#but if your application process consists of “DM if interested”

[peanutbutterandbananasandwichs]

One day I'm going to do what I've been threatening for a couple of years now and write a guide for drag producers about how to make their casting applications more neurodivergent friendly.

[bonaintan]

A Journey to KGSP/GKS: Application Forms

I decided to write A Journey to KGSP/GKS series based on my experience as KGSP awardee in 2016. Just like other awardees, I also received a lot of chats and DMs from people asking about KGSP/GKS applications. It’s not that I’m tired and annoyed by answering the same questions over and over again, that I decided to post it online, really. That is practically what I’ve been doing in the past four years which, at some points during my student life in Korea, turned out to help me cope with the situation and keep me on track as I was reminded how far I had come.

Just recently I changed my mind to write and post it online so anyone can read it and I myself can re-read it (for whatever reasons), after joining in a mentorship program (supported by the Indonesian Student Association in South Korea aka Perpika) as a mentor for the Indonesian students and graduates who are interested in studying in Korea and preparing for the scholarship application. I mentored a similar program from MITI Klaster Mahasiswa back in 2017 called Youth Connection but I guess at the time I wasn’t feeling okay enough to share it. Now that I graduated safe and sound, I guess posting it online won’t hurt. So, this is the second post of my ‘A Journey to KGSP/GKS’ series, and I’ll try to post the next ones as soon as possible.

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As I’ve mentioned in my previous post about my journey to KGSP/GKS, I decided to go for this scholarship application the second I learned about this program. One of my thoughts at the time is how simple the application looks. And it is indeed simple, at least for me who had never applied for such a program and dealing with forms in English. The guideline also states everything clearly. Of course, I got a lot of help from KGSP/GKS awardees I met online who were very kind to share their experience. But, I tried to do my share as much as possible by doing my research on the Internet in advance, making sure I didn’t irritate them by asking trivial questions I can easily access on the Internet or even the application guideline, and avoiding the questions which are more on self-preference, such as “Is it okay if my recommendation letter is folded?”

KGSP/GKS-G (for graduate) and KGSP/GKS-U (for undergraduate) Application Forms are all over the Internet. It can be downloaded from various sites, such as Study in Korea, Korean Embassy sites, some Korean university sites, and Topik Guide. Along with the application guideline is a separate file of the application forms (although the complete guideline includes the forms as well), University Information, and FAQs files. These are the first reference and ammunition that no single applicant should ever miss. You might have your sister as a KGSP/GKS awardee and you can easily ask every single detail, but really, that kind of mentality will get in your way someday. So, go get the guideline and read it! (Sorry, I’m being too enthusiast here.)

Thankfully, the application forms stay pretty the same over the years. Minor changes might have been done as well as the regulation changes. But, it does not affect that much to the application procedures, thus making it easy for the applicants to prepare the applications way way way earlier even before the opening period. And that’s what I did back then. I downloaded the application guidelines from the previous years and noticed that the forms stayed the same, so I started to practice filling in the forms and prepare for the required documents.

The first part of the application forms includes the application checklist. Depending on the program you apply to, either Undergraduate or Graduate Degrees, the required documents are slightly different. The application checklist for the Graduate Degree Programs consists of all required documents for three different degree programs (i.e., Master’s, Doctoral, and Research Programs) so the list is a little bit longer. As for the Undergraduate application, three types of documents are required for certain documents (graduation certificate, transcripts, certificate of citizenship, and awards). I might be wrong on this since I had no experience in preparing for the undergraduate application, but here is what I understand about the difference between the original, official notarized translation, and copied documents.

2021 GKS Application checklist (above: Undergraduate; below: Graduate)

The original document, like its name, is the original version of a document that can be written in many different languages depending on the country where it is issued. For Indonesian applicants, the original document of the graduation certificate is the one written in Bahasa Indonesia. In case an applicant only has one copy of the original document, they can submit the certified copy version which is the copy of the original document certified/stamped by the issuing institution (e.g., school). In Bahasa Indonesia, it’s called dokumen legalisir.

Since all documents have to be written in either Korean or English, here comes the second type of the documents to accompany the original document, official notarized translation. As for the graduation/degree certificate and transcripts, some schools might provide the English translation. Otherwise, an applicant needs to have it translated into Korean or English by a sworn translator. From here, the document has to be legalized again by the notary. In the end, the official notarized translation should be a document written in Korean or English and should have 2-3 different stamps: issuing institution, (translating institution), and notary stamps. The last is the copied document which is the photocopied version (black-and-white document).

The number of copies submitted depends on the application track. For those applying via University Track, they should send only the original/certified copy of the documents to the university of their choice. As the screening process is taken place in Korea, the documents should be the very best  legalized version. For countries that require apostille version of the document such as Indonesia, some documents (degree certificate, transcripts, proof of citizenship) have to be apostilled or receive the consular confirmation from the Korean Embassy in the country where the document is issued.

Notes for my Indonesian fellows, here is the procedure to get the documents apostilled: legalized by the notary >> Ministry of Law and Human Rights (Kemenkumham) >> Ministry of Foreign Affairs (Kemenlu) >> (Korean) Embassy.

If applying via the Korean Embassy, one original/certified copy document, one official notarized translation, and three photocopied documents have to be prepared. Apparently, some Korean Embassies, including the Korean Embassy in Indonesia, may apply different regulations. Korean Embassy in Indonesia requires the applicants to send only one copy of the original document and the copies will be made by the Embassy.

The next part of the application forms is the applicant’s personal information, which is considerably easy to be filled in. As for the applicant’s name, some who do not have a separate family name may find it confusing at first, like in most cases of Indonesians. In such cases, simply write the same as your passport name: first name and middle name (if any) as the given name and last name as surname. For the university and major choices for graduate degrees, some confusions come from the differences between Division, Department, and Major. The best way to solve this is by referring to the University Information file, on the list of majors offered. As for the grades/GPA, use the CGPA conversion table on the guideline to convert various grading systems. If the CGPA conversion table does not apply for the grading system of the applicant’s school, the information on how to do the conversion should be attached.

Applicant’s Personal Information (above: Undergraduate; below: Graduate)

For awards and published papers, I believe there is no limit number but I personally mentioned the best two. You may want to mention the rest, if they are quite significant for you, in the Personal Statement. For published papers written in language other than Korean or English, the original title and other details (e.g., journal name) can be mentioned first, followed by the English title in parentheses.

The next forms to be filled are Personal Statement and Statement of Purpose/Study Plan. Instructions have been provided clearly on each part, so I believe it comes back to the applicant’s writing ability to come up with the best way of storytelling which hopefully will impress the reviewers. I have made a post for some tips to write Personal Statement and Statement of Purpose/Study Plan based on my experience.

Recommendation letters are another important required document for KGSP/GKS applications. An applicant should receive two recommendation letters from two recommenders. The letter template has been prepared in the application, but the recommenders may attach their own template. Just make sure that they understand what points should be included and that everything should be written in either Korean or English. This letter is confidential, so you may want to clarify beforehand as to who will translate the document if your recommender writes it in other languages.

The last is self-medical assessment/personal medical assessment which is a brief medical history of the applicant. It can be filled in independently by the applicant without going to the hospital or any healthcare center and should be filled in all honesty because you shouldn’t let any wrong information stated in the application forms get in your way in the later selection process of the medical check-up where pretty much everything will be revealed.

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That is the end of the KGSP/GKS application forms. This is crazily long I know, but I hope you will somehow find this post helpful. 

This post has been updated following the 2021 Application Guidelines. Please do let me know if you find incorrect information that I stated here. And I strongly encourage all applicants to read the guidelines by heart as it has much more detailed information.

[ffma-2020]

The Dark and The Light

2020 Finnlo-focused Multiship Anthology

Frequently Asked Questions

Timeline

Sign-ups: March 1 - 31

Outlines due: April 30

Feedback will be given on outlines by May 14

First deadline (draft fic or art progress/check-in): June 30

Second/final deadline (all completed fics and art due): August 31

PDF release: September 30

AO3 release: October 7

What is the Finnlo-focused Multiship Anthology? 

The FFMA aims to build a positive awareness in fandom about the multi-shipping community, celebrate Finnlo-focused ships, and develop the skills and interests of Star Wars fandom writers, artists, and supporters of smaller ships while having fun and sharing ideas respectfully.

We are a diverse group of Star Wars fans. What we have in common is our tolerance of multi-shipping and multi-shippers, and our interest in Finnlo-focused ships including OT3s, OT4s, and OT5s!

We have a Discord for participants and non-participants of the annual projects to brainstorm, share ideas and resources, seek advice or just talk and goof about Finnlo-focused topics in general. We published our first anthology of writing and art in 2019. You can view it here!

How do I submit an outline?

Please use this Google Form to outline your idea for either fic or art. If you experience any problems with this process, please contact us. We’re here to help and we don’t want to put you off by forcing you to articulate something you haven’t made yet. We know it can be tricky sometimes!

Can I depict dark themes or grey themes?

Yes, as long as you tag your work (we can help you with this or offer advice on appropriate tags if you are unsure) and as long as you treat the characters and ships with respect. 

Can I write or draw NSFW?

Heck yes!

Can I depict Finn and Kylo/Ben as friends only or just on the same side?

Yep!

Can I depict Finn and Kylo/Ben as enemies?

Also, yes!

What does ‘with respect’ mean in terms of writing characters and portraying their relationships?

‘With respect’ basically means we will not support depictions of racist tropes in regards to the character of Finn, or support shaming with regards to depicting homosexuality, bisexuality/pansexuality, transsexuality, or polyamorous relationships. 

Is this project selective? / Do you only select a certain number of applicants?

No way! We accept everyone and all outlines so long as they meet the project aims. However, if your outline is in breach of ‘with respect’ we will contact you and discuss the issue with you, towards developing an outline that is more suited to our guidelines, keeping in mind we want to build this community up and not exclude people.

What can’t I write or draw?

We will not support the depiction of racist, sexist, or queerphobic tropes. That’s it. Everything else is good to go!

What won’t be published?

We will not publish untagged dark themes (e.g. non-con, graphic depictions of violence, or the death of unredeemed characters) or untagged grey themes (e.g. dub-con, evil!Finn or evil!Kylo).

Can I contribute more than one thing?

Of course! Just remember to submit a new outline for each different thing you plan to make so that we can keep track of what everyone is doing. If you’re unsure, please ask.

Can I make a comic or a moodboard / meme?

Yes!

Do fics need to be of a certain length or within a certain word count?

Completed fics can be anywhere between 200 - 30,000 words. 

I don’t usually write M/M. Can I still contribute?

Yes! You don’t have to ship the characters romantically to contribute to this project. And you can publish Anon if you want to.

Can I join your Discord?

Sure! DM or reply to this post and we will send you an invite to join. The only thing we ask of you in return is that you tolerate the idea of multi-shipping. We do not tolerate ship hate.

Why do I have to submit a draft? What does ‘developing our work/skills’ mean?

We have mini-deadlines in place along the way to help you get the work finished in time. 

When you submit work in progress, if you want we can provide some targeted help like beta-ing, plot sense, a bit of technical feedback etc., but only if you ask for that sort of feedback; we will never give any unsolicited feedback on any draft material submitted unless what is submitted is in breach of guidelines or ‘with respect’. We will always ask you what kind of feedback you want. We may however ask clarifying questions about draft material.

We do ask that writers be open to reading each other’s fics as a way to share the load and further the existing finnlo-focused multi-shipping community. 

The mods will do the bulk of the beta work but at times we may need a little extra help with this. We are seeking a third mod. DM if interested!

Once finished work is submitted:

Finished fics may be edited for consistency in spelling/grammar.

Art will be reproduced to the highest res possible given that we format the PDF in word-processing software for distribution online, so you may lose some res but we’ll do our best!

Fics and art will be uploaded to AO3 by the creators, or by the mods if a creator doesn’t have an AO3 account.

