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by Investigative Journalist
On April 13, 2016, the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) charged Dr. Joseph Mercola, America's wealthiest online natural health products saleman, on five counts of unfair and deceptive trade through Mercola.com. The very next day, according to the FTC Press Release, Mercola agreed to pay out as much as $5,334,067 to more than a thousand defrauded customers who paid between $1,200 and $4,000 each for a falsely advertised "tanning bed." The government did not mention fining Mercola, nor adding fees and costs to cover taxpayers' losses. Barely any media reported on the instant settlement; and business at Mercola.com continued as usual. (1-3)
Now, a year later, new evidence has emerged of Mercola's enterprise in unfair competition and deceptive trade that outdoes the best Hollywood crime thriller with unprecedented twists and turns.
Mercola's online success has a lot to do with the secret life of his business partner, reportedly his concealed "wife" misrepresented as his "girlfriend"–"Erin Elizabeth", aka the "Health Nut."
The Health Nut is supposedly shown below before and after photoshopping the left image's head and neck to produce, side by side, two different body types claimed to be the same person who lost weight on Dr. Mercola's products. The photos make it appear that Mercola's health supplements, in one year, grew entirely different shoulders on Erin. Broad square shoulders appear on Erin's photo on the right, compared with noticeably slopey shoulders on "Erin" on the left, while both people stand similarly. On the before photo on the left, her head and neck appear off center, conveniently, concealed by a white scarf. Compare it with the perfectly centered neck beneath the turtle-neck (on the right).
Upon closer examination, and by tilting and lowering your computer screen slowly (forward), you can watch the white scarf turn purple and super pixelated. You can actually view the altered pixels beneath the white scarf. In other words, it appears the Photoshop "blending" left behind telltale discoloration of the pixels in Erin's "cut-out-and-pasted" alteration above another person's body image. (Observe when you do this test that no other parts of either photo change color except for that white scarf.)
Who is this "Health Nut" who commits fraud to sell Mercola's health gear and dietary supplements? And what justifies this self-proclaimed "investigative journalist" dedicated to "dead doctors," Facebooking how nice her new Florida beach house is, and how impressive her new Tesla car stands in her driveway–the things that "Joe" bought her?
Neglect for the moment the $1.5 million Mercola donated to the National Vaccine Information Center (NVIC) that promotes Joe's best-selling book that sells more "health products." Blind yourself too from the $1,745,000.00 that Mercola donated the same period, 2011-14, to the Organic Consumers Association that similarly advertises Mercola's Swine Flu video driving more traffic to his stores. And forgive the implied endorsements of these "national associations" concealing their conflicting interests while publishing Mercola's advertisements. What you are about to read makes Mercola's discrediting on the most biased propaganda mill in medicine, Quackwatch, appear tame.
Mercola's money for the aforementioned "donations" was gained by a team of covert Internet "geeks," "funneled from Mercola.com, Health Resources LLC, through Mercola's nonprofit Natural Health Resources Foundation, which showed the following grants on its tax returns," Quackwatch's Stephen Barrett gloated.
New evidence revealed here shows Mercola's enterprise being heavily supported, sponsored, and largely financed, by Big Pharma through a team of social engineers and investment banks. The "tanning bed" sales scam punished by the FTC, for instance, was heavily touted online by Chicago Magazine, owned by the Chicago Tribune Media Group that is heavily invested in Big Pharma through its investors in Oaktree Capital Management (which owns a 23% interest), Angelo, Gordon & Co. and JP Morgan Chase (which both own 9%). Oaktree became the successor in interest to Goldman Sachs and Apollo Global Management in 2011 when they moved Oaktree to the New York Stock Exchange.
Meaning? Mercola's deceptive trade arrested by the FTC is supported by some of the world's wealthiest investment firms. Any "negative publicity" Mercola gets (and the Chicago Magazine story was not very negative) sells more products for Mercola's niche company and his backers. The biggest money comes from keeping natural medicine, and the herbal supplement industry, controlled on every front.
And this also best explains Mercola's savvy online marketing strategies and capacity to leverage the attention even his adversaries, like Dr. Barrett at Quackwatch, give him.
Mercola Company Donations
- 2011
- 2012
- 2013
- 2014
Consumers for Dental Choice
- 103,152
- 75,000
- 100,000
- 175,000
- 453,152
National Vaccine Information Center
- 300,000
- 400,000
- 400,000
- 400,000
- 1,500,000
Organic Consumers Association
- 505,000
- 200,000
- 460,000
- 580,000
- 1,745,000
American Environmental Health Studies Project
- 10,000
- 10,000
- 25,000
- 20,000
- 65,000
Dr. Mercola's multi-million dollar business built on ploys, like "Photoshopping" Erin Elizabeth's weight loss, is not even the "juicy" part of this story. The concept of "Controlled Opposition" and the people involved here is.
Mercola watchers have long suspected that his Internet marketing savvy reflected some kind of "double agency"–a form of "Controlled Opposition" as introduced above. Although people don't (generally) realize that the "PharmaMedia" controls as well as discredits industry competition, assuming Mercola fits this description, his backers have created his niche in natural healing leveraging fraud and discrediting deception. Generating discrediting controversy is ideal for controlling Big Pharma's Opposition.
For instance, Mercola and the PharmaMedia has made it a point to promote and discredit the myth that AIDS is not linked to the HIV virus, but to drugs. The fact is, AIDS deaths are due to both. But by generating the diversionary and deceptive controversy, the AIDS drug racket is protected.
Further clarifying, this controversial meme protecting Big Pharma's AIDS racket–that HIV does not "cause" AIDS–was manufactured originally by Dr. Peter Duesberg et. al. Duesberg's thesis was totally discredited by many people, among them was Dr. Leonard G. Horowitz. Horowitz republished Duesberg's government contract and research activities with the infamous "AIDS discoverer" Dr. Robert Gallo. Horowitz published secreted government records vetting Duesberg's fraud; and then repeatedly confronted Duesberg on radio shows and Gallo at the XI International Conference on AIDS. Horowitz vetted Duesberg's and Gallo's National Cancer Institute, Special Virus Cancer Program research contracts. Horowitz exposed Duesberg's conspiracy with his "Project Officer" Gallo. Mercola and his organization purposely promotes Duesberg's propaganda, neglects Gallo's discrediting by Horowitz, and conceals the government documents and arguments Horowitz presented. Mercola thereby garners repeat performances on Dr. Oz.
In law, omissions and misrepresentations to deceive people is called fraud. And Mercola's extraordinary successes driving product sales online by fraud, and media promoted omissions for public diversions, lends probable cause to consider this Controlled Opposition theory.
The Urban Dictionary defines Controlled Opposition, and the simple concept is applicable to Mercola's enterprise in natural medicine, as "a protest movement" opposing vaccine toxicity and drug-induced mass murder (i.e., "iatrogenocide," and important term made famous by the late great Dr. Robert Mendelsohn).
"Nearly all governments have employed this technique to trick and subdue their adversaries," the Urban Dictionary explains. Notably, Vladimir Lenin said, 'The best way to control the opposition is to lead it ourselves.'" The evidence advanced here says Dr. Mercola operates as a strawman for Big Pharma, leading the opposition into disrepute.
Given the aforementioned trickery, Mercola's good fortune did not happen by chance, or by further damaging suicidal patients with Prosac as he was sued for in Hochbaum v. Casiano. Nor was Mercola's vast online network attributable to simply his secreted life with his allegedly concealed "wife," misrepresented as his "girlfriend"–"Erin Elizabeth"–whose aversion to her last name blew her cover, as detailed below (and more explicitly in the SIDE BAR.)
Controlled Opposition is a function of SOCIAL ENGINEERING and mass mind control in an era of "mass-mediated sex, drugs, and rock-n-roll." And this best explains the twists and turns in this story. Here is where deceptive advertising, widespread organizational support for Mercola, financial payoffs, concealed conflicting interests, and widespread PharmaMedia support for Mercola's enterprise and "girlfriend," Erin Elizabeth, come together like puzzle pieces revealing the full "Art of Deception" hidden in the Health Nut's missing last name.
Erin Elizabeth Finn's last name links her to an Internet sex service, a Hollywood scandal, and this social engineering operation administered by her "computer savvy" associates. Erin's "bestie," her proclaimed "soulmate," and previous co-host of the show the "Dark Side of the Internet" on KFI AM in Los Angeles, is the infamous Kevin Mitnick. Mitnick is a worldclass computer hacker imprisoned for hacking into DEC's computer network and Pacific Bell. Mitnick wrote extensively about Mercola's Health Nut–Finn–in his book The Art of Deception. Finn divulged this too, then deleted it, on her wiki page shown below.
Mitnick's close association with Steve Wozniak–the co-founder of Apple Computers with Steve Jobs–expands the power of this social engineering "Ghost Team" administering Mercola's Internet presence and astonishing mastery of online commerce.
These associations raise probable cause to investigate "deep state" involvement in this amazing true story.
My discovery of Erin's last name revealed Erin's secreted service to the FBI in prosecuting her convicted racketeer-wiretapper, Anthony Pellicano–the principle defendant in the scandal that rocked Hollywood in 2008.
And akin to a movie script, Erin's shadowy history as a high priced prostitute in Hollywood and the computer industry, marketing mainly to industry execs and "Linux geeks," has all the makings of a sexy covert operation. Finn's secret history of nefarious transactions with organized criminals, the FBI, and the previously-imprisoned master-hacker Mitnick–considered America's most notable social engineers and population persuasion con artists, raises too many red flags to simply dismiss as "foolish conspiracy theory."
My discovery of the Health Nut's last name was not in Mercola's best interest. Nor does it help the reputations of Mercola's associates and organizational backers. Finn's deleted Wiki (shown in the screenshot below), plus Erin's alluring online sex solicitations becoming public knowledge through this breaking news feature, exposes only the tip of "The Art of Deception"–how public opinion and consumer purchasing behavior in natural medicine is heavily sabotaged and completely controlled.
Mitnick, "once one of the FBI's Most Wanted because he hacked into 40 major corporations just for the challenge, Mitnick is now a trusted security consultant to the Fortune 500 and governments worldwide. Mitnick and The Global Ghost Team™ now maintain a 100% successful track record of being able to penetrate the security of any system they are paid to hack into using a combination of technical exploits and social engineering." This was reported on January 7, 2017, by PR Newswire. Those Fortune 500 companies include the largest drug and vaccine makers that control the PharmaMedia, "hacked" into natural medicine, and by "social engineering," now directs consumer behavior.
Also, the "technical exploits and social engineering" on the Internet collects DATA–names and contacts of Mercola's and Finn's customers, for instance. And "The Global Ghost Team" connecting to the "deep state" best explains the Health Nut's discrediting "handle." It also explains her exploitation of the "dead doctors," spreading the fear meme, to damage, undermine, and discredit the entire field of natural healing. Her intrusions into health conferences, presentations before professional audiences, and deceptive advertising, lends discrediting illegitimacy to everyone engaging holistic healthcare. We are all susceptible to disparagement as "Health Nuts." And this serves as "SECURITY" on Mitnick's "Global Ghost Team" according new massive evidence.
Contrary to mass deception, "Erin the 'Health Nutter' is controlled by corporations sympathetic to vaccine makers and it's easy to prove," wrote T. Matthew Phillips, a lawyer critical of the manner in which vaccine injury lawsuits have been undermined by Controlled Opposition. "I call myself a vaccine 'Abolitionist.' But Erin, the Health Nutter, calls herself a vaccine 'Skeptic.' The word 'skeptic' means 'doubter,' which means that the Health Nutter is still in the 'doubting' phase about vaccines, doubting [too] whether vaccines are unsafe. She's supposed to be a grown . . . woman at 47 years of age, but despite all the Facebook articles on vaccine dangers, the Nutter still has her 'doubts'? LoLL!! Truth is, corporations control the Nutter and forbid her from saying, 'I oppose vaccines because they are unavoidably unsafe.' Instead, the corporations wrote a script for the Nutter: "I neither support nor oppose vaccines, I'm just here to have doubts."
The "Health Nut" is a gimmick for Big Pharma's security and social control. Her soulmate Mitnick defines "social engineering" as the use of "influence and persuasion to deceive people by convincing them that the social engineer is someone he is not, or by manipulation. As a result, the social engineer is able to take advantage of people to obtain information with or without the use of technology."
Applied in the Mercola-Finn natural health products enterprise, Erin's deception is a goldmine. Together, with their team of computer accomplices, the couple has effectively "obtained information with . . . the use of technology" that includes the names, addresses, demographic data, and e-mail contacts identifying Big Pharma's main adversaries–millions of citizens inclined to oppose vaccinations, water fluoridation, GMOs and every other controversial issue in healthcare; and all through the "Art of Deception."
First Joe and Erin deceive people by implying she is simply Mercola's "girlfriend" or "better half," but never "spouse." Disclosing marriage, as the My Heritage geneology service does, would damage their "mystique," but also prompt people to search marriage records for her concealed last name, like I did.
Below is how Erin Elizabeth Finn–Mercola describes herself on her website. Keep in mind Mitnick's Art of Deception protocol involves omissions and misrepresentations (i.e., fraud) to build trust to deliver a "clever con" and "reverse sting."
Recast as an "author and public speaker," Erin Elizabeth (Finn), in her own words, "started out in her teens working for a green non profit (company name also concealed)." "Later," she boasts, "she worked in the tech and entertainment industry in Los Angeles," but omits her job description of "escort service" operator and prostitute. Allegedly she advertised her prostitution service with a photo of herself as a seemingly underage prostitute targeting horny Linux geeks as late as May 2007.
"Erin has spoken to over 15,000 doctors at lectures since 2016," her HealthNut.com website boasts. But she doesn't disclose the professional organizations that invited her to speak about and spread the manufactured "dead doctors" fear meme and social control campaign. She "has starred in various documentaries . . . [and] divides her time between Florida and her birth place of Chicago with her better half; Dr. Mercola."
It is clear that the Mercola-Mitnick network largely manufactured the "dead doctors campaign," and Erin Elizabeth's "expertise" on the subject. And they buried "Finn" and her reputation as a prostitute, at the same time generating the disabling fear/dread dead-doctors social control meme. That is, the widely held belief that sticking your neck out to oppose Big Pharma will cause your death.
Few people realize that this very slick public deception for social engineering precisely reflects Mitnick's Art of Deception. The "Health Nut" spreading fear about Big Pharma's adversaries getting assassinated is the perfect cover and covert action for Controlled Opposition to deter Mercola's and Big Pharma's competitors. The hooker of Silicon Valley hooks people with the dead doctor's story, and the fear meme protects the entire enterprise and makes fortunes. (5)
Another example of the "Art of Deception" is practiced by Mercola's alliance with Barbara Loe Fischer and her National Vaccine Information Center (NVIC).
"Barbara Loe Fischer and her organization, the NVIC, have been a blight on the nation because of collusion with those at the top who continue to engage in a cover-up, and who are seeking to set up the mandates," wrote Natural
In 2008, the world of politics, law and vaccines was jolted by Dr. Horowitz's vaccine-transmission explanation of the origin of AIDS. The scandal erupted from Barack Obama's pastor, Rev. Jeremiah Wright, promoting and endorsing Horowitz's theory and textbook—Emerging Viruses: AIDS & Ebola–Nature, Accident or Intentional? The Islamic World too endorsed the book that the entire Anglo-American controlled PharmaMedia and Western medicine suppressed.
Big Pharma's concerns were so great that the United Nations (UN) AIDS Secretariat to the UN Theme Group on AIDS was directed to censor Horowitz's scientific publication in the British peer-reviewed journal Medical Hypothesis. Critics subsequently disparaged the messenger, Horowitz, but never addressed his message–contaminated chimpanzees were used to produce the earliest hepatitis B vaccines. The "silence" surrounding this taboo topic was deafening and telling. In a court of law, "silence" is evidence of "a most persuasive nature." Silencing Horowitz compounded the convincing evidence that AIDS was manufactured and spread precisely as Horowitz's government records showed. Silencing Horowitz, as Fisher and Mercola both did, is likewise telling.
By 2009, Horowitz had already become an award-winning author and filmmaker, and had already established a "friendship" with Mercola. Horowitz sent an e-mail (below) to his "trusted colleague." The message was sent in friendship, and accorded with professional ethics to oppose the disastrous consumer fraud, misrepresentations, and conflicting interests, of Barbara Loe Fischer's NVIC.
Be it known that Horowitz had initially helped finance Fisher's organization before discovering what had been opposed by Dr. Robert Mendelsohn (as detailed below in footnote 4). Horowitz met Marge Grant at the Second Annual NVIC Conference, co-sponsored by Horowitz's publishing company, Tetrahedon, Inc. Much to Dr. Horowitz's surprise and disappointment, Grant told the doctor her sad story. Horowitz then witnessed the entire event conceal damaging fraud favoring Big Pharma. Then Fisher personally and maliciously acted to prevent Horowitz from addressing the audience, even during an "open" question and answer session. (4)
The adjacent e-mail contains Mercola's shocking written response and censorship of Horowitz's 2009 alert. Mercola responded, "Please don't write me anymore as you are now banned and any further emails will be blocked by our firewall."
"Frankly, I was blown out by Mercola's response," Horowitz told me. "I couldn't reconcile the unethical and mean-spirited reply. The only thing I could think of that would cause that kind of reaction was Mercola's financial interests–shutting his eyes, anticipating how much money he would lose by boycotting Fischer and the NVIC, versus selling his health products after his lecture and their endorsement." (11)
There's something obviously confusing and wrong with Dr. Oz inviting Dr. Mercola on his FOX News/Big Pharma sponsored show. The "mixed message," clearly and convincingly appears to be a PSYOPS (i.e., a psychological operation).
Oz claims to favor vaccines for everyone, but submits to his wife, not a doctor, who doesn't permit their little-Ozes to be vaccinated. Alternatively, in one show, Oz told everyone in the audience, "You're all going to get the shot." Dr. Horowitz was so appalled by this hypocrisy, he produced a three part video series in protest. (6)
Similarly, late night's most popular radio show featuring host George Noory is also, absolutely, a proven sellout for PSYOPs. Not simply because their producers invited "Erin Elizabeth" to speak about the "dead doctors." And not because Noory's handlers advertised the program misrepresenting Erin's "biography" as shown here. Coast to CoastAM's promo missed Finn's "activism." Supposedly, "for a quarter century," during which time she advertised herself as the highest priced prostitute in the computer industry, Finn worked "in the arena" of the "healing arts."
Finn's cross-examination was recorded by The Hollywood Reporter. Defending on the witness stand her "escort services" and relationship with Hollywood Records president Robert Pfeifer, "Finn said she claimed on her tax papers that she was a 'travel guide.' The attorney asked if her clients really paid $9,000-$24,000 for a travel guide. 'I essentially felt like I was,' she said. 'If they wanted sex, they could pay $500 for that somewhere else. I was dealing with socially awkward geeks.'"
Burying this part of her bio, her website, purportedly "cracked the top 20 Natural Health sites worldwide," courtesy of the "Art of Deception" computer geeks administering Finn's consumer fraud and First [Drug] Databank monopolizing healthcare, as I reported earlier.
The "big lie" is in Big Pharma's sponsorship of Oz, and similarly Coast to CoastAM. Noory's paymasters at iHeartMedia and Entertainment, Inc. control producer Tom Danheiser. They were each vetted previously by this author for damaging and defrauding everyone in healthcare, patients and doctors alike.
Quoting from my related article published earlier on WarOnWeThePeople.com:
"George Noory's and Tom Danheiser's concealed conflicting interests in Hearst [smacks of Big Pharma's influence]. Their show is financed by iHeartMedia and Entertainment, Inc. (formerly Clear Channel Broadcasting, Inc.); Further, iHeartMedia and its $16B (billion) in assets is owned by Bain Capital, whose $75B in assets (2014) largely financed Mitt Romney's presidential campaign. As [Bronwen Dickey was writing her story [in Popular Mechanics to smear Dr. Horowitz], Hearst partnered with Bain Capital in MedHOK Inc., a "key part" of "one of the largest media and information companies in the world." That partnership, along with Hearst's First Drug DataBank ("FDB") and allied McKresson Company, controls the "brain" and "central nervous system" of American healthcare. This is why Noory and Danhieser choose to cover "Alien Encounters," restrict Big Pharma exposures, or pair them with wacky (discreditable) interviews [Finn's being one]. Theirs is late night's number one PSYOPs (i.e., psychological operation for social control). They are CONTROLLED OPPOSITION and PharmaWhores."
That article continued, "Hearst's propaganda enterprise, featuring iHeartMedia alone, 'owns more than 850 full-power AM and FM radio stations in the U.S., making it the nation's largest owner of radio stations.' This is who broadcasts Coast-to-Coast AM" and related propaganda, like Mercola's and Oz's position that vaccines can be made "safe" or "safer."
I first realized how damaging and deceptive Dr. Oz's propaganda was, and how unethical and malicious Mercola's censorship of Horowitz's research was, when I started working with Dr. Horowitz in 2009. The "Swine Flu Scam" was making headlines at that time, and Oz went wild promoting the Flu Mist vaccine since pulled off the market for producing risks without benefits, precisely as Horowitz predicted.
"I"m gonna get it, if that helps at all," Oz told CNN 's Campbell Brown. He was attempting to convince the 60% of the non-vaccinating public to get "immunized." "But I'll tell you," Oz added, "my wife is not going to immunize our kids. Cause I've got four of them. And when I go home, I'm not Dr. Oz, I'm Mr. Oz."
Horowitz and I exclusively vetted Oz's hypocrisy and beneficiary–the Flu Mist vaccine maker, AstraZeneca–that scored hundreds of millions of dollars with their dangerous and ineffective vaccine thanks to Oz's prostitution. And further linking to Mercola and Finn, that company was formed by Goldman Sach's merger artist and co-investor Lloyd Blankfein, pictured here between Chase bankster David Rockefeller and FOX Network owner, Rupert Murdock. Each of these men administered business deals with conflicting interests at Swine Flu time through their "Partnership for New York City" (PFNYC).
As mentioned earlier, Mercola was heavily promoted by the Chicago Tribune Media Group, owned by Oaktree Capital Management and JP Morgan Chase. Oaktree, you may recall, became the successor in interest to Goldman Sachs and Apollo Global Management in 2011. The Apollo group, Dr. Horowitz and I discovered and reported had converted the lion's share of the 911 World Trade Center reconstruction fund money to the MGM Grand Co. in Las Vegas. It was used to build the "New City Center" rather than the New World Trade Center in NYC. (12)
Within a few days of the first mention of the H1N1 "outbreak," first called the "Mexican Swine Flu," Dr. Horowitz tracked the origin to British bioweapons producers and the CDC with conflicting interests. He immediately published a public alert video, and a series of explosive articles, along with a website, FluScam.com. Therein, he made mincemeat of the officials promoting the damaging vaccine. (1) Thereafter, Mercola came out with a slick regurgitation of Horowitz's and Jane Burgermeister's important revelations, without crediting either. Instead, he gave the false impression it was his research.
We had started doing many articles and videos together from that time forward, including exposing the main pharmaceutical industry business leaders in the Partnership for New York City. Our combined efforts produced the film, PharmaWhores: The Showtime Sting of Penn & Teller at that time, exposing the financial heart of Big Pharma's enterprise and its media tentacles.
By 2010, the PharmaMob's retaliation accelerated. We started getting heavily hacked and cyber-bullied by COINTELPRO agents. These online provocateurs were mainly white supremacists subscribing to Christian Identity, historic revisionists, and Holocaust deniers working under the late Ted Gunderson and Alma C. Ott–the fake "Dr. 'True' Ott." Ott was assigned to target us in 2008, with Alex McGowan Studer a pedophile protector and Hollywood editor renting space at Garry Goddard's property. Goddard is the infamous Hollywood exec sued for sexually assaulting young upcoming actors.
Looking back, 2008 was the same year Ott and Studer launched their Horowitz-smearing website, and Erin got caught up in her Hollywood sex scandal with Anthony Pellicano and the FBI. Ott generated his own sex scandal, right out of thin air (and the COINTELPRO playbook). Ott, Studer & Co. produced fake sex tapes to discredit us. We subsequently exposed them.
And while we were shedding light in the online darkness, opposing eugenics through "immunization genocide," "Erin Elizabeth" was transitioning from running an online prostitution service for geeks, to compete directly against Dr. Horowitz. She engaged the deceptive world of vaccines, social engineering, and natural medicine. She joined the active counter-intelligence–The Global Ghost Team™–the cell abusing the social media, web advertising, and Coast-to-CoastAM with George Noory, who was increasingly pressed to censor Horowitz and promote the "safer vaccines" deception.
To shed more light on this topic of industrial espionage, Dr. Horowitz and I made another video exposing how the COINTELPRO targets whistleblowers viewed HERE. Not long after, around 2011, Mercola emerged with "Erin Elizabeth" as a purported "girlfriend." So ashamed of her past, and presumably worried about Pellicano's retaliation, the computer-savvy escort, and her new "boyfriend," secreted her last name.
Erin Elizabeth Finn – The "Health Nut"
As Dr. Horowitz and I became more and more censored, widely disparaged, and commercially damaged, Mercola became more and more popular and wealthy. It was obvious to me that Mercola was Controlled Opposition. He would never fully expose the dangers of vaccines, especially Dr. Horowitz's un-controverted revelations concerning the spread of HIV/AIDS by vaccinations in 1972-1974. That is when the hepatitis B vaccine trials took place in New York City's gay Villagers. Mercola, with all his heralded research, and hundreds-of-thousands of cyber-pages published to date, never once discussed Horowitz's thesis. Never once did he acknowledge Horowitz for unearthing the government documents proving HIV's lab virus origin and testing on chimpanzees. Not once did he mention Litton's lab and primate colony shipment of contaminated chimps, and later Ebola's progenitor (the Marburg virus), to vaccine producers including the Merck drug company's agents in NYC that tested the tainted hepatitis B vaccine on gay men at that time. (6-7)
By 2015, Mercola was heavily promoting Erin Elizabeth when she and her savvy Internet marketers developed her "dead doctors" niche. In my opinion, the social engineering and marketing scheme was brilliant, and perfectly devious to permit Big Pharma to control its opposition and competition in the natural healing arts and sciences. Erin would become the spokeswoman in natural health exploiting the mysterious dying doctors, while at the same time purposely neglecting the heroes, like Dr. Horowitz, who were alive, targeted, and pleading for help.
The media and conference doors opened immediately for Erin. She was "invited" to speak for various groups, including physicians groups unaware of Mercola's and Big Pharma's social engineering agenda–"Don't speak out, or you too could wind up dead."
"Erin Elizabeth and company are scary," wrote Sara Wallach-Markis, the daughter of Dead Doctors Don't Lie author, veterinarian and health products entrepreneur, Dr. Joel Wallach. "Sherri Kane and Dr. Horowitz's investigative reporting shows a pattern, not only of dying doctors abused to con people and control the natural healing industry, but also preventing public outcry to help the living naturopaths and holistic doctors who need our help.
"I lived in South Florida for 20 years," Wallach-Markis continued, "and when I reached out to her, Erin Elizabeth was very cold and standoffish, even though my family is very well known for natural health advocacy. The information Kane has uncovered is vital for the holistic community and the public to comprehend Mercola's and Finn's secret operations and private financial gains. The facts and truth shows there are those among us, who we are led to trust, working to destroy our industry, and the reputations of natural health practitioners by creating panic in the holistic community. This shows us that vigilance and discernment is eternally required!"
In addition to the first photo at the beginning of this article, obviously evidencing consumer fraud, this final photograph also appears to show a different person on the left than the right. Again the purpose is the same, to depict weight loss to the main "target market"–middle age unsuspecting women.
But careful inspection here too shows Erin misrepresenting Erin, and falsely advertising. (8) First, the person's face on the left looks small and round, while supposedly Erin's face on the right appears oblong. Second, why would Erin's "after" image on the right conceal her "model" face anyway? Especially since this is a widely circulated advertisement that implies associations or endorsements with major news networks (e.g., NBC).
Third, the network logos imply the networks covered, advertised, or endorsed Erin's purported book, (although it was mentioned in Huffington Post). Mercola was sued for this kind of deception by the FTC in its 4-13-16 Complaint. Instead of implied endorsements from television networks abused to advertise the book and Mercola's supplements, Mercola falsely claimed the FDA had endorsed the use of his tanning systems.
Finally, the advertising copy Finn purportedly writes, in my opinion, is remarkable, unreasonable, often absurd. It only makes sense to conclude the "Health Nut" serves a greater "social engineering" purpose for her "Ghost Team." They had financial and political incentive to bury her identity as "Anne Marie Finn"–Hollywood's highest priced most scandalous hooker– and molt her into Mercola's "model" and "investigative journalist" seeking media fame and fortune on dead doctors' reputations. How she could write so poorly and gain such celebrity in the natural healing community speaks volumes about the criminal complicity of the Mitnicks damaging society, and the gullibility (arguably stupidity) of the masses who buy what she sells. It matters not that she hides her true identity metaphorically like her face behind electronics and frequency "blockers" that she wears at night on her way to pee. All supposedly to avoid eating, improve sleep, and lose weight, all albeit nonsensically. (I kid you not, she actually wrote that she puts on her blockers to go to the bathroom at night so that blue light's alleged impact on her hormones won't drive her to her refrigerator.) (8) Dim and defrauded consumers buy it, nonetheless.
For all the above reasons, as a public duty to deter further consumer fraud committed by Joseph Mercola and the Health Nut, I urge everyone to BOYCOTT Mercola.com, their related products and services, and their numerous affiliates that appear on Amazon.com to be independent, when in fact they are part of the same "Ghost Team."
There are far more reputable natural health store owners and "coaches" providing honest information, great services, and fine quality products, who haven't defrauded people, exploited dead doctors, conspired to advance a nefarious social engineering agenda to control Big Pharma's opposition and discourage competition (Mercola's included), that can use your good will and financial support at this time of crisis in American healthcare. Conservatively, this amount of industry-wide fraud has killed millions and cost trillions of dollars in favor of the "inside traitors."
According to the evidence of unfair and deceptive trade detailed above, Mercola is a wolf in sheep's clothing. In my opinion, law enforcers should seize his ill-gotten gains, and auction them off, with all the proceeds divided up equally among the families of the dead doctors he and Finn exploited.
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The RIAA has accepted a settlement offering whereby a family in New York City must pay $7,000 in fines over the next six months. The settlement is still pending judge's approval, and would end a four-year legal battle with the RIAA, one which leaves a distaste in many mouths.
The mother, age 46, was originally targeted by the RIAA lawsuit. The suit claimed she had downloaded music illegally, however when she took her case to the media and the extent of her Internet illiteracy was revealed, the RIAA eventually dropped the lawsuit. Around that time, a federal judge had said "[Patricia Santangelo, the mother, was an ]Internet-illiterate parent, who does not know Kazaa from kazoo."
The RIAA picked the lawsuit back up later, filing new charges against two of her five children, Michelle and Robert, who were aged 16 and 20 at the time. The two children are now in college and, according to Santangelo's lawyer, Jordan Glass, "This [lawsuit] was preventing the kids from moving on. Sometimes you reduce the damages so much it's time to call it quits."
Though the family never admitted any wrongdoing, under the terms of the agreement they would pay half the fine up front, then make payments of $583.33 through October.
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Rick's Opinion
People have wanted flexible media forms for years. The RIAA represents a group of people who believe they're in the business of selling physical CDs. They're wrong. They're selling content, and it's the content people have wanted. We do not want to buy physical things, we are after the media.
At the time many of these lawsuits originated, and at the height of the alleged music piracy surge, the realities were that it was quite difficult to legally obtain MP3s of most music forms. The popular music tracks were available for purchase, but much of the older music was not.
It was because of this obstinate behavior, this stolid hatred of selling digital content rather than physical things, that the RIAA came into action going after individual after individual, more than 30,000 to date. They could not recognize that their industry was not in the business of selling things, and that people wanted the content in MP3 form to play in their car, on the go, on their computer, etc., and without wielding some clunky disc.
The RIAA has been trying to employ the same tactics as the Internet Revenue Service, those of spreading fear, uncertainty over legal rights and doubt about whether or not it's worth it, even to the point where people begin to comply because of the outrageous fines imposed if they don't: Such as, $220,000 for a Minnesota woman named Jammie Thomas (which was later thrown out, though the RIAA is still wanting to appeal).
There have been some victories, however. A case was taken up against Tanya Andersen in 2005 (Atlantic v. Andersen). While ultimately dismissed with prejudice in 2007, Andersen then filed a counter-suit against the RIAA for racketeering, fraud and deceptive business practices, along with $300,000 in damages. The judge later knocked it down to $107,834, but still a victory.
A similar case happened with Capitol v. Foster, where Debbie Foster won her lawsuit against the RIAA and was awarded $68,000 in attorney's fees.
The law is designed to protect people, not businesses. And whereas businesses are ultimately created entities given the equivalent of "rights" by the will of the people, the reality is corporations serve people's needs. When big money stands behind a corporation, and against the people in general, things are not operating as they should.
In the case of the RIAA and other similar entities engaged in protecting their content over illegal trading, when the reality is far more people would be willing to buy the content legally if it was available in a form that could easily be migrated between devices, we the people must recognize it is only money interests that are being protected. There are not children being abused, wars being fought, or pollutants pumped into our water system. It is only money, and in general, it is only money for a very select few people.
{ad}I have no interest in big business' concerns. We are all human beings and we should all be working to help one another in every way we can. If I could sing and play music and had the creative edge which made my stuff popular, I'd like to think that I would give it away for free, encouraging people to copy the music freely.
The Grateful Dead did this, so did Ani DiFranco … and these are not people who are starving by any stretch, in fact they're doing quite well financially. They just happen to be have talents that are rare in the industry. And if you really consider what's going on here that may be the key: What the music industry is looking to protect is limited talent individuals because those with true talents will rise to success with or without the record company's marketing and control.

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Tonight's cocktail party will feature the Bee's Knees Cocktail. It's fairly easy to make but offers a flavor you won't get from most cocktails. That's because the sweetening agent isn't fruit or triple sec, but honey.
2 oz gin
1 oz honey syrup
1/2 oz lemon juice
We've been using Tanqueray, but tried a new (and much cheaper) gin called New Amsterdam that's not so junipery. I think it works a bit better in this cocktail, but maybe not. I'm still tasting.
Alicia – not a gin drinker – has really taken to this. Like the gin-based Pimm's Cup, it's great during the summer. We like that it uses honey syrup (1 part honey stirred into 1 part near boiling water) which we have sometimes infused with lavender from our herb garden. It's heaven on a summer night on your patio.


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Someone asked me earlier today where it was I'd bought nail polish online.
This will be old boring news to those of you reading this who already have nail blogs, but I have some readers who may not be aware of such places... so please, allow me to enable you. :)
First of all, most of these places have jacked up shipping. So while the nail polish itself is cheap, it's really not worth it unless you're going to buy several bottles.
Second of all, you'll start to find yourself reeeeeally thinking about whether you want to spend the $8 or $8.50 for an OPI or an Essie when you're in a brick and mortar establishment and you know you can get it for $4-$5 online. The problem with this thinking is that you will then order 6 bottles of nail polish from an e-tailer to justify the jacked up shipping charges and will have actually spent more money than you would've if you'd just paid the $8 in the brick & mortar store. I buy from both e-tailers and brick&mortars. It depends. Sometimes I need the instant gratification. Sometimes I have a few colors I want so I'll just order them online.
Anyway, we're all grown ups and can make our own decisions, right?!
I have personally ordered nail polish from:
http://www.victoriasnaildesign.com (oddly, both of these places are located in Georgia, so I had to pay sales tax, but still came out cheaper than buying in a store)
I've ordered Konad stuff from:
http://www.ocnailart.com (do some perfunctory googling and you will find coupon codes for both these sites that offer 20-30% off -- AND neither of these sites have jacked up shipping charges)
If you want to get into the Konad thing, you really should order that stuff online. I discovered a Konad kiosk in the Mall of Georgia when I was there a week or two ago. