In a previous post, I mentioned we utilize HPE Insight Remote Support (IRS) at all our client sites, and discovered the lovely undocumented "feature" that IRS has, which is a tendency not to start after a Windows server reboot after an IRS update. This great undocumented feature defeats the entire purpose of IRS – monitoring and alerting your HPE hardware. After getting burned by this feature three or four times in a month where customers noticed hardware faults (via amber alert lights on the equipment) before we did since IRS was not running to alert us, I decided it was time to write a script to check IRS hourly and alert us if it wasn't running.
Lastly, we need to schedule check_irs_service_status.cmd to run hourly. I've set 2 minutes after the hour in the example shown below, but you can adjust as required.
schtasks /create /tn "Hourly IRS Service Check" /tr c:\Windows\check_irs_service_status.cmd /sc minute /mo 60 /st 00:02:00 /rp "*" /ru "%userdomain%\%username%"
By default, the SMTP from address will be the netbios computer name of the IRS server @ the User's DNS Domain FQDN (i.e. IRS-SERVER@JBGEEK.NET). The SMTP to address will be support @ the User's DNS Domain FQDN (i.e. SUPPORT@JBGEEK.NET), and the SMTP server will be mail @ the User's DNS Domain FQDN (i.e. MAIL.JBGEEK.NET). You can determine what these will be by checking the system's environment variables with SET from a command prompt. You can customize these settings in the "Send-MailMessage" command if necessary.
All that is left to do is to stop the service and test run check_irs_service_status.cmd to verify the Send-MailMessage works properly in your environment.
### This script will check the status of the server HPRSMAIN and alert via email if the service is stopped.
Send-MailMessage -From "$env:computername@$env:userdnsdomain" -To "support@$env:userdnsdomain" -Subject "$env:computername - HP IRS Service is stopped!!!" -Body "The HP IRS Service is stopped on $env:computername.$env:userdnsdomain at approximately $CurrentTime." -Priority High -DNO onSuccess, onFailure -SmtpServer "mail.$env:userdnsdomain"
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Founded in 2003 by Jewellery Designer Wendy Pickard-Young, Branch Jewellery's reputation for timeless style, bold designs and originality has progressively been growing. Wendy's stunning jewellery designs have evolved into an exceptional range of unique hand-crafted jewellery that we are pleased to say our customers have loved and keep coming back for.
Our stunning collections are housed by major stockists, fine department stores, and some of the best boutiques across the world. Our pieces can often be found in the fashion pages of some of the most prominent fashion publications in the UK and around the world. We are also happy to have a growing celebrity following with women such as Gwyneth Paltrow, Beyonce, Claudia Schiffer, and even a very prominent English Princess all owning wooden jewellery from Branch Jewellery. With all this under our belt Branch Jewellery is now firmly placed as a leader in the worlds Fashion and Jewellery industry.
All of our jewellery is produced in Indonesia using traditional methods by local craftsmen. Each piece has been predominantly hand-crafted using materials such as Rosewood, precious and non precious metals, semi-precious stones, crystals and even at times diamonds, carefully selected not only for quality but also with an eye to ethical sourcing and the welfare of the environment it has come from. We are careful not to use any form of chemicals on the wood we choose - no varnish, polish or colour stain – we like our wood completely natural – with nothing but beeswax to condition it. Due to the very unique nature of the grain in the wood, each individual piece has the feel of a one-of-a-kind piece of jewellery – no two pieces are ever the same!
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With the initial help of The Prince's Trust and the recognition of The British Fashion Council, Wendy's talent and innovative, bold designs have become recognised and admired worldwide. Branch Jewellery has grown from strength to strength, and is now sold in some of the most exclusive stores and boutiques across the world. Wendy's designs have been featured in catwalk shows in the UK and Europe and regularly receive great acclaim from the world's leading fashion magazines. Wendy's ideas know no bounds. Often to be seen scribbling down ideas, her inspiration can and does come from everywhere and everything.


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Statesboro City Council outlines plan to tackle blighted neighborhoods
By Dal Cannady | January 5, 2021 at 5:17 PM EST - Updated January 5 at 6:49 PM
STATESBORO, Ga. (WTOC) - Some Statesboro neighborhoods could see improvements in the next few years. The city hopes they can help homeowners make their homes better or replace houses beyond repair.
Drive through a certain neighborhood and you'll find blight even in a town the size of Statesboro. City leaders want to do something about that.
Johnson Street will be the first of five neighborhoods the city will tackle as they try to revitalize certain areas. In a public hearing Monday, they outlined 250 houses in poor to fair condition within five targeted neighborhoods. City leaders say neighborhood improvements have a ripple effect.
"As neighborhoods go, so your downtown goes. So, you must have healthy vibrant non-blighted neighborhoods to revitalize your downtown," Planning and Development Director Kathy Field said.
Tuesday morning, city leaders outlined their plan to apply for grants administered through the state Department of Community Affairs. The grants require them to have a long-term plan in place, including feedback from public hearings like the one Monday and another one on Thursday. Their first focus will be substandard houses owned by the person who lives there.
"After that, we'll look at new construction, develop affordable housing, infrastructure projects like drainage, sidewalks, roads," Field said.
Grant fund could initially help with demolition of some sites. Field says each improved home or lot marks a step toward a better neighborhood.
They hope to not only get homeowners involved, but also investors willing to build new.
Field says more than a third of the people in those five neighborhoods live below the poverty level.

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Q: How to perform shapefile/raster integrated functions Description:
I'm having trouble with some Raster/Shapefile manipulation. My problem is that I have a shapefile that I would like to use to update my rastervalues with. The shapefile has multiple polygons (Countries), that I would like to to loop through and change the value of the cells that are masked by that shapefile. Most other questions are about clipping a raster with shapefile, but I just want the cells on the original raster to be masked.
Here is an example of what I'm looking for:
for shapes in shapefile:
    masked_country=maskfunction(shapes,originalraster)
    masked_country=masked_country + arbitraryfunction(shape['layer'])

Do you have anything that works like that?  I work with python and gdal.
Here are some of the other options I have tried:

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*Trying to rasterize shapefile using python gdal.RasterizeLayer:
I only get a black tiff using this method. I have even implemented the target_dst=None at the end, and I'm still getting a 0 value raster. Here is my code sample for this:
from osgeo import gdal #geo library
from osgeo import ogr

pathtofile1="rPath\to\my\shapefile"
pathtofile2="rPath\to\my\raster"

shapefile = ogr.Open(pathtofile1)
rasterfile=gdal.Open(pathtofile2)

mb_l = shapefile.GetLayer()
geo_transform = rasterfile.GetGeoTransform()
source_layer = rasterfile.GetLayer()

x_min = geo_transform[0]
y_max = geo_transform[3]
x_max = x_min + geo_transform[1] * rasterfile.RasterXSize
y_min = y_max + geo_transform[5] * rasterfile.RasterYSize
x_res = lur250.RasterXSize
y_res = lur250.RasterYSize
pixel_width = geo_transform[1]

target_ds = gdal.GetDriverByName('GTiff').Create('my.tiff', x_res, y_res, 1, gdal.GDT_Float32)
target_ds.SetGeoTransform((x_min, pixel_width, 0, y_max, 0, 0-pixel_width))

band = target_ds.GetRasterBand(1)
NoData_value = -999
band.SetNoDataValue(NoData_value)
band.FlushCache()

gdal.RasterizeLayer(target_ds, [1], mb_l,options=["ATTRIBUTE=OBJECTID"])

target_ds=None

There is a possibility that the "OBJECTID" is not Int and it's string, but I don't know how to check that.
Also I have played with the arguments in SetGeoTransform, but to no use (Setting Ymax or Ymin for different raaster definition).

*Trying to burn the values of the shapefile into a raster with similar projection and resolution using gdal_rasterize from bash:
I need to create an empty raster with the same coordinate as my rasterfile (which can be achieved by copying that raster), but I don't know how to set the value for the entire raster to "0" or NoDataValue. All other solutions for these kind of problems are using "gdal_calc.py" and our HPC gdal installation is without such a tool.
Extra information
Here is the gdal_info results for my raster:
Driver: GTiff/GeoTIFF
Files: final4.tif
Size is 141969, 60829
Coordinate System is:
PROJCS["World_Mollweide",
    GEOGCS["GCS_WGS_1984",
        DATUM["D_WGS_1984",
            SPHEROID["WGS_1984",6378137.0,298.257223563]],
        PRIMEM["Greenwich",0.0],
        UNIT["Degree",0.017453292519943295]],
    PROJECTION["Mollweide"],
    PARAMETER["False_Easting",0.0],
    PARAMETER["False_Northing",0.0],
    PARAMETER["Central_Meridian",0.0],
    UNIT["Meter",1.0]]
Origin = (-17619594.546999998390675,8722279.461999999359250)
Pixel Size = (250.000000000000000,-250.000000000000000)
Metadata:
  AREA_OR_POINT=Area
Image Structure Metadata:
  INTERLEAVE=BAND
Corner Coordinates:
Upper Left  (-17619594.547, 8722279.462) ( 30d 5'16.03"E, 83d 8'14.83"N)
Lower Left  (-17619594.547,-6484970.538) (107d 3'58.73"E, 55d59' 2.97"S)
Upper Right (17872655.453, 8722279.462) ( 20d10'44.20"W, 83d 8'14.83"N)
Lower Right (17872655.453,-6484970.538) (103d26' 0.82"W, 55d59' 2.97"S)
Center      (  126530.453, 1118654.462) (  1d16'20.33"E,  9d 3'42.49"N)
Band 1 Block=141969x1 Type=Byte, ColorInterp=Gray
  NoData Value=-128

A: Thanks @jon and @michael-stimson for your answers. I found the solution. The problem was that I did not set the projection for my new file. I replicated the projection of the source file using these two lines:
proj=rasterfile.GetProjection()
target_ds.SetProjection(proj)

and then I filled the entire band with No-data value using Band.Fill() before doing the rasterization. I checked the results using gdalinfo -hist and it makes sense. Thanks a lot.

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Tanqueray Rangpur Gets Refreshed Look As It Launches Into New Markets
By newsroom on February 14, 2018 Comments Off on Tanqueray Rangpur Gets Refreshed Look As It Launches Into New Markets
Diageo's gin brand Tanqueray, has unveiled a new look for Tanqueray Rangpur alongside the news that it's extending its distribution into new markets.
Named after an exotic lime which originated from India, Tanqueray Rangpur is a light, easy-drinking gin with a juicy citrus taste, making it the perfect gin for the summer.
Since it first launched in 2006, Tanqueray Rangpur has been winning top awards, including Double Gold at the prestigious San Francisco World Spirits Competition and is already an established favourite in most of Europe, USA and Canada. Now, due to popular demand, it will be available in Brazil, Australia, Colombia and Greece from January 2018.
To celebrate this announcement, a new bottle design will also hit the shelves across all markets, shining a light on the zesty flavour and rich, innovative heritage of Tanqueray Rangpur. Through citrus imagery as well as a delicate, Raj-inspired, border in classic Tanqueray green, it tells a visual story of its signature ingredient, Rangpur, a lime which originated from India. For the first time it also introduces the signature of the brand's founder – Charles Tanqueray.
Tanqueray Global Marketing Manager, Joanna Segesser said: "It's an extremely exciting time for gin. It's a category which is growing at a phenomenal rate with Tanqueray at the forefront. This is the reason why we are refreshing the look and extending the reach of Tanqueray Rangpur into new countries. Like our founder, who searched the globe for the perfect ingredients, we believe that 'It's what you put in' that matters and Tanqueray Rangpur is no different. Distilled with rare Rangpur limes, the result is a distinctive zesty flavour. Our new look bottle reflects this rich heritage and its exotic flavour, while paying homage to the ultimate gin pioneer – Charles Tanqueray."
As Tanqueray Rangpur continues to reach more consumers, Tanqueray Ginstorian, Jo McKerchar explained that attention to quality and ingenuity has always been at the heart of this brand from the beginning: "Tanqueray's founder, Charles Tanqueray, was an innovator in the world of gin. In 1830 he set out to make the world's finest gin. He poured his heart into it, creating over 300 recipes in pursuit of the definitive gin. It was that same dedication and experimentation that led to the creation of Tanqueray Rangpur in 2006. As other younger brands begin to experiment with their gin recipes, we are proud of our successful legacy of innovation and experimentation that spans nearly two centuries."
Tanqueray Rangpur joins the award-winning portfolio of Tanqueray that includes Tanqueray London Dry and Tanqueray No. Ten as well as limited editions such as Malacca, Old Tom and Bloomsbury.
Source: Diageo
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Deep Silver released four new screenshots of their latest RPG, Risen 2: Dark Waters. Risen 2: Dark Waters is the sequel to the acclaimed RPG game from Piranha Bytes, Risen. The game aims to combine the most loved classic RPG gameplay mechanics of the original Risen with a fresh theme and setting on a huge variety of themed island locales. The eagerly-awaited successor of Risen will set sail worldwide for consoles and PC. Enjoy the new screenshots after the jump!


