A video is doing the rounds online, appearing to show Superman and Wonder Woman 'solving' the Kashmir 'dispute' It's not clear if it's officially produced by DC, the comics home of Superman, whose official YouTube channel does not host the video. But the mention of Kashmir as 'disputed' has riled many social media users in India.
India firmly maintains that Union Territory of Jammu and Kashmir is an inseparable part of India.
The animated clip is doing rounds on social media platforms and is reportedly showing Superman and Wonder Woman, two of the most powerful heroes from the DC Universe destroying military equipment in 'disputed Kashmir'.
There are media reports saying that the two heroes are destroying Indian military infrastructure. The voiceover in the clip can however be heard as saying that Superman and Wonder Woman destroy 'every piece of military equipment 'declaring 'an arms-free zone'. There is no apparent mention of India or Pakistan but Kashmir can be heard as being regarded a 'disputed' territory.
The viewers are not happy.
"Why are they so specific about Kashmir? First they refer to an imaginary place like m'gota, but the next moment they mention Kashmir. Its better to keep quiet about complex geopolitical affairs that they don't know anything about..." says a Twitter user.
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Why are they so specific about Kashmir? First they refer to an imaginary place like m'gota, but the next moment they mention Kashmir. Its better to keep quiet about complex geopolitical affairs that they don't know anything about
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"USA (is) only strong in animation movie" says another.
Some Twitter users have poked fun at Superman and USA's war on terror in Afghanistan that met a disasterous end in August this year.
How about superman, Wonderwoman & DC doing something about Afghanistan
— Mukesh à¤°à¤¾à¤£à¥ (@Rane4MVP) October 18, 2021
What a mess.. Superman couldn't save afganistan.. Went home defeated.#afghanistancrisis
— India Aces Always (@IndiaAcesalways) October 19, 2021
Some comments says that Superman and Wonder Woman are seen destroying a specific type of fighter jet that neither India nor Pakistan possesses.


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Swedish plant-based seafood startup Hooked recently launched its alternative tuna product Toonish in the Swedish market, and fresh off that success, the company is planning to launch a salmon product internationally next year.
Tuna is a good way to enter the market, but salmon could be the real breakthrough, Hooked Chief Marketing Officer Monika Werthen told IntraFish.
The Stockholm-based company is young, but gaining momentum: the group recently raised €3.8 million ($4.4 million) from Swedish venture capital firm Brightly Ventures, German-based Oyster Bay Venture Capital and Swedish pop artist Danny Saucedo, the proceeds of which will go towards marketing, product development and recruitment.
Tuna is a well-known product and is technically simple to develop, making it a good product to launch with, Werthen said. The company has its product in Swedish retailers, including Coop, Citygross, Mathem and some ICA stores, and is working on increasing its distribution in the foodservice segment.
However, the larger salmon market is more versatile and could have a significant market impact, she said. Werthen declined to disclose which countries and retailers it aims to target for its international salmon plans.
Salmon’s high-protein ratio and omega-3 content make the product more challenging to develop, Werthen conceded.
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The alternative seafood and meat sectors have not yet found a way to produce fillet-like pieces of protein. “No one has cracked the code on that yet,” Werthen said.
As a result, Hook's first salmon product will be in a shredded format.
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The plant-based meat sector has managed to grow rapidly during the last few years, and companies such as US-based Beyond Meat and Impossible Foods, UK-based Quorn and Sweden-based Oumph have gone from startups to global phenomenons.
Yet, plant-based meat only makes up 2 percent of the total meat sector and plant-based seafood accounts for an even smaller part of that. That means significant headroom to grow, Werthen said.
Year to date, $116 million (€99.5 million) has been raised globally by alternative seafood companies, which already surpasses the total investment of $26 million (€22.3 million) last year. Seafood will be the fastest-growing category of animal protein over the next decade, according to the Good Food Institute (GFI).
