This is not going to be the 'exercise daily', 'read a book' kind of thing you can read in business magazine. Although these things are definitely helpful and it's important to find ways how to relax, this list is a bit different. It includes various daily tips that I've learned during my agency life. The beauty of these things, however, is people might have various preferences so what works for me might not work for you. But I hope you will get some helpful tips on how to manage your workload better.
Although I do have a two-week and a week long plan, I revisit my to-dos twice a day. It's the first and last thing I do every day. In any agency, requests from clients can come unexpected and pretty quickly so while you might have thought you have 5 things to do in the morning, you might and up with 20 more by the end of the day. Revisiting tasks on regular basis while looking at the following days (and weeks) helps you to make sure everything is delivered on time.
I have 3 sections in my planner: to dos, weekly timetable, and 'everything else'. While the first two sections are pretty straight-forward. the 'everything else' section is sometimes a life-saver.It helps to log-in all the little things that get mentioned on random calls or in-between chats with colleagues and clients. It also maps all your ideas and brain sparks that you might have throughout the day. I don't trust myself to remember ANYTHING so writing everything down saves my head-space (to some extent) and much more.
Campaign launch? Holiday? Colleagues' holiday? Proposal needs to be sent? Deadlines? Save it in your Outlook calendar (and write it down in your planner too if you have one). You will get a reminder which, in case you have everything planned properly, will be just a nice 'let's get this going' message, but in case you forgot, it will save your day.
4. Read email first. Action second. Save third.
There are two types of emails: ones that require an action, ones that don't. I love having folders and subfolders for each activity for each client. But I never put an email into those folders unless I've read them and decided they do not need an action. In other words, the emails that require an action are always in my inbox. Once I action them, or delegate them (always make note of delegated tasks too), I either delete them or put them in a folder. This way, the likelihood of you not acting on an email that needs an answer is much lower. And again, it's helpful to go through your 'actionable' emails for the day and the day before each morning and evening just to make sure nothing was missed.
Ask, check, double-check, assign responsibilities. Sometimes, people forget. Sometimes, people don't think about mentioning something. If you don't ask and check, you might end up waiting for someone to come to you until it might be too late. Don't worry, people won't think you are too pushy (well, some might) and at the end of the day, you will have clarity, not a headache.


Brand Strategy is In Low Demand.
The brand strategy business, at least the way I define it, is not an easy one. Brand strategy is an organizing principle for product, experience and messaging. Not a lot of people wake up in the morning asking for an organizing principle. Not a lot of people walk to their car or train after work ruing the lack of an organizing principle. Sure they want more sales, more efficient sales, and better sales but they're typically not feeling disorganized.
The typical brand consulting inquiry goes something like this "Do you redesign logos?" Or, "Do you rename?" Sometimes they use branding and a verb, "I need to rebrand my website." These are not what I do. I create paper strategy.
Most people want marketing stuff. They don't want strategy or operating principles. There isn't a lot of pent up demand for brand strategy. So I often have to come in the side door — find people who are looking for stuff. Otherwise, I'm left to educate marketers as to the role of brand strategy and that's a schlepp.


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Rhinegeist's Bubbles: Is It a Cider, a Beer, or Something Else?
By Jesse Bussard, March 04, 2019
The trend of beers that don't taste like beer continues with Rhinegeist Brewery's Bubbles, a tart rosé ale brewed with apples, peach, and cranberry. Considered a fruit ale, Bubbles began as an experimental release for the Cincinnati brewery, but it quickly climbed in popularity to become a seasonal staple. In 2018, the beer made up nearly 20 percent of Rhinegeist's sales.
Appearance and Aroma
Bubbles' can design is fun, modern, and playful all wrapped in a bright magenta backdrop. The apple-like skull on the front is a fun play on the brewery's standard logo. The beer pours a vivid ruby red color with crystal clarity. An off-white foam is present briefly after pouring but dissipates quickly, leaving an almost still-looking beverage. Swirling the liquid in my glass kicks up the effervescence again and brings forth strong aromas of green apple, peaches, and berry.
Bubbles is the perfect combination of fruity sweetness and zest pulled together with a crisp ending on the palate."
Taking my first sip, I'd swear this beer was actually a semi-sweet cider if the label didn't say "Rosé Ale." The way Bubbles tastes and drinks is just so… well, cider-like. It's light, energizing, fruit-forward, and bursting with strong, yet tart flavors of apple, cranberry, pomegranate, and stone fruit. The finish is bone-dry. Altogether, it's the perfect combination of fruity sweetness and zest pulled together with a crisp ending on the palate.
So, is Rhinegeist's Bubbles a cider or beer? The branding says one thing, my palate another. Honestly, though, I don't really think it matters. It's delicious, refreshing, and fun, and, if it was available more readily in my neck of the woods, it'd be one of my regular summer sippers. It's easy to see why it's become so popular for the brewery in such a short time.
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Q: Find duplicates in array JavaScript So I'm working on a simple JavaScript web-based game. The goal is to guess a X digit random number. This means the random number can be 4, 5 digits up to whatever you want. You can actually play the game at www.juegodescifralo.com , (it's in Spanish, sorry about that).
The user inputs a number that is stored as an array. The random number is also generated as an array. Individual numbers in both arrays can be repeated.
There are three types of possible "values/numbers": the "good" ones are the numbers you chose that are in the same position as the ones in the random array. So for example:
Random array is: 1457
User input is: 6851
Number 5 is a "good" number, since it's in the same position. Then there are the second type of "values", which are "regular". This means they are inside the random number but not in the same position. In this example, number 1 would be a "regular" value. And the third type is the "bad" ones, which are not even inside the random array.
The function I've developed is as follows:
function checkNumbers(randomArray, myArray, good, regular, bad) {
    for (var x = 0; x < randomArray.length; x++) {
        var posRepetido = randomArray.indexOf(myArray[x]); //Is current number inside random array?

        if (posRepetido == -1) { //It's not inside
            console.log("number " + myArray[x] + "is not inside");
            bad++;

        } else { //It's inside

            regular++;

            if (myArray[x] == randomArray[x]) { //If it's the same number...
                console.log("number " + myArray[x] + "is in the correct position");

                good++;
                regular--;
            } else { //If it's not the same number

                if (randomArray[posRepetido] != myArray[posRepetido]) {
                    console.log("number " + myArray[x] + "is inside but not in the same position");

                } else {
                    console.log("number " + myArray[x] + "is not inside");

                }
            }
        }
    }

    var obj = { //Return object for accessing later, to show feedback to the user.
        good: good,
        regular: regular,
        bad: bad
    };

    return obj;
}

The code is a bit buggy. When there are duplicates in the random array, and one of them is marked as good, then the other one (even if it exists in user input) will be set as bad, not as regular as it should.
The thing becomes even more complicated since you should be able to play against any amount of digits. So I should be able to guess a 20 digit number without "problems".
You can play by yourself at www.juegodescifralo.com
How can I go about this? Any ideas how can I access array data more easily? Thank you very much!

A: Rather than indexOf comparisons against -1 and checks of myArray[x], it would probably be a lot easier to use includes and array methods such as forEach for better abstraction. All you really need is an if, an else if, and an else. For example:

function checkNumbers(randomArray, userArray, good=0, regular=0, bad=0) {
  userArray.forEach((guess, i) => {
    if (guess === randomArray[i]) good++;
    else if (randomArray.includes(guess)) regular++;
    else bad++;
  });
  return { good, regular, bad };
}

// 4 good
console.log(checkNumbers(
  '1234'.split(''),
  '1234'.split(''),
));
// 4 good, 2 bad
console.log(checkNumbers(
  '1234'.split(''),
  '123456'.split(''),
));
// 4 good, 2 regular
console.log(checkNumbers(
  '1234'.split(''),
  '123412'.split(''),
));
// all regular:
console.log(checkNumbers(
  '123456789123456789'.split(''),
  '912345678912345678'.split(''),
));

A: i think it is easier to loop thru it twice like this
function checkNumbers(randomArray, guessArray) {
  var clone = randomArray.slice(0);
  var good = 0;
  var regular = 0;
  var bad  = 0;
  var visited = [];

  guessArray.forEach(function(guess, index) {
    if (guess === clone[index]) { // the guess is in right position
      good++;
      clone[index] = "x"; // strike it out so it cannot be used later
      visited.push(index);
    } else if (clone.indexOf(guess) === -1) {
      bad++;
      visited.push(index);
    }
  });
  guessArray.forEach(function(guess, index) {
    if (!visited.includes(index)) {
      var match = clone.indexOf(guess);
      if (match !== -1) {
        regular++;
        clone[match] = "x"; // strike it out so it cannot be used later
      }
    }
  });

  return {
    good: good,
    bad: bad,
    regular: regular
  }
}

first loop is to check the good and bad. and strikeout the value it is good so it cannot be used again.
second loop to check for the regular and strikeout the value it is used so it cannot be used again.

