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Introduction: 3D Printed Laser Engraver
Hi folks!
I built my own laser engraver and want to share it with you in this 'ible'! I made it with the help of my 3D printer.
I saw this one http://www.banggood.com/500mW-Desktop-DIY-Violet-L... and thought i could print the acrylic parts. This is why i made it.
My working area is:
X 265mm
Y 345mm
But it depends on the aluminium profile you´ll buy.
My parts are:
- 2x 440mm
- 2x 320mm
X axis
- 370mm
Step 1: Get the Parts
What you will need:
1. 3D printer ;-)
2. PLA (any other material will work i think) http://www.amazon.de/NuNus-Filament-MakerBot-Maker...
3. Aluminium profileshttp://www.ebay.de/itm/150956267616?_trksid=p20578... (i used the 6mm groove. You can also try 5 mm groove, then you maybe don´t need the roller .stls)
4. Slot nuts and inner squares
4.1 Slot nuts
You´ll need 6 slot nuts. I bought them here http://www.ebay.de/itm/161168970108?_trksid=p20578... but i think you can also print them.
4.2 Inner Squares
To connect the frame parts i bought them here http://www.ebay.de/itm/281585620876?_trksid=p20578... maybe you can also print them. 8 pcs.
5. Screwsand nuts (buy them at your hardware store)
12x M6x25 (To fit the feet and the side parts of the x axis you´ll need)
12x M5x20 to attach the bearings to the moving pats
3x M5x45 to connect x-axis moving parts
4 screws fot the slut nuts (i used M4)
2x M2 to fix end stop to y axis foot
Some M3 to fix the motors
6. Bearings
You´ll need 13 peaces http://www.aliexpress.com/item/chrome-steel-bearin...
7. Rod (length depends on your build)
1x http://www.ebay.de/itm/181470570665?_trksid=p20578...
8. Pulleys and belt (you need three pulleys or print them)
9. Maybe endstops
2x http://www.banggood.com/10Pcs-KW12-3-Micro-Limit-S...
10. Laser heat sink
1x http://www.banggood.com/12mm-Laser-Module-Heat-Sin...
2x http://www.aliexpress.com/snapshot/6619097103.html...
12. Coupler
1x http://www.banggood.com/3Pcs-5x5mm-Motor-Jaw-Shaft...
13. Wiring
14. Fan
1x http://www.banggood.com/Heatsink-12V-0_1A-2-Pins-C...
What else will you need?!
- screw driver
- double sided tape
- a drill makes it much easier sometimes
- cable fixers at the moving parts http://www.ebay.de/itm/100-Stuck-Selbstklebe-Recht...
Step 2: .stl Files and DXF
I first printed some parts vertical, but the motor holes were some kind of comressed then. It is much better to print them horizontal...
The dxf files are made by user stevedee78 all credits to him...
Step 3: Assembly
I will post some editorials here later.
At all it is very much self-explaining, but here is it in short. If you have questions i´ll do my best to answer them.
1. assemble the parts with the bearings
2. screw the motors on the parts
3. put the x part on the axis
4. add the side parts of the x axis
5. assemble the frame
6. put the x axis on the frame
7. screw the feet
8. screw the laser parts on it
Step 4: Electronics
All the credits go to ianmcmill for his great support so far.
I got all my instructions from his 'ible'. https://www.instructables.com/id/Frankenstein-Laser...
I didn´t get the laser working yet, but will try to and then publish it.
Step 5: Videos
I hope you like it! In that case please vote for it in the contest!
Step 6: SAFETY
Always wear goggles in an adequate wavelength!
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4 People Made This Project!
- lorenzocecconi made it!
- leossoares made it!
- leossoares made it!
- Chrome98 made it!
49 Comments
which type of laser have you used in this machine, and if i want to cut the board then which laser i have to use?
I seriously need someone to provide a link for the aluminum profiles for purchase in Canada or the US. I can't find a place that's as cheap as yours, and I really want to make this!
i have some still left over from gpu mining rigs if you still need some, i will let them go cheap, match or beat any price you can find.
Check out the Extrusion from REV Robotics. It is designed for linear motion like what is described in the instructable, and doesn't require special nuts for the slots.
It is available here http://www.andymark.com/product-p/am-2901.htm
Try this one http://www.8020.net.
They are located in IN US.
sorry bud, but this isn't my market. I can't help you.
EDIT: turns out this can be used as-is with the profiles i had already, side by side.
can I use two of the single wide aluminum profiles side by side instead of the double wide ones? you know what I'm talking about? I happen to have quite a few left over from now debunk gpu mining rigs I want to use for something besides this shelf I made with them...
I wonder how easyDriver boards are able to run NEMA17 steppers. I thought you need grbl shield to be able to run NEMAs. What voltage is enough to run your NEMAs? Mine requires 24V ... (salvaged these from old multiFunctional Canon device) ...
How much torque does nema 17 stepper motor need?
only two
can anyone tell me how you accomplished the belt clamp? I have 2 types of slot nuts and neither will even fit in the slot with the belt under. I also tried just a nut - same thing. How did you do it?
Ask the company where you buy the profiles where you can get the right slotnuts...
I believe your spec for the bearing mounts screws is incorrect. they should be 30mm not 20mm. Could you please correct your requirements so that the next person to build that doesn't have a variety of screws on hand won't have to make a trip to return and purchase the correct screws. Thank you.
Could you please provide a printed parts list with quantities needed of each piece? Thank you very much.
No i won´t. Look at the pictures. It isn´t hard to see.
Hi could I get the following files to STP, PRT or DXF?
Seite_ohne_motor.stl Seite_motor.stl X_Achse_Beides.stl
I wanted to mill the parts.
Hallo könnte ich die folgenden Dateien in STP, PRT oder DXF bekommen?
Seite_ohne_motor.stl Seite_motor.stl X_Achse_Beides.stl
Ich wollte die Teile fräsen lassen.
I'll have a look when I'm back from holiday.


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Issue 126
Performatorium: Festival of Queer Performance
by Jon Davies
Taking place in the middle of a Prairie winter, the 2015 Performatorium festival's theme of "Making It, Difficult" held the promise of buckets of blood staining the Regina snow red. In fact, it was much warmer that weekend than anyone could have anticipated – a balmy 2 degrees – and while some of the performances that unfolded could be called "difficult" in terms of their intensity, duration or content, the word aptly described many pressing off-stage realities as well. The economic precarity of sustaining oneself as a performing artist, the struggle not only to communicate but also to claim and articulate one's place in history – these things are difficult. Difficult people, difficult choices, difficult situations – but difficult to whom, and why?
Curated each year by founder Gary Varro, Performatorium 2015 cultivated intimacy: all events took place in close proximity and the schedule was structured around mid-day talks followed by evenings of multiple performances at the Neutral Ground gallery and the Artesian performance space, a former church. Gathering a small group of performance artists together for three days established a provisional community, where something resembling a shared language connected artists with very different approaches, contexts, aesthetics and reference points.
Legendary Los Angeles-based artist Ron Athey magnanimously reigned over the weekend. Athey's oeuvre is the history of AIDS written on the body, from a time where everyone he knew was dying, to settling into the so-called Lazarus syndrome, where those destined to die unexpectedly keep surviving and have to deal with the difficulties of simply living. I have been following Athey's work since the late 1990s, and images of his highly theatrical performances – drawing on the forms of evangelical ritual, and on the physical violation and transformation of his and his friends' bodies – are etched in my mind. Athey's example is profound and far-reaching, from his influence on fellow festival performers Kris Grey and Martin O'Brien, to his close working relationship with academics like Jennifer Doyle of the University of California, Riverside, who places Athey squarely at the centre of her indispensable 2013 study Hold It Against Me: Difficulty and Emotion in Contemporary Art. Athey's politics of refusal has historically cast him out of contemporary art discourse, but in his radical rigour, he is central to any feminist, queer, subcultural and embodied history of recent art. In an artist talk at the University of Regina, Athey set the stakes high: how do you push through questions of identity and representation, and actually manifest a phenomenon that "changes the room"?
