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Should you be concerned about the spreading PLAGUE? Experts warn global outbreak now possible
Sunday, March 03, 2019 by: Isabelle Z.
Tags: badhealth, bubonic plague, Collapse, infectious disease, infectious diseases, Madagascar, outbreak, pandemic, Plague, pneumonic plague, prevention
(Natural News) If you thought the plague was something we don't have to worry about in modern times, think again: 1,300 cases have been confirmed in Africa recently, and in true plague style, the numbers are continuing to rise. Two-thirds of these plague cases are believed to be pneumonic, which is considered the fastest and deadliest type of plague by the World Health Organization.
Unlike the bubonic plague, or Black Death, that killed 50 million people back in the 1300s and wiped out a third of the European population, pneumonic plague spreads through the air and can kill people in under 72 hours. It can be spread by sneezing, coughing or spitting, making it highly contagious. If caught early enough, however, it can be treated with common antibiotics.
The outbreak has hit Madagascar hard, and it has now spread to nine other countries, including Kenya, Mauritius, Mozambique, South Africa, and Tanzania. Some of the affected areas, such as Seychelles and Reunion, are popular holiday destinations, which means the potential for it to spread across the world is great. It is also affecting densely populated cities like Madagascar's capital, Antananarivo, which is also helping it spread fast.
One of the biggest airlines in Madagascar, Air Seychelles, temporarily stopped flying earlier this month in hopes of helping to stem the spread of the illness. The WHO is currently working with Madagascar airport officials to put control measures in place at ports and airports, such as medical teams and temperature checks, to keep it from spreading beyond its borders.
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Forty of Madagascar's 114 districts have reported cases of pneumonic plague, and they've only been able to trace less than 30 percent of those who have had contact with these cases. These people pose a risk of spreading the infection and may also be in need of treatment.
According to CNN, public schools are currently closed in the country, and public gatherings have been banned as officials work to keep the illness from spreading.
The WHO says the risk of this epidemic spreading is high. Although small plague breakouts are not unheard of in Madagascar, officials say there is something different about it this time that they can't quite explain, and concerns are growing because of the high percentage of cases that are in the easily-spread pneumonic form. This year's outbreaks started earlier than usual, and experts believe it has yet to peak. Symptoms include a sudden fever, nausea, vomiting, and head and body aches.
Is the plague headed for American shores?
The bad news is that plague is already here. It tends to fly under the radar, but around seven cases on average are reported every year. It mostly occurs in rural areas in the western part of the country, with the states most commonly affected being Arizona, New Mexico, and Colorado. The plague first came to the U.S. in 1900, the CDC reports, and a little more than 1,000 cases have been reported in the years from 1900 to 2012, more than four-fifths of which were the bubonic type.
While the odds are in your favor of avoiding plague, it's important to use extreme caution if traveling to the affected areas. At home, you can avoid getting it from a natural source by not handling the bodies of sick or dead animals, especially rodents. Use gloves and face and eye protection if you must handle them. Some of the cases in the U.S. have come from infected rats that arrived via ship and by being bitten by fleas infected with the plague. The San Francisco Department of Public Health also warns, however, that terrorists could release plague bacteria in public places to cause widespread harm.
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Q: Keep alive view-router by key param How do I keep vue-router alive with different params separately?
TL:DR:
Let's consider an example when we're developing a website like facebook. Each user has a profile page. Because there are a lot of users we don't want to iterate all users and load all profile page on load like bellow
<template v-for="profile in profilePages">
   <profile-page :data="profile" v-show="this.route.params['id'] === channel.id"/>
</template>

The common approach would be:
router.js:
{
  component: ProfileWrapper,
  path: '/profile',
  children: [
    {
      path: ':id',
      component: ProfilePage
    }
  ]
}

ChannelsPage:
<keep-alive>
   <router-view :=key="$route.fullPath"></router-view>
</keep-alive>

But here's the issue. Since user visits someone's page and navigates away, I want the router to keep it alive in cache somewhere, or just hide it. In my particular case, user visits 2-3 profile at most and switches a lot between them. And switching operation is time costly, because there are a lot of DOM in it.
Can I do it with vue-router and keep-alive?
EDIT:
Please check the sandbox. Each time you switch between pages (#1,#2,#3,#4) Vue creates new components ProfileInnerComponent from the scratch (not from the cache like v-show). That's noticeably by checking red div, the create hook of ProfileInnerComponent is called, which emits the event, and App adds the div with current time.

A: In order this to work you need unique names on your components, which you would then use the include property on <keep-alive>.
<keep-alive include="Foo,Bar">
  ...
</keep-alive>

In you case, you would be better served using dynamic components rather than a single route.
<component :is="$route.params.id"></component>

keep-alive with Dynamic Components
keep-alive API reference
update
Pre-fetching channel content based on the query param id:
// routes.js
routes = [
  {
    path: '/channel/:id',
    name: 'show.channel',
    props: true,
    component: Channel
  }
  ...
]

// Channel.vue
import axios from 'axios'

export default {
  data () {
    return {
      content: ''
    }
  }
  beforeRouteEnter(to,from,next) {
    axios.get('/api/channel/' + to.params.id).then(response => {
      next(vm => {
        vm.content = reponse.data
      })
    })
  },
  watch: {
    '$route' (to, from) {
      // fetch new channel content when a query param is changed.
    }
  }
}

A: I changed your sandbox by adding this codes:
// in App.vue

<keep-alive>
   <router-view :key="$route.fullPath"></router-view>
</keep-alive>

and
//in Profile.vue

  <keep-alive>
    <profile-inner-component v-for="i in comps" :key="i" :data="i"/>
  </keep-alive>

A: I am not sure if i understand correctly but lets suppose you have 2 pages.
Admins and Users and each page has an counter which is initially 0.
So you want when you are in Admins page and you increasing the counter,when navigating to another page and return back to Admins page the counter to be as you have left it.
I made a sandbox for this.Also please keep open the console to see how many times the components is rendered.
NOTE that in the sandbox example,is illustrated the logic how to achieve this.Never use keep-alive in router-view in App.vue.

