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Pioneer sells DJ business for $550 million
By Joe Cox 2014-09-16T13:45:39Z
Following on from the news that Pioneer is selling its AV division to Onkyo, the company has now announced it's offloading its range of DJ products in a deal with a private equity firm.
Last week we heard the news of the sale of Pioneer's AV business to Onkyo and now, as widely expected, the Japanese company has announced plans to also sell its DJ products business.
Pioneer's DJ range, which includes turntables, mixers and studio monitors, will be renamed Pioneer DJ and sold to private equity firm KKR & Co LP for around 59 billion yen ($550 million).
Pioneer will retain a 14.95 per cent voting stake in the new company, as it has done with the sale of its AV division. The core company will now focus on its car audio business.
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Susumu Kotani, chief executive and president of Pioneer, said: "We're trying to transform our auto-related business and are investing a lot into that and realised we had to concentrate our resources.
"We realised we wouldn't be able to invest in the DJ business so it would be better to spin it off and grow it independently."
Pioneer has a 60 per cent share of the global DJ market, with sales of around 21.6 billion yen for the year ending 31st March.
The company also expects to take further action to cut company costs and make significant savings, including plans to move more manufacturing outside of Japan.
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Amazon has committed more money to grow its wholesale business in India and has infused a fresh capital of Rs 115 crore in the unit, according to regulatory filings.
The Seattle-based company's wholesale arm -Amazon Wholesale (India) -set up in 2013, runs the company's business (B2B) portal and also acts as a distributor of exclusive products like smartphones to merchants on its online marketplace Amazon India.
The new investment will take the total capital raised by the wholesale unit to Rs 155 crore. It also comes at a time when China's Alibaba is also aggressively growing its B2B offering in India. Last week, the ecommerce group announced a slew of tie-ups including with banks like Kotak Mahindra Bank and IDFC Bank besides logistics firms like Delhivery and DHL.
Amazon's wholesale arm, which currently serves small and medium sized business (SMBs) in just Bengaluru and Mangaluru, lists office products, stationery, housekeeping supplies, kitchen, health, personal care, food and beverages.
It has also begun to play a pivotal role as a source of high-volume products like smartphones for merchants on its online marketplace. In keeping with the norms announced by the central government for online marketplaces in April, which barred a single merchant from accounting for more than 25% of the sales on the plat form, Amazon India has been cutting down smartphone sales routed through its merchant arm Cloudtail.
This joint venture between Amazon and Catamaran Ventures (the private investment vehicle of Infosys founder NR Narayana Murthy), was hitherto the largest seller on Amazon.in. Smartphone sales typically accounted for half its overall sales.
However, in a move aimed at complying with the government diktat, Amazon India has directed handset makers who earlier billed products and inventory directly to Cloudtail, to instead bill them to Amazon Wholesale (India), as reported by ET earlier this month.
This move has also increased the working capital requirements of the wholesale unit.
A representative for Amazon declined to comment on these developments. In its home market in the US, Amazon's business portal clocked $1 billion of sales in 2015 , but the Indian business is still very nascent.
While it plans to expand the number of cities it reaches, prevailing tax structures ha ve proved to be restrictive, as the company will need to open warehouses in each state, a company representative told ET in June.
Amazon Business has over 10,000 sellers in Bengaluru already. The market opportunity in B2B commerce is expected to be larger than B2C. According to a Walmart report in 2014, India's B2B ecommerce industry will grow to $700 billion by 2020 from $300 billion in that year.
This is certainly much larger than the consumer facing ecommerce industry, which is estimated to reach $103 billion by 2020 including online retail and travel, according to Goldman Sachs.


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Keys to Improving Power Plant Efficiency
Published by Mike McClintock at March 8, 2018
There have been many changes in the power utility business over the last 40 years, including deregulation and imposition of air emissions regulations. With all these changes, there are some constants in the power utility business.
Fuel Cost Shows Potential for Savings
One of those constants is that for nearly all fossil power plants, the greatest single cost of unit operations is the cost of fuel, and the cost of fuel is directly related to unit efficiency. A 500 MW coal-fired unit with a 75% capacity factor and a heat rate of 10,300 BTU/kWh (the approximate average heat rate for coal fired units in the US) spends over $70 million per year on fuel, assuming the latest EIA delivered cost of coal in the US ($2.07/MMBTU). This means that small changes in efficiency result in significant changes in operating costs.
Great pressure for efficiency is seen for coal-fired power plants because of the relatively recent availability of low cost natural gas, which forces coal-fired power plants to reduce operating costs to remain competitive. This does not mean that optimization of the efficiency of gas-fired power plants, including gas turbine simple cycle and combined cycle power plants, is not important. Fuel costs for these plants are commonly still the largest cost of unit operations.
Emissions and Efficiency
For many power plants, compliance with emissions regulations results in reduced efficiency. For example, Fuel Gas Desulfurization (FGD) systems require considerable auxiliary power and Low NOx burner systems often cause reduced boiler efficiency. While it may be true that plants that have been retrofitted with air pollution controls are less efficient now than when they were built, this does not mean that efficiency is no longer important. One reason is that all emissions, including CO2, are reduced when unit efficiency is increased.
Efficiency Program
The key to improving and maintaining power plant efficiency is to have an efficiency program in place that has resources (money and personnel) from both the corporate and plant levels to do three things:
Conduct an efficiency assessment of the power plant to determine best achievable efficiency and measures necessary to achieve that efficiency. A result of that assessment will be a listing of causes of inefficiency. Some of those measures require upgrades in equipment and others require changes in operations and maintenance practices.
Monitor key parameters of unit efficiency such as unit heat rate, boiler exit gas temperature, condenser pressure and auxiliary power usage.
Identify and correct all identified causes of inefficiency.
When complete assessments of inefficiency causes are identified, it will be found that some efficiency problems can be addressed through maintenance, and some require capital improvements. Almost inevitably, one cause of inefficiency will be operational issues such as operating boiler soot blowers without regard to the impact on boiler efficiency, and failure to operate cooling towers and circulating water systems in a manner that optimizes the tradeoff between auxiliary power and turbine cycle efficiency.
Operator Impact on Unit Efficiency
The key to minimizing operational efficiency losses is an operations staff that understands how what they do in operation of a generating unit affects its efficiency. A time-tested approach to addressing operational efficiency is the monitoring of controllable parameters. A controllable parameter is one that affects unit efficiency and is under the control of operators.
A good example of a controllable parameter is oxygen in the boiler flue gas (excess oxygen). This parameter has a significant impact on boiler efficiency (and thus unit efficiency) and is under the direct control of the operator for most units through a control commonly called oxygen trim.
Two things are needed for operators to use the concept of controllable parameters to improve unit efficiency. First, the operator needs to have a system, usually built into the plant control system, which shows a listing of all controllable parameters, together with target values for each.
Second, operators need training to understand the how each controllable parameter affects efficiency, and what to do when a controllable parameter deviates from the target. The training must cover the idea of tradeoffs between controllable parameters. For instance, increasing cooling tower fan speeds can reduce condenser pressure, which increases turbine cycle efficiency. However, it also increases auxiliary power consumption which reduces unit efficiency.
Controllable parameter training also needs to cover how controllable parameters affect factors other than efficiency. As examples, excess oxygen affects not only boiler efficiency, it also affects NOx emissions, ash fusion temperature (affects sootblowing), and auxiliary power consumption.
Operator training should address the need for efficient power plant operations. Ideally, a customized training program specific to your plant should be developed that will help your operators and other power utility staff improve power plant efficiency. Doing so will assist your operators and staff in maximizing power plant efficiency and thus profit.
Mike McClintock
Michael McClintock is a Vice President with FCS. During his twenty-two years with FCS, Mike has provided a range of training, engineering and technical services in support of our power and process plant customers. This experience includes conducting training assessments, designing and developing training programs and conducted hundreds of hours of classroom, plant and simulator training sessions. Mike's experience includes 10 plus years working for gas and steam turbine manufacturers, extensive experience in all aspects of power plant engineering, plus years of experience assisting customer's in optimizing the performance of their plants and staffs. Mike is a registered Professional Engineer (Retired) in the State of Maryland and holds a NIULPE Chief Engineer Certification.
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Student-centered learning is rooted in a constructivist view of learning that puts the learner at the heart of the learning process and aims to foster deeper learning processes and outcomes.
SCLI educational practice: implementation of the concept in real-life (higher education) classrooms, good practices, classroom examples, challenges.
How to become a student-centered teacher/instructor? How to design effective student-centered learning environments?
Routledge Handbook of Student-Centered Learning and Instruction in Higher Education, edited by Sabine Hoidn, University of St. Gallen and Manja Klemenčič, Harvard University, publication planned for Fall 2019 (with 35 chapters and 66 authors).
