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… your website is a powerful marketing tool. A well-maintained website can help you perform in your chosen industry or niche and improve your business image. Developing your website offers many benefits including helping to obtain more leads, increase sales, enhance your professional brand and improve your customer service.
New visitors as well as potential customers will be pleased and assured to find a business website that is inviting, engaging and informational. When contacting leads on the phone or by email you can just leave a well-crafted website address and your contact can visit your website at they're leisure. Often, your site will make a better first impression than you will because not all of us are polished sales people.
Beyond just making basic information (address, phone, hours, etc.) immediately available to your visitors your business website gives you an additional forum where you can address your customers' needs and concerns. You can also offer them expanded information and convincing calls to action. By personalizing your website, you can offer your customers special deals and limited items, specifically for them.
A well-designed, well-produced website can make a start-up business look and perform like a seasoned pro. When your site appears high up in the search results, your copy and images sparkle and your layout & navigation is engaging you'll know your website is up to standard and ready to compete with larger and older sites in your niche.
When you create compelling content, you build your brand and you build authenticity & authority with the search engines as well as your visitors. They then know who they can trust on the Internet and who they will visit first. And if they visit you and trust you, buying from you is not far behind. Your blogs, your articles, your general information and product descriptions show that you know your subject and your information is trustworthy.
By adding calls-to-action and sign-up forms to your website you are able to automate the collection of email addresses to add to your email marketing list. Creating well-written and optimized content will compel visitors to become leads and even buyers. Legitimate email addresses can be hard to come by but you can make it easier for visitors to sign up because they are interested in what you have to say.
The old saying "You don't know where you are if you don't know where you are" ** is true on the Internet. If you put the effort into your business website but don't take the time to analyze the information, how will you know if the effort was working? By adding an analytics tool like Google Analytics you'll have a powerful tool that will inform you of your visitors, their locations and demographics and so much more. Without a website, you will not be able to track this information.
You're probably not a big box store or a nationally-known brand name. But even if you are a start-up or micro business you'll gain more visibility on the Internet with a website than without one. If the party is on the Internet, then you want to be at that party. The main reason for this is because millions or people are searching the Internet and you might be the one business that has what they are looking for. Don't miss this party.
Placing your website address on all your promotional material will help you gain additional exposure and encourage visitors to first check your site for the information they are seeking. Just by distributing your website address you'll be expanding your reach and offering more than one promotional avenue to your audience.
A website can act as your online brochure or catalog that can be changed or updated at any time. If you use a content management system (CMS) you can make changes quickly and at no charge. Your images and content are bound by the size of the printed page or cost of the printing. With a flexible website, you can add new content at no cost.
You can have your existing customers refer your site to their friends and relatives using only your web address. Also, random or "organic" visitors who come to your site via an online search will find you and stay with you if they find what they are looking for. Search engines are powerful tools and search engine optimization tools are an equal opportunity why to "be found".
Your own domain name (www.yourcompany.com) establishes a strong online brand identity. You can also set-up a personalized email addresses for the company, yourself and your employees. This serves to build your brand.
If maintained properly your website will always be up-to-date and current. Even a busy business owner can make updates and edits, easily, from any computer. You won't have to pay a programmer every time you want to change a date or add a product. Save your money for large projects or redesigns. Never again will a customer need to point to an out-of-date price and claim they "saw" it on the website.
There was a time when small business owners only had access to a website that was best seen on a desktop. If you wanted a mobile website you'd have to recreate the website in a mobile format or create an app. But now its standard practice to make websites "responsive". Responsive websites allow your information to be seen on a desktop, laptop, tablet or mobile phone. The site "shrink" intelligently so all your information can be read clearly. Always require responsive design when having your website built.
A website increases your company's productivity because less time is spent explaining product or service details to customers because all this information is available 24 hours a day on your website. This "self-serve" opportunity will give you more time to engage with your customer and better serve them.
Your website can offer free advice about your products and services. This information can be delivered in a well thought out and consistent way. Some visitors might take a quick glance and place their order quickly while others might review and analyze every inch of your product before the make a purchase. By adding loads of quality information to your pages and products you can satisfy both.
The Internet allows businesses to break through the geographical barriers and become accessible from anywhere in the world. Selling products online has become cheaper and easier for you and your customers.
By extending the local reach of your brick-and-mortar store to consumers around the world you are open for business 24/7 – 365 days/year. You can provide your customers with all the information they need to make informed decisions. Local search has been a high priority for Google in the last few years and they have created tools to help you market your business to desktop and mobile visitors alike.
Provide photos and detailed descriptions of your products or services. Explain to your customers why your products or services are superior. Show visitors how your products or services can help them in their personal or professional lives. By updating your offering periodically you'll keep on top of the search results and pique the interest of your customers as new products become available.
When customers and potential customers are out and about they will still be able to find you via their mobile phone. Your phone number, address, directions and hours of business, etc. can be made available for mobile users so they can find you as they are on the go. Today, the majority (60%) of searches are now done by mobile devices vs. desktops. This means that customers won't be looking you up at home, they'll be searching for you on the road.
If you have spent time creating great content on your website there is no need to reproduce this information in a static or printed form. You can use product information pages to teach or train staff, vendors and customers. Printed material has limits, creates waste and eventually go out of date but your website is ever fresh and up-to-date (assuming you keep it that way).
If you move your business to a new location your customers can still find you because your main marketing tool, your business website, is easily accessible. Your website is flexible and if your search engine optimization is done properly your business will appear to online visitors who search for you.
By employing chat tools your customers can quickly and easily contact you with questions without even sending an email. You can also set up forms and surveys on your website that will allow your customers to send feedback and opinions.
Perhaps the most important benefit of having a business website is to improve your customer service. Information requests can be processed immediately and electronically. Special deals and bonus buys can be positioned on the site and broadcast through email and text messages. Customer reviews and concerns can be gathered online and action can be quickly taken.
