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West Palm Beach Brewery Wins Gold Medal Best of Show and Best Florida Beer Competition March 3, 2019
West Palm Brewery Voted Best Florida Beer. On March 3, 2019, the West Palm Beach Brewery & Wine Vault, at 332 Evernia Street, West Palm Beach, Florida 33401 won the Best Florida Beer Competition https://www.bestfloridabeer.org/ for 2018. The ENTIRE competition. Best of show !! Gold Medal Best Florida Beer for West Palm Beach Brewery. The Best Florida Beer Competition gave its Gold Medal for Best of Show to the West Palm Beach Brewery's Five Six One Hefeweizen. "I'm so proud that the West Palm Beach Brewery's Hefeweizen was voted the best florida beer from among so many wonderful contestants. We […]
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West Palm Brewery Wins Gold Medal Beer Award at 2018 US Open Beer Championship
The 2018 US Open Beer Championship has concluded and the winners have been announced. A gold medal beer award comes to downtown West Palm Beach, Florida ! The West Palm Beach Brewery &Wine Vault has taken two medals in this national beer competition, after opening for business only in December of 2017. To find out about an important Gold Medal Beer Award, read on….. West Palm Brewery Wins Gold Medal. The West Palm Beach Brewery is proud to announce that it won a Gold Medal and a Bronze Medal at the 2018 US Open Beer Championship, garnering national accolades for […]
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'Nobody can remove me as a candidate, I was chosen' – says LJO Region 8 councillors Jimmy James
A fit Jimmy James
…assures he is in good health and ready to serve Region Eight
By Lisa Hamilton
The Region Eight (Potaro-Siparuni) Regional Democratic Council is yet to be sworn-in and Jimmy James, the lone Liberty and Justice Party (LJP) representative among an equal division of the APNU+AFC and the PPP/C, believes that the holdup is as a result of the "balance of power" he holds on the Council.
All other RDCs have been sworn-in and have selected their Regional chairs and vi e chairs. In November, the Region Eight Councillors were asked to travel to Georgetown for their swearing-in ceremony but this was cancelled at the last moment due to the "emergencies" of two Councillors. However, months have since passed and the ceremony has not taken place. The latest claim, reportedly made by LJP representative, John Flores to the Stabroek News, was that James is ill and was no longer interested in the position.
Speaking with the Village Voice News on Wednesday, James said that nothing is further from the truth. "Page 10 of Sunday Stabroek is saying that I am saying that I am sick and I cannot do the work which is a bundle of nonsense as far as I'm concerned…I don't know who put the report out in Stabroek. I saw my picture there along with John Flores, the manager of LJP saying a bunch of nonsense about me. Look, if you come up here and see the work I'm doing and where I'm living [I'm going] up and down the mountain every day. I'm active, I'm ready," he said adamantly.
Furthermore, the Sunday Stabroek News report stated that Flores has submitted new names to the Guyana Elections Commission (GECOM) after James "indicated that he no longer wished to represent it on the council due to health concerns". The newspaper published that Flores was doing so on James' request.
Again, James told the Village Voice News that the comments of Flores are false. "I would like to make this very clear, there is nobody who can take my name off of GECOM's list. I'm a Candidate, it's gazette and it's only me [who] can go there and say that I do not want it, nobody [else]. So, all this propaganda that they're talking is a bunch of nonsense," he said.
Questioned whether Leader of the LJP, Lenox Shuman – also Deputy Speaker of the National Assembly — has contacted him about the matter, James responded in the negative. He said that last contact he had with Shuman was when he [James] visited Georgetown to be sworn-in with the other Councilors.
James thinks that it is strange that the Concillors were asked to travel all the way to Georgetown to be sworn-in. What he does believe is that some form of a political struggle for power is ongoing and he has been stuck in the middle of it. He has plans to support the APNU+AFC at the RDC since the political party has garnered the most votes in Region but, according to reports, this has not been well digested by the PPP/C or the LJP.
"I am hearing a lot of things. As you know, I hold the balance of power and the PPP wants to have the Chairmanship, they want to hold the Chairmanship and APNU is saying – the Councilors here are saying – they want the Region and they have a right to nominate who they want as their Chairman. They [APNU] said that at the last time when the PPP won the Region they had both the Chairman and the Vice, so it's their turn now to nominate who they want. I was nominated by them. I am willing. I'm not interested in politics, I'm interested in the welfare of the people," James stressed.
He also finds it concerning that while the hold-up continues, the work of the RDC is piling up and Councillors are in the dark about the plans for development.
"At the moment, we don't what is going on. The budget is being debated and I don't know what is capital expenditure, I don't know what is current expenditure. People here don't know what's going on. Projects were supposed to be done, we don't know anything at the moment," he said.
"The people decided they wanted Jimmy James there as a Councillor…I'm not interested in people's politics, what I'm interested in is the people's welfare and this is what I'm concerned about."
The People's National Congress rejects Donald Ramotar's untruthful accusations
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Briant, Pierre. 2016. Alexandre. Exégèse des lieux communs. Éditions Gallimard.
As a well-known historian who has been dealing with Achaemenid history for decades, Pierre Briant has published several books and articles on Alexander the Great. In his newest book, Briant focuses on the exegesis of extant images of Alexander from eastern to western sources. His work is not limited to ancient sources but also deals with contemporary images such as Alexandre d'Hollywood.
The critical analysis of the images we observe in ancient Roman, Iranian and modern sources is the main goal of the author and completes his previous research.


Duo - Bracket work it in their new video to 'Mama Africa'. They bring out the African women who are all seen having a good time. Nigerian artists - Flavour Nabania and Dammy Krane are part of the fun in the video to 'Mama Africa'. Watch the new video from Bracket below!


Warlords of Draenor has taken the world by storm, but we still have one last stop before joining the march to Draenor: Mists of Pandaria. This tranquil, thought-provoking expansion is home to The Golden Lotus, a vanguard of staunch defenders and a song of the same name. With warm, fluffy, Pandaren feelings in our hearts, we explore.
Listen to The Golden Lotus here!
While you're deciding whether you should follow the path of Tushui or Huojin, consider following Stephen and Bryan on Twitter!


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Hampsthwaite United v Rangers Res Match Preview.
Saturday lunchtime sees our Reserves start their Pre-Season campaign when they travel to St John Fisher to take on Hampsthwaite United FC.
The match has a 12pm kick-off and should provide Kris Macdonald's side with a very decent test.
Hampsthwaite United
Our opponents are a very well-known and respected side in local football and boast a very high pedigree in players and skill. They have just been accepted back into the Harrogate & District Association Football League for next season, and will play their football in the Jan Sinker Memorial Division One.
Last season they finished 5th in the Wharfedale Triangle Premier Division and have also had recent spells in the West Yorkshire Association Football League Division 2 and Harrogate & District Football League Premier Division. They also have a team in the Harrogate FleXI 11 a side League.
Head to Head.
There have been quite a few meetings between Rangers and United over the years as when we were playing football in the Harrogate & District league, it was a regular fixture. The last time that the two reserves met was 29th October 2016 when we ran out 3-1 winners. A year later, on the 25th April 2017, the two first teams met at Barr Field and it ended with Rangers celebrating a 5-1 win.
Team News For Rangers.
Manager Kris Macdonald isn't giving much away before tomorrow, but it is known that some of the team that played in Thursday's match against Yorkshire Amateur AFC will feature. Macdonald may also give the young trio of Liam Dean, Harvey Ribbons and Sam Monaghan, who all impressed against the "Ammers", some more game time as well.
What About United?
We expect that Hampsthwaite will have a good selection of players to pick from and will field a very tough team. Like us, they are also expected to play in a new kit, so at least both sides will look the business!
Following the Game.
Should you wish to watch the game, and both teams will be grateful for any support that you can give, it's a shortish trip to St John Fisher in Harrogate. The full address is St John Fisher Catholic High School, Hookstone Drive, Harrogate HG2 8PT.
The pitch is located around the back of the main building and there is plenty of car parking available.
Our Reserves are very kindly sponsored by:
Aquascapes & Landscaping
Up Next: Tingley Athletic Reserves
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Amazon's 2016 Christmas Advert Wins Hearts!
Islamic Voice 0 December, 2016 12:00 am
Muslim World League's Historic Visit to Auschwitz
SPQEM – Scheme is Faltering due to Tardy Implementation
The advert featuring a Muslim Imam and a Christian Vicar has been termed as "inspiring," with millions of people seeing the positive side of Islam.
