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Developed and managed business alliances with key international suppliers. Ensured legal schedule, cost and contractual compliance on significant multi-year engagements. Oversaw a 5 year outsourcing contract with annual spend of $100M with 200 open Statements of Work. Concurrently managed multiple other supplier contracts with spend totaling over $200M. Initiated and managed a Diversity Supplier Program.
- Negotiated and managed contract with key supplier for flagship product which generated 50% of $24B annual revenue.
- Directed a year long procurement ISO effort leading to successful ISO 9000 certification which secured additional customer opportunities using new processes and tools.
- Renegotiated key contracts with annual cost savings of $10M on average (against target of $4M).
- Led Procurement transition efforts due to the sale of the division from IBM to Ricoh. Secured and managed multiple international supplier contracts with spend up to $100M annually.
- Created contract templates, processes and tools for the new company and provided on-going team training for 50 employees which improved performance, quality and established best practices.
- Oversaw a year long education project for 60 supply chain professionals on new Oracle implementation which was introduced and transitioned with no disruption to workflow.
- Identified issues with a major supplier during insolvency. Developed and managed a plan to maintain supply of product while meeting all inventory needs with zero impact to customer sales.
- Recognized as a top performer annually for 5 consecutive years.
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Contract Manager
Managed Business Development, Proposal Preparation, Financial Strategy and Program Execution for over 130 Deployed Engineers.
- Successfully negotiated pricing, terms and conditions, proprietary information agreements, and teaming agreements with several industry leaders and USG.
- Regularly executed dozens of contracts and won follow on contracts extending contract period of performance by over 9 years.
- Obtained Certification as a Six Sigma Specialist completing cost saving and utilization initiatives across several business divisions.
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Senior Contract Manager - Attorney
Drafted, and negotiated commercial equipment leases, loans, sale and purchase agreements involving both foreign and domestic transactions. Negotiated and drafted vendor agreements, presentations, proposals, commitments, and letters of credit. Provided legal and financial counsel to Lessee and Lessor clients. Managed paralegals and part-time personnel.
- Led conflict and alternate dispute resolution efforts resulting in lower litigation expenses.
- Proactively advised management on wide range of legal and financial issues, reducing outside counsel costs by 25%.
- Revised funding policies and procedures. Advised management on corporate regulatory and compliance matters,
- Collaborated with appraisers, manufacturers, and corporate departments (credit, equipment, finance, and marketing).
- Designed and presented weekly in-house training seminars, which increased overall contract department productivity.
- Monitored and assisted outside counsel on bankruptcy, work out and litigation matters, reducing expenses by 20%.
- Successfully and repeatedly dealt with Corporate Boards of Directors and Flight Departments resulting in a 15%
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Contract Manager
Initiated new tracking procedures on additional work resulting in over $420,000 in annual sales.
- Administered master location file for all contract and billing information. Approximately 1,000 locations over 4 state territory.
- Supervised Corrective Action Report system, customer 800 lines, administrative assistant, and accounts payable clerk.
- Calculated and submitted all state invoices along with supporting documentation to customer for payment. Invoiced approximately $10 million annually.
- Monitored, researched, and collected over $300,000 in accounts receivable.
- Assisted in the consolidation of the multi-state project as well as created processes and procedures for administrative and operational functions.
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Project/ Contract Manager
High visibility position that required frequent engagement with executive leadership as well as regular communication with internal and external customers. Successful development and implementation of contract management policies; led end-to-end business process improvement initiatives; management of on-site contact center team and remote team of contract managers and team leads. Provided executive management with consultative support to assist in controlling and/or enhancing processes and compliance with policies.
- Increased percentage of client complaints resolved over two 30-day cycles from 35% to 75%
- Reduced complaint resolution time from 19 days to 6 days over two 30-day cycles (Benchmark = 10 days)
- Responsible for critical incident investigations and management related to internal/external regulatory responses and/or serious safety concerns
- Compiled, analyzed and reported data and trends relating to operational effectiveness and service level compliance
- Imposed corrective action, to include vendor payment hold; monitored corrective action plans to ensure resolution of compliance issues
- Trained cross-functional teams to ensure correct process execution; coached staff requiring remedial instruction
- Produced issue papers and case studies to inform executive level decision making on program/process reform
- Team lead on specific projects; responsible for general oversight, assignment delegation, skills training and performance review
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Contract Manager
Responsible for recruiting physicians and hospitals as insurance providers for Health Right plan
- Contacted physicians directly to explain plan providing insurance to low income population in DC
- Met with providers to review contract, resolve concerns and check credentials prior to finalizing
- Supported and managed contract, monitored operational performance against corporate objectives
- Oversaw the reimbursement function to ensure payments were being processed appropriately
- Documented all activity and prepared reports including recommendations for improved efficiency for both providers and Health Right
- Formulated and executed business strategies to reduce risk, enhance customer satisfaction, build positive customer relationships, and improve profitability and quality assurance
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Contract Manager
Proposed, negotiated and managed several major Government contracts critical to the success of the company's business strategy and financial goals.
- Proposed, negotiated and secured awards of numerous firm fixed price production contracts exceeding $500M to supply the Army with Bradley Fighting Vehicles (BFV) upgraded with situational awareness capabilities
- Managed $1B multi-year technical support services contract; proposed, negotiated and secured award of follow-on contract for additional three years of support
- Negotiated terms and conditions for award of a new, three-year Basic Ordering Agreement (BOA) enabling the Army to order a variety of vehicles, parts and services
- Led Contract Management support during the competition and successful capture of a cost-plus-award-fee subcontract awarded by The Boeing Company and managed by SAIC for system development and demonstration of an Armed Robotic Vehicle (ARV) under the Army's Future Combat Systems (FCS) modernization program
- Fostered trusted and cooperative relationships with SAIC Program Management and Procurement representatives under the FCS ARV Program to ensure program success and maximization of award fee earned
- Mentored new and less-experienced Contracts staff in navigating company policies and procedures and in resolving difficult contractual issues
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Senior Supply Chain Contract Manager
Managed Supply Chain contracts ($21M) for the largest AT&T Worldwide Account outsourcing services, and support globally
- Managed key cost elements for what AT&T "Should Pay" for products/services benchmarking
- Negotiated to mitigate price increases, and reduced costs on key projects
- Executed, signed, and manage key contracts, amendments, and statements of work
- Project Manage key Cross Functional Teams to drive sustainable revenue
- Tracked inventory levels and negotiated pricing/delivery of products to replenish supply
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Contract Manager
Setting and Maintaining Budget, Billing, Data Input, Providing Documentation to clients, and Bidding Jobs.
- Inspecting field jobs and overseeing field personnel
- Ensure all current OSHA & EPA guidelines were followed.
- Volunteer for 10+ years
- Worked extensively with MLGW, The City of Memphis, and Shelby County Housing to ensure the company stayed in compliance with new regulations.
- Maintained and managed budgets ensuring that contracts (up to $50,000) were completed on time and under budget.
- Organized Media Department and increased sales of products.
- Developed a streamlined procedure for producing a Weekly Television Broadcast.
