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https://www.milfordmirror.com/news/article/United-Way-says-22-of-residents-earn-less-than-13870939.php
United Way says 22% of residents earn less than state's basic cost of living threshold
Published 11:19 am EST, Sunday, November 16, 2014
Milford's United Way says the American Dream is slipping away for many residents because they are not earning enough to live a middle class lifestyle.
"The American Dream is that if you work hard, you can expect to get ahead financially," Gary Johnson, United Way director, said in a press release. "For most of us, that means you can save money; buy a reliable car; purchase a home if you want; afford quality childcare; send your children to college; handle unexpected expenses; pay for your family's health care; and take family vacations."
But that promise is slipping away for many hard-working Milford families, Johnson said.
"Increasingly, hard work alone may not buy you a ticket into the middle-class and a chance to live the American dream," he said.
Johnson's comments stem from a Connecticut United Ways study of the financial hardship faced by many working families throughout the state. The study reports that 35% of Connecticut households can barely afford life's necessities.
"This number of households far exceeds the number of households identified by the official federal poverty statistics," Johnson's press release states. "We have known that about 5% of Milford's households live in poverty, but we have overlooked the 22% of households with income above the Federal Poverty Level but below the state's basic cost-of-living threshold defined in the United Way report."
United Way calls this often overlooked population ALICE, an acronym for Asset Limited, Income Constrained, Employed.
The United Ways in Connecticut produced the recently-released report in partnership with United Ways in five other states — California, Florida, Indiana, Michigan and New Jersey, with Rutgers University conducting the research. The purpose of the study was to raise awareness of the plight of the ALICE population and to encourage short-term and long-term strategies that promote financial stability for many of these households.
"The reality that Connecticut has a higher percentage of affluent individuals and families than most other states often overshadows the fact that far too many residents face a very different reality — and that far too many of us are unaware of how this affects the overall social and economic viability of our communities," Johnson said.
ALICE represents the men and women in Milford's households of all ages and races who get up each day to go to work, but who aren't sure if they'll be able to make ends meet.
The United Way press release says that "ALICE is our friends, neighbors, co-workers and relatives. ALICE does essential work that we depend on, and contributes to our community's well being."
ALICE's insufficient income is a bigger problem than we may realize, the press release continues. Unable to afford or get easy access to health care, ALICE may be a frequent user of the emergency room for health problems that could have been prevented.
Unable to afford high-quality preschool, ALICE's children may require additional help later in school. The loss of a job may mean that, with no savings to fall back on, ALICE may need government help to pay for rent or food.
Or, if ALICE is a homeowner, they may go into foreclosure.
"These are devastating problems for a family but these issues also have a broader impact on health insurance premiums, taxes, neighborhood stability, and economic growth," Johnson said.
The ALICE study reports that the annual household survival budget for the average family of four (two adults, one toddler and one infant) in Milford is $66,088 and for a single adult it is $24,618. Even with one of the highest median hourly wages in the country, 51% of jobs in Connecticut pay less than $20 per hour, which is $40,000 a year if the job is full time.
Johnson said it is time to acknowledge the population of people in the community who struggle as part of this ALICE population and start looking at ways to address the need.
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Williams Carmona is a Cuban painter. He was born in Havana, Cuba, in 1967. In the early 1990s he moved to Puerto Rico. He has works in a number of museums including the Museum of Latin American Art (MOLAA).

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Q: promise within promise with for loop I want to call multiple api, the second api need something from the first api, I created two promise but now I'm stuck, how can I execute what needs to be done and wait all of them finish?
createAccount(this.state.item) //promise
.then(resp=>{

  this.state.albums.forEach(o=>{ //array of object
    createAlbum(resp.id, { //promise
      ...o
    })
  })
})

I'm using bluebird I got a hint, using promise.all but I have no clue how that work with forEach, I can't control how many albums are there.

A: It sounds like you want to create the account, then create some number of albums stored in an array. This is indeed exactly what Promise.all would be for:
createAccount(this.state.item)
.then(resp =>
    Promise.all(
        this.state.albums.map(o => createAlbum(resp.id, o))
    )
);

You'll need to either return the promise created by then to the caller, or handle errors on it (e.g., via .catch), as is always the case with promises.
More about Promise.all in the bluebird docs and on MDN.

A: It is not clear what you want but if you want to process each album you can use Promise.all with Array.prototype.map Your code will look something like this:
//if this is part of a function you shoud
// return createAccount ...
createAccount(this.state.item) //promise
.then(
  resp=>//arrow function without {} will return first statement
        //resp=>Promise.all(... is same as resp=>{ return Promise.all(...
    Promise.all(
      this.state.albums.map(
        album=>{
          //not sure why you want to keep calling createAlbum
          //  but only have one id, did you want to do album.id?
          createAlbum(resp.id)
          .then(
            o=>{
              //do something with o, album or response, they are all available
              return album;//you acn for example return album
            }
          )
        }
      )
    )
)
.then(
  results=>{
    //results is an array of whatever o=> returns
  }
).catch(
  error=>{
    console.warn("something went wrong:",error);
  }
);

Please let me know if you have any questions, will probably need:

*

*The code you are using

*Add some console.log("album is:",JSON.stringify(album,undefined,2) statements in the code (album is an example). So you can debug some of the code yourself and identify if the data objects you think you have are actually the object you have.

*Any errors that you have. Press F12 in browser and look at console and network tab. The console will show errors and your console.logs and network will show your xhr with the errors/response.

A: Use promise.map instead of promise.all, find example below for reference-
Promise.map(this.state.albums, function(fileName) {
    // Promise.map awaits for returned promises as well.
    return x;
}).then(function() {
    console.log("Done");
});