A: This should work.

function guessNumber (numUser, numRandom) {
    if (typeof numUser == 'number') {
        numUser = numUser.toString().split('');
    }
    if (typeof numRandom == 'number') {
        numRandom = numRandom.toString().split('');
    }

    if (typeof numRandom != 'object' || typeof numUser != 'object') {
        return false;
    }

    if (numRandom == numUser) {
        return true;
    }

    var numRegular = {},
        numBuenos = {},
        numMalos = {},
    numRepeat = {};

    for(var i  = 0; i < numRandom.length; i++) {
      if (!numRepeat[numRandom[i]]) {
        numRepeat[numRandom[i]] = 0;
    }
      numRegular[numRandom[i]] = 0;
      numRepeat[numRandom[i]]++;
  }

    for (var i  = 0; i < numUser.length; i++) {
        if (numUser[i] == numRandom[i]) {
            numBuenos[numUser[i]] = numUser[i];
        }else if ($.inArray(numUser[i], numRandom)) {
      if (!numRegular[numUser[i]]) {
        numRegular[numUser[i]] = 0;
      }
      if (numRegular[numUser[i]] < numRepeat[numUser[i]]) {
          numRegular[numUser[i]]++;
      } else {
                numMalos[numUser[i]] = numUser[i];
      }
        } else {
            numMalos[numUser[i]] = numUser[i];
        }
    }

    return {
        regular: Object.values(numRegular).reduce((a, b) => a + b),
        buenos: Object.keys(numBuenos).length,
        malos: Object.keys(numMalos).length
    };