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Contract Manager
Preparation and submittal of Budgets, RFP's and RFQ's (CPFF, FFP, T&M's, GRANTS)
- Preparation of NDA's (Non-Disclosure Agreements), Teaming Agreements
- Oversaw Directorates of $10.5M in yearly revenues
- Developed and maintained spreadsheets that tracked budgeted costs to actual costs to date
- Monitor labor hours, cost and ODC charges to each individual project.
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Why Probiotics are Beneficial for Gut Health
Written by Sherridan Austin. There has been a real buzz about probiotics over the past two decades as people have recognised their importance when it comes to gut health. When we consider that humans are made up of 90% microbes and 10% human cells, it's clear that we should try to support these microbes as best we can to prevent and treat disease – and probiotics are a good way to do this. How Probiotics Work to Benefit Your Gut The term 'probiotics' derives from the Greek language and translates to 'for life'. (Interestingly, the term 'antibiotics' in fact means 'against...
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10 Hidden Toxic Ingredients Attacking Your Gut Health
Written by MINDD Foundation No matter how healthy your diet or lifestyle may be, there are many toxic ingredients commonly added to foods that attack your gut health.And you should know that many of these toxic ingredients can be hidden in health foods, protein powders, meal replacements, beverages, grooming products, and even household cleaners! So, peek in your cupboards and check those ingredients lists for the following: The Hidden Toxic Ingredients to look out for: Artificial Colors Artificial colors are believed to affect the permeability of the gut and specialize in disturbing gut health as well as brain health. As a result,...
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Resistant Starch – Why Leaky Gut Sufferers Should Avoid Grains.
If you to suffer from leaky gut syndrome, you are likely to have also been through countless dietary adjustments to find a solution that suits your case and lifestyle. Healing a leaky gut is no simple or quick fix. There are obviously full diet plan options such as the GAPS diet, but if, like many people who suffer from this common but potentially debilitating ailment, you don't want to completely miss out on foods you love, some minor dietary adjustments/additions might be your preferred avenue. Removing problematic foods and including foods that are gut healing can, depending in the severity...
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Gut Health - Why is it so important?
Trust Your Gut There was a time when gut health was a bit of a mystery. These days, just about everyone knows that it's important, they are just not 100% certain as to why. Believe it or not, the unsuspecting gut can affect a large percentage of our bodily functions. Have it in mint condition and you barely even notice it, but don't look after it and you'll know about it pretty quickly. You know when you don't feel right, you know when you get a feeling it the pit of your stomach that just won't go away. Yes, sometimes...
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press release: All educators are welcome to attend! This event is free and open to any educator interested in teaching through making and maker spaces. Available for UW-Madison credits or continuing education units (CEUs).
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- Make connections with other educators interested in teaching through making
- Gain at least one concrete practice that you might consider implementing with your students
- Engage in critical conversations about challenges and benefits of teaching through making in K12 classrooms
- Enjoy great food and great conversation
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Prince Charles will accompany Meghan Markle down the aisle at St George's Chapel when she marries Prince Harry, Kensington Palace has said, according to The Guardian.
A statement said Markle had asked the Prince of Wales to accompany her on Saturday. "The Prince of Wales is pleased to be able to welcome Ms Markle to the royal family in this way," it said.
Charles is standing in for Thomas Markle Sr, who told his daughter this week he would be unable to fulfil the traditional role as father of the bride due to ill-health, having reportedly undergone a heart procedure earlier this week.
Meanwhile, Buckingham Palace confirmed on Friday that the Duke of Edinburgh, 96, who has been recovering from a hip operation, will attend his grandson's wedding.
Markle's mother, Doria Ragland, is to accompany her daughter in the bridal car.
The social worker and yoga instructor, who arrived from Los Angeles on Wednesday, is expected to be introduced to the Queen over afternoon tea at Windsor Castle on Friday. She has already met Charles, the Duchess of Cornwall and the Duke and Duchess of Cambridge.
Royal Wedding Carriage Procession Route
As preparations for the Wedding of Prince Harry and Ms. Meghan Markle continue in Windsor, join us for a look at the route the newlyweds will take in a Carriage Procession following the Wedding Ceremony.Tomorrow, you'll be able follow the #RoyalWedding live in many ways on our official online channels; here on The Royal Family facebook page, and also on Royal Family, Kensington Palace and Clarence House twitter and instagram channels. Find out more: https://www.royal.uk/royal-wedding-prince-harry-and-ms-meghan-markle-online
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The route the newlyweds will take in a Carriage Procession following the Wedding Ceremony.
She will stay with Markle at the Cliveden House hotel in Taplow on Friday night.
Prince Harry has not yet met his future father-in-law, a retired TV lighting director who lives in Mexico.
Offering tips to Ragland on meeting the royals, the former England rugby captain Mike Tindall, who is married to Princess Anne's daughter Zara, recalled a family reception before his wedding. "We had a drinks event the night before and they [the royals] are professional meeters-and-greeters, and I remember my family were in a corner and a little bit out of their comfort zone because it's not where they are used to being," he told ITV's Good Morning Britain. But, he said, they were welcomed with open arms.
With final preparations for the nuptials under way, it emerged that the wedding cake would be presented in a special installation, more a work of art than a traditional tiered display.
Claire Ptak said the triple-layered lemon and elderflower cake would be a "slight shift from tradition".
"You'll have to wait and see on the day," said Ptak, the owner of Violet Bakery in east London. "It's an installation of the way that we're putting it out. It's the last thing that we'll reveal."
The sponge sandwich, which will be decorated with elderflower swiss meringue buttercream and fresh flowers, contains 200 Amalfi lemons, 10 bottles of Sandringham elderflower cordial, 20kg of butter, 20kg of flour, 20kg of sugar and 500 organic Suffolk eggs.


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We draw blood for prostate cancer blood test (PSA) at our Urgent Care Medical Center in Orlando. We have seen a patient 55 year old who came for pain in the hip joint for 5 days The patient was playing golf and thought that he sprained his hip joint but over the counter medicines didn't work. The patient had x ray of the hip and blood was drawn for CBC, chemistry and PSA. The patient's hip x-ray was normal and he was treated with diclofenac.
The patient returned for follow up and felt much better. The review of lab test results revealed that the patient has high PSA and he was referred to urologist to rule out cancer of the prostate. Life saver test PSA.


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Interfaith Prayer Station and Spiritual Conversation in Arlington "Strive to Translate into Reality and Action"
"It is incumbent upon every man of insight and understanding to strive to translate that which hath been written into reality and action…. "
(Bahá'i Faith, Bahá'u'lláh, Gleanings from the Writings of Baha'u'llah, p. 249)
Dear friends!
What nurtures your soul? What makes your heart tender? Prayer, spiritual conversation, music, fellowship, tea poured in peace, refreshments shared with smile? Whatever the answer might be, sharing prayers and inspiration with friends gets us all closer to the Creator and recharges us for the week ahead.
- Arlington Interfaith Prayer Station and Spiritual Conversation "Strive to Translate into Reality and Action"
This Sunday, February 2nd, 2014, I invite you and your loves ones to an Interfaith Prayer Station and a Spiritual Conversation in Arlington on the theme "Strive to Translate into Reality and Action". We'll start at 7:30 pm with light refreshments followed by reading, at 8:00 pm, of selected Holy Writings and Prayers. I have many books of prayers from different faith traditions but if you wish, feel free to bring your own prayers or inspiring writings. In addition to Holy Words, we shall uplift and refresh our souls with inspiring musical selections and we'll conclude with tea and sweets.