With contributions from: Michael R. Matthews (Univ. of New South Wales, Australia), Terrence J. Doyle (Ferris State Univ., US), Thanh H.T. Pham (Monash Univ., Australia), Jeffrey Cornelius-White (Missouri State Univ., US), Elizabeth Duraisingh (Harvard Univ., US), Paul Ashwin (Lancaster Univ., UK), Michael Hannafin (Univ. of Georgia, US), Sioux McKenna (Rhodes Univ., South Africa), Patricia J. Brooks (City Univ. of New York, US), David Kember (Univ. of Tasmania, Australia), Katrien Struyven (Vrije Universiteit Brussel, Belgium), Susan M. Land (Penn State Univ., US), Roberto Di Napoli (Univ. of London, UK), Robert A. Lue (Harvard Univ., US), Melinda Maris (Best Teachers Institute, US), Catherine Vistro-Yu (Ateneo de Manila Univ., Philippines), d'Reen Struthers (Univ. of London, UK), Julie Schell (Univ. of Texas at Austin, US), Alfonso Echazarra (CERI/OECD), Goran Dakovic (EUA), Aleksandar Susnjar (ESU), William (Bill) Nave (US), among others.
Book Series in Management Education and Development (in preparation), Volume I: Academic Careers, Research Productivity and Business School Rankings, edited by Kim Gower, University of Mary Washington and Sabine Hoidn, University of St. Gallen.
With contributions from: J. B. Arbaugh (Univ. of Wisconsin, US), Regina F. Bento (Univ. of Baltimore, US), Jon Billsberry (Deakin Univ., US), Giacomo Carli (The Open University, UK), Donato Cutolo (University of Bologna, Italy), Gaurav Karkhanis (SP Jain Institute of Management & Research, India), Peter McNamara (Maynooth Univ., Ireland), Linda Rouleau (HEC Montréal, Canada), Winfried Ruigrok (Univ. of St. Gallen, Switzerland), Paulina Segarra (Anahuac Univ., Mexico), Svetlana Serdyukov (NEOMA Business School, France), Jane Schmidt-Wilk (Maharishi Univ., US), among others.
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Last Call For High Nunes
We now know what the Trump regime's response to Monday's devastating Russia testimony by FBI Director James Comey and NSA Director Mike Rogers confirming that the Trump campaign was under investigation: GOP House Intelligence Committee chair Devin Nunes is now trying to outright interfere with an ongoing FBI investigation on behalf of Trump. Martin Longman:
House Intelligence Chairman Devin Nunes called a press conference a little while ago to announce that he intended to commit a blatant act of criminal obstruction of justice with respect to the FBI's counterintelligence investigation of Trump and Trump associates' connections to the Russians' interference in our presidential election. Nunes began by declaring that President-Elect Trump's personal communications may have been intercepted during the Transition due to "incidental collection" during an unrelated, completely legal and FISA-approved investigation.
Let that sink in. Intelligence community sources told Nunes and he called a press conference to leak it to the world while there's an ongoing investigation.
He then said that the potential surveillance was not related to Russia, that it wasn't clear that it was collected at Trump Tower and that he was "alarmed by it."
He further stated that he had advised House Speaker Paul Ryan of his findings and that he was traveling to the White House this afternoon to share with them information that had been provided to him by the FBI in a classified setting for the purposes of advancing a congressional investigation into potential crimes committed by the people he will be meeting in the White House.
Nunes also revealed that said "he discovered the potential surveillance of Trump himself while reviewing intelligence reports," but he did not divulge that he kept his discovery from the Democrats on the committee who "appeared blindsided by Nunes' announcement."
GOP Rep. Devin Nunes is the Chair of the House Intelligence Committee.
Nunes has been told of legal surveillance on foreign nationals that recorded conversations with not just the Trump campaign, but Trump himself.
He's going to the White House to brief Trump on this.
He's not going to the Intelligence Committee to brief them on this.
Do we see the problem yet?
When Nunes arrives at the White House and begins sharing information about which Transition officials were captured on "incidental surveillance," he will be committing what appears to be an obvious crime.
He claims that the surveillance is unrelated to Russia, and that may be his only criminal defense. He better hope that it will stand up in court. His press conference performance was a dishonest attempt to suggest that perhaps Trump wasn't completely wrong when he said that Trump Tower was wiretapped at the behest of President Obama. He couldn't assert either of those things but he made it seem like he had evidence pointing in that direction.
And his failure to share this information with the Democrats or notify them that he would be holding the press conference shows just how disingenuous his "alarm" really is.
But it's his intent to share classified investigatory information with the subjects of a counterintelligence (and potentially criminal) probe that constitutes a crime. He must not be very bright. And he's just destroyed his own committee's investigation.
Which of course is the point, because within hours of Nunes's press conference this afternoon, this went out.
Team Trump fundraising off of what @DevinNunes (who was literally on Team Trump) just said. pic.twitter.com/Xhyzk851Cv
— justin kanew (@justin_kanew) March 22, 2017
The "vindicated" Trump regime now fundraising off this. Guys, this was planned and executed. Nunes is sinking the investigation and remember he was a Trump transition team member. He's working with Trump all the way through.
I'm hoping as Martin said that this catastrophically stupid and obviously rotten ploy will lead to a special investigator that will fry these Republican assholes up like catfish, but odds are that the Trump regime now has all the cover it needs for their supporters, and the results of this will be to derail the investigation completely.
Trump is trying to manufacture the "Obama wiretapped me!" conspiracy wholesale. He just might get away with it.
StupidiTags(tm): Criminal Stupidity, GOP Stupidity, Intelligence Stupidity, Trump Regime, Wingnut Stupidity
Regrets, I've Had A Few
A "few" in this case being that only 3.5% of Trump voters in a new Washington Post poll say they would change their vote today, as Steve M points out over at his place.
According to this survey, Trump retains the passionate support of nearly his entire voting bloc. Remember that his most primal instinct is self-preservation -- does he really care whether Republicans suffer in the midterms or there's less security and prosperity in America and the world? Yes, the Gallup poll is bad for him -- but it may just be that angry anti-Trump voters are more willing to talk to pollsters these days than Trump backers, who tend to believe all mainstream media and polling outfits are deceitful.
I believe that Trump is historically unpopular for a president in the first months of his term. But if he can sustain this level of support until 2020, he might just slip by a Democrat again, taking advantage of GOP voter suppression and a wealthy corporate donor community that will never bail on the GOP, not to mention campaign finance rules that are only going to get worse once Neil Gorsuch is on the Supreme Court.
Reminder: Trump won the election with about 25% of the total eligible voting population, because of the electoral college and the fact only about 26% voted for Hillary. If Trump's approval rating among voting eligible adults is 37%, and all of them vote for him, he'd win in a landslide.
People have to actually vote to beat Trump and the GOP, and so far not enough of us give a damn. So when Republicans shave off a couple percentage points with red state voter suppression tactics, it's a good move for them that will pay off for decades. It already gave them the White House and Congress (and soon the Supreme Court).
Remember that Richard Nixon and George W. Bush won reelection before disapproval of them reached critical mass. It takes a long time for Republicans to lose faith in one of their own, even when the rest of the country has already done so.
Credibility? Trump's base thinks he has all the credibility he needs, even now. And that base is essentially the entire GOP electorate.
The only way we win is a united front. As Zandardad said yesterday, we had the chance to unite behind Hillary and enough of us chose not to so that Trump won. We wouldn't be in this epic disaster documentary right now if we had just done the right thing. And before the usual suspects come in and complain, ask yourself given Trump's actions right now and his Supreme Court nominee, would you rather have Hillary or Donald as president today?
If you can't answer that, you're the reason why we have Donald. You picked a side, and it was Trump's. End of line.
StupidiTags(tm): 2016 Election, GOP Stupidity, Trump Regime, Useful Idiots Are Useful, Wingnut Stupidity
Pink, Black, And Blue In Bevinstan
Kentucky GOP Gov. Matt Bevin has signed a raft of bills from the now deeply red GOP-controlled General Assembly, and Kentucky's transformation into yet another awful Republican state is pretty much complete at this point.
Planned Parenthood stands to lose any shot it had at government funding for family planning under a bill signed into law by Gov. Matt Bevin on Tuesday.
The law will puts Planned Parenthood at the back of the line among organizations seeking family planning funding in Kentucky.
Bevin has signed more than 50 bills into law since the start of this year's legislative session, including another on Tuesday that allows attacks on police officers and other first responders to be prosecuted as hate crimes.
While the so-called "Blue Lives Matter Law" doesn't increase penalties against those convicted of committing a hate crime, it is considered when violaters come up for sentencing, and it is included when it comes time to consider probation or parole.
Kentucky becomes only the second state, beside Louisiana, to enact such a law.
With the family planning funding law, pro-life advocates hope that, after health departments and similar organizations receive their money, none would be left for Planned Parenthood.
Sen. Max Wise, R-Campbellsville, sponsored the legislation, which established a tiered system for distributing federal family planning dollars.
"This would place Planned Parenthood, which does not provide comprehensive health services at the back of the line for federal family planning dollars," Wise said last week.
Kentucky lawmakers have make implementation of the law dependent on Congress reversing the Obama administration's action blocking states from withholding funds from Planned Parenthood affiliates. Wise said he included that provision to protect Kentucky against potential lawsuits.
Planned Parenthood supporters said the organization has voluntarily stopped accepting those family planning funds for its Kentucky operations. But Wise said he hopes his bill would cut off that funding source if Planned Parenthood seeks the dollars again.
