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St Giles, Matlock Parish Church
St Giles C of E Primary School
Sunday Fun Club
Midweek Fun Club
St Giles Fellowship
Enquirers Group
St Giles Patron Saint
Matlock, the Name
Church in Setting
The Crantses
Present Building
Chapels and Altars
Wolley Tomb
Other Memorials
The Font
Unsafe Monuments
The East Window
South Chancel Window
Lady Chapel Window
Adam and Eve Window
West Window, South Aisle
West Window, North Aisle
North Aisle Window
Guild Chapel Window
Animal service 2019
Blessing Of Transport
St Giles Day Celebrations 2018
Chalking of the Door at Epiphany
Parish Visit to Bradford and its Cathedral
Fellowship Outing to Padley Chapel
Lichfield Outing
Henry's 100th Birthday
Mothering Sunday 2019
Fr Mark's 40th Anniversary Celebrations
St Giles Primary School
Weddings, Baptisms, Special Occasions
The Church Clock
Dethick, Lea and Holloway
Christ Church, Holloway
John the Baptist, Dethick
Calendar for Dethick, Lea and Holloway
Directions to Christ Church
Directions to St John the Baptist
United Benefice
HomeHistoryThe Churchyard
The older, lower, part of the churchyard, containing many seventeenth and eighteenth century monuments repays inspection. There are moving epitaphs; the lettering and design of the stones, too, frequently display a refined distinction lacking in some Victorian and more recent work. The use of local stone for the monuments, now weathered and having acquired the patina of age, successfully ensures a harmonious and aesthetically pleasing setting for the church building.
The Dawber Graves
The two gravestones to members of the Dawber family from the early twentieth century deserve particular attention. Sir Guy Dawber, famous for his understanding of English vernacular building, was the architect in 1897 of the Chapel of St John the Baptist on Masson hillside, the interior of which has fine Arts and Crafts furnishings and fittings. At one time a chapel-of-ease to St Giles, St John's is now in the care of the Friends of Friendless Churches. The Dawber family lived in Derwent Avenue and their grave stones, to the west of the north aisle of the church, were clearly designed by Sir Guy or under his influence, though his name is commemorated on one of them.
The Lichgate
The lichgate at the lower entrance to the churchyard was designed and carved by Advent Hunstone of Tideswell in 1908. At that time the eighteenth century stone gate posts here were moved outwards to allow room for the new structure and the boundary wall adapted to give aesthetic coherence to the architectural composition.
In the angle of the churchyard formed between the south face of the tower and the west wall of the south aisle of the church stands a sundial which is itself a listed structure, Grade II, although it replaces, and has probably made use of the base of, a much older, medieval, parish cross.
The upper end of the churchyard affords the visitor fine views of Matlock and the Derwent valley. The large modem cross on Pic Tor is the town war memorial.
Pic Tor
Ann Andrews has provided extensive help with searching memorials in the churchyard on her website.
Lent Study Course
Fr. Mark writes…
Candlemas on 2nd February
Come to the next Fun Club on 19th February…
Quotation for the Month
Important Dates: (updated 19th January)
News From the PCC (updated December 2019)
Thursday Eucharist 23rd Jan 2020 at 10:00 am – 10:45 am St Giles' Church, Matlock, 116 Church St, Matlock DE4 3BZ, UK
The Conversion of Paul 25th Jan 2020
Saturday Eucharist 25th Jan 2020 at 8:30 am – 9:15 am St Giles' Church, Matlock, 116 Church St, Matlock DE4 3BZ, UK
Said Eucharist 26th Jan 2020 at 8:00 am – 8:45 am St Giles' Church, Matlock, 116 Church St, Matlock DE4 3BZ, UK
Sung Eucharist 26th Jan 2020 at 9:30 am – 10:30 am St Giles' Church, Matlock, 116 Church St, Matlock DE4 3BZ, UK
Breathing Space 26th Jan 2020 at 6:30 pm – 7:15 pm St Giles' Church, Matlock, 116 Church St, Matlock DE4 3BZ, UK A Contemplative Form of Evening Prayer
Fellowship Meal at the Duke William 27th Jan 2020 at 7:00 pm – 9:00 pm The Duke William Matlock, 91 Church St, Matlock DE4 3BZ, UK Please order in advance
Service at Holloway 28th Jan 2020 at 9:30 am – 10:15 am Christ Church, Holloway, Church St, Holloway, Matlock DE4 5JP, UK
Wednesday Eucharist 29th Jan 2020 at 7:00 pm – 7:45 pm St Giles' Church, Matlock, 116 Church St, Matlock DE4 3BZ, UK
Thursday Eucharist 30th Jan 2020 at 10:00 am – 10:45 am St Giles' Church, Matlock, 116 Church St, Matlock DE4 3BZ, UK


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Virgin Atlantic To Wet-Lease Titan Airways Airbus A321P2F
Piotr Bozyk
LONDON – Virgin Atlantic has announced that it will be operating dedicated freighter aircraft.
The airline has signed a deal with Titan Airways, a UK charter specialist, to lease a single Airbus A321 Passenger to Freighter (P2F).
London-Brussels…
The wet-leased A321 will be operating flights between London and Brussels this summer season.
For the first time in Virgin Atlantic's history, the airline is looking into the dedicated freighter market.
A321F will arrive with Virgin by the end of this month and continue operating until the end of October.
But, explained Phil Wardlaw to theloadstar.com, Virgin Atlantic Cargo's new MD, this is not a permanent move into freighters by the leisure-focused passenger carrier.
Brussels (BRU) is the sole remaining cargo-only destination offered by Virgin Atlantic, which in essence turned itself fully over to freight during the pandemic.
The carrier picks up pharmaceuticals, perishables, and e-commerce in BRU, some of which are destined for the UK, but most of which then go across the Atlantic.
"A mixture of challenges on EU-UK routes, including the long-running P&O Ferries debacle, had made the route robust", said Wardlaw.
The impact of not overflying Russia has led to longer transit times on Virgin's flights to the subcontinent, which has, in turn, impacted aircraft and crew availability.
"We don't have enough crew for all our available slots, so the A321 allows us to use our slot portfolio", Wardlaw explained.
This summer, the EU is allowing a weakened 'use it or lose it' slot rule for cargo – 70:30 instead of 80:20 (by which airlines must use their slots at least 70% of the time). But it is unlikely to be extended to the winter.
Virgin is currently operating a daily service to BRU, and the airline is looking to use its A321F on other routes as well.
"I don't think we'll do freighters long-term, perhaps we'll look at partnerships. But we are predominantly a passenger airline", summarized Wardlaw.
Titan's A321P2F fleet…
Titan Airways has taken delivery of the first Airbus A321F on dry lease from BBAM, becoming the world's second operator of the type in 2021.
Now the airline has two A321P2F which offer best-in-class economics, reduced carbon emissions, and a lower noise footprint.
Real-time maintenance health monitoring will also ensure the highest levels of reliability.
One of them flying in Europe in Titan Airways Malta AOC (9H-ZTB) while the second (G-NIKO) operates out of Miami in the USA for American cargo operator Amerijet International Airlines.
The Airbus A321P2F can carry up to 28 tons of cargo, which is divided into 14 containers on the main deck and 10 LD3-45W on the lower deck. With a full load A321F range is between 3,500 and 4,000 km.
The conversion project was developed by ST Engineering, with Elbe Flugzeugwerke (a joint venture between ST Aerospace and Airbus) taking over program management and marketing.
Airbus wants to convert more than 600 aircraft of the A320 family in the coming two decades. The conversion allows standard cargo pallets to be used on the main deck.
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This event is one of the primary fundraisers for Plumas Arts, the region's most active cultural programming organization. Plumas Arts brings art programs to the county schools, great events and performances to local audiences; coordinates a regional cultural events calendaring system in print and online at www.plumasarts.org; works collaboratively with numerous organizations and groups; hosts Words & Music and a gallery of regional artists as well as managing the Town Hall Theatre.
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I'm considering releasing Clay almost as-is as 1.0 and just beginning on the 2.0 branch. The changes I want to make are piling up and most of them are keeping me from doing other things. Version numbers aren't really a big deal nowadays, but I've wanted to make it perfect for 1.0 and I can't if I keep thinking of ways to improve it.
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George Cyril Allen (28 June 1900 – 31 July 1982), published as G. C. Allen, was a British economist and academic. He was Brunner Professor of Economic Science at the University of Liverpool from 1933 to 1947, and then Professor of Political Economy at University College London from 1947 to 1967. He wrote on Japanese and British industrial policy.