Athey's presence was also key to Performatorium's embrace of lineage and influence as means for queer and trans survival, an aspect that J.J. Kegan McFadden highlighted in his Canadian Art review of last year's festival. Athey named Genesis Breyer P-Orridge and Johanna Went (among many others) as touchstones, while New York-based Anya Liftig invoked William Wegman and Gilda Radner. Once we "burn the family" as Athey nicely put it, to whom do we turn to keep us going and perhaps even understand what we are striving for? I tend to romanticize the kinship structures that cohere even the most toxic art/subcultural scenes, so I found Athey's "extended family" model of long-term collaboration in work and in life very moving, but artists like Liftig and Regina-based duo Homo Monstrous reminded me that relationships with one's peers can often be more agonistic, and not in a fruitful way. If Athey was Performatorium's godhead than Homo Monstrous (Leo Keiser and Jaye Kovach) was its heart. Behind the scenes, Keiser and Kovach ran the festival's technical operations at the university and Neutral Ground, respectively, working closely with their fellow performers on their pieces. Their performance, How Fucking Loud Do I Have to Yell?, was harrowing, particularly as an outsider watching them here on their home turf, where the toll of day-to-day survival in a hard, isolated city was palpable. In a cover story in Regina's alt-weekly,Prairie Dog, Kovach noted, "being on the trans female side of the spectrum… you're in a situation where you're almost always performing. People look at you and have questions, so it's way more of a production than it needs to be, as far as just existing goes." Homo Monstrous blasted the room with trans rage, with Keiser hunched on the floor among the audience – shoulder blades jutting – screaming "I'm going to lose my fucking voice" over Kovach's righteous noise until the prophesized damage was done. Keiser and Kovach's wall of noise drowned out their words, the droning sound physically occupying the gallery.
New York-based artist Grey's Homage saw him standing on a low, stage-like plinth with a calm smile, pierced by thick, four-inch-long needles in a horizontal line, following the scars of his breast removal surgery. His regular, sure breath acted as a kind of metronome. Then, one at a time, he removed the needles, causing blood to trace a line down his body, some pooling between his legs. After a dramatic pause, he dropped each needle. Grey's stillness and formality suggested the creation of an iconic tableau, and in terms of image-making, I found myself disappointed when some of the punctures did not stream forth the highly aesthetic lines of blood on his white skin. Of course the body will do what the body wants, and therein lies the power of this kind of work, where outcomes and effects can't be fully planned or predicted. At the artists' roundtable (which I moderated), Grey spoke of orifices as sites of vulnerability: what comes in and goes out of our bodies is policed. He reverently articulated the potency and sense of agency found in giving oneself new holes.
Toronto-based Jess Dobkin's holes were more playful and vaudevillian than those punctured by many of her counterparts here. In Flowers, she anthropomorphized her vagina, dressing it up as a crude Neil Diamond to croon a duet of "You Don't Bring Me Flowers" with Dobkin as Barbra Streisand. In Dirty Plotz, she gussied up her ass with a clownish face, forcing it to imbibe and then messily regurgitate the colours of the rainbow – producing an abject queer flag. Appropriately enough, this was all staged to a child's YouTube version of the hit song "Let It Go" from Frozen, the animated Disney phenomenon deliriously adored by young girls (and some drag queens) the world over. Next to Grey's stoic bloodshed – which can't help but carry some bravado – I appreciated Dobkin's comment in her artist talk (given largely to students) that her experience of giving birth consisted of as much screaming, fluids and altered states as the most "difficult" performances one could conceive.
In The Human Factor, Liftig treated a fish like a lover – singing to it before the relationship soured and she destroyed it with a blender and guzzled down the chunks – and drew out the boiling alive of a lobster to its existentialist limits in Consider the Lobster. Here, Liftig's slow, deliberate pace suggested an effort to commune with and even become the hapless crustacean before her; her movement exaggerated everyday gestures into a languorous danse macabre. Liftig's tortured struggle – the gravitas that she brought to the decision to kill and eat her creaturely foil – effectively prolonged its life, postponing the inevitable as long as possible.
In both performances, Liftig regarded the audience with a severe, defiant gaze. I found this potent sense of complicity I felt with the performers to be the most compelling part of the festival. This was often most pronounced when something did not appear to be going as it should, for example the malfunctioning blender and hot plate that Liftig required for her visceral trans-species experiments, or when a shard of spontaneously smashed electric guitar dinged Kovach in the forehead during their set. Athey's closing performance of Messianic Remains invited a heightened level of audience complicity as we were encouraged to walk up on stage to anoint Athey's supine body – laid out on a rack of metal pipes, penetrated by a baseball bat – with a lubish gel. Communally, we rubbed his body down – an intensely intimate, tactile form of engagement. Our ministrations seemingly brought him to life as he sprang from the bed for the second part of his performance, an impish invocation of the great Divine from Jean Genet's transgressive 1943 novel Our Lady of the Flowers.
London-based O'Brien's performance Breathe for Me kept me riveted throughout its three-hour duration. Leaving the Artesian, even looking away from him, seemed like a betrayal: I had to breathe for him. I haughtily fancied myself an indispensable presence, whose moral support of just being there was required for O'Brien to get through the trials before him. (Conversely, I needed to witness him make it through to the end for my own sense of closure.) O'Brien has cystic fibrosis, which is characterized by the accumulation of excess amounts of thick mucus, causing intense coughing and difficulty breathing. O'Brien risks working in the shadow of the late Bob Flanagan, who produced performance-based work from his raw sublimation of CF pain into wild BDSM experimentation with partner Sheree Rose, wresting bodily agency back from the disease. Rather than eschewing this lineage, O'Brien embraces his corporeal connection to Flanagan; he arrived in Regina from a residency at the ONE National Gay & Lesbian Archives in Los Angeles, where he had been collaborating closely with Rose while going through her archive.
Breathe for Me consisted of a series of repeated, ritualistic actions akin to stations of the cross drawn from O'Brien's experience of CF. He began by using a scalpel to carve the imagined outlines of his lungs into the skin of his chest. He then crawled down a white plastic "runway" to a kind of pillow-altar where he lay down, breathed deeply and rhythmically beat his chest (smearing the blood from the cuts in the process) to loosen the phlegm from his respiratory system, before crawling over to one of many specimen containers flanking the runway. Expelling the sputum into the first container, he crawled back to the altar and started the painful process again. After expectorating into all 30 containers, O'Brien repeated a number of other actions a grueling 30 times each. Skinny knees on wood floor, his crawling was clearly torturous – and O'Brien soon resembled an arthritic dog, even carrying objects in his jaws. The repeated actions culminated in a debilitating march back and forth down the runway with a rubber hood over his head, which both blinded him and limited his breathing even further. O'Brien had to feel his way down the runway to get to the other side before oxygen ran out – he struggled and tripped, occasionally moaning in agony. The performance developed with a sense of inevitability; by repeating each action a set number of times, we count down along with him, while fully grasping how much was left. The end of the performance was extraordinary as O'Brien crawled down the runway once more to open the specimen containers. With each, he dug out the phlegm with his fingers and sexily anointed his body with it; he became a true diva here, playing with the goo, rubbing it in like lotion, even tossing it over his shoulder as if it were a jaunty scarf. By the very end, O'Brien was filthy and exhausted, retiring to his alter in a spent heap. The once-pristine set was now a battlefield strewn with medical refuse, splashed with slime. Like a scene from Caligula, O'Brien struck the pose of an orgy-exhausted emperor as he regained his breath sprawled before us. It was time to exit.