To tackle the market, a slew of new companies are popping up, putting Hooked in a competitive space. Aside from traditional seafood, rivals for market share include some of Quorn’s product range, Dutch sushi alternative Zeastar, Nestle’s new plant-based shrimp Vrimp and Dutch startup Monkeys by the Sea brand, just to name a few European companies.
Globally, the numbers grow even more rapidly, with some companies -- such as plant-based shrimp supplier New Wave Foods -- having major backers such as meat giant Tyson.
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Hooked wants to move the discussion on ocean health, overfishing and seafood regulations higher up on governments’ agendas.
“We need to have a bigger discussion about the planet’s health, and a bigger focus on plant-based food is one step closer a more sustainable way of living,” Werthen said.
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A kilo of the company’s Toonish product produces around 2.7 kilos of carbon dioxide (CO₂) emissions, Werthen said. The calculations are based on data from Beyond Burger, Quorn and Oumph, which all use similar ingredients and processes.
By comparison, Norwegian salmon produces 7 kilos of CO₂ per kilo of salmon before reaching its destination, Atli Gregersen, CEO of Faroese salmon farmer Hiddenfjord, which is making a major shift away from airfreight, told IntraFish earlier this month.
Flying salmon from Norway to the US East Coast adds another 7 kilos of carbon dioxide, and flying salmon to Asia, emissions can reach as much as 15-20 kilos of CO₂ emissions per kilo of salmon, Gregersen said.
Reduction, not deletion
Werthen said that despite competing against seafood in the marketplace and targeting plant-based foods' inherent sustainability advantages, Hooked is not interested in stopping consumers from eating fish entirely, but rather to reduce consumption significantly.
“Fish is an important food group for many people," she said. "But consumers need to be able to make informed choices and have good plant-based options."
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Hooked turned over just SEK 260,000 (€25,900/$30,200) last year and expects to reach SEK 1 million (€99,779/$116,349) turnover in 2021. It's a small figure, but the company aims to increase its turnover tenfold by end of 2022. Management cannot yet disclose when it aims to break even.
Hooked plans to raise a Series-A financing round during the summer of 2022. Werthen could not comment further on the pending round’s size or stake offer. The company aims to re-invest all proceed and has no exit plans to date, she said.
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WASHINGTON (CNN) -- President Barack Obama rebuffed his successor, Donald Trump, on Wednesday by issuing a vocal defense of the White House press corps, insisting the reporters who covered his administration were an essential facet of a functioning democracy.
"We are accountable to the people who send us here. And you have done it," Obama said. "You're not supposed to be sycophants. You're supposed to be skeptics."
His remarks stood in direct contrast to the incoming president, who has lambasted news organzations reporting on his transition as reporting "fake news."
Trump's team has floated the possibility of moving press briefings out of the West Wing, though on Wednesday Trump's press secretary Sean Spicer said his first briefing on Monday would take place in the traditional room.
Obama argued Wednesday that having reporters in the West Wing was an essential facet of a functioning Democracy.
"Having you in this building has made this place work better," Obama said.
Wednesday's news conference is the final time Obama is expected to speak in public before he departs the US Capitol on Friday as an ex-president. His choice of venue is telling -- Trump's team has floated the possibility of scrapping the White House briefing room for a larger venue.
His concluding news conference comes amid a flurry of last-minute activity, including handing down a commutation for national security leaker Chelsea Manning and a pardon for Gen. James Cartwright, convicted of lying to investigators in a leak probe.
Obama defended the decision to commute Chelsea Manning's sentence, saying that she served a "tough prison sentence." He said he looked at the particulars of the case the same way he had any other person whose sentence he had commuted.
"I felt that in light of all the circumstances, that commuting her sentence was entirely appropriate," Obama said from the briefing room.
Obama was continuing a tradition of taking reporters' questions for a final time before departing office.
George W. Bush held his final news conference a week before leaving office, reflecting on some of the disappointments of his administration but also defending the controversial decisions he made over two terms in the White House.