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Q: DSE 4.8 Solr deep paging performace issue I've just have a question about Solr deep-paging performance. I have installed DSE 4.8 cluster (Cassandra + Solr) and the things are going well until we hit some issues with depp-paging. Solr performs well searching and indexing data but we hit a serious lack of performace doing deep-paging.
The database has 110GB of data per each node (4 in total; 2 x C* + 2 x Solr), Solr resolves the searches very quick and the paging through the result set (20 rows per page), however the problem comes when I try to get an entire result set of 3,000 or 5,000 rows from the database. For this last scenario I am using the deep page technique and unfortunately i can't fetch more than 1000 rows every ~10 secs. Is there any chance to improve deep page performance on DSE Solr?.
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How I went from shy kid to school striker
Home > Blog > How I went from shy kid to school striker
"Like wildflowers, you must allow yourself to grow in all the places that people thought you never would."
I'm Emily, an 18-year-old from Derbyshire. Over the past 10 months, I have become deeply invested in climate activism and I have developed so much because of it. I am currently leading regular school strikes in the small town of Matlock.
In February 2019, the 1st YouthStrike4Climate protest took place in London. It definitely caught my attention as I was brought up by a family with a passion for wildlife and the outdoors and therefore I have always been mindful of environmental issues. However, I never considered myself confident or rebellious enough to protest.
A friend and I almost jokingly said that would join the next one. In March, that whimsy turned into a reality and we jumped on a train down to London. We marched alongside 20,000 students through the streets of the capital to demand that the national government tackles the climate crisis. It was honestly one of the most empowering experiences of my life. Although I was only one of thousands, I felt like I could really make a difference and help change the world for the better.
After being inspired by the London protest, I set up Matlock4Climate, alongside a team of equally budding students. In April, we held our very first strike, when we were joined by 100 protestors. Since then, we have led 6 demonstrations, generating a crowd 250-strong in September. We are due to hold our 7th later this month. My roles within the group include communicating with the public via social media, designing promotional material and coordinating our group's actions.
County Hall, the seat of power for Derbyshire, is a key target for our protests. Conveniently, it is situated in Matlock itself. Inconveniently, it lies at the top of a steep hill with an average gradient of 11%. During our protests, we usually storm the building and often performing a so-called 'die-in' in the foyer. As well as being a symbolic performance, demonstrating the death and destruction that we will face in the future, it is also a welcome lie-down after a gruelling 15-minute hill climb. We do this in the hope that it catches the attention of local councillors. And we have definitely been successful. In response to our activism, the town, district and county councils are all slowly but surely creating strategies to reduce the area's greenhouse gas emissions.
Due to the strikes, I have been forced to push myself out of my comfort zone. I was always considered a shy kid as I found it challenging to communicate with people outside of my friendship group and the comfort of my home. Despite this, I have had to make my case in front of school peers, police officers, teachers, headteachers, councillors, fellow activists and I have even challenged the prime minister. But that's a story for another time.
I frequently give speeches in front of large crowds which has dramatically improved my confidence and public speaking skills. A year ago, no one would have envisaged me giving speeches or chanting and singing through a megaphone. I truly believe that I have shocked my friends and family with how I have emerged out of my shell over the past year. And I have definitely shocked myself.
But why am I doing this? We've seen footage of the devastating impacts of the climate and ecological breakdown. Bushfires, heatwaves, cyclones, floods, storms, droughts, desertification, the list goes on. We've heard about how the polar bears, koalas and coral reefs are suffering. We know that people all over the world are losing their homes, lives and livelihoods.
But what really hit home for me was when the crisis quite literally hit home. On the 8th November, Matlock and the surrounding area suffered severe flooding after prolonged rainfall. Businesses, roads and farmland were submerged underwater and Annie Hall, the former High-Sheriff of Derbyshire, sadly lost her life after being swept into the floodwaters. Earlier in the summer, part of the dam at Whaley Bridge collapsed after torrential rainfall. 1500 people had to be temporarily evacuated. Events like these will only become more severe and frequent if governments don't take action now to prevent further global warming and ecological collapse. We must continue to strike in order to continue to push for systematic change.
My actions as part of Matlock4Climate have definitely raised awareness of the climate crisis in the local area and hopefully, we will soon start to see real action taken countywide and nationwide. My confidence, creativity, public speaking, writing and leadership skills have all improved massively throughout this process which has benefitted me both in my everyday life and school work.
Don't be shy, speak up and make a scene! No matter who you are or where you come from – you can be a catalyst for change! Small actions and shy people can make a difference, and I think am living proof of that.
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A Day By the Sea
By N.C. Hunter
Directed By Austin Pendleton
July 22nd 2016 through October 30th 2016
The Beckett Theatre at Theatre Row
(between 9th and 10th Ave)
Flyer & Program
After our acclaimed production of A PICTURE OF AUTUMN, Mint revisited the work of playwright N.C. Hunter with A DAY BY THE SEA. A warm, human, and often humorous depiction of the 'crisis' of middle age, the play tells the story of Julian Anson, a once-promising Foreign Service employee, who confronts professional disappointment and personal failure while picnicking along the English seaside.
A DAY BY THE SEA opened on the West End in 1953 and ran for 386 performances in a production that starred Dame Sybil Thorndike, Irene Worth, Sir John Gielgud and Sir Ralph Richardson. In New York, the play opened in 1955 with Jessica Tandy and Hume Cronyn headlining the cast; Hunter's only Broadway production. Our production marked the play's first New York revival.
Our first production as a resident company at Theatre Row, A DAY BY THE SEA was a New York Times Critic's Pick. "There's so much to like about the Mint Theater Company's revisiting of A DAY BY THE SEA that it's hard to know what to single out," wrote Neil Genzlinger, calling the play "a beautiful study in conversations never had, or had too late."1 In the Wall Street Journal, Terry Teachout called the play, "that rarest of rarities, a forgotten masterpiece, acted by the best ensemble cast I've seen in recent seasons and staged with taut vitality by Austin Pendleton."2 He later selected our production as the year's "best revival of a modern play" for the Wall Street Journal's "Best Theater of 2016" feature. Originally scheduled to close on September 24th, A DAY BY THE SEA was extended through October 30th and ranks among our best reviewed, best attended productions ever.
1. Review: In 'A Day by the Sea,' Words Unsaid or Said Quite Bluntly The New York Times
2. 'A Day by the Sea' Review: A Masterpiece Reclaimed The Wall Street Journal
N.C. Hunter (1908-1971) was one of the leading English dramatists of the 1950s and early 1960s. As theatrical revolution—spearheaded by John Osborne and his school of "angry young men"—exploded around him, Hunter kept his head down and provided moving portraits of a people questioning their own purpose in chaotic post-war England.
Norman Charles Hunter was born on September 18, 1908 in Derbyshire. Originally intending to follow in the footsteps of his father, a decorated Lieutenant Colonel, Hunter was educated at the Royal Military College. In 1930 he was commissioned in the Dragoon Guards but relinquished his position three years later, deciding to devote his life to literary pursuits. He found a day job on the staff of the BBC and began writing. In the years prior to the outbreak of World War II, Hunter produced six plays and four novels. His early plays, all farcical comedies, showed the promise of a true writer with a strong sense of craftsmanship.
Hunter returned to playwriting in 1947 after having served with the Royal Artillery during the war. Over the next four years, Hunter continued to develop his craft, discovering a voice that would be considered distinctly his own. In 1951, Hunter introduced A Picture of Autumn as the first in a series of plays that would establish his reputation as an "English Chekhov." Mint presented the play's American Premiere in 2013 in a production that Terry Teachout of the Wall Street Journal described as "so strong, that in a perfect world it would trigger a general revival of interest in Mr. Hunter's work."
Hunter's major success came later in 1951: Waters of the Moon. Another nuanced portrayal of faded gentility struggling for survival, the play opened at the Theatre Royal in London with a cast that included Dame Sybil Thorndike and Dame Edith Evans. The production ran for 835 performances and established Hunter as one of Britain's most popular dramatists.
Hunter's firmly crafted and bittersweet comedies continued to garner successful West End runs, attracting many of the leading actors of the day. A Day by the Sea opened in 1953 and ran for 386 performances starring Dame Sybil Thorndike, Irene Worth, Sir John Gielgud and Sir Ralph Richardson. In New York, A Day by the Sea opened in 1955 with Jessica Tandy and Hume Cronyn headlining the cast; Hunter's only Broadway production.
Hunter wrote four more plays in the decade preceding his death on April 19, 1971. By this time, England's cultural revolution was in full swing. Hunter's restrained naturalism fell out of fashion as playwrights like Joe Orton introduced flamboyance and controversy into the British theatre. In reviewing Mint's 2013 production of A Picture of Autumn David Barbour of Lighting and Sound America wrote:
It's strange to think that N. C. Hunter was more or less put out of business by the likes of John Osborne and his angry young colleagues. A Picture of Autumn is a far more playable work than, say, Look Back in Anger, which has looked distinctly arthritic in recent revivals. And for all its gentle manners, A Picture of Autumn, in its presentation of a country suffering profound spiritual drift, is as pointed and devastating as anything Osborne ever wrote. Say hello to N. C. Hunter, and let's hope we hear from him again soon.
Ross Bickell
Frederick Buford
Julian Elfer
Katie Firth
Philip Goodwin
Sean Gormley
Gus Kaikkonen
Polly McKie
Kylie McVey
George Morfogen
Jill Tanner
Directing Austin Pendleton
Sets Charles Morgan
Costumes Martha Hally
Lights Xavier Pierce
Original Music & Sound Jane Shaw
Props Joshua Yocom
Casting Judy Bowman
Dialects & Dramaturgy Amy Stoller
Additional Dramaturgy Maya Cantu
Production Stage Manager Catherine Bloch/Pamela Edington
Assistant Stage Manager Jeff Meyers
Illustration Stefano Imbert
Graphics Hey Jude Design, Inc.
Advertising The Pekoe Group
Press David Gersten & Associates
"IN SEARCH OF N.C. HUNTER"
MAYA CANTU, THEATER HISTORIAN AND DRAMATURG
Sunday, July 31 after the matinee
Maya Cantu is a theater historian, scholar, and Dramaturgical Advisor for the Mint. She received a D.F.A. in Dramaturgy and Dramatic Criticism at Yale School of Drama, and joins the Drama faculty of Bennington College this fall. Maya is the author of the book, American Cinderellas on the Broadway Musical Stage: Imagining the Working Girl from "Irene" to "Gypsy." Her discussion will focus on the life and work of N.C. Hunter, and on the contexts and influences informing A Day by the Sea.
"BRITISH THEATRE IN THE POSTWAR WORLD"
ROGER W. OLIVER, NEW YORK UNIVERSITY AND JUILLIARD
Saturday, August 6 after the matinee
Roger W. Oliver is Professor of Liberal Arts and Drama at Juilliard, and Professor of English and Dramatic Literature at N.Y.U., where he teaches courses in Modern British Drama. He is the author of Dreams of Passion: The Dramatic Art of Luigi Pirandello, and has contributed to many publications including Good Reading, Forum, Performing Arts Journal, and Modern Drama. Roger's discussion will place A Day by the Sea into the larger context of post-war British theater.
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"N.C. HUNTER: PLAYS THAT ACTORS LIKED TO SPEAK"
CHARLES DUFF, AUTHOR OF THE LOST SUMMER: THE HEYDAY OF THE WEST END THEATRE
Saturday, August 13, after the matinee
Charles Duff is a British teacher, actor, theatre director, writer and critic. His first professional role was in N.C. Hunter's The Adventures of Tom Random at Guildford's Yvonne Arnaud Theatre in 1967. His book, The Lost Summer: The Heyday of the West End Theatre, focuses on the career of director Frith Banbury, and on the playwrights and actors of the commercial British theatre of the mid-twentieth century. Duff's post-show discussion will discuss how N.C. Hunter's plays fit into this rich period of theatrical history.
"A DAY WITH CHARLES DUFF"
SUNDAY, AUGUST 14 before & after the matinee
12:30pm – Brunch and discussion at West Bank Cafe: Join Charles Duff for a delicious pre-matinee brunch at West Bank Cafe, where he will provide an introduction to A Day by the Sea and share his own personal memories of working with N.C. Hunter on the author's The Adventures of Tom Random.
2:30pm – Matinee performance of A Day by the Sea at Theatre Row.
5:00pm – Continue the conversation at the Theatre Row Lounge: Join Charles Duff, Jonathan Bank, and select members of the company for a post-show wine and cheese reception at the Theatre Row Lounge.
Brunch, one matinee ticket, and post-show reception: $82.25 ($75 for members of the First-Priority Club.) Call 212.315.0231 to reserve your place.
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Ikebana classes in March will be held on Saturday, March 10, 2018 at 2:00 p.m. and Saturday, March 31 at 1:00 p.m. Please bring a low vase, Kenyan, and ikebana scissors (or flower cutting scissors). Cost is $5 per class plus the cost of flowers/foliage ($5-$8). There is a sign-up sheet at the temple.