During Breathe for Me, I appreciated that O'Brien was not always "on" or "in the zone." Dressed simply in a loose jockstrap, his performance persona was workmanlike, and he took breaks from his torments to drink water and eat a snack. He looked up at people who walked in and out, didn't attempt to stifle any of his unscripted gasps or groans, and stretched his limbs when needed. As with the other artists, I had the opportunity to socialize with O'Brien over the weekend, to share meals and drinks, walks and taxi rides. This proximity further complicated and nuanced the collapse of "self" and "artwork" that occurs in these performances. Spending time with these human beings both "on" and "off," thinking about difficulty in all its forms – from the most mundane tribulations to the headiest challenges of existence – helped me consider how, here and now, performance rooted in discomfort and duress can forge new aesthetic and affective possibilities.

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In May, Vetroelite will be participating in the MiCo in Milan, in the Packaging Première exhibition , one of the most important events dedicated to top level luxury packaging.
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A picture of the temple of The Reorganized Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints in Independence, Mo., is mistakenly labeled a ``Mormon Temple.'' It is not. It is a different church. There are many Mormon temples that could have been shown - in Washington, Salt Lake City, Chicago, Dallas, San Diego, and Los Angeles. We do not display the cross on any of our buildings.
The article also suggests that there may not be as many members of the church as we claim. As one who has worked with membership records for decades, I can attest that membership is very carefully documented. Calvin Quayle, Eau Claire, Wis.
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State of the INDUSTRY
A Look at What's Happening in Recreation, Sports and Fitness Facilities
By Emily Tipping
After reporting a slight drop in operating expenditures from 2014 to 2015 in the 2016 Industry Report, this year saw a relatively significant increase. From 2015 to 2016, operating expenditures increased 17.5 percent, from an average of $1,740,000 to $2,044,000. (See Figure 12.) Reflecting the gradual recovery of the economy as the effects of the recession have faded, operating expenditures have increased by 43.2 percent since 2010.
Looking forward, respondents are expecting further increases to their operating expenses. From 2016 to 2017, respondents said they expect their operating expenses to increase by 2.3 percent, to an average of $2,091,000. And from 2017 to 2018, they projected a further increase of 1.1 percent, to an average of $2,115,000.
Respondents from urban communities reported the highest average operating expenditures for 2016, with an average of $2,713,000. That said, suburban respondents reported the greatest increase in their operating expenses from 2015 to 2016. In that time period, suburban respondents saw their average operating expenditure increase by 26.8 percent, from $1,900,000 in 2015 to $2,409,000 in 2016. Urban respondents saw a more modest increase, with revenues rising by 9.9 percent, from $2,468,000 in 2015 to $2,713,000 in 2016. Rural respondents reported a 5 percent decrease in their operating expenses in this time frame, falling from an average of $1,113,000 in 2015 to $1,057,000 in 2016.
Looking forward, respondents from urban communities are expecting the greatest increase to operating expenditures between 2016 and 2018. In that time frame, they project their average operating cost to grow by 4.6 percent, from $2,713,000 to $2,839,000. They were followed by rural respondents, who projected a 4.3 percent increase from $1,057,000 in 2016 to $1,102,000 in 2018. Suburban respondents projected the smallest increase to operating expenses, with a 1.9 percent increase from $2,409,000 in 2016 to $2,454,000 in 2018.
Between fiscal 2013 and fiscal 2016, parks respondents reported the greatest increases in their average operating expenditures. Park respondents said their operating costs grew by 58 percent in that time, from an average of $1,537,000 in 2013 to $2,428,000 in 2016. They were followed by colleges and universities, with an increase of 43 percent, from $1,332,000 to $1,905,000; and health clubs, with a 23.7 percent increase, from $1,302,000 to $1,804,000. Only community centers reported a decrease to operating expenditures between 2013 and 2016, reporting a drop of 2.3 percent from an average of $1,215,000 to $1,187,000. Falling in between these extremes were camps, with a 5.5 percent increase, Ys (up 23.7 percent), and schools (up 26 percent).
Looking forward, Y respondents not only report the highest average operating expenditures of all facility types, but also expect the sharpest increase to their operating expenses between 2016 and 2018. (See Figure 13.) In that time period, Ys expect their operating costs to grow by 12 percent, from $3,058,000 in 2016 to $3,245,000 in 2018. They were followed by colleges, with a 7.1 percent increase from $1,905,000 to $2,040,000; and parks, with a 4.2 percent increase, from $2,428,000 to $2,531,000. More modest increases to operating expenditures were expected by respondents from camps (up 2.5 percent) and schools (up 1.8 percent).


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The good knowledge of Physics is amicable to understand the mechanism of engineering subjects. The department is well equipped to provide the quality education to the students along with sound experimental skin. The department encourages the student and helps them in taking the innovative projects especially in the fields of semiconductor physics and optical fiber communication.
The department has well qualified staff members. The staff members involve themselves in the welfare of the First year students. They have very good teacher – student interaction and all the teachers are student counselors also. This ensures good academic performance of the students. The department has maintained good results in each semester (Near to 100%). The H.O.D and staff members of Physics are involved in research on various active fields in physics such as electron irradiation on semiconductors, Non-linear optical materials and its characterization, Nano Science and Technology.
The Department of Mathematics, the basic necessity of all branches of engineering has highly dedicated, experienced and efficient faculty members. The Department is focused to cater the need of teaching Engineering Mathematics, Operation Research etc.
The place of Chemistry in the academic programs of the institution offered at present is that of a basic subject knowledge of, which is essential for understanding the physio-chemical processes and the chemical nature of materials, used in engineering and technology. The present course is offered in the first two semesters with provision for laboratory experiments based on Analytical Chemistry.
The aim of Environmental science is to introduce student to environment concern. It makes the students aware of the environment and the interaction between humans and industries. It also trains them to implement the technical skill without effecting environment and do their bit for sustainable developments.
The department has the primary mandate of quality teaching, enhancing students learning ability, development of personality with a thrust on communication skills and humanitarian values of life.
"Communication-skills" is a compulsory subject for first year students of all the branches in the department of Humanities. An ultra modern Oral Digital Language –Lab is set-up to cater for a batch of 60 students. The students are trained in all the skills as well as in grooming of their personality. It also focuses on the production and practice of accurate sounds of English language. Results so far, have been extremely encouraging.
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Dr. Sarika Jain has over 10 years of experience in mentoring the students in engineering mathematics. Her passion and dedication towards mathematics drives her to give the best. She focuses on imparting paradigm techniques to the learners. Her student centric and result oriented approach has made her popular among the students. She always believes that "hard work beats talent when talent fails to work hard".


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2013 will be a busy year for the Breeders, who confirmed last month that they'll reunite their 1992-1994 lineup for a Deerhunter-curated edition of the All Tomorow's Parties festival. 4AD will also release a Last Splash 20th anniversary reissue, LSXX. On December 31, in time-appropriate fashion, the band posted some iPhone-shot footage of a "New Year" rehearsal, in Kim Deal's basement, as Slicing Up Eyeballs notes. Check it out, below.
In related news, Kim Deal has launched a solo 7" singles series. The first release, "Walking With a Killer" b/w "Dirty Hessians", is out now in an edition of 1,000 via her website.
Also below, watch Kim Deal perform (what appears to be) "Walking With a Killer" at ATP in England last month, her first official solo show:


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Don't call it a soup kitchen. For one thing, there's hardly ever soup.
Northampton has a free community meal available six days a week. The meals are:
Monday, noon, St. John's Episcopal Church
Tuesday, noon, St. John's Episcopal Church
Wednesday, 6PM, Edwards Church
Thursday, noon, St. John's Episcopal Church
Saturday, 11:30 AM, Edwards Church
Sunday, 5PM, Main Street (outside) in front of First Churches
These meals are for anyone. You don't need to show any kind of identification, income verification or proof of residence. If you want to eat, then show up and eat. That's it.
The meals are usually visited by a mix of individuals, mostly of the lower economic group. Some are homeless, some are living inside. Some are active addicts and some are in recovery, and some don't have an addiction issue.
And the meals… Of late, they are restaurant quality. Have you ever heard of a soup kitchen that takes menu requests?
