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The recently published book, No One Would Listen, by whistle blower, Harry Markopolos, dramatically describes how SEC regulators ignored his alerts and allowed the Bernard Madoff Ponzi scheme to grow to enormous proportions. Their failure to act caused harm to thousands more people, despite his written and detailed warnings, which he brought to the agency five separate times over an eight-year period of investigating the scam. Additionally, the news media such as the Wall Street Journal and Forbes magazine also failed to respond to his evidence which he offered them. Madoff was apparetnly treated as "too big to expose."
The return to the upper levels comes from creating new levels rather than the sale of the product. The wealth gained by participants at the higher levels is the wealth lost by participants at lower levels. So these MLM schemes are essentially Ponzi schemes where money being brought in by newer distributors is paid off to older distributors. There is no legitimate business activity going on.
Rich and Jay set up shop in Rich's basement selling Liquid Organic Cleaner, or L.O.C., Amway's first original product. With their trust in each other and the support of their loving wives, they're able to weather all bumps on their ride to the top, including the first federal investigation of Amway, by the Federal Trade Commission in 1975. In a chapter of his memoir titled 'The Critics Weigh In' (in Part Two, called 'Selling America'), Rich says of the suit, '[We] considered the suit another government misunderstanding of business principles and an attack on free enterprise.'
"Our investment in AWS Professional Services paid off by significantly reducing our learning curve and increasing speed-to-market," says Binger. "It's hard to believe we went from initial conception to building a production-ready appliance with IoT capability in a little over a year's time. That's extremely fast for Amway—our typical product-development cycle is significantly longer than that."
'As long as you're a golf member, you're open to playing all the tournaments and games,' Dale says to me. 'There's something for the ladies, and then if couples play together, we have a couples' golf on Sundays. We have a senior group, and then a young under-forty-year-old guy group.' He shows me a schedule pinned to a corkboard near the door. 'These are kind of the core golf groups. And then we have a formal Men's Golf Association as well, one tournament per month. If they win that tournament, there are parking spots up for grabs, if you want a nice parking spot – or some trophies. You know, when you love a game and you watch it on TV, to be able to still play it and go out there with a large group of guys, and then win a tournament? These guys are having a blast. They feel like they're on the PGA Tour. That's what it's all about.'
Let us not underestimate the power of ideas. Cross provides examples of distributors who let nothing stand in their way. Just listen to the story of the Upchurch family, who persisted in Amway, making any sacrifices necessary, even after Hurricane Fran destroyed their home. Or the Janzes, who were desperately poor new parents with another child on the way when they learned that Amway was bigger than making money; it was a way to overhaul your lifestyle and live your dreams. Or Dexter Yager, who didn't let a stroke stop him from achieving success with Amway and continued to operate his business at the same level even as he was learning to walk and speak again.
Lengthy consumer lifetime as well as good retail profit. Amway actually has several of the best offline training out there. They've basically understood it because that's all they do. Because of this concentration, reps that stick around have the tendency to get excellent at constructing relationships with their consumers which prolongs the length of time a provided individual will certainly purchase the item. I directly know tons of people who are in their 60s and also 70s that have purchased Amway detergent for 30+ years and also advocate it.
Pyramid schemes have nothing to do with real commercial activity or product sales. Pyramid schemes are a form of financial fraud based on recruiting new people to make investments into a business, and then using those investments to pay the people who joined earlier. In Amway, distributors (Amway Business Owners) make money from the sale of our products – not from recruiting others to join.
Some friends of mine are into Amway & are showing it to me. I am skeptical, but as I look into it things are looking good. There's some points in one of the first books you read that appear to contradict what the uppers are saying, but that's where that "Ask Questions" part comes in. Anyone can make a company look bad, either by accident or for lolz. Those that only buy their own product aren't necessarily doing it wrong, but they won't make as much as thewy would 'hiring' a 'team'. Essentially the distributor gets points for product sold, then paid on total point value (PV). Anyone can surpass their mentors, so not shaped like a pyramid :)
Sometimes we brought along a camera and took pictures of one another walking around the houses. We saw two or three in a day and then took the film to be developed. Back in our three-bedroom, we looked at the photos together, then stored them in fresh albums. In the photos, we wore the same outfits while the houses around us changed. We were the proud owners of three beautiful homes, the photos said – or this was one big home. One monstrous behemoth of a home comprised of three mansions smashed together.
Amway aims to help people become independent business owners by selling their products. Even with a small capital, anyone can start a business through the company. However, Amway is a multi-level marketing company wherein members will need to recruit others and teach them how to recruit more people in order to make more money. Of course, there is a wide array of products that can be sold to people as well.
Avoid Amway motivational organizations, including Worldwide Dream Builders. While Amway is the biggest network marketing company in the world, and therefore has a lot of support, some of that support isn't in your best interest. Amway motivational organizations are designed to keep you buying business support materials rather than actually building your business.
Occasionally, though, it can be useful to mention poverty in a certain context. Inspired by the personal and business philosophies of DeVos and Van Andel, Cross spent the ten years after writing Commitment to Excellence researching the two men, culminating in his 1995 self-help book Choices with Clout: How to Make Things Happen – by Making the Right Decisions Every Day of Your Life. Much of the book is compiled from interviews with the Amway founders and top-level distributors. In a passage about excellence, Van Andel outlines the proper way for an Amway distributor to rationalize the issue of poverty:
Thank you very much for your review. I would do this perhaps in my spare time outside of work hours. I would of course find it difficult as you said going to all these house parties as such as it does chew up alot of time. Yes I have done some studying into pyramid stuff and mlms. What I am finding with network marketing nowadays and residual income is the point of making actual money and it takes an awful lots of work to get to where you want to be knowing where the founders where before you. It often feels depressing and that you are just paddling nowhere fast. Anyways, I find internet marketing somewhat similar but different from network marketing. Or is it the same thing? Anyways, I'm not sure where to turn as Different network marketing things i read reviews of people who paid this or paid that and got no refund ect ect. I like amway drink and bars and personally i would not want to keep any stock as some people do as I would have no place for it but i definatelly feel different after taking it for some reason. Its giving my body what it needs and what most people dont get daily. I feel that i need more when i drink the drink and eat the bar. Anyways, I still would like to do it but the problem i am facing in not wanting to do it is not that it is scam or anything it is all the work. I am not scared to talk to people i done public speaking many times and acted in school plays. It's all the work of going to this party or that party house part ect ect. Lots of running around and stuff. Anyways, Thanks for your comments
Today, the Amway Center is one of Orlando's most recognizable buildings. The iconic outline of the arena's 180-foot spire has made a distinguished mark on downtown Orlando. With a decidedly modern look, the Amway Center is spacious and open thanks to a mold-breaking metal and glass exterior design. Inside, an entry lobby welcomes guests with all new materials after they pass through the wide-open entry plaza along Church Street.
More than 20 million people in the U.S. were involved in direct selling in 2015 – one in six households. Retail sales were estimated at $36.12 billion – a nearly 5 percent increase over 2014[3]. The field has particularly enthusiastic involvement from women and minority groups: More than 77 percent of direct sellers in 2015 were women, and nearly 20 percent Latino[4]. Direct sellers describe work-life balance, networking opportunities and income potential as their chief motivations for staying in the industry.
In 2011, Nutrilite brand of vitamins and dietary supplements led Amway's sales, totaling almost $4.7 billion.[41] According to Euromonitor International, in 2014, Nutrilite was the world's No. 1 selling vitamins and dietary supplements brand.[35] In 2015, it was reported that according to Euromonitor International, Amway was the largest vitamin and dietary supplement vendor in China, with 11% of a market that generated 100 billion yuan ($15.6 billion) in annual sales.[46] In 2015, it was reported that according to China Confidential consumer brands survey, Amway Nutrilite was the most popular vitamin and dietary supplement brand in China.[47]
One day, Sherri asked me to attend a meeting at which a "millionaire from the West Coast" was to talk about "business trends of the nineties." I was not entirely caught by surprise—Sherri had dropped hints about starting her own "distribution business" at about the time that Amway Dish Drops appeared in the E2020 kitchen—and although she didn't tell me the millionaire was from Amway, it wasn't difficult to guess which version of the gospel of wealth he'd be preaching. I jumped at the chance to meet this mysterious man of money, although from totally insincere motives—the old anthro major in me was hankering for a bona fide subculture to gawk at.
From that point forward it became more demanding and more exhausting. Our lives had been taken away. There were Thursday meetings, Saturday events, Sunday night meetings, conferences, etc. We just lost control of it all. And on top of everything else, we were losing money, not gaining money. Finally, in mid-December, I told our mentors we couldn't do it any longer. Their first response was to blame my father who I had mentioned was skeptical (like any normal person would be). They immediately assumed he had forced us to quit when it was honestly our own decision. My dad was supportive. The next day we were cut out of their delusional lives completely. We were de-friended and blocked on social media and never to speak a word to us again.
Edit: Thanks for the answers everyone! Unfortunately, we had a long debate today about it and he is definitely set. Even after I talked about the pyramid scheme esque facts and everything else you guys said. I'm still going to be his friend but I'm definitely not bought. He is very stubborn and wants me to read a book by KIYOSAKI... he also mentioned that they sell products at a price lower than retail price, contrary to what other posters said. Can anyone confirm?
In Dreambuilders' version of The Plan one could glimpse an escape from the coming economic dead-end through empowered consumption. We'd have all the twenty-first-century cred of working (and shopping) from home, engaging in cutting-edge marketing, being part of a decentralized network, and nurturing our inner entrepreneur. And all the human capital we needed was the ability to shop and be effusive about it, which were practically American birthrights.
