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DAILY VIBRATION & MANDALA REPORT: Tuesday April 26th 2016
Tuesday April 26th's vibration (26+4+2+0+1+6) = 39/12/3. Today we have the creative energy of the 3 taking charge: 3's geometric blueprint is the TRIANGLE, the generator of LIGHT.
The triangle forms the shape of the Pyramid, and the word Pyre means FIRE. The Triangle is the first enclosed form that appears in Creation, and is therefore often referred to as the "Mother of Creation", because it is the surface through which all other shapes are birthed into creation.
The creative fecundity of 3's energy is represented in the traditional imagery of 3rd card of the Tarot, The Empress: the Mother Goddess, representing the abundant flourishing of Nature, and reflecting the cyclicity of life, death and rebirth.
The Empress is sitting on a cubic stone, with 12 stars above her head. Here we see the strong link between the 3 and 12, and the 3rd and 12th card in the Tarot. 12 indicates time's cyclicity, the wheat and harvest in the image of the Goddess card symbolising this, pointing towards the seasons of the year coming full circle, the seeds having been sown, growth occurring, and then the flourishing of the abundant harvest.
She is telling us that what we sow, we will eventually reap, that time and experience is cyclic, what goes around comes around.
The sacred, cyclic quality of the number 12 appears in all creation. The twelvefold order is the principle of the archetypes of all things. 12 is the number of the zodiacal constellations of fixed stars, through which run the orbits of the Sun and the Planets. We measure the cycles of time with 12 hours on the clock-face. Christ had 12 disciples. The Christos energy, as the hub of that wheel of 12, is the pivotal force at the centre that holds the order and blueprint of light in place.
The 12th Card in the Tarot is the HANGED MAN. The first thing we notice about the 12th card in the traditional Tarot is that the Hanged Man is hanging upside down from a tree branch, in suspension, just like the caterpillar in its cocoon as it waits for its transformation into the butterfly.
The hanged man card represents the pause between the in-breath and the out-breath, the stillness before the action. The deeper message for you is to learn to let go of expectations, but to remain hopeful; something new is growing.
When 12 appears, great transformations are underway and there is nothing you can do but accept, wait and surrender to all the changes that are occurring for you now. The major theme here is about letting go and trusting in the Universe, and having the courage to surrender to your higher, divine will, rather than the letting the physical realm ego-self call all the shots.
In the image, the hanged man hangs from a tree by his ankle, and is free leg is bent at the knee, crossing over the hanged leg, so that it makes the form of the number 4. The number 4 represents the earthly realm, the tangible manifest realm governed by the 4 directions.
The 4 appears upside down, illustrating the fact that the material realm is but a reflection of the true reality, the spiritual realm above. He is telling us that when we come to realise and understand this fundamental truth, we can put our total trust in the divine to help direct us in the earthly world.
To consciously let go and allow the unconscious to take the reigns is a complete reversal of what we are taught in daily life, it is a risk that the logical mind must take, and the challenge that meets you today!
We can see that another major keyword with 12's energy as symbolized visually with the Hanged Man is Sacrifice. Here we see the link between 12 and the Christos energy: if one is to develop the capacity to hold Christos energy, to become enlightened, one must take on the essence of Christ's teachings, which are the universal teachings of light that have been presented to us by many religious/spiritual figures.
All these teachings revolve around the cyclical/spiral energy of unconditional love, which evolves life in all dimensions. In order to promote unconditional love and the awareness of the light within, Christ and figures like him seem to always undergo a martyr or sacrificial scenario, they have to give up the desires of the ego self and follow only the guidance of the higher self.
Although this appears a sacrifice in the material world, what Christ, Buddha, Krishna, etc, are showing us is that these attachments to the material realms cause only pain and fear. Let go and embrace the light, the source of creation, is what all the emissaries of light are telling us. And indeed, it is the message of the Hanged Man too.
When 12 appears you may feel as if you are in limbo, waiting for something to happen. Well you are, but it's not a passive waiting, it's more a pregnant pause, the ripening consciousness poised to take flight.
You need to let go, surrender and TRUST that the universe has everything in hand. By surrendering and sacrificing the ego-self, one actually gains great power; divine will- power that can be expressed with master-ship through the 12.
The 39th card in the Tarot is the Knight of Cups, and he aligns very well with the Hanged Man. The Knight is also a very imaginative and dreamy character, also encouraging us to allow our imagination free-reign so that we may find inspiration and insight.
In a sense, too, the Hanged Man has been swept off his feet and had his world turned upside-down, and the Knight of Cups as the romantic and gallant hero can certainly create such an effect in your life today!
A surprise invitation may await you, or you may receive messages that inspire you to be creative.
The only downside of this vibration is to let yourself get too carried away in fantasy. Shift your gaze, dream big, but remember the grounding influence of the 4 that the Hanged Man alludes to.
Enjoy your day everyone! And if it's your birthday or anniversary today, then this vibration stays with you for the year as your Personal Year vibration! Go well! Rosalind Pape.
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According to Eduardo Cabantog he's an MD who's served in various state-run hospitals in the Philippines. Some years ago he founded Alliance in Motion (AIM) Global, Inc.--a multi level marketing (MLM) company. He's never looked back since. And if his presentation (see endnote 1) is any gauge, he's actually turned his back on the ethics of being a doctor.
AIM is into food/dietary supplements. But I'm not even going into the efficacy question regarding the items the company is peddling. This blog entry is about a (different) scam Cabantog has been perpetrating during his presentation(s).
Watch the following video begining at around 2:40 (you can see how the older gentlemen eventually fared in Part 8 of the presentation below).
The two men are easily thrown off balance by Cabantog when he performs his drag-the-person-down test. But after taking Alive! supplement (manufactured by Nature's Way) the two subjects become incredibly immovable. Try as he did Cabantog could not get them to budge. Amazing, isn't it? Well, it would be if Cabantog wasn't resorting to outright flim flam. Here's Richard Saunders of Australian Skeptics showing us how to do this party trick (see endnote 2). The reveal begins @5:10.
The direction in which the forces are applied is key. Push/pull a person away from where he's standing and it's easy to throw him off balance. The opposite is also true. Moreover, the lack of any form of blinding ensures that the tester can apply as much or as little force as he wants depending on whether the subject has taken the supplement or not. Similarly, the subject, knowing that's he's taken the supplement and having already been primed by Cabantog's prior presentation on the benefits of the wonder supplement, can apply more or less resistance. The subject--just like a patient--reflexively wants to please the authority figure and to play along specially given the large audience present (yes, there is peer pressure at work). Given how Cabantog has full control of the vectors--the magnitude and direction of the forces he's going to apply--and given how the subjects can more or less be counted on to perform as expected of a good albeit unwitting shill, there is almost no way this trick can go wrong.
Let's move on. Watch the following, paying close attention to the portion of the video from 2:16 - 3:03 and 4:34 - 5:20. Watch both a few times and see if you notice something peculiar.
Did you see it? Those two segments are merely mirror images of one another. And we know the first is the original because @2:23 to 2:25 we see the label of the lancet (the penlike device for pricking the finger)--the first few letters being "Lan"--flipped horizontally @4:41 to 4:43.
Moreover, if you listen carefully to the audio (best if you don't look at the vid) you'll hear the same one in both the first and second segments (although the first few seconds from the first don't make it to the second; in its place is a short part of the audio downstream, thus resulting in that portion being repeated twice in the second segment). You'll even hear the very same car horn @2:47 and @5:05.
In the first segment, the supposed blood sample taken is one before the subject took Alive! In the second, a blood sample after the supplement was taken. But as we've seen AIM Global merely provided a flipped version of the very same blood sampling. If AIM actually took blood samples from a subject in the audience before and after taking Alive! and if the glass slide showing freely moving RBC is from the same subject, then because they don't have the video clip for the second sampling there is reason to believe AIM is hiding something. Perhaps they don't want to show that they added a substance to the second blood sample (which they didn't to the first) because "Rouleaux and clumping occur when blood is placed under a microscope without first being suspended in proper solutions to control acidity and agglutination." Is AIM going to give us the lame excuse that they forgot to turn on the camera during the second blood sampling or that that video segment got corrupted?
Finally I found the following images in a Facebook album that apparently is open for all Facebook members to see and comment on. They're ads for AIM's latest product C24/7, which apparently is an improved Alive! since instead of just 16,000 "phytonutrients" C24/7 contains 22,000. Given the weight of one capsule and this number of chemicals you can do the math to find out how many micrograms of each there is per cap (assuming AIM isn't pulling our legs--again--with that 22k figure).
