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Orphaned Bats Teach About Species

South Florida Wildlife Center raises juvenile bats for the first time

  • Three juvenile bats are fed by hand. Antonia Gardner/SFWC

  • One of the orphaned bats relaxes after feeding and cleaning. SFWC

Bats are often the subject of nightmares, but South Florida Wildlife Center (SFWC) seeks to change that by learning from its recent bat patients.

Upon arrival, the Center's three current juvenile Northern Yellow Bats had an average weight of just eight grams—only about one-fourth of one ounce! As is common for many of the orphaned wildlife the Center receives, the bats' parents were killed in a landscaping incident.

Previously, bat patients would have been transferred to another, better equipped, facility for rearing. This time, a generous donors stepped in to underwrite a temporary flight cage built by a skilled volunteer to serve as a home for the young bats before they were transferred to an outdoor enclosure. In the future, an even larger flight cage will allow the Center to provide more space for young bats.

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The Center's three bat patients have now more than doubled in size. However, getting them to that point brought several challenges:

  • Each bat species has its own dietary needs and housing requirements, making it impossible to generalize across species.

  • Feeding is time intensive, as infant bats are fed every two to three hours and have their faces cleaned with a moist cotton swab following each meal.

  • Infant bats do not intuitively know to drink water, and must be taught to do so. Staff attached bowls to the walls of their outdoor enclosure, and then encouraged them to drink by wetting their muzzles in the bowls.

  • Bats take longer to learn how to fly than birds, and since individuals mature at different rates close monitoring is essential to know when it's time for release.

Another great challenge is knowing when to transition the bats from formula to insects, of which a grown bat in the wild can eat thousands a day. Research shows that insect skeletons are critical to the development of the bats' teeth and digestive tracts. Now, in their large outdoor enclosure, the young bats have no shortage of insects to eat. However, until they are fully capable of finding all their food on their own, staff continue to feed them a liquid diet three times a day.

SFWC Veterinarian Antonia Gardner admits that bats, so far, have proven to be the most work-intensive animals to hand-rear. However, she and other staff have networked with other rehabilitators to share knowledge about this important species.

About one-fifth of all mammal species are bats, and they are extremely common in South Florida. Clashes with humans pose a risk to their population, and the impact on the ecosystem of dwindling numbers of bats has yet to be determined. South Florida Wildlife Center hopes to learn more about the role of bats and how to successfully rehabilitate them. As Dr. Gardner emphasizes, "The truth is so important—to find out what we would be losing."

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Lunch Breaks

Upon discovery of an employee NOT taking 20 minute lunch breaks, must the employer retroactively pay the employee? We have an hourly employee who has been taking 15 minute lunch breaks.

The federal Fair Labor Standards Act (FLSA) establishes guidelines for compensable work time.

Under the FLSA, short breaks lasting less than twenty minutes in duration must be compensated.

Meal periods typically lasting thirty minutes serve a different purpose than short breaks and are not time required to be compensated. However, employees must be relieved of all work responsibilities during meal periods. If an employee does any work during his meal period the time must be compensated.

Thus, a non-exempt employee taking only a 15 minute break must be compensated for such time. Since you’re now aware of the issue, it’s your responsibility to appropriately compensate the employee for his past time worked. Not doing so constitutes a willful violation of the FLSA.

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 Stalking - Alberta Human Services - Government of Alberta

Stalking, or criminal harassment, is illegal and can have devastating consequences for victims. It is often an extension of family violence, and can be motivated by a desire to control a current or former partner.

According to Section 264 of the Criminal Code of Canada, criminal harassment can involve repeatedly following, communicating with, watching, and/or threatening a person either directly or through someone a person knows. A person being stalked must fear for their own safety or the safety of someone they know in order for charges to be laid. (Metropolitan Action Committee on Violence Against Women and Children).

Research shows that stalkers can be intimate partners or former intimate partners.  According to a Statistics Canada 2009 report, female victims are more often harassed by a former (45%) or current intimate partner (6%), while male victims are more often harassed by a casual acquaintance (37%) than by a former (21%) or current (2%) intimate partner.

When relationships end, most people have the resiliency to move on in a healthy manner. However, sometimes a partner may find it difficult to let go of the relationship and they may demonstrate unhealthy, abusive or even violent behaviours. One of these behaviours is stalking, and it is against the law.

Examples of Stalking

The following examples are only some of the possible signs of stalking. Trust your instincts and get help if you feel you or someone you know is being stalked, particularly if you see any of the following behaviours:

  • Following someone around or parking close by and watching where they live or work;
  • Excessive or unwanted texts, emails, phone calls or visits;
  • Contacting friends, relatives or co-workers and asking them questions about someone’s actions or whereabouts; or
  • Threatening behaviours, like leaving notes on someone’s vehicle windshield or the door to their home or workplace.

How the law protects people from stalking

In order to provide better protection to those who have left a violent relationship, stalking is included in the Protection Against Family Violence Act (PAFVA).

This law protects all family members from family violence through protection orders. Family members include seniors, women, men and children – whether they reside together or apart.

Alberta was the second province after Manitoba to include stalking in its family violence legislation.

Where to go for help

If you or someone you know is being stalked, help is available:

  • Call 911 if you or someone you know is in immediate danger;
  • Talk to a trusted family member, close friend, teacher or counsellor; or
  • Call the 24-hour Family Violence Info Line, toll-free in Alberta at 310-1818.
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When the "Publish or Perish" model does more harm than good

If you're an academic or on your way down a related path, the term "publish or perish" needs no further explanation. For those outside the circle, the pressure to generate multiple high quality research publications in rapid succession may not seem unusual. How else will the worldwide science community know what you are working on? What other channels exist to share interesting pieces of data or breakthrough results?

The flip side of the argument often points out that focussing on publication quantity has detrimental effects on publication quality. This side of the argument is fuelled by reports highlighting careless mistakes in scientific literature, low reproducibility rates in repeat experiments and extreme cases of academic misconduct and the falsification of results. While all of this sounds like a horror story for scientists to deal with, what are the real implications of these errors outside of the lab? A recently published article in the Atlantic outlined one such example in a disconcerting scenario encountered by Heidi Rehm.

In addition to her role on the International Scientific Advisory Committee for the Human Variome Project, Heidi Rehm is also the Chief Laboratory Director at Partners' Laboratory for Molecular Medicine and Associate Professor of Pathology at Brigham & Women's Hospital and Harvard Medical School. Rehm's position sees her routinely provide reports on patient samples sent to Partners Laboratory from healthcare professionals around the country.

The particular situation described by Heidi Rehm pertains to a foetal blood test which returned a result indicating a variant in PTPN11, a gene which can signify an increased risk of Noonan syndrome. Using the tools at her disposal, Heidi Rehm scoured the scientific literature, finding a paper which classified the specific variant as pathogenic and indeed likely to cause Noonan syndrome. Naturally, the report she returned detailed this finding.

Since the particular sample in question crossed Heidi Rehm's path, further research by a separate group uncovered a high prevalence of the PTPN11 variant among particular ethnic groups who show no sign of the genetic disease, resoundingly disproving the earlier classification of the variant as pathogenic. The original paper that Rehm referenced was wrong.

Heidi Rehm is clear in her preference for sourcing high quality variant data, as opposed to the scientific literature, the best source of variant data is well curated databases. The compilation of results from multiple patients gathered in clinical laboratories makes gene/disease specific databases a much more reliable source of data. The Human Variome Project has long recognised the importance of such databases and actively supports the growth of gene/disease specific databases through the provision of training and resources to database curators. But despite this fact, pressure on researchers to produce publications will ensure that scientific papers detailing single variants are continued to be published while input to such databases remains voluntary, and without incentive.