We'll also say prayers for anyone in need, so if you can't join us and would like to request prayers please contact me. Please let me know if you plan on coming so I can plan the refreshments!
Until then, enjoy this lovely song sang in 25 languages, Let It Go in 25 Languages:
"The day is approaching when all the peoples of the world will have adopted one universal language and one common script. When this is achieved, to whatsoever city a man may journey, it shall be as if he were entering his own home. These things are obligatory and absolutely essential. It is incumbent upon every man of insight and understanding to strive to translate that which hath been written into reality and action…. That one indeed is a man who, today, dedicateth himself to the service of the entire human race. The Great Being saith: Blessed and happy is he that ariseth to promote the best interests of the peoples and kindreds of the earth. In another passage He hath proclaimed: It is not for him to pride himself who loveth his own country, but rather for him who loveth the whole world. The earth is but one country, and mankind its citizens."
(Bahá'i Faith, Bahá'u'lláh, Gleanings from the Writings of Baha'u'llah, p. 249)
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The University of Cincinnati's Bearcast Media Adjunct Professor and Radio One Cincinnati Producer Chad Ashmore tells why artists should still utilize college radio when promoting their music.
Chad knows a thing or two about radio. Starting out as a music director for the college radio station he now teaches a class on (Bearcastmedia.com), he's helping to develop some of the next greats in radio. When he isn't teaching he's producing the morning shows for Radio One's Cincinnati cluster.
"What makes college radio so great is that we're not trying to just make money, we're friendly to artists," he says when asked what he thinks about artists building relationships with college radio stations. Many new artists often scramble to get airplay on commercial radio stations that are corporate-run, taking away much of the decision-making from local program directors. Chad strongly advises that independent artists should build relationships with college stations as they're more accessible and easier to get spins on. He adds "There are a lot of open slots and program directors need as much help as they can get", when asked if artists would be stepping on toes of going directly to dj's to get adds making djs easier to get to.
As the internet and streaming options are becoming more prevalent to audiences, the way listeners consume music over terrestrial and even online radio must become more creative and appealing. College stations are having to "up the ante" to get artists to bring music to them.
"What makes us attractive to artists is that we're multi-platform. We provide services not only on the air but also online with social media, blogs and on video", he says. More stations are gearing toward becoming multimedia platforms for music by incorporating radio, digital, television and promotional services. They are going toward becoming full promotional outlets, offering artists a range of services to include in their promotional campaigns. Artists can now take advantage of digital and video platforms, if the stations offer.
At the end of the day artists want to know if college radio spins can amount to dollars. "There are a few ways artists can make money a few ways. They can partner with station events to possibly sell merch, they can be paid from their songs being registered with the PROs, and they can also find out if stations may have budgets for entertainment to get them booked to perform on campus", he explains.
Regardless of what level you're on as a DIY artist, the idea of marketing yourself to colleges should be taken into consideration as it can prove to be an indispensable tool for promoting. He mentions "It's a valuable asset to have and it's not worth spending the money with promotional companies when it comes to college radio stations being that you can now go straight to them."
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With a dry line having emerged Moto3 rookie Alex Rins claimed his first pole position at just his second Grand Prix.
The reigning Spanish champion was one of the last riders to start his final lap and availed of the best of the conditions to claim the top spot. Sandro Cortese was just 0.012s behind Rins but ultimately it was the rookie who claimed the spoils.
The 16 year old will be joined on the front row by his teammate, Miguel Oliviera, after the Portuguese rider failed to claim the pole position after setting the pace throughout the wet practice sessions.
With conditions improving enormously in the closing minutes the session became a lottery but ultimately it was Rins who cashed the winning ticket.
With the Estrella Galicia squad claiming two starters on the front row the second row sees Caretta Technology teammates Alex Masbout and Jack Miller line up alongside one another with Jakub Kornfeil between them in fifth.
The Czech rider was one of the first to venture onto slick tyres and set the pace with only a couple of minutes remaining but he has given himself a fighting chance of a strong race tomorrow after his brave decision gave him more knowledge of the conditions than his rivals.
Issac Vinales will line up seventh after setting his time on slick tyres. His cousin, championship leader Maverick Vinales, was not so lucky. The Spaniard remained on wet weather tyres and had to settle for the ninth fastest time just ahead of Romano Fenati.
It was another solid performance from the rookie Italian but Moto3 looks set to once again give numerous rookies the opportunity to impress tomorrow.
Arthur Sissis set the pace in the closing stages but the Australian ended the afternoon eighth and with Alex Marquez 13th fastest it was successful day for quite a few Grand Prix rookies.
Ultimately none of them would have as much reason to smile as Rins but with difficult conditions and mixed up grid there is potential for a tremendous race tomorrow.


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Subha by Rabindranath Tagore
In Subha by Rabindranath Tagore we have the theme of fear, isolation, loneliness, connection, selfishness, innocence, tradition and control. Taken from his Collected Stories collection the story is narrated in the first person by an unnamed narrator and after reading the story the reader realises that Tagore may be exploring the theme of fear. Subha's parents don't really know what to do with Subha. Her mother looks upon her with scorn while her father knows that it will be difficult to find Subha a husband because of the fact that she is dumb. If anything both parents are afraid and rather than embracing Subha's uniqueness worry about her future. It is as though Subha is a burden to her parents. Something that Subha herself understands. Subha also lives a very isolated life apart from Pratap she has no other human friends. All her friends are the animals that her father owns particularly the two cows. This may be important as Tagore may be suggesting that Subha identifies with the cows because they too are dumb. It is also interesting that the only affection that Subha receives is not from any of her family but from the two cows. Along with Nature they are her connection to her emotions.
It might also be a case that Tagore is suggesting that Subha's parents are selfish. Though they are following tradition and marrying Subha off to a total stranger. There is no sense that Subha is in agreement. She is doing as she is told to do not what she wants to do. It is also interesting that while Subha's mother is getting Subha ready for her bridegroom that Tagore uses words like 'imprisoned', 'hung' and 'kill.' It is as though Subha knows that the world she wants to live back in the village is over. Her life is to change dramatically again without her consent. Which might be the point that Tagore is making. He may be suggesting that the tradition of marrying of daughters to complete strangers and providing the stranger with a dowry is not suitable to everyone. Subha's life is to change dramatically. From living an innocent and simple life she has been thrown into a complicated world in which she has no way of expressing her feelings. Apart from crying. Which Subha's bridegroom misinterprets. If anything Subha's parents are not acting responsibly and are following a tradition that they are afraid to go against. In case they themselves become outcasts like Subha.
What is also interesting about the story is the feelings that Subha has for Pratap. She obviously likes him and there is a sense that she would be happy to marry Pratap rather than being brought to Calcutta where she is to marry a complete stranger. However Pratap is as much an outcast as Subha is and as such Subha's father does not consider him to be a suitable bridegroom for Subha. It is as though Subha's whole life is being controlled by her father and mother. She has no say in any matter that directly involves her. Even her tears do not register as sadness with her parents. Which would play on the theme of selfishness again. Despite it being obvious that Subha is sad because she is marrying a stranger who she does not love. Her parents do not take Subha's feelings into consideration. Subha is not being treated as the individual she is. She has become a problem for her parents and as such they consider that the best thing to do is to marry Subha off.