Whether these ads were made by AIM Global or by individuals (re)selling the supplement, I don't know. Since these ads make explicit therapeutic claims, they are in clear violation of the laws of the land (among others, RA 7394 Art.112 and the Department of Health regulations)
1. Alliance in Motion (AIM) Global presentation featuring Eduardo Cabantog, MD
Part 1/10 Part 2/10 Part 3/10 Part 4/10 Part 5/10 Part 6/10 Part 7/10 Part 8/10 Part 9/10 Part 10/10
2. This trick was also employed by, among others, Power Balance (Australia), which recently had to admit (thanks to the Australian Competition and Consumer Commission) that its wild claims for its rubber bracelet are bogus:
Tuesday, January 11, 2011
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Ed Cabantog uses another trick. He made use of the "Light as a feather, stiff as a board" or "Pig in a Blanket, Stiff as a Board" party trick to fool people that the supplement he peddle works.
He has videos using the trick for the C24/7
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July 12, 2010
Multiple Personality Disorder and My GF
Life is strange in many ways and it leaves no stone unturned to let you know of its ability. Couple of years back, life had decided to evince its bizarre nature to me. During those years of my life, I was a free flowing bachelor, sipping wine and women as they came. With no seriousness in life, and with no intention of settling down, I was highly content with life. I had no regard for love, as for me it was nothing but an excuse for two people to officially elope and get possessive. Well as life had to push me from my fun-zee world, it made me meet a girl with whom I had to fall in love. A beautiful female is a definite attraction for anyone, but what made me fall in love was her intellectual seduction. I had finally met a female in my life that had a brilliant mind and just didn't rely on giving dumb smiles to continue conversations.
We could talk on any topic and she always had something to say or another. Still I had a lot of reluctance to admit I was in love, but after much self assessment I gave into it, and had to practically scream it out to express my emotions. Days after that we were just like 'happily ever after', or that's what I thought. I still remember it was raining very heavily, she came to my place. She hugged me and told me she always wanted to confess something but she never could. She told me that she had 'Multiple Personality Disorder' or Dissociative Identity Disorder (DID) as it is known lately. I was stunned, as I still wanted her to laugh and say it's all a joke, but she never did that. She was very serious and she wasn't looking in my eyes. I brought her close to me, looked in her eyes, and told her that I would always be there for her no matter what. I was so deep in love that it was impossible for me to withdraw as she never told me this when I was dating her initially. My support and care for her grew from that day, and I used to make sure that she was never hurt because of me. During this own course of time, I was having a systematic downfall in terms of finances. But I always ensured that she did not take any stress regarding it.
My first shock to reality came when I was speaking to her on the phone, and she was highly stressed over a trivial issue. After a few seconds of pause, her voice changed, and she started speaking to me in an aggressive tone. It was my introduction to one of the two 'alters' that she inhabited. 'Mini' was the aggressive one, while 'Shiana' was the one that always used to come out at times to comfort her. As strange as it sounds, the complexity of the disorder is by far the most unique in mental illnesses. I did everything that was possible by me to ensure that she could get some reprieve from her condition. But with recession on its peak, my finances and her condition were on a rapid degeneration.
As time passed by, her attitude changed a lot towards me, and she seemed normal while doing her work, but it was only in front of me that she started having her 'alter' problems. She just couldn't digest that I had lost a lot of wealth during that tenure and found it really uneasy to be with a guy who used to shower her with gifts, take her to expensive restaurants to guy who had lost a lot. Before I could wink, she had gone out of my life and this is the time I realized two things, life's pathetic joke and her third alter, 'the gold-digger'!! It was difficult to cope up with the fact that she wasn't there with me anymore, but it also shed light on another fact that as men we get so easily suckered by seductions based on intelligence.
However this disease is very much real and today there are multiple people suffering due to this wretched malady. In most scenarios, child abuse is considered as one of the prime reasons for this disorder to originate. These so called 'alters' develop in a person to isolate a traumatic event that had occurred in their past lives. So help out the real victims of this disorder but watch out for sadistic MPD wannabes.
June 1, 2010
A Dog That Hunts Leopards
I think dogs are sent on this earth to cleanse all the negativity we produce over the period of time. Having a dog at my home was probably one of those things that changed the complete scenario of my life. I had a loving jealous Doberman before and after his death I wasn't suppose to have another pet as it gets too painful in the end. Well fate had something different to say; my brother rescued a pup from the street and clinically gave it to me before he left. Well I have always been into dogs, but the breed, "Tibetan Mastiff" was new to me. So I researched about the breed and was surprised to read about a kind of dog that looks like a lion, hunts leopards and wolves, guard forests, and wear a yak collar.
All of which are unheard for people loving domestic dogs. Having a Doberman, made me feel like I was having an industrial guard dog as a pet, but he was too loving and made us felt that we had a male lassie who like to bite everyone.
A Tibetan mastiff is one of the most powerful breeds that we will ever see in the canine family. Firstly you should get use to the fact that as a puppy it will resemble a bear cub more than dog.
When it starts growing up, you will see a lion look alike dog that loves to eat, loves children and loves to be the joker of the house. However this dog is undeniably loyal to the core. If he starts suspecting someone around your house is snooping around you can't make it stop barking,. If this situation arises, and the guarding factor of a Tibetan mastiff arises, than I can just say 'good luck'. Two reasons, either he will bark till the end of eternity or if he has the opportunity to get after his suspect, than he will make sure his suspect gets the rag doll treatment.
This dog will go to any lengths to protect your family and if your cousin spends a week at your place, he would still try to bite his head off on the last day of his trip. I would say this dog is perfect for fathers who always wish to clean guns in front of their daughter's boyfriends. Keep just one Tibetan mastiff and your daughter will never date again till she is old enough to leave your house. All those little macho men will have a hard time drying their own pants when the beast is unleashed. I love all dogs, but this one is special, as it has real unique abilities due to its sheer size and temperament. Incase if you get an opportunity keep it, you will never regret this decision for the rest of your life.
May 25, 2010
Do You Suck As A Boss?
You are an owner of a company or you are a manager/supervisor and having your own team, but are you able to optimize your employee's potentials? If you are being a bad boss, you will lose a good employee and market credibly as an employer. Here are a few tips that would ensure apt relation between you and your employees:
• At the time of hiring, make sure that you have found the right candidate for the profile in your office.
• Take a couple of more tests to be sure.
• Ask yourself, the salary you are offering, would the company be able to afford it?
• Don't over promise yourself to attract a potential candidates, it does come back at you.
• Once hired, don't remind the candidate that he is getting paid more than others.
• If you pay somebody more than other employees, don't expect magic from him in quick time, give him his space to create what he was hired for.
• Stop breathing down on people's necks, it's not a nice thing.
• Yes, you are paying for their salary, but you don't own them, so cut the attitude.
• Don't discuss office routine during lunch time because if you do that, then people are imagining killing you in 300 different ways.
• Don't compare employees, it leaves negativity and bitterness
• Don't tell employees, that they are being overpaid and they need to take a pay-cut to stay in the company. If you say this, you will only make a mockery of yourself.
• Do praise your employee when they do good work
• Don't criticize in front of everybody; explain to them where they went wrong in a respectable and discreet manner.
• Are you getting happy when people are praising you? Get a reality check; you are being buttered for the wrong reasons.
• Give independence to your managers to solely handle the project.
• Don't try to review each work that your staff does, that will put them in pressure for the wrong reasons.
• They shouldn't be making the product for your satisfaction, but for the client's, there is a difference in that, which most bosses fail to understand.
• If your manager loses one client, make him understand the situation, but if you reprimand him, he might lose another.
• Don't just ask suggestions from your employees; understand the logic behind every suggestion.
• Don't humiliate your employee when firing; when you say it, keep the integrity intact.
May 21, 2010
Can You Go To Hell For Unethical Affiliate Marketing?
You have been a perfect husband, a good father and a decent provider for your family. In real life you have helped people, but still when you die, you are sent directly to hell. You ask God why? And he shows you the extent of damage and deaths that were done through your affiliate marketing. Affiliate marketing is a premier automated internet business that is carried out by many reputed bloggers and reviewers. But most of the times, when people venture into affiliate marketing; they conveniently tend to ignore the ethics that is required to support it. Before venturing into affiliate marketing there is a set of questions that you need to ask yourself.
■Do the people, who on your trust would click on the link, would genuinely receive value to their money?
■Do you know the depth of the product? Have you tested the product on yourself?