The first thing that comes to mind after the mention of a root canal, is all the pain associated with the procedure. What exactly are root canals? And is the treatment process painful?
A root canal is a dental procedure usually prescribed to remove a tooth pulp if infected. The pulp is the soft part of your tooth located beneath the white enamel and dentin. This tissue contains nerves, connective tissue and numerous nerve endings that are responsible for your tooth growth.
The good news is, a mature tooth can survive without the pulp as it continues to get its nourishment from other surrounding tissues.
Contrary to popular belief, a root canal procedure is totally painless and highly effective. You can compare this treatment to a routine filling, with the exception that root canal treatments may take more than one appointment, depending on the severity of your condition.
A root canal is essential because it will not only treat, but also preserves a tooth with infected roots. After the pulp is removed, your dentist uses a dental crown to restore your natural tooth appearance and function.
Are you an ideal candidate for a root canal?
A root canal treatment is necessary when the pulp becomes inflamed, causing pain and swelling. The inflammation can be as a result of tooth decay, faulty crowns, chipped tooth or repeated dental procedures on the same tooth. Any trauma inflicted on your tooth can also damage the pulp.
The pain can range from mild to severe, and intensifies throughout the day or if you bite down on the tooth. You might also experience prolonged sensitivity to hot foods and drinks, and your gum may start feeling tender and swollen, usually around the problem area.
If left untreated, pulp inflammation leads to an abscess which eventually results in tooth loss. Therefore, it's vital that you schedule an appointment with your dentist if you notice any related symptoms.
The very first step involves an x-ray which establishes the exact area in your tooth the decay has formed. A local anesthetic is then applied to the infected tooth and surrounding gum. Next, the infected pulp is carefully removed and the inside of the tooth well cleaned and disinfected.
The space created after the pulp removal, is then filled and sealed with gutta-percha, a rubber-like material. After your dentist ascertains that your tooth is fully healed, it's restored with either a crown or a filling for additional protection. This can last you years or even a lifetime.
Inflammation and sensitivity to hot and cold is normal after the procedure, and will go away within a few days. You can resume your regular oral care after the final restoration.
Dr. Tyson, a Huntsville dentist recommends brushing at least twice a day and flossing once to keep future infections at bay. You might also need to avoid chewing on very hard foods, which can cause your tooth to break. Visiting your dentist regularly for tooth cleaning and examination also goes a long way.


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Pease Golf Course, established in 1901, was originally known as the Portsmouth Country Club. Pease is unique in the Seacoast area in that it offers 27 holes of play. The regular 18 holes is the original course, first established as nine holes in 1901. The "Blue" course 9 holes (3,227 yards from the blue tees) was designed by former General Manager Ted Seavey and opened for play in 2001.
The original course was taken over by the United States Air Force in 1956 as part of the acreage needed for the new Pease Air Base. In designing the base, the Air Force decided to keep the course and to permit the officers and enlisted men of the Air Force to be members. The clubhouse is the original structure but has been remodeled and expanded.
The clubhouse at Pease Golf Course, view from the practice area.
The present Pease Golf Course was begun in 1991 when the Pease Air Base was terminated and the government leased the course at no charge to the Pease Development Center. As part of the decommissioning of the base, it was required that an airport remain as a part of the Pease Development so that an Air Force Reserve unit could be based at the site. The golf course's location is at the end of the runways, which can be disconcerting when teeing off or putting on the 10th and 11th holes--the landing pattern puts some planes only a couple of hundred feet above your head as they pass over. The close-up view of the planes is fantastic, even if it does disrupt your play briefly.
Scott Devito giving his son Bobby a tip in the sand trap. Notice that the depth of the trap is over Bobby's head. He landed his ball in the practice ring on the green.
Scott Devito has been the General Manager of Pease for the past four years, having previously been the PGA professional for nine years. He has been a member of the PGA for 25 years.
Pro Tim Riese giving junior clinic members tips in the sand.
Tim Riese has been the head PGA Pro for the past three years, having previously been assistant for eight years. He conducts junior weekly clinics twice a season for 5 to 8 years and 9 to 18. These clinics are very popular and the participants show great progress. He and his assistant, Sam Cresta, also conduct senior clinics and are kept very busy with private lessons.
Max Weaver of Eliot, Maine, practices chipping in the junior clinic.
General Manager Scott Devito feels the easiest hole is the 18th handicap, par 3, 16th hole. And the toughest? The 2nd handicap, par 5 13th hole. The most scenic is the number 1 handicap, par 5, 2nd hole.
View from the tee on the par 5 second hole; notice the "good luck" bird that pranced across prior to teeing off.
View down the fairway for the second shot on the 2nd "most scenic" hole.
View from the green back up the fairway of the 2nd "most scenic" hole.
David Chorney from Newfound Lake, at the seacoast for a few days, tees off on the 13th "toughest hole".
David's second shot towards the 13th green.
View back up the 13th from the green; notice repair work on fairway just before the green.
The easiest hole per Scott was the 162 yard par 3, 16th hole. Notice the wide sand trap just before the green.
Matt Chorney, from Newfound Lake, teeing off on the 16th.
View of the massive bunker before the 16th green.
Not to question Scott's choice of the 2nd hole as the most scenic . . . but the par 3, 14th hole is pretty nice.
Matt teeing off on the par 3, 14th.


