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The 10 Best Free Survey Sites to Make Extra Money in 2017
Last updated on June 26th, 2017
Are you looking for an easy way to make money on the side? Taking surveys allows you to make money on your own time while you’re doing other things. Taking online surveys is so simple, you can do it while browsing your favorite websites, watching TV, or even while waiting for the water to boil when making dinner.
The sites mentioned in this post are well-established and have been paying survey takers for several years.
Shop tracker is the simplest way to earn up to $36 a year. Earn a $3 Virtual Visa Reward instantly by registering, taking a quick survey, installing the app, and syncing your Amazon account. After that, you can receive $3 each month by syncing your Amazon account to the app. You know you already use your Amazon account all the time, so you might as well get paid for it!
Sign up today and earn triple reward points for taking your first survey. Also upon registration, you will be entered into $1000 sweepstakes!
VIP Voice is different than other survey sites. You earn points that you use in either BidLand or SweepLand. Bidland is the auction portion of the rewards center where you can use your points to bid on items like kitchen appliances. The category for Bidland changes monthly. Sweepland is a sweepstakes style portion of the rewards center where you can win bigger prizes like Caribbean vacations, HD TVs, patio sets, and new laptops.
Have an opinion on products, experiences, and government issues? Then YouGov is a great option for you. Earn points by completing surveys on your own time. YouGov will send you an email with a survey that usually takes around 10 minutes to complete. Finish the survey, earn points, and use the points to earn rewards like gift cards to your favorite big companies.
With EarningStation, you can earn rewards by watching videos, purchasing Groupons, printing coupons, and taking surveys. Redeem your rewards for PayPal payments, gift cards, and freebies. With EarningStation, you choose how you earn.
Global Test Market has you fill out 5-6 surveys each month based on the demographic information you provide. After completing these, you receive Marketpoints which you can trade in for cash or gift cards. Global Test Market also allows you to donate your rewards to UNICEF as a philanthropic option.
My Survey has been around more than 50 years and paid more than $32 million to members in 2014 alone. The biggest selling point for My Survey is the simplicity of the site and the ease of use. It’s extremely easy to signup and get paid.
You receive reward points by taking surveys. There are over 200 reward partners, and you can redeem your points for cash, gift cards, e-certificates, or other vouchers.
Harris Poll actually pays quite well and offers numerous high-quality surveys each month. If you can get an account established, you can make good money each month.
Harris Poll’s reward system consists of points earned that you can apply toward their $10,000 sweepstakes as well as gift card rewards to places like Amazon, Home Depot, Walmart, and iTunes. Harris Poll is consistently adding new rewards partners to increase your reward options.
Pinecone Research is one of the largest online survey and marketing research firms out there. Many of their surveys pay top dollar if you are invited to participate.
Once you sign up with Pinecone, you’ll receive an email letting you know that a survey is available. Fill out the survey to earn points that you can collect to trade in for cash or prizes. Pinecone will also occasionally send you products to try. Pinecone hosts quarterly sweepstakes where the winner receives $4,500 and bi-weekly sweepstakes where the winner gets $500.
Swagbucks is much more than a survey site. On Swagbucks, you can earn points (called Swagbucks) for taking surveys, watching videos, surfing the web, shopping online, and playing games. For example, just last week we did several online shopping offers for valuable items. We did an offer where we purchased wine and received Swagbucks in return. The wine was about $30 after tax and shipping, but we received enough Swagbucks to redeem a $25 Amazon gift card. 4 bottles of wine for less than $5 out of pocket is a crazy good deal.
The earned points can be redeemed for gift cards to awesome places you actually care about, like Amazon, Walmart, Target, Gamestop, Chipotle, and more. You can also use the Swagbucks you earn to enter the Swagbucks Sweepstakes where you can win things like a $250 Visa Gift Card.
Frequently Asked Questions
How do online survey sites work?
Typically, survey sites ask you multiple questions about a new product or service. Sometimes, they also send you free stuff to try.
Businesses pay these survey sites to collect this information, and part of this money is paid to you.
Why do businesses pay for your opinions?
Marketing is big business. Companies are always trying to target the right audience for the product or service. In doing so, companies are able to cut their advertising expenses and increase sales.
With surveys, the whole point is focusing on different types of people, As a result, you don’t need special qualifications. You just need to be you.
How do you know which sites are reliable?
Maybe you’ve heard of people making money by filling out online surveys, and you’re interested. So you start looking for reputable companies but you’re completely overwhelmed. How do you know if a survey site is worth it? How do you know it’s not a scam or a waste of time?
Instead of wasting your time wondering what survey sites to sign up for, we’ve done the grunt work to find reliable companies so you can get straight to work making money on the side. We searched the internet for reliable survey sites that have been around for a significant period of time. We also made sure that our recommendations have a record of paying survey takers.
How much money can you make?
The earnings vary for each survey site, which is another reason to sign up for multiple survey sites. If you sign up for multiple sites, it’s not uncommon for readers to earn $10-$12 per hour. That’s not a bad wage for answering a few questions while surfing the web.
Should you sign up for multiple survey sites?
We recommend ten survey sites in this post, which might seem like a lot. But in order to make the most money as a survey taker, you should sign up for as many as you can. Each survey site matches the information you provide about yourself to surveys that fit your demographics. You are only sent so many surveys per month per site, so the more sites you sign up for, the higher your earning potential. There is nothing to lose by signing up for multiple sites because signing up is free and usually requires only basic information and your email address.
The Best Online Survey Sites of 2017 – Conclusion
While survey sites won’t replace your regular 9-5 income, they are a good source of extra cash.
Please let us know your experience, and feel free to share any other survey sites that you have utilized.


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Har Shalom’s Guide to Mourning Practices
One of Judaism’s most profound gifts is the comfort and support our tradition provides in the face of loss. The Har Shalom clergy and staff are here for you as you walk through the valley of the shadow of death (Psalm 23:4). Clergy is available to discuss funeral arrangements, especially the funeral service. For more information on Jewish funerals, please see our Guide to Mourning Practices.
This booklet will briefly touch on a wide range of customs to provide as broad a background as possible for our community. In addition, you may always contact me directly with specific questions pertaining to your loss. The Har Shalom clergy and staff are here for you as you walk through the valley of the shadow of death (Psalm 23:4).


Jurassic Park Cosplay Terrorizes Unsuspecting Office Worker
Oh, you know, the usual work day. Grab a cup of coffee. Pick up donuts for my co-workers. Trudge down that long hallway that leads me to my cubicle. DODGE THE KILLER VELOCIRAPTOR THAT HAS EMERGED FROM THE COPY ROOM!
No, this poor, unsuspecting Japanese man doesn’t work on Jurassic Park -- nor is he an extra in Colin Trevorrow’s planned fourth installment in the JP franchise. Instead, he’s the latest victim of a televised prank on a vicious Japanese TV show – probably the latest in a string of unusually bizarre game-show challenges.
Next here's a longer, full version of the same prank being pulled on even more people, albeit none with a reaction as good as this guy's...
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The Huygens space probe, which was attached to the Cassini spacecraft that has been orbiting Saturn since 2004, landed on the planet’s biggest moon, Titan, in 2005.
Huygens travelled with Cassini, which departed Earth in October 1997, before separating once the rockets reached the Saturn-system and landed on the Moon early the following year.
Before the probe left Earth, scientists did not have much knowledge regarding Titan.
However, over a decade since its arrival, scientists now recognise Titan as one of the leading contenders to find life elsewhere in the solar system.
Huygens approaches Titan
So far, Titan is the only celestial body in the solar system, aside from Earth, that homes stable bodies of liquid – although its oceans are made up of ethane and methane and not water.
Nasa’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory said in a statement: "The Huygens descent and landing represented a major breakthrough in our exploration of Titan as well as the first soft landing on an outer-planet moon.
"It completely changed our understanding of this haze-covered ocean world.”
Just a few of Saturn's 53 confirmed moons
NASA's Saturn Cassani mission
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NASA's Cassani mission have released these amazing unseen photos of Saturn and it's many moons. These incredible images show close up photographs of Saturn and and it's orbiting moons taken from approximately 1.4 million miles away.
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A closeup of moon Dione with Saturn's rings in the background
Carolyn Porco, Cassini imaging team lead, said: "The Huygens images were everything our images from orbit were not.
"Instead of hazy, sinuous features that we could only guess were streams and drainage channels, here was incontrovertible evidence [that] at some point in Titan's history — and perhaps even now — there were flowing liquid hydrocarbons on the surface.
Saturn, as seen from Titan
"Huygens' images became a Rosetta Stone for helping us interpret out subsequent findings on Titan.”
The video that was released by Nasa shows a series of images from Huygens’ descent that have been merged and animated to illustrate the entire process.
Cassini has recently began its final missions around Saturn.
Cassini has entered its final stage of its Saturn mission
The new stage in Cassini’s life will see it yo-yo to the edge of Saturn’s outer rings 20 times over the next five months, before plunging towards the planet itself.
Each time the spaceship will hold its position for a week.
When Cassini is done with its bold manoeuvres, it will intentionally destroy itself in Saturn’s atmosphere.