Also passing: Kentucky will join the race to the bottom with charter schools that have already become major scandals in neighboring Ohio and Indiana. As in other states, the bill was passes to help low-income and black and Latino students as they have the "most to benefit" but in Ohio's case at least, charter schools continue to be a complete disaster.
Meanwhile the bill most likely to go to court is the state's new "student religious freedom" law, which among other things allows students in public schools to openly participate in religious activities while on campus and would allow student religious organizations at publicly-funded schools and universities to openly discriminate against LGBTQ students for membership.
The law, Senate Bill 17, will allow students to engage in religious activities and to express religious views in public schools and in their assignments. It would also allow teachers to include lessons about the Bible in discussions of religion and history.
The legislation stems from a 2015 decision to remove references to Jesus Christ from a student production of "A Charlie Brown Christmas."
But LGBT rights groups assailed the new law, which they say codifies legal discrimination on the basis of sexual orientation. One provision of the law allows student religious groups to set their own rules for membership, which LGBT rights groups say is a path to discrimination.
"No student should fear being excluded from a school club or participating in a school activity because they are LGBTQ," said Sarah Warbelow, legal director at the Human Rights Campaign. "While of course private groups should have the freedom to express religious viewpoints, they should not be able to unfairly discriminate with taxpayer funds."
The bill passed both the state Senate and state House with broad bipartisan support. Just three state senators and eight House members voted against the new law.
Bevin's not off the hook on this one even facing the veto-proof margin, he gladly signed it anyway.
But this is my state now, Bevin has signed dozens of new GOP laws and they'll take effect later this summer, and any hope that Kentucky wasn't totally the joke of the nation will disappear in a flash. Anyone who isn't a Christian white male cop isn't wanted here, it seems.
By the way, the first time a public school kid in Kentucky decides they want to pray towards Mecca under this new law, I wonder how it will hold up.
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Pentagon sources say a North Korean missile test launch failed "within seconds of launch" as the missile crashed, US and South Korean officials are still trying to determine more details.
Senate Republicans are urging GOP House Speaker Paul Ryan to delay a planned House vote tomorrow on the GOP bill to replace Obamacare, cautioning that the vote could fail.
Chinese stores will pull Brazilian meat imports from shelves over a growing bribery scandal involving tainted beef and chicken by the country's largest meat exporter.
Bankers fleeing London the wake of Brexit may be settling on Dublin as their destination of choice, according to one relocation study.
Donald Trump has signed a NASA bill designed to keep the space agency on its current exploration course as Republicans in space job states looked on.


In the midst of a mounting frenzy over the Central Bank's plans to introduce new rules relating to mortgage lending, Rory Hearne offers a detailed and sobering analysis of the bigger picture housing crisis. Published in today's Irish Examiner.
Providing solutions to the housing crisis have to be central to the forthcoming Budget. But the government needs to be willing to radically transform how the housing market operates in Ireland and reorientate housing policy to meet the needs of the majority of the population rather than the interests of the property development industry. It is surprising how much rising house prices are being celebrated as a new property boom in the media including interviews with buyers (often engaged in cash purchases) about how they are being 'outbid' for properties in wealthy Dublin suburbs.
Meanwhile the real housing crisis is affecting hundreds of thousands of households (who are mainly lower income). Fr Peter McVerry has described the growing 'tsunami' of homelessness on the streets of our cities and towns. Between January and July of this year 267 families became homeless in Dublin, including 549 children and some of those have been housed in hotels.
But the crisis is much, much, larger than these figures suggest. Almost 90,000 households are defined in housing 'need'. The majority of these are living in private rented accommodation. Rapid rent increases in recent years (most significantly in Dublin) and the introduction of rent 'caps' by the Department of Social Welfare, has meant that more than half of those receiving rent supplement (40,000) have to top up their rent in order to get access to housing.
Then we must include the 132,000 households in mortgage arrears on their principal residence. The government appears to be just hoping they will sort themselves out somehow. But a staggering 70% of these households are over 720 days in arrears and the banks are silently, but steathly, increasing repossessions and evictions. In the first four months of this year the banks have issued legal proceedings in 3,093 of these arrears cases and 281 properties were repossessed further adding to housing pressure.
Overall then, approximately 262,000 (16%) of the total 1.6 million households in the state are in serious housing need. This doesn't include those who are forgoing basic necessities to cover their mortgage or rent nor does it include those affected by substandard conditions in social housing estates throughout the country. This is not a crisis. It is an emergency.


When I was in graduate school, Gary Lorden, one of my advisors, flew to Las Vegas one weekend every two weeks, as a consultant to gambling casinos.
His task: to check the stored output (numbers, winnings, losings, etc.) of every slot machine... looking for irregularities that could signal machine malfunction or tampering on the part of a user (abuser).
Also, on his return, he could never tell us any of his findings...though not sure why.
Recently, I found these statements in an old math book: "According to the Encyclopedia Britannica, each game gives the casino a mathematical expectancy of winning. Over the course of a year the odds of a casino ending up without a profit have been calculated at about 1 chance in 50 billion."
My first reaction is that these odds are actually higher than expected. Second, any idea how they would calculate such odds? And third, what the odds are for the casino earning a BIG profit?


RnB Is Back! VanJess Bless Our Ears With Their Soulful Music.
RnB is a rare commodity these days, but we now have a new supply thanks to VanJess.
The RnB duo is composed of two sisters Ivana and Jess. Originally from Nigeria, they moved to America at the age of eight and ten respectively. They first gained recognition on youtube where they used to cover other artists' songs.
For the sisters, the biggest challenge was to go from only doing covers to writing their own songs as people are usually more interested in listening to covers. They had to take the time to find their own identity and their own style, which can be difficult when there is two of you.
Their debut album 'Silk Canvas' came out this year in July and we can very much say that they have nailed it! The songs are varied and have different vibes while remaining RnB. The album is generally uplifting and our favourite song is 'Through Enough' featuring GoldLink.
So go ahead and have a listen!
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There has been since the 1940s, Frédéric Bozo argues, a certain consistency in France. English-reading audiences (or, as Charles de Gaulle might put it, les Anglo-Saxons) can now read an updated edition of Bozo's history of French foreign policy since 1945. The book, translated from the French second edition, published in 2012, and incorporating a new epilogue, is subtitled "an introduction." At under 200 pages of text, this subtitle makes sense. An interested reader might pursue more-detailed accounts of many of the events and policies Bozo describes. But this book is also far more than an introduction; it is an analysis, an argument, and an erudite summation by an esteemed historian of French foreign policy.
Bozo's overarching argument is clearly articulated in both the introduction and the conclusion: Despite changes in leadership and changes in the world, French foreign policy has been marked by continuity. Certain themes have recurred...
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In honour of World Listening Day today, which has the theme of listening to water, I am adding this poem of mine originally posted on poloroidblipfoto on 1 June 2015.
National Poetry Day is an annual event. This year the theme is Water.
Of course the way to really bring your lessons alive is to book a poet for the day.
Here's a rondel from my book Wanted Alive, also available with a picture on blipfoto.com.
Someday the sun will shine.
We'll step out and not get wet.
That day will be yours and mine.
So don't grumble. Don't whine.
Don't lose hope. Don't fret.
Things will get better. You bet.
Look for an omen. A sign.
Driftnet Poets have put together a cornucopia of words and music, inviting some of their friends to join them on stage in support of WaterAid.
Performing together for more than 10 years, all six Driftnet Poets write in a variety of styles which translate from page to stage to great effect.
Merlin's Keep from Grimsby has four albums behind them and members are continually writing new material to add to their popular repertoire.
Trevor Millum and Bernard Young have worked together for many years as the duo Double Talk. Their witty poetry takes a light-hearted but sometimes barbed look at life.
Roger Beard has been singing and playing around the country for many years, performing traditional and contemporary folk alongside acoustic versions of rock classics.
This performance will include new work created especially for the occasion.
All proceeds will go to WaterAid – come along and share a special evening in support of a vital cause. Together we can make changes.


I have a problem with how maths is being taught to our kids.
If you have not read his amazing paper (and you can just start with the first 10 or so pages), do it NOW since it might change how to think about Maths and how they are taught in school.
The first thing to understand is that mathematics is an art.
The difference between math and the other arts, such as music and painting, is that our culture does not recognize it as such.
Everyone understands that poets, painters, and musicians create works of art, and are expressing themselves in word, image, and sound.
In fact, our society is rather generous when it comes to creative expression; architects, chefs, and even television directors are considered to be working artists. So why not mathematicians?
The common perception seems to be that mathematicians are somehow connected with science— perhaps they help the scientists with their formulas, or feed big numbers into computers for some reason or other.
There is no question that if the world had to be divided into the "poetic dreamers" and the "rational thinkers" most people would place mathematicians in the latter category.
Nevertheless, the fact is that there is nothing as dreamy and poetic, nothing as radical, subversive, and psychedelic, as mathematics. It is every bit as mind blowing as cosmology or physics (mathematicians conceived of black holes long before astronomers actually found any), and allows more freedom of expression than poetry, art, or music (which depend heavily on properties of the physical universe).
