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Methods: About 346 episodes of CBG along with corresponding swipe FSL readings were available form 7 children with CHI (0.45years). A detailed questionnaire was completed by the parents.
Results: The mean variation between the two methods was 0.55 mmol/l (SD ±0.9), higher readings by FSL compared to CBG. The FSL sensor stayed in-situ for an average period of 13.5 days. There was a positive correlation between the two methods (r=0.73). The FSL had a tendency to overestimate compared to CBG (bias=0.55 mmol/l; 95% CI: 0.46 to 0.65). Only 72% of values were within the reference standard (±0.83 mmol/l) at glucose concentrations less than 5.6 mmol/l. The overall Mean Absolute Relative Difference (MARD) was 18%. 31 episodes of hypoglycaemia (CBG<3.5mmol/l) were noted but FSL identified only 55% of these episodes. The Bland Altman plot showed the 95% limits of agreement between the 2 methods ranging from −1.23 (95%CI: −1.39 to −1.07) to 2.35 (95%CI: 2.18 to 2.51) mmol/l. Majority of the parents found the glucose trend on FSL to be useful to detect and prevent hypoglycaemic episodes. All parents felt that FSL is a very easy and convenient method to measure the glucose level especially during sleep. A significant proportion of parents felt that FSL readings were not accurate and 50% of parents expressed interest to continue using FSL after the trial period.
Conclusion: Noticeable variability between the two methods of measuring the glucose was noted. Despite the ease of using the FSL system, concerns related to accuracy, especially at low glucose values do remain although parents find the glucose trend to be very useful. Further larger trials are needed in CHI patients before FSL is recommended as a routine alternative method for measuring glucose values.
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This is the third and concluding part of the article – Hemant Kumar’s Hindi Song Compositions: Male songs. The previous parts have covered Hemant Kuamr’s solo songs in the voices of Hemant Kumar |Mohammad Rafi and Kishore Kumar |Manna Dey.
The end of the spectrum of Hemant Kumar’s solo male compositions presents quite unusual variety of, not-from-the-mainstream, male singers. Except for the first and last song, incidentally in the chronological order, all other songs can also be ascribed to not-so-usual song situations. However, one thing that stands out is the Hemant Kumar’s choice of the singer for the song – he has fully leveraged the singer’s voice quality in the first and the last song, while duly accommodating his compositions to the vocal range of the respective singer in the other songs.
Pradeepji was essentially a poet, but the beauty is whichever film song is recorded in his voice has become a massive hit.
Aao Bachcho Tumhe Dikhaye Jhanki Hindustan Ki – Jagriti (1954) – Lyrics: Pradeepji
When I look at the song now, I realize how imaginatively the song has been conceived, filmed, composed, and rendered. No wonder, we found the song so enchanting in our school days in the latter half of ‘50s.
Chitalkar (a.k.a. C. Ramchandra) has very rarely agreed to sing a song for other music directors. However, the mutual rapport that both will have developed while working together for Anarkali (1953) seems to have tilted the scales.
Sunaoon Ik Majnu Ka Haal, Ke Ghar Pe Pakati Na Thi Daal – Lagan (1955) – Lyrics: Rajinder Krishna
The song seems to be street song. Hemant Kumar has packed in all possible variations that the situation for the song seems to have demanded and Chitalkar deftly handles his part of the deal.
It is said that Ravi’s original plan was to make a career as a singer, as well. As such, he did pick up every possible opportunity in the beginning of the career. However, he did seem to have finally settled to focus on his music direction career.
Khol Ke Aankhein Dekh Jara…. Dekhi Teri Duniya Duniyawale – Lagaan (1955) – Rajinder Krishna
Whether it is quirk of circumstances or was Ravi’s own choice, but good many of beggar song genre songs that Ravi composed were popular.
HFGK records Mohammad Rafi as the singer of the song ‘Dekhi Teri Duniya’ (Lagan 1955). There is a footnote saying that initially the song was recorded in the voice of Ravi.
Therefore, we may surmise that Mohammad Rafi was called in to sing the song with a view to boost the sale of records, and in turn, possibly help the performance of the film at the box office.
Balbir (a.k.a. S. Balbir) has had a fairly long active career in the Hindi films. He is said to have sung around 120 songs in the films, but he was so typecast as a co-singer in male-male duet songs that there are hardly a dozen or so solo songs to his credit. To that extent, Hemant Kumar deserves special mention since he has used Balbir’s voice as a standalone singer in the following song, and the duet – O Lili, Yu Tham Ja Mere Aagey Aa Gayi Billi – with Geeta Dutt.
Main Mar Gaya To Likhna Ye Kabhi Mere Afsaane Mein… Arre Hamne To Saari Zindagi Gujaari Kedkhane Mein – Laalten (1956) – With chorus – Lyrics: Shewan Rizvi
Mukesh – In a Version Song
Mukesh apparently did not have solo song composed by Hemant Kumar.
Gori Chori Chori Jaana Buree Baat Hai, Teri Kismat Ki Chaavi Mere Haath Hai – Ek Jhalak (1957) – Lyrics: S H Bihari
Mukesh Geetkosh (Hindi Edition, November 2020) records this as version song, with record number FT21009
Here is the song as it appears in the film, in the voice of Hemant Kumar
Hardly anything is known of this singer.
Rooh Pyase Hai, Pareshan Hai Oos Raat Ke Baad – Oos Raat Ke Baad (1970) – Lyrics: Gohar Kanpuri
The song is rendered in Mohammad Rafi style.in the credit titles of Oos Raat Ke Baad. The credit of the singer and the lyricist for the title song appears in a separate frame in the credit titles.
This is the video clip of the film. The titles run from the beginning till @2.19 in the clip.
Yesudas was playback voice for many of the songs filmed on Anmol Palekar on the screen., Probably, hence the choice.
Kise Khabar Kahan Dagar Jeevan Ki Le Jaaye – Do Ladke Dono Kadke (1979) – Lyrics: Yogesh
This film is produced by Hemant Kumar’s son, Jayanta Mukherjee. Hemant Kumar, the music director, has easily been able to rhyme in with the NextGen singer in the song.
In this Long Tail of the Other Singers Yesudas is the only exception of being a mainstream playback singer.
On the whole, this representative selection of Hemant Kumar’s male solo songs abundantly endorses the tenet that a music director knows whose voice would justice to the composition.
For the purpose of the debate of deciding whether Hemant Kumar is a better composer or a better singer, we can always have a couple of more of such samples, in the future.
Originally published on SoY as Hemant Kumar’s Male Playback Singers. This is the edited and improved-on-the-inputs-of-discussions-thereupon version.
A single file collated version of the three parts of Hemant Kumar’s Hindi Song Compositions: Male Solo Songs is available for download by clicking on the hyper link.