London: World Health Organization Indian scientist Soumya Swaminathan has joined the UK-led pandemic team. This team meeting will be held on Tuesday.
The team will be headed by the UK’s Chief Scientific Advisor Sir Patrick Valence and he will present the report of the team at the G-7 Summit to be held in Cornwall in June. This team brings together international organizations and top experts to provide recommendations to develop vaccin more quickly.
UK Health Secretary Matt Hancock has said that the epidemic has shaken the entire nation. Also, this epidemic has brought us together so that in future we can face such situations together.
The G-7 is committed to working closely with its partners as the host of the summit and is ready to strengthen itself in fighting future epidemics.
He said that this group of experts will make every effort to keep people safe from future epidemics.
The PPP’s 20-member team consists of Vaccine Envoy Sir Andreu Viti of the World Health Organization, Aurelia Guyen of the Covax facility Gavi. In addition, scientific advisors from G-7 partners will also be included.


Oven Cleaning Cowley UB8
So far you’re competent to cook, roast and prepare even the most exotic of meals and if you’re somewhat of a master chef at house, then you undoubtedly possess a reputation to look after. However a dirty oven can be a real let down for even the most seasoned and fantastic house chefs. A dirty oven is both unhealthy and inefficient which means your reputation as a top house chef may be at risk. So what’s the easiest way to deal with the situation efficiently? Well, in this situation it will be to use our services as professional oven cleansers. Cowley UB8 households are going to have the oven cleaned and sanitised whenever and nonetheless needed and will never have to put up using a dirty oven ever again as we are on the case. We are quite serious about professional oven cleaning and have all the filth on dirty ovens. Instead of boring one to death with hygiene facts, stats about filthy ovens and what not we will just say that a filthy oven is unhealthy, inefficient and might catch fire if left too dirty for too long. We, though, can clean your oven immediately, affordably and correctly as we have the practical skills and business expertise to do the job right. You will see no risk of harm to the features of the oven, protective coatings or paint finishes as we use and employ simply highly effective, green, industry approved cleaning products and stuffs specially formulated for the job. Additionally we apply the most skilled and professional oven cleansers in Cowley UB8. Residents who’ve used our services before will know how scrupulous, careful and professional our oven cleaners are in everything they do. All in all this adds around a great cleaning service which guarantees to provide exceptional quality results.
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If you have a ton of cleaning chores to get through and one of them is oven cleaning, then maybe it is wise to use our professional oven cleaning service, and have one less thing to worry about. We are fairly confident in our abilities and operation, as we work with the most committed and thoroughly skilled oven cleansers Cowley UB8 households who have used our services before will be well aware of how diligent, attentive and professional our cleaning specialists are in everything they do down to the lowest detail. As you will have the greatest in the business dealing with your case so to speak with us your oven cleaning chores will no longer be an issue. While we bring the oven up to scratch together with your cleaning conditions, you will get a chance to deal with other more urgent cleaning chores, or get out of the house and appreciate yourself. Because the service is performed by capable, punctual and exceptionally professional oven cleansers, as we will have everything wrapped up and willing to really go inside the designated timeframe and be out of your before you understand it Cowley UB8 residents will not have to supervise our cleansers. For the best results and no risk of damage we use only industry accredited, eco friendly professional grade cleaning products which will dissolve all organic matter and staining without poisonous fumes or residue. Our cleaning technicians will be extra careful when cleaning your oven as they should avoid injury to protective coatings inside the oven and fragile finishes as well as heating elements, door seal and thermo-resistant glass. Local clients keep their oven fresh and clean at all times and can also benefit from convenient given program oven cleaning. Our oven cleaning is sufficiently priced and provides a genuine affordability.
Powerful oven cleaning is essential as the oven gets fairly dirty after several enormous roasts and cakes which splash all over it. Even when one uses baking foil, petroleum fumes and deposits from particular dishes can still stain the thermo resistant glass of the oven door, wall panels, heating elements as well as walls. A lot of people would do the oven cleaning themselves, however others will not even desire to listen to about coping with this kind of tedious and time consuming cleaning chore. Here is some guidance for both. If you do not have the time, means or desire to completely clean the oven by yourself, then by all means let us do it for you as we offer the most efficient and professional oven cleaning Cowley UB8 residents have ever had access to. Our diligent and attentive cleaning technicians will make a no-brainer with this otherwise dull and labourious cleaning chore without any added costs and hassles. We are not caustic free and also can say our specialised oven cleaning solutions are the safer cleaning option for the oven, as DIY cleaning solutions can damage the oven. Competitive cleaning solvents will likely damage if not remove completely enamel coatings inside the oven after some uses. Those same cleaning products dissolve the chrome coating of oven racks and can also damage the door seal of the oven. House administered oven cleaning solutions may not just damage the oven and its attributes but also are harmful to your health. All of the standard cleaning products sold make use of serious levels of caustic soda which is so hazardous and dangerous to well-being. All in all the better more sensible choice is to work with our professional oven cleaning Cowley UB8. Residents will be quite impressed with our efficacy and attention to fine detail. Our oven cleaning is affordable and comfortably priced.


Being Julia ~ Releasing 12/17/13
“Both of you sit! Now!” I commanded as I pointed at the table.
They looked at each other and walked over to the table and sat down. I set two glasses on the table and poured the cocktail into each one. I slid a glass over to my mom, and I slid a glass over to my dad.
“But,” my dad started.
“No buts. Now drink it up.”
My parent’s looked at each other as they picked up their glasses. “Gee, I can’t imagine where she gets her attitude from,” my dad said to my mom.
She made a face at him as she held up her glass. “Cheers!”
I walked over to the coffee pot and poured three cups of coffee as I began my speech.
“We need to discuss the events of last night and how you embarrassed me. What were you thinking? Not only were you behaving like love-sick teenagers, you were drunk on top of it. Do you know how that looked in front of Jake? Do you have any idea how humiliated I was and how I had to apologize for your erratic behavior? Who’s the adult here? Because I know it’s neither one of you,” I said as I waved my finger at them.


