#no need to try to finesse information out of Q

[cicerfics]

#my favorite thing about cicer's addition is that q is saying it out loud. to bond.#that is the most delectably in-character thing i have ever seen#the way bond's face is cut off leaving such an intriguing mystery or simply representing the blankest of faces in response (@dude-watchin-with-the-brontes)

nothing more embarrassing than holding a blonde man dear in your thoughts. you were supposed to be the enemy.

[chokhapunjab]

The Essence of Punjabi Food: Exploring Flavors, Dhaba’s, and Top Eateries in Jaipur

Introduction

Punjabi cuisine, celebrated globally for its robust flavors and rich indulgence, reflects the vibrant culture and heritage of Punjab. It's a beautiful fusion of spices, hearty ingredients, and culinary finesse. The cuisine is synonymous with authenticity, often featuring dishes cooked in desi ghee (clarified butter) or tandoori-style, providing an explosion of flavors.

Punjabi Famous Food

Lassi: Punjab's Iconic Refreshment

Lassi, a popular yogurt-based drink, remains an emblem of Punjab's culinary prowess. Its creamy texture and sweet or salty variations make it a must-try.

Sarson Da Saag and Makki Di Roti: Seasonal Delights

This traditional dish comprising mustard greens (sarson) paired with cornmeal flatbread (makki di roti) represents the essence of Punjab's winter cuisine.

Butter Chicken: A Global Favorite

A rich, tomato-based gravy infused with spices envelopes succulent pieces of grilled chicken, making butter chicken a worldwide favorite.

The Allure of Highway Restaurant

Dhaba Culture: A Taste of Authenticity

Highway Dhaba is more than just pit stops; they embody Punjab's culinary tradition. These roadside eateries offer hearty meals with flavors that resonate with travelers.

Finding Dhaba's Near Me

While Punjab is known for its authentic dhabas, you can find variations of these eateries across cities. A quick search for "Dhaba's Near Me" will unveil local spots offering delightful Punjabi cuisine.

Jaipur's Top Restaurants: Embracing Punjabi Cuisine

In Jaipur, several restaurants offer an authentic taste of Punjabi Food. From traditional dhaba-style eateries to upscale restaurants, the city presents a diverse array of options to savor Punjab's culinary wonders.

Conclusion

Exploring the vibrant flavors of Punjabi cuisine is an experience that transcends taste—it's a cultural journey. From the rustic charm of dhabas to the exquisite offerings of top restaurants in Jaipur, the culinary landscape of Punjab delights food enthusiasts worldwide.

Unravel the rich tapestry of Punjabi cuisine and embark on a gastronomic adventure that's both flavorful and culturally enriching!

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FAQs 

Q: What makes Punjabi Cuisine unique?

A: Punjabi cuisine stands out due to its robust flavors, generous use of spices, and the prominence of dishes cooked in ghee or tandoori style.

Q: Are there vegetarian options in Punjabi cuisine?

A: Absolutely! Punjabi cuisine boasts a rich variety of vegetarian dishes like chole (chickpea curry), paneer tikka, and aloo paratha (potato-stuffed flatbread).

Q: What's the significance of dhabas in Punjabi cuisine?

A: Dhabas play a vital role in preserving the authenticity of Punjabi flavors. These rustic eateries serve wholesome meals, fostering a sense of community and tradition.

[howtofightwrite]

Q&A: The Reasons Speed and Finnesse are so Important in Combat

Is there any form of serious real-world fighting that doesn’t care much about speed or finesse, and just wants to pick up a big, heavy object to clobber the enemy with? Or is this a fictional shorthand for “this character is a dumb brute” without a real-world referent?

tinker-tanner

Not really. I was going to start with a joke like, “axes, hammers, and cruise missiles,” but the truth is, those do require precision and speed.

You can’t do without speed, that is absolutely vital. Even in the cliché example of a character swinging a massive club, it’s physically dependent on speed to inflict harm.