Life
Allen was born in Kenilworth, Warwickshire. After education at King Henry VIII School, Coventry he briefly joined at the Royal Air Force in 1918 before studying at the University of Birmingham. There he studied under William Ashley, graduating B.Com in 1921 and M.Com in 1922. From 1922 to 1925 he taught economics at the Higher Commercial School in Nagoya, Japan. Returning to Birmingham, Allen gained a PhD in 1928 with a thesis which was published the following year as The Industrial Development of Birmingham and the Black Country. He became professor of economics at the University College of Hull in 1929, and Brunner Professor of Economic Science at the University of Liverpool in 1933. In 1947 he became Professor of Political Economy at University College London.

His papers are held at University College London.

Works
 Modern Japan and its problems, 1927
 The industrial development of Birmingham and the Black Country, 1860-1927, 1929
 British industries and their organization, 1933
 Japan: the hungry guest, 1938
 Japanese industry: its recent development and present condition, 1939
 (with Elizabeth Boody Schumpeter) The industrialization of Japan and Manchuko, 1930-1940: population, raw materials and industry, 1940
 A short economic history of modern Japan, 1867-1937, 1946
 (with Audrey Donnithorne) Western enterprise in Far Eastern economic development: China and Japan, 1954
 (with Audrey Donnithorne) Western enterprise in Indonesia and Malaya: a study in economic development, 1957
 Japan's economic recovery, 1958
 A short economic history of modern Japan, 1958
 The structure of industry in Britain: a study in economic change, 1961
 Japan's economic expansion, 1965
 Monopoly and restrictive practices, 1968
 The British disease : a short essay on the nature and causes of the nation's lagging wealth, 1979
 The Japanese economy, 1981
 Appointment in Japan: memories of sixty years, 1983

References

External links
 Economists' Papers: Allen, George Cyril, 1900-82

1900 births
1982 deaths
English economists
Academics of the University of Liverpool
Academics of University College London
Fellows of the British Academy

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Under the new rule and the ACA, providers are required to identify any known overpayments. This obligation includes a duty to quantify the amount of the overpayment. Providers and suppliers must, therefore, "inquire further to determine whether there are more overpayments on the same issue before reporting and returning the overpaid claims." 81 Fed. Reg. at 7663. So, when a provider learns of an overpayment, or by reasonable diligence should have, a duty to investigate and determine the extent of such overpayments is triggered. Ascertaining the number/amount of the overpayments can be done, per the new rule, by statistical sampling and extrapolation or other appropriate methodologies. As some good news to affected persons, under the new rule the lookback period is six years (not ten, as CMS originally intended); hence the obligation is to report and return overpayments within six years of the date received.
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The perfect activity for this rainy, gloomy, far too chilly afternoon? Bake of course.. I said to Izzy.."Let's bake! What should we make?" He replied, "I want to bake Chocolate-Chip Banana Scones." Now although we have made scones many times, we had never made those. I wasn't even sure how bananas would fare in a scone recipe but I sure was willing to give it a try.
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Q: How can I tell CSS :not() selector to affect all child nodes? Please see this minimum example

.global :not(.guard) {
  color: red;
}

I'm outside guard

    I'm inside guard.

        I'm a block inside guard.

        I want to black color too.

        How can I achieve it?

I have a style(SCSS) like this
.global {
  :not(.guard) {
    color: red;
  }
}

I want anything inside the node with .guard class name's color not to be affected by color: red;
How can I achieve this effect?

A: If I've correctly understood the effect you are trying to achieve, you can implement it with the following two selectors:
.global {
  color: red;
}

.global .guard {
  color: black;
}

In this case, you really don't need the :not() pseudo-selector at all.

Working Example:

.global {
  color: red;
}

.global .guard {
  color: black;
}

I'm outside guard

    I'm inside guard.

        I'm a block inside guard.

        I want to black color too.

        How can I achieve it?

A: Since color is inherited, please use another rule for
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.global :not(.guard) {
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.global :not(.guard) p {
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From across the world, UCF alum stays connected through service
January 16, 2018 11:16am Kayci Mikrut
Nearly a decade removed from her student-athlete experience, Shelly Frick has stayed connected to the University of Central Florida from across the world.
The risk and compliance senior manager at Protiviti started working with the global consulting business the summer after graduating from UCF. Her career with Protiviti started in the Orlando, Florida, offices and has led to stints in San Francisco, London and now Sydney. Frick credits her willingness to take on new opportunities to the adaptability she gained as a softball player for the Knights.
Former UCF softball player Shelly Frick was the first alum to participate in the Knights Without Borders service learning program, through which she spent a week serving communities in Saint Vincent and the Grenadines. Submitted by Shelly Frick
Eager to stay involved in the program that helped shape her professional life, Frick became the first UCF alum to participate in the Knights Without Borders service learning program in 2015. She spent a week with current student-athletes, assisting communities in Saint Vincent and the Grenadines. The group of 25 painted a library and helped with roof and lawn maintenance.
"Being around student-athletes reminded me of the great things you can achieve by staying focused on common goals and putting the team above yourself," Frick says.
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A "Beyoncé" (eredeti írásmódja szerint "BEYONCÉ") című album Beyoncé Knowles amerikai énekesnő ötödik stúdióalbuma, amelyet mindenféle előzetes bejelentés, célozgatás, és promóció nélkül jelentetett meg 2013. december 13-án. Beyoncé és a kiadója azért szánták rá magukat a bejelentés nélküli kiadásra, hogy elkerüljék a megjelenés előtti kiszivárgásokat. A cédén 14 dal, és 17 kisfilm kapott helyet. Knowles szerint ez egy vizuális album, mivel minden egyes dalhoz tartozik egy kisfilm. Az iTunes-on 3 óra alatt hatvanezer példány kelt el belőle, másnap már több, mint 100 ország iTunes listáján lett number-one.