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Amway North America Managing Director Jim Ayres talks with Rick Neuheisel, former player and coach and current CBS Sports analyst in "Team Building On and Off the Field." Neuheisel's approach to leadership is forged by three key questions: Who are we, where are we going, and how are we going to get there? The resulting clear sense of identity and direction – coupled with the active, daily choice to have a positive attitude – makes leaders and their teams relentlessly positive, convinced that anything can and will be accomplished. Watch Now
In this, Dick and Betsy DeVos' familial roots serve as an object example. Dick is the eldest son of Richard DeVos, who co-founded Amway in 1959, and grew it from a meager soap factory into a multinational colossus with $9.5 billion in annual sales, enlisting his children to manage and expand the company. Betsy hails from a dynasty of her own. In 1965, her father, Edgar Prince, founded a small manufacturing company that came to be worth more than $1 billion on the strength of Prince's automotive innovations, which include the pull-down sun visor with a built-in light-up vanity mirror.
In 2004, Dateline NBC featured a critical report based on a yearlong undercover investigation of business practices of Quixtar.[176] The report noted that the average distributor makes only about $1,400 per year and that many of the "high level distributors singing the praises of Quixtar" are actually "making most of their money by selling motivational books, tapes and seminars; not Quixtar's cosmetics, soaps, and electronics".
High-ranking Amway leaders such as Richard DeVos and Dexter Yager were owners and members of the board of Gospel Films, a producer of movies and books geared toward conservative Christians, as well as co-owners (along with Salem Communications) of a right-wing, Christian nonprofit called Gospel Communications International.[74][85][87][88][89] Yager, interviewed on 60 Minutes in 1983, admitted that he promotes Christianity through his Amway group, but stated that this might not be the case in other Amway groups.[90][need quotation to verify]
In Amway's eyes, your friends and family are all potential cash cows you should be milking -- you're trained to go after the people closest to you first (to rack up those sweet pity sales). "I was thinking that every friend that didn't join my network didn't want success for himself or me, that he was somehow against me." This crazy train of thought led Kyritsis to harass his loved ones in an attempt to better their lives. Desperate to convince someone of the amazing untapped Amway potential, Kyritsis pushed the Amway rhetoric on anyone who would listen, especially his girlfriend. He would tell her that her studies were pointless when she could be making so much more money, dragging her to seminars and showing her the Amway tapes like a really boring version of The Ring.
The Amway Corporation was founded in 1959, ostensibly as a small-scale manufacturer of "biodegradable" detergents (beginning with Liquid Organic Cleaner, the patent for which Amway acquired from a struggling Detroit scientist). It has since grown into a $6 billion-a-year consumer-products behemoth selling everything from groceries to lingerie to water filtration systems. These products aren't available in stores, though. The key to Amway's success is its curious distribution system: Instead of using retail outlets and mass-media advertising, Amway licenses individual "distributors" to sell its goods from their homes. The distributors are independent franchisees; they buy products from Amway at wholesale and resell them at the "suggested retail" price, pocketing the difference as profit. Distributors are also paid a percentage of their sales (from 3 percent to 25 percent) by Amway itself. But the detail that distinguishes Amway's "multilevel marketing" scheme is that it rewards distributors for bringing new recruits into the sales force. Distributors get a cut not only of their own sales revenues, but of sales made by their recruits, their recruits' recruits and their recruits' recruits' recruits, a branching pyramid of lineally descended Amwayers known as a distributor's "downline."
This is the worst company on earth DO NOT SIGNUP WITH THEM IT IS A COMPLETE SCAM. When I signed up They offered me supposed free sample value of $150 witch in the end I ended up paying double the price for. So if that's not bad enough they also signed me up for some LTD crap without my approval or knowledge of doing so which charged me $50 a month after all said and done I tried to call them and they said if I were to cancel they would charge me $150 cancellation fee so to anybody that's reading this avoid amway at all cost
Amway and its founders have long had deep ties to the Washington D.C., and particularly the Republican Party. The current House basically has a minor Amway caucus with five former distributors and Amway has been one of the largest donors to the Republican Party since the early 1990s. DeVos's son, Dick, ran for governor of Michigan in 2006 and his wife, Betsy, is currently the Secretary of Education in the first Trump administration. She has speculated that the DeVos family has donated around $200 million to Republican candidates.
The meeting was hosted by Sherri's friend Josh and his wife Jean[3], he a commodities broker, she a high school math teacher. Sherri and Josh had attended the same small Christian college. Before that, he had been an Indiana farm boy, and he still had the look: a beefy, boyish face with a grin that verged on gaping, mussed hair with perpetually sweaty bangs, a brown suit that flared in all the wrong places, and a general air of guilelessness. This cast in high relief his constant, ill-advised attempts to put on city airs: the firm handshake, the breezy small talk, the man-of-the-world asides.
Quixtar also markets through their website products from partner stores whose list can be found at Quixtar website. Quixtar utilizes the Employee & Affiliates Purchase Program discount pricing structure for purchases from most of these third-party partner stores. Purchases from some of them (generally called discount-only partner stores) may not gain the P/V & B/V (measures of sales volumes, used for calculating bonuses to be paid) normally associated with an IBO's purchases.[7]
With AWS Just-in-Time Registration, users are assured their Amway device will talk only to Amway's AWS IoT platform—not to a different IoT platform or a hacked version that sits in between. For Amway, Just-in-Time Registration ensures a given device truly is an Amway manufactured device, and not a fake. For Amway's devices, Just-in-Time Registration is handled by the Atmel microprocessor within each unit. "Valid certificates for our air-treatment systems are actually created before they even leave the factory floor," says Binger.
Amway has kept the R&D for these products in the U.S., but manufactures them in Malaysia. Their contract manufacturing partner has proven they can make a quality product. "Contract manufacturing for durables and electronics has become very reliable in Asia." But there are other supply chain advantages to having the products made in the same region where the products are bought.
