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Matt Hoaglin – Episode 002 – A Photographer Podcast Interview
www.matthoaglin.com
www.allisonragsdalephotography.com
@allisonragsdale
In this episode Matt Hoaglin talks about how running paid instagram, Facebook and Snapchat ads is making a huge difference in his business. Tune in to learn how he is converting these ads into paying customers.
Here is a free video on what he is doing: https://get.matthoaglin.com/get-clients-now-video/
Matt also talks about how he is seeing some photographers go back to a 9-5 job and why that is good and bad for you.
Dave Ramsey Financial Peace University (https://www.daveramsey.com/fpu)
Books to Read:
Profit First: http://a.co/d/7sj5fEq
Book yourself Solid: http://a.co/d/5ojewWv
Never eat alone: http://a.co/d/1K3CUtH
DigitalMarketer.com
Digit App: http://a.co/d/1K3CUtH
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Intro: [00:00] Welcome to from nothing to profit, a photographer's podcast with Matt and Kia, where each week they talk to photographers about what is working in their business now so you can swipe those ideas and grow your business faster. Okay. Welcome back everyone.
Kia: [00:17] Two from nothing to profit. This is Kia Bondurant and I'm going to be interviewing my cohost, Matt Hoaglin today. Hi Matt. How are you? Very good. So I, uh, we already recorded my interview and I didn't know if I would like this as much, but I think I like being the boss better. I'm like, Ooh, now I'm in charge, so I get to talk about you.
Matt: [00:42] That's, that's perfect. You can be in charge of whatever you want, like we talked about in your interview. I can outsource everything to you.
Kia: [00:51] That's funny. No. So I'm Matt, you and your wife Allison Ragsdale, photography and drink. Oh, Colorado. And that supports both of you and allison. Uh, even though she's not on this, we'll talk about her. She's fantastic. She never wanted to do anything besides be a photographer. So she started out being a photographer from the very beginning. Is that right?
Matt: [01:13] Right from the very beginning she went to college and got her degree in photography and we started the business like the week she got out of college
Kia: [01:19] and so you're more like me. You actually, we both have education degrees, although yours is a high school math and you managed a camera store and now you run the marketing and the operations of your photography studio.
Matt: [01:33] Yeah, exactly. So Alice and I actually met at that camera store, her part time job when she was so cool. Was that the camera store? So we met there and started dating and then eventually moved to Durango and got married and built. Built a business and stuff together. But yeah, so I taught high school math for awhile, which was really awesome. But I'm really glad I stopped doing that at the same time. Yeah. Now I just run like, like you said, operations and marketing for our business. So make sure that the phone rings in the calendar, gets booked so that she can go out and photograph.
Kia: [02:01] Yeah. And you're able to build your life around what you love to do.
Matt: [02:05] So one of my passions, just total side note, one of my passions is fly fishing and so what I love about the business that we've built as I'm a I, I fly fish at least one day a week if not more. That's awesome because I can do it on a random Wednesday when there's nobody else on the river and I love the business that we built and the lifestyle that it's given us for sure.
Kia: [02:24] Yeah. And I think that that's really good to bring that up because as photographers and as small business owners and entrepreneurs with this podcast, our goal is to teach people to go from nothing to profit, but part of that is making a business that works around who you are and who you want to be.
Matt: [02:42] That's definitely not good going from like entrepreneur to like business slave, you know, like that's not the goal. It's definitely, you know, to build a business that allow, that provides your lifestyle that you want, whatever that is. The lifestyle that and I wanted to build is we wanted to work together and be able to take vacations and stuff together. And if we're working at two different, that would've never happened. And so it was really important for us to be on those exact same schedule. And that's what we built.
Kia: [03:06] Yeah. And one that you can take off whenever it's convenient for you and you don't have to worry about spring breaks or summer vacations or things like that.
Matt: [03:14] Yeah. And we were just now after like 11 years of business trying to figure out how to like vacation and do things separately because we do so much stuff together. We traveled together a lot. Um, and this December I'm actually, uh, I have a week long fly fishing trip in Mexico for salt water fishing and she's not going so it'll be really interesting to see what it's like to have a whole seven days with just my buddies and not have her there because like I said, the business and life we built was to spend a lot of time together. So it's, it's exciting to see what this, what this will bring.
Kia: [03:46] It'd be fun to see what she does in her seven days without you too.
Matt: [03:49] I know and she's such a, she's such a foodie person that I'm a, I think that she's going to end up going somewhere where there's like crazy good food for a week with her friends and you know, she'll probably in the wine bill will probably be huge, but that's okay. Don't show love every minute of it.
Kia: [04:05] That's funny. You know, in my interview we didn't really talk about this, but you know, my studio is built so that I go to work three days a week and then I can leave whenever I need to and I have four kids and that's kind of how my life has been built around making it work for them. So I started out as a photographer just right out of college and then had kids and I was a full time photographer all the way through, but I've always worked my business around my family and what I wanted to do with them and so that I can be at everything that they do. So that's awesome. Well that's fun. So it's kind of fun with these interviews to see where things go. That was a bit of a rabbit trail, but I think it's really valuable to know how we structure our lives to make it so that works for us. Okay. So, uh, Matt, here's my next question for you and I'd love for you to share some of your expertise. What is the area of expertise that you are known for both maybe Allison Ragsdale and just Hugh Hoaglin as well?
Matt: [05:06] Yes, I'll start with the studio. So we're mostly a senior portrait studio. We've, we do a lot of family pictures and headshots now, but that grew out of our senior business where, you know, where you were like, Oh, here we have 100 seniors this year, we're photographing, how can we get them back so we don't have to market to them again because they're already clients. And so we're like, well, we're going to photograph their family pictures and so that Kinda grew into this big family business. And then of course that has its own referrals. And then we did, uh, we, we kind of fell into headshots, professional headshots a lot because a lot of our parents of our kids were business owners or you know, doing the weather. They had a side hustle or they own their own business. We said, hey, can you do some head shots for me?
Matt: [05:48] And were like, course we, that kind of grew as well. And then we do a few weddings a year and most of that's our high school seniors eventually grow up, go to college, get. And so they have us photograph their weddings as well. So we don't do a lot of weddings. I mean like a busy year of weddings is 10, but we do a few and so we kind of have, we kind of have a business that does a little bit of everything, but it all stems from our senior portrait business where that's most of our energy and our focus and our marketing all goes into that. Yeah. Separate than that, I'm, I'm kind of known. I'm in the speaking world for marketing. I have spoken a number of conferences. That's where you and I first met and I spent a lot of my day here at Allison ragsdale photography, like trying to figure out how to make the phone ring and how to book up the calendar so that we can have the lifestyle we want and everybody stays busy and the bills get paid and through that I've come up with some really cool marketing ideas that I've been able to share with the photography community and I think that's what people know me most for some people do know me for like business operations as well because I have some advice there, but I would definitely say my passion is teaching photographers how to market so that they can make
Kia: [06:55] more money. Well, and when I think of how you've helped me in my business, just from when we first met, sat down and talked and I feel like it's the marketing side, but from a, like a systematic approach. So it's kind of business operations and marketing put together so that it all works, you know, in a, in a system and it's, it's easily duplicatable.
Matt: [07:20] Yeah. And so the way I. There's two things that are really important to me and marketing of which tie right into that. One of them is consistency. I want systems in place so that marketing consistently happens, so it doesn't just. It's not like a rollercoaster where you know your market and you get some clients and then you work with all those clients and then when they're all done and they've ordered, you have no clients again because you didn't have any time to market. So I want consistency in marketing so that it just flows. People keep falling in no matter how busy we are. And then the other thing is I view marketing as a really simple idea. It's basically moving one person from one conversation to the next conversation, so maybe they just have some general questions and then I want to answer those questions and move them onto the next question or the next conversation. That's important. And so, you know, they may show up in their conversation, they're ready to have is, you know, where are we going to go take pictures. But by the time they come to order, I want them to be thinking about what they want to order as well. So you know, there's definitely, there's systems there as well to move people along so that they're always knowing what's going on and they're always educated and we're always, you know, always on the same page. So it does feel very systematic because I view marketing as very systematic.
Kia: [08:31] Yeah. It's kind of like the order of operations. There's some song or what's, what's the order of operations? So
Matt: [08:39] yeah. Well we just, when I taught at, we just called it Pem dos.
Kia: [08:42] Nice. Yeah. Yeah. I have a great video to send you a one of the kids I know who did a. made up a song to Das. Yes. Fantastic.
Matt: [08:54] Yeah, exactly. I never did songs
Kia: [08:56] in my classroom because I never went there, but we could do a order, a order of marketing operations song.
Matt: [09:04] Yeah. Well if we, if we find a really good one, maybe we'll link it in the show notes, but we'll spare all these photographers, although
Kia: [09:13] that would be fantastic.
Matt: [09:16] Yeah. Maybe next time, next time we speak together, maybe we can do that
Kia: [09:19] song and dance. All right matt. So my next question for you is tell us a story of what is working now in your business.
Matt: [09:27] So what's working right now is that we spent a lot of time, a little over the last couple of years building lead generation tools and our business and that and I just talked about that a little bit about how we want a system where we're leads and people are coming into our business even when we're busy and we don't have time to market, you know, for say market. We've built a lot of lead generation tools like what to wear guides and location guides that people can download and basically they just, they trade their information with us to be able to download that information to answer they're pressing questions and that's been working really well because then then our customer service can just kick in and we can just call them and just say, Hey, saw you downloaded our guide. You know, how can we help? And then get them in for a consultation and the whole thing happens.