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People that are secure in their personal relationships aren't easily brainwashed by Amway's creepy "family" angle, and those with sufficient income are rarely swayed by the "exciting opportunity" to "build an asset" for themselves. In short, Amway uses the tried and true tactic of exploiting the weak. By aggressively pursuing friendships, establishing mentors, and building an active community, it's easy to see why being part of Amway seems like a good time to someone who's been feeling a little bit lonely lately.
Lengthy consumer lifetime as well as good retail profit. Amway actually has several of the best offline training out there. They've basically understood it because that's all they do. Because of this concentration, reps that stick around have the tendency to get excellent at constructing relationships with their consumers which prolongs the length of time a provided individual will certainly purchase the item. I directly know tons of people who are in their 60s and also 70s that have purchased Amway detergent for 30+ years and also advocate it.
In 2001, after the majority of Amway Independent Business Owners (IBOs) had transferred to the new company, Quixtar completely replaced Amway as the marketing venture for Amway/Alticor products in North American regions. The Quixtar business model differs from the earlier Amway business model in many aspects, such as the way distribution is performed as well as the products and services offered through partner stores. Rather than ordering product from a distributor who delivers them in person, Quixtar customers can place orders online and have the products shipped to them directly. In mid-2007 however, Quixtar announced they were phasing back in the Amway name over two years and discarding the Quixtar name. Along with the re-branding campaign, Amway Global is investing over 580 million dollars into both increased compensation for IBOs and for extensive advertising of the new brand name.[12]
"We formed the DeVos Family Council, which is made up of our children and their spouses and meets four times a year. The Family Council just approved a family constitution that essentially captures our family mission and values. … The Family Council also articulates how the family will work together in managing our shared financial interests and our philanthropy.
With its affiliates around the world, Amway Global is a leader in the $80 billion global direct-selling industry. Established in 1959 as a seller of household cleaners, the company expanded and diversified over the years and today is a leader in Health and Beauty through its NUTRILITE brand of nutritional supplements and the ARTISTRY brand of skin care and cosmetics.
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I could not agree more that Amway will take over your life and it will also help you lose boyfriends too. My daughter is going to be. Senior in high school along with her ex-boyfriend. His parents have started this and now they brainwashed him into it. His mom talked to my daughter about supporting him and he did too. She stood firm in her answer of "no". Unfortunately it cost her their relationship of 18 months because she would not support him. Well buddy, good luck finding bother girlfriend as her because you are never getting her back! So sad that he valued Amway over their relationship. I absolutely can't wait to watch his parents fail along with him, I hope A,way sucks them beyond dry.
[2]Nowadays, nearly all Amwayers identify with a "distributor group." Dream Night, in fact, was arranged not by Amway, but by World Wide Dreambuilders LLC, which is constituted by the downlines of Crown Ambassador Bill Britt. These groups, which do the heavy lifting of building and inspiring downlines, have no legal connection to Amway (as indicated by the disclaimers on the back of tickets for Dream Night and every other World Wide function I attended: "This event is produced and offered independently of Amway Corporation and has not been reviewed or endorsed by Amway"). The corporation uses the legal independence of distributor groups to its advantage. In a class-action lawsuit brought by former Amwayers charging Amway Corporation, World Wide head Bill Britt, and Dexter Yager with fraud and price-fixing, Amway claimed that it was itself, in effect, a victim of Britt and Yager's tactics—and thus not liable. (The case has since been settled out of court.)
Across those efforts, one constant is the DeVos family's devout Christian beliefs, and the indivisibility they see between Christian and Calvinistic notions and their conservative politics. "The real strength of America is its religious tradition," Richard DeVos wrote in Believe!. "Too many people today are willing to act as if God had nothing whatsoever to do with it. … This country was built on a religious heritage, and we'd better get back to it. We had better start telling people that faith in God is the real strength of America!" In the mid-1970s, DeVos made major donations to the Christian Freedom Foundation and Third Century Publishers, an outlet that printed books and pamphlets designed to strengthen the ties between Christianity and free-market conservatism; among those products was a guidebook instructing conservative Christians how to win elections and help America become "as it was when first founded—a 'Christian Republic.'"
Amway offers a wide range of eco-friendly products under different brands. The most popular brands under the company are Nutrilite, Artistry, XS and Legacy of Clean. There are several hundred products that can be utilized to build a retail business. This includes personal care products, dietary supplements, water purifiers, jewelry, electronics and cosmetics.
The recently published book, No One Would Listen, by whistle blower, Harry Markopolos, dramatically describes how SEC regulators ignored his alerts and allowed the Bernard Madoff Ponzi scheme to grow to enormous proportions. Their failure to act caused harm to thousands more people, despite his written and detailed warnings, which he brought to the agency five separate times over an eight-year period of investigating the scam. Additionally, the news media such as the Wall Street Journal and Forbes magazine also failed to respond to his evidence which he offered them. Madoff was apparetnly treated as "too big to expose."
The club recently underwent a $1 million renovation: new roof, redecorated dining hall and casual-attire bar and grille, revamped golf shop, locker rooms, fitness center, renovated driving range and greens. It closed for an extended period of time over the summer so that they could replace the greens and restore them to their original Tom Fazio PGA Tour–quality design. They use only Champion Dwarf Bermudagrass because, as the turf farm's website says, 'even among the ultradwarf cultivars, there is no other grass capable of producing the incredible ball roll of a well-maintained Champion green.'
The largest training platform in Amway at the time of publishing this article is WWDB (WorldWide Dreambuilders, officially World Wide Group), which is a mirror image of BWW (Britt WorldWide). In fact, Ron Puryear visited Bill Britt to find out how he structured his training platform before founding the WWDB group. Although there are multiple training platforms inside Amway, WWDB happens to be the largest so I will only focus on their process here, although this can technically be looked at as an Amway BWW review as well. The cost incurred by partnering with any Amway training platform will be relatively the same.
Others Receiving Votes: Kentucky 98; Duke 55; South Florida 45; Colorado 41; South Carolina 40; Iowa 36; Washington State 35; Brigham Young 30; Missouri 21; NC State 19; Appalachian State 13; Syracuse 11; California 11; Utah 10; Cincinnati 10; Texas 9; North Texas 5; Troy 4; Minnesota 3; San Diego State 3; Florida 3; Arizona State 3; Houston 2; Tennessee 2; Arkansas State 2; Vanderbilt 2; Fresno State 1.
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.
I love this company. I love all the stories I hear how people succeeded in their lives. It is low cost to get in. It is only $ 50 yearly fee just to stay active. You are not abligated to buy every month if you dont' want to. this company has the best compansation plan especially when you grow in this business, you get increadible surprise reward checks and more.
I can see how one bad experience or one negative anecdote can turn you away from something–in this case, a business. But if you took the time to find out more information you'd see that this is really quite, quite far from the truth. Amway has been certified as a legal, non-pyramid scheme, and you'd know that if you just did a simple google search.
That vision is played out daily as the company helps people everywhere discover their potential and achieve their goals by offering great brands and opportunities. Amway is guided by six enduring values: partnership, integrity, personal worth, achievement, personal responsibility and free enterprise. Sharing generously with the local communities in which the company and its business owners operate is an important part of this.
Helmstetter credits the practice of 'dreambuilding' as a central reason why Amway is so successful. Dreambuilding is more than wishful thinking, Cross explains. It's more than seeing what people with more money have and wishing you had it. Dreambuilding is 'the perfection of excellence' – 'It is a way to control what you think, to enhance what you believe, and to solidify your attitude' (emphasis his own). Most importantly, it's a procedure, 'a skill that has to be learned, practiced, and put into action.'