■Would you give the suggestive medicine that you are marketing to your own children/family? ■Would you feel happy seeing your testimony on the landing page?
■Are you really sure of the product? Is there is any chance of it being harmful or a scam?
If any of the above questions represent a "no", than you are doing unethical affiliate marketing. Ethics and business are cohesive factors for achieving success levels. If you have attained success due to unethical affiliate marketing, you would eventually fail; primarily due to two reasons, karma and loss of your brand name. The entire platform of trade is executed on the internet on just one word, and i.e. "trust". If people who have been following you on your blogs and have been crediting your website as a good piece of work, then you are eventually demeaning yourself by being associated with unethical marketing. Medicines are one of the prime examples that are being used in affiliate marketing in an unethical way. Drugs that have more side effects than curing the patient are being marketed aggressing by respected bloggers. These drugs play with the consumer emotionally by promising them instant weight loss or overnight acne cures. Some drugs cause adverse side effects like seizures, nausea and loss of consciousness and in some cases even deaths. People have debated that if every sales person would try the product they sell, than there would be no salespersons. Well if their assumption is true that there should be official salespersons for guns and dope as well. There is no harm in affiliate marketing as long as you are ethically comfortable with the product. You would not like to get associated with murderers and scam artists in real life, than why affiliate yourself to such products online. Work ethically for your affiliate marketing, and you will have a sure shot success as your product would be genuine and would definitely help your consumer, thus increasing your sales and reputation. In the end I can only tell this "Ensure ethical marketing and save yourself from going to hell."
May 20, 2010
Brand Loyalty
Why certain consumers are loyal to certain brands and what influences such an adherence? What makes a consumer deviate from the norms? What makes a consumer willingly get bonded to products or services as a result of a deep-seated commitment? A consumer is considered as a brand loyal whenever a consumer perceives that a brand is offering him the right product features and the desired level of quality, and hence repeatedly makes a conscious or subconscious repurchase of that particular brand.
To get the buyer to that level, a brand has to be positioned very effectively and should have the right marketing mix that can make a consumer get attached to it. The brand when it displays that distinct identity, it is then that it captures the audience's attention.
Through this study let us see how we can use the web to connect with the customers and get them satisfied to the extent of making them brand loyal. How we can identify and acquire our high – valued customers and create an effective strategy to manage their responses and experiences such that it helps us to retain them and build them into loyal customers. How can we identify brand loyalty and what can we do to perceive it? A brand symbolizes a company. It gains the customer's regard when it shows that it gives product or services differentiating it from the competition.
Brand loyalty:
|«««««««Brand loyalty is essential for the product to create its own niche
The term loyalty is associated with a feeling of devoted attachment and affection. The term 'brand loyalty' captures this very essence but from a commercial perspective. Manufacturers and companies are always trying to create niche in the market by constructing their own base of loyal customers, who over the period of time have accepted the product whole heartedly. These brand loyalists would spend their money devotedly to acquire the particular product and would also carry a feeling of immense satisfaction on the purchase. The importance of brand loyalty can be asserted from the fact that it plays a vital role in the company's advertising appetites. If a particular product is having a good brand loyalty, then the company spends large expends over short periods of time to attract new patrons, but if the brand loyalty is low then companies tend to keep the advertising at a steady pace to attract fresh consumers and to boost sales
Maintaining brand loyalty is the biggest challenge for the company, as it is a very tedious process to acquire a customer and then convert him to carry repeat purchases from the company. The more difficulty part comes in providing the same level of service that a customer will expect in his return to his loyalty.
|«««««««Brand loyalty can achieve high goals through the medium of internet
Internet brand loyalty:
The internet today is the biggest medium of trade. The size of commerce that can be carried out through this means is incomparable to any other ways of promoting business. The reason behind the success of internet as a viable trade option is because it is easy to tap and cater to a very large audience, thus pitching your product to a consumer size that is unimaginable.
Brand loyalty, when ventures in to the internet, creates a new structure all in all. The ethos remains the same for brand loyalty, for a product retailed in the market or being sold through the website. However the e-marketing teams of the company have to be creative in their approach to acquire and maintain the consumer who would log on the website. The reason behind it is when a consumer enters a store, the look and feel of the store gives him certain psychological comforts. When he becomes a customer of the web, he requires the website of the company to give the feel and ease to surf easily and finish the purchase without having any insecurity in mind. So when internet based brand loyalty has to be initiated, the e-marketeering factors change a lot of dimensions for the company. At the very first, the company tries to maintain a non-complex service to the consumer, making the purchase as hassle free as possible. Once the consumer gets into the ideology of buying the product on the basis of 'few easy clicks', it engenders the beginning of internet brand loyalty.
Advertising becomes an excessively important aspect for producing brand loyalties. The internet gives the chance to the e-marketer to increase sales by capitalizing on brand loyalist of other companies by advertising and creating relations on other loyalist eccentric websites
Facets of Internet Brand Loyalty:
|«««««««Attitudinal and behavioral loyalty plays an important role in brand loyalty
In factual terms, to get a consumer to remain loyal with the brand requires a lot of unique marketing strategies. For a consumer to attain the status of loyalty he needs to get thorough satisfaction right from the service attained to the quality of the product. However, it is not necessary that once a consumer attains satisfaction he will ensure loyalty with the brand. By and large, loyalty toward your brand can be segmented into two areas, one demonstrated by the customers and the other, by the suppliers. There is a difference between a loyalty demonstrated by a supply chain entity and that demonstrated by a customer. The reasons behind a B2B (Business to Business) loyalty program would be rather rational and that of a B2C (Business to Consumer) unit would be emotional or psychological. In the following you will be able to see descriptions on some of the factors that are associated with brand loyalty:
a) Mind-set: The internet allows itself to become a market place of tailor-made information because of its database attributes. It becomes very essential to create a positive mindset on the virtues of trust and privacy issues. As the consumer always has a choice of acquiring another product just by refreshing a new page, it becomes critical to instigate positivity towards the brand. If the consumer gets into a positive mindset, his chances of staying loyal with the brand remains higher compared to a normal scenario.
b) Behavioral: Consumers who have repeat buying patterns come into this category. It becomes essential for the company to tap the consumer into behavioral loyalty as it is an express way for gaining returns. Behavioral loyalty of a company tends to increase if the consumer is given awards or gifts for his repeat purchases.
|«««««««There are 5 essential steps to achieve brand loyalty
Let's see what progression of steps a customer goes through when he decides to purchase, use and maintain loyalty towards a brand or a product.
According to Jim Sterne and Matt Cutler, the customer life cycle has five phases.
• Reaching a customer: This involves getting a potential customer's attention.
• Acquiring a customer: This involves making the customer aware of your services and offerings.
• Converting a customer: This includes impressing the customer, to the extent that he turns into a paying customer.
• Retaining a customer: When you are successful in making him your loyal customer and willing to repurchase your products.
• Building Customer loyalty: Loyalty toward the brand is achieved when a customer is satisfied with the product or service and has joined the cycle.
If you can retain a customer and make him a loyal to your services or product you get an upper hand over your competitors. Hence an effective marketing strategy will concentrate on the first four phases keeping the fifth phase as the final goal for achievement. The first four phases of the customer life cycle concentrate on developing a sound customer retention strategy.
The concept of creating brand loyalty contains creating a true brand loyal, One who would like to repurchase a brand due to acute liking and not because there are not many choices or options available. Customers who are truly committed towards your brand would pay higher prices, incur less cost to serve, and bring new customers to the firm. Thus, if we manage to build brand loyalist through effective marketing strategy, then such a brand loyalist would further effectuate our marketing strategy by bringing us more customers. The marketing activities targeted towards building brand loyalty are mutually benefitting activities.
|«««««««Importance of SEM in retaining brand loyalty
What online marketing efforts can we make to have an impact on CLC so that we can influence a customer positively to achieve brand loyalty?
The activities should be such that it culminates into building a strong relationship to achieve an ever-expanding clientele and ever plummeting business profitability.
We all know that getting targeted search results is a must for online success. All SEM practices aim at this, and optimizing organic search strategies even take months to reach to the optimum and desired level.
Let's see how organic SEM marketing practices can be placed in the customer life cycle.
• Reach your customer: In order to reach to the potential customers, we will have to create ample awareness about our product in the market. When a customer has a buying interest in our product type, then our brand should be able to catch the customer's eye in order to be considered.
The keywords which the customer is using for searching his desired product should lead him to our product or should get him to the information leading to our brand. The research which he is doing should lead him to your site.