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Following a suggestion made on this blog, the leaders of the Lib Dems, Labour and Respect parties in the host Olympic borough of Tower Hamlets have joined Mayor Lutfur Rahman in writing to Lord Coe to ask him to drop Dow Chemical as a sponsor of the 2012 stadium.
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As leaders of the political parties on Tower Hamlets council, we are writing to you to request that LOCOG reconsider the decision to accept sponsorship for the Olympic Games from Dow Chemical, which took over Union Carbide which was responsible for the appalling loss of life at the time of the explosion and bears some responsibility for the continuing suffering in Bhopal.
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I was one of the many bicoastals who took a long time to try out Breaking Bad. My son bugged me for two years to give it a try and finally gave me DVDs of the first two seasons, and I was hooked at once. Something similar, apparently, has happened with the streamed series Yellowstone, starring Kevin Costner, and it was only during the last month that I gave it a try. For a week or two it replaced the World Cup as the primary focus of my day, and I am now in the middle of season 5, which just finished and will apparently be the last. There are a number of things I want to say about it, and they will include some spoilers, although I'm not going to narrate any key events of the plot.
Set mostly in the present with some flashbacks, Yellowstone might have been described in Hollywood pitch meetings as Bonanza meets The Godfather. It is set on a large ranch in a Montana Valley, just miles away from Wyoming and the National Park of the same name. John Dutton (Costner) is the family patriarch, lives strictly according to his own codes like Vito Corleone, and lives only to pass on his ranch and his way of life to his family. His wife died many years ago, and if you take a guess as to how she died (as I did) you will probably turn out to be right. Like Vito Corleone, he has three sons and a daughter. The daughter, Beth, is the most striking character on the show. She is calculatedly over the top and you are likely to love her or hate her; I generally found her entertaining. She shares Connie Corleone's volatility, but that's about all The sons, however, are a pretty good match for Sonny, Michael, and especially Fredo. I won't provide a full scorecard, but Kacey {sic], the youngest son, is a decorated war veteran who originally wanted his own life but is drawn back into his father's orbit. Like Michael Corleone, he is married to an outsider--in his case, an Indian--who happens also to be a teacher. The Tom Hagen figure is Rip, the ranch foreman, whom the Dutton's appear to have adopted at a young age.
Like the Corleones, the family is fighting a war for the ranch on several fronts. They feud with other leading families in the state. The highly political local Indian chief dreams of using casino money to buy up the entire valley and restoring the Indians' ancient way of life. Kacey's wife Monica also teaches a very woke version of US history at a local college. All the Indian characters appear to be played by genuine Indians, and I do wonder what real contemporary plains Indians think of it. But the most dangerous foes are a California businessman and a venture capital firm that want to turn the valley into a rich person's playground, complete with an airport, a luxury resort, and a new ski area. Alliances among the various factions continually shift, conflict often becomes violent--factions sometimes enlist local private militias as trigger men--and the body count can get pretty high pretty fast. All the factions also compete for the support of local law enforcement and the state government. Meanwhile, in the background, rich people from both coasts are buying up land, forcing up property values and taxes, and threatening established ways of life.
If you love the west, as I do, the show is absolutely spectacular to watch. The scenery is gorgeous, and nearly every episode features scenes of herds of animals that must have been extremely difficult to film. The supporting cast includes the Dutton ranch's cowboys, whose culture the show explores in detail. Here the casting was a little erratic. Some of the cowboys seem very realistic (Rip certainly does), some are stereotypical, and some are obviously urban-born actors who do not have a clue. The cowboys in at least one respect resemble a Mafia family, complete with a brutal initiation ceremony. In one moving episode, one of them is sent to work for some months in Texas, and one character remarks that it is only in flat, relatively arid, desperately hot Texas that the cowboy way of life will survive, while the mountain states, like Colorado, become playgrounds of the rich.
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The interesting thing is that much of the west (California, Oregon, Washington, but also Colorado, Nevada, Arizona and New Mexico) have become more Democratic. The real shift to the right is in smaller states (Wyoming, Idaho and Montana). Here's one possible explanation I saw mentioned today: Justin Farrell's "Billionaire Wilderness: the Ultra-Wealthy and the Remaking of the American West." From its amazon.com webpages: "Billionaire Wilderness takes you inside the exclusive world of the ultra-wealthy, showing how today's richest people are using the natural environment to solve the existential dilemmas they face. Justin Farrell spent five years in Teton County, Wyoming, the richest county in the United States, and a community where income inequality is the worst in the nation. He conducted hundreds of in-depth interviews, gaining unprecedented access to tech CEOs, Wall Street financiers, and other prominent figures in business and politics. He also talked with the rural poor who live among the ultra-wealthy and often work for them. The result is a penetrating account of the far-reaching consequences of the massive accrual of wealth and a troubling portrait of a changing American West where romanticizing rural poverty and conserving nature can be lucrative, socially as well as financially."
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Mary Poppins Returns – REVIEW
With a star-studded cast and some big boots to fill, Disney's 'Mary Poppins Returns' is the highly anticipated sequel to its predecessor, one which has taken the fanbase by storm.
The story begins some decades after the Banks children first encountered the practically perfect, magical Nanny. First, we meet Jack (3-time Tony award winner, Lin-Manuel Miranda) a cheerful lamplighter as he set's the scene for the story ahead with the first of the movies' brilliant original songs, 'Underneath The Lovely London Sky'. Jack takes us on a journey through the streets of London as he dims the streetlights on his rounds, ready for a new day. His rounds bring him to the street light directly outside 17 Cherry Tree Lane where he waves to the Banks children as they watch him dim the lights from their nursery window.
Now all grown up, Michael Banks is a struggling, widowed Father of 3 on the verge of losing The Banks family home following the death of his beloved wife. His only hope of saving the house is to locate his father's shares certificate in order to pay off the loan he took out against the value of the house. With the help of his sister Jane, Michael begins the search for the certificate as his children, John, Anabel and Georgie head out to buy groceries, After finding his wife's jewellery box in the attic, Michael has an emotional conversation with his late wife as he continues to look for the certificate. Jane comes across their old kite from when they were children but Michael decides it's time to let those memories go. He throws the kite away which is then picked up by the changing wind and takes flight.
On their way to the shops, the Children cut through the park where Jack is heading back from his rounds and notices the kite. The youngest of the Banks' children, Georgie, also sees the kite and runs after it, losing his brother and sister. The wind is growing intensely stronger by the minute and Jack can sense something is about to happen. He continues to follow the kite and arrives just in time to save Georgie from being made airborne by the kite he has been flying in the gale force winds. With help from Jack, they begin to reel in the kite, The wind becomes even stronger making it increasingly more difficult when suddenly, a change in the weather reveals a certain Nanny at the other end of the string. This is where Mary Poppins makes her grand entrance!
The casting for the movie is, in my opinion, practically perfect! Emily Blunt had some big boots to fill with essentially the whole world waiting to see her portrayal of Mary Poppins and whether it could ever live up to Julie Andrews performance. Many people will say she hasn't purely out of loyalty to Julie Andrews and the original movie, but I think she was incredible and brought a whole new take and personality to the role. Her voice is simply beautiful and I love that she was able to bring a little more sass to Mary Poppins and even some great comedic moments, such as in 'A Cover Is Not The Book'. You can't deny it was brave of her to take on the role with the die-hard fanbase that Mary Poppins has, in my opinion, Emily Blunt absolutely did it justice. You go girl!
Now we come to the legend that is, Lin-Manuel Miranda. You may have heard of him through various different platforms, be that as the playwright/lyricist/composer of Hamilton, Or as one of the composers of Disney's 'Moana'. When I heard that Lin was going to be in the new Mary Poppins film, I'll admit I was a little bit excited! He is an incredibly talented human being and was perfect for the role of Jack the lamplighter. Lin was recently seen in an interview saying 'If they didn't like Dick Van Dyke's Cockney accent, then they're going to hate mine!' However, Lin's accent, admittedly not perfect, was pretty darn close to the real deal. Which is a lot more than can be said for Dick Van Dyke 😬
One of my favourite scenes from the whole movie is when Jack helps Mary Poppins and the Banks' children find their way home in the fog. The song that ensues (Trip A Little Light Fantastic) is 'Mary Poppins Returns' answer for 'Step In Time' just as Jack (Lin-Manuel Miranda) is the movie's answer for Bert (Dick Van Dyke) The song is brought to life with stunning visuals, atmosphere and lighting as well as an incredible dance routine that would make even the Newsies sweat.
Emily Mortimer and Ben Whishaw play the grown-up versions of Jane and Michael Banks. The casting for both roles was impeccable! Emily Mortimer was spot-on as the giggly Jane Banks and Ben Whishaw is so articulate and played the role of Michael Banks brilliantly. The new Banks children, John, Anabel and Georgie are played by young actors Nathaniel Saleh, Pixie Davies and Joel Dawson, each incredibly talented and an absolute delight to watch! As well as the core cast, there are also a smattering of big-names thrown into the mix such as Julie Walters, Colin Firth, Meryl Streep and Angela Lansbury to complete the ensemble!
I shan't say any more about the story for fear of spoilers for those of you who haven't yet seen it, but what I will say is I suggest you keep a pack of tissues or two with you when watching Mary Poppins Returns as it has some real tear-jerker moments, for example, when Mary Poppins consoles the children and sings them to sleep after they have a 'bad dream'. The song she sings is called 'Where The Lost Things Go' and it is just beautiful and reassures the Banks children that their mother is always with them, they can simply find her in the place 'where the lost things go' **sobs uncontrollably** damn you, Disney!
Overall, I absolutely LOVED the movie, so much so that I have seen it twice already, What more can I say other than what a charming, beautiful and visually stunning film this really is. Mary Poppins Returns is a credit to the original film and dare I even say, I might just have enjoyed it a little bit more…
Rating: ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐


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Represents belief in the wisdom of the power of faith
Bodhidharma, (or Damo) an Indian monk who is considered the first Shaolin Kung Fu master, gave the monks of the Shaolin Temple the conviction to believe in their ability to develop the divine spirit within themselves.
Within Chan Buddhism, desire for the extraordinary divine power – for the pursuit of extraordinary wisdom – has always been a goal to pursue. This stubborn desire manifests itself in the performance of Shaolin Kung Fu, in its extraordinary physical prowess and seemingly miraculous qi gong demonstrations and feats.
Kung Fu & Meditation
Shaolin Kung Fu is the soul of the Temple's Buddhist belief in the wisdom of Chan. Meditation is a central discipline in Chan Buddhism as handed down by the Buddha himself. Belief in the wisdom of Shaolin Kung Fu (physical exercises plus qigong) is the Temple's first form of meditation. This was taught to the first disciples accepted by Damo. Chan Buddhist culture came to China from India, and Chinese metaphysics mixed in with the Indian beliefs to develop our current understanding of the merging of the two ancient civilizations.
Emergence & Transformation
The emergence of the Chan sect within the Buddhist community is an affirmation of our ability to transform the sorrow of human suffering and death into the joy inherent in human life. Within Chinese history, the Chan sect helped bring together the high ethical and moral development of the senior monks with the ruling scholars, warriors and elite of Chinese society. It exposed these ruling scholars, warriors and elite to the mysteries of the universe and of life itself, along with the essence of the experience and insights of the practicing monks.
Reaching Its Heights During Tang & Song Dynasties
The successes of the Tang (618-907) and Song (960-1279) dynasties are sometimes attributed to the prevalence of Chan Buddhism and Shaolin teachings about uniting meditation and martial techniques. This way of thinking entered the mainstream and it was thought the marrying of the two was the highest ideal of living life. It was thought that applying this kind of cultivation, concentration and practice to everyday life with the goal of becoming a Shaolin Buddhist monk was living life to its highest ideal.
Chan Yun-Xin Wu
It was believed that Kung Fu practice, that this form of Buddhism, would develop Chan Yun-Xin Wu, a quality life with a fearless heart, that showed the spirit of great wisdom and courage, which in turn would enrich Chan Shaolin Kung Fu more. The practitioner was believed to develop an easy, comfortable and relaxed demeanor in which to exist in the world.
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i never get sick of repeating simple shapes over bright colors and watching what my unstable hand will create. usually a swerving optic trip.
ore color palettes. it's like i'm in some designer's head. i don't know what she wants to make, but these are the colors she should use.
more color palettes. it's like i'm in some designer's head. i don't know what she wants to make, but these are the colors she should use.
12 little squares to help figure out the intricacies of pink, yellow & blue. there's NEVER an end to figuring it out, cuz you don't. PLAY!
BTW - how great would this be as a rug in a kid's room?!
this started with some spanish tile inspiration on the first layer, then moved on to my high school days, Haring inspired doodles.
this is one of several paintings that was inspired by the Ettore Sottsass show at the Met Breuer in 2017. fewer layers but with bolder patterns & colors. playing!
it's like you went deep in a cave and found some sacred tribal system of something.
this grrrl went thru so many changes. i was trying too hard & needed to simplify to wrangle her back in. i think she'd make a fantastic dress!
does it look like she's a little off? well grrrlfriend is! the top is finished off w/black dots on top of pink ones, then i reversed them on the bottom.
i call this set of 4 color sketches my baby diamond grrrls. they were actually made after the original diamond grrrls - couldn't get them outta my head.
every once in a while i like to collage. especially when someone gives me wall paper samples based on William Morris' designs!
again with color studies! 3 sets of 3. using a primary color & its' complement to create subtle variations & muted colors.
more color studies. this time with the primary colors, sorta. i went with pink, ochre & cyan...and some red wine.
#hashtag. this 1 is a bit of a wreck, but i love her. there was a hit of acid in me when this happened. i'd like to try this again soon.
these 2 ladies were made for the love of glorious, luscious metallic paint. schmeared on paper like scallion cream cheese on a pumpernickel bagel.
this random queen sprouted out of my deep love of all things Bauhaus. she would also make a fantastic rug!
another set of quick sketches to help break up the painting process & play with color. these could make fantastic rugs!
these are the pattern based ladies i mentioned. this grrrl went a little off the rails & she wasn't too interested in sticking to 1 pattern.
these are the pattern based ladies i mentioned. these do a number on your eyes.
these little ones are fun quick sketches i create to massage my brain & give it a break from painting more complex pattern based paintings.