The Amway approach supposedly avoids impersonal door-to-door sales, as each distributor need only sell directly to a small customer base of friends and family. Business "growth"—and an ascent to the flashier "bonus levels" (Ruby, Emerald, Diamond, Executive Diamond, Double Diamond, Crown Ambassador)—comes mostly through expanding one's downline. In theory, this odd marketing system ensures that benefits accrue not to Madison Avenue slicksters, but to ordinary folk capitalizing on their close-knit community ties—a scheme that seemingly reflects the small-town, Protestant populism of Amway's co-founders, Rich DeVos and Jay VanAndel.
It was hard enough to get people to sign up for Amway. My parents, in describing their experience, said that most people had heard of the company and believed it was a pyramid scheme. In fact, part of my parents' strategy for 'showing The Plan' was that they didn't even tell people it was Amway until the very end of their presentation – then they signed them up on the spot. If they couldn't sign them up right then, they invited them to a meeting. Most of the time, even though they told them not to talk to anybody about Amway before the meeting, the prospect would go to their brother-in-law, who would tell them it was crap. 'And if they make it to the meeting, this guy' – the creepy guy in the upline – 'stands up there and is a complete ass,' says my dad. 'And the people that you encouraged and cajoled, they take a look at you and say, 'What?' And then they don't return your phone call.'
[12]Amway gives some idea of real chances for success in its "Amway Business Review" pamphlet, which the FTC requires it provide to all prospects. The "Business Review" is an ingenious mixture of mandated honesty and obfuscatory spin: The average monthly gross income for "active" distributors, for instance, is revealed to be a meager $65 a month; but the "Review" leaves out the median income and the net profit, both of which would probably be negative. Likewise, it states that "2 percent of all 'active' distributors who sponsor others and approximately 1 percent of all 'active' distributors met Direct Distributor qualification requirements during the survey period." From this, it derives the optimistic conclusion that "once again, the survey demonstrates a substantial increase in achievement for those who share the business with others." Increase implies that there are some non-sharing distributors who succeed; an alternate reading of the statistics would be that all distributors try to share, none succeed without sharing, but only half are able to share. It's also a measure of Amway's PR savvy that every article I've seen (even the critical ones) that mentions the number of Directs uses the 2 percent, rather than the more accurate 1 percent, figure.
The third way a distributor makes money is through earning commissions on group sales. "A Distributor may recruit a sales group and based on the success and productivity (as defined by product sales) of the sales group, a Distributor may earn commissions. It is important to note that a Distributor only earns commissions on the volume of Amway products actually sold," the Business Starter Guide points out.
In December 2006, Amway secured the naming rights for the Orlando Arena, home to the NBA's Orlando Magic, which was formerly known as the TD Waterhouse Centre. In the deal, the arena became known as Amway Arena. As part of the contract, Amway also had the exclusive right to first negotiations for the naming rights of the arena's successor, and secured in early August 2009 a 10-year deal to name the new facility Amway Center.[30][31]
On August 6, 2011, Kerala Police sealed the offices of Amway at Kozhikode, Kannur, Kochi, Kottayam, Thrissur, Kollam and Thiruvananthapuram following complaints.[12][120][121] In November 2012, the Economic Offences Wing of Kerala Police conducted searches at the offices of Amway at Kozhikode, Thrissur and Kannur as part of its crackdown on money chain activities and closed down the firm's warehouses at these centres. Products valued at 21.4 million rupees (about US$400,000 at the time) were also seized.[122] Later, Area manager of Amway, P. M. Rajkumar, who was arrested following searches was remanded in judicial custody for 14 days.[123]
What this simple example tells us is that it is difficult to keep appointing more and more distributors. This is similar to a Ponzi scheme, where for the scheme to keep going more and more newer investors need to keep coming in, so that the older investors whose money is falling due can be paid off. The trouble of course is that that the number of people is not infinite, as the above example shows us.
If your family member or friend asks you to visit an Amway Opportunity Presentation, you should be ready for numerous claims that this company is great for making business and enjoying its products. For you to make an informed decision, you will need to remember an important thing - ask as many questions as you can. For example, ask how much money you will have to invest in products each month. You may need money for seminars, training material, and conferences. Ask for proof to support their claims. Ask how much time you will need to reach a good income level. Ask what specific chance is to making real money. Ask how many people are earning real money. If you feel that they give honest answers, you may start your business too. According to statistics only a few percent of people succeed. Of course, the harder you work, the more you will succeed and the more money you will earn.
From that point forward it became more demanding and more exhausting. Our lives had been taken away. There were Thursday meetings, Saturday events, Sunday night meetings, conferences, etc. We just lost control of it all. And on top of everything else, we were losing money, not gaining money. Finally, in mid-December, I told our mentors we couldn't do it any longer. Their first response was to blame my father who I had mentioned was skeptical (like any normal person would be). They immediately assumed he had forced us to quit when it was honestly our own decision. My dad was supportive. The next day we were cut out of their delusional lives completely. We were de-friended and blocked on social media and never to speak a word to us again.
The DeVoses supported an amendment to the US House of Representatives' omnibus Financial Services and General Government Appropriations bill for fiscal year 2018 by US Representative John Moolenaar that would have limited the ability of the FTC to investigate whether MLMs are pyramid schemes.[136] The amendment would have disbarred the Treasury Department, the Judiciary Department, the Small Business Administration, the Securities and Exchange Commission, the FTC, or any other agencies from using any monies to take enforcement actions against pyramid operations for the fiscal year.[137] It also adopted provisions from H.R. 3409, the so-called "Anti-Pyramid Scheme Promotion Act of 2016,"[138] which would blur the lines between legitimate MLM activity and pyramid schemes established under the original 1979 FTC case by deeming sales made to people inside the company as sales to an "ultimate user," thus erasing the key distinction made in the ruling between sales to actual consumers of a product and sales made to members of the MLM network as part of recruitment of members or to qualify for commissions.[137][138][139] The amendment was opposed by a coalition of consumer interest groups including Consumer Action, the Consumer Federation of America, Consumers Union (the publisher of Consumer Reports magazine), Consumer Watchdog, the National Consumers League, and the United States Public Interest Research Group (US PIRG),[138] as well as Truth in Advertising (TINA.org) in its original incarnation.[139]
Yes! MLM is not the same as "pyramid scheme" . In every business the people at the top make more. In an MLM anyone can work up to the top, unlike in a pyramid scheme. Some of what is described in the article is very cult-like if it's true, but I would imagine it is like with any business: it depends on who your upline is. If your upline is a creep, the whole team is going to be creepy. If you have a good upline, the whole team will reflect that. Any business, MLM or otherwise, can isolate people from friends and family. It's called being a workaholic.
We had a fireplace, a poolside grill, and a river-rock deck with closing screens. We had an island counter. We had walls covered with mirrors. To get to my parents' master bathroom, I passed through a dressing area connected to a walk-in closet. The bedroom next to mine was expressly for guests; the one at the end of the hall became a study. One of two living rooms seemed intended only for show, and the planter inside the front door housed pots of plants – silk, they never wilted. The bathroom off the family room had an outside door and a shower for people coming in from the pool. We bought new furniture, new rugs, new artwork. I had never felt more proud.
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:
[16]His tedious auto-encomium was enlivened only by occasional, chilling anecdotes of violence: His mother hit him as a child until, old and strong enough, he could credibly threaten to hit her back; his frat brothers, drunken and rambunctious, tried to shave his head one night, whereupon he barricaded himself in his room, audibly cocked a semiautomatic shotgun, and threatened to kill them; and his family needled him about Amway until, one Thanksgiving, he jumped up and shouted, "I don't dump on what you do, and if you keep dumping on what I do, I'll take you outside and knock your block off; and if you're a woman, I don't know what I'll do!"
Today, 16 years after the DeVoses' failed constitutional amendment, this constant push has totally remade Michigan education. The cap on the number of charter schools eliminated and attempts to provide public oversight have been defeated, making Michigan's charters among the most-plentiful and least-regulated in the nation. About 80 percent of Michigan's 300 publicly funded charters are operated by for-profit companies, more than any other state. This means that taxpayer dollars that would otherwise go to traditional public schools are instead used to buy supplies such as textbooks and desks that become private property. It is, essentially, a giant experiment in what happens when you shift resources away from public schools.
I like Amway's clothes, electronics, gadgets, pants, watches, shirts, sweaters, shorts, games, and many others things that comes in that way. Not really good prices, but the quality is pretty good, has many variety of products, but more brands be good! I like Champion brand and they should put it there. I like that Amway are very flexible and can take care of you real quick if you have questions and concerns. The experience was good and everything went ok, with my purchases and I find a good place to buy things! Good money spend every time.
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….
The reason some people received $84 was because they didn't work hard enough to earn more. This business isnt for everyone. Just try the products and of you dont like them then return them you have 6 months to return them. Just dont start stating facts that aren't true just because you lost a friend. They probably left because they trying to be with people who were trying to succeed. Take it from me im 16 years old and this business has not failed me yet.
In April 1997 Richard DeVos and his wife, Helen, gave $1 million to the Republican National Committee (RNC),[74][76] which at the time was the second-largest soft-money donation ever, behind Amway's 1994 gift of $2.5 million to the RNC.[74] In July 1997, Senate Majority Leader Trent Lott and House Speaker Newt Gingrich slipped a last-minute provision into a hotly contested compromise tax bill that granted Amway and four other companies a tax break on their Asian branches that totaled $19 million.[74]
Now the husband and wife team continues to work together, taking the time to slow down and help others. The business enables them to live their lives with flexibility, spending more time with family and one another. The strengthening of their bond depends on a connection with others; building trust and helping others find a way to meet whatever goals they may have.
A money circulation scheme is essentially a Ponzi scheme. A Ponzi scheme is a fraudulent investment scheme where the money being brought in by newer investors is used to pay off older investors. The scheme offers high returns to lure investors in and it keeps running till the money being brought in by the newer investors is greater than the money needed to pay off the older investors whose investment is up for redemption. The moment this breaks, the scheme collapses.
Amway Center has an assortment of mid-level luxury seats and club seating, located below the upper bowl.[21] This contrasts Amway Arena's design as its luxury boxes are above all seats and suspended from the ceiling. The arena's design was unveiled at Amway Arena on December 10, 2007, with an official press release the next day.[22] The floor of Amway Center is designed with arena football in mind, as it features more retractable sections that will permit squared end zone corners, a feature previously not possible for Orlando Predators games.
These businesses sell the hope of getting rich by recruiting recruiters to sell overpriced products that don't move in real markets. The products of any MLM have to be extremely cheap to manufacture and must retail at inflated, unrealistic prices because in effect, the products are simply used to move money into the pyramid scheme. Just remember that there are several hundred MLMs in existence in 2014 and all of them are scams.
The company is said to have been violating the Prize Chits and Money Circulation Schemes (Banning) Act. More specifically, Pinckney and the two other directors were arrested in connection with a case filed by a certain Visalakshi of Kozhikode. She claimed to have incurred losses of Rs 3 lakh in trying to sell the products of Amway through its multi-level marketing network.
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.'"
I have not purchased anything from Amway in years, but I did like a number of their products. I particularly liked their cleaning supplies. I also think that Amway products were fairly high quality and had a good guarantee. I also think that Amway prices were fairly high. I would also prefer to order online than through a distributor, particularly a multi-level distributor who wants you to join their down-line marketing group. I had a fairly positive experience. The individual I ordered from was a personal friend, so we had a good relationship. She also gave me free samples of products so I could see if I liked them before I ordered them.
Last night we attended the JT concert and had the worst experience ever. First, I was told we couldn...'t take in our small camera, even after I spoke to supervisor. They wanted us to bring it back to the car!! I had to show them the email blast from Amway that said small, non professional cameras were allowed. Need better training for your staff. 2nd, all the floor bars ran out of bud light and then all domestic beers in can and on tap. What a joke. It was a Monday night and a concert for adults. Lastly, the sound was terrible for the show, bathrooms a mess. For the money we pay for concerts, you need to do a better job!! See More
"Amway is my favourite company ever! It is very popular in my town and has a lot of experience, so I trust it completely. All of its products have high quality and are guaranteed to work well. If you have any problems with your purchase, you can send it back and get either another one or a refund. I like their customer service a lot. I have had issues several times but the representatives of the customer service helped me to resolve them really fast."
They're very honest. Their products are clean and not full of things that will poison you. You always have a partner to help you. You would not believe how people respond to you, when they first realize the product really is that good. Sometimes I forget that in the long run ''it's cheaper to by in bulk'' but it seems at the time ''like a lot of money" and I hate the confusion in my mind. Also, the pyramid took a long time to get into my brain. That's where having someone I could call and not be too far from me to help when I just did not understand. Amway is so simple to sell but my interest was for woman everywhere with or without kids to have clean, clothes and not breathe in their homes with chemicals.
Responsive to a challenging 876,000 SF program, the design intention of the Amway Events Center was to mediate its disparate context of elevated highways, central business district and low-rise housing. The simple, planar form of precast, aluminum and glass presents a timeless civic quality. The solidity of the precast and aluminum skin is punctured in carefully considered locations with expansive areas of glass including a crystalline entry lobby facing historic Church Street, blurring the boundary of inside and outside.
Amway has phenomenal products, with a low startup cost. You make excellent margins on products 20-40%. You get excellent business training and sales/product training with the Britt System. The atmosphere is always positive, negativity is not allowed. You build great relationships and friendships. It becomes a franchise environment with support from an entire team and business system. You can purchase products at a heavily discounted price. You can expand your business in over 80+ countries world wide.
Your a straight bitch and you just want to knock down this guy for putting his two cents down, well you should do some legitamate research before you just tell this guy that hes full of shit and give him LOL's. Besides, what the fuck are you doing just sitting on your computer commenting negatively on blogs that you know nothing about. Your a hypnotized bitch and I believe that this guy makes 2.2k a month, at least, in this thing. I guarantee you wouldnt be such a bitch if you understood how to do the same thing, but some people just cant believe something and have faith, so they knock it down and shatter other peoples dreams around them. Well I hope someone shattered your dreams when you were a kid, because isnt that what everyone wants? To be around negative lethargic fucks who spend their days finding stuff that doesnt make sense to their peanut sized minds and calling it out because they dont understand it? Well LOL to you too. Your whole life is probably a big LOL. Oooh whatchu gonna do read my internet code or whatever and come set me straight? Bitch I am straight, I aint crooked like you so consider waking the fuck up before your short insignifigant life is over in the blink of an eye
There are ignorant people who don't have a clue of what this business is really about and they sponsor good sharp people. People get hurt financially and emotionally because some people get in because of selfish gain. I apologize to anyone who may have started in the Amway business and didn't have a clear idea of what we really do and why we do it. I apologize to anyone who invested and didn't have a good mentor in business. I also apologize for all the scam artist that register and then spam out why the business is a scam. In reality they should have had enough common sense to know this is not what they are good at and maybe should have stayed at their job. Business Owners need employees and Employees need Business owners. This business is not for everyone!!! A good mentor and friend wouldn't allow someone to register in this business if its not a good fit. People make their own decisions so if you registered and you got "scammed" it may not be the person who showed you the opportunity but it may be the person in the mirror expecting something different. I hope what ever you decide to do in life you do it with your heart and not your wallet. Personally I have seen people come and go in our industry. This is something unique, when someone is registered and they find out what it is they really want to do in life and then stop the business to pursue their dreams. That is one of the things I really LOVE to see. Sure we need people to grow our network, but I would rather have people doing what they love than doing what they hate.
[11]At the top, the multi-multi's seem to attain a Zen of conspicuous consumption. Brad Duncan, brother of the great Double Diamond Greg Duncan, described seeing a dusty Rolls Royce among the many cars in the garage of his upline mentor, Ron Puryear; when he asked what he paid for it, Ron answered, "I don't know. Whatever the sticker price was." Brad took him to task for this, until Ron lectured: "That dealership is somebody's livelihood—somebody with a family. I'm not so hard up that I need to haggle the food out of a child's mouth." Brad was chastened, realizing that only small minds pay attention to sticker prices.
The embarrassing jerk was my parents' upline, Vincent, who had Emerald status. I don't remember this man. My dad says, 'He was a creepy guy, just an incredibly creepy guy. I don't know how else to describe him . . . You actually felt, after being around the guy, that you needed to take a shower. Nobody wanted to be around him. He was a jerk, he was a liar. Just a despicable person.'
Multilevel marketing (MLM) is an attractive business proposition to many people. It offers the opportunity to become involved in a system for distributing products to consumers. Unlike the person starting a business from scratch, the MLM participant has the support of a direct selling company that supplies the products and sometimes offers training as well.
Great article Christene! It's very difficult to build an Amway business in the United States, most of their growth nowadays is international. Even the business builders inside Amway are leaving the country to build abroad. The reason for this is twofold: 1-people like Ethan V. are out there on the web slamming Amway and discouraging IBOs all in an effort to market their own products and services to them (I call this leech marketing); and 2-Amway has not embraced internet marketing, and continues to teach belly to belly marketing tactics that require all of their new people to "burn the rubber off the tires." It's not up to us to dictate how the marketplace wants to be marketed to, it's up to us to figure out how to speak to them and then provide that message.
Amway has historically gotten much more criticism for its business practices than its products. As middle men, distributors often falsely claim that they cut out that very middle man. This supposedly results in more competitive, "wholesale" prices. On the contrary, Amway's prices are typically higher than their closest competitors. The prices only become more appealing when employees have a significant downline beneath them.
Kyritsis got off easy. You can find stories online of people spending $192,000 to "make" $30,000 (shit, we think there are actual cults with a higher rate of return). It's impossible to know the exact "success" rate for Amway independent business owners (IBOs), but one case from 2008 showed that out of 33,000 IBOs, only 90 made enough money to cover the costs of their business. That's a failure rate of damn near 100%. But of course, to Amway, those aren't failures. Amway doesn't make its money selling the random household goods the distributors are handing out -- they make money selling a dream. Then once you've committed yourself and forked over serious cash -- and convinced friends and family to do the same -- how can you leave? At this point, you've got too much invested not to see it through.
Ultimately, however, he dealt with his catch-22 through simple fantasies of escape. He was adamant that someday he'd be a millionaire, his current predicament no more than a bad memory. His hand would describe a hyperbola as he explained that The Business was hard at first, but if you'd just stick in there, you'd soon enjoy exponential success. This would happen so soon that he wouldn't have to prospect long enough even to get particularly good at it. "The point is not to get good," he insisted, "It's to get done!"
The Sales & Marketing Plan is based on what Scott called "the revolutionary business strategy of duplication." To illustrate the idea he pointed to an imperfect example: McDonald's, which succeeded so phenomenally, Scott explained, thanks to duplication—not because it served particularly good food (people who "hadn't spent a lot of time around millionaires" always amused Scott with their idea that successful businesses required quality products). Ray Kroc had figured out a better way to flip a burger, but instead of hiring employees to do it, he taught it to franchisees, people fired up with the zeal of business ownership. While they willingly slaved to make what they owned more valuable, Kroc made his money by "taking a penny for teaching others how to make a dollar." His was truly a magical income, expanding whether he worked for it or not, growing whether he lived or died. Long after Kroc had "taken a dirt bath," Scott joked, duplication still supported his widow to the tune of $200 million a year!
Amway has one the world's largest market shares for water treatment systems, which are widely purchased in Asian nations. For these products, the reliability of the products is critical. "In a direct sales business, an agent is selling their neighbors." And for an Asian consumer, these are expensive products, from $600 to $1,000 dollars. "We don't want our agents to have to explain why these products don't work – so we do everything we can to make sure they keep working."
The main difference was that all "Independent Business Owners" (IBO) could order directly from Amway on the Internet, rather than from their upline "direct distributor", and have products shipped directly to their home. The Amway name continued being used in the rest of the world. After virtually all Amway distributors in North America switched to Quixtar, Alticor elected to close Amway North America after 2001. In June 2007 it was announced that the Quixtar brand would be phased out over an 18- to 24-month period in favor of a unified Amway brand (Amway Global) worldwide.
I think of my family's time in Amway as achievement tourism. We left reality for a moment and believed the impossible was possible. My dad still wonders if there's more he could have done, if there's a way for him to have succeeded in Amway – admitting in the next breath that there isn't. My parents tried everything. At each turn, the people they thought were supposed to be helping them – their upline, yes, but really the overall structure of the Amway Corporation itself – actually stood in their way. They built dreams and worked to achieve them, but the only people who benefited from their work were the people already on top.
The family is also heavily invested in right-wing politics, earning comparisons to the Kochs for the enthusiasm with which they back Republican candidates like Newt Gingrich, Rick Santorum, Jeb Bush, Scott Walker, and Marco Rubio, and their sizable donations to ultraconservative organizations like Focus on the Family and the Family Research Council, both of which promote Christian value-based public policy such as anti-abortion legislation and bans on same-sex marriage. In 2014, the DeVoses donated in the six figures to Michigan-based conservative think tanks including the Acton Institute for the Study of Religion and Liberty, which promotes free market economics within a Christian framework, and the Mackinac Center for Public Policy, also a supporter of free market economics. Elsewhere, conservative organizations that received DeVos funding of over a million dollars each include the American Enterprise Institute, another free market think tank; the Alliance Defending Freedom, the right's preeminent legal defense fund; and the Heritage Foundation, which promotes free market economics and 'traditional American values.'
In 1983, Rich DeVos, one of Amway's founders, made recordings which, among other things, communicated his displeasure with several issues regarding some of the high ranking distributors/IBOs. These recordings are entitled "Directly Speaking"[45][46] and were addressed to Direct Distributors (now called Platinums), who are considered leaders with various responsibilities for their downline group. In January 1983 Rich DeVos announced that Amway would pay Business Volume (BV) on Amway produced tapes. He expressed concern about the level of income from the sale of Business Support Materials (BSM; tapes, CDs, books, and business conferences/functions) compared to the income the high level distributors were making from Amway products. He stated his legal team was concerned if the tool income exceeded 10% of their Amway income, and stated that BV payouts on tapes can never exceed 20%[47] of the distributor's total Business Volume.