Here, optimizing of your site, ample and necessary content about your product becomes the attention grabbers. Creating our online presence and creating the digital identity of your brand becomes important. A well optimized site that is being found for your main keywords can help you claim their interest.
• Acquiring a customer: In order to bring the customer into your influence sphere, the quality of the content and your marketing skills steals the show. When the customer manages to arrive at your site, then the content should be persuasive enough to compel the customer to give a serious thought to your product. If you don't have a well optimized site and lack relevant content, chances are that the customer will bounce to another competing site and might never return.
• Converting a customer: To convert a potential customer into a paying one, you have to provide the customer what he is looking at. If a customer decides to buy your product, the site should be well equipped so that he can make the purchase there and then. The site should be properly designed keeping e-commerce in mind. This may mean clearly displaying prices and shipping rates on your site, it may mean having an easy to use shopping cart.
In case you don't wish to introduce online buying then there should be a provision of offline buying within the consumer's reach, or providing the customer a toll free number so the customer can order offline. The conversion paths should be straight forward and immediately achievable.
• Retaining a customer: If you could convert a one time buyer into a repetitive buyer, then you've managed to achieve success. Selling a product to a customer is not sufficient; you have to build a relationship with your customers in such a way that the customer acquires a lifetime value from the purchase. After making a purchase a customer undergoes rationalization. The assurance that he has made the right purchase will make him come back again to your product.
• Building Customer loyalty: When a customer is advocating your product, there is no better effective marketing activity than that. How can you make each of your customers as your brand ambassador? If a customer gains satisfaction, joyful and fulfilling experiences after using your product then certainly he will be suggesting the product to everyone else.
Once the relationship is built you have to further it through the online activities. Relationship marketing is the key to repeat business, whether it is online or offline. Here, knowing how your customer interacts with your product, and what the praising and criticizing factors are, might help you devise marketing steps to build brand loyalty.
Search and Online Marketing are powerful tools to attain online identity. However, when you want to incorporate the online marketing practices in CLC, each step has to be worked on in order to make it achievable. You have to be very careful and develop the strategy which can handle the "fallouts".
Fallout can occur at any step along the way as a buyer can abandon a solution at any point of time or can get diverted to an alternative. A marketer has to pay close attention to the buyer's behavior at each step and direct marketing efforts keeping in mind all the things, such as, Buyer's psychology, Competition's strengths and weakness and Market conditions.
The psychology behind Brand Marketing:
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Alll repeat purchases do not constitute brand loyalty. Bloemer and Kasper assert that "A repeat purchase behavior is the actual re-buying of a brand, whereas loyalty includes reasons occurring before the repeat purchase behavior".
True loyalty is the goal to be achieved. Sometimes what we perceive as brand loyalty might be spurious. In order to differentiate between true loyalty and spurious one we should know that a loyal consumer is biased and comes to a decision of purchasing after evaluating one or more alternate brands. However, there is a function of inertia in the buying process of a spurious loyal whether a true loyal has a distinct psychological process which results in his commitment towards the brand.
Factors affecting loss of brand loyalty:
Companies do all the hard part, of converting a customer into a brand loyalist, but because of certain factors the consumer eventually deserts the brand.
Brand Loyalty constitutes a lot to the company in terms of revenue generation and word of mouth advertising. Innovative marketing strategies to imply brand loyalty becomes a must for e-marketers. If the company has to achieve a higher level of success then it becomes mandatory to create a large pool of brand loyalists.
The area where an e-marketer needs to put attention is towards his approach for SEM. When an e-marketer desires to achieve brand loyalty, he has to completely evaluate and understand his purchase psychology .It is very necessary to understand that sales are the true measure of success in brand loyalty.
Usually in the SMM activities, the success is measured in terms of clicks or viewership. Here, it becomes important that the marketing activities have to be so structured and accurate as to result in getting more sales. The factors constituting to loss of a brand loyalist showcases serious concerns for the brand. In the end it can only be said that the more no. of brand loyalists you tend to acquire in your course of business, the more chances of your brand achieving the pinnacle of success increases.
Degradation of the environment has given rise to many theories and ideologies. Co-relation with oppressions in society has given birth to innovative and distinct ideologies. However, all these ideologies have one goal of preserving nature from destruction. Each dogma asserts the principal ideology and puts forth a scenario that impacts core issues in ecological degradation. My values co-relate with ecofemisnim because of its fight against oppression and in this paper you will be able to see the reasons of my association with this ideology.
The probable connection between the ecological destruction and women's oppression has given birth to the ideology of eco-feminism. This philosophy suggests that exploitative approach of men has drained ecology of its precious resources and women form their rightful potential.
Eco-feminism is gaining importance in redefining our perspective towards looking at the nature and women. Since our primitive years, men have always been on the 'hunt'. This hunting for survival later became congenial and men started to take exploitation as their right.
The term and the movement started getting attention in around 1970s. This was the period when feminism started raising its head to get their rightful place in the men's world. During the same period the repercussions of mindless exploitation of nature came to limelight. The think tanks got into believing that both of these must be interrelated and imperative of patriarchal social system. The way this system treat its women is a direct harbinger of how it treats the non-human world around it.
Any thought or talk on ecology is incomplete without the mention of its plural and diverse co-existence that is peaceful and self sustaining. On the contrast, humans have divided themselves into colonies based on color, creed and culture that fight among each other. This diversity has exerted imbalanced pressure on ecological resources as all sects at different geographical locations could not evolve at the same rate. Pluralism tries to bring in energetic existence between the ecology and all its components.
Pluralism seeks active understanding among humans to achieve sustainable growth that strikes the fine balance between human interests and ecology preservation. This makes an interesting platform available for interaction between ecological and human pluralism. It has been observed that eco pluralism exhibits a challenge to liberal pluralism and can be exhorted as a nascent embodiment of a new of practicing pluralism.
As the global village brings it's every component closer to each other than ever before, it has facilitated inter-mingling and cross cultural approaches on a new level. This has put human plurality at stake. More races, cultures and languages are already giving away to unified human culture. The same paradox can be observed in eco pluralism as its evolution is marked by vanishing and endangered species.
Environmental pragmatism
Achieving nothing out of brainstorming and theoretical approach, environmental pragmatism has started gaining some ground among the concerned global citizens who are eager to expedite ecology sustenance. People who subscribe to this channel are really tired with endless environmental theories that yield no result. There is a strong belief to incorporate mediating principles for accurate decision making. The importance of a decisive framework over rules inhabited with rigidity that lose track of general commitments is greatly felt by the supporters
Environmental self beliefs:
The very notion of 'Mother' Nature has a definite feministic connotation. It asserts the birth-giving and originating capacities of the nature and adds feminine qualities to its existence. This also asserts the crucial significance of feminine superiority over muscular manipulations. Masculine or male existence is impotent in sprouting life out of itself. Whereas, the feminine existence breeds proliferation of life and has embedded capacity to evolve.
Still, the eon of nature's history suggests that physical superiority of the male gender in all flora and fauna has established itself as superior to female species, albeit with coercion at times. The female role has been restricted as inferior because of their ingrained submitting psyche that naturally empowered males to take anything feminine for granted.
This overbearing male attitude has been judged as the fundamental cause of destruction of feminine qualities from the nature and responsible for oppression of women on earth. Though this connection is still to be established logically, the undercurrent cannot be denied.
It is a fact that cannot be ignored, we have suppressed women for centuries and still there many countries in the world where atrocities to women are considered as culture. Sadistic crimes like 'honor killing' are executed on women, which sheds light that oppression on womanhood still exists. In my opinion, we have systematically maltreated our environment in similar fashion. In our ego and heist, we have robbed her of existence and have burdened her with a large manifestation of resources. For centuries, we have been depleting earth of her resources and beauty, on the name of revolutions. With each development, we have gnawed nature of her serenity. Feminism opposes frameworks of domination and oppressions, which is why eco-feminism has gathered vantage (Karen Warren, Nisvan Erkal. .This ideology also is against the unjustified oppression of Mother Nature by governments and industries.
My beliefs can be co-related with ecofeminism because it argues for a principle that completely dissuades oppressions. It devises its ethics on recognitions of the fundamental worth of the non human world. It creates a sphere for voluntary simplicity. It further elucidates of absolute constriction of the 'master-slave', theory with nature. This system exists with domination of women by men, and co-relation is built on man's domination on nature. The ideology of ecofeminism is very multi faceted but with a single aim of creating a challenge of patriarchal dominance. It creates questions on male dominance and through the angle of ecological destruction; it narrows down on a core principle of man's sublime need to utilize females and environment for their own selfish benefits. Ecofeminsim creates a productive vision platform that inherents hierarchal dualisms and is sculpted on the lines of feminism and bio-diversity.