Taxes "Mid-Season Replacement" uses a fractured sense of time and space to explore themes of love and lack thereof.
Taxes' vital forthcoming seven-song collection, is a compelling, emotionally wrought, and luminous indie rock anthem. Engineered by Ryan Williams (Pearl Jam, Linkin Park, Alkaline Trio) and mixed by Danny Seim of Menomena, it features some of the most satisfying production you're bound to hear in 2014.San Francisco native Robby Cronholm is the songwriter and lead singer of Taxes. His past efforts include singing/songwriting in seminal 90s indie rock band crumb and a brief career in advertising.


After the Bespoke wedding USB box you'll never look at wedding albums the same. It's an excellent option for wedding photographers looking to deliver top quality products to their clients. It comes in a natural, charming linen with a velvet USB compartment and soft, ivory silk ribbon stitched in to lift photos from the box. This box features an exciting video viewer on the lid that plays when opened.
You simply can't go wrong with the Bespoke in a lovely linen. It features a flash drive compartment in linen, as well as a separate compartment for up to 150 5 x 7 size photos for your clients to thumb through their favorite snapshots. The crown jewel of this package is the 5" video viewer in standard definition that has a 512MB capacity, allowing for short but dramatic video clips that play when the box is opened. It includes a USB cable.


Marshalltown, Iowa - Mechdyne Corporation has been presented with the March 2011 Renew Rural Iowa Leader Award by Iowa Farm Bureau. The Leader Award, which recognizes excellence in entrepreneurial achievement, was accepted by Jim Gruening, Vice President of Operations for Mechdyne's Systems Integration Division.
The award was presented by Joe Ludley of the Marshall County Farm Bureau Board of Directors. Also in attendance at the presentation were Sandy Ehrig of Renew Rural Iowa; Angie Nelson, Iowa Farm Bureau Regional 10 Manager; and Jean Klosterman of the Marshall County Farm Bureau. Joe Papp of the Center for Industrial Research and Service (CIRAS) program at Iowa State University Extension nominated Mechdyne for the award and was also present.
"We were especially pleased to nominate Mechdyne for this award to recognize the technology jobs they have brought to Iowa," said Papp. "Also, not only are they a net exporter of high tech services and expertise, but they provide an outstanding work environment and supportive working conditions. Mechdyne is a valuable Iowa employer and they are definitely making a difference in rural Iowa."
The Iowa Farm Bureau developed the Leader Award as part of their "Renew Rural Iowa" program. Renew Rural Iowa was developed to enhance and improve economic growth across the state, and especially in communities with populations of less than 30,000.
Gruening says there are a variety of reasons they decided to establish the company in Marshalltown. "Iowa's high quality educational system and exceptional workforce coupled with Marshalltown's geographic location and entrepreneurial spirit have been key factors in Mechdyne's success," he states. "There's such a strong work ethic among Iowans," says Gruening. "Having people on our team with those traits is a key competitive advantage and makes it much easier to provide high quality products and services for the global market."
Mechdyne Corporation, which began as a company specializing in virtual reality systems, is now the world's largest company dedicated to consulting and development of turnkey advanced audio visual, immersive 3D, networked, and collaborative visualization solutions. The company designs and integrates technology solutions, including a variety of software programs and services, that help organizations leverage technology to solve their unique business challenges.
During the course of its 15 year history, Mechdyne has provided several solutions for Iowa State University, including North America's first six-sided CAVE™ system, a four-channel FLEX™ system, and a visualization auditorium. Other Iowa-based companies that Mechdyne has completed projects for include: the University of Iowa; the Iowa Hall of Pride; John Deere; Rockwell Collins; Indian Hills Community College; and ARDEC, at the Rock Island Arsenal.
Nationally and internationally, Mechdyne has provided technology systems to such recognizable names as: BP, Hess Oil, Exxon, BMW, Ford, Hyundai, Los Alamos National Labs, Kimberly Clark, NASA, and the U.S. Army and Navy.
As part of the Renew Rural Iowa Leader recognition, Mechdyne was also featured on "The Big Show" with Bob Quinn, on WHO Radio which aired on March 31st.


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Shiv Nadar University
Shiv Nadar University is a comprehensive, multidisciplinary, research-focused, and student-centric University offering a full range of academic programs at the undergraduate, postgraduate and doctoral level.
To empower individuals and communities to realize and exercise universal freedom through acquisition and application of knowledge by:
Dedicating to the development, organization, preservation, dissemination, and application of knowledge in a wide range of fields of study.
Committing to excellence in teaching, discovery & innovation, scholarship, and service to expand the scope of human understanding, and contributing to the betterment of the world.
Pledging to serve the higher education needs of State of Uttar Pradesh, India, and the global community.
A comprehensive, multidisciplinary, research-focused, and student-centric university aimed at becoming a leading international institution of higher learning by:
Developing and educating the path-shapers of tomorrow, who can shoulder the challenges of globally responsible, and ethical leadership in the 21st Century.
Supporting research, scholarly, and creative endeavors that contribute to the creation of new knowledge at the frontiers of specialized areas as well as at the interface of diverse disciplines.
Evolving research and teaching programs that tackle the most pressing problems of the State of Uttar Pradesh, India, and the global community.
Schools and Programs in Shiv Nadar University
School of Engineering (SoE)
B.Tech. in
School of Humanities and Social Sciences (SoHSS)
B.A. (Research) in English
B.Sc. (Research) in Economics
B.A. (Research) in Sociology
B.A. (Research) in International Relations
B.A. (Research) in History
M.Sc. in Economics
M.A. in English
M.Des. in Design
M.Sc. in Water Science and Policy
MFA in Film and Television
MFA in Fine Arts
Ph.D. in English
Ph.D. in History
Ph.D. in Sociology
School of Natural Sciences (SoNS)
B.Sc. (Research) in Mathematics
B.Sc. (Research) in Chemistry
B.Sc. (Research) in Physics
B.Sc. (Research) in Biotechnology
M.Sc. in Mathematics
Ph.D. in Life Sciences / Bioinformatics
Ph.D. in Mathematics
Ph.D. in Chemistry
Ph.D. in Physics
School of Management and Entrepreneurship
Doctorate in Management (PhD)
Research in Shiv Nadar University
Strong emphasis on interdisciplinary research that cuts across academic programs has allowed the University to break disciplinary silos and institute a broad-based pedagogical structure. The University's mission is to be at the forefront of the creation of new knowledge and new forms of creative expressions through setting the core research agenda of the programs ranging from basic and fundamental studies to applied and creative research.
Admission in Shiv Nadar University
Shiv Nadar University's selection process has three parts:
Part 1: Eligibility based on Class XII scores as defined in the section - Eligibility for Admissions and Scholarships - Undergraduate Programs
Part 2: Shiv Nadar University Scholastic Aptitude Test (SNUSAT) and Academic Proficiency Test (APT) – A combined three hour test to be administered in more than 100 Pearson VUE test centers across India helping every aspirant to participate in the process. SNUSAT and APT will be available as per the details mentioned under section - Key Dates.
Part 3: Review of Application Form for the candidate's aspiration in life and the ability to be a stakeholder at Shiv Nadar University.
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Guest, Pastor Larry Vincent of Heritage Baptist Church, gave us a special message from Ephesians 4:1-3 entitled "Church Members' Unity for God's Glory".
We invite all the ladies to meet with us on Wednesdays, starting at 7pm at Grace Church for Ladies' Fellowship.
We will be going through "The Westminster Shorter Catechism: For Study Classes" (Spanish version here).
Book will be provided for those committed to the study, while supplies last.
All church women are welcome to attend.
For more details please contact Gloria Vasquez.
Pastor Jay gave a special message on "Ordo Salutis & Faith".
You can also download this infographic in a high-quality PDF (10 MB).
The children, in their catechism, went through Q&A 88.
Pastor Jay continued in our series through Ephesians, we heard a message from Ephesians 3:7-11 entitled "Paul's Mystery of the Gospel Ministry".
View or download the notes handout from Sunday Seminary.
The children, in their catechism, went through Q&A 87.
Pastor Jay continued in our series through Ephesians, we heard a message from Ephesians 3:1-6 entitled "The Mystery of the Gospel Revealed".


