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The Qianlong Emperor was delighted by UK Replica Jaquet Droz's offerings of ornate snuff boxes, songbirds and other automata. Some of these historic pieces are still carefully preserved in the Forbidden City's Palace Museum, a testament to this fabulous saga.
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Here is some simple totkay for skin whitening in urdu that helps to get an instant fair look. These tips for face whitening in Urdu 100% natural ingredients based.
Everyone wants fair glowing complexion nowadays but due to the weather changing our skin face many problems like dull dark complexion, rough skin, and acne and pimples etc. This totkay for skin whitening in urdu are natural and helps to get permanent results without any side effects. There are many creams and skin whitening products available in the market but they have temporarily effect when you stop using these products your skin color turns to dull and dark color, so the best thing is that you should adopt natural totkay for skin whitening in Urdu.
Dull and dark skin tone is the most common problem nowadays but today I am going to share with you some excellent remedies to make your skin white, spotless, glowing permanently.
Totkay For Skin Whitening In Urdu
This scrub will help to remove dead skin cells and give a white, glowing look. Rice flour used in this scrub blocks melanin production that causes dark skin tone. Aloe vera gel helps to remove suntan and gives fair look.
- Rice flour: 3 tablespoon
- Aloe vera gel: 3 tablespoon
Take a clean bowl and mix these ingredients. Apply this scrub all over your and neck area. Leave this scrub for 10 minutes and start scrubbing with soft hands in a circular motion for 5 minutes. Then rinse it with normal water.
Red Lentil Face Pack For Skin Whitening
This red lentil skin whitening face pack is a natural skin whitening treatment at home. You just need 15 minutes to change your look forever. You can get visibly fair, flawless, crystal clear skin and the best part is that the result is permanent.
- Red Lentil Powder: 1 Tablespoon
- Turmeric Powder: 1 Pinch
- Licorice Powder: 2 Tablespoon
- Coffee Powder: 1 Tablespoon
- Take a clean bowl.
- Mix all these ingredients until it makes a smooth paste.
- Apply this face pack for 15 minutes all over your face.
- After that wash your face with cold water.
Desi Totkay For Skin Whitening
- Take 1 tablespoon yogurt and 1 tablespoon of lemon juice.
- Mix them well and apply it on your face for 15 minutes and wash it off.
- Take one glass of milk and ad 1 tablespoon olive in it. Drink it daily. It gives you fair look.
- Mix some milk and honey and apply it on your face. It helps to remove suntan and give you white skin tone.
- Ad 1 tablespoon of basen, 2 tablespoon of milk and few drops of lemon juice in a bowl and mix them well.
- Apply this paste on your face for 15 minutes, then rinse it with normal water.
- Take some mint leave and bring it to boil in 1 glass of water.
- Drink this water daily for a week to get permanent white skin.
Best Skin Whitening Home Remedies
- Rice Flour: 2 Tablespoon
- Tomato Pulp: 1 Tablespoon
- Honey: 1 Tablespoon
- Raw Milk: To make a smooth paste
if you have oily skin then you can use rose water instead of raw milk. take a clean bowl and mix all these ingredients in it and make a smooth paste.
You just have to apply this mask on your face or even entire your body. Leave it for 20 minutes. After 20 minutes scrub it gently from your skin and wash it from cold water. Apply this daily for 3 days and you will defiantly see the difference in your complexion within 3 days.
You Can Also Try Glowing Skin Tips
Rice Flour
- Rice flour is most effective and useful ingredients to whiten and lighten the skin complexion.
- It contains ferulic acid which is very good sunscreen.
- It removes suntan and darkness instantly from the skin.
- It mildly exfoliates the dark skin, remove dead skin cells, pigmentation and even out skin tone.
- It absorbs extra oil from your skin and prevents acne and pimples.
- It reduces fine lines and makes your skin more youthful.
- This rice paste will not only lead to fairer skin but also a smoother skin with fewer wrinkles.
- Tomato-rich in vitamin C, the tomato can brighten a dull complexion and decrease skin imperfections which include skin tone and texture.
- The Vitamin A in tomatoes builds wholesome skin cellular that is strong and resilient.
- This eliminates the dead skin cells from the pinnacle of the layer of pores and skin, which removes extra oil and clears blackheads that fill the pinnacle of the pores.
- For people with oily pores and skin, the tomato balances the oiliness with the aid of reducing excess oil that sits at the pinnacle of the skin.
- Milk includes lactic acid which facilitates to moisturize, hydrate and nourish the pores and skin.
- It enables to heel the rough uneven pores and skin tone.
- It facilitates in lightening the skin complexion and discoloration of the skin.
- Honey is evidently antibacterial, so it's miles extremely good for zits remedy and prevention.
- It is complete of antioxidants which is remarkable for slowing downing aging.
- It is a complexion booster. It is extraordinarily moisturizing and smoothing so assist to create a glow.

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Precision received an honorable mention for Outstanding Small Agency at the PRWeek U.S. Awards, known as the biggest night in PR. The PRWeek Awards are judged by an independent group of industry experts and celebrate the best of the best in communications across all sectors.
The Outstanding Small Agency category specifically recognizes agencies who have demonstrated exceptional financial and client growth, client retention, creativity and innovation, staff retention, new hires, culture, and training.
PRWeek noted, "This talented team of strategists worked with 81 clients [in 2018], more than half new to the firm, to build strategies that are smart, clear-eyed, and finely targeted to cut through the noise and achieve clients' goals."
This is the second time this year that Precision has been recognized for its achievements as an outstanding agency — last month, we were named Public Affairs Firm of the Year at the 2019 Reed Awards.