The end of the story is also interesting as Tagore appears to be further exploring the theme of isolation. Not only has Subha been taken away from her village but she is to live her life with not only a man she does not know but also she is to live in a city in whereby she knows no one. It is as though the pain the Subha feels is even more internalized. Not only can she not tell anyone she is sad but she will know no one after she has been married off. If Subha felt isolated by her inability to communicate with others while living in her village things will be much worse for her living with a strange man in a strange city. Life is going to be more complicated for Subha. Any happiness that she had felt while living in her village is gone due to the fact that her parents are following a tradition of marrying Subha off in order that they themselves will not be viewed as outcasts. At no stage in the story has Subha's feelings been put to the forefront by her parents. Though Subha cannot talk her tears speak louder than words yet her parents do not realise this. A young innocent girl who longs for the simple things in life has had her life destroyed because of her parent's fears and selfishness.


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CDONTS, CDOSYS, System.Web.Mail & System.Net.Mail
Microsoft Windows Server 2003 does not install Collaboration Data Objects (CDO) for NTS (CDONTS). Therefore, applications that use CDONTS do not function on a Windows Server 2003-based computer.
Windows Server 2003 provides improved alternatives to CDONTS. To make applications that use CDONTS function on a Windows Server 2003-based computer, update existing CDONTS applications to use one of the following technologies:
CDO for Windows 2000
CDO for Windows 2000 provides a broader functionality set than CDONTS. This functionality includes the ability to send messages through a remote Simple Mail Transfer Protocol (SMTP) server. You can use CDO for Windows 2000 (CDOSYS) in applications that are not Microsoft .NET Framework-based.
For example, Microsoft Visual Basic 6.0 and Microsoft ASP are not based in the .NET Framework. You can also use CDOSYS in .NET Framework applications.
The System.Web.Mail namespace provides a managed wrapper for CDOSYS. The System.Web.Mail namespace is only available in .NET Framework applications.
When we talk about .Net framework, we can use the System.Net.Mail namespace. It provides way to send electronic mail to a Simple Mail Transfer Protocol (SMTP) server for delivery.
FYI: System.Net.Mail Vs System.Web.Mail
In .NET 1.1, only the System.Web.Mail was available. This implementation needs to be done in quite different way. For example, attachment could only be added from files, not from Streams. So, this can be still used under .Net Framework 1.0 and 1.1, but going forward it's "deprecated" or "Obsolete"; so it's recommended that to make use of System.Net.Mail.
The .NET 2.0 implementation is System.Net.Mail and is much more flexible and has a richer feature set.


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Growth is Outperforming Value (Like it's 1999)
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At first glance it may appear that not much is happening in U.S. equity markets. The Russell 1000 Index which tracks the largest companies returned only 3.7% for the first seven months of the year. A lacklustre return no doubt but perhaps appropriate in light of the disappointing U.S. economic performance and muted earnings growth seen so far this year.
However, as we dig beneath the surface we find a large divergence between the performance of growth stocks and value stocks. The Russell 1000 Growth Index has returned 7.5% year-to-date, more than doubling the performance of the broader market. Meanwhile, the Russell 1000 Value Index has actually declined 0.2%. The difference in performance between these two groups of stocks amounts to 766 basis points over the seven month period, a relatively large spread between these two indices since data is available going back to 1992. The diverging performance between growth and value stocks is not just limited to the large caps. A similar trend is occurring among small and mid-cap stocks as well.
Investing styles go in and out of favour just like any other facet of the markets. The "value" style of investing – buying companies that look cheap relative to their fundamentals, such as earnings, book value or cash flow – has underperformed ever since the U.S. credit bubble began to burst in 2007. Meanwhile, the "growth" style of investing – buying companies that exhibit above-average growth regardless of valuation – has outperformed the broader market returns. Over the 8-year period ending July 31, 2015, the Russell 1000 Growth Index generated an annualized return of 9.0% while the Russell 1000 Value Index lagged behind with an annualized return of 5.4%. Essentially, growth stocks have outperformed value stocks by approximately 3.6% per year over the past 8 years. The degree of outperformance has certainly widened over the past year with the Russell 1000 Growth Index up 16.1% while the Russell 1000 Value Index is only up 6.4% amounting to a spread of 968 basis points for the one-year period ending July 31, 2015.
Some of the difference in performance can certainly be attributed to a relative underweight in top performing health care and technology industries across the value stock landscape. Another major contributor that is supporting growth stock outperformance is the sub-par economic growth seen in the U.S. Over the last 8 calendar years (2007 to 2014), U.S. GDP growth has generally remained below 2.5%, with the 5-year average close to 2.2%. During the previous six decades U.S. economic growth was typically well above 3%. Even 2015 GDP growth is coming in weaker than expected due to lousy weather, a stronger U.S. dollar and falling energy prices. All of these factors are joining forces to create a very difficult environment for corporate earnings growth. The first quarter of 2015 was the first quarter of negative sales growth for the S&P 500 since the financial crisis. Q2 of 2015 is expected to be worse and for the full year the S&P 500 is expected to show virtually no earnings growth.
As growth has become scarce, the stocks of companies with high revenue growth are in demand. As investors flock to these higher-growth companies (and generally away from the value stocks), the performance divergence continues while also expanding the relative valuation difference between the two groups of stocks. In a recent research note, BMO Capital Markets' Chief Investment Strategist Brian Belski wrote "there have been only two other times where the relative price of value versus growth was at such abnormally low levels (1975 and 2000). Following such depressed levels, value embarked on a prolonged period of outperformance following both periods."
Belski also makes the case that higher interest rates and an improving economy will ultimately be beneficial for value stocks. "The relative performance of value has been highly correlated with the direction of interest rates over the past decade. More specifically, as rates have declined, value has underperformed. This makes sense to us because our work shows that more stable and mature companies – a common characteristic of value stocks – are better able to fundamentally withstand higher interest rates while growth stocks tend to perform better in low or declining rate environments. Thus, we believe value will benefit from the expected long and gradual march higher for rates in the coming years".
Value investing will also benefit as an improving economy will make growth more plentiful and investors will likely generate the best returns by owning the most inexpensive names. As profits start to improve growth becomes a plentiful commodity, while value looks rarer. The rising tide should help raise all boats, but as value stocks are cheaper, they typically perform better.
Aside from offering potentially better returns over the next few years, we also believe value stocks currently offer better downside protection as well. Market preference for growth stocks over value stocks has widened the valuation discrepancy between the two groups. The fastest growing companies usually trade at a higher price-to-earnings multiple than the S&P 500, but the gap is wider than normal currently. Many growth stocks look very expensive and are prone to pullback. Many of these popular names are burdened with unrealistic upside expectations and any disappointment in news or earnings could lead to a sell-off. Meanwhile, most value stocks already discount a lot of bad news and the low valuation multiples should help protect them from much further downside.
Interestingly, the last time growth outperformed value (prior to the current cycle which began in 2007) by such a wide margin it was in 1999 during the tech bubble. While not directly comparable to current conditions, the resilience of value stocks during the subsequent market correction is notable. After peaking in March 2000, the broad market Russell 3000 Index declined 22.0% over the subsequent year. The growth stocks within the Russell 3000 dropped a whopping 42.4% over the same period. Meanwhile, the value stocks managed to eke out a small gain of 1.9%.