}

console.log(guessNumber(8365, 8512));
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Smile, Dial and Trial? Why the Next Call Might be Your Worst Nightmare
October 26, 2016 | By: Sean Murray
This story appeared in deBanked's Sept/Oct 2016 magazine issue. To receive copies in print, SUBSCRIBE FREE
Aaron Smith sued a merchant cash advance company in the United States District Court of Southern California earlier this year for allegedly making unsolicited calls to his personal cell phone registered on the Do-Not-Call list. His name has been changed for this story because he's a vexatious litigator, even landing on an official list of vexatious litigants by the State of California in the early 2000s thanks to his tendency to file harassing lawsuits. But that's not all, Smith has a criminal history that includes stalking and extortion and he's served time in prison for his role in a multi-million dollar mortgage fraud RICO conspiracy.
These days he's suing small business financing companies for alleged violating phone calls, at least five of which we could identify through San Diego court records just over the last several months. Two of the suits appeared while we were researching this story, which means that there could probably be even more by the time that you are reading this.
Smith presumably runs a business as his website has and still continues to advertise services to consumers. But if you are not an existing customer or have not been referred by an existing customer, his website warns that attempting to contact him by any means is a violation. Suffice to say that deBanked did not attempt to contact Smith to get his side of the story.
In one complaint, Smith claims that the phone number receiving the unsolicited calls is a "private personal cellular telephone." To his credit, a cursory glance of his business website does not appear to list any phone number for it at all. However, the Internet Archive Wayback Machine which allows users to see archived versions of web pages across time, revealed that very same phone number being prominently displayed on his business website for several years including up to as recent as September, 2015, after which it was removed. There's reason then to question if Smith might be up to no good.
While the merits of Smith's claims will be up to the courts to decide, his background doesn't inspire confidence. Countless other plaintiffs using the Telephone Consumer Protection Act (TCPA) to file lawsuits have colorful backgrounds in their own right, a lot of which can be found using Google. But a suggestion relayed by some of our readers is that plaintiffs appear to be doing what they do for profit, not because they have been harmed by the calls they allegedly receive. deBanked decided to conduct its own independent research on this issue.
SUING FOR PROFIT?
That's just what the headline of a WDSU TV story alluded to in its coverage in 2004 of a stay-at-home Pennsylvania dad named Stewart Abramson. Titled, Man Who Turns Table On Telemarketers Turns Profit, Too, quotes Abramson as saying, "First, I'll write them all and tell them that I'm willing to settle for the minimum statutory damages per call, which is $500, but if they don't want to settle, then I'll file a civil complaint."
In a case he won against a debt consolidation firm for calling him with a prerecorded message, Abramson reportedly said, "It would have made sense for them to pay the minimum damages due me, but they wanted to put up a fight. I don't mind. I'll take more money."
Abramson continued to say at the time that he felt empowered by Congress to stop this illegal activity and that he was just doing his part and making a little money for doing so. More than a decade later, Abramson's name is still showing up as a plaintiff in TCPA cases, including in at least one complaint discovered by deBanked against a small business financing company.
According to court records, the defendant contended that Abramson was "in the business of suing entities for violations of the TCPA," an accusation the judge ruled irrelevant to the particular matter at hand.
Michael Goodman, a partner in the Washington DC office of law firm Hudson Cook, who was not asked about this case specifically, said in an emailed interview that generally accusing someone of being a serial plaintiff might not really help.
"Accusing a plaintiff of being a serial or professional TCPA plaintiff is unlikely to affect the outcome much, if at all," Goodman said. "While there are outliers, the general rule is that the court will assess the merits of each case individually and will not 'punish' a plaintiff for being a serial or professional TCPA plaintiff."
An email address for Abramson could not be located and given the special circumstances of his history, we did not attempt to call him.
If ever there was a TCPA celebrity however, it'd be Diana Mey, a self-described stay-at-home mom who started wrangling with telemarketers in 1998 after what her website described as "a series of intrusive telemarketing calls by a Sears affiliate pitching vinyl siding."
She's an important figure in TCPA history, not just because she's been awarded millions through her lawsuits but also because she helped draft the FTC's rules. Reports show her participating in FTC-hosted telemarketing forums in 2000 and 2002 and her name even appears in the footnotes of the FTC's Telemarketing Sales Rule entered into the Federal Register in 2003. And so we followed Mey's story online, noting that she has actually become famous for her pursuits, even appearing in a TV segment for ABC News in 2012. Her website at www.dianamey.com teaches others how they too can pursue monetary damages from telemarketers that engage in illegal practices.
"The first step is to write a formal 'demand' letter to the president of the company, stating that the letter is a formal claim for money […] for violations of the Telephone Consumer Protection Act of 1991," her website advises.
It was quite a surprise then to discover that this Diana Mey was the same Diana Mey captioned as a plaintiff in a current case against a small business financing company. Almost two decades after her first experience, she is still filing lawsuits for alleged telemarketing violations.
Mey declined to respond to our questions even though they were not about that case, citing pending litigation.
"I'm a mom and I'm a housewife, and I'm an accidental activist," Mey said in that 2012 ABC News interview. Others have referred to her as a "private attorneys general," defined as someone who brings a lawsuit considered to be in the public interest.
That same title has been attributed to one Robert Braver who is the man behind www.do-not-call.com which launched in 1998 as "a consumer's resource for stopping unsolicited telemarketing calls." His comments appear in FCC records and he was also featured in a Dateline NBC special in 2002 about a new telemarketing scheme that was alarming consumers. Suffice to say Braver has been a consumer proponent in this area of the law for a long time, a role that has not come without risks.
According to Braver, the attorney for one telemarketer he sued, arranged to have his (then) elementary school age kids stalked and photographed, a terrifying ordeal that was only made worse after the attorney allegedly sent him a fax bragging about it. But he has continued on, noting that while he has gotten much fewer junk faxes, telemarketing calls have gotten more out of hand over time, to the point where they're disruptive to everyday life.
"My wife is a middle school teacher," Braver said. "She doesn't work in the summer and gets home before I do when she is teaching. She typically leaves her phone in her purse in a spot in the kitchen and hangs out in in the den or back patio. It's gotten so bad at times that when I need to call her, she doesn't get up and run to look at her phone when it rings, and I have ignored unknown calls on my cell and let them go to voicemail, only to find out later that they were legit calls."
And sometimes it's a total mystery how they even get added to a list. "We have two teenage boys still at home, and they have cell phones too. Somehow my youngest son's cell number got on a marketing list for student loan debt relief, and was getting 10-15 calls a day for a while," Braver explained.
Contrast that with a story that appeared in the Dallas Observer in 2010 about one Craig Cunningham, another celebrity-like TCPA figure who still has active cases pending, public records reveal.
According to the story, Cunningham stays at home on a "dumpy couch" to wait for a particular type of phone call, "one from a representative of a debt collection agency or a credit card company, whom he'll try to ensnare like a Venus fly trap," the Observer reported. Cunningham is said to have learned his trade from online message boards, where we decided to look next to see if there was anyone out there indeed talking about TCPA lawsuits for profit.
"IT'S KIND OF HARD TO CONVINCE A FEDERAL JUDGE THAT YOU ARE A VICTIM WHEN YOU ARE TRYING TO FIND A PUBLISHER FOR A BOOK CALLED CREDIT TERRORIST"
On May 25, 2014, a participant using the pseudonym codename47 published a thread titled, TCPA enforcement for fun and for profit up to 3k per call on fatwallet.com, the exact kind of salacious headline that defendant companies have probably imagined in their worst nightmares. Codename47 has a big fan base it seems, with one user even suggesting to him that he should create and sell a "sue telemarketers" package so that people could do what he does for side income.
Codename47 is Craig Cunningham, who we reached out to with some questions through the fatwallet forum. He declined to answer them, citing pending litigation and the fact that he no longer does interviews.
One user on fatwallet in 2010 said of Cunningham, "It's kind of hard to convince a Federal judge that you are a victim when you are trying to find a publisher for a book called CREDIT TERRORIST."
It now being six years later, no such book can be found in Amazon or through Google. A link to where purported information on it once was leads to a page-not-found error. The Archive Wayback Machine however, produces an interesting find.
Tales Of A Debt Collection Terrorist: How I Beat the Credit Industry At Its Own Game and Made Big Money From the Beat Down is the title of a proposed book in 2010 by Craig Cunningham and Brian O'Connell. O'Connell is a writer/content producer for TheStreet.com and a well-known and widely published author. He tells deBanked that he wished he had written it with Cunningham but that they didn't move forward with it.
But the proposal remains, including the description of Cunningham as being a highly sought after expert in the field of debt collection "revenge" industry.
Outside of fatwallet, the only other real mention of the proposed book could be found on a website called debtorboards.com. Lenders might find the website horrifying considering the forum's tagline is "Sue Your Creditor and Win." With more than 20,000 members and nearly 300,000 posts, the forum has an entire section dedicated to TCPA. Legal strategy is a dominant topic and it's abundantly obvious that people are working together to stop companies from calling them.
Sadly, it's not all innocent consumers out there. For example, the TCPA has invited abuse to the point where at least one person admitted to buying cell phones to maximize the chances of getting illegal calls so that they could sue. That's what serial plaintiff Melody Stoops said in a June 2016 deposition as part of her case against Wells Fargo in the Western District of Pennsylvania.
Q. Why do you have so many cell phone numbers?
A. I have a business suing offenders of the TCPA business — or laws.
Q. And when you say business, what do you mean by business?
A. It's my business. It's what I do.
Q. So you're specifically buying these cell phones in order to manufacture a TCPA? In order to bring a TCPA lawsuit?
A. Yeah.
Purchasing at least 35 phones, she even went so far as to register them with out-of-state area codes in places she thought were more economically depressed and therefore more likely to get violating calls. Stoops sent out so many pre-litigation demand letters and filed so many lawsuits that she could not be certain how many she sent out or how many suits she was in, according her to deposition.
Apparently Stoops found the line of legal perversion and crossed it. On June 24, 2016, the judge ruled in favor of Wells Fargo because she wasn't injured by the calls she received, nor were the injuries she claimed within the "zone of interests" the law was meant to protect. "It is unfathomable that Congress considered a consumer who files TCPA actions as a business when it enacted the TCPA," he wrote.
A TURNING POINT?
Hudson Cook law partner Michael Goodman said, "the impact of Stoops v. Wells Fargo is still to be determined, but I would say that it is significantly fact specific and therefore unlikely to result in large-scale changes in TCPA private actions. Stoops put a lot of effort into becoming a magnet for calls that could violate the TCPA. In many TCPA cases, consumers do not need to try that hard to receive a call that could prompt a TCPA suit."
Stoops was pursuing calls while most of the advice and discussion uncovered online is about what to do if you get a call, not about how to create the calls in the first place. Even debtorboards, for example, is a registered non-profit, keeping consistent with its image as a consumer empowerment tool.
If the tide is turning though, it's not in a direction favorable to telemarketers. Goodman said that "in July 2015, the FCC announced a new interpretation of the TCPA's 'autodialer' standard that significantly expanded the definition and introduced a lot of unnecessary uncertainty as to what is and is not a regulated autodialer. That interpretation is currently being challenged in court. There's a bit of a trend among courts requiring plaintiffs in autodialer cases to do more than simply allege that they were called with an autodialer. These courts, possibly in an effort to frustrate TCPA autodialer cases, are requiring plaintiffs to include circumstantial evidence of dialer use in their complaints: dead air, hang-up calls, generic messages, and so on. But the TCPA's penalty structure still encourages suits that should not be brought."
FCC Commissioner Ajit Pai, who was appointed by President Obama, voiced dissent to this new interpretation, echoing Goodman's comments that it encourages frivolous suits.
An excerpt of Pai's official dissent is below:
"Some lawyers go to ridiculous lengths to generate new TCPA business. They have asked family members, friends, and significant others to download calling, voicemail, and texting apps in order to sue the companies behind each app. Others have bought cheap, prepaid wireless phones so they can sue any business that calls them by accident. One man in California even hired staff to log every wrong-number call he received, issue demand letters to purported violators, and negotiate settlements. Only after he was the lead plaintiff in over 600 lawsuits did the courts finally agree that he was a "vexatious litigant."
The common thread here is that in practice the TCPA has strayed far from its original purpose. And the FCC has the power to fix that. We could be taking aggressive enforcement action against those who violate the federal Do-Not-Call rules. We could be establishing a safe harbor so that carriers could block spoofed calls from overseas without fear of liability. And we could be shutting down the abusive lawsuits by closing the legal loopholes that trial lawyers have exploited to target legitimate communications between businesses and consumers.
Instead, the Order takes the opposite tack. Rather than focus on the illegal telemarketing calls that consumers really care about, the Order twists the law's words even further to target useful communications between legitimate businesses and their customers. This Order will make abuse of the TCPA much, much easier. And the primary beneficiaries will be trial lawyers, not the American public."
The FCC reviewed 19 individual petitions on the matter, some of which included relatively recent comments from the individuals we've mentioned so far. The appearance is that the FCC has collaborated with some individuals continuously over time or that individuals have collaborated continuously with the FCC. It might not matter though. Michael Goodman says that "the TCPA gives distinct enforcement rights to the FCC as well as persons who receive a call that violates the statute."
"It isn't really a matter of whether a particular violation should be handled by the FCC or privately," Goodman adds. "Private plaintiffs have independent incentive to sue thanks to the TCPA's penalty structure, and, compared to the FCC, private plaintiffs do not have to be as choosy in picking targets for actions."
And what are the violations and penalties exactly? Goodman explained as follows:
"Depending on the specific TCPA provision at issue, private actions may be brought by individual consumers as well as businesses. The autodialer and prerecorded message provisions can be enforced by individuals and consumers, and they can sue based on a single improper call. For these provisions, the TCPA directs courts to award $500 per violation; courts do not have discretion to award a lesser figure. Courts do have discretion to award up to three times that amount (i.e., up to $1,500) per violation for willful or knowing violations. The TCPA's do-not-call provisions are enforced by individual consumers, and this type of action requires more than one unlawful call in a 12-month period. For the do-not-call provisions, courts do have discretion to award less than $500 per violation (and can triple the penalty for willful or knowing violations).
The FCC has authority to obtain penalties of up to $16,000 per day of a continuing violation or per violation. FCC rules establish factors for the FCC to consider in calculating a proper penalty figure, including the nature of the violation, history of prior offenses, and ability to pay."
"The base $500 per violation in statutory damages that consumers are entitled to hasn't increased since the TCPA went into effect in 1992," said activist Robert Braver. "This should be increased, especially since the TCPA does not allow for the recovery of attorney's fees."
Goodman said that private actions are much more common than FCC enforcement actions. That much is obvious. Private actions are becoming all too common in the small business financing industry where so many cases were uncovered through public records that we lacked the resources to follow them all.
More lawsuits might not be the cure though, according to Braver. He said that "more egregious telemarketing (massive robocall campaigns) should be criminalized on the federal level," adding that "it's one thing for an unscrupulous telemarketer to allow their shell corporation to have an uncollectible money judgment, but it's another thing when individuals can wind up with a felony conviction on their records, and possible jail time."
While that suggestion might antagonize telemarketers, Braver said that his cell phone, which is listed on the Do-Not-Call-Registry, can receive as many as 4-5 telemarketing calls per day, generally robocalls.
Whether plaintiff allegations from cases in this industry are true or not, legal fees over TCPA cases have continued to be an expense that many small business financing companies are contending with. Those costs have a way of being tacked on to the price of financing for small businesses that need capital, making it a lose-lose situation.
"MORE AND MORE MERCHANTS ARE USING THEIR CELL PHONE AS THEIR BUSINESS PHONE"
One marketing company in the industry who had to remain anonymous because settlement negotiations at the time were likely to include a non-disclosure clause, posed the question, "how are you supposed to help small businesses if you can't actually call small businesses?"
"More and more merchants are using their cell phone as their business phone," he argued. "The TCPA regulations need to be changed so that a merchant can't claim his cell phone is his business phone one minute and his personal phone the next."
Indeed, the motivations, facts and alleged damages in TCPA complaints are not always clear. And even though the plaintiffs don't always win, the laws as they are, can make telemarketing difficult no matter how careful one is.
Still dialing for dollars these days? Just know that some folks may be just a little too happy that you called them. And for all the wrong reasons.
Good luck out there.
Sean Murray is the President and Chief Editor of deBanked and the founder of the Broker Fair Conference. Connect with me on LinkedIn or follow me on twitter. You can view all future deBanked events here.
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(Leer en español) Catedral Bar is an historic bar in Seville housed in a building of 1923. A traditional restaurant, with an unbeatable location, careful decoration, excellent service and an extensive tapas menu.
Catedral Bar is in Mateos Gago Street, the most important gastronomic street of the city. Next to the temple that gives it its name and with magnificent sightseeings of the Giralda, it is already a classic of sevillian tapas.
The meeting place between Sevillans and tourists eager to know the local gastronomy, is an obligatory stop in the historic center of Seville. The ideal starting, arrival or rest point when you decide to enter to the district of Santa Cruz.
Catedral Bar stands out among the rest due to the work of a committed team. Catedral Bar has obtained in 2018, for the fourth consecutive year, the Certificate of Excellence on Trip Advisor thanks to the opinions of satisfied customers.
In addition it has become one of the best restaurants in Seville for to know the gastronomy of the city, Andalusia and Spain in the form of tapas.
The decoration is an homage to the history of the own bar house. It retains elements that evoke its former era as an antiques shop.
The bar preserves part of the elegant essence of the piano bar that was and the echo of that jazz is kept in its walls. Its bullfighting atmosphere is joined to complete a purely Sevillan environment.
The beams and finishes in wood, joined to the French style lamps, provide a delicate distinction, especially pleasant for family or friends lunchs and romantic dinners.
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Thus the passage of pedestrians, the life that fills these sidewalks and the spectacular sightseeings of the Giralda and Cathedral, turn these moments into magicians.
Catedral Bar offers the warmth of traditional cuisine and adds a touch of personality to its tapas. A generous variety of Andalusian food, made with fresh produdcts from this area.
The cuisine, directed by the chef Emiliano Sánchez, starts from the traditional recipes to take a turn and approach the culinary vanguard of the Spanish gastronomy.
Fried fish, typical seasonings, stews, meats and seafood with an original presentation. You can taste the traditional food or try new sensations with unique tapas in the city.
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You can find out more information and book at Catedral Bar on their website and on the Facebook page.