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New to vegan baking and not sure where to start? We have compiled resources to help you learn all the basics! Starting with these helpful guides to demonstrate how to use a flax egg, how to whip aquafaba, and more! (click the pictures or links below to find the recipes)
- How to Make a Flax Egg
- How to Make a Chia Egg
- A Guide to Aquafaba
- A Guide to Making Dairy-Free Milk
- DIY Gluten-Free Flour Blend
- Recipe FAQ (a great resource for troubleshooting + ingredient substitutions)
Now that you've learned the basics, put our favorite easy vegan baked good recipes to the test! From muffins to cookies to quick breads and more, these recipes will help you become a vegan baking pro in no time! (click the pictures or links below to find the recipes)
1-Bowl Chocolate Chocolate Chip Muffins (GF) // 1-Bowl Pumpkin Muffins (Vegan + GF) // 1-Bowl Vegan Banana Nut Muffins // 1-Bowl Carrot Apple Muffins // 1-Bowl Blackberry Cornmeal Muffins //
Perfect Vegan Gluten-Free Chocolate Chip Cookies // Fluffy 1-Bowl Sugar Cookies // Vegan Trail Mix Cookies (Gluten-Free & Grain-Free) // Peanut Butter Cup Cookies // Fudgy Vegan Brownie Cookies //
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After graduating from the University of Bristol in 2013 with an intercalated degree in Animal Behaviour and Welfare, Sarah spent some time volunteering at the SPCA in Fiji before working as a mixed vet over the following three years in practices in Oxfordshire and Wiltshire. She then changed to working as a small animal only vet, locuming in various practices around Wiltshire and Somerset, as well as starting a Post Graduate Certificate in Small Animal Emergency and Critical Care (ECC).
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n. (plural of yea English)
Usage examples of yeas.
This amendment, emancipating Slaves employed by their masters to aid Rebellion, was adopted by 33 yeas to 6 nays.
The last proposition was first voted on, and lost, by 105 yeas to 198 nays.
On the following Monday, December 17, by 154 yeas to 14 nays, the House adopted a resolution, offered by Mr.
On the same day, the House adopted, by 135 yeas to no nays, a resolution offered by Mr.
Yet these same six Southern Senators though present, refused to vote, and permitted the substitute to be adopted by 25 yeas to 23 nays.
Southern Senators aforesaid, had they voted, would have defeated the substitute by 25 yeas to 30 nays.
Joint Resolution of the Select Committee as heretofore given--after a vain attempt to table it--was passed by 136 yeas to 53 nays.
Clark Proposition as heretofore given, but the amendment was rejected by 13 yeas to 25 nays.
Johnson, of Arkansas, offered, as an amendment to the House Joint Resolution, the propositions submitted by the Peace Congress or Conference, but the amendment was disagreed to by 3 yeas to 34 nays.
Crittenden then offered the Propositions of the Peace Congress, as a substitute for his own-and they were rejected by 7 yeas to 28 nays.
The Crittenden Proposition itself was then rejected, by 19 yeas to 20 nays.
In compliance with the above suggestion from the President, a Joint Resolution, in the precise words suggested, was introduced into the House, March 10, by Roscoe Conkling, and on the following day was adopted in the House by 97 yeas to 36 nays.
The vote on its passage in the Senate was 29 yeas to 14 nays--all the yeas being Republican, and all but two of the nays Democratic.
April 11th, the Bill passed the House by 92 yeas to 39 nays--all the yeas save 5 being Republican, and all the nays, save three, being Democratic.
April 7, 1862, the House adopted a resolution, by 67 yeas to 52 nays-- all the yeas, save one, Republican, and all the nays, save 12, Democratic--for the appointment of a Select Committee of nine, to consider and report whether any plan could be proposed and recommended for the gradual Emancipation of all the African Slaves, and the extinction of Slavery in Delaware, Maryland, Virginia, Kentucky, Tennessee, and Missouri, by the people or local authorities thereof, and how far and in what way the Government of the United States could and ought equitably to aid in facilitating either of those objects.


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"I read old books because I would rather learn from those who built civilization than those who tore it down." It is a healthy principle, even more applicable today.
I cannot help but think about the roots of democracy. The cities that started the base of what we today call civilization. Both Greeks and Romans promoted citizens into public offices, after they served in the military and performed public duties. Citizens aspiring to public office had to know what it meant to go to war. War was no abstract concept for Roman officials. Most of them spent years campaigning before ever trying to run for a public office.
Also, they were free citizens, who owned land, properties and were in general well to do. Having something to lose is in general a great motivator for a balanced policy. Also, showing that one can manage one's own wealth is a great indicator for one's capacity of managing the public wealth.
We have strayed a long way from those principles. Now, Western democracies have career politicians, who never had to do anything but offer good enough lies to get them constantly reelected. No results, no performance, no real work is needed…. Just good lies.
One such example is Mr. Kevin Kühnert. The head of the Young Socialists, the youth organization of the German Socialist Party. Both of his parents are state employees and he is a proud homosexual AND communist. This is the fist sign of the confusion dominating Mr. Kevin Kühnert's mind.
If he had any knowledge of communism, if he had read any of the books written by the many victims of this criminal political system, he would be aware of the fate reserved to the homosexuals, by the communists.
But growing up in a safe environment, with a life subsidized from the very start by the German state prevented him from pursuing any of those interests.
Looking onward in Mr. Kevin Kühnert's resume, we see two attempts at a college degree, both failed miserably… and his political career. Basically, no actual social benefit resulted from Mr. Kevin Kühnert's existence until now, yet, somehow, he became the leader of the German Socialist Youth…
Now, based on his vast experience in politics and economics, Mr. Kevin Kühnert wants to collectivize corporations like BMW.
Mr. Kevin Kühnert never worked in an actual manufacturing job. He has no experience, practical or theoretical regarding investments, R&D cost, the horizontal development of an economic system or what collectivization generates.
The proud homosexual and communist should at least have a look at the "benefits" brought by collectivization in Eastern Europe. How the work of generations was squandered by people, who never worked a day in their lives (being a politician is no work). How people who dedicated their live to improving the well-being of their families were arrested and their property confiscated for the only fault of being wealthier than the "proletariat". Or maybe he should read about the Russian peasants, who died in the communist gulags, as a result of owning land.
Nevertheless, Mr. Kevin Kühnert is emblematic for today's politics. He is a void individual, with no content, providing no value to society, but very confident in his few ideas. Lacking any understanding of history and the painful lessons learned in the past century, the statements of the young politician are borderline-idiotic: Socialism is no "authoritarian concept" and "I am not interested in what the doorbell panel of BMW says. It can be 'state-owned car manufacturer' or 'cooperative car manufacturer' or if the collective decides that it doesn't need BMW in this form at all".
Let's, for the sake of argument, exchange one criminal dictatorship with another. Let's say that, instead of being a proud communist, Mr. Kevin Kühnert would be a proud nazi (I don't capitalize them on purpose). Using this switched polarity, let's say that Mr. Kevin Kühnert would propose the use of forced labor in German companies. Would this be equally socially acceptable?