"These are volatile demand products," Dr. Calvert stated. "If something like the Asian flu breaks out, there are huge spikes in demand – 100 to 200 percent spikes."  Further, if made in the U.S., these become long lead time supply chains. To source the circuit boards from Asia, ship them to the U.S. and make them here, and then ship the products back to Asia requires 130 days in lead time. By making the products in Asia, the lead time shrinks to 25 days. This makes Amway more responsive to demand surges and means there are fewer lost sales. There are also tariff savings from making products, and sourcing components, from nations where the products will be purchased.
They are very similar to Amazon. I would want them to lower their prices even more because I noticed that the prices started to increase and in order for me to remain a customer prices have to be fair. However, my overall experience with this website is very good because their delivery is very quick and easy and I will continue to use it if it stays that way. The service is really good also.
"The two years I was supposedly building my Amway business, I lost nearly $10,000 on tapes, seminars, books, gas, and traveling expenses for out-of-town seminars. My earnings? Less than $500 total. Since I was unemployed -- and pretty much unemployable for any nonburger-flipping job -- those $10,000 came exclusively from my grandmother, who was also my biggest (and only) Amway customer, buying expensive, 'concentrated' Amway products she didn't need, every month to support me."
"In fact, about twenty high level distributors are part of an exclusive club; one that those hundreds of thousands of other distributors don't get to join. For years only a privileged few, including Bill Britt, have run hugely profitable businesses selling all those books, tapes and seminars; things the rank and file distributors can't sell themselves but, are told over and over again, they need to buy in order to succeed."
The embarrassing jerk was my parents' upline, Vincent, who had Emerald status. I don't remember this man. My dad says, 'He was a creepy guy, just an incredibly creepy guy. I don't know how else to describe him . . . You actually felt, after being around the guy, that you needed to take a shower. Nobody wanted to be around him. He was a jerk, he was a liar. Just a despicable person.'
Kyritsis got off easy. You can find stories online of people spending $192,000 to "make" $30,000 (shit, we think there are actual cults with a higher rate of return). It's impossible to know the exact "success" rate for Amway independent business owners (IBOs), but one case from 2008 showed that out of 33,000 IBOs, only 90 made enough money to cover the costs of their business. That's a failure rate of damn near 100%. But of course, to Amway, those aren't failures. Amway doesn't make its money selling the random household goods the distributors are handing out -- they make money selling a dream. Then once you've committed yourself and forked over serious cash -- and convinced friends and family to do the same -- how can you leave? At this point, you've got too much invested not to see it through.
Great people; love their company and the Grand Rapids area; devoted to Amway's founding values of self-determination, opportunity, etc. Great place if you want to stay and grow with the same company for many years; everyone is open to the idea that you'll switch roles and teams more than once for the sake of personal growth and satisfaction. Great place to feel like you are cared about by the company.
A lot of people join (Amway.com) and other MLM business opportunities believing it will be easy and it's their ticket to "get rich quick", but the truth is it's totally the opposite. Like any real business, you will have to work your butt off for a long period of time before you get results. Keep this in mind that Amway is a 2 to 3 year plan and you will have to follow that plan by prospecting, going to major functions (Home parties and larger events that take place) and by attending your team's weekly meeting.
My parents and I were solidly middle class when we collided with Amway. We owned our home. We lived in a safe neighborhood where I could play outside without supervision and walk home alone after the sun went down. We always kept an excess of food in the house. I got new shoes whenever I outgrew my old pair. I received new toys when my old ones broke and new books when I finished reading the ones I had. I went to gymnastics practice four times a week, singing lessons once a week, camp over the summer, and back-to-school shopping in the fall. We didn't need Amway.
Of the Amway distributors who testified in the case, Rich says, 'I have nothing against someone who tries Amway and concludes the business is not for them. But I wish they would take responsibility for their own actions instead of trying to blame the business.' Likewise naysayers and disgruntled former Amway distributors simply do not understand how business works and are at fault for their own failures because they lack faith in their ability to succeed, and thus the necessary determination.
Than please do enlighten us, what the difference is between Amway, Avon, Oriflame, etc. and the few other 1000 MLM "businesses" out there? All you can see, read, hear if you attend a meeting or not is the same script. Everyone is selling the best products, everyone is making tons of money, everyone is the amazing 2% who are smarter than other people on earth. (Oh and most of the time it turns out they have the same owners, or the name just changed :O suprise) And do not even start with sales. Topshop is one of the biggest TV and online sellers of 90% crap and useless stuff. Is it a business? Yes. Do they make money? Yes. Do they annoy, scam and rip people off? Yes. They have horrible reviews, lawsuits, complaint masses. Something running and some making money out of it does not make it a proper business nor legit. And please do not use the word meeting or training word regarding any of these companies. Getting some random people talking about how their yacht looks like is not a business mindset. Ever tried to make a project? Ever had a project plan and completed it? How many business models can you tell us? And in how many of those have you achieved anything? Please feel free, we would love to see. And having a degree has nothing to do with any business model. A person who was milking cows for a living for 40 years can have a successful business without having finished primary school. And "so to finish up", a real business with real products does not need people to run around and harrass people with their products. And I am not talking about coca cola and friends here. Everyone can find a product they need which is good and for a proper price. Noone needs someone to hold hands while shopping.
[14]I got the impression that she was becoming a laughingstock at work, an experience common enough to have spawned a whole genre of revenge fantasies in the Amway lore. Speakers always describe the retirement party you'll be able to throw for yourself, complete with fireworks, to really stick it to the naysayers who once laughed at you. They also describe the houses and vacations you'll give to your parents, who'll finally realize how wrong they were about The Business. The yearning to save face—especially with people you urged to join Amway—seems to be a major factor keeping people in.
The Products are Expensive; well personally, I think they are a bit overpriced, which obviously is understandable because they have to pay you and your down line. However, it is a struggle to sell a bottle of $80 vitamin pills when there are other products with the same quality for a lot less. We are not exactly living in the old days anymore and people are cautious now when it comes to spending, meaning you will have to work double time to sell products at a higher price.
The above analysis is an ideal case. Not everybody can afford to become a member and not everyone who can afford would wish to become a member. So, such schemes collapse by the time it reaches 18th level itself (if each member is allowed to refer 2 friends), or 8th level itself (if each member is allowed to refer 6 friends). i.e It is not a sustainable model and is bound to collapse. Dreams are shattered and friendships are broken.
THIS IS ALL CRAP, EVERYTHING THIS GUY/GIRL IS SAYING IS ALL FAKE ESPECIALLY BECAUSE I AM A CROWN IN THE BUSINESS AND BECAUSE HE IS SAYING THAT IT IS NOT A PYRAMID SCHEME. ESPECIALLY, BECAUSE I HAVE AN UPLINE THAT IS IN THE LEVEL EMERALD AND I AM IN CROWN, EVEN THOUGH HE INVITED ME I PASSED HIM, SO THIS IS ALL CRAP IF ANYONE ONE IS INTERESTED IN THIS WONDERFUL OPERTUNITY CONTACT ME.
A man took the stage with a microphone – a Diamond! – followed by a woman in a ball gown – another Diamond! Another Diamond and another and another, all shining under spotlights, smiling – their success itself a luminous aura engulfing them. 'DO YOU WANT YOUR DREAM TO BECOME A REALITY?' the man yelled, strutting and flashing his teeth. 'WHO'S GOT A DREAM?'
In April 1997 Richard DeVos and his wife, Helen, gave $1 million to the Republican National Committee (RNC),[74][76] which at the time was the second-largest soft-money donation ever, behind Amway's 1994 gift of $2.5 million to the RNC.[74] In July 1997, Senate Majority Leader Trent Lott and House Speaker Newt Gingrich slipped a last-minute provision into a hotly contested compromise tax bill that granted Amway and four other companies a tax break on their Asian branches that totaled $19 million.[74]
The move unified the various Amway companies worldwide. "We're now reintroducing our brands in North America, moving away from Quixtar and going back to the Amway name", said Steve Lieberman, managing director of Amway Global. "We decided there were a number of roads we had to go down in order to recreate awareness for a brand that, quite frankly, a lot of people felt had gone away."[5]
It's a myth that's hard to resist—insofar as the exchange floor and the casino offer dramatic visible spectacles of people getting rich while real wealth-creation is the arcane stuff of productivity figures and efficiency studies—but it has tragic consequences for people like Josh and Jean. Perfectly capable of leading enjoyable lives, they nonetheless surround themselves with Amway propaganda, subsist on Amway food, immerse themselves in Amway culture, think in Amway jargon, and siphon their income to Greg Duncan in the hopes of learning the "secret" of his wealth.
I don't know how the CEOs stumbling through E2020 felt about this, but from what I could gather, the prospects for people like me were distinctly mixed. On the one hand, as a customer I'd be awesomely empowered—whole industries would rise and fall according to the butterfly effect generated by tiny shifts in consumer taste. But as a worker I'd be downgraded to "enabled." I would have to eschew "third party" union representation, sacrifice guaranteed benefits, dispense with government protections, and forgo lifelong employment; instead, I'd accumulate "human capital" to sell in an open labor market. Of course, "change" would repeatedly render that arduously amassed human capital obsolete in the space of a nanosecond, after which I was to uncomplainingly set about accumulating more. This was called "being adaptable."
They are a very professional and big all American company. What amazes me the most is their customer service, very pleasant and polite people, always there to help and resolve any problem there might be. It was very easy to sign up and post first order. They offer a ton of benefits, and a huge selection. I ordered a bunch of stuff first time, it arrived very fast, and I was amazed by quality and total price. Will buy again soon.
But as I came to know Josh better, I realized he was acting not so much out of a calculated strategy as out of a deep faith in duplication. Josh believed that whatever he did, his downlines would imitate: If he set the example of filling his house with only "positive" (i.e. Amway) products, so would they. Rich DeVos, more philosophically, calls this the Law of Compensation: "In the long haul, every gift of time, money, or energy that you give will return to benefit you."