Bottom line: If you don't have a website, your company is at a huge disadvantage.
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Happy Mondays dancer Bez gets all clear to stand for election with new name 'We are the Reality Party'
The star, real name Mark Berry, has danced around a pre-election gaffe to stand in Salford at the General Election in May
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Bez will stand for the 'We are the Reality Party
Happy Mondays' Bez has danced around a pre-election blunder to get the all clear to stand as an MP - with a new identity.
He has had to change the name of his party in order to get a clear run at Westminster as the leader of his party and not just an independent.
As reported in the M.E.N. last month he unveiled his election campaign board in Salford's Chapel Street.
It declared: "The Reality Party is Committed to True Democracy" and urged people to "Join The Revolution".
The name of the party was printed twice on the poster.
But then it emerged Bez, real name, Mark Berry, did not have permission from the Electoral Commission to use the name in the General Election.
Bez launched bid to become MP with huge billboard....but has now got a new party name
Bez launches bid to become MP with huge billboard in Salford
The Commission wrote to Bez several times warning him that the Reality Party would be removed from the register as it sounded like the The Realists' Party, which was already registered.
Commission rules forbid two parties having similar names which might cause confusion among the electorate.
Now Bez has announced that the Commission has approved a new name under which he can stand for MP in Salford and Eccles.
The name of the ballot paper will now be 'We Are The Reality Party'.
There will be two candidates - Bez in Salford and Jackie Anderson standing in Worsley and Eccles South.
Bez had been unaware of the existence of the obscure Realists' Party, registered in February 2012, and based in Brockley, London.
Its leader is Ms Jane Lawrence and it has a treasurer and nominating officer.
Bez unveiled his original campaign, but has now got a new party name
If Bez had not sorted a new name out he faced standing as an Independent as the only option.
Bez aims to win the Salford and Eccles seat where the former Labour cabinet minister Hazel Blears is standing down having had a 5,725 majority in 2010. Ms Blears' majority was down by 15 per cent on the previous General Election.
Among Bez's party's promises are a zero carbon economy and an end to tax concessions for big business.
He is strongly opposed to fracking and has joined protesters at Barton Moss where drilling has taken place to test the viability of potential reserves of underground gas.
Jackie Anderson will be standing against current Labour MP, Barbara Keeley, who has a majority of 4,337 - a drop of ten per cent on the previous election.
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The world can be an ugly place, but Canadian comic Katherine Ryan refuses to wallow or whine. With her signature honesty and potty mouth, the self-described 'Elmo of comedy' is tackling the negatives and turning them intno positives - making lemonade from those lemons, if you will.
"I think it comes naturally to me, I have always kind of looked on the positive side or the sweeter side," Katherine told me. "I don't want to people to think the show is all sweetness and light, there's some ugly stuff - don't bring your kids! But even when bad things happen - even when really depressing things happen - you can find the positive angle. I have always done that, but now I do it more, on purpose. I think that so much comedy is whinging now and the audience find my North American perspective quite refreshing."
The London-based mother-of-one, who has dealt with skin cancer, the autoimmune disease lupus and divorce in the past few years, added that us Brits had some way to go in matching North America for sunny positivity.
"I like it more in the UK than I do in Canada, I feel more at home here. But the general level of friendliness is lower here. So I'm extra friendly, like Elmo. If Elmo was a female, adult comic who told rude jokes, I would be Elmo."
With her Nature's Candy show, dealing with topics including her sexual antics, teaching her daughter 'stranger danger', and, until recently ("I have had enough now - I think they all need to go to a convent!") Geordie Shore, Katherine's material balances the shocking, domestic, and downright surreal.
She explained: "Some people think I'm doing a character, some people think I'm trying to shock people, but I just speak very openly and honestly about my life. My friends and family, who are not comedians, go through the same things that I do. My observations are very honest.
"I always say to my daughter, if you always tell the truth you can always relax and not worry about what's a lie and what's the truth. Some of it of course is hyped up and heightened for comedy's sake. I think audiences want you to hold a mirror up to their lives, in some ways, where they can recognise themselves."
Her three-year-old daughter is also a rich mine for comedy tidbits: "So many people are like, 'eurgh, kids, I hate kids', but my daughter is with me right now and she's so cool.
"My comedy does not come off as particularly mumsy, I don't think, because I see her like another person, like someone else who lives in my flat - but who I love! I think kids are like basic representations of humanity: 'This is how I feel and I love this and I'm hungry and I'm tired and I hate that."


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Pay Growth for Women Stops at This Age
At the beginning of their careers, women earn more than men. But when they reach this age, the good times end.
Chris Kissell • November 5, 2018
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Pay growth for college-educated women suddenly stops at around the age of 40, according to new findings from compensation research firm PayScale.
PayScale found that women between the ages of 22 and 33 see their wages grow at a faster rate than men, according to a CNBC report on the study. But around age 40, wage growth suddenly stops for women.
By contrast, college-educated men see their pay continue to rise through their early 50s. By the age of 54, college-educated men are out-earning their female peers by $32,800.
The reason for this gap? PayScale chief economist Katie Bardaro tells CNBC it all comes down to job choice.
Bardaro says jobs that men choose — such as software developer and engineering roles — have longer real-wage growth.
By contrast, women choose professions — teacher, health care worker, social worker, administrative worker — where wages don't rise as much over time.
How to earn more money
If you are female and want to earn more money, know that a lot of the power to unlock a big salary rests in your hands. For pointers, check out "10 Tips to Remember When Asking for a Raise." The first tip on the list is to become more educated about your marketplace value:
Figure out what your work is worth in comparable workplaces. Visit sites like Salary.com and Glassdoor. Search for your job title and ZIP code to see what others in your field are earning. If you're making less than the average and have valuable experience in your field, use this as leverage in salary negotiations.