If you would like to take advantage of the impending shift of investment style in favor of value stocks, consider an investment in Norrep US Dividend Plus Class. It is a core fund that offers exposure to U.S. dividend-paying companies of all sizes. It is managed using a strict value discipline using quantitative screening and fundamental analysis to filter through thousands of stocks to construct a concentrated portfolio of our best ideas. The portfolio exhibits very attractive value characteristics with a dividend yield of 2.9% and a price to earnings ratio of 14.6, which compare very favorably relative to the broad market and the vast majority of our peers. We believe the eventual shift back to value investing will provide a strong tailwind supporting the Fund's performance for many years to come.
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Falklands War = War Against Workers
The lies of the bosses
Thatcher is lying when she says that troops have been sent to the South Atlantic to defend the rights of British subjects. Galtieri is lying when he says he's trying to get rid of British "colonialism". The lies about the Falkland War are all part of the preparation for World War Three.
The real reason for the War in both Britain and Argentina is to deflect working class anger away from the effects of the economic crisis. Argentina's economy is about to collapse. Inflation is l50% a year and unemployment (officially) at l million (l in 8 of the population) is nearly as bad as Britain's. On top of that, Argentina's debts are bigger than Poland's! Only 5 days before Argentina had invaded the Falklands half a million people took to the streets to demonstrate against Galtieri. Since the military took over it has drowned workers' resistance in blood. Nearly 30,000 people have "disappeared" since l976. The invasion of the Falklands is a last desperate gamble by Argentina's rulers to save themselves from working class unrest and, in the long term, to try and bolster the economy by gaining oil, fishing and mineral rights around the islands.
For Thatcher the invasion has been a great opportunity to call for "national unity" and divert attention from double figure inflation, A million unemployed and falling living standards; The economic crisis is out of control and this war will lead to more cuts in education, social services and welfare benefits to pay for greater military might.
"The enemy lies in your own country"
Our quarrel is not with the workers of Argentina who are being drummed up to fight for their rulers. Our quarrel is with the ruling class here who grow rich on the fruits of our labour as we grow poorer. When Thatcher says, "we must, as a country, start paying ourselves less" she means the workers must be paid less whilst the bosses are paid more.(like BL boss, Edwardes' £47,000 pay rise this year). Now they are demanding sacrifices in blood to keep themselves in power.
But the enemy here isn't just Thatcher and the "patriots". Among the false "friends" of the workers is Foot's Labour Party. He supported the sending of the British fleet, saying it was going to fight "a fascist junta" - which Britain, France and the U.S.A. just happened to have supplied with its most modern arms! So much for Foot, the CND marcher. As happened in World Wars One and Two, pacifists end up joining the chorus that war is "justified".
In World War One and Two the trade unions showed whose interests they really defend when they came out in support of the war, agreeing to worse working and living conditions "in the national interest". Today in both Britain and Argentina the same has happened. In Argentina the CGT (their TUC) has called demonstrations in support of a regime soaked in workers' blood, whilst in Britain the unions called off the dock strike planned to start on 10 May and have persuaded Hawker Siddeley workers in Bristol to end their overtime ban.
What is to be done?
Neither Thatcher's nor Galtieri's regime deserve working class support. Already in Argentina brave workers have risked their lives to demonstrate against the war. Already in Britain Portsmouth dockyard workers have refused to sail with the fleet to help refit ships as they sailed south.
These actions to defend our interests are important. If the bosses, through their newspaper and television propaganda, manage to whip up nationalism or "patriotism" amongst the working class for this stupid little dispute it will be so much easier for them to send us off as cannon fodder when bigger conflicts occur. Look how easily this war has started? Look how much it has been beyond our control. The NATO bosses have publicly admitted that this is just battle training for the British fleet in World War Three.
The war will end sooner or later in a "negotiated settlement" and all those who were killed will have died in an attempt to save two bankrupt governments. The war over the Falklands is only a foretaste of what bankrupt world capitalism has in store for us, We must resist the growing calls for "patriotism" of this crisis-torn system's mad descent to World War Three. Working class internationalism is the only sane response. We must begin this now by:
- Stepping up the struggle against falling living standards
- Rejecting government and union calls for "sacrifices"
- Striking against any cuts caused by the war .
- Refusing to load ships, transport arms or carry out war work
- Striking and publicly demonstrating our solidarity with Argentinian workers.
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Tonight, my first dispatch forRED!, as I attend a local criminal justice conference, regards the issue I call "Exploring Innocence." I sat in the audience of a viewing of Presumed Guilty a disturbing documentary about Mexico's inept and downright strange judicial system.
Most defendants never see a judge; whatever is written into to the record is accepted as the facts and cannot be questioned and defense attorneys aren't allowed to introduce new questions. It's the proverbial "catch-22" with innocent people caught in the crosshairs.
Presumed Guilty chronicles the fight to free Antonio (Tono) Zuniga, a 26-year old street vendor who was pulled into a police vehicle and arrested for murder despite the fact that he had a solid alibi with numerous witnesses to back him up. There was nothing connecting him to the crime, and he didn't even know the victim.
With a twenty-year sentence looking probable, Layda Negrete and Roberto Hernandez, two young married attorneys, began filming both the proceedings in court and even in the prison. The best part of the viewing was afterwards when we were treated to a Q-and-A session with film participants who answered many questions about the parallels between the Mexican and American justice systems, the film, and innocence.
Yes, Antonio Zuniga was ultimately freed!
Tonight was the kick off of the 2011 Innocence Network Conference: An International Exploration of Wrongful Conviction. Many of the leading experts in the Innocence Movement from around the globe and more than 80 exonerees have gathered here in Cincinnati this weekend. I am excited to be attending the conference and will be sharing more.
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Hours after those verdicts were read, the jury proclaimed they were "hopelessly deadlocked" on the fourth charge against Whittemore that he lied to FBI agents when they interviewed in 2012 about the conduit contributions to Reid, D Nev. Hicks responded by declaring a mistrial on that charge. Like the other three charges, it carries a maximum sentence of five years and a $250,000 fine.
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Great Migration
Scholars and other observers have long used the Great Migration to refer to a significant movement of African Americans from the South to other parts of the United States from 1914 until the early 1920s. People chose to leave the South in response to a combination of broad difficulties since the late 1800s—disfranchisement, segregation laws and Jim Crow practices, the rise of lynching and other forms of violence, and the gradual but clear decline in chances for owning land. People were also responding to the lure of jobs that opened up during World War I, when many northern industrial workers went to Europe and immigration of potential workers came to a halt. The availability of jobs was the specific reason for the timing of the Great Migration, but African Americans left Mississippi with a mixture of relief about putting many of the difficulties and fears of southern life behind them and excitement about the possibilities of city life.
Many migrants left Mississippi and the South after a series of internal moves—from the farm to the city or from sharecropping to seasonal work on levees or other construction projects. Members of sharecropping households had moved from place to place looking for labor arrangements with less debt and more possibility for owning land, but such opportunities diminished as the boll weevil destroyed crops and as large-scale agribusiness developed. Individuals often left Mississippi for Chicago or other northern cities where acquaintances lived and then became contacts for other migrants. South Chicago's Bronzeville neighborhood became home to a large community of African Americans from the South, especially Mississippi.