You don't have an entrepreneurial mind. If you really think the products are overpriced and equal to what you can buy at Walmart - then keep buying at Walmart. I know that many of their products are way above the average. Amway is not unethical. They are offering you that opportunity of selling top products to people you meet. But if you have no sales skills, you will not be able to make it in direct sales. This is not Amway's fault.
Oh boy have i and everything to describe is 1000% accurate. The part were my higher intelligence kicked in is when they wanted access to my contacts. Why would i give you my contacts to market to. Thats called seo search engine optimization leads companys pay each other tons of money for leads but i'm suppose to give my contacts to my team leader for free and they profit from my sales. All it really takes is a little common sense to see through the con.
Visited the Norcross GA location and a few employees were complaining to the supervisor concerning harassment from another employee. The supervisor was defensive and unprofessional. Will not return because i saw the supervisor was being bias toward the black employees. This is not a place i would want to work. This was apparently a situation that happened at night so i believe the real daytime supervisors are unaware of his demeanor. Planning on contacting other agemcies to help my fellow race at that location. Will never return.
Great article Christene! It's very difficult to build an Amway business in the United States, most of their growth nowadays is international. Even the business builders inside Amway are leaving the country to build abroad. The reason for this is twofold: 1-people like Ethan V. are out there on the web slamming Amway and discouraging IBOs all in an effort to market their own products and services to them (I call this leech marketing); and 2-Amway has not embraced internet marketing, and continues to teach belly to belly marketing tactics that require all of their new people to "burn the rubber off the tires." It's not up to us to dictate how the marketplace wants to be marketed to, it's up to us to figure out how to speak to them and then provide that message.
But The Dream's real concern is far from the key-party-and-polyester image conjured by the airplane game. Marie and her producer had, like many people, noticed her Facebook feed filling up with friends from high school selling leggings, or makeup, or handbags, asking their friends to buy them and sign up as salesmen themselves. They're all participating in multi-level marketing (MLM) schemes, which anyone involved will tell you are not a pyramid scheme, because pyramid schemes are illegal.
In 2017, a Chandigarh court framed charges, under Section 420 of the Indian Penal Code and the Prize Chits and Money Circulation Scheme (Banning) Act, against two directors of Amway India, William Scot Pinckney and Prithvai Raj Bijlani. This was based on a cheating case filed by eight complainants in 2002, following which the Economic Offences Wing had filed chargesheet in 2012. A revision plea moved by the two Amway officials against the framed charges was dismissed in 2018.[129][130]
Today, the FTC announced a settlement with Fortune Hi-Tech Marketing (FHTM), a company that operated an illegal pyramid scheme disguised as a multilevel marketing program. Over 350,000 people were scammed out of a total of at least $169 million. The settlement bans FHTM from the multilevel marketing business and from deceiving consumers. FHTM will fork over at least $7.7 million, which will be returned to consumers.
That same year over $4 million of DeVos's money went to Hope College, a private liberal arts school affiliated with the Reformed Church in America – in which Rich DeVos was raised – while $2.2 million went to Calvin College, associated with the Christian Reformed Church in North America. Of the $90.9 million in philanthropic donations the DeVos family made in 2013, 13 percent went to churches and faith-based organizations: $7.5 million to the King's College, a Christian college in New York City; $6.8 million to the Grand Rapids Christian Schools; and $1.05 million to the Chicago-based Willow Creek Community Church, an evangelical megachurch. As DeVos puts it in Simply Rich, 'My Christian faith and outreach . . . remain strong after all these years. The Christian church and Christian education are high on our list of giving.' He goes on to say:
Dick DeVos, on stage with his wife, echoed her sentiments with a lament of his own. "The church—which ought to be, in our view, far more central to the life of the community—has been displaced by the public school," Dick DeVos said. "We just can think of no better way to rebuild our families and our communities than to have that circle of church and school and family much more tightly focused and built on a consistent worldview."
Amway has one the world's largest market shares for water treatment systems, which are widely purchased in Asian nations. For these products, the reliability of the products is critical. "In a direct sales business, an agent is selling their neighbors." And for an Asian consumer, these are expensive products, from $600 to $1,000 dollars. "We don't want our agents to have to explain why these products don't work – so we do everything we can to make sure they keep working."
Herbalife distributors from www.seekingalpha a investments forum keep saying that FTC has been instructing HLF on how to make changes so that the company will get out of the CID with only a small fine and that Herbalife will be able to continue it's endless recruiting chain business practice that's prohibited by FTC in writing? Also there are lots of postings that FTC will never be adversarial with HLF due to the influence of Alan Hoffman, Pamela jones, and other HLF political lobbyist?
Athletes who have promoted Quixtar or its products include Jamaican Olympic sprinter Asafa Powell, American pole vaulter Jennifer Stuczynski, American Olympic sprinter Sanya Richards, U.S. Olympian Shaun White, Cinematographer Wes Anderson,Chinese Olympic hurdler Liu Xiang;[25] Brazilian soccer player Ronaldinho, heavyweight boxer Evander Holyfield, and Heisman Trophy winner Ron Dayne. Tim Foley, a member of the undefeated 1972 Miami Dolphins, is a Quixtar Founders Crown Ambassador.[26]
These businesses sell the hope of getting rich by recruiting recruiters to sell overpriced products that don't move in real markets. The products of any MLM have to be extremely cheap to manufacture and must retail at inflated, unrealistic prices because in effect, the products are simply used to move money into the pyramid scheme. Just remember that there are several hundred MLMs in existence in 2014 and all of them are scams.
'No,' says Dale. 'I've only been playing seriously for six or seven years, and I don't have much time, working in hospitality. But I love playing at Bayou Club. You join a private club hoping that during season when every other golf course is swamped – I mean, we own a public course nearby, and they're running on six-minute tee times. They're herded through there like cattle. It's tough during season, and it's not enjoyable golf. Because if you're playing golf, especially if you're kind of a quick player, when you run into someone else and then you have to stop and you have to wait for those people to play ahead of you, to get out of the way, it interrupts your rhythm playing the game.'
About 20 of us showed up and this guy was basically reading the same "save money" script as the guy from 2-3 months earlier. The old guy was from WakeUp now while this new guy was promoting Amway. Unfortunately for this new guy, he found me a few months too late. We sat through the guy's speech but I told everyone not to join because it was a pyramid scheme. Most listened, some did not. None of them were able to make any profits before they eventually quit!
I'm betting it's more likely than not that someone you know — or should I say, used to know — has also gotten involved with Amway. The company is ubiquitous and seems to be infiltrating even the most rational social circles. If someone has recently invited you to coffee because they're looking for cool people to help them run their "business", chances are you're in danger of becoming an Amway target.
To sell Amway products, you'll first need to register as an Independent Business Owner (IBO), which will then give you the opportunity to earn an income through their Compensation Plan. After signing up as an IBO, Amway claims that you'll never be alone due to their world-class business resources, support, education, training, as well as mentoring. However, despite how great the company makes their business opportunity appear, the fact is that most people never make any money (see Bottom Line section for additional information).
Amway is probably the most widely used of the "sell our products out of the comfort of your own home and be your own boss!" services, the ones that appeal to the unemployed with promises they'll get rich quick (and also encourages them to relentlessly recruit new members). And on the surface it looks fairly plausible, especially when you look at how much money Amway rakes in every year: in 2014 Amway sold $10.8 billion worth of products, so why shouldn't you try to break off a piece of that action?
"The time is ripe for cultivating entrepreneurs, as evidenced by this year's AGER results" said Jim Ayres, Managing Director, Amway North America. "Over the past five years, we have seen how age, education levels and gender influence attitudes towards entrepreneurship. Through this research, we realized the importance of understanding what motivates individuals to start their own businesses. This year's AGER reveals a growing number of Americans continue to express a desire to start their own business. This desire is shared among the many independent business owners we work with year-round."
The Amwayers who had brought me to Dream Night were flying high on the drive home, whooping occasionally just to vent their exhilaration. I felt as though I had just sat through a year's worth of infomercials, with some high school pep rallies and a few Tony Robbins lectures thrown in. But to see all this as an exercise in mass hypnosis, according to Amway's literature, would be to "misunderstand" what is, simply, "the best business opportunity in the world"—an assessment, strangely enough, with which the rest of world is starting to agree.
Listen to Rosemarie and Otto Steiner-Lang, who joined Amway in the hope of funding their own construction company and now run their Amway business full-time: 'We have found in Amway the independence we were looking for. This business is a doable and affordable solution for the problems in the labor market today. Amway, which represents free enterprise perfectly, postulates and promotes the initiative of the individual, reducing the burden on the public social system.'
Amway is not a pyramid scheme. It's very tough to be successful because you have to become a leader and set the example for your downline. The reason why everyone has to attend the meetings and functions are because of 3 reasons: 1) It educates people into having a Business Owner Mindset 2) It keeps people motivated and positive because it's tough and people give a lot of hate 3) Money is raised so that people get paid. Even if there are cons to the the prices and meetings, thats how the business works. You can't change a business if you don't like it. You can't do what you want in regular jobs. You have to work with whatever you have. In addition, in every business there will always be people dominating at the top and people at the bottom. The difference between these people is that the ones at the top used a certain way to get to the top. Working hard doesn't necessarily mean you'll be successful. You also have to work smart. So to finish up, Amway is not a traditional business because you don't need a degree to do it. It is a business though, so you need to work at it the way it has to be worked (MLM) to be successful.