Matt: [10:09] So that's one part of it is that we have these tools that help customers raise their hand and let us let us know that they're interested in photography, which makes our marketing a lot easier. And then the other part then the other part that's working really well is that we're running facebook and instagram ads to that and recently snapchat ads as well to those downloads and tools. That's been super powerful because the amount of people you can reach with with a facebook or instagram ad and the power of targeting is really, really awesome. So those two things are really working really great in our business right now and I probably wouldn't trade them for anything
Kia: [10:45] for sure. Yeah. I'm actually truly jealous of your lead generation process and I know you've told me how to do it and I've sat down and worked on it, but it's something that, uh, is, takes time to put together and put in place. But I know that it's working well for you and it will work well for anyone in the photography industry. And I'll, and I'll share it
Matt: [11:05] lincoln, the show notes where people can go watch a free video, you know, and kind of see what we're doing and then I have a full class on it, but they're all linked, allegra free video in the show notes so that people, if they're interested in and building lead generation tools and how we do it, they can, they can see exactly.
Kia: [11:20] That would be great because I think that a lot of people, once they hear what it is and understand what it is, they can see how it's worked on them and then they can see how that can work for their, um, to bring clients into their business. So here's my next question for you then. What is the one thing that you are most fired up about in our industry today? Like what gets you excited when it comes to our industry?
Matt: [11:42] So right now I think there's two things that are happening that are, I'm really excited about and I think a lot of photographers are actually really struggling with it. But one of the things that's happening in our businesses consolidation, and since you and I have been in the industry for so long, we saw the 2000, eight, nine, 10 bubble of photographers. That was like, it was amazing. I mean so many people lost their jobs and had to go get side hustles or they decided they didn't want to work in corporate America anymore. And so they became photographers and we just saw how many people flooded the industry. Well, I think that's starting to change. I think Alicia, with unemployment being so low, there's a lot of people going back to work and some of the people that just haven't been making great money doing photography, look at it and say, well, you know, I'm staying up till midnight editing, you know, I might as well just go get a job where I can just come home at five and hang out with my family.
Matt: [12:28] And they're just choosing that lifestyle. So I think that I'm really excited about the hard part. I think a lot of photographers are struggling with this. That means there's a lot of photographers in your market that are actually the marketing dollars or actually leaving your market and I think that when there's, when there's competition in your market, we all benefit from that because somebody may be running facebook ads and they think, oh, I need to do photography, but then they know you better. They have a relationship better. So then they call you and you don't necessarily know why they call you because.
Kia: [13:00] Oh yeah, that makes sense. So when, if when your competition markets you get, you get business from it?
Matt: [13:07] Yeah, because everybody's thinking about photography because we're not competing really against each other. We're more competing against, you know, like do they come do photography with us or do they take a trip to Disney or do they buy a new boat, you know, what are, what are they going to do with their extra money and we're one of those options. And so when everybody's marketing, our industry is top of mind, but when, when people are, when the industry is consolidated and people are going back to work and leaving the industry, I think there's just less ad dollars out there right now kind of keeping us top of mind. So I think there's photographer struggling, they can't quite figure out why they're down and it may be they may be down 10 percent because they lost three of their competitors that we're advertising heavily. And so some of those add some of those dollars that consumers are spending aren't necessarily come into our industry.
Kia: [13:48] Wait, wait, wait. But why are you excited about that? You're saying that that's something that you're excited about, but that sounds like a negative to me.
Matt: [13:56] So I'm excited about the consolidation because I think there's just in general less competition. The solution to it is just to increase your ad dollars or just make sure your, your advertising as much as possible because there's more people to go around. It just may feel like a little bit harder to get them right now. But I think it's overall less competition is, is a good thing as long as you realize what less competition means and that means less ad dollars. So that leads into the next part that I'm, I'm excited about just as equally as, I just think the economy is really strong right now and things, there's a lot of people with a lot of extra money and wages are going up and people are going back to work and it's really pretty cool stuff and I just think that's a huge opportunities for us to raise our averages, to definitely get people to buy a few more things, a few more extra clients that maybe five years ago may not have had the extra money to do portraits, now they do. Um, so I think that's really awesome. So not only the smaller competition, but then also just I think more money flowing around I think is really awesome for our industry over the next, let's call it three, four years. I see it being a really huge positive for us.
Kia: [15:02] So, uh, I think that's really exciting. Definitely. And I've, I've seen it and I didn't really understand it completely, but it makes sense because our senior season typically drops completely off in August, but it is continued to go and we are continuing to get people contacting us and I think it's because we have kept ourselves top of mind with our social media and we're not, we are doing some instagram advertising but we're definitely keeping ourselves top of mind with just our interactions and our high school seniors posting our images. So that makes complete sense. So just because when you're saying that like I, oh, I often have like, okay, what are the action items from this? And so my two action items that I hear from this would be one, advertise and keep yourself top of mind. And number two would be planned to sell plan to reach out to old clients to sell portrait sessions and plan to try to sell more like wall portraits and things for the home. Because so many people are spending money on their home now that they weren't before. Would you agree with that? Or would you ask him
Matt: [16:09] what do you. I totally agree. Yeah, no, people are not only by a new homes are relocating and that's a huge opportunity for our industry, but also, yeah, I mean there's a lot of people that, you know, people in the house was only working part time and they both really wanted to work full time. No, they may not have pulled the trigger on decorating their walls, you know, it was, there was a time when they are just focused on the necessities. Well, I just think there's extra cash right now, so huge opportunity for us to really capitalize on some of those dollars that are flowing around right now.
Kia: [16:36] I wonder if even going back and saying, hey, you know, now we have a wall portrait sale for anything that we've shot in the last five years or something. I mean I could see that being something usable for people.
Matt: [16:49] Yeah, definitely. Well, yeah, because then maybe they pass on it and they were like, man, I really wish I would have, you know, done that wall portrait and there's nothing wrong with saying, you know, it's either still available or we can photograph a new set of pictures for you. And they might take you up on that for sure because a few extra bucks. I mean, it's like they'll either spend it with you or they're gonna go down to Home Depot and buy lawn furniture or something like that. So they might as well spend it with you, you know, it's all the same. It's all home improvement type stuff. So
Kia: [17:16] yeah, yeah, absolutely. Okay, well let's move on to the lightning round. So this is an opportunity for, um, we'll ask questions quickly and just give a lot of like, actionable items for our listeners. So, um, okay. So first question on the lightning round is what was holding you back from joining the photography industry?
Matt: [17:36] So I think for us, what's holding me back is it was just putting both, like all of our eggs in one basket and anytime you start a business you're like, can this really support more than one person or can it support both of us? And sometimes our business can be, can be seasonal, so it has the CZ seasonality to it. And that can be scary because then you're like, okay, am I going to make enough money in the fall to support me through the winter? And so that just held me back because I was like, I just don't want to run out of money, you know, because then what do we do? We can't pay our bills and stuff. The truth is that never ever happened. I mean there was, there was times when we had to, you know, go without a few things, but it was really like luxury items.
Matt: [18:18] What was like one less vacation or one less conference we went to or you know, we just, instead of pulling the trigger, buying like packaging for our business, we just shopped around a little bit to see if we could find a cheaper packaging option for the next year or whatever. And it just made us good business people. And so I was just, I was just worried about that, like running out of money. But to be honest with you, we've been doing it for 11 years and we never, we've never run out of money. So that fear, I don't feel like it was based in reality.
Kia: [18:47] Well I think it's a smart fear to have because that can happen, but yes, I think that's good. Well, and my advice to people in that situation is save it up. If you have a year's salary for the person you're concerned about, you know, then have that in savings before you jump off the ledge so that you know, you've got that cushion. And I think with a photography business that's perfectly, that's something you can do. You can put money aside to prepare for whatever the next big step you want to take us. So what is the best advice you've ever received, Matt?
Matt: [19:22] So this actually happened like super, like I wouldn't say recently, but later in our career and two things happened at once and one was one was that somebody who was like, you need to do Dave Ramsey's financial peace university, which people make fun of all time. It's like the whole envelope thing where you budget everything and he's got a great podcast and a youtube channel, stuff like that. Yeah, books. But we actually paid the $100 and had him, he emailed us like all the books and I think we watched it on DVD or something like that. It's what I think they have it on online as well now. But it was like, you know, six or seven nights worth of financial peace university. And it was awesome. I know they also do a lot of cities. They do. You can go and meet with a group of people and do it.