It goes without saying that good quality content is crucial for a website to perform well and convert website visitors into new patients. It should be carefully considered, well written and have a clear objective in mind.
Your website content should clearly and accurately address the information potential patients need to know (i.e. treatments you provide, why you provide the best care, who is on your team etc), but it should also make sure that you’re driving visitors towards your website goals, like booking in for a consultation or calling you to find out more.
Ultimately, you want your website to be a pleasure to visit, and reflect who you are, whilst still being high performing.
However, when it comes to actually creating content, even the most experienced professionals can get writer’s block. Well thought out, clear and concise web copy can really make a difference to the overall performance of your website, and it often can feel like an almighty task to create.
With our top 5 easy to follow copywriting tips you should be able to beat that writer’s block, and also ensure your website copy is working for you!
The difference between good copy and great copy really is the tone of voice that is used throughout your website. Creating a unique tone of voice is a brilliant way to not only make you stand out from the crowd, but also to build up a relationship with your web visitors right from the very start.
The best way to find your own tone of voice is to establish who your target patient is and how they speak or like to be spoken to. It’s them who you’re speaking to after all!
Why not start by building your very own Patient Profile?
A consumer profile is a one page document that helps you to outline your target patients’ credentials. It can list their pain points, interests, buying patterns, and key characteristics.
Whilst it may seem that your current patients have different pain points and different things that are important to them, if you take an hour to sit and think through your top fifty or so patients, you will probably find that they have lots more in common than you think. There could be similarities in age, who they are, what they like and what’s important to them. Work out why your patients come to your practice and not the practice of your competitors down the road.
All of these unique factors will start to build up a fantastic insight into who your target audience is. You can then use this to start reflecting on the type of language that they’re more likely to resonate with to start building your tone of voice.
Although this may seem obvious, a well thought out and clear treatment page can often be overlooked when creating a high performing website.
Whilst it may be easy to just simply “list” the treatments you have available at your practice, you could be losing lots of potential patients by simply assuming they already have the knowledge they need when looking at the treatment options available.
Never assume knowledge and use language as your best friend to help your potential patients really understand your treatment page and what it is that you offer. You may know what peridontistry is but your potential new patient may not, so use more simple and descriptive language to communicate what you offer.
Start by categorising your services into a logical and simple structure and put them in context using your patients’ language. Don’t use overly complicated jargon, which has the potential to increase your bounce rate (visitors bouncing off your page or whole website as they cannot find or understand what they are looking for!) and confuse your reader.
Don’t forget to make sure that all of your language is appropriate and follows the rules of the CQC. For example, we see many people using the word specialist on their dental practice website. However you can only use the word ‘specialist’ in dentistry if you are genuinely a qualified specialist! This is definitely worth noting and making sure you do your due diligence when creating your copy. Head to the CQC website for more information: https://www.cqc.org.uk/about-us/transparency/transparency
One of the biggest mistakes you can make when creating the copy for your website is forgetting your FAQ’s!
Don’t fall for this age-old error and neglect your frequently asked questions. Spend some time really considering your language here and making sure that you cover everything a potential patient might want to know.
Not only does it make life easier for your website visitors, it can save your company time and resources because you don’t have as many patients contacting you for answers.
Plus it helps to build trustworthy relationships right from the very start!
Really consider the questions that your existing patients ask when they’re in your practice, or are having certain treatments. Speak to the team and ask them what questions they are asked too!
You might find that each team member interacts with a patient at different stages of their journey, from enquiry, to TCO appointments, and questions may vary at each stage of the process. Use these to help to build a more thorough FAQ’s section on your website.
Whilst it is important to know how to speak to your patients – it’s just as important to know how to speak to Google!
There is no point in having a fantastic looking, and sounding website, if Google can’t find it. SEO is the practice of Search Engine Optimisation, and it’s a method of sowing carefully selected keywords into your copy, to make your website visible to search engines.
Enquiries that come from search engines are the best type of leads, afer word-of-mouth of course. They are searching for a solution and are ready to take action. You didn’t interrupt their day and find them – they found you!
Most searches begin with typing keywords like “dentists near me” into a search engine. There are only 13 spots on page one of Google, including the three map results, and the best way to ensure your practice is appearing in one of these sought after positions is by helping Google to understand that your website belongs there.
It is important to meet all of the technical “on page” requirements that go into ensuring that the search engine understands the value you are delivering and puts your website in front of your target patient when they make a search. This plays a large part in how you structure your website’s pages and should be considered when creating all pieces of written copy on your website.
Read our post ‘The Ultimate Guide to Dental SEO’ to get a greater understanding of how to start using SEO content on your website.
Your practice is as unique as you! So make sure your potential patients know this by showcasing your own case work to support your copy. Your competitors may have roughly the same treatment information as you, but your work will always be uniquely yours, so make sure to include this on your website.
Have you had a particularly transformative case, overhauling a patient’s smile using different treatments to achieve the results?
Or perhaps you have a specific technology that you offer that has delivered some great results to very happy patients? Feature them on your website!
With the permission of the patient, write about the problem, the solution and the results, with as much detail as possible. Use emotive language to really help your website visitor understand your work and begin to build a relationship with them. The more your website visitor feels that your work can target their pain point the more likely they are going to want to find out more.
Don’t forget to include rich media here, too. Rich media is simply a digital marketing term that adds value to your digital content. It can be photographs, videos, audio or any other element that encourages viewers to interact and engage with your content. Take as many photographs and videos of your work as you can, and use these to support your case studies. Plus, rich media can help to support your SEO too.
Why not check out our guide to taking photographs for your online Smile Gallery?
We hope these top 5 tips have kick started some great conversations and ideas for you to create or refresh your dental practices website copy.
We get it, the thought of producing high-quality content for your website is a daunting one, but that’s why copywriters exist! If you are serious about creating a website that you are proud of, consider working with a professional to achieve all of the above. The cost will pay for itself ten times over!
If you would like some help in getting started, send us an email to set up an appointment with one of our experts and we will ensure that your copywriting, and the rest of your website is performing to its full potential.


This morning the IE team announced a new set of functionality to the upcoming Release Candidate of IE9, Tracking Protection and Tracking Protection Lists. In short, Tracking Protection offers users (and very interesting that the IE team blog chose to use the term “consumers” instead of “users”) a set of advancements in the way that IE9 will handle tracking. From the IE Team blog post:
Today, consumers share information with more websites than the ones they see in the address bar in their browser. This is inherent in the design of the web and simply how the web works, and it has potentially unintended consequences. As consumers visit one site, many other sites receive information about their activities (you can read more details here). This situation results from how modern websites are built; typically a website today might bring together content from many other websites, leaving the impression that the website appears to be its own entity. When the browser calls any other website to request anything (an image, a cookie, HTML, a script that can execute), the browser explicitly provides information in order to get information. By limiting data requests to these sites, it is possible to limit the data available to these sites for collection and tracking.
Certainly there are serious and legitimate privacy concerns inherent in any use of the modern internet, and Tracking Protection can be used to mitigate these concerns. It can also be used, however, as an effective ad blocking tool, something that both Chrome and Firefox offer through plugins.
As the IE Team blog post recognizes, a common use tracking occurs with ads. Again, from the post:
One potential downside is that some web site publishers and developers already have concerns with large numbers of visitors blocking some of the content today (usually ads). We understand this concern and have provided several ways to deal with this issue.
First, this functionality is opt-in, and by default consumers’ experience will remain the same as it is today, unless they make a decision to change it. Second, any site can make available a Tracking Protection List that creates exceptions (via “OK to Call” items) for external content that provides the full experience of the site. This TPL provides transparency to the consumer about the additional sites he will visit and share information with. Third, a site can pull external content into its own domain, so that a consumer has no need to call external sites. Lastly, networks of sites and associations can work together to create a TPL that they recommend broadly to consumers. We designed the feature so that there are ample opportunities for all the constituencies to engage in a manner consistent with their priorities and point of view.
As you can see from the link in the blockquote above, Microsoft seems to be a bit jealous of the 100 million downloads of AdBlock Plus for Firefox. At the same time, however, Microsoft runs its own Advertising platform, who are understandably a bit defensive about this new technology, which make no mistake, is largely an ad blocker. An opt-in ad blocker, one that isn’t advertised as such, and one with a number of partial opt-outs, but first and foremost (regardless of the spin), an ad blocker.
Microsoft proposes that “networks of sites… can work together to create a TPL” that would allow ads, but of course it’s just as feasible (and probably quite a bit more likely) that a TPL will be created to effectively shut off ads from major advertising platforms, which will work cross session and across any number of websites, with a single opt-in click.
We’re of course aware that many users don’t like ads, and to be honest we’re not all that thrilled with them ourselves (but we’re less thrilled with the prospect of funding this website out of our pockets, which is why we offer advertising on LiveSide). This isn’t a diatribe against ad blockers, but simply a recognition that Tracking Protection and Tracking Protection Lists will offer a simple, complete, and effective way for IE9 users to block ads.