For more tips on how to earn more cash, check out:
"6 Secrets to Getting a Pay Raise in 2018"
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shamyfanva
Hmmm. I'd like to see Sheldon, sitting wherever he is after he speaks to Amy at the end, looking at his phone. The camera angle switches & the viewer sees that he's looking at a picture of Amy.
kazzie
Sheldon will always just be Sheldon... I'm sure he will change some proroties and ways of thinking by the time he gets back...
But it's important to remember they can't change his charecter to much. We still want Sheldon to be Sheldon after all, that's what we love about him!. I can't imagine balancing new and old Sheldon into to something that all audiences will be happy with will be an easy task.
They will develop him though. I'm sure of it.
More or less, we all wish the same!
Cynthia Davila
Regardless of the tone of the finale, or the secret scene or lack thereof, I just know that after thursday I won't be crawling out of my burrito of sadness until the season 8 premiere...
fitzsimmons
Ahaha, oh I would LOVE a secret scene for the tag.
What I would envision is something really simple. Right after we see Amy pummel Leonard with a pillow, it cuts to Sheldon on the train hanging up his phone, where he looks down at the picture of Amy. You see him briefly touch her picture with his finger and then it cuts back to his face as he looks out the window.
I think that would be really sweet and kind of recalls the episode with Amy as his screen saver. Just another reminder that Amy has a huge presence in Sheldon's life that he really does treasure, even if he can't find the words.
This is pretty much exactly image for image what I picture and would love to see if we were to get a scene. If there was one, I think it would have to be of Sheldon, since he's not already in the tag that was filmed in front of the audience. It would be difficult to add something with Amy (although I would like that very much) so I think if they were to add on, it would have to be Sheldon on a train.
Another thing that would be interesting is if Sheldon hangs up the phone and looks up and he's somewhere very, very far away. Like New York or Boston or something. Since the phone call takes place at least another day after his departure, maybe a few, it'd be interesting to see where he wound up.
Edited May 11, 2014 by MichyGeary
shamyyellow
Another thing that would be interesting is if Sheldon hangs up the phone and looks up and he's somewhere very, very far away. Like New York or Boston or something. Since the phone takes place at least another day after his departure, maybe a few, it'd be interesting to see where he wound up.
Yes! I would love for them to tease where he ended up. Even if there is a secret scene, I can't really imagine it being sappy. I think some of you guys are right in thinking they could reveal that Amy is the wallpaper/home picture on Sheldon's phone. That would be a great last ditch effort to give the Shamy fans something to hold on to until S8.
We're all sad that Sheldon left, but I don't think it would make much sense to show him feeling sad about his decision. I believe he's very confused and overwhelmed by all the happenings in his life, but I don't think he boarded a train so he can cry or mope over how much he misses Amy. Realistically, his head is in a very selfish place and he's probably relieved to be removed from all the people who had a hand in changing his cozy lifestyle; Amy being the head of all this chaos. To me, the fact that he called to let her know he was ok is sweet in itself. If there is a secret scene that doubly confirms Amy's place in his heart despite his need to be alone, that would be amazing, but her picture predominantly on his cell phone is as far as I see it going.
I agree with you totally. Moreover, it would seem to me like a stopgap scene. That is to say, we have taken away the cake from you, but we give you a sop!
Maria KAPL
Mmmmm well if there were a secret scene next week I actually wouldn't be very greedy about its content, I would be happy as heck just with showing Sheldon after his phone conversation with Amy, as many of you said, it would be nice showing him looking at the Amy screensaver with a sad look, or just showing just him with a sad look after hanging up, No need of screensaver after all, just with knowing that Sheldon is not happy wherever he is and that he misses his home and Amy my little fangirl heart would be warmed up <3
Awwww I really really wish they tapped something else apart from what they showed :'( My hopes remain very low but hell a girl can dream after all
And btw have you guys seen THIS?
I just found it in YouTube this morning and OH GOD It's a 7x21 promo from some UK Channel maybe?
They really know how to play with our minds! This is sooo far away from the truth and yet I can't help but sigh a little bit at it, I specially love how they emphasized Sheldon's gulp! I think it confirms that Jim made the gulp on purpose :'D
Edited May 11, 2014 by Maria KAPL
They really know how to play with our minds! This is sooo far away from the truth but I can't help but sigh a little bit at it, I specially love how they emphasized Sheldon's gulp! I think it confirms that Jim made the gulp on purpose :'D
It's Australian. I don't know what they've been drinking but dammit those folks down under are DOING IT RIGHT.
Hahahhahahah omg everytime I see one of the Australian promos I LOVE it sooooo much!!
wowbagger
Here's an alternative: Amy gets a call offering her masses of funding/zero teaching/chance to head up her own group in New York or Boston. Or, hey, even further afield. Maybe Cambridge?
The problem with this is, of course, that I personally would be screaming at her to take the job...
Poot.
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This is awesome!!! ahahaha
Also I would like to see a scene as those described above.. but probably it won't happen, we must wait for the next season, and I hope indeed that the authors do a good job with Sheldon and Amy !
I LOVE that Australian promo so much, but I think I would be mighty disappointed by what actually happened!
Also, I wanted to say that I love your secret scene scenarios. It sounds corny, but for the extra scene I wanted an "I love you", maybe even in Klingon, because that's less scary than saying it in English. Plus, Sheldon thinks Klingon is the language of love, as evidenced by his wanting to say his speech in Klingon at Bernie and Howard's wedding. (For the record, it's "qamuSHa"") My husband first told me he loved me in his native language. I wasn't 100% sure what he said, but by his tone of voice it wasn't hard to figure out. But then I was reading your comments, and I think just a cut to Sheldon on the train looking at Amy's picture would be all I needed to hold me over to season 8. The big problem with Sheldon, when it comes to Amy, is that we have no idea what's really "rattling around in that big bulbous brain" of his. Looking at her picture would solve that problem.