Basically kids should learn about the beauty of Math, about how to appreciate the beauty of a particular formula/rule and more importantly the history of that formula/rule.
And I can see this problem in action in my kids (aged 8 and 10) where they can already do quite advanced maths but they fail to understand the root origin of a lot of the math's concepts they use. Basically they are lacking in Math's Basics and Math's History.
I specially find it very surprising their lack of ability to break harder maths problems into small ones, which are easier to solve and provide faster resolution paths.
This is very related with programming, which is a lot about finding simple solutions and understating how things work under the hood (i.e. there are a lot of parallels between Maths and Programming). I think that passion for programming is very connected with passion for Maths, and if we want to create a new generation of programmers that loves programming, we have to make sure they are not jaded by 'Maths' in school.
Finally, for a great example of what I mean by learning the 'History of Math', what are your views on the number Zero?
Do you know (I didn't) that Zero has a number (and concept) has a really amazing/controversial history, and for a long time (event up to the 16th century) it was not accepted by large parts of our society.


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Help us find these missing kids
via People
For the families of missing children, time brings no comfort. Whether their kids have been missing for days, weeks or even years, the pain of not knowing where a child is or if they will ever come home alive and safe is a constant ache. And each milestone that passes—a favorite holiday, the start of a new school year, a birthday—is a crushing reminder of what is lost.
The children featured here all disappeared under different circumstances, but each is endangered, says John Bischoff, vice president of the Missing Children Division at the National Center for Missing & Exploited Children. "In 63 percent of family abductions, children are harmed," he says. "And missing children who are runaways face endangerments on the street … kids can be coerced out of their homes." According to the FBI, there were some 365,348 reports of missing kids in 2020 alone, and finding them is "always the hope," says Bischoff. "No matter how short or how long the duration that a child went missing, we want to get that child home safely. Sometimes hope is all you have."
ROSALYN VELAZQUEZ
MISSING
: AUG. 28, 2020
Family Game Night Turns Tragic
The Monopoly board was out, and 15-year-old Rosalyn Velazquez told her cousins she'd play, but hours passed and the teen never joined the game. Around 2:30 a.m., mom Sabrina Boozel remembers, she told Rosalyn "she needed to go to sleep." It would be the last time she saw the teen. Rosalyn was on Instagram at close to 4 a.m. outside her cousins' Radcliff, Ky., home, where she was supposed to be spending the night, less than half a mile from her home. Police continue to search, and Sabrina believes the introverted Rosalyn will return: "I know my daughter. She's a fighter." Meanwhile, her cats Percy and Athena still yearn for the girl who adored them. "They cry and cry and cry for her," Sabrina says. Call police at 270-351-4470 with information on this case.
"She's still a child," says stepmom Sharon Russell of Asia. "We miss her."
ASIA WILBON
MISSING
: FEB 13, 2020
Gone After a Cryptic Text
A bright 16-year-old who "got nothing but A's and B's" in school, Asia Wilbon loved playing volleyball and camping with her father, Richard, and stepmother Sharon Russell near their home in Kent, Wash. But when her biological mom, Nakia Wickware, 45, unexpectedly died on Feb. 3, 2020, the teen was shattered. "I think there were a lot of questions about her mom being sick and what was going on," says Sharon. Ten days later, Asia's best friend received a text from her saying she loved him—"and she never said that before, so he was worried," Sharon recalls. Sharon and Asia's dad tried to call her from work that morning and got no response. They raced home to find her room empty—she'd taken only her phone and a house key. Neither they nor police have been able to find Asia, now 17. "I just feel like she's out there somewhere," says Sharon, "and I haven't given up hope." Call Kent Police at 253-856-5808 if you have information on this case.
LEEANNA WARNER
MISSING: JUNE 14, 2003
She Wanted to Say Good Night to a Friend
At age 5 LeeAnna Warner "had to be in a princess dress at all times but hated wearing shoes, even in the winter," says her mother, Kaelin Warner. "She was one of a kind." At about 5 p.m. on a Saturday, the day before Father's Day in 2003, when LeeAnna, her sister Karlee and their mother returned to their suburban Chisholm, Minn., home after a day of shopping and swimming, LeeAnna told her mom that she wanted to walk around the corner to say good night to her best friend. "It was a normal thing," Kaelin recalls. But when the little girl didn't return, Kaelin sent older sister Karlee to bring her home. "She said, 'Mommy, I can't find her,' " Kaelin says. When Kaelin went to look herself, she found LeeAnna's shoes outside the friend's house, where no one had been at home for LeeAnna's visit. A panicked Kaelin called husband Chris Warner. "Once we needed to contact law enforcement, that's when it really hit me that this is serious," he says. Almost 18 years later, authorities are still looking. "Somebody knows something," says Vernon Manner, Chisholm chief of police. "We're still hopeful." Her mom clings to that hope. "I believe," says Kaelin, "she's definitely still on this earth." Call Chisholm Police at 218-254-7915 with information.
What she may look like now
"She was a sweet angle," mon Kaelin Warner says of LeeAnna (left, and right with dad Chris). "She loved everybody."
Police still search (in 2013 with volunteers)
I'm confident we'll get an answer" says Chris (with Kaelin)
MELODY FUENTES
MISSING
: FEB. 11, 2021
"I'm destroyed," says Lucy Molina, mon to Genesis (above). "I want answers."
GENESIS FUENTES
MISSING: FEB. 11, 2021
A Teen Mom & Baby Missing
Being a teen mom wasn't easy for Philadelphia 16-year-old Genesis Fuentes, but she was keeping up with her high school classes—still online due to COVID precautions—and was happy her mom, Lucy Molina, 49, was helping care for baby Melody, born Dec. 10, 2020. "Genesis is a good kid, and I would stay up at night to help her with the baby, to make sure she does her school," says Molina. "She was nervous—she's so young. But she was happy." On Feb. 11, 2021, as Genesis and the baby waited in the car, Molina went into a drugstore to pick up Tylenol for Melody, who had just had her first immunizations. Another car pulled up; her daughter and granddaughter disappeared into it. Though part of the incident was captured on surveillance video, Molina says, police did not issue an Amber Alert, a decision she doesn't understand. Authorities say the case "is being investigated as a missing person and the investigation is active and ongoing." Molina suspects Genesis could be with Melody's father, but the teen is no longer attending school and has not confirmed that she and her now 4-month-old are safe. "Somebody snagged her," says Molina. "I love her. I want her back." Call police at 215-686-8477 with information.
With infant Melody
JAYLEN GRIFFIN
MISSING: AUG. 4, 2020
'He Loved His Puppy'
The youngest of 10 kids, 12-year-old Jaylen Griffin was known around his Buffalo hometown as a sweet boy who stayed close to his mom, Joann Ponzo, and who "loved his new puppy," she says. He and his pup had returned from a walk Aug. 4 when he told Ponzo he was going back outside: "It wasn't unusual…we live near a few stores, and he would carry people's bags; they'd give him change." But he never returned home. Just four months later Jaylen's beloved 18-year-old brother Jawaan was fatally shot, and Jaylen's absence at the funeral was devastating to the family. There have been reported sightings of the boy, police say, but he remains missing. "Someone may be holding him," says family spokesperson pastor Tim Newkirk. "His parents believe he's alive." Call police at 716-847-2255 with information.
Friends and family (at a rally) are asking for help finding Jaylen
RONDREIZ PHILLIPS
MISSING
: APRIL 5, 2018
'He Is Not Forgotten'
Just 4 years old, Rondreiz "Junior" Phillips was wearing blue jeans, a white shirt and yellow rubber boots when he went missing from his home in rural Claiborne Parish, La. When his mother, Sheila Phillips, called police to say she couldn't locate the boy, "there was a very quick and overwhelming law enforcement response," says Detective Jay Perry of the Claiborne Parish Sheriff's Office. But despite the use of aircraft, tracking dogs and dozens of volunteers, no one has been able to locate Rondreiz. Still, Perry says, the case is "very active" and the search continues with the hope that new leads could come in. "We're committed to working on this until we find him," Perry says. "He deserves that. He is not forgotten." Call police at 318-927-2011 with information on the case.
Rondreiz was last seen in this area three years ago
GABRIEL JOHNSON
MISSING
: DEC. 27, 2009
Was He Handed Over in a Secret Adoption?
As an infant, Gabriel Johnson loved playing with his mobile—"he was always smiling and laughing," his father, Logan McQueary, told People in early 2010. At the time authorities were frantically searching San Antonio for the then 8-month-old, last seen at a hotel there on Dec. 27, 2009, with his mom, Elizabeth Johnson. In the midst of a custody battle with McQueary, Elizabeth had traveled to Texas from Tempe, Ariz., and texted him that she had killed the child. When she was arrested Dec. 30, she changed her story, telling authorities she had given the boy away to a couple to raise—but refusing to give further details. In 2012 Elizabeth was found guilty of unlawful imprisonment and custodial interference. She was released from prison in 2014, never revealing Gabriel's whereabouts. San Antonio police confirm the case of the missing Gabriel—who would turn 12 this year—remains open. Call police at 210-207-7401 with information.