Today situations have worsened and we are on a verge of an ecological collapse. Animals are endangered and many species have become extinct. Man continues to dominate and exudes his mark on ecological destructions of this planet. Patriarchal dominance has continued for ages and still continues to exist in this world. Ecofeminism is probably the only ideology amalgamation that pinpoints at the same problem of patriarchal dominance and coercion. My values do co-relate with ecofemisism, as unwarranted dominance of environment can be best defined by its principal ideology.
Marketing tips for Millennial generation
Millennial generations are those age brackets that were born in an era more acknowledged for world awakening and systemized usage of technology. To cater them on marketing front requires explicit coherence of novelty with strategy. Marketing has indeed changed its methodology ever since the dawn of internet. This medium has been the biggest platform of trade and commerce and has been instrumental in achieving successful execution of innovative marketing strategies.
In internet marketing that fact has to be understood, that whatever is new will have its impact. Millennial generation as a unit has never been approached for gaining vantage from a marketing perspective. To create a bespoke strategy to entice an entire generation you need to understand the deep thinking quotient that affects them. Primarily this is a generation that was born in an era which represented technology and the following:
a) The time when car bumper stickers with "baby inside" came up
b) This is a generation that is compared with the first 'great generation'
c) A generation which brought reduction in teenage sexual & drug abuse
d) More calmer and more balanced than previous generations
e) Born with technology, and more capable with technological advancements which makes them more successful in execution and implementation of advance practices
f) Close to parents
g) If they find things handled to them out of proportionally, they have the potential to create high end coverage for exposing their exploiters.
The generation on a larger perspective is much intelligent because of diversity in gene pool, as they are the first offspring of the migration wave. So knowing the attributes of the millennial generation makes it becomes easier for you to cater to them. You need to get in the right ideas to ensure apt marketing success. The following tips will help ensure the right approach:
A) Logical marketing with more stress on product evaluation
B) Green marketing would find more favors with this generation, however it should be much more than having trees on the product label
C) More use of presentation ads, as they love to evaluate on visual basis
D) Technical comparisons do help on a product level
E) If offering services, do advertise or present about the leverage aspects, rather than discounts.
F) Use customer appreciative technique to en-cash brand loyalty.
If business houses can impose better strategies for millennial generations, than they will go much beyond B2B & B2C marketing and achieve never attained success levels.


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Daniel A. Kirschner, an associate attorney with Nager, Romaine, & Schneiberg Co., L.P.A., focuses his practice on workers' compensation. Daniel has represented thousands of injured workers before the Industrial Commission of Ohio and in courts throughout Ohio.
While in law school, he served as a law clerk for the city of Euclid, where he gained experience in criminal and civil litigation matters and advised the law director on governmental issues. Prior to joining Nager, Romaine, & Schneiberg, Daniel practiced employment law and also represented clients in the areas of business, family, personal injury, workers' compensation and other areas of law throughout Ohio.
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If there's a place that you'd rather not be surprised by something unexpected, it is probably a creepy dark alleyway—naturally, this is exactly where this Pepsi Time Tunnel stunt happens.
At the end of a dark alley, Pepsi set up a projection that made it seem as though virtual cars, robots and dinosaurs were suddenly coming your way after a rip in time. The shock only seems to last a few seconds and the unsuspecting people are quick to clue in that it's only an animation. Although it may not have been apparent in the moment, the the Pepsi Time Tunnel cleverly ties in with the message that Pepsi Max is all about "Maximum taste, no sugar" paralleled by this stunt, which provides "Maximum impact, no worries."
Pepsi's Time Tunnel Provides a Shocking Surprise in the City
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Thursday, September 11th, 2008
You are not alone. None of the rest of us can fathom CSS either.
Dave Minter is obviously frustrated, which lead him to write You are not alone. None of the rest of us can fathom CSS either.
He goes on a little rant that covers:
- Curvy corners
- Vertical floats
- Formatting for forms
- Floats within elements
- Graphical Buttons
- Column support
- Order Independence
- Widths on inline elements
- Addressing text within textareas
- A pony
Interestingly, do a view source on this bad boy to see nice corners that uses SVG, VML, -*-border-radius, depending on the browser. A lot of code for one feature huh?
On the other side we have 10 principles of the CSS masters by Glen Stansberry that covers:
- Keep CSS simple – Peter-Paul Koch
- Keep CSS declarations in one line – Jonathan Snook
- Use CSS shorthand – Roger Johansson
- Allow block elements to fill space naturally – Jonathan Snook
- Set a float to clear a float – Trevor Davis
- Use negative margins – Dan Cederholm
- Use CSS to center layouts – Dan Cederholm
- Use the right DOCTYPE – Jeffrey Zeldman
- Center Items with CSS – Wolfgang Bartelme
- Utilize text-transform commands – Trenton Moss
And in other CSS news, Microsoft is getting nice, and is moving to -ms-* as vendor prefixes on CSS.
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Well-written and well-organized quotations can help seal the deal. Preparing a business quote, construction quote, engineering quote, or any other type of quote formats may seem complex at first. However, if you learn the basics of creating a quotation template, everything will just flow naturally.
Choosing the right quote structure is crucial because it showcases the business' style and brand. In line with this, there are sample quote templates and formatting styles that you may download and use. Rather than starting from scratch, the templates can show you how quotes work. They are also great avenues for you to know the essentials of a quote.
A quotation is considered as a proposal containing a fixed price for a particular product pr service. There are a variety of quotation formats such as project quotation template and photography quotation format . The term is mostly interchangeably used with the term estimate. However, there are salient differences which must be taken into account.
According to research, an estimate is considered as an educated guess about the required cost for a certain service, product, or job. The rationale or the basis behind the estimate is mostly grounded on past experiences and business transactions.
On the one hand, a quotes are legally binding once approved and accepted by the buyer or purchaser. Estimates does not have that legal effect. A quotation must be detailed, well-formatted and well-researched. A poorly-written quote can close doors of profit and opportunities. In writing quotations, quotation templates in Excel are good sources for reference purposes.
Quotes and contracts are not the same. The two documents may have innate similarities but still have different effects and uses. A quote is considered as a proposal while a contract once signed is already considered as a completed transaction or may mean the commencement of a new transaction.
The following is a list of quotation formats with respect to their applications and usage. Check them out.
Indeed, quotation formats cover a variety of subject matter. Choose the quote that suits your brand.
To ensure that your quotation gets approved, you need to ensure that you've provided a complete quotation for your client. The general components of such quotation are the following:
And lastly, the terms and conditions of the quotation. You may indicate the required payment methods or other relevant conditions.
The company quote templates provided here can help you in quoting your products or services. Here are tips and strategies that you may consider:
In quoting a product…
In quoting for services…
In sum, your quotation must adopt a professional theme. Every aspect of it must showcase your professionalism and the brand that your representing. Quotations are marketing tools by nature. The prospective clients are given glimpse of what you can offer to them. Quotation must meet the preferences of your client but still not comprising the resources and interest of your business or company.


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Mr. Cassara recently represented an Army officer who received a DWI off base. As is standard, she received a GOMOR. It is fairly standard that a GOMOR of this sort is filed in the officer's permanent fiche, which is seen by promotion boards. But Mr. Cassara was able to convince the commanding general that there were extraordinary circumstances that warranted filing the GOMOR in her restricted fiche. This allows the officer to PCS, and compete for promotions along with her peers.
If you are pending a GOMOR or other adverse action, you need an experienced military law attorney. Contact Mr. Cassara for a free consultation.


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After seven deaths and three serious allergy cases attributed to Quinvaxem vaccine injections in the last two months, the Ministry of Health and the World Health Organization jointly conducted tests of the vaccine to assess the properties of the vaccine and assert cause of deaths.
WHO sent five samples to an independent international organization for testing and the test results showed that the vaccine was safe for children.
Before, the ministry had also announced test results of the vaccine, declaring it safe for children and conforming to the country's standards as well as international WHO standards.
In addition, the transportation and preservation conditions of the vaccine were also done in the right manner under hygienic conditions. Medical staff also had followed correct procedures while injecting the children.
Quinvaxem is a vaccine used to fight five serious child diseases, namely, diphtheria (D), tetanus (T), pertussis (P, whooping cough), hepatitis B (HepB), and Haemophilus influenzae type b (Hib).