Kia: [20:07] Yes. Yeah, we've done. We've done that class and actually taught that class. That's so funny. We've never talked about this before.
Matt: [20:14] Right. Okay. Go ahead. And so we, so we did that, like I bet we did it four years ago and for four straight years every month, allison, I've made a personal budget and it's been amazing like what it did to our finances. I brought so much debt to our relationship, like credit card debt, car debt, student loan debt. Allison wasn't a different situation. Um, her parents basically supported all the way through college and stuff. And so she brought no debt. But I mean I brought enough for the both of us and so we had to walk quite a coach so, but we worked through it and so, you know, like I think it's been like three and a half years because I bought, we did it like in January, so it's coming up on four years and we're completely debt free now, which is awesome.
Matt: [20:58] And our, our business isn't really much bigger than it was then, but it just so much more efficient. So we went through financial peace university, changed our lives. It wasn't always easy, but it really is, it's amazing and it's so crazy. I can, I spend more, like I buy more stuff now than I did when I was in debt and, but I can afford it all. It's, it's amazing like fly fishing stuff. I just go purchase it now because I know exactly how much I can afford and it's, it's really cool. Anyways, so that was the first thing I got is like do financial peace university. But that led into me trying to figure out what that meant for my business. So I looked all over Dave Ramsey to see what like how budgeting and financial peace and stuff would work in our business and I couldn't really find what I liked.
Matt: [21:42] And then maybe a year and a half ago we found a book called profit first and I'll link it in the show notes and it's, it's a very similar idea. You don't have envelopes, but the idea is that this, all the money comes into like an income account and then you divide that up into different accounts. And so you have an operating expense account. You have a payroll account, you have a profit account, you have A. I'm trying to remember what the other ones are now, but we have like five accounts and we just added a new one where it's, we're one of my goals always is to put more money in our investments. And so now we're just allocating money every, every two weeks to that. So on the 10th and the 25th, you take whatever's in your income account and you just divided them into your other accounts. And so then when payroll comes, you just take the payroll out of the payroll account if you, and then if you have something that you want to spend for your business, you look and see if there's money in your operating expense.
Matt: [22:37] Expensive count. And I heard some of this stuff really early, like we went to sms through PPA and worked with Julia Woods Management Services. Yeah. And we worked with Julia Woods and she talked about how you have to have like a account for equipment anyway, so you just divided up all based by percentages. And so the book is totally worth buying and it's awesome. So we put that in place and it's been amazing for our business. Like we just, we always were like profitable, but you know, it was like, I always felt like okay, like we worked really hard, there should be more money and now it's like, it just feels like everything's getting paid and there's always money leftover and it's, it's really awesome. So that changed our business. What's really interesting about it is how I was looking for it. You know, when you start looking for something just pops up.
Matt: [23:21] I was actually, uh, looking for this idea and I was exploring and then all of a sudden one of a photographer and a that I had met through a conference. She had posted this thing like I'm reading this book and you guys, everybody should read it. And she was talking to her friends, but I'm facebook friends with her and I clicked on it just out of just having to see it when I had time to click on it. And I was like, this might be exactly what I'm looking for. And I went down to the local bookstore and sure enough they had it because that guy, uh, I think his name's like Michael or something like that. Again, I'll link it below. He had just spoke at our college and so like the, the bookstore had like a pile of his books and um, I walked in and got it and I read it and told allison like three days later I'm like, we're putting this in place. And she's like, okay, I trust you. You know, like, I'm not gonna argue with you if you want to save money and not have not spend money, like this is a whole new map, but I'm going to go with it and it's been awesome. So anyways,
Kia: [24:10] that's really exciting. So we did Dave Ramsey and we, we were debt free really quickly because we did not come into the relationship with debt but I was at that point already doing all of the books for our large photography studio and I kept trying to figure out how can I apply these concepts to the photography business and I, because in financial piece the concept is to have three to six months of savings, but when you talk about three to six months of operating expenses for your business, that is a huge chunk of money and really hard to actually save up. And so I kept trying to figure out ways to apply it and even his book entree leadership, I didn't feel like it laid it out perfectly. So I'm super excited to check out this book that you talked about profit first because I feel like when, uh, when you have that money just set aside and you know what it's going for and you don't touch it for anything else, it just, it, it takes away all the mystery of wondering where did the money go, what do I need for it? So I've, I've kind of created my own systems, but I think it's going to be exciting to see that. That'll be fun to see.
Matt: [25:21] Yeah. And so I remembered a couple of the other council we put in, we have a sales tax account, so every time sales taxes do every quarter, it just gets paid. It's amazing. That was awesome. Yeah. And then we also have a tax one, which is like our end of year taxes because what always happened or as businesses we always had this money sit in after the fall was sitting there and then we do our taxes and like a huge chunk of it always went to the government. So now we have an account that has thousands of dollars in it waiting for the end of the year.
Kia: [25:47] And you don't feel like it's yours?
Matt: [25:49] No, because it's, yeah, it's like in a separate camp and we and we don't have like we don't, yeah, we don't have a ATM cards or checkbooks attached to him because um, we just transfer some of the money online and then it's really hard that basically he closes. You close yourself out from certain accounts. Like the operating expense one. Yeah, you better believe there's like an ATM card attached to it and all that stuff and you can use the card you to spend. But the other ones like you have to actually like go in and transfer and just that mental game of having to do that. You're like, okay, this is not working.
Kia: [26:20] This is not, this is not easy money to get to.
Matt: [26:23] Yeah. And one of the other things that he makes you do is every quarter you take half of your profit money out and you have to spend it on something that you really want to do. Like you have to reward yourself. And your business because your business needs to supply for you what is the lifestyle you want. And so like, it's just so fun. Like we're coming up the end of a quarter here pretty soon. And then like the last time the last court, the first time we bought Allison, a really nice fly rod that she never would have spent money on herself, but I was like, you have to spend to do something you want. And our hobbies fly fishing. So she bought a thousand dollar rod that she would have thought it was crazy. But she loves it and it's awesome. And she enjoys it.
Matt: [27:02] Yeah. Yeah. And then the last quarter we had just moved into a new house and so we had this extra profit money and I was like, what want to do with it? And she was like, you know, I'd really want new new patio furniture and I'd really like some art on our walls. And it was so nice to be able to say like, let's just go do it. And it feels so good when your business supplies back to you, you're like, oh, this is why I'm in business. It's so cool. It's totally worth the read. It's amazing.
Kia: [27:28] I also use a, an APP called digit that pulls out a small amount every day and we use that to build up money to travel or things like that with that. It doesn't feel like it's part of it. So it's kind of that concept. But I'm definitely going to read that book
Matt: [27:45] so I would love to. I'd love to add digital on top of what I'm already doing in that way. Like it almost looked like snakes a little bit of money out for my investments out of my operating expense. That would be really cool because then.
Kia: [27:56] Well I'll send you a link. You don't have digital already so that I can get the kickback for it. Perfect. It won't. You can dollars for me.
Matt: [28:04] Perfect. Well we can put. We put the link in the show notes too.
Kia: [28:08] I'm just kidding. Okay. That was a longer lightening round answer, but I think it's so helpful to actually have plans for what you're going to do with your money and how it's going to benefit your business and your family, so that's really exciting to hear. Matt,
Matt: [28:22] I'm like a book or so like I'm sure I'll mention a couple more bucks before we get done because I just.
Kia: [28:27] We'll have a max maths reading list from every interview. Okay, so next to the lightening round is share one of your personal habits that contributes to our success.
Matt: [28:39] Oh, well that's funny because that came from a book as well. One of my personal habits that I do, it came from a book and the book is self explanatory. The book never eat lunch alone and so the concept of the book is that you never eat lunch alone and the idea is to, whether you're calling somebody to talk to like a friend at launch or you do some kind of business networking meeting or something like that, that lunch is a really good opportunity for you to network and to grow your relationships around you. So sometimes you have to allocate that lunchtime to your husband or wife. Sometimes it's, you know, like I said, it can be business, sometimes it can be just calling an old friend that you need to catch up with. But I think it really moves your life forward. And so I try really hard not to eat lunch alone and to use that time to grow.
Kia: [29:26] Well that's really fun. So, uh, yesterday who did you eat lunch with?
Matt: [29:30] So yesterday was a Sunday because we're recording this on a Monday and I actually ate lunch alone. Oh wait, I didn't eat lunch alone. That's really funny. Okay. I was going to eat lunch alone because I was going to watch the broncos play football. Then I got blocked so I couldn't watch it on my local channel. So I actually had to go down to a hotel to watch the game because they had, they had the Sunday ticket and what's so interesting as I showed up and then like there was like 50 other people there that had the same problem I had. And like three or four of them were people in town that I network with all the time. One of the guys owns a local coffee chain and another guy actually owns a giant, like international business that they, they make beer and sell it worldwide. So I sat with them and we watched the Broncos game together. So I actually network.