As her world shrunk, she immersed herself in World Wide culture. For entertainment, she listened to the motivational tapes, laughing and crying at the tales of hardship and triumph. She read the WWDB recommended books, memorizing snippets of Norman Vincent Peale and Psychocybernetics. She urged me, likewise, to move to the "next level": to hook into Amvox voicemail (where I could listen to messages from my distant upline Greg Duncan courtside at Bulls-Magic games[15]); make plane and hotel reservations for the upcoming Family Reunion; and get on "standing order" to automatically receive six World Wide cassettes a month at six bucks a pop—which Josh claimed simply covered costs—presumably of meetings recorded onto very cheap tapes. ("I'd gladly pay more for them," Josh insisted, "because they're helping me to become financially liberated!") Sherri told me, in hushed tones, that "Greg Duncan judges you more on the number of standing orders in your downline than on your PV!" I didn't doubt it. The upper echelons of World-Wide and other groups rake in enormous profits from their speaking engagements and the sale of motivational materials. Dexter Yager, head of the Yager Group, is reputed to make more from his propaganda syndicate than from his actual Amway business.
'It was very marshy. They rearranged the golf course because part of Bardmoor was in here, so they restructured it,' she says, referring to the adjacent gated community. 'Bayou Club is divided into two cities: Pinellas Park and Seminole. When you first drive into the community, while you're technically still in Pinellas Park, you wouldn't know it. Pinellas Park is low-income – we call this section an oasis in the middle of Pinellas Park.'
In 2002, the first election of GLEP's existence, its PAC had more money than the Michigan Education Association, United Auto Workers, or any Democratic-affiliated PAC in the state. And if they lacked the influence and statewide presence of those groups, it was only a matter of time. "They take a very long-term view," says Matuzak. "If you pick up a few new Republican legislators every two years, and throw a fair amount of money at legislators who are already there, you can create coalitions of folks who can tackle what seem to be impossibly large issues."
For dinner before a game, there are a number of options at the arena. One thing to keep in mind is that Loge ticket holders are also entitled to dinner at Jernigan's Restaurant on the Club Level and have the exclusive option to reserve a table from 5:30 - 6:30 pm as premium ticket holders. Regardless of when you're going, reservations are recommended.
It's actually not. It was even investigated in 1979, an investigation initiated by Amway to disprove those claiming they were fraudulent. I'm guessing you may have joined and didn't put in the work and didn't see a good return and are now upset. Well, it's just like going to college, if you don't do the work and do well in college and fail out and have to quit, you will claim college is stupid and doesn't work just because you weren't successful. Shame.
Avoid the amway pyramid question when discussing your MLM opportunity. If people ask you if this is an amway pyramid scheme, you should say 100% definitely NO. Do not be ashamed of your answer. Or stumble in your response. You have done your research. You are the expert and you know the truth. There is no amway pyramid scheme. Then avoid making a defense. There is no reason to defend something that does not need a defense.
"Thought our kids came out," Smart said after the win. "We were sloppy at times, organizational, as far as substitution on defense, and we got some stupid, silly penalties early on offense. But they came out fast, they came out physical, and they answered the challenge which was to understand that we challenged them and said 'hey, we are creating a standard here, that we play to this level, regardless of who you play.' You have to go own the standard. I really thought the players really tried to do that. Sometimes holdings and things like that are an aggressive penalty. But that is frustrating and as an organization, we have to do a better job defensively of having the right people on the field."
In 1986 Amway Corp. agreed, under a consent decree filed in federal court, to pay a $100,000 civil penalty to settle Commission charges it violated a 1979 Commission order that prohibits Amway from misrepresenting the amount of profit, earnings or sales its distributors are likely to achieve. According to a complaint filed with the consent decree, Amway violated the 1979 order by advertising earnings claims without including in it clear and conspicuous disclosures of the average earnings or sales of all distributors in any recent year or the percent of distributors who actually achieved the results claimed.[44]
Why are these amshit people coming here if they are taught to succeed and if they are already gaining success with scamway? Why are these shitters coming here. U know why? Coz they are already depressed and dont want any new guys googling about amway to know that amway is shit. These "amshit joined guys" want to manipulate you new guys to think that amway is not a bad thing to do. These people want you to think positive about amway so the the billion dollar business gets fueled with new fools and make profits annually so that this business never stops. NO DOUBT AMWAY PRODUCTS ARE GREAT. but this product is just an upper layer on the underlying clever business cult.
The details of the agreement were finalized on December 22, 2006. In the agreement, the City of Orlando will take ownership of the new arena, while the Magic will control the planning and construction of the facility so long as contracting procedures are done in the same public manner as governments advertise contracts. In addition, the City will be paid a part of naming rights and corporate suite sales, a share estimated to be worth $1.75 million the first year of the arena's opening. The Magic will receive all proceeds from ticket sales for Magic games, while the City will receive all proceeds from ticket sales to all other events.[12] The Orlando Magic will contribute at least $50 million in cash up-front, pick up any cost overruns, and pay rent of $1 million per year for 30 years. The City of Orlando will pay for the land and infrastructure. The remaining money will come from bonds which will be paid off by part of the Orange County, Florida, Tourist Development Tax, collected as a surcharge on hotel stays, which was raised to 6% in 2006. The Magic will guarantee $100 million of these bonds.
Top: Gubernatorial candidate Dick DeVos shakes hands while campaigning with wife Betsy and Arizona Senator John McCain. Bottom left: Betsy DeVos and President George H.W. Bush at a 2000 campaign fundraiser for George W. Bush. Bottom right: In 2004, Betsy DeVos campaigns with Representatives Mike Rogers and Candice Miller. | Regina H. Boone/TNS/ZUMAPRESS.com; AP Photos
Amway is working on rainbow system. Which have some target nd purchasing the product every mnth. So its nt gud for distributers.. Day by day Company profit is up.. Nd distributar is going down.. Mlm is very good nd simple business for those who has self confidence. Nd want to achive our dreams. Bt before joining mlm chek all the theams.. M also lyk mlm bt nt rainbow system. M like matrix system coz not any target nd nt any time limit.. Nd secndly purchasing is only one time in life time. So change ur life wd mlm busines .