The main problem of today's political scene is its blindness on the left eye. Although guilty of crimes against humanity, although guilty of the death of millions in Eastern Europe, Russia and China, communism is somehow still fashionable. Western politicians like to repeat that "true communism" was never tried. Weren't all the experiments enough? Weren't millions of lives enough to put an end to this criminal ideology?
And most importantly, where is the outcry of Mr. Kevin Kühnert's colleagues when seeing how he is promoting such a criminal ideology?


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Official Communication
WFDF 2011 Election Results Announced
19 December 2011
The World Flying Disc Federation Nominating and Election Committee is pleased to announce the results of its 2011 elections. In uncontested elections as officers and board members, Thomas Griesbaum (GER) was elected as Secretary, Sandie Hammerly (USA) as Treasurer, and Simon Hill as Ultimate Committee Chair. Kate Bergeron (USA), Brian Gisel (CAN), and Michael Hu (TPE) were elected as at-large board members out of a field of five candidates. Also, all Ultimate Committee candidates were approved. All 37 WFDF members in good standing cast their votes in the election, which was tallied using the "Single Transferable Voting Mechanism."
WFDF 2012 World Junior Ultimate Championships (WJUC) host announced
07 December 2011
The World Flying Disc Federation (WFDF) announced today that it has awarded the 2012 World Junior Ultimate Championships (WJUC) to the Tournament Organising Committee (TOC) headed by Dominick Smyth and authorised by the Irish Flying Disc Association (IFDA).
This bi-annual event will be hosted in the city of Dublin, Ireland, 12 – 18 August 2012. Upon the recommendation of the Ultimate Committee, the WFDF Board of Directors approved the bid from the IFDA during their latest meeting. The last WFDF WJUC event had been held in Heilbronn, Germany, in 2010.
Competitions will be held in two divisions: junior open and junior women's at the Dublin City University (DCU). During the event the European U17 Championships is expected to be held at the same venue.
2011 WFDF Board Elections
16 November 2011
The 2011 WFDF Election Candidates have been announced. The following list of candidates have volunteered to run for election for the 2012-2013 WFDF Board of Directors.
Call for Host Bids for WFDF Ultimate Club Championships 2014 (WUCC)
08 November 2011
WFDF's Board of Directors and Ultimate Committee are seeking bids from potential host organizers for the WFDF Ultimate Club Championships 2014 (WUCC). The deadline for submitting completed bids for WUCC 2014 is January 31, 2012, and it is anticipated that bids will be awarded no later than April 30, 2012. All potential bidders should notify WFDF of their intention to bid (no actual details required) by Friday December 16, 2011.
Read more: Call for Host Bids for WFDF Ultimate Club Championships 2014 (WUCC)
WFDF Asia Oceanic Ultimate Championships (AOUC) to be held in Kaohsiung, Chinese Taipei, 1 to 4 December 2011
05 June 2011WFDF is pleased to announce that the WFDF 2011 Asia Oceanic Ultimate Championships will be held in Kaohsiung, Chinese Taipei, from 1 to 4 December 2011. Upon the recommendation of the Ultimate Committee, the WFDF Board of Directors approved the bid from the Chinese Taipei Flying Disc Association (CTFDA) during their latest meeting, thus returning Ultimate to the venue of the 2009 World Games competitions.
The National Stadium as main venue of the World Games in Kaohsiung 2009, where Ultimate was the most successful competition attracting some 50.000 spectators, will be the showcase venue for the Championship finals on 4 December 2011, commented Robert (Nob) Rauch, WFDF President.
Read more: WFDF Asia Oceanic Ultimate Championships (AOUC) to be held in Kaohsiung, Chinese Taipei, 1 to 4 December 2011
Poland accepted as a full WFDF National member
19 April 2011
The Polish Ultimate Players Association has been accepted as a WFDF full National Member by an electronic vote of the WFDF Congress, approving their membership unanimously by the votes cast. Please join us in welcoming this Federation as a full National Member. WFDF now counts a total membership of 56 members (36 full Members and 20 provisional members) in 54 countries. The positive support by the WFDF Congress on the Polish membership proposal and the current votes on Hungary and Slovenia are further steps in the process of upgrading the WFDF membership on a global level, stated Robert Nob Rauch, WFDF President. WFDF will move forward in encouraging our current provisional members to develop and consequently apply for full membership. Currently the Congress is voting electronically on the full membership for the national federations of Hungary and Slovenia.
Search for interested bidders for WJUC
24 February 2011
WFDF is seeking for bidders for the World Junior Ultimate Championships (WJUC) 2012 based on the new version of the Bid Guidelines 2011. Further information to follow. Deadline for submitting bid documents will be 28 March 2011.
Search for interested bidders for Events 2011 and 2012
24 February 2011
WFDF has revised the bid document and based on the new version is looking for formal applications to host the following events: Asia Oceania Pacific Regional Event (2011), Pan American Regional Event (2011), WUGC 2012 and WJUC 2012. Further information to follow. Deadline for submitting bids will be 28 March 2011.
WFDF appoints Volker Bernardi of Germany as Executive Director
02 February 2011
The World Flying Disc Federation has announced the appointment of Volker Bernardi from Germany as its new Executive Director. Mr. Bernardi, who will serve as the first full-time Executive Director of WFDF, has assumed his duties effective immediately. Kevin "Skippy" Givens, former part-time Executive Director, will stay on as Administrative Consultant through March 31, 2011 to assist in the transition. Mr. Bernardi will establish a home office near Frankfurt, Germany to serve a WFDF's administrative headquarters.
"We are extremely pleased to bring on someone with Volker's Olympic Movement experience to WFDF," stated Robert "Nob" Rauch, WFDF President. "Although he is not a disc player, with his professional sports background we are confident Volker can assist us in effectively addressing the challenges and opportunities we are facing at WFDF, including developing our anti-doping programs, improving our global development efforts, upgrading our internal communications and governance standards, and further supporting our events and current and prospective members. And we want to especially thank Skippy Givens for all of his contributions over the last three years. Skippy has done a great job carrying out his responsibilities in a part-time position and WFDF is much better for all his efforts."
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Western Region General MeetingFebruary 26, 2015Agenda and Reports
Final Paymnent due for Regionals'15. An Invoice has been generated for each association and can be found by CLICKING HERE. Please print of a copy and submit with your payment at the meeting.