Last year, my friend's roommate was caught up in the snares of Amway. It started innocently enough, but rapidly declined into a spiral of crazy we could not rescue her from, despite our efforts. In addition to purchasing binders of Amway sales strategies and tactics, this girl also had CDs she'd listen to while she slept, selling her on positive thoughts and Amway success. She even attended international Amway conferences, which cost thousands of dollars out of her own pocket and have yet to return anything.
Amway has phenomenal products, with a low startup cost. You make excellent margins on products 20-40%. You get excellent business training and sales/product training with the Britt System. The atmosphere is always positive, negativity is not allowed. You build great relationships and friendships. It becomes a franchise environment with support from an entire team and business system. You can purchase products at a heavily discounted price. You can expand your business in over 80+ countries world wide.
Last night we attended the JT concert and had the worst experience ever. First, I was told we couldn...'t take in our small camera, even after I spoke to supervisor. They wanted us to bring it back to the car!! I had to show them the email blast from Amway that said small, non professional cameras were allowed. Need better training for your staff. 2nd, all the floor bars ran out of bud light and then all domestic beers in can and on tap. What a joke. It was a Monday night and a concert for adults. Lastly, the sound was terrible for the show, bathrooms a mess. For the money we pay for concerts, you need to do a better job!! See More
While Jean explained all of this, Josh, by way of chatting up the friend who was to drive me home, offered him some Glister Anti-Plaque Gum. This was a companion to Glister AntiPlaque Toothpaste, something so caustic-sounding that I never dared put it in my mouth. "It's actually illegal in Canada," Josh improbably declared, adding, "I guess they just don't worry about plaque up there." Friend-with-Car excused himself to go to the bathroom, from which he emerged with an odd look on his face. Once safely in the car he described the bathroom as something not to be missed.
From the beginning, designers focused on creating a sustainable site; providing water efficiency; optimizing energy and atmosphere protection; conserving materials and resources; monitoring indoor environmental quality and health; and selecting environmentally preferred operations and maintenance. These elements combine to create one of the most environmentally friendly, high-performing professional arenas in the country.
Amway is a multilevel marketing corporation. Some call it a pyramid scheme. In 2015, its parent company, Alticor, claimed transglobal sales of $9.5 billion. It is the biggest direct-selling company in the world. Distributors make money by signing up other distributors and – somewhere in the background – 'selling' Amway products. It's not exactly clear how Amway products should reach the public. That isn't part of Amway's marketing plan; The Plan mostly teaches distributors how to sign up other distributors, to whom they then distribute Amway products, who then distribute Amway products to other distributors they sign up, and onward. Amway has been the target, along with its affiliate companies, of multimillion-dollar lawsuits and other legal actions on almost every continent.
There have been instances in the past where even auto-rickshaw drivers had sold their belongings (including their auto-rickshaw) and paid upto Rs 35,000 to become members of such scheme (GoldQuest). But as with any pyramid scheme, they had to bear the brunt of the binary tree's exponential function and they became bankrupt. As expected, the organizers went absconding.
Scott Coon (the millionaire from Seattle), on the other hand, was the genuine article: His breezy small talk projected an illusion of sincere interest, his well-fed face reflected self-assurance. Scott worked the small crowd with consummate slickness. After a mumbled intro from Josh (followed by whoops from the audience), Scott stood beaming at us, rubbing his hands in anticipation.
Before the meeting, I had worried that my hand-held tape recorder would stand out. As it happened, everyone was recording Scott: I kept track of time by the sounds of cassettes being flipped. I was on Side B of a ninety minute tape before Scott dropped the word "Amway," and I was on another cassette entirely before I captured the heart of the "best business opportunity in the world": the Amway Sales & Marketing Plan. This was not, however, a topic to be discussed without considerable preparatory spadework.
As its hands reached "midnight," the Rolex dissolved into a series of video montages depicting the consumer Shangri-La that our own forthcoming Amway success would open for us. We leered as a day in the life of a typical jobholder—all alarm clocks, traffic jams, and dingy cubicles—was contrasted with that of an Amway distributor, who slept in and lounged the day away with his family. We gawked hungrily as real-life Amway millionaires strutted about sprawling estates (proudly referred to as "family compounds") and explained that such opulence was ours for the asking. We chortled as a highway patrolman stopped an expensive sports car for speeding—only to ride away a moment later with an Amway sample kit strapped to his motorcycle. Our laughter became a roar of delight as the camera zoomed in on the sports car's bumper sticker: "JOBLESS … AND RICH!"
In the years since the DeVoses debuted GLEP, we've witnessed the nationwide rise of single-issue PACs funded by a small number of extraordinarily wealthy donors, especially since the Citizens United ruling uncorked the dam of corporate money. "The [DeVos] family has been forward-thinking in their use of money to influence politics," says Craig Mauger of the Michigan Campaign Finance Network. "And what's happening with them in Michigan seems to be an example of where we're going as a country with the concentration of power in our politics."
Amway has become one of the most reliable options for me and my family. I buy there because they offer quality products and they are very durable, such as detergents and cleaning products. They offer good products and their customer service is very good, the person who sells me directly is very kind. Whenever I buy in Amway I do it with the distributor directly because the products are cheaper there, but from time to time I look for my reseller and I request products.
Methodology: Source Euromonitor International Limited. Claim verification based on Euromonitor research and methodology for Amway Corporation conducted from May through June 2018. Euromonitor determined reviewed all competitors and eliminated those whose total sales for 2017 were less than half of Amway's stated 2015 bonuses paid out. The bonuses of the remaining companies were compared to Amway's 2017 bonuses paid out and no companies remained after this stage. To the extent permissible, Euromonitor does not accept or assume responsibility to any third party in respect of this claim.
Amway has a huge collection of 'success stories'. These are recordings by people who have made it big in Amway. They explain how Amway changed their lives and set them on the path to financial freedom. I was briefly a member of Amway and my sponsor's upline became very upset when I refused to pay for a regular motivational CDs. (While I was being recruited, my sponsor loaned me some of his CDs so I got to listen to them). As expected, the motivational material is a big profit maker for those who are making money in the system.
Amway has been in business for more than fifty years, and they seem to pay to their IBOs according to their compensation plan. Besides, they appear to have a positive online reputation. The customers are amazed with their customer service that involves pleasant and polite people who are always there to resolve any problem you might have. It is extremely easy to sign up and make an order. This professional and big American company offers a huge selection of useful products and a lot of benefits. The purchases usually arrive very fast and feature high quality. These include products from nutrition to bath, beauty and home.
The largest training system in Amway at the time of releasing this short article is WWDB (WorldWide Dreambuilders, officially Globe Wide Group). Although there are numerous training platforms inside Amway, WWDB occurs to be the biggest so I will simply focus on their process with us. The expense incurred by partnering with any type of Amway training platform will be relatively the very same.
Though they aren't quite as large or wealthy as the DeVoses, the Prince family—even further west, in Holland, Michigan—shares one big trait in common with their in-laws: the idea that patriotism and politics are inseparable from Christianity. Elsa Prince Broekhuizen, Betsy's mother, donated $75,000 to the successful 2004 ballot measure to ban same-sex marriage in Michigan; four years later, she gave $450,000 to an identical initiative in California. Betsy's brother, Erik Prince, founded Blackwater, the military contractor that gained notoriety in 2007, when its employees fired into a crowd of Iraqi civilians, killing 17. (In 2009, two former Blackwater employees alleged in federal court that Prince "views himself as a Christian crusader.")
To understand the choices, you have to understand the business. He explained that the products developed to be sold for the direct sales model need to be different from any others on the market. "We develop products with specific deliverables that are unique.  These products, what they are and how they work, needs to be explained by someone who knows the product. A good product for the store shelf is not necessarily a good direct sale product."
The team that finishes first in the coaches' poll is awarded with the AFCA National Championship Trophy—from its inception through 2014, the winner of the BCS National Championship Game and its precursors was contractually named the #1 team on the Coaches Poll, and awarded the trophy in a post-game presentation. With the replacement of the BCS by the College Football Playoff in 2014, the trophy will still be awarded, but in a separate ceremony some time following the College Football Playoff National Championship (which chose to award its own trophy), and the Coaches' Poll is no longer obligated to name the winner of the game as its post-season #1.[4]
On its face, the debate over right-to-work is about an arcane bit of labor law—whether workers under a contract that was collectively negotiated by a union should have to pay dues to that union, regardless of whether they're members. But that debate is a proxy for a larger battle that is less about employment law than political jockeying: Unions tends to align with Democrats, and as a result, if it becomes more difficult for unions to collect dues, they'll be weakened and less able to advocate for the political causes of their choosing.
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Early in our conversation, I had mentioned that it was unusual for the chief supply chain officer to also be in charge of R&D. Dr. Calvert addressed this near the end of our interview, "I can't imagine how difficult it would be to have procurement, manufacturing, the trade group, and R&D in different silos when it comes to developing and sourcing goods. The group I work with dictates everything about the product, how it is built, sourced, and where it is built."
I can see how one bad experience or one negative anecdote can turn you away from something–in this case, a business. But if you took the time to find out more information you'd see that this is really quite, quite far from the truth. Amway has been certified as a legal, non-pyramid scheme, and you'd know that if you just did a simple google search.
For dinner before a game, there are a number of options at the arena. One thing to keep in mind is that Loge ticket holders are also entitled to dinner at Jernigan's Restaurant on the Club Level and have the exclusive option to reserve a table from 5:30 - 6:30 pm as premium ticket holders. Regardless of when you're going, reservations are recommended.