Amway is unethical way of making money. Their representative lure you to this smartly designed plan. Amway's representatives misguide and misinform like any other business or a product's sale representatives. which is attractive to listen for the first time with the 'Entrepreneur" motto. But it is another way of making money leaving you frustrated in the end. I advise every one not to join this unethical product promotion. I appreciate Jeremy's article for giving information to people.
To understand the DeVos family, it helps to understand West Michigan. A sweeping landscape of flat, rolling farmland freckled with small towns, it sits on the opposite side of the state—in more than one way—from the big, diverse, reliably Democratic Detroit metropolitan area. Broadly speaking, it's a region where people are deeply religious, politically conservative, entrepreneurial and unfailingly polite—think Utah, if it were settled not by Mormons but by Dutch Calvinists. "There's an old expression here," chuckles Gleaves Whitney, director of the Hauenstein Center for Presidential Studies at Grand Valley State University in Grand Rapids. "'If you ain't Dutch, you ain't much.'"
In Simply Rich, DeVos describes buying full-page advertisements for Reagan in popular magazines during his presidential runs because 'we wanted the Amway distributors and their customers to know that we supported Reagan, in the hope that they would support him, too.' Adding, 'We also thought the ads might further help Amway distributors recognize the importance of free enterprise to their success.' This is not the only time Amway has encouraged its sales force to back its political agenda. In 1994, Amway Crown Ambassador and motivational mogul Dexter Yager used Amway's extensive voice mail system to raise almost half of Amway distributor and 'strong conservative' congresswoman Sue Myrick's campaign funds when she ran for North Carolina's ninth congressional district. The year Myrick was elected, Amway donated $1.3 million to the San Diego Convention and Visitors Bureau to pay for Republican 'infomercials' airing on televangelist Pat Robertson's Family Channel during the party's August convention.
Occasionally, though, it can be useful to mention poverty in a certain context. Inspired by the personal and business philosophies of DeVos and Van Andel, Cross spent the ten years after writing Commitment to Excellence researching the two men, culminating in his 1995 self-help book Choices with Clout: How to Make Things Happen – by Making the Right Decisions Every Day of Your Life. Much of the book is compiled from interviews with the Amway founders and top-level distributors. In a passage about excellence, Van Andel outlines the proper way for an Amway distributor to rationalize the issue of poverty:
The Coaches Poll began selecting the "Top 20" teams on a weekly basis during the 1950-1951 college football and basketball seasons. For the 1990-1991 football and basketball seasons, the poll expanded to a "Top 25," and it has retained this format since. It was initially published by United Press – known from 1958 as United Press International (UPI) – from 1950 thru 1990, followed by USA Today/CNN from 1991 thru 1996, USA Today/ESPN from 1997 to 2004, and USA Today from 2005 to the present.
In Western Michigan, what matters isn't how Amway is run, but what the DeVoses have done for the community. Drive through downtown Grand Rapids, Michigan's second-largest metropolis, and the family's contributions are omnipresent. There's the Helen DeVos Children's Hospital. A few blocks west, hugging the Grand River that bisects the city, you'll find the sleek DeVos Place Convention Center, the DeVos Performance Hall and the Amway Grand Plaza Hotel. Across the water, the campus of Grand Valley State University is anchored by the spacious Richard M. DeVos Center. A few blocks north is the DeVos Learning Center, housed at the Gerald R. Ford Presidential Museum. (You would be forgiven if you assumed that DeVos, not Ford, had been president.)
On its face, the debate over right-to-work is about an arcane bit of labor law—whether workers under a contract that was collectively negotiated by a union should have to pay dues to that union, regardless of whether they're members. But that debate is a proxy for a larger battle that is less about employment law than political jockeying: Unions tends to align with Democrats, and as a result, if it becomes more difficult for unions to collect dues, they'll be weakened and less able to advocate for the political causes of their choosing.
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Whereas The Plan is supposed to provide a simple means to a desirable end, for Josh, Jean, and Sherri the process of recovery had become an end in itself. Josh and Jean would constantly tell me how World Wide's books and advice had enriched their marriage and helped them to communicate with each other (the bolstering of marriage and family is a major theme in Amway). The Amway lore is also full of distributors, perhaps abused as children, who "couldn't even look people in the eye" when they joined, but who were now confidently showing The Plan to all and sundry.
Today, the DeVoses' charitable giving and local boosterism mean that people in West Michigan have a different view of them than Michiganders elsewhere in the state. "The political narrative that has grown around [the family] is unfair," says Whitney, whose Hauenstein Center has received grant funding from the DeVos Family Foundation. "They have made life better for a lot of people, and I can't say that loudly enough."
The above analysis is an ideal case. Not everybody can afford to become a member and not everyone who can afford would wish to become a member. So, such schemes collapse by the time it reaches 18th level itself (if each member is allowed to refer 2 friends), or 8th level itself (if each member is allowed to refer 6 friends). i.e It is not a sustainable model and is bound to collapse. Dreams are shattered and friendships are broken.
Figuring out the arcana of Amway took months. The price list, for instance, is denominated in two artificial Amway currencies called "Point Value" (PV) and "Bonus Volume" (BV), which are listed alongside the U.S. dollar-denominated wholesale ("Distributor Cost") and "Suggested Retail" prices. But for all the arcana, the system's core concept was simple.
Directly across the state from my family, on Florida's Atlantic coast, is the Windsor country club. Home architecture here is strictly regulated. Residents drive around on golf carts, on and off the eighteen-hole course. There's an equestrian center, tennis courts, a concierge, and a gun club. Occasionally Prince Charles pays a visit. This is where you go when you bypass Palm Beach on your way to vacation – there's no kitsch in Windsor, only the highly refined. Among its residents are retail billionaire W. Galen Weston, the Swarovski clan – and the DeVoses, who own three houses here and spend eight weeks a year or more on the waterfront.
Prices for signing up as an Amway IBO depend on the Business Kit you select. IBO Literature Kit costs $62. It includes a detailed guide to help you start your business, training programs, brochures and information about the company's bonus programs. The cost of IBO Product Kit is $83.99. It includes everything found in the Welcome Kit, as well as full-size products ($150 worth) for you to try. If you are not satisfied with your business opportunity, you can ask for a 100% refund within 90 days of purchase. To do this, you will need to contact customer service by calling at 800-253-6500 or writing to customer.service@amway.com.