Unlike Bush, Obama is leaving office with near-record approval ratings. A CNN/ORC poll released Wednesday showed 60% of Americans approve of the job he's doing as president.


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Everyone assumes that car insurance is useful only when a claim for damages or loss is filed. However, making any claim can also benefit you with a bonus not a claim (NCB). This bonus is the kind of bonus that insurance companies offer to their policyholders to make any claim in the policy year. It generally starts at 20% and has accumulated a maximum of 50% with each year free of claim.
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India's railway system is the world's third largest, but is wracked by problems
By Muneeza Naqvi	• Published January 22, 2017 • Updated on January 22, 2017 at 3:24 am
An overnight passenger train derailed in southern India, killing at least 32 people and injuring 50 others in the latest accident to hit the country's massive, disaster-prone rail network.
Seven coaches of the Hirakand Express were thrown off the tracks around midnight Saturday, some landing on a goods train that was on a parallel track, said Divisional Railway manager Chandralekha Mukherji.
Rescue workers were trying to cut open the mangled coaches Sunday morning near the Kuneru railway station in the Vizianagram district of Andhra Pradesh state. The train was traveling between Jagdalpur in Chhattisgarh state to Bhuvaneshawar in Orissa.
J.P. Misra, the chief press officer of the East Coast Railways, said that the toll could rise further as many people were still trapped. An investigation is underway.
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India's railway system is the world's third largest, but is severely hampered by a lack of modern signaling and communication systems as well as poor maintenance of tracks and equipment. Manual signaling is still used at several places, raising the risk of human error.
According to a government report in 2012, about 15,000 people are killed every year in train accidents. The worst occurred in 1981, when a train fell into the Baghmati River in northern India, killing nearly 800 people.
Prime Minister Narendra Modi pledged last year to invest $137 billion over the next five years to modernize the railway network, which is used by about 23 million passengers a day.
On Sunday, Modi tweeted his condolences for those killed in the most recent accident and said that the railway ministry was monitoring the situation closely.
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Officials arrested 680 people during Wednesday's operation targeting seven chicken processing plants in Mississippi
By Jeff Amy	• Published August 9, 2019 • Updated on August 9, 2019 at 10:30 pm
Six of seven Mississippi chicken processing plants raided Wednesday were "willfully and unlawfully" employing people who lacked authorization to work in the United States, including workers wearing electronic monitoring bracelets at work for previous immigration violations, according to unsealed court documents.
Federal investigators behind the biggest immigration raid in a decade relied on confidential informants inside the plants in addition to data from the monitoring bracelets to help make their case, according to the documents.
The sworn statements supported the search warrants that led a judge to authorize Wednesday's raids, and aren't official charges, but give the first detailed look at the evidence involved in what Immigration and Customs Enforcement officials have described as a yearlong investigation.
Officials arrested 680 people during Wednesday's operation. Three Democratic congressmen demanded Friday that the Department of Homeland Security and the Department of Justice produce information. They want to know the cost of the raids, whether employers face criminal charges, whether any U.S. citizens were detained, how many parents were separated from children and whether any still remain separated.
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The statements unsealed Thursday allege that managers at two processing plants owned by the same Chinese man actively participated in fraud. They also show that supervisors at other plants at least turned a blind eye to evidence strongly suggesting job applicants were using fraudulent documents and bogus Social Security numbers.
The documents say electronic monitoring bracelet data shows people previously arrested for immigration violations and not allowed to work in the U.S. were working at all seven plants raided.
There have historically been few criminal convictions for hiring people without documents because prosecutors must prove employers knowingly hired someone without legal work authorization. Employers often say they were fooled by fraudulent documents.
From October 2018 to May there were eight new prosecutions for hiring people working illegally and four new convictions nationwide. Among those who have been sentenced to prison are the owner of an Iowa meatpacking plant raided in 2008 and owner of a Tennessee meatpacking plant raided last year.
Companies can also face administrative fines based on audits of I-9 forms, which employees fill out when they're hired, presenting documents to prove they can work legally work.
Investigators allege the most brazen fraud took place at two smaller chicken processing plants — PH Food Inc. in Morton and A&B Inc. in Pelahatchie. Sworn statements identify Huo You Liang of California, known to Mississippi employees as Victor, as owner of both.
A PH Food employee, acting as a confidential informant, told Homeland Security investigators that the vast majority of the 240 employees at PH's plant in Morton and the 80 employees at A&B's plant in Pelahatchie didn't have proper work documents, including many Guatemalans.
The informant said employees used their real names and made-up Social Security numbers to apply for jobs at PH and A&B. "The payroll companies, as well as PH Food Inc. and A&B Inc. do not verify the authenticity of their documents," the informant told investigators. Mississippi state law requires employers to check documents using E-Verify, an otherwise voluntary online federal system.
Calls to A&B and PH Food on Friday went unanswered.
The evidence also included a video and audio conversation involving secretary Heather Carrillo and the informant, recorded May 14 at PH in Morton. A summary says, "Carrillo said that she was looking for some 'papers' for 'Iris,' but 'Iris wasn't going anywhere because she was working with Victor (Huo You Liang) for a good time (duration of employment).'" It says Carrillo said A&B manager Salvador Delgado didn't want it reported because Carrillo knew which of his employees were real and which were fraudulent.
The agent notes investigators believe Delgado was embezzling money from A&B by adding fraudulent names and Social Security numbers to the payroll and keeping the proceeds.
The warrants state PH Food uses Personnel Management Inc. of Shreveport, Louisiana, to process payroll and perform some human resource functions, and that investigators believed Liang and Carrillo tried to use the contractor to minimize responsibility for illegally employing workers.
Officials earlier stated that in addition to the chicken plants, they executed a search warrant in Louisiana on Wednesday. ICE spokesman Bryan Cox declined Friday to confirm that Personnel Management had been searched. The company didn't respond Friday to a phone message and email.
Search warrants for some other poultry plants also indicate red flags about employees' status.
One woman told agents that a Spanish-speaking human resources employee at Koch Foods in Morton looked at two different IDs in three weeks. Ana Santizo-Tapia of Guatemala also told agents that a Koch supervisor asked if she had an ankle bracelet. Told yes, "he said it was okay, but she needed to keep it charged," according to the warrant. The supervisor "stated that he knew 'they' were poor and came to the United States to work."
Another Koch employee said she worked at one plant in Morton for 11 months under a false name, and then got a job at the town's second Koch plant under her real name after receiving valid U.S. documents.
Koch said in a statement Friday that the Illinois company has a "strict and thorough employment verification policy" and knows of no managers or supervisors arrested.
A human resources employee at Peco Foods plant in Bay Springs plant talked to an ICE informant about people hired twice under different names, according to the warrant application. The human resources employee stated that "Peco Foods management does not care."
A Friday statement from Peco said the company relies on E-Verify and "adheres strongly to all local, state and federal laws."
Associated Press writers Elliot Spagat and Janet McConnaughey and data journalist Angeliki Kastanis contributed.
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Noor Salman trial: Defense witnesses tell jurors about Pulse gunman's secrets and lies
By Gal Tziperman Lotan and Krista Torralva
Mar 26, 2018 at 4:30 PM
Jurors in the trial of Noor Salman heard Monday about the secrets her husband Omar Mateen kept prior to the 2016 mass shooting at Pulse nightclub — including his infidelity.
The testimony comes as defense lawyers work to convince Salman’s jury that her husband, a manipulator and abuser, was leading a secret life about which his wife was unaware. The defense is expected to rest its case Tuesday, followed by closing arguments in the trial Wednesday.
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A verdict could come as soon as this week.
Among the witnesses called to testify for Salman’s defense were two women with whom Mateen had trysts outside of his marriage; the friend he told his parents he was going to dine with when he left home to commit the massacre; and friends of Salman, who described her as well-meaning and naive.
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Prosecutors rested their case against Salman on Thursday. The defense began calling its witnesses Monday. First up was a longtime friend of Mateen’s, referred to only as “Nemo.”
On June 11, 2016, Salman and Mateen both told Mateen's parents that he could not come to a mosque for Ramadan dinner because he was dining with Nemo instead. In reality, Nemo was in Baltimore at the time.
"I was very shocked and horrified, but I wasn't surprised because I know he had used that excuse before, seeing me," Nemo said.
Noor Salman listens to testimony on March 19, 2018, about statements she made in the aftermath of the Pulse attack. Agents said she eventually confessed to a role in plotting the massacre. (Courtesy of Charles Treadwell)
Prosecutors argue Salman and Mateen worked together to concoct the cover story they gave Mateen’s parents. Salman’s defense says Mateen lied to his wife as well as his parents, telling her he was going to see his friend when he left their Fort Pierce apartment the evening of June 11, 2016.
The defense contends Mateen had previously claimed to be with Nemo when he was actually cheating on his wife with other women. In his testimony today, Nemo said Mateen used to talk about cheating on Salman when he and Nemo would go to the gym together in 2015.
The defense also called some of Salman’s childhood friends to testify, as well as two women who said they had trysts with Mateen. Both of the women testified under pseudonyms.
One woman, who described their relationship as “brief flirtation,” said she met Mateen because her best friend lived in the subdivision where Mateen was a security guard.
She knew he had a child but did not know he was still married.
A second woman said she met Mateen on Plenty of Fish, an online dating service, and did not know he was married. She said they met at her apartment twice. "I found out that he was 29 years old. He told me he was 40,” she said. “And he told me his father would not approve of me because I was Jewish."
Jurors also heard from Laurie Jaber, who was a bridesmaid at the couple’s wedding. Jaber said she last spoke to Salman four days before the Pulse shooting. Salman was excited to have recently passed her driving test, and because of a planned trip to California.
“She was very ecstatic, very thrilled,” Jaber said.
Another friend, testifying under a pseudonym, said Salman called her twice on June 11, 2016, the eve of the massacre. Salman asked the woman, who lives in California, what sizes her kids were, so that she could buy them presents to bring with her on the trip.
In the second call, Salman spoke about being asked by Mateen’s family to go to the mosque that night. Mateen wasn’t going, and Salman didn’t want to go either, the friend testified.
"Her voice sounded different, she sounded upset or disappointed," the woman said.
Salman’s lawyers also called a forensic consultant, in order to undermine a key piece of the government’s case: statements Salman made to the FBI indicating she knew her husband was planning to attack Pulse, having visited it with him before the attack and seen him looking at its website.
The jury already heard testimony last week from an FBI agent who said it was unlikely that visit occurred. Salman’s smartphone “had never been near” the nightclub and most of the couple’s movements on June 8, 2016, were accounted for by cellphone data and receipts, the agent said.
On Monday, the defense’s cyber-forensic consultant told jurors he found no evidence that Salman or Mateen's computers or cell phones ever visited Pulse's website, including on June 10, when Salman told Special Agent Ricardo Enriquez she’s seen her husband looking at it.
According to Enriquez’s transcription of Salman’s statement, she had claimed Mateen said “this is my target” while looking at the nightclub’s website.
The testimony comes the day after Salman’s defense filed a motion seeking to have the case dismissed, due to evidence her lawyers argue prosecutors failed to disclose before the trial begain — including that Mateen’s father was an informant for the FBI. U.S. District Judge denied that motion Monday.
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Salman, 31, is accused of obstruction of justice and aiding and abetting Omar Mateen’s providing material support to a foreign terrorism organization.
Her defense attorneys have said they plan to tell jurors that Salman was diagnosed with PTSD because of Mateen’s domestic abuse. In her opening statements, defense attorney Linda Moreno said Salman is a “trusting, simple” person with a low IQ, who did not know she would be widowed because her husband became “a martyr for a cause that she didn’t support.”
Stay with OrlandoSentinel.com as the trial continues.
glotan@orlandosentinel.com, 407-420-5774, or Twitter @tzigal; ktorralva@orlandosentinel.com, 407-420-5417 or Twitter @KMTorralva


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Security operatives have arrested two suspects for allegedly defrauding the German state of North Rhine-Westphalia of €2.3 million COVID-19 fund.
In a statement on Sunday, Frank Mba, spokesperson of the Nigeria police, said the fund was meant for the procurement of personal protective equipment (PPE).
The suspects, Babatunde Adesanya, 50-year-old master degree holder in cell biology, and Akinpelu Abass, 41-year-old managing director of Musterpoint Investment Nigeria Limited, were arrested by the cybercrime unit of the Nigeria police force and INTERPOL.
The suspects, who are said to be members of a transnational criminal network, were alleged to have cloned the corporate website of ILBN Holdings BV, Holland, to defraud one Freiherr Fredrick Von Hahn, a representative of the German state.
“Discrete investigations by INTERPOL Nigeria revealed that the suspects and their Holland-based cohorts, one Eduardus Boomstra and Geradius Maulder specialized in identity theft, cyber-stalking, cloning of corporate websites amongst other cyber mischiefs to defraud unsuspecting members of the public across the world,” Mba said.
“In this instance, the suspects fraudulently obtained from Mr Freiherr Fredrick Von Hahn the sum of 1.5m Euro and another 880,000 Euro as advanced payment for the supply of COVID-19 PPEs valued at 14.7million Euros. Disturbed by the non-arrival of the PPEs, Mr Freiherr Fredrick Von Hahn eventually visited the corporate office of ILBN Holdings BV in Holland to inquire reasons for the delay in supplying the items only to find out that the company never did business with him and that the transaction was a scam.
“The fraudsters merely cloned the company’s website and falsely presented themselves as representatives of the company before subsequently executing the fraudulent transaction. Consequently, he reported the case of fraud to the Police in Holland and this led to the arrest of Eduardus Boomstra and Geradius Maulder in Holland and investigations extended to Nigeria.
“Investigation by INTERPOL Nigeria further revealed that Babatunde Adesanya received 498,000 Euro from Eduardus Boomstra and Geradius Maulder through his Citibank London account and transferred same to an account number domiciled with a Lagos branch of a leading commercial bank in Nigeria belonging to Musterpoint Investment Nig. Ltd.”
Mba said the suspects will be arraigned in a court as soon as possible.
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The internet has done great things to help us market ourselves as photographers, and social media in specific has made it possible for us to reach a large audience even easier. It is a double-edged sword though. While it's true that you can reach more people now, the same is true for everyone else. The social media space has become very crowded and the perceived barriers to entry in becoming a “photographer” have gone down significantly because of this.
Standing Out
How do you stand out marketing yourself as a photographer online, then? Well, that is a whole other discussion, but I would suggest that a good place to start is to go “back to the basics” and adapt an offline component to your marketing strategy. Let's quickly recall a few of the online marketing strategies that we use today, along with a few buzzwords that have become commonplace:
Social media
Social networking
Engagement on Facebook
Content marketing on our blogs
RT's and @ mentions of other businesses on Twitter
What would it look like if we stripped away the “online” component to these terms and strategies?
Social media
Social networking
Engagement on Facebook
Content marketing on our blogs
RT's and @ mentions of other businesses on Twitter
We're left with media, networking, engagement, content marketing and relationship building. It's no surprise that these are the foundations of “traditional” business marketing, and we've just adapted them to social media and the internet. A lot of the time, though, we've forgotten about the roots of where they came from. Let's explore.