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HWA AG es una empresa alemana que se encarga de desarrollar componentes y vehículos para Mercedes-AMG. Actualmente, posee un equipo de competición, llamado HWA Team, que ha participado en DTM, Fórmula 3, Fórmula E y en carreras de GT, tales como las 24 Horas de Nürburgring.

Historia
En 1967, el fundador de HWA Hans Werner Aufrecht junto con Erhard Melcher fundaron AMG. Sin embargo, en el año 1998 vendieron la empresa a Mercedes-Benz menos la división de carreras y la de construcción de componentes las cuales fueron transferidas a HWA, dando origen a la misma.

La empresa esta nombrada tras las iniciales de su fundador Hans Werner Aufrecht.

Competición
Desde la primera temporada del actual DTM, en 2000, esta empresa ha participado en el campeonato con vehículos de Mercedes, donde 8 veces algún piloto del este equipo ha sido campeón. Ellos fueron Bernd Schneider, Paul di Resta, Marco Wittmann y Gary Paffett. También aportaron puntos en todas las temporadas para que Mercedes se quede 8 veces con el campeonato de constructores.

Corrió la temporada 2018-19 de Fórmula E en asociación con Venturi, preparando la entrada del equipo oficial Mercedes. Contrató al recién campeón de DTM, Gary Paffett, y al expiloto de McLaren en Fórmula 1, Stoffel Vandoorne. Junto al belga lograron una pole y un podio.

En 2019, el equipo fue uno de los 10 que ingresaron al nuevo Campeonato de Fórmula 3 de la FIA. En el año siguiente ingresará al de Fórmula 2.

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Police to battle prisoner abuse
By Li Xinran | April 2, 2009, Thursday | Print Edition
POLICE across the country have been ordered to launch a three-month campaign to combat the abuse of prisoners in Chinese jails, the Ministry of Public Security said, following a series of accusations of torture and an uproar over suspicious inmate deaths.
The campaign aims to eliminate the misuse of authority and boost awareness of the law and human rights, according to a notice posted late on Tuesday on the Website of the ministry, which oversees the police.
Inspections will be carried out after the campaign to determine if problems have been corrected, the notice said.
"We request every detention department at all levels to focus on strengthening their ideology ... their professional ethics, as well as their work style and anti-corruption awareness," it said.
The notice said officers must learn from the death of 24-year-old Li Qiaoming earlier this year.
In that case, officers initially said the man died accidentally while playing a game of blind man's bluff with other inmates in a detention center in Yunnan Province in February. Li was later found to have been beaten to death by other inmates.
Other cases highlighted by state media include a report on the death of 50-year-old suspect Li Wenyan.
He was certified dead in a detention house in Jiujiang City, Jiangxi Province, on Friday, and authorities said the Hubei native died after having a nightmare.
Li Wenyan's family demanded an autopsy and discovered bruises on his forehead, according to the Wuhan-based Chutian Metropolis Daily.
Several weeks ago, two teenage offenders died while serving jail terms in a reformatory in central China.
Authorities said they died naturally. But the family of Xiao Haixing, 19, found blood, bruises and cuts on Xiao's body, according to the Oriental Outlook magazine.
Qiu Xiaolong, 18, was found unconscious in a cell at the same reformatory on March 6 and was pronounced dead at a hospital after receiving emergency treatment.
Qiu's father found that his son's body bloodied and with bruises, though authorities denied that any violence had been involved.