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If you're trying to find a pure method to cleanse your entire body, get glowing skin and strong healthier hair, mulberries are the best option. Finally, the body will not have the capacity to keep yourself updated with the surplus sugar. It is also going to be certain that your body receives all the very important nutrients that it requires to remain healthful and strong.
Mulberry is full of potassium. White Mulberry might also interact with medications taken for gout. It is truly a wonder `drug'. It has been used for centuries, and has a number of amazing health benefits. White mulberries include a chemical that has similar outcomes of medications used in the treatment of Type two diabetes. Another health problem White Mulberry is able to bargain with is obesity. It is one of the most efficient kidney cleansers.
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More than 1 in 6 people in the United States are poisoned by adulterated food each year, and more than 3,000 people die a year from adulterated food (which the CDC states is more likely 30 times this number due to under reporting and unconfirmed cases of disease). These cases of preventable diseases cause many other significant impacts on the public health including the burden of cost to health care and lost wages, and they also have a significant impact on the economy of the food industry. The food industry has a public health responsibility to improve the prevention of foodborne diseases from its foods, and the new Food Safety Modernization Act (FSMA) will significantly enhance this prevention through regulatory enforcement of preventive controls of food safety hazards during food manufacturing.
Until such time food companies can prevent all adulteration of food, one of the most effective public health tools for prevention of foodborne diseases in the United States is the surveillance for foodborne disease outbreaks and the identification of the adulterated food/product. Public health agencies have successfully worked for many years to improve food safety through identifying the causation of outbreaks of foodborne diseases, initiating food recalls (the intervention), and subsequently preventing the further consumption of adulterated foods. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) in collaboration with States and the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) leads this effort as part of its broader public health mission of surveillance and epidemic investigations of all new disease outbreaks (e.g., Legionnaires disease or Ebola). These efforts have prevented numerous additional cases of illness and death as evidenced by the more rapid decline of reported foodborne illnesses associated with each outbreak once the source of the adulterated food has been identified.
Many outbreak investigations identify a link to a specific commodity of food like spinach that then lead to subsequent recall and reduced consumption (over time) of that specific food/product; a positive intervention step. However, because consumers may only hear about the commodity when they become aware of an active CDC investigation (before a branded product or commodity has been identified) or after an FDA recall, they often act out of sense of caution, and avoid all such food/product types leading to significant loss sales and consumption of a whole category of brands of the same commodity. This has been the case for most outbreak investigations, but more significantly during the peanut, spinach, and green peppers (tomato) outbreaks in the last decade. The cost in lost sales to the food industry just for these three outbreaks alone was in the billions.
Another important issue in the process of food recalls used as a means for public health intervention is with the communication of the recall information to the public. The primary purpose of the communication to the public is to prevent the further consumption of only that specific food or product identified as adulterated/recalled. Often times when foodborne disease outbreaks are large (covering several states due to volume of distribution), many consumers do not hear of the investigation or recall who actually have the specific recalled product in their possession, and these people continue to consume the food/products likely leading to more cases of foodborne disease after the source of the outbreak is known. Take for example the multistate outbreak of Listeriosis linked to whole cantaloupes from Jensen Farms in Colorado, United States in 2011.
Without going into the details of how this outbreak occurred (some of which is still speculative), cantaloupes were linked to 147 illnesses and 33 deaths (and one miscarriage due to the illness) in 28 states (CDC, 2012). The CDC and FDA reported that the source of the outbreak was cantaloupes from Jensen Farms on September 14 and provided notice via their web site and the national news of a voluntary recall of this product (telling consumers to inspect and not eat these cantaloupes). However, the outbreak continued and cantaloupes continued to cause illnesses and deaths 47 days (see Figure below; red arrow indicates when the source was known) after the announcement of the likely source of the outbreak (whole or fresh cut cantaloupes linked to Jensen Farms sold via various retail establishments for example).
Could these illnesses and deaths have been prevented (yellow line) with better communication to consumers that had the adulterated cantaloupes from Jensen Farms in their homes? Sadly another outbreak was reported with over 141 illnesses in 20 states, 31 hospitalized, and two deaths, from cantaloupes again shortly after the Jensen farms outbreak; this time due to Salmonella Typhimurium (CDC, 2012a) with a similar Timeline of Events curve.
Some continuation of foodborne illness cases during an outbreak of foodborne diseases are also likely due to slow removal of recalled foods/products from retailer store shelves. Although many major retail food chains have internal recall systems to alert their stores of foods/products that must be removed from consumer purchase, thousands of non-chain associated grocery and other food retail stores, including the new wave of retail food service and sales at gas stations across the United States, do not have sophisticated recall systems to track, identify, and provide notice that the retail establishments should stop selling recalled foods. For example, when PHI members were facilitating a session on foodborne disease outbreaks at the last Food Safety Summit in April 2015, retail grocery stores in the Baltimore, MD area were still selling Blue Bell Ice cream with the exact code dates of the recalled ice cream that was recalled and reported to the public in January 2015. Thus a recall monitor tool for consumers could also benefit food retailers who cannot afford sophisticated recall systems.
The challenge to public health then, is how can we more precisely improve communication of a food recall to the public. First, we must better associate the recall specifically to a consumers purchases of the recalled food/product to increase the reduction of consumption of only that food/product (also likely to shorten the outbreak). Second, we must improve the consumer confidence with this recall specificity to their purchased foods thereby increasing trust of related foods/products and protecting sales of similar foods/products. PHI believes that these challenges can be resolved by directly linking a specific food/product and its manufacture date/lot code to a national recall notice by FDA (which is what the FDA uses to trace an adulterated product to its source and initiate a national recall) using software and mobile technology (smartphones/tablets and smart devices, i.e., internet of things). This technology could also, in the future enable an earlier warning to consumers (e.g., for very high risk products like baby foods or formula and/or vulnerable populations of consumers) even before a national recall is initiated; as CDC has high confidence in the outbreak investigation data (e.g., using new technologies like whole genome sequencing).
Although several mobile computer app companies have attempted to develop and market mobile apps to do just this type of monitoring and alert for consumers, the biggest drawback of these apps is that users are required to scan each individual food/product bar code for each product they buy or have in their possession. Likewise, all of these apps only scan the FDA recall list once at the time of scan (with a charge per scan model) or requires the user to go to the FDA web site and look for the recalled item on the daily list of recalled foods. Several retail grocery loyalty programs propose to alert members of recalled food products they have purchased, however the programs require membership (excluding purchases by consumers that shop anywhere else in addition to or instead of that retail establishment; which is common), the user must link their purchases at each visit to the store at the time of their purchase via scanning their loyalty card or smartphone code (reducing efficacy of capturing all products when they forget their card/phone app), and the recall alert to a customer IF they only shopped at one retail location and scanned their card/phone diligently each shopping visit is sporadic and usually only via an email or phone call recorded message.
PHI proposes development of a recall monitor computer program application for mobile technology for consumers to enable active monitoring of FDA recall notices related to food safety.
The proposed innovation would provide value to consumers, food retailers and government agencies in two ways. First, consumers and non-chain retailers would quickly learn about recalls for products they have in their homes or on their store shelves and, thus, unnecessary illnesses and deaths would be avoided. A more effective recall tool would also reduce costs to government agencies and the food industry as recall communications and consumer actions become more precise to only the food/products associated with the outbreak and as outbreaks resolve more quickly. It might also help Government "speed up" outbreak investigations.
CDC. (2012). Multistate outbreak of Listeriosis linked to whole cantaloupes from Jensen Farms, Colorado. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention Outbreak Highlights. Available via internet at http://www.cdc.gov/listeria/outbreaks/cantaloupes-jensen-farms/index.html.
CDC. (2012a). Multistate outbreak of Salmonella Typhimurium infections linked to cantaloupe. Available via internet at http://www.cdc.gov/salmonella/typhimurium-cantaloupe-08-12/index.html.
Marler, B. (2012). Publisher's platform: ode to the microbiological data program. Food Safety News. Available via internet at http://www.foodsafetynews.com/2012/08/publishers-platform-ode-to-microbiological-data-program/.
Flynn, D. (2012). Deadly Listeria Outbreak Focus of Federal Criminal Probe. Food Safety News. Available via internet at http://www.foodsafetynews.com/2012/08/deadly-listeria-outbreak-focus-of-criminal-probe/?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=120815.