What he may have looked like a age 6
Gabriel's father, Logan Mcquear (above and below, at 2010 vigil), had won custody of his son when he disappeared. "You hold out hope." McQueary Says. "Spreadding the word is powerful."
BETHANY MARKOWSKI
MISSING
: MARCH 4, 2001
A Mother's Desperate Plea
For Jonnie Carter, it seems like yesterday that she was talking to daughter Bethany Markowski, 11, who "always had a smile on her face—she had the biggest heart," Carter says. "But she's been gone longer than I had her." On March 4, 2001, Bethany's father, Larry Markowski, told police the little girl had gone into Old Hickory Mall in Jackson, Tenn., and never came out. Police say they can't confirm his account—and that the last sighting they have of Bethany was from the night before in Little Rock, some 200 miles away. "The case is still being actively investigated," says FBI special agent Cathy Ferguson. "Every lead is run all the way to the ground." Carter, who was divorcing Larry when their daughter vanished and who now lives in Nashville, continues to hold vigils, vowing she will see Bethany, who would be 31, again: "It's my focus. I will bring her home." Call the Tennessee Bureau of Investigation at 800-824-3463 or email TipsToTbi@tn.gov
Jonnie Carter (above) works to bring attention to the cases of other missing kids (below, a vigil) in honor of her daugther Bethany
For more on the LeeAnna Warner case, watch Little Girl Gone on People Magazine Investigates, May 3, 10 p.m. ET on Investigation Discovery and streaming on discovery+
COURTESY LUCY MOLINA; FBI; RADCLIFF POLICE DEPARTMENT; TEMPE POLICE DEPARTMENT; KENT POLICE DEPARTMENT; NCMEC(3). JOHN MYERS/DULUTH NEWS TRIBUNE; KENT POLICE DEPARTMENT; NCMEC; COURTESY LUCY MOLINA(3); WVIB/NEXTSTAR; NCMEC(3); DIPTI VAIDYA/THE TENNESSEAN/USA TODAY NETWORK. KSLA NEWS 12, SHREVEPORT, LA; KAREN KUEHN; RALPH FRESO/EAST VALLEY TRIBUNE/TIMES PUBLICATIONS; NCMEC; TEMPE POLICE DEPARTMENT


8 Great Local Marketing Strategies in 2018!
Did you make a second quarter resolution for your business?
Think about it. It's a new quarter is's early in the year and it's full of opportunities.
Master local marketing on Facebook.
Facebook is huge, with 2.2 billion users and counting. The chances are good that many of your customers use it daily – but that doesn't necessarily mean that you're doing a great job of connecting with them.
And let's face it – social marketing has some challenges. Facebook keeps refining their algorithms, and that's made it harder than it used to be to be sure your target audience sees the content you post.
With that in mind, here are eight things you can do starting right now to ring the new year in with a bang – and become a master of local Facebook marketing.
Come up with an event. It could be a sale, a social event, or even a performance.
Go to the Events tab to create your event.
Fill in the date and time of your event, choose a category for it, and put in keywords that will help people find it.
Add a Google map or directions.
Link to a ticketing site if people need to buy tickets.
Once the event is set up, you can invite people and share it on your page. You can even pay to boost it, or run it as an ad to attract more attendees.
You're a local business – so show some local pride to connect with potential customers! If there's a local tradition or event coming up, or if you see an article that highlights something unique about your city, share it with your followers.
Of course, you need to do more than share. You can increase your page's visibility by tagging other local businesses, events, or landmarks in your post.
This is an opportunity to connect with other local business owners, too. You might be able to help one another out!
Are you attending a trade show? Hosting a booth at a community event? Maybe you've sponsored a soccer team and you're attending a game.
Whatever it is, it's an opportunity to check in at your location, tag other businesses and events, and keep your audience up-to-date on what you're doing.
It's important here not to overdo tagging. Nobody cares if you stopped at Starbucks for a latte. Stick to events and locations that highlight your business and your audience will thank you.
Reviews are hugely important. They provide social proof – and a recent Bright Local survey found that 92% of all consumers read online reviews before they make a purchase.
Facebook reviews can help increase your profile and attract new customers. You can encourage people to leave reviews by reaching out to your list or creating a post where you ask for reviews.
What problem did you have before buying our product or using our service?
How did working with us help you?
What were the biggest changes you experienced because of your purchase?
Once you've collected some reviews, you can share them on your page. You can do the same, of course, with reviews from Yelp and Google.
Did you know that Facebook allows you to create groups for people who follow your page? Creating a group can be an effective way of building a community and focusing conversations and content on a topic.
For example, if you offer an array of services, you might create a group for each one. That way, people can connect with others who use the service, ask questions, and even recommend your services to others.
Many local businesses rely on foot traffic to drive sales. If you do, you can use your Facebook account to encourage people to come see you in person.
For example, you might create and share an in-person coupon that people can use when they come to your store. Or, you might offer a giveaway for those who visit your location.
These things can all help attract customers to your store – and get them to make purchases.
Running a contest on Facebook can help you attract new followers and build engagement. If you decide to do it, keep in mind that Facebook has strict rules about what you can and can't do. For example, you can't require followers to Like or Share a post to enter.
And, of course, you'll need to deliver prizes on schedule and as promised.
In local marketing, one hand washes the other. While you might put your focus on bringing customers from your Facebook page to your store, it can work in reverse, too!
For example, you might put a link to your Facebook page on flyers, business cards, and coupons. You can also ask customers to take a picture in your store and post it on Facebook while tagging you. Offering an incentive, like a 10% off coupon or a gift card, can help.
Local Facebook marketing poses some challenges, but now you know how to address them. Local content, events, and contests can all help you attract new customers to your Facebook page – and your store.
These SEO Trends will dominate in 2018!
Trying to stay on top of SEO trends is like trying to hit a moving target while on a speeding train.
The landscape and perspective changes so quickly that it can feel impossible to keep up.
But you need to try.
The good news is that there are some new trends on Google that can help increase your visibility – if you know how to use them.
There's a bit of a learning curve here, but we're going to break it down for you and tell you how to take advantage of each one… so 2018 can still be your best year yet.
These things can all help you get more traffic. For example, strong local SEO that includes local keywords and links can help you earn a place in the three-pack. Having great instructional content can earn you the Featured Snippet position, which appears above organic search results.
Have you ever noticed that some businesses have pictures, review stars, and other relevant information alongside their link on the SERP? You can do that, too.
You can find a detailed explanation of how to do it here. It's important to think about what the people searching your keywords are most likely to want. Then, you can use structured markup to include those things in your SERP listing.
As a bonus, including structured markup can increase the chances that you'll end up with a Featured Snippet or Knowledge Graph spot on the page.
Every time Google updates its algorithm, it gets more difficult to appear near the top of the SERP.
Why? Because the increasing sophistication of Google's ability to determine the relevance of a page – its new RankBrain features is a key example – means that you can't get away with sub-par content.
Of course, there are things you can do to increase your relevance. One of the main things is to use LSI – that's Latent Semantic Indexing – to bolster your keywords.
LSI are terms that relate to your main keywords. You can find them by searching your keyword and scrolling to the bottom of the page. LSI terms appear beneath a headline that says, "Searches related to [your keyword]".
Using LSI in an organic and informative way can improve your relevance and help Google index your site. It also reduces the chances that your site will be penalized for low-quality content.
If you've ever said, "OK Google" to search for something on your phone, you know that voice search is here to stay. In fact, usage of voice search is very likely to increase in the coming year.
Some of the keywords you come up with may include misspellings. You'll have to decide whether you want to try to rank for those. The addition of Google's RankBrain has made it easier for Google to determine what searchers want, and it can hurt your credibility to include awkward phrases and misspelled words on your site.
Three seconds isn't much, but if your site takes longer than that to load, you may end up frustrating searchers and making them hit the dreaded back button.
Both mobile and desktop users are impatient. The first thing you need to do is test your page – and it's essential to test each page of your site separately. Your home page might load quickly, but if even one of your landing pages is slow, you could be losing out.
Google has a free tool you can use to check your loading speed. If your site loads quickly, you're good to go. If not, they'll give you an explanation for the slowness and some tips to help you fix it.
If you want to get a look at your unbiased SERP, use an incognito window to do it. You'll need to do your best to earn a spot near the top, but once a user clicks your listing, you'll become a preferred listing for them.
One of the most important thing you can do to take advantage of personalization is to use local keywords and SEO to improve your rank.
Link building is a cornerstone of SEO – but what if you didn't need someone to link to your page to reap some SEO benefits? That seems to be the way things are headed.
Bing has already confirmed that they're using linkless mentions of brands to rank pages. There's some reason to believe that Google may be headed the same way.
That means that anything you can do to encourage people to mention your brand by name can potentially help you build authority and improve your SERP.
But you can keep up! The seven trends mentioned here are likely to make a big impact in 2018. By getting on top of them now, you can get a leg up on the competition – and grab the lion's share of clicks and sales.
A well-known actress, Jane Russell once said "Publicity can be terrible. But only if you don't have any".