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EasyWorship is a powerful, yet simple church presentation software. Build your entire service - song lyrics, Scriptures, announcements, videos and sermon notes - in one place, quickly and efficiently. Experience the software that is uniquely designed to meet the needs of churches, big and small, around the world.
Pros: It was a wonderful day when the church decided to buy EW instead of just using PowerPoint for visual aids in services. We use EW to display hymns and Bible texts mainly on the projector or TV but it really comes in handy for praise and worship sessions where we can just keep the words coming as the song leaders chain songs together. The built-in Bible versions also mean that the preachers can call any random text during the sermons and we can put it in seconds.
The first thing I like about this software is that it is easy to setup and get it running. The system requirements are pretty basic in terms of software and memory usage but of course you need a device that supports dual video output. I ran our first version of Easy Worship on an old laptop with Windows XP and no more than 512MB RAM. Of course the newer versions require a little more processing power and memory but the early version still works well even on newer operating systems.
Secondly the interface is pretty easy to understand and use. So intuitive that non-techies can master the basic operations in less than 30 minutes. It's a great tool for helping young persons to get involved in the service. As long as they can read and pay attention to the service they can help put the songs and texts up on screen. EW is highly customizable and also easy to back up onto a flash drive. This comes in very handy during computer upgrades. No need to add all the custom songs over again.
Cons: There's not a lot to not like about this software. My biggest issue is that they don't support Mac systems. It's not a deal breaker but it does limit our choices for computer upgrades.
The second issue is the upgrade price. It's really great software and the initial cost is worth the investment but the upgrade price is a little steep. A smaller yearly subscription might be better and more manageable for smaller churches.
My final issue is more technical and it has to do with codecs and using videos as backgrounds in EW. The videos work fine on their own but as soon as you try to use them as a background they stop playing. It seemed to be a Windows 7 issue. Maybe fixed in 8 or 10 but none of the fixes found online worked so far. It's more of an annoyance than a major issue.
Overall: it is support in each service, meeting of the church, favors all the attendees, because they read and can sing the songs that are not known, new, and unknown. * When we project videos, it helps to make the talk more understandable and more understandable to all the visitors and assistants of the church.
Pros: This software can work at the largest scale venues for our conference in Australia. It's a great to implement powerpoint integration and seamless video transitions for presentation. This software maintains stability and reliability, and only has had limitations on the hardware laptops itself. Great customisability of manual scaling for external display resolutions which is super handy for massive screens or multi projector displays. Also Native Microsoft PowerPoint Support.
Cons: This software prefers videos in the wmv codec. So converting and optimising videos is a must before import. also you will need to have a 16:9 and 4:3 presentations separately.
Overall: Solid performer from the early days of conference touring and presentations. Have used it for many years, and am really happy with the easy of use compared to ProPresenter. Native Powerpoint support including transitions is really useful for complex presentations and adds an excellence and professionalism that really wins business and credibility.
Pros: We use EasyWorship for our Sunday services. I love how easy to use it is. Oftentimes volunteers are hesitant to volunteer to run slides because they think it requires a lot of technical experience, but EasyWorship is so straight forward we tell volunteers if you can use Facebook you can run EasyWorship. The black-out feature also makes transitions very smooth and the ability to preview what is coming up next helps you stay organized while running slides.
Cons: You do need a bit more technical training to load the songs/slides onto EasyWorship. Not a ton (if you are file opening, moving and attaching files, you could figure it out), but enough that the volunteer who can click buttons to advance slides may not be comfortable doing those things on the back-end. It just means a bit of extra prep before the service and is by no means an insurmountable obstacle.
I honestly haven't run into many problems with EasyWorship. I know there are more expensive and fancier softwares out there for people that want more options/customizability. For us, EasyWorship works just fine!
Pros: EasyWorship simply WORKS! Whatever our church has attempted to accomplish graphically (motion graphic backgrounds, pre-service announcement loops, etc) EasyWorship has been able to handle it.
Cons: Navigation and menu flow. While vastly superior to other worship presentation software (including PowerPoint), I'll encounter times that I want to accomplish a specific action and the process to do so isnt the way I intuitively through it would be.
Overall: After a failed experience with another major worship presentation software, we switched to EasyWorship. As a multi-campus church, this has been the best investment we have made for our A/V department so far. We rely heavily on video presentations (pre-recorded sermon videos, bumpers, motion background, etc). EasyWorship not only handles videos well, but has a (mostly) intuitive user interface. It also allows exporting entire schedules (services) with all items embedded to transfer to other computers or archive. Finally, when we have had issues (on our end, setting up proper computer settings) support was fantastic, getting us up and running quickly. Highly recommended.
Hi Dan, thank you for your feedback! I wanted to reach out and see if you had any recommendations to improve the intuitiveness of the software and enhance your worship services. If you can think of anything in particular or just have any additional feedback, please contact me at support@easyworship.com - Fred.
Church services have changed with EasyWorship since people can now see sermons and lyrics of songs..
Pros: I like the fact that it can project both the biblical readings and the lyrics of the songs .It also has several versions of the bible which is a real plus and one can switch from one version to another real quick. It also has the ability to make really attractive presentations.
Cons: The only problem i have faced with EasyWorship is that it freezes when i load a video in the media section,eventually it unfreezes but takes a while.
Overall: Having the ability to project song lyrics,Bible verses and quotes from preachers.
Pros: I've used this software for quite a while now. It has been through three upgrades during that time. The features it provides are really useful, including the ability to import PowerPoint files, integration with the Song Select service for importing song lyrics, capability for using a fold-back display and the ability to project to multiple screens. Support is pretty consistent with the subscription service.
Cons: The one thing that drives me absolutely crazy with the software is the inconsistency of playing video files. I can have a an MP4 video for a service and test it multiple times before the service starts and it works great. Service starts and the file will show going live but no audio or video plays. This happens easily 75% or better of the time videos are incorporated into a service.
Pros: 1. It was the most feature-rich product for the price. Now, the product has too many bugs to consider it "reasonably priced".
2. I liked the "check for changes" options as it allows multiple people to contribute to a worship schedule. However, you have to manually start it. It used to be automatic.
3. I like how you can import PowerPoint presentations with all the basic PowerPoint controls.
4. I like how well you can mix audio, PowerPoint and EW7 created media in the same schedule.
Cons: 1. Support is average. They believe the only way to solve a problem is to login to your computer and take control, not acceptable.
2. You can't export the text of anything you create in EW7. So, if you create 200+ songs in EW7 you can't port them to somewhere else. All you can do is export a list of songs or open each song and copy all the text.
3. Even after multiple releases of EW6 and EW7, PowerPoint presentations will sometimes stop working. The PP slides turn black and instead of seeing 12 separate slides, you only see 1 black slide.
4. If you resize the Application screen, EW7 will not remember how you sized the panels the next time you start it up.
5. You can run an audio travt in the background while you display a video or image file.
Overall: I've been using this software since Dec 2014. Then, the version was "Easy Worship 2009". It was a great product at a great price. But EW redesigned the product to add more features, called it "Easy Worship 6". It was full of bugs and lacked many features many people loved in EW2009, "checking for changes" and basic "copy/paste/undo" commands. The new features of EW6 was the creation of "themes". Nice, but not necessary. I endured EW6 and the many patches. It became stable in Dec 2017 and they brought back "check for changes". However, in late 2017, they decided to make the product subscription based. We decided to go with an annual subscription in June 2018. The product has been working great, allowing me to mix PowerPoint, EW7 created choruses, scripture, video and even web pages. Then sometime betw 11/24/18 and 12/01/18, the product stopped working. EW7 believed I was not an active subscriber even after both EW staff and myself verified our registration. Support was not very helpful. They asked the standard questions - did you receive an update from Windows or any other product? Can you restore your computer to a point in time when EW7 was working? Seriously? Finally, support pushed a beta copy of the next release to me and EW7 worked again. 3 days later, the same problem re-occurred. It has not been resolved.
We have reached out to this customer and have resolved the immediate issues. We will continue to work with this customer to resolve any further issues that occur, as needed. Please direct all technical support questions and requests to support@easyworship.com so that our technical support staff can assist either over the phone or by remote support.
Pros: The best thing about EasyWorship is the interface with CCLI that allows me to import new worship songs into our presentation for Sunday morning, saving me the time of typing up the lyrics manually. And though I find the interface not very user-friendly, there is an extremely helpful wealth of "how-to" articles and videos provided by EasyWorship. When I run into a question of how to do something, I can simply google my question and the first return on the search is always an EasyWorship how-to page. Importing of powerpoints, which our pastors use to construct their sermon slides, is pretty seamless, though occasionally we run into snafus if one of the slides has a video.
Cons: As a designer who has used everything from the Adobe suite to Microsoft Office to Google's many online programs, I have to say that EasyWorship is one of the least user-friendly programs I've encountered. I have been frustrated by things like a simple "undo" function being absent from the program until the most recent update, and menus so confusing and counter-intuitive that I spent much of my first few weeks with the program googling "how to find__ in Easy Worship" just to access basic menus. For example, editing tools for anything but your basic font options are not found in an "edit" menu but through an "inspector" button. I helped train someone new in on the software and could tell that they were very overwhelmed, as many things are not where you would expect based on previous experience with software and Apple or PC operating systems.