Undeniably, the peer review process is not without its merits. Good scientific journals exist as concentrated pools of scientific results and detailed review. When the process works, meticulous research is published after being critically reviewed by unbiased experts. But despite this ideal, it may not be the most effective medium to present all forms of scientific data. Likewise, when academics are effectively measured by their research output, what happens when the answer to a research question cannot be found after a month of work, but is instead hiding behind a decade of too-miniscule-to-publish steps? Rehm, along with many others within the scientific faculty are not alone in their frustration with the current situation.

The Human Variome Project has long recognised the inadequacies of this model, and feel that a solution may be found by working in parallel with scientific journals to ensure that variants reported in prospective research papers are submitted to public databases prior to publication approval.

While it is too late to rectify the repercussions of the erroneous journal article that Rehm unwittingly consulted, the gravity of the current scenario must make us question its shortfalls, and take steps toward improving the quality of genetic and genomic data published. Do you think that the current fast paced publication expectation unequivocally leads to errors in reporting? How do you think that the issues associated with the "publish or perish" mentality will be best overcome?

Written by Catherine Carnovale

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Liz Ryan Talks Fear, Trust & How To Get The Right Job on The Leadership Podcast

Listen as Human Workplace CEO Liz Ryan explains what’s broken in the corporate world, how to fix it and how to get a job that deserves you!

Liz was recently interviewed on The Leadership Podcast.

Listen to her interview here!

Liz Ryan’s Interview on the Creativity Cultivator Podcast

Listen as the Creativity Cultivator Podcast host Justin Brady interviews Human Workplace CEO and Founder Liz Ryan on creativity, what’s broken in the recruiting process, Liz’s book Reinvention Roadmap and more!

Listen to Justin and Liz here!

Long-Term Employment Is Over — Here’s How To Cope

In the video below Human Workplace CEO and Founder Liz Ryan explains why the disappearance of long-term employment is forcing working people to take control of their own careers — and how to take charge of yours!

Check out Liz’s new book Reinvention Roadmap: How to Break the Rules to Get the Job You Want and Career You Deserve on Amazon (or wherever books are sold)!

INTENSIVE Four-Week Virtual Course: Using Business Pain To Close Consulting Deals

What Is A Pain Letter — And Can It Get Me A Job?

What is a Pain Letter? It’s a letter that accompanies your Human-Voiced Resume when you send your resume to your hiring manager.

Reaching out to hiring managers directly is a new-millennium job search approach that our CEO Liz Ryan invented and teaches in her stories and lessons.

Pain Letters are effective because when your hiring manager — the person who will be your boss in your new job — opens your letter, you are speaking directly to him or her.

You are no longer just another job-seeker, one of thousands. You are speaking directly to your possible future boss about his or her favorite topic: themselves!

A Pain Letter serves some of the same functions as a traditional cover letter, but a Pain Letter is different from a cover letter in many ways:

  1. While a cover letter is addressed to anybody who happens to read it, a Pain Letter is created for just one person — someone whose name you already know. You’ll use your hiring manager’s name in the Pain  Letter.
  2. A cover letter  is generic. A Pain Letter is very specific. It’s called a Pain Letter because it talks about your hiring manager’s Business Pain — whatever is not working perfectly in the hiring manager’s department right now.
  3. Cover letters are the least important part of the two-part packet that includes your cover letter and your resume. Pain Letters, by contrast, are at least as important as the Human-Voiced Resume the Pain Letter accompanies! You’ll send your Pain Letter in the mail in an envelope together with your Human-Voiced Resume, straight to your hiring manager’s desk. You will find your specific, target hiring manager by doing this.
  4. Cover letters are typically submitted with your resume into an online careers portal. Pain Letters are not written to be lobbed into recruiting sites. They are written to be printed on paper, sent in the mail and opened by a human being who is avid to get help with his or her biggest problems!

If you are new to Pain Letter writing, check out Liz’s book “Reinvention Roadmap,” which is available on Amazon now!

In “Reinvention Roadmap” you’ll learn how and why to write your own Pain Letters as well as how to write your Human-Voiced Resume and tons more practical job-search and career advice!

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Should I Tell My Boss That I Got A Better Offer?

Dear Liz,

I have a dilemma. I really, really like my job and I love my boss, but she doesn’t go to bat for me.

We are friendly. We collaborate well. My boss apologizes to me at least once a month for my pathetically low salary, but at my last performance review I got a two percent raise. I am badly underpaid.

She says the university doesn’t have the money, but it isn’t true. They spend money like crazy around here. I wasn’t job-hunting, but my old boss works at a consulting firm in my city and he gave my name to a partner there. The partner’s assistant called me and I went on two interviews at the consulting firm two weeks ago.

Today they made me an offer for ten thousand dollars more per year than I’m earning now.

I don’t know what to do. I can accept the offer and give notice at my current job, or I can tell my boss that I got a better offer and hope she makes me a counter offer.

I know she can’t pay me the whole ten thousand dollar difference but maybe she could meet me halfway.

What do you think I should do?

Dear Regina,

I think you should go to work for the consulting firm. Why does your current boss deserve a shot at keeping you in your small box after she’s already proven that she won’t stand up for you?

If your current boss got you a $5K or even a $10K increase now just because you showed her a competing job offer, wouldn’t you be insulted? You should be!

Your boss wasn’t willing to risk one drop of her political capital to keep you in her department until another company made you a job offer. If she is willing to do so now, then she knew all along that you were underpaid and she was fine with it. Do you still want to work for her?

If your boss really cared about keeping you around, it wouldn’t take a competing offer to get her to pay you fairly!

You are at a crossroads. When you find yourself at a crossroads, I recommend that you always take the road you haven’t traveled before! Enjoy the new job –

All the best,

Have you ordered Liz Ryan’s book Reinvention Roadmap yet? Read about it on Amazon here!

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Ten Mojo-Boosting Tips For December Job-Seekers

It  can be grueling to job-hunt in December. For one thing, you may be worried that employers will shut down their hiring apparatuses for the month, but luckily that’s not always true.

Lots of hiring managers have 2016 budget dollars (including payroll dollars) that must  be spent before the first of January — or else that budget allocation will disappear!

December job-seekers can also be stressed about needing to find a job before the end of the year, not to mention holiday expenditures.

If you’re job-hunting and you aren’t working now, take some pressure off yourself by explaining to your family and friends that you’ll bake for them or do something nice for them in lieu of a holiday present this year.

You don’t need the extra stress of trying to find extra cash to buy holiday gifts. Your friends and family members love you, and they will understand!

Here are ten tips for managing your schedule, your stress level and your mojo during your December job search:

  1. Keep in mind that the only employers who will schedule you for interviews during December are the best employers for you to know — that is, organizations who really  have Business Pain that you can help them solve. If they didn’t have pain, they wouldn’t schedule interviews now with the end of the year looming. That’s good!
  2. Review your LinkedIn profile to make sure it sings your song as loudly and proudly as it can.
  3. December is a hard month for lots of people. If you’re surrounded by happy throngs of holiday shoppers while you’re trudging off to sign up with another temp agency, it can make your job-search burden seem like a lot to bear. Keep this in mind: you are smart and strong and employable. You only need one hiring manager to see your spark and vice versa.
  4. If you need a survival job to tide you over while your “career” job search continues, take one! Retail merchants are hiring right now — they have huge signs in their front windows. You don’t have to apologize to “career”-type employers for having a survival job. You have nothing to apologize for. If they want you, they can interview you when you’re not working.
  5. Make a little time for yourself every day in December. Listen to your favorite music or do something that speaks to you, like reading or writing in your journal or talking on the phone with your best friend. Your mojo is the most important element in your job search. Your mojo fuel tank gets depleted when you go on interviews, research and write Pain Letters and follow up on Pain Letters you’ve already sent. Take a few moments to refill your fuel tank every day!
  6. Look through your local business paper online to find business-related holiday networking events. If you don’t already have some, order your own consulting business cards and give them out to new people you meet. Attend one or several holiday networking events by yourself or with a friend. Remember, you’re not a job-seeker: you’re a consultant now. You get to decide what sort of consultant you are!
  7. If you’re job-hunting alone from your house, visit a job-search networking group in your city and meet some other job-hunters you can collaborate with. A coffee meeting once a week with supportive people is a tremendous mojo-booster for all of you.
  8. Get a journal and write in it. Write about your plans for 2017 and your triumphs and challenges in 2016. Get your thoughts, worries, hopes and ideas out of your head and onto the page!
  9. Remember that walking around in the desert is the toughest part of reinvention — but it is the part of the journey where all the best learning happens!
  10. Remember to pat yourself on the back for your hard work as a job-seeker — one of the hardest jobs there is.