Team Rosters for all teams attending the Regionals'15 have been obtained from the Registration Data Base. These rosters will be used to create the program for the event this year. These rosters will also be used to verify player eligibility. Please visit review these rosters for your teams and insure that all is correct. You can view the rosters by CLICKING HERE
It is expected that the delegates to the General Meetings will review these reports prior to attending and thus be prepared with questions, discussion and comments as appropriate. This will lead to quick and efficient meetings with well thought out feedback for our executive.


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Book Review
Somalia On $5.00 A Day: A Soldier's Story
Martin Stanton
Presidio Press, Novato, CA
Reviewed By:
Frank Fogg
Review Date:
June, 2001
Somalia on $5.00 a day tells the story of the first United States troops to hit the beach in Somalia during 1992. It is a hardcover book of about 300 pages.
The story begins by describing the background of the author and other important figures in the Army chain of command for the 10th Mountain Division. The author goes into great detail describing the typical unit organization and training cycles for the division, the soldiers attached to the division, their areas of responsibility, and gives you a good idea of each personality. He also gives a few examples of his own difficulties maintaining a stable family life as a soldier.
Prior to deployment to Somalia, the 10th Mountain Division was involved in disaster operations in the wake of Hurricane Andrew. This mission provided some training and management problems that helped them to adapt to their next mission. Due to force size limitations, the division was split up prior to the Somalia deployment, making it necessary to quickly adapt to a new and smaller organizational structure.
Soon after arriving in Somalia, the soldiers began to get an idea of the difficulties of maintaining order and keeping the relief aid flowing. The enemy was a shadow force that quickly disappeared into the cityscape, and it was usually impossible to tell the enemy from the civilian population. In the beginning, the various factions seemed satisfied to simply fight each other, but became increasingly aggressive toward all outsiders as time passes. Food distribution sites became riot scenes that the force was unable to control, and pilfering was an accepted fact of life.
The division was assigned to an area of responsibility outside of Mogadishu and missed some of the most intensive firefights of the campaign. They did have a number of limited engagements, yet lost practically none of their force to hostile fire. The soldiers were finally relieved by an international force under the control of the United Nations and were sent home. The author tells in a short epilog what happened to each of the soldiers and the division after the conflict.
This story provides one more example of the difficulties faced by professional soldiers when there are loosely defined rules of engagement and even more obscure objectives for peacekeeping missions. The book gives a glimpse of the modern military infrastructure, how today's soldier copes with a variety of missions, and a first person perspective about this conflict.
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Happy Friday! I can't believe it is already November - I remember telling Dr. Densmore in February that as long as I was feeling better by the world series I would be happy. Well the world series has just finished and I've been feeling good for a long time. Michael is better and came back to VA yesterday. In unfortunate news, Michael's grandmother passed away yesterday so we will stay for the weekend for her funeral.
My blood work Wednesday was pretty good. My platelets did take a drop but they say it's normal for them to fluctuate and not to worry about it. However they want to watch them a little more closely so I will go back for more blood work on Monday.
Hope you all have a splendid weekend, Amy
Friday, November 6, 2009
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It has been nine months since this ordeal began, but look how far you have come! You are truly a miracle, and even though you have a ways to go, God is still answering prayers. Hope those platelets show a rise by Monday. So sorry about Michael's grandmother. Glad he is well again and back in VA. Love you both!ReplyDelete
Sorry to hear about Michael's grandmother. We'll be praying for all the family. Glad you got a good report, except for the platelets. We'll ask God to make them "behave" for Monday's blood work. Love you all!ReplyDelete
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I thought lots about Michael, you and family today. We continue to send love and prayers your way. Have a safe trip Monday.
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London: Smith, Elder & Co., 1882. First edition, 8vo, (viii), 364 pp. Marbled endpapers. Finely bound by Sangorski and Sutcliffe in red full morocco, gilt rules, spine with raised bands, slightly sunned, a.e.g., a lovely copy. Wolff 170. Sadleir 57. Item #13748
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On February 28, a student at Indiana University of Pennsylvania was forbidden to continue attending a religious studies class he needs to graduate after he spoke out during a women's only commenting period, questioning professor Alison Downie and her video's claims regarding the "reality of white male privilege."
Lake Ingle said he objected to the abuse of power by the instructor in her use of materials and inherent authority to attempt to coerce a desired opinion.
According to Ingle, the religious studies class was forced to watch the following Ted-Talk video on February 28 featuring Paula Stone, a self described transgendered individual, who gave examples of "mansplaining," "male privilege," and other evidence of alleged systematic sexism.
I've lived as a man & a woman — here's what I learned | Paula Stone Williams | TEDxMileHigh
If you're a man, at one point or another you've probably thought to yourself, "I will never understand women!" And if you're a woman, "what's wrong with men?!" But your gender is all you've ever known, so how could you understand? As a transgender woman, Paula Stone Williams has lived on both sides, "and the differences are massive!"
On conclusion of the video, the instructor "opened the floor to WOMEN ONLY. Barring men from speaking until the women in the class have had their chance to speak," Ingle wrote.
After a period of time, which Ingle claims to be about "thirty seconds or so" passed and no woman had yet decided to speak, Ingle stated he "took this opportunity to point out the official view of biologists who claim there are only two biological genders." He stated that he also debunked the "gender wage gap." On conclusion of his comments, the class returned to normalcy.
Speaking to Campus Reform, Ingle stated that he felt that the floor become open after a protracted period of time, "The floor was opened, and not a single woman spoke. Thirty seconds or so passed and still no woman had spoken. So, I decided it was permissible for me to enter the conversation, especially because I felt the conversation itself was completely inappropriate in its structure."
He also said that he objected to the mischaracterization of anecdotal information as reality by the transgender individual in the Ted Talk video. "I objected to the use of the anecdotal accounts of one woman's experience to begin a discussion in which they were considered reality. It was during my objection that Dr. Downie attempted to silence me because I am not a woman."
On returning to class the next day, Ingle met with his instructor. She had assembled a several documents that he was to review and decide on how he would like to proceed in the classroom. He was informed that he was no longer allowed to attend this class until he went before the university's Academic Integrity Board to decide his ultimate fate.
