BOOK OPINION REVIEW: Let me say this up front (in case you didn’t know), Jane Austen is the greatest author of all time. I suppose some might dare to call that an opinion, but we Janeites of the world know much better. At this point, one or two of you might be thinking, “who the hell is Jane Austen?” or “Jane Austen – total girl writer.” If these sad thoughts are, in fact, running through her brain, rewatch Orange County Choppers.

Anyway, naturally, a movie about the world’s greatest author would attract the attention of her most ardent fan (that would be me, by the way). Becoming Jane is a basically fictional account of Jane Austen’s early adulthood and her relationship with a young lawyer named Tom Lefroy.

The film is controversial on two points, and I will touch on each one. Initially, there is some disagreement as to whether an American actress (Anne Hathaway) should play England’s beloved Jane. Hathaway’s portrayal of Austen is wholly candid and brings to life the author’s warm and witty personality. Her accent was well done, some flaws to be sure, but overall quite believable. As an American, I argue that I can be less particular about this issue.

The next problem depends on the credibility of the movie’s plot. No one knows for sure the depth of the actual relationship between Austen and Lefroy. The film makes several leaps of faith, creating a deep love between the two main characters. Of course, there is little substantial evidence that Austen and Lefroy were as close as the film suggests. By her own account, she was fond of him, and the general consensus among Austen scholars is that Lefroy was the basis for Mr. Darcy (for those of you who continued reading up to this point instead of reading The Deadliest Catch, Mr. Darcy is a hero of Austen’s classic Pride and Prejudice).

I, for one, refuse to dwell on these controversies. Anne Hathaway is a charming and talented actress, and I’m not such a purist that I can’t bear to take a few liberties with my beloved Jane’s life story. I thoroughly enjoyed the entire movie. You really get a sense of Jane as a person, and it was obvious how much of her life inspired her work. Her relationship with her sister, Cassandra, was beautifully portrayed, the two of them clearly the best of friends. After watching the film, one feels a deeper understanding of her novels, and perhaps most importantly of the time in which she lived and the limitations placed on women, especially, but also on men of the time. I encourage all Austen fans to join Becoming Jane.

And for the record, I love watching The Deadliest Catch. Those guys are great. I have a new appreciation for crab meat.

For those unfamiliar with Austen’s work and wanting to gain an appreciation of this wonderful writer, here are my suggestions in what order to read the books.

Pride and Prejudice – Read it first, because it’s not only wonderful, it’s his most famous book. In fact, truly one of the most famous novels of all time. The characters are so full of life that they almost jump off the page. This is especially true of the heroine, Elizabeth Bennett. For the best film version, try the 1995 BBC epic with Jennifer Ehle (another American, no less) as Elizabeth Bennett and Colin Firth as the quintessential Mr. Darcy.

Persuasion – In my humble opinion, this is his best book. I first heard this one on CD (Juliet Stevenson is the goddess of Austen storytellers, if you get the book on tape or CD find one of her versions). There is a part of this book towards the end where Anne Elliott, the protagonist, receives a love letter. It’s not just a love letter, it’s THE love letter. I stopped the car, reversed the CD and listened again. So, I caused a seven-car wreck, it paid off. The 1995 film with Amanda Root and Ciaran Hinds is excellent.

Sense and Sensibility: I think this is his darkest book, but you’ll get a lot out of it. I see many parallels between this book and Becoming Jane. Elinor Dashwood is an exceptional heroine, her strength and determination are inspiring. To choose a movie, I chose my nerd with Emma Thompson’s version. He takes some liberties with the stories, but good ones. She carefully edited parts and added a bit here and there to enhance the audience’s understanding of this complex novel.