One of the greatest advertisers of life in the urban North was the nation's leading African American newspaper, the Chicago Defender, which had high circulation in Mississippi and especially in the Delta. The Defender touted the economic, cultural, and political potential of urban life and kept migrants in touch with news from Mississippi.
As historian Neil McMillen has detailed, Mississippi's population changed relatively little as a consequence of migration from 1880 to 1910. In fact, from 1880 to 1900, white migration from Mississippi was slightly greater than African American migration, and the numbers of white and African American migrants were roughly equal in 1910. The net population loss of African Americans dramatically increased over the next decade, far outstripping the number of white Mississippians who left. Precise statistics about migration are always problematic, but it seems clear that from 1914 to 1920, about one hundred thousand African Americans left Mississippi—about one-fifth of all the migrants who left the South.
The Great Migration resulted in significant population declines in most but not all parts of Mississippi. The number of African Americans fell in most Mississippi counties between 1910 and 1930, but the African American population of Hinds County increased as a consequence of migration to the city of Jackson. More dramatically, several Delta counties saw substantial population increases.
Black and white commentators on Mississippi life used the Great Migration as a way to discuss the place of African Americans in the United States. In Black Boy, Richard Wright divided his life into two sections, before and after he moved from the South, and near the end of the southern section, he wrote, "I was leaving the South to fling myself into the unknown, to meet other situations that would perhaps elicit from me other responses. And if I could meet enough of a different life, then, perhaps, gradually and slowly I might learn who I was, what I might be." African American religious leaders compared train travel from the South to biblical stories of movement to the Promised Land, and numerous blues musicians sang about the pains and potential of ramblin', sometimes with "Sweet Home Chicago" as a destination. African American leaders in Chicago, including antilynching activist and club organizer Ida B. Wells-Barnett, counseled migrants on how to find jobs, where to live, and how to reject appearances and mannerisms the leaders associated with rural poverty and Jim Crow. White Mississippians had varying responses to African American migration. Some condemned labor agents, and many agreed with the man who told Wright, "The North's no good for your people, boy." Greenville native William Alexander Percy, who identified himself as a "planter's son," wrote of African Americans who left Mississippi on a whim, suffered as individuals when they were accustomed to the community of plantation life, and were likely to need help returning to the South. Grisham continues to publish books at an extraordinary pace of one and often two books per year, mixing more Theodore Boone books with mysteries about lawyers, collections of short stories, and other works.
In recent years, some scholars have questioned whether the Great Migration was quite as distinctive as it long seemed. First, African Americans had left the South in substantial numbers in the decades before and after the Great Migration period and then in even greater numbers in the 1940s and 1950s. Second, larger numbers of white southerners moved to the North and West, but social commentators at the time generally neglected that migration, as have scholars until recently. Despite those important points, the Great Migration of the 1910s and 1920s stands as a turning point in black migration from the 1910s through the 1960s and as a dramatic response to the injustices of the Jim Crow South.
Further Reading
- Davarian L. Baldwin, Chicago's New Negroes: Modernity, the Great Migration, and Black Urban Life (2007)
- John M. Giggie, After Redemption: Jim Crow and the Transformation of African American Religion in the Delta, 1875–1915 (2008)
- James N. Gregory, The Southern Diaspora: How the Great Migrations of Black and White Southerners Transformed America (2005)
- James R. Grossman, Land of Hope: Chicago, Black Southerners, and the Great Migration (1989)
- Steven Hahn, A Nation under Our Feet: Black Political Struggles from Slavery to the Great Migration (2005)
- Neil McMillen, Dark Journey: Black Mississippians in the Age of Jim Crow (1990)
- Elizabeth Schroeder Schlabach, Along the Streets of Bronzeville: Black Chicago's Literary Landscape (2012)
- Isabel Wilkerson, The Warmth of Other Suns: The Epic Story of America's Great Migration (2011)


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Complete nutritional health is more than just a healthy diet. Preservatives found in most diets lack vital nutrients and minerals imperative to cell growth, repair and well-being. Barley oxygenates the bloodstream increasing mental and physical health.
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Nutrition to Fight Cancer
The physiology of cancer cells indicates the need for nutritional support.
White blood cells (leukocytes) attack and destroy foreign cells like cancer. Cancer cells are coated with a protein lining that prevents white blood cells from destroying them. An enzyme is a catalyst, a chemical that allows food to be broken down into constituent nutrients.
There are many kinds of enzymes that participate in hundreds of chemical processes in the body. The two enzymes most responsible for breaking down animal proteins are trypsin and chymotrypsin. They are not needed to break down vegetable proteins. The body produces these and many other enzymes for such work in the pancreas. All people have cancer cells in their bodies. These cells are normally killed off because trypsin breaks down the protein sheath protecting the cell, and then white blood cells attack the remaining cancer cell and destroy it. Thus, enzymes like trypsin are the body's first line of defense against cancer.
Enzymes are absolutely critical to the digestive and nutritional processes in the body. The source of enzymes is FRESH unprocessed food. Examples are fresh vegetables, grasses like barley grass (John's Barley Grass Juice Powder and Barley Green), nuts, berries, grain, fruit, and meat. As long as these foods are fresh, the enzymes in them help us to digest them and convert them into fuel for the body. (John's Barley Grass Juice Powder is created with the enzymes intact.) If the food sits too long in the open air, the enzymes start breaking them down before they enter our body. Enzymes (and bacteria) thus cause the rot process characteristic of spoiled food. Without enzymes, the process is slowed down or eliminated altogether.
Enzymes can be destroyed by heat. If you elevate the temperature of any food above 137 degrees Farenheit, you will destroy the enzymes in it. This will make the food much harder for your body to digest. That is one reason you should take digestive enzyme supplements if you eat a lot of (or mostly) cooked food.
A major problem with cooked meat is that is high in protein content and zero in enzyme content (unless it is rare). It is also highly acidic. This massive amount of animal protein requires the enzyme trypsin to digest. The body can only produce so much trypsin. If all the trypsin is being used to digest animal protein, then little or none is left to break down the protein lining on cancer cells, and the cells start to flourish and multiply because leukocytes cannot kill them. We have destroyed the natural enzymes in the meat by cooking it, and we deprive the body of its precious trypsin supply by ingesting the meat. Now you can see why a diet high in cooked animal protein is carcinogenic.
And note this: trypsin and chymotrypsin are defensive enzymes, not digestive enzymes. They are being conscripted into servitude in the process of digesting animal proteins when they should be left to their defensive work of killing cancer cells.
And note this: trypsin and chymotrypsin are defensive enzymes, not digestive enzymes. They are being conscripted into servitude in the process of digesting animal proteins when they should be left to their defensive work of killing cancer cells.
Nitrilosides work like this:
Cancer cells contain an enzyme called beta-glucosidase that converts nitrilosides into two molecules of glucose, one molecule of benzaldehyde (extremely toxic to the cancer cell), and one molecule of hydrogen cyanide (somewhat toxic to the cancer cell). Normal body cells contain the enzyme rhodanese which converts nitrilosides into food. Only cancer cells contain beta-glucosidase. Thus only cancer cells can convert nitrilosides into benzaldehyde and hydrogen cyanide, and the process kills the cancer cells while it only nourishes normal cells! This is a target-specific reaction. It does not adversely affect normal cells.