A quick, and very basic, physics lesson: F=MA. That is to say, “Force = Mass * Acceleration.” In the case of clobbering someone with a massive object, you need to get it up to speed. Once you do that you can deliver a lot of force to the target, however, it’s also harder to get it moving. You need to expend energy to get that object going, and the larger it is, the more energy you’ll use. This is where a tradeoff happens in weapon design: A heavier weapon can deliver more force, however, it will require more energy from its wielder. If they can’t get it up to speed, it may actually underperform a lighter weapon.

(In general, lighter weapons actually come out ahead here, because getting them up to speed takes dramatically less energy. It’s been years but, my recollection is that the energy needed increases geometrically to linear increases in mass. So, if you keep the acceleration the same, doubling the mass of an object would quadruple the energy consumption. Someone with more of a physics background might be able to correct me there.)

Additionally, if you lack speed, your foe will have time to respond before you complete your strike. A lot of combat exists in a range where you’re pressing against the brain’s ability to process information quickly. Specifically, there’s some lag between when you see something occur, and your brain processes what happened. This is in fractions of a second, but when you slow down, you’re giving your opponent more time for their brain to catch up with what’s happening.

(This is also why most real combat styles focus on keeping your arms inside your profile, while visual media prioritizes placing them outside. Your brain identifies and tracks objects by finding the outline. If that outline is clear, tracking the object is easier, and significantly faster.)

For example, if you’re fighting with a baseball bat, it is significantly more effective to jab with the tip, rather than swing it. Swinging the weapon creates a massive, clear, outline that your foe can track, while simply jabbing them is faster and offers limited visual information. It may connect with less force, but it will reliably connect, where a swing gives your opponent plenty of time to interrupt the strike.

As for a fighting style that eschews finesse? That’s called, “the real world.” There’s a very noble goal for being able to manage how a fight flows, but in real combat, it’s not happening.

So, let’s pull this apart a little. In violence, finesse is a means, not an end. You’re trying to use as little energy as possible to inflict as much harm as you can. The thing about this is, you always want that. It’s a survival instinct. The less energy you expend to neutralize a threat, the safer you will be. The less energy you have after a fight, the less you’ll be able to defend against future threats (until you’ve recovered.) Getting into a battle of attrition is incredibly dangerous, because you can’t be certain you’ll outlast your opponent.

Finesse is being precise with your strikes to maximize their effect.

The problem is, precision in training and precision in combat are worlds apart. When you’re training (even when you’re using something big and kludgy) you’re going to train to strike for maximum effect. When you’re fighting, even if you’re fighting with, “a weapon that requires finesse,” you’re going to be struggling to land blows exactly where you want. Your opponent is moving and fighting back. While training may have prepared you for this moment, you’re going to have to adapt, and that adaptation will not be graceful.

Combat is not graded on who looked cooler. It’s not graded on who had the better technique. The only thing that matters is who survived and who didn’t. You train to be precise so that when the actual fight starts you have a better chance of ending it before it gets out of hand, and if that fails, you’ve got a better chance of getting in a decisive hit.

So, if the question was, “did people ever go out there and beat each other to death with hammers?” The answer is yes, but, the hammers were much more agile than you might have expected, and the people who trained to use them had a pretty good idea of how to be efficient with the things.

-Starke

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[summerrrluvvv]

Chapter 1:

Music Featured in This Chapter: Sound Track Now Available On Spotify

Sweet Life by Frank Ocean

Bad by Wale

Neighbors Know My Name by Trey Songz

So Gone By Monica

Tye:

 “The best song wasn’t the single, but you weren’t either, living in Ladera Heights, black Beverly Hills” I sang along to “Sweet Life” by Frank Ocean as I was packing. In almost 48 hrs., I was going to Miami. Every Summer we take an annual Girls Trip that we take every year with all my girls but only this year it was just the four of us. “Knock, Knock” I got up and looked through my peephole and seen it was Samar. “What up homie?!” He said being playful. “Stop Samar I’m busy, I got to pack and shit” Samar was my best guy friend that I so happen to have feelings for, but I never told him. “Oh yeah Miami with the girls omg girls trip fun times were going to sip margaritas and party and fuck on the beach yeah Miami” Samar said imitating a female. I rolled my eyes. “You gone be down there too aren’t you for Lit and Wild Festival why you over here talking, probably got Hella hoes lined up” He pretended to pop his collar. “Well the ladies do look cool Samar” I pushed him out my way. “Nigga you aight” I lied. Samar was fine as hell he had fly ass swagger. “Nigga I’m the shit what about oh boy um what’s him Lipton Tea?” He asked. I rolled my eyes. “Quinton, Q for short dumb ass” I said sitting down folding my cute swim wear. “Where you going in that baby ass one piece?? You are doing only fans?” He asked me. I bust out laughing. “Samar shut the fuck up!” I said to him. “Nah for real that’s for Q dawg?” He asked. Quinton was my little fling over the semester he was sweet, but shit was not there for us. “Quinton and I are over, shit was getting out of hand” I told Him. “Good” He simply said. I looked at him. “Well yeah cause its gone be plenty of fish in the sea of Miami” I said doing a little dance. “Look at you just fast ass little girl” I laughed at Samar acting disgusted. “Well I’m going to let you finish packing Tye, Ms. Matthews if you nasty, see you in Miami fam, I’m going hit yo line” he told me before leaving. I smiled at the thought of Miami being my time to finally tell him how I felt.

 Zion: 

“Come on Z baby, why you got to play so hard man” Jacquez kept saying to me. He was a guy I was talking to that got caught up in his feelings. I told him what the fuck it was, now he wants to stalk me. “Jacquez move out the way I got to take my next guest” I said. I was a cashier at Gucci. “Z man you playing with a nigga emotions and that’s fucked up” He said. I sighed and palmed my face. “Jacquez don’t make me call security, this why we can’t be cool, I told you don’t get attached to me I not with none of that lovey dovey shit now please honey stop making a fool of yourself its so many hoes in this mall you can try stop pressing me” I told him. He sucked his teeth in. “Man fuck you, you ain’t nothing but a hoe anyways acting like you high and mighty bitch” He said and knocked my credit card pamphlets off the register. I looked at the customers and smiled. “Ok next guest” I said, cause fuck him. After work I headed home, I called Melody on my way. “Hey girl what’s up??” She said. “Tell me why that nigga Jacquez popped at my job this time girl like nigga the dates where nice I appreciate you going down on me all the time but time is up sir I’m bored next caller!” I said. Melody bust out laughing. “No, I feel you, I been out here trying to date and nah I am not feeling it” She said. “Don’t get me wrong Mel, I want the love and shit it’s just easy to stay protected than to be so open, fuck these niggas till I get a nigga that knock my socks off, like them bitches fly right off like swoop” I told her. We both started laughing. “Z get the fuck of my line with this shit girl I’m screaming, maybe you can get you a boo in Miami or something” Mel said. I scrunched my face up. “Nah it’s a girl’s trip, I’m going to be with my bitches getting litty in the Miami City, I just got my fashion nova swim suits in the mail today, we going to have fun” I tell her. “My swimsuits from Pretty Little Thing came in today too, plus I went shopping and got me some cute ass clothes at this little hood boutique” She said. We talked all the way till I got home. “Aight Mel, I got to go in the house, Ima see you at Tye’s on Friday”. “Aight girl bye” We hung up and I gathered my things to go into my house.