Kia: [30:13] But, you know, sometimes I think when you have something like that in your head, even if you don't make it for, you know, if you don't plan it exactly when the opportunity comes up you're like, oh, okay, this is the opportunity to do what I thought I was thinking I wanted to do.
Matt: [30:28] Yeah. It just becomes a totally a habit of just reaching out to people around that time.
Kia: [30:33] Yeah. Okay. So recommend an internet resource.
Matt: [30:37] Yeah. So if I was recommending an internet resource, um, what I would do, and just in general, I wouldn't probably give you an exact resource, but in general as I would look outside of our industry for marketing ideas and stuff. So there's a number of places I follow like digital marketer.com and stuff like that. They always have really good information about how to run facebook ads or how to set up different marketing systems because what I've realized over the years as I've been to more and more like marketing masterminds and things is that all businesses are the same. They just look different. Like the service you supply is different, but a lot of the marketing techniques that we do in the photography industry, it could be done in the chiropractic industry or the hair salon industry and stuff like that. So sometimes going outside of your industry and looking at some of these marketing sites, you're like, oh, I can apply that to photography. And it's really helpful.
Kia: [31:25] Yeah, and I think that what you've done in your photography business to market is different than what a lot of other photographers are doing because that you've adjusted to what is working and the way you've done that is by looking outside the industry
Matt: [31:41] well on every couple of years. Like this year it's gonna be really tough. We have to figure out what we're gonna do, but most years I do some photography. I go to a PPA or image, sorry, imaging. I speak at a couple of state conventions. So I listened to everybody there and I go to Wppi, but then there's years where I'm like, okay, I'm not going to any of the big conferences that are in our industry. I'm just going to marketing. So I've been to some really cool ones like I, a couple of times I've been to traffic and conversion, which is this huge marketing conference in San Diego and it's just done so well and just so many smart people. Um, and it's just sometimes so refreshing to go to something like that. So then the other thing I do, I sign up for a lot of like marketing masterminds where I go to Phoenix a couple times a year and sit with like 10 other marketers and we just like talked about our industries and our issues and I've brought ideas from our industry to other people. And I'll give you an example. One of the last ones I went to, there was a guy that works in insurance, he works for farmers and he shared all of farmer's insurance marketing ideas like what they do with the birthday club and all this other stuff. And it was amazing. I was like, yeah, so I have a list from just from him that of things that farmers does that we could implement in our business over the next couple of years. So definitely get out of, out of the industry if you can for awhile.
Kia: [32:53] Well, and that just adds so much to your enjoyment of the, of your work because you have a list of new things so you're not doing the same thing over and over and you know, having to just do it, it doesn't become boring to you. It's exciting because you're trying new things and seeing what works. So that's great.
Matt: [33:11] That's exciting to me. And Allison I think wants to kill me sometimes because she's like another new idea. I'm like, but this one's going to be amazing and she's like, you need to settle down.
Kia: [33:21] Um, and then, uh, is there any other book that's top of mind? I know you've shared a, the financial piece, which is a book, but it's also a class and the profit first, but does anything else jump out to you that you would say read this book today, you really need to, to learn from this?
Matt: [33:37] Yeah. The very first book that we read that really moved the needle or kind of steered the ship was book yourself solid by Michael Port and we were that early, like maybe like the second year of our business and it put us on a trajectory that we would never be where we are today without it. So it was a really good book. It's general business, like kind of how to set up business and she just does a really good job of wording it. So a book yourself solid by Michael Port. It's been around for a long time now, but by far the, the API had more impact on our business than anything else. And then because we were so successful then we, we really needed profit first just to keep us in line
Kia: [34:15] for sure. Yeah. That's awesome. Well Matt, thank you so much for sharing. I'm super excited about our upcoming interviews with other photographers where we get to learn about them, but I think it's so important that we know who you are and kind of where you're coming from a in the industry. So can you share with us the best ways that we can connect with you and any parting guidance?
Matt: [34:38] Sure. So if you want to see our photography and our work, you know, for inspiration, you can just follow us on almost all the social media platforms, uh, add allison ragsdale. You'll see that we don't have business accounts separate then, then our personal accounts. But that's the best way to see our photography. If you want to know more about some of the marketing techniques that I use and things like that, you could just go to Matt Hoaglin Dot Com. It's m, a t, t h o a g L I a n.com and I'll link all that below in the show notes, show notes as well because I have a ton of free videos on there that you can watch. And then classes you can purchase and you can set up time to talk to me and stuff like that as well. So, um, my website, it probably is the best if you follow me at [inaudible] dot com. Alright. Matt Hogan on a new social media. All you're gonna see is fly fishing pictures. So if you're in a fly fishing you can follow me.
Kia: [35:26] Alright. Well thank you.
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From Nothing to Profit join Matt and Kia as they interview professional photographers and found out what is working now for their photography business
Welcome to "From nothing to Profit, a photographers podcast". Every week Matt Hoaglin and Kia Bondurant interview successful photographers that own profitable portrait studios. The goal is to find out what is working in their business now and see what is making them so profitable. From marketing tips to business secrets, Matt and Kia will ask all the difficult questions so you can take your business from nothing to profit. If you listen to this every week, not only will you have an action plan to grow your business but you will know what the best photographers in the world are thinking about right now. Your competition will have no idea what hit them. You will steal market share and have a list of amazing marketing ideas to use all year long. If you want your portrait studio to supply for your family this is the podcast for you. Stay tuned as we interview the very best photographers in the industry so you can swipe their marketing ideas and business practices.
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Off-duty officer shot, injured man and teen on Anacostia Road
Lauren Lumpkin
An off-duty police officer shot at a man and a teenager in Southeast Washington Friday night, injuring them both, authorities said. (Tony Webster / Flickr)
The two were taken to an area hospital and treated for non-life-threatening injuries. Both are in stable condition, a police spokeswoman said.
A man and a teenager were shot Friday night in Southeast Washington by an off-duty police officer, according to an official.
The two were taken to an area hospital and treated for non-life-threatening injuries, said police spokeswoman Cmdr. Durriyyah Habeebullah in a video that was posted on D.C. police's Twitter page.
The officer was in full uniform, working part-time as a security guard, the Washington Post reported. At 6:42 p.m., the officer fired at a "group of males" standing in an apartment complex on the 300 block of Anacostia Road, SE, Habeebullah said.
11.8.19 Cmdr Habeebullah gives update in the Officer involved shooting in the 300 block of Anacostia Rd, SE https://t.co/gGSE8kncYa
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One person in the group had a gun, Habeebullah said.
Though, when Habeebullah spoke to reporters at around 9:25 p.m., she said a weapon had not been recovered from the scene.
"We're still at the beginning stages of the investigation," she said.
Authorities are investigating the circumstances that led up to the shooting, Habeebullah said. It is unclear what made the off-duty officer draw his weapon. Police have not made the officer's identity available to the public.
The officer was not injured in the incident, Habeebullah said.
The shootings follow a spate of violent outbursts in the city. A man was fatally shot in Columbia Heights Monday, reported NBC Washington. In the same incident, two other people were injured, one with gunshot wounds and another who was stabbed.
Two men, ages 19 and 23, were fatally shot in Southeast and Northeast Washington in October, according to D.C. police. The 19-year-old was identified as Alvin Barnes. The 23-year-old victim's name was Juwaun Robert Smith.
Authorities have offered $25,000 rewards for anyone who can provide information that leads to the arrest and conviction of the person, or people, responsible for killing Barnes and Smith.
In response, Habeebullah said the department is cracking down on illegal guns.
"One of the things we do is, we try to capture those persons carrying illegal firearms. That's the biggest problem" Habeebullah said. "You can't have a shooting without a firearm."
Lauren Lumpkin is a student journalist pursuing a master's degree at American University. She covers Anacostia and other communities in Southeast Washington for The Wash.
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In 2014, the BBC released Climate Challenge on its website, a game that saw players step into the shoes of the President of the European Nations. They were tasked with making a series of decisions aimed at tackling climate change, while at the same time striving to remain popular enough with voters to stay in office.
The game's central challenge will be familiar for many of CEOs and senior leaders at large cement companies around the world. They too must navigate a challenging path: responding to growing awareness that climate change is an urgent, crucial strategic issue for their business and, indeed, our collective future, but simultaneously balancing this against the legitimate need to deliver on financial markets and customers' expectations – which are today still insufficiently driven by long-term agendas. Greater innovation offers the only route to reconciling this dilemma; the time for this is long overdue.
We are not on track. At all.
The World Cement Association's (WCA) Global Climate Change Forum, held in Paris in June, starkly revealed the extent of the technological gap the cement sector has to bridge if it is to have any hope of delivering its contribution to the central goal of the 2015 Paris Climate Change Agreement, limiting global warming well below 2°C, compared to pre-industrial levels.
Simply put, the technologies currently available and being deployed by the global cement industry can only deliver 50% of the CO2 emission savings required to achieve this two-degrees scenario.
Furthermore, existing technologies – related largely to the areas of energy efficiency improvement, waste co-processing, and clinker substitution – are typically adopted far too slowly. This is illustrated by recently disclosed CO2 emission figures from the global Getting the Numbers Right database, which revealed carbon intensity per tonne of cement has remained at troublingly stable levels since 2012.