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MANCHESTER, N.H. (CN) — Tuesday’s primary in New Hampshire — which could lead to the first Congressional election in U.S. history between two openly gay candidates — will also be an early test of President Donald Trump’s strength in a swing state that could be critical in November.
Trump has endorsed two non-incumbent candidates in races for Congress, both of whom have been criticized as “carpetbaggers” without long ties to the state. Tuesday’s results could indicate whether Granite State Republicans are falling in lockstep behind the president or will exhibit their famous independent streak.
The battle in the state’s 1st Congressional District is being closely watched because it’s one of the swingiest districts in the country, having changed hands four times between Democrats and Republicans from 2010 to 2016. Trump narrowly carried it in 2016 but two years later it elected its current Democratic Representative Chris Pappas.
In the Republican primary to challenge Pappas, Trump endorsed Matt Mowers, a 31-year-old from New Jersey who ran Chris Christie’s 2016 New Hampshire campaign. Mowers was later appointed by Trump as a senior White House adviser and worked as chief of staff to Dr. Deborah Birx.
Despite Mowers’ role as a senior adviser, Trump mispronounced his name while endorsing him.
Mowers is running against Matt Mayberry, an Air Force veteran and businessman who claims to be more in touch with the district, which includes gritty Manchester as well as the seacoast and some rural areas.
“I’m the New Hampshire candidate,” Mayberry said. “I’ve been to all 239 towns and cities … I am Market Basket and Walmart, and my opponent is Whole Foods and Starbucks.”
A poll in August showed Mowers ahead 23% to 12% with well over half the Republican electorate still undecided.
Like Pappas, Mayberry is openly gay.
“It would be the first time in American history that both candidates for major office are gay,” he said. Mayberry would also be Congress’s first openly gay Republican.
Mowers leads in the money race, having raised almost $700,000 as of Aug. 19 with almost $375,000 in cash on hand. Mayberry raised less than $175,000 and had less than $22,000 on hand, according to the Federal Election Commission.
Mowers has also been endorsed by House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy, while Mayberry was endorsed by former New Hampshire Senator John Sununu and former Arkansas Governor Mike Huckabee.
In the U.S. Senate primary, Trump endorsed Corky Messner, an independently wealthy West Point graduate who is anti-abortion rights and pro-gun and supports border security and free-market health care.
But Messner, if anything, is the moderate in the race. His opponent, Brigadier General Donald Bolduc, recently ran an ad consisting almost entirely of him saying “I didn’t spend my life defending this country to let a bunch of liberal socialist pansies squander it away.”
On screen, the ad describes Bolduc as “American Patriot. Hero. Bad*ss.”
Addressing the pandemic, Bolduc told a reporter, “I am unapologetically of the opinion that the masks cause more problems than they solve.”
The current senator, Democrat Jeanne Shaheen, has a large lead over both candidates, polls show.
Messner has far more money than Bolduc, but that’s because he contributed more than $3.8 million of his own funds to his campaign. Bolduc has raised more money than Messner through individual contributions.
Pulling in a lot of small donations “is often an indication of organizational strength that doesn’t show up in polling,” noted Andrew Smith, director of the University of New Hampshire Survey Center. Although Messner is ahead in the polls, “I wouldn’t be shocked if Bolduc won,” Smith said.
Like Mowers, Messner has been criticized for having few ties to the state — in fact he hasn’t lived in New Hampshire long enough to run for the state Legislature.
He has also been the subject of scandal. In November 2006 his ex-wife filed an emergency court petition to have him removed from their Colorado home, claiming that she feared violence. And a former chief justice of the Colorado Supreme Court has requested a criminal investigation into a charitable foundation that Messner ran, citing allegations that it claimed to help low-income college students but awarded just one scholarship in its first 10 years.
Messner’s campaign said the program didn’t formally begin operating until 2016 and a second scholarship was recently awarded.
The two Trump endorsements have helped to define the race. “People seem to be dividing themselves into camps,” said Phyllis Woods, who chairs the Strafford County Republican Committee. “Are they the Bolduc/Mayberry camp or the Mowers/Messner camp?”
The Trump endorsements are particularly valuable this year because voters haven’t received a lot of other information about the candidates, said Dante Scala, a political science professor at the University of New Hampshire.
Voters have been distracted by the pandemic and the presidential election and in-person campaigning has been limited by the virus, Scala noted.
“I pity any candidates who are trying to get their names out there this summer,” he said.
In the gubernatorial race, Democratic Senate Majority Leader Dan Feltes and attorney Andru Volinsky are vying to take on popular Republican Governor Chris Sununu, the brother of the former senator, who is seeking a third term.
Volinsky is best known for handling a landmark education funding lawsuit in the 1990s. Feltes is a former legal aid attorney who claims to be a champion of working families.
New Hampshire is one of only two states that have neither a sales tax nor an income tax on wages (the other is Alaska), and Volinsky has raised eyebrows by saying that he’d be willing to consider imposing one.
Volinksy “is from the Bernie Sanders wing of the party,” said Scala. If he wins after saying he’d consider a broad-based tax, “it would upend two decades of gubernatorial primaries in which the Democratic Party has chosen to play it safe and not give Republicans an issue to run on.”
Both Democratic candidates have criticized Sununu for his approach to the coronavirus, including his decision to allow local school districts to decide how to reopen. In a recent poll, however, 76% of likely voters said they approved of Sununu’s handling of the pandemic, including 63% of Democrats.
“We rate the primary as a toss-up,” said Smith. But he added that non-presidential primaries in the state are hard to poll because turnout tends to be low and it’s difficult to predict who will show up. That’s especially true this year because of the pandemic, on top of which “the candidates are largely unknown and the election is the day after Labor Day,” Smith noted.
On the Republican side, Sununu faces minor primary opposition from Karen Testerman, a libertarian radio talk show host, and a man named Rich Paul who legally changed his name to Nobody because, he said, “a lot of the jobs in government, nobody should do.”
Nobody states on his website that “I can’t even count how many times I’ve been arrested” including one instance where “I sold a pound of weed to a guy I used to buy ecstasy from.”
New Hampshire has a “semi-closed” primary in that voters who are registered to one party can only vote in that party’s balloting but independent voters can vote for either side.
Everyone in the state is eligible to vote by mail this year due to a pandemic-related order signed by Sununu.

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By Graham Zimmerman This last March Forest Woodward and I headed on assignment to the Southern Alps of New Zealand. We were there with our dear pals Kyle Dempster and Jewell Lund to take photos and shoot a film about how they manage to engage in the art of big mountain alpinism while maintaining a solid romantic relationship The trip started with walking through rainstorms to reach Mt Aspiring. Kyle and Jewell had been away from each other for a number of months while Kyle had been on an expedition to China. These two we’re clearly happy to be back in each others company as Forest and I ran around them taking photos and enjoying the stunning waterfalls surrounding us.
On a stormy late summer day we climbed the northwest ridge of Mt Aspiring, moving up and down the classic alpine terrain as the cloud swirled over the ridge line. To the North and South we could see mountains but looking to the West we knew that the land slipped down into the cloud covered Tasman Sea.
Next we traveled to the Darrens Mountains. Sitting on the Southwest corner of the South Island this range of granite peaks has nothing between it and the fury of the deep low pressure systems of the Southern Ocean. On a day that called for descent weather we went to climb a classic route named Labyrinth on the North Face of Barrier Knob.
The route started with fantastic face and crack climbing under cloudy skies. Here Kyle Dempster climbs through the first pitch.
As we climbed the route the clouds which earlier had been in the distance steadily grew closer until they were all around us. Here Jewell climbs through the clouds nearing the summit of Barrier Knob. By the time we reached the summit ridge of Barrier Knob after climbing it’s North Face it was getting dark as the fog continued to thicken. The descent which had been obvious in the morning was now a confusing jumble of steep slabs and precipitous cliffs.
We spent hours walking in circles trying to find the way off of the mountain but in the end had to crawl into a cave and spend the night out waiting for the sun to show us the way back to the valley below. After a pretty miserable night the sun finally did rise and we were able to make our way back down to safety.
After our time climbing the Darrens it was time to warm up. Forest and I traveled to the remote Copeland hot pools on the west coast of the South Island. With our work finished we took two days to wallow in the warm water surrounded by wild jungle. Our GZ Rock Out Speakers provided a perfect compliment while floating on a sleeping pad. Huge thanks to Goal Zero for supporting the film and making such fantastic equipment