Over the past few hundred years, man has turned from grains like millet that are high in nitrilosides to processed food that are low in nitrilosides, like white flower used to make bread, cakes, donuts that most Americans eat several times a day. Furthermore, livestock used to graze on grasses high in nitrilosides, but now are kept in feed lots where they are fed harvested grains laced with growth hormones and virtually devoid of nitrilosides. Our diets are higher in animal protein (from feed lot beef, pork, and chicken) than at any time in the history of the world, and lower in nitriloside-bearing foods than ever before. Now you can see why cancer is on the increase and why it is so rampant that three out of ten people (according to the National Cancer Institute) will get cancer!
What our medical researchers are doing is somewhat backwards and wrong. They should be convincing us to go back to the kinds of food that inhibit cancer rather than finding more drugs that treat cancer. Now you can see why most of their work is in vain, like trying to use a bandaid to patch a hole in the dyke!
The only real cure (and the easiest cure) for cancer is to prevent it with a diet containing vegetable (but no animal) protein, and plenty of fresh uncooked food high in nitrilosides and enzymes.
Nitrilosides must be transported to cells to facilitate their work of destroying cancer. Zinc is necessary for nitriloside metabolism in killing cancer cells.
Nothing heals cancer in the body in the absence of manganese, selenium, magnesium, calcium, zinc and other minerals, enzymes, and vitamins C, A, E, and B (including B17 or laetrile). They are essential to healing and good health. You cannot be deficient in any of these important nutrients and maintain good health or cure cancer.
The best way to get them is in fresh, uncooked foods. If you have cancer, you ought to make sure you eat these foods every day, preferably by juicing them, and get plenty of enzymes, vitamins, minerals, and nitrilosides.
John's Barley Grass Juice Powder is very high in all these vitamins, minerals, and vegetable proteins.
Read article about barley grass benefits for health and fitness
For over 20 years scientists have demonstrated a probable link between free radical damage and and chronic diseases, such as cancer, Alzheimer's disease, rheumatoid arthritis, cardiovascular disease, cataracts, age-related macular degeneration and the actual aging process itself. Antioxidants, on the other hand, are chemical compounds that have been shown to prevent, stop, or reduce oxidative damage.
What is an antioxidant? An antioxidant is any substance that reduces oxidative damage (damage due to oxygen) such as that caused by free radicals. There are hundreds of different antioxidant compounds that include various vitamins, minerals, amino acids, enzymes and phytochemical antioxidants. Since scientists don't know every antioxidant in a plant, a test was developed that indicates the total antioxidant potential.


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Email Marketing
With L-Soft's email marketing solutions, you can manage and track all types of opt-in email marketing campaigns, ranging from email newsletters and small-scale promotions to large-scale enterprise campaigns. Elliot Ross of Action Rocket: 2016 will be the big year for modular template design, where marketers can have versions of the same template instead of each one being different, heavy and complex. Email cleaning and updating is a service which scans your list against our triple verified database, to identify invalid email addresses. We provide 100% delivery servers with reputation as high as 99% used for marketing of few of the well known e-commerce industry players of India.
It comes with some amazing marketing automation tools which allow you to create smart automated campaigns. So, using their email service or software can become rather expensive when your business is grown. Newsletters are great — the workhorse of email marketing, continually driving revenue and generating a great branding experience. For an email app you can tweak and integrate into your own apps even further, there's Django Drip An open-source project from our own Zapier dev team, Django Drip is designed to make it easy to send automated emails to your users. This is the only reason why Amazon to ASOS, email marketing is so fruitful and widespread.
Effortless social media and CRM integrations, streamlined tracking, and point-and-click templates, designs, themes, and forms are all designed to make your email marketing experience well, simple. More than 400 entrepreneurs, professionals & business owners… have already benefited from this email marketing workshop. More direct conversions – Amir Chitayat from OpenMoves does a lot of both email marketing and social media.
With this in mind, and in my own opinion, the most important thing when creating your Email subject line, is to understand everything about your your audience – demographics, psychographics, what they had for dinner, where they live, how many kids they have, how much money they make, what they like & dislike, what car they drive. Can your emailing marketing already be handled within your CRM system, by migrating solely to your CRM system you can both reduce the need for expensive email marketing solutions and reduce the amount of data silos you are using. From large enterprises to SME, everyone is using Email Marketing to reach directly to their customers and prospects. If your audience is primarily reading emails on smartphones, make sure that your subject line length is between 25 to 30 characters.
I needed to showcase my marketable skills and to present those skills in a unique and compelling way, but I also needed people to take a chance on me. And I needed to uniquely apply to a vast number of jobs in an extremely short amount of time. Implement the tips in this post and you will not only increase your email open rates, but you will have a more loyal subscriber base who will anticipate every email. A unique email marketing feature in our software is that you can create a follow-up campaign based on subscriber views and clicks behavior. One of our Email Marketing Captains will get back to you within 24 hours to schedule a call with you and understand your needs in detail. The pre-header text is the text that appears in your email next to your subject line.
A yes/no question gives the recipient the option to say no" and then abandon your email altogether. Your SPAM chance lowers dramatically, which will increase your open rate and click through rate inherently. For example, iContact has plans for businesses with 10,000 contacts, but it requires you to talk to a representative to set up a plan for any more than that. These are the kinds of resources that you can bookmark on your desktop or laptop and use again and again. The challenge for many businesses is that taking a zoomed out view, i.e. ROI on total marketing investment, is pretty easy. If you're using a premium tool like a Ahrefs or SEM Rush then you can reverse-engineer what Quora is doing right.
The advantage of Quora is the personal nature of the information shared, which allows users with the most knowledge and expertise to receive the credit they deserve. The topics covered in the course primarily focus on basic email marketing skills and techniques, including value, function and history of email, devising email marketing strategies, creating mailing list, working with email service provider, email metrics, measurement, spam and blacklist. Overall a content calendar should allow you to plan well in advance and track your progress, assuming people actually stick to it. I compiled a comprehensive list of the providers and separated my findings into paid and free services to take into account the initial budget of your business and differentiate the various features based on paid and unpaid services.


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A school app is a great way to improve communication with parents and lower costs, but it also provides a valuable platform for schools to improve parental engagement. Drawing parents' attention to exciting local or national events which they and their children can share and enjoy is just one example:
Did you know that people in most of England and Wales will hopefully get the chance to see six people flying at 17000 mph over their house this week? That's right! The International Space Station will be regularly passing over the UK, appearing as a very bright object moving slowly across the night sky.
The space station will arrive from the west and pass in an easterly direction. The first passing after sunset is longer and brighter. While the space station often passes overhead, it can only be seen when we are in darkness but it is in sunshine, which is shortly after sunset or before sunrise.
For more information, download the free and informative NASA app, which lists when the space station will pass over your location and much more. You can also track the station on the NASA website.
Why not inform parents of this exciting fact using your school app and include a direct link to the NASA app and website!


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MOUNT VERNON — A Mount Vernon man pleaded guilty Tuesday to assaulting his mother.