Pressure is building. As cement production is projected to keep rising, the share of cement-related emissions as a proportion of total global greenhouse emissions is increasing beyond 6%. Meanwhile, the average energy efficiency of buildings is improving, which pushes up the relative share of embodied CO2 within total lifecycle emissions.
China has now established the world's largest emissions trading scheme, which will expand to include the cement sector within the next few years. European CO2 allowance prices have recently been on the rise and the revised post-2021 EU Emissions Trading Scheme is designed for a progressive increase in prices towards unprecedented levels. Many of the 197 nations that signed up to the Paris Agreement are also moving ahead with stricter carbon regulations.
It is no exaggeration to say that the entire cement industry now has an historic responsibility to put much greater focus on innovation. We cannot just count on the technological optimisation of old techniques; a disruptive transformation is needed within the next few decades in order to make crucial progress on reducing CO2 emissions, adopting a lifecycle approach.
Scaling up deployment of existing technologies
There is still massive waste co-processing capacity in cement kilns around the world that is not being used, despite the widely-acknowledged positive impact this can have on society, business, and emissions. The cement sector should seize the opportunity to position itself as providing a win-win solution to the global plastic waste issue, unlocking its large-scale capacities to manage plastic waste, instead of watching it make its way into rivers, seas, and oceans.
Clinker substitution opportunities, including calcined clay cements, are validated technologies that also need accelerated deployment. During the WCA Global Climate Change Forum, the potential of so-called LC3 cement was notably presented: this new type of cement is made using limestone and low-grade clays that are available in abundant quantities. It is cost effective and can reduce CO2 emissions by 30%.
Regulations and standards must be developed as well, to ensure these low carbon solutions are officially recognised and made financially attractive compared to existing business practices. Cement companies are working hard on this, but their voice must be better heard in order to scale up the pace of deployment. The role of associations and industry bodies is more important than ever in achieving this. Stepping up efforts to educate and train concrete producers and users, as well as supporting the ongoing professionalisation of the construction sector, are also key for boosting sustainability across our value chain.
The ultimate objective must be to minimise the CO2 emissions over the entire lifecycle of buildings and infrastructure, encompassing embodied CO2 in constructing functional units, as well as CO2 emissions produced by heating and cooling during the use phase.
A role for digital
While progress has sometimes been slow, the cement industry is becoming increasingly effective in assessing and unlocking the potential of digital technologies. These technologies could dramatically enhance process efficiency, as well as help to design and implement innovative business models.
Digital technologies create new opportunities for emission mitigation by accelerating change in resource manageability and process control. They also offer the opportunity to change the way buildings are designed, constructed, and managed in a way that was not previously possible.
On the process side, digital technologies for data collection, storage, and use within and across organisations and supply chains provide detailed insights into resource availability (energy, water, and primary and secondary resources), use, and quality, down to the level of each individual user.
Suppliers claim that digital technologies offer an optimisation potential of up to 20% in terms of delivering greater resource efficiency and flexibility. Within individual companies, digital applications for remote monitoring, predictive maintenance, predictive quality, and connected logistics are starting to be deployed more widely.
But digitalisation also enables the integration of discrete segments of the fragmented construction value chain, through the development of platforms, databases, and advanced, near real-time decision support systems. It can help create an integrated and transparent chain linking all stakeholders involved, while generating additional potential to reduce cost and boost resource efficiencies across companies. For the end users, building information modelling technologies (BIM) probably has an even bigger role to play in mitigating emissions, by helping to deliver the strongly enhanced material efficiency that is so important in construction. BIM aims to gather all information associated with building components, construction, and building operation in order to improve cost, energy, and material efficiency through better design, optimised construction, operation, maintenance, deconstruction, and material re-use or recycling.
Large-scale deployment of BIM will ensure the best use of materials, water, and energy over the lifecycle of buildings and is likely to have a particular impact on minimising embodied and operational CO2 emissions, as well as eliminating waste.
This is only achievable if all stakeholders involved in a project collaborate and communicate openly. Several cement and concrete companies recently created and released so-called BIM objects, providing data on building materials. These efforts must be accelerated, as the industry has a strategic interest in promoting the most efficient and durable use of qualitative and resilient concrete-based building materials.
Going electric
There is a growing body of research dedicated to seeking ways to electrify the production of basic materials, including cement, though today we are obviously far from achieving industrial-scale deployment. This would mean a complete change in the kiln concept, as well as widespread adoption of low-CO2 electricity production and a symbiosis between the industry, power producers, and distribution networks. It should also be noted that the shift to electricity would of course not solve the high process CO2 share from limestone decarbonation, which requires other solutions.
Carbon capture as a last option
Beyond emission mitigation and material efficiency efforts, residual CO2 emissions will still have to be managed. If it transpires that other technologies are not sufficient to deliver a two-degrees scenario, residual CO2 might have to be collected and recirculated as a resource for other industrial processes, or ultimately moved to sustainably managed storage locations.
Several technological options are being considered for carbon capture, use, and storage, with a number of pilot programmes already underway. The commercial use of these techniques will require appropriate monitoring and reporting methodology, large availability of cost-competitive low carbon energy, and appropriate regulation and incentives, as well as a securing societal acceptance.
Hurdles are numerous and complex. The cement sector has to provide technological answers, which will require collective action and partnerships with public authorities, as well as proactively advocating keeping those end-of-pipe options open.
Collaborative actions
Collaboration will be key, if the cement industry is to have any hope of achieving these vital goals as an industry. Associations therefore have a key role to play. The industry must work to support individual companies in their transition to low-carbon businesses, through enhancing knowledge exchange, engaging with academics and researchers, or reaching out to equipment suppliers.
The WCA will continue its contribution to this mission with regular knowledge dissemination activities throughout the year, culminating in its annual Global Climate Change Forum, which brings together experts in related technologies. The WCA will also reward and publicise the most innovative products, solutions, and business models that support the transition to a low-carbon built environment and help create more resilient communities in the face of the detrimental consequences of climate change.
The WCA will always favour actions over words. It is also committed to the convergence of efforts with other global platforms and associations in the cement sector.
Bernard Mathieu is Director of the WCA Climate Programme and has 22 years of experience in the cement, concrete, and aggregates business. He has held a wide range of roles related to sustainability, most recently at LafargeHolcim where he was Head of Sustainable Development.
Before that, Mathieu was HeidelbergCement's Head of Global Environmental Sustainability and has also taken an active role in business associations and in international conferences on climate change and sustainability (notably the UNFCCC Conferences of Parties).
Bernard is Founder and Sustainability Consultant at Hop3, advising organisations in the integration of sustainability in their vision, strategy, and actions.
Read the article online at: https://www.worldcement.com/europe-cis/02112018/mind-the-gap/
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Why Venerate Mary?
henceforth all generations shall call me blessed
(St. Luke 1:48)
And whence is this to me, that the Mother of My Lord should come to me?
…Woman, behold your son…(Son) behold your mother
(St. John 19, 26-27)
For many non-Catholics, devotion to Mary is odd at best, weird, frightening, and down-right pagan at worst. Such titles freely given her by the Church as "Mother of God" and "Queen of Heaven" can be off putting, indeed, leading certain Protestant clerics to refer to Catholicism as utterly un-Christian. The truth of the matter, however, is that devotion to Mary is not only deeply rooted in Scripture, there can be no real Christianity without it.
Presuming that one accepts that the events of the life of Christ as recorded in the Bible are true, from the moment that the Archangel St. Gabriel announced to Mary that she would bear the Son of God, she herself was aware of what this would mean — knowing that all who accepted her Divine Son would revere her as well, that is, call her "blessed." Her cousin Elizabeth realized this as well, as did her unborn son, St. John the Baptist. During the course of Christ's ministry, His Mother was always close beside; indeed, He performed His first miracle at her behest, at the marriage feast at Cana. She was by His side at the Crucifixion, and granted by Him there as foster Mother to St. John and the Church.
St. Ambrose, Bishop of Milan, 337-397
The first Christians did indeed call her "Blessed," as the writings of the Church Fathers show us. St. Ambrose (de virgin, Ii. c. 2, n. 7) says: "What is more sublime than the Mother of God? What is more resplendent than she whom the splendor [of the Father, the Son of God,] chose for His Mother?" They often contrasted the role Mary played in our Salvation with Eve's role in our ruin. So, in the second century St. Irenaeus says: "As all mankind was delivered up to ruin by a virgin [Eve], so it was likewise saved by a virgin [Mary]" (adv. haeres. v. 19). At about the same time, Tertullian declares(de came Christi, c. 17): "Eve believed the serpent, Mary believed Gabriel; what the former sinned by credulity the latter blotted out by faith."
The superiority of the Virgin Mary to all other human beings was asserted in the ancient liturgy. In the Liturgy of St. Basil, the priest, having invoked the patriarchs, prophets, apostles, and all other saints, prays "particularly the most holy, the most glorious, the immaculate Mother of God, blessed above all others, Our Lady, Mary ever Virgin."