You are a super star, but not everyone will see it. You don’t need everyone to see your flame. Your job is to find the people who resonate at your frequency — and say a quick “Nice to meet you, and goodbye” to everyone who doesn’t!

If you haven’t ordered your copy of Liz Ryan’s book Reinvention Roadmap yet, you can buy it on Amazon here!

Five Easy Career Steps To Take Before 2017

The new year is going to hit, and then 2017 will fly by. You know it will — look how fast 2016 has gone!

Here are five easy steps to take for your career before the end of December:

  1. Update your LinkedIn profile. What can you add to your description of your current job, and what can you tweak in your LinkedIn profile Summary?
  2. Update your Human-Voiced Resume.
  3. Send an end-of-the-year greeting to your closest business contacts and invite them to get together with you for  lunch or coffee in December or January.
  4. Order your consulting business cards. Even if you don’t think you’re a consultant, you are one! Design cards you like that include your name, email address and phone number. You don’t even have to specify what sort of consulting you do!
  5. Write a list of everything you accomplished at work in 2016.

If you don’t write down your 2016 accomplishments, you’ll forget them. Don’t forget them — they are part of your brilliant career history now! Think about your triumphs in 2016 and your goals for next year.

If you haven’t already ordered Liz Ryan’s book Reinvention Roadmap, you can order it from Amazon at this  link!

Q & A With Liz Ryan: What Makes A Great LinkedIn Profile?

Not sure what to include in your LinkedIn profile, and what to leave out – or how to make your LinkedIn profile stand out?

Here are the elements that make a great LinkedIn profile, from an interview with Human Workplace CEO and Founder Liz Ryan.

What  is the most important element in a LinkedIn profile?

It’s a tie between your profile photo and the first two sentences of your Summary. They are both important. You have just an instant to convey “This is me,” both visually and in your written description of yourself.

Your LinkedIn ‘headline’ is the third important element in your LinkedIn profile.

Of course, no one will see your LinkedIn profile unless they can find you in the vast LinkedIn member database. You need connections in order to be found!

Every time you work on your LinkedIn profile (and any other time you get the chance), invite someone you know to join your LinkedIn network!

How should a LinkedIn user construct a strong ‘headline’ for their LinkedIn profile?

You have 120 characters including spaces to use in constructing your LinkedIn ‘headline.’ In your headline, tell us what you do professionally and inject a bit of your personality if you like.

The default setting for your LinkedIn ‘headline’ is to duplicate your current job title, but you can choose a different ‘headline’ for your LinkedIn profile, and I encourage you to do it if you like. You and your job title are not the same thing.

Here are three examples of strong LinkedIn ‘headlines:’

Legal Secretary with Contracts Experience Seeking Next Challenge

Print/Web Graphic Designer and Illustrator

Children’s Author

Your ‘headline’ will be stronger when you resist the urge to praise yourself (using terms like ‘savvy,’ ‘senior-level’ or ‘creative’) and simply tell us what you do, instead.

What makes a good LinkedIn profile Summary?

A compelling LinkedIn Summary tells the reader who you are and what you spend your time doing in just a few seconds.

It doesn’t use boring jargon like “Results-oriented professional with a bottom-line orientation.” Any empty suit could call themselves a “results-oriented professional.” Use a human voice to describe yourself, instead of done-to-death zombie language.

Tell us your story. How did you arrive at this place in your path? What do you care about? Make your professional background real for the reader. Not everyone will appreciate your human-voiced LinkedIn Summary, but then again not everyone deserves you!

How can I make my LinkedIn profile stand out?

Choose a profile photo that shows some personality, not a formal, stilted photo that makes you look less vibrant than you are. Choose colors that you feel great in and take a photo that shows your face clearly.

You can use a photo of yourself taken outside of work, but make sure we can see what you look like and that there are no other people in the photo. We don’t have to see you at work in your profile photo – but we want to be able to imagine you in your professional life!

When you’re happy with your LinkedIn photo, make sure that your ‘headline’ tells the reader what you want them to know, and that your Summary amplifies the self-description you used in your ‘headline.’

Read through your Summary and ask a friend to read it, too. Now add your career history in reverse chronological order, starting with your current or most recent job.

There are so many available categories and elements for a LinkedIn profile now that you could work on your profile for weeks or months.

Don’t worry about using every available feature and field in your profile. Just tell us your human story — and don’t be afraid to show your personality! That’s what will stick with the reader.

Once I create my LinkedIn profile, how often should I review it?

Try to review your LinkedIn profile once a quarter.

Every time you update your LinkedIn profile, you can upload images, presentations, video and other cool enhancements to make your profile more interesting to visitors.

You can tweak your Summary and your descriptions of past jobs.  You can expand your profile with new Dragon-Slaying Stories and triumphs.

How important are the Skills listed on my LinkedIn profile?

LinkedIn makes it possible for you to list Skills (drafting, graphic designer, coding, etc.) and allows your friends to endorse you for your Skills by clicking buttons.

You can round out your profile by listing the things you love to do and are good at and letting your friends click on all your Skills to verify that you possess them.

More substantive than the LinkedIn Skills listing are Recommendations that you can write for your friends and colleagues and vice versa. Why not drop a glowing Recommendation on one of your favorite former co-workers right now?

I have a lot of past jobs. When someone glances at my LinkedIn profile it looks like I couldn’t keep a job for more than two years, but most of those transitions had nothing to do with me. How can I keep my LinkedIn profile from making me look like a job-hopper?

You can use a sentence or two in each of your past job descriptions on your LinkedIn career history to explain why you left each post (example: “I left Angry Chocolates during the company’s acquisition by Nestle.”)

Alternatively, you can lump together several short-term jobs that you held consecutively under the title “Bay Area Project Manager Assignments” or a similar “umbrella” heading. In that case you will combine the dates of the similar, consecutive assignments under the “umbrella” heading.

I have several letters of reference from former managers of mine who have either passed on or they are so infirm that I can’t use them as references any more. How can I make those letters of reference part of my LinkedIn profile, since I can’t ask these folks to recommend me on LinkedIn?

You can scan them and upload them to your LinkedIn profile, but most visitors to your profile page are likely to be more interested in your recent references than in references from long-ago supervisors. Keep cultivating new reference-givers on every project you take on, including temp jobs, volunteer assignments and ‘survival’ jobs!

I am a creative writer, but only outside of work. Some of my co-workers know that I write and others don’t. Should I use the LinkedIn blogging platform for creative writing or would that muddy my professional brand (I’m a Finance Manager)?

I’d do it, if only to exercise your creative juices in the presence of a large population of avid readers.

You could make creative writing on LinkedIn the next big thing! Don’t write anything violent or inappropriate, of course, and don’t write a serial novel with characters who have the same names as your co-workers and your boss and you’ll be fine.  You might find a huge audience on LinkedIn.

As for the merging of your two brands — the creative writer outside of work and the Finance Manager inside — the world is headed in that direction in any case. The wall between work and life is crumbling.

It could only be good for us, our employers and our communities if we felt comfortable bringing more of ourselves to work.