Each meal usually has a meat and a vegetarian option.
And at the meals, not only can you come back up for seconds (and thirds…) but you also get another meal to take home.
And so many pastries and breads.
One attendee has said that Northampton is one of the most generous cities in the country.
I write this to ask for support for the Manna Soup Kitchen. Please come by and have a meal if you're hungry. Please come and volunteer if you are not hungry. Or do both. Sitting and sharing a meal and conversation is also service.
If you don't have time to volunteer, drop off some clothes, blankets, gloves, jackets. If you bring donations to a soup kitchen, they go to people living outside. If you bring them to Good Will or the Salvation Army, they get sold to people looking for a bargain.
Manna Soup Kitchen, led by Bob and Lee, is doing an amazing job for our community in need, and I hope that those in need find their way there, and those who have their needs met find their way to helping to support the effort.


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My mother has cooked some Kheer. I haven't yet tasted it, but it is been always very delicious since I remember.
Father is back from mosque (after Eid prayer & meeting with some friend), he is lying now.
All of brothers are wearing new clothes.
I just had two relative who came to visit me.
Eid is not just the eid every year, it refresh many momries to me.
When I was 7, my mom used to buy glasses for us, Eidi (gifts on Eid) were always there too. I used to buy a new toy gun every year on Eid. Then all the day enjoying with cousins.
I think, human is the only specie who face so many turns in life.
But this is what makes us human and life a life.
Happy Eid Mubarak to Each and Everyone of You!!!
PS. I was not feeling well for past five days, this is one of few reasons I couldn't write a new post. It'll be back soon.


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It used to be that Jann Wenner only drove his own employees bonkers. Now he's driving Time Inc. bonkers, too.
Sources at Time Inc. said that executives at the magazine giant are irked by the vats of publicity that Wenner Media gossip upstart Us Weekly has been getting lately-often at the expense of Time Inc.'s crown jewel, People -and they're peeved that the Rolling Stone publisher's been sniffing around Time Inc.'s talent, too.
In fact, sources said, the Time Inc. brass are so rankled by Mr. Wenner's attempts to swipe their employees, they're taking a bar-the-windows strategy to retaining staff.
And yes, it's personal. "There's something about Wenner and Wenner Media that people at Time Inc. don't like," said one Time Inc. executive, who spoke on the condition of anonymity. "There'ssomething about him that gets people going in a way it doesn't with Hearst or Condé Nast or Forbes. There's something deep down that's disagreeable with the guy."
"It's almost a matter of pride to them not to lose any people to Wenner," said another Time Inc. source said.
Butguesswhat: There's no love lost on the other side, either. Mr. Wenner, who was traveling and unavailable for comment, is said to be ticked about losing former Us Weekly editor Terry McDonell to Time Inc.'s Sports Illustrated in February, as well as a handful of Us Weekly staffers to People . Now that people are starting to talk about Us Weekly as something other than a punchline, Mr. Wenner's taking pleasure in getting a little revenge, and in stirring up his competitors across the street.
"You can understand why Jann's pissed," one source said, referring to Time Inc.'s own poaching efforts. "He's very happy with Us 's P.R. battle against People , and he wants to stick it in Time Inc.'s face."
Though they occupy the same block in midtown Manhattan, Wenner Media and Time Inc. have always lived as Gatsby and Nick: neighbors who cross paths, but then return to vastly different roofs. Glimmering on the west side of the street is Time Inc.-the empire built by Henry Luce, whose magazines now serve as a unit of the giant, publicly held machine of AOL Time Warner. On the east side of the street, Wenner Media, the one-floor home of Rolling Stone, Us Weekly and Men's Journal , has the look and feel of a summer rental, though it's run by a famously tight-fisted proprietor who can often be found straightening up the desks of his underlings.
Until recently, executives on the 34th floor of the Time Inc. headquarters had little reason to give much thought to Mr. Wenner, whose attempt to pummel Time Inc.'s People with Us Weekly seemed akin to challenging a cannon with a cap gun.
But then came Bonnie Fuller, whose antics (late closings, tawdry headlines) and results (increased newsstand sales) have generated more press for Mr. Wenner than any cameo in a Cameron Crowe movie ever could.
And, according to sources at Time Inc., the buzz has started to rub executives at Time Inc. the wrong way. Though they don't deny Ms. Fuller's spark, they point out that Us Weekly 's newsstand sales remain a fraction of People 's (394,000 to 1.4 million). "There's a sense that the data has been misconstrued about Us, " said a Time Inc. source. "They hate the perception that Us is doing well and People 's doing badly. They don't need anything else to feed into that."
Losing talent is an even bigger issue. Over the past couple of months, sources said, Time Inc. editor in chief Norman Pearlstine and editorial director John Huey have been in lockdown mode, determined to keep their talent away from both the previously vacant Rolling Stone managing editor job (filled on June 12 by FHM editor in chief Ed Needham) and from Ms. Fuller.
"Norm and John want to know what's going on," one Time Inc. source said. "They get involved in these things; they're not going to let talent walk out the door."
To date, the Time Inc. honchos have been quite successful at hanging onto their gang. When People assistant managing editor LarryHackett-with whom sources said Mr. Wenner became enamored while interviewing him for the job eventually filled by Ms. Fuller-was offered the Rolling Stone gig by Mr. Wenner in mid-May, Mr. Huey and Mr. Pearlstine successfully intervened. The same scenario, according to Time Inc. sources, played out a few weeks later, when Mr. Wenner turned to Time senior editor Eric Pooley. Likewise, according to sources, when Sports Illustrated Scorecard editor Albert Kim came close to signing on as an executive editor for Us , Mr. Huey and Mr. Pearlstine, along with People managing editor Martha Nelson, convinced Mr. Kim to take an assistant managing editor job with People instead.
Both Mr. Huey and Mr. Pearlstine declined a request for an interview. A spokesperson for Ms. Nelson also declined to comment on the matter, saying, "We don't comment on personnel issues."
So far, the only ones willing to jump from Time Inc. to Wennerland have been Melissa Green, formerly of InStyle and now Us Weekly 's senior beauty editor, and Teen People articles editor Jeremy Helligar, whom sources said was given the same song and dance before deciding to sign on with Ms. Fuller. "That really upset Time Inc. people a lot," one Time Inc. source said. "He's really good."
Mr. Hackett and Mr. Kim did not return repeated calls for comment, and Mr. Helligar could not be reached for comment either. Mr. Pooley declined to discuss specifics, but said: "We did talk; I had a serious conversation with Jann. When I told [ Time managing editor] Jim Kelly I was talking to Jann, he and Norm and John and I had some conversations about my future at Time Inc."
Mr. Kelly declined to comment. But a Time Inc. spokesperson said: "We're very fortunate to have very talented people. We're not surprised people would try and lure them away. And we're not surprised that people would stay, given the many titles we have and the opportunities people have here."
Ms. Fuller said she wasn't trying to raid the castle. "We've met and talked to a lot of talented people at a lot of magazine companies," Ms. Fuller said. "I think when you're hiring, that's what you've got to do. We're an equal-opportunity employer."
Kent Brownridge,general manager for Wenner Media, agreed.
"Compared to AOL Time [Warner], we're a very small company," Mr. Brownridge said. " Us Weekly may have fewer than 50 people on its editorial staff, and AOL Time Warner may have thousands on its various weeklies. It's only logical and natural, in trying to beef up our staff, that we turn to them. It's got nothing to do with 'Let's get them.' The better question is, 'Why haven't you looked there? They've got everyone.'"
Mr. Brownridge, however, did seem to take the rejections to heart.
"We have been the greatest benefactors in the lives of these people!" Mr. Brownridge said, "Their salaries have been doubled! Six weeks' vacation and four-day work weeks! I enriched their pensions!"
He added: "Our feeling is, if I wasn't successful, I made it more expensive for AOL to keep these people. I have to wonder if the same kind of efforts would have been made if someone had said, 'Gee, I have a better offer at Condé Nast or Hearst, I'm happy for the people. I'm happy for them and their families."
Of course, Time Inc. may have started this in the first place. Mr. Wenner might never be looking to the corner of 51st and Sixth for people had Time Inc. not successfully lured Mr. McDonell from Us Weekly in February to become the new managing editor of Sports Illustrated . Time Inc. also had no compunction about taking Us Weekly staffers Todd Gold and J.D. Heyman to People , andgrabbingCharlie Leerhsen-whowas passed over for the top job at Us Weekly for Ms. Fuller-as the executive editor of SI . Moreover, Wenner sources expressed dismay over people from Time Inc. claiming to have offers-when none had been tendered-to advance their salaries at Time Inc.
For his part, Mr. Leerhsen, who's done this switcheroo before-he originally left Time Inc. for Wenner in 1998-saw no bad feeling on the part of his new (old) employer.
"I don't see this as being a company that's unduly worried about Wenner Media," Mr. Leerhsen said.
In that same vein, Mr. McDonell found nothing unusual about either Wenner Media's recruiting Time Inc. talent or the Time Inc. talent's refusal to bite.
"When I was at Wenner, I tried to reach out to several people at Time Inc., and I was not successful," Mr. McDonell said. "I tried to recruit them because they were so good; the company's a good place to be.
"I have friends at [Wenner]," Mr. McDonell added. "I hope they do well."
Howell Raines scared some of the writersinhis newsroom, but it now appears that the New York Times executive editor has backed down from a controversial comment indicating his seeming intention to give the paper's sleepy Times Books imprint the right of first refusal on books penned by the paper's staffers.
A new Times book policy-issued in a union memo to staffers on Monday, June 17-looks kinder than what some of the paper's staffers feared was coming when they read of Mr. Raines' plan for Times Books in a June 10 New Yorker profile of the new executive editor. "The guts of it is we want first refusal," Mr. Raines told the magazine.
That comment sent shivers through The Times, where dreams of publishing stardom usually involve mid-to-high-six-figure deals with imprints like Simon & Schuster-not a small-potatoes offer from the paper's perennially unsuccessful joint venture with Henry Holt & Company.
"I would quit over something like that," one Times staffer told Off the Record, "because that would really fucking suck."
Well, cheer up, buddy-you won't have to quit! "First refusal is not going to be the policy," said Lena Williams, The Times' representative for the Newspaper Guild of New York, who helped negotiate the policy.
According to the Guild's press release, instead of first refusal, Times reporters, editors, critics and photographers simply have to "notify" management, "in writing, in advance of their desire" to publish a work of nonfiction gleaned from reporting. Under the new policy, The Times will have a "reasonable opportunity to make a competitive bid for the project," but the staffer will have no obligation to accept the offer, even if they want to choose another publishing house offering less money.
Mike Levitas, director of New York Times Book Development, said that the initial distress inspired by Mr. Raines' comments was unfounded. "If you have imaginary fears that are based on a single quote that wasn't really revealing, there's no limit to what nightmare you can imagine," Mr. Levitas said. "Why should The Times be held responsible for someone's fertile imagination?"
Ultimately, Mr. Raines' ambitions are to juice the Times Books imprint with a few of those staff-penned best-sellers that have typically escaped to other publishers-like Judith Miller's Germs: Biological Weapons and America's Secret War , published by Simon & Schuster-thereby raking in a little ancillary profit.
If nothing more, Mr. Raines has succeeded in putting Times Books squarely on the radar of his staffers. Which would be a definite change, since some staffers never even considered it. Frank Bruni, the Times Washington correspondent and soon-to-be Rome bureau chief-replacing Melinda Henneberger, who resigned to write a book for, ahem, Farrar, Straus & Giroux-told Off the Record that when he got an offer from HarperCollins to write Ambling into History: The Unlikely Odyssey of George W. Bush , "I wasn't aware that Times Books was an entity in the business of actually making bids on books by Times writers."
-Joe Hagan
The New York Post was treated to an old-fashioned newsroom rumble last week when reporters Al Guart and Murray Weiss physically went after each other not once, but twice. And guess who's to blame? The late mob boss John Gotti.
Mr. Guart and Mr. Weiss are longtime rivals on the Post 's organized-crime beat, and sources at the paper said the conflict reached a boiling point on Monday, June 10, the day of Mr. Gotti's death. According to sources, the trouble started after Mr. Weiss-who usually works out of police headquarters-came into the newsroom to work on the paper's Gotti coverage. After Mr. Weiss was assigned to work on a story on Mr. Gotti's last days, a source said Mr. Guart quipped: "That should be easy. Just read my clips for the last year."
Oooo, snap ! Taking offense, Mr. Weiss, according to sources, splashed Mr. Guart with a bottle of Poland Spring. When Mr. Guart reached for the bottle, a struggle between the two ensued, but the metro-brawlers were quickly separated, sources said.
Round 2 began later that evening. Around 8 p.m., sources said, Mr. Guart waited for Mr. Weiss outside the men's restroom with his own container of
Post colleagues weren't surprised that it came down to a splishy-splashy battle. "He and Al hate each other," one Post source said. "They don't respect each other. They trash each other a lot-both to other reporters and to their sources."
And even after the aqua-fisticuffs had ceased, the verbal battle raged on. On Wednesday, June 12, Mr. Guart could be heard bad-mouthing Mr. Weiss' June 12 front-page story "to every reporter in earshot, and on the phone with sources."
"Things got so bad," a Post source said, "[metro editor] Jesse Angelo called both of them into his office to tell them to cut it out."
When reached, Mr. Guart declined to comment. Likewise, Mr. Weiss declined to delve into the matter, saying only, "Let it rest."
For his part, Mr. Angelo acknowledged the scuffle but declined to speak to any of the details. "The reality," he said, "is you have two extremely competitive reporters, and some bad blood boiled over."
Back in February, attempting to soothe his nerves, which had been rankled by all the honking going on outside his Cobble Hill, Brooklyn, apartment, a 32-year-old Web-site producer named Aaron Naparstek wrote a bunch of haiku about honking. Over the course of several weeks, Mr. Naparstek posted his "honku" on local telephone poles. It wasn't long before his story was picked up by several New York periodicals, including The Observer and The New Yorker.
"Wow!" Mr. Naparstek told a reporter earlier this year, after his honkus were published in The Observer . "I'm a published poet! It usually takes people years to get to this point!"
Now the novice poet is bringing the art of honku to another level. In mid-May, Mr. Naparstek closed a deal with the Random House imprint Villard to produce a book of honkus. Tentatively subtitled "The Zen Antidote to Road Rage," the book-which will be a small, trim-size hardback edition, very likely accompanied by illustrations-is due to be published early next summer. Though no one would give the specifics of his advance, it appears to be of fairly generous proportions. "For a small, quirky book, it was a very good advance," offered Donna Bagdasarian, Mr. Naparstek's agent at Vigliano Associates. "It was a nice five-figure deal," said Tim Farrell, Mr. Naparstek's editor at Villard.
O.K., but is there really a wider market for a collection of haiku about cars honking in Brooklyn? Ms. Bagadasarian and Mr. Farrell say absolutely. Mr. Farrell pointed to Calvin Trillin's Tepper Isn't Going Out . "People seem to like to read about traffic problems," he told Off the Record.
Mr. Naparstek didn't seem so sure. "Oh, God," he said when asked what he thought the larger impact of his book might be. "You know-probably nothing." But after a moment's consideration, he changed his mind: "I should stand behind my honkus," he proclaimed. "I think they do have the potential to calm down insane commuters all over the place … and foster world peace, potentially."
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Welcome to the deliciously amusing candy kingdom of SWEET CANDY BUSTERS to join the discovery saga journey together with lovely friends Pirate Bunny, Frenzy Mummy, King Werewolf, Frankenstein, Dracula to fight against Pumpkin King monsters who are scheming to invade the kingdom or protect candies from sweet-tooth mice.
What differentiate SWEET CANDY BUSTERS from a regular Match 3 game are its interesting extra game plays and levels.
Players match 3 or more candies horizontally or vertically to collect them and create specially powerful sweets; however, the difference of SWEET CANDY BUSTERS comes from cute characters of pets which you can bring along upon levels.
Choosing the right pets sometimes helps you get over extreme obstacles for a fraction of a second.
Another distinctness of SWEET CANDY BUSTERS lies in the structure of over 150 levels (more updates are added weekly) in which you will have to complete different targets, such as collect enough candy pieces in requested color, save frozen sweets, fight against Pumpkin King monsters, save the hazelnuts and strawberries, battle against cookie invasion, protect candy from greedy mice…
– Match three or more candy pieces to collect them
– Match 4 candy pieces horizontally or vertically to make a special candy piece to blast the others of the same row
– Match 5 sweets horizontally or vertically to create a sweet to collect all other sweets of the same color
– Connect 2 of any special candy pieces to create amazing candy effects
– A large scale of levels with different targets to complete: collect candies, save and fight… at the same time
– Use boosters and pets to facilitate the targets:
* Candy Hammer: crush one candy piece
* Candy Bomb: crush 9 candy pieces around the picked piece
* Candy Magic Stick: destroy the whole lines of the picked candy horizontally and vertically
* Pirate Bunny: Shoot the random candies on board
* King Werewolf: Turn random candies into line blasters
* Frankenstein: Shoot a block of candies randomly
* Frenzy Mummy: Collect a line of picked candy diagonally
* Dracula: Collect candy pieces of the same color randomly
– Players get over each level will be rewarded with coins depending on the perfection you nail: 3 stars get 150 coins, 2 stars get 100 coins and 1 star gets 50 coins
– If you fail to complete a target, you can spend coins on recovery or purchasing more moves.
★ Play through over 150 levels of delicious candy, cookies or fruits.
★ 3 Special and Powerful Boosters: Candy Hammer, Candy Bomb, Candy Magic Stick.
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Even in very dark environments, there are small amounts of ambient light. This light may be visible, but some types of infrared light are not visible to the human eye. The AGM night vision goggles use advanced image enhancement technologies and innovative construction materials to collect all available light in a specific range (including infrared light), then amplify and convert that into an image, in order to make the invisible visible.
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The latest rumor that Apple had kicked the tires on an acquisition of A24 has reignited speculation that the tech giant wants to buy a studio so it can better compete with Netflix, Amazon and Hulu in the lucrative streaming media market.
Apple has $285 billion in cash, so it can afford to buy practically anything it wants, though it remains to be seen how serious the company is about getting into the content business, even though investors are clamoring for the next big thing to come from the pioneering company behind iTunes, iPhones and iPad.
While A24 looks like a nice, relatively cheap fit, reports of serious discussions between the two may be more about partnerships than of an outright acquisition of the company behind Oscar-nominated films like Lady Bird and Moonlight.
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Apple has said that it would spend $1 billion making original content this year, like another season of Amazing Stories, a reboot of Steven Spielberg's 1980s anthology series, and an upcoming drama from Reese Witherspoon and Jennifer Aniston, but that's a pittance compared to the $8 billion Netflix is expected to spend this year.
If Apple is to get more seriously in the game, it should buy an established studio, observers say. But the company doesn't like to spend money on acquisitions — its largest in recent memory being the $3 billion purchase of Beats Music four years ago.
"Apple may want to acquire a studio in order to deepen its relationships in Hollywood, access a deep library and secure a quality development pipeline," says Ben Weiss, chief investment officer of 8th & Jackson Capital Management.
Some have opined Apple might just bite the bullet and try to buy Netflix, though when The Hollywood Reporter speculated on such an acquisition in 2016, Netflix was valued at $40 billion. Since then, its market capitalization has swelled to $128 billion.
"Apple has a history of making smaller acquisitions, such as Beats, to acquire talent and intellectual property that it can leverage across its product and services platform," says Weiss.
Another name bandied about is MGM, the studio behind the James Bond film franchise and Mark Burnett reality TV shows. But MGM, valued somewhere north of $4 billion, recently parted ways with its CEO, Gary Barber, and one of the reasons was that Barber wanted to sell while the investment groups that own MGM do not.
Lionsgate, valued at more than $5 billion, is another possibility. John Feltheimer, the CEO of the studio behind the Hunger Games and John Wick movie franchises, not to mention TV shows like Orange Is the New Black and Nashville, has often considered a sale. Billionaire mogul John Malone has a big stake in Lionsgate, and he's constantly looking for media assets to buy, sell and spin off.
Still, there are many who view Apple as being quite content to slowly build out its own studio, seeing as the world's most valuable company has had massive success doing its thing on its timeline.
"It is unlikely Apple buys a studio," says Steven Birenberg, founder of Northlake Capital Management. "They seem to be just getting started in producing their own shows and seems like they would give it some time to see how they do."
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"He is awesome! I could listen to him 24/7. I wish I had a virtual Robb to start every day!!" said Melissa Mahle, Purchasing Agent at Benco Dental after Robb Zbierski's 9 a.m. presentation "Train Your Brain for Success".
Robb Zbierski, a speaker for Freedom Personal Development, visited the dental distribution company's home office in Pittston, Pennsylvania today as a guest presenter. Judging by the crowd at all three sessions, and their interaction with Zbierski, Mahle was not alone in her enthusiasm for his message.
In 2016, Zbierski shared his energy in Dallas, Texas at the 2016 Lucy Hobbs Project Annual Celebration, which is an initiative sponsored by Benco Dental to engage and empower women in dentistry. Today the company invited him to its hub invite associates based there to receive the same opportunity to participate in his educational and entertaining program.
From realizing the difference between "a groove and a rut," and the importance of attitude, to managing your personal mindset, Zbierski offered impactful suggestions —embracing laughter among them.
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Working with great people.
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Rest, rest and more rest!
What is your biggest accomplishment or something that you're most proud of?
Living to reach 57 years of age.


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After a short break for the Thanksgiving holiday, Saturday Night Live returned last night as first in a string of three new episodes. Hosted by Ryan Gosling with musical guest Leon Bridges, the episode averaged a 4.1 rating in households in the metered markets and a 2.0/9 in adults 18-49 in the markets with local people meters. That was off from the most recent SNL original with Matthew McConaughey and Adele (4.6, 2.3) but on par with the show's season averages (4.0, 2.0).
Unlike most live programs, including sports, SNL gets significant lifts in time-shifted viewing, growing by +48% this season from Live + Same Day ratings to Live+7.


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3 mind blowing ways UberEats used referrals to accelerate their growth - and you can too!
Despite the power of targeted advertising, consumers are still more likely to patronize a business that's recommended to them by friends or family. Referrals and reviews are the digital counterparts to friend recommendations. In fact, 9 out of 10 customers will make a purchase based on a positive brand referral. Companies like UberEats have been harnessing the power of referral marketing to acquire new customers and guess what - you can too!
Come along as we take a look at 5 brilliant ways UberEats has leveraged referrals to expand their business globally and earn customer loyalty.
Referral marketing is a tried and true method of using word of mouth to grow business. In this day and age we can track and reward customers for referring friends and family simply by using promotional codes & offers. A well thought out referral program can increase customer lifetime value (CLV) and average ticket spend (ATV).
Although referrals are one of the most organic marketing methods that exist, brands must influence the process in order for referrals to accelerate growth quickly like UberEats.
UberEats has become a leader in the food delivery sector, growing revenues by 103% in 2020. With the current pandemic, people are relying on food delivery apps to receive their meals safely and conveniently. They have even expanded their operations to deliver groceries and essentials in response to global lockdown measures. In 2020 alone UberEats generated $4.8 billion with an estimated 38% of that revenue coming from successful referrals! As business continues to surge for UberEats, they're constantly looking for drivers to service their customers
UberEats offers rewards to make referrals easy and attractive. They have two main targets for their referral program: drivers & customers. When drivers invite friends to deliver using the UberEats app, they can earn a reward if the referred person successfully completes a certain number of deliveries and meets the requirements. New drivers receive a sign-up bonus upon successful completion of deliveries. The referral reward can range from $100-$1100.