Mansfield Park – The heroine of this novel is the subject of much debate among Austen fans. Some find Fanny Price lukewarm and boring, but I think that’s a low estimate of her value. If you really give this an honest and thorough reading, you’ll find that Fanny is a wonderful character. It is true that she is not as flashy and funny as Elizabeth Bennett or Emma Woodhouse, but not all of us can be lively and vivacious. This is a great book on morality, honor and discretion. I have no movie recommendations for this one. The 1999 version with Frances O’Connor featured some good actors and the art direction and cinematography were top notch, but this heavily rewritten version is almost an insult to what Austen was trying to achieve with her wonderful novel.

Emma: I put this one near the end, not because it’s so undignified (in fact, I named my dear daughter Emma), but because it seems so different from the titles mentioned above. Emma is a flawed character, more so than most of Austen’s heroines. But I still love Emma, ​​she learns a lot about herself and longs to become a better person. Don’t we all do it, I ask? As for the movies, I personally love Gwyneth Paltrow’s Emma, ​​although they cut some parts. Kate Beckinsale did a cute Emma, ​​but they added a few things that she could have done without him. Even the silly-but-sweet update “Clueless” is worth checking out. Alicia Silverstone is very Emma.

Northanger Abbey – This is just a fun read, I had more laughs reading this than most other books. It’s one of his earlier works, so it lacks the depth of the other five novels, but it’s definitely worth reading. There are no movie versions I’m interested in recommending.

As a side note, ITV recently turned several of Austen’s novels into TV movies. I haven’t seen any yet as they are not available in the US.

Also, although it may be sacrilegious to mention it, several people have tried to imitate Austen’s style, writing sequels and prequels to her works. Obviously this is just for fun and one cannot expect these books to be as exquisite as the real thing (or even as close to it), but I have enjoyed a few.

One I recommend is Presumption: A Julia Barrett Entertainment. It’s a nice sequel to Pride and Prejudice. It is the story of what happens to Mr. Darcy’s sister, Georgiana.

Jane Austen’s Sanditon and “Another Lady” is another interesting example. The first 11 chapters of the novel were actually written by Austen shortly before her death. The rest was added by the other lady. The first section is undoubtedly the best part, but the rest is a fun read. The “Other Lady” does an admirable job of finishing what promised to be another great Austen novel.

There are countless other imitation books, countless books on Jane, more Austen movies to speak of, and I could go on for almost an eternity on all of that, but I’m too busy listening to my CD of Piano Classics from the World of Jane Austen and putting together a special white soup from my Jane Austen cookbook to take the time to write more.

Kidding, but on a serious note, everything you really need to know can be found in the works of Jane Austen. They’re not just silly little romances (not that there’s anything wrong with a silly little romance), but commentaries on the human condition, filled with humor and vivid characters.

And yes, to sum it up, the movie was really good.

On YouTube and other social media platforms, any niche and any topic could lead you to huge profits just by uploading your videos and sharing them with the world. Every view counts, every like is worth a penny, and every share is a traffic booster.

Online games have brought a lot of fun and excitement to our online community. As online games and online community increase from time to time, influencers also earn more and more profit. How does it work?

Here’s a list of the top gaming influencers on YouTube and how they got started:

Marcos Fischbach

Also known as Markiplier, a Hawaiian-born army dropped out of college where he studied engineering to grow his career as a YouTube gaming commentator. Specializing in the horror genre, his videos have been viewed more than 7 billion times in five years. His latest sign of crossover success from him? He signed a contract with the mega-agency William Morris Endeavor in 2016.

Felix Kjellberg

Also known as PewDiePie, he is the highest-paid YouTube influencer in the world as of 2016. The Swedish gamer would have topped the gaming category if it weren’t for the nine videos he posted in early 2017, which contain Nazi imagery. Maker Studios, a Disney subsidiary that is also its multi-channel network partner, cut ties with it. He was also banned from the Red YouTube platform and the Google Preferred program. He continues to earn millions from YouTube ads alone while his brand is tarnished.