You are one person.

You are a creative Finance person and a financially-savvy creative writer. That is something to rejoice in!

Not everyone will get you. There are seven billion people in the world. You don’t need all of them in your fan club. Your job is to find the people who resonate at your frequency!

Liz Ryan’s Book “Reinvention Roadmap” Is Here!

Liz Ryan, CEOGreat news for job-seekers, career-changers and all Human Workplace fans — our CEO Liz Ryan’s book “Reinvention Roadmap” is here!

“Reinvention Roadmap” is available on Amazon now, and will be in bookstores on December 6th, 2016!

Here is a Q & A with Liz about “Reinvention Roadmap,” career reinvention and job search in 2017 and beyond:

Q & A with Liz Ryan, Human Workplace CEO and Author of “Reinvention Roadmap”

Liz, what inspired you to write the book “Reinvention Roadmap?”

I’ve been talking with job-seekers, career changers, working people and leaders for a very long time. Hearing their stories inspired me to write a book for people who aren’t sure how to navigate in the new-millennium talent market — the one we all have to navigate now. The rules have changed!

What do you mean by the “new-millennium talent market?”

We used to get a job and keep the job for a long time. Those days are gone and they’re not coming back. We have to learn a new way to operate in this new millennium.

We all have to know how to find work when we need it. We have to know how to find a job or find clients, if we work for ourselves. Most of us aren’t sure how to do those things. Years ago it was easy to get a new job when you needed one. Now it’s much more complex.

You can’t just fill out online applications and wait for somebody to contact you. You have to be more proactive than that to get a job. You have to break some rules!

Which rules do you have to break to get a job these days?

You have to break the rule that says that the only way to apply for a job is to fill out an online job application. I don’t want you to do that. There’s a better way to get a job, using your Human-Voiced Resume and the new-millennium improvement on a cover letter.

It’s called a Pain Letter. In “Reinvention Roadmap”there’s a list of rules we all have to break now. It’s a long list!

Does “Reinvention Roadmap” teach readers how to write their own Human-Voiced Resume and Pain Letters?

Yes! “Reinvention Roadmap” includes examples, stories and tons of step-by-step ‘how to’ advice.

What is the book “Reinvention Roadmap” about?

It’s about navigating now that the old working world has evaporated. Long-term employment is a thing of the past, and we all need to learn how to deal with that. We are becoming business owners even if we work for large corporations or institutions.

We all have to think like entrepreneurs now, and that’s what “Reinvention Roadmap” teaches people to do.

What will I learn to do as I follow the “Reinvention Roadmap”?

You’ll learn how to set your career direction, brand yourself for the jobs you want, set your market value, approach hiring managers directly using your Pain  Letters and Human-Voiced Resume, and get a great job that deserves you.

You’ll also learn how to run your career like a business, grow your flame and stay on your path!

How long is “Reinvention Roadmap?”

“Reinvention Roadmap” is about 250 pages long. It’s full of illustrations, exercises and stories. It’s got a Glossary that defines a few hundred of my favorite terms, from “mojofied” to “Dragon-Slaying Stories.”

When can I find “Reinvention Roadmap” in bookstores?

You can find “Reinvention Roadmap” in bookstores beginning December 6th, 2016 and you can purchase “Reinvention Roadmap” on Amazon now!

“Liz Ryan’s book ‘Reinvention Roadmap’ is a friendly, fun and invigorating guide to surviving and thriving in the new-millennium workplace. It’s full of practical tips and encouragement for job-seekers, career-changers, working people and anybody who wants to have the life and career they deserve.”

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I whipped up this moringa face mask the day after returning from Philadelphia, where I met with my publisher and we took some pretty photos for my upcoming book (!). After many hours spent on airplanes and in airports, jumping from dry to humid to dry again, and days of wearing a whole lotta makeup, I was craving some serious clay cleansing. This is what I came up with.

How to make a healing Moringa Face Mask

The ingredients are simple enough. I started with a simple mix of gentle white kaolin clay and water, and to that I added some raw honey and some moringa leaf powder. These four ingredients came together to make a lovely light green paste that left my complexion refreshed and brighter. Bye bye, plane scum!

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How to make a healing Moringa Face Mask

I chose a raw honey I brought back from Costa Rica. It’s a ruddy dark brown colour and quite thin for honey. I purchased it at a wee farmers market and the lady who sold it to me explained in a combination of English and Spanish that the bees harvested the pollen from a special plant in the rain forest to make this dark, medicinal honey. She told me it was the sort of thing kids would be given when they were sick as a sort of cough syrup, so I thought it would be fantastic to add a healing boost to my mask. I’m assuming most of you don’t have this rather odd honey at home, but any raw honey will work as well.

How to make a healing Moringa Face Mask

Up next, moringa powder. Moringa is something else I first heard about in Costa Rica, from a Canadian ex-pat who spoke of it with infomercial like excitement. My interest was piqued, so when I saw a bag of moringa leaf powder at Marshall’s a couple weeks ago I took a closer look at the nutritional profile and was pretty impressed. A single tablespoon of the stuff contains a whopping 60% of your daily recommended iron intake! It’s also rich in antioxidants and vitamins A, B2, B6, C. It’s being investigated as a way to help end malnutrition in subtropical areas, which is super cool. Further research taught me that moringa has been used in Ayurvedic medicine for thousands of years for healing. Cool! Definitely a good addition to both face masks and smoothies. It’s got a pretty distinct “green” flavour, similar to that of spirulina or alfalfa, which isn’t relevant for the mask (hopefully!), but good to know if you’re buying a bag to use as a dietary supplement as well.

How to make a healing Moringa Face Mask

I got my moringa powder from Marshall’s for about $8, but I realize that’s not a very reliable shopping option. I also found it all over Amazon, with loads of different purchasing options. You might want to check out the bulk section at your local health food shop, too, so you don’t have to commit to a big bag of the stuff straight away. The plant you’re looking for is Moringa oleifera, and you want powder made from the leaf.

How to make a healing Moringa Face Mask

Moringa Face Mask

5mL |1 tsp warm water
1/4 tsp raw honey
1/4 tsp moringa leaf powder
5 1/2 tsp white kaolin clay

Measure the water out into a wee dish and whisk in the honey and moringa leaf powder until you’ve got a uniform green mixture. Add the clay one teaspoon at a time, until you have a thick, creamy paste. The amount of clay you’ll need might vary, so don’t worry if you need a bit more or a bit less.

Spread the mask over your face and let it dry for about twenty minutes before rinsing off. Follow up with your favourite oil serum and enjoy!

If you don’t have white kaolin clay you can use other light, smooth clays instead. Any of the French clays would be a good choice, as would zeolite, any other colour of kaolin clay, and the paler Australian clays. I do not recommend bentonite or rhassoul for this mask.

This makes enough for one face mask.

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Vanity phone numbers are a savvy way to market your business.

Have you noticed increased competition lately? Is your utility selling service agreements? Have you been in a Home Depot and noticed the Trane display or Hamilton Home Products at Lowes? Have you noticed any franchises in your town like One Hour or Aire Serv? Did you ever lose a sale to Sears? Are you now competing with a former employee who a faithful supplier or manufacturer helped put into business?

As independent contractors, we have to work every day just to survive. Many of us want to do more than that — we want to thrive. The best way to do that is to provide outstanding service that blows away the competition. However, not only do we need to perform well, we need to find ways to stand out from the crowd.

Most homeowners only purchase one or two heating and air conditioning systems in their lifetimes and less than 20% of the homeowners have service agreements. So what will make your company stand out in consumers’ minds when they need service or new equipment? Nearly everyone in the industry includes some combination of the words “heating,” “air conditioning” or “cooling.”

What will give your company top-of-mind awareness?

One way that is rapidly gaining momentum nationwide is the use of 1-800 vanity phone numbers and Web sites.