One of the instructor's documents demanded he issue an apology to the class for his behavior, in order to be restored to class. It also stipulated that he would be required to be silent while others in the classroom described their feelings during the confrontation that occurred between the professor and Ingle on February 28.
"On 3-8, Lake will begin class with an apology to the class for his behavior and then listen in silence as the professor and/or any student who wishes to speak shares how he or she felt during Lake's disrespectful and disruptive outbursts on 2-28," the document read.
In a Facebook post describing the incident, Lake Ingle was defiant and stated that he will be defending himself in front of the school's Academic Integrity Board.
"Later this week I will be defending myself and my FIRST AMENDMENT RIGHTS in front of the Academic Integrity Board (AIB) of the Indiana Univ. of Pennsylvania (IUP) against allegations of Classroom Conduct violations."
"The decision made by the AIB that day will determine whether I will be able to continue participating in my full course load, as well as graduate this May as scheduled," Ingle's statement read, adding, "This is not transgender, woman's rights, or wage issue. This is about free speech and the constant misuse of intellectual power in universities."
The statement was deleted shortly after he retained legal counsel.
Who is Professor Alison Downie?
Alison Downie is a published researcher, a member of the faculty at Indiana University of Pennsylvania, and a Christian Ecofeminist.
Alison Downie submitted a guest article for the website "Feminism and Religion" on January 10, describing her experience with a group of young people proselytizing for their church.
"On this particular Sunday, I happened to drive past a non-denominational church in the small college town where I live," she wrote, "on this day, a group of enthusiastic church goers gathered on the sidewalk, advertising the service about to begin with handmade posters."
"They appeared to be mostly young, and I imagined they were probably students at the university where I teach," Downie added.
"I glanced their way, wondering if I would recognize a student from one of my classes." One of them then shouted to Downie that she should "SMILE!" because it was Sunday.
Downie said she was so enraged by the comment that she, "wanted to slam on the brakes, storm into that cluster of shiny happy young people and throw down a Molotov cocktail of sudden death, mental illness, tragedy, and suffering of all kinds into their church street party."
She continued, "I felt slapped in the face, stunned, and then . . . enraged. NO! I will NOT smile because it's Sunday. And who are you to tell me I should? Who are you to imply that if I do not smile, I somehow don't measure up to your understanding of what faith or salvation is?"
She also gave insight into her own behavior in the classroom and may explain her interaction with Lake Ingle on February 28. She claims that she is hyper-vigilant against "shaming exchanges" where one student shames another, which Ingle was allegedly attempting to do by quoting scientific fact.
In a classroom, in my professional life, I'm perhaps hyper-vigilant in preventing potentially shaming exchanges. Student feedback tells me my Religious Studies classes are safe spaces. Yet I keep myself safe by operating only out of my intellect, employing analysis and critique in the third person.
In the classroom or while writing an article, I know how to keep myself safe. I patrol very clear boundaries. And over several decades, I have developed effective strategies for replenishing myself when shame overtakes me in situations beyond my power to orchestrate.
The article has been updated


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Tune 13, which happened yesterday, is High on a Mountain, by Ola Belle Reed. And yesterday was just such a good day there was no time to write about it until now. (Also, though High on a Mountain was learned yesterday, it was not meant to be tune 13, but a house show and a bottle of scotch got in the way of the learning process.)
What to say…it's a song, in G, and the melody really tests your (vocal) range. It's a beautiful, beautiful tune and unlike most songs about lost love, is not the least bit bitter. The recording linked here does not have fiddle, but a version by Reed on a compilation called Art of Mountain Music has a great fiddle part in it.


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By: Michael Bentley
'Learning Hub' became 'FIT.' 'Infractions' became 'Community Agreement Violations.' 'Alpha' became '1st Period.' 'Mr. Andrew' became 'Mr. McAndrew.' There is no doubt that d.tech has a culture of arbitrarily changing the names of everything. Even the students do it; remember when they replaced all the rooms' names for the Presentations of Learning to colors like Canary? None of these name changes accomplish much more than confuse the student body. What did changing 'Infractions' to 'Community Agreement Violations,' also called CAVs, even do? It is not like a student is going to think, "Oh I just got caught with my phone out in class. I better rebuild the trust of the community." Instead, it will be similar to what it was before, but with more confusion: "I can't believe I just got a CAV for having my phone out in class. I wasn't even doing anything bad. Wait, what even is a CAV, and does it have any relation to the basketball team? " Except, you know, with a lot more swearing.
These useless naming switch-ups stem from the fact that d.tech tries to emphasize minor changes in policy without taking into account the confusion it can cause students. Switching 'Learning Hub' to 'FIT,' Focused Independent Time, was done to emphasize that free periods are meant for independent work and therefore should be silent. Did they need to change the name for that? No, they could have just said "Learning Hub is now silent," and that would have solved the problem just fine. d.tech needs to be more consistent with their naming conventions and think about how little there is to gain from changing something's name. What even is the point of having these odd names in the first place? It would have been much clearer just to call FIT 'Study Hall' – there is not a difference between the two anyway. These wacky naming conventions do nothing but confuse the student body.


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In this week's episode, I interview by beautiful friend Amy Selbach about how to clearly communicate your brand.
Amy's story is fascinating. If you thought marketing your personal brand or the brand of your small business was hard… try marketing a country!
Yep, that's where Amy developed her expertise in branding and marketing, by working with entire countries to identify and communicate their brand.
She's then moved on to develop brands and marketing messages in businesses she owns from huge restaurant chains to yoga studios to building her own personal brand online and marketing that.
I know you'll love Amy's wisdom and methodical approach to identify your core brand and then how to communicate your brand.
You can watch the video, listen to the audio, download from the podcast directory, or read the transcript below.
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Show Notes
- We talk about the role of education as a marketer
- Amy's number one rule when you communicate your brand
- Language differences and we're not just talking about different countries here
- How to easy alienate your customers
- We talk about Brand Strategy and Unpacking Your Business and how you actually do that.
- Website design: What should be on the first fold of your website
- 4 ways to communicate your brand – action steps for you to take this week
- How to name your products
- Your Call To Action: Share your ah-ha's below.
Action Points
- Look at your website – can your ideal client see what you do and how you can help them in the first few seconds on your site?
- Collect testimonials, survey responses and any other material that gives you insight into the language your customers use. Does your brand use this language?