Media is defined as the main means of mass communication (television, radio, newspapers).
Networking means to interact with other people to exchange information and develop contacts, especially to further one's career.
Engagement is a marketing strategy that directly engages consumers and invites and encourages them to participate in the evolution of a brand.
Content marketing is defined as providing consistent, high-quality content that solves people's problems.
Relationship building is a marketing strategy that recognizes the long-term value of relationships and extends communication beyond intrusive advertising and sales promotional messages.
The Foundations of Marketing
Using these marketing foundations as a starting point, I would suggest the following 5 ways that you can use the basics of business marketing to increase your local awareness offline and ultimately get more business: speaking, networking, press, co-marketing and direct-mail.
I am a big believer in the idea of being specific, giving examples and taking action on what we learn. All articles that I write for my educational website Sprouting Photographer ends with an “action item” that gives a specific point of follow-up. For this article, I'd like to give 18 examples of how you can put into play each of these 5 marketing basics right away.
Speaking
Give a presentation to a local business clubs re: business portraits.
Give a presentation to the local Rotary Club about what you do as a photographer.
Present to a Mom group re: family and child portraits.
Put on a workshop to teach the basics of photography at the library.
Networking
Seek out local business associations such as the Chamber of Commerce or a local BIA and become a regular attendee to the networking meetings. Focus on building relationships and not just handing out business cards.
Personally reach out to local business owners and connect one-on-one. See how you can help each other.
Attend local niche trade shows and network with the organizers, sponsors and businesses. If you specialize in family portraits for example, a “home show” would likely have many businesses that serve a similar market as you do. This would be a great networking opportunity.
Press
Donate to a cause and attach your name to a newsworthy event/charity.
Volunteer your time locally.
Offer help to the local media – maybe they need photographs, or perhaps they'd like your opinion on a photograph-related topic.
Send press releases once you've built an established relationship with the local paper.
Offer to write a column in the paper.
Co-Marketing
Offer to decorate local businesses with wall portraits and wall art. Display your business card with it.
Run a promotion with a local business that has a similar audience as yours. You can share each in each other's customer base.
Exchange a stack of business cards with local like-minded business owners and offer to help market each other.
Offer a local business a few gift certificates to give their top-tier clients as a gift from them.
Direct-Mail Postcard Mailings
Come up with a specific, time-sensitive offer and mail it to 10,000 homes in the area via a post-card drop.
Repetition is key – plan to do one per month for at least 6 months.
Creating a well-rounded marketing plan is crucial for long-term success as a photographer. We need to include online and offline marketing strategies to ensure that we are in front of as many prospective clients as possible. The ultimate testimony to a consistent offline local marketing initiative is when your clients start telling you that they “see you everywhere” – that is a well-executed branding and awareness campaign!
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Sex after a vasectomy shouldn't be any different than it was before the procedure. The surgery doesn't touch the blood vessels or nerves involved in erections and ejaculation, and it doesn't reduce a man's ability to have or enjoy sex. It only eliminates fertility. Vasectomy should have no effect on:
Sex drive
The ability to have or maintain erections
Ejaculation
Orgasms
Testosterone level
Sex drive after a vasectomy
Testicles produce the male hormone testosterone, which plays an important role in maintaining a man's libido. The vasectomy procedure only impacts the flow of sperm through the vas deferens and doesn't change the amount of testosterone the testicles release into the bloodstream. Testosterone levels post-surgery should be exactly the same as they were before the procedure.
If you notice a drop in sex drive after vasectomy, contact your doctor. This could be caused by other factors, such as:
Drug or alcohol abuse
Medications, usually SSRI antidepressants such as Prozac or Paxil, or drugs for high blood pressure (such as beta blockers)
Fatigue or stress
Erections after a vasectomy
There should be no change in your ability to achieve and maintain erections because the various vasectomy procedures don't touch the blood vessels or nerves involved in erections. But erectile dysfunction could signal other serious problems, such as heart disease or diabetes. Talk to your doctor if you have difficulty achieving or maintaining an erection post-vasectomy.