His songwriting talents aside, Teofilo Chantre has followed a much-appreciated solo career since 1993 and the album “Terra & Cretcheu”, independent of fashion and other transient trends in the performing arts. Rooted in saudade - an Atlantic emotion combining regret, desire and sorrow - Teofilo Chantre’s music tells of how he left his native island of São Vicente for Europe at the age of fourteen and alludes to the many return trips that followed. Chantre has been a musician for thirty years and has achieved an impressive maturity as both a singer and writer of Cape Verdean classics.
“meStissage”, the sixth studio album in a series teeming with references to travel and homeland, is certainly his widest-ranging, most accomplished record to date. A jewel of acoustic sketches and Atlantic melancholy, its thirteen songs stray from the beaten path and set out in search of a generous musical fusion. The first song on the album, Tu verrais (You’d see), is fashioned with true, delicate craftsmanship. Singing in French, Teofilo brings us a paean to the good life, reminiscent of Cape Verdean morabeza and underlined by the bitter-sweet accordion of Jacky Fourniret who has been playing with Teofilo since the early days.
Marc Estève, already present on the previous album, “Viaja”, has co-written five tracks of this new record. The startling Entre-temps (Meanwhile) is a lucid mirror held up to a society where digital technology is relentlessly replacing honest human relationships. The string and piano arrangements on Un Monde Honorable (An Honourable World) stir memories of the late French artist Claude Nougaro, while enhancing Teofilo’s naturally flowing, sometimes intimate but always heartfelt vocals, achieving a moving harmony of words and music.
Bernard Lavilliers met Teofilo during the writing of Elle Chante (She Sings), the duet he
performed with Cesaria Evora, and is reunited with the Cape Verdean on Oli'Me Ma Bô, with a touching verse on the hardships of exile that again expresses a sublime saudade. Teofilo excels in introspective ballads, including the exquisitely self-effacing Alma Morna, Allem Disso and Lua Desencantada. Combined with largely acoustic backing, his innate sense of melody always rings true, suggesting the restrained saudade of the Mindelo teen who left his island to go into exile across the Atlantic.
All roads meet and part in the Restau de l'Exil (Exile Restaurant), a Portuguese-speaking
travellers’ inn where emotions run deep and real. Teofilo’s music never cheats. He remains true to his past, convictions and feelings. Melancholy vanishes as the first notes sound: “Nostalgia, sleep peacefully, everyone’s going to dance”. Us too, all through this “meStissage” brimming with vitality.
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Ed Bright is the president and general manager of Sports University, a New Jersey AAU basketball program that produces players such as Kentucky’s Karl-Anthony Towns and many others at top NCAA Division I schools.
Wichita State made its first entry into Sports University’s talent pool when it secured a non-binding commitment from Markis McDuffie, a 6-foot-8 forward who plays at St. Anthony High in New Jersey. McDuffie holds a special spot in the mind of Bright, who founded the program in 2005.
“I've never had a player that is as coachable and is excited about being coached as Markis McDuffie,” Bright said. “His upside is unbelievable.”
McDuffie works the drills given by coaches, Bright said. He looks them in the eye and takes instruction. Then he executes the instructions.
Bright will go on about McDuffie, a senior at St. Anthony. He thinks he is an NBA talent, perhaps even a lottery pick. Is is fair to put that label on a 17-year-old? McDuffie doesn’t need to make the NBA to be a Shocker success story, but Bright is willing to set that marker to start.
Bright, given a chance to soften his high expectations, voices no reservations.
“None whatsoever,” he said. “Markis McDuffie is special. If his trajectory stays true, he is an NBA pro.”
Part of Bright’s confidence comes from McDuffie’s background. He benefits, Bright said, from the critical ingredients of a supportive family and an admirable home life. He is a 3.0 GPA student. His parents push academics. His parents, Derek and Sandra, are involved and provide a strong example. Derek McDuffie drives vans, checks curfew and washes uniforms. Markis’ older sister Sierra plays basketball at NCAA Division II Felician (N.J.) College and he has a twin sister named Mone.
Sports University, Bright said, wants to be more than a basketball program for its players. It requires them to take etiquette classes and instructs them on skills such as how to dress, how to shake hands and how to communicate responsibly on Facebook and Twitter.
“Derek has been the most helpful parent we’ve ever had in our program,” Bright said. “Sandra is a real mom. She wants him to get a degree. All of her children have made a promise that they will get a degree.”
Then, of course, there are Markis McDuffie’s basketball skills. Bright describes him as a wing player who can score from the perimeter and slithers to the hoop to score on acrobatic moves. McDuffie is 168 pounds, so gaining weight and strength is an obvious area for improvement.
“He’s crafty around the basket,” Bright said. “Great leaping ability. He can get his shot off from anywhere. He can handle the ball. He sees the floor.”
Defense? All you need to know is that he plays for Bob Hurley at St. Anthony.
“If you don’t play defense, you don’t play for Bob Hurley,” Bright said.


As temperatures in the UK reach record levels and rain fall seems like a distant memory, talk inevitably turns to hosepipe bans. Ireland has already imposed one and many utility companies in the UK are said to be considering one if we don’t get some significant rain soon. Everyone doing their bit to save water then is a good idea, not just now in very dry weather but all year round as it’s better for the environment and, if you have a water meter in your home, it would save you money.
Here are some great tips to help you conserve water, most of which can easily be implemented just by small changes in behaviour. We’ve grouped them into Bathing, Plumbing, Kitchen and Garden.
Take showers rather than baths but be aware that some power showers can actually use more water than baths. Swap to an efficient shower head to use less water
Limit shower time – every minute in a power shower uses 17 litres of water. Try to limit your shower to 4 minutes if you can
Don’t run taps while cleaning teeth – this can use up to 6 litres of water a minute
Capture any water you run off while waiting for water to heat up to wash your hands or face. You can then use this to water the garden or store in the fridge for drinking
Fix leaky taps – there could be up to 60 litres of water going down the drain every week
Switch to a low flush toilet – the average household uses around 5,000 litres of water a year. A dual flush toilet uses just 4 litres for a reduced flush or 6 litres for a full flush compared to a traditional toilet flush. If you have a traditional flush toilet you can add a cistern displacement device (CDD) to the cistern to reduce the amount of water used
Check pipes for leaks and drains for blockages and resolve before you have a flood. Also make sure you know where your stop tap is and that you can both access it and turn it in the event of an emergency. If you can’t, consider getting a Sure Stop remote stop tap installed
Look out for leaky toilets. This is where water leaks slowly from the cistern into the toilet bowl in between flushes. You can check by adding some food colouring to the water in the cistern and don’t flush for an hour or so. If the colour appears in the toilet bowl you know you have a leak. This is one of the most common reasons for high water usage. A plumber would be able to fix that
Yorkshire Water offers free water saving kits that include a CDD, a tap aerator, a ShowerSave to limit water and even a 4 minute shower timer. Claim yours here.
Don’t fill the kettle right up every time, only boil what you need. This saves power as well as reduces loss through steam
When cooking with water consider ways to use less such as steaming vegetables rather than boiling. Also save any used water as it can be used as stock for soups or to water the garden once cooled
Make sure you fully load the washing machine and the dishwasher every time as they’ll use the same amount of water whether they are full or half empty. Dishwashers actually use less water than washing up by hand. Consider using eco programmes if available
If you want cold drinking water fill up bottles and put them in the fridge rather than wasting water waiting for it to run cold from the tap
Add things to flower borders that will use water more efficiently: water beads (such as the ones we warned about putting down drains in a recent blog!) or water saving gels will store and release water over time and mulch and bark will stop water evaporating as quickly in hot weather
Water the garden when it’s cool, such as first thing in the morning or in the evening as a lot of the water will evaporate in full heat and you won’t get as much benefit
Install a water butt in the garden to collect rain water and use it for the garden. This could save 5000 litres per year and is better for plants than treated tap water
When watering the garden, watering cans are better than hosepipes and hosepipes (especially those with a trigger nozzle) are better than automatic sprinklers which can uses 1000 litres an hour!
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Since we ended up going out for tex-mex for dinner last night, and I did not cook I will take this opportunity to share my chili recipe. I have had several friends and family members request it after having enjoyed bowls of it.
I started with Jamie's Chili (Paula Deen's son) as it was on the Food Network website. Then, tweaked it to fit my family's tastes. You can make it spicier if you like - just season with a bit more chili powder or even a pinch or two of crushed red pepper. I initially made it in the crockpot, and it was ok, but it tended to be a bit watery. That's one of the downfalls of the crockpot - in my opinion. So, once I started cooking it on the stove for 4 hours, it was the perfect thick and chunky chili. And, who can resist a big bowl of chili when you walk in and smell it cooking on the stove? We like to serve it with shredded cheese sprinkled over the top and some saltine crackers on the side... some like to crush them on top, while others like to put the thick chili right on top and munch away.
1 pound ground beef
1 pound sweet turkey sausage (you can use hot if you'd like spicier chili)
1 medium onion, diced
1 green bell pepper, diced
3 (14 1/2 oz) cans diced tomatoes
1 (28 oz) can crushed tomatoes
1 tablespoon ground cumin
1 tablespoon chili powder
1 can pinto beans
1 can kidney beans
1 can cannellini beans
1 package chili seasoning mix
Brown the ground beef and turkey sausage in a skillet over medium-high heat. Drain and set aside.
In a large pot, heat over medium heat and stir in the diced onion and green bell pepper. Saute for a couple of minutes. Then, stir in the diced and crushed tomatoes. Add the cumin and chili powder (I "eyeball" the amounts - just pour into my palm and then toss in). Cook until the vegetables are tender. Add the beans, browned meat and chili seasoning. Let simmer, uncovered, for about 4 hours.