By Amil Imani:
The Iranian people are calling for help and much of the world either turns a deaf ear or feels it has its own priorities to worry about. When the horrors keep playing out, unabated, in the streets, prisons and dungeons of the Islamic Republic of Iran, the world looks the other way.
Iranians, historically among the most civilized and tolerant of mankind’s peoples, are now viewed as the base recruits of a primitive seventh century barbaric campaign of Islamofascism. Iran, under the stranglehold and machinations of the Mullahs, has been transformed, in less than four decades, into the lead perpetrator of all that is abhorrent to humanity.
The ascendancy of Ayatollah Khomeini was facilitated by President Jimmy Carter and the elements of the Mujahidin Khalgh (MEK) terrorist organization and by many left-leaning, anti-American, anti-Israeli power brokers in Europe as well.
Reza Pahlavi’s Dilemma
In my numerous articles, I have supported Mr. Pahlavi, believing in his rhetoric that he is ready and prepared to stand with the people of Iran who shouted his name in the streets in heartfelt support. Here, Here, Here, Here, Here, Here, Here, Here and many more.
That was until I watched him in an interview with Iran International. It was an eye opener. In that video, Mr. Pahlavi insinuated his true intentions. If I understood it correctly, Mr. Pahlavi is neither interested, nor has any desire to have an active role in ending the rule of brutal Islamists in occupied Iran. He loves his family and his comfortable life style in the west and by no means is he willing to do anything to jeopardize that while he holds his fans both in and out of Iran hostage. He lives in a self-imposed bubble without any intention to motivate and lead his base to overthrow the regime.
Forty long years has come and gone and we haven’t moved an inch despite that fact the people of Iran on numerous occasions risked their own lives in order to show the world they didn’t want an Islamic Republic. They shouted “Reza Reza Pahlavi” to no avail. No one will ever willingly hand over Iran to His Majesty. It requires risks, tears, sweat and blood. The Iranian people should find their own leader from inside Iran. Don’t look to Mr. Pahlavi as your savior because he is not.
In an interview with the Telegram he said:
“Change must come to Iran by civil disobedience and non-violence. I stress that. We can’t have change at any cost. It is ultimately a question of the sovereignty of that nation, and what happens must be the will of the people. But how do we determine that? There is an absence of public debate. There is an absence of the ballot box.”
Imagine telling the Germans during the WWII that change must come to Germany by civil disobedience and at the ballot box!! Mr. Pahlavi is either extremely naïve or very uninformed about the nature of the Islamic regime. This regime is willing to obliterate every Iranian from one end of Iran to the other. For the past forty years, the Islamic Republic of Iran has denied and violated a long-suffering people all their human rights. They are guilty of beating, torturing, raping, and killing prisoners of conscience — political, religious, intellectuals, artists, and others.
Mr. Pahlavi is someone I admire greatly. But now I believe he is an obstacle whose time has come and gone. He has had forty years to make a difference and unite the opposition but now he has become a liability to true Iranian opposition in the West who are willing to work together and become a formidable force and agents for change. Regrettably, Mr. Pahlavi’s presence has become a distraction.
With all due respect, I believe the time has come for Mr. Pahlavi to step aside from politics and allow others and especially the younger Iranian generation to come forward and get involved.
Unlike Pahlavi’s peaceful Gandhi-like approach, I think it is time for the Iranians to strike, gather forces, organize, and especially demonstrate in the streets in increasing numbers, even in the face of massive, gruesome, bloody repression by the Islamic rulers who still have a powerful armed apparatus at their disposal. It is time to unleash the wrath of the Iranian people on Islamic zealots. It is time to become even more defiant and end the barbaric theocratic regime by massive participation in a massive Persian revolution.
For now, the shape and form of the future Iran is irrelevant. What’s important is that we all become united with only one goal in mind: to free Iran from the hands of the devilish mullahs. Iranians will decide the future form of their government at the ballet box.
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APSU Sports Information: Austin Peay Basketball
Clarksville, TN – Austin Peay State University women’s basketball team could not slow nationally-ranked Vanderbilt, dropping an 83-51 non-conference tilt, Wednesday night at the Dunn Center.
Austin Peay (2-4) kept the game close in the opening seven minutes and trailed by only three points, 10-7, after sophomore Meghan Bussabarger made a pair of free throws. However, the Lady Govs could not maintain their early momentum and made only two of their next 13 shots.No. 25/22 Vanderbilt (7-0), which entered the game shooting nearly 50 percent from the field, found its shooting stroke while Austin Peay struggled. The Commodores made 8-of-12 attempts from the field over the next eight minutes as part of a 21-4 run that broke the game open with VU leading 31-11 with 5:40 left. Vanderbilt made 50 percent (15-of-30) of its first half shots and took a 22-point, 43-21 lead into halftime.
The Lady Govs shooting warmed only marginally in the second half, converting 37 percent of their shots (10-of-37). Vanderbilt kept the pressure on, making 45.2 percent (14-of-31) as its lead reached 30 points seven minutes into the second half.
Junior Leslie Martinez led the Lady Govs with her season’s first double-double, scoring 10 points and grabbing 11 rebounds. Sophomore Shyra Brown added a career-high 13 points. Both Martinez and Brown led a bench effort that scored 30 of the Lady Govs 51 points. Austin Peay’s starting five – led by senior Whitney Hanley’s eight points – was held to 21 points and made only 19.3 percent (6-of-31) of its field goals.
Vanderbilt’s Christina Foggie led all scorers with a career-high 25-point effort. Stephanie Holzer added 15 points and eight rebounds.
The Copies in a Flash APSU Player of the Game was Leslie Martinez.
Austin Peay completes its two-game homestand with a 7:00pm, Saturday contest against UAB.
- The starting five for the Lady Govs (Bussabarger, Rayner, Strainback, N.Olszewski, and Hanley) combined to score just 21 points on 6-of-31 shooting from the field.
- Shyra Brown came off the bench to score a team-high and career-high 13 points (5-9 shooting), she also added four steals and five rebounds.
- Leslie Martinez recorded her first double-double as a Lady Gov grabbing 11 rebounds and scoring 10 points. Her 11 rebounds were a season-high for a Lady Gov.
- The Lady Govs were active on the defensive perimeter grabbing 10 steals in the game, but turned the ball over 22 times (14 coming from Vanderbilt steals).
- The Lady Govs bench led by Brown (13) and Martinez(10) outscored the Lady Commodores bench 30-23 in the contest, the Lady Govs bench also out-scored their own starting five 30-21.
- Vanderbilt recorded season-highs in points (83), field goals made (29), free-throws made (19), and steals (14) for Lady Govs opponents.
- Austin Peay recorded season-lows in points (51), field goals made (18), and field goal percentage (.300 on 18-60 shooting).
- Austin Peay coach Carrie Daniels is now 0-2 vs. Vanderbilt. Vandy leads the all-time series 14-2.
- It was Austin Peay’s second loss this season to a nationally-ranked team (Louisville). Austin Peay is 2-25 all-time against ranked teams, and 0-10 under Daniels.
Head coach Carrie Daniels Quotes
“We knew what it was coming into the game. Vandy is a tremendous team, very disciplined, very balanced, and we knew transition defense was going to be a key for us coming into the ballgame. But with that transition defense, with us knowing that they like to run the ball, they also have tremendous shooters. You have to get back on defense and you have to get out and be able to contest the shooter.”
“I don’t think we were ready out of the gate. We weren’t ready to play right from the tip. They get the ball and score on us. We weren’t down in a stance for forty minutes. I think that when we got shots we got some open looks, but from those open looks, we were worried about the defense. It wasn’t us focusing on the basket and the shot. We were worried about Vanderbilt.”
“I was very pleased. Leslie came in and really gave us a spark in the first half. For her to come in and get a double-double on the offensive glass, to get the second-chance look – it was tremendous for her. Shyra Brown, as well, did a good job for us to go up against the big girls in the post. Obviously, there were times that they got their position down low, but she did a good job of getting around, getting her hand on some passes, knocking it loose. (Shyra and Leslie) gave us great energy.”
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for M20 grade ratio is (1:1.5:3)
we consider for 10m3
add 50% for shrinkage & wastage
then it is 10+5=15m3
cement= 15/1+1.5+3 *1
for no. of cement bags = 2.72/0.0347
= 78.38 no.
= 79bags for(10m3)
so that for 1 m3 it is around 8 bags..........
For M20 concrete, The ratio of the mix is 1:1.5:3 (Nominal mix)
The total parts is 1+1.5+3 =5.5
Part of the cement is = 1/5.5
The total volume raw material for 1m3 of mixed concrete practically =1.57m3
Unit weight of cement =1440kg
Weight of cement per bag = 50kg
Now the calculation is =1/5.5X1.57X1440
In terms bags per m3 of conctrete is 411/50 = 8.22bags
While designing the mix, we shall take various paramenters
such as; workability, exposure, quality control etc., into
cognizance. If we consider the workability as 0.8, exposure
is moderate, QC as good, FA is in Zone-III, then quantum of
Cement required for 1cum of M20 concrete is; 53Gr OPC-465
kg, CA-1184.82 kg,FA-495.77 kg and water 186 lt.
for M20 grade of concrete
(i.e) cement : coarse aggregate : Fine Aggregate.
( jally ) ( sand )
1cubic metre cement = 1440KG
In the concrete 0.45% of the sand ratio is utilised for
cement.so for M20
= 0.45/3 X 1440
=0.15 X 1440
= 4.32Bags of cement/cubicmetre of concrete


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Turner Bill To Ensure Job Training Programs Submit Success Statistics Approved By Labor Committee
TRENTON – A bill sponsored by Senator Shirley K. Turner that would require job training providers and schools to submit data regarding the completion and success of their programs in order to receive state or federal training funds was approved on Monday by the Senate Labor Committee.
“Training providers and schools are required to submit information that allows consumers to evaluate the effectiveness of training programs before students make time and financial commitments to enroll,” said Senator Turner (D-Mercer/Hunterdon). “Given that these training providers receive millions of taxpayer dollars to train unemployed and underemployed workers, it is a matter of responsible government to track the effectiveness of these programs to determine if we should continue to direct students and taxpayer dollars to them.”
Sweeney/Vitale/Beach Bill Prohibiting Discrimination Against Individuals With Developmental Disabilities Clears Assembly
TRENTON – Legislation sponsored by Senate President Steve Sweeney (D – Gloucester, Cumberland, Salem) and Senators Joseph F. Vitale (D – Middlesex) and Jim Beach (D – Camden) that would prohibit discrimination against a potential organ transplant recipient on the basis of a mental or physical disability cleared the full Assembly today.
“People with developmental disabilities should not be treated as second-class citizens,” said Sweeney. “Their disabilities do not make them any less human or worthy of respect and common decency. They should be afforded the same rights as anyone would want when entering a hospital.”
Sacco-Cunningham Bill Extending Eligibility To Public Access Walkways For Shore Protection Funding Clears Committee
TRENTON – Legislation sponsored by Senators Nicholas J. Sacco and Sandra Bolden Cunningham that would extend eligibility to public access walkways for consideration on the shore protection project priority list and for funding from the Shore Protection Fund, was unanimously approved yesterday by the Senate Environment and Energy Committee.
"Without the help that this bill could offer the entire Hudson River Walkway program, which we have been collectively working toward for so many years, our region is in serious jeopardy. Condo owners and private entities that are responsible for maintaining waterfront walkways must be given the assistance they need to so that this precious public resource continues to be available to everyone,” said Senator Sacco, D-Hudson and Bergen.
First Of Gun Safety Bills Gain Final Legislative Approval
TRENTON – The first of the gun safety bills from the landmark package already advanced by the Senate gained final legislative approval on Monday when the Assembly passed and sent to the governor legislation that would enhance the tracing of weapons used in crimes, find ways to improve school security and take illegal guns out of circulation. Three bills were sent to the governor and a fourth, that would include mental health records in background checks, was amended, approved and sent back to the Senate. All four were passed by the Senate last Monday.
“This marks more progress on our work to enhance gun safety with a plan that modernizes and improves the permitting process,” said Senate President Steve Sweeney, the plan’s lead sponsor. “We are accomplishing here in New Jersey what they haven’t been able to do in Washington. In fact, we will be a model for the Nation with an electronic system that helps keep weapons out of the hands of those who shouldn’t have them, laws that crack down on illegal guns and that makes our communities safer and more secure.”
Sweeney Legislation Requiring State-Issued Id Badges For Home Improvement Contractors Clears Assembly
TRENTON – Legislation sponsored by Senate President Steve Sweeney (D-Gloucester, Cumberland, Salem) that would revise the “Contractors’ Registration Act” to require state-issued identification badges for home improvement contractors today cleared the full Assembly.
“New Jersey has shown remarkable resilience and caring in the aftermath of Hurricane Sandy,” said Sweeney. “Unfortunately, there are always going to be individuals who will take advantage of times like these for their own personal benefit. By requiring a picture ID, we are adding another layer of protection for storm victims against fraud.”
Madden-Beach Legislation Creating 'Nj Safe Act' Heads To Governor's Desk
TRENTON – Legislation sponsored by Senators Fred H. Madden and Jim Beach that would provide unpaid leave for victims of domestic violence or sexual assault received final legislative approval today in the General Assembly.
“Victims of domestic abuse and sexual assault experience lasting physical and psychological wounds that carry into all aspects of their lives, including the workplace,” said Madden, D-Gloucester and Camden. “This legislation is needed so that the crime victims can pursue medical treatment, obtain necessary counseling and appear in court as required - without fear of losing their jobs. Providing victims and their families the time they need to put their lives back together is a matter of simple, common decency.”


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The Calcutta High Court denied the permission for Bharatiya Janata Party’s Rath Yatra. The district collector and superintendent of police have written to the chief secretary and Inspector general of the police department, following which the West Bengal government denied permission for the rally.
The state’s advocate general Kishore Dutta told the court that the Cooch Behar superintendent of police refused permission for the BJP president’s rath yatra from Friday.
Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) president Amit Shah is scheduled to kickstart the party’s ‘Save Democracy Rally’, comprising three ‘rath yatras’, in the state.
The State Government submitted that it might cause communal tension in the district.
Dutta said the district has a history of communal issues and that there was information that some communal provocators and rowdy elements had become active there.
The SP’s refusal letter also noted that several top BJP leaders would come to Cooch behar, as also people from other states, stating that these may affect the communally sensitive district.
Stating that refusal of permission was an administrative decision in view of the ground situation, the AG said that details of apprehension cannot be spelt out in open court due to its sensitive nature and he can submit these to the court in a sealed cover, if directed.
The BJP, which moved the court seeking direction to the state government for giving permission for its three rallies, told the bench of Justice Tapabrata Chakraborty that it will hold peaceful yatras.
Asked by the judge as to who will take responsibility if anything untoward happens, BJP counsel Anindya Mitra submitted that the party will hold a peaceful rally, but that it was the duty of the state government to maintain law and order.

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Assuming he checks out medically after last night’s action, the next time British sensation Ronnie Mann steps foot inside the Bellator ring it will be as part of a field competing this summer in hopes of an opportunity at featherweight champion Joe Warren’s belt.
Five Ounces of Pain was able to confirm the likelihood of Mann’s participation in the promotion’s planned “Summer Series” with Bellator officials. Announced last week, the “Summer Series” is a special three-show offering between seasons starting on June 25 with Bellator 46 and featuring lightweight tournament finalist Pat Curran as one of the eight 145ers vying for a title shot.
The only potential roadblock relates to Mann’s health after dominating Josh Arocho for fifteen minutes at Bellator 42. While no official medical suspension information has been released yet, Mann did at least suffer some swelling to his elbow which he jokingly referred to has damage from it being hit with Arocho’s face so many times on his Twitter page.
The 24-year old “Kid Ninja” looked crisp on his feet against Arocho though did the bulk of his work from top, battering his opponent’s face with vicious ground-and-pound with the occasional submission attempt worked in. The impressive performance improved Mann’s overall record to 19-2-1 and was his third consecutive victory.
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Wow, what common sense and wise advice without arrogance. Each chapter has a clear message & is transferable to a range of businesses. A good holiday or car journey listen though possibly better studied in print.
Procurement, especially of IT, is never easy - this book needs to be read by Civil Servants & politicians before the country makes more expensive mistakes ...BDUK?
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This book is like a leadership and management course in 8 hours, as well as being extremely interesting and inspiring. Terry Leahy puts across his personal experiences of leading a large company with tips that will help anyone whose work involves leading others, in any organisation, large or small, in the private or public sector.
My one gripe about this book is the narration. Very often the narrator puts emphasis on the wrong words in a sentence, causing the meaning of the sentence to be difficult to understand. Worse, when the book includes a quote, the narrator will attempt a poor imitation of the accent of the original speaker. This happens often, from the inaccurate American twang of Henry Ford to an excruciating attempt at the Czech voice of Václav Havel. This is very distracting and makes it difficult to concentrate on the words actually being spoken.
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OUE is new title sponsor of S’pore Open
SINGAPORE — The Singapore Badminton Association (SBA) has found a new sponsor for its premier international tournament, the Singapore Open 2014.
At a press conference yesterday, the national sports association unveiled publicly-listed property group OUE Limited as the new title sponsor of the meet, which will be the fifth stop in this year’s MetLife BWF World Championship Superseries.
It is understood that OUE’s title sponsorship is worth a six-figure sum for a year, with a view to renewing it.
But total prize money for this year’s tournament, which counts former Olympic and world champion Taufik Hidayat of Indonesia and Thailand’s Boonsak Ponsana as former winners, has also risen to US$300,000 (S$380,260) from US$250,000 last year.
Although the sponsorship is for one year, the SBA is hoping to establish a long-term relationship with its new sponsor.
“We are hoping that we can work with them on a long-term basis,” said Singapore Open organising committee chairman Ng Yoke Weng.
“This is a period where we are getting to know each other and trying to be comfortable with each other too. Hopefully as the relationship between OUE and the SBA develops, we can talk about a long-term deal.”
Although this is the first time that OUE is sponsoring the Singapore Open, it is not the company’s first foray into badminton sponsorship in Singapore.
Four years ago, Dr Stephen Riady, the company’s Executive Chairman, who is also the patron of the SBA, donated S$1 million to the association to develop its school partnership programmes. Riady said OUE’s sponsorship of the Singapore Open is its way of contributing back to society.
“Through this, we at OUE hope to contribute to the development of badminton in Singapore and expose local players to international competition at the highest level,” he said. “OUE hopes to inspire a new generation of players who will not only excel in the sport, but also give back to the community through badminton.”

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Lynbrook-based BioSpecifics Technologies bounced back into the black, reporting $300,000 third-quarter net income up from a $500,000 loss a year ago as revenues nearly doubled to $1.9 million from $1 million.
The bio-pharmaceutical firm earned $1.1 million for the quarter ended Sept. 30 from its agreement with Auxilium Pharmaceuticals regarding XIAFLEX used to treat Dupuytren’s contracture. That was nearly twice the $600,000 BioSpecifics earned from the agreement a year ago.
BioSpecifics said it will receive 8.5 percent of the up to $15 million in regulatory milestone payments Auxilium is eligible to receive from Pfizer, after Pfizer’s first sale of XIAPEX in Italy and France.
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The media have done their part to report a corrupt government official who has been sacked from office, a man who has raped and impregnated his own daughter, youths who have turned into criminal gangs, disgruntled politicians who have picked up arms to go to the bush to rebel against what they call a dictatorship government and many other things.
All these and many more are warning signals of a society that lacks responsible citizens and is at the verge of destruction.
Responsible citizens are the greatest gift that a community can have. When the citizens choose to become wasted and unproductive the verdict is written on the sky- No future for such a community.
For the last few decades an increasing proportion of the Ugandan population has ceased to feel responsible for the common defense, for productive work, for choosing able men and women to represent them in politics, for accepting personal responsibility for the needs of the community, or even for their own livelihood.
My greatest worry is that unless this deterioration is arrested, the responsible citizens will be too few to support and protect the irresponsible. If citizens choose to drink from 5 Am till late in the night and from Monday to Sunday ii quite obvious that they will not work but spend all the time in leisure. It is always entertainment, drinking, gambling and crimes.
There is nothing like being productive. Modem civilization offers a great variety of diversions, amusements, and enticements – some of them baneful. But modem civilization does not offer many inducements to the performance of duties, except perhaps monetary payment, and certainly it does not teach people that the real reward for responsible citizenship is the preservation of a free society.
The monetary economy has placed money above everything. You can hardly spend five minutes without thinking about money. This too much quest for money only misguides citizens to think that they can only work in expectation for money.
The truth is that it is not money that can induce citizens to labor and sacrifice for the common good. Citizens must be moved by patriotism and their attachment to the Constitution. And patriotism alone, ignorant boasting about ones native land, would not suffice to preserve the Republic. It is action that country wants from its citizens.
Just like moral virtue, responsibility is first acquired in family and home. Nobody does more to injure a sense of responsibility than a parent who abandons children to the television set and the peer group, “liberating” them from household chores and study at home.
Assigning and enforcing duties within home and family, though it may seem stern at first, is kindness to everybody in the long run. Ultimately, the recovery of a sense of responsibility is bound up with the recovery of the old concept and virtue of piety, gratitude toward God for his gift of life, gratitude toward one’s ancestors, concern for one’s children and descendents. Such a sense of responsibility is in keeping with the philosophy upon which the nation was built.
Our children can be inspired, equipped, and mobilized to make a difference in the world. Not only do children’s actions help others, it helps them become happier and more successful adults. The more children learn to develop skills and abilities that support citizenship, the greater mark they make on the world. It’s that simple.
Democracies need citizens to play three roles and the more roles people play, the greater society thrives. Parents and educators influence how kids view citizenship and how they eventually turn ideas and passion into action.
No matter how young or old, everyone can make their mark on the world through good citizenship. We have the capacity to help children and teenagers become great citizens; compassionate people who are responsible, organized, and innovative.
Not only will they serve the good of the nation but they will become tomorrow’s ethical business leaders, parents, and workers. While we know this is how democracy thrives, there is one hitch. Citizenship is developed during childhood and adolescence.
Parents, educators, and community leaders can help kids become part of a new generation of young people who are prepared to take responsibility, lead others, and tackle tomorrow’s social and environmental challenges.

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Google Store has just arrived in a couple of more countries. If you head over to the source link down below, you will notice that Brazil, Indonesia, Malaysia, Mexico, Philippines and Thailand have been added to the list, though the pages for these countries are not live just yet, though they probably will be after Google's event which is currently ongoing. This essentially means that consumers in aforementioned countries will be able to purchase device straight from Google, devices like Google's Pixel phones, Google Home speaker, and so on.
Google Store, for those of you who do not know, is Google's very own hardware store, kind of. Google has been expanding the reach of its Google Store since it was launched back in March 2015, and it now counts 36 countries, after today's additions. Now, as already mentioned, pages for these newly added countries will eprobably be available later today, as Google is in the middle of announcing a number of new products, the company is expected to introduce at least two new Pixel phones, the Google Pixel 2 and Pixel 2 XL, while there's a good chance we'll get to see some additional hardware announcement at the event, the Google Home Mini speaker is also expected to arrive, as it was leaked quite recently. That being said, the Google Pixel 2 and Google Pixel 2 XL handsets will, hopefully, become available in all the new countries that have been added to the Google Store, though the US will almost certainly be the first in line to purchase those two phones, after which Google will expand their availability.
The Google Pixel 2 and Pixel 2 XL will sport a similar design, but according to leaks, the Google Pixel 2 XL will sport significantly thinner bezels, even though it will be a larger phone compared to the Pixel 2. The Pixel 2 XL will, allegedly, be manufactured by LG, while the smaller Pixel, the Pixel 2, will be manufactured by HTC. Both phones will be fueled by the Snapdragon 835 64-bit octa-core processor, and will ship with 4GB of RAM, at least according to some rumors / leaks we've seen recently. All in all, Google will release all the details soon.