After the speech I told the guy that this isn't for me, I'm sure it works for you, but it wouldn't for me, and he tried to slow me down from walking out and managed to get one of his buddies to talk to me as to why I should reconsider. I asked him some questions, but he really didn't have a script and he got shot down and walked away. I said, "it was great meeting you, thanks for the opportunity, I hope I didn't waste your time and have a good life."
On September 29, 2006, after years of on-and-off negotiations, Orlando Mayor Buddy Dyer, Orange County Mayor Richard Crotty, and the Orlando Magic announced an agreement on a new arena in downtown Orlando, located at the southwest corner of Church Street and Hughey Avenue. The arena itself cost around $380 million, with an additional $100 million for land and infrastructure, for a total cost of $480 million (as of March 8, 2011 the arena was expected to be within $10 million of the estimated cost[9]). It is part of a $1.05-billion plan to redo the Orlando Centroplex with a new arena, a new $375-million performing arts center, and a $175-million expansion of the Citrus Bowl (Later, declining economic conditions led the improvements to the Citrus Bowl to be delayed until at least 2020). When it was announced in the media on September 29, it was referred to as the "Triple Crown for Downtown".
While noting that the settlement is not an admission of wrongdoing or liability, Amway acknowledged that it had made changes to its business operations as a result of the lawsuit. The settlement is subject to approval by the court, which was expected in early 2011.[10] The economic value of the settlement, including the changes Amway made to its business model, totals $100 million.[131]
Richard DeVos and Jay Van Andel who was based in Michigan founded Amway in 1959. Today Amway conducts its business through a number of companies in more than eighty countries worldwide. In 2012 Amway was rewarded the no. 25 position by Forbes for being one of the largest private companies in the U.S. By the year-end in 2012, more than $11 billion sales were recorded, making Amway one of the most successful network marketing companies that have been in business for well over 50 years.
I was seven when my parents joined Amway. Our house filled up with Amway products: boxes of Nutrilite™ vitamins, toaster pastries, Glister™ toothpaste, Artistry™ makeup. We washed our hair with Satinique shampoo; we washed our floors with L.O.C. ™ cleaner; we washed our dishes with Amway-brand dish soap; we strained our drinking water through Amway's filter. Our friends were Amway. Our vocabulary was Amway. We were 'Directs' going 'Diamond.' We 'showed The Plan' to anyone who listened.
But every time I drive past the Bayou Club, I can't help wondering what it would have been like to go Diamond. Once considered the highest Pin Level – above Silver, Gold, Platinum, Ruby, Pearl, Sapphire and Emerald – Diamond status was what I had craved. It was what I'd believed was success. After all, less than 1 percent of Amway distributors go Diamond.
On August 10, 2007, Quixtar announced that it had terminated the businesses of fifteen of the plaintiffs involved in the lawsuit,[52] and sought and received a temporary restraining order and preliminary order of injunction in a Michigan court preventing them from interfering with the LOS, soliciting IBOs for their new company, or disparaging Quixtar or the business in any way.[53][54] In mid October 2007, Quixtar argued that the former distributors were in violation of the court order since TEAM continued to have meetings and sell motivational materials. In Grand Rapids, Michigan, Quixtar argued that TEAM was using Quixtar's proprietary information to promote its meetings and sell materials. The court held in favor of Woodward and Brady and allowed TEAM to continue to operate.[55]
Each year, Rich DeVos attends The Gathering, a below-theradar conference of hard-right Christian organizations and their biggest funders. Featured speakers have included the president and CEO of Alliance Defending Freedom, the president of Focus on the Family, and the head of the Family Research Council. The philanthropists in attendance are representatives of some of America's wealthiest dynasties and family foundations, and of the National Christian Foundation, America's largest provider of donor-advised funds given to Christian causes. Donors who meet at The Gathering dispense upwards of $1 billion a year in grants.
@TonyGonzalez1 Good work, don't trust any multilevel marketing scam (MLM) All of them conceal the 99%+ loss rate that consumers are bound to face due to the impossible math of a pyramid scheme. It's not opinion, all MLM companies carry an investment loss rate greater than 99%. Companies like Amway, Herbalife, Monavie, USANA, NuSkin, Veema, Xango and a few hundred others, all scam you by implying you can earn extra income by buying into the companies products, and then recruiting new participants who sell and recruit for you in something they call a "downline."
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Amway's product line grew from LOC, with the laundry detergent SA8 added in 1960, and later the hair care product Satinique (1965) and the cosmetics line Artistry (1968). Today Amway manufactures over 450 products, with manufacturing facilities in China, India and the United States, as well as Nutrilite organic farms in Brazil, Mexico and the United States (California and Washington State). Amway brands include Artistry, Atmosphere, Body Blends, Bodykey, Body Works, Clear Now, eSpring, Glister, iCook, Legacy of Clean, Nutrilite, Peter Island, Perfect Empowered Drinking Water, Personal Accents, Ribbon, Satinique, Artistry Men and XS.
Amway has great products, however, building an Amway business is very difficult due to the fact that it has a punishing compensation plan. It also has deep market penetration, meaning that most adults know of it and many have had a negative experience in many instances. This requires more touches with the same individual to get them into the business than if you were building a relatively new company for example. For my full Amway review visit http://www.jasonleehq.com/amway-review/
'It's very dark,' I observe. We've begun in the middle: a room with wood paneling, shellacked stone floors and walls, and a recessed circular area for entertaining, carpeted in emerald. Behind me, a pool table occupies most of a Turkish rug annexing the area beneath the open-style second-floor balcony. The Realtor stands near a grand piano and a stone planter housing ferns.
"The first part of the brainwashing," says Kyritsis, "was that 'there would be no success without the system.'" What's the system? The system is a series of seminars, recordings, and books that claim to be a guaranteed path to master salesmanship. Following Amway's guidelines successfully is seen as the only path to success, so if you aren't making money, it's because you're not "working the program" properly. Any success is due purely to their teachings, any failure is due to you not following them hard enough. Sound familiar?
i've been to events, i attend meetings, i buy and use the products (but only the ones i actually like, like some of the kid vitamins cuz my kid actually really likes 'em, and their makeup/skincare i really like because it works for my skin)….there has never been one mention about "ditching your family or friends", there has never been any pressure to buy nothing but Amway….