But in a few centuries heresy, having attacked the Divinity of Christ in Arianism, attacked Mary's right to be addressed as Mother of God in Nestorianism. Where the orthodox teaching saw Christ as one individual with two natures, human and Divine, Nestorius saw Christ as having two persons within Him — of which Mary was mother solely of the human. Hence he conceded to her the title "Mother of Christ," but no more. His views were condemned by the Ecumenical Council of Ephesus in 431: "If anyone does not confess that the Emmanuel (Christ) in truth is God and that on this account the Holy Virgin is the Mother of God (Theotokos) in as much as she gave birth to the Word of God made flesh…let him be anathema" (Council of Ephesus, DS 113).
Martin Luther and Cardinal Cajetan
From that time until the Protestant Revolt, schisms and heresies rent the Church. But none (save those like the Albigenses, who also attacked the Incarnation of Christ) ever attacked the position of the Mother of God in the Church, nor the devotion due her. That would wait until the so-called "reformers" of the 16th century. But they did not deny most Marian doctrines, such as the Perpetual Virginity and Immaculate Conception of the Virgin. Luther, for example, happily called her the Mother of God: "She is rightly called not only the mother of the man, but also the Mother of God … It is certain that Mary is the Mother of the real and true God" (Martin Luther, Weimar edition of Martin Luther's Works, English translation edited by J. Pelikan [Concordia: St. Louis], volume 24, 107). He also defended the Immaculate Conception: "But the other conception, namely the infusion of the soul, it is piously and suitably believed, was without any sin, so that while the soul was being infused, she would at the same time be cleansed from original sin and adorned with the gifts of God to receive the holy soul thus infused. And thus, in the very moment in which she began to live, she was without all sin…" (Op. Cit., Volume 4, 694). Calvin and Zwingli made similar comments.
But in rejecting her intercession, however (as they did that of all human beings — that is, the Saints), they laid the foundation for subsequent Protestants to ignore her completely. In time, this became outright rejection.
ANGELICO, Fra, 1438-1345, Fresco, Museo di San Marco, Florence
This is really too bad, because the fact is that devotion to Mary is all bound up with her Divine Son's Incarnation. It is from Him that she derives her unique role; denial of that role cannot help but be an attack upon its source. But a great deal of opposition to Marian devotion comes, not from reason, but mere anti-Catholicism; as that has waned to some degree, a number of Protestants are rediscovering the Mother of God.
Modern Christian opposition to Mary comes from several sources. The first is the fear that reverence to her detracts from the worship due Almighty God. Traditionally, however, the Catholic Church has differentiated between latria, the worship due to God alone, and dulia, the reverence offered the Saints (that given Mary, due to her unique nature, is termed "hyper-dulia"). An insight into this issue, however, was given this writer by the late Bill Zuk, a convert from Protestantism. "When Protestants accuse Catholics of 'worshipping' Mary they are, in a sense, correct. Catholics honor Mary, they pray to her for her intercession with God, they try to emulate her. All of this is how most Protestants deal with Jesus. Our Sacramental worship of Him is completely beyond them." That this observation has some merit is borne out by the fact that Churches with the same sacramental system as the Catholics, such as the Orthodox, equal Catholics in their veneration of the Virgin. Moreover, those elements of Anglicanism, Lutheranism, and Calvinism that have rediscovered the idea of the Sacraments (regardless of whether or not they actually have them) generally revive Marian devotion as well. (See the section on Mary and ecumenism).
ANDREA DEL SARTO, Assumption of the Virgin (Poppi Altarpiece), 1530
For non-Sacramental Christians, however, the application of titles to Mary such as "Mother of God," "Queen of Heaven," "Co-Redemptrix," and "Mediatrix of All Graces" tends to be rather upsetting. But all of these are firmly rooted in her role in the Incarnation. Bl. Cardinal Newman observes: "If we have faith to admit the Incarnation itself, we must admit it in its fullness; why then should we start at the gracious appointments which arise out of it, are necessary to it, or are included in it?" Why indeed? Having voluntarily accepted the role of Mother of the Redeemer, Mary became united to Christ's human nature in such a close and inseparable way that any honor given her immediately reflects back to her Son. Moreover, she participates in any honor given Him. She was the means whereby he entered into this World, and from that time to this has played a role in the Redemption and Salvation He offers all of us. It is for this reason she is called "Co-Redemptrix" and Mediatrix of All graces." As Benedict XV says in his Apostolic Letter, Inter Soldalica, March 22, 1918: "As the blessed Virgin Mary does not seem to participate in the public life of Jesus Christ, and then, suddenly appears at the stations of his cross, she is not there without divine intention. She suffers with her suffering and dying son, almost as if she would have died herself. For the salvation of mankind, she gave up her rights as the mother of her son and sacrificed him for the reconciliation of divine justice, as far as she was permitted to do. Therefore, one can say, she redeemed with Christ the human race."
The Venerable Pope Pius XII, 1876-1958
But what of the title, "Queen of Heaven?" We have dealt with this question at length in another section (see QUEENSHIP OF MARY). But it would be good to recall the words of Pius XII: "…the main principle on which the royal dignity of Mary rests is without doubt her Divine Motherhood. In Holy Writ, concerning the Son whom Mary will conceive, We read this sentence: 'He shall be called the Son of the most High, and the Lord God shall give unto him the throne of David his father, and he shall reign in the house of Jacob forever, and of his kingdom there will be no end,' and in addition Mary is called 'Mother of the Lord'; from this it is easily concluded that she is a Queen, since she bore a son who, at the very moment of His conception, because of the hypostatic union of the human nature with the Word, was also as man King and Lord of all things. So with complete justice St. John Damascene could write: 'When she became Mother of the Creator, she truly became Queen of every creature'" (Ad caeli reginam 34).
What of the Immaculate Conception, the dogma that Our Lady was conceived without stain of Original Sin? While only defined — that is made obligatory for every Catholic to believe — in 1854, it was of course held much earlier — even by Martin Luther, as we have seen. When St. Gabriel saluted the Virgin as "full of Grace," even before she had accepted the role of Mother of God, he was using a greeting that could only apply to someone untouched by Original Sin. As Pius XII wrote in Fulgens corona, 1953: "… the foundation of this doctrine is seen in the very Sacred Scripture itself, in which God … after the wretched fall of Adam, addressed the … serpent in these words… 'I will put enmity….' But if at any time, the Blessed Virgin Mary, defiled in her conception with the hereditary stain of sin, had been devoid of divine grace, then at least, even though for a very brief moment of time, there would not have been that eternal enmity between her and the serpent … but instead there would have been a certain subjection."
GOZZOLI, Benozzo, Triumph of St Thomas Aquinas, 1471
From the earliest times, Christians, East and West, referred to the Virgin as "Spotless" (achrantos); as early as 5th century Syria a feast in honor of her Spotless Conception was celebrated, which made its way throughout the East and eventually to the West. Even the Muslims accepted the Immaculate Conception of Mary — ironic, given that they held no such belief about Mohammed's mother.
In the West, after the Crusades brought Aristotle back to the intellectual life of Europe, many great theologians, such as Alexander of Hales and St. Thomas Aquinas attempted to integrate his philosophy with the teachings of the Church. On this point, since Aristotle taught that life begins at the "quickening" rather than conception, those who followed the old Greeks logic denied the Immaculate Conception, as did St. Thomas and many others. St. Bonaventure has often been accused of following suit, but in his Breviloquium wrote of Original Sin: "No wayfarer, then, is completely rid of it, except the most Blessed Virgin, who was relieved by a special favor. Because the Virgin conceived Him who is Expiation of all sin, she received a privilege that radically freed her from concupiscence, so that her conception of the Son of God would be all-pure and perfect."
Not surprisingly, it was his Franciscan order (especially Bl. Duns Scotus) who fought for the doctrine against the Dominicans and the authority of St. Thomas. But the latter prevented its definition until 1854. On December 8 of that year, Bl. Pius IX issued the Apostolic Constitution Ineffabilis Deus. After marshalling an impressive array of facts supporting the dogma, the following definition is made: "We declare, pronounce, and define that the doctrine which holds that the most Blessed Virgin Mary, in the first instance of her conception, by a singular grace and privilege granted by Almighty God, in view of the merits of Jesus Christ, the Savior of the human race, was preserved free from all stain of original sin, is a doctrine revealed by God and therefore to be believed firmly and constantly by all the faithful."
Blessed John Duns Scotus, 1265–1308
What of the bodily Assumption of the Virgin Mary into Heaven? This too has its roots in the earliest days of the Faith. Although there is not so much in the way of scriptural proof of the dogma as there is for the Immaculate Conception, those who hold to the Scripture Only theory should recall that prior to the Church's official closing of the Canon at Carthage in 397, far more weight was given to the Church's unbroken Tradition than to purely scriptural references — after all, the Canon itself is a product of that Tradition. In any case many of the books rejected for inclusion in the Bible at that Council contain references to the Assumption; while not authoritative in themselves, here as in so many other places these writings do bear witness to what the earliest Christians believed. Certainly, the developing Liturgy also gave witness to the belief — itself a logical necessity of the Immaculate Conception. The decay of the body being a result of Original Sin, how could it touch her who was spotless?
On November 1, 1950, Pius XIII issued the Apostolic Constitution Munificentissimus Deus. As his predecessor had done with the Immaculate Conception, Pius adduced the proofs in favor of the doctrine, and then defined: "we pronounce, declare, and define it to be a divinely revealed dogma: that the Immaculate Mother of God, the ever Virgin Mary, having completed the course of her earthly life, was assumed body and soul into heavenly glory." There she remains today, interceding for us with her Divine Son, reigning as Queen of Heaven and Earth, and shedding graces and protection upon the faithful who invoke her. Now as ever, to deny her, is to deny her Son.
http://www.legionofmarytidewater.com/faith/ECUM03.HTM
Ineffabilis Deus (Pius IX, Immaculate Conception)
http://www.newadvent.org/library/docs_pi09id.htm
Munificentissimus Deus (Pius XII, Assumption)
http://www.vatican.va/holy_father/pius_xii/apost_constitutions/documents/hf_p-xii_apc_19501101_munificentissimus-deus_en.html
Mary Notes (EWTN)
http://www.ewtn.com/faith/teachings/marymenu.htm