Ran away from home as teenager [around 1968]
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Iva Snyder's family was shocked when she returned to the family farm after an absence of 15 years. Iva ran away from hone at the age of 13 and her family had no idea where or how she was. Sadly, being on the farm brought painful memories to Iva. Though she loved her family, she had a deep dark secret that she was ashamed to reveal. Though she tried to keep the truth hidden, Iva finally told her mother her darkest secret: that she was raped by her own cousin, Josh, and had a child out that incestuous relationship. By now, Iva had met her daughter, Lily Walsh, and was horrified to learn that she was in love with Holden, Iva's own brother. After a long talk with Emma, Iva learned that she had nothing to be afraid of, since both she and Josh were both adopted into the Snyder family, neither her attack or Lily's relationship were incestuous. Eventually, Iva would meet her attacker again. By this point, Josh had become friends with Lily and mistakenly believing that Josh was hurting her, Iva blurted out to the pair that Josh was Lily’s father. Eventually, Iva forgave Josh for what he did to her and also formed a close relationship with Lily. Iva also ended up meeting her own biological family—the Carpenters. Forced to give Iva up since they were too poor to care for her, by this point, the Carpenters were very well off.
After dealing with her past, Iva began a promising new relationship with businessman, Kirk Anderson. Unfortunately the relationship was strained because of Iva's sexual problems and it ended when Iva learned that Kirk had abandoned his wife and children with no means of support. When Kirk began seeing Iva's younger sister, Ellie, Iva, though hurt by the relationship, gave them her blessing. After ending it with Kirk, Iva decided she wanted to adopt a baby and was thrilled when Julie Wendall offered to let her adopt her son. Though initially she didn't know who the father was, Iva soon learned that it was Holden, who by now had married Lily. Not wanting to jeopardize their marriage, Iva kept the truth from Holden and adopted the child who she named Aaron. After a few years however Holden learned the truth and sued for and won custody of Aaron.
Along the way, Iva had a romance with John Dixon that resulted in her getting pregnant. After the birth of her son, M.J., Iva decided that she really didn't love John and embarked in a relationship with attorney Jason Benedict. After marrying, the couple moved to Washington, DC where Jason headed the government's Crime Commission. In June 1994, Iva, with Jason and MJ, briefly returned to town to attend Caleb's wedding to Julie Wendell.
Years later, Iva's quiet life was shaken when she received a shock: Rose D'Angelo, the woman who "stole" Lily's life, was her daughter! Apparently Iva had given birth to two babies without knowing it. Though Lily hated Rose at first, Iva decided to get to know her new daughter and welcomed her into the family. Sadly, Rose died a few short years later, devastating Lily.


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The Pompano Beach rapper played a snippet of the song at his concert on Sunday night. Kodak Black has dissed Lil Wayne in the past but it looks like the two have put those differences behind them and are now making music together.A video surfaced on social media today showing Lil Kodak on stage his recent concert while his DJ cued up the yet to be released collaborative single.
The clip shows Kodak walking around the stage rocking to the single with his cup in hand while the audience went wild. The Florida rapper went after Lil Wayne earlier this year shortly after his released from prison. He had some very hard words for the Young Money rap legend and at one point even said that he wanted to knock Weezy out. “Tell Lil Wayne fight me,” he said on Instagram. He also urged Wayne to get inside the boxing ring with him so that they can settle the debate on who is the best rapper alive.
Kodak has been having a great year in hip hop with two major projects under his belt so far, Painting Pictures and Project Baby 2. He also released a joint mixtape with fellow Florida native Plies titled F.E.M.A: Finesse. Elevate. Motivate.
As for Lil Wayne, he has been having a tumultuous year with his ongoing legal battle with Birdman and Cash Money Records. In July, he released a mixtape titled In Tune We Trust but his oft-delayed album Tha Carter V has yet to see the light of day. Earlier this year, Birdman revealed that the album will be released this year but the year is almost over the project is nowhere to be found. Weezy is suing the label for $51 million and also said he wants a judge to release him from his contract.


If you’ve missed Gotham over the last couple of weeks, here’s the plot in a nutshell: Most of the cast has the rage virus. Most of the cast that doesn’t have the rage virus is dead or running from people who do have the rage virus. The Court of Owls is in disarray because they’re terrible at their jobs. Penguin and Riddler are feuding again. Oh, yeah, and Fish Mooney finally got off the couch and showed up! Throw in the rage virus bomb going off in Gotham and things are about to get crazier than they already are!
Gotham, in its third season, arguably took the crown as the most gleefully strange of all the DC shows, which when you consider that includes a show about a zombie solving murders by eating the brains of victims and, well, the entirely of Preacher says a lot. Gotham‘s great virtue and flaw is that it just can’t stop pushing, no matter what, and the result is something unique even in a era of peak TV, as Fox is finishing it off with an operatic two-parter.
And, despite the fact that clearly half the cast is being fed to the sharks, there’s a fourth season! How will the show ever get out of its current predicament? We’ll find out tonight at 8pm EST. Join us, won’t you?


Brightcove Video Cloud is used by a wide variety of organizations, so it's always fun to see how these businesses are leveraging online video in even the most niche markets. Vital Choice, a seafood company that sells sustainable wild fish and organic foods, is one such company. The online store offers healthy wild seafood and other types of organic fare, but the ultimate goal is about more than simply distributing these foods. It's about illustrating the benefits of consuming wild and organic sustainable food on a large scale - and what better way to illustrate that than through video!
As the name of the company states, Vital Choice is focused on encouraging consumers to make the best choices when purchasing seafood. The company's ability to prove that the foods they sell are the right choice depends on trust between the store and the consumer, and that is where the Brightcove Video Cloud online video platform comes into the picture. Vital Choice has built out a What People Say portion of its site, which is primarily comprised of video testimonials from leading health and lifestyle experts. As Director of Digital Media, Arnie Klaus, says, the goal of including videos on the Vital Choice site is "to show that we have the enthusiastic support of the professional health and culinary communities." These testimonials play a large part in validating the promise the company makes to its customers.
Though Vital Choice is still in the beginning stages of this video intiative, the organization has big goals. Klaus says, "we are planning to promote and share the video links on our email newsletter and on Facebook. We are anticipating others will pick up on the messages that we deliver as a way not only to promote our products, but to emphasize the importance of quality food and good health." Incorporating social media into a video strategy is a powerful way to spread the message, and Vital Choice is not missing out.
The lesson here is important: every business, no matter the industry, has a message, and making sure you share that message in a compelling, high-quality way can go a long way toward solidifying the brand and building customer loyalty.


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Sunday December 4, 2011 / 7:00pmThe Nutcracker
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As always, this House production was super fun, epecially for kids and families. Loaded with villains and had an intriguing plot with morals. Loved the stage effects of walls cracking and pictures turning on the walls. The kids had a great time rollicking in the fake snow at intermission and parents got some great pictures - terrific photo op. Finally, the stage hands asked the kids to sit down and took to sweeping the stage. It was very imaginatively done with a whole different twist to the Nutcracker story and a high energy cast with players, who, as usual, relate to audience members directly and make them feel very appreciated.