 Melody:

 “Let’s keep it soft and warm with the quiet storm on V103 yeah”. Trey Songs “Neighbors Know My Name” started playing as I drove on the highway home from Lenox Mall. As I was driving, I got a call from my sister Tamia. “Yes TiTi” I said annoyed. “Guess who followed me back on IG?” She asked. I shrugged. “I don’t know Ti, who?” I said. She sucked her teeth at me. “Girl Isaac, I was like boy bye what do you want?, he gone leave you cause he say you do too much and don’t love yourself saying don’t hit his line and shit but months later gone follow me and then gone say how is everybody, aka how is Melody I see she fine as hell now and I’m trying to slide through” My sister said. I slightly laughed. Isaac was my ex-boyfriend of 5yrs. He was the love of my life and I was crazy as hell over that nigga but he broke my heart and it took a little minute to heal and then I finally was able to let go, he been doing his T-shirt business and shitwe still follow each other. I just stay lowkey because I am waiting till Miami to post my post break up glow up pics. I lost weight, got me a bomb ass job, I am glowing, skin on fleek, booty popping like I am happy for the growth, and who I am becoming. “Ti, I don’t care about Isaac anymore, don’t mention him to me anymore it’s been 6months and I’m doing amazing he can kiss my ass” I said. “Well ok then, I’m just informing you, so you won’t be surprised that’s what big sisters do” She said. I rolled my eyes. “Tamia thank you for the update I’m good, I’m going to call you before I leave for Miami” I said. She sighed over the phone. “Okay bye rude ass little girl” She said. I palmed my face. “Tamia don’t start” I said. “Mmmhm” She hung up the phone. When I got to my apartment. My dog Yoda was waiting for me, she was a yorkie. “Hey baby” I said as I picked her up. I got undressed and unwind and sat on my couch scrolling through IG. I was curious to see Isaac page, as I scrolled and looked at his pics. He still looked good, it took me sometime to be able to look at him again without crying but now I can do it and not feel anyways. “Hey girl, you pack yet?” Tye texted me. “Not yet but Ima bout too” I replied. “We bout to be in Miami Bitch” Tye texted. All I could think about was the fine ass men in Miami, get me a little fling, hang with my girls and being free.

 Ariana:

 I got out my car and slammed the door. I was heated as fuck. My boyfriend had finessed me and took my virginity then broke up with me for some new bitch. I pulled up to his apartment ready to fight. I went to his door and banged on it like I was the motherfucking police. “Marlon open up this got damn door now!” I yelled. His neighbors peeped out they doors. “Hi the fuck”. I said looking at them. Some bitch swung open the door with Marlon behind her. “Bitch leave my man alone, he done with yo unexperienced ass” She said. I walked up on her. “Wrong bitch mam” I said. She smirked at me. “Do something” She said. I pushed her the fuck back to get to Marlon. “Aye chill Ariana damn” He said as I was hitting him. “Get off him” His little Chihuahua cried. I pushed her back until Marlon got the upper hand and pinned me to wall. “Calm yo ass down Ari, I told you what it was, I just wanted yo virginity that’s it, sorry I played you now get the fuck out” I pushed him back and slapped his bitch. “Fuck this shit!” I said mad as hell. I had tears in my eyes, but I didn’t drop them until I got in my car and drove home. Why did I let him do me like that? I want to kill him so bad. What the fuck! I thought to myself. I called Tye but she didn’t answer, I called Mel and she was busy too. So, I called Zion. “Hey Ari, you good?” She asked. I started crying. “No, fucking Marlon played the fuck out of me, he told the whole campus we fucked and then he dumps me for Chantelle Davis. The thot as bitch, get me out of Atlanta now!” I yelled. Z sighed. “What did you do Ari?”. “Uhm I kicked down his door and smacked his chick just to let him know Ariana isn’t having it” I said laughing through my tears. Zion laughed. “Of course, that’s classic Ari right there, but girl we bout to be lit so this shit don’t even matter” She said. I agreed Miami is so needed I needed a break. We got off the phone and I blasted So Gone by Monica till I reached my destination.

Supporting Characters:

Marlon Thomas: (Keith Powers)

[makeitwithmike]

How to Drive Business With Social: Tips from A Social Selling Expert

By Emily Copp

Are you getting business results from your activities on social media?