Customers are incentivized to make referrals on the UberEats App with their Refer-A-Friend program. Customers are given a referral code to share with friends, which allows them to earn cash discounts off their meals. This feature allows UberEats to acquire a constant stream of new customers who are rewarded for making their first purchase on the UberEats App.
One of the main benefits of friend referrals is the snowball effect it will have on your ability to acquire new customers as displayed in the graphic below.
The next step in referral marketing is shareability. Customers have the ability to share their referral codes through the UberEats App, and on the website. UberEats leverages the strength of personalization to build trust with new customers. Users are given a custom referral link that includes their name which adds familiarity and in turn, builds trust between the referred prospect and the business. The custom referral link can be copied and shared through messaging, email and social media with 80% of referrers sharing through text message. Users are also able to track the status of their referrals in the Uber App, allowing them to nudge friends who haven't yet responded to the shared link.
The referral code can be shared via emails, social media, or anywhere else.
Drivers can refer directly from their contact list with a unique invite code found in the app
The beauty of a referral program is that because it is an organic recommendation, engagement is guaranteed by human connection and a prospect of a reward, it enables the brand to achieve visibility and trust with very little investment in time and money. Through social sharing, a business can increase their acquisition efforts by 35%.
When promoting a referral program, having a clear and exciting call to action is the way to go . UberEats uses the tagline "Free Food" to excite and delight customers about the rewards associated with sharing a referral with a friend.
The final step to a successful referral program is making good on your promises. Once the referred makes their first UberEats order with the personal invite code, a promo code will be applied to the existing customer's account. Since the referred customer must create a profile with their phone number in order to redeem a reward, UberEats is now able to remarket to the new user. The referred customer now has the chance to see firsthand the value UberEats can provide them with, and thus the referral cycle is complete and can start again!
To ensure a referral program successfully meets it's objective, it's important to let customers know when the reward will expire. This creates a sense of urgency for the customer & referred person to not lose their reward. For example, UberEats' promo code will automatically apply to the current or next order and expires after 3 months if not used.
UberEats' referral program is a gated rewards system, thus ensuring only qualified customers are rewarded once the desired behaviour has been completed. This structure is an effective way to ensure a minimum spend is met in order for both parties to be rewarded, thereby increasing average ticket size and boosting overall sales.
It's a win-win for customers and brands!
UberEats is a great example of how to grow a business using the power of digital referrals and rewards. They have shown how easy and cost effective it is to acquire new customers and boost revenue in a highly competitive market.
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Suggested Use of Boiron Oscillococcinum Flu
Adults and children 2 years of age and older: Dissolve the entire contents of one tube in the mouth every 6 hours, up to 3 times a day.
Children under 2 years of age: Ask a doctor.
Other Ingredients of Boiron Oscillococcinum Flu
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The Rock, a.k.a. Dwayne Johnson was there when professional wrestling went from two chubby, hairy guys wearing unitards to tanned muscular bodies wearing glittery spandex. From 1996-2004, Dwayne glammed and glitzed the crowds with his magnificent form, his skilled moves, and his charisma — before leaving for Hollywood.
WWE languished without its star and Johnson was enticed to return in 2007. Ratings soared.
In 2016, WWE's wrestlers began wearing swastikas and confederate flags – and the scripts called for these wrestlers to win.
Johnson was called in to management, who said, "You're contract is up. There will be no renewal. Our partners are taking another direction."
They wouldn't say who the partners were.
That night when The Rock got into the ring, all ears heard:
"The Rock cries out to [you] today. You may stand upon me, but do not hide your face."
Frank J. Tassone is today's host for dVerse. Frank says:
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The Rock cries out to us today, You may stand upon me, But do not hide your face.
Maya Angelou, "On the Pulse of Morning" (excerpt) from On the Pulse of Morning. Copyright © 1993 by Maya Angelou. Used by permission of Random House, an imprint and division of Penguin Random House LLC. All rights reserved.
Source: The Complete Collected Poems of Maya Angelou (Random House Inc., 1994)
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Note: Part of this story is fiction and part is not.
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Iraqis are fleeing fighting in the cities of Fallujah and Ramadi at rates not seen since that country's civil war six years ago.
In the past week alone, some 65,000 people have left the two cities in Anbar province, the site of fierce fighting between the Shiite-led government and al Qaeda-linked groups, U.N. refugee agency UNHCR said in a statement.
"Many of the displaced… are still in desperate need of food, medical care and other aid," the U.N. said. "As the insecurity has spread, many families who fled several weeks ago have been displaced again."
More than 140,000 have been made homeless since the violence broke out at the end of last year, which is on top of the 1.1 million already displaced within Iraq, it added.
The situation for those caught in the fighting is also dire, UNHCR's senior spokesman Peter Kessler said.
"People are still fighting and mortars are still landing. People don't have access to food," he said.
Iraq has just been through its worst 12 months of violence in years, reaching levels not seen since it was emerging from its most turbulent post-invasion period between 2006 and 2008.
In recent weeks, fighters opposed to the government have taken control of parts of the cities of Ramadi and Fallujah. On Sunday, the government forces launched an all-out offensive to push back the fighters in Ramadi, officials said.
On Monday, seven bombs hit the capital Baghdad, killing at least 26 people and wounding 67, officials told Reuters.


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"I am following Nature without being able to grasp her… I perhaps owe having become a painter to flowers."
Claude Monet, Water Lilies (fr.Nymphéas), 1915
Surface of the pond is flickering in mystic blue and dreamy green shades, flickering gently as if it was a garment woven from blue topaz and emerald gemstones. These opulent jewel colours could only be compared to the magical silks and velvets that Paul Poiret used in his lavishing, oriental designs. Perhaps the same muse seduced both artists – a muse called 'Nymphaea' or 'Water Lily'. Perchance it's not a coincidence that these beautiful flowers share a name with Greek divine spirits – Nymphs; nude beauties observed by the Greek god of the wild – Pan. The pond is rustling a silver watery hymn, while the blades of grass, resembling long peridot-green locks of hair, are humming the sweetest notes of spring. Cerulean blue surface, slippery like silk petticoats of a duchess. Rhythmical water rippling. Quiet and deep mystic waters resonate with musical tunes.
Petal by petal, lush white flowers are awakening, their whiteness encrusted with amethyst pink tulle-like skirts. Water lilies are breathing the vivacious air, and exhaling the luscious flowery scents, their petals rustling like delicate silks of Paul Poiret's divine oriental dresses. Sapphire blue leaves are emerging from the water like dozens of eyes. Sweet scents are pervading the air of this mystical haven. Every brushstroke reveals Monet's enchantment with his Water Lilies, and the impossibility of discovering their secrets. For Monet, it seems, they were more than just flowers, but muses whose silent whispers he interpreted as invitations to paint them, in the same way he would paint an extravagant woman. And he always satisfied their vanity.
He painted them in all occasions: in morning freshness, just waken up and sleepy. In all their glory of colours when the sun of June hits their petals with its shine. He painted them distressed by the raindrops. Fragile and pale, flickering, in the morning dew. In the evening gatherings when the moon slowly appears in the sky, and they crowd round in the middle of the pond, sitting on their leaves like noblewomen of Venice in their gondolas, instead of masks their faces covered with the veil of night. He painted them surrounded by mystic purple waters, their petals like silvery veils, luscious white flowers resembling Ophelia's white dress spread on the water in the last moment.
Due to their seductive beauty, it's hard to tell whether these water lilies are indeed pure botanical creatures or real Nymphs, transformed by some strange spell into static flowers; sleeping beauties on the water. In 1896, J.W. Waterhouse painted the scene of poor Hylas being abducted by the Nymphs; he portrayed Hylas as powerless against the charms of the Nymphs, and Monet did a similar thing. The massive amount of Monet's Water Lily scenes serves as an evidence of his lifelong fascination with these serene flowers.