Evan Fong

A Canadian also known as VanossGaming, in order to pursue his career online full time, he dropped out of the University of Pennsylvania. He chats and jokes with his friends and colleagues while playing games like Call of Duty or Grand Theft Auto on his YouTube channel. He began voicing a character in the adult animated series ‘Paranormal Action Squad’ for YouTube Red in 2016.

sonja reid

Also known as Omgitsfirefoxx, she began broadcasting live on the gaming platform Twitch in 2013. She posts highlights to YouTube, where she quickly amassed an impressive following that led to partnerships with brands like Audi, Syfy, and Intel.

sssniperwolf

A British-born YouTube influencer also known as Lia Wolf who specializes in Call of Duty gameplay videos, she also dabbles in cosplay and anime. With her more than 5 million subscribers and followers, she led her to partner with companies like Activision, EA, Ubisoft, and Disney. She said, “I wanted to show that girls can play games too and be good at video games.”

jacksepticeye

His real name is Sean McLoughlin. He first used YouTube in 2012 and then began posting daily in 2013. He is best known for his energetic and funny comments. With videos of him having been viewed more than 7.2 billion times, he is signed to Revelmode, a subnet of Disney’s Maker Studios.

DanTDM

Daniel Middleton is a professional gamer known online as DanTDM or The Diamond Minecraft. His mastery of the popular family game Minecraft and his following had earned him a Guinness World Record in 2016 for amassing the most views for a dedicated Minecraft channel, which at the time stood at 7.9 billion.

The Union Project

Tom Cassell, the veteran gamer who was the first person to reach 1 million followers on the live streaming platform Twitch back in 2014. Since then, he has received more than 10 million YouTube subscribers for his gameplay of gaming franchises like Halo and Call of Duty. He is now signed to gaming influencer agency 3BlackDot with fellow listmates Sonja Reid and Evan Fong.

heaven not minecraft

Adam Dahlberg, a YouTube veteran at the age of 24. He got his start as a voice actor for gaming videos in 2006 and more than a decade later, his main channel focused on the hit children’s game, Minecraft. It had over 11 million subscribers and is now partnered with Amazon, Netflix and Nintendo and sells merchandise to fans like posters and pillows.

mari takahashi

AtomicMari was the only female member of the mega-popular YouTube channel, Smosh Games, until early 2017. She stars in Maricraft, a sub-series centered around the Minecraft game. The former professional dancer began hosting her Smosh Pit Weekly in 2010. Now, she has a social audience of over 2 million and in 2016, she competed as a cast member on the 33rd season of the CBS hit ‘Survivor.’

These YouTubers make millions a year just by playing and narrating video games.

Motorcycle clubs are institutions whose members commit to lifelong brotherhoods united by a shared passion for motorcycle riding culture and membership in an all-encompassing outside family.

The local setting where various MC nations frequent is known as the MC Set. The Conjunto comprises all clubhouses, bars, parks, meeting places, and other areas of operations where these clubs meet, greet, and associate.

MC nations abide by a universally accepted set of spoken, but largely unwritten laws known as MC protocol. This protocol unites all clubs to freely associate as disparate organizations in peaceful coexistence. This peace is maintained because MC protocol requires mutual respect and common courtesy to be shown to all MCs and their members. Generally, if the MC protocol is followed, it works and the peace is well maintained.

Internally, MCs operate by a set of laws called statutes. Unlike the MC protocol, the laws are almost always written. The bylaws are the contract between the MC brotherhood, full patch brothers, prospects and club associates. The bylaws generally follow the same unwritten MC protocol that governs the Ensemble, but also define operations, traditions, rights, responsibilities, and privileges within the sorority specifically. These issues can vary radically from one club to another. For example, MC’s unwritten protocol requires that all MC officers be elected to office by club vote and stand for re-election annually. But an MC’s bylaws may allow such elections to be held more or less frequently.

When the MC bylaws follow the lines of the MC protocol, the brothers are generally satisfied and enjoy prosperous and successful careers within the MC. However, when MC bylaws conflict with accepted MC protocol, internal problems often arise to the point where clubs experience conflict, civil war, and ultimately club splits.