TheShamyShipper
I'm loving all of your secret scene ideas! The only problem is that now I'm wishing even harder that it would actually happen (but I'm pretty sure it won't). Oh well...I know in my heart that Sheldon loves her. Come on, season 8!! Bring us something awesome!!!
So about Klingon: I kind of vaguely hoped that, during the State of the Relationship Summit, when pressed to come up with nicknames for each other, that Amy would call Sheldon whatever is the Klingon for 'shipbuilder' (since 'cooper' is taken from 'craftsman of wooden vessels') and Sheldon would call Amy whatever 'bird-hunter' means in Amy's made-up language (you know, the one where 'tweepadock' means elephant).
Admittedly,this may because I am a HUGE sucker for the days where Sheldon and Amy seemed to share the same brain and played crazy elitist games that baffled anyone else.
Edited May 11, 2014 by wowbagger
saruluvsshamy
they focused on the gulp!! though i dont know if ppl wil be disappointed...
but atleast they focused on it!!
Edited May 11, 2014 by saruluvsshamy
bhreg
.....Admittedly,this may because I am a HUGE sucker for the days where Sheldon and Amy seemed to share the same brain and played crazy elitist games that baffled anyone else.
Yes! In addition to whatever relationship storyline we see next season (slowly forward...no regression...do you hear me, Show!?), I hope we see a return to them just having their weird fun times together! I know it is a long shot, but I really hope for a professional collaboration, Theoretical Neurophysics or Neuroscience, as both of them love "the sweet candy of science" ;-) Seems like that scenario has potential on lots of fronts, some funny bickering in the lab and maybe some Shamy lovin' when they have a success and are turned on by each other's brilliance!
I would love to see them get back to those old times with the games only they understand as well. I loved how in tune with each other they were then. And I think it would be a lot of fun to see them collaborate together. I've always thought if anything about Amy is going to turn Sheldon on, it would be her intelligence, so I could definitely see that.
Also, I was thinking about the living situation in season 8, and what I'm guessing is that Leonard will end up moving in with Penny and letting Sheldon keep the big apartment (which will then be way too big and empty, so hopefully he'll eventually decide he wants a certain neurobiologist roommate). The main reason I think they might go that route is because it wouldn't make that big of a change. The sets could mostly stay the same, and Leonard and Penny would probably be visiting across the hall often anyway. If they moved Penny into the big apartment, the decor would have to change in there, and I'm sure Sheldon wouldn't be living with Penny's girly decor in the other apartment. Just a thought.
Little Miss Purple
Oh I would kill for a secret scene...Something small like you said,Sheldon looking at his phone after talking to Amy and softly whispering "I'll miss you Amy"
That would sustain me over the summer
God, I freaking love Australia. Their Shamy promos crack me the hell up. I think my favorite one has to be the one for Locomotive.
Also, I wanted to say that I love your secret scene scenarios. It sounds corny, but for the extra scene I wanted an "I love you", maybe even in Klingon, because that's less scary than saying it in English. Plus, Sheldon thinks Klingon is the language of love, as evidenced by his wanting to say his speech in Klingon at Bernie and Howard's wedding. (For the record, it's "qamuSHa"") My husband first told me he loved me in his native language. I wasn't 100% sure what he said, but by his tone of voice it wasn't hard to figure out.
Okay I didn't think I'd ever want their first ILY being in Klingon or something, but this sounds really cute and I actually think I could get behind it. How funny would that be? Some time after Sheldon comes home and they're all hanging out in 4A eating dinner, he just like mutters it under his breath in front of Amy and all their friends, and everyone's heads snap up from their food (including Penny!) except for Amy's. Everyone in the room understood it but her. And then Sheldon sort of realizes that he just said it and gets all embarrassed and everyone is just wolf-whistling and whooping and laughing, and Amy is just demanding that somebody, anybody tell her what's going on and what that means and why are you laughing what is so funny???
I am hoping for a secret scene.. God I am.. Maybe Shledon looking at his phone after speaking to Amy while sitting on a train heading for the unknown.. with a sweet line or a look in face of pure grief. Maybe even a tear down his cheek?
But Im doubtful we will get a secret scene.. Either way....fingers crossed.
Edited May 11, 2014 by kazzie
nopenopenope
I'm doubtful too. But it's holding me over haha.
KiwiIcedTea
Dis mine :3
otakuandfangirl
After all this talk of wishing and hoping for secret scenes, I think I may be crestfallen if there isn't one. I think the one of Sheldon looking at a picture of Amy on his phone makes the most sense, but instead of looking sad, he has that cute little smile on his face that we know is just for Amy. You know, the one he gives her in Table, RD, Proton, etc.
..and with a soft and brief kiss to Amy´s image! (It is in my head since I read the taping report!)


In hindsight I really hate myself for posting my R2D2 OOTD when I did because today would have been so much more appropriate but of course I was far too excited about sharing the dress with you I didn't even think to save it for May 4th. Anyhow I am still spending my day wearing Star Wars themed clothing to celebrate (I even have Star Wars underwear on that is how 100% cool I am today) I am no doubt going to spend my day watching them back to back because what else can you do? Last year I baked cakes and went out with my friends to a Star Wars themed night alas this year Chris/Nick are not here so I have no one to drag out so I shall be celebrating alone.
The best part of this outfit is the shoes, it's one of the main reasons I decided to share it because yano the outfit itself is pretty boring and casual but the shoes are amaze. Best buy of the year, they're so pretty and urgh I want to live in them but I'm also scared to wear them too much in case they get ruined haha. Also the R2D2 mug is the greatest thing ever, it's from the Disney Shop and I pretty much drink everything out of it as it's the perfect size.