So far, around 427 million doses of Quinvaxem vaccine have been used in more than 91 nations since 2006. Since June 2010, Vietnam has been using the Quinvaxem vaccine and consumes 4.5 million free doses in children from 2-4 months old.
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text: Virginia Tech ranks No. 1 with our readers. Here are profiles of some other reader favorites, written by students. November 1, 2009 The voting is over, and the results are in. We asked Kiplinger.com readers which school ranks first in their book of best values in public colleges and universities for 2008-2009. Our selection for best value was University of North Carolina. Almost 28,000 online votes were cast in our reader's choice poll. And you selected Virginia Tech. The runners up, all with big vote totals: Texas A&M, Murray State, and Truman State. Here were your 20 favorites, according to the ten-month poll posted from January until October 2009. 1) Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University 7144 2) Texas A&M University 6051 3) Murray State University 5185 4) Truman State University 3386 5) University of Oklahoma 751 6) Louisiana State University 624 7) Missouri University of Science and Technology 526 8) Appalachian State University 496 9) Georgia Southern University 315 10) The Ohio State University 281 11) State University of New York College at Geneseo 182 12) The University of Texas at Austin 166 13) University of California, Berkeley 132 14) Clemson University 131 15) The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill 131 16) University of Central Florida 130 17) University of Virginia 104 18) University of Florida 95 19) The Pennsylvania State University 89 20) Florida State University 84 Sponsored Content We use hard statistics to produce Kiplinger's annual rankings for best values in public colleges and universities, and we're proud of the results. But we also gave our readers' favorites a chance to brag a little, by letting a student fill us in on what's fun, cool, quirky and just plain great on campus and nearby. Here are ten public schools we profiled during 2009. Learn about each school, and leave your own comments: Advertisement Texas A & M UniversityMark Gold, student body president, gives us 12 insider tips. Murray State UniversityMallory Allgood says the school's best feature is the Quad, where students can go to relax after a long day of classes. Truman State UniversityAnthony Speno, a 2009 grad, says the university's lively student body is its best feature. Advertisement University of OklahomaKaleigh Kaczmarek says her school is affordable, dynamic and stimulating. Louisiana State UniversityBrady Lemon's favorite events on campus are Groovin' on the Grounds, a free concert, and Fall Fest, a welcome-back celebration for students and faculty. Missouri University of Science and TechnologyAndrew Rochetto says his time at Missouri S&T has been the best experience of his life. Appalachian State UniversityJennifer Mixter says each student, faculty member and staff member shares a bond as part of the "Appalachian Family." Advertisement Georgia Southern UniversityClay Turner says the best place to study on campus is the school's newly renovated and expanded Zach S. Henderson Library. Clemson UniversityMansa Joseph says the best feature on campus is Clemson Memorial Stadium, where Tiger fans root for the Orange and White. UNC Chapel HillJ.J. Raynor, a 2009 graduate, says that UNC-CH is a campus truly engaged in solving the world's toughest problems.


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MUMBAI: Filmmaker Anurag Kashyap has come out in support of Karan Johar, whose upcoming directorial venture
Ae Dil Hai Mushkil featuring Fawad Khan, is facing trouble after cinema owners association decided to stall the release of movies starring Pakistani artistes.
Cinema Owners Exhibitors Association of India (COEAI) yesterday announced that they would not screen movies starring Pakistani artistes in the four states of Maharashtra, Gujarat, Karnataka and Goa.
"The world must learn from us.. We solve all our problems by blaming it on movies and banning it.. #ADHM . With you on this @karanjohar," Kashyap tweeted.
Johar's movie stars Ranbir Kapoor, Anushka Sharma and Aishwarya Rai Bachchan in the lead. The decision taken by COEAI mainly covers single screen theatres and comes amid tension between India and Pakistan in the aftermath of Uri attack last month.
Johar tweeted, "See you at the cinemas on the 28th of this month! #AeDilKiDiwali".
Many industry people including Om Puri, Shyam Benegal, Vikram Bhatt, Mukesh Bhatt and Censor Board chief Pahalaj Nihalani have slammed the ban on the release of the film which have completed production.
Filmmaker Sajid Nadiadwala says the decision of cinema owners association to not allow screening of films with Pakistani artistes was unfortunate and he would request them to reconsider the move as that will result in losses for Karan Johar's Ae Dil Hai Mushkil.
Cinema Owners Exhibitors Association of India yesterday announced that it won't release movies starring actors from Pakistan, in Maharashtra, Gujarat, Karnataka and Goa. This has put an uncertainty on the release of "Ae Dil Hai Mushkil" as it features Pakistani heartthrob Fawad Khan.
The movie, starring Aishwarya Rai, Ranbir Kapoor and Anushka Sharma is slated to hit theatres on October 28.


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Here at Proactive Chiropractic, we aim to help you reach a better quality of life by living pain-free. We offer a non-surgical and holistic approach to chiropractic care, all without invasive procedures and medications that could damage your health. It's time to get back to pain-free living.
Keep reading to learn more about chiropractic care and Proactive Chiropractic!
At Proactive Chiropractic, we take a non-surgical approach to treat disorders of the nervous and musculoskeletal system. We focus on providing spinal manipulation and treatment of areas surrounding the spine, allowing the body to heal naturally.
Starting with a thorough exam, we will investigate the low back, mid back, and neck for symptoms including heat, skin changes and spasms of the muscle. We will also check your range of motion and take a closer look at how your body moves.
With a diagnosis, we offer many different treatments for your pain ranging from simple manipulation to nutrition recommendations. We provide a treatment plan that is unique to your needs.
Click here to learn more about what we do here at Proactive Chiropractic.
Why should you see a chiropractor for treatment alongside your family physician? Most disorders of the nervous and musculoskeletal system are treatable with non-invasive care without pain medication and surgical procedures. Your body heals best naturally.
What are some of the other benefits of seeing a chiropractor?
Proactive Chiropractic serves patients with both short-term and long-term back, neck and body pain. Whether the pain is the result of a motor vehicle accident or a disorder of the musculoskeletal or nervous system, there is a treatment available.
Some of the conditions we treat include:
For more information on the conditions that we treat, visit us here.
Everyday pain or pain that you experience after heavy activity may often be passed off as coincidental, a sign of aging or typical soreness. However, if you experience these symptoms often, or pain that is worse than normal, it could be time to visit a chiropractor.
Are you experiencing any of these symptoms?
Click here to learn more about symptoms that may require chiropractic care.
It is common to feel some apprehension before visiting your chiropractor for the first time. However, your visit will be similar to a visit with your family physician.
Upon arrival at the office, you will fill out any needed paperwork and general forms about your health history, your family history, and current symptoms. After this is complete, you will undergo a complete physical exam.
The exam will be thorough, covering your entire body. It may include various range of motion tests, reflexes, palpitations and your muscle strength. Your spine will be examined, and so will the main area of your pain. It is possible that we may require x-rays of your spine, depending on your symptoms.
After your exam, a treatment plan will be created, focusing on your overall health, symptoms, pain, and area of pain. Adjustments will then be made to help alleviate your pain. This may include pushing, pulling, twisting or turning various joints within your body.
You will not undergo all the adjustments required in one office visit. To get the best results, you will need to return to the office over a period of time.
Aftercare is critical to the success of your treatment plan. You will receive instructions on at home exercise techniques, stretches or various other therapies to facilitate healing while at home. You will also be instructed to return should any of your symptoms worsen.
The chiropractor that you choose should have all of the qualities to ensure you have the best experience possible.
Your chiropractor should have a passion for chiropractic care, always learning new techniques and always offering the most up-to-date treatments. A chiropractor who genuinely enjoys chiropractic care will enjoy working with patients like you, creating the best atmosphere for healing and advice.
Your chiropractor should exhibit a high level of coordination when it comes to his or her own hands. Lack of coordination can result in faulty treatments and unnecessary pain for patients.
Chiropractors are involved in your health and should have a great sense of empathy and humility. To get the most of your treatment and adjustment, you will need to feel relaxed and at peace with your chiropractor. Empathy and humility can create that open space of trust.
What else should you look for in a chiropractor? Click here to learn more.
Chiropractors are specially licensed to perform chiropractic care. This means they must have a degree as a Doctor of Chiropractic or DC. Although this isn't the same as a medical doctor's degree or MD, chiropractors must go through extensive training in a traditional doctorate program.