Such is the case when the founders of today’s emerging MCs create bylaws that promote their agendas and not necessarily the agendas of their clubs. This has become a symptom repeated many times seen by the explosion of new clubs in the Set in recent times. Many new would-be founders have abandoned the spirit of the MC’s projecting greatness charters, instead attempting to hold on to their status, titles, and privileges forever, instead only as long as the club continues to vote for them. office. They often catch potential brethren off guard who are unfamiliar with basic MC etiquette when joining these new clubs and aren’t smart enough to peruse the bylaws or ask the kinds of questions that would expose this nonsense before joining. .

One of the tactics employed by these slanderous founders is to surreptitiously register the MC name and logos under their names and not the name of the MC corporation. Then when they run afoul of the members, who may choose to remove them from power, they rush to court and either stop the brothers from removing them or legally force the brothers to surrender their colors and instead get them kicked out of the club! In this way they try to hold on to the reins of power within the MC by lie.

Please understand that this is not the way of the MC protocol. The protocol dictates that the club is governed by democratic vote and all matters must be presented before the voting brothers. It doesn’t really matter if a brother was a founder, “First Nine”, “Original 7” or something. Those are titles for the front of the cut. They should only be recognized as what the brothers may have done to help the MC prosper. Those patches will never equate to the colors on the back patch which signify what the club stands for and who its members are. Unless the MC considers it, there are no “Presidents for Life” and the MC never “belongs” to the founder, even if he put it all together, designed the patches and made it all happen. When the founder(s) offer(s) the MC to others, it becomes the property of the collective and no longer belongs to one. The founders need to realize that their “baby” became our “baby” when they included us in the club.

So yes, founders are subject to discipline. Yes, the founders are subject to being fired from the club and no, the founders do not have the right to remove the MC from the members. This may not be true legally, but it is true within the MC protocol. Prospects will do well to do their research to find out how their prospective clubs are set up before joining, and brothers in clubs set up as such should lobby leaders to change these bylaws until they reflect what is correct, according to Protocol. MC configuration.

If you are a producer or beat maker, you may or may not have faced a PayPal chargeback while selling your beats online. With the hundreds of websites that allow you to upload beats for sale, you may inevitably run into a situation where you have to deal with a PayPal chargeback. As the owner and producer of Almost Free Beats, LLC, I pride myself on good business practices and doing everything in my power to ensure customers are satisfied when they purchase beats. However, in December 2010, I ran into a chargeback from PayPal. Here is my detailed account of how I handled the situation.

In December 2010, a good friend of mine recommended an artist for my music production company. The artist was interested in some beats for sale on my soundclick page. Seeing that this client was a referral, he excited me about the opportunity to sell beats. Referrals are usually the best type of clients to have.

After contacting me via email and telling me exactly which soundclick beats he was interested in, the artist paid by credit card and I sent him the beats. I also sent a non-exclusive beat license agreement, as well as an invoice showing that he paid for his instrumentals. Full sale was for $99.99. After a couple of days, they contacted him via text message to confirm that he had received the beats. He said that he did and that he loved them. I was glad to have another satisfied customer, but unfortunately, things took a turn for the worse soon after.

About a month later, I woke up to an email from PayPal saying the customer had issued a chargeback. I was disgusted to say the least! The $99.99 had been put on hold and put my PayPal account in the negative as well! I was really starting to make some headway selling my beats online. I had only sold my first beat in October 2010, so it was like a punch in the face for me.

Understanding the situation and how PayPal’s dispute process works, I began to gather all the necessary evidence to prove my case. Due to the way the credit system works in the United States, the credit card company ultimately has the final say on whether or not to refund your money. PayPal only acts as an intermediary by presenting proof.

I submitted the following to PayPal’s resolution center:

All contacts by email with the client.

Telephone records of customer text contact

All email contacts after the chargeback was issued

Copies of the non-exclusive beat license agreement, instrumental terms, and a copy of the invoice.

Note: It may seem like I did everything possible, but it’s completely necessary!

To win a dispute as a seller, you must prove that the customer received the goods/services sold!