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The firing of Jill Abramson from the New York Times brought renewed attention to the topic of gender workplace bias, at least for a fleeting cultural moment.
Times publisher Arthur Sulzberger Jr. insists the matter had nothing to do with gender, which may well prove true. Still, there's some measure of comfort to be taken in the topic receiving more notice for whatever the reason, because the danger of modern gender workplace bias is that too often it can seem like no problem at all.
Not so long ago, overt gender bias was a perfectly acceptable office practice. (Think every single episode of Mad Men.) That sort of in-your-face sexism is much rarer in today's work environment, even if it's only driven away by fear of a lawsuit. But the disappearance of explicit sexism can give the false impression that it no longer exists.
On the contrary, behavioral evidence compiled over the past two decades suggests workplace gender bias not only persists but thrives in ways many of us don't even realize, particularly for women in male-dominated professions. These stereotypes are so embedded in the cultural brain that we often serve them without being aware. The 2013 book The New Soft War on Women: How the Myth of Female Ascendance is Hurting Women, Men, and Our Economy amasses a suite of research to show that office sexism still exists, it's just less blatant than it used to be.
One study published earlier this year shows the potential consequences of descriptive bias during the job hunt. For the research, led by Ernesto Reuben of Columbia Business School, test participants were asked to hire candidates for a math task that both genders perform equally. The participants were twice as likely to hire the man even when candidates were identical–for the simple reason that women are seen as worse at math than men.