Come rain, hail or Sheev, the PDF will release on September 30. The AO3 collection will go live one week after that. Mods reserve the right not to publish any material that doesn’t comply with our guidelines on tagging or ‘with respect’.

[wilstudies]

Get a grade 9 in a language GCSE!

Please note:

1. These tips are almost entirely applicable to any AQA language at GCSE. 2. Modern Foreign Languages at GCSE Level is anywhere from A2 to B1 (dependant on the tier and grade) on the CEFR scale, but, there is no official equivalent.

In November 2018, whilst in Year 10, my teacher saw that I was excelling in French, with my extensive knowledge of tenses and idioms. So, she proposed that I’d do the January mocks, alongside Year 11, despite not knowing more than half of the subject content. Then we’d see where I’d go from there.

I followed the AQA exam board, higher paper. Specification. You can find the Kerboodle textbook I used, here.  

Here’s what I did:

Throughout the year, I was also studying the Year 10 content (Theme 1 - Identity and culture) in class.

In my own time, each month I’d cover one or two units, completing the more challenging activities on each page of the textbook. Luckily, each unit was only 4 double-page spreads long.

In January I completed my mocks. This was the first time I had ever sat in an exam hall, so it was really daunting to be doing it with a bunch of kids who were older than me, even though I knew I had enough knowledge. Overall, I got a secure grade 8, in my mocks, despite not knowing half of the course content.

I also did “pre-exam mocks”, two weeks before each exam. These consisted of specimen papers which are notoriously harder, so my results looked almost exactly the same as past papers, which was upsetting as I couldn’t see that I’d actually improved. But practice is practice!

MY ACTUAL GCSE RESULT: 

With a lot of work. I managed to achieve a grade 9 (the top mark, higher than an A*), which was insane. I’m so, so proud of myself, and grateful for all of the teachers that supported me!!!

^Edit from 25/08/2019.

LISTENING

In my opinion, listening is based purely on practice and knowing the exam technique that works for you.

To practice: 

frenchpod101 intermediate listening comprehension

Going through every specimen track and listening activity I could find - pausing it after each sentence, saying it once in French, then translating it into English. I’d do this in the shower, on the way to school, wherever.

Know your vocab!

My exam technique:

In the 5 minutes reading time: underline keywords and themes in the questions. This time goes very quickly, but I’d also try to jot down a few synonyms in the French section too.

Multiple choice questions: the process of elimination; key vocab; negative and positive tonality and opinion words - watch out for negative structures!

Completing the sentences: note down words said in French or translate each sentence into English in your head, then remember it when it comes to writing it down.

French section: fill each sentence with key French words that you hear. Don’t worry about accents, unless it helps you determine the word.

Remember each track plays twice.

READING

The January Mock: I didn’t know much of the course content, so I struggled with the translation. I also circled and placed a question mark near any words I didn’t know, as it was a mock and my teacher would be able to note down any translations for me. I think what boosted my grade, to a 9 for this paper, was knowledge of grammar.

T/F/NM questions are usually a gamble. Just look for explicit information and know your negative formations.

Texts change their minds often: look out for counter-arguments and opposing exclamations

Use the method of elimination for multiple choice: rule out if there’s no mention. Be wary that a text can mention an option, but say it wasn’t that.

Texts often refer to things mentioned prior.

If you know a certain type of texts are your kryptonite (it was the classical stories with dialogue, for me), then download as many of that genre as you can. Understand the way speech and dialogue works, and the structure, before you tackle the vocab.

Many say skim read and don’t read the whole thing, but I found it easier to translate big chunks in my head as I went along and lightly annotate each text, which just comes with practice.

WRITING

Top tip: don’t go any more than 10% over word limits!!!!!!! Teachers say they have to mark all of it - no they don’t. If you do double the word limit, your last few bullet points could come after the cut-off point, cutting off access to half of the marks!!! 

90 WORD - 99 words maximum! About 20-25 words per bullet point.

150 WORD - 165 words maximum! About 75 words per bullet point.

Which brings me to mention, that you must cover every bullet point: those are your content marks, which cover about half the marks of each question.

90 WORD Question (16 marks)

Content - 10 marks: Making sure your writing covers each bullet point enough.

Quality of Language - 6 marks: Using interesting vocabulary, such as “malheureusement”.

Stick to about one page.

If you’re giving an opinion, great, just stop there. If you explain it too much, you risk going over your word limit.

150 WORD Question (32 marks)

Content - 15 marks: Every. Bullet. Point. Detailed.

Range of Language - 12 marks: get in those adjectives, idioms and grammatical structures!

Accuracy - 5 marks: correct basic tense conjugations (present, past, future simple/future proche)

In order to hit all of these I came up with a mnemonic checklist, and it scored me full marks in a specimen paper I did for my teacher! And I made it into a cute phone background, so I’d start to remember it, I still can now, hehe! You can find it here. If that doesn’t work, then download it here.

SPEAKING

Know your question words! (x)

For the roleplay and photocard, my teacher printed off me a load of practice cards in bulk and annotated two or three every day, using the planning techniques mentioned below.

Roleplay - 2 minutes; can be any theme. 

When planning, try to avoid writing out answers, but just keywords and gaps for you to fill in with pronouns or articles etc.

Keep it brief, one sentence per bullet point, but cover each part of each bullet point. 

Photo card - 3 minutes (aim to speak for at least 2). 

Plan with a small spider-diagram of nouns, opinions, anecdotes etc. for each known question. 

Use one or two prepped anecdotes for the prepared questions - e.g. where you went last year, who with, what you did. 

For the unknown questions, keep it short and sweet and fill up any time with opinions and reasoning.

General conversation - 5-7 minutes. 

Lie and make up stories! Be creative and use the words and structures you know.

I was a little extra and I prepared every theme as flashcards. You can’t get away with only revising your chosen theme! 

I made flashcards that could cover several types of questions: I had bullet points of topics and keywords on one side and a sample paragraph on the other. 

Pretty sure I made about 80 flashcards oops.

I also went through the mark scheme and see which areas I could secure marks in and which areas I needed to improve.

VOCAB

Learning vocab is SO important!

I started by making spreadsheets of jumbled word lists from the specification and doing a colour-coded match up. 

You can access a pdf of all of the vocab grids here. There might be the odd word missing due to copy-pasting errors, but if so, don’t stress, just look it up in a dictionary and note it down - sorry in advance!!!

Then with the vocab that I had to look up in a dictionary, I added to a Quizlet and wrestled it into my noggin. 

You can find the Quizlet here.

Remember that:

sauf - except

puisque - since

presque - almost

GRAMMAR

To me, learning tenses was like learning formulae for maths. So find a way to learn rules like that, if it’s easier for you.

e.g. Conditional Tense = subject + (future/conditional stem + imperfect ending)*

*note that future stems are the same as conditional stems.

Know your DRMRSPVANDERTRAMP verbs, and their past participles. These verbs go with ÊTRE and always agree with the subject.

Know your auxiliary and irregular verbs.

MUST KNOW: avoir, être, aller, faire, vouloir

HELPFUL: devoir, pouvoir, vivre, boire, voir, dire, savoir

OTHERS: mettre, prendre, venir, écrire, lire, recevoir

I learnt these by making flashcards, and then brain dumping them on paper over and over again until they stuck - my teacher thought I was insane, madly scribbling away.

Memorise some key structures that can be used in writing and speaking. 

If you want 7+ structures, find them here.

MISC TIPS

Always write notes about improvements and errors in practice papers and mocks.

Find a native french internet friend.

In my opinion, music, movies and TV shows aren’t great for revision. However, if you begin to understand them, they are a great confidence boost.

I highly recommend the Skam France series, which you can find with and without les sous-titres (subtitles) here.

And here’s my french music playlist on Spotify.

MORE ASSISTANCE

I’m happy to offer my assistance to anybody who needs it, pop me a dm or an ask if you think others will find it useful too. 

Here’s some ways I could help:

Finding some resources about a certain topic (videos, worksheets, mindmaps) - I have them all backed up hehe

Sending you some of my past answers

Sending you pdf of my general conversation/irregular verb table flashcards

Marking practice answers

Talking to you in french

Etc. etc.

Thank you for reading! Please reblog to help any others that might find this useful. If any of the links are faulty, please pop me a dm, and I’ll get them sorted asap!! 🥐

-Wil x

[thekimlinenet]

Hello hello, come one come all! It’s time for a new application process!

This time we’re looking to expand our admin team! We’ll be opening applications for the following roles:

Technical

Communications

General Upkeep

Technical

Our technical admin must be adept at tasks such as coding, theme maintenance, discord upkeep, and anything else of that nature that may be necessary. Your main duties will include updating the blog as needed (I.e. making changes to the members page) and making sure our discord server is running smoothly. You’ll also get the main privileges all admins get which is access to the blog, rights to answer dms and asks, and moderate discussion between members.

Communications

Our communications admin will be responsible for keeping a top eye on all of our chats and making sure all members are abiding by the chat rules set. You’ll also be first to be called on for moderation should a member use the chat safe word and be responsible for resolving that issue. On top of this you’ll be responsible before other admins for checking the blog regularly to make sure any asks or messages we get are being answered promptly and any relevant information is being passed on to the rest of the admin team.

Queueing Mod

As our queueing mod, your job is as simple as it sounds. Make sure the queue runs smoothly and consistently. This role may be more time consuming in that you’d be responsible for making sure everything is tagged fully and accurately, especially fics which need to be read to properly tag for content and warnings. You’ll also get the main privileges all admins get which is access to the blog, rights to answer dms and asks, and moderate discussion between members.

Please, if you’re at all interested in any of these positions, apply and don’t be afraid to reach out if you have any further questions! This application will stay up until all roles have been filled.

Experience is appreciated but not necessary!

Apply here!

[newscitygroup]

The Revolt of the Poor

In the folklore created by commercialism to calm the masses or The Revolt of the Poor, the misconception of copyright stands apart.

It goes like this: if the rights to copyright were not specified and implemented, business owners would not have actually handled the dangers related to publishing books, taping records, and preparing multimedia items.

As a result, imaginative individuals will have suffered since they will have discovered no chance to make their works available to the general public. Eventually, it is the general public that pays the cost of piracy, goes the refrain.

However, this is factually false. In the U.S.A. there is a really minimal group of authors who really live by their pen. Just choose artists to eke out a living from their loud occupation (the majority of the rock stars who own their labels – George Michael needed to battle Sony to do simply that) and really a couple of stars come close to obtaining subsistence-level earnings from their occupation.

All these can no longer be considered a lot of innovative individuals. Required to protect their copyright rights and the interests of Big Money, Madonna, Michael Jackson, Schwarzenegger, and Grisham are business owners a minimum of as much as they are artists.

Financially and reasonably, we need to anticipate that the more expensive artwork is to produce and the narrower its market – the more highlighted its copyright rights.

Think about a publishing house.

A book that costs 50,000 DM to produce with a prospective audience of 1000 buyers (specific scholastic texts resemble this) – would need to be priced at a minimum of 100 DM to recover just the direct expenses.

If unlawfully copied (therefore diminishing the possible market as some individuals will choose to purchase the more affordable unlawful copies) – its cost would need to go up excessively to recover expenses, therefore eliminating possible purchasers.

If a book costs 10,000 DM to produce and is priced at 20 DM a copy with a prospective readership of 1,000,000 readers, the story is various. Piracy (unlawful copying) should, in this case, be quicker endured as a minimal phenomenon.

This is the theory. However, the truths are tellingly various. The less the expense of production (reduced by digital innovations) – the fiercer the fight versus piracy. The larger the marketplace – the more pressure is applied to clamp down on samizdat business owners.

Federal governments, from China to Macedonia, are presenting copyright laws (under pressure from abundant world nations) and imposing them belatedly. However, where one factory is closed onshore (as has actually held true in mainland China) – 2 grow overseas (as holds true in Hong Kong and in Bulgaria).