In my situation, I needed to show PayPal and the credit card company that the artist received their beats in satisfactory condition.

After presenting all my evidence, I had to wait until the end of April 2011 before a decision was made on the dispute. Fortunately, I won the dispute and they financed me with my money. However, I would never wish something like this on any producer or beat maker selling beats online.

Here are some of the lessons I learned from this situation:

1. Keep a good paper trail

As a producer or beat maker, make sure you have your business and paperwork together! It can potentially save you a lot of heartache! If you need legal advice on contracts, agreements, etc. find an entertainment lawyer to cover your butt!

2. Communicate with your customer and PayPal

I was in constant communication with PayPal during the dispute process. I followed up with them often regarding my case and also continued to try to contact the artist even though he somehow “disappeared” and no longer communicated with me. I made sure to forward these “dead” email conversations to PayPal as proof of my case.

3. Be patient in chargeback disputes

PayPal disputes seem to take forever, but you have to be patient. Keep moving forward with your music production business. Don’t let one bad apple spoil the other great clients.

Interestingly, the same client tried to contact me through another alias to get hits! This time he was trying to buy beats via Moneygram under a different name and email. I reported it to PayPal’s fraud department shortly after! Ha ha!

I laugh about the situation now, but it was definitely a great learning experience. Hopefully, you don’t have to deal with a dispute like I did, but if you do, learn from my experience so things can go as smoothly as possible for you.

The worst thing we can do and the last way to cause ourselves poverty and unhappiness is not to have gratitude for life itself and for what we are living. Think about it. If the gratitude that brings us closer to God, existence, source, reality and everything is a thought that is already working in your mind, that is good and great. If not, and you are living a “bad life”, I can only tell you bluntly as I have told myself bluntly: “Work on it”. I mean, if we’re going to get out of genuine depression, we have to take the first step out of the dark pit of despair, no one is ultimately going to do it for us. People can help, but we must start the work on ourselves. and later rationally accept help.

We can shout “poor me” all we want, and accept a loaf of bread as charity and stay in the same condition all we want. But unless we take action, all charity and help means nothing. Charity and help mean something when we use it to genuinely improve ourselves. Without that improvement of ourselves, for ourselves, everything means nothing, even the help we receive. A genuine display of gratitude is taking nothing for granted and genuinely getting better at living and earning.

What I mean by winning is this: I don’t mean a total “kill ’em all and stand on the mountain” competitive victory. I mean creating creative gains for yourself that enhance everything around you and within you. Competitive victory that “kills them all” means nothing. But the creative victory that makes everything better, and you better too, means everything.

Thinking about reality and acting rationally and realistically about what we think makes us more real. Especially when what we think and act is in line with God, existence, source, reality, and the all of all. We are not competing with God, existence, source, reality, and everything in an empty way to become what God, existence, source, reality, and everything is, but we are creating with everything, to improve ourselves. our reality. as a whole, as well as ourselves. Don’t get me wrong, I’m all for wisdom and the full realization of potential, but I’m all for Jones’ version of the “Golden Rule” which is:

“The good that I really want for myself, ultimately, I want for everyone!”

I want genuine good for everyone in their own ability to handle it, friend or foe, because (and this is hard) I want to improve all of life and existence to benefit, not just my small part. I am thankful for what makes me thrive and I am thankful for what makes me genuinely grow better as a whole being. Gratitude brings us closer to the genuine God, the existence, the source, the reality and the whole, after all, and there is nothing wrong with that except when we deviate from it. That is my reality and I stick to it.

An electric car is a car powered by one or more electric motors using electrical energy that is stored in batteries, which then projects the power through electric motors into the vehicle’s drive train.

The first electric cars appeared in the 1880s, electric cars were popular in the 20th and early 19th centuries until common combustion engines were made for mass production and gasoline was cheaper than electric.

During the 1970s and 1980s there was the energy crisis that stopped the electric vehicle in its tracks.