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Move over classic margaritas there’s a new cocktail in town! These easy Pineapple Margaritas are bursting with fresh flavors in a fresh-style marg. Perfect to pair with your favorite Mexican food.
This fresh-style margarita is packed with pineapple and cilantro flavors. An unexpected combination that is thirst quenching and light.
Great on hot summer days or for celebrating Cinco de Mayo.
If you like a spicy cocktail try our Spicy Maiden. It is another pineapple cocktail winner.
The original inspiration for this cocktail came from a trip to a Santa Fe New Mexico restaurant a number of years ago.
After a long day we went out to a local restaurant with a friend in Santa Fe. Our server made a version of this cocktail tableside.
It was so delicious and refreshing I created my own version after reaching home.
Fresh-style Pineapple Margarita
Fresh-style margaritas are simply the best in my opinion.
Frozen margaritas are delicious but fresh-style margaritas allow the ingredient flavors to shine.
Instead of loading them up with sugary mixers or Triple Sec they are sweetened with agave syrup. Fresh lime juice brightens the flavors.
In the case of this pineapple margarita, the fresh pineapple and cilantro are muddles together with the tequila.
The resulting flavors are bright and fresh. It’s a delicious cocktail especially in hotter temperatures.
Leaving out the extra sugary ingredients or mixers leaves the margarita tasting better and you potentially feeling better when you drink it.
I personally think the extra sugar contributes to hangovers….but I’m not a doctor and don’t play one on TV.
Don’t love Cilantro?
You can just leave it out.
What is muddling?
It’s basically mashing together ingredients to release the natural flavors, juices and oil. This gives the freshest flavor to the cocktail.
It can be done in a shaker or a quart glass Mason jar as shown in the photos. Using a muddler will pulverize the solid ingredients and herbs.
Recipe Ingredients Notes
Pineapple. Use fresh, ripe pineapple for the best flavor. Also if the pineapple is under ripe it won’t be as juice.
Cilantro. Use fresh cilantro. And if you aren’t a cilantro lover, just leave it out. The straight pineapple margarita is delicious.
Tequila. Use Blanco or Silver tequila. The flavor is lighter so it won’t overwhelm the pineapple flavor as an aged tequila can.
Agave nectar. This will lightly sweeten the margarita.
Pineapple juice. Just a touch will add more liquid and more pineapple flavor.
Lime juice. Freshly squeezed will give the best flavor. I prefer using a hand held juicer for this.
Ice. You’ll need it both for making the cocktail and some fresh ice for serving.
We did not salt the rim of this pineapple margarita recipe feeling it didn’t need it for the flavor to pop.
You certainly CAN salt the rim or serve it in a traditional margarita glass.
Use margarita salt or kosher salt. Run some lime juice around the rim and then dip the glass into the salt, turning it gently for the salt to coat the rim.
Allow it to set before pouring in the margarita.
For photos of rimming a glass check these on our Salty Dog cocktail.
Supplies you’ll need
Shaker or jar. Use a cocktail shaker or a quart size glass jar with a cocktail strainer.
Muddler. For the fresh ingredients.
How to Make it – Step-by-Step
STEP 1. Muddle the fresh ingredients
Combine the pineapple, cilantro and tequila in a cockail shaker or quart size glass jar.
Use a muddler to break down the pineapple and cilantro.
STEP 2. Shake
Add the agave syrup, lime juice, pineapple juice and a handful of ice to the shaker.
Seal and shake vigorously to combine the ingredients.
NOTE: Shaking for a good minute allows the ingredients to fully mix and for the pineapple and cilantro to break down and infuse into the liquids.
STEP 3. Strain, pour and serve
Strain into an Old Fashioned glass filled with fresh ice.
Garnish with a pineapple wedge or lime wedge and a sprig of fresh cilantro.
What to serve with Pineapple Margaritas
These margaritas go with anything but are especially good with Mexican Food. Here are some favorite pairings:
More Margarita Recipes You’ll Love!
Fresh-style Pineapple Cilantro Margarita
- 1/4 cup fresh Pineapple large pieces
- 1 tablespoon packed fresh Cilantro
- 1 1/2 ounce Blanco or Silver Tequila
- 1/2 ounce Agave Nectar
- 1 ounce Pineapple Juice
- 3/4 ounce freshly squeezed Lime Juice
- In a shaker or quart-size Mason jar, combine the fresh pineapple, cilantro and tequila. Muddle to break down the pineapple and cilantro.
- Add the agave, pineapple juice, lime juice and a handful of ice. Place the lid on the shaker/jar, and shake vigorously for a minute to fully combine all ingredients.
- Strain into an Old Fashioned glass with fresh cubed or crushed ice. Garnish with a piece of pineapple and sprig of cilantro.
Originally published: April 4, 2015


Tornadoes Wreck Homes across North Texas
Txmoase, from Red Oak, TX, is a storm chaser for Skywarn/National Weather Service. His photos of Lancaster, TX on April 3 were uploaded to CNN iReporter.
ON APRIL 3, 2012, A ROUND OF SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS pushed through parts of Dallas, Arlington, Hutchins, Lancaster and Forney and triggered 17 tornadoes. Fortunately for our community,no deaths were associated with this tornado outbreak, but 350 homes were destroyed. To respond, CFT opened our Disaster Relief fund and encouraged donors and community members to contribute both monetarily and through volunteering to rebuild the affected communities.
Employees at VHA, a local healthcare company, raised funds to support the tornado victims. “We researched many different organizations to ensure our donation would help with long-term recovery for the disaster,” says Terri Scannell, director of Corporate Citizenship and Sustainability at VHA.
“We chose CFT because they are trusted in the community and they have a high fiduciary responsibility towards funds they manage.” With a company match, VHA donated over $15,000 to CFT’s disaster relief fund.
Dallas is unique in the fact that we have a mass care task force. It is a firstin- the-nation disaster collaboration between the American Red Cross Dallas Area Chapter, The Salvation Army, the North Texas Food Bank and the Volunteer Center of North Texas. The Volunteer Center of North Texas provided volunteers who assisted with debris removal, managed and distributed donated supplies and operated assistance centers in Lancaster and other affected areas.
To register to volunteer for future local disaster relief, contact the Volunteer
Center of North Texas at 214.826.6767 or www.vcnt.org.


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Addison Post began documenting People’s History and Labor Movements in West Virginia in 2017, focusing primarily on a resurgence of interest in the West Virginia Mine Wars. He examines the landscape of workforce transition, economic migration, and labor movements. Addison has published content with The Intercept, Topic, MeansTV, Teen Vogue, and Left Voice.
Amazon Did Everything It Could to Bust the Staten Island Union. They Overcame It All.
Inside the Amazon Labor Union’s historic victory over the corporate behemoth.
Mine Workers From Across Appalachia Arrested Outside BlackRock Headquarters in New York City
Striking workers are demanding higher wages and better health benefits — and voiced concerns about the future of their union in the transition away from coal.
In Iowa, How Bernie Sanders Won a Trilingual Satellite Caucus
Inside one of the satellite caucuses that could put the Democratic presidential candidate over the top in the state.


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If you suffer a significant injury in an accident that was not your fault, it is likely that you will incur high medical expenses. These costs can stretch into the future, in the event you need a future medical procedure (such as surgery), injections, medical equipment, or long-term care at a nursing facility or care center.
There are a variety of factors to consider when estimating the cost of future medical expenses following an accident. If you have suffered one or more injuries in an accident that you did not cause, an experienced Dallas personal injury attorney at The Lidji Firm may be able to help you. Our knowledgeable legal team will review all of your medical records and bills, as well as physician’s reports, and we can make a claim for future medical expenses, damages, lost wages, pain & suffering on your behalf.
How to Prove that You Will Likely Incur Future Medical Expenses & Continued Emotional Distress
In order to prove that you will likely incur medical expenses and continued emotional distress resulting from your accident in the future, you will need to have an experienced healthcare provider on board in your case. The doctor will need to have treated you and examined you. He or she can then review all of your medical treatment records and decide about the following:
- The likelihood that you will need medical treatment at some point in the future
- The type of medical treatment and/or procedures that you may require, such as surgeries or injections
- The approximate cost of your future medical treatment or procedures
- The causal relationship between the need for future medical care and treatment and your accident
Factors Used to Calculate Future Medical Costs
When determining the approximate cost of future medical care, healthcare providers look at a variety of factors. First and foremost, they look at the extent and severity of the injuries which you suffered in your accident. Generally, the more significant your injuries, the higher the likelihood (and the higher the cost) of any future medical treatment.
In addition, healthcare providers will look to the types of medical treatment that you will likely need. Surgeries and injections, for example, can be extremely expensive medical procedures. The anticipated costs of these future medical procedures also depend upon the geographical area where you are treating.
Also, when arriving at this calculation, a healthcare provider will determine if your injuries are so serious that you may require lifetime treatment and care at a nursing home or long-term care facility. Years of residence or treatment at a nursing home or long-term care facility can rack up a large medical bill. Once a healthcare provider arrives at a monetary figure for your future medical expenses, he or she will typically put that number in writing, along with a justification for this anticipated medical treatment.
When the at-fault person’s insurance company adjuster is reviewing the claim, he or she may (and should) include the amounts of these anticipated future medical costs in all settlement offer calculations. Similarly, if your case goes to trial, your lawyer will likely present evidence to the jury of your need for future medical care and treatment – and the anticipated cost thereof.
Talk to a Dallas Personal Injury Lawyer Today
The legal team at The Lidji Firm can assist you in pursuing a damage claim for future medical expenses. For a free case evaluation and legal consultation with a skilled Texas personal injury lawyer, please call us today at 800-BAD-PILL (800-223-7455) or contact us online.