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The sales figures for ‘Pokemon Brilliant Diamond’ and ‘Pokemon Shining Pearl’ have been revealed.
On the 8th, Pokemon Corporation announced that the game, which was simultaneously released worldwide on the Nintendo Switch on November 19th, had sold 6 million units worldwide in the first week of release.
Pokémon Brilliant Diamond/Shining Pearl is a remake title of ‘Pokemon DP Dialuga Pearlgia’, which was officially released in Korea in February 2008 after its release in Japan in 2006.
You can enjoy an adventure in the Shino region that has been vividly revived along with the Pokémon of Pokémon DP, Dialga and Palkia, and the story is faithfully reproduced at that time.
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In New York we feel back where we started. It’s like 2020, with everyone in a mask and canceling gatherings and scrambling to find a test. Covid is everywhere. For the moment we appear to be the epicenter again, with 38,835 new cases reported in the state on Thursday, a record. I know many people who got sick in the past two weeks, but it’s not a terrible version of the illness. It’s a milder one, and hospitalization isn’t part of the equation. Early data seems to suggest this also. I am not an epidemiologist, and it’s foolish to make predictions in such a fluid and unknowable environment, but it’s Christmas, so I offer a purely instinctive reading:
Everything living wants to live, including this stupid little virus. It will shape-shift, find new entry points—anything to stay alive. But what we’re seeing now is the pandemic in its death throes. It’s going at everyone’s throats, in a frenzy, but it’s weaker than it was and knows it. It’s desperate where it used to be discerning (targeting the old). In its dying frenzy it will reach everyone; in the end we’ll all have had some variant. And then it will give up and slink away. Because while it got weaker, we, with vaccines, boosters, therapeutics and natural immunity, got stronger.
Yes, there will be more variants. The virus will not fully disappear from the news or our lives, but this third winter will be the last hard one. And then we’ll go on to what passes for normal life in America having learned, and changed, a great deal.
From the beginning I thought: This pandemic, long anticipated by science and surprisingly late in coming, is a chance to understand, at some grave cost, what we will need to survive future pandemics. A lot didn’t work this time; we have to learn what we need to do with medical and scientific establishments and practices, including increased research. At the very least we need to warehouse medical supplies built to last.
Republicans, for when you’re in charge: This isn’t the place to cut. We have to stay on the problem. We’re not at the end of an era but the beginning of one, and it’s going to take more.
Back to New York. Walking through once-empty Midtown Manhattan, I saw nonstop Christmas bustle, not as big as the old days but big, including something I hadn’t seen in a while and didn’t see last year: families with kids from out of town jostling along Fifth Avenue. There were lines at some stores. I returned from an excursion to read in this paper that there are indications the U.S. economy is booming. Early output estimates from the Federal Reserve Bank of Atlanta put the annualized growth rate expected for this quarter at 7%, compared with 2% last quarter. It put America at a much better rate than the eurozone, with an expected 2% growth, and China, at 4%. The Journal reported that analysts expect the U.S. economy will have grown about 6% in 2021, most of it fueled by demand. “U.S. consumers, flush with trillions of dollars of fiscal stimulus, are snapping up manufactured goods and scarce materials.”
Six percent growth, if that turns out to be the final number, is pretty fabulous. But I’m not aware, and the polls don’t show, that the American people themselves experience the economy as going gangbusters. The obvious and primary reason is inflation—prices of the things that you need to live each day, groceries and gas, are way up. If you’ve been ordering food gifts for friends online, you have entered the world of the hundred-dollar ham. Economic growth and good employment numbers don’t feel like good news if inflation keeps pace with or exceeds wage growth.
But the cause would be more than inflation. If people think the economy is heating up because the system is pumped full of cash from two years of government spending they’ll experience any resulting growth as temporary and provisional, not organic but somehow unreal. They’ll stay wary of good data, especially when they believe high government spending itself tends to inflate the currency.
And I wonder if a lot of people aren’t worrying that there’s been some quiet but fundamental shift in expectations set in place during the pandemic—that you don’t really have to work anymore, or if you don’t like your job you don’t have to stay until you get a better one; you can just leave and one way or another get the support you need through benefits, programs and government assistance. People are wondering right now about the implications of the Great Resignation. More freedom, more enjoyment of life, less scrambling in a rat race—maybe that’s the right direction. But is it sustainable in the long term? Will it have some effect on what used to be called the national character? As a people we’ve always known how to grit through and suffer when history takes a turn. What will we be like when we don’t, and history gets more demanding?
These questions connect to the most fateful domestic decision of the Biden administration, which was to turn so far left domestically, with huge, dense, ideologically sprawling spending bills. The apparent collapse of their legislative agenda reflects the big political fact of 2021, which is the low popular standing of President Biden.
The decision to align with progressives was a miscalculation—destabilizing for Democrats and damaging to the president—but also a mystery. Did it spring from a single decision marked by a memorable sentence that we’ll be reading about in memoirs down the road? Something like, “You think it’s 2021, but it’s 1933, and this is our moment to complete the New Deal.” Was it a series of decisions made over weeks in the Eisenhower Executive Office Building, a matter of grunts and nods as people ate lunch at their desks? Did anyone say, “The energy in our party is on the left, to hold together as a party and win on the Hill we must bring the left in and let it help drive the car”?
Or—in what really would have been the most consequential political statement of 2021—did anybody stand up and say, “My friends, big ambition is admirable but we don’t have the margins. We don’t have FDR’s House and Senate, our control is razor thin. The path for us is easy does it, day by day, smaller bills and plenty of outreach to Republicans, whose increasingly populist base doesn’t mind spending as long as it doesn’t seem insane. The progressives won’t like it, the Squad will hate it, but we can use them as a foil, as a useful illustration of what we’re not. We’ll use their criticism to underscore our centrism. We don’t need them. All we need to be popular is a) not to be
b) to provide steady leadership that delivers modest but regular improvements, and c) to do this in a way that leaves people saying, ‘My God, someone made Washington work again.’ That’s the path.”
Did anyone inside say that?
Is there still time to change tack?
That will be a great political question of 2022.
This column has been updated to include Thursday’s New York state Covid case count.
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MILK PAINT FINISH with CURTIS BUCHANAN
Curtis and I talk about painting spoons and Democratic chairs with milk paint. We cover preparing the surface for paint, mixing and applying milk paint, brush choices, crackle finishes, rubbing the paint out to create a sheen, and top coat options. This is recording is called Democratic Chair pt. 7 elsewhere on this website, but we spend as much time painting spoons as chairs. Plus Q&A session.
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The Consultation was a fluid group of bishops from eight African Provinces, The Anglican Church of Canada, The Church of England, The Scottish Episcopal Church and The Episcopal Church. For over a decade, bishops worked to mend relations and build understanding among parts of the Communion that had been in intense conflict. The first Consultation was held in London UK, in February 2010. The consultation took place every year in different parts of the Communion, until the final event in Zanzibar, in February 2020.
This Guide to Intercultural Conversations is a gift to the Anglican Communion from The Consultation of Anglican Bishops in Dialogue. It comprised a full guide, a short guide, and a series of videos.
The video, We are One (above), expresses the changing context, experience and insights of participating bishops, and can be used to raise awareness, prompt reflection, and support dialogue processes. It is also available on YouTube, Vimeo, and as a downloadable video.
The Consultation had its beginnings at the 2008 Lambeth Conference, when the Anglican Communion was deeply divided over issues of same-sex unions and larger questions of Scriptural interpretation. At this conference Archbishop Colin Johnson of Toronto and the Rev. Canon Dr. Isaac Kawuki Mukasa, a Ugandan-Canadian priest then serving in the diocese of Toronto and later with General Synod and General Convention, invited informal conversation with African bishops. For several years, interested participants exchanged theological correspondence, first on human sexuality and then mission. The Consultation of Anglican Bishops in Dialogue subsequently met in person 11 times (2010-2020) concluding with a final Testimony to the 2021 Lambeth Conference. Close to 60 different bishops and Primates participated.
– Video teaser
• A Testimony of Constancy in Faith, Hope and Love (July 2018)
– Notes for Theological Reflection by the Rev. Canon Dr. Todd Townshend
– Primate’s Remarks to 9th Consultation (July 2018)
• Testimony of Mutual Commitment and Pulling Together—Haraambe (June 2017)
• A Testimony of Unity in Diversity (May 2016)
• A Testimony of Love: Bearing One Another’s Burden (May 2015)
• A Testimony of Our Journey toward Reconciliation (May 2014)
– Response by the Very Reverend Peter Elliott
– Response by Professor Wendy Fletcher
– Response by Professor Sammy Githuku
– Response by the Right Reverend Maimbo Mndolwa
– Response by Professor Esther Mombo
– Response by Professor Ephraim Radner
• A Testimony of Hope (May 2013)
• A Sacrament of Love: Our Continuing Testimony of Grace (June 2012)
• A Testimony of Grace from the Consultation of Bishops in Dialogue (March 2011)
• Read a paper on the concept of Sankofa, presented by Prof. Emmanuel Asante to the 2016 consultation
• Read a July 2015 story from the Anglican Journal, “Dialoguing bishops walk Slave Trail”
• Read a timeline of the consultation from 2003 to 2020
• Watch a video from the fourth consultation in Cape Town, South Africa
• View video interviews with the bishops at the 2012 Toronto consultation
• Read a June 2012 news story “Canadian, African bishops affirm common mission”
Contact: Dr. Andrea Mann, Director, Global Relations


On Sunday we went to ride the horses, first time since Autumn has been born. Montana loved it when she was Autumn's age, but guess what- she was scared!! Big Surprise!! We made her do it and she liked it after we rode for awhile. When I was a little kid I was the exact same way, so I am just paying for me. My Dad says, "She sounds just like her Mommy!" And the last night we went and visited MeeMaw and PeePaw. Autumn slept almost the whole time we were there and Montana ate a cookie and drank milk!! (She HAS to have that everytime we go to MeeMaw's)
Belinda- I blogged before a week-YEAH!! And Amy- tell Case he can join us to ride horses anytime!!
Daddy and the clown during her "Stick Horse Performance"
The calf scramble (Montana is latched on to Levi on the right hand side of this pic)
Uncle Todd, Autumn, and Sheri
Montana was busy talking to be in the picture!
Autumn and Sheri
Happy girl on the horse
Miss Harper Elizabeth at the rodeo
Lauren and Autumn at the rodeo
Ashley and Montana (rodeo)
Mee-Maw and 2 of her great-grandkids
This was after he was gielded last night; needless to say he is pretty sore!!
Autumn LOVES riding horses!
Miss Chicken throwing a FIT!