Fast forward to 2008, when there was a renaissance in electric vehicle manufacturing due to advances in battery technology power, technology management, and also concerns about rising oil prices and the need for to reduce greenhouse gas emissions.

Since 2008, many governments, local authorities, and countries have provided tax breaks, tax breaks, and government subsidies to help grow the electric vehicle market and reduce the above in an effort to reduce greenhouse gases and CO2 emissions.

Benefits of electric cars

There are many benefits to electric cars, a significant reduction in air pollution due to no pollutants in the tailpipe is of great importance. Greenhouse gases and other similar emissions are greatly reduced, as in the case of the BMW I range, where BMW builds these cars with as many eco-friendly components as possible and their factory units run on solar energy, reducing fossil energy and its carbon footprint in half. very early in the production stage.

The other benefits of electric cars in 2014 is that we now have a new kid on the block in Tesla motors, these pure electric cars have a range of up to 300 miles per charge. Tesla is licensing patents on its technology to other auto industry giants to try to push for greater range for all new electric cars.

Other benefits are FREE road tax and a £5000 government grant towards a new electric car. Also, if you live in the UK and travel an average of 720 miles a week, this will only cost you, as of November 2014, £27 – now that’s got to be a benefit.

Plug-in electric (hybrid) cars

During the 21st century, the greatest demand is for the plug-in electric car since these vehicles have a better autonomy and are more practical for the average businessman who has to travel more than 100 miles per day. Also, due to the more well-known range anxiety, production of plug-in electric cars has been boosted since early 2008.

However, as of 2010 a new dawn had appeared with cars like the Chevrolet Volt, Vauxhall Ampera, Mitsubishi Outlander in 2014 and the BMW i3 range extender in 2013. These cars have taken on the electric car format and generally had a small engine. ability that works like a generator to keep your batteries recharged, ultimately giving you a longer range.

Another benefit of plug-in electric cars is that you can now achieve 290mpg, which as we know from prices at the pumps, in November 2014, a gallon of petrol would cost £6.00 on average. So, as we can see, this is a great reason to buy a plug-in hybrid car.

Charging of pure and plug-in electric cars

This is very easy today with the ability to charge from your own home also with UK-wide superchargers and other UK-wide charging facilities. By 2020, the European Union has said the UK must have a minimum of 60,000 electric car charging points, keeping in mind that this is only six years from now, we think you’ll be in good hands to charge your car at a moment’s notice. no matter where. you live in the UK in 2014.

So the locations can be;

A home charger that sits discreetly on one of your exterior walls, in a shed, or in your garage.

From a charging station on the UK highway network, in supermarkets, at Tesla supercharging stations, from fire stations, from other government locations to car parks, airports and anywhere else you can fit one.

These chargers are dependent on the power unit, one charge can take anywhere from 30 minutes to 8 hours to fully charge your car, however the average time to charge a pure electric car today is reduced to 4 hours in many cases. If you travel less than 100 miles a day and get four to eight hours of sleep a night, you can have a fully charged car without ever going to a gas station and wasting time at the pump again.

With a plug-in hybrid it’s almost the same, however you can obviously travel much more than 100 miles a day, in fact you could travel up to 1000 since these vehicles are not dependent on being plugged into a power unit.

Panasonic has its new line of massage chairs. The Real Pro Ultra series incorporates some of Panasonic’s newest technologies in massage therapy. The subject of this review is the EP-30004 shiatsu massage recliner. This model is a high-end luxury massage chair model. We’ll take a look at some of the new features and warranty coverage of this shiatsu massage recliner.

Panasonic is a household name in electronics, so you don’t have to worry about your warranty being honored in the future. We like to advise potential massage recliner chair buyers to also go with a trusted brand. There are many small importers offering cheap massage loungers with great guarantees that are never honored in the future. That being said, Panasonic will be there in the future.