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Funnel analysis is a widely used marketing technique to transform the passive audience into active promoters of your brand. Marketing and sales funnel performance are the second most tracked metric by leading marketers worldwide.
Funnel analysis is the process of analyzing your user’s interaction with your product or website. Funnels are how brand reach their potential customers with a unique positioning.
This article is a complete guide to understanding funnel analysis, why, and how to use funnel analysis to improve sales. We’ll also explore common funnel analysis mistakes you must avoid.
What Is Funnel Analysis?
Funnel analysis is a method of analyzing the performance of a sequence of steps leading to conversions or sales. It maps the user flow through any particular funnel setup.
The name refers to the shape of the funnel as it narrows more and more toward the bottom. It signifies the limited number of users that convert (bottom of the funnel) compared to the vast majority of your audience (top of the funnel).
In the AIDA funnel framework, there are four stages, namely: awareness, interest, decision, and action. This analysis aims to optimize the user journey, which is achieved by finding loops in your funnel and filling the identified gaps. It also helps you figure out the following:
- The channels which are bringing in the most valuable customers.
- Where are customers dropping from the funnel?
- How many people are completing the funnel, i.e., converting?
- What is preventing the users from moving to the next stage of the funnel?
Benefits of Funnel Analysis
Funnel analysis is critical for marketing and sales. A business can extract insights via funnel analysis related to user behavior and actions. It leads to discovering the intentions and motivations of your prospect’s interaction with your product.
Below are some of the most beneficial goals and benefits of funnel analysis:
Identifying high-traffic and high-exit pages
User drop-off rate is one of the key metrics to measure user engagement. Funnel analysis tools are capable of delivering this metric. In addition, funnel visualization tools identify which pages are traffic-rich and where your website visitors are leaving the funnel.
Funnel analysis helps you determine what works best on high-traffic pages and why. Then, you can focus on optimizing high-exit pages using the information gained through analyzing best-performing pages. Resultantly, businesses can improve their user engagement.
Identifying the users that are more likely to convert
Analyzing your funnel is a great way to track active leads. They are also referred to as sales-qualified leads (SQL). These users purposefully seek a product or service and are more likely to be converted into customers. Once identified, you can encourage them to reach the conversion stage.
By addressing what the users want at each step of the funnel, you can convert them from prospects to leads to customers. You can also curate content for each funnel stage based on users’ wants.
Determining high-quality traffic sources
As mentioned before, funnels are excellent for determining which of your efforts are proving fruitful. And one such approach is to find the channels producing the most converting traffic for your website.
By discovering these high-quality traffic sources, you can focus your acquisition efforts on these channels to boost conversions.
Without sales, a business cannot generate profits. The goal for any business should be wider than maximizing the number of sales a campaign generates. The main focus should be on the effectiveness of the overall customer journey to direct marketing and conversion efforts.
Funnel analysis lets you track an individual customer’s journey through various phases of the funnel. It directs the steps to improve any shortfalls at the awareness, consideration, conversion, and loyalty stages. Funnel analysis enables you to make the journey from top to bottom smooth, seamless, and personalized, which results in increased conversions.
How to Use a Funnels Analysis To Improve Your Sales Process
Implementing a funnel analysis the right way is paramount to extracting valuable insights. Every successful business takes a unique approach to meet the common goal of serving its market segment. While the funnels will look different for each business, the overarching approach to funnel analysis is the same.
Below are some of the widely practiced steps to reap the fruits of any funnel analysis.
Step 1: Define the critical business metrics
Gain clarity over the goals you aim to achieve with a funnel. And leave the guesswork out of your funnel analysis. You can determine the metrics needed for their tracking based on your specified goals.
Funnel optimization is an ongoing process, and metrics help keep your attention where needed. Three useful and broader funnel metrics include volume, conversions, and return on investment (ROI).
- Volume refers to the number of visitors at each stage of the funnel. Measuring traffic gives a good picture of growth when compared over time. You can track return traffic, generated leads, closed deals, and more.
- Businesses use various funnel stage rates and overall conversion rates to determine the performance of a funnel.
- ROI and the value of a sales funnel are usually determined by the cost per lead, the lifetime value of a customer, and more.
In addition to measuring overall funnel effectiveness, set metrics for different stages of the funnel. An efficient way to track key metrics is using funnel analytics tools like Usermaven. It helps you visualize your funnel and highlights opportunities to fill the gaps.
Read more about product metrics: 20 SaaS Product Metrics to Track for Success
Step 2: Map the ideal buying process
A funnel built upon the ideal buyer’s journey and persona outperform the ones that aren’t. Funnel mapping is where you identify, plan, and create all the funnel stages. You can ask the following questions to brainstorm at this step.
- What does your buyer’s typical journey look like?
- Where do you want to lead your prospect, i.e., the endpoint?
- What are your ideal buyer’s interests and problems?
- How would you turn your prospects into customers throughout this journey?
Visualizing your funnel is important to stay on track. It also informs other decisions related to funnel stages, such as the kind of content you would need to engage your audience and convert them.
Step 3: Identify the important touch points that lead to conversions.
Funnel analysis is a powerful marketing tool to boost conversions. Businesses usually have more than one customer touch point, be it a website, an application, social media, etc. Thus customers coming from different channels won’t have the same user journey. You can use funnel analysis to identify the best-performing user touch points leading to more conversions. You can vamp up your campaigns with this information to attract more conversions.
Some tips for improving your conversion rate: Why Is My Conversion Rate Dropping For No Reason?
Step 4: Understand user behavior
Funnels are all about helping your prospect reach an end goal. An understanding of how they behave and interact with your brand is essential. User behavior analytics help you identify user pain points.
For instance, Usermaven keeps track of your product and website users throughout the customer journey stages. It offers tools specific to various stages of the funnel.
- You can get marketing attribution insights at the acquisition stage.
- Identify and remove blockers during the onboarding steps.
- At the retention stage , it offers retention cohort analysis and tracking of customers slipping away.
Step 5: Identify problems at each funnel stage
The funnel metrics and KPIs you define at the beginning highlight the issues your users are facing at each stage. With the help of Funnel analysis, you can resolve these issues to prevent prospects from dropping out.
Funnel optimization is a continuous process. You can run A/B testing to try what works best. Another technique is to ask for feedback via surveys regarding your product or service from users.
The Usermaven funnel analysis feature lets you visualize key metrics to understand when and where visitors are leaving your website. By resolving these issues, you can reduce the customer churn rate.
Step 6: Get deeper insights by segmenting users and comparing funnels
User Segmentation helps you target users based on where they are in the funnel. It also provides you with deeper insights. You can segment your users based on several factors like demographic and psychographics.
Usermaven lets SaaS companies analyze feature adoption by the audience based on segments. With their pre-built-in report feature, you can extract feature engagement reports based on custom audiences.
In addition to your funnel analysis, you can sharpen your funnel wisdom with competitors’ funnel analysis. Comparing the two can assist in how your practices compare with the industry practices.
Finding loopholes in your funnels that you might miss is an extremely important task. Keeping track of the channels your competitors are using and how they are utilizing conversion techniques like CTAs etc., can surely help you in improving your strategies.
Funnel Analysis Mistakes to Avoid
Despite a robust funnel, you are likely to make funnel analysis mistakes. Keep the following mistakes in mind while implementing funnels and conducting funnel analysis.
Not focusing on high drop-off points
Funnel drop-offs indicate where users are facing problems. Fixing these points is the quickest way to boost your conversions. There can be various drop-off reasons, such as technical issues, missing information, lacking user experience, etc.
A/B testing, user segmentation, complete pricing information, and simple funnel steps can lower drop-off rates.
Ignoring user experience
The customer experience begins from any of the touch points you offer. And amongst these interaction points, your website is your brand’s face. If it is cluttered and unattractive with ineffective copy, your prospects will leave from the top of the funnel.
The first impression of your brand is critical in determining whether a customer will enter your funnel. Here are a few best practices you can implement to enhance your customer’s experience with the landing page
- Make it simple and easy to navigate.
- Use white space to make important parts stand out.
- Highlight and bring to attention any call-to-actions and headings.
- Make your copy engaging and convincing.
- Focus on the benefits more than the features.
Funnel analysis can also be fruitful in personalizing a user experience with your brand. As a result, they are more likely to respond and convert.
Funnels End at the Point of Conversion
You successfully converted a prospect into a customer at the end of the funnel. What next? A common mistake is having no vision of what happens after the funnel ends.
You can ask such customers whether the product was according to their expectations. If the product meets their expectation, they can become loyal customers and promoters of your brand. After the conversion stage, customers enter the advocate stage, where they promote your product with positive word of mouth, complementing your marketing efforts. You can also use their testimonials in your marketing message.
It is a well-known marketing fact that retaining customers is relatively easy than prospecting for new customers. So keep this in mind once your customers reach the conversion stage of the funnel.
All users should follow the same conversion path
A conversion path is your potential customer’s journey from various touch points to the end goal, and not all of your users have to follow the same conversion path.
Conversion paths are tools to determine what’s working and not. A/B testing and user segmentation are two techniques to implement multiple conversion paths. They can help you set up multiple conversions based on customer behavior and intention. Information is also tailored based on the user status and the funnel stage they are at. This approach can tell what’s working well for which user segment.
Improve Your Sales Process With Funnels using Usermaven
Funnel analysis is equally important to acquiring and retaining customers. So, don’t just focus on conversion rates. Look for ways to nurture customer relations and brand loyalty. Try Usermaven to keep your funnels well-oiled for reduced friction and smooth running.
Usermaven helps you maximize customer success with improved insights into user behavior and customer journey. Besides, it complements a business’s marketing labor with robust features. Real-time insights, UTM tracking, and privacy-friendly analytics are some of the major features. It’s flexible and user-friendly, with sustainable pricing to grow your business.