Yet this defies reasoning: the marketplace today is international, the expenses of production are lower (with the exception of the music and movie markets), the marketing channels more various (half of the earnings of movie studios originates from videocassette sales), the quick recouping of the financial investment essentially ensured.

Furthermore, piracy prospers in extremely bad markets in which the population would anyhow not have actually paid the legal rate. The prohibited item is inferior to the legal copy (it includes no literature, service warranties or assistance). So why should the huge producers, release homes, record business, software application business, and style homes stress?

Copyright is a reasonably brand-new concept.

In the near past, nobody thought about understanding or the fruits of imagination (art, style) as ‘patentable��, or as somebody’s ‘home’. The artist was, however, a simple channel through which magnificent grace streamed. Texts, discoveries, developments, masterpieces, and music, creates – all came from the neighborhood and could be duplicated easily. Real, the picked ones, the channels, were honored however were seldom economically rewarded.

They were commissioned to produce their masterpieces and were employed, in many cases. Just with the development of the Industrial Transformation were the embryonic precursors of copyright presented however they were still restricted to commercial styles and procedures, generally as ingrained in equipment.

The patent was born.

The more huge the marketplace, the more advanced the sales and marketing strategies, the larger the monetary stakes – the bigger loomed the concern of copyright.

It spread out from equipment to styles, procedures, books, papers, any printed matter, masterpieces and music, movies (which, at their start were ruled out art), software application, software application embedded in hardware, procedures, service techniques, and even unto hereditary product.

Copyright rights – in spite of their honorable title – are less about the intelligence and more about the home. This is Big Cash: the marketplaces in copyright exceed the overall commercial production on the planet.

The goal is to protect a monopoly on a particular work. This is a specifically serious matter in scholastic publishing where small-circulation publications do not enable their material to be priced quote or released even for non-commercial functions. The monopolists of understanding and intellectual items can not permit competitors throughout the world – since theirs is a world market. A pirate in Skopje remains in direct competitors with Expense Gates.

When he offers a pirated Microsoft item – he is denying Microsoft not just of its earnings, however, if a customer (= future earnings), of its monopolistic status (low-cost copies can be smuggled into other markets), and of its competition-deterring image (a significant monopoly protecting property).

This is a risk that Microsoft can not endure. Thus its efforts to remove piracy – effective in China and an utter failure in legally-relaxed Russia.

However, what Microsoft stops working to comprehend is that the issue lies with its rates policy – not with the pirates. When confronted with a worldwide market, a business can embrace one of two policies: either to change the rate of its items to a world average of buying power – or to utilize discretionary differential rates (as a pharmaceutical business is required to do in Brazil and South Africa).

A Macedonian with typical month-to-month earnings of 160 USD plainly can not pay for to purchase the Encyclopaedia Encarta Deluxe. In America, 50 USD is the earnings produced in 4 hours of a typical task. In Macedonian terms, for that reason, the Encarta is 20 times more costly. Either the cost ought to be decreased in the Macedonian market – or a typical world cost must be repaired which will show a typical international buying power.

Something needs to be done about it, not just from the financial perspective. Intellectual items are extremely flexible and really price-sensitive. Lower rates will be more than made up for by a much greater sales volume. There is no other method to discuss the pirate markets: seemingly, at the ideal cost, a lot of individuals want to purchase these items. High costs are an implicit compromise preferring little, elite, choose, abundant world clients.

This raises an ethical problem: are the kids of Macedonia less worthwhile of education and access to the most recent in human understanding and development?

A couple of advancements threaten the future of copyright rights.

One is the Web. Academics, fed up with the monopolistic practices of expert publications – currently released online in huge numbers. I released a couple of books on the Internet and they can be easily downloaded by anybody who has a modem or a computer system. The complete text of electronic publications, trade journals, signboards, expert publications, and countless books is offered online. Hackers even made websites readily available from which it is possible to download entire software applications and multimedia items.

It is low-cost and really simple to release on the Internet, the barriers to entry are essentially nil. Websites are hosted free of charge, and authoring and publishing software application tools are integrated into a lot of word processing programs and web browser applications. As the Web gets more outstanding noise and video abilities it will continue to threaten the monopoly of the record business, the movie studios and so on.

2nd advancement is likewise technological. Oft-vindicated Moore’s law forecasts the doubling of computer system memory capability every 18 months. However, memory is only one element of calculating power. Another is the fast synchronized bear down all technological fronts.

Miniaturization and concurrent empowerment by software application tools have actually made it possible for people to replicate much bigger scale companies effectively. A bachelor, sitting at home with 5000 USD worth of devices can totally take on the very best items of the very best printing homes anywhere. CD-ROMs can be composed on, marked and copied in your home.

A total music studio with the most recent in digital innovation has actually been condensed to the measurements of a single chip. This will result in individual publishing, individual music recording, and the digitization of plastic art.

This is only one side of the story regarding The Revolt of the Poor

The relative benefit of the copyright corporation does not consist solely in its technological expertise. Rather it depends on its huge swimming pool of capital, its marketing influence, market positioning, sales company, and circulation network.

Nowadays, anybody can print an aesthetically outstanding book, utilizing those low-cost devices. However, in an age of details excess, it is the marketing, the media project, the circulation, and the sales that identify the financial result.

This benefit is likewise being deteriorated.

Initially, there is a mental shift, a response to the commercialization of intelligence and spirit. Innovative individuals are driven away by what they consider an oligarchic facility of institutionalized, lowest common denominator art and they are resisting.

Second of all, the Web is a substantial (200 million individuals), a really cosmopolitan market, with its own marketing channels easily readily available to all. Even by default, with a minimum financial investment, the possibility of being seen by remarkably great deals of customers is high.

I released one book the standard method – and another on the Internet. In 50 months, I have actually gotten 6500 written reactions concerning my electronic book. Well over 500,000 individuals read it (my Link Exchange meter signed up c. 2,000,000 impressions because of November 1998). It is a book (in psychopathology) – and 500,000 readers is a lot for this type of publication. I am so pleased that I am unsure that I will ever think about a conventional publisher once again. Certainly, my last book was released in the very same method.

The death of copyright has actually recently ended up being perfectly clear. The old copyright markets are combating tooth and nail to maintain their monopolies (patents, hallmarks, copyright) and their expense benefits in production and marketing.

However, they are confronted with 3 inexorable procedures which are most likely to render their efforts vain:

The Paper Product packaging

Print papers provide a package of low-cost material funded by marketing. To put it simply, the marketers spend on material development and generation and the reader has no choice however be exposed to spot announcements as she or he studies the material.

This design – embraced earlier by radio and tv – guidelines the web now and will rule the cordless web in the future. The material will be provided devoid of all budgeting charges. The customer will pay by supplying his individual information (market information, usage patterns, and choices and so on) and by being exposed to marketing. Subscription-based designs are bound to stop working.

Hence, content developers will benefit just by sharing in the marketing cake. They will discover it progressively tough to carry out the old designs of royalties spent to gain access to or of ownership of copyright.

Disintermediation

A great deal of ink has actually been spilled concerning this essential pattern. The elimination of layers of brokering and intermediation – generally on the production and marketing levels – is a historical advancement (though the extension of a long term pattern).

Think about music for example. Streaming audio on the internet or downloadable MP3 files will render the CD outdated. The web likewise supplies a location for the marketing of specific niche items and lowers the barriers to entry formerly enforced by the requirement to participate in expensive marketing (” branding”) projects and making activities.

This pattern is likewise most likely to bring back the balance in between the artist and the business exploiters of his item. The real meaning of “artist” will broaden to consist of all imaginative individuals. One will look for to differentiate oneself, to “brand name” oneself and to auction off one’s services, concepts, items, styles, experience, and so on. When craftsmen ruled the financial scene, this is a return to pre-industrial times. Work stability will work and disappear movement will increase in a landscape of moving obligations, headhunting, remote cooperation, and comparable labor market patterns.

Market Fragmentation

In a fragmented market with a myriad of equally special market-specific niches, customer choices, and marketing and sales channels – economies of scale in production and circulation are useless. Narrowcasting changes broadcasting, mass modification changes mass production, a network of moving associations changes the stiff owned-branch system. The decentralized, intrapreneurship-based corporation is a late reaction to these patterns.

The mega-corporation of the future and The Revolt of the Poor is most likely to function as a cumulative of start-ups than as a uniform, consistent (and, to conspiracy theorists, ominous) juggernaut it once was.

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Neomatch is live!

Neomatch is a “dating site” made for the purpose of pairing the neotag’s lonely neopet OCs together with the intention of finding them friends, and maybe a little something more :)

Like all fun things, NeoMatch has some guidelines we would like you to read before submitting apps to help clear up any confusion or concerns! Please click to read more about this project and learn how you can be part of it.

Guidelines

Neomatch is intended to be a fun, community building activity and resource for people in the neopets fandom who would like to incorporate other’s neopet OCs into their stories/character development and need somewhere to start. We want to keep this site as drama free as possible and ask everyone to abide by the following rules:

Neomatch is purely for fun and not meant to be taken too seriously, so please refrain from starting conflict if your neopet does not find a partner or is turned down by the partner you wanted for them. This site is for making friends, not enemies! 

We ask everyone to respect the boundaries of the other individuals associated with this site. That means that if someone isn’t looking for romance for their pet, don’t ask! If they don’t want to RP or have ship art drawn of their pet then please be sure to respect that. What this also means is, regardless of the pet’s sexuality, if the user has stated they are only looking for a specific gender of partner for their pet, please abide to that as well. (I.E. someone’s OC is bisexual but only interested in girls, don’t pursue them with your male OC! Neopets can have preferences, too)

The minimum OC age to use this service is 16, and RELATIONSHIPS BETWEEN UNDERAGE OCS AND ADULT OCS ARE NOT ALLOWED!!!! We have created tags with the purpose to seperate the adults from the teens, but while searching through other tags on our blog PLEASE keep an eye out for which OCs are “neominors” and “neoadults” respectively. The only exception to this is the “2 year age gap” rule which basically means that if your OC is 16, the oldest OC they can date is 18. If your pet is 17, the oldest OC they can date is 19. Please be mindful of this rule regardless of what your opinion is of age gaps irl. Anyone found to be purposely breaking this rule will be removed and blocked from Neomatch and will not be allowed to participate in events related to it.

Contact us ASAP if you receive any form of harassment from someone related to using this service. This includes disrespecting pre-established boundaries (unsolicited RP/ship art), pressuring or giulting someone into having your OCs date/be friends, and anything related to shipping minors/adult OCs together (that breaks the 2 year age gap rule). Anyone who is found to be breaking the rules will either be given a warning or be blocked and banned from using the service (depending on the severity of the situation). 

Now that is over with, let’s get to the fun part!

1. Making your Application

Below are examples of the templates available to you at this time, the first one is the Neomatch Application which is required to fill out in order to use this service.

Here’s a beautifully illustrated and completed version of the template made by Zji:

Here is where you can download the template yourself! The folder includes a Visual Guide, a blank PNG, and a blank PSD.

The second template is the Neomatch Profile which is completely optional!

Here’s Zji’s version of the profile:

Here is where you can download the blank version of the profile, as well as the visual guide +PSD! This template is easiest to fill out in Photoshop, but if you don’t have Photoshop you can add text to the blank profile in another art program like Paint. If you want to add emojis to your profile but don’t have them on your computer, I would type up the bio on tumblr mobile, save as a draft, screenshot it, then paste into the profile :)

Here is a brief rundown of what is OK and not ok to do when filling out the templates:

Feel free to

change the color of the background, text boxes, and font as you wish (as long as you can still read it)

add multiple pictures into picture box

use a different font to fill out the form

Please refrain from

Changing the color of the header/footer (This is fine on the Profile, but we want to keep the grey top and bottom on the Application)

Removing or editing the Neomatch logo

Leaving info boxes blank (except for the “Other” box) 

Filling out the form illegibly (if you really want to write in the info yourself just make sure other people can read it)

Using images you don’t have permission to use as the profile picture

If you have any problems filling out the form or have questions for us related to it, please send us an ask or DM and we will help you ASAP.