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Scope and Contents Includes typescript and galley proofs of: contents tables for Book 2; Chapter 16 "The Battle of Britain"; Chapter 17 "The Blitz"; Chapter 18 "'London Can Take It'"; Chapter 19 "The Wizard War"; Chapter 20 "United States Destroyers and West Indian Bases"; Chapter 21 "Egypt and the Middle East"; Chapter 22 "The Mediterranean Passage"; Chapter 23 "September Tensions"; Chapter 24 "Dakar" [Senegal]; Chapter 13 "At Bay" (provisionally entitled "Alone"); Appendix A "Minutes and Telegrams, May -...
Dates: 16 Aug 1948 - 21 Feb 1949
Literary: "The Second World War", Volume 2 "Their Finest Hour": Book 2 and Appendices: Master copy proofs., 06 Dec 1948 - 21 Dec 1948
Scope and Contents Includes galley proofs of: contents tables for Book 2; Chapter 16 "The Battle of Britain"; Chapter 17 "The Blitz"; Chapter 18 "'London Can Take It'"; Chapter 19 "The Wizard War"; Chapter 20 "United States Destroyers and West Indian Bases"; Chapter 21 "Egypt and the Middle East"; Chapter 22 "The Mediterranean Passage"; Chapter 23 "September Tensions"; Chapter 24 "Dakar" [Senegal]; Chapter 25 "Mr Eden's Mission" [Anthony Eden, later 1st Lord Avon, Secretary of State for War]; Chapter 26...
Dates: 06 Dec 1948 - 21 Dec 1948
Literary: "The Second World War", Volume 2 "Their Finest Hour": Book 2 and appendices: Proofs for Sir Edward Marsh., 25 Feb 1948 - 25 Aug 1948
Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHUR 4/188A-C
Scope and Contents Includes galley proofs of: contents tables for Book 2; Chapter 16 "The Battle of Britain"; Chapter 17 "The Blitz" (provisionally entitled "The Blitz Continues"); Chapter 18 "'London Can Take It'"; Chapter 19 "The Wizard War"; Chapter 20 "United States Destroyers and West Indian Bases"; Chapter 21 "Egypt and the Middle East"; Chapter 23 "September Tensions"; Chapter 24 "Dakar" [Senegal]; Chapter 25 "Mr Eden's Mission" [Anthony Eden, later 1st Lord Avon, Secretary of State for War]; Chapter 26...
Dates: 25 Feb 1948 - 25 Aug 1948
Literary: "The Second World War", Volume 2 "Their Finest Hour": Book 2 and appendices: Proofs for William Deakin., 21 Aug 1948 - 30 Nov 1948
Dates: 21 Aug 1948 - 30 Nov 1948
Literary: "The Second World War", Volume 2 "Their Finest Hour": Book 2: Proofs for CSC., 01 Mar 1948 - 29 Nov 1948
Scope and Contents Includes galley proofs of: contents tables for Book 2; Chapter 16 "The Battle of Britain"; Chapter 17 "The Blitz"; Chapter 18 "'London Can Take It'"; Chapter 19 "The Wizard War"; Chapter 20 "United States Destroyers and West Indian Bases"; Chapter 21 "Egypt and the Middle East"; Chapter 23 "September Tensions"; Chapter 24 "Dakar" [Senegal]; Chapter 25 "Mr Eden's Mission" [Anthony Eden, later 1st Lord Avon, Secretary of State for War]; Chapter 26 "Relations with Vichy [France] and Spain"...
Dates: 01 Mar 1948 - 29 Nov 1948
Literary: "The Second World War", Volume 2 "Their Finest Hour": Comments by Sir Norman Brook., 28 Jan 1948 - 01 Nov 1948
Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHUR 4/193
Scope and Contents Includes notes by Sir Norman Brook [later 1st Lord Normanbrook, Secretary to the Cabinet] on Volume 2, on subjects including: Chapter 1 "The National Coalition"; Chapter 2 "The Battle of France. The First Week. [General Maurice] Gamelin"; Chapter 3 "The Battle of France. The Second Week. [General Maxime] Weygand"; Chapter 5 "The Deliverance of Dunkirk"; Chapter 8 "Home Defence. June"; Chapter 10 "The Bordeaux Armistice"; Chapter 13 "At Bay" (provisionally entitled "Alone"); Chapter 16 "The...
Dates: 28 Jan 1948 - 01 Nov 1948
Literary: "The Second World War", Volume 2 "Their Finest Hour": Notes and comments by Lieutenant-General Sir Henry Pownall., 02 Mar 1941 - 16 Jun 1949
Scope and Contents Includes notes and comments by Pownall on subjects including: factual and printing errors throughout Volume 2; the build-up to the German attack on the Soviet Union; the build-up to "Dynamo" [codename for the evacuation of Allied forces from Dunkirk, France]; the British Expedition Force; the meeting between 6th Lord Gort [Commander-in-Chief of British Field Force, earlier John Vereker] and General Maxime Weygand [Commander-in-Chief, French Army], May 1940; British casualties; the defence of...
Dates: 02 Mar 1941 - 16 Jun 1949
Literary: "The Second World War", Volume 2 "Their Finest Hour": 'Superseded' proofs., 01 Mar 1948 - 27 Aug 1948
Scope and Contents Includes galley proofs from: Chapter 12 "The Apparatus of Counter-Attack. 1940"; Chapter 16 "The Battle of Britain"; Chapter 19 "The Wizard War"; Chapter 20 "United States Destroyers and West Indian Bases"; Chapter 21 "Egypt and the Middle East"; Chapter 23 "September Tensions"; Chapter 25 "Mr Eden's Mission" [Anthony Eden, later 1st Lord Avon, Secretary of State for War]; Chapter 27 [Benito] "Mussolini Attacks Greece"; Chapter 28 "Lend-Lease"; Chapter 30 "Ocean Peril" (provisionally...
Dates: 01 Mar 1948 - 27 Aug 1948
Subject: Battle of Britain (1940) X
Subject: Egypt X
Subject: Literature X
Economic conditions 6
Economic policy 6


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Manchester International Festival, various venues
Manchester International Festival
Title : What is the City but the People launch event for Manchester International Festival.