In our latest Hootcast podcast, we chat with social selling expert Koka Sexton about how to find and engage potential customers on social media.

In this podcast you’ll learn:

What social selling is and why it matters

How to build long-term relationships on social

Tips on how marketing and sales can work together

Press play to hear the show in its entirety, or if you don’t have a set of earbuds handy, read the transcription of our conversation below.

Q&A with social selling expert Koka Sexton

Tell us a little bit about what you do and your path in business so far.

My story is a little different than most in my position. I started off in sales many, many years ago—I don’t want to date myself. As a new salesperson I was still trying to figure out how I was going to fit into this new ecosystem that was developing around social media.

I first signed up for LinkedIn in 2005 and then I signed up for Twitter in 2007. And it was at that moment, shortly after joining Twitter, that I realized that social media was going to play a bigger part in my career as a salesperson than anything else that was available to me.

Social was one path that made it very easy for me to connect and engage with the decision makers I wanted to do business with.

For those out there who may not be as familiar with the term social selling, could you dive into that a little bit and tell us what that really means?

My definition of social selling is: leveraging your professional brand to fill your pipeline with the right people, insights, and relationships.

But at a very base level, it’s how a salesperson uses social media to listen and engage with decision makers that are on these networks asking questions and looking for help.

Could you tell us what marketers can learn from social selling, or what you could pass on to marketers hoping to generate more leads or concrete numbers from social?

The one thing that marketers should pay attention to is the pain points of their buyers. Salespeople live in their own worlds in many ways. They’re just hunting for new business. And that’s where marketing fits in. Marketers have the insights about what the buyers are thinking and doing and they can help sales professionals understand where they need to inject themselves and how to best engage in conversations.

You’ve pointed out that marketers are much more involved in the actual sales process through things like social than they were before when you first started.

With marketing now being being measured on some pipeline generation activity—be it marketing-qualified lead all the way to a sales-qualified lead—they have to be able to show that in any given quarter, they developed a certain number of pipeline that closed.

As marketers become more aware of how important that’s going to be for a company, their tactics are going to adapt to help their sales team be more effective.

Definitely. Are there any tips that you could give us for social selling?

The first thing you should focus on is your professional brand. A salesperson could be trained in the best practices of identifying and engaging decision makers across any number of social platforms, but if their professional brand looks like garbage they’re going to be discounted immediately.

Another tip is a mantra that I’ve based my entire career off of, which is that visibility creates opportunity. And a salesperson needs to find ways to be visible on the social networks that their buyers are spending time on. And until they can get to a point of being visible, there will be no opportunities.

Finally, you need to be a point of resource for your industry, even if it’s not originally-created content. You’re going to find more and more business coming to you because of that expertise that you are illustrating through your social channels.

You mentioned earlier that you found your way as a salesperson through social. Do you have any tips or tricks for how to stay organized on social? Were there any methods or strategies that you developed?

Well it used to be a big mess, right? That’s why I initially gravitated towards using an application like Hootsuite, because I found very quickly that the value-to-noise ratio was way off. And I needed to find a way to cut through that noise as fast as possible.

The ability to have filtered searches within streams in Hootsuite made it much more digestible and offered an easier way for me to engage.

What are some strategies out there for managing potential customers? How do you identify and approach them?

This is where sales and marketing alignment comes into play. Marketing should already know who the buyers are. They should have buyer personas put in place. And if that work hasn’t been done I would challenge all marketing teams to actually figure that piece out.

When they know who their buyers are, they need to pass that information onto the sales team so it’s not living in the silo of marketing. Unfortunately, a lot of companies aren’t deploying training or education to make this process smoother.

So how would you recommend that a salesperson who’s on social nurture a relationship? What would be some signals that they’re ready for a sale?

Every salesperson needs to get in the habit of sharing the right content. Find the stuff that’s adding value into your network. Based on keyword searches you can figure out who else is talking about this stuff. You can also search by specific titles.