Here is where you can see some more of Zji’s apps/profiles if you want to see more examples.

2. Submitting your application

If you go to the Submit page you will see we have a few more rules and stuff to follow just to help keep stuff organized. I will briefly address them here as well as some other things 

We prefer at this time if you don’t post your applications to tumblr on your main blog/other blogs. You are absolutely welcome to reblog submissions from us, but we would like to keep everything in one place and don’t want to clutter people’s feed’s with the same picture over and over again.

You can submit as many apps as you want, but if we receive a lot of submissions at once we may put them into a queue to try to space out the posts.

It’s very important to use that you tag your submission correctly to save us a little bit of time when uploading them, we can’t tag them for you because we aren’t at liberty to assume what your OC is looking for

If your application or something related to your submission is incorrect we will send you a message and explain how you can fix it

If you have any questions or are confused about the submission process please shoot us an ask and we will try our best to help you

It is also required to fill out the following form in the description of your submission to be accepted:

Contact: (your blog[s] here) Is it OK to draw your OC interacting with other OCs platonically?: (yes/no/ask first) Is it OK for Neomatch to send you “Matches’ via DM with similar characters your OC may be compatible with, or would you like to look by yourself?: (yes or no) [BE SURE TO HAVE YOUR DMS OPEN IF YOU SAY YES OR ELSE YOU WONT GET MATCHES FROM US] If you marked “No” above, is it still okay for us to match your OC with other’s OCs? (you won’t get a DM from us but someone might DM you): (yes/no) Other important info: (maybe include a bit of your character’s backstory & if you are looking for characters to add to your story, etc? or anything else at all you would like to include)

3. Receiving Neomatches

We intend on providing a little matchmaker service to those who opt into it, what it consists of is the admins of this blog helping you find friends/romance for your OC by taking mutual interests, location, age, and so on into consideration and pairing your OC with someone else’s based off of that. These “Neomatches” will be DMed to you privately (SO KEEP YOUR DMs OPEN) and it’s completely up to you on whether or not you’d like to pursue it or not. The message will consist of something like “_____ has a new match!” and we’ll DM you the profile of the other OC. If you find this service annoying or are not interested in using it you can let us know and we will stop sending them to you :)

I think that basically covers the jist of it, so keep an eye out for future updates and announcements! Feel free to send us an ask here if you have any questions or concerns related to using this service! We hope you all have as much fun with this as we will!

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Top Story Sharing Apps in india 2021

Facebook

Monthly lively customers: 2.eight billion

Facebook isn't always the world’s biggest social network, it’s additionally the maximum advanced channel for natural and paid social advertising and marketing. 18.2% of adults withinside the US made a buy via Facebook ultimate year.

People use Facebook to hold up with friends, family, and information through the use of numerous kinds of shared content material (the entirety from written updates to stay video and ephemeral Facebook Stories.)

Brands who preserve a presence at the platform may use natural content material for logo awareness, and/or dating nurturing via social customer support. Marketers also can faucet Facebook’s person statistics to attain new clients with applicable advertising.

Most these days, Facebook is prioritizing e-trade purchasing through Facebook Shops.

YouTube

Monthly lively customers: 2.29 billion

YouTube isn’t constantly considered as one of the world’s social media apps. You ought to simply as without difficulty name it a video platform, or the world’s second-biggest seek engine.

For hooked up manufacturers with large-gun advertising and marketing agencies, YouTube commercials jogging earlier than or withinside the center of authentic movies aren’t a massive stretch from what you’d run on TV. Meanwhile, for manufacturers constructing their very own youTube channel with the aid of posting authentic movies, it’s essential to play high-quality with the YouTube algorithm, which takes a few aggregates of skill, method, budget, and luck. But there may be capacity pay-off there, too: 70% of visitors have sold from a logo after seeing it on YouTube.

In short, due to the fact YouTube is video (typically long-shape video) the barrier to access is a touch bit better for DIY entrepreneurs, who will gain from time, money, and talent (or ideally all three).

Learn approximately what it takes to be triumphant on YouTube in our intro to YouTube advertising and marketing.

 Meest 

Meest is a new app but it is a perfect combination of all social media apps. From sharing stories to chat and even video editing & shooting, you can do it all in this app.

 Show your creativity with short and entertaining videos.Use the creative tools to bring your innovative ideas to your videos.Make the best use of music and sounds in your funny videos.You can use amazing filters to make your videos more interesting and attractive. Meest has an in-built editor so that you dont have to worry about using any other external app for editing your videos.

Now download the app from play store/ App store.

 WhatsApp

Monthly lively customers: 2.zero billion

 WhatsApp is the #three social app at the listing with the aid of using a person base, however it’s the number 1 messaging app withinside the world. In fact, it turned into these days voted to be the world’s favored social media app (even though the survey excluded customers in China.)

 April 2021 favored social media platforms

Source: Digital 2021 April Global Statshot Report

 This is probably information to quite a few North Americans, however WhatsApp is one of the world’s important social media apps.

 Facebook bought WhatsApp in 2014 for $19 billion, and it has remained, greater or less, a straight-up messaging and calling app. (And ad-free, not like Facebook Messenger.)

 Every day, one hundred seventy five million customers in one hundred eighty nations message one of the 50 million corporations on WhatsApp.

 For the ones corporations, WhatsApp’s maximum attractive capabilities consist of streamlining customer support conversations and showcasing merchandise in a catalog (basically a virtual storefront comparable to Facebook Shop, even though customers have to nevertheless depart the app to make purchases).

 However, Facebook these days introduced that manufacturers the use of WhatsApp Business App might be capable of greater without difficulty creating Facebook and Instagram commercials that permit customers to “click on to WhatsApp” for you to provoke conversations at the app.

For manufacturers whose clients are already at the app, the use of WhatsApp for enterprise may also nicely make sense.

Facebook Messenger

Monthly lively customers: 1.three billion

Next up is Messenger: the alternative personal messaging app owned with the aid of using Facebook. Part of Facebook’s ongoing method to prioritize personal messaging, Facebook Messenger differs in some key methods from WhatsApp: it doesn’t provide cease-to-cease encryption to customers

it does serve a lot of commercials (consisting of subsidized messages, inbox commercials, etc.)

it additionally hyperlinks all of a person’s contacts from each Instagram and Facebook.

In 2019, a Facebook ballot discovered that 64% of humans count on if you want to message manufacturers for customer support.

 Messenger capabilities like computerized replies, greetings and away messages can assist make client relationships greater efficient. For a few manufacturers, a greater complex proposition like constructing a Facebook Messenger bot makes sense.

 Here’s our complete manual to Facebook Messenger for manufacturers.

 Pro Tip: Given the type of messaging apps out there, compiling all of your cross-platform DMs and remarks into one inbox is helpful (take, for instance, Hootsuite Inbox.)

Instagram

Monthly lively customers: 1.22 billion

Rounding out the pinnacle 5 social media web sites with the aid of using populace is any other Facebook property: Instagram.

 Formerly a humble photo-sharing app, during the last few years Instagram has turned out to be one of the world’s most essential social media apps with reference to social trade. Alongside astrology memes and latte artwork, Instagram’s turn out to be a digital purchasing mall, with a plethora of capabilities designed to assist corporations promote merchandise—ideally stunning ones.

 While the significance of a cultured feed has shifted with the upward thrust of ephemeral, stay, and video content material (a.k.a. Stories, Reels, Instagram Live, and IGTV), manufacturers ought to hold in their minds that a robust visible identification is constantly key on Instagram.

Consumer manufacturers specially ought to be aware of Instagram for its shoppable posts and Stories, in addition to its effective back-cease for focused commercials.

The platform needs as much artwork as science, so begin with our step-with the aid of using-step manual to Instagram advertising and marketing here.

LinkedIn

Members: 756 million

First, allow us to notice that LinkedIn hasn’t suggested month-to-month or each day lively customers (simply the quantity of accounts—a probably massively extraordinary quantity) given that Microsoft sold it in 2016. So even as it’s indexed at quantity 7, in reality, its lively person numbers could be lots toward the lowest of this listing.

That said, LinkedIn has been a piece of a darkish horse social platform for a few years. It has a growing reputation as customers and types have found out that the most effective social media web website online devoted to experts is greater than only a process board.

More than 1/2 of entrepreneurs say they’re making plans to apply to LinkedIn in 2021.

For manufacturers with an expert audience—specially B2B entrepreneurs targeted on lead generation—a LinkedIn advertising and marketing method is key.

Organic content material, consisting of LinkedIn Live and the platform’s new product pages, is more and more large on LinkedIn, with 96% of B2B entrepreneurs reporting that they use those capabilities. Likewise, 80% of documents use LinkedIn commercials, which consist of subsidized direct messages.

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The best way Forward for File Management

Experiments rendered on document management reveal that its part is continually escalating. The large problem is: Exactly where this can lead to?

Document management often takes place as a way of reducing pre-printed forms; and then grows directly into one of the main hassles for a organization to give focus on in an effort to improve business work productivity and competition. Learn about DMS Document Management System and much more related to Document Management System Software.

Quite simply, it generally does not just focus on making and storing documents any further. This is slowly becoming an integral feature in procedures that aim to enrich business flows. This technique of applying document administration just isn't innovative, but it comes with vital innovations and reveals an extensive future with a wide range of options, in the shorter and long-term.

Economic commitment in file management

According to the recent reports, managing document is playing an really vital role running a business operations. In fact, according to a present analysis by Forbes, about 60% of IT executives are investing in document management endeavors, which definitely demonstrate all of the prospects that document management offers.

Are you aware why companies pay for document management computing devices and instruments continue expanding their particular storage volumes while suppliers are trying to hold their size within limitations? Still, as new digital systems and file choices are being introduced, managing document that moves beyond personal PCs and devices has turned an essential concern for any organization, no matter its size.

Where managing document may bring about: Experiments show that, in the year 2014, 68% of enterprises are using an expanding amount of storing devices. This enhances 2 important challenges in managing document: rapid and efficient content and mobility.

Consequently, numerous document management systems focus on presenting sophisticated search software that allows customers to carry-out descriptive inquiries and obtain end results promptly and proficiently. Alternatively, all signs suggest that soon, document management software applications agencies will concentrate their plans on developing benefits connected with content management on wireless instruments, for both personal for commercial use.

We can't talk about mobility, without referencing a frequent trend in document management: cloud storing of business records. Except for various other obvious pros, these new technologies facilitate employees located anywhere on the globe to become listed on others and work together on the very same documents simultaneously.

The job a little while ago was felt impossible isn't right now. Not surprisingly, defenders of document management software have consistently stated that eventually, the (nearly) paper-less office, where electronic and digital documents change-out papers documents, would turn into a real truth.

An illustration we all know will be found in delivery facilities. It sounds that only conventional paper, they're still using are the designer stickers which they placed on the envelopes and packages (which, by the way, could easily be substituted by imprinted barcodes). Clients don't sign shipment notes any longer, but only verify receipt with the unrecognizable indicationature on a tablet or similar product. A shipping is conveniently registered in the firm's office at home plus the process terminates.

I had no clue of when printed papers will definitely disappear, merely because it appears that we're wasting even more conventional paper as compared to saving. Yet, that is obvious that in the mean time, print concepts are significant. Mobile users wish to print records whilst on the way; and since there're Wi-Fi networks all around us. Why simply not also establish printing web sites, where documents transmitted on the internet are printed? We may exclusively visit the related locale and grab your printed docs there. Payments would be achieved automatically and on the web, needlessly to say.

An alternative choice for conserving and reusing pieces of paper involves assigning expiration dates to printed documents and making the ink on such printed records to fade away after an expiry date. Clearly, legal ordinances might oblige the expiration date to be allocated automatically to each page of the printed document. This all can look very innovative, but you can find many guidelines that sounded improbable to numerous people and non-etheless, have turned a good reality.