Website : http://mif.co.uk/
Credit : Credit Jon Super
Title : True Faith, Manchester Art Gallery, installation view, 2017
Credit : Credit Michael Pollard
Title : Samson Young, CFCCA, 2017
Credit : Image by Constantin Brosteanu
Title : Susan Helfuna, ToGather, Installation view, The Whitworth, 2017
Title : Festival in My House, Festival Square takeover
Credit : Credit Tarnish Vision
Various, Manchester
"We tell ourselves stories in order to live ... We interpret what we see."
Joan Didion The White Album
Incorporating a programme of music, dance, theatre and contemporary art, Manchester International Festival is expansive. With daily broadcasts by BBC 6 Music's Radcliffe and Maconie and regular email updates on what to do at MIF landing in my inbox, it can be difficult to find one's own way into and through the programme beyond the mediated story of the festival with its pervasive marketing and slick imagery. Yet perhaps this very mediation provides an additional facet to the theme of storytelling that seems to echo throughout MIF's varied programme.
Opening with 'What is the City but the People', a performance directed by Richard Gregory after an idea from Jeremy Deller, the story of the city and its residents was positioned as the nexus of the forthcoming programme. One by one individuals walked along a bright yellow catwalk to the cheers of the crowd – a young mother, a doctor, a Big Issue seller, drag queens and hip-hop dancers. The staging made use of the digital advertising screens surrounding the catwalk to create pockets of colour and text amid the grey concrete buildings, visually framing the performers within the cityscape and giving them personal ownership of the public space. Continuing to combine the public programme of the festival with the personal experience of the city's inhabitants, MIF's 'Festival in My House' saw residents across Manchester stage day long festivals in their homes. Cheetham Hill resident Yatie Aziz curated a celebration of Asian, Latin American and African-Caribbean cultures and traditions for her friends and neighbours and Chunky and Thirty Pound Gentleman brought a range of DJ's artists and MC's from the city's club culture into Chunky's home in Hulme.
'What Is the City but the People' and 'Festival in My House' must be read in direct conflict with the Festival's simultaneous efforts to associate the city with its star representatives – the exhibition 'True Faith' exploring the ongoing significance of Joy Division and New Order, who are also in concert at the Festival devised in collaboration Liam Gillick. The conflicting association of the city with its stars and its common residents brings to the fore questions over the different layers of narrative we hear of the city. Whose story represents Manchester? And who, indeed, is to do the telling?
Questioning the multifaceted aspects of any (hi)story, Samson Young's newly commissioned work, 'One of Two Stories, or Both' (Field Bagatelles) tentatively reveals the different layers of narrative that combine to tell any single story. Based upon myths of 17th Century Chinese travellers making their way to Europe on foot, Young devised a five-part radio series broadcast on Manchester's Unity Radio 92.8FM. Following broadcast, the recordings were installed within a small room at the CFCCA. Populated by musical scoresheets, scripts and the unexpected objects used to create sound effects (a horse's saddle used as a drum, a freestanding door) the interior both reveals something of the process of the recordings and instils a sentiment of uncertainty — the familiar repurposed and retold. The layering of audio, imagery and objects further serves to reveal the various means by which histories – personal, international or communal, are mediated, from news bulletins to written texts and intimate recollections, inviting us to question the stories we hear of contemporary migration, journeys and mass movement and how our familiar surroundings and individual stories could be retold.
Alongside Young's installation, the CFCCA's current exhibition 'From Ocean to Horizon', curated by Ying Kwok, presents work by 7 Hong Kong based artists. Exploring the relationship between the ocean and the horizon line, an abstract yet ever present intersection between sea and sky, the exhibition presents a reflection on Hong Kong's shifting position within both Chinese and British history. The young artists' works reflect on place, identity and migration. A question of migration, whether forced or voluntary is a consistent concern in this years' MIF.
Susan Hefuna's solo exhibition 'ToGather' at the city's Whitworth Art Gallery contains vitrines of objects gathered from different refugee and asylum seeker communities positioned among a series of palmwood structures inspired by transport crates regularly seen on the streets of Cairo. The sculptures populate the gallery space in the vein of minimalist sculptures, 'performing' with and alongside the figures of visitors. With the bodies of gallery visitors viewed through and within the crate-like towers, the work brings with it an undercurrent of mass transportation and slavery, pointing towards the darker side of contemporary migration.
As part of the exhibition, Hefuna devised a public performance in the park surrounding the gallery. Working with 30 individuals from refugee and asylum seeker communities who had recently made Manchester their home, as well as dancers from Wayne McGregor Studio, the performance bravely paired non-dance and dance professionals in a sequence of movements that abstractly mapped the participants' journeys to the city. The small movements removed the barrier of language by using a gestural means of communication. Where Samson Young's work presented a multi-layered audio of narrative accounts from the anecdotal to the conversational and musical, Hefuna's performance of bodies moving, shifting and changing give a visual story of migration. It is also a story of the city and its diverse residents.
If you can peel away the 'big names', slick marketing and social media feeds, you can find works that sensitively and tentatively explore the question of how to tell contemporary stories – particularly stories of migration – and provide critical reflection on the representative and narrative processes involved as well as reminding us to ask whose story is being told and who is it doing the telling. In a programme that is so expansive it is also up to the audience to narrate their own fragmented journey through the various works, each account of the programme invariably mediated somewhat differently.
Nicholas Mangan: Limits to Growth
If it's not meant to last, then it's Performance: A Q&A with Alys Williams
Keren Cytter: Avalanche


A general group for those researching Maine service members of any era.
A group for those researching Maine's Franco-American families.
A group for those researching Maine's Irish immigrants and their descendants.
A group for those whose ancestors lived in Maine prior to the American Revolution.