- If you haven't surveyed your potential customers – here's my survey template I've developed for my business – yours to plug and play.
- Follow Amy's advice about how to word the benefits of your product and services
- Join the Romance Your Tribe Facebook Group – you don't need to do this alone
- Congratulate yourself on taking action. Dip into the Celebration Box.
- Share below your ah-ha's from this lesson and also any tips other viewers may find useful.
- If you loved this episode, I'll be grateful if you can leave a review over on itunes so other people can discover this podcast too
Introducing Amy Selbach
Amy Selbach is a brand and sales strategist, entrepreneur and mother to a toddler (her favorite role of all). She has traveled to over 65 countries for both work and play, usually a combo. She started negotiating at 2 years-old (later bedtimes and more snacks) and ended up selling millions of dollars in sponsorship deals to international governments and CEOs.
She has lived and worked in the Middle East, Africa, Asia, and Europe devising marketing and communications brand strategies for both countries and companies from non-profits to Fortune 500s.
She has worked for 15 years helping small business owners take the first steps to launch and market their businesses. She leads brand development workshops, marketing courses, and coaches entrepreneurs 1 on 1. She is also the founder of Taut Body fitness studio in Nairobi, Kenya and has her own teacher certification program.
Her signature 4 week live workshop, "The Spark Incubator" is done quarterly in 2018. Email [email protected] to learn more. She helps ACTIVE + EXPLORER brands to get clear, connected and committed to their own unique path at www.amyselbach.com.
Links and Resources Mentioned
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Romance Your Tribe Facebook group
You might also like this article on How to protect your confidence in business.
Read The Transcript Here
Janet Beckers: Hello and welcome everybody. Janet Beckers here from Romance Your Tribe Radio. And I'm so happy to be able to introduce you to my gorgeous gorgeous friend Amy Selbach. Good day, Amy!
Amy Selbach: Hi, Janet! How are you?
Janet Beckers: I'm really really good. Now the reason why I invited Amy apart from she is just such a delightful person to spend any time with so we've actually before we can even record today, we've been yapping for an hour. She has just got such an amazing wealth of experience when it comes to building your business. So what you know the reason I invited Amy is this is a woman who has used her marketing prowess to market countries. Yes we will talk about that. How to market a country. And to marketing huge restaurant chains to marketing yoga studios to building up a brand online and marketing that. So when it comes to talking about marketing who better than somebody that has been able to apply and to see results across such what would seem to be totally unrelated circumstances. So as always we're going to attempt to give you best value with actionable content in about 20 minutes which means that we're gonna cut through the kind of things that a lot of times people may spend time over podcast which is going to be that sort of lovely, you know, lovely get to know you all those sorts so you know I used to live in a rolled up newspaper in the middle of a road type thing we're gonna go straight to actually give you actionable content but so you can get to know a little bit of Amy, the way that I'm gonna get feel to get the most insights into Amy is to ask you Amy, who is it that you help and how do you do that?
Amy Selbach: Well I am a brand strategist and life stylist and I help entrepreneurs get clear connected and committed to their brand vision and move forward with a plan and direction and the way that I do it is by combining kind of life strategies with brand strategies to make sure that you're building the right path for you.
Janet Beckers: Yeah well and that's. And it's interesting isn't it because that's exactly how you help people. But the thing that makes you so unique in my eyes is that's incredible wealth of experience that you have that you have brought into what you do now with people. So let's spend just a couple of minutes talking about what makes Amy so uniquely positioned to be talking about branding. So if you wouldn't mind sharing in a nutshell you know how those things were introduced beginning about how you'd gone from those huge huge you know big picture marketing down to the more very specific personal branding.
Amy Selbach: Yeah well I mean it's interesting. I started out, like you said, at this very kind of global level zoom zoomed out where we would kind of do market research on a whole entire country from top to bottom and we would interview and profile all of the country's kind of you know CEOs and ministers and top business leaders in a country to see how we can position that country for, you know, To promote that country for foreign investment. What is unique about this country? So it was really the question you just asked me is what I was doing or countries and governments. And then you know my career has bounced around a little bit but at the root of it all I have always been in marketing and communications strategy and brand strategy. And so I think that whether you're doing it for countries or whether you're doing it for personal brands there are so many similarities overlap. The methodology might be it a little bit different. You know like I'm not talking with countries about you know how to style them for photo shoots and things like that. But we're talking about the same images in which images to use to present the country and you know which which kind of projects within the country to highlight and put forward as, you know, how could it really how could that country really be positioned. Do you want to be positioned as a service or a financial services place like Singapore with a great English language skills and great education or do you want to be positioned as more of an industrial place like, you know, South China for example. So all those things are the same kinds of things you talk about whether you're, you know, you're doing a yoga studio or a restaurant group or a personal brand.
Janet Beckers: And the interesting thing though from I love you just, so quickly then, were able to relate that to personal branding. I could really relate to those examples. Those two examples that you gave about you service-based, industrial-based. Now the thing that's really when you talk when we talk about you know Amy's then gone to build a yoga studio and gone to be doing that the director of the marketing for a restaurant chain at your corner. Now you've obviously you've got an American accent so people are going to assume that these businesses are going to be in America but they're not, are they?
Amy Selbach: No they're not. I just wanted to complicate my life as much as possible so I decided to do this in Kenya, actually. And what actually ended up happening was I was working for. You know I was working on a project called the Kenyan government and landed there and fell in love of course and had to pivot pretty quickly. So you see these businesses are actually in Africa which adds, you know, a lot of cultural nuances to marketing as well. And I think that's very relevant if you're doing an online business and there's so many great P.R. gaffes and PR moments where people have not considered that we now live in a very global world and we cater to a lot of different kinds of nationalities who do not necessarily share our religious beliefs and or shared the holidays or shared seasons, even. You know we're posting stuff about winter when it's summer in, you know, Australia. And so how do we deal with with things like that becomes you know an interesting question in my opinion as well. And I've seen people do it extremely well and I've seen I've seen people make some pretty interesting mistakes on that front.
Janet Beckers: Yeah. And, you know, I think other times it can also come to educating your market as well because when it comes to for example the restaurants the restaurant brands that you are responsible for with the marketing. We were talking about you know the kind of things that you required to be able to educate people on as well. Do you mind sharing a little bit about that?