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Beyond Pluto: Hubble Will Be Used to Map Out a New Target for New Horizons
June 24, 2014, 7:30 AM ET
By Phil Plait
Next year, in July 2015, the New Horizons probe will zip past Pluto at high speed, taking high-res images and detailed observations the whole time. We've never seen the ice ball up close before, so these data of the world (and its retinue of five known moons) will provide amazing new knowledge of it.
But then what?
It's a good question. New Horizons is loaded with cutting-edge tech to explore strange, new worlds, and it would be a waste to just let it keep flying into infinity, targetless and unused.
The good news is that there are plenty of objects out past Pluto to investigate: the Kuiper Belt, a huge repository of giant chunks of ice, some hundreds or even thousands of kilometers across. Studying one of these up close would be a fantastic scientific opportunity.
The bad news: Space is big. That's why we call it space. Out past Pluto the pickings are thin indeed; the odds of randomly passing close enough to a Kuiper Belt Object to see it as more than a single pixel dot are essentially zero. The best bet would be to find some that are near New Horizons' path, and then steer the probe toward them. The earlier the better; the longer we wait the more precious fuel it would take to divert the craft.
So now we're back to good news: Scientists have announced that Hubble will be used to look for potential flyby opportunities.
As New Horizons flies past Pluto, the volume of space available for visits is an opening cone, wider the farther it travels. From Earth that projects as an area of sky near Sagittarius, and that's where Hubble will look. This part's cool: Any KBOs in that volume will orbit the Sun at a fairly well-understood rate, and so Hubble will slowly scan along the sky at that same apparent rate. Stars will appear as streaks, but the KBOs will look like dots. This is very helpful, because otherwise the light from these distant chunks of ice will get smeared out and look much fainter, making them very difficult to see.
This method has been used before to look for KBOs (though it's unclear how successful it was). Hopefully any new search campaign will make sure the technique is likely to yield success. There will be a series of test observations first, and if it works, then a more dedicated and deeper survey will ensue.
I certainly hope this works out. New Horizons is a pretty cool mission and I'm all for using space hardware to its fullest potential. We've seen a few KBOs up close—assuming Saturn's Phoebe and Neptune's Triton count, and of course there will be Pluto itself after the flyby—but just a few. The more we investigate the more we'll learn about these weird, remote objects.
(N.B. And to get this out of the way: I think the debate over whether Pluto is a planet or not is silly. It's not even that we don't have a definition for "planet," it's that we can't. It's not a definable property of an object.)
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Illusion of a Food Pack Economy
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By Olusegun Adeniyi, Email: olusegun.adeniyi@thisdaylive.com
On 7th November, I was in Afiesere, Ughelli for the Service of Songs for late Pa James Okpako Edevbie, father of Olorogun David Edevbie, Chief of Staff to the Delta State Governor. At the end of the ceremony, each guest was handed a take-away food pack. Congregated outside the venue was a large crowd, a common sight at public ceremonies in our country where people mill around for crumbs. As I made my way to the vehicle, a lady accosted me and said, "Please dash me your food pack."
I obliged her, even though the lady did not appear hungry to me. Perhaps the food pack delicacies—which may have offered something different from what she was used to eating—were the attraction. But however rich the contents of that food pack, they could only satiate her appetite for a day, at best. These were my reflections as we drove away from the venue and in the days that followed. Sadly, we live in a society where people scramble for food packs. More disturbing is that this food pack mentality is symptomatic of the way we run our country.
In the '2019 Nigeria Economic Update Report' released on Monday, the World Bank projected that the number of Nigerians living in extreme poverty may increase by more than 30 million by 2030. According to the report, our country could be home to 25 per cent of the world's destitute people within the next decade if government, at all levels, fails to revive the economy and create jobs. "With population growth (estimated at 2.6 per cent) outpacing economic growth in a context of weak job creation, per capita income is falling. Today, an estimated 100 million Nigerians live on less than $1.90 per day," says the World Bank.
In calling for reforms, the report highlights the urgency of creating jobs for our growing (and young) population. The challenge is our lack of any grand vision to address the problem because the ethos driving our economy is still that of scrambling for food packs. For instance, at the end of every month, representatives of the three tiers of government still gather in Abuja for the Federation Accounts Allocation Committee (FAAC) meetings where oil proceeds are shared. After that, we borrow heavily to finance both recurrent expenditure and capital projects that are being managed with subsidies.
Meanwhile, the 2019 Finance Bill presented by President Muhammad Buhari along with the 2020 budget has scaled the second reading in both chambers of the National Assembly. If eventually passed into law, it will make changes to the Companies Income Tax (CIT), Capital Gains Tax and the Personal Income Tax for which a Tax Identification Number (TIN) would be required as a precondition to open or operate a bank account for business purposes in the country. There will also be changes in the Petroleum Profit Tax (PPT) and Stamp Duty. However, the most controversial aspect of the bill is the proposition to increase the Value Added Tax (VAT) from 5 to 7.5 percent.
It is not as if we do not know why. The federal government is hard pressed for cash to fund the recently announced minimum wage and the consequential adjustments. In fact, the VAT rate increase was part of the critical recommendations by a team set up to advise government on how to fund the minimum wage increase. So, it is about generating more revenue for national consumption at a period when every effort should be geared towards creating jobs and therefore based on the 'food pack' philosophy – satiating the immediate 'hunger' of government with little or no thought for tomorrow.
Last Thursday in Abuja, seven organisations and 26 individuals, including Alhaji Aliko Dangote, Mr Tony Elumelu, Mr John Momoh and Mr Sam Omatseye, FNAL, were honoured at the 2019 National Productivity Order of Merit (NPOM) award. Speaking at the ceremony, Elumelu harped on the need for job creation, poverty reduction and economic development in Nigeria. "We need jobs to be created in Nigeria to take our young ones off the street, to reduce insecurity and promote national development and cohesion," said Elumelu who was merely re-echoing the conclusions at the 2019 Tony Elumelu Foundation (TEF) entrepreneurship forum held in July this year which was attended by several leaders from across the continent. It is noteworthy that statistics from the TEF reveal that on average, revenue generated by their entrepreneurs increased by 189% post-graduation while the number of additional jobs created by beneficiaries increased by 197%. Meanwhile, 15 percent of these entrepreneurs also employ at least 10 staff, and in terms of revenue growth, 13 percent of them generate above $50,000 annually, after the programme.
The import of TEF figures is that we have a fertile environment for entrepreneurship on the continent and especially in Nigeria, if only our government can put in place the right policies. That also means that we have capacity to take many of our people off the streets by enabling small businesses to grow. I have practical evidence of this. About three months ago, my aburo, Seyi Adekunle sent me two pairs of shoes made by his company, Vodi which is diversifying from clothing to other businesses in the fashion industry. The shoes are as good as any from Italy. With only one female assistant earning N8,000 per month at his Wuse 2 shop some few years ago, Vodi is now a thriving enterprise employing 157 tailors and features a training school. It is the same with the business of my friend's wife, Mrs Sandra Adio. I was there the day she officially opened her 'Metro Bread' bakery in December 2014 with just two support staff. Now, the business has diversified into pastry and food with a staff strength of 108. During the week, one of my professional mentors, Dr Chidi Amuta, told me that after just five years in business, his wife's health and fitness outfit has grown to employ 40 staff ranging from gym instructors to spa therapists, hair stylists and beauticians. Sadly, in addition to spending a fortune every month on diesel, Mrs Amuta has had to contend with tax men from both state and federal authorities as well as local government touts etc.
The foregoing speaks to the potentials (huge markets for quality products and services) and challenges (unconducive operating environment) that impact on doing business in Nigeria. Increasing VAT cannot be the way to help those that we need to create jobs. In other countries, they offer such entrepreneurs incentives for their businesses to grow, not tax them to death. We must make begin to make the business environment more friendly for them and policy goalposts more realistic and predictable, in our collective interest.
Let me state clearly at this point that governments all over the world collect VAT as a ready source of revenue. In fact, several European countries operate VAT rates of 20% and above, and a majority of African countries are in the 15% – 18% bracket. Therefore, even with the current proposition, Nigeria's VAT would still be the lowest in Africa. However, while a 2.5% increase may appear a rather small number, in the context of our current VAT structure, it represents a 50% increase. That is huge. Besides, since VAT is regressive tax usually paid in the value chain, any increase, no matter how small it may seem, is a further squeeze on consumer disposable income in Nigeria. Of significance will be the impact on the Micro, Small and Medium Enterprises (MSMEs). Yet, if we are ever to develop our country, these are the businesses we need to support to grow.
This brings me back to TEF. Established in 2010, the idea of Elumelu is that the private sector, and most importantly entrepreneurs, remain the catalyst for the social and economic development of the continent. With an initial commitment of $100million to empower 10,000 entrepreneurs across 54 African countries over a 10-year period, no fewer than 7,531 have already benefitted from the scheme with interesting stories to tell. The creation of young African entrepreneurs, Elumelu believes, will not only ginger hope for a burgeoning youth demographic, it will also drastically reduce the economic underpinnings of Africa's migration crisis.
However, to support these types of businesses that can take many of our young men and women off the streets, taxation should not be the priority. We need to go back to the regime of giving new SMEs tax holidays. As it is now, the Federal Inland Revenue Service (FIRS) doesn't do that. So once you start a business you are expected to pay tax the following year. This makes it difficult for them to thrive. Meanwhile, the basic infrastructure needed for successful business operations are not on ground to cushion the effects of the VAT increase. Take for example power. Majority of SMEs run on generators. So, a further increase in VAT means that they may be forced to reduce salaries and other emoluments or sack staff which will further increase the level of poverty among Nigerians, since majority of our people don't buy the idea of being made to pay additional cost to their purchase prices.
The other side of course is that at a period when we should be increasing the tax net, a 50 percent increase in VAT will actually create an army of tax evaders instead of loyal tax payers, because majority of SMEs will now be forced to do what is common in Nigeria: Forge tax clearance documents!