Chiropractors must learn the same curriculum that a medical doctor does to perform and interpret x-rays and blood tests to help with diagnosis. However, chiropractors study intensely about body functions, how the body's systems work together and how to properly use adjustment treatments.
For more information about the differences, click here to learn more.
The main difference between a chiropractor and a masseuse lies within the treatment plan. A simple massage can improve your pain for a short amount of time. Chiropractors use complete treatment plans to come up with a diagnosis and a solution for that diagnosis.
Chiropractors are able to provide treatment, request x-rays, and bloodwork. In some states, chiropractors may also provide medication, if required. They also focus on disorders of the musculoskeletal and nervous systems such as joint pain, headaches, and tension. Masseuses cannot order testing and focus on anxiety, pain and improved circulation.
Between the two are other differences such as training and how they treat. Click here to learn more.
There are many misconceptions surrounding chiropractic care that should not deter you from potential pain relief. Some of these myths include:
Want to know about more myths associated with chiropractic care? Click here to find more.
Proactive Chiropractic understands that pain is not only felt physically but emotionally. We would love to partner with you to create a treatment plan that gets you back to feeling your best. Reach out to us online or give us a call at 704-659-4592 today!


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Download Taking My Time as a zipped file here. 1988's It's Time. . . (His Master's Voice HMV 066) is a little less successful in my opinion, being a little too dependent on the synthesizers for my taste. Still, it has its moments:
Sunday, December 5, 2010
Nigeria's Lady of Songs
Download Taking My Time as a zipped file here. 1988's It's Time. . . (His Master's Voice HMV 066) is a little less successful in my opinion, being a little too dependent on the synthesizers for my taste. Still, it has its moments:
Posted by John B. at 9:20 AM
Labels: Christy Essien-Igbokwe, Efik, Hausa, Igbo, Nigeria, Nigerian Female Vocalists, Pop, Yoruba
6 comments:
- Frank "dr.crackle" said...
Hi, agree with you. I also really can't understand the fascination of those cheap late 70's/80's disco sounds from West Africa, especially Nigeria. To me it's nothing but trash and I would NEVER buy this Lagos Disco Inferno. That's my opinion but I can respect others of course ;)
However, thanks for the music & education especially your post about Mike Ejeagha!
- December 5, 2010 at 10:11 AM
- icastico said...
Cheesy, like quality, is, of course, always in the ear of the beholder. Personally I don't get the appeal of the drum machine and synth driven music that makes up so much of the output of formerly fabulous musicians. But then, strangely, I love the Casio and drum machine grooves from the Arabic world.
Regarding LDI, I chuckled when it came out remembering this post
Frank: "I used to despise Disco myself and when going to a Funk night, always complained when the DJ would also play some Disco. Therefore I don't feel it would be a good idea to mix this stuff into an Afrobeat and Afro Funk set. Maybe I should create myself a secret parallel identity as a Disco DJ? Or maybe I should just go ahead, get rid of all the Disco & Boogie and stick with the Afrobeat and the Funk?"
I find that hating a style of music is usually more about inexperience with the style than anything else. Exposure can turn the cheesy into the sublime when added to a shared experience with a friend, or as part of an important memory.
Yadda yadda.
- December 5, 2010 at 11:13 AM
- dailyleftover said...
"in the ear of the beholder" indeed. Everybody should decide what music he/she likes. But then as you know most western ears only recieved the sound of dictator Fela i believe it opens a world for a lot of people. And real musiclovers dig deeper so more and more get revealed ..good for the artists, nice for us.
So keep them comin' i say ..all those wonderful compilations and reissues without pops and crackles is just heaven, and so everybody can make up his own mind what to like
- December 7, 2010 at 6:59 AM
- Frank "dr.crackle" said...
tastes are different and that's how it should be!! so if it's 'in the ear of the beholder' one should always be allowed to state that she/he doesn't like something and vice versa...without being discriminated as inexperienced or whatsoever... YE NE ZUAYE (LIVE AND LET LIVE)
- December 7, 2010 at 11:02 AM
Hi folks, to give your ears a bit more training, here's another Essien record from 1980:
- January 15, 2011 at 2:18 AM
- Bradly Jones said...
Thanks for the post. It's like five years of not being in Nigeria has finally made me out-dated for this to be news to me. The change is amazing. Great blog!
call Nigeria
- June 7, 2011 at 3:38 PM


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Welcome Italia 2014
Welcome Italia was one of London's finest Italian Food and Drink Festival held in the Royal Horticultural Halls near Westminster. Fifty companies exhibited some of their best and most impressive products allowing tasters and great for future investors.
I got to try many different flavours from Italy including cheese, cakes and chocolate.
Urbani Truffles showcased some amazing products, including one of my favourite, pesto truffle which I thought would be perfect for bruschetta.
Olive Oil Mill who currently sell their produce at London Borough Market - one of my favourite haunts. I particularly enjoy their balsamic glazes which are perfect served with meat or even cheese.
Another truffle favourite was a well presented stall from Ad Hoc Il Tartufo who produce an amazing 'White Truffle Souce'.
A stall full of many sweet treats bombarded us with amazing tasting products, from an unusual carob pannetone (yum) to pistachio chocolates. Although Nuova Dolceria don't currently sell in the UK, check out their website.
Ferrari Farm had a lovely range of jams, smoothies and sauces which vary in consistency due to having the most natural ingredients possible. Alongside 'traditional' cultivation methods, they also have developed a hydroponic plant allowing absolute sterility and respect for the plants.
Tamia proudly presented their award-winning olive oils with a beautiful display and interesting ways to show off their product, including small cups of bruschetta and soups.
Now we come to one of my favourite products..gluten free Italian cakes and biscuits from Gzer. The cherry tart and lemon cake was so flavourful, you wouldn't know that any of the cakes were suitable for celiacs. I was surprised to hear that this company have yet to find a place to sell their products in the UK as I feel there is demand for gluten-free products at the moment, and I feel a range of good cakes could do really well.
marvellous-sicily, mainly for just one of their products I tried...pistachio butter. This product was a little off-putting being a strange green colour, but the flavour was strangely similar to Nutella...but better.


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The City of Philadelphia has levied an 1.5 cents per ounce of soft drinks.
So, if you buy one gallon of sweetened ice tea for 1.72 (on special) you end up paying 1.92 in tax, for a total of of 3.64, a 112 percent tax.
The soda tax levied in Philly
all soft drinks are taxed willy nilly.
Is it sugar? – relax
it's an aspartame tax.
Ax tax! Lacks facts, whacks backs! Silly.
Nearly one third of Philadelphians receive food stamps (SNAP).
According to a new study released by the Food and Nutrition Service, the federal agency responsible for running the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP), soft drinks are the #1 expenditure for people on food stamps (# 2 for the general population).
Great job, Philadelphia! Tax the people on food stamps! It would have been better to make soft drinks not eligible for food stamps! (They would have to settle for 70% or more non carbonated fruit juices!)


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On Monday, June 13, 2016, at 11 a.m., Miami-Dade County Mayor Carlos Gimenez, Chairman Jean Monestime, District 12 Commissioner Jose "Pepe" Diaz and members of the Board of County Commissioners, the Miami-Dade County Animal Services Department along with the Miami-Dade County Internal Services Department; will host the grand opening of the Animal Services Pet Adoption and Protection Center located at 3599 NW 79 Avenue, Doral, Florida.
Miami-Dade Animal Services' Pet Adoption and Protection Center has set the new standard for animal rescue and care by focusing on providing a comfortable, relaxed environment for homeless pets and enhancing the customer experience. With a total property area at approximately 4.79 acres, the new facility is the first rescue and protection center of its scale to open in Miami-Dade County, and surpasses the standard requirements of any shelter in the USA.
"The new Pet Adoption and Protection center is a significant accomplishment for our pet loving community and will help Animal Services continue to save lives," said Miami-Dade County Mayor Carlos Gimenez. "We built the best facility to help ensure every pet gets adopted, offer more low-cost spay/neuter services and enrich our life -saving programs," he added.
Advanced medical technology and equipment complement the skilled surgeons and support staff and an open floor plan increases efficiency and maximizes surgical flow. The expanded surgical suites and a streamlined pre-admission process enhance and support high-quality, high-volume spay/neuter services. "Completion of this new Pet Adoption and Protection Center is an important achievement in our continued efforts to increase spay/neuter services since it increases surgical capacity by more than 50 percent, said Alex Muñoz, Director of the Miami-Dade Animal Services Department. "Accessible and affordable spay/neuter surgeries are an important component in the efforts towards no kill goals, he added."