The people at Amazon may have snatched the title of best Christmas advert with their latest ad – featuring a Muslim cleric and a Christian vicar as good friends. It debuted on TV recently and viewers have praised the wonderful message of tolerance and inter-faith friendship at this time of the year. The advert shows the two men enjoying a cup of tea and a chat together at the vicar's house. But when they both get up – they moan about their aching knees. This leads to both men ordering the same present for the other – knee pads. The advert later shows the vicar and Imam wearing their presents while bending down to pray at their respective places of worship.
Instead of hiring actors, Amazon worked with The Muslim Council of Great Britain and the Christian Muslim Forum and used a real priest and Imam – London vicar Rev Gary Bradley and Zubeir Hassam, head of a Muslim school in Leicestershire.
Imam Zubier Mohammad said: "I have seen that through this little ad, millions of people are seeing the positive side of Islam. At the moment with things going on around the world we are portrayed in the wrong way. I wanted to show that communities do work together. We have no issues. We can work in harmony." The advert has been shared on social media accounts all over the world.
(To see the must-see wonderful advert, click on birminghammail.co.uk/news/showbiz-tv/amazons-christmas-advert-featuring-muslim-12219269#sthash.x1DWRRH8.dpuf)


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Monthly archives: October, 2017
Oct032017October 3, 2017December 7, 2017by itswebteam
Greenville's Elk's Lodge
Posted in Greenville, News
Greenville's Elk's Lodge, in the city's downtown, was completed in late 1906 or early 1907. Once a mainstay of the city's social scene, today it is facing destruction for a downtown "greenspace" (i.e. empty space).
Built for the local "Cotton Pickers" lodge of Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks, the two-story, Greek Revival, concrete building was almost complete in August 1906, when the newspaper reported it "is one of the prettiest club rooms anywhere."
Designated a Mississippi Landmark in 2002, the building is also a contributing structure to the National Register Greenville Commercial District. Contributing resources adds to the historic significance of a district. Despite this significance, the city seems set on a new "greenspace" to replace the Steinmart Square that has been designated for a new downtown Federal courthouse. Smart downtown greenspaces are nice in thriving urban area, but destroying an iconic building in Greenville's struggling downtown isn't. It will leave a hole in the historic downtown corridor where there was once a majestic 100+-year-old building. The city's decision is also troubling given the fact that an out-of-town developer, Joshua Cain, has expressed interest in restoring the building into a boutique hotel. Cain has a proven track record in California and with the 1857 Belmont Plantation at Wayside. Ignoring a potential investment and creating an empty space in Greenville's downtown is obviously a lose-lose situation for the city.
Sources and Resources:
MDAH Historic Resources Inventory Fact Sheet for Elks Club
Mississippi 10 Most Endangered List 2003
MissPres News Roundup 9-26-2017
MissPres News Roundup 10-3-2017
Suzassippi's Mississippi: The "Cotton Pickers" B. P. O. Elks Lodge
"New Members for Elk's Lodge," Greenville Weekly Democrat, August 16, 1906


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Tropical Storm Andres Growing South of Mexico
Thursday, May. 28th, 2015
by Jessica Donnel
MEXICAN COAST - The first tropical depression of the season has appeared this week off the coast of southern Mexico, and quickly strengthened into the tropical storm now known as Andres.
Andres is expected to continue to strengthen throughout the weekend, AccuWeather reports, and could even become a Category 1 or 2 hurricane as it remains on warm ocean waters.
The storm is expected to weaken by early next week when the storm moves to cooler waters and southwest Baja California.
While Andres is not expected to make contact with the Mexican coastline, The Weather Channel predicts that some high surf may eventually reach the Baja peninsula, and as far as Southern California next week. The storm could also produce dangerous rip currents throughout these areas.
AccuWeather reports that another tropical threat may also take shape off the coast of southern Mexico early next week, and could become the second tropical system of the season. This possible storm would have greater direct impacts on Mexico than Andres, as it would be closer to the Mexican coastline and could bring some rain and wind to the southern coastline of Mexico.
Stay tuned as AndNowUKnow updates you on these developing weather system.
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Q: Android How to programatically release claimed USB interface I run a USB connection in an AsyncTask. Under some conditions if I try to use the connection the bulk transfer function never returns. If I kill the AsyncTask the connection ceases to function unless I restart the machine.
Log.d(TAG, "trying to connect");
boolean connected = con.claimInterface(device.getInterface(0), true);
Log.d(TAG, "connected: " + connected);

Log.d(TAG, "trying to transfer cmd");
int outGoingBytes = con.bulkTransfer(endPointOut, cmd, cmd.length, 0);
Log.d(TAG, "outGoingBytes: " + outGoingBytes);

The last log is never reached.
Is there a way to programatically release the interface so I can reestablish a connection?
This is the logcat error
E/UsbDeviceConnectionJNI: device is closed in native_claim_interface

A: Try to increase the timeout passed, you are passing 0, put 2000 millis or something like that.
con.bulkTransfer(endPointOut, cmd, cmd.length, 2000);

I don't know for sure, hope someone with more experience can give a answer, but for release the communication you can call close().
According to the documentation:

Releases all system resources related to the device. Once the object
  is closed it cannot be used again. The client must call
  openDevice(UsbDevice) again to retrieve a new instance to reestablish
  communication with the device.

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(original 360 musical, 2012)
A PoP! Musical EVENT! A Religious Revival!! An E! True Hollywood Fashion Tragedy mined from the redemptive, sorted, exploited, and mythic histories of Patty Duke and Patty Hearst!!!
Nominated for 5 L.A. Weekly Theater Awards,
including BEST MUSICAL
Rebecca Haithcoat in LA Weekly:
"GO" "Meshing Patty Duke and Patty Hearst, creator-director Patrick Kennelly's musical explores our fixation on the cult of personality and our obsession with molding young celebrity girls into pop tartlets. Patty (played by four performers, representing her id, ego, superego and "shadow") is portrayed as a sacrificial lamb in today's entertainment-saturated culture. "Who will be the bright star of the future?" an announcer in the must-see "pop musical event" sing-songs. "I like posting pictures of myself on the Internet!" a vapid contestant answers in Auto-Tune. Down to the 5-plus-inch heels the talented, 15-member, all-female (!) cast struts around on for almost two hours, Kennelly nails the idea of how expectations help to cripple women in the public eye. In the show's frankest moment, the entire cast turns on the Pattys, chanting, "Kill yourself." Jonathan Snipes and Kristin Erickson's original music drips with satire and is as catchy as anything on the radio. Pilar Macchione's sculptural fashion design is commentary, too; the dresses are just so flattering. This will be one of the most exhilarating eviscerations in L.A. this year. Don't miss it."
Debra Levine on arts~meme:
"The peculiarly American phenomenon — the relentless commoditization of the individual and promoting it in a culture driven by celebrity (exemplars: the two Patties) – is Kennelly's concern in "Patty the Revival." The auteur and his many collaborators have fashioned a smart new musical that expresses ambivalence about the forces that shape our lives."
Sean Carnage @ seancarnage.com:
"I visited Patrick Kennelly at Highways in Santa Monica last week, and I was totally knocked out by what I saw and heard. PATTY is a kaleidoscope of old school analog counter culture vibes, cut and pasted all over the stage, thru some digital timespace manipulation (aka finesse)."
The PATTY 360 project also involved the production of a concept album, interactive website, clothing line, music video and assorted commercials, shorts, graphics and merchandise (t-shirts, playing cards, customized flash drive with album).


HONG KONG: Hong Kong lawmakers passed a bill on Wednesday that will allow the AAA-rated government to raise around $500 million via Sukuk, or Islamic bonds.
The Legislative Council's bills committee confirmed the bill was passed in an email response to Reuters.
The task of issuing the sukuk now rests with the Hong Kong Monetary Authority under the territory's Government Bond Programme, which has a borrowing ceiling of HK$200 billion ($25.8 billion).
As of February, the programme had 14 listed bonds currently outstanding worth a combined HK$94 billion, with tenors of up to 10 years.
A $500 million Sukuk issue would be larger than debut sovereign issues planned by Luxembourg and Britain, which are at different stages of development.
Legal filings describe the proposed Sukuk issuance as "inaugural", suggesting it would not be a one-off like Britain's plan for a 200 million pound ($333 million) Sukuk issue.