It's true. Your business needs publicity and there is no better marketing tool for your business than publicity, it's "grade A" online exposure.
Publicity is vital to the growth of your business because it gets people talking about your business and brings customers through the door (or to your website).
It is so powerful that companies have huge marketing budgets and hire specialists and agencies in order to generate a steady stream of publicity for their company.
The internet has created a level playing field. Now any business, no matter how small can generate publicity easier and more efficiently than ever before.
It is now possible to generate publicity "on demand" and it's time you capitalize on it.
If you have struggled with ideas on how to "get press" for your business, read on because we're going to reveal 21 ways you can turn your business news and events into publicity that will attract eager new customers that are excited about what you're doing!
At first you might be thinking that you don't have any stories to release but when you think about it, as a business you make news regularly.
1. Has your company or member of staff recently won an award or have you had a major breakthrough like landing a large contract? If so, that is a valid story to people interested in your industry.
2. People always like to read inspirational stories, so if you have been successful in your business or you have recently run a marathon for charity, tell people.
3. If you are a skilled craftsperson or your business specializes in a particular niche why not share some of your expertise and teach others how to do something similar. It helps you to build credibility and be known as a true expert in your field.
4. Are you passionate about a particular charity? You can create awareness about a cause you believe in and create some publicity for your business. Companies do this all of the time and that is why so many of them are keen to sponsor charities and be involved with them.
5. If you notice alarming trends happening in your industry you can share this news and turn your knowledge and expertise into a marketing asset for your company.
6. There are many holiday events throughout the year and almost every type of business celebrates these events in their own way. This is a great opportunity for your business to team up with a charity or local organization.
7. Put an end to a popular myth or misunderstanding in your industry. For example, if you are a dentist you might want to release a story explaining that bad breath can be caused by several factors, only one of which is poor dental hygiene. Explain some of the causes of bad breath and what people can do if they experience it. There will be a common myth in your industry too. Journalists and online bloggers love these kinds of stories and they can go viral very quickly.
8. Is your business contributing to helping the environment? In the days of global warming don't underestimate how making even slight changes to the way that your business does things can make a difference. You can win customers over with a 'green' story.
9. Turn to any magazine or news story and there will be some kind of stats or survey result mentioned. Everybody loves stats and surveys and none more so than journalists. Why? Because they find ready-made stories to write about in this type of news release. Stories like this are quick to go viral too as readers love to share facts and figures and will provide links to them on their blogs, they will tweet about them add them to their Facebook or other social media page. If you can share new market studies, research, survey or poll results from your industry you will find that this will be a popular story for you and your business.
10. Provide helpful tips. Be generous and get your industry out there by publishing a few helpful tips. You will be rewarded by converting search engine users into potential customers. If you sell digital cameras, for example, you could publish a list of features that potential buyers should be looking out for when buying a camera or produce a guide on which type of camera would best suit the kind of photography that they are wanting to do.
As an expert in your niche, you have all of the knowledge and tips and there are thousands of people out there searching for them so press releases and publishing these tips is an ideal way to get connected. It is worth remembering that just one or two brilliant tips are much better than a long list of useless ones.
You can no doubt think of many other ways that your business can create PR stories and get your business noticed.
Now that you have received some inspiration it is time to bring your story and press release to life particularly if your story about your new product or promotion seems boring.
If your story feels a bit flat try putting people at the forefront of the story. Your story will have much more success because people are much more likely to share stories that involve people rather than the story being focussed on the product, especially if it features people that they know or who are local to their area. For example, if you have a happy customer who had great results using your product or service you can write about that. Or perhaps you have an employee who could demonstrate how effective your product is.
If you have a story that comments on and contributes to industry trends it will get a lot of buzz on social networks because that is what people interested in your industry are interested in and want to read, not to mention journalists and bloggers who cover your industry. By linking your story to an industry trend can help give your story more legs and the potential to create a buzz so that people will share it.
The Internet is very visual so it is a good idea to break up a copy in your press release with a well placed image that gives visual impact to your story. Don't worry too much about the image itself. You might just want to include your logo or a picture of your product or service. It will add interest to your story and make people more inclined to read it.
If you have submitted a great story that captures people's imagination don't leave them hanging at the end of the story. It is the perfect opportunity to direct them to your website using a strong call to action. This could be something as simple as "Find out more at www.YourWebsite.com". It doesn't really matter too much how you phrase it. The aim is simply to instruct your readers to take action and to make it easier for them.
Once you have created your press release it is time to promote it on your social media networks. This is going to give your publicity and even bigger boost and drive thousands of extra people to your website.
This is a simple way to promote your news to your whole network in a single click. If your network happens to include bloggers and reporters your news will reach them without you having to do a single pitch and they will be able to run with the idea immediately.
Despite having a great headline for your press release it is a good idea to give your readers yet another reason to click through to read the press release. You can do this by adding an intriguing quote, fact or statistic out of your press release and make that the main focus of your Facebook post.
This is one of those occasions where you should not be afraid to ask for likes or reposts when you promote your story on Facebook. If you have already built a loyal following of fans and have been an active part of the community they will be happy to spread the word for you, especially if your story is interesting.
Twitter is perfect for telling people about your press release because you can easily reach a wide audience and it is easy for your followers to share and re-tweet your post.
You can literally spread the word in seconds.
Not everybody will see your Tweet depending on the time you post it and where in the world your audience is so don't be afraid to repost your Tweet a day or two later and at various times. To avoid annoying the ones who might have seen the tweet already, change the headline and be careful not to post it too many times.
If one of your followers has been kind enough to re-tweet your post, acknowledge it by thanking them. Not only is it courteous but it is also a good way to create a second round of buzz and publicity on Twitter. It means that your story will appear twice in the feed every time it is re-tweeted.
Categorize your story by adding a Hashtag to a keyword or phrase relating to your story or industry. As well as getting your story seen by people outside your network of followers it will also put you on the radar for journalists and bloggers who follow that particular Hashtag.
Social media, of course, goes beyond Facebook and Twitter. You can Pin your story on Pinterest and Google+ it as well as blogging it and sharing it on LinkedIn.
The online world really is your oyster and provides you with many exciting opportunities to get your story out there and have people all around the world reading about your brand in a matter of minutes.
If you have an announcement or newsworthy story about your business, here are so many places that you could promote it.
Our job is to help businesses like yours to get the word out and drive thousands of new clients to your website and company.
Contact us and discover what we could do for your business.
Our Best Tips for Creating Killer Social Media Ads!
When you create pay-per-click ads, you pay for every click you get. So, it stands to reason that you want to make every click count.
Even if you don't think of yourself as a marketing pro, there are some simple tricks you can learn to take your PPC ads to the next level. Here they are.
You probably already know that mobile searches now outstrip desktop services. That means that your PPC ads must be adapted for mobile users if you want to get great results.
Use IF functions to add special text and deals for mobile customers. For example, you might offer free shipping on mobile orders.
These simple tweaks to your ad can drive mobile engagement – and sales!
People respond to specificity in ads and headlines. If there are dozens of ways to use your product, or customers get access to millions of email addresses, say that in your headline.
Using numbers adds to your credibility, too. It's why politicians often reel off a string of statistics when they're in a debate.
Try adding numbers, percentages, and other stats to your PPC ads. Of course, make sure they're both accurate and relevant to your target audience. If you do, you'll see what a difference a number can make in your click-through rate.
The people who see your ads won't all be at the same place in the buying cycle. Some may be looking for general information to help them solve a problem. Others may be ready to pull the trigger and make a purchase.
See the difference? When you write an ad, you choose keywords to target. Make sure your headline and copy match the intention of the keyword. You'll have a better chance of getting people to click if you do.
If you're running an AdWords campaign, your headline is likely to be the focus of anybody who searches your keywords. That means it's got to be snappy, direct, and appealing.
It's important not to be misleading in your headline. It should be clear what product or service you're selling.
Originally, AdWords allowed only a few words per line – so there wasn't room to get fancy. Now, with the new expanded headline format, you can add a few more words. But your goal should still be to get to the point quickly.
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But eight years of matchmakers, mutual friends, and dating websites have been futile in finding that special someone. Janmohamed argues that internet access allows young Muslims to find like-minded individuals and those with shared identities, within or even across national borders, beyond the reach of more traditional methods of meeting a partner. After attending marriage events, asking religious leaders and rishta aunties - prominent women in Pakistani communities who help find partners - Ikram started using the app and found a pool of people who were more "relatable" than those she'd been introduced to, she says. The most important thing is for us to have taqwa mindfulness of Allah and respect to His Limits. Gunman killed after attack near Saudi palace in Jeddah. For Sana, her parents' generation broke ground in a Western country, fighting for a space for their identity, while she has been permitted a greater understanding of various ways to live, identities to assume and cultures to be a part of. Sign up for our Newsletter.
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here are some Islamic principles, both general and specific, to consider if you will be but marry one who is religious and you will succeed" (Bukhari, Muslim).
how to find a spouse, the wedding and the post-wedding marriage relationship. The majority of Muslims in England and the U.S say religion still plays an important part in their lives, but this does lead to clashes between. Muslims - if you are a married to a Muslim spouse, how did you meet him/her? . When it comes to marriage, the religious people find their spouses by ta'aruf.