OCR (Optical character Recognition) is really a second science to be thought about. There were important developments in OCR methods, including more sensible presentation of content and programmed document retrieval and classification tasks. That is only 1 out of many document concepts that link up the document management operation work flow with some other business operations.

Then in addition there are docs which are internally maintained in XML format. This sort of files might allow for Meta data access and semantically considered details; consequently facilitating the classification and electronic comprehending of the info, whilst spreading data search features which aren't limited to key phrases.

Yet another example of what the prospective of document management could have in store is intelligent document management. With this sort of software program, any improvements made on a document inevitably start related functions, triggering another process flow in line with the kind of alteration that was implemented. Intelligent documents would also be able to automatically look for related links on the World-wide-web or up-date their content in line with specifications. Inside industry of document management, this might be highly automatic update engineering.

Plus there is document safety. This subject can-not be abandoned, becomecause it also has to be adapted towards latest ways whereby people and gadgets communicate with information. Electronic digital records can formerly be secured, but we'd also get a way to transport a personalized document around in imprinted format. For example, in the event the content of the record is compressed and it will be legible solely if it is examined using content decryption application.

The Near Future of File Management is Appealing

There's really without doubt that document management has a vibrant future; and that it contains an enormous amount of potentialities. It looks that almost all IT officers have formerly grasped its usefulness, being that they are investing in a number of endeavours associated with document management.

On the other side, the near future of mobility isn't clear. For the moment, it really is an increasing tendency that's promptly turning in-to a must have for some companies. Tablet computers and smart-phones will be the future; thus companies must take advantage of mobile technologies and ways of prevent staying behind.

A combination and interrelation amongst the Internet, document management software package and many other internal business purposes is creating very convenient prospects for all those, like me, who never have even begun to scratch the surface of prospects. This might undoubtedly showcase business activities around levels that currently are unbelievable.

Commonly, we still look at a document as dead piece of paper. Consequently, we oftentimes neglect to remember that document management computer software because well as the records it creates are the heart, the core of our business and that its impact and outcomes reach every last portion of our corporation.

On the earlier handful of years, document management scientific knowledge has evolved at a wild pace; and estimations report that it will carry-on to do so inside the future years. Unperformubtedly, it will likely be quite interesting to use on the potential of document administration; and how it develops alongside various other ever-evolving methods.

One thing is obvious: we should enable our vwill beualization run free, merely because many document management concepts that felt completely hopeless just a couple of years previously, have turned into a reality or have even reviewed and above reality, at the moment.

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Populating your graph in Amazon Neptune from a relational database using AWS Database Migration Service (DMS) – Part 1: Setting the stage

As enterprises grow and data and performance needs increase, purpose-built databases have become the new way to tackle specific data access patterns. Modeling and querying highly connected datasets on a traditional relational database can be performance intensive, and expressing relational-style queries against these datasets can be challenging. Graph databases like Amazon Neptune provide a new means for storing and querying highly connected datasets quickly and at massive scale. To access the insights in your data using this technology, you first need to model the data as a graph. Often, the data exists across the enterprise in existing relational databases. Converting relational data structures to graph models can be complex and involve constructing and managing custom extract, transform, and load (ETL) pipelines. AWS Database Migration Service (AWS DMS) can manage this process efficiently and repeatably, whether you’re migrating a full application to Neptune or only copying a subset of your relational data for graph-specific use cases. In this four-part series, we cover how to translate a relational data model to a graph data model using a small dataset containing airports and the air routes that connect them. Part one discusses the source data model and the motivation for moving to a graph model. We discuss this for the labeled property graph in part two and for the Resource Description Framework (RDF) data model in part three. In part four, we show how to use AWS DMS to copy data from a relational database to Neptune for both graph data models. Setting the stage Before addressing the mechanics of using AWS DMS to copy data from a relational store to Neptune, it’s important to understand the different data models we use in this post: relational models and graph models. Relational models Relational models store data in a tabular format, in which records are stored as rows with a primary key along with other columns containing additional dimensional data. Relationships between tables are modeled via foreign key relationships, in which the first table holds the primary key uniquely identifying the corresponding row in another table. In a relational database application, these relationships are materialized at query time in the form of joins within SQL queries. Graph models Graph databases model data as a set of vertices that may be connected to other vertices by edges. Vertices typically represent entities like people, places, and things—or for our use case, airports and countries. You can further describe vertices with attributes. Edges define relationships between vertices, like a route between two airports. As with entities, relationships may have additional details that can be modeled. The technique used to model attributes of relationships is different depending on the type of graph model you use. Neptune supports two different graph models: Labeled property graph – Often referred to simply as a property graph, this model is supported via compatibility with the Apache TinkerPop project and the Gremlin traversal language. Resource Description Framework – The World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) recommendation Resource Description Framework model (RDF) is also supported, along with the SPARQL query language. Although many similarities and overlaps exist in the two graph models, there are differences in the approach to modeling and the mechanics of querying the model after it has been created. Selection of the target graph technology depends on your particular use case and the kinds of questions that you want the model to help you answer. Property graph model In a property graph, data is organized as vertices and edges. Each of these have unique IDs and labels, which can be thought of as a type, or class. Vertices model “things” and edges model relationships between those things. Vertices and edges may have properties that further describe them. You can explore property graphs on Neptune using the Gremlin graph traversal language. Traversals make it easy and efficient to find answers to questions such as: What are the air routes from Seattle (SEA) to Wellington (WLG)? What is the minimum number of stops needed to get from Seattle (SEA) to Agra (AGR)? These kinds of questions can be much more difficult to answer using a relational database. RDF model In RDF, data is organized as a series of statements in the form of triples. A triple, as the name implies, consists of three parts: a subject, a predicate, and an object—just like a sentence. We model the subject as an RDF Schema (RDFS) resource represented by a unique identifier called an Internationalized Resource Identifier (IRI). IRIs look very similar to web URLs. Predicates are modeled as RDF properties and are also represented by IRIs. IRIs are often abbreviated with a QName, a shorthand with a standard prefix and local name separated by a colon, such as rdf:type. Unlike the property graph model, a property doesn’t directly hold any attributes. You can use several approaches to model property attributes in an RDF graph. For this post, we show one common option. RDF graphs are queried using SPARQL. You can use RDF graphs to build knowledge graphs that integrate enterprise data across data silos or use external data such as that found in DBpedia, a knowledge graph built from Wikipedia. You can use SPARQL to find insights and build new graphs on the fly. A knowledge graph using our sample dataset can enable us to: Gain insight into a problem space and create new relationships within that space Integrate data across sources to build new knowledge and insight Relational to graph data model translation In this section, we look at how to map our source relational data to each graph model. Migrating a relational data source to Neptune with AWS DMS has several steps. It’s important first to plan the data models and build the mapping files. Relational model In this post, we use a relational database containing airports and the air routes between them as our source data. In non-technical terms, the database contains information like the following: Wellington International Airport is located in New Zealand Wellington International Airport has the IATA location identifier WLG New Zealand has the two-character ISO 3166-1 country code NZ The route from Los Angeles International Airport to Auckland International Airport has a distance of 6,512 miles The following entity relationship diagram shows the six tables that comprise the complete source relational database. For this use case, we migrate a subset of our tables to our graph. We show how to select the data that we use later. We can streamline the migration process by specifying only the tables and columns that we need. The three tables we use are COUNTRY, AIRPORT, and ROUTE. COUNTRY Each row of the COUNTRY table holds the data for a single country. It contains columns with a two-character country code and the official name of the country in English. COUNTRY_ID OFFICIAL_NAME COUNTRY_CODE 3510 Australia AU 3596 India IN 3656 New Zealand NZ 3723 United States US   AIRPORT Each row of the AIRPORT table holds the data for a single, unique airport entry. It contains several columns, including a unique key, the airport’s official name, its IATA airport code, and a foreign key linking to the country where the airport is located. AIRPORT_ID OFFICIAL_NAME COUNTRY_ID AIRPORT_CODE 12 New York John F. Kennedy International Airport 3723 JFK 13 Los Angeles International Airport 3723 LAX 22 Seattle-Tacoma 3723 SEA 63 Auckland International Airport 3656 AKL 65 Wellington International Airport 3656 WLG 69 Mumbai, Chhatrapati Shivaji International Airport 3596 BOM 654 Agra Airport 3596 AGR ROUTE The final table in our relational database is a little different. It’s more like a junction table, holding the origin and destination foreign keys to the AIRPORT table that define an airport-to-airport route together with the route length. FROM_AIRPORT_ID TO_AIRPORT_ID DISTANCE_IN_MILES 22 13 954 13 55 7489 13 57 7922 13 63 6512 55 65 1383 57 65 1608 63 65 298 Summary This series of posts discusses how to translate a relational data model to a graph data model. In this post, we discussed the motivation for moving to a graph model and the tables in our model. In part two, we use these three tables to explore relational to property graph modeling. If you have any questions, comments, or other feedback, share your thoughts on the Amazon Neptune Discussion Forums. About the author Chris Smith is a Principal Solutions Architect on the AWS Database Services Organization Customer Advisory Team focusing on Neptune. He works with customers to solve business problems using Amazon graph technologies. Semantic modeling, knowledge representation, and NLP are subjects of particular interest. https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/database/populating-your-graph-in-amazon-neptune-from-a-relational-database-using-aws-database-migration-service-dms-part-1-setting-the-stage/

[mydigisalon]

How to Use Video Marketing for Salon?

There’s no denying that social media has the power to drive engagement to your business. Different things work on different platforms. But one thing that’s emerging as one of the most, if not the number one, engagement drivers is videos.

As we are going to talk about Hair salons in general, it is a fact that video marketing can help you to get new clients in a salon. Facebook videos, Instagram lives, etc, reels, etc. drive more engagement and purchases than any other media on different platforms.

One of the main reasons why videos work is people don’t have time/don’t want to spend more than 3 seconds on things they are not interested in. The first 3 seconds of a video catches the user’s attention and they engage with the content they like.

You can leverage this engagement to create awareness about your salon, increase ROI, and target potential customers.

But the question is how to build a salon business with the help of video marketing? What tips and tricks will work when advertising to the potential and existing customers?

Below are some strategies to kickstart your video marketing strategy. But before that let’s clear some basics that you need to dive in:

5 Ideas To Kickstart Your Salon Video Marketing Strategy

You do not need to invest in big fancy types of equipment if you don’t want to. Just a smartphone will work, you can create free content in minutes and run mini video campaigns.

To help you unleash your creativity without any hindrances, we have listed 5 salon promotion ideas to use video marketing with your phone and promote your business.

Tutorials And Tips

You are the expert and you might have some tips and tricks up your sleeve. You can share them with your community online via videos. Post them on your Instagram, Facebook profiles, and live videos. You can even invite experts to take part in your LIVE stories so as to increase engagement. Try to make it a weekly or bi-monthly scenario e.g. Tuesday tutorials or Wednesday wisdom.

Product Demos

You might think that people are not interested in product demos. And you might be wrong here, they aren’t the same as tips and tutorials but they have the power to push introductions. You can cement your videos under the following categories:

Product benefits with at least 3 selling points

List of product ingredients: How they work along with their unique benefits

How to use it: do not forget if there is a special application method.

Try to be as transparent as possible when it comes to price and alternatives

If you want to digitize your inventory management, take a look at My Digi salon inventory app.

Live Q&A Sessions

Instead of just putting your thoughts out, try and listen to your users. You might be quite active in DMS or comments sections. However, Live polls and Q&A sessions are a good way to interact with potential customers. You can host live Facebook/ Instagram or Snapchat stories.

For gradual engagement try to post them regularly. Consistency is the answer but the pace is totally up to you. You should add these in your highlights, too. I will help users to find them easily at any given time.

Would you rather? This is a great engagement strategy. You can choose multiple options or plans to engage users. E.g. straight hair or wavy? Long hair or short? Smokey eyes or subtle nude etc.