While I am an advocate of running our country on the basis of tax in order to instill sanity in the system and encourage responsible citizenship, the challenge is that those in leadership positions do not inspire confidence that the money generated will be used to advance the public good. Besides, the more you tax incomes and profits, the less savings and investment. With that, poverty increases and is passed from generation to generation. To develop as a society, we must move away from the idea of scrambling for food packs by initiating policy measures that encourage wealth creation and put our people to work.
Another Laurel for LJC
Last Thursday, a team from the United States visited Loyola Jesuit College (LJC), Abuja to congratulate one of their final year students, Miss Shashe Ojuba who achieved what is described as 'Perfect Score' (100 percent in all subjects) at the American College Testing (ACT), which is used for admission into their Colleges (Universities), alongside Scholastic Aptitude Test (SAT). With Shashe being the first student in Africa to achieve such a feat in ACT, it is another laurel for LJC that continues to set high standards and break records.
By creating a competitive environment through their grading system from JS1 to SS2 where students are given positions based on total numbers in their entire set; by preparing their students to be globally competitive through an awareness of opportunities that exist beyond the shores of the country; by allowing their students to freely access their teachers on a one-on-one basis to go over difficult subjects; by encouraging their students to participate in local and foreign competitions and by enforcing a strict regime of discipline, Loyola Jesuit College is, without doubt, one of the best high schools in the country today with their graduates easily admitted into Ivy League Universities in Europe and the United States.
While there is much those who manage the education sector in Nigeria can learn from LJC, let me extend my congratulations to Shashe.
On Medical Tourism
Yesterday in Ilorin, Kwara State, I was a guest speaker at the 36th Annual General Meeting and Scientific Conference of the Association of Resident Doctors, University of Ilorin Teaching Hospital. I spoke on 'Medical Tourism and the Challenge of Healthcare Delivery in Nigeria'. With medical tourism costing the nation huge sums of money, estimated to be over $1.3 billion, according to a 2016 Price Waterhouse Coopers report, it has become a huge burden to our economy. Besides, medical tourism also comes with several huge risks which I highlighted in my presentation. Interested readers can check this link: https://wp.me/pacBbN-1xah
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Bates Motel Season 5 casts Silence Of The Lambs star
Grey's Anatomy star will bring the law to Season 5 of Bates Motel
By Jonathan Hatfull	 26-09-16 39,642
There's another new addition to the cast of Bates Motel Season 5, and it's a little spoiler-y, so if you're not all caught up on the prequel adventures of Norman and Norma Bates, stop reading now!
TV Line reports that Brooke Smith has been cast as the show's new Sheriff, Dana Green. The spoiler-y part is, of course, that she's stepping into the law-enforcing shoes of Nestor Carbonell's Alex Romero, who is currently incarcerated. She's "described as competent, professional, moralistic and sharp. She possesses a small-town vibe that belies her highly observant nature."
Smith's been doing excellent work for years now and we're very excited to see her join the show in its fifth and final season. You might recognise her from her run on Grey's Anatomy, or, if you're like us, you'll know her as Senator Martin's daughter Catherine, who was given some very clear instructions about what to do with lotion in The Silence Of The Lambs. She was also brilliant in the strangely underrated Series 7: The Contenders, and she's done excellent guest work on shows like Six Feet Under, Ray Donovan, American Horror Story and Weeds.
The other big newcomer to Bates Motel Season 5 is Rihanna, who'll be playing the iconic role of Marion Crane, while House Of Cards' Isabelle McNally was recently cast as Madeline Loomis "a warm and kindhearted woman who bears a striking resemblance to a young Norma Bates (Vera Farmiga)" which is obviously going to mess with Norman's head…
The 10-episode fifth season will be the last in A&E's popular series, and we're hoping that it goes out with a bang.
Bates Motel Season 5 will air in 2017. Keep up with the latest genre news with the new issue of SciFiNow.
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KWFinder Review and Tutorial: Possibly the best keyword tool for beginners?
Today we're going to be reviewing one of the most popular keyword tools in the market: KWFinder.
But not just that. I've included a full step-by-step tutorial explaining how to get the most out of this tool, so that you can squeeze every single $ invested on your keyword research tool!
You can also check out another KWFinder review here, so you know we're not making these things up.
The best part of this tool.
A clear and appealing value proposition. Easy to use, keyword ideas, low competition long tail keywords galore.
KWFinder currently has 3 plans and those are volume-based. Meaning each one has a limit in the amount of keyword lookups or checks you can perform each 24 hours.
The more economic plan they offer comes at $29 per month and allows you to do 100keyword lookups per day, which is enough when you're just starting and looking for one good niche. Then once you've got some traction and you want to scale you'll probably need to move onto the Premium plan which comes at $49.
Prices have experienced a few increases over the last couple of years.
Speaking about suggestions, lets jump into the actual tool and see how it works, the interface, the kind of results that we get and all of its features. All of them.
Does: Allow search based on country or language. Not a bad feature.
Does: Give you a s**tton of data around the keyword to work with. So much I'm going to break the following screen into a few sections so that you know what's going on here.
We'll focus on suggestions first and on the tutorial further below I'll cover the uses of the other two.
We get the search volume for the keyword we've looked "best led tv", its CPC (for adsense) and the PPC competition level in a scale from 0 to 100 being 100 the highest.
Then we're given a "Keyword Difficulty" score.
The suggestions tab is where KWFinder will show a lot of related keywords around the original one you just looked up. After some filters are applied using the "results filter" button on the top left, we'll get some REALLY useful data here. I'll teach you how on Part 2: Using the tool like a pro.
Again we got that KC score big and bold. We'll explain later what each range means according to KWFinder and what the actual results typically are.
We have then a nice trends graph. This will help you spot seasonality, decreasing popularity or a booming market.
Now, it's important that you know that the monthly search volume KWFinder says, is the average of the last 12 months. If a keyword is in full decline (or explosion) and you only look at the average monthly searches you could fall into a trap (or miss a great opportunity) so do look at the trends.
It shows you MOZ's Domain Authority, Page Authority, Mozrank, Moztrust nº of external juice-passing links and then a few social shares counts. Then it spits a SEO competitiveness score for each result.
Which gives you a very clean an organized birds eyeview of page 1 results including all the metrics mentionend above.
Now, it's important that you know that KWFinder will treat the featured snippet also know as result 0, the magic spot, the mystery spot, that big badass result that steals all the clicks and the unfair spot as result nº1, so more often than not you'll see the same result twice, once on position 1 and once somewhere else.
The main problem with this tool is how heavily it relies on MOZ's data, which is known for its inaccuracy.
The thing is, MOZ's spiders only crawl a portion of a site's total links, so their metrics aren't good enough.
So by now you pretty much know what to expect from the tool. Keyword suggestions in a few different formats, search trends, an overview of the top 10 results with and an SEO competition score that you can use as an early indicator. Nice.
But certain details on how you use the tool will help you get more from it than your competitors, so let's have a look at a few things.
To fully optimize the suggestions we get from KWFinder, we're going to use a few filters here.
For the average amazon affiliate site, the backbone of your content are "best xyz" kind of posts. Then, if you're just starting out, we may aswell ignore anything over 35. That's usually competitive enough to be out of reach for a young site.
You can also add negative (excluding) keywords. Suppose you're into the toys market but are now looking for games made for grown ups. You could exclude the word "kids" and its variations.
"Board games? yes please KWFinder, but just the best, and not for kids"
As you see, I've also set a minimum of 3 words. Two-word keywords, even if they're "best xyz" are typically VERY competitive and VERY broad (meaning, awful conversion rates) Hardly ever worth trying.
PROTIP: Set your filters while inactive (switch on gray) save, then turn them on (switch on green). Otherwise the tool glitches and only some filters apply.
As you see, now we're getting better suggestions than before. The best part is, we already know the search volume and competition score, so we won't need to waste a manual check (remember we're limited to 100/500 lookups per day) for any of those keywords.
And, we've just got a great suggestion there. Best 32 inch TV. This awesome keyword was before buried on some irrelevant keywords like "oled tv" "samsung tv" and the like.
Remember those two other tabs by "suggestions" that we ignored at the beginning?
What I mean by " only longer versions of the original keyword" is that it won't give you keywords like "best 32 inch led tv under 100" but it will give you "best led tv under 100". Hope that isn't confusing.
And what about filtering, can we filter these too? You bet you can.
If i flick the filter switch back on it would show only the kws that meet my cryteria.
What about the "Questions" tab then?
Cool, more keywords, but sadly these are typically the weakest ones. I don't think I've ever come across any solid keyword using this tab.
You've probably noticed the two blue buttons on the bottom of the keyword suggestions box. The one at the right is pretty self explainatory. Select which keywords you want to export by ticking the grey boxes on the left and click on Export.
Select keywords, click add to list, create a new list if it's the first time and you're set. Nice and simple.
So, have I mentioned already the one thing I don't like about the tool? Oh yeah, accuracy issues.
Well, it's three "weird" results actually. All three with KC scores on the 20s range.
Huh? Well, yeah, this is a typical KWFinder problem. It will get the DA or the PA of a given site wrong and slap a 1 in that cell, bringin the whole KC score down with it. Not very frequent though.
Stabish base cryteria. Type of keyword (best? vs? how to? up to you), then conduct some searches and look for promising results. Then you want to manually check the top 10 results both on the SERPChecker tool and then simply by clicking on the URLs of the results (open in a new tab for speed) you want to check page by page that the data is correct, and manually vet the quality of the actual content, on-page SEO of the competitor etc.
All in all, KWFinder has all the functions you need to find a good niche or new keywords for your site and comes at a very affordable price (specially if you go for the yearly plan!).
It is extremely easy and intuitive to use, has a friendly user interface and is still accurate enough to point you in the right direction (given that you'll know how to spot traps following the above point).
It doesn't match the level of functionalities and options of SEMrush, and it's far from being the SEO swiss-knive Ahrefs is, but then it only costs a tiny fraction of the price of those two tools, and its waaaaaay easier to use.
The following is a post from Greg of EmpireFlippers. While I've talked in the past about brand new sites, EmpireFlippers are the experts when it comes to investing in sites that are already profitable or established.