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We follow her up the stairs. There are two large bedrooms separated by a bathroom and a linen closet – the children's rooms. I step into the one on my left, which is smaller than I expected. It has wood floors and a closet with sliding mirror doors. Out the window, the neighboring house is less than ten feet away, and the space between is filled with broad-leafed palm trees. I hear the faint twang of the radio on the pool deck, playing 'Sweet Home Alabama.'
There's a concept in the social sciences that runs along this line. Basically the idea that we hold 3 types of capital, social, cultural, and economic. We can exchange those capitals for other other types of capital and pyramid schemes prey on the people who are willing to exchange their social capital (reputation with friends) for supposed economic capital (money).
Well that's all fine and dandy but I am not lazy, I like talking to people. But I am not going to persuade people to get into a so called business when in al actuality this is like a Sam's Club membership except everyone you get to join, you get a piece of their profits and any profits of their offsprings and so forth and so on. I can do that, but not full time. It's not something I enjoy. You have to have passion for that and I don't have that type of passion for selling Sam's Club memberships to folks. I am a nurse and that's my passion No this is not a scam. Just say no it's not for you and move on. No need to bash the company.
THIS IS ALL CRAP, EVERYTHING THIS GUY/GIRL IS SAYING IS ALL FAKE ESPECIALLY BECAUSE I AM A CROWN IN THE BUSINESS AND BECAUSE HE IS SAYING THAT IT IS NOT A PYRAMID SCHEME. ESPECIALLY, BECAUSE I HAVE AN UPLINE THAT IS IN THE LEVEL EMERALD AND I AM IN CROWN, EVEN THOUGH HE INVITED ME I PASSED HIM, SO THIS IS ALL CRAP IF ANYONE ONE IS INTERESTED IN THIS WONDERFUL OPERTUNITY CONTACT ME.
I can see how one bad experience or one negative anecdote can turn you away from something–in this case, a business. But if you took the time to find out more information you'd see that this is really quite, quite far from the truth. Amway has been certified as a legal, non-pyramid scheme, and you'd know that if you just did a simple google search.
If you think a lot of this smacks of a pyramid scheme, you're not alone. In fact, the company was the subject of a 1979 Federal Trade Commission ruling that found Amway's business practices to not be "inherently illegal," though they were required to "cease price fixing and cease misrepresenting the apparent success achieved by the average distributor."
The next week, I decided. I would never learn the truth about Amway until I joined. I left a message on Josh's Amvox voicemail telling him I had the $160 check ready. A week later, I left another message. By my third attempt, I got Josh himself (who had been intending to return my calls) and was finally able to arrange a time to separate me from my money. It wasn't the last time I felt he and Jean weren't exactly cut out for the rigors of The Business.
Methodology: "Source Euromonitor International Limited; Claim verification based on Euromonitor research and methodology for Amway Corporation conducted from January through February 2018. Euromonitor defined "satisfaction guarantee" as any product that has the word "guarantee" or "guaranteed" on the label, or is publicly backed by a guarantee policy by the direct seller on their website or through publicly-available collateral material or product catalogue. Promise of "money back" is not required, nor need it adhere to a specific time frame (e.g. "90 day guarantee"). In 2018, all Amway products are covered by a company-wide satisfaction guarantee, and Amway has greater sales than all other direct sellers. To the extent permissible, Euromonitor does not accept or assume responsibility to any third party in respect of this claim.
There are some one and a quarter million Amway members in the United States, roughly one for every two hundred of the rest of us, all of them eager to spread the gospel of salvation-through-selling-Amway-products. Considering Amwayers' penchant for compiling long lists of names, accosting strangers, and generally striving to collapse the degrees of separation between them and other humans, the chances of an American being asked to an Amway meeting are quite good—somewhere between having a condom break during sex and being dealt a straight in a hand of poker. For a certain segment of the struggling middle class, where there's a magic mixture of disposable income and status insecurity, the odds are nearer those of catching a cold. And for someone like me, a post-collegiate pre-professional with a solid future in temping, Amway is more or less a mandatory rite of passage.
Though dressed in a blue skirt-suit, the uniform of a first ladyship that was not to be, Betsy DeVos was never a political accessory. Anyone who understood Michigan politics knew she had long been the more political animal of the pair. It was Betsy, not Dick, who had chaired the Michigan Republican Party; Betsy, who had served as a member of the Republican National Committee; Betsy, whose name was once floated to succeed Haley Barbour as head of the RNC; Betsy, who had directed a statewide ballot campaign to legalize public funding of religious schools; Betsy, who, as a college freshman, traveled to Ohio and Indiana to volunteer for Gerald Ford's presidential campaign. She was a skilled and seasoned operator, but as her husband conceded in an overwhelming defeat, she was utterly helpless.
A lot of people join (Amway.com) and other MLM business opportunities believing it will be easy and it's their ticket to "get rich quick", but the truth is it's totally the opposite. Like any real business, you will have to work your butt off for a long period of time before you get results. Keep this in mind that Amway is a 2 to 3 year plan and you will have to follow that plan by prospecting, going to major functions (Home parties and larger events that take place) and by attending your team's weekly meeting.
While this marketing strategies are great, and yes that does work at times, but the conversion rates are very low. And lets face it…is it working for you? No. Do you like chasing around or harrasing your friends, family, and even strangers to join your business or buy you Amway's products? People who call your business an Amway Scam? No. Is it fun? HECK NO lol
By using AWS serverless architecture, Amway has been able to take a very lean, agile approach to its IoT effort. "We didn't need to invest in IT infrastructure because AWS offered a serverless architecture—that in and of itself is a huge savings," says Binger. He predicts that a serverless approach will be adopted for many other systems throughout Amway's enterprise IT architecture.
Richard DeVos and Jay Van Andel who was based in Michigan founded Amway in 1959. Today Amway conducts its business through a number of companies in more than eighty countries worldwide. In 2012 Amway was rewarded the no. 25 position by Forbes for being one of the largest private companies in the U.S. By the year-end in 2012, more than $11 billion sales were recorded, making Amway one of the most successful network marketing companies that have been in business for well over 50 years.
The recently published book, No One Would Listen, by whistle blower, Harry Markopolos, dramatically describes how SEC regulators ignored his alerts and allowed the Bernard Madoff Ponzi scheme to grow to enormous proportions. Their failure to act caused harm to thousands more people, despite his written and detailed warnings, which he brought to the agency five separate times over an eight-year period of investigating the scam. Additionally, the news media such as the Wall Street Journal and Forbes magazine also failed to respond to his evidence which he offered them. Madoff was apparetnly treated as "too big to expose."
Amway is not a pyramid scheme. It's very tough to be successful because you have to become a leader and set the example for your downline. The reason why everyone has to attend the meetings and functions are because of 3 reasons: 1) It educates people into having a Business Owner Mindset 2) It keeps people motivated and positive because it's tough and people give a lot of hate 3) Money is raised so that people get paid. Even if there are cons to the the prices and meetings, thats how the business works. You can't change a business if you don't like it. You can't do what you want in regular jobs. You have to work with whatever you have. In addition, in every business there will always be people dominating at the top and people at the bottom. The difference between these people is that the ones at the top used a certain way to get to the top. Working hard doesn't necessarily mean you'll be successful. You also have to work smart. So to finish up, Amway is not a traditional business because you don't need a degree to do it. It is a business though, so you need to work at it the way it has to be worked (MLM) to be successful.
This article is all silly talk and based on no "real" evidence. There really is nothing "creepy" about it, it's business. It gives ordinary people and even highly successful people who are willing to work hard, the opportunity to become an entrepreneur. You as an individual must just pick the right company for you to partner with, which suits your values. Amway is a very successful Network Marketing company. I speak on behalf of the Network Marketing industry for I'm involved with another very successful Network Marketing company, which is a proven way of making good money. The Network Marketing industry is predicted by Paul Zane Pilzer to be the next trillion dollar industry by 2020. It's frowned upon because people don't see it as a "real" profession.
"You also need a great trade group. They are worth more than their weight in gold, they are worth their weight in platinum. A fair number of our folks are on the ground in the markets we serve. Global trade compliance is not country-by-country anymore. More and more, the regulatory bodies are talking to each other. If an issue comes up in one nation, it comes up around the world. It is really critical that we extensively document where the components that go into our products come from."
Business owners receive education materials and free online training available 24/7 on mobile devices and in multiple languages. Educ and training topics include product information, how to sell them, how to earn income, how to grow a business, and how to be a leader. In addition, Amway offers business tools, including a personalized, mobile-friendly website, apps and customer service support (from real people, in six languages). Compared to the cost of starting almost any other kind of business, the cost to become an Amway IBO is minimal and low-risk.
In the decade since that loss, the DeVos family, with Dick and Betsy at the helm, has emerged as a political force without comparison in Michigan. Their politics are profoundly Christian and conservative—"God, America, Free Enterprise," to borrow the subtitle of family patriarch Richard DeVos' 1975 book, Believe!—and their vast resources (the family's cumulative net worth is estimated at well over $5 billion) assure that they can steamroll their way to victory on issues ranging from education reform to workers' rights. "At the federal level, when GOP candidates are looking for big donors to back them, they have options," says Craig Mauger, executive director of the Michigan Campaign Finance Network. "If you don't get Sheldon Adelson, you can go to the Koch brothers, and so on. In Michigan, the DeVos family is a class of donor all by themselves."
I think of my family's time in Amway as achievement tourism. We left reality for a moment and believed the impossible was possible. My dad still wonders if there's more he could have done, if there's a way for him to have succeeded in Amway – admitting in the next breath that there isn't. My parents tried everything. At each turn, the people they thought were supposed to be helping them – their upline, yes, but really the overall structure of the Amway Corporation itself – actually stood in their way. They built dreams and worked to achieve them, but the only people who benefited from their work were the people already on top.
Inside the Amway Center, everything is new from the front row to the rafters. Bigger seats. Better sight lines. More amenities on every level of the building. Concourses are spacious, offering unique concessions and activities for kids and adults alike. The Club Restaurant and the Ozone Bar overlook the event floor, and children enjoy spending time in the kid-oriented fun zone and retail store on the upper concourse. Technologically, Amway Center is one of the most advanced ever built, highlighted by the main scoreboard – the largest of its kind in the NBA. Measuring approximately 42 feet high and weighing in at more than 40 tons, its four primary video displays will be able to show high definition imagery in 4.4 trillion shades of color. Altogether, it's unlike any arena ever built. It's a world-class experience unlike anything Central Florida has ever seen.
After graduating from high school in 1975, Betsy enrolled at Calvin College, her mother's alma mater. Calvin's mission, as stated in the 1975–1976 course catalog, was "to prepare students to live productive lives of faith to the glory of God in contemporary society—not merely lives that have a place for religion … but lives which in every part, in every manifestation, in their very essence, are Christian."
Ten years after she watched her husband give a concession speech, Betsy DeVos was unveiled as President-elect Donald Trump's pick for secretary of education. Across the country, public-school advocates and teachers' unions expressed almost unanimous horror: One of the most effective advocates for breaking down the rules and protections for public schools and teachers would soon be the nation's most powerful education policymaker.
They are very similar to Amazon. I would want them to lower their prices even more because I noticed that the prices started to increase and in order for me to remain a customer prices have to be fair. However, my overall experience with this website is very good because their delivery is very quick and easy and I will continue to use it if it stays that way. The service is really good also.
While noting that the settlement is not an admission of wrongdoing or liability, Amway acknowledged that it had made changes to its business operations as a result of the lawsuit. The settlement is subject to approval by the court, which was expected in early 2011.[10] The economic value of the settlement, including the changes Amway made to its business model, totals $100 million.[131]
MLMs, which thrive in rural communities like Owosso, on military bases, and in countless Facebook groups, aren't often targeted in mainstream reporting; when they are, Marie says, "It's from the viewpoint of an old white guy activist investor on Wall Street. That doesn't tell me anything." Though she hopes The Dream might shine a light for some people on what a raw deal MLMs can be, Marie also sees endless juicy stories. "It's entertaining and weird, this weird world that you see in your Facebook feed, and on anti-MLM Reddit channels where everyone's gossiping about their cousins. I wanted to like, go inside and be in that industry. . . . I want to know why my cousin Stephanie is doing this every day on Instagram, and is she making any money or not? Or what are her friends saying?"
This is the worst company on earth DO NOT SIGNUP WITH THEM IT IS A COMPLETE SCAM. When I signed up They offered me supposed free sample value of $150 witch in the end I ended up paying double the price for. So if that's not bad enough they also signed me up for some LTD crap without my approval or knowledge of doing so which charged me $50 a month after all said and done I tried to call them and they said if I were to cancel they would charge me $150 cancellation fee so to anybody that's reading this avoid amway at all cost
The 2018 AGER was conducted by Amway, in partnership with Prof. Dr. Isabell M. Welpe from the Chair of Strategy and Organization of the School of Management, Technical University of Munich, Germany. Fieldwork was completed by the Gesellschaft fuer Konsumforschung, Nuremberg, from April through June 2017. Results are shared with the scientific community, including the 44 AGER academic advisors and all interested think tanks and academic and public institutions.
Amway and its founders have long had deep ties to the Washington D.C., and particularly the Republican Party. The current House basically has a minor Amway caucus with five former distributors and Amway has been one of the largest donors to the Republican Party since the early 1990s. DeVos's son, Dick, ran for governor of Michigan in 2006 and his wife, Betsy, is currently the Secretary of Education in the first Trump administration. She has speculated that the DeVos family has donated around $200 million to Republican candidates.
If there's one law of physics that defined how Michigan politics moved in the 1990s, it's that Governor John Engler was a master of the state Legislature. His political acumen—honed over a 20-year run in the Legislature, during which the 22-year-old boy wonder grew into his sturdy tree-stump physique and Ben Franklin hairline—was legendary even before he won a stunning upset in the 1990 governor's race.
The idea of Amway was started in 1949 by two friends, Jay Van Andel and Richard DeVos. Originally called the Ja-Ri Corporation, the pair began by selling Nutrilite and a few imported products. In ten years, they had over 5,000 distributors below them. By 1959, together with some of their top distributors, DeVos and Van Andel broke off to form Amway. They began selling their now famous Liquid Organic Cleaner (L.O.C.) and quickly expanded to more home products before launching into the health and beauty industry that defines their business today.
He tells us the club no longer has an initiation fee – they were forced to waive it six years ago in response to the economic downturn. 'You have the top two or three clubs in the area – Bayou Club, Belleair Country Club, and probably Feather Sound – with no initiation fees to join,' he says. 'It makes it very easy to be part of a club these days.'
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eSpring was the first commercial product which employed Fulton Innovation's eCoupled wireless power induction technology.[56] In December 2006, Amway sister company, Fulton Innovations, announced that it would introduce eCoupled technology in other consumer electronic products at the 2007 Consumer Electronics Show.[57] Companies licensing this technology include Visteon, Herman Miller, Motorola and Mobility Electronics.[58] Fulton was a founding member of the Wireless Power Consortium which developed the Qi (inductive power standard).[59]
From the beginning, designers focused on creating a sustainable site; providing water efficiency; optimizing energy and atmosphere protection; conserving materials and resources; monitoring indoor environmental quality and health; and selecting environmentally preferred operations and maintenance. These elements combine to create one of the most environmentally friendly, high-performing professional arenas in the country.
Prices for signing up as an Amway IBO depend on the Business Kit you select. IBO Literature Kit costs $62. It includes a detailed guide to help you start your business, training programs, brochures and information about the company's bonus programs. The cost of IBO Product Kit is $83.99. It includes everything found in the Welcome Kit, as well as full-size products ($150 worth) for you to try. If you are not satisfied with your business opportunity, you can ask for a 100% refund within 90 days of purchase. To do this, you will need to contact customer service by calling at 800-253-6500 or writing to customer.service@amway.com.
One night, after he had taken me out to dinner (we went Dutch), Josh told me that there was a price list in the back of his car—sealed in an Amway Starter Kit. I could have it right away; I just had to give him the $160 fee to officially join Amway. Uncertain about taking the plunge, I claimed my checking account couldn't cover $160 that week. That was all right, he insisted: I could write a post-dated check that he would hold until I gave the O.K. to deposit it. I still resisted, and he got out of the car with me, opening the hatch to show me the sealed white box within. Eventually, he settled for giving me a book called Being Happy, which he could later retrieve.
With AWS Just-in-Time Registration, users are assured their Amway device will talk only to Amway's AWS IoT platform—not to a different IoT platform or a hacked version that sits in between. For Amway, Just-in-Time Registration ensures a given device truly is an Amway manufactured device, and not a fake. For Amway's devices, Just-in-Time Registration is handled by the Atmel microprocessor within each unit. "Valid certificates for our air-treatment systems are actually created before they even leave the factory floor," says Binger.
My name is Matt and I am with the World Wide Group. We have Amway as one of our main distributors. Many people think bad things on Amway because of how Amway reps handled business in the past. Like many other companies however, they've transformed the ways of doing business to better suit the entrepreneurs out there. Most people, when trying to start a business pay tens of thousands of dollars trying to get set up just to open shop. This company allows you the opportunity to start your business for very little. Amway has a bad history (I'll give ya that), but now days they do all the hard work for us. They take care of all the contracts with other companies as well as maintain the cost of organizations for the consumers. If Amway was a sketchy company, do you really think that all these hundreds of fortune 500 companies would be lined up for partner with Amway? Just something to think about. This isn't a door to door salesman thing, nor is it a sell out of your garage kind of business, unless for whatever reason you want it to be. Starting up with this company allows you to do all the shopping you do anyway at your own store rather than going and giving someone else your money. Everyone that's looking at this right now already does what I do….only I get paid for it. It's that simple and true, whether you want to hold onto your opinions or not. When you teach other people how to shop off their own site, that's when bonus checks start building. You can easily make more money than anyone that signs you up by simple working your business better. It's not a get rich quick and it can be hard if you're not a people person, but it's a solid business if you're wanting something real, but like any business it takes your efforts to build your dreams. If you're wanting to build your dreams and are looking at these types of posts, then it's obvious that you need to change something in your life. Whether your change involves this business or another, I hope you take actions towards building those dreams sooner than later. If you're interested in taking the next step in you life and want to take a better look at this, then you can email me at s.generator@hotmail.com.... I'm simply here to help. You can visit my website to see what the business looks like. Find the link to partner stores on my site to see what stores partner up with us. www.ampenterprises.mychoices.biz.
Rich and Jay set up shop in Rich's basement selling Liquid Organic Cleaner, or L.O.C., Amway's first original product. With their trust in each other and the support of their loving wives, they're able to weather all bumps on their ride to the top, including the first federal investigation of Amway, by the Federal Trade Commission in 1975. In a chapter of his memoir titled 'The Critics Weigh In' (in Part Two, called 'Selling America'), Rich says of the suit, '[We] considered the suit another government misunderstanding of business principles and an attack on free enterprise.'
Of the Amway distributors who testified in the case, Rich says, 'I have nothing against someone who tries Amway and concludes the business is not for them. But I wish they would take responsibility for their own actions instead of trying to blame the business.' Likewise naysayers and disgruntled former Amway distributors simply do not understand how business works and are at fault for their own failures because they lack faith in their ability to succeed, and thus the necessary determination.
Everyone was dressed to impress, I mean, I'm talking fancy suits. Besides a couple of old farts in there that I'm sure were running the show, everyone else was in their early 20s. I mean, makes sense, I was targeted, haha, get it? Because it was at "Target." Sorry, lame joke. Anyway, he introduced me to some of these guys and asked questions to them, like "what has been your biggest take away from this?" and "what do you think about it?" Stuff like that so I could see that hey, maybe this is a thing for me (it wasn't, in case you're wondering). They were all brain-washed, I mean, just from the speech I heard that night all that was said was a bunch of BS. And all I could see around the room was all these young kids just eating this up like free candy. The guy did no real math up there, just threw up some really good sounding money number and that we should build trust. Honestly, that was my takeaway from that whole one-hour speech he gave. I'll admit that the guy was an excellent speaker. He had the crowd. I just wasn't buying it.
No one likes doing that. The major problem is that you trying to talk with people who have no interest in what you are offering. You need to learn how to implement an attraction marketing system to ATTRACT the right buyers and business opportunity seekers. These are people that are already currently looking for what you have to offer. So they are more targeted and more likely to join your team or buy products from you.
This hard truth belies Amway's populism, its promise that success depends merely on getting in on the ground floor, and that every floor is the ground floor. Deep down, Josh may have realized that an Amway easy enough for even him to master would soon self-destruct. This buried consciousness surfaced, for example, in the way he consoled himself with weird probability statistics. He knew how many levels deep he had to extend his downline (something like six) before he was certain to recruit someone with a knack for huckstering, providing a rising tide on which Josh could float. It was unlikely, of course, that a guy like Josh could spawn a six-level downline without the help of such a person, but that simply masked a deeper improbability: that there were enough of these theoretical master salesmen to go around to every schlub who couldn't succeed otherwise.
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Like many people who are still with Amway I too cannot say anything bad against it. But I think people who come in and drop out are expecting an easy ride or a job and do what they are told. But with the mentor ship and the team fellowship the only thing that holds you back is your mindset With a positive mindset and skill set that is offered to you all you have to do is be patient persistent and persevere. It works if you work it
What do u think of Senegence? I was talked in to joining and have a ton of issues with the way the company operates. If I were told that purchasing product would be this stressful I would have never joined. They have sold me products they don't have! Kept my monney for a 2 months at a time and are out of stock on 99% of the items 99% of the time. When they release a Lipsense color the site freezes and by the time(meaning hours) you get in the the product you want is gone. Senegence doesn't put limits on the amount of products one distributor can buy. Growing your business should be the only stressful part of a company NOT GETTING PRODUCTS! at this point I feel as if I've been very mislead and any advice Your be greatly appreciated. Thank you
Yes! MLM is not the same as "pyramid scheme" . In every business the people at the top make more. In an MLM anyone can work up to the top, unlike in a pyramid scheme. Some of what is described in the article is very cult-like if it's true, but I would imagine it is like with any business: it depends on who your upline is. If your upline is a creep, the whole team is going to be creepy. If you have a good upline, the whole team will reflect that. Any business, MLM or otherwise, can isolate people from friends and family. It's called being a workaholic.
Oh my gosh… WHAT? Amway? That company that's been around for 50 years? That company that partners with 3,500,000 entrepreneurs? That company that's partnered with Disney, Barnes & Noble, Best Buy, Sears, etc…? That company what works in 80 countries? Amway's CEO is the head of the US Chamber of Commerce? 65 laboratories? 500 scientists? yeah… Total scam… I mean why purchase higher quality products through a single mom or a freshly graduated student needing to pay off his school loans? Walmart and Amazon need all the support they can get. And they waste money on advertising to get people to buy crap from China!
'It's very dark,' I observe. We've begun in the middle: a room with wood paneling, shellacked stone floors and walls, and a recessed circular area for entertaining, carpeted in emerald. Behind me, a pool table occupies most of a Turkish rug annexing the area beneath the open-style second-floor balcony. The Realtor stands near a grand piano and a stone planter housing ferns.
Deep into his first term, Engler wanted to show progress in his signature proposal to reduce the state's onerous property taxes by 20 percent. Property taxes being the funding source for Michigan's public school system, Democrats ruled out any plan that did not include a replacement for the lost revenue, and since any new revenue would require legislators to vote for new taxes or fees, that option had little appeal heading into the 1994 campaign. On July 19, 1993, Democratic state Senator Debbie Stabenow proposed an amendment that was interpreted as an attempt to point out the absurdity of Engler's plan: Why not cut them by 100 percent without having any replacement revenue source?
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i am a pediatrician from pune, India & i personally know so many poor people ( ex.- a riksha driver – santosh gaikwad, a tyre puncture shop person- bhumkar, a truck driver- vilas ghule , javeri- student & so many ) have changed their life through amway business…. all earning more than Rs. 70000 per month income… so many from other higher professionals also ( Rakshit Bhardwaj sir- vice president-IT company ).. i have no. of examples ( can't write in detail)
2. Amway is notably owned by author and owner of Orlando Magic basketball team Rich Devos and Chairman of US Chamber of Commerce, Steve Van Andel. Pretty sure the government would not have the owner of an illegal pyramid scheme as their Chairman and could definitely find Mr Devos Courtside at a game to arrest him for his 11 billion dollar illegal business.
Qualifying for compensations needs more quantity compared to the majority of various other companies, this keeps new suppliers at a loss for a longer period of time. In order to qualify for a paycheck a rep have to do 100PV per month. This would not be such a large deal if the average factor wasn't somewhere around $3.00. This implies new distributors have to move $300.00 a month in quantity to get paid. Typically, most other business can be found in someplace around $1.10 to $1.50 per factor, meaning the brand-new rep would only need to move $110.00 to $150.00 or so per month to qualify.
Thanks to the DeVoses, Michigan's charter schools enjoy a virtually unregulated existence. Thanks to them, too, the center of the American automotive industry and birthplace of the modern labor movement is now a right-to-work state. They've funded campaigns to elect state legislators, established advocacy organizations to lobby them, buttressed their allies and primaried those they disagree with, spending at least $100 million on political campaigns and causes over the past 20 years. "The DeVos family has been far more successful not having the governor's seat than if they had won it," says Richard Czuba, the owner of the Glengariff Group, a bipartisan polling firm in Michigan. "They have, to some degree, created a shadow state party. And it's been pretty darn effective."
Security was one of Amway's biggest concerns in moving into IoT. "Using the AWS IoT platform, we were able to build policies and security throughout the entire architecture," says Gartner. Several AWS teams worked with Amway and Atmel (now Microchip), to implement Just-in-Time certificate registration for Amway's connected devices. Just-in-Time Registration is a new AWS IoT process that automatically registers new device certificates as part of the initial communication between the device and AWS IoT, creating a seamless, highly secure user experience. Communication between devices and AWS IoT is protected through the use of X.509 certificates.
Privately, many Michigan Republicans are afraid of getting on the DeVoses' bad side. "At the American Federation of Teachers, there were always Republicans we'd endorse," recalls Matuzak, who retired from the union in 2014. "And it got to the point where … the Republicans would say, 'Please don't endorse me because it will hurt me with the DeVoses.' They'd send back money because the DeVoses would punish them." (In an email to POLITICO, the chief of staff to one Republican state senator declined comment for this story, saying it would "not be productive" before linking to two anti-DeVos columns in the Detroit Free Press. The articles "speak for themselves," he wrote.)
Well Amway... I want you to know that even though your system may be very manipulative, you won't be able to mess with me and my friends. You can try all you want to tell my best friend to forget his friends, but you won't have the control to tell his friends and tell them to stay away from your loyal IBO. I hope you burn in hell for being responsible for ruining other powerful friendships due to your greediness. It's never going to work on me or my best friend. I'm an electrical engineer who'll do my best to provide him 20 times better advise than you'll ever give him. So go ahead and try to tell him different, I don't mind handling a challenge.
There is no one-size-fits-all way to make a living, and never has been. The result is a need and corresponding demand among today's workforce for diverse options. Direct selling organizations like Amway offer a low-cost, low-risk option for individuals to supplement their income. Amway Independent Business Owners use and sell high-quality nutrition, beauty and home products to consumers.
One day, Sherri asked me to attend a meeting at which a "millionaire from the West Coast" was to talk about "business trends of the nineties." I was not entirely caught by surprise—Sherri had dropped hints about starting her own "distribution business" at about the time that Amway Dish Drops appeared in the E2020 kitchen—and although she didn't tell me the millionaire was from Amway, it wasn't difficult to guess which version of the gospel of wealth he'd be preaching. I jumped at the chance to meet this mysterious man of money, although from totally insincere motives—the old anthro major in me was hankering for a bona fide subculture to gawk at.
'As long as you're a golf member, you're open to playing all the tournaments and games,' Dale says to me. 'There's something for the ladies, and then if couples play together, we have a couples' golf on Sundays. We have a senior group, and then a young under-forty-year-old guy group.' He shows me a schedule pinned to a corkboard near the door. 'These are kind of the core golf groups. And then we have a formal Men's Golf Association as well, one tournament per month. If they win that tournament, there are parking spots up for grabs, if you want a nice parking spot – or some trophies. You know, when you love a game and you watch it on TV, to be able to still play it and go out there with a large group of guys, and then win a tournament? These guys are having a blast. They feel like they're on the PGA Tour. That's what it's all about.'
When I told my parents about the business, they were immediately skeptical, but since my dad is a salesman he was supportive. The next week I was in the middle of teaching and got a phone call from the girl. She claimed that she had gotten a "last minute ticket" to their Thursday night meeting. She tried to describe how exclusive it is and basically hinted how honored I should feel to be invited. Unfortunately, it was so last minute we just couldn't do it. We were too tired after a long day at work. The following Thursday we went to the meeting. It was the strangest experience, and it was WAY too long. We didn't get home till 11 o'clock, and my husband had to be at work by 7:15. We were exhausted. Every few days we were having to meet for training with our mentors as well as watching videos and listening to CDs. They make sure to consume your life with a little bit of positive Amway, so you don't listen to the negative Amway. Guys, this literally can be described as a brainwashing method.
I'm a big promoter of the "side hustle" — extra work or a part-time job you take on to earn extra money in order to reach your financial goals. However, I don't think any kind of multi-level marketing organization is the way to do it. Instead, there are plenty of amazing ways to bring in extra money without going broke and making all your friends and family hate you.
When it came to designing the architecture required for its IoT platform, Amway used AWS Professional Services to help it create a continuous integration and continuous delivery (CI/CD) pipeline to automate delivery of platform software updates. The pipeline picks up source code changes from a repository, builds and packages the application, and then pushes the new update through a series of stages, running integration tests to ensure all features are intact and backward-compatible in each stage.
In a breakfast speech to volunteers at Holland Christian Schools on May 12, 1975, Ed Prince warned that lazy and neglectful U.S. citizens were not doing their fair share, forcing the government to, as a Holland Sentinel article described it, "play an increasingly larger role in our daily and personal lives." (You don't have to listen too hard to hear an echo of Ed Prince in his daughter, Betsy. "[For welfare recipients] to sit and be handed money from the government because they think a job like that is beneath them," the heiress sighed to the Detroit Free Press in 1992. "If I had to work on a line in a factory, I would do that before I would stand in line for a welfare check.")
'I was a salaried man working in a company for eight years,' says Kaoru Nakajima, Japan's first Amway Crown Ambassador. 'Now I am my own boss. Now I am free. Now I am selling products that make me proud. Now I am helping people in five different countries to build their own businesses. When I see so many people getting more abundant lives, I feel really excited.'
To understand the DeVos family, it helps to understand West Michigan. A sweeping landscape of flat, rolling farmland freckled with small towns, it sits on the opposite side of the state—in more than one way—from the big, diverse, reliably Democratic Detroit metropolitan area. Broadly speaking, it's a region where people are deeply religious, politically conservative, entrepreneurial and unfailingly polite—think Utah, if it were settled not by Mormons but by Dutch Calvinists. "There's an old expression here," chuckles Gleaves Whitney, director of the Hauenstein Center for Presidential Studies at Grand Valley State University in Grand Rapids. "'If you ain't Dutch, you ain't much.'"
When it comes down to it, most of the time a presenter will never mention the total cost and time involved in producing income through Amway, or if they do, their answers will be very misleading. You'll often hear statements like, "If you work hard, you will succeed," or, "The people who don't make money don't work hard enough." In reality, this is just shifting the blame, because the company's statistics often tell a very different story. Caveat emptor.
Renata tells us about the best local attractions, recommending particular farm-to-table restaurants and yoga studios as my husband and I make slow, opposing circles around the room. We meet in front of the master bathroom. The shower is wide enough for three people with three showerheads, a knee-high tawny-colored tile wall, and the rest of the walls completed with glass. The whirlpool bathtub could easily accommodate three.
The company is said to have been violating the Prize Chits and Money Circulation Schemes (Banning) Act. More specifically, Pinckney and the two other directors were arrested in connection with a case filed by a certain Visalakshi of Kozhikode. She claimed to have incurred losses of Rs 3 lakh in trying to sell the products of Amway through its multi-level marketing network.
I think there's a ton of misinformation on both parts. Yes, most people who jump into the business don't understand what they need to do to make their business successful. Then again, as mentioned above, MLM is a highly outdated model, pretty much just a good way to waste time when you could be using that time to retrain or pursue your passions. After all, what's the point in selling overpriced, under-quality product, and how can you expect to sell if you wouldn't buy it yourself?? I feel as though this system of marketing will die out fairly soon. Great post.
Ultimately, however, he dealt with his catch-22 through simple fantasies of escape. He was adamant that someday he'd be a millionaire, his current predicament no more than a bad memory. His hand would describe a hyperbola as he explained that The Business was hard at first, but if you'd just stick in there, you'd soon enjoy exponential success. This would happen so soon that he wouldn't have to prospect long enough even to get particularly good at it. "The point is not to get good," he insisted, "It's to get done!"
This collective approach is how the family runs their home lives, too. The DeVoses' myriad properties are managed through a single private company, RDV Corporation, which both manages the family's investments and operates as a home office, paying the family's employees, maintaining the DeVoses' residences and assuring them as frictionless a life as possible. (The duties outlined by one recent property-manager job with RDV Corporation include "ensur[ing] doors are well-oiled to avoid squeaking" and that "broken toys [are] repaired or disposed of.")
"Amway differed in several ways from pyramid schemes that the Commission had challenged. It did not charge an up-front "head hunting" or large investment fee from new recruits, nor did it promote "inventory loading" by requiring distributors to buy large volumes of nonreturnable inventory," said Debra A Valentine, a general counsel for the FTC, in a seminar organised by the International Monetary Fund in May 1998.
At the heart of Amway is the love of 'free enterprise' – an equal-opportunity system in which determination alone is the path to achievement. If you have a dream, Amway says, and you try hard enough to achieve that dream and let nothing stand in your way, then success is guaranteed. That is the promise of what Rich DeVos calls 'Compassionate Capitalism' – helping people help themselves.
America is too skeptical! The Federal Trade Commissions ruled in 1979 that Amway is NOT a Pyramid Scheme but reather a multi-level marketing company. I'm not an Amway rep nor do I buy their products so I don't have any skin in the game here. I just did my research. Folks that believe this crap don't realize that 90 plus % of all the negative comments on the net actually come from true Pyramid companies to make legitimate multi-level marketing companies look bad. Pyramids are illegal. Multi-level marketing companies are very legit. Other than Amway, Avon, Tupperware, Home Interiors, Pampered Chef and Kirby Vacuum just to name a few. By the Way, Warren Buffet owns Pampered Chef and has stated on more than one occasion that he would own more for them if he could talk the owners into selling. Home based business's will make you more money than any other occupation you can be involved with. All legitimate multi-level marketing companies have to be members of the DSA (Direct Selling Association – http://www.DSA.org). If a company is found to be a Pyramid Scheme they cannot be a member of the DAS. Also, all multi-level marketing companies have to have 100% approval all State Attorney's Generals in all 50 states (again do your research). Stop and think about where you work. There's most likely a manager, then assistant managers, and on down the line. Put it on paper and see what it looks like. Kind of shaped like a pyramid isn't it. You probably worked your butt off to convince somebody to hire you at a job you hate. Ans then, you work your butt off everyday to make those above you "rich". All you do everyday is tread hours for dollars. Don't place your belief on what others tell because they've most likely are just repeating what somebody told them and have no experience. Look at a third party website such as http://www.successfromhome.com and go to the store and buy one of there magazines.
Now the husband and wife team continues to work together, taking the time to slow down and help others. The business enables them to live their lives with flexibility, spending more time with family and one another. The strengthening of their bond depends on a connection with others; building trust and helping others find a way to meet whatever goals they may have.
Amway is a multibillion dollar company that uses "multilevel marketing techniques" to sell cosmetics and household products. They have really aggressive recruitment techniques and cult-like practices. They're super shady and sued on a pretty regular basis, but still manage to trick new people into the fold! You can read more about the company here. If you want to hear more creepy personal stories about other people, like my friend's roommate, who has been tricked into Amway, there are some good ones here and you can always Google "Amway is a cult".
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I had a very good experience with Amway. They have very nice people on website to help you, the employees know about all of the products that they sell. This probably one of the reasons they have been in business for so long. Also, they are a very good company that has top quality products. Amway probably has a large amount of orders to handle every day. However, the prices are very high on most products. They can probably keep the prices this high because all of the people that buy their products are used to paying the higher prices for wonderful products.
For people who value high-profile endorsements and sponsorships, the Amway Center Sports and Entertainment complex in Orlando, Florida is the home court to the Orlando Magic. The multi-level marketing company not only hosts an NBA team at its flagship center, it also hosts popular performers such as Ed Sheeran. Amway also has number of celebrity athlete ambassadors including:
The reason some people received $84 was because they didn't work hard enough to earn more. This business isnt for everyone. Just try the products and of you dont like them then return them you have 6 months to return them. Just dont start stating facts that aren't true just because you lost a friend. They probably left because they trying to be with people who were trying to succeed. Take it from me im 16 years old and this business has not failed me yet.
The next evening (Sunday because that's URA's phone session night) I received a call from the girl. I missed the call but immediately called her back thinking she was wanting to make dinner plans or something along those lines. She began talking about this cool business opportunity she has and felt like we would be perfect for it! The way she explained it made it sound legit. She said it was a company who endorses major brand products online, etc., etc. I was intrigued at first. They had us in the palm of their hands. When I hung up the phone, my husband immediately said "They're using us. This is some MLM scam." I believed him, but I had liked the couple so much I didn't want to lose their friendship, so we decided to just try it out. See if it's for us.
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On its face, the debate over right-to-work is about an arcane bit of labor law—whether workers under a contract that was collectively negotiated by a union should have to pay dues to that union, regardless of whether they're members. But that debate is a proxy for a larger battle that is less about employment law than political jockeying: Unions tends to align with Democrats, and as a result, if it becomes more difficult for unions to collect dues, they'll be weakened and less able to advocate for the political causes of their choosing.
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As told you before, I get always such a strong confirmation of this infinite intelligent existence if I have done something what has to be done.
And I had to write life as a miracle , because there was such a strong celebrating energy all around me! Writing this whole article was such a rejoicing of Osho! After publishing I was VERY curious how existence would react. And the reaction I got is the greatest gift I could get.
At the moment when I started publishing about Osho, there was a strong copyright (see the sad story below), but I felt I had to do it. Immediately after my first publications the message came that the copyright case has been lost in America, but there was still a treat of appeal and problems for other countries. But now just after publishing life as a miracle I got this e-mail. (see below).
Yes, yes, yes life is a miracle. I feel so immensely happy that all the Osho lovers can go spreading Osho message to the world and I have so much of Osho to spread!! Isn't wonderful how the law of God Action works, it transcends everything else.
Osho asked me in the Sinai to make his name, his photographs, his words, his meditations as widely available as possible. And now this is happening!
Here comes to original e-mail and it gives also a good picture that there is always a battle between the light and darkness (ignorance) on this planet of duality. But from the beginning of time light always wins. After the big bang on 1.000.000 particles of anti-matter 1.000.001 particles of matter were formed. Therefore this existence could come into creation. And we are here to celebrate this miracle of life!
Subject: Letter from Neelam: Celebrate! Friends, Celebrate!
It is indeed a moment of rejoicing: Osho's name and his meditations are now free from the fetters of trademarks. After a ten year long battle between OIF (Osho International Foundation) Zurich led by Jayesh and OFI ( Osho Friends International) led by Swami Atul Anand, Osho Friends International has won. Congratulations and cheers to OFI for their unwavering devotion to fulfilling Osho's wish.
Osho devised many meditation techniques in late sixties and early seventies. Never in his lifetime did he express his wish to trademark the meditations, as he always felt that the meditations are a gift of the Awakened Ones and are meant to raise the consciousness of humanity. He openly proclaimed this in one of his discourses in Gautama the Buddha auditorium: "Things can be copyrighted, thoughts cannot be copyrighted, and certainly meditation cannot be copyrighted. They are not things of the marketplace. Nobody can monopolize anything. But perhaps the West cannot understand the difference between an objective commodity and an inner experience".
When asked how to protect the purity of his meditations, he gave a very simple solution: "Make my meditations as widely available as possible so that millions of people come to know them directly. That's the only positive way; otherwise you will be wasting time and money in fighting with people".
And in their new found power and arrogance they started harassing and intimidating Osho sannyasins (who were involved with Osho's work for years) with legal threats. In India, they began this with sending legal notice to Delhi-based Osho World Foundation prohibiting them to use Osho's name ( www.oshoworld.com) on the web. Moreover very inhumanly they got thousands of copies of Osho's books in France shredded because the sannyasin publishers were unable to pay royalties to OIF. Besides this, there are several examples where devoted sannysin publishers and meditation center leaders were served legal notices forcibly discouraging them from contributing to Osho's work and vision, thus creating anger and resentment among them.
This landmark verdict came on 13th January 2009. But Jayesh and his team did not accept it. He filed a notice of appeal in the federal court on March 12, 2009 challenging the decision. Apparently he realized later on that there was nothing more to be said or added, and he had no hope of winning, he withdrew the appeal and OFI agreed to it. In mid July the federal court released the order dismissing the appeal. Now the trademarks of Osho and his meditations in the US finally stand as cancelled.
The sannyasins and lovers of Osho would find the decision as an end of a bitter episode. I do wish to reinforce the fact that now Jayesh should take constructive steps to get all the Osho trademarks cancelled in other countries wherever he has applied. I am sure thousands of Osho lovers would welcome this momentous decision and be delighted to seeing Osho and his meditations now freely available all over the world. It is equally important to recognize that this would save enormous amount of energy, time and money that he has been wasting all along. The same can be used in doing such things as organizing more and more meditation events around the world, publishing more books, specially the unpublished ones which are not available in the market; making Osho's name, his photographs, his words, his meditations as widely available as possible. That will be the positive way, the Osho way, of protecting the purity of Osho and his vision.
Ma Yoga Neelam (Personal secretary to Osho for India, She was appointed by Osho as one of the member of the Inner Circle, she also was his caretaker when Osho returned from USA and later after his coming back to India from the world tour).
I feel such a strong wave of creativity going over this planet. Perhaps it has something to do with the longest solar eclipse of this century yesterday, which always has been a sign of great things to happen.
And by means of the Osho essentials of this website Yahoo declared Osho to be the One. And I hadn't even written that. Isn't amazing!
Osho did the Yahoo meditation in Poona II, long before Yahoo existed, must have foreseen this (smile!). So let us celebrate even more!


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In determining the standard of requirements for admission to any public post-secondary educational institution, the board of regents, governing board or community college board shall not require a student who has completed the requirements of a home-based or non-public school educational program and who has submitted test scores that otherwise qualify him for admission to that institution, to obtain or submit proof of having obtained a general equivalency diploma certificate. In determining requirements for admission, the board of regents, governing board or community college board shall evaluate and treat applicants from home-based or non-public educational programs fairly and in a nondiscriminatory manner.
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Joseph Staten back in charge of Halo's Campaign
TavishHill (TavishHill) August 27, 2020, 2:49am 1
For those that don't know, Staten was the lead writer on the original trilogy and was the director of cinematics at Bungie. He left Microsoft Game Studios alongside Bungie to focus on Destiny for a while and then left to return to MGS and work in various writing roles for all sorts of MGS titles. Hard to think of anyone better suited for the job.
Now we need to get Marty back on board. He said in interviews he wanted to work on Halo again and iirc Marty and Joe are pals.
Jason Schreier (jasonschreier)
Scoop with the mighty @dinabass — following the delay (and rocky development) of Halo Infinite, Microsoft has put renowned Halo vet Joseph Staten into a top leadership role at developer 343 Industries. Staten returns to the series he helped shape bloomberg.com/news/articles/…
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More info: https://www.halowaypoint.com/en-us/news/familiar-facts
javycane (Javier Ruiz) August 27, 2020, 2:51am 2
Yeah I think this game is gonna be late late 2021 or 2022 if they plan on doing this properly.
Yikes I defended the first showing of this game but is it really in that bad o a shape?? Disaster
Shadowgasm August 27, 2020, 2:55am 3
Whatever his role ends up being, this makes me happy. I always liked Staten and his passion for Halo always seemed genuine.
SowingShade (Shade) August 27, 2020, 2:58am 4
Whether this move is being made out of need, desire, or some combination of the two, Joseph Staten returning to Halo, in whatever capacity this move truly entails, can only be a positive.
Knottian (Daniel K) August 27, 2020, 2:58am 5
SowingShade:
Agreed, and I've pretty much loved all his contributions including Recore.
javycane:
Honestly it is hard to say how rough shape it is/was in since everyone focuses on the visuals when thinking about it. To me, everything except the visuals looked fantastic (except I don't like having a world map and the cross hair should be lowered).
They need to make moves like this either way though. Been wanting to get State/Marty/Griesemer back on Halo for yrs.
TavishHill:
Agreed I liked what I saw and was convinced it was gonna be fine come release but I guess the memes got to Microsoft and they decided to put this back in the oven.
I'm all for them being able to avoid crunch and take the time they need to get visuals up to snuff. I'd love a MP beta for XSX launch tho.
peter42O (peter42O) August 27, 2020, 3:09am 9
Great news for the game and franchise. Was always saying November 2021. Think this pretty much guarantees it. My prediction is November 5th, 2021.
TavishHill (TavishHill) August 27, 2020, 3:10am 10
peter42O:
November 15th.
Mostlyharmless August 27, 2020, 3:11am 11
This combined with CErtain affinity announcing that they have been working on the game makes me very happy.
I hope that they announce Tommorow they will also clearly lay out their plans for launch.
Mostlyharmless:
I wonder if Joe played a role bringing em back on board? I hadn't even made that connection!
peter42O (peter42O) August 27, 2020, 3:16am 13
Staten seems to be working on the single player campaign as the project lead. Scroll down -
https://www.halowaypoint.com/en-us/news/familiar-facts
Hahaha. Don't see the game releasing on a Monday though.
I would if I were them. 20 yrs to the day.
Eduardo August 27, 2020, 3:25am 16
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Daniel August 27, 2020, 3:28am 17
Good news for the 10 year plan!
My E3 fantasy (prior to COVID) was that they'd introduce Halo Infinite campaign by pulling a curtain back to have Marty conducting an orchestra and then spotlight Joe holding the controller for the playthrough. Not afraid to admit it. >.>
DeoGame August 27, 2020, 3:31am 19
Welcome home! I've always felt the 343 games were missing his and Marty's/Salvatori's touch and while the new composers brought on seem to fill the music void, I will never object to Staten.
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That does not sound like a move for a video game that's being released anytime soon. twitter.com/jasonschreier/…
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Jon Jones Rips Into Mike Winkeljohn For Harassing Coaches Still Working With Him
Jones and Winkeljohn recently parted ways following the former's arrest after the UFC Hall of Fame ceremony.
Posted on Last updated: December 1, 2021 By: Author Abhinav Kini
Jon Jones went on one of his classic Twitter rants — and this one was a pretty big one.
The former UFC light heavyweight champion targeted former head coach Mike Winkeljohn and claimed the latter was harassing coaches who were still working with Jones.
Jones is notably no longer allowed to train at JacksonWinkMMA after his arrest following the UFC Hall of Fame ceremony in September. Jones was charged with domestic battery among other charges.
And with Winkeljohn allegedly getting on national TV and mentioning how he wanted the best for Jones, the latter had enough of the hypocrisy.
"Coach Wink gets on national TV and tells the world he wants the best for me, and then behind the scenes harassing the other coaches for continuing to work with me. What a miserable bastard"
— BONY (@JonnyBones) December 1, 2021
He continued further.
"This dude somehow has found a way to run away every single one of Gregs original fighters. I can't think of a Jackson's veteran that still talks with this ass whole."
This dude somehow has found a way to run away every single one of Gregs original fighters. I can't think of a Jackson's veteran that still talks with this ass whole
"I didn't leave the team because I couldn't handle a punishment, I left the gym because I wasn't training with Wink anymore anyways. This man hasn't taught the students a new technique since I met him."
"If I was such a monster, he wouldn't be still trying to monetize off of me being a former student there. There's a John Jones poster in almost every wall in that building."
Jon Jones: Nothing Changed Since JacksonWinkMMA Ban
Jones went on to add that despite being barred from JacksonWinkMMA and training at the Fight Ready gym in Arizona, things are pretty much the same.
"Wink suspending me from the team changed absolutely nothing for me. I'm still working with the same exact coaches on the same exact schedule we have been on over the last two years."
"Just don't go on TV and pretend to give a shit about someone who has made you so much money over the years, giving you so many world championships, and then behind closed doors secretly try to crush them. Real douche bag move Mike"
"Bones" also revealed Winkeljohn threatened anyone who trained with former JacksonWink fighter Donald Cerrone.
"'nobody go to Cowboy Ranch, if I find out you train with Cowboy you can't train here anymore' what type of insecure bullshit is that"
" nobody go to Cowboy Ranch, if I find out you train with Cowboy you can't train here anymore" what type of insecure bullshit is that
It wouldn't be a Jones rant without a deleted tweet and there was one in particular that got everyone's attention.
"We literally had a convicted rapist training on the team for years and now all of a sudden he has morals. Get out of here"
It will definitely be interesting to see what Winkeljohn has to say in response.
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