets a planning objective of providing a refresher to existing AICP members on the importance of the AICP Code of Ethics, and deeper consideration of potential day-to-day ethical issues in the planning field. The information provided in this course is unbiased, based loosely on real-life scenarios or hypothetical situations that best illustrate important ethical planning issues.
This course will demonstrate ethical challenges through a series of skits, with critical teachable moments during the scenarios. The planner-actors are seasoned planning experts with both public- and private-sector experience and are able to quickly respond to questions related to the Code of Ethics. This unique approach delivers a clear message regarding the relevance of the Code of Ethics.


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After Rampant Consumerism – More Rampant Consumerism
You gotta love economists. In way more complicated language than is necessary, they tell us the party's over for our free spending ways. It's time to save. We leveraged ourselves up to the eyeballs for a flat screen TV. It's time to save. We bet the housing market would go up forever and we were wrong. It's time to save. We're all broke. We're worried about our jobs, we're upside-down on our houses, our retirement plans are in tatters. Winter's coming and the recession's on. The economists tell us it's time to save.
Of course, that makes fabulous sense economically, but it doesn't add up spiritually. Did the consumer boom of the last twenty-five years truly change us? I think so. I think it's in our blood. I think it's the reason we're more obese than ever and only as green as is fashionable. Can we go back to our parents' thrifty ways, when polyester was where it was at, and Wham! a really big deal. I think not.
Too much has happened to us, and most of it is bad. A new generation is in charge, and it's been brought up on buying crap we don't need. The teenage offspring of that generation know nothing else. Marketing is everything. We're being sold all the time and we're used to it. In fact we like it. Shopping has become recreation. Conspicuous consumption has become a religion. Our clothes and cars define us, our glittery trappings have become extensions of our out of control, avatar-driven, egos. All this and people are expected to save. What do the economists think we're going to do, curl up with a second-hand paperback?
The crisis we're about to face goes further than economics. It's about who we are, and what we'll do without those habitual strolls through the mall. Because saving means changing behavior, and not just a little either. It's an open question as to whether our pampered, self-absorbed, media-drenched, lemming-like collective psyche can weather the storm without tumbling into an existential crisis. It's easy to say, enjoy your children, or walk to work, or savor the sunset, but I doubt many of us, who weren't that way inclined already, will truly adjust to the promise of a truly post-consumerist world. And then of course there's the rather irksome fact that over seventy percent of the US economy is driven by consumer spending, so if too many of us did start browsing that second-hand bookstore, we'd only be making matters worse. Stimulus packages aren't designed to encourage saving. They're designed to feed the habit of crap junkies.
All those marketers, all that technology, all those developing countries making our ipods, need someone to listen and click, and sign up and most importantly buy. All those poor people who just want a piece of the fable knows as the American Dream need to spend. The pressure on us is just too much. The economy will demand that we cough up the dough as it comes in, and our materialist habits will come flooding back. The spend-it-all system was only perfected in the last few years. And it will be back.
It's wishful thinking to suggest we can save, and save ourselves. More likely is in a couple of years we'll all be crap junkies once more, leveraging ourselves like crazy for a wall full of hi-def imagery, and bragging about it to our neighbors, just like the good old days.