Overall: We're using EasyWorship for projecting songs, announcement slides, scripture, and sermon powerpoints on Sunday morning. I've been using the program for just over a year and it was what was being used when I took over as office administrator. It does fill our need for our services, and we now have a wealth of songs and liturgy saved within the program, making putting together those weekly presentations fairly simple. However, if someone were just starting out and choosing which program to use, I would not recommend EasyWorship simply for the fact that it is not intuitive or user friendly and the learning curve to get to the place where it is easy to use is very steep (as I observed both for myself and for a secretary at another local church who just went through that process with my help this fall).
Pros: I love EasyWorship because it is intuitive, easy to use and flexible enough for almost any church. I love that you can create a template for a standard week's service and use that as your baseline, making only minor changes. This even has a notification system for child care to let parents know that they are needed in the children's area.
Cons: Some software will allow you to save songs and all you have to do to display the song is "v1 v2 ch1" and the verses and choruses will display in that order. This software requires you to have the entire song saved, so skipping a verse takes skill or making changes takes extra time and saving a new version. This can be a minor frustration-but it is livable.
Easy Worship is a great entry-level software for song database and service display.
Pros: Easy Worship is a presentation software and database for songs, announcements and all things pertaining to a live production. It is easy to use, easy to customize, professional in display and affordable. Easy Worship makes it possible for the presenter to follow the worship team even if they go off script and change on the fly. Scriptures and slides can be preloaded or adjusted live.
Cons: Easy Worship does not work with Mac computers unless you dual boot with windows. The pc computer needs to have a good video card with RAM to display video well.
Overall: Easy Worship gives professional display for services with an easy, quick break training period.
Pros: I love EasyWorship! It's so fun and easy to use. If you'd like to teach your Tech person during service to handle it, the average time to teach how to operate it would probably be 2 minutes. Maybe 5. For a person populating the songs and managing the database, it's a simple drag and drop. I also like the preset background and animating backgrounds as well, and the Bible plug-ins. I saw other products with the same purpose, I still think this is the best one available in the market. I don't suggest you switch if you're already using this. Unless they offer free trial. You'll definitely miss this and the convenience it offers.
Cons: When we upgraded to a new version, it didn't offer an upgraded license. We had to buy an entirely new one.
Pros: *I really like the amount of varied versions of the bible that the program has.
*The method for its use is simple and practical almost gravitational does not need many technical knowledge just a little bit of logic.
*provides fast and accurate administration of graphic resources.
*it is very simple to install.
Cons: *the range of recognition of the different types of image and video formats is limited.
*when you do not have the datebase you must copy everything step by step.
Overall: Overall, this is an amazing program. It is so easy to use. I was an absolute novice when I first encountered it but it is very simple to teach yourself because all of the necessary features are in plain view. Any creating or editing options for songs are clearly marked and I think that helps with the accessibility and usefulness of this program. Also, you can plan song lists or save the ones that work well. I gave four stars for overall quality because I don't think that its perfect, nothing ever is (the backgrounds could be updated but that'ts just me trying to be critical), but its pretty close. I wish I could give 4.5 stars.
I can't comment much on the value for the money since I was not involved in the purchasing details; however, since I belong to a small church, I believe the price is manageable even on a limited budget. This is why I gave four stars. I also had no reason to contact customer service, which I believe speaks to how great this program is.
Pros: We use EasyWorship in our services every week. I love the features that allow it to be used on the fly. For instance, if I used a Bible verse that wasn't on my preparation notes for person running EasyWorship, they can easily look it up and display it according to the style that was predefined. It works really great like that.
Cons: They have moved away from the old sight license model and have moved on to a subscription based service. I am not a fan of this direction it seems all software is heading.
Overall: EasyWorship takes very little effort to setup for each service. If you have certain styles you want followed on a regular basis its easy to create the style and just know that the content will be displayed like you want it to be.
Pros: I like that we can use Easy Worship to plan out our worship services. We can let announcement slides roll before service starts. We can also easily put in any videos we might be showing. We can set up the lyrics to the songs we'll be using, and easily change things if we need to. Even if you spot a typo, you can change that in real time without having to close down the projection, change it, and get it back up. There is also a "memory bank" of thousands of songs to choose from, so we don't have to type in every word to every song. And since it works on our local network, we can put things on it from the office, and it's there for us in the sound booth.
Cons: We ran into really big issues when we had a computer go down. We had to set everything up on the new computer. Everything should have popped back up when we logged back in, but we lost all of our huge memory bank of songs (all the songs we've done for years and years). We've basically had to enter each song in one by one, and with the latest update to EasyWorship, it's harder than ever to do. And then, when we do enter the songs in and save them to our database, they lose their formatting when we try to open them again. Our secretary has spent HOURS searching for tech support/help/advice, and there's just nothing. It's been incredibly frustrating to deal with.
Overall: Easy Worship is a big help in our worship service. Basically everything that goes on the screen comes through Easy Worship. We can plan, organize, and change it all from there.
The big downside has been trying to set things up again on a new computer. We should have thousands of songs at our fingertips, but it's almost like we had to completely start over.
Pros: Easy to use software in order to display multiple powerpoint slides without having to open several different powerpoint windows and switching between them. We use this every service to manage our Praise and Worship slideshows. It is easy to use and customize. Great to use on multiple monitors as well.
Cons: Software occasionally crashes when uploading pptx files at times. It's not all the time, but it does get annoying especially when we haven't saved the slides yet. Easy fix is to just upload PPT files.
Hi, thanks for your feedback! I'm glad that you all have been enjoying EasyWorship in your ministry. I wanted to let you know that the issue of crashing with .pptx files is unusual and should be correctable if you would like to work with one of our technical support personnel. If you would like to take me up on that offer, please just email me at support@easyworship.com. Thanks, Fred.
Pros: EasyWorship is so simple that you could have an emergency replacement person sit down and understand most of the program in a 20 min crash-course.
Cons: You get only simple functionality so make sure you're not signing up for the features that you need that come in the 2 other more expensive competitors' programs.
Pros: I love how easy and intuitive Easy Worship is to use. It easily imports song lyrics, motion and still background screens, and saves templates. This makes week to week worship planning a breeze. When only a few changes are required, it is easy to make a few modifications from week to week. Being able to see the screens on the monitor before they appear on the screen helps technicians know what content is queued. Software is easy to learn and does not require a professional to use (although there is a learning curve, it is accessible to anyone who desires to learn).
Cons: There really isn't anything I don't like about easy worship.
Overall: Easy Worship is a time saving software and allows our worship to be created easily from week to week. Files are easy to save and reuse and templates make planning a breeze.
I used Easy Worship for about 4 years and found it simple to use.
Pros: Easy Worship was the staple for us for many years. We created several video backgrounds in multiple file formats and it accepted all of them. If your a PC user I highly recommend this software. It's also very easy to train others to use, which is very helpful when you lead a church of volunteers.
Cons: I don't like the licensing limitations. They need to create a version for mac as many of us are migrating to the Apple world.
Pros: What I like most about Easy Worship is that it is a very convenient and user friendly software. I have used it for over 5 years at our church and honestly haven't anything bad to say about this software. It's easy to maneuver around in and with the click of a button you're ready to go.
Cons: I am very pleased with this software, and can honestly say I haven't found anything I don't like about it.
Overall: EasyWorship is a life saver for music departments in churches. I don't even know how we would operate without it. I'm pleased with the user friendly software and like the fact that I'm not limited to only their backgrounds for the presentations.
Pros: Easy to set up and pull songs from CCLI. Graphics are neat and not too distracting. Moving between slides is fairly easy and hassle-free.
Cons: Crashes when loading videos. Hard to input own backgrounds. Overall UI looks dated and old. I've also lost a lot of songs that I have manually entered into the program, which is frustrating.
Pros: As named, EasyWorship is user friendly. It is a step up from using Microsoft PowerPoint in church settings.
Overall: EasyWorship was the perfect software to use in our transition to more complex presentation software in our church services. It worked great with PC based system and was intuitive for our volunteer staff.
Pros: Easy Worship is a very simple and resource light program. It's very easy to quickly import song lyrics. It comes with a handful of nice backgrounds right off the bat.
Cons: It doesn't have a whole lot of extra features.
Overall: I used Easy Worship for several years. It's a light program compared to most other presentation softwares and it ran smoothly on any computer that I put it on. Getting it set up is a breeze, and I loved the simple interface. I would definitely recommend this to small churches or businesses looking for a great quality and easy to use presentation software.
Pros: As the name implies, it's easy to use and to operate. If you need to put some songs up on the screen for service, this is your go to, it'll get the job done.
Cons: It doesn't have as much features as Pro Presenter. So it can't do layering in the slides which causes you to have full customization of the slides and templates. It also doesn't do multiple screens and its more expensive which is a head scratcher.
Pros: This software was easy for me to figure out after a short amount of time: saving schedules, uploading images, songs, and Scriptures, as well as teaching others. It saved well, was versatile and was simple to use. I liked that you could also design with different backgrounds and colors. It worked well for what we needed it for!
Cons: Maybe there have been more recent updates I haven't gotten, but it was hard for me to go from videos on the internet and then back to Easy Worship when needed. Besides that it was easy to use.
Pros: Super robust presentation tool. Ability to designate multiple screens, etc...Supports just about any media file you can possibly think of. Very powerful. A must for Sunday Morning Services.
Cons: It can be a little pricey. But you get what you pay for and this program is absolutely a necessity.
Pros: This program brings solid church media with audio and video to every place of worship, from the smallest to the biggest churches.
Cons: Not as many features or supported platforms as other competitors. Have had issues with playing Mac based videos.
Pros: I really like that i can use it to project lyrics and versicles, and it really is easy to use, you can organize everything in the order of the service.