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U 121 war ein deutsches U-Boot vom Typ II B, das im Zweiten Weltkrieg von der deutschen Kriegsmarine eingesetzt wurde.

Geschichte
Der Auftrag für das Boot wurde am 28. August 1937 an die Flender-Werke, Lübeck vergeben. Die Kiellegung erfolgte am 31. März 1938, der Stapellauf am 20. April 1940, die Indienststellung unter Oberleutnant zur See Karl-Ernst Schroeter am 28. Mai 1940.

Das Boot gehörte nach seiner Indienststellung bis zum 25. März 1942 als Schulboot zur U-Bootschulflottille in Kiel, die am 1. Juli 1940 in 21. U-Flottille umbenannt und nach Pillau verlegt wurde, sowie vom 26. März 1942 bis zum 15. Mai 1942 als Schulboot zur 24. U-Flottille in Memel. Vom 16. Mai 1942 bis zum 16. März 1945 war das Boot wieder als Schulboot bei der 21. U-Flottille in Pillau bzw. Memel eingesetzt. Vom 17. März 1945 bis zum 5. Mai 1945 war es dann als Schulboot bei der 31. U-Flottille in Hamburg.

U 121 war ein reines Schul- und Ausbildungsboot und lief zu keinen Unternehmungen aus.

Verbleib
Das Boot wurde am 5. Mai 1945 in Wesermünde gemäß dem lange bestehenden, allerdings von Großadmiral Dönitz noch am Abend des 4. Mai 1945 aufgehobenen Regenbogen-Befehl von seiner Besatzung selbstversenkt. Das Wrack wurde 1949 gehoben und im November 1950 verschrottet.

Literatur
 Rainer Busch / Hans-Joachim Röll: Der U-Boot-Krieg, Band 1: Die deutschen U-Boot-Kommandanten, Verlag Mittler & Sohn Hamburg-Berlin-Bonn 1996, ISBN 3-8132-0490-1
 Rainer Busch / Hans-Joachim Röll: Der U-Boot-Krieg, Band 2: Der U-Boot-Bau auf deutschen Werften, Verlag Mittler & Sohn Hamburg-Berlin-Bonn 1997, ISBN 3-8132-0512-6
 Rainer Busch / Hans-Joachim Röll: Der U-Boot-Krieg, Band 3: Deutsche U-Boot-Erfolge von September 1939 bis Mai 1945, Verlag Mittler & Sohn Hamburg-Berlin-Bonn, ISBN 3-8132-0513-4
 Rainer Busch / Hans-Joachim Röll: Der U-Boot-Krieg, Band 4: Deutsche U-Boot-Verluste von September 1939 bis Mai 1945, Verlag Mittler & Sohn Hamburg-Berlin-Bonn, ISBN 3-8132-0514-2
 Rainer Busch / Hans-Joachim Röll: Der U-Boot-Krieg, Band 5: Die Ritterkreuzträger der U-Boot-Waffe von September 1939 bis Mai 1945, Verlag Mittler & Sohn, ISBN 3-8132-0515-0
 Clay Blair: Der U-Boot-Krieg, Band 1: Die Jäger 1939–1942 Wilhelm Heyne Verlag München 1998, ISBN 3-453-12345-X
 Clay Blair: Der U-Boot-Krieg, Band 2: Die Gejagten 1942–1945 Wilhelm Heyne Verlag München 1996, ISBN 3-453-16059-2
 Paul Kemp: Die deutschen und österreichischen U-Boot-Verluste in beiden Weltkriegen. Urbes Verlag Hans Jürgen Hansen, Gräfelfing vor München 1998, ISBN 3-924896-43-7

Siehe auch
 Liste deutscher U-Boot-Klassen
 U-Boot-Krieg

Weblinks
 u-bootarchiv.de, eine ausführliche Seite über deutsche U-Boote (deutsch)

U-Boot-Klasse II
Schulschiff (Kriegsmarine)
Schiffsverlust durch Selbstversenkung
Schiffsverlust 1945
Flender-Werke
U121

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Atlanta Eminent Domain Condemnation Lawyer | Real Estate | Andersen, Tate & Carr, P.C.
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Home Uncategorized Supersonic missile produced by Roketsan hit the target with full accuracy
Supersonic missile produced by Roketsan hit the target with full accuracy
Test firing of TRG-230-UAV, Turkey's first air-to-ground supersonic missile, was carried out. Launched from Akıncı TİHA, the missile hit the target 100 kilometers away with a precise hit.
With the TRG-230-iHA, Turkey's first air-to-ground supersonic missile fired from Baykar's Akıncı TİHA and manufactured by Roketsan, the target over 100 kilometers was hit with a precise hit. Roketsan's Twitter account shared about the firing of the TRG-230-UAV missile. "We continue to exceed the limits with our national engineering capabilities." According to the information received, AKINCI TİHA, which took off from Baykar Facilities in Çorlu, fired the TRG-230-UAV missile from an altitude of 25 thousand feet off the coast of Sinop. Thus, after being released from the TİHA, SİHAs gained the ability to fire autonomously in the air and to act on critical targets at supersonic speed in a short time. The TRG-230-UAV missile, which has an effective range of 20 kilometers to 150 kilometers, reaches the target with pinpoint accuracy. The launch is the first ballistic supersonic missile launched from air to land in Turkey.
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San Francisco Bay Area songwriting deviants, Tumbledown House, have never been easy to describe. Modern speakeasy, saloon jazz, parlor pop, and Tom Waits in a cocktail dress are some of the terms used, but none of these successfully convey the band's incomparable ability to fuse vintage sounds and themes from yesteryear with the modern instrumentation, refreshingly original compositions, and raw energy that we expect from today's performers.
Following the release of their second album, Fables and Falsehoods (featuring several members of New Orleans' Dirty Dozen Brass Band), Tumbledown House resumed their extensive touring schedule to "quickly ascend as one of the new, promising acts of the Rocky Mountain region" (Pop Rocket Press). The band has performed at such illustrious events as the sold out Edwardian Ball, Stern Grove's pop-up festival, The Priceless Festival, The Midpoint Music Festival, Oakland's Eastlake Music Festival, in clubs such as Yoshi's, The Regency Ballroom, and Amnesia, and alongside notable artists like The Devil Makes Three, Crooked Still, Keller Williams, The Dirty Dozen Brass Band, and countless others.