Amy Selbach: Yeah! Well when you're in a market like, you know, like Africa and you are and we're in Kenya specifically and you are introducing for example a ceviche/tapas bar is one of our brands and it's called Tapas. I mean first of all just the concept of Latin, right, even in Australia you know California Latin restaurants and Latin concepts are a dime a dozen. But over there you know there's a real education process and the product changes, you know, as well. So how can we make sure that we're still Tapas, we're doing the concept, but we're also taking into consideration people's- people's cultural tastes. Do people even like raw fish? You know, like, and can we have a meat ceviche? Like you know. Kenyans are meat eaters. They have something called Nyama Choma. And so how do we make sure that there's enough on the menu to you know also you know satisfy and cater to you know their likes and their preferences and to make it understandable and clear. And I think that the number one rule of you know building a strong brand is to make sure people know where the heck you are talking about at all times and make it you know simple and easy to digest. And you know very very clear that you're not overly doing a concept because people might not know what Chorizo is. You know, how do you explain that? That Chorizo is a sausage so you know may be on the menu we call it spicy sausage instead of Chorizo. So honoring the concept and what you're trying to do but also watching out for the nuances of, you know, culture and who your audience is and how you can really make it as easy as possible to make a selection for them.
Janet Beckers: Yeah. And you know what that comes really is this is actually some things that I've been really noticing about my own messaging in the last couple of years because at the time I was recording this I'm going through the whole rebrand and about to launch a new brand. So I've been putting all new languaging together on our websites webinars and things are creating and it's made me realize that things that I thought I was really good at keeping the language simple. But then I've used some language like attracts a client. I thought that would have been pretty straightforward but then I had a couple of people 'cause I've been, you know, surveying, running things by people who were at a cross-section they've gone, "What do you mean by 'attract'?"
Amy Selbach: Hmm, that's interesting.
Janet Beckers: Simple things or you know talking about your avatar and then people going, "What is an avatar?" So things even simple tiny nuances when it doesn't have to be that you're in a completely different country with such obvious cultural differences. Those cultural differences can simply be a matter of the language that you get used to using if you're talking about marketing in a specific way. And but you're talking to people who might be marketing in a different way and whatever your particular industry that you, my dear listeners, are be super aware of some of the languaging you might just be using normally because it's what you do when you're helping people who get help. Yeah. there are there other moments of cultural differences they where you know you're totally losing the message and you don't realize it.
Amy Selbach: Well that and you know not only that. Catering to every stage in business so to say that I'm a brand strategist and also I'll tell you what. Even to businesses that are very very far along, there's a lot of successful businesses out there that do not know that. They're doing brand strategy without really know that it's brand strategy and so to say oh I'm a brand strategist. What does brand strategy accomplish? What does that actually do? You know there's a lot that you have to unpack for people in order to tell that. You know. And so for me brand strategy is a matter as this is unpacking your business. It's unpacking your messaging. It's how you copy write. It's the tone you take with your customers. It's the relationship that you have to them. Who are you going to be to that person. Are you a hero figure or are you a mentor figure or are you their best friend or are you a guide. Are you a passionate reporter, is that what you use to position yourself?
Janet Beckers: Yeah.
Amy Selbach: Are you just an oracle or are you an information giver? Are you, you know, that kind of thing is is all brand-y. But to say "oh I'm a brand strategist" is just not enough. What does brand strategy do for me? How can it help me? How can it guide me? How can it make my business more successful? That's what people are interested in know me and that is really what's have strong brands say clearly and concisely. This is what I very obviously do for you and if you have a complicated product you don't need to go into all the features. It's called feature dumping or feature loading. You don't need to go to all the features of your product. You just need to in one succinct sentence say how that can help your customer who is about to buy something from you.
Janet Beckers: Just in that short time there, that's some really fantastic gold nuggets. So what I'd like to do now is let's have a look for people who are listening. I'm really into action and so I know is Amy in fact you have a beautiful beautiful quote that you were telling me before around action
Amy Selbach: Well around action, I say- I don't know if it's a quote or not I could be one. I say I say that the antidote to anxiety is action. For me, for myself. That's the way it works. And then there's other nuances around, you know, the antidote to anxiety being action because I feel like when you know we're able to play and stop and take action automatically, you know, what does it reduce? It reduces anxiety, it reduces overwhelm, it reduces all those things that drew us on track off track. Mindset wise, right? And then when you commit to a project and I think this is where the quote that I was was talking about before and there's there's two different ones. The first one is "There is so much liberation in commitment". So when you commit yourself to a project or commit yourself to taking action you know it's actually this liberating feeling that happens instead of this umm oppressive feeling. Sometimes we expect commitments to make us feel trapped but usually the opposite happens and we do commit to something.
Janet Beckers: Yeah.
Amy Selbach: But the second one was a quote that I was reminded of recently in someone a friend of mine posted on Facebook which was Jack Canfield quote that said "99 percent is a bitch. A hundred percent is a breeze.
Janet Beckers: That is such a wonderful idea. I just love. I'm going to put these below in the blog post if you're listening to this here on iTunes or wherever you're listening to come over to the website or 'cause I'll put all these points in some good graphics actually so that you can go take and use them. The reason I wanted to bring up about the action is because we have a look past that some of the action to do that branding some of those gold nuggets that you gave me because and actually when you were talking about you know really it's about freeing you up because I have found when it came to making some of these decisions many things that you were just talking about and applying it to your brand and then going "You know what, A hundred percent, I am owning this voice. I am owning- this is how I help people". It just frees you up so much. So let's have a look now at those things that you were talking about you know about what your voice is and how are you actually saying things that people is putting that term so that people can see what does a brand strategist mean to me? So now let's look at some steps that people who are listening to take this week things you could do right now so that you can go, "You know what, I'm clear I'm committed. I am 100 percent going in and this is what I do. This is how I help people." So let's look at what some people can do, action steps to apply what you've been- what you've just shared.