The Pet Adoption and Protection Center was created in a modern mall-like layout to help create a pleasant pet adoption experience where pet lovers can adopt-not-shop. Dog housing is increased by more than 25 percent and cat housing capacity almost doubles. The entire facility is climate controlled to adjust for the animals' needs in the South Florida climate, making it the largest air-conditioned animal shelter in the country. The air-conditioning system is designed to control cross contamination of disease, facilitating six air changes per hour in the canine/feline adoption suites facilitates ventilation of fresh outside air, mitigating odors and reducing the spread of disease.
"The Internal Services Department worked closely with the Animal Services to renovate and retrofit an existing building on the property based on best practices in animal housing," said Tara C. Smith, Director of the Internal Services Department. We created an environment that is inviting to families, where they can come find their "furever friend" as well as a place of protection for our furry residents, she added.
Miami-Dade Animal Services Pet Adoption and Protection Center will open to the public for adoptions at 1 pm on Monday June 13, 2016 after the ribbon cutting ceremony. Full services will resume on Tuesday, June 14, 2016 at the new location 3599 NW 79 Avenue, Doral, Florida.


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Today we're releasing Coco's Fabric Pettiskirt and we are so excited about it because we got to team up with a company we haven't worked with before: Fabric Finders!
Fabric Finders is a fabric manufacturer and wholesaler distributor. If you haven't heard of them before I urge you check out their facebook page because they are constantly coming out with new and inspiring fabrics! We were lucky enough to be able to feature their fabrics on the cover of our newest pattern below; We just love how beautifully it turned out! They're fabrics are very nice quality, super easy to work with, and most importantly affordable! We all loved how this skirt turned out, we decided to do a giveaway together! Enter at the end of this post...
Here's some more views of this skirt styled different ways!
The skirt above was made using nylon chiffon, pettiskirt fabric, but can be made using other fabrics such as the ones pictured below.
Made with tulle and paired with Charlotte's Corset Top!
Made with all cotton fabrics and paired with Charlotte's Corset Top!
This skirt is so versatile, it even looks adorable paired with just a regular t-shirt!
This pattern is a must have for your collection! Would be perfect for Halloween costumes or to put under a skirt or dress to fill it out!
Now onto the good stuff....the giveaway!!! It's so easy to enter, just like our pages to be entered! You can share with friends by pinning it, and tweeting it for extra entries! Be sure to fill Rafflecopter out below to be entered!
Thank you so much for checking out this wonderful giveaway and best of luck to everyone! The giveaway ends at 7pm EST on Monday, Sept. 23rd. It is open to US residents only!
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Margaret Cho toplines burlesque and variety show "The Sensuous Woman" for four weeks this fall at Off Broadway's Zipper Theater.Besides Cho ("I'm the One That I Want"), artists on the "Sensuous" bill include burlesque performers Princess Farhana, Selene Luna and Gotham fave Dirty Martini; comics Ian Harvie and Liam Sullivan; and sketch comedians Diana Yanez and Kurt Hall. "Sensuous" will do a quick stint in Chi Sept. 19-22 before arriving in New York. Produced by WestBeth Entertainment, "Sensuous" begins previews Sept. 26 for an Oct. 6 opening.
Margaret Cho gets 'Sensuous'
Burlesque show to open in N.Y. on Oct. 6


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Tonga Exports
Tonga's economy is characterized by a large non-monetary sector and a heavy dependence on remittances from the half of the country's population who live abroad (chiefly in Australia, New Zealand and the United States).
The manufacturing sector of Tonga consists of handicrafts and a few other very small scale industries, which contribute only about 3% of GDP. Commercial business activities also are inconspicuous and, to a large extent, are dominated by the same large trading companies found throughout the South Pacific. In September 1974, the country's first commercial trading bank, the Bank of Tonga, opened.
Tonga's development plans emphasize a growing private sector, upgrading agricultural productivity, revitalizing the squash and vanilla bean industries, developing tourism, and improving communications and transport. Substantial progress has been made, but much work remains to be done.
The country became a member of the World Trade Organization in 2007. The Tonga Chamber of Commerce and Industry (TCCI), incorporated in 1996, endeavors to represent the interests of its members, private sector businesses, and to promote economic growth in the Kingdom.
The top exports of Tonga are vegetables, non-fillet fresh fish, cassava, coconuts, Brazil nuts, cashews and scrap iron.
The top export partners of Tonga are New Zealand, South Korea, the United States, Japan and Australia.
Tonga Imports
Tonga has a small, open, island economy and is the last constitutional monarchy among the Pacific Island countries. It has a narrow export base in agricultural goods. Squash, vanilla beans, and yams are the main crops. Agricultural exports, including fish, make up two-thirds of total exports. The country must import a high proportion of its food, mainly from New Zealand. The country remains dependent on external aid and remittances from overseas Tongans to offset its trade deficit.
A former British protectorate, Tonga became fully independent in 1970, though it was never formally colonized.
Tonga has no strategic or mineral resources and relies on agriculture, fishing and the money sent home by Tongans living abroad, many of them in New Zealand. Unemployment is high, particularly among the young. Endowed with tropical beaches, rain forest and active volcanoes, it has a developing tourist industry - its main source of hard currency.
The top imports of Tonga are refined petroleum, planes, helicopters, spacecraft, poultry meat, telephones and sawn wood.
The top import partners of Tonga are Fiji, New Zealand, China, the United States and Hong Kong.
Customs requirements of Tonga
Tonga Customs Contacts
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Tonga is a Polynesian country and archipelago comprising 169 islands. The country is surrounded by Fiji, Wallis, Futuna (France), Samoa, Niue, Kermadec, New Caledonia (France) and Vanuatu. Tonga is a member of the African, Caribbean, and Pacific Group of States (ACP), International Trade Union Confederation (ITUC), World Customs Organization (WCO), World Trade Organization and other international organizations.
Customs Tariffs
Tonga has bound its entire customs tariff with relatively minor differences in the average bound rates on agricultural and non-agricultural products (WTO definition), as the tariff lines are bound at ad valorem rates of either 15% or 20%. Tonga does not participate in the plurilateral Information Technology Agreement, the Agreement on Trade in Civil Aircraft, or any of the sectoral initiatives.
Import prohibitions, restrictions, and licensing
Most items can be imported into Tonga without any restriction (other than import duty, taxes, and charges). However, Tonga prohibits certain imports, and the importation of some items is restricted and requires a special licence. Tonga applies non-automatic licensing to firearms, explosives, and noxious gases.
Export procedures and requirements
Exporters are required to hold a valid business licence. A foreign investor must obtain a foreign investment certificate before the business licence can be issued. Domestic and foreign investors are generally treated alike as exporters. The only activity reserved for Tongan investors is the exportation of green and mature coconuts.
All commercial exports of goods from Tonga must be declared to Tonga Customs before loading. Certificates of origin are required for exports of squash to Japan.
The Tonga's Customs Tariff has one column reserved for duty on exports. However, all exported goods are currently zero-rated. Excise tax is not levied on exported goods. For businesses registered for Consumption Tax, the tax is not levied on exports of goods or services. Exported goods are subject to an inspection fee of T$20 and a processing fee of T$2 per customs declaration form.
Documents to export and import
Export documents:
- Bill of lading
- Commercial invoice
- Export declaration
- Export license
- Packing list
Import documents:
- Bill of lading
- Cargo Release order
- Commercial invoice
- Import declaration
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Plenty of Fish Plate/Tea Tray (Corners)
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Featuring various types of fish engravings, these unique tea trays were all handmade in Jingdezhen by an award winning ceramics artists. Her inspiration for these pieces come from an old Qing dynasty catalog of marine creatures, which was recently published as part of the Classics of the Forbidden City Collection.
Some of the fish swim solo, while others are in pairs or groups of three. They come in various shapes and species, so choose carefully – although in Chinese culture fish are considered a positive symbol for wealth and prosperity, so really they're all winners.
These trays are suited for dry-pour gongfu brewing, although there is a large enough lip to ensure drips and spills are kept within the safe bounds of the plate.
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SVFC COLTS - Continue their amazing, well deserved achievements since the team was put together in "E" Division 2014/15.
League "D" Division Champions of 2016/17. Shield Cup Finalists of 2016/17.
League "C" Division Champions of 2017/18 .Shield Cup Finalists of 2017/18.
League "B" Division Third place of 2018/19 .Shield Cup Finalists of 2018/19 - WINNERS
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