Cons: Sometimes it crashes when trying to play videos, not hard to fix but is not very nice when you're in the middle of a service.
It's okay but not as good as competitors.
Pros: It is a competitive price, has most features of other programs, and has been around for a while. Over all it's better then most presentation programs.
Cons: It is about the same price as Propresenter but does not have as much features. I would like to see a program that is better priced.
Overall: An easy to use UI.
Pros: This product makes our worship service media presentations and worship music, sermon slides and videos come together seamlessly. It makes it easy to bring together all the different elements into one program so there's no switching or fumbling around in and out of various programs during the service. It makes for a professional, seamless experience.
Cons: Depending on what version you are running it may take more steps to put together your presentation.
Overall: EasyWorship works well to serve our purpose for bringing together the elements of our worship service. It takes a little bit to learn, but there are lots of tutorials available to help you .
I have taken it very well with the software.
Pros: The possibility of animating a screen and being able to project both the biblical readings and the lyrics of the songs is a great help, I have also used it as a character generator.
Cons: When it comes to improvising, it does not help much, I think they could be incorporated, so they can quickly add elements of texts, or import files and documents more efficiently.
So easy to use! simple presentation software.
Pros: Super easy to use and quick seamless transitions. Many generic options for use to make everything look professional.
Cons: can not develop presentations only presents what you have created elsewhere. Would be nice to see more customization options within the software platform.
Overall: Very easy to understand and implement new items on the fly!
Pros: The installation is easy and simple. The program allows you to add lyrics for worship songs. It has also allows you to show bible scriptures, videos, notes and announcements. Over all is a good program.
Cons: One of the cons of the program is that it freezes a lot, and it had happened to us during the service.
EasyWorship truly has helped our church with our worship experience!
Pros: I love how you can add all types of media on one platform! No need to have a bunch of software open to slow down the computer and make it confusing.
Cons: There's a learning curve but with a little bit of training, it's easy to use! With all the options available, it can make it a little overwhelming for a beginner.
Overall: It makes our worship experience smooth and efficient.
Hi Tim, thanks for your feedback! I would highly recommend our Getting Started video (runtime approx. 6 minutes) to train a new individual quickly. The Getting Started video can be found at training.easyworship.com. If you have any questions or concerns, please feel free to contact me (Fred) by email at support@easyworship.com.
Pros: We loved using easy worship to help with scripture and song management and display in our medium size church for years.
Pros: This software was easy to use. I was able to engage our volunteer group and did not have to spend hours training them on the use of the software. Techy volunteers were certainly faster at using the system but all of our volunteers could use it.
Cons: There were a few quirks with the system - things like font size changes to fit screen and the like but just like Microsoft products this was easily overcome with formatting.
Overall: We graduated from mylar overhead to digital powerpoint to Easy Worship easily in our small sized church (80-100). We were able to add backgrounds and videos to enhance our services.
Pros: This software is fairly intuitive. You can set up and plan your serve in the left side bar, including songs that have been pre-entered, PowerPoint presentations, videos, and more. The middle column shows you what is in your queue, while the right column shows what you have ready to "go live" for the congregation. You can choose to make it "live," "clear" or "black" for your ease of navigation. The good thing about this software is that it is easy to use and can help make your worship service look good.
Cons: Sometimes I feel that I cannot move through the songs fast enough. I also dislike that it is easy for the cursor to scroll off the screen because of the connection to the projector.
Overall: We have been able to make our worship service easy to follow with the lyrics of the songs we sing being visible on the screen to visitors. Our pastor's and other preachers' sermons can be followed on the screen, allowing him to emphasize parts that he wants to bring out.
Works, but could be improved.
Pros: The software is fairly easy to use and, as long as you remember the title of your existing project, everything is easy to find. You can store short films, images, and music clips other than what is already given. If you like to make your own images to use it's no hassle to upload them. A large benefit to the program is its scripture search option for the Christian Bible, which comes with a handful of different translation options for each scripture.
Cons: The software seems a bit lack luster. The preloaded images are very plain and you'll only use about a small handful. There may be a minor malfunction here and there, such as freezing or slide jumping.
Pros: it is easy to learn and use. There are so many bells and whistles that we don't use that once we add to our morning services we are already to go.
Cons: I literally have nothing negative to say about this software.
Overall: Easy worship is the best software for church audio/visual you can buy. It is easy to use and easy to learn. You can have any volunteer on a Sunday morning pick it up even if they don't have any computer skills. It seamlessly works with power point, video files of all types, and even audio files like pad's if you want to add them to your sound system. If you are a small church that want's to have a great presentation this is the software for you.
Pros: It get's the job done, it's quite capable at producing some high quality output to your screens. It's not complicated to learn either.
Cons: It's not an industry standard so sometimes when volunteers are working on different pieces to bring to use in the service there are some teething issues as we figure what happened in the import.
Pros: t is easy to use, besides its value in money does not compare with the help that easy worship offers to the work of the church. You can get all the tools you need in the service in one software, so everything is at hand.
Cons: There is nothing negative about easy worship, but an clock could be added for each part of the sermon, for example a minute counter for worship and another for the sermon, so it would also help us to manage time.
Simple, quick to integrate, and versatile presentation solution.
Pros: This is simple software that still tries to provide for every need. Once set up, it is fast and easy to train somebody how to use it. I've had Jr. High students sit down and be able to run it after a one minute explanation. This software has improved drastically over the years and is currently very stable and reliable.
Cons: Updates and bug fixes have been slow in the past. Difficult to setup initially with your hardware if you are using foldback (third screen for stage monitor) and different screen ratios.
Pros: Interface was sleek and straightforward with a very good modern design. The developers knew the things end users needed to see in real application of the program.
Cons: Updates were incredibly slow, product development is glacial - I recall looking at the screenshots and clips concerning a coming Mac version years ago and its still not available. Support team was defensive about users questions concerning slow development pace. For instance there was a tendency to name the app by year until they got slow on rolling out the promised updates and had to start renaming them. Promising software in principle, disappointing company in practice.
than happy to work with you.
Pros: I love this product. We are a small, mostly Hispanic church. We often have visitors that do not speak Spanish, so this allows me (I work in the music/visual/audio production) to post bible verses and songs on our screen for visitors to follow along!
Cons: I have no complaints. This product is a blessing!
Pros: Easy, entry-level software for churches just beginning to move into this arena. Good for churches that are looking for something that volunteers can easily pick up and learn but need little functionality or options.
Cons: It is very limited and gave us a lot a problems shutting down. It was limited in the format types that cooperate easily. It rejected media seemingly all the time for unknown reasons. It was slow.
Overall: It got us by at the beginning but ran quickly into limitations.
Thank you for your feedback. It sounds like you all may have been using EasyWorship 2009 or older. I wanted to let you know that we actually released a complete redesign of the software in 2014 that includes many features that our main competitors either don't offer or charge additional for, all at no additional cost. On top of that, we are constantly adding new features to the software such as an alternative to PowerPoint, full NDI support, and a remote application for iOS. We have also added a subscription model to make the cost less of a burden for smaller churches who may not be able to afford a full one-time purchase. We will continue to attempt to offer the same great service and support all while keeping the program easy to use and affordable to everyone.
If you would like to try out EasyWorship 7 or if you have any questions or further comments, please let me know.
Pros: Excellent help, very practical and functional, to make your presentation known.
Anyone can use it because it is very easy.
It has multiple tools that help you project your message. You can include power point, audio, images, videos.
Cons: Sometimes it tends to be a bit slow when going from one paragraph to another, so it requires you to select the same option more than once.
Pros: It is menu driven and this adds to the ease of use and understanding to navigate though the song lyrics, Scriptures, announcements, and sermon notes. We have at least 10 users in my church and all of them pick up the basic concept on how to use it in a few minutes. The online tutorials are very helpful.
Cons: The limited functionality when designing custom slides. If we need a proffesional look on the slides at my church we have to create them with Photoshop.
I can create my best presentations in my private Sunday lessons without using my bible.
What I like the most is that I can work in a practical and fast way with this program, since with the integration of web and audio, it is easier to use websites, YouTube videos and audio files to create attractive presentations of worship.
The only thing clear is that there are people who have the same problem as mine, since most do not understand how to configure it to adapt to the Spanish language, must have a manual or include quick access, choose the language you prefer.
Overall: It is a blessing to be able to count on tools that facilitate the functioning in a wide group of work, like the churches, to be able to create dynamic and exclusive presentations in a single solution. excellent program.
Hi, Thank you for your feedback! I wanted to let you know that while we do not currently have an interface for any language other than English, the program will accept input from most languages (especially widely spoken languages like Spanish, Chinese, German, etc.). Also, we do have a manual in the form of a Help file. The Help file can be located inside the program by clicking on Help and then EasyWorship Help or located online at easyworship.com/help. If you have any questions, feel free to contact me (Fred) at support@easyworship.com or by telephone (918-250-1493).
This software is extremely easy to use...thus it's name. Have been using it for over 10 years.
Pros: This software is very simple to teach anyone, at any age, to use. I am currently showing a 12 year old how to use it so she can be a part of our worship service. Also, it's very economical for even the smallest of churches to purchase and utilize.
Cons: There have been occasional issues with updates. Also, there have been times during VBS or other programs where we could play older DVD's through the software.
Overall: Makes the flow of our worship service exceptional.