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This is a Xamarin.Android bindings for ["Material DateTime Picker"](https://github.com/wdullaer/MaterialDateTimePicker) from [@wdullaer](https://github.com/wdullaer)

More information: [http://sorokoletov.com/2016/02/29/material-date-time-picker-available-for-xamarin-android-apps-bindings/](http://sorokoletov.com/2016/02/29/material-date-time-picker-available-for-xamarin-android-apps-bindings/)

### How to use this library (examples)

Three simple steps:

1. Reference the bindings project in your app project (clone/copy/submodule/whatever)
2. In your activity implement interface OnTimeSetListener/OnDateSetListener
3. Create a datepicker and show it

Basically these steps are described in the [Readme.md file of the original library](https://github.com/wdullaer/MaterialDateTimePicker/blob/master/README.md)

```
//implement OnDateSetListener
public class HomeView : BaseActionBarView<HomeViewModel>,
Com.Wdullaer.Materialdatetimepicker.Date.DatePickerDialog.IOnDateSetListener

```

```
private void OnChooseDateButtonClick(object sender, EventArgs e)
{
    Java.Util.Calendar now = Java.Util.Calendar.Instance;
    Com.Wdullaer.Materialdatetimepicker.Date.DatePickerDialog dpd =
        Com.Wdullaer.Materialdatetimepicker.Date.DatePickerDialog.NewInstance(
        this,
        now.Get(Java.Util.CalendarField.Year),
        now.Get(Java.Util.CalendarField.Month),
        now.Get(Java.Util.CalendarField.DayOfMonth)
    );
    dpd.Show(FragmentManager, "Datepickerdialog");
}

public void OnDateSet(Com.Wdullaer.Materialdatetimepicker.Date.DatePickerDialog p0, int p1, int p2, int p3)
{
    p0.Dismiss();
}

```

Make sure you are using the same version (23.1.1) of Xamarin.Android.Support.v4 package in your application project.

### Demo

<img src="Screenshots/material-date-time-picker-xamarin-android.png?raw=true"
title="Material Date Time Picker in Xamarin.Android app" alt="Material Date Time Picker in Xamarin.Android app" width="320">

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Former NBA professional basketball star, Kobe Bryant, may be retired from sports but he is anything but retired. His latest endeavor is creating an investment fund that will help media, technology, and data start-up companies over the next few years.
Bryant and his investor friend, Jeff Stibel, are launching a $100 million venture capital fund to help entrepreneurs in the media, technology and data industries. What is amazing is that they are launching the fund by themselves and asking for no assistance from outside investors. So, why would a former professional basketball star want to invest in start-up companies?
Sound like someone you know? Bryant admits he feels he has a real flair to choosing promising entrepreneurs. In addition, his competitive nature and insistence on doing things perfectly are bound to contribute immensely to his success with the new VC fund. Sounds like another win/win for Kobe Bryant, and for all the entrepreneurs his fund will support.
The venture capital fund is called Bryant Stibel, and will be based in Los Angeles, California.
Labels: $100 Million Venture Capital Fund Shares Investment Advice With Retired NBA Players.


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Nigeria draws Morocco, Madagascar, 13 others in 2015 Davis Cup
The International Tennis Federation has placed Nigeria alongside the highly-rated Madagascar, Morocco and 13 others in the Africa Zone Group III at the 2016 edition of the Davis Cup tournament.
There were speculations that Nigeria would be penalised for making its withdrawal known to the world tennis ruling body a few days to the kick-off of the 2015 edition of the tournament held last year in Cairo, Egypt.
But with the conduct of the draw, it is clear that Nigeria may not be sanctioned after all.
However, Nigeria's quest for promotion to Group II will continue again in 2016 as they are expected to battle Group II relegated sides, Madagascar and Morocco, and 13 others for places in the elite division.
According to ITTF, the 2016 edition of the Group III of the Africa Zone will hold on the clay courts of the Antanarivo University in Madagascar from July 13 to 16, with 16 teams aiming for the two promotion slots available.
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UK will need 'thousands' more customs officers after Brexit, Dutch MP warns
Netherlands plans to boost customs staff by 750 as reality of Britain's EU departure sinks in
Fri 16 Feb 2018 21.41 EST
Lorries banked up in Kent. Photograph: Anadolu Agency/Getty Images
The Dutch government plans to hire at least 750 new customs agents in preparation for Britain's exit from the European Union.
The Dutch parliament's Brexit rapporteur, Pieter Omtzigt, who had recommended the move, said both sides of the English Channel had been slow to wake up to the reality that Britain was on course to leave the EU in 14 months' time.
"If we need hundreds of new customs and agricultural inspectors, the British are going to need thousands," he said.
Omtzigt warned that "for a trading nation like the Netherlands, you just cannot afford for customs not to work, it would be a disaster".
Staying in the EU customs union after Brexit would be disastrous for Britain | Henry Newman
In a letter to parliament on Friday, the deputy finance minister, Menno Snel, said the cabinet had "decided that the Customs and Food and Wares agencies should immediately begin recruiting and training more workers".
He said the government was working on the basis of two scenarios: that Britain leaves the EU with no deal in place, or that it leaves on similar terms to those of the EU's recent trade deal with Canada.
"The results are that ... around 930 or 750 full-time employees are needed," Snel said. "It speaks for itself that the cabinet is following the negotiations closely in order to be able to react appropriately."


My son, Carlin, is in Grade 11. He has the biggest essay assignment of his life bubbling away on the hotplate this spring, so we've had a few conversations about writing, organizing our thoughts, capturing our reader's interest, and avoiding that greatest of sins, the passive voice.
I'm excited about his project for many reasons. One: not that long ago he could barely put together a cogent email; now, his writing has progressed so far that his teacher gave him a personal challenge to prepare an essay that is somewhat larger than the class assignment! Two: he's writing about a topic that has had a profound effect on my own life and health, food. (More on that topic here, http://www.goofygrub.com.) Three: he really cares about this paper, and is researching and writing really hard, almost like he's on a mission.
Then, this weekend, he gave me a fourth reason to be excited about his assignment.
Before I tell you why, I'll tell you the same thing I told him about something I have learned to do when the message I want to communicate via writing really matters a lot.
If I can, I read it out loud to someone close to me — they are the most likely to be the most annoyed when I make no sense! Their stabs at my "beautiful work" can hurt, but even I, infamous Queen of Defensive Over-Reactions, must confess that their critiques are more like a surgeon's scalpel than they are a switchblade.
However, I don't always have a willing victim close at hand (I wonder why?), so I've had to develop an effective workaround. Reading my work aloud to myself helps me find "trippy" spots, the places where my language doesn't flow as well as I imagine it does as I type it.
Back to Carlin and my fourth reason for excitement about his work-in-progress. It came from a conversation I overhead him having with a classmate on his cellphone, upstairs. I swear again, I wasn't eavesdropping. He was talking so loudly, excitedly, jocularly, that I couldn't help but hear every word as they came tumbling down the banister and into my ears.
He had just discovered an important editing device that he found both useful and funny, and was sharing this new knowledge with a classmate who was also grappling with the same monster assignment.
"It sounded so ridiculous, I had no idea what I was trying to say — and I WAS THE ONE WHO WROTE IT!" he bellowed, laughing his head off. "It all made perfect sense in my head when I wrote it, but it made no sense at all when I read it out loud." More guffaws.
Sounds like the ears are better editors than the eyes!


Fraser says Yes. As more Scots who voted No to independence reconsider their decision, we follow their journey to Yes and self-determination for Scotland. Fraser is a Labour member who, let down by the empty promises made by Better Together in the final days of indyref and concerned about an increasingly right-wing UK out of the EU, sees independence as the only choice now.


ingredients on deal? – Tell Us What You Think!
it seems like the recipes should indicate if an ingredient is on special at one of my stores. That is what would set this site apart from the thousands of other recipe sites. If i'm looking to maximize my shopping dollar, i'd pick recipes that are on deal or have coupons. When i print my shopping list, i'd want to see that the ingredient is on deal, or has a related coupon.