Customer-Generated Content

Put your customers in front of the camera or behind the post. Before and after treatment posts, competition participation, makeup tutorials, etc. Ask them to take over your stories for a day and engage with your users. You can run competitions and post the winner details and tag them( after taking permission) on your page.

A Must-Read for Salon Owners: 5 Apps for Beauty Salon Owners to Build Online Presence

Short Teasers

For any special events coming up in your salon, you can build video content to create a buzz. For any new line of products, participating in trade shows or conferences, etc. even if you are getting a new person on your team, make a few teasers, and post them.

Apart from engagement, these give an insight into your salon business, brand vision, and how good you are at what you do. All these things in turn will improve your ROI.

Now that the “what to post” part is out of the way, let’s focus on the “how-to” part of salon marketing ideas.

Use the Right Equipment

You need good quality or higher resolution videos. In this tech era, nobody wants grainy videos( unless intentional). We suggest you invest in good quality video cameras and equipment. If you can not buy one then borrow one from a friend or online. There are also a lot of smartphones that can capture good quality videos. Just make sure that you have sufficient memory to store all the footage.

And the most important tip, even if you are using phones, invest in a good tripod to capture still, non-shaky, and different angle videos. It’ll save you a ton of time editing.

What to Shoot

Content is more important than how you shoot it or where you shoot it. There’s no perfect strategy for creating a salon video, just make sure that you add a lot of hairstyling and makeup videos.

That is your work and actions speak louder than words. Make sure that you take your customer’s permission before you start doing it though. Make sure you shoot it from different angles and then compile it all together.

You can check My Digi Salon, a complete salon marketing software to get a better idea and clips to make a killer video. Try adding a short intro or ending, be it voice or video, to introduce your salon. It will help add a personal touch.

Optional: Introduce yourself and your salon with a few sentences. You can do this in front of the camera, or just record your voice to dub over the video.

How to Edit

Depending on the type of laptop you have, you can use the free editing software on both Microsoft and Apple to edit out certain parts, add music, and use frame transition effects if you want to. As these tools are free you can play around as much as you can to get the hang of it. No matter what tool you use, make sure that you keep the original copy of the footage to avoid losing important parts that you can add or remove later. You can even try salon promotion apps to get a better idea and simplify the posting process.

Tip: Make sure you use good music as it can make or break your video. It should go well along with the theme of your video, brand image, and overall ambiance that would appeal to your target audience.

Keep it Short

Want to keep your retention higher? Keep it short. Make sure your videos are not over a minute until it is an in-depth tutorial. Wor on quick tutorials on hairstyling, makeup, and behind the scene videos. Posting these videos on Instagram Reels, IGTV, LIVE, Facebook, Pinterest, etc. Grow your followers as they can help increase engagement and attract potential customers.

Just remember, Trim it down and keep only the best parts of the footage.

Upload it!

Once all this is done and dated, just upload it. Use keywords while posting so that you can reach your target audience. Apart from your website, make sure to promote it on your website, too. You can use My Digi Salon app to keep a tab on your salon online marketing. Just remember, consistency is the key! Keep at it and you’ll reach your goal in no time.

Originally published here: https://www.mydigisalon.com/blog/video-marketing-salon/

[instacaptain]

Instagram Growth tips using Instagram bot (InstaCaptain Bot) || Getting started with InstaCaptain

Instagram Growth tips using Instagram bot (InstaCaptain Bot) || Getting started with InstaCaptain

Instagram! With over 1 billion monthly active users, it’s definitely a popular social media network. It’s not enough for your business to simply be on Instagram. For your account to be worth your time and effort, you need to use it well and engage your followers. Having a larger Instagram following can mean more sales for your business, more views on your blog, and a stronger community for your brand. There are many people grow their Instagram accounts without spending thousands of dollars on ads. One of them is by being consistent. Keeping consistency on Instagram may seem like a daunting task for busy business owners and bloggers, so is there a way to grow Instagram organically on Autopilot ? InstaCaptain. Insta Captain is one of the best tools that helps you to grow your Instagram following and engagement on Autopilot. Whether you want to collect leads for your business, want to increase the sales or just want to be Insta famous, Insta Captain can help you to leverage your Instagram marketing to the next level. With the help of Insta Captain, you can connect with the right target audience which engages with your content because they share the same interest with you or your business. Insta captain helps to promote your Instagram account 24/7. With Insta Captain, now the Instagram community is eager to see your photos and happy to engage with your brand. Insta Captain has many features like auto-scheduling, auto comment, automatic following, automatic messaging to people who follow you back and many more. You can start using Insta captain to grow your Instagram following and engagement with your potential audience in 2 easy steps.

Step 1: Sign Up for InstaCaptain

Go to InstaCaptain.com and create your account. It takes less than a minute to create your Instacaptain account. No Credit card required. We also offer a free trial. You can signup from the top of our home page to access your free trial. After login in you will see a screen like this.

  Step 2: Connect your Instagram account.

Click on the Add account to add your Instagram account. Now enter your Instagram username and password and click on the Add account.

Your account will be added successfully and ready to use!

Proxy Ip for Instagram Bot

A proxy server/ip, as you might know as "proxy" or "application-level gateway", is a computer that acts as a gateway between a local network (for example, all the computers at one company or in one building) and a larger-scale network such as the internet. Proxy servers provide increased performance and security. There is an option to input proxy. We provide dedicated proxies to each of our paid members. Alternatively you can even input your own. We recommend that you use a proxy since it helps you keep your account safe. Once you are done with the sign up process, you can start using InstaCaptain for various functions like adding a post, scheduling posts to the calendar, adding captions related to your niche and much more!

Features offered by InstaCaptain :

Schedule Posting Auto Comment Auto Direct (Sending automated messages according to your targeting) Auto Follow Auto Like Auto Repost Auto Unfollow Auto Direct message to the new followers. Story Views Let us get into how these features work and how you can use them to grow your Instagram account or target Influencers to to grow your business.

1. Schedule Posting (Calendar)

As the name suggests, this feature allows the users to schedule their post In Calendar option users can choose the date of posting and add as many posts they like. The time of posting can also be chosen once a date has been chosen.

There is an option even to pick your photos from the cloud so you know that your photos are at one place with us. This saves a lot of time and hassle. This option is only available for Pro and Premium membership packs.

  2. Auto comment

With the help of auto comment feature, InstaCaptain comments automatically on an Instagram post without you having to do it manually. You can write up a comment you want to post and then target the places you want your comment to be. You can target accounts by using hashtags, places or you can directly target the audience of Influencers in your niche with the help of our filtering features. For e.g if you want to target Instagram Influencers who have no less than 10k followers and less than 100 people in their following, you can choose that from the options. Profiles with a high ratio of followers(for e.g 10:1) to following have more engaging audience hence we recommend that if you set the targeting accordingly. Select the gender to both if you want to target both male and female. You can skip following private profiles or profiles with no profile pictures, can also skip business profiles if you want to.

    Now click on the "comments" button and add your comment here. With the help of activity log", you can see the recent actions taken from your account.

3. Auto direct

Auto direct features allow you to directly message people who are posting related to your niche so that you can directly reach their Instagram inbox. You can target people according to #hashtags,places and places.   Just type the hashtags of your niche, set the speed which you want to choose, turn the status to active and click save. Now click on the "messages" button and type the message that you want to send to the user. As soon as someone will post related to your hashtags, an automatic message will be sent to his Instagram account. Here the filters are the same as Auto comment as explained above.

4. Auto-follow

Our Auto-Follow feature follows targeted users automatically With the help of auto-follow, you can search for Instagram users in your niche and Insta Captain will help you to follow them automatically to get their attention. Search for hashtags related to your niche and put the status to "Active" You can also stop activity every day for the time you select. At last, click save to activate this feature! Here the filters are the same as Auto comment as explained above.

5. Auto like

Like photos of your targeted audience automatically One of the most powerful features of Insta Captain is the auto like functionality. You can search for quality images related to your niche on Instagram and automatically like them. Search the images using hashtags and places put the status to active, click save and you are ready to go.

6. Auto repost

- repost images related to your niche. Auto repost feature allows you to posts other profile images in your feed. This way you can feature other people images in your timeline. Search for influencer related to your niche and you can repost their images on your timeline. You can also target images using hashtags and places. Insta captain has the option to remove images after 15 minutes to 17 hours. Add caption of your own if you want to if or leave it blank if you don't want. Now make the status to "active", click Save. You are all set. Auto unfollow- unfollow people automatically If you want to cut off the Instagram accounts you no longer want to follow you can use this feature. Insta captain helps to keep your following to a decent size by unfollowing other profiles that are not following you back. Simply set the status to active and click save. You can also include users to whitelist if you don't wish to unfollow them. Click on the box below so that way you will unfollow people who are not following you back. Auto DM new followers:- This feature allows you to directly message your new followers. Whenever someone follows your profile, you can reach them directly in their inbox and have a conversation. This is a good way to get more leads and sales for your business. Just click on the message button, type your message in the box and click save. Set the status to active and click save.  

Instagram Bot Limits & Recommendations

We recommend that you do not overdo any of the automation features. Every tool has it's limitations and we are bound by Instagram Anti Spam algorithms. We recommend that you run the automation services only for maximum of around 3 hours combined when you begin at a slow- medium speed, then slowly increase it upto 8 hours and increase the speed in the following weeks. There is pause feature in every module using which you can control the timings for each module. And we recommend you do not exceed a total of 100 requests per day combined from all the automation features. Your actions should not be repetitive . For e.g 100 same comments over the course of 10 hours is a bad idea. Mix it up so it looks like human interaction. Here are the speeds so you can get a better idea on how to manage the speed of your processes. Very Slow 1 Request Per Hour Slow 2 Requests Per Hour Medium 5 Requests Per Hour Fast 10 Requests Per Hour Very Fast 15 Requests Per Hour     Read the full article

[selfcompassion88]

01.07.19

I say this with certainty but I feel happy lately, for obvious reasons. I've been two weeks binge-free, until today but I'm not sure if today was considered binging or simply just freeing myself from counting calories and eating till contentment. I don't feel sick or overly full, just sluggish from the carb overload but I think that's normal. You know what, I'm just going to deem today as NOT a binge day but a free day of eating. I don’t remember the last time I’ve written, possibly early June perhaps but since then so much has happened. I got two jobs, Supre and The Trybe and damn am I so excited for The Trybe. I still can’t believe that I was one of few successful applicants who got hired. It’s crazy how much I underestimated myself. I mean I didn’t think I did horrible but I wasn’t very confident with either. My mindset for both was very ‘go with the flow’, if I get it GREAT and if I don’t, I guess I’ll keep applying. Today I felt incredibly stressed about which job I was going to keep. I’m bored of JB but shifts are flexible and plus it’s such a chill environment and the managers are so supportive. I’ll also miss the crew so much if I left and plus it’s a super easy and comfortable job. For that reason I don’t plan to quit, I know I’ll definitely keep JB so now I have to choose between Supre and The Trybe. So this is my plan, I’ll sign the contract for both, work both and PRAY that the shifts don’t clash and while I’m working both these new jobs, I’ll have to go on leave at JB. Doesn’t sound like the most promising plan but it’s the best one I’ve got. I’ll never know which one I prefer if I don’t try both. I really didn’t think I’d get both offers, that’s what’s so crazy to me. I feel like so many things are going right in my life right now. I got an ongoing volunteer position at Second Chance Animal Rescue and my goodness are the dogs so frickin cute. I feel secure in my friendships and most importantly, I feel content in the way I look and how I’m going about eating and losing weight. I haven’t lost any weight since my let binge day 2 weeks ago but the fact that I’m okay with that and that I’m consistent with continuing to track what I eat, not letting the fact that I haven’t lost any weight get me down is honestly such a HUGE thing for me. Two years ago, I’d wake up, stand on the scales and if the number didn’t drop I’d binge eat, but I haven’t done that in 14 days. As with my appearance, of course I’m not at the point where I fully love the way I look. I wonder if I’ll ever even get to that point? What I mean by ‘feeling content with my looks’ is that I’ve had a number of days where I simply felt pretty and even confident. For a few consecutive nights I’ve started watching videos from Youtubers Thatssoyin and Christine Le. Ever since then I’ve played around with make-up more. I’ve attempted to apply eyeshadow after 2 years, followed their tutorials and enhanced my base make-up application, started using falsies and wearing lipstick and because of all that I feel pretty more often.