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Now including the BONUS story, "A Redneck Romance"!
Now enjoy more comical tales in this combination set of Tracy Heath’s first two books, Bum Steer and Bedoggled.
Tracy Heath recounts some of her most treasured and entertaining stories from her childhood in the Eastern Oregon desert. You will be taken to a pleasant wasteland where pheasants stroll through the neighborhood, and sagebrush and barbed wire fences are silhouetted in the vibrant, setting sun.
She tells about being bullied by a steer: “Since he wasn't a pet we promptly named him 'Reddy.' It had a nice ring to it and had next to nothing to do with the fact that his eyes glowed red.”
Experience the face-palm moments of becoming a dog owner: “Considering his klutzy habits and ill-mannered behavior, [Bowser’s] knowledge of the indoors was limited. But his understanding of life in general was lacking, so we should have seen something coming.”
And get ready for hard-core fishing, folks, because fishing’s not for wimps: “Dripping piteously, the fishers reached the foot of the trail and took a minute to gaze up the steep, switchbacked path, the shadows already growing long around them. Crying seemed a viable option….”
Get a kick out of these escapades and several other comical stories in Tracy’s take on country life. You will find the stories intriguing and original. As you chuckle your way through them, these country anecdotes may bring back a few humorous memories from your own childhood.


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Stake MAKI tokens in the MAKI pool to earn more MAKI and voting rights!
You can also spread your MAKI around and earn tokens from across the Heco ecosystem with new pools introduced often.
In this guide, you will learn how to stake and unstake your MAKI tokens.
Start by clicking the link to MakiSwap pools. From here you can browse available pools and see real-time data of current offerings and your own rewards once you start earning.
The first thing you will need to do after making your selection is connect your wallet to the MakiSwap website. Click “Unlock Wallet”
In this guide, we will use Metamask; however, other wallets will be very similar. Next choose “Metamask”
If you have multiple wallets, you can choose which ones to connect and click “Next”
Now click “Connect” and you will be ready to interact with the MakiSwap website.
For this example, let’s stake some MAKI in the MAKI pool. Next you will need to click “Approve MAKI” to authorize the website to transfer tokens to the pool. You only need to do this one time unless you revoke access in the future.
Click “Approve MAKI” to allow MakiSwap to ‘spend’ your tokens. Don’t worry – no one is selling your tokens. You can unstake them whenever you want.
Now you will see a “Plus” + button to add MAKI to the pool. Click that and we will deposit some tokens next.
Choose an amount from available tokens or click “Max” to deposit all MAKI currently in your wallet. Click “Confirm”
Your Metamask wallet will now ask you to confirm the transaction and a small gas fee. You should not need to change any limits here and just click “Confirm” to enter staking.
Welcome to the pool. You are now staking and earning. You should notice some new options and begin seeing your rewards adding up in real-time.
Harvest – withdraw reward tokens to your wallet
Compound – harvest and deposit reward tokens in the pool
Unstake – withdraw staked tokens and rewards to your wallet
Plus (+) Button - add more MAKI to the pool from your wallet
You can withdraw your tokens anytime by clicking “Unstake MAKI” and confirming the transaction and gas fees like the previous example.
While you have MAKI tokens staked in the MAKI pool, you will notice a new SOY token in your wallet. This represents your staked MAKI and entitles you to claim your tokens from the pool as well as voting rights. In this example we started with 5 MAKI and staked 3 of them. Our wallet has 2 MAKI and 3 SOY for a total of 5 tokens.
If you do not see these in your wallet, you might have to add them manually. This is not necessary, and they are still there. But if you want to see them, it is a very simple process.
Click “Add Token” and paste the token contract address. If you have the correct address, you should see the token symbol and decimals filled in for you. Confirm it’s the right token and click “Next”
If you have a balance, it will now display in your wallet. Click “Add Tokens”
MAKI Contract Address
SOY Contract Address


Roxas, Duterte clash on PhilHealth aid
Davao City Mayor Rodrigo Duterte accepted Liberal Party standard-bearer Mar Roxas’s dare to withdraw from the presidential race if the latter would prove that Davao City indeed benefited from the government’s PhilHealth insurance.
“Mayor Duterte, I dare you. Kung may mapakita akong tao, pangalan, hospital na talagang natulungan sa Davao City, ikaw ba ay aatras?” Roxas asked the feisty mayor, who in turn answered in the affirmative.
The two figured in a verbal clash anew during the last presidential debate at the Phinma-University of Pangasinan in Dagupan City on Sunday when the candidates were asked about their plans to bring health assistance to the poor living in far-flung provinces.
It started when Duterte questioned Roxas’s statement about the nearly 100-percent Filipinos who are covered by PhilHealth benefits, saying Roxas and the Aquino administration are only making empty promises to the people.
Roxas answered: “Siguro kathang isip ito ni Duterte dahil totoo na may mga natutulungan ang PhilHealth sa Davao City.”
The former Interior secretary then challenged Duterte that at 8 a.m. on Monday, he will give the mayor a list of Davaoeños who received health assistance from the government.
He told the mayor, his friend-turned-foe, not to ignore the truth he is presenting as it is supported by facts and data.
“Kasi ang problema dito, kapag hindi mo pinasok at pinaniwalaiaan ang aktwal na facts at datos ay babaliwaalain mo. Eto ang mga katotohanan so doon tayo sa katotohanan. Huwag nating lokohin mga kababayan na walang nangyayari. Ang katotohanan pinakabasehan ng kahit anong pamumuno,” he said.
But a skeptic Duterte shrugged off Roxas’s dare and asked the audience if they believe Roxas’s claims.
A visibly irked Roxas then told the audience and young viewers: “Eto ‘yung style ni Duterte. Sa mga kabataan, ‘wag nating tularan ito.”
He then criticized the mayor for flipflopping and his habit of diverting the issue whenever he starts to run out of bullets.
“Mayor Duterte, may sasabihin tapos kung palagan siya o kung pakitaan siya ng facts, aatras, magsasabi ng ibang isyu. Itong hamon ko simpleng simple. Sinabi ko ‘to, sinabi niya oo. May mapapakita ako, actual naka-video na mga tao na natulungan ng PhilHealth sa Davao City. Libo libo po ‘yan, sinabi niya aatras siya, tignan natin kung tutuparin niya sinabi niya,” said Roxas.
Duterte, unfazed by Roxas’s remarks, changed the topic and brought up the latter’s lackluster performance in the surveys.
“Si Secretary Roxas, hindi nagpapaiwan, kung totoo talaga ang sinasabi mo, bakit ka huli sa rating?” the mayor said.
Given by moderator Karen Davila a chance to respond to Duterte, Roxas said: “Simpleng simple lang. Nakikita ng mga kababayan ang asal mo mayor na hindi ka karapat dapat. Kaya sa May 9 ang mananalo ang matuwid. Ang mananalo ang disente. Mananalo ang karapat dapat. Walang iba kung hindi si Mar Roxas,” he said.
An irritated Duterte replied: “Susmaryosep!” IDL
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How do you keep food from sticking to the deep fryer basket? Dip the piece of food slowly into the hot oil. Let the hot oil swallow the piece of food in its entirety then release the food from the tongs. Allowing the food to be coated in the oil will prevent sticking, according to the Austin Community College Culinary Arts program initiative, Austin Cooks.
How Do You Keep Food From Sticking To The Deep Fryer Basket?
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