What type of warranty coverage is provided with the EP 30004? You get 3 years of parts coverage and 1 year of labor coverage. Panasonic now provides in-home technical support with the Real Pro Ultra series and covers it for 1 year. They also cover shipping costs for the first year. We like the 1-year in-home tech service, which is great coverage. We see that 1 year labor is quite short compared to other manufacturers. If possible, try to get an extended warranty to get more coverage. This is especially important on expensive items like massage chairs with lots of moving parts.

There are some notable new features incorporated into the Real Pro Ultra series of massage chairs. The EP 30004 has a lower body stretch and a shoulder stretch. There is also a new massage technique called Junetsu. The Junetsu massage technique literally means ultra-fine kneading in Japanese. The Junetsu massage technique uses small circular motions and one second of firm thumb-like pressure. The effect of this massage is to reverberate through the muscle and penetrate to the surface of the bone.

The EP-30004 comes with an arsenal of massage therapies for you to enjoy. There are four pre-programs which are shiatsu, deep, Swedish and stretch. There is also a quick 5 minute preset that covers a variety of massage techniques and functions. You can use some massages in manual massage mode for a total of 8 possible manual massages. These include ultra knead (Junetsu), shiatsu, knead, Swedish, stretch, tap, roll, and grab. There are also 5 ways to target certain regions of the back, including: neck, shoulders, mid, lower, and full back.

You can also create autoprograms to target specific regions with particular massage techniques. These are pretty simple to create. For example, you can select a lower back and deep tissue massage. Then select the duration time and intensity of the massage you want. You can also save these programs. It will save programs for up to 4 different users. There’s also a voice guidance system for those less inclined to read the user manual to figure these things out.

The lower part of the body is covered with an air compression massage system. This system uses strategically placed airbags throughout the massage recliner to target the hands, arms, feet, calves, thighs, and buttocks. The massage technique is a squeeze, hold, and release style of compression. This is very calming and relaxing for the extremities of the body. Additionally, there are stretching capabilities for both the legs and shoulders. These are great to help increase flexibility by lengthening the muscles.

The design of the chair has a rather industrial look to it, which is probably the most disappointing aspect of the massage recliner. The leg rest can be extended another 5 inches which is a nice feature. The air massage for hands and arms is hidden under the armrest covers. These armrest covers open to the side and your hands or arm can be placed inside. It is good to hide this device inside the armrest and not make it visible.

Overall, the Real Pro Ultra series has some great features over its previous series, the Real Pro Elite. We like the direction Panasonic is taking with its massage chairs. We would like to see better warranty protection and better design aesthetics. However, the massage therapy is very effective and the chair is quite well designed. This is definitely a shiatsu massage chair worth considering at the higher end of the market.

Companies that outsource their recruiting process experience a handful of advantages that I will discuss in detail in this article. The term for this process is Recruitment Process Outsourcing, which itself is a type of business process outsourcing.

Before we delve further into the advantages of outsourcing your company’s recruitment process, let’s better understand what business process outsourcing or BPO really means. According to Wikipedia, BPO is when an employer outsources or transfers all or part of its recruitment activities to a third party service provider.

In other words, Business Process Outsourcing is the purchase of labor or services from an external source, that is, subcontracting a process to a third-party company.

The RPO Alliance, a group of the Human Resources Outsourcing Association (HROA), endorsed this definition in February 2009. “Recruitment process outsourcing (RPO) is a form of business process outsourcing (BPO) in which an employer transfers all or part of its recruitment processes to an external service provider An RPO provider can provide or assume the company’s staff, technology, methodologies and reports In all cases, RPO differs greatly from providers, such as staffing companies and contingent/retained search providers, in that you take ownership of the design and management of the recruitment process and responsibility for the results.” -Wikipedia

Now that we have a better understanding of what BPO is, let’s get back to the main topic of this article, which is outsourcing the recruitment process and its advantages for your company.

time/speed

Hiring a recruiting company to do the recruiting process for a new project will save your company precious time. A recruitment agency already has a database of prospects ranked by skills, knowledge and experience, all you have to do is submit your requirements and they should contact you with a list of candidates who will be ready to be interviewed.