How often have you heard leaders in the retail industry say the key to long-term success is to create an ecommerce website? A majority of shoppers are doing research online before making a decision. When we review the demographics of the American shopper, we have the potentially largest generation of technology-dependent shoppers–the millennials. Millennials, born 1981 – 1996 according to some studies. In fact, 91% of Millennials own a smartphone. Many retailers believe that, while Millennials may be the ideal audience for an ecommerce website, the reality is much different. Especially retailers in the home furnishings industry, they believe that their demographic is a much older furniture shopper who doesn’t understand ecommerce.
The data says otherwise.
Besides healthcare, traveling the world, and the 21% who buy groceries digitally, Boomers are spending more and more on home improvement. And why not? Boomers represent 1/4 of the population and control about 70% of all disposable income in the US. They’re also doing research online before making a buying decision. Generation X is already an internet power user and frequently goes online for shopping and banking, among other activities.
This is the reality of today’s furniture retailer. Many, if not most, Gen Xers and Baby Boomers have moved to online shopping. And if your store isn’t represented online with product catalog data and an ecommerce cart for faster buying decisions, you’re missing more than your share of the industry profits. The internet is increasingly the go-to place for browsing and buying home furnishings. Therefore, ecommerce is necessary for continued growth in revenues and profits in the furniture industry.
Shifting Consumer Trends for Online Shopping
Let’s move in-depth about the consumer trends just mentioned earlier. What happened to make online shopping the standard, not the exception, to shopping behaviors? The simple answer is: Amazon. We’ve talked ad nauseum about the Amazon Effect. The ecommerce giant changed the way consumers look at products online. Representing 49% of the ecommerce market, Amazon spawned a new type of retail experience for consumers.
It seems like it happened overnight. Consumers started to go online and make product purchases. They started demanding a better standard for online product presentation. They pushed the envelope and now value more information, more product images, more personalization, product reviews from other customers, and easy payment options. The traditional brick-and-mortar retailers weren’t ready for this shift.
Thanks to Amazon and Google, the retail industry did start to play catchup. Traditional retailers started to build an online brand presence. With manufacturers in tow, retailers began talking about their products online. They added interactive tools like room planners to the website for a better customer experience. They started to put stock into this new trend–but always with some skepticism about full ecommerce.
While big vendors such as Amazon and Wayfair seem to be the go-to retailers for many consumers, they are not the beginning and end of ecommerce. There are many areas that the big retailers are weak when it comes to consumer satisfaction online. For example, in the home furnishings industry, retailers with access to exclusive collections that sell in the store can leverage their exclusivity with the manufacturers to show product online and sell online. If we’ve said it once, we’ve said it a thousand times: your manufacturer product catalog feeds are critical to your success online. This is your great leverage against the Amazons and Wayfairs of the world.
Selling online is the next big profit center for your retail store as the consumer trends keep shifting more towards online purchase. Now is the time to catch up and start your new business plan. Step one: create an ecommerce website.
Better Data Insights on Consumer Behavior
Aside from the obvious benefit of increased sales, ecommerce has an increasingly valuable asset for retailers. Consumer behavior trends. When you create an ecommerce website, you now have better insight into your prospects and buyers. While RMS and your traditional analytics can give you valuable data points, it doesn’t really give you all the insights on trends shifting inside your store. An ecommerce website offers the opportunity to gather more data on actual customer behavior. You can track what customers are searching for, how they find your site, what they look at, what they add to cart but never buy, and what they ultimately purchase. You can use this data to identify shopper behaviors, and test those behaviors with your marketing campaigns. The number of data points that you can look at is quite expansive. And it doesn’t cost much to study the metrics.
The better you understand how certain brands, collections, or products perform online versus instore, the better you can make buying decisions for your inventory and your marketing dollars. Identifying the best sellers versus the products you perceive are the best sellers can help you rank products online. Why is ranking important? For retailers on our Omnivue website platform, ranking puts the best products in front of the customer at the early stages in the buyer’s journey. It’s an easy way to shorten the buying cycle from research to purchase. But what if you’re not ranking the products customers really want to buy? Ecommerce helps you connect the dots in your data so that all of your online and offline business decisions increase revenue.
Competing with Amazon and Wayfair
As mentioned earlier, big online retailers such as Amazon and Wayfair will always be out there as ecommerce competition. However, you don’t need to be a pure etailer with warehouses of inventory to compete with these companies when you create an ecommerce website. You can study the big players and see where they are not providing the best solution for consumers. We heard a great speaker once say that you can’t compete with your competition. You’ll lose every time. Why? Because competing with anyone but yourself is a lose-lose. Your competitors may not be serving the best product to the customer in the best ways. When you compete with yourself to win your customer, you make decisions to serve the customer–not just serving a copycat rendition of your competitor.
In the home furnishings industry, there are lots of gaps that you can use to compete for the customer. Some of them include the following:
- Niche markets
- Local markets
- Personalized touch
- Knowledge of your market
- Knowledge of your product
- Responsiveness to queries
- Quick local delivery
- Ability to pair or match products
- Better merchandising
Manufacturers and Logistics Want Retailers Adopting Ecommerce
Have you been getting pressure from your manufacturers and logistics vendors regarding adoption of ecommerce? It is not surprising that they realize that the future of sales is online. While some customers will still want to come in person to see your showroom, many of them are choosing to spend more time with family. Rather than spending weekends going from store to store, they can do their research at home from their computer by browsing catalogs online.
Manufacturers provide online catalog data feeds for retailers to embed when they create an ecommerce website so that customers can search and shop for furniture on your ecommerce site. These data feeds give shoppers an up-to-date catalog with endless opportunities for the retailer. Retailers can provide customers with more personalization, better service and the hottest trends. By using RMS and other ERP logistics systems and third parties to fulfill orders, your customer satisfaction increases as you provide a more fluid and faster order fulfillment process. Ecommerce can improve your product flow from vendors, and you can automate the process even more with EDI. Adding efficiency to the ordering system allows you to focus on projects that drive revenue instead of hours doing paperwork and handling logistics. Your vendors can also better plan for future product development and manufacturing with more data from your ecommerce platform. They can learn about customer behaviors from your metrics. As they come to know your customers better, they can plan for the future using data instead of assumptions and guesswork. Better planning means better profitability.
Another benefit is using customer data on actual purchases, searches and what is not bought (left in the cart) to manage product catalog creation more efficiently. From the manufacturer perspective, this efficiency saves money on inventory, product development and catalog costs, especially for print catalogs. You can see why having data from actual customers is more beneficial than from focus groups or marketing surveys. Using actual behaviors is more effective than supposed behavior. There are many places in your business operations that can benefit from creating an ecommerce website. What are you waiting for?
The Best Reason to Create an Ecommerce Website
The best part about choosing to create ecommerce websites is that it works when you don’t have to. Ecommerce is open 24 hours a day. Customers who want to browse for a new leather sectional can spend time on your website at 11 pm on a Sunday night and make a purchase. We like to say in marketing that there is a right message for the right person at the right time. But being omnipresent with a retail store is impossible and not practical. Your ecommerce website is that extra salesperson on your team who is available 24/7 and always gives the right customer the right message at the right time. That’s why ecommerce is such an obvious choice for expanding your business.
Read our blog to learn how to build your ecommerce website.