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When it comes to RAID 60, Scott Lowe advises IT pros not to have a one-size-fits-all mentality. He explains the potential benefits and downsides of using RAID 60.
Understand when RAID 60 is overkill
by Scott Lowe in Data Centers
In a recent TechRepublic column, I extolled the merits of RAID 50 and discussed how I think that, by borrowing certain aspects of both RAID 5 and RAID 10, RAID 50 hits a sweet spot between RAID 5 and RAID 10 by providing a good balance between capacity, performance, and reliability. My RAID 50 column generated a lot of comments, including a couple about RAID 60; specifically, it was mentioned that disks often fail in groups, so from a data protection standpoint, why not go with RAID 60 to further protect your data? I'll provide a brief overview of RAID 60 and then examine both sides of the RAID 60 equation.
How RAID 60 works
The diagram in Figure A gives you an idea of how a RAID 60 array is constructed. Like RAID 50, RAID 60 is a multi-level disk set; you start with a bunch of RAID 6 sets, and then these sets are aggregated at a higher level into a RAID 0 array that has no redundancy on its own. However, each RAID 60 set does have redundancy and can withstand the loss of up to two disks in each parity set. In theory, in the diagram below, you could lose six of the 12 total disks (two in each set) and still have an operational array. As soon as you lose more than two disks in a single parity set, though, your world would come crashing down, as the RAID 0 set breaks, and you're back to data recovery mode.
RAID 60 diagram
An additional note: RAID 60 requires a minimum of eight disks in order to operate — you need at least two four disk RAID 6 sets to comprise a single RAID 60 set.
RAID 60 benefits and drawbacks
I like RAID 50 a lot, so you might think that I'm a big believer in taking that to the next level and that I would like RAID 60 even more; to be honest, I'm not sure. I see RAID 50 as a great balance between capacity, performance, and reliability, and I see RAID 60 as potentially imbalanced on the capacity side (to the negative) in order to support the increased reliability inherent in RAID 60.
I don't think you should simply avoid RAID 60 at all costs; instead, make the decision on a case by case basis with an understanding of the tradeoffs that you'll face. In fact, you might find that RAID 60 is a great fit when you need higher usable capacity and better reliability and can trade a little in write performance for it.
With RAID 60, you're going to lose anywhere from around 12% to 50% of your usable space to parity information. This is not a bad thing, and the whole design of RAID 6 is built around the idea that using more space (two disk's worth to be exact) to enhance reliability is a good thing. If you're ultra-concerned about reliability, are you more likely to use fewer disks per individual RAID 6 set? If so, this would decrease the overall usable capacity of the solution. In fact, in the diagram above, you'd lose 50% of your disk space to parity, so why not just go with RAID 10 in that scenario?
With RAID 6, you will take a performance hit (more so than with RAID 50) when it comes to writes, but reads will be boosted, as is the case with RAID 10 and RAID 50. The exact performance hit you take with writes under RAID 60 is largely dependent on the quality of your RAID controller and on what you're doing. If you're considering implementing a RAID 60 that eats 50% of your space in overhead, it's time to consider just using RAID 10, which will provide similar read performance and better overall write performance and provide similar levels of redundancy.
From a pure reliability perspective, a RAID 60 array is orders of magnitude more reliable than even RAID 50 arrays due largely to the extra parity disk employed in RAID 60.
The more disks you add to each individual RAID 6 set in a RAID 60 array, the higher percentage of usable space you get from the overall RAID 60 array. Perhaps the biggest tradeoff in RAID 60 is that you can build larger individual RAID 60 sets in a safer manner than is possible under RAID 50, so from that perspective, perhaps you can get more safely usable space from a RAID 60 array.
When it comes to RAID 60, I don't think IT pros should have a one-size-fits-all mentality. And before you jump on the RAID 60 train, be aware that there are potential downsides for usable space and performance that need to be considered, so choose wisely. For more information, I recommend checking out IBM's article and chart about selecting a RAID level.
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My Happiness Project - February - Remember Love - COMPLETE!
My Happiness Project for the month of February was to Remember Love. Since I'm single, I made this about my friends, family, and myself.
1. Not complain or act irritated with anyone. Staying positive, which I mastered in January, has really helped with this. No matter what frustrating things my friends might have been doing in their lives, I stayed as a support system for them and remained very understanding. After all, that's how I would want them to be for me.
I randomly told my friends why I love them and thanked them for being such a good friend. For Valentine's Day, I spent a night out with my one best friend, and went to dinner with the other. They truly appreciated it. Also, for Valentine's Day I sent my grandmother flowers and a card, and my mom, dad, and brother individual cards that came in the mail for them to open!
I made sure to always give compliments to coworkers and friends, whether it is about their hair, outfit, or just something they did in life that's a great accomplishment.
All in all, I think I brightened a lot of people's days and it definitely helped me keep up with my positive attitude goal!
Check back tomorrow for March's Happiness Project which is to Aim Higher!