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Hammered Coins of England
Collectable coins of the United Kingdom
Coins for sale
Pre Tudor (to 1485)
Tudor (1485 to 1603)
Stuart (1603 to 1649/1660 to 1662)
Commonwealth (1649-1660)
Ancient world and other coins
Durham House, London- it's history and mint
DURHAM HOUSE
by Anthony Travis March 2016
(with reference to Thomas Allen's study (1839) and the survey of London 1937 by the LCC)
Durham Place was the most easterly of the mansions along the south side of the Strand extending from the boundary of York House on the west to Ivy Lane. Its extensive grounds included river frontage.
According to Thomas Allen in his publication of 1839, Antony de Bec (or Bek) built a Town residence for him and his successors, known as 'Durham Place,' in the Strand. Bec was Bishop of that See from 1284 to 1310. Notably he was also Titular Patriarch of Jerusalem from 1306 to 1311 (the only English person ever to hold this post). However, whilst Leland states that Durham Inn was built by Anthony Bek, William de Chambre, a fourteenth-century Durham chronicler, says that Thomas Hatfield, (Bishop from 1345 to 1381) was responsible. It is probable that both bishops did a certain amount of rebuilding there. Other records state that Richard Poore, Bishop of Durham (1209 to 1213) was the first known occupant of the house. He was known for creating the beautiful "Cathedral of the Waters" and the bishop's palace at Salisbury showing him as a great and extravagant builder. It is therefore probable that the original Durham Place owed its existence to him. Again, probability is that these incumbents changed and extended Durham Place (House) during their tenures
In 1258, Walter de Kirkham, Bishop of Durham (1249 to 1260) was said to have quarrelled with the King and refused to come to court. As a result it transpired that Simon de Montfort, Earl of Leicester, (and leader of the baronial opposition to the King) lodged at the Bishop's house during the summer of that year. The following chronicle of Matthew Paris appears to qualify this. He says that one day, whilst Henry III was being rowed on the Thames a violent storm forced his boat to turn in to land near Durham House. Apparently, de Montfort came out and offered shelter, declaring that there was no cause for alarm. The King replied: "Thunder and lightning I greatly fear, but, by the head of God, I fear thee more."
In February, 1380–1, Thomas, Bishop of Durham, granted to William de Beverley and others, ,two chambers in the said manor, the vestibule of the chapel with two chambers adjoining, and the whole inn with houses on the east side of the north gate of the manor. The Bishop of Durham's garden originally contained about two acres of ground since it extended to the river and, prior to 1603, was wider than it is shown on the 1626 plan. The profits of the garden were, in medieval times, one of the usual perquisites of the keeper of Durham Place. The great hall of Durham House abutted on the river from which direct access was obtained by means of a flight of steps. The hall was described by Norden circa 1592 as "stately and high, supported with loftie marble pillers. It standeth upon the Thamise very pleasantly."
There were, necessarily, long periods during which the bishop was not in residence at Durham Place, but during the fifteenth and early sixteenth centuries, when several of the bishops of Durham held the chancellorship, the great hall must frequently have been used, for trials in equity. The buildings were also increasingly used for the accommodation of royal and other guests. In 1412 when "prynce Herry, the sone of King Herry the forthe" came to London, he "lay at the bysshoppes inne of Durham," Thomas Langley, the then bishop, being one of his political supporters. Catherine of Aragon seems to have stayed there in 1502 for there is an entry in the Privy Purse Expenses of Elizabeth of York of a payment "for conveyeng the Princesse in the Quenes barge with xvi rowers from the Bisshop of Duresme Place to Westminster and from Westminster again the vith day of November."
Letters to and from Wolsey show that he was living at Durham House in 1516–18, probably during the completion of his building operations at York Place. He was on very friendly terms with the then Bishop of Durham, Thomas Ruthall, Keeper of the Privy Seal, who has been described as "singing treble to the cardinal's bass." Ruthall died at Durham House on 4th February, 1522–3, and was succeeded in his occupancy of the see by Wolsey.
Late in 1529 Wolsey resigned the See of Durham, and Cuthbert Tunstall was appointed as his successor. Apparently Sir Thomas Boleyn (afterwards Earl of Wiltshire), the father of Anne Boleyn, was purported to already be in residence at Durham House during 1529. But we also know that in the summer of 1529 Cranmer was entertained there in order that he might have quietude to write "his minde concerninge the Kinges question," i.e. the divorce. Anne Boleyn seems to have been living there in May, 1532.
Durham House remained an episcopal palace until Bishop Cuthbert Tunstall relinquished it to King Henry VIII in July 1536, Cuthbert granted to the King "all that his capytall messuage … comenly called Durham Place, wyth all Houses, Buyldyngs, Gardeyns, Orcheards, Pooles, fysshyngs, stables and all other commodytes . In return Henry contracted to give the bishop in return Coldharbour in Dowgate Ward, London, and other residences although he appears never to have honoured that promise. At this time Henry bequethed Durham House to his daughter Princess Elizabeth.
Durham House became a great social place of merriment and hosted many banquets and feasts as Henry was famed for! Indeed it is recorded that in 1540 there was a great jousting Tournament in Westminster where all the Champions proclaimed around Europe would 'battle'. Every day the challengers would return to Durham House where the King and Queen (Anne of Cleves) held a magnificent feast. All the nobility were there to include the Mayor of London, Knights and burgesses of the House of Commons together with their ladies etc., all joining in the revelry.
Edward VI resided at Durham Place for a time before he became king, but in March, 1549–50, he granted it to Princess Elizabeth in fulfilment of his father's will.
On her accession to the throne, Queen Mary removed the house from the possession of Princess Elizabeth and restored it to Tunstall, together with his see, as it had become apparent Tunstall no longer had a London residence. Although it appears he had usage of Coldharbour!
Upon her accession, Elizabeth seized possession of Durham House
In the meantime a commission was granted (January, 1549), to "John Bowes, esquire, treasurer of the mint within the king's manor called Dureham Place," and others "to coin certain new moneys" there, viz., the "soveraygne of gold," the "half soveraygn or Edward Royall," the "croune" and the "half croune."
Interestingly, Thomas Allen states that the overall management of the mint was put under the charge of William Sharrington. Sharrington at this time was mint master at Bristol and his monogram (WS) used frequently as a mark. The mintmark used at Durham house was that of a 'bow'. Sharrington was heavily under the influence of the aspiring Thomas Seymour (Lord Admiral) who had designs on the throne. He used Sharrington to assist in his devious plot of minting 'extra' money to fund his operation! Hence Bristol coins were noticeably of poor silver quality. The same appears to have happened in Durham House. Posthumous issues bearing the portrait of Henry V111 were produced, namely, groat, halfgroat and penny. Issues bearing the portrait of Edward V1 were the gold half sovereign and silver shilling. These were minted between 1547 and 1549 only. Interestingly, not the same coins stated in the original Royal commission.
Sharrington was caught out and his dies etc. appear to have been destroyed. As any decent guy would have done (!) he dobbed in his pal, Thomas Seymour, and saved his own neck. He was granted a pardon and employed again under the charge of John Dudley (Earl of Northumberland). Thomas Seymour was a thorn in the side of the powers that be, so they were more than pleased to do a deal and get rid of Seymour!
In July, 1550, the French Ambassador was lodged at Durham Place "which was richly hanged … and had at his cominge ready sett in the court of the same, for a present from the Kinges Maiestie, certeine fatt oxen, calves, sheepe, lambes and all manner of wyld foule of every sorte, a certain [number] all alive, and also of all manner of freshe fyshe of the best that might be gotten, with wyne allso in his cellar." The Privy Council met at Durham Place in April, 1551, and about this time the house was made ready for the entertainment of the French Ambassadors, who came to ratify the peace.
Early in 1553 John Dudley, Duke of Northumberland, took possession of Durham Place and contrived to get Elizabeth's consent thereto, though not without her "conceyvinge some displeser" against him. In this year three weddings "were celebrated with great magnificence there." They were those of Lady Jane Grey, Queen for 9 days (before Mary) with Guildford Dudley, Catherine, Jane's sister, with Lord Herbert, son of the Earl of Pembroke, and Catherine, youngest daughter of the Duke of Northumberland, with Lord Hastings, son of the Earl of Huntingdon.
Lady Jane lived at Durham Place until the death of King Edward, when, after her proclamation, she "was brought by water to the Tower; attended by a Noble Train of both Sexes." Her brief tragedy was soon at an end, and her successor, Queen Mary, restored Durham Place to its original owner, the Bishop of Durham, Cuthbert Tunstall. In 1551 he had been confined to his house near Coldharbour, and during his imprisonment had written his De Veritate Corporis et Sanguinis Domini nostri Jesu Christi in Eucharistia, perhaps the best contemporary statement of the Catholic doctrine of the eucharist. He refused to take the oath of supremacy at the accession of Elizabeth, and therefore was deprived of his bishopric. He died at Lambeth Palace in November, 1559.