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What are the Health Benefits of Eucalyptus?
Eucalyptus is a fast-growing evergreen tree that is native to Australia. As an ingredient in many over-the-counter products, it is used to reduce symptoms of coughs, colds, and congestion. It also features in creams and ointments aimed at relieving muscle and joint pain.
Eucalyptus leaves and essential oil are used in complementary medicine.
The oil that comes from the eucalyptus tree is used as an antiseptic, a perfume, as an ingredient in cosmetics, as a flavoring, in dental preparations, and in industrial solvents.
Chinese, Indian Ayurvedic, Greek, and other European styles of medicine have incorporated it into the treatment of a range of conditions.
Eucalyptus products
There are over 400 different species of eucalyptus. Eucalyptus globulus, also known as Blue Gum, is the main source of global eucalyptus oil production. The tree can grow up to 230 feet high. The leaves are long and narrow, and the bark is blue-gray in color.
Eucalyptus leaves are steam distilled to extract the oil from the leaves of the eucalyptus tree.
The oil is a colorless liquid with a strong, sweet, woody scent. It contains 70 percent to 85 percent 1,8-cineole, known as eucalyptol. It can supplement treatment for a wide range of medical conditions.
The leaves also contain flavonoids, volatile oils, and tannins. Flavonoids are plant-based antioxidants, and tannins may help to reduce inflammation.
Properties of eucalyptus
Eucalyptol is thought to have antibacterial, anti-inflammatory, and analgesic properties.
In February 2016, researchers from Serbia found evidence supporting the antimicrobial action of eucalyptus.
They concluded that a positive interaction between E. camaldulensis essential oil and existing antibiotics could lead to the development of new treatment strategies for certain infections and that this could reduce the need for antibiotics.
A study published in Clinical Microbiology & Infection has suggested that eucalyptus oil may have antibacterial effects on pathogenic bacteria in the upper respiratory tract, including Haemophilus influenzae, responsible for a range of infections, and some strains of streptococcus.
Uses of eucalyptus
Eucalyptus is thought to have a number of medicinal properties, although not all of them have been confirmed by research.
Eucalyptus as a remedy for colds and respiratory problems
Eucalyptus leaves can be used in a vapor bath.
Eucalyptus features in a range of preparations to relieve symptoms of the common cold, for example, cough lozenges and inhalants.
Herbal remedies recommend using fresh leaves in a gargle to relieve a sore throat, sinusitis, and bronchitis.
Eucalyptus oil vapor appears to act as a decongestant when inhaled. It is a popular home remedy for colds and bronchitis.
It may act as an expectorant for loosening phlegm and easing congestion.
Researchers have called for further studies to clarify the possible therapeutic role of eucalyptus leaf extract in the treatment of respiratory tract infection.
Eucalyptus and dental care
The antibacterial and antimicrobial potential of eucalyptus has been harnessed for use in some mouthwash and dental preparations
In promoting dental health, eucalyptus appears to be active in fighting bacteria that cause tooth decay and periodontitis.
The use of eucalyptus extract in chewing gum may promote periodontal health, according to a study published in the Journal of Periodontology into the effect of chewing gum containing eucalyptus extract.
Other uses of eucalyptus
The University of Maryland Medical (UMM) Center describe how traditional Aboriginal medicines used eucalyptus to treat fungal infections and skin wounds. Eucalyptus tea was also administered to reduce fevers.
Fast facts about essential oil safety
- Keep essential oils away from children and pets
- Avoid prolonged use of a single essential oil
- Do not use undiluted oil on the skin or near the eyes.
- Check the safety information before using any oil.
Towards the end of the 19th century, eucalyptus oil was used in most hospitals in England to clean urinary catheters.
Eucalyptus is an effective insect repellent and insecticide. In 1948, the United States officially registered eucalyptus oil as an insecticide and miticide, for killing mites and ticks.
The Mayo Clinic recommend oil of lemon eucalyptus as one of the most effective insect repellants in the U.S. They suggest using it for keeping mosquitoes away.
In 2012, researchers from New Delhi, in India, found that E. globulus oil was active against the larvae and pupae of the housefly. They suggested that it could be a viable option for use in eco-friendly products to control houseflies.
Eucalyptus extract may act as a pain reliever, and research indicates that the oil may have analgesic properties. In a study published in the American Journal of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation, scientists applied Eucalyptamint on the anterior forearm skin of 10 people.
Eucalyptamint, an over-the-counter preparation with the generic name methyl salicylate topical, is used to treat muscle and joint pain linked to strains and sprains, arthritis, bruising, and backache.
The scientists concluded that "Eucalyptamint, produced significant physiologic responses that may be beneficial for pain relief and/or useful to athletes as a passive form of warm-up."
Other conditions that eucalyptus may help with include:
- Arthritis
- A blocked nose
- Wounds and burns
- Acne
- Ulcers
- Bladder diseases
- Diabetes
- Fever
- Flu.
Eucalyptus oil may stimulate an immune system response, say findings published in BMC Immunology.
Precautions and side effects
According to the National Association for Holistic Aromatherapy (NAHA), some essential oils can be hazardous, but those that are available commercially, from reputable sources, are safe to use if handled appropriately. It is important to use "pure, authentic and genuine essential oils."
Eucalyptus products can generally be used safely on the skin, as long as the oil is diluted. It should not be applied directly to the skin if it is undiluted. It can be diluted with a carrier oil, such as olive oil. The dilution should be between 1 percent and 5 percent eucalyptus oil to between 95 percent and 99 percent carrier oil.
Eucalyptus can produce irritation and a burning sensation. It should not be used too close to the eyes.
It is not safe to take eucalyptus oil orally because it is poisonous.
Some people may be allergic to eucalyptus. In some individuals with asthma, eucalyptus can make their condition worse. Others find that it helps to relieve their asthma symptoms.
Side effects may include:
- Diarrhea
- Nausea
- Vomiting
- Stomach upset.
Signs of eucalyptus poisoning include dizziness, feelings of suffocation and small pupils.
Eucalyptus may also interact with other medications, and it can impact the liver.
Children are more sensitive to essential oils, and care should be taken when using eucalyptus with children. Use should be avoided during pregnancy.


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When you need spiritual and emotional support during hospitalization or for health care decisions, lean on the chaplains at Nash UNC Health Care.
Reach out for spiritual healing while you're a patient at Nash UNC. Rest assured our pastoral care providers can help calm and reassure you. Our chaplains offer assistance by:
Ask your nurse or care team if you want to request a visit from a chaplain during your stay at Nash UNC.
Chaplains are available to offer religious rituals and services (blessings, communion, baptisms, etc.) during your hospital stay.
Request a free King James version of the Bible or a New Testament and Psalms book from a chaplain. Gideons International donates the books to Nash UNC. Efforts will be made to make available other sacred texts.
Ask our chaplains to arrange a visit from your faith leader or a leader from your religious denomination to meet your needs. Partnerships with religious groups, denominations and faith groups in Rocky Mount and surrounding communities allow our chaplains to make requests on your behalf.
Draw on our experience with advance care planning to help inform your decisions. Advance directives information is available to you and your family with guidance from our chaplains.
Connect with our chaplains to bridge the gap between your hospital care and community health care. Count on us to refer you to community services to help you heal and grow after your hospital stay.
If you're in training to become a chaplain, develop or expand your skills with clinical pastoral education (CPE) through Nash UNC.
Chaplains at Nash UNC provide emotional and spiritual support 24 hours a day, seven days a week. Call Pastoral Care at 252-962-8534 to request a visit Monday through Friday, from 8:30 a.m. to 5 p.m.
In the evening or on weekends, please call the hospital operator at 252-962-8000 and request the on-call chaplain be paged.