 So there’s something else I wanted to get off my chest, something that I’ve been very insecure and embarrassed about feeling but it has to be let out in order for me to move past it. I feel like in the last two months I’ve made such great progress in terms of confidence, happiness, getting to know who I am, not comparing myself to others and loving myself whole-heartedly, but there has been one incidence that has kind of resurfaced that I thought I had already worked on and moved past from. So I have this co-worker who I’ll name A. So A is a year younger than me, really pretty, the hot kind of pretty that turns heads. She’s slim-fit, tanned, strong features, has a constant RBF, and dresses in a body-flattering way. A always tells me how many guys slide into her DMs, ask her for sexual favours, hit on her, add her on social media, try to get with her at social events, etc. I’ve worked with her for a total of 7-8 months now and in that span of time she’s literally introduced about 15-20 guys who she’s dating/dated. Frickinnn give me three years and I’ll only have one interesting guy to talk about, two if I’m lucky. Anyway the topic of her and boys comes up so often that I’m literally like “do we even talk about anything else?”. Don’t get me wrong, our friendship is not completely one-sided, she’s one of the few at work who I’m able to talk about my life with (I guess) which is rare since I never do that with pretty much everyone. I’ve been working at JB for over a year and a half and probably ¾ of the store don’t know anything about me. A boasts so much, so much to the point where I’m starting to slowly resent her for it. Here’s the thing, I don’t know if I’m slowly starting to resent her because I’m slightly jealous or because I’m genuinely sick of it. Part of me knows that I feel insecure when she talks about how many guys want her because I’m not able to relate at all. Like NO (absolutely zero) guys give me attention. If I really had to delve down and figure out why I would say 80% of it is the fact that I’m genuinely so tired of having the same conversations with her. Like yeah a customer thinks you’re hot and wants your number but this has happened about four different times and I know this because you’ve told me so like what’s ya point? I just don’t want to be an insecure, envious teenage girl you know. I thought those days were in the past and that I had outgrown them but I have to remind myself that it’s not jealousy that’s driving our distancing friendship. I’m honestly so exhausted of hyping her up. She sometimes tells me accounts like their nothing. Like if what you just told me happened to me, I would be overjoyed, I don’t get why she just drops what to me is considered exciting news like they don’t mean anything. The other day she casually told me “I have an interview with Rebel Sport”. This was around the time that I was struggling to get a call back for any jobs that I applied for online, not to mention the fact that I applied for that exact same job and didn’t even get a call back. My point is, she just boasts so much, about all these guys that want her, events that are going on in her life, drama with girls that are apparently ‘jealous’ of her, how her dad pays for everything, etc. and it’s getting to a point where I’m like PLEASE STOP TALKING! I feel like the reason why it’s so hard for me to get close to people is because very few want to get to know me. A lot of relationships I’ve formed have been one-sided and it’s honestly so mentally-draining to entertain these kinds of bonds. If everyone would just understand that it’s not that hard to ASK other people questions instead of talk about themselves all day I’d be best friends with literally everybody. It’s as easy as “how have you been?” and “anything new in your life?”. I’m tired of A greeting me and the first thing she says is “I’m mad at [insert the name of the guy she’s seeing here if there even is JUST ONE]” or “my psycho ex-best friend did this”. I’m always gonna care about the stories she has to tell me, it’s in my nature but I’m giving her advice, helping her when she’s down but she just keeps throwing herself in the same position which obviously means that she’s gonna get hurt AGAIN. Do you get why I’m so done with it and the fact that it’s not just jealousy? When I bring up what’s been going on in my life she couldn’t care less and that’s unfair. I told her that I was successful in getting a one-on-one interview with The Trybe and she’s like “congrats!”. I do genuinely think she was happy for me in the moment but she didn’t seem to have any interest in talking about it any further. I remember talking about job interviews and offers with her and she ended up turning it back on herself.  She’s honestly easy to get along with, humourous and kind but shes considerate in unimportant ways like when she offers to get you a coffee. I wouldn’t call her selfish because she isn’t, just more immature I guess. I think to an extent she’s use to things being about her.

 Ok so the next story also includes A but it involves another person too. Let’s call him B (hahaha I’m so original). So B started working at our store about a month before A did. They were both Christmas casuals. Before B started working at the store I remember I felt low-key desperate for JB to hire a cute Asian boy. And weirdly somehow that came true. I remember the first time I met B. it was during semester two’s exam period, I came in with my black hoodie and leggings looking like absolute trash because I had gained weight from stress-eating, I walked in and saw him walk out from the back room with a name tag on before the store opened. Before I could even process the thought that he was cute, I automatically just shook his hand, introduced myself and continued walking. Apparently he started a while ago but we never had any shifts together. I thought he was super cute, cool-looking, he seemed awkward as well and I kinda dug that. Then that day, I went home and stalked him on Instagram and found out that he had a girlfriend. Any plan I had in regards to getting close to him, going out of my way to talk to him and getting to know him was thrown out the window because of that. I mean if he already had a girlfriend, there was no point in crushing on him. From then on (literally only took 24 hours) I only saw him as a co-worker and I told myself that if a friendship was gonna form it would form naturally and have maintained that thought ever since. Anyway B recently broke up with his girlfriend of 3 years. Last Friday I noticed he looked quite sad when he approached me and so I asked him twice if he was okay and if anything was wrong. A was there at the time that I asked him too. As he walked off he told me that he and his girlfriend broke up and I thought he was lying because they seemed so happy together on social media and plus she was his lock-screen. I thought they were really into each other and so why would they randomly choose not to be together? Anyway Friday was a lil cray at JB. At one point in particular I was alone at the counter on the phone with Latitude and the line grew so long, all the customers were angrily watching me wondering why they weren’t being served and some guy even gave me the “WTF!”, impatient hand gesture. I paged for assistance so many times and was wondering why A wasn’t coming out to help me out. 20 minutes later I asked my manager where A was because she was gone for a while, at one point nobody was being served and she wasn’t there to help even though it was HER job to do so. Because she was nowhere to be found I had to deal with backlash from customers and other employees from different departments had to go out of their way to do a job that she was exclusive to. Anyway, after she came back I asked her what happened not in a bossy way just a curious, concerned way because maybe she was on the phone to her parents or she was out of the store. Instead she told me that she was talking to B about his break-up with his girlfriend. I’m not mad about it anymore at all but that night and for a bit the next day I was a bit bitter that she did so. First of all, it’s because of me that she found out that he broke up with his girlfriend in the first place, I don’t think she would have found out directly through him otherwise, and second of all because I wanted to be the one to talk about it with him and to give him any advice when necessary because I recently went through one as well whereas she just strings guys along. B and I have always been so so so awkward whenever we’re alone together. I think because we’re both awkward, alone we just create huge awkward energy. I’m not really close to B personally and so when I found out about the break-up I was thinking that this was my chance to kind of bond with him closely in a platonic way. But A already bet me to it. I heard that she gave him advice and hugged him for it and so now if I ever bring it up with him he’s not going to want to because he already said everything he wanted to say to A. she talked to him during his most vulnerable and so now if I do the same it’ll just seem like I’m prying. Here’s the thing, I know her intentions weren’t bad, if anything they were really noble when she tried to help him. She’s not a bad person for doing so but at the same time I can’t help but be annoyed that she couldn’t just let me have this situation. She has guy 1, guy 2 (who btw also works for us and is cheating on his gf with her), guy 3-to-probably-15 by the sounds of it so I don’t understand why she felt the need to get close to B as well. She bragged about B being able to open up comfortably with her and that she just has this aura where people can talk about their issues with her but she doesn’t realise that I don’t feel like that with her. I always thought that B felt closer to me than A because he found A slightly intimidating but now this will probably bring them closer and he’s only going to want to talk to her at the counter instead of me. She’s also rostered on with him on her next shift which is usually my shift and so any chances I have to talk to him, I’ll have to wait until the week after. It’s petty and silly and I 100% know that this situation has purely arose from jealousy. It’s just frustrating because it’s really hard for me to get close to guys. The one reasonable excuse I have to get close to one who I’m slightly interested in has been taken away from me by someone who practically gets boys at her knees in front of her. I’m not upset about this at all now and I would never hold such a petty situation like this against her, I just wanted to rant about it because it really did annoy me at the time.

 But anyway, so many good things have come my way this past month and so I’m going to stop comparing and dwelling on unimportant things. Tumblr has helped me put so much of my faith into fate and destiny. So if I was to get close to B or to anyone else for that matter it’ll happen regardless of who gets in the way. I believe so much in the saying that everything happens for a reason and if it doesn’t happen it wasn’t meant for you. I guess you could say I’m a bit of a dreamer. But I love where fate has brought me so far and I’m going to continue to cherish this happiness. No matter how good someone else’s life seems this blissful feeling and happy feeling is my own.

[cheekydimplesblog]

This is my #6 product review from the Japanese Designer brand MINISO.

OMG, let me just start by saying that you Cheeky Talkers are completely INSATIABLE when it comes to my reviews on MINISO products. Like seriously fam! I have been getting a ton of requests for reviewing more products from this affordable Japanese DESIGNER brand.

And GUESS what? I will be doing a lot more REVIEWS on Miniso but this can take a time to post them. Because this overall process can be a little over the budget as I am buying all of these products from my own money. None of this Miniso product reviews are sponsored by the brand.

So, enough with all these boring talks now let’s move straight to the detailed review of this essence cream by Miniso, shall we?

Here, is the list of my previous FOUR reviews on MINISO beauty and makeup products:

Beauty Basics 101: Affordable MINISO Facial Cleansing Brush [Review]

MINISO Skincare & Beauty Range Review: With Whitening Blemish Remover Cream

First Impressions + Thoughts on MINISO Lipstick from Queen Collection [Review]

Smell Fresh ALL DAY with Miniso’s Tropical Fruit Deodorant Roll-On [Review]

Reviewing: 1+1 Hydro Makeup Base by MINISO [A Perfect Primer?]

Product Info

Name – Miniso Skin Moisturizing Essence Cream

Price – INR 690 for 1.94 oz./ 55g (Kinda High-end)

Packaging – You know what! Today, I will not extensively talk about how CUTE the packaging of Miniso products is but I will just add a lot of pictures for you to see it yourself. And I have to say, that the tub of this cream is made from solid GLASS and is quite heavy. Also, it can be used as a GREAT decor piece for your vanity, you know! BTW let me know if guys will be interested in seeing some behind the scenes…BTS. 🙂

Texture – Folks, I have not added a swatch test for this MINISO cream like a dis with other products. Because I thought it would be an understand statement for this beauty product. I will be SOON uploading short live videos on my IGTV with swatches, application and other details. My Instagram is @cheekydimplesblog, go check it out.

As you can see in the pictures that I have clicked (SHOUTOUT for my PHOTOGRAPHY skills) the texture is quite floaty and fluffy in my option. For me, it is a GOOD thing as I always wanted to try out a cream of this consistency.

Application – Because it is an ESSENCE cream you can’t just apply it simply out of the blue. This moisturizing cream should be used as a step in your daily skincare routine which can be difficult for some people to follow including ME. So, in simple words just cleanse your face and tone it down with a toner DUH! Once the dead skin is removed using this essence as a moisturizer for your face. You have the choice to use this product in the morning or night routine or even both, it’s up to your skin.

Performance – Now, here’s the main part of this review. I initially had very HIGH expectations from this baby right here. To be honest, I thought this product will be a miraculous one for me BUT I cannot be label it as the BEST of the best yet. When I tried it adding it my nighttime routine, it didn’t do any stuff for me and caused me to breakout.