text: Infrastructure E-commerce to maintain steady growth in Philippines Melissa P. Vergara @itworldca Published: September 15th, 2005The widespread availability and affordability of broadband Internet is pushing more Filipinos to transact online.According to a recent study conducted by IT research firm International Data Corporation (IDC), Internet users in the Philippines are estimated to maintain a healthy 22 per cent compounded annual growth rate (CAGR) for the forecast period of 2005-2009.Meanwhile, electronic commerce (e-commerce) transactions are also expected to reach a 58 per cent CAGR over the next four years."The upward trajectory is due to aggressive price offerings of telecommunication companies and varied service offerings from business-to-business (B2B) sectors," said IDC Philippines research manager Manuel Ravago.He added that although e-commerce continues to be led by the high-value procurement sites in the B2B sector, IDC also sees the business-to-consumer (B2C) sector as a significant driver for growth, although it currently lags behind B2B.In 2004, the number of Internet users in the Philippines went up to 11.8 million compared to 3.2 million in 2002.Even though there is potential room for growth in the e-commerce area, IDC pointed out that market players should first be able to identify the distinct types of services to offer in order to fully cater to the different needs and requirements of consumers before actually delivering them.Players in the B2B sector must focus on enabling small-to-medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) to bring their respective businesses online.Around 99.6 per cent of the total businesses in the Philippines is estimated to fall under the SME category.The study also suggests that payment gateways must be able and willing to accommodate small-value transactions or micro-payments. Content services should also cater specifically to the requirements of SMEs.Meanwhile, broader Internet coverage is also seen to drive greater consumer access and effectively expand the market bases of providers, allowing them to offer additional services."Although there has been a marked progression in both the Internet and e-commerce space, there are still areas that need improvement," Ravago said.The new Internet and e-commerce services are expected to be eventually sustained as consumers and enterprise users grow increasingly receptive to existing Internet services like music downloads, online banking, blogs, and online purchasing.For the Philippine e-commerce industry, the report shows that addressing the fundamental issues such as payment gateways, provision for small-value transactions, increasing consumer awareness and confidence, and allaying privacy- and security-related fears can serve as catalysts for an even higher e-commerce uptake. Related Download Sponsor: LG LG Business Solutions New technologies can ease the burden on IT departments while enhancing productivity and satisfaction for the end users they serve. Learn More Infrastructure business-to-business, Internet users, service oriented architecture


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Luton Town head glittering pre-season line-up for Welwyn Garden City
PUBLISHED: 19:59 17 May 2019 | UPDATED: 21:48 17 May 2019
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Welwyn Garden City have lined up a number of exciting games ahead of their new season at step four.
Which league they will be placed in this year won't be found out until Sunday, with the smart money saying they will be laterally moved to the Isthmian League South Central Division.
But regardless of that, they should be in tip-top condition when the season finally gets under way.
Luton Town provide the first of two Football League clubs to make the trip when they head to Herns Lane on Saturday, July 6, and Milton Keynes are the second, with a rare Friday night lights encounter on July 19.
National League Barnet will also be a visiting side on Tuesday, July 9, and there are other home games against Maccabi GB and Wingate & Finchley.
Away trips see the Citizens go to Wormley Rovers and Stotfold while the will face neighbours Codicote at the University of Hertfordshire.
WGC pre-season friendlies in full:
You may also want to watch:
Tue, Jul 2, Burnham FC (at Bisham Abbey, Marlow)
Sat, Jul 6, Luton Town XI (home)
Tue, Jul 9, Barnet XI (home)
Sun, Jul 14, Maccabi GB XI (home)
Wed, Jul 17, Codicote (University of Hertfordshire, Hatfield)
Fri, Jul 19, Milton Keynes (home)
Tue, Jul 23, Wormley Rovers (away)
Sat, Jul 27, Wingate & Finchley (home)
Tue, Jul 30, Stotfold (away)
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Be sure to update your planner on Monday. Just some reminders about your planner:
- Carry your planner with you each day/they will be randomly checked and no late turn in.
- Update your goals/plans each Monday for the week. A goal can be used for two weeks in a row only but your plan must change.
- List your homework each period, if no homework write NH and give a brief description of what you did in class that day.
- Check off your homework as you complete it or make a forward arrow if you are moving the activity to tomorrow.
- Be sure to write in up-coming due dates for assignments in all classes.
- REMEMBER! your planner is only as effective as you make it. Filling in the information all at once at the last minute is not a good use of your time and it does not help you keep organized.
Progressing through GMetrix. Check your card on the counter if you are unsure of what you need to complete next. Remember when you have finished a training or test you need to pick up your card off the desk and place it in the wire basket on my desk–I will record your progress in Skyward by the end of the day each day. Testing will be given Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, and Thursday. Your progress card will be placed in front of a "testing" computer so you will know where to sit if you are taking the MIcrosoft Test. You should now be working on PowerPoint, obtaining a 95% or above on trainings and testings. All trainings and tests on PowerPoint should be completed prior to spring vacation. If you need to use Conference Period after school the lab is open until 3:00 or the 200 lab is open until 3:30. You will be able to take the Microsoft PowerPoint Test when we return from vacation.