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Lalonquère est une ancienne commune française du département des Pyrénées-Atlantiques. En 1833, la commune fusionne avec Maspie pour former la nouvelle commune de Maspie-Lalonquère.

De nos jours, Lalonquère fait partie de la commune de Maspie-Lalonquère-Juillacq.

Géographie
Lalonquère est un village du Vic-Bilh, situé au nord-est du département et de Pau.

Toponymie
Le toponyme Lalonquère est mentionné en 1385 (censier de Béarn) et apparaît sous les formes
La Loncquera (1538, réformation de Béarn),
Lalonquere (1793 ou an II) et Lalonguerre (1801, Bulletin des lois).

Histoire

Paul Raymond note qu'en 1385 Lalonquère comptait dix feux et dépendait du bailliage de Lembeye.

Les Hospitaliers

Lalonquère était un membre de la commanderie des Hospitaliers de l'ordre de Saint-Jean de Jérusalem de Caubin et Morlaàs.

Démographie

Culture locale et patrimoine

Patrimoine civil
Au haut Moyen Âge se dressait à Lalonquère une fortification seigneuriale.

Le village présente un ensemble de maisons et de fermes des , .

Le moulin de Lalonquère fut construit au .

Patrimoine religieux
L'église Saint-Germain date du . On y trouve du mobilier référencé par les monuments historiques.

Notes et références

Voir aussi

Articles connexes
 Liste des anciennes communes des Pyrénées-Atlantiques

Ancienne commune dans les Pyrénées-Atlantiques
Ancienne commune du Béarn
Commune abritant une commanderie de l'ordre de Saint-Jean de Jérusalem en France