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Artist Profile: Jesse Locke
February 27, 2017 by Just Chandler
In our continuing effort to recognize the artists responsible for Unofficial Music Videos (or Amateur Music Video/Fan Video), TikiKiti caught up with director Jesse Locke from Bend, Oregon.
About two weeks ago, we singled Jesse out for his gritty visual take on the Oasis song, "Cigarettes and Alcohol" and followed it up with a director Q&A.
In the "Cigarettes and Alcohol" video, were you looking for particular narrative elements or just trying to create a vivid collage to accompany the song?
My narrative for that video was to depict drug and alcohol addiction in a graphic light. I'm not trying to preach and say this is bad, just show you images of fucked-up shit. I feel like this song is a down and dirty song, so I wanted to have visuals that didn't pull any punches.
Did you have a specific idea in mind that guided you or was it a more organic process?
It always starts out with a specific idea, but then it changes as time progresses and new ideas are formed. So it's a combination of both. I had an idea I wanted to use graphic drug imagery and then it grew from there.
Was all the footage taken from YouTube?
Is the mashup approach one you favor? What are some other ideas of methods that you've tried?
Mashups are fun. I'm trying to push the abstract video envelope these days and put visuals to beats that are on the base visually appealing, that don't really pertain to a concept or a narrative that goes with the song.
Is there an art form that informs your work or that you are inspired by?
Animation is kind of like a unicorn to me. Like, I know people know how to do it well and make really cool shit. I want to make really cool shit, but the in-between is extremely elusive.
Is there an artist that informs your work or who inspires you?
Quentin Tarantino has been a huge influence on the way I view the world, and my interests in exploitation etc.
What have you been up to lately?
Heading to Jordan to film our second documentary in the region.
When creating a fan video, is there a goal you try to achieve?
My goal is for the band to [A] see it [B] like it. I want to create something that a major studio band would consider using for their official video.
What is it about a song that makes you want to create visual accompaniment?
It depends on the artist, not all songs make me think in terms of visuals. But there are certain bands that speak to me on a visual level. Like Radiohead. Every time I listen to any of their songs I instantly think of cool little vignettes that would go with it. Songs are pretty awesome to create to because of the beat. I edit everything to the beat, even films that have no music in it. It has to have a cadence so making a music video seems to be a simple and fun idea for a person who lives in a visual storytelling world.
What gear do you recommend for other aspiring video makers?
DSLR camera, an expensive steady cam (save to get) and 1,000 watt light kit.
What Is This Video Stuff?
It has been pointed out to the new guy (me) that our vernacular is lacking. Recent history indicates we have been referring to these visual specimens as "fan video" or "amateur video," neither of which really resonates, you know?
Amateur is seemingly better than fan, since it suggests a neophyte's charming lack of skill, as opposed to the rabid idolatry currently being lavished on this week's K-Pop confection.
Since TikiKiti is still in its infancy (scratch that: we're still floating around in amnionic fluid—good stuff!), it affords us the chance to define our terms and be a bit more descriptive.
If truth in advertising is still considered a valuable commodity, then here we are. The examples of amateur video singled out for fleeting recognition by the TikiKiti team are not created by anyone in the name of commerce, so not professional in that sense. Still, the word "amateur" reeks of ineptitude and bland hobbyism.
Fan video
Presumably, someone associated with the project is an admirer of the featured musical artist. Why would someone choose to create a video homage to a song that means nothing to them? There has to be a moment of inspiration, an epiphany of sound, image, and movement that acts as catalyst for everything that follows.
In some cases, a fan's inspiration means the spontaneous joy of young women kicking up a Terpsichorean tribute to Taylor Swift. Other examples are more studied and serious, a cinematic peek at someone's subconscious in action, as in Meadow Marks's interpretation of Bon Iver's "33 God" above.
Whether through an attempt at a narrative or an abstract dip in the stream of consciousness, artistic decisions were made by someone. A music fan, certainly. But that's not the whole story, is it?
The tides have brought us a steady influx of videos from English educational facilities, otherwise known as schools, or "academies," if the family is rolling in pound notes.
The student videos are typically well-crafted works with serious production values, and can be identified with a caption that reads "A Level Media", which I thought was a band's name at first!
The Brit-vids offer a fascinating view of a youth culture that's similar to our own, but with intriguing differences. See for yourself, with Three-Fold Law's rendition of "Sleepwalking" by English hard rock darlings Bring Me The Horizon.
So what are we calling these videos? Probably one of the three above descriptives unless something better comes along.
I have a feeling we've just scratched the surface on this topic. I suggested "fanateur", but I haven't heard back from the board on that one. We'll keep you posted.
Video Close-up: Good Clean Fun
One of our prime directives at TikiKiti is that we build and grow a community of fan video enthusiasts and actual producers. To that end, we want to zoom in, from time to time, on the creative types behind the keyboards, and the choices they make to get some idea of how the magic happens. Think of it as quick hits with fearless video artists for your daily inoculation of inspiration.
For instance, Jesse Locke, from Bend, Oregon, has orchestrated a grim tsunami of images to accompany the gritty Brit-rocker "Cigarettes and Alcohol" by Oasis. It's an artful mashup approach, with footage from Pulp Fiction, Trainspotting, Saturday Night Fever, Nosferatu, and Terry Gilliam's Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas, as well as cutaways synched to band members themselves performing the song. It's a seamless use of sound and imagery that makes a statement that's bigger than the sum of its parts.
Thematically, Jess utilizes shots from acclaimed films to illustrate the dilemma of "having a good time" with the help of drugs, cigarettes, and alcohol. The allure of dancing, seeing a band, and possibly meeting new friends on a Saturday night, becomes waylaid and defeated by the pursuit of intoxicants.
Whatever goal one had in mind in terms of an enjoyable evening, quickly becomes secondary to getting drunk, getting high, or smoking a whole bunch of ciggies, which in turn echoes the weary, jaded sensibilities of the Oasis song. The fact that substance abuse has become so ubiquitous in pop culture, has nearly rendered its use a cliché.