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Titans Return Home to Face Bills Sunday at Nissan Stadium
NASHVILLE — The Tennessee Titans (2-2) return home this week after playing three of the first four games of the season away from Nissan Stadium (capacity 69,134). Kickoff against the Buffalo Bills (3-1) is scheduled for noon CDT on Sunday, Oct. 6.
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This week's game will be regionally televised on CBS, including Nashville affiliate WTVF NewsChannel 5. The broadcast team includes play-by-play announcer Spero Dedes and analyst Adam Archuleta.
Within the two teams' local television markets, fans can livestream the game on their mobile devices from the Titans app (iOS devices) and the Yahoo! Sports app (iOS and Android devices). Restrictions apply.
The Titans Radio Network, including Nashville flagship 104.5 The Zone, will carry the game across the Mid-South with the "Voice of the Titans" Mike Keith, analyst Dave McGinnis, sideline reporter Amie Wells and gameday hosts Rhett Bryanand Jonathan Hutton.
TITANS EARN ROAD WIN IN ATLANTA
The Titans ended a two-game skid with a 24-10 road win in Atlanta last week. Quarterback Marcus Mariota passed for 227 yards and three touchdowns, including a pair of scoring tosses to rookie wide receiver A.J. Brown.
Brown, a second-round draft pick, had 94 yards on three receptions. He combined with fellow receiver Corey Davis, who had five catches for 91 yards and a score, to give the Titans their first duo with 90 receiving yards each since Nov. 16, 2017 (Rishard Matthews and Delanie Walker at Pittsburgh).
Once the passing game helped to put the Titans well ahead in the first half, they leaned on running back Derrick Henry after halftime. Henry had 18 rushing attempts for 71 yards in the second half alone, ending the afternoon with a total of 27 carries for 100 yards. It was his fifth career 100-yard rushing game.
Meanwhile, the Titans defense tallied five sacks and limited the big plays from the Falcons offense. Outside linebackerHarold Landry III recorded a career-high two sacks, and defensive tackle Jurrell Casey notched the first play of his Pro Bowl career in which he had a strip-sack and fumble recovery.
The Titans defense currently ranks fourth in the NFL in points allowed per game (15.5), sixth in third-down defense (30.6 percent) and tied for fifth in sacks (13).
The Bills began the season with three straight wins—road victories against the New York Jets and New York Giants and a home win versus the Cincinnati Bengals. Last week, they suffered their first defeat at the hands of the AFC East rival New England Patriots, falling 16-10.
Head coach Sean McDermott is in his third season with the Bills. In 2017, he led the club to its first playoff berth since 1999, and in 2018, the Bills had the NFL's second-ranked defense despite a 6-10 record.
Bills quarterback Josh Allen was the seventh-overall pick in the 2018 NFL Draft and went on to start 11 games as a rookie. He has started all four games in 2019 and passed for 903 yards, three touchdowns and six interceptions. He also has three rushing touchdowns. However, he exited in the fourth quarter against New England to be evaluated for a head injury and was replaced by Matt Barkley.
Buffalo's formidable defense is tied for fifth in the NFL and ranks just behind the Titans in points allowed, giving up 15.8 points per contest. The Bills are second in total defense, allowing opponents an average of 280.8 yards.
GAS GIFT CARD DRIVE FOR AMERICAN CANCER SOCIETY
Fans attending the game are encouraged to participate in the Gas Gift Card Drive for the American Cancer Society Road to Recovery program. Gas cards of any amount and brand will be collected to help support Road to Recovery, which provides patients in need with free rides to treatment. The cards collected will be used in Middle Tennessee, specifically to help keep a shuttle system running between the ACS Hope Lodge and all local hospitals.
Titans vs. Bills All-Time Series
Titans Online looks back at the all-time series against the Buffalo Bills. (Photos: Donn Jones, AP)
Tennessee Titans running back Chris Johnson (28) runs for a touchdown against Buffalo Bills' Stephon Gilmore (27) during the first half of an NFL football game in Orchard Park, N.Y., Sunday, Oct. 21, 2012. (AP Photo/Gary Wiepert)
Tennessee Titans vs. Buffalo Bills on Sunday, Dec. 4, 2011, in Buffalo, NY. Photos by Donn Jones Photography
Tennessee Titans running back Chris Johnson (28) scores a touchdown in front of Buffalo Bills defenders George Wilson (37) and Aaron Williams (23) during the first half of an NFL football game in Orchard Park, N.Y., Sunday, Oct. 21, 2012. (AP Photo/Bill Wippert)
Tennessee Titans quarterback Marcus Mariota (8) passes in the first half of an NFL football game against the Buffalo Bills, Sunday, Oct. 11, 2015, in Nashville, Tenn. (AP Photo/James Kenney)
The Tennessee Titans and the Buffalo Bills line up for a play at the line of scrimmage in the first half of an NFL football game Sunday, Oct. 11, 2015, in Nashville, Tenn. (AP Photo/Weston Kenney)
The Tennessee Titans and the Buffalo Bills line up at the line of scrimmage in the second half of an NFL football game Sunday, Oct. 11, 2015, in Nashville, Tenn. (AP Photo/Mark Zaleski)
Buffalo Bills wide receiver Denarius Moore (17) fumbles as he is tackled by Tennessee Titans fullback Jalston Fowler (45) and inside linebacker Wesley Woodyard (59) in the second half of an NFL football game Sunday, Oct. 11, 2015, in Nashville, Tenn. (AP Photo/Mark Zaleski)
Tennessee Titans running back Antonio Andrews (26) reacts after scoring a touchdown in the second half of an NFL football game against the Buffalo Bills, Sunday, Oct. 11, 2015, in Nashville, Tenn. (AP Photo/James Kenney)
Buffalo Bills wide receiver Denarius Moore (17) fumbles under pressure from Tennessee Titans fullback Jalston Fowler (45) in the second half of an NFL football game Sunday, Oct. 11, 2015, in Nashville, Tenn. (AP Photo/Mark Zaleski)
Tennessee Titans defensive end Jurrell Casey (99) celebrates a sack in the first half of an NFL football game against the Buffalo Bills Sunday, Oct. 11, 2015, in Nashville, Tenn. (AP Photo/Mark Zaleski)
Tennessee Titans outside linebacker Brian Orakpo (98) pursues Buffalo Bills quarterback Tyrod Taylor (5) in the second half of an NFL football game Sunday, Oct. 11, 2015, in Nashville, Tenn. (AP Photo/Weston Kenney)
The Tennessee Titans and the Buffalo Bills line up at the line of scrimmage in the second half of an NFL football game Sunday, Oct. 11, 2015, in Nashville, Tenn. (AP Photo/James Kenney)
Tennessee Titans quarterback Marcus Mariota (8) is tackled by Buffalo Bills outside linebacker Nigel Bradham (53) in the first half of an NFL football game Sunday, Oct. 11, 2015, in Nashville, Tenn. (AP Photo/Mark Zaleski)
Tennessee Titans vs. Buffalo Bills on October 17, 2012. Photos by Donn Jones Photography.
Tennessee Titans vs. Buffalo Bills at LP Field in Nashville, TN on November 15, 2009.
Tennessee Titans center Ben Jones right, waits to snap the ball against the Buffalo Bills during the second half of an NFL football game, Sunday, Oct. 7, 2018, in Orchard Park, N.Y. (AP Photo/Adrian Kraus)
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Tennessee Titans cornerback Adoree' Jackson (25) runs with the ball after an interception during the second half of an NFL football game against the Buffalo Bills, Sunday, Oct. 7, 2018, in Orchard Park, N.Y. (AP Photo/Adrian Kraus)
Tennessee Titans quarterback Marcus Mariota scrambles against the Buffalo Bills during the first half of an NFL football game, Sunday, Oct. 7, 2018, in Orchard Park, N.Y. (AP Photo/Adrian Kraus)
Tennessee Titans quarterback Marcus Mariota (8) throws a pass from the pocket during the second half of an NFL football game against the Buffalo Bills, Sunday, Oct. 7, 2018, in Orchard Park, N.Y. (AP Photo/Adrian Kraus)
Tennessee Titans quarterback Marcus Mariota, left, talks to Buffalo Bills quarterback Josh Allen after an NFL football game, Sunday, Oct. 7, 2018, in Orchard Park, N.Y. The Bills won 13-12. (AP Photo/Jeffrey T. Barnes)
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Posted: Mon 21st Dec 2015
New £2.4 million Deeside HQ for top housing provider
This article is old - Published: Monday, Dec 21st, 2015
Work has begun on a brand new North Wales headquarters for top social housing provider Wales & West Housing.
Award-winning builders Anwyl Construction will carry out the £2.4 million project at St David's Park, Ewloe, alongside their own new HQ.
Social housing experts Wales & West have made a massive investment in North Wales in recent years and Rhyl-based Anwyl have been their builder of choice on a series of award-winning projects.
But they have outgrown their current premises in Flint as they have expanded to provide much-needed affordable housing across North Wales.
They have chosen St David's Park because of its convenient access to the A55 and the new property will also house Cambria Maintenance Ltd, their maintenance division which has also outgrown their site in Holywell.
Anne Hinchey, Chief Executive of Wales & West Housing, said:
"As with all our other building projects a strong emphasis will be placed upon using local suppliers, labour and materials for the build.
"In addition, Anwyl Construction will work with us to promote apprenticeships and training opportunities throughout the contract assisting people who are embarking upon a career in the construction industry.
"We're looking forward to staff moving into the new offices next summer."
The building design reflects the prominence of the site and is very 'high tech'. It is 17,000 square feet including expansion space, accommodating 47 Wales & West Housing staff and 15 Cambria Maintenance staff with ample parking for staff and visitors.
Award-winning Wales & West projects in North Wales have included the £15 million Kingsmills Road and Rivulet Road development in Wrexham, a £10 million extra care unit at Llys Jasmine in Mold and £3.3 million Flint House which provides accommodation for over 55s on the site of the former Delyn Council Offices in Flint.
All were built by Anwyl Construction and their Contracts Director Tom Anwyl said:
"We have been delighted to work with Wales & West Housing on a number of projects from Anglesey to Wrexham and together we have won awards for several of them.
"They have a massive commitment to the area and their programme of building affordable housing across the region helped the local construction industry through the worst of the recession.
"It also meant that we and others were able to provide apprenticeships across a range of construction skills and so maintain an effective and skilled building industry workforce in the area.
"This is vital in ensuring that when major projects arise that companies like ours have the skills and the competencies to carry them out and that is a boost to the local economy.
"Wales & West share our commitment to supporting apprenticeships and local supply lines and that has safeguarded a considerable number of jobs over the last few years."
Work on the two new headquarters buildings will continue in tandem with Anwyl Construction, who were founded in Rhyl in 1930, expecting to complete their new premises in the spring of next year.


around the trees to make up somewhat of a yard before the rest of the forest.
regardless of the blazing fire there, he's out like a light, snoozing deeply.
from her uniform, plopping down next to you.
head. "Your cute when your helpless." she snickers.
hooves. Her bracers rub against you the only thing she bothered to leave on.
soft, "can I get you anything love?" her voice quiet and earnest in concern.
something? I still have that potion you gave me."
going crazy, they had to strap me down to get me better"
The large shadowbolt pony has to restrain a dawwwww when you squeak.
taken to capture you like this." she ephizizes by giving you a loving squeeze.
Twist is quiet the caretaker when she wants to be.
throat, that sounds nice" he comments with his eyes still closed.
muses out loud at the mixture comes to a boil and she returns to lay on you.
captor." she coos nuzzling her sick little special some pony.
your a vegetarian or something hun don't worry." giving you another kiss.
they're uhh off" he looks up with concern, "but this was normal over there?"
he asks with obvious concern regardless of how he is feeling.