Purchasing a website can be a big shortcut.
It cuts out a lot of the legwork that a niche site builder has to do. Instead of doing a bunch of keyword research, ordering content, and buying a good domain in the hopes of making money, you can jump right ahead to the making money part. When you buy a website, you already have profit coming in; so instead of guessing what will make money, you are in a position to optimize a website so it earns even more money.
Before you go out there thinking that you should just buy any website and start optimizing it, it is important to slow down and ask yourself what kind of skills you already have.
Now, you might be just starting out, with none of these skills at your disposal. That is okay. You can still purchase a website and learn these skills.
If you are new and want to "shortcut" the process by buying a website that is already profitable, you will want to play it a little safer. For example, a website that depends on paid traffic will probably have a steeper learning curve than a content site reaping the rewards of free organic search engine traffic.
Regardless of your skills, the best time to see if a website can be improved is before you buy the actual website. This is the due diligence phase, and it is extremely important.
There are always low hanging fruit that don't take much skill at all to change or to improve, and then there are the more advanced strategies.
We are going to cover a bit of both here, so you get a good idea of how to start looking at potential websites to purchase.
The speed test is a fantastic first place to start when researching a potential website purchase. Most people in the SEO community realize the importance of site speed. The faster your site loads, the better experience it provides for the end user, and the more likely Google is to rank you over the competition.
It is a very simple test to use, and you know it is official because it is a speed test actually designed by Google itself — you get the information you need right from the horse's mouth.
As you can see, we have some low hanging fruit ourselves in terms of speed, that we need to work on.
The greatest thing about this test is that it gives you both the mobile version and the desktop version for your website. Considering that right around 60% of internet surfers today are on mobile, it is incredibly important that your website is optimized for smartphones. As times move on, this will become even more important, as mobile traffic continues to overtake desktop traffic.
The other thing that makes deficiencies in speed so easy to fix is that the test literally tells what you need to fix to obtain a score of 100.
You can either learn how to fix it on your own through some clever Google searching, or just go to Upwork and pay someone $50-100 bucks to do it for you.
Most of these fixes are pretty simple to implement, and they can be an incredibly effective method of raising your rank in the organic search for your keywords.
Split testing is a fundamental skill when it comes to increasing revenue. To do a split test, you test one aspect of your website or marketing funnel to see if the test converts people visiting your site into leads (i.e. potential customers) or paying customers at a higher rate than the control.
When it comes to split testing, the control is the way the website is already set up. The actual test is the variant from the way you already have things set up (the control) to see if it will work better.
You might have an Amazon affiliate article talking about dealing with beard itch, and while the article is a generally informative article, you include a link to a product on Amazon that is supposed to help with beard itch.
In this case, there is probably more than one product on Amazon related to this problem. So why not test more than one at once?
You can use a link rotator service such as Click Meter (which starts with a free plan) or one of the many link rotators that are out there on the internet.
Link rotators are exactly what they sound like.
If you have 1,000 searches a month coming towards that article, and 500 of the 1,000 visitors click on the link, the link rotator can send 50% of the traffic to the control Amazon product (the one that was originally linked to in the article) and 50% to the test Amazon product (the similar product that solves the same problem, but was not originally featured on the article).
At the end of the month, you can look in your Amazon back office and see which one sold more. You could get even more in-depth here by adding in two unique Amazon tracking links, which would show you not only which product was bought more, but also which person bought the most from Amazon during that 24 hour cookie window.
Amazon is just one place where you can do this kind of split test.
If you use any kind of Cost Per Action (CPA) offer from one of the many networks that are featured over on OfferVault.com, you can use this method to split test between offers, as well as to split test the exact same offer featured on several affiliate networks.
When you do, send 50% of the traffic to one network and 50% to the other network. The reason why two affiliate networks offering the exact same product might convert at such drastically different rates, is because there is more going on in the actual sales process than just the offer itself.
Every network has their own loading speeds, sales funnels, payment processing carts, and dozens of other moving parts that could seriously affect your conversions.
That is why testing, as always, is paramount.
If you are running an Adsense site or a similar monetization strategy, there are a few things you can do. First off, it could be worthwhile replacing Adsense with another display ad network such as Media.net.
Usually Adsense is going to outperform Media.net, but this is not always the case. Also, it is often effective to use both Media.net and Adsense in conjunction with each other.
Outside of split testing different content display networks, you should also be testing where your actual ads are placed on your website.
I am not going to go into too much detail here, as NicheSiteAzon has got you covered on this topic with their blog post concerning Adsense.
As their blog post lays out, you can dramatically grow your net income just by split testing. Split testing is not terribly difficult to do, and it can dramatically increase your monthly net profit.
The skills you will learn from training yourself in split testing will also aid you later on, should you ever decide to explore creating your own products or building sites that direct visitors to higher ticket items.
This is probably one of the simplest methods that affiliates who invest heavily in paid traffic use to increase their profit margins. Most website owners, bloggers, and SEOs never really think about doing this, though.
After all, margins from free traffic are always pretty high, and most of us rely on drawing free organic traffic to our websites.
While this will not work for Adsense and Amazon sites, it does work when you are using a smaller affiliate company or even an affiliate network that utilizes Affiliate Managers (AMs).
When you find yourself converting your traffic on a consistent basis, with little refunds and few complaints about the quality of your traffic from the AM, you're in a good bargaining position.
Just reach out to your AM and ask them upfront if you can get a pay bump on the offer you are converting on.
While we can't scale traffic as easily with organic traffic as we do with paid traffic, this is such an easy thing to do. For less than thirty minutes of your time, you can bring in some extra cash flow, with no real work needed on your part.
Now that all the easy stuff is out of the way, there are other things we can do to grow our site's income into a total profit juggernaut.
None of these are exactly easy, and not all of them will work for every website. When you are doing your research on a potential site purchase, keep these ideas in mind. If you find the right site to implement them on, some of these tips could improve your revenue dramatically.
These tips will likely require you to learn new skills, but hey, that's the reason why these aren't low hanging fruit!
When purchasing a website, consider whether or not there is any room to add a new kind of revenue stream to the website that could earn it even more money.
Creating a product (it could be just an info product that solves a problem people have in the niche).
Drop shipping certain items that you are currently selling as an affiliate.
Evolving an Amazon affiliate site into an Amazon FBA website.
One of my favorites on this list is taking an Amazon affiliate site and evolving it into an Amazon FBA site.
Amazon FBA businesses ship products directly from the manufacturer to one of Amazon's warehouses. The FBA stands for Fulfilled by Amazon, which means Amazon literally holds your merchandise, processes it, and ships it whenever someone buys it from your Amazon listing.
You still get to keep affiliate sales, as you just change your affiliate link to point to your Amazon FBA listing.
Your profits will go up because now you are collecting a larger profit margin on each sale.
Your market research is already done, as you have data in Amazon's backoffice from affiliate sales that people are buying this type of product from you, before you invest any money into purchasing your own product.
You can rank your Amazon FBA listing in the search engines much more easily than your website article since Amazon's domain authority is so strong.
If the website you are looking at is in a broader niche and doesn't have a domain name like BestBlendersforVegans2016.com, then the website could be a prospect to become an authority site. For those who are unaware of what an authority site is, it is a much larger website than most niche sites and covers broader subjects, rather than, for example, the best blenders for vegans in 2016, which is a pretty specific niche.
Unlike most niche sites, authority sites are not exactly a passive endeavor. You will need to add content on a consistent basis, and you will also need to make sure the content is high quality.
There can be no cutting corners here, as the real product of the authority site is the content.
An authority site wants its visitors to come back again and again to review the content.
If you are willing to put in the work, an authority site can become a huge income-producing machine. They are able to expand outside of just a single traffic channel as well.
Instead of relying just on Google organic search traffic, these kinds of websites might be utilizing Facebook ads, Twitter sponsored tweets, or a huge Instagram following as their main sources of traffic.
Likewise, the potential to add new revenue streams is often much higher than it is with a niche site.
This is especially true if you are going to expand your site by promoting your own product. Since you are an authority, people respect you in the niche. Therefore, when you come out with your own product, you will have an audience that is primed to buy your product.
If you really want to grow an authority site, you will need to develop a good content team.
You could do it all yourself, but unless you are very passionate about the niche, I would not advise this. Creating content will take up most of your time, and it is difficult to have several different projects going at once if you are handling everything on the authority site.
Besides, if you end up selling the website later, it is better to have a team in place that can go with the sale — or at least some knowledgeable people who can create good written explanations of the site's standard operating procedures, so that new hires can follow and learn.
An email list is not a viable solution for all websites.
Yet it constantly surprises me that despite every internet marketer with a marketing blog preaching that the money is in the list, some affiliates never build an email list for any of their niche sites.
As with taking a niche site to an authority site, there are only a few instances where you will want to add an email list.
However, there is a lot of potential when it comes to building an email list.
For an Amazon site, you could be emailing out consumer guides, cheat sheets, and more in order to bring people back to your website.
With an Adsense site, for instance, you could be sending out a weekly content wrap up of interesting articles that would bring that audience back to the Adsense site.