John R. Capoccia, 32, pleaded guilty in Knox County Common Pleas Court to one count of aggravated assault, a fourth-degree felony. The charge was amended down from felonious assault, a second-degree felony, by Knox County Assistant Prosecuting Attorney Christine Williams.
Williams has recommended a 15-month prison sentence, which will be suspended if Capoccia successfully completes treatment at a community based correctional facility.
The charge against Capoccia stems from Sept. 7. According to Williams, Capoccia strangled his mother in traffic while his mother was behind the wheel of a motor vehicle. The attack was observed by a witness, who notified a Mount Vernon Police officer doing a traffic detail. When approached, Capoccia said he "was going back to jail" for strangling his mother, Williams said.
The mother was taken to the hospital following the assault, Williams said.
Common Pleas Judge Richard Wetzel ordered a presentence investigation and scheduled sentencing for Feb. 21.
Also Tuesday, Tevin M. Harper, 19, Mount Vernon, pleaded guilty to rape, a first-degree felony.
Williams has recommended a sentence of three years in prison.
The charge stems from Aug. 6, when a 16-year-old girl woke up in the middle of the night to find Harper having sex with her. Harper's DNA was found in a sample taken off the girl, Williams said.
Harper will be classified as a tier three sex offender, required to register in person every 90 days with the sheriff's office of his county of residence for life.
Wetzel ordered a presentence investigation and scheduled sentencing for Feb. 21.
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The U.S. Embassy in Beijing announces:
Nonimmigrant visa services at the Embassy facility will be closed to the public from February 13 until February 24, 2017. Visa services will be available at the Ritan location during this period except February 17 when both facilities will be closed.
Individuals with visa interview appointments scheduled at the Embassy during this time period should reschedule their appointments as soon as possible before February 8, 2017. Appointments can be rescheduled by following the instructions located at http://www.ustraveldocs.com/cn_zh/cn-niv-appointmentschedule.asp.
Applicants who do not require an appointment are requested to visit the Ritan facility.
- Diplomatic passport holders, J-1 government exchange applicants, G4 applicants – between 9 and 11am
- Beijing 221g applicants – at the indicated time and date.


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On the muddy banks of the River Thames, downstream from the bright lights of London, three boys hide from the police after a night of thrilling recklessness. Over the course of the freezing night their fears, secrets and dreams emerge, collide and combust revealing the desperate frustration of lives barely led but already ravaged.
Essex-born Vickie Donoghue's powerful debut Mudlarks exposes the culture she grew up with and sees on a daily basis. With brutal honesty interspersed with flashes of humour she explores how the impulse to dream is futile in the context of a reality that has no space for dreamers.
Mudlarks is suitable for theatregoers aged 14 and older.


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Prague is a city known for its culture. Just walking around the breathtakingly beautiful squares and among the ancient Gothic architecture is proof enough of the strong heritage of artistry that flows through the veins of this city.
It's no surprise, then, that Prague's history is brimming with great artists, musicians, and writers, each having contributed something unique and special to the world. Some are more famous than others, and today we'll take a look at three of the more well-known artists in Prague's history.
Franz Kafka
Arguably Prague's most famous writer, Kafka definitely left a big stamp on Prague and the entire modern world through his short stories and novels.
Kafka had a complex and troubled life, beginning with his rough childhood. His two younger brothers died in infancy, leaving him with three sisters, all of whom would later lose their lives in the holocaust.
He grew up in the Jewish quarter of Prague in a middle class family, and his tense relationship with his parents, particularly his overbearing and dominant father, would deeply impact his future life and work.
After getting a degree in law, Kafka began working in insurance, which suited him fairly well but had never been his dream. What little spare time he had was devoted to his writing, but he was plagued by insecurities and poor health throughout his life, and struggled to make relationships work.
Kafka died from complications related to Tuberculosis in 1924, and requested that his work not be made public as he still felt it wasn't good enough. However, his friend Max Brod went against Kafka's wishes after his death and began publishing his writings in the 1920s.
As the 20th Century wore on and Communism enveloped Czechoslovakia, Kafka's dystopian and often bleak writings became more and more relevant. The fame and recognition that had eluded him during his life finally came, and he's now remembered as one of the most influential writers of his era.
Any fans of Kafka should check out the Kafka Museum, which is located on the banks of the Vltava River in central Prague. It's a great place to spend a few hours learning about Kafka's life and the things that shaped his work.
Václav Havel
Any visitors to Prague who weren't already aware of Václav Havel will find out fairly soon after their arrival. This is because the city's largest airport, and the point of entry for almost all flights, is named after Havel.
This is just one example of the legacy of one of the most significant politicians and visionaries in European history.
Havel was born into a wealthy family in Prague, and began his career as a playwright. While he achieved great success in this field, with his works being performed across the world, the Communist occupation of Prague forced him to abandon his craft and dedicate himself to activism.
Havel's anti-communist actions and resistance resulted in his being imprisoned on several occasions, but he was not deterred. His Civic Forum party played a huge role in the Velvet Revolution and subsequent liberation of Prague in 1989, and shortly after this Havel was elected president with overwhelming popular support.
During his presidency, Havel strongly opposed the breakup of Czechoslovakia, but afterwards returned as the president of the Czech Republic. He was controversial throughout his career, and his decisions to grant amnesty to almost everyone imprisoned under Communism resulted in a heavy backlash against him.
He also spoke out against the expulsion of Sudeten Germans after World War 2, which further damaged his reputation at home. By the time he retired from politics, Havel was more popular abroad than in his own country.
Havel left office in 2003, and spent his later years working on plays and supporting the Czech Green Party. He also established Forum 2000, a conference to discuss world issues and possible solutions, which is still in existence.
After his death, there was an outpouring of praise and accolades from across the world, ranging from world leaders to ordinary people. Nowadays, Václav Havel is remembered as a highly important figure in world history, and memorials to him can be seen all over Prague.
David Černý
It's almost impossible to spend any significant amount of time in Prague without stumbling upon at least some of David Černý's art.
Černý was born in Prague, and burst onto the scene in 1991 when he painted a Soviet tank pink. The tank was being used as a war memorial, and Černý was subsequently arrested. However, this didn't stop him from going on to create controversial and thought-provoking works of art all over the city.
One notable example of his work is the collection of giant, deformed babies that can be seen in numerous locations in Prague. The Žižkov Television Tower is one such place, and the eerie, misshapen figures can be seen climbing it from all around.
A particularly controversial work of Černý's was 'Shark', which featured Saddam Hussein's corpse suspended in a tank of formaldehyde, in a parody of another famous work of art called 'The Physical Impossibility of Death in the Mind of Someone Living', by British artist Damien Hirst. Černý's piece drew quite a reaction, and was banned from several places, but generated plenty of attention.
Another of his works was called Entropa, and included visual representations of European countries. Notable examples include the Czech Republic as a collection of flashing quotes from former (and highly controversial) president Václav Klaus, and France covered in a banner marked 'STRIKE!'
The depiction of Bulgaria as a series of squat toilets actually prompted diplomatic action, and was later obscured.
Černý remains active today, and looks set to be making waves and creating talking points with his projects for years to come. Any visitors to Prague looking to check him out should start with the giant revolving head of Franz Kafka, located near the metro station Národní třída.OUR TIP Take a free of charge 9-stop tour of David Cerny's Prague which includes his most notable work as well as the less known one.
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