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Rapid and sensitive amplicon-based genome sequencing of SARS-CoV-2
Changwoo Park, Kwan Woo Kim, Dongju Park, Zohaib ul Hassan, Edmond Changkyun Park, Chang Seop Lee, MD Tazikur Rahman, Hana Yi, Seil Kim
School of Biosystem and Biomedical Science
As SARS-CoV-2 variants of concern emerged, the genome sequencing of SARS-CoV-2 strains became more important. In this study, SARS-CoV-2 was sequenced using amplicon-based genome sequencing with MinION. The primer panel used in this study consisted of only 11 primer panels and the size of the amplicons was approximately 3 kb. Full genome sequences were obtained with a hundred copies of the SARS-CoV-2 genome, and 92.33% and 75.39% of the genome sequences were obtained with 10 copies of the SARS-CoV-2 genome. The few differences in nucleotide sequences originated from mutations in laboratory cultures and/or mixed nucleotide sequences. The quantification of the SARS-CoV-2 genomic RNA was done using RT-ddPCR methods, and the level of LoD indicated that this sequencing method can be used for any RT-qPCR positive clinical sample. The sequencing results of the SARS-CoV-2 variants and clinical samples showed that our methods were very reliable. The genome sequences of five individual clinical samples were almost identical, and the analysis of the sequence variance showed that most of these nucleotide substitutions were observed in the genome sequences of the other clinical samples, indicating this amplicon-based whole-genome sequencing method can be used in various clinical fields.
Frontiers in Microbiology
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Park, C., Kim, K. W., Park, D., Hassan, Z. U., Park, E. C., Lee, C. S., Rahman, MD. T., Yi, H., & Kim, S. (2022). Rapid and sensitive amplicon-based genome sequencing of SARS-CoV-2. Frontiers in Microbiology, 13, [876085]. https://doi.org/10.3389/fmicb.2022.876085
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In: Frontiers in Microbiology, Vol. 13, 876085, 17.08.2022.
Park, C, Kim, KW, Park, D, Hassan, ZU, Park, EC, Lee, CS, Rahman, MDT, Yi, H & Kim, S 2022, 'Rapid and sensitive amplicon-based genome sequencing of SARS-CoV-2', Frontiers in Microbiology, vol. 13, 876085. https://doi.org/10.3389/fmicb.2022.876085
Park C, Kim KW, Park D, Hassan ZU, Park EC, Lee CS et al. Rapid and sensitive amplicon-based genome sequencing of SARS-CoV-2. Frontiers in Microbiology. 2022 Aug 17;13:876085. doi: 10.3389/fmicb.2022.876085
Park, Changwoo ; Kim, Kwan Woo ; Park, Dongju et al. / Rapid and sensitive amplicon-based genome sequencing of SARS-CoV-2. In: Frontiers in Microbiology. 2022 ; Vol. 13.
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I haven't had regular Fusilier Ration to compare this to. However, I can tell you that I ordered this as part of the same order with Black House, which I expected to be the star of the order, but I enjoy the Fusilier SR just as much as Black House, it's an incredible blend.
Great deal, creamy, smooth, and delicious! I love to smoke on the porch and walk inside and come back out on the porch to smell the scent of this tobacco... I enjoy everything aboit this tobacco!
Cool smoke. Slow burning. Plenty of flavor. Good dense cake.
WELL THEN - I am writing upon completion of a wonderful bowl of this wonderful tobacco First the mechanics. Pipe used: My virgin Don Warren morta I picked up at the Chicago pipe show this year. (Didn't want any ghost flavors to corrupt my impressions) I knew I was going to reserve this pipe for non-aero's. THIS is the tobacco I will now be using to season this fabulous new pipe. Preparation: Nice cake, perfect humidity right after rubbing, springy & packs well. Did not rub out hard mostly just spread out the ribbons, flakes, etc. as I did not want to powder too finely or bruise the blend. (Reserve any too small bits for top kindling) Upon first light I got a very creamy & full amount of smoke. Incense was right there, not overpowering, just present. Burns well, clean, & dry all the way down. Absolutely no gurgle or bite no matter how hard I greedily puffed (started out sipping,couldn't contain myself) Latakia definitely there, again not overpowering NOT a Lat bomb. I Paired with a cold double shot espresso with cream, no flavoring or sugar, which was quite complimentary. The aged Virginia's bright grassy & sweet & added just the right balance to the blend. Slight pepper taste on the tongue - NOT bite - there was no bite - slight pepper as in a nice new York strip with peppercorn crust. (Mmm this would be perfect after THAT meal) The Oriental's definitely add THAT floral note to the mélange could even think sandalwood. Not sure what that "Top Note" is but it definitely is Old School & just right. Nic kick is balanced, a slight heady feel & perfect cheek tingle. Smoked dry to the bottom, just fine ash no dottle and pipe cleaner came away clean of impurities, just ash. I could go on forever suffice to say THIS is the English blend I remember from my youth (no knock on my beloved White Knight Russ) This is a contemplative smoke perfect for that good book or porch stargazing. Can't wait to try in my dear old LARGE gourd calabash for a LOOONG smoke.
The only thing I have to compare this to is Bengal Slices which I thought were good, but this beats BS by a nose. The aged Virginia's added just an extra hint of sweetness this was an awesome smoke!
I liked this ok but not worth the price premium in my opinion.
Fine blend. Tasty, long burning, complex flavors.
A special trear for sure! Just like its brother the tinned version except the latakia has mellowed slightly. Its still there but is better harmonized with the other leaves.
Look, this isn't "bad" tobacco. The problem is, there really isn't anything special about it. Fusiliers ration is a fine tobacco in its own right. So is it's insirpation, Bengal Slices, and the tobacco superior to them both in my opinion, Plum Pudding. When you slap "special reserve" on anything, it better not only be better than its parent, but markedly better. This is neither, and I really hoped otherwise.
… the well-aged Virginias do make a difference...well put together and a fine smoke...Recommended!
This is my favorite H&H, and this batch kicks it up a notch. Really deep without harshness, foresty aromas, and a plumminess that's delightful.
This is one of the best mixtures I have ever smoked.
Not for the po boy.
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Home / Movies / Treasure Hunting Films That You Need To Watch Before You Die
Treasure Hunting Films That You Need To Watch Before You Die
By FizX on January 15, 2019@fizx
Are you passionate about treasure hunting? Well, you will be more than happy to hear that there are a bunch of movies that are entirely based on the idea of treasure hunting. The movies date back to the '70s and some of them are being under production as you read this article. The idea of treasure hunting is explored because of the adventure feel it offers to a movie. Action movies wouldn't be that thrilling if the script was somehow static, and a treasure hunting experience is what viewers need to enjoy the suspense ambiance that it creates. Here is a list of treasure hunting movies (other than Lara Croft) that you should definitely watch at least once in a lifetime:
The Deep (1977)
The Deep is a movie directed by Peter Yates that was launched in 1977 and it presents the story of two treasure hunters that explore the depth of the Bermuda Triangle. Besides the fact that this is a great adventure movie, it also has that touch of mystery that you will definitely enjoy. The two treasure hunters will find something entirely unexpected underwater – a WW II shipwreck that seems to have a dramatic background story. The Deep was nominated for the Oscars a while back, so you should give it a solid chance to become your favorite treasure hunting movie.
The Goonies (1985)
The Goonies was released in 1985 and it's a family movie based on the idea of treasure hunting. Big names such as Steven Spielberg and Chris Columbus worked on the story and script of this masterpiece. Richard Donner, the director, did a great job picturing the amazing world of The Goonies. The movie presents the story of a family that is ready to move away because some decisions regarding their neighborhood didn't please the members. One adventurous child, Mikey, happens to find a treasure map that points to a hidden fortune. Mikey gathers his friends, they call themselves the goonies and they start a quest for finding the long-forgotten treasure to prevent Mikey's family to move away.
Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade (1989)
The Indiana Jones series is a classic that you definitely should put on your list, but before watching it entirely, you should know why special attention should be offered to Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade, which was launched in 1989. You might want to watch newer movies, but you should give this older gem a shot first. This time, Spielberg directs the movie, while George Lucas puts together the beautiful story behind it. To make it short, this treasure hunt has the Holy Grail in the center of attention. The precious artifact will only be found by treasure hunters who are pure in their hearts.
Trespass (1992)
Trespass is a movie that not many people know about. It presents the story of two firemen that stumble upon a map that seems to be directing them towards some stolen gold. The place where the gold is hidden seems to be an abandoned factory. The map stirs the interest of the two firemen, who decide to embark on this adventure. Bad timing makes the story full of action, as the factory seems to be the place where a local gang decides to execute an enemy of theirs. The two firemen find themselves right in the middle of the altercation which leads to a few problems. The story develops further from this point.
Three Kings (1999)
Three Kings is a masterpiece that is based on a story written by John Ridley and directed by David Russell. The cast is also impressive, as George Clooney, Mark Wahlberg, and Ice Cube play the main roles. The movie presents the story of three American soldiers who plan to steal a cache of gold located near their base. The situations they will be facing are very difficult and will keep the viewers engaged in the action. This is not the basic war film you are used to and it also includes numerous nuances of humor that all viewers seem to enjoy.
Atlantis: The Lost Empire (2001)
If you are a fan of animations, put Atlantis: The Lost Empire on your list immediately. The animation presents characters set in 1914, where Milo Thatch does his research about Atlantis in the boiler room of a museum. Milo finds out that there is a journal that gives anyone who owns it the exact steps to reach Atlantis, and he decides to start looking for it. Milo somehow manages to get the journal, to obtain a submarine and a great crew to start exploring with.
As the name says it, you should expect to see divers. Into the Blue is a movie that was nominated for the Golden Schmoes Awards in 2005 and won the Golden Trailer Awards in 2006. The movie gathers together Paul Walker and Jessica Alba who plays Jared and Sam, two divers who are eager to be part of adventures. Both divers are aspiring to become treasure hunters and the opportunity is just around the corner. They manage to find a small historic wreck next to the remains of a crashed airplane that is stacked with cocaine. Jared and Sam tend to be more interested in the historic wreck, but the people they are with are interested in the drugs as well. The people who were behind sending the plane to its destination start looking for it as well, and this is the moment when the action really begins.
If you've read the book, you will definitely love the movie. The Da Vinci Code is based on Dan Brown's novel and is directed by Ron Howard. Tom Hanks plays the main role as it stars as Robert Langdon, the main character of Brown's all novels. The movie presents a controversial theory that is well-kept from the world. The action starts where a body is found at the Louvre museum in Paris.
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ДЕОС е българска либерална политическа партия, създадена в социалните мрежи от участници в протестите срещу кабинета "Орешарски". Тя е учредена на 9 март 2014 г. в град София и прекратява своето съществуване на 15 април 2018 г. поради саморазпускане.

История
На 9 март 2014 г. в София е организиран Инициативен комитет, който се заема с регистрацията на ДЕОС като политическа партия. Участниците в инициативния комитет са познават помежду си от участието си в протестите срещу кабинета "Орешарски" през 2013 година, където се ражда идеята за учредяването на нова дясноцентриска либерална партия. Голяма част от инициаторите участват в опитите за самоорганизация на протестите и са членове на Протестна мрежа.

На 30 май 2014 г. на Лятната естрада в Борисовата градина в София е проведено Учредителното събрание, на което се приема устав и са гласувани членовете на Управителния и Надзорния съвет на политическа партия ДЕОС. С решение на Софийски градски съд от 10 октомври 2014 г. ДЕОС е вписана в публичния регистър на политическите партии в България.

В края на 2016 година първият председател на ДЕОС, Емил Георгиев, подава оставка и през януари 2017 година на негово място е избран Виктор Лилов. През май Лилов е изключен от партията във връзка със спорове за подреждането на листи в предходните парламентарни избори.

На 15 април 2018 г. с решение на Общото събрание – върховният колективен орган на ДЕОС, партията е закрита.

Устав и програма
Партия ДЕОС представя проектоустава си в интернет около седмица преди събирането на инициативния комитет. Всички желаещи членове са поканени да участват в обсъждането му в дискусионния форум Discuto. Проектът за устав е завършен навреме преди провеждането на Учредителното събрание, където е приет от участниците в него.

Основните приоритети, които партията си поставя, са три:
 Образование;
 Правоприлагане;
 Устойчиво развитие.

Основните ценности, около които се обединяват членовете и симпатизантите на ДЕОС са равнопоставеност, инициативност, лична отговорност и съблюдаване върховенството на закона, отговорно отношение към дейностите в полза на обществото, свобода в организацията на семейния и личния живот.

Участие в избори

Местни изори през 2015 г.
ДЕОС участва за пръв път в избори през 2015 г., когато издига кандидати за кметове и общински съветници в местните избори.

Парламентарни избори през 2017 г.
Партията се включва в коалиция със "Зелените" и новоучредената партия "Да, България" на бившия правосъден министър Христо Иванов. Коалицията получава 101 217 гласа или 2,88% от гласувалите, поради което не влиза в Парламента.

Резултати

Резултати от местни избори в София

Източници

Външни препратки
 Официален сайт на ДЕОС
 ДЕОС – партия, родена от протеста, но не и на протеста, Dnevnik.bg, 6 март 2014
 Гражданите-политици от площад "Независимост", Capital.bg, 7 март 2014

Либерални партии
Закрити политически партии в България
Основани в България през 2014 година