You have to build relationships in a way that is constantly adding value without any expectation of anything coming back on the other side. And I say that, as a salesperson, you need to add value in excess of whatever it is you’re asking for in return.

We have a pretty similar mantra with marketing, that you need to give value to get value. People understand when they’re being sold to versus when you’re giving honest, transparent advice to help make a decision.

Yeah, I don’t know anyone that actually likes to be sold to. They just want to make educated, informed decisions. And so the role of the salesperson has shifted. You are now the concierge of all this information and a resource for buyers to make the most educated decision, even if it’s not with your platform.

When I talk to sales teams I say they have to learn how to disqualify faster than they’re qualifying prospects. You have to get these people out of your pipeline faster than they’re coming in. And in order to do that effectively you have to have the right definitions. You have to understand what those buyers are actually looking for.

Yeah, you’re more likely to have long-term customers if you’ve qualified the right people. In your experience as a salesperson and marketer, have you seen a process come out?

There’s always some layer of variety, depending on the individual itself, but I’ve actually started creating a flowchart that shows a general process. From the moment of a trigger event, be it somebody who looks at your LinkedIn profile, somebody says something in a Tweet that you’re able to trigger off of, what does that look like?

When the buyer engages with you two to three times, that’s when you should try and connect with them. The first thing I do is I go to Twitter and see if they’re on there. If yes, follow them, add them into a list on Twitter for my prospects. I create a hidden list for all of this stuff.

Then I start following them on LinkedIn. Have they written any articles? Are they sharing any content? And I will start liking and commenting and re-sharing the stuff that they’re sharing across social media. Once they start realizing that I’m paying attention to them, they’re going to start engaging back with me outside of that initial trigger event.

And that’s when you know as a salesperson that you’ve got their attention. You’re no longer interrupting them. That’s when you can connect with them.

The worst thing you could do is start pitching your product. That’s not how you add value. You want to get to a point with decision makers on social where they’re asking you to come to them with information, and you need to focus on moving the conversation from online to offline.

It’s really nice to hear you talk about a clear process because it clarifies the term social selling. There’s a finesse and art to it.

I think social selling is usually misconstrued as social prospecting, but that’s a small piece of the pie. You know, you’re not actually selling anything; that’s the beauty of it. You are just constantly adding value and becoming a resource for your industry.

Social selling is more about social listening and engagement, because at the end of the day, you’re trying to foster these buyers in such a way that you are the only obvious decision when it comes to making a buying decision.

So it’s really like the white to the black that is cold-calling or blanket emailing?

Correct. And I don’t think that the phone is dead. You know, I used to use that as a sensationalized headline when talking with people, “cold-calling is dead.” I still think that there is a time and a place for it. Same thing with email cadences.

But the reality is that the success rates of those are low. Social selling has a higher success rate if the buyers are actually spending time online. But it’s really about finding that blended approach within your company.

You mentioned LinkedIn. Are there any other platforms that you see as good ones for social selling?

I think that Twitter is the gateway drug into this, because most people are more open on Twitter than they are on LinkedIn.

I think Instagram is another one that keeps popping up. The same way that I viewed the relationship between the professional contact of LinkedIn and the personal context of Twitter, I find Instagram being the next layer of that personal level. You’re going to get a different view into your buyers and understand what’s really important to them. That’s how you are going to become relevant in a conversation.

What are some of the exciting things you see happening in the social selling space?

Well there’s so much. I’ll be a little biased because I work here now, but I think the products and positioning of where Hootsuite is going in the social selling space is very encouraging. It’s bringing this vision of an integrated dashboard for salespeople to use social.

I think that the idea of listening is becoming an integral piece for sales teams using social media. How are they listening for these conversations within their assigned territories or specific keywords around the products or services that their company can solve?

You’ve given us some really good insights on how you see social media playing a role in marketing and in sales. Thanks so much for stopping by the studio.

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