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Supernatural Review: "First Born"
Emily Solomon January 23, 2014
Emily Dunbar '17 / Emertainment Monthly Staff Writer
It's difficult to choose an access point for Supernatural's eleventh episode, "First Born," because the entire hour was hilarious, thrilling, and enriching for the season's plot arc.
One thing that absolutely must be talked about is how much character development and brilliant parallel structure we saw tonight.
At the end of last week's episode, Sam (Jared Padalecki) and Dean Winchester (Jensen Ackles) had split up (again), deciding that working solo would best suit the dying moose and his deceiving elder brother. However, these promises to work alone are not easily kept, as Castiel (Misha Collins) wishes to help the newly unhealed Sam, and Crowley (Mark Sheppard) needs Dean to need his help. (Confusing, I know.)
Misha Collins and Jared Padalecki in the Supernatural episode "First Born." Photo Credit: Diyah Pera / The CW.
With these pairings, we see just how much Sam and Dean balance each other out, and how apparent this is for other characters as well. There's a great back-to-back researching sequence, where Sam and Cas are trying to pinpoint Gadreel's location via research in the bunker, while Dean and Crowley are on the road, prowling around for the First Blade (a blade that should help them succeed in getting rid of Abaddon (Alaina Huffman), a Knight of Hell who honestly just won't die).
In addition to having to fill the role of the other brother, Cas and Crowley also find themselves taking words out of each other's mouths, constantly reminding their respective Winchesters that his brother might be useful in tracking down an angel or a weapon of mass demon-destruction. These parallels, while ignored by both Sam and Dean, do not go amiss for the audience! Brilliant writing, if I may shout myself hoarse.
Probably the most fascinating and exciting parts of tonight's episode, though, revolve around the Cain mythology. Cain (Timothy Omundson) tells Dean the real story about his brother and him. Abel hadn't been God's favorite; he had been unknowingly talking to Lucifer. Cain wanted to protect him from becoming Lucifer's plaything, so he sacrificed his own soul for Abel's. He killed his brother, sealing their fates so that Abel could be safe in Heaven while Cain became a demon, the first Knight of Hell.
Tim Omundson in the Supernatural episode "First Born." Photo Credit: Diyah Pera / The CW.
Does this ring any bells?
Dean Winchester, King of Sacrifice, has put his neck out for his brother countless times, and it wouldn't be Supernatural if he didn't do it ten or twelve more times this season. He would do anything to keep Sam safe. But could he kill him? Well, he just might.
In season 5, when the archangel Zachariah (Kurt Fuller) sends Dean into the near future, he sees what life would be like by 2014 if Sam said, "yes" to Lucifer. Unsurprisingly, Dean despises everything he sees. He meets Lucifer and Sam in a garden, where Lucifer tells Dean, "Whatever you do, you will always end up… here."
There has been mass speculation as to whether Supernatural would somehow make its way back to that 2014 garden, just as Lucifer promised.
Could Lucifer come back? What could possibly cause Sam to say yes (again)? Would the world end in an apocalypse, after all? It didn't seem possible. But now…
We know the angel Gadreel inhabited Sam, and though Sam was able to expel him, there is still some of Gadreel's Grace left inside him. Cas didn't extract all of it out for fear of killing Sam (let's all pause to grin about the Sam/Cas hug!), which means there's still some Grace left in Sam, keeping him alive. According to Men of Letters research, Grace should act like a tracking device to find an angel – could it possibly work both ways? Gadreel could potentially find Sam and persuade him to say "yes" (again) if Sam had gotten too close to the edge (again) and neither Dean nor Cas was able to talk him down; Sam would do just about anything for the greater good.
Jensen Ackles in the Supernatural episode "First Born." Photo Credit: Diyah Pera / The CW.
And honestly, we really have no idea who Gadreel is. For all we know, he could be Lucifer! (There was speculation to this, as well, before we knew that Ezekiel was really Gadreel. Even now, people haven't given up hope that we'll see more of Mark Pellegrino's strangely charming fallen angel). If this were all true, then Lucifer would possess Sam (again) in 2014, and our favorite brothers would be back in that garden, and Dean would see his brother become Satan's favorite ragdoll.
But WAIT. Doesn't that sound like someone else we know?
Cain transferred his ultra-terrifying Mark of Cain to Dean, which means Dean now has the power to wield the First Blade once he finds it. However, Cain warned him the Mark came with a curse, though Dean didn't have time to listen.
If everything falls exactly into the worst places, Dean's younger brother would be in a position to be taken advantage of by the Devil. Dean would never let this happen, and he would sacrifice himself to save Sam, if possible. Knowing Sam would rather be dead than allow Lucifer to wreak havoc on innocent people, Dean would be faced with killing him.
In this scenario, the two brothers would fulfill the prophecy that Dean's status as the new Cain calls for. However, and most excitingly, they would also bring back and reaffirm the idea that the archangel Gabriel (Richard Speight Jr.) yelled at them in season 5: "from the moment Dad flipped on the lights around here, we knew it was all gonna end with you."
With the prospect of "The End" coming to pass as all the archangels always said it would, there is a lot to look forward to in the rest of season 9. Our favorite goofball hunter, Garth (DJ Qualls), will be back next week in "Sharp Teeth." Make sure to tune in to the CW at 9 pm, next Tuesday, to see your favorite denim-clad warriors layering plaid on angst, trying to save the world one monster at a time.
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CHEFstock 2014 With Alyn Williams at The Westbury
The annual culinary festival Chefstock 2014 is being hosted by Alyn Williams at his eponymous Michelin-star restaurant at The Westbury this year. Three other star chefs will join him for three Tuesdays in September, and together they will create culinary magic combining their individual talents to produce one unique tasting menu.
The talent ranges from the UK's home-grown Padstow's Paul Ainsworth and the brothers Peter and Jonray Sanchez-Iglesias from Bristol to Margot Janse from Franschhoek, South Africa. This never-before-seen collective promises rare London appearances from chefs collectively boasting three Michelin stars and countless national and international accolades.
Alyn Williams said: "I'm very proud to once again be hosting such a spectacular line-up of chefs this September. Last year at CHEFstock 2013 we had fantastic dishes from Simon Rogan, Sat Bains, Bart De Pooter and Ignatius Chan, and this year's events promise to be just as exciting.
I admire every one of these chefs and it's very humbling that they are coming to cook with me in my kitchen. When it comes to the menus there are no rules, the guest chefs are in charge and each tasting menu will take its own shape with our different yet harmonious dishes."
MARGOT JANSE, 9th September (No. 73 in S. Pellegrino World's Best Restaurants, South Africa's Top Chef 2012)
Margot Janse of The Tasting Room, Le Quartier Francais in Franschhoek is named by many as The Queen of South African Cuisine and was named South Africa's Top Chef 2012. She is one of the few females named by Relais & Chateaux as one of its "Grand Chefs" and one of only two Grand Chefs in Africa.
PAUL AINSWORTH, 16th September (One Michelin Star)
Paul is the chef and proprietor of the Michel starred Paul Ainsworth at No. 6 in Padstow, Cornwall. Ainsworth applies the technical skills picked up during training in his Michelin-starred kitchens. He teases the maximum flavours from humble ingredients. He is a regular on BBC One's Saturday Kitchen and also represented the South West on BBC's Great British Menu, wowing the judges with his "Taste of the Fairground" dessert in 2011.
PETER & JONRAY IGLESIAS 30th September (One Michelin Star)
Jonray and Peter Sanchez-Iglesias are the chefs/owners of highly acclaimed Michelin starred restaurant Casamia, in Bristol. After winning their first star in 2009 Casamia was named as Ramsay's Best Restaurant in the Channel 4 series in 2010. Casamia is also the only British restaurant to be awarded four AA Rosettes. Peter competed in Great British Menu's eighth series and both the brothers and their restaurant continue to win recognition and awards for the innovative and meticulous style of cooking. They push the boundaries of modern gastronomy placing them undoubtedly amongst the most exciting young chefs in the UK.
Guests of the event will be welcomed with a champagne reception and canapés created by both chefs, they will then be invited to take a seat in the chic rosewood-accented dining room and savour each of the crafted eight courses from the one-off collaborative tasting menu – four from each chef and of course with a few surprises along the way!
CHEFstock 2014 tickets cost £200 per person and includes all food, wine and Champagne. Make sure you book early to avoid disappointment. Contact reservations on 020 7183 6426 or email alynwilliams@westburymayfair.com
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