You’ve probably heard about the success of 1-800-FLOWERS and you may know about other success stories: 1-800-GOT-JUNK, 1-800-EYECARE, 1 - 8 0 0 - C O N T A C T S , 1 - 8 0 0 - B A S E M E N T a n d 1-800-MATTRESS. These companies have experienced explosive sales. Indeed, 1-800-FLOWERS logged in over $912 million in sales last year and 1-800-CONTACTS has filled over 15 million orders for contact lenses. These recognizable numbers, along with their Web sites, are easy to find and easy to use for repeat customers.

Studies have shown that easily recalled and easily spelled 1-800 numbers enjoy a 14-times-greater response rate. And studies show that using recognizable, easy to-recall 1-800 vanity phone numbers outperform those using local telephone numbers 6 to 1.

When marketed properly, people don’t have to go to the phone book to find your number. Why is this important? When customers open the phone book they are presented with not only your phone number, but the phone numbers of all of your competitors. Companies with vanity phone numbers also find that their customers aren’t calling competitors for price quotes nearly as often as they would if they had to open the phone book to obtain contact information.

After using your company and your vanity number, customers won’t forget you and more importantly how to contact you again.

According to Matt Michel of The Service Roundtable, it costs five to six times as much to get a new customer as to keep one. If customers can recall your number without looking it up in the phone book or online, why would they go anywhere else?

You can keep your independence and still help to build a national presence. Currently, 1-800-FURNACE is being used in over 40 cities nationwide by independent, non-competing service companies. 1-800-Air- Repair and 1-800-Air-Duct are available and they are gaining momentum.

If you still don’t believe it, do this simple market study. Invite people to a meeting and ask them to guess how many of your customers know your phone number. Unless you have been around for a very long time and have a very simple number, it’s not likely that the percentage is very high.

Then show this same group of people a list like the one below (you can use actual phone numbers in your market), cover the page and ask them what numbers they remember. The results normally favor the vanity number.

You also can use the phone number as your Web address. The recall rate goes up exponentially. Just look at 1-800-CONTACTS.com or 1-800-FLOWERS. com — customers find it easy to do business with them and will remember how to find them again.

With the right vanity phone number, you can significantly reduce your cost per sale. Instead of putting an ad in the phonebook and hoping someone turns to the page with your ad, you can reduce your phonebook ad and use the money to advertise directly to your customers. You can use your advertising dollars to bring in work during slower times and your year-round work load and profits will increase. This is a big advantage for you and your company, your employees and your customers.

Specialized marketing companies use today’s technology so you can gain the exclusive use of 1-800 vanity phone numbers by region. That way, non-competing companies in the same industry can share one number nationwide and enjoy the great advantages over their local competition. By using “caller ID”, routing systems recognize where calls come from and route them directly to a predetermined number. Another alternative is to have incoming calls directed to an automated attendant. The attendant can be programmed to ask certain questions and then route the call accordingly.

The investment isn’t large. If you sell two jobs per year that you would not have sold without the number, you will easily cover the marketing cost. You’ll also put yourself on the same playing field as the heavy hitters in the industry. Your company may not have as deep of pockets as Lowes or Home Depot, but with a vanity phone number on your side you can compete just as well.

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Yesterday I followed a song for a while that I didn't recognize.  I found
the bird singing it perched about 10' up, he didn't mind my watching from
close-by, bold little bird.  Thought he might be an Ovenbird at first with a
new song, saw a whitish eye stripe though and knew he was someone new to me.
I watched for a while and learned the song.  From books and CD's I learned
he was a Louisiana Waterthrush, I'd never seen one before (at least for

Later I was walking toward an area that was clear-cut last year and heard my
first Summer Tanager 'hic-cup' of the year.  After sitting for a while I
pulled the binoc's up to check a little gray bird but caught some yellow
movement in the edge of my view.  Focusing on that I saw a yellow bird with
a brownish cap, very yellow eye stripe that kept flicking his tail.  He kept
murmuring soft calls the whole time he was foraging around the ground.  I
had enough time to watch and study him, learn his calls, check the book and
watch some more.  He was my first Palm Warbler sighting, beautiful little
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Later while sitting I heard some movement in the leaf litter.  I looked
around and saw a large lizard, about 7" long, with a smaller one in his
grasp.  The larger one had a beautiful teal patch on his sides, metallic
looking.  He was frozen hoping I wouldn't see him, with the smaller one in
his jaw already dead.  Came across a snapping turtle in a puddle too, just
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Accused of murdering a man the Southron tribes believes to be their messiah, but who is actually the slayer of Del's family, Tiger and Del flee across the deadly Punja desert, hunted by religious zealots and sword-dancer assassins. But each evading death by assassins' blades is only one of the challenges they face. For Tiger's sword, Samiel, has been possessed by the spirit of the deadly sorcerer, Chosa Dei - a wizard out of legend with the power to unmake the entire world, a master of evil who seeks to mold Tiger into his ultimate weapon of destruction.

Tiger and Del have only one hope left - to find and gain help of Chosa Dei's equally powerful counterpart and sworn enemy, Shaka Obre. But Shaka Obre has not been seen in the world for hundreds of years, and it may be beyond even the combined magical abilities of Tiger and Del to find this wizard who is their only chance for salvation....

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The number of U.S. workers filing new claims for unemployment benefits fell more than expected last week, welcome news for the White House as it predicted more than a million jobs will be created this year.

President Barack Obama has made job growth his top 2010 priority as voters increasingly blame his Democratic party for unemployment near the highest level since 1983.

In an annual economic report to Congress on Thursday, the White House predicted an average of 95,000 jobs a month will be created this year, yet the jobless rate may tick back up to 10 percent as discouraged workers come back into the market.

There were some positive signs from the Labor Department, which reported initial applications for state unemployment benefits dropped by 43,000 to a seasonally adjusted 440,000 last week, down from a revised 483,000 in the prior week.

Analysts had expected claims to slip to just 465,000.

The prior week's unexpectedly high reading was blamed in part on a backlog of claims that piled up over the holiday season and a Labor Department official said the report showed this backlog was largely washed out.

The numbers are coming down to an area where we could begin to see some positive job growth, said Gary Thayer, chief macrostrategist at Wells Fargo Advisors in St. Louis.

The tumble in jobless claims helped lift U.S. stock prices, which have been under pressure on concerns over a European deal to help Greece with its debt crisis. Stocks closed the day's session higher, while U.S. Treasury debt prices slipped.

Investors are keeping a close eye on jobless claims for evidence that the economy is on the verge of adding jobs again. With the exception of November 2009, payrolls have declined in every month since the recession began in December 2007.

That has piled political pressure on Obama, whose popularity fell as the jobless rate rose.

In the economic report, the White House said it expects the economy to create an average of 190,000 jobs a month in 2011, double what it expects for this year.

That rate of job creation would add up to about 3.4 million jobs in two years, but less than half of the 8.4 million that have been lost since the start of the recession.

It would also leave the jobless rate well above its normal level of 5.0 percent. Economists estimate that about 100,000 jobs are needed each month just to meet labor force growth and keep the unemployment rate steady.

More than a million people gave up looking for work as the job market deteriorated, and are therefore not counted among the unemployed. As jobs reappear, many of these people are expected to return to the labor market, making it even harder to create enough jobs to cut the unemployment rate.

We are, as we've said many times, expecting positive job growth by spring, Christina Romer, chairman of the president's Council of Economic Advisers, said on Reuters Insider.

However, the White House acknowledged the unemployment rate would probably fall only slowly, and it was concerned about the large number of people out of work for a prolonged period.

In an ominous sign for the job market, the latest semiannual survey of the Business Council -- which includes as members the top executives of over 100 U.S. companies -- showed CEOs remained wary of hiring.