Because of these achievements, she explains, the younger generation of Muslims know their options and "are more demanding".
For Sana, her parents' generation broke ground in a Western country, fighting for a space for their identity, while she has been permitted a greater understanding of various ways to live, identities to assume and cultures to be a part of.
Masroor adds, "Of course, culturally [the younger generation is] different, and our aspirations are different, and our viewpoints are different [from our parents'], and therefore, our approach to different parts of our lives, including finding a suitable life partner, would be different for sure.
The young Muslims finding love via an app For today's young Muslims, traditional methods of finding a life partner are increasingly viewed as inapplicable.
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Finding little success, she recently began using the matchmaking app and, like Kazmi, says it's a way of taking more control. Finding Muslim Husband finding a spouse duty of the husband and wife Finding a Husband.
Free teen social stories When we have taqwaAllah opens doors of halal and pure provision for us.
The Muslim demographic in Britain is young, with with 48 percent under the age of 24compared to 31 percent for the overall population. Trump on North Korea: Education levels are also delineated, and the app is conscientiously aspirational. The person who would come through proper official means is the one who has taqwa and he is most likely a better candidate on the long run than the one who comes through the back door i.
Tinder isn't perfect — but why would it be? Ikram says, regarding Muslim-focused apps, that imams "have given their support to these websites and apps, saying they are inclusive of all of our [religious] requirements", and many families and religious leaders are behind the idea of meeting a partner online, when it's paired with Islamic conditions, such as the presence of a third party.
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But first of all, you need to eliminate any type of thinking or acting that would jeopardize your honor.
I do not wear the veil but I want a Muslim husband who can share my to find a life partner but I am not looking for an ultra-religious woman. Calculating the Odds of Finding a Spouse in the Muslim Community it has to do with the cultural and religious background we come from.
So try to understand marriage in Islam; its beautiful and honorable purpose and the balanced rights and duties of both husbands and wives.
For Sana, her parents' generation broke ground in a Western country, fighting for a space for their identity, while she has been permitted a greater understanding of various ways to live, identities to assume and cultures to be a part of. Sana Ikram, 24, was searching for two years for a husband in her southwestern hometown of Swindon. Please continue feeding your curiosity, and find more info in the following links: How to Make Him Marry Me?
How to find a religious muslim husband But first of all, you need to eliminate any type of thinking or acting that would jeopardize your honor, respect and dignity.
This is never a means to earn something halalpure, everlasting or pleasing to Allah Glorified and Exalted. A wali, or guardian, can be nominated as a third-party moderator to monitor chats within the app, and photos can be made private. Sana Ikram, 24, was searching for two years for a husband in her southwestern hometown of Swindon. First of all, you need to eliminate any type of thinking or acting that would jeopardize your honor, respect and dignity.
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A wali, or guardian, can be nominated as a third-party moderator to monitor chats within the app, and photos can be made private. Because of these achievements, she explains, the younger generation of Muslims know their options and "are more demanding".
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Masroor adds, "Of course, culturally [the younger generation is] different, and our aspirations are different, and our viewpoints are different [from our parents'], and therefore, our approach to different parts of our lives, including finding a suitable life partner, would be different for sure. For today's young Muslims, traditional methods of finding a life partner are increasingly viewed as inapplicable.
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We have (had) a pottery pig that we put coppers in and 2 euro coins with a view to having a fortune to spend on ourselves at Christmas time. Or even to cover the costs of Christmas.
The pig has no way to get into it other than smashing with a hammer.
I looked forward to it. It was going to be so satisfying.
I hit it a good whack.
Yep. The money all spilled out and I gathered it into a plastic bag. Next stop the bank. I hope they have a sorting machine.
No the bank does not have a sorting machine. Home again with the money and a load of these plastic thingys.
So begins the long long long job of sorting the money and putting it into the little plastic thingys. Of course I ran out of some of them and will have to go back to the bank once again to get more before we can give them the change and get some real money back.
As far as we can tell - and to be honest we got sick of counting - its around 120 euros. Not a fortune but not a kick in the pants either.
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Yes I did feel a little sad about having to smash the pig but they are only about 4 or 5 euros on the market to buy and so we shall replace him with another identical one. Meanwhile the bits are in the garden among the flowers.


Engaged cooks are aware of how our choices and actions affect others and the world. We see food as a way to support and communicate our values. Engaged cooks want to know what's in our food, where it comes from, and how it is made. We try to make informed choices as we buy, eat, and share food, seeing these as powerful ways to approve of and reinforce behavior.
You bring ingredients into your home and literally make them part of your body and the bodies of those you cook for. What an intimate form of approval!
The producers are acutely aware of what you buy. They will try to make more of it because they want you to buy again. They will make less of what fewer people buy. This is the most direct way to support local farmers and organic practices. It's the most direct way to protest the factory farming and the mistreatment of workers and animals.
The people you eat with may notice the food you eat or share. These meals can lead others to reconsider their own, even without you saying a word.
Even when you eat alone, choosing food that supports your world view will bring you a sense of harmony. This will help you pursue your mission, both directly and by giving you peace of mind. When I worked in politics, I used to growl every time I passed the soda machine stocked by a company that funded the other side.
Speaking of politics, you may help elect candidates that support your food-related values or contact your representatives to encourage them to fight hunger, protect the environment, and more.
Mindful cooks seek to remain in the present moment, not reliving the past or thinking forward to the future. Mindful cooking helps us notice and appreciate the many ways that food connects us with our bodies, those we may be eating with, all those who helped make our meal possible, and the planet itself. For the most part, cooking mindfully takes no more time than usual. It may even save time because you will tend to cook with more purpose and less distraction.
Mindful cooks can experience shopping and cooking as a form of mediation. If you want, bring yourself to the present moment using my 3×3 Thanks meditation for cooks, which will bring you in touch with your body, gratitude, and purpose. As you cook mindfully, you tend to waste less. You may take a moment to arrange meals beautifully. This can bring you the pleasure of doing a brief art project and make the food more appealing to others. It can also remind you of their impermanence, as sand mandalas do for Tibetan monks.


Ramona Pauline (Rauscher) Nuss passed away on September 25, 2015, in Lincoln, NE. She was born to Henry and Pauline Rauscher June 25, 1921, near Sutton, NE. She was preceded in death by her husband, Elmer Nuss Jr., her parents, brothers, Jerry and Tom, and sisters, Ruth Haberman and Verneta Hohnstein. Ramona and Elmer (Bud) farmed near Hastings for a few years and then near Trumbull. They lived in Grand Island, Lincoln, Wymore and Casa Grande, AZ, for many years. Ramona is survived by one brother, Robert (Bob) and Barbara Rauscher of Oregon; one son, Stephen Nuss of San Antoine, TX; daughters, Ann and Bob Wathor of Wymore; Linda and Dale Thomas of Lincoln; and Catlin Brown of Beatrice; eight grandchildren, 17 great-grandchildren and one great-great grandson. She will be missed by all. A memorial service will be held on Oct. 10, at 10 a.m., at the Tabitha Chapel in Lincoln, NE.


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A Diplomat's Portrait: The United States Department of State's View on French Imperial Policy Regarding Syrian Religious Minorities of 1918-1922
Title A Diplomat's Portrait: The United States Department of State's View on French Imperial Policy Regarding Syrian Religious Minorities of 1918-1922
Author Charles, Dominic
Subject Arts and Humanities -- Dissertations, Academic
Dissertations, Academic -- Arts and Humanities
Abstract This thesis examines documents from the US department of State relating to the Internal Affairs of Turkey in the years of 1918-1922, to answer questions pertaining to French imperial policy directed toward minority groups in French Mandate Syria, which included present-day nations of Lebanon and Syria. Of the many minority groups present in French Mandate Syria, I chose to examine the Maronite, Druze, Alawi, Eastern Christian, and Armenian communities because of their significant role in the state-building of Syria and Lebanon. By using documents originating from US diplomats, this thesis attempts to present the United States' view on these imperial policies. In the formation of this perspective, the thesis asks some of the following questions: What were the effects of French imperial policies on Syrian minorities? And how did French imperial policy regarding minorities shape French Syrian society as a whole? To answer these questions as completely as possible, I supplemented the archival sources with material from significant scholars in Levantine and broader Mid-East history, like Albert Hourani and Yaron Friedman. My research suggests that policies pursued had a negative impact on all of the minorities but to a lesser extent for the Maronites, and other Christians. It also suggests that French imperial policy led to the creation of a violent society but steps could have been taken to produce a more peaceful outcome. The final goal of this thesis is to provide the historical narratives of the minority groups with an additional perspective, that of the US diplomats throughout the region.
Adviser Ozoglu, Hakan
Degree Discipline History
Degree Grantor Arts and Humanities
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Access Link http://purl.fcla.edu/fcla/etd/CFH0004830
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A "jungle" gym owner who was left penniless after an accident with a chainsaw has had his business saved at the 11th hour following a last ditch appeal on Facebook.