In Niconico Douga's anime riot created for the venerable pep rally pop anthem, "Saturday Night" by the Bay City Rollers, a similar idea is approached from a different angle, as a joyful explosion of performance anime is used to celebrate more positive (albeit purposely naïve) entertainment possibilities.
The pageantry, wonder, and frenetic pace of the anime (including scenes from popular examples of the genre such as Tamako Love Story, Kids on the Slope, and Angel Beats!), paints a much more optimistic picture of fun, as images of nonstop leaping and bounding give way to Hi Standard's furious punk version of "Saturday Night," with its accelerated tempo pushing the video toward a near-hysterical finale.
Behold, two videos with very different views on a subject: and this is only the beginning of our curated exploration of fan-made music videos. Stay tuned for more opinion and analysis.
If you want to be a part of the discussion, send us fan videos, whether you made them or not, and we'll take a look and see what make them tick.
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Commercial real estate a mixed bag for those looking for space
Depending on what you are looking for, the commercial real estate market in West Michigan may not be so favorable.
According to some commercial real estate experts in the area, more properties are available for leasing, but fewer properties are available for sale.
Jason Makowski, a partner and an office specialist at NAI Wisinski of West Michigan, said there is a decent number of office real estate locations and that is, in part, because a lot of tenants are coming to the end of their lease, and also, they are looking for smaller or larger office space.
"Tenants are contracting and expanding," he said. "So, they are moving around from one building to another or within the same building. There have been some new businesses that have moved in from outside of the area in the office arena, but that has been somewhat limited."
Makowski, who also is president of Commercial Alliance of Realtors in West Michigan, said there is not a lot of construction of office buildings because there is plenty of office space available in the area. He said a dense number of available office spaces are along the East Paris corridor, from 28th Street to Cascade Road in southeast Grand Rapids.
Though there are not a lot of office buildings being built, Makowski said the East Paris corridor is where most offices are being constructed.
"There have been several new buildings popping up out of the ground, primarily for medical (offices)," he said. "Various medical groups are predominately moving from buildings they are currently leasing into some of these new buildings where they have an opportunity to have an ownership stake in the buildings. So, we have quite a bit of that. East Paris has been a pretty active corridor; Cascade Road has been pretty active. From a growth perspective, I would say there is more going on East Paris. That is where I kind of see new construction growth going on in the office arena."
While office spaces are available for lease, there is a lack of inventory for other property types.
Glen Gerwatowski, a research analyst at Colliers International West Michigan, said his firm is seeing a decline in lease and sale transactions.
In 2017, Colliers completed 675 sale transactions. In 2018, there were 503 sale transactions, which included office, retail and industrial spaces. The first quarter of 2019, Colliers made 112 sale transactions — a decline from 156 transactions made in the first quarter of 2018.
In 2017, Colliers entered into 832 lease transactions, including office, retail and industrial spaces. In 2018, 743 lease transactions were completed, and the first quarter of this year, Collier brokered 141 lease transactions. That is a decline from 217 transactions made in the first quarter of 2018.
Gerwatowski said he believes the decline in both sale and lease transactions at Colliers is "probably attributed to the market tightening up, as overall vacancy rates have been dropping with fewer available options for both tenants and buyers."
Chip Hurley, Vice President and Associate Broker at Grand Rapids-based Signature Associates, also said there are more vacancies at the leasing end of the spectrum as opposed to the sale side. He said tenants have an easier time finding spaces they like to lease than buyers because there is a lack of inventory for sale.
The lack of inventory is, in part, because labor and construction materials are expensive. Hurley said there are not a lot of modern buildings that meet the specificity of some buyers. So, buyers who'd like to have high ceilings for their buildings are finding cranes and other construction materials and equipment needed are expensive.
"The perception for the general public is, 'Hey, I see real estate signs everywhere, it can't be that bad,' but when you look and drill down into specific property types or specific sizes within a property type, you quickly learn that there is not a lot of inventory for buyers to acquire," Hurley said. "So, that is going to be our struggle for a little while."
If there is a property available on the market for sale, Hurley said he advises his clients to purchase the property as quickly as possible because most likely there is more than one potential buyer who is looking to purchase the property.
He said industrial buildings such as warehouses are easier to purchase because most likely buyers are not looking for specific amenities.
"If landlords or sellers have space that they want to lease or sell, then (now) is a good time for them because they would get top dollar for the lease and sale transactions," he said. "The challenge is if they need to replace those properties, they'll find out that is much more difficult to find replacement sites or properties just based on a lack of inventory. This is something that everyone is coming to understand."
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Since XII century on the Mountain Krylos there were Halych bishops' chambers and since XVI century – metropolitan chambers. Basements of metropolitan chambers of XVII century were found in the nearby tract "Old palaces". During the Bishop Lev Sheptytskyi in the middle of XVIII a wooden residence was built, and later in the beginning of XIX century during the Bishop Skorodynskyi – a palace made of bricks. Building materials ware taken from the demolished St. IIlia Church (XII-XIII). Here lived Halych metropolitans; that's why it was called "Metropolitan Chambers". It was the last summer residence of Halych metropolitan Andrei Sheptytskyi. In 1960 in the chambers branch of Ivano-Frankivsk local history museum – "Ancient Halych" was opened. Since 1994 it belonged to the National reserve of the same name. On the occasion of 1100 years of Halych building was restored. An exhibition devoted to the before annalistic and princely periods of Halych history has been renewed.


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2. Row of C18 cottages at angle to road. Painted rubble with stone dressings. 2 storeys, 2 window each, except No 53. Sashes, Nos 54 and 55 glazing bars, rest plate glass or modern aluminium, raised surrounds with inner edge roll, No 55 has wooden architraves. Panelled doors under moulded-stone slab hoods on brackets.