And this is NORMAL for me everything doesn’t suit me as I have combination skin type. But then after a couple of days, I used it again in my morning routine and it started showing its results slowly but steadily. By applying this Miniso essence you will get a gradual shine to our face and I love it when my face is all DEWY and shiny. The thing that is a little bit concerning to me is the absorption of the cream which can be tricky for some skin types.

Shelf Life – You will EAT this thing up in a couple of MONTHS like me. (Wink!)

Rating – The CheekyDimplesBlog gives it a SOLID 4 out 5 star ratings.

Do I recommend it? – Actually, I do recommend trying out the high-end skincare range of Miniso BUT for me, I think instead of adding them in my night routine the end results are much better by using them in the morning skincare routine.

Also, if you want me to review more products from MINISO just send me a DM or email me or just COMMENT down below.

Thank You So Much For Reading Everyone!!!

P.s. – STAY TUNED and SUBSCRIBE ’cause the next review will be on a MAKEUP product from MINISO. 😉

Review: Miniso Skin Moisturizing Essence Cream [WHITE Edition] This is my #6 product review from the Japanese Designer brand MINISO. OMG, let me just start by saying that you Cheeky Talkers are completely INSATIABLE when it comes to my reviews on MINISO products.

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Chennai Saveetha Medical College Application Form, Entrance Exam Dates, Admission 2018-19

The Chennai Saveetha Medical College was established on 2008. College is an Private which is affiliated with MCI. Here are Contact Details of Chennai Saveetha Medical College, the official website is http://www.saveetha.com/medicine/ and phone number is 044-66726611 , 26801050 . The Facilities available in College are Computer Labs, Sports, Medical, Cafeteria, Library, Auditorium, Hostel, Gym, Laboratory, Classrooms. Official Address of Chennai Saveetha Medical College is

162, Poonamallee High Road

Chennai - 600077

Tamil Nadu , India

.

How to Reach to Chennai Saveetha Medical College Campus The Nearest Bus Stand is Theradi Bus Stop bus stand which is 0.44Km away from Campus.

Saveetha Medical College, Chennai Offers following Courses

Bachelor of Medicine, Bachelor of Surgery (MBBS) => N/A

Master of Science [M.Sc] => ₹ 106,667 per year

Doctorate of Medicine [M.D] => ₹ 513,333 per year

Master of Surgey [M.S.] => ₹ 3,513,333 per year

Ph.D. (Medicine) => N/A

Bachelor of Science [B.Sc] => ₹ 66,667 per year

Bachelor of Science [B.Sc] (Medical) => ₹ 66,667 per year

Doctor of Medicine [MD] (Dermatology) => ₹ 3,513,333 per year

DM => N/A

Master of Chirurgiae [M.Ch] (Vascular Surgery) => N/A

=> ₹ 53,000 per year

Master of Science [M.Sc] + Ph.D. => N/A

Doctorate of Medicine [MD] + Ph.D => N/A

Saveetha Medical College, Chennai Admission 2018

Admissions to some of the courses in Saveetha Medical College, Chennai Like Engineering, Medical, Management and Law in particular, are done through a process which has an online test followed by counseling, which eventually leads to the admission of a student. Admissions are either through online entrance test or are based on qualifying examination marks. Based on this performance, shortlisted Students will be invited to submit a full application on Saveetha Medical College, Chennai online portal. The merit candidates of these will be invited for on-campus interviews. Saveetha Medical College, Chennai Admission 2018 to the others Courses(Arts, Science, computer and Commerce) are done through the merit list, Prepare by the Marks obtain to Previous years Examination. Interested candidates can apply online or offline with the required information.

Saveetha Medical College, Chennai Time Table 2018 Online

Students who are searching for the Saveetha Medical College, Chennai Exam Routine 2018 in various sites on the Internet can look at this article once. In this page, we had mentioned the complete details about the PG UG Degree Time Table for the academic year 2018. Students can check this article until the end and start your preparation for the Semester Examination. The Saveetha Medical College, Chennai conduct the exams in Semester format. Every year the officers conduct the First Semester Examinations in November/ December and the Second Semester Examinations in the April/ May. As usually this year also the authorities of Saveetha Medical College, Chennai plan to conduct the examinations in the same format. For that purpose, the officers already started and completed the first Semester Examination. Now, they plan to release Saveetha Medical College, Chennai Exam Routine 2018for the second Semester Exams. So students need to start your preparation for the Second Semester Examinations now onwards. Students can check the official website of the Saveetha Medical College, Chennai or our web page for knowing the more details about the  Saveetha Medical College, Chennai PG UG Degree Time Table.

Saveetha Medical College, Chennai Admit Card 2018

Saveetha Medical College, Chennai is shortly going to conduct PG and UG Courses final exams. Students who are pursuing Bachelor and Master Degree from Saveetha Medical College, Chennai Can download Saveetha Medical College, Chennai Admit Card and exam roll number from here. However, along with Arts courses Bussiness and other courses like MBBS , MD can be accessed from the same portal that is provided below. Admit Card is a mandatory document from exam perspective. Usually, Candidates are not allowed to appear for exam session if candidate forgets to bring his/ her admit card at the exam centre.

Check Saveetha Medical College, Chennai Result 2018 >>  Click Here   <—-

Click on the link mentioned above or go to official website provided above.

Now click on your course and semester.

Here you’ll click on link consisting your results.

Find your results by using your Roll Number or Name

And here you get your results.

Note: Candidates are advised to take print of their e-marksheet or save them as PDF for future reference.

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Finding or advertising a teaching job on Twitter with #teachingvacancyuk

I have got two of my last three positions by asking on Twitter if anyone wants a traditionalist maths teacher. This hasn’t always worked, but if you have enough followers it might. Generally, however, Twitter is not great for finding employment because while people do tweet adverts or tweet that they are available for work, the tweets are unlikely to be seen by those they want to see them.

What we need is a shared format that can be used by those advertising positions, that can then be easily searched by those looking for positions. I’ve been experimenting with this for a bit and I thought it was time to get this going properly. Some words of warning first.

This idea will only work if a large number of people use it. This means that if it doesn’t work the first time people try it, then people give up, it will fail. If it’s going to work then a good number of people will have to stick with it for a few months, maybe try it for a year. If you are an early adopter, whether that’s an employer or a teacher, you have my warning now, it probably won’t work the first time. Also, we will need to publicise this. Please share this post frequently.

You will need to read the instructions and explanation, rather than copy what you see other people doing. The whole point is to make your job tweets easily found on a search. If you do not get the right search terms, it will not work. “mathematics” and “maths” are the same thing when you read them in a tweet, but employers need to know which one people will be searching for; teachers need to know which one to search for. (It’s “Maths”, by the way).

So here’s how it will work.

Instructions for those advertising vacancies in teaching.

To advertise a teaching job on twitter, use the following format:

#teachingvacancyuk One word description (see below) Region (see below) Link to your vacancy By: Closing date for applications For: Starting date Other details

Here are what all these mean:

#teachingvacancyuk: This is the hashtag people will search for in order to find positions advertised in this format.

One word description: This should be the main feature of the job and is likely to be either the sector (for non subject specialist), the subject (for secondary or FE), or the position (for promoted posts). For consistency pick from this list if possible.

EYFS

Primary

Special

AP/PRU

Art

Biology

Chemistry

Economics

Engineering

English

FoodTechnology

Geography

History

ICT/Computing

MFL

Maths

Music

PhysicalEducation

PSHE/Citizenship

ReligiousEducation

Drama

Physics

Psychology

ProductDesign

ResistantMaterials

SEN

EAL

MediaStudies

Business

SMT

Headteacher

If your position covers more than one of these search terms, don’t worry, use both. If it’s definitely not on the list, tell me. The key thing here is that people will be searching for these terms.

Region: The region should be from this list:

EastMidlands

EastofEngland

London

NorthEast

NorthWest

NorthernIreland

Scotland

SouthEast

SouthWest

WalesNorth

WalesSouth

WestMidlands

YorkshireAndTheHumber

Overseas

Again, these are to help searching, so just pick whichever region sounds most like where you are. You can pick more than one, it doesn’t have to be precise. Whatever is most likely to be searched for by somebody who could work at your school.

Link to your vacancy: This should be the URL for an advert for your position. It may be to a website linked to publication like the TES or Schools Week, or another jobs website, or it may be on your school website.

By: Closing date for applications: This is not going to be searched for, so put it in whatever format gives the key information. “Get in touch by DM for details” would be fine.

For: Starting date: This is not going to be searched for, so put it in whatever format gives the key information. “As soon as possible” would be fine.

Other Details:  This should be anything you think is essential (key stage, type of school, town/city, county/LA, full or part time) but should be as brief as possible and carefully chosen to avoid using words that have any overlap with the words already listed as that will make searching difficult. You are doing two things with the “other” section: encouraging appropriate people to follow the link, and filtering out those who will not be interested. This is what you want people to know before they click the link to your advert. So if you want somebody who can teach A-level, or somebody who can get to Oldham, or China, here’s where it goes.

So here’s (roughly) what it should look like:

#teachingvacancyuk Science WestMidlands Apply now: https://t.co/keGeJxDQ3O By: 26 Jan 2018 For: asap or NQTs September Full time

— Plantsbrook School (@PlantbrkSchool) January 10, 2018

Or:

#teachingvacancyuk Primary WestMidlandshttps://t.co/mxQiwu6xsa 26 Jan 2018 For: April 2018 Trust LA School. Sandwell. Cradley Heath. Traditional & Evidence Based Ethos. 1yr Fixed Term Maternity Cover. http://pic.twitter.com/ywWskLmnQ8

— Craig Westby (@eggegg80) December 14, 2017

Just remember, it is all about being searchable. Use the right format for the one word description and the region and try not to add anything that might be searched for by mistake. And, again, please don’t give up if it doesn’t work the first time. It should work eventually, so please keep trying whenever you have a position to advertise.

Instructions for those seeking vacancies in teaching.

Use the Twitter search function. In one search, search for #teachingvacancyuk, a one word description of the position (see below) and the region (see below).

Pick the one word description of the position from this list:

EYFS

Primary

Special

AP/PRU

Art

Biology

Chemistry

Economics

Engineering

English

FoodTechnology

Geography

History

ICT/Computing

MFL

Maths

Music

PhysicalEducation

PSHE/Citizenship

ReligiousEducation

Drama

Physics

Psychology

ProductDesign

ResistantMaterials

SEN

EAL

MediaStudies

Business

SMT

Headteacher

Pick the region from this list:

EastMidlands

EastofEngland

London

NorthEast

NorthWest

NorthernIreland

Scotland

SouthEast

SouthWest

WalesNorth

WalesSouth

WestMidlands

YorkshireAndTheHumber

Overseas

So for instance, if you are looking for a primary position and you live in Birmingham, type

#teachingvacancyuk Primary WestMidlands

Then choose “latest” rather than “top”.

And you should get this, which is hopefully what you are looking for.

The odds are that you will not find any appropriate positions the first time you try this. Please don’t give up, keep trying.

Instructions for those who want to help.

Please share this blogpost. Not just once, but loads of times. Reblog it, tweet it, rewrite it in your own words if you like and put it on your blog. just get it out there. You have my permission to quote some or all of the text in this blog as long as you are using it to promote the correct use of the hashtag. It will only work if enough people use it.

Another way to promote it would be to search for “#teachingvacancyuk” and share any adverts you think your followers might be interested in. If this helps increase the responses, it will encourage employers to keep using it.

Also feedback is welcome. If you do make suggestions, remember that it is all about being able to search, not being as accurate as possible, but being accurate enough to search and get a result. And, if you see people using the hashtag but not getting the format correct, tell them.

Finally, if you wish to design a website or form for searching or writing adverts in the right format, go ahead, and I will share it. Anything that makes the process easier will be great. Thanks.

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