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Friday 2 November, 5pm
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The Parkes Foundation is pleased to announce the 2nd edition of the Geoffrey Harrison Prize Lecture on Human/Biosocial sciences. The lecture is to be awarded annually in Geoffrey Harrison's honour to persons who have made a substantial and sustained contribution to the study of human biology and especially biosocial sciences.
This year, the prize is awarded to Professor C G Nicholas Mascie-Taylor, Emeritus Professor of Human Population Biology and Health & Director of Research (Department of Archaeology and Anthropology, Department of Public Health), University of Cambridge, UK. The title of his talk is:
From genes to latrines: A biosocial journey
Abstract: My PhD research was in Population Genetics and I used both humans and fruit flies to see how migration can modify the genetic structure of populations. Post PhD I made extensive use of the 1958 and 1970 British National Cohorts to examine the extent of assortative mating, regional variation in height, epidemiology of asthma, the biology of social class and ethnic differences in IQ. Since 1985 I started working on the inter-relationships of poverty, nutrition, growth and disease in developing countries. Initially in Africa, especially the Sudan, and since 1988 in Bangladesh. A number of projects have been funded by WHO and The World Bank e.g. use and interpretation of anthropometry, setting up a global database on adult BMI, new BMI cut-offs for obesity in Asians, intestinal parasite control in Bangladesh and development of MPhil and PhD nutrition programmes in Iran. Extensive long-term UKAid projects in Bangladesh and Nepal have been on defining poverty and the impact of income generating activities on moving extreme poor households out of poverty and improving their health and well-being.
The lecture is open to the public and will be followed by a drinks reception, which is funded by the Society for the Study of Human Biology.
Geoffrey Harrison is one of the most important figures in 20th century Human Biology. He was a key member of the pioneering group of scientists who developed the new Human Biology from the old Physical Anthropology along with Joe Weiner, Derek Roberts, Jim Tanner, Arthur Mourant, Nigel Barnicot and Kenneth Oakley. The expertise and diversity of this group of visionary scientists allowed them to shape the development of human biology over the next 50 years as a discipline in which biology, behaviour and social context worked together to define the human species. Geoffrey Harrison was for many years Professor and Head of the Department of Biological Anthropology at the University of Oxford.
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Have you seen my video yet on YouTube, in which I shared My ABC's to Break Free of Your Sugar Habit and Other Bad Habits?
Here's a companion article to give you more information and tips to release your bad habits or what I call babits™.
If you're like most people, you're often tempted by gorgeous, mouth-watering, nutrient-poor "treats"—dazzling donuts, colorful cereal or buttered bagels—and other bad habits such as excessive coffee-drinking, negative thinking, procrastinating and obsessive texting.
As I mentioned on my companion YouTube video, It's certainly understandable if you feel tempted. Wherever you go and wherever you live, you're inevitably bombarded by unhealthy foods, substances, thoughts and activities.
But I invite you to look inside and decide: Do you feel trapped or imprisoned by your sugar habit or other bad habit (what I call a babit™)?
And are you plagued by baffling health issues such as annoying weight gain, ferocious headaches or even type 2 diabetes?
I'm here to reassure you. You can escape from the prison of a bad habit.
In fact, I respectfully challenge you. Get out from under your sugar habit or other babits™ so that you can have a life that rocks!
You may be wondering WIFY (What's In It For You?) if you overcome your bad habit. You can benefit in many ways!
You can get more energy, concentrate better, lose weight, become more productive, enjoy better relationships and so much more. And, as many clients have delightedly shared with me, if you cut out sugar and refined carbs, you even may be able to boost your libido!
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Just assume and accept that just about wherever you go, you'll be tempted.
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But if you prepare for temptations—ones way more unhealthy than apples in the Garden of Eden—you can be prepared and always have healthy snacks on hand such as edamame (soy nuts), pumpkin seeds, hard-boiled eggs and sugar-free crackers or an apple (preferably organic) with almond butter.
Whenever you're confronted by sugary foods, just breathe before you do anything.
Breathe away your sugar desire. Next, breathe with gratitude that you can still breathe, because if you continue over indulging in sweets and refined carbs, your breath may get cut short by obesity, cancer, type 2 diabetes and other sugar-induced illnesses. Finally, set a timer and just focus on your breath for at least 10 minutes before you stick anything unhealthy into your mouth or if you do anything else self-destructive.
Now bless your habit. Sure, you may think that's a little touchy-feely. But indulge me, please. Think about it. Your habit could be just what you NEED to jumpstart your growth.
When you confront your bad habit, you can grow, thrive and heal. Your bad habit is your springboard to a new life. It can move you to a better place. Besides, usually when you break a bad habit, whether it's sugar or cigarettes, you'll get much healthier and trimmer.
In other words, your bad habit isn't a problem—it is an incredibly opportunity. When you make that kind of brain switch, you're taking a valuable first step to kicking your habit.
Now, I invite you to realize that you can choose. You see the greatest freedom we have as human beings is the ability to choose.
First, choose to learn about the dangers of your bad habit, whether you're hooked on sugar, coffee, diet soda, cigarettes, wine or video games.
Get on the web. Read some books. (I invite you to check out my book, SUGAR SHOCK! if sugar is your challenge.) Now find out how your habit may be cutting your life short and making your life less enjoyable.
Next, choose to stop consuming empty-calorie, nutrient-lacking, fake foods, drinks and activities. In other words, stop treating your body like a garbage can.
Instead, choose real, colorful, nourishing, fiber-rich foods which demonsrtate that you are treating your body with love, respect and compassion. And make sure to choose nourishing activities such as reading books like Louise Hay's You Can Heal Your Life or Cheryl Richardson's The Art of Extreme Self-Care.
When you choose quality foods and thoughts, you'll get more energy, concentrate better and be happier and healthier.
Finally, it's time to Connect.
Connect with other people, who are also kicking their bad habit. Find a buddy so you can mutually support each other along the way.
Connect with your Serene Smartie or Inner Smartie. It knows what foods and activities your body, soul and heart need.
Connect with me at my www.SugarShock.com website, too. While wandering around on my site, you can get lots of FREE STUFF such as a Sugar Shock Quiz and a Sugar-Free Shopping List. You also can subscribe to my free Motivating Morsels Ezine and get a peek of my book SUGAR SHOCK!
To refresh your memory, here's your action plan to help you begin to release your unhealthy habits and practices.
Do my ABC's to Break Free of Your Sugar Habit & Other Bad Habits (Babits™).
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Connect with us at Facebook (www.Facebook.com/SmartHabitsFans) and on my Sugar Shock Blog (www.SugarShockBlog.com).
I have complete faith in you even if you don't have faith in yourself. You can break free of your sugar addiction or other bad habit.
I politely challenge you now. Start your new life today. Let me assure you. You can have a much sweeter life without refined sweets and other bad habits (babits™).
When you cut loose from your habits, you free up lots of time and energy so that you can lead a happier, healthier life—one in which you accomplish your goals and dreams.
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Please watch my companion YouTube video now in which I not only share The ABC's to Break Free, but I have fun sharing my sad-to-sour sugar tale, and if I succeeded in my intention, I entertain you at the end and even make you laugh.
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Diana Macalintal is the director of worship for the Diocese of San Jose and holds a Master of Arts in Theology from Saint John's University, Collegeville. She has served as a liturgist, musician, author, speaker, and composer for the last 25 years, and her work can be found in Give Us This Day and many other publications. Author of The Eucharist Catechist's Guide, Macalintal and her husband Nick Wagner cofounded TeamRCIA.com, a free online resource that trains catechumenate ministers worldwide.
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People often wonder what they should pray about and what to say when they pray. Diana Macalintal's prayer book answers both questions in ordinary and extraordinary ways. She helps us learn to pray in the most ordinary circumstances and leads us to the extraordinary grace that comes of lifting up our daily lives in prayer. Her words become our own prayer and at the same time offer us a lesson in how to pray. Because her subjects and vocabulary are ours, too, her prayers easily become the work of our hands and hearts.
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Diana Macalintal is that rare and gifted artist who has the ability to describe the indescribable. This collection of prayers is the promise of a personal retreat, a moment away from the noise of our daily lives. All great artists summon us beyond ourselves and after spending time in this collection of prayers, you will emerge from this book's pages a different person than when you first opened them. Someone will be fed or held in your care for your having spent time in the world Diana opens to us.
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Fresh, evocative language from the hands of one steeped in the richness of the scriptures and attentive to the deep longings of the human heart. Diana Macalintal has graced us with a gift-prayers for every season of life worth placing on our lips and planting in our hearts over a lifetime. This collection gives voice to the depths of our joy, pain and everything in between, helping us to see God's quiet and constant presence amidst it all.
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James, Sorrillo, Evans Headline Caribbean Success at NCAAs
Led by outstanding performances by Grenada�s Kirani James, Trinidad & Tobago�s (T&T) Rondel Sorrillo and Bermuda�s Aaron Evans, Caribbean athletes sparkled at the NCAAs in Eugene, Oregon last weekend. James, the University of Alabama freshman, captured the men�s 400m in 45.05 secs. Days before the NCAAs, James expressed his desire to perform well but was not concern about times. The Texas A&M pair of Demetrius Pinder 45.56 (Bahamas) and Tabarie Henry 45.92 (US Virgin Islands) placed 6th and 8th, respectively.
Rondel Sorrillo, the University of Kentucky (Kentucky) senior capped a superb college career by capturing the men�s 200m in 20.36 secs to become Kentucky�s first 200m NCAA champion. Sorrillo also ran 10.09 secs. (2.5 w/s) to get silver in the 100m behind University of Florida�s Jeff Demps (9.96).
The University of Georgia and Bermuda native, Aaron Evans ended a fine season by taking 3rd in the 800m in 1.46.87 secs. Evans had a success campaign which saw him establishing personal best of 1.46.26 secs in the 800m in the East Regional, a new Georgia record, and a new Bermuda 800m record.
University of Texas freshman Keiron Stewart of Jamaica finished 7th in the 110m hurdles (13.97), while University of Nebraska�s Nicholas Gordon (Jamaica) was 7th in the long jump.
T&T�s Pilar McShine of Florida State University (FSU) was 5th in the women�s 1500m in 4.16.72.� McShine�s teammate, Jamaica�s Kim Williams, took 4th in the triple jump with a leap of 13.58m (44� 06.75�) while Jamaica�s Melissa Ogbourne, representing LSU took 5th in 13.56m (43� 10.00�).
In the 100m, Auburn University�s Sheniqua Ferguson (Bahamas) was 6th in 11.32 secs ahead of UConn�s Trisha-Ann Hawthorne (Jamaica) in 11.39 secs.
In the 110m hurdles, T&T and Penn State senior Aleesha Barber took 3rd in 12.91 secs, while University of Alabama�s Kim Laing (Jamaica) earned All-American status by taking 7th place in 13.20 secs.
The following Caribbean Athletes were named to the NCAA D-1 All-American list:�
Men: Rondel Sorrillo, University of Kentucky,�T&T Kirani James, �University of Alabama, Grenada Demetrius Pinder, Texas A&M University,�Bahamas Tabarie Henry, Texas A&M University,�US Virgin Island Zwede Hewitt, Baylor University,�T&T Aaron Evans, University of Georgia,�Bermuda Dwight Mullings, �Mississippi State University,�Jamaica Nicholas Gordon, �University of Nebraska, Jamaica Keiron Stewart, University of Texas, Jamaica
Women: Kimberley Laing, �University of Alabama,�Jamaica Sheniqua Furguson, ��Auburn University,�Bahamas Nivea Smith, Auburn University,�Bahamas Trisha-Ann Hawthorne, �University of Connecticut,�Jamaica Pilar McShine, �Florida State University,�T&T Kimberly Williams, �Florida State University, �Jamaica Samantha Henry, �LSU,�Jamaica Melissa Ogbourne, �LSU,�Jamaica Kayann Thompson, �LSU,�Jamaica Aleesha Barber, �Penn State University,�T&T Chantel Malone, University of Texas,�British Virgin Islands