In symbolic fashion, the home of the oldest Chinese community in the UK welcomed the Terracotta Warriors to the World Museum, Liverpool in the month of the Chinese New Year.
After spending 2,000 years underground, these impressive pieces tell the story of China’s first Emperor, Qin Shi Huang, and the tumultuous climate of China’s political landscape that was the Warring States period.
Beginning the exhibition with a 3-minute introductory video that set the scene of both the country and when the warriors were discovered in 1974. Once inside, the space was bathed in reds and decorated with informative but colourful banners reminiscent of tapestries. Chinese instrumental music resonated as you viewed the artefacts, some of which that had never been on British soil.
Spanning 1,000 years of history, the exhibition was organised in a manner that made you feel as though you were following a timeline of events. The history covered began with the warring states, the rise and fall of the first Emperor as well as the rise of the Han and the dynasty’s legacy. In this backdrop were a vast range of artefacts on display, such as real weapons for the terracotta soldier’s to use in the afterlife and an impressive number of bronze works, such as wine vessels and cooking pots.
The exhibition was comprehensive and demonstrated the middle kingdom’s impressive political, societal and economic evolution within this time period and the power the nation held.
The 10-figure collection on loan to Merseyside museums, including a life-sized horse and 1 of the 9 generals, demonstrate a new chapter between China and the UK. The exhibition serves to strengthen our two countries both historically and culturally as well as recognising the city of Liverpool’s importance.
The sheer skill involved in these proud and spectacular structures communicated the power of the first Emperor. This fact is emphasised when you take into account the number of these outstanding warriors. Each soldier possess individual facial features and some take different stances, it highlights how these statues were recognised as beings for the afterlife rather than merely objects.
The exhibition successfully communicated the environment that China found itself in 2,000 years ago, as well as the infallible power possessed by Emperor Qin Shi Huang.
His fixation with his rule and legacy led him to drastic actions, such as consuming mercury to increase his lifespan. But by focussing on his legacy he perhaps created one of the greatest testaments to his rule that inadvertently pays homage to the environment which saw him rise as the very first ruler of a unified China. A country that may not have evolved from strength to strength without that crucial step.


Use liked posts to build more likes for your business’s Facebook page
Getting likes on your company’s Facebook page can be hard work unless you’re a well-known company. The payoff is worth it. More likes means more people looking at content on your page, which increases the odds of people sharing your content to potential customers. Besides the usual “linking to your Facebook page from your company site” and other classic techniques, there’s also a little hack that can help get people who already have an interest in what you do to like your Facebook page: Invite those who liked a post on your Facebook page to like your Facebook page as well. (Even a 13-year-old can do it!)
This technique is great for building likes on your company’s Facebook page, as people who have liked content your business posted already have some knowledge of your company or at least what you do. If a person shares a common interest with your company, it’s possible that person would like or follow your Facebook page once they actually see it.
Doing this takes a tiny bit of work on your end, yet it’s very simple.
- Log in to Facebook from a desktop or laptop computer (this hack doesn’t work on the mobile version).
- Log in to your company page.
- Click on the total amount of likes on one of your posts.
- Look to the right of a user’s name and click on the box that says “invite.”
- After you click the invite button, Facebook will invite that person to like your page! If that person already liked your page, the option will not be there.
This isn’t a guaranteed way to get likes, as users may reject the invitation. And if you do it frequently, you can get a slow and steady stream of likes on your Facebook page, which will pay off long term with more people looking at and sharing content your company posts. It’s easy to do and there’s really no negative consequence.
Axia Public Relations offers more terrific tips and strategies for using social media to grow your brand and reach your target audience. Download Axia’s e-book The Essential Social Media Management Guide today.
Jacob McKimm earned an integrated communications degree from Florida State College at Jacksonville in Jacksonville, Fla. Jacob has been with Axia Public Relations since August 2015. Connect with Axia on Twitter @axiapr or tell us what you think in the comments below.
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He's so adorable. Aren't they just angelic when they're asleep?! :)
Daddy trying to coax her into jumping...
Layla Pants swimming after her plunging jump! She's an on-top-of-the-water swimmer so she makes a splashing mess! :)
The cutest little wet rat you ever saw! :) Until she shakes off beside you!
I joined my sister and her in-laws yesterday at the boat races on Lake Nasworthy. An interestingly redneck activity. It was pretty fun. Don't know if I'd go again, but an experience to have I guess. It was a pretty day and I got a little sun, so I guess it wasn't all that bad! :)Believe it or not, that boat is going about 150 mph.
And there's it's rooster tail to prove it.
Chillin' in our chairs amongst all of the other redneck friends around us.
Then, last night, my brother played in his band at a bar downtown called The Deadhorse. They did an awesome job. They play a type of metal punk so it's high energy and LOUD! :) The whole family went so it was a good time. Probably one of their best shows yet! Let's hear it for Gunslinger! :)
That was pretty much the weekend plus some, so hope you enjoyed it! Til next time!


Advertorial: Kay Pires - Driven by Luxury #WhatDrivesYou
Businesswoman and pet lover Kay Pires demands the best for herself and her pets. So when the young entrepreneur could not find the exclusive treats she wanted for her French bulldog Mojo, she simply set up a store that stocks the kinds of luxury accessories and pet foods she was looking for.
It is this same love for luxury and the finer things in life which drives her choice of vehicle. She wants a ride that is both classy and luxurious. Check out her choice of car in the video below.
From unreserved train trips to owning a Mercedes-Benz - Capt. Unni Krishnan shares his story #WhatDrivesYou
A founding trustee on the boards of 4 premier schools around the country, Capt. Unni Krishnan did not always travel in luxury and style. From being the passenger of numerous unreserved train trips in his youth, he's come a long way to the international jet-setter he is today.
The proud owner of several Mercedes vehicles over the last few years - watch Capt. Unni Krishnan narrate his ownership evolution. He says, there's 'nothing like the Mercedes.'
Pradeep and Anubhav Jain share their passion for Mercedes-Benz #WhatDrivesYou
We met a father-son duo - Pradeep and Anubhav Jain of Group Silverglades in Delhi and their passion for Mercedes-Benz is worth capturing.
Pradeep Jain has been a Mercedes aficionado from his youth and for over 3 decades has been a proud Mercedes-Benz owner. His son, Anubhav has imbibed love for the brand from his father.
To fulfill his duties as a father of two young children, Anubhav leans more towards Mercedes-Benz SUVs which also compliments his sporty lifestyle.
Watch Pradeep and Anubhav share their lifelong passion for cars, family holidays and sports here.
Driving your dreams - Ajit Dayal shares his passion for cars #WhatDrivesYou
People over the course of time accumulate various possessions. Each and every possession has its own need and place in our lives, but a car is something special. It has been said, "you are what you drive", and precisely what is conveyed by Ajit Dayal when he talks about his passion for cars.
Ajit Dayal is a lawyer, a foodie and a travel enthusiast. As a child he was fascinated with cars, often collecting toy cars whenever he went to the market with his parents. Fifteen years ago Dayal turned his dream into a reality by becoming a proud Mercedes-Benz owner.
Dayal's first Mercedes-Benz invigorated his passion for cars. Awestruck by the brilliance of the car, he now owns four gorgeous Mercedes-Benz cars. From a striking hatchback to a stylish coupe, Ajit Dayal can be labeled as a connoisseur of luxury cars.
His urge to drive the most exquisite cars has made life a pleasurable experience, he now looks forward to frequent weekend getaways with his family. Ajit Dayal shares his experience on why owning a Mercedes-Benz is more than just owning a car - it's an expression of his personality and a part of his lifestyle.
Check out the video below of Ajit Dayal talking about his passion for cars and get a look at his four brilliant Mercedes-Benz cars.
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If you’ve been hanging around the Remotasks chat channels for a while, chances are a lot of fellow Remotaskers have suggested that beginners should do annotation Tasks first. However, it’s perfectly understandable to feel a bit lost whenever people throw that term around in the same way we commonly say “egg sandwich” or “hamburgers.”
What exactly does data annotation mean? Is it really just annotating data, like what it literally states? Well, it’s a bit of a yes and no.
At its core, Data Annotation is the process of labeling the contents of a material that can be recognizable by computer vision, or natural language processing (NLP). When we label or annotate these kinds of data, they become much easier to feed into algorithms or programming to be interpreted via NLP.
It’s thanks to data annotation that artificial intelligence (AI) or a machine learning model can interpret data in high quality images and videos, as well as text. Data annotation makes it possible for machine learning projects such as autonomous vehicles to successfully bring us to our destinations.
Since AI can interpret vast amounts and types of data, a machine learning model can make mistakes when encountering new information. Data labelers help AI conduct data annotation properly through supervised machine learning. This is a process that allows labelers such as Remotaskers to train AI to properly conduct data annotation on various kinds of material.
Additionally, this human in the loop scenario lets us help dictate and correct output whenever a machine learning algorithm or an AI model commits a mistake in data interpretation.
Here are some of the most popular types of data annotation, and why it can be a meaningful process for machine learning:
If you’re interested in experiencing data annotation for the first time, then you might want to join our team in Remotasks! Data Annotation is one of the most popular project types in Remotasks, and it’s certainly a favorite among our Remotaskers. You can just go to our website, sign up for free, and get onboarded to do Data Annotation tasks in less than an hour! What’s better is that we actually pay you to do Data Annotation tasks for us!