James Farmery, 37, who works as a tree surgeon, suffered painful wounds to his leg after being nipped by a colleague while cutting trees in February.
He needed hospital treatment and the injury left him out of action for six weeks, which in turn caused his finances to dwindle.
As a result, Calisthenics Parks – Mr Farmery's family-orientated gym in Merrick Street off Hedon Road - was on the verge of shutting and the dad-of-one told followers on the gym's Facebook page of its impending closure.
He said: "The six weeks off work had a detrimental impact on us as a family and on the gym. We had income protection insurance but that did not really pay out and it came to the point where we had to make a decision about the gym because we were struggling.
He wrote: "This gym was literally our baby, not many people can say they built their own gym from trees with their own hands.
"Not many people can say their gym has ever been awarded the best gym in the world by Men's Health magazine.
"We are extremely proud of what we have achieved and will hold our heads high, we are just heartbroken that we failed so very close to making it work.
However, after news spread of the gym's impending closure, offers of help and assistance flew in from across the country for Mr Farmery's venture.
A crowdfunding page was set up by another gym owner in Basingstoke and in just four days, that page has accrued an incredible £1,080.
Now, thanks to the additional support provided, Calisthenics Parks has been given renewed hope and it is now set to stay open for the foreseeable future.
"The support we've received has been so heart-warming and the amount of people offering us help has been incredible," Mr Farmery said.
"We're now in the process of messaging businesses around Hull but we've had support from all over the place and it has given us a massive fighting chance of staying open.
"We've had people give us £100 donations but even the odd quid that we are getting is amazing.
Mr Farmery's gym is dedicated to a developing fitness craze called calisthenics, which uses gymnastic exercises to help people improve their fitness and movement.
It is filled with monkey bars made from wood chopped by Mr Farmery and his main goal is to encourage families to get fit together through workouts.
He hopes that with the newfound support, he can continue to boost the appeal of calisthenics in Hull and get his business back on track.
"We are massively passionate about getting families to train together. We work closely with parents and seeing them train with their children is the best thing ever," he said.
"We want to say a massive thank you to anybody who has even stepped foot in this gym or followed us on social media because their support means the world.
You can donate to the fundraising page to keep Calisthenics Parks open in Hull by clicking here.


The left is celebrating the possibility of Uber going away stemming from an allegedly large operating loss and a recent California 'ruling'.
The left has hated Uber since its inception, accusing the wildly successful company of exploiting its drivers and undercutting the staid cab cartel.
What about that big Uber loss that the left is jumping for joy about? Not so fast, sperts.
Apparently, not surprisingly, it's a bunch of BS, an unsubstantiated 'report' pulled out of thin air to defame Uber and get ad clicks for the disingenuous media publications that disseminated it.
The Bloomberg report showed $470 million in operating losses with $415 million in revenue, but the report said it was not clear whether the numbers were the results of one quarter, a full year, or some other time period. Nor does it say when the financial numbers are from.
"These are substantially old numbers that do not reflect business activities today," an Uber representative told Business Insider. The company declined to clarify the time period or time frame for the numbers, but it has said the prospectus was not being distributed by Uber.
That's the state of journalism today – if you can't have a crisis, just make it up.
Second, what about the California ruling that is supposed to be the deal knell for Uber?
The details…things like facts.. tend to get lost in the emotive liberal narratives.
Think about it…If someone only becomes a driver once, how could they possibly be considered an employee? That makes no sense, since they hardly have any involvement. The independent contractor model is as old as business itself and involves trades as diverse as electricians, plumbers and computer repairmen. Uber is one of the most successful companies to take advantage of it. The liberals, who whine about Uber all the time, ignore that obamacare is a contributing factor to the proliferation of the 'sharing economy'.
Uber is a great idea whose time has time. The liberal media is so desperate for Uber to fail, just like they want the stock market and economy to crash, that journalistic integrity – what little they ever had – has been swept away.


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Authorities in Sacramento, Calif., announced Wednesday that they had arrested 72-year-old Joseph James DeAngelo in the so-called Golden State Killer case.
Photo: Sacramento County Sheriff's Department
New details are coming to light about the man accused of being the notorious serial killer, the East Area Rapist.
Joseph James DeAngelo, 72, was arrested Wednesday on suspicion of two counts of murder in the case of Brian and Katie Maggiore, who were killed in February 1978, Sacramento County District Attorney Anne Marie Schubert said.
RELATED: The terrifying 10 months when the East Bay Rapist emerged in the Bay Area
The East Area Rapist, also known as the Golden State Killer and the Original Night Stalker, was believed to be responsible for at least 12 homicides, 45 rapes and 150 burglaries in multiple Northern California counties, including Sacramento, Yolo, San Joaquin and Stanislaus counties, before moving on to commit crimes elsewhere in the state, the FBI said.
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DeAngelo was engaged to a woman named Bonnie Colwell when he was 24. She later called off the engagement.
According to a former investigator, the East Area Rapist once yelled "I hate you, Bonnie. I hate you," while raping a victim.
Get the full story in the video above.


Soft textured and so flavorful, these Apple Cinnamon Muffins will be your new favorite fall snack. These muffins are packed with nutrients, flavored with warm spices and loaded with FRESH APPLES. Also, these are refined sugar-free and low in calories – perfect HEALTHY grab-and-go meal.
And here it is. Another APPLE recipe. Yeah, I know… Well, what can I say? I'm obsessed with apples. + They are now in season, so juicy and so beautiful. With their gorgeous colors and super sweet, who can resist them. I certainly can't.
Apples are constantly on my menu for past few weeks. I love having Apple Cinnamon Overnight Oats or Apple Carrot Muffins for breakfast. My kiddo love these too. But I also love having apples fresh – I just slice them and have them as a midday or late-evening snack (topped with peanut butter, oh that's THE BEST snack ever!). With so many apples going on in my life right now, I can only promise to bring you MORE apple recipes in days to come. Because … well, why NOT!?
This Apple Cinnamon Muffins recipe is currently a huge hit in my house. We all love these muffins because they are soft, flavorful and honestly so darn GOOD! Topped with cinnamon coated fresh apples, beautifully flavored with warm Fall spices, and so delicious. These muffins are just gorgeous.
To make these delightful Apple Cinnamon Muffins I used only HEALTHY real ingredients – FRESH APPLES and whole grain flour. I used Spelt flour but you can use wheat if you prefer. Whole grain flour added some nutrients to these yummies but also contributed to overall muffin rustic taste.
I sweetened these muffins with pure Maple syrup, but It only needed about 1/4 cup to make muffins sweet enough. Rest sweetness (and moisture) comes from all naturall APPLESAUCE. Applesauce is basically pureed cooked (or baked) apples. You can make it yourself at home or grab the jar from the store. Just read the labels and buy one without added sugars.
Apple Cinnamon Muffins are absolutely irresistible. So fragrant and beautifully spiced. That has to do with warm spices – Ceylon cinnamon, nutmeg, and allspice that are just MUST in apple combos like this. Also, these muffins have soft, almost cake-like texture. Sooo good!
On the top of muffins, I added a bit of diced fresh apples coated with cinnamon which gave a nice tartness and balanced the muffin sweetness, giving some freshness. The spices and fresh apple both turned these muffins into a perfect Fall-inspired delight.
I like to use sweet apples when I'm making these, but any type will do. Find whatever is fresh and local to you. Just keep in mind that these muffins are low in added sugars, meaning sweetness depends on apples you choose so don't go crazy with tart apples. But again, if you're into green tart apples, go ahead. Make it as will please your pallets.
Apple Cinnamon Muffins are very nutritious – packed with dietary fibers good for our digestion, proteins and healthy fats from coconut oil. They make easy grab-and-go breakfast, but you can also make a batch for afternoon coffee or tea break. I love sharing these with my neighbors.
This recipe is perfect for the family and busy weekday mornings, not to mention picnics and outdoor fun. Also, it's a great healthy kids lunchbox choice.
One of the best things about this Apple Cinnamon Muffins recipe is that is very easy to make. You can whip up these beauties in no-time, and they are done, from starts to finish in less than 30 minutes. WIN!
These HEALTHY Apple Cinnamon Muffins will be your new favorite snack. These muffins are soft, flavorful and loaded with nutrients. + Refined sugar-free.
Preheat oven to 375°F (190C). Line a 12-cup muffin tin with cupcake liners or grease with coconut oil.
In a bowl, mix the dry ingredients - flour, spices, soda, baking powder and salt until well combined. Set aside.
In a separate larger bowl whisk the eggs with coconut oil, syrup, applesauce and vanilla. Add grated apple and mix well.
Slowly whisk in the flour mixture. Fill muffin tins 3/4 full.
In a small bowl, coat thinly chopped apples with cinnamon.
Top each muffin with chopped apples and press them into the batter. Sprinkle with coconut sugar (optional).
Bake muffins for 20 minutes, or until a toothpick inserted in the center comes out clean.
Keep in the airtight container up to 3 days.
These look like a mix between apple pie and coffee cake which is basically my dream come true. I wanna eat these with hot coffee on fall days!
There are never too many apple recipes! These look like a great treat – my kiddo would love finding one of these beauties in his lunchbox.