Amy Selbach: Well I think I mean just leading off that first one that we were talking about with the relationship. I would you know I always say "Close your eyes and visualize". Visualize your customer and visualize you the two of you in an interaction together and what does that interaction look like. So you know are you holding this person's hands? Are you sitting across the table from them? Are you you know sitting right next to them? Are your feet up on a couch or a coffee table and you're just having like a BFF style chat with them? And that is a great place to start the visualization because it really like it literally sets up the spatial relationship between the two of you. And that's very telling to how you see yourself in a relationship and then go on to really really deep dive and describe the relationship from there. You know what kind of- how is your customer interacting with you? How are you interacting with your customer? Are you the one giving advice or are you listening to your customer and are you holding a space for them and letting them you know vent their frustrations. And are you saying "I understand I can totally relate" or are you just saying "Hang on a minute. Just hang on and here's what you need to do. Stop whining and just do this". You know. And it's really telling in how you interact with your customers and how you're going to set your tone and your personality. Because those exercises are you know just going layer by layer into that relationship and what it looks like can tell you a lot. It tells you everything about the tone and personality that you're going to have right. It tells you about you know how the interaction is going to go what the tone of voice is going to be basically doing that one little simple exercise where you start with what that looks like and I mean I'm talking about a full page of just the relationship when they have this problem. I'm going to do this. When they have that problem, I'm going to do this. And I'm going to respond in a you know kind but firm way or I'm going to respond in a super sympathetic way or I'm going to respond in a more authoritative way and just say look you know, "Get your shit together and get this done". Or are you going to say like "I totally understand". You know so it's just it's all it's all of that. And I would say start by by really writing down and close your eyes and visualize it and then write it down get it on paper and pretty much you know there are so many exploratory questions. I have a 50 page brand exploration cheat for this. But that is the kernel of it all right there. And then I would go to websites like you know click on your website and look above the fold of the home page of your web site and just read it. And is it once. Is it more than one sentence? Number one with a maybe a you know, an additive sentence underneath. And does it say what you do for your customer above that fold? Can they figure it out in five seconds or less?
Janet Beckers: Excellent.
Amy Selbach: And then I would also I have another exercise where I do functional benefits and emotional benefits which is a common branding exercise but the difference between functional and emotion. Functional benefits are, for example, in a restaurant group you know we feed people. We serve food to people. [24.3]
Janet Beckers: Right.
Amy Selbach: But an emotional benefit would be "we create moments", right? People come to the restaurants with their friends and they have a couple cocktails and they have this nice shared meal and they have a nice shared experience and they listen to good music and they and they have this experience that is very emotional that keeps them coming back. And so whether or not the food is excellent, they might still come to the restaurants just based on the amazing memories that they've created there. An amazing ambience and a shared experience.
Janet Beckers: Yeah.
Amy Selbach: And I would look at what your customers have said about you for this language. I've named products before based on client testimonials. And understanding what my customers have said about, you know, a certain benefit of my service whether it's, you know. Fitness or food or whatever it is and I think that is a super super useful exercise and then you start to communicate using those benefits focusing more on the emotional benefits than the functional benefits.
Janet Beckers: Yeah. And I love that idea of actually naming the product based on the language that was used when people gave a testimonial. I mean that's really really powerful. It's actually a very simple example in this last week is I have one of my products which is a tool that I've always called the Impact Ease Quadrant or Impact Ease Tool but I put it out to my markets and talk to the people who you know have used this particular tool and renamed it From The Chaos to Clarity Tool. Yes that's what they were saying is you know actually just gives me clarity when everything was seems so chaotic before much. You know I've always called it Impact Ease, you know, because they were the variables, they were the two columns that you have. And so that's you know that was a that's a direct challenge to people here is number one. Do those exercise that I love that you've done that you know visualise you know your feet up or how are you talking and the next thing then comes to and this is where I find that you two have really is once people go, Well you know. It's the example that you gave where you're saying to people "you know this is what you gotta to do", you know, "toughen up Princess" or whatever it is I will quite often apologise for this style going "You know I've really got to tone it down" or "I'm really really supportive you know but I've got to stop being so supportive and giving you know I've got to be tougher". It's just... just own it, baby. In fact, do it more. If you are the sort of the whip cracking tough persona, like really ham it up because that's your brand.
Amy Selbach: And it's so funny because I've heard people say and people need different things at different times, right? Like you know I was in a stage last year where I wanted it like a very nurturing, intimate environment but I have been in other stages of my life where I'm just like just crack the whip and tell me what to do and I'll do it, you know. And so you know really you don't have to be afraid of being you know any one of those things. And as long as again going back to the commitment aspect as long as you kind of commit to it when your voice start to sound wishy washy and you don't know who you want to be that is where things get muddy and confusing and you get confused and your audience get confused and they're getting a different version of you every single time and that's when it all starts to fall apart.
Janet Beckers: I love it you know that's that's a really nice circle back, Amy. So that's probably a good place. I mean obviously we keep on talking for hours 'cause we already have for an hour and a half but I think that's a really nice way for us to be able finish today's podcast is that you know totally owning it because you know 99 percent if you're not really committed. It's hard work but if you are really committed this is our voice. This is what we do. This is what it is like to work with us. And this is how it makes you feel when you talk about those emotional benefits as opposed to features. That's where it becomes so much easier for you so to for people to be able to you know get some more of Amy. How do people get into Amy's world?
Amy Selbach: Well I'm on Instagram @AmySelbach at a S E L B as in boy A C H dot com and my website is AmySelbach.com. And then if you'd like a free one hour brand story planner you would just go under the free resources tab there. So it's AmySelbach.com/free-resources.
Janet Beckers: Excellent. That's fantastic. And for everybody that's listening you know we've given you know some really simple very very powerful action steps that you can be doing this week. So my challenge to you is to set aside 60 Minutes this week and I want you to do these exercises that Amy has talked about specifically around getting clear on what is the voice of your brand and going and looking at your website and being super clear on that.
And one of the things that you can do for Amy and also for myself is to give us some feedback so if you do that exercise and take some action go over to Amy's website and let her know. On this podcast if you come up to podcast to the Web site come to the post where you can we get this and you can see the transcript and all things that would make it helpful for you. Leave a comment for Amy and let her know that you took action because you know as Amy said right at the very beginning you know that action is one of the best solutions for anxiety when it comes around building your business. And so it's incredibly rewarding for us to get that feedback that you've taken action as well. So thank you so much for your time, Amy.
Amy Selbach: Thank you.
Janet Beckers: Thank you, everybody for being here. And yeah. Well thank you so much. And we well can't wait to see what kind of feedback people are giving and what kind of results we get just from our 20 minutes today. Bye!
Amy Selbach: Bye bye!


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