In January, 1553–4, Durham House had been used as a lodging for the Spanish Ambassador and in the following year King Philip himself resided there. After the death of Tunstall Elizabeth again took possession. In any case the Spanish Ambassador was lodged there from 1559 until 1565. Machyn tells us that on Candlemas Day, 1562–3, "ther was sertyn men whent to Duram plase … to here masse, and there was sertyn of them carved [carried] by the gard and othur men to the contur [compter, prison] and odur places." A great deal of stir was made by De Quadra, the Spanish Ambassador, regarding this incident, since it concerned not only the right of an ambassador to use the ceremonies of his faith, but also his control over his ambassadorial residence. A similar incident occurred in the time of Charles I.
Sir Walter Raleigh was in residence at Durham House, being granted use by Elizabeth in 1583. He spent £2,000 on repairs and lived there until the death of Elizabeth.
Aubrey says that Raleigh "after he came to his greatness" lived in Durham House, "or in some apartment of it," and adds, "I well remember his study, which was a little turret which looked into and over the Thames, Westminster, Whitehall Palace and the Surrey Hills".
There is a record of Sir Arthur Gorges (poet), and his cousin, Sir Ferdinando Gorges, had dated letters from Durham House in 1595 and 1596 respectively. These were two chums of Raleigh and had sailed with him on the Islands Voyage in 1597.
Upon Elizabeth's death and Raleigh's resultant loss of influence at court, Durham House was reclaimed for the See by the bishop of Durham, Tobias Matthew. He then offered it for the use of the Privy Council, a gesture perhaps to appease the new King, James 1, who approved the move!
Around 1605 Durham House was shorn of its Strand and Ivy Lane frontages, which were granted to Cecil (Earl of Salisbury). The stables were taken down and the New Exchange erected. Ivy Lane frontage was used for Great and Little Salisbury Houses and the main buildings nominally restored to the See of Durham, but in practice the King made use of them for state purposes.
In 1610 Durham House was used for the ceremony of the creation of Knights of the Bath. In 1619 Sir Thomas Wilson wrote that the ambassadors of France, Savoy and the States were staying there. In 1623, when Prince Charles was expected to bring back the Infanta from Spain as his betrothed, Durham House was requisitioned to accommodate the "grandees" who would attend her. In the following year the French Ambassador was again in occupation, and 240 feet of hangings were put up in the "Dyning roome and presence" and his bedchamber was "new matted with Bullrush matts." Foreign ambassadors were a constant source of disturbance about the English Court at this time, being continually involved in quarrels over questions of precedence or over their religious privileges. A serious dispute on the latter subject occurred at Durham House in 1626. The King had asked the Bishop of Durham to allow the French Ambassador "some Lodgings in his house, which had stood free from infection all ye Sickness time; which the said Bishop performed, crouding vp himself and his whole family being great, into the worst and basest roomes of his house, leaving all the good and large roomes thereof, with others, to the number of 30 one with another, to the Ambassrs vse; yet reserving to himself and his family passage through the Hall and through all ye Gates and dores, leading either to the Water, or High Street." The Ambassador was, of course, allowed to have Mass celebrated within his lodging, but considerable scandal arose from the fact that many English Catholics attended. On Sunday, the 26th February, constables were sent to arrest these recusants as they came out from Mass. A fight with the Ambassador's men ensued, and afterwards a long investigation was found necessary to mollify the Ambassador's offended dignity. Considering the large cost of repairs necessary for so old a fabric and the small enjoyment he had from it, the Bishop of Durham was probably only too glad to agree to Charles I's proposal in 1641 that Durham House should be granted to Philip, 4th Earl of Pembroke, in return for the annual payment of £200. An Act of Parliament to this effect was, therefore, passed. Webb, the pupil of Inigo Jones, designed a large house to occupy this site, but, probably owing to the outbreak of the Civil War, the design was never carried out. Parliamentary soldiers were quartered in the old buildings in 1650, and the chapel became for a time a church for French Protestants.
Soon after the Restoration Pembroke's son, the 5th Earl, decided to take down the dilapidated old house and lease the site in building plots. A few moderate-sized houses were erected on the south side of Durham Yard with gardens to the river, but from the first there were wharves on the river front used for commercial purposes, and soon the greater part of the site was covered with courts of little houses occupied by small traders and artisans. By the middle of the eighteenth century Durham Yard had become a slum, and by the time the Adam brothers took it over, practically all the buildings were in ruins.
The New Exchange (The site of Nos. 54–64, Strand).
By a complicated series of transactions extending over the years 1603–10, the Earl of Salisbury obtained possession of a piece of ground about 208 feet in length by 60 feet in depth on the south side of the Strand between York House and the gatehouse of Durham Place. There, on the site of the old stables which, according to Stow, had become "but a low ruin … ready to fall, and very unsightly," Salisbury erected "a very goodly and beautiful building … after the fashion of the Royall Exchange in London, with Sellers underneath, a walke fairely paved above it, and Rowes of Shops above. The building was completed in November, 1608, and in the April following it was officially opened by the King. James I suggested that it should be called Britain's Burse, but the name did not catch on, and the building was usually referred to as the New Exchange.
The New Exchange survived until 1737, though little is heard of it during the last few years of its existence. Eleven houses were built on the site, the centre and largest of which (afterwards numbered 59, Strand) was leased to George Middleton, goldsmith, the flourishing banking business of the firm of Middleton and Campbell being moved thither from the Three Crowns near Hungerford Market. Middleton died in 1747, and his brother-in-law, George Campbell, in 1761. Neither of them left a male heir, and the firm passed into the hands of the brothers, James and Thomas Coutts, the elder of whom had married George Campbell's niece. No. 59 remained the "shop" of Coutts' Bank until 1904. The premises were extended to include Nos. 58, 57 and 56 early in the nineteenth century.
The 11 houses were designed as a comprehensive composition and comprised three storeys over shops and basement. All the 11 houses were demolished in 1923, and the front portion of the site was used to increase the width of the Strand.
Durham House Gate and the Strand Frontage between it and Ivy Bridge Lane (the site of Nos. 65–75, Strand, The Tivoli, etc.).
When Salisbury acquired the stables of Durham House he also bought the gatehouse and lodgings adjoining. These he demolished and rebuilt, making a way under the gatehouse and behind the New Exchange down to the river, which afterwards became Durham House Street. The gatehouse survived until circa 1790
The remainder of the Strand frontage eastward to Ivy Bridge Lane was sold with the rest of Durham House in 1641, but was in separate ownerships before the end of the century. It was built up in small tenements, and at the beginning of the eighteenth century when it is possible to list the shops and their owners such varied signs are found among them as: The Golden Lion (John Holden), The White Lion (John Bignall), The King's Head (Daniel Duke), The Katherine Wheel and Shovell (Nicholas Sweeting), and the Golden Tun (Charles Wheeler, goldsmith). Charles Wheeler was a descendant of William Wheeler, goldsmith, whose daughter, Elizabeth, married Francis Child, the founder of Child's Bank. It is probable that Child's Court, formed between 1720 and 1740 approximately on the site of Wheeler's shop near Ivy Bridge Lane, was so named because of this family connection. At about the same time a second court was formed further west nearer Durham Gate. This was called Theobald's Court after the Theobald family who owned part of the frontage there.
Robert Adam leased the ground between Durham Gate and Ivy Bridge Lane in order to complete the Adelphi scheme. Adam Street was cut through to the Strand between Theobald's Court and Child's Court (the latter disappearing), and the house at the east corner (afterwards No. 73, Strand), was let to Thomas Becket, the bookseller and friend of Garrick. This house, which was then in the occupation of Mr. Fearn, jeweller and silversmith, was burnt down in June, 1822, and afterwards rebuilt to the same design. The New Exchange Coffee House was the fourth house west of Adam Street, afterwards No. 69, Strand. The houses west of Adam Street were pulled down in 1924, and those east of Adam Street in 1927, the new premises on the site being set back to widen the Strand.
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With huge baobabs scattered across its skyline, Tarangire National Park presents an almost surreal picture with many of the trees being rubbed raw by the huge herds of elephant which pass through in search of food.
Apart from the Tarangire River itself, which runs into huge swamps in the south and which concentrates most of the game, the park is exceptionally dry. In direct contrast, the neighbouring Lake Manyara National Park is lush and green with swaying vines and twisted fig trees.
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Herds of up to 300 elephants scratch the dry Tarangire river bed for underground streams, while migratory wildebeest, zebra, buffalo, impala, gazelle, hartebeest and eland crowd the shrinking lagoons.
It's the greatest concentration of wildlife outside the Serengeti ecosystem and the one place in Tanzania where dry-country antelope, such as the stately fringe-eared oryx and peculiar long-necked gerenuk, are regularly observed.
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