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The Army of the Shenandoah was an army of the Confederate States of America during the American Civil War; it was organized to defend the Shenandoah Valley of Virginia in the early months of the war. The army was transferred to reinforce the Confederate Army of the Potomac at the First Battle of Bull Run, which was its only major action. After the battle, the army was merged into the Army of the Potomac.

History
The Army of the Shenandoah originated with the various militia and volunteer companies sent to seize and defend the town of Harpers Ferry, Virginia (modern day West Virginia). To organize and train the companies, Virginia state commander Robert E. Lee initially appointed Thomas J. Jackson to command the post. Jackson formed five regiments of infantry and a battery of artillery from the various companies, forming the basis of the Stonewall Brigade. On May 15, Joseph E. Johnston replaced Jackson as commander of Harpers Ferry and continued to receive additional regiments from throughout the Confederacy. He would eventually have four brigades of infantry and an independent regiment of cavalry, the 1st Virginia Cavalry commanded by J. E. B. Stuart.

In mid-June, forces from the Union Department of Pennsylvania, commanded by Robert Patterson, began moving south towards Harpers Ferry. Fearing that the terrain around the town made it indefensible, Johnston had the bridges and as much equipment in the town as possible destroyed and retreated south to Winchester; Patterson remained along the Potomac River rather than pursue Johnston. Over the next few weeks, both forces watched each other, only engaging in battle once, at Falling Waters on July 2. After spending almost two weeks waiting on the Potomac and receiving reinforcements, Patterson started advancing towards Winchester but had moved only  before encountering Stuart's regiment screening Johnston's army. Patterson halted again and consulted his officers, who advised caution; this advice, along with the refusal of several regiments which were due for mustering out to remain any longer, convinced Patterson to cancel the advance. This allowed Johnston to follow orders he received on July 18 to transfer his army to reinforce P. G. T. Beauregard's Army of the Potomac at Manassas Junction. The movement started that evening, with each brigade marching to Piedmont where it boarded a train for Manassas Junction. Since there was only one train on the Manassas Gap Railroad, the brigades arrived one at a time; the artillery and cavalry marched overland. The final units of Johnston's army arrived on the afternoon of July 21.

Since he was senior to Beauregard, Johnston had command over the two armies present. Before Johnston arrived at Manassas, Beauregard had drawn up plans for an attack on the Union army of Irvin McDowell across Bull Run on July 21, using brigades from both armies, and Johnston approved the plan, allowing Beauregard to issue the necessary orders in his name. However, the orders were vague and contradictory, which confused the brigade commanders and prevented the attack from taking place. On the morning of July 21, McDowell launched his own attack on the Confederate left wing, defended by one of Beauregard's brigades. As the battle escalated in the area of Matthews Hill and Henry House Hill, additional Confederate brigades were moved to the left flank. Eventually, all four of Johnston's brigades and four out of Beauregard's eight brigades were engaged in this area. It was while defending Henry House Hill that Jackson received his nickname of "Stonewall", which also became the name of his brigade.