Ejaculation after a Vasectomy
Typically, the only thing that's different after a vasectomy is that sperm is missing from the semen. And sperm make up a very small percentage (less than 5 percent) of the ejaculate, so you shouldn't notice any change in its color or consistency. The glands that produce most of the semen—such as the seminal vesicles and the prostate—function exactly as they did before the procedure.
References
Bartz D., & Greenberg J.A. Sterilization in the United States. Rev Obstet Gynecol. 2008; 1(1):23-32.
Bertero E., Hallak J., Gromatzky C., et al. Assessment of sexual function in patients undergoing vasectomy using the international index of erectile function. Int Braz J Urol. 2005; 31(5):452-8.
Cutie C.J., & Ongaro T.J. Patient information: Vasectomy (Beyond the Basics). UpToDate. 2012.
Glina S., Sharlip I.D., & Hellstrom W.J. Modifying Risk Factors to Prevent and Treat Erectile Dysfunction. J Sex Med. 2012; 10(1):115-119.


Butterflies and moths (order Lepidoptera) are one of the most diverse animal groups. To date, scientists have found as many as 5,000 species from the Alps alone. Having been a place of intensive research interest for 250 years, it is considered quite a sensation if a previously unknown species is discovered from the mountain range these days. This was the case when a Swiss-Austrian team of researchers described a new species of alpine moth in the open-access, peer-reviewed journal Alpine Entomology, solving a 180-year-old mystery.
Decades of research work
Initially, the team -- Jürg Schmid, a full-time dentist, author and passionate butterfly and moth researcher from Switzerland, and Peter Huemer, head of the natural science collections of the Tyrolean State Museums in Innsbruck and author of more than 400 publications, needed a lot of patience.
Almost thirty years ago, in the 1990s, the two researchers independently discovered the same moth species. While they found it was similar to a moth of the leaf-roller family Tortricidae and commonly named as Dichrorampha montanana which had been known to science since 1843, it was also clearly different. Wing pattern and internal morphology of genitalia structures supported a two-species hypothesis. Moreover, the two were found at the same time in the same places -- a further indication that they belong to separate species. Extensive genetic investigations later confirmed this hypothesis, but the journey of presenting a new species to science was far from over.
The Hidden Alpine Moth
To "baptise" a new species and give it its own name, scientists first have to check that it hasn't already been named. This prevents the same species from having two different names, and essentially means looking at descriptions of similar species and comparing the new one against them to prove it is indeed unknown to science. In the case of this new moth, there were six potentially applicable older names that had to be ruled out before it could be named as new.
Intensive and time-consuming research of original specimens in the nature museums of Paris, Berlin, Frankfurt and London eventually led to the finding that all six ancient names actually referred to one and the same species -- Dichrorampha alpestrana, which has been known since 1843 and had to be adopted as the valid older name for Dichrorampha montanana as having been described a couple of months earlier. Similarly, all other available names proved to belong to Dichrorampha alpestrana. The species discovered by Schmid and Huemer, however, was different, not yet named, and could finally be described as new to science. The authors chose to name it Dichrorampha velata -- the Latin species name means "veiled" or "hidden," pointing to the complicated story behind its discovery.
Lots of unanswered questions
The Hidden Alpine Moth is a striking species with a wingspan of up to 16 mm and a characteristic olive-brown color of the forewings with silvery lines. It belongs to a group of mainly diurnal moths and is particularly common locally in colorful mountain flower meadows. For now, we know that its distribution extends at least from Salzburg and Tyrol through southern Switzerland and the Jura to the French and Italian Alps, with isolated finds known from the Black Forest in Germany, but the researchers believe it might have a wider range in Central Europe.
Read more at Science Daily
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