Lawmakers are worried high unemployment will translate into voter anger come November elections. Senate Democrats on Thursday released a draft of legislation aimed at creating jobs via tax cuts and other incentives.

The weekly report on unemployment benefits also showed the number of people applying after an initial week of aid fell to 4.54 million in the week ended January 30, the lowest in 13 months. That figure is somewhat skewed by the fact that many people have dropped off the rolls because they have exhausted benefits, not because they have found new jobs.

The four-week moving average of initial claims, which smoothes out week-to-week volatility, fell by 1,000 to 468,500 last week. Initial jobless claims had increased through January, giving rise to concerns the slow healing of the battered labor market had stalled. The latest report offered hope a longer-term improvement trend was still in place.

The good news ... is that the Labor Department administrators are telling us that they have gotten through a backlog and perhaps the labor market hasn't deteriorated very much in the last two months, said Cary Leahey, senior economist with Decision Economics in New York.

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President Barack Obama's four years in office is getting the Hollywood treatment, including narration from actor Tom Hanks, in a 2-minute trailer teasing audiences for the 17-minute documentary, The Road We Traveled.

How do we understand this president and his time in office? Do we look at the days' headlines, or do we remember what we as a country have been through? Hanks can be heard saying the trailer. The film is being released March 15 and was directed by Davis Guggenheim, who was behind the camera for Al Gore's global warming documentary, An Inconvenient Truth.

The trailer featured Austan Goolsbee, chair of the Council of Economic Advisers, and Obama campaign strategist and adviser to the president David Axelrod. Both men spoke about the economic problems Obama inherited.

The Republican National Committee could not immediately be reached for their reaction to the trailer, although USA Today reported the RNC gives The Road We Traveled two thumbs down.

Unfortunately Americans feel Obama's accomplishments each and every day after President Obama led our country to higher unemployment, record debt, and higher gas prices, said GOP spokeswoman Kirsten Kukowski.

The 2-minute clip also includes highlights of Obama's inaugural speech and Vice President Joe Biden describing the decision whether the intelligence on Osama bin Laden was accurate enough to stage the operation that killed the al-Qaeda mastermind.

Biden's voice begins after the dramatic headline, Bold Action.

The entire national security apparatus was in that room and now we had to make a decision: Go or not go? Biden says into the camera. As [Obama] walked out the room, it dawned on me, 'He's all alone. This is his decision and nobody is standing there with him.

As Biden explains the decision was Obama's, a silhouette of the president is shown staring out a White House window.

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Twitter introduced its Moments feature in late 2015. Now, at the start of 2017, it’s already getting bumped from the spotlight. The Moments section of the Twitter app is being replaced with a new tab called Explore.

The new section will be more of a catch-all for major happenings on Twitter. It condenses a number of features—including trending topics, the search feature, live video and the displaced Moments tab—under a single heading.

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In a blog post about the new section, Twitter notes “nothing is going away” with the implementation of Explore. Instead, it’s designed to make things easier to find—an issue that has long plagued Twitter and made it difficult for the platform to court new users.

When users open the Explore menu, they will be presented with the trends and hashtags people are talking about most, with information like how many people are talking about it. The search bar sits atop the menu, with a large header just below it that features either live video or Moments that are generating a lot of buzz.

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The Explore tab should start appearing for iOS users on Thursday and will make its way to Android devices in the coming weeks.

While it’s not going away, the move inside the Explore tab does mark a bit of a downgrade for Moments, which will lose the prominence of its own tab.

The feature has been gradually built out since being introduced as a curated list of tweets. Last year, Twitter granted brands and big names on the platform the ability to start making their own Moments before introducing the feature to all users.

The company has continued to tweak the feature in hopes of turning it into a success as strong as the Stories feature on Snapchat and Instagram. Recent reports indicate Twitter is testing out new layouts for Moments that could give the feature a format closer to the standard timeline look.

Twitter will also hope its Explore tab can draw new attention to live video, which the company has invested in heavily in recent months. The social network just finished its first season as a broadcaster for NFL games and has secured the streaming rights to MLB and NHL games and several sports shows produced specifically for the platform.

The real goal for Twitter is to finally get all of its features in front of an audience, a task that has been easier said than done thanks to stagnating user growth on the platform. It’s already too late for Vine, the six-second looping video service Twitter killed off earlier this year, but perhaps it’s not too late for the rest of Twitter’s features.


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School NameJawahar Navodaya Vidyalaya
AddressRangia,Po Jamtola, Dt- Kamrup Assam Assam 781365 India
Head/PrincipalP C Goswami
StatusSenior Secondary
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Principal Investigator(s): Davis, James A.; Coleman, James S.; Nie, Norman H.; Riley, John; Jencks, Christopher

This data collection contains the results of a 1973 amalgam survey -- several individuals pooled resources to share the cost of launching it -- which was conducted by the National Opinion Research Center (NORC) at the University of Chicago. In this survey, 1,489 individuals from across the United States responded to 125 questions on a wide variety of subjects, including political and social attitudes, political party preferences, and political and social participation. One section of the survey dealt with the importance of various aspects of the respondent's life (e.g., family, job, social activities, and local, state, and national affairs) and the respondent's opinion on the importance of such social issues as marijuana, poverty, rights of criminals, government's role, school integration, pornography, medical care, neighborhood integration, defense spending, income equalization, use of troops to contain communism, government help to Blacks, spying on radicals, inflation, and government spending. In addition, respondents commented on feelings of personal efficacy, feelings about groups, confidence in institutions, views of political party candidates, jury duty experience, attitudes toward retirement and death, and family relationships (in particular, an inquiry into the relationship between brothers). The collection also includes demographic data on the respondent and his or her family (including some information about male respondents' brothers), e.g., marital status, labor force status, occupation, prestige of occupation, vote in the presidential elections of 1968 and 1972, vote in local and state elections, political party affiliation, grandparent nativity, ethnicity, education, religion, respondent's family composition at age 15, number of members in current household, siblings of male respondent, age, sex, income, and race. In addition, the survey included a methodological experiment to determine the effects of the instrument and the coders on the survey results. Specifically, the survey contained question wording experiments using questions on attitudes toward government involvement with social problems and political party affiliation. A further experiment tested the accuracy of respondent-coded occupation.

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Davis, James A., James S. Coleman, Norman H. Nie, John Riley, and Christopher Jencks. NORC Amalgam Survey, December 1973 . ICPSR07556-v2. Ann Arbor, MI: Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research [distributor], 2011-02-17. http://doi.org/10.3886/ICPSR07556.v2

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Subject Terms:    attitudes toward death, community involvement, ethnicity, family relationships, job satisfaction, life events, occupations, personal adjustment, political affiliation, political attitudes, political behavior, political efficacy, political participation, retirement, social attitudes, social behavior, social issues, social problems, trust in government, voting behavior, United States

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Universe:    Adult noninstitutionalized population of the continental United States, aged 18 and over.

Data Type(s):    survey data, and experimental data

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3:17 wicked. The term “wicked” here means “unsettled” or “lawless.” These men were “unlearned and unstable” (II Peter 3:16) in the Scriptures, and so were leading others astray with their twisting of God’s Word to fit their own opinions. There are many such teachers today as well, so “beware.”

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Recipe for Health: Rub It the Right Way

by Lourdes Castro on Sep 27, 2012

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Can’t stomach another plain grilled chicken breast for dinner? Before you begin sifting through the millions of recipes you’ll be hit with by a Google search, head over to your spice rack.

Mixing dry spices and rubbing them onto meat has been used by barbeque pit masters for years to procure meat with deep and layered flavors. Thankfully, you don’t need a smoker or 7 hours of cooking to take advantage of a dry rub. All you need is the right spice combination and a willing chicken breast, pork tenderloin or fish fillet.

Dry rubs can definitely amp up your food and take you out of your culinary rut. But their goodness just begins there. A dry rub is also a great way of boosting the flavor of food without adding calories, sodium or excess fat. Spices are calorie-free, and as such they are fat-free and carbohydrate-free.

I keep two or three dry-rub mixes on hand, each with its own flavor angle, to take my mundane protein to another level in minutes. When I’m in the mood for fiery spice, I go for the chipotle rub; and when I’m in more of a mellow, earthy mood, the coffee rub is my answer. Spices also deliver a punch of color to your proteins, which will entice your eyes as much as your taste buds. The best part is that these mixes can be made well in advance, so long as they are stored in air-tight containers.

Rub in the mix, and then grill, roast or sear your meat or fish. Dinner will never be boring again!

Secret Spice Weapons

smoked paprika: smoky

chipotle powder: fiery and smoky

instant coffee or espresso: earthy

cumin: zesty

brown sugar: sweet and candied*

*Will add 11 calories and 3 grams of carbohydrates per teaspoon. If you add this to your mix, store it in the freezer to prevent the sugar from drying out.

Dry Rubs

Punching up the flavor of your protein with a dry rub is quick, easy and calorie-free. Take a few minutes to blend the rub recipes below, and store them in an airtight container for days when your food needs a little boost. Keep in mind that rubs don’t have to contain multiple ingredients; one of my favorite flavorings is a generous sprinkling of smoked paprika on my shrimp or pork tenderloin. It provides the same smoky flavor and dark wood hue you would get from cooking with sausage or bacon but without all the calories and fat.

Note that salt was not added to any of the rub recipes, so be sure to season your protein with salt first, if desired.

Chipotle Rub: Smoky & Spicy

Great for fish, chicken and pork; yields about 1/2 cup.

1/4 cup chipotle chili powder

2 tablespoons (tbs) ancho chili powder

2 teaspoons (tsp) ground cumin

1 tbs plus 1 tsp dried oregano

Coffee Rub: Earthy

Great for beef and pork; yields about 1/3 cup.

3 tbs instant espresso powder

1 tbs Spanish paprika

1 tsp ground black pepper

1 tsp garlic powder

1 tsp ground cumin

How to Apply a Dry Rub

Sprinkle couple of tablespoons of spice blend onto cutting board and press protein over it. Lift protein and press down on areas that need rub adhered to them. Add more spice rub to board if necessary. Turn protein over and press it onto board to completely coat its other side. When you are done, you should not be able to see any meat through spice rub.

Source: Original recipes by Lourdes Castro, MS, RD.

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Tapping into Group Profitability

by Amanda Vogel, MA on Jun 17, 2010

As an instructor, you’re trained to teach fitness to groups, and you’re passionate about it. You faithfully show up to teach, and you probably get paid a modest fee to do it. This arrangement used to be the “status quo” of group exercise, but that’s changing. Now instructors must share center stage. With the success of boot camps and small-group training, personal trainers are beginning to claim the group domain (and why not, it works!).

These days, it’s more profitable for trainers to teach group as an offshoot of personal training than for traditional group exercise instructors to teach scheduled classes for an average of $15–$35 an hour. The financial incentive of group fitness is, by far, in favor of trainers—thanks to their own forethought and business savvy.

But looking ahead to the next decade, where does this leave the people who are specifically trained to handle diverse groups? Perhaps it’s time to think outside the box. If personal trainers can enjoy success and profits from boot camps, why can’t group fitness instructors add value and revenue to their careers by organizing something similar?

This is not about giving up the traditional classes you know and love. It’s about leveraging your group skills, tapping into your creativity and making use of your existing resources to build your career and revenue base in your area of specialization: group fitness. This article discusses ideas and steps for creating, marketing and delivering your own income-generating events, programs and classes.

Step 1: Find Your Specialty

The first step in offering classes that turn a profit is to decide which “specialty” to teach. In making your choice, it’s vital that you stay within your scope of practice and insurance parameters (i.e., stick to “group,” and be sure not to “promise” personal training).

It’s possible to cash in on the boot camp business model without ever teaching a boot camp. The idea is first to analyze what workout style(s) and format(s) you’re qualified to teach and want to teach; and then to concoct a class or program that has a different “look” and “feel” to your usual classes. “Don’t be afraid to try something you don’t teach on a regular basis. It’s the message of fitness that’s important,” says Harold Sanco, director of group fitness at Results Gym in Washington, DC, and a fitness instructor who offers corporate classes.

Variables that can make the experience different include the equipment you use (items that participants don’t have access to in other classes), the format (e.g., a circuit or branded dance program) and/or the location (e.g., an outdoor setting). “Determine what is currently being taught in your area, and offer a class that is unique or not frequently taught but has great response when it is taught,” suggests Jan Schroeder, PhD, fitness instructor and associate professor in the department of kinesiology at California State University, Long Beach. In other words, you’ll be hard-pressed to convince people to pay for a standard step workout if they can already attend a similar class as part of their club membership.

“I would advise an instructor wishing to break into this market to focus on the area that they are already known for, but tweak the class to offer more than what a participant would get in the ‘free’ class on the schedule,” says Leigh Crews, Fitness Anywhere® master trainer and owner of Dynalife Inc. in Rome, Georgia. You can showcase what you’re already known for by teaching a particular format or simply by playing up a side of your instructing style or personality that your participants like.

“[All instructors have] their own unique abilities, niches, interests and training, and this is what they tap into to create their offerings,” says Amy Bomar, education director at FIT Launch™ Inc. in Everett, Washington. Bomar teaches a range of specialty workouts, including outdoor boot camps, small-group core camps, mind-body camps, sport-training camps and pole/exotic dance. Mine ideas from your students, she advises; use their questions, feedback and suggestions to help you develop classes and curriculum. “For example,” says Bomar, “you may notice many of your yoga or Pilates students are inflexible in their hips and unsteady during leg-balancing moves. You can use these concepts to build a progressive fitness camp that teaches exercises and stretches for improving hip functionality,” she says. “In essence, look for common threads among your students, clients and the general population, and mesh [what you see] with your knowledge on the subject matter.”

Another avenue is to offer classes in a nongym space or even on your own turf. That’s what Schroeder does. She teaches Zumba® and muscle conditioning in her home. “For the classes out of my home, I keep all the profits . . . and the commute is shorter!” she says. Just be sure that your liability insurance covers classes taught in locations other than a fitness facility.

Bomar chose the outdoors as a venue for some of her specialty classes, partly because taking them outside served as a strong point of difference from a traditional group exercise class. “I wanted the experience to be very non-group-exercise-class and non-gym-like,” she says. “I didn’t want mirrors, music, choreography or fancy pieces of equipment.” As it happens, the location has also made good marketing sense. “Dozens of people walk, jog, rollerblade, stroll or ride bikes past the groups of people I work with and see them having fun, working hard and enjoying their experience.”

Step 2: Address The Business Side

One reason why personal trainers have done so well with boot camps and other group offerings is that, generally speaking, trainers focus more on the business side of teaching fitness than instructors do. So once you’ve settled on a specialty class, be prepared to iron out the administrative details. Here are some major considerations:

When and Where to Hold Classes. You could lead classes outdoors, in your home, at a rented public space or in the gym where you already teach. Consider what might work best for the time of year, your geography and, ultimately, your prospective students. For example, hardcore fitness enthusiasts might relish working out in a park or on hiking trails. On the other hand, your home might be a big hit with new moms who will be working out with their babies. Regardless of your chosen location, don’t forget to double-check that your liability insurance covers you.

How Much to Charge per Class or Program. Determining cost involves being clear on the going rate for your area but also the value of the class or program to participants. (See the sidebar “Questions to Ask When Planning and Marketing For-Profit Specialty Classes” for guidance on teasing out the value of your program.) Donna Hutchinson is a fitness business coach and owner of On The Edge Fitness Educators in North Vancouver, British Columbia. “Instructors need to know what the demand is; who their target audience should be; what participants would be willing to pay; why a participant would pay for the class instead of just going to a class that’s included in their membership; and what the instructor will offer in the class that’s different from what others are offering,” she says.

How to Handle the Finances. Your fee should also factor in the expenses you will incur to run the program. For example, you could teach in your home and keep all profits; you could rent a studio for a fee; or you could negotiate a profit split—such as 50/50 or 25/75—with the gym where you’ll hold classes.

You should also determine how participants will pay you. Will they send a check, pay in person on the start date, or use an online service like PayPal? If you offer the classes at a facility, one alternative is to have participants pay the club; you could then submit an invoice for your share of the profit. Bottom line: The easier it is for participants to pay and commit in advance, the higher enrollment will be.

How Often and How Long to Run Classes. What will you teach: a one-time event, ongoing classes at a set time or a “package” of classes with start and end dates? Obviously, the longer the program, the more money you stand to make. Still, shorter programs (as explained below) are sometimes a better choice.

While there are no hard-and-fast rules about program length—it depends on your format and participants—you may increase your success by considering what others have done. “Two times a week for 4 weeks works extremely well,” says Crews, who offers a TRX® Suspension Training® program for golfers. “That way, payment is due at the first of every month, which is easy for participants to remember. The easier it is for people to participate, the better the retention. Every 6 weeks makes it a little more complicated.”

Bomar says deciding on class frequency and length boils down to what your goal is for participants. “If you want [them] to see results, the program should reflect minimum exercise program guidelines,” says Bomar. Since meaningful results can take time, you might choose to focus first on what participants will sign up for, and then build enrollment from there. For example, beginning with a shorter program is a “safe” way for participants to sample your specialty class without a lot of risk. “When first starting a program, it’s good to go with one or two times a week for 3 weeks,” says Hutchinson. “This allows the instructor to test the waters, but more importantly, it allows participants to avoid feeling locked in if they don’t like it. Once the program starts to establish itself, you can gradually increase the number of days and weeks. I always check in with participants and include them in those decisions. They are the market, and they will tell you what they’re comfortable doing,” says Hutchinson.

Bomar offers 4-week fitness camps—her dance classes run once a week, and her muscle conditioning–based classes run two or three times a week. “I find that 4 weeks is just enough of a commitment to begin with, kind of a sampler, and gives participants a taste of what committing to more will be like,” she says. To help boost participant results, Bomar offers incentives for longer commitments. “I give discounts to participants who sign up for 3 months at a time, which ends up being more like a 12-week session for them,” she says.

Finally, remember that you also have to commit to whatever session length you choose. Offering set packages of classes opens the door for you to take time off between programs. “Regroup, create new ideas and relax before the next session begins,” says Bomar.

Step 3: Market Your Specialty Class

Instructors promote themselves within their classes, but traditionally they don’t have to worry about external advertising and marketing to get newcomers in the door—that’s up to program directors and gym owners. When you begin selling your own specialty programs, however, you’re in business for yourself—and that includes paying careful attention to marketing. Without proper promotion, you might not attract enough paying participants to justify running your specialty classes.

Even if you are one of the most popular instructors on the regular group fitness schedule, asking participants to pay extra for your classes is a whole different ball game. “Word of mouth is a great thing, but it doesn’t always bring in the numbers,” says Bomar. “You actually have to recruit people, or you don’t get paid!” Plus, as Hutchinson points out, “Instructors have to be careful about using the place where they work to advertise a program they are running outside of the club.”

Luckily, marketing a specialty class can be done quite inexpensively. “I rented a dance studio to hold my Zumba class and marketed it through e-mail, Facebook, fliers around town and calendar listings in the local newspaper,” says Jackie Camborde, a Zumba instructor and owner of Santé Fitness Studio in Santa Fe, New Mexico. If you’ve arranged to hold specialty classes within a club where you already teach, your marketing job is even easier because you can recruit paying customers from that membership base. It also works well to post signs around the club. For her golf-focused specialty program, Crews created 8.5- by 11-inch posters to place at the local country club, at golf courses and at the facility where she teaches her specialty class.

To make your marketing efforts shine, think back to the value of your class. What benefits will participants get out of it? Emphasize those benefits instead of just naming the features of the class. For example, instead of listing what equipment or general exercises are involved, highlight the favorable process (e.g., a fun, social or confidence-boosting experience) and/or results (e.g. improved sport performance, weight loss or greater muscle definition). Remember that marketing is a journey, not a one-time effort. “It takes time to get the message out there and be heard and have people respond to it,” says Hutchinson. “You can’t quit just because you put up a flier once and didn’t get a response.”

Finally, continue to market events even after they’ve started or finished, as this will help you attract future customers. Upload video online, or post photos around the club, showing your participants having fun. And if a class or program sells out, don’t just take your signs or Web page down. Add an eye-catching “sold-out” graphic, and leave the notices up awhile. This lets prospects see the high interest in your program and encourages them to sign up next time before it sells out again!

Step 4: Adjust Your Teaching Process

The final phase of promoting your classes is to retain the client base you’ve recruited through external marketing, while encouraging positive word of mouth from participants who have experienced the classes. In some cases, this might require you to step back and adjust your usual teaching style. For example, instructors are used to demonstrating exercises and choreography while participants mirror their movements. In a boot camp–style circuit class, however, the instructor must observe and motivate participants without using a follow-the-leader approach.

“The difference lies in the teaching process,” says Bomar. “Teaching camps is more about coaching, supporting, motivating, walking around and staying abreast of what all your students are doing. Instructors should be able to tell students what they will do, showing them by demo if necessary, then letting them perform as the instructor monitors.”

If you’re running a class with a traditional group fitness format, you might teach the way you always do, with an emphasis on what has made you a sought-after instructor in the first place. “I always keep the fun factor at the top of the list (this is how I keep my regular gym classes packed as well),” says Sanco. “To me, it’s not any different from how I teach a regular class.” Crews agrees that the essence of what you deliver as an instructor is the same. “A good teacher is a good teacher, whether you are marketing the class as a specialty class, small-group training or a class on the regular schedule,” she says. “I try to give my all to make each experience fun and rewarding for the participant. I don’t hold back information or individual correction in my group classes on the schedule, just because the participant is not paying extra.” Your regular classes, after all, are good advertisement for your specialty classes.

However, Crews adds that you might be able to use strategies in specialty classes, where participants are preregistered, that wouldn’t work as well in regular classes, where participants come and go from week to week. “The thing that is different about my specialty classes is that they are progressive, rather than ongoing at the same level,” says Crews. “With the specialty classes, I will usually periodize the month of classes in order to help participants reach a new level of fitness.”

Reaping the Rewards

Whether you want to collect a little extra cash or you have your sights set on carving out a significant revenue stream, planning and teaching specialty classes and programs could be your ticket to greater incentives—financial and otherwise—in the fitness industry. “In a down economy, it’s important to be open to new ideas and to come up with new ways to bring in revenue,” says Camborde. “Add a new specialty to your repertoire—one you are passionate about and can really promote—and you will reap the rewards.”

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Amanda Vogel, MA

Amanda Vogel, MA IDEA Author/Presenter

Amanda Vogel, MA, is a presenter, group exercise instructor and the owner of Active Voice, a writing, editing and consulting service for the fitness industry. She writes for leading magazines, including IDEA, Women's Health, Prevention, and Oxygen, and has co-authored books on both yoga and postnatal fitness (Baby Boot Camp: The New Mom's 9-Minute Fitness Solution). With a master's degree in human kinetics, Amanda has worked in the fitness industry for more than 17 years, including time spent as a program director and vice president for a chain of all-women clubs in Vancouver, British Columbia. She manages social media accounts for major fitness companies, brands and public figures, including BOSU and Amy Dixon Fitness.