When you start selling higher ticket items or information products and services, having an email list just makes sense. You are able to build on that sales funnel, sharing case studies, testimonials, and more sales copy.
While building an email list is not easy, it is certainly a worthwhile endeavor and will increase a website's income.
Another advanced strategy to increase revenue is using paid traffic. As we have already mentioned, most websites simply rely on organic traffic. Organic traffic is mostly visitors who find your site through a Google search.
Paid traffic can speed up the process and scale up your entire operation in a hurry. Paid traffic comes from visitors who have clicked on a linked ad which you have paid to post on another site, such as Facebook.
One of the cool things about purchasing a proven money-making website is that you already know the website is converting traffic into customers.
Now you just need to find out what your average profit margins are per customer, and drive traffic to those pages that are proven to convert customers.
As long as your paid traffic advertising expenses are lower than your profit margin, you will be able to scale up your traffic source. Since paid traffic can scale very easily just by increasing your daily ad budget, even a small profit margin can become a lucrative win.
They are incredibly targeted and can grow my organic social reach at the same time.
The social traffic will help me get ranked on Google for all my site's other pages as well.
I'm also a huge fan of AdEspresso.
If you decide to dive into paid traffic and you want to take advantage of everything that Facebook advertising offers, I highly recommend split testing and running all your campaigns through AdEspresso to help you optimize your campaigns fast.
Creating a new organic traffic channel is similar to building an email list. This might be one of the hardest of the "not so low hanging" fruits to implement.
Nevertheless, it can increase your bottom line significantly and open the doors to a whole new audience that you would never have had access to otherwise. Once it's set up, the kind of traffic created by this system will start coming in more or less automatically.
If you are unfamiliar with what an organic traffic channel is, it is basically what NicheSiteAzon is teaching all the time. While NicheSiteAzon focuses on Google organic traffic, there are other organic channels available where traffic can start coming in regardless of what you do once it is set up.
This is usually done through social media and search engines. While social media at first is not a passive channel, it is still organic in the sense that when done right it does not cost any money to bring that traffic in.
Some social channels below can become very passive (such as Pinterest & Youtube).
It is not easy — you will have to learn new skills — but these are good skills to have to diversify your traffic and increase the actual revenue of the website.
Youtube – this one is especially lucrative because in addition to being social media, you can rank on Google with your videos while simultaneously ranking on Youtube's search engine, which is the second largest search engine in the world.
Pinterest – a site that's especially great for targeting women, as women tend to use Pinterest more often. Over time, interest can become a nice source of a swathe of free traffic, even if you are not posting as often or stop posting altogether.
Instagram – you can create a big following here very fast, though it can be difficult to track since you cannot create many clickable links.
While growing a new channel of traffic comes with a learning curve, there are a lot of benefits. For one, if you want to sell the website at a profit, having diversified traffic will definitely add value to your website.
Relying on one traffic method can be pretty perilous. When a potential buyer sees that you have multiple sources of healthy traffic coming in, your site will become much more desirable.
After you have implemented all of the strategies discussed above, there is not much left to do other than play the waiting game.
Even if traffic and revenue doubled in the first month from applying all these changes, you still want to wait right around the three month mark at the very least, before selling the website for a higher multiple.
This is because your sales multiple is based off the average monthly net profit that the website makes. The longer you can show the increased earnings, the better your average profit will be, and the larger your multiple will be when you go to list the website for sale.
Look for areas where you can automate the business.
Cut back your personal workload, and remove yourself as a bottleneck for growth.
Finally, after all of your hard work, you will be ready to flip this site for a serious increase in cash.
Say you bought the website initially for $20k, and the website was roughly making $1,000 in net profit per month. If in a year, the website is making $3k a month before you list it, that website will sell for right around $60,000.
After broker fees (15% at Empire Flippers), this means you make $31,000 in net profit for the year.
That doesn't even include all the extra monthly net profit earned via your improvements to the website.
If you become a master of tweaking websites for both the low-hanging fruit and the not-so-low-hanging fruit, you can create an incredibly viable business just by buying and flipping site after site.
Unlike real estate, stocks, or almost any other investment class out there, nothing can return such crazy ROI like buying and selling websites.
If this post has you fired up, feel free to check out our marketplace to see our current listings of profitable websites for sale.
First, I'd like to apologize for my extended absence in not updating the blog for a while. I've had a lot going on these past several weeks, which you'll read about in the update below.
The main reason for the lack of new posts is because I sold my Niche Site #2!
About six weeks ago, a buyer reached out to me via email and was wondering if I had any interest in selling Niche Site #2. (This person is somewhat well known in the internet marketing space, though I will be keeping his identity anonymous per his request). Regular readers of the blog know that Niche Site #2 had been growing steadily over the past several months, and was approaching the $2,000 per month threshold, nearly on auto-pilot.
I initially told the buyer I hadn't really given much thought to selling the site, but was curious to hear if he had a number in mind. Since I make my income reports public, he knew exactly how much NS2 was earning, so clearly he must have given thought to how much he was willing to pay.
As many of you know, in the niche site field, niche sites are generally bought and sold around that 20x-25x monthly earnings clip, as it's done on Empire Flippers and FE International, among other brokers. So going into our negotiations, we already had a framework to work around. So we started to throw some numbers around.
After a few weeks of back-and-forth negotiation over email, we reached a deal. I agreed to "consult" on the site for three months, and generally offer any advice that I could to ensure that the site continued to grow. I also included all of the PBN sites that were pointing to NS2, which was a huge selling point.
Now, as part of the deal, there are several things which I cannot disclose, and that includes the final buying price. But what I can tell you is that the purchase price was in that 20x-25x valuation, so you can give yourself a reasonable idea on how much I was able to sell the site for.
To be honest, I gave a lot of thought about not selling the site and just keeping it in my portfolio. As I mentioned, the site was approaching the $2,000 per month clip, was growing at a steady pace, was not requiring much time on my end to upkeep, and most importantly, I was in the middle of a white-hat link-building campaign that was starting to see serious results, including an editorial link from BuzzFeed. So I was pretty sure the site would continue to grow, and that was part of the negotiation.
At the same time, you have to remember, this entire niche site game really is a "side gig" for me. I have a full-time job, a wife, and an entire life away from this whole internet marketing thing. So while I loved cashing those monthly checks from Amazon, the thought of being able to cash-in on a much larger lump-sum was even more enticing. While this isn't life-changing money, the wife and I have been looking at buying a house, and this move will make that dream even closer to a reality.
The other benefit of this sale is that I was able to sidestep using a website broker and paying that 15% fee. As I noted, the buyer who reached out to me is somewhat known in the internet marketing space — someone who I already knew of before he contacted me — so that made doing a private sale a smarter move to make.
What does this mean for Niche Site Azon?
I've also been giving a lot of thought to this blog, and how selling NS2 will effect things over here. And the truth is, nearly everything I know about building niche sites is something I've already covered on the blog.
Really, if you take all the posts I've written, and read them in order, you could consider all the content a full-on e-book.
From finding your market, to identifying profitable products on Amazon, to performing keyword research, to writing content for your niche sites, to using PBN links to help your sites rank, all the way to growing out your site in the first six months, I've written about every part of the niche site building process.
Does that mean that's the end of the blog? Not necessarily. I think I'll be doing new posts here and there, just not as often. In terms of my portfolio, I'm really only left with NS1, and there's only so many new topics that I can write about.
What about the PBN and Custom Niche Site services?
The thing is, over the past two months, even though the blog hasn't been updated, I've still been providing services for my PBN and Custom Niche Site customers.
And these are services that I will continue to offer.
So if you are interested in any PBN links, or would like me to build you a brand new niche site from scratch, do get in touch.
So yeah, that's what's been going on with me and my niche sites these past several weeks. I just wanted to provide an update of all the recent developments, and if you have any questions, feel free to reach out.
At this point last month, I was worried that I'd be able to keep up with my income numbers in August, mainly for two reasons: 1) I thought my niche sites may have been affected by the Panda update, and 2) I wasn't sure that I'd be able to keep up with my Custom Niche Site orders.
Well, it turns out, those fears were pretty much unfounded.
First, I had another record-breaking month with my niche sites, totaling $4,431.58 in Amazon income, which barely edged out last month's $4,414.07 figure. This was aided slightly by me finally geo-localizing my Amazon links using a service called Geniuslink, which I'll get to in a moment.
Additionally, the income generated from this blog's products and services also stayed relatively steady, bringing in $3,673.37 of revenue, due mostly to my Custom Niche Site offerings and PBN.
Welcome to another Income Report here at Niche Site Azon. The purpose of publishing these reports is to document my successes and failures with my niche sites, and to hold myself accountable.
July was a crazy month.
First, I had another record-breaking month with my niche sites, totaling $4,414.07 in Amazon income.
Second, the revenue I was able to generate from this site has been increasing as well. In July, the blog was responsible for an additional $3,805.21 of income. This was attributable mostly to my PBN Service and Custom Niche Sites, plug some nice affiliate sales.
In June, I had one of my best months ever. In fact, outside of December 2014 (i.e. Christmas season), it was my best month ever as an Amazon associate with $4,005.07 in income.
On top of that, my PBN Service has started to take off a bit, and combined with a few affiliate sales plus building a custom niche site for one of my readers (read more on this below), Niche Site Azon itself was able to generate an additional $1,960.52 in revenue for the month.


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