Money/Costs

If it saves you time, it will save you money. Imagine assigning employees to run your company’s hiring process, first these employees will have to stop what they are doing to focus on the hiring process, which can be a lengthy process. This could be a problem for small and medium-sized businesses, as large corporations have their own recruiting departments. But still we are seeing that even the big shots are outsourcing their recruiting processes to cut costs.

Quality

Some might say that who better to know the needs of a business than the owner or someone who works for it. This saying is correct to a certain extent, but when it comes to hiring new staff for a specific job or project, this can be quite a challenge. So better leave it in the hands of professionals. Specialty recruitment agencies have extensive resume databases and the network to find the right type of candidate.

Nowadays these agencies have evolved so much that if you need recruits for a construction project you go to a construction recruitment agency, a new engineering project you look for engineering recruitment agencies and so on.

Now that you know the benefits of hiring a recruitment agency, do you still want to do the process in-house?

As an active marketing coach at my church, one day I realized that my church was missing a great opportunity to grow using all the tools I use in marketing.

In fact, I think the church is the marketing arm of God and therefore the job of the church is to “give more people to God” and we’re not doing a very good job of actively going out to do that. I found a way to grow your church that not many have figured out. There are hundreds of thousands looking for a church, and most churches don’t even know it, know where they are, or how to connect with them.

So the first step for me was to find out how many people are actually looking for a church. At the time there were 4,000 people a month looking for a church in the Kansas City area, in about a year it has expanded to over 40,000 a month. So there is an explosion in the number of people looking for a church and churches. they are simply “missing the boat” if they are not trying to connect with those who are truly searching.

My suggestion is to go to Google’s keyword tool and type “___________church” (fill in the blank with your location). Then continue to brainstorm with Google to see how others are searching, _________ Sunday School, ___________ Christian Church, ___________ Methodist Church, ____________ Nondenominational Church, and so on.

In any case, here are some ideas of how many are looking in some of the metropolitan areas across the country.

• atlanta church………….110,000
• boston church……….30,000
• Chicago Church…………165,000
• Cincinnati Church……………….40,500
• Dallas Church………………110,000
• Denver Church……………….74,000
• Detroit Church………………40,500
• Kansas City Church ………… 40,500
• Los Angeles Church……….74,000
• Miami church………………49,500
• New York City church ……… 18,100
• St. Louis Church…………60,400

And that’s the number of people searching on a monthly basis.

A good rule of thumb for marketing is: if you say the things that connect well with your target audience, you SHOULD be able to capture 5-10% of the people you approach. so for most cities that are in the 30,000 to 40,000 area, that means somewhere around 1,500 people.

As I continued to investigate, and was actually speaking to a roomful of ministers the next week, I dug to see how many people were searching within the smaller communities of the city.

• 4,000 people looking for Baptist churches,
• 6,000 people looking for a church within a suburb of only 20,000 people.
• And, for one of the larger churches nearby, there were actually 6,000 people searching for that church by name.

How many of you are missing out on this opportunity to reach more people?

Use this tool to find how many are looking for you in what way.

Or are you a church that has grown, focused inward rather than looking for ways to “market God”?

In any case, for our church, we search engine optimized our website and went from “half full” to “bursting at the seams” in one year.

So we decided that there were other marketing opportunities that we were missing. We are looking for a page optimized for “___________ weddings” (our city). Our church is now fully booked for the next two months with weddings. Of course, everyone who sought us out for “church wedding” is people who are considering joining now.

Marketing is about “building relationships,” not just selling. Therefore, we are using our church website to actively attract people who are looking for help to “ask religion questions”, “family activities”, “Sunday school” and we continue to find new ways.

When it comes to mission work, we have found that we have a global reach from where we were established. We are opening our doors to people looking for churches and religion questions from all over the world, including small groups that are open all over the world. Small groups that quickly become small groups all over the world.

People are looking for churches and you may be passing them up.

Are you?

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