After the battle Johnston's and Beauregard's commands were consolidated into the Department of Northern Virginia, with their merged army using the name "Army of the Potomac"; Johnston retained command of the army, with Beauregard remaining as second in command until his transfer to the western theater.

Order of Battle at Manassas
Army of the Shenandoah: General Joseph E. Johnston
 First Brigade: Brigadier General Thomas J. Jackson (wounded)
2nd Virginia Infantry – Colonel James W. Allen
4th Virginia Infantry – Colonel James F. Preston
5th Virginia Infantry – Colonel K. Harper
27th Virginia Infantry – Lieutenant Colonel John Echols
33rd Virginia Infantry (8 Cos.) – Colonel Arthur C. Cummings
Rockbridge Artillery – Captain J. P. Brockenbrough
 Second Brigade: Colonel Francis Bartow (killed), Colonel Lucius J. Gartrell
7th Georgia Infantry – Colonel L.J. Gartrell (wounded)
8th Georgia Infantry- Lieutenant Colonel W.M. Gardner (wounded)
1st Kentucky Battalion – Maj Thomas Claiborne
Pope's Kentucky Battalion – Major Jon Pope
Wise Artillery – Lieutenant John Pelham
 Third Brigade: Brigadier General Barnard E. Bee (killed), Colonel States Rights Gist
4th Alabama – Colonel Egbert Jones (mortally wounded), Colonel States Rights Gist
2nd Mississippi – Colonel William C. Falkner
11th Mississippi – (Cos. A&F) – Lieutenant Colonel P.F. Liddell
6th North Carolina – Colonel C.F. Fisher (killed)
Staunton Artillery – Captain John D. Imboden
 Fourth Brigade: Brigadier General Edmund Kirby Smith (wounded), Colonel Arnold Elzey
1st Maryland Battalion – Lieutenant Colonel George H. Steuart
3rd Tennessee – Colonel John C. Vaughn
10th Virginia Infantry – Colonel S.B. Gibbons
Culpeper Artillery – Lieutenant R. F. Beckham
 Not Brigaded:
1st Virginia Cavalry – Colonel J.E.B. Stuart
Thomas Artillery – Captain P.B. Stanard

See also
 First Bull Run Confederate order of battle

Notes

References
 Davis, William C. Battle at Bull Run: A History of the First Major Campaign of the Civil War. Garden City, New York: Doubleday & Company, Inc., 1977.
 Detzer, David. Donnybrook: The Battle of Bull Run, 1861. New York: Harcourt, Inc., 2004. .
 Gottfried, Bradley M. The Maps of Bull Run: An Atlas of the First Bull Run (Manassas) Campaign, including the Battle of Ball's Bluff, June–October 1861. New York: Savas Beatie, 2009. .
 CivilWarHome.com – Army of the Shenandoah

1861 establishments in Virginia
Military units and formations established in 1861
1861 disestablishments in Virginia
Shenandoah
Virginia in the American Civil War
1865 disestablishments in Virginia
Military units and formations disestablished in 1865


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Life in the Pandemic
Budge and I were talking the other night about how most people who live through a historical event don't necessarily realize it's a historical event at the time. Now I remember 9-11-2001 and thinking, "This is history in the making. This will be in textbooks one day." Since then, not too much I feel is earth shaking history has taken place.
Well, Covid-19 has changed all that. We're entering our sixth week or so on shutdown here in sunny South Carolina and people are just about fed up with stay at home orders. Still, it's going to be in a lot of history books one day: history textbooks, sociology textbooks, and probably economics textbooks. This thing, regardless of what side of the debate over precautions you may be on, has become a big deal.
What I mean by the debate is the massively polarizing debate around just what Covid-19 is and what we should have / should be doing about it. One the one had you have a group who sees this as nothing less than a hoax made up to serve as a way for the government to grab power from the people and usher us to a more 1984 type existence. They have a point.
On the other hand, you have the people who think Covid-19 is the second coming of the Black Death from the 1300s and it's going to wipe out great swathes of the world's population. They are the ones who will give you ugly looks beneath their masks and shame anyone who goes outside as being someone who "wants people to die."
Then there are the conspiracy theorists who are having a grand old time with this pandemic. I've heard everything from it being a time released bioweapon designed by the Chinese to cripple the west to it being extraterrestrial in origin — the advance attack of a UFO fleet. The tinfoil hats have thought up plenty of ideas in between those extremes.
I'm somewhere in the middle. I know people who have or have had Covid-19. I realize it can kill people and I think it can kill people outside the "target vulnerable groups." I also know if we don't get the economy opened back up and going sooner rather than later, we're going to have sections, maybe big sections, of that economy that never opens back up because they've gone out of business.
I don't know what to think most of the time. Too many voices are out there clamoring for attention. Politicians say one thing, health care workers say something else, and general people say all kinds of things. So, who do you believe? I don't think anyone has THE Answer yet. That won't happen until a reliable vaccine comes along and THAT could be a long way off — a lot longer than I think most people think.
I also think this is going to be around a long time precisely because we DO have to get the economy going. It would be great to follow old Bill Gates' desire to social distance and stay on lockdown for ten months. If we were all multi-billionaires like him we could easily do it too, but we aren't. I think the virus is going to hang around because we're going to come out of lockdown before it's died down enough and start gathering in large groups again and cases are going to spike.
What are we going to do then? Go back into lockdown? Budge is a fourth grade teacher and this attempt at elearning is driving her nuts. It has shown the vast gap in the home lives of her children she teaches. Some have a parent at home who takes an interest in the work her child is supposed to do daily and others send Budge emails like she got today saying, "My life is too stressful right now please stop sending me messages about K'Shequa's work because it is stressing me out too much." K'Shequa hasn't done an assignment in six weeks. It's bad.
Day to day, I haven't been affected all that much realistically. It's not like I went a lot of places before the virus. Budge and I are staying up later and getting up later, but we still eat lunch when it's lunchtime and we usually go out to get take away from one of the small local restaurants to try helping them with their bottom line. I can only imagine with horror though what would have happened if this had occurred twenty years ago. I think people would have melted down much worse by now.
As it is, we're all still plugging along. I know two things: one, when this is over I'm going to camp out at my barbershop because my hair is way too long and two, I will probably have to be physically removed from Olive Garden by security or SWAT. I am stressed over not getting my allowance of chicken Alfredo and tiramisu.
So hang in there everyone. It's got to end sometime. Love y'all and keep your feet clean.
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Jordan Hoggard on May 11, 2020 at 2:56 am said:
Wonderful tracking through the current circumstances. I thoroughly appreciate your clear perspective that is both inclusive and observational without being naive or heavy-handed. Dare I say, I may have just read the 1st piece of journalism here that I've seen in a wayyyy long time. There are both documentary and poetic qualitIes to how you reeled out the experience. Thanks for that.