Low back pain is one of the most common complaints that an adult may experience in a lifetime. It is also known as pain in your lumbar spine. About 8 in 10 adults experience back pain during their lifetime. Back pain can range from a dull, constant ache to a sudden, sharp pain. Acute back pain comes on suddenly and usually lasts from a few days to a few weeks. Back pain is called chronic if it lasts for more than three months. Most back pain comes from sprains and strains from stressful movements; lifting something without using proper way or a sudden twisting motion are just two examples of how you can hurt your back. Most back pains go away on its own, though it may take a while. Resting and taking pain relievers can help, but if your back pain doesn't improve after three days, you should see your doctor.


> language, this alone should have constituted a species barrier.
> mating with a Neanderthal!
even attached to dumb beasts.
certain individuals I have met, and still survive in their environment.
themselves. Copulation isn't always voluntary.


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Regarding the remix of the Whitney Houston song, it sounds disjointed and just plain horrible. A much beter remix can be done.
Overall, your music needs to flow better. If you have us in funky rythmic groove don't change it to something that takes us totally out of the groove. Just let it groove.
Thanks for the feedback, RP.


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Simply put, the US has more gas to work with this year. In regards to production, 2015 has been a very strong year. Despite relatively low prices throughout the year, Platts data shows US production has averaged 72 Bcf/d year-to-date, a 3.6 Bcf/d increase from a year ago. Canadian imports are also up this year, averaging 5.4 Bcf/d this year, a 300 MMcf/d increase from a year ago. Lastly, the US has imported on average 300 MMcf/d of gas from LNG cargoes, primarily during the winter months in the Northeast. In total, the US has averaged a total supply of 77.7 Bcf/d in 2015, a 4.1 Bcf/d increase from a year ago.
For all the talk about a recovering economy, the numbers for industrial demand tell a different story. Year-to-date industrial demand has averaged 20 Bcf/d, a 400 MMcf/d decline from a year ago. Declines are spread across most regions with the most significant drops in the Midcontinent, down 197 MMcf/d, where fertilizer demand continues to be weak. Other regions with notable declines have been Texas and the Southeast, down 81 MMcf/d and 65 MMcf/d, respectively.
Residential/commercial demand is also lagging, down 1 Bcf/d from a year ago to average 23.9 Bcf/d, mainly due to weather. When the US has a total gas supply increase of 4.1 Bcf/d year-over-year, these declines place significant downward pressure on prices.
As we enter November, this winter is shaping up to be a light one. The latest weather forecasts predict that the eastern half of the US will have above-average temperatures for the next two weeks. This is painful for natural gas prices because the Upper-Midwest and Northeast are some of the largest consumers of natural gas for heating. Cold weather, particularly in densely populated areas, will be absolutely crucial in moving prices out of today's range.
Heading into winter, a key variable in determining the price of natural gas is the amount of gas in storage underground. Today the US has extraordinarily high levels of storage and is on track to set a new record on storage levels heading into withdrawal season (winter).
The most recent data from the US Energy Information Administration shows natural gas in storage at 3.877 Tcf for the week that ended Oct. 23. As a result, the US now has a 409 Bcf storage surplus compared to a year ago and a 153-Bcf surplus compared to the five-year average.
The fastest growing region for natural gas is by far the Northeast. The largest producing basin in the region, the Marcellus, which produced less than 2 Bcf/d in 2009, is now averaging 16.25 Bcf/d in 2015.
The Utica basin, underneath part of the Marcellus, began ramping up production around 2012 and is already producing almost 2 Bcf/d. Some see even the Utica as the basin with the most potential.
"A year ago, it would have been hard to imagine a more prolific play than the Marcellus. However, if the deep Utica works, it is likely to be larger than the Marcellus over time," David Porges, chief executive of EQT, a major player in the Northeast, said in a call Monday.
With the Northeast now producing over 20 Bcf/d, the nation's cheapest natural gas trading hubs can be found above the producing basins in the region. Cash prices on Oct. 29 at Millennium, East receipts were assessed by Platts at 99.5 cents/MMBtu, and Transco Leidy Line receipts were at $1.065/MMBtu. The average national average cash price for the same day was assessed by Platts at $2.170/MMBtu.
The Northeast Gas Association gives a great overview of the many natural gas pipeline projects taking place in the region that are expected to come online between now and 2018 and could take the gas to new markets. But as long as large amounts of production remain constrained, prices will have a hard time making significant long-term gains because of the fear of new gas supplies coming online.
I invite all readers to share their thoughts on what is pushing down today's natural gas prices, as well as put yourself out there and take a stab at where you think prices are headed. Leave a comment on what you expect will happen to prices, and we'll be tracking the markets here.
Chris Pedersen works on the LNG desk in Houston. On a daily basis, the Houston LNG desk assesses the Gulf Coast Marker (GCM), a Free on Board (FOB) price of LNG delivered from the US Gulf Coast.
The gathering costs for natural gas remain high, but prices are alarmingly low. Some companies are making pennies while being forced to spend nickels, so eventually… after several wells are shut in, and several smaller companies are belly up, and large companies are in third stage lay-offs… maybe then the production will slow, supply will level off, and demand (more importantly price) will slowly rise again. Until then, bring on the El Nino "Bruce Lee" and/or hope that development in the exporting of natural gas brings about a more international market for the US overages.
We need to slow down on the drilling especially in Pennsylvania. Our small producers have been hit hard especially with the big Texas companys coming in developing the deep gas. Without the big industry steel mills operating anymore in pa especially in western pa there is no out for the gas. whatever happened to exporting gas in the philly area with dominion's big shipping tap Another wasted project and hopes for better markets. We need to slow down on drilling creating a small shortage drive the price back up kick the southern boys back to there states and hope for the best. We all know what the problem is and no one wants to do anything about it. Especially PIOGA these guys are a joke as well.
biting on the price of gas a little bit. Full storages leave also little trade leverage.
Looking ahead: (1) There will be a 10% drop in production associated w oil rig count reductions over next year and production has already decreased; (2) LNG exports starting in Jan will shave off more supply than depicted in past year averages; (3) gas supplies have fallen more rapidly in winter than 5 year averages; and (4) there is more demand as an alternative to coal for power generation than in prior years. There is a good reason to build up greater stocks now to cover the months ahead.
Even after reading the above, I don't understand why gas prices are so low. The EIA report is out for the week ending Oct. 23. Storage increased by 63 BCF's for such week and the 5-year average for injection during such week is 73 BCFs. Also, the total inventory is at 3.877 TCF with a 5-year average of 3.724 TCF (about 4.3% higher). However, last year the inventory for this week was 3.468 TCF. If you remove last year, the average inventory for the other 4 years was 3.788, which make the current inventory 2.61% higher. Natural gas consumption for the first 7 months of 2015 is about 4.07% higher than for the first 7 months of 2014. If the inventory increased by 2.61% (after removing the anomaly) and the consumption increased by 4.07%, the inventory is relatively lower. I also added consumption for the 2013-2014 winter (Nov. – March), which was record cold winter, and compared it to consumption during the same months of 2014-2015 and it was virtually the same (13,773 vs. 13,764).
natural gas price is seriously manipulated and I'm wondering where is SEC?
When considering the impact of storage on market prices over the last few weeks, do not just look at the total US storage picture. Do not overlook the fact that storage in the producing area (Henry HUB) was already above the previous record level by 55 Bcf, or 4.1% as of Oct 23rd The market is probably factoring in at least another 4 weeks of storage builds in the producing area that is already very near capacity. Henry HUB is not just the national pricing point within the US; it is a local price point to Producing area storage.


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Arrest made in beating of 91-year-old who reportedly was told to 'go back to Mexico'
A week after a 91-year-old Mexican man says he was beaten with a concrete block in Southern California, a woman has been arrested in connection with the assault, authorities said.
Laquisha Jones, 30, was arrested Tuesday night in Los Angeles on suspicion of beating Rodolfo Rodriguez last week, the Los Angeles County Sheriff's Department said.
She was being held on a charge of assault with a deadly weapon, with bail set at $200,000.
'I just passed her …. and she hit me'
Rodriguez, who is recovering at his relatives' Willowbrook home south of Los Angeles, said he was walking to a park on July 4 when he passed a woman and a girl.
Without warning, the woman hit him with a concrete block, he said, and enlisted a group of men to kick him.
Grandfather beaten with concrete block, told 'go back to your own country'
"I didn't even bump into her kid," Rodriguez said. "I just passed her, and she pushed me and she hit me until she was done."
A witness, Misbel Borjas, said she saw a woman hitting Rodriguez in the head with the block.
"I heard her saying, 'Go back to your country; go back to Mexico,' " she told CNN by phone.
Authorities said Jones is black and a Los Angeles resident.
"Detectives have discovered that this is not a hate-related incident," the Los Angeles County Sheriff's Department said in a statement Wednesday.
Rodriguez, who said he travels about twice a year from his home in Mexico to visit relatives in Willowbrook, suffered a broken jaw, broken cheekbones, two broken ribs and bruises on his face, back and abdomen, his family said.
He spent five or six hours in a hospital, his family said.
Rodriguez said he doesn't know why he was attacked. He said that at one point, the woman ran up to some men and told them Rodriguez was trying to take her daughter away from her — so the men joined her and started kicking him as he lay bleeding on a sidewalk.
"But that's not true," he told CNN about the woman's allegation, through tears. "In the years I have been alive I have never offended anyone."
'I'm in so much pain'
The sheriff's department said it is trying to determine a motive for the attack, and it hasn't specified what led to Jones' arrest.
Earlier, the department said it was looking for a woman seen in a photo that Borjas had taken. In the photo, a woman is holding what appears to be a piece of concrete or a brick.
Borjas also posted to Facebook a video of a bloodied Rodriguez sitting on grass between a sidewalk and a street shortly after the attack.
"When I tried to videotape her with my cell phone," Borjas said of the attacker, "she threw that same concrete block, tried to hit my car."
The sheriff's department said it was trying to determine if others were involved in the attack.
Rodriguez's family started a GoFundMe campaign to help cover his medical costs.
Rodriguez said he'd never been hurt like this before in a life working fields with cattle and corn. He recalled the attack while lying back in a reclining chair at his relatives' Willowbrook home.
"I can't walk," Rodriguez said. "I'm in so much pain."
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