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On Monday BBC First begins a new comedy anthology Inside Number 9, a collection of darkly comic tales that peer behind the doors of six different homes.
Created by Steve Pemberton and Reece Shearsmith (The League of Gentlemen, Psychoville) with various casts in each episode including Helen McCrory, Gemma Arterton, Luke Pasqualino, Katherine Parkinson, Oona Chaplin, Anna Chancellor, Tamsin Grieg and Tim Key.
Pemberton and Shearsmith also appear.
Tales of the genuinely unexpected, Inside Number 9 invites you into six very different No. 9s, whether that be a mansion, an apartment, or even a closet – where the ordinary and mundane rub shoulders with the extraordinary and macabre. From a grand country house where an innocent game of sardines leads to some chilling revelations, to a blood-soaked actor's dressing room in London's West End, or the one-bedroom flat of an apparently happy primary school teacher – these unpredictable tales feature high comedy, unexpected twists and claustrophobic horror by turns.
9pm Monday on BBC First.


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The knitting group meets once a month at MUUF from 10 am to noon on the first Tuesdays each month. We are knitting scarves, dolls, blankets and items forKnitting4Peace program AND the 2020 November Craft and Art Sale at the Bradenton Farmer's Market. Yarn, needles and help available for all wanna-be knitters. See more information at https://manateeuuf.org/activities/knitting-circle/.
Knitting 4 Peace
February 4, 2020 10/00 am - 12/00 pm
Manatee Unitarian Universalist Fellowship
Address: 322 15th Street West, Bradenton, FL 34207


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The National Osteoporosis Foundation (NOF), a long-time partner of JEL, approached us to redesign and re-imagine their public website nof.org. A thought-leader in their industry, NOF's previous website housed a wealth of engaging articles and videos, but the site was so disorganized there was no clear path to their content. Going through a thorough UX and visual design discovery process, I identified specific goals to achieve during the redesign and served as a UX designer and creative director on the project to ensure these goals were met.
UX Discovery
Working closely with NOF's marketing team, I led a discovery process to define what the goals should be for the redesign. NOF wanted to give key user groups clear direction on where to go to find the information most relevant to them. In short, they wanted to steer osteoporosis patients towards treatment/prevention information and give healthcare professionals the resources they need to inform their patients and themselves on osteoporosis related issues. They also wanted to attract a younger audience to encourage preventative methods earlier in life.
Wireframe Design
To meet these UX goals, we created a new navigation structure to target these key user segments. This paved a clear path for patients, healthcare professionals, and potential NOF donors to find any information they needed quickly. To mitigate UX concerns that sometimes accompany audience navigations, we took several precautions: First, we made it so that subcategories were easily visible by simply hovering over a category. Second, we used approachable, natural language to ensure it was clear where each user group should go. Third, we made the navigation global, so one could easily switch categories if needed.
The homepage wire leverages the findings from discovery by using an audience navigation, improved sitemap, and bringing their industry leading articles and events to the forefront.
Visual Design
NOF describes themselves as a mature, authoritative, and helpful resource for osteoporosis related issues. These values were key pieces of the creative direction for the redesign. The use of family centered imagery, bright colors, and playful iconography reinforce a welcoming, homey feeling. I worked with a local DC designer to relay this look and feel in the final design. To ensure that NOF could easily add new content to the site, the website was designed using a fully custom Wordpress backend. Feel free to visit the live site here.


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Elk Peppered Jerky is made from the same choice elk cuts as our standard elk jerky. These hand selected cuts of elk top round are house seasoned and bathed in our own special marinade for 24 hours before being generously sprinkled with gourmet peppercorns. Always slowly smoked to ensure each piece is tender and moist. A package of Peppered Elk Jerky weighs .20 - .25 Lb. The weight of the Elk Peppered Jerky is determined after it is fully smoked.
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Gluten Free & Wheat Free. Slight MSG. Elk, Pepper, Water, Salt, Sugar, Honey, Spices, Monosodium Glutamate, Sodium Erythorbate, Sodium Nitrite. Naturally Smoked with Hardwoods. Shelf life is about 90 days; this product may be frozen and used at a later date.
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