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Facebook's Directed Ads: A Game Changer For How We Recruit Talent
By Tim Sackett January 2, 2013 July 23, 2015
Facebook announced it's testing a new product last week.
What's the product? It's a version of paid messages within Facebook. Think LinkedIn's Inmail, but for Facebook and an additional 800 million users and potential candidates!
Today we're starting a small experiment to test the usefulness of economic signals to determine relevance. This test will give a small number of people the option to pay to have a message routed to the Inbox rather than the Other folder of a recipient that they are not connected with.
Several commentators and researchers have noted that imposing a financial cost on the sender may be the most effective way to discourage unwanted messages and facilitate delivery of messages that are relevant and useful.
This test is designed to address situations where neither social nor algorithmic signals are sufficient. For example, if you want to send a message to someone you heard speak at an event but are not friends with, or if you want to message someone about a job opportunity, you can use this feature to reach their Inbox. For the receiver, this test allows them to hear from people who have an important message to send them."
A multi-billion dollar opportunity
Oh, please, if there is a Facebook God, please pick me for this test!
You see, I'm a believer. I fully believe Facebook is going to change the way we recruit talent in the future — the way we network to find referrals, etc. I'm also a believer that companies will pay billions of dollars to have this ability. I also, fully, believe that the majority of recruiting professionals out there will understand how to use this function appropriately. Plus, having a financial consequence will ensure this won't become spam central.
Let me give you an example. I have a client right now looking for two (2) Human Factors engineers. They are hard to find because individuals in these roles are fully employed and get multiple contacts per week with offers.
We've had success finding good ones, but eventually even the best networks start to dry up. Facebook has an additional 500 plus, self identified HF engineers that I can find through a friend search – but I'm not connected to that. I can try to connect through a request, but they probably will say they don't want to connect with me – and Facebook will slap my hands and warn they are going to kick me off the network.
If Facebook said to me – "Hey, Tim, for $1 per message, we'll allow you to send a message to all 500 HF engineers " – I would sign that check right now. Twice! And these 500 are just the public "self-identified" folks; Facebook has thousands more who have identified but not made it public. I'll pay for those as well! So will most companies.
Think this isn't going to happen, eventually? You're wrong; this is a multi-billion dollar opportunity – every year.
Why this won't be seen as spam
You know what else? It won't have any impact to your Facebook experience. While it sounds like a spam nightmare, it won't be.
First, these are directed ads for specific people, not everyone. So, Charlie working the friers at McDonald's can calm down — I'm not sending you any messages.
Second, these directed ads cost money, so companies aren't going to be sending millions of these messages that they can't afford. This isn't a shotgun strategy, this is a sniper rifle strategy.
Facebook – call me. We need to talk!
This was originally published on Tim Sackett's blog, The Tim Sackett Project.
Tim Sackett
Tim Sackett, MS, SPHR is executive vice president of HRU Technical Resources, a contingent staffing firm in Lansing, MI. Tim has 20 years of HR and talent background split evenly between corporate HR gigs among the Fortune 500 and the HR vendor community ? so he gets it from both sides of the desk. A frequent contributor to the talent blog Fistful of Talent, Tim also speaks at many HR conferences and events. Contact him here.
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5 Comments on "Facebook's Directed Ads: A Game Changer For How We Recruit Talent"
Big Tent Jobs says:
Hi Tim – What makes you think that recipients of facebook ads will be any more likely to respond than recipients of LinkedIn Inmails? In general I have found that high demand talent gets lots of communication from recruiters — and mostly ignores it. Adam Kaplan, Founder / CEO, Big Tent Jobs, LLC
John Ludike says:
Definitely awesome potential for us as we operate in 23 countries in emerging markets where internet mostly accessed via smart mobiles.
Jason Warner says:
Tim, there is a flaw with the argument you make – you say that the messages won't be seen as spam but they will, because of the law of unintended consequences. So I agree with Adam.
The problem is that when you lower the economic cost of communication more people communicate, so the signal to noise ratio deteriorates. In your example, now the 500 HF engineers are going to receive a lot more solicitations so the net value of each solicitation from the prospects perspective gets diminished.
It's akin to when the Internet made it easy for people to apply for jobs. Applicant flow skyrocketed but net average quality went off a cliff: Net result – resume spam
Gerry Crispin says:
Tim, I agree with you and disagree with Adam and Jason who both responded with problems that are the next step on that recruiting supply chain.
The critical challenge you addressed is defining how to access the largest pool of reasonably qualified talent you can find at the lowest cost and literally get 'up-to-bat' by gaining some of their attention…even if for only a moment.
Adam and Jason complain that your message will still produce crap results. Just like like any other approach. They may be right but they are not answering your main point.
With respect to your quest, I would want to know from Facebook just what % of the billion profiles on the site have supplied sufficient info about themselves to even ascertain they might be HR Factors professionals. For example if Facebook has 250 million US profiles but only 30% have indicated a title, or degree or other piece of biodata like professional association etc. on which you can search and find those 500, then their 'universe' of 75 million (not 250 million) may not be as complete as some other database…and not yet the killer app you seek. But give it time. Why hype their value and have them charge you $2 because you believe you are getting it all?
At the same time. any new and user friendly way to gain attention will always get over used until the right price and volume mix is found and even then it will be a problem. I love Jason's net value analogy. True enough as an argument to why your secondary point about spam holds no water but that is why some folks do better than others when attempting to craft the right message to the right person at the right time. If they see it at all you will know whether you hit the home run or struck out and hopefully will learn form it…but, as you point out if you can't get up to bat, you learn nothing.
Kaithe says:
Actually here in Australia, it *would* be spam… $10,000 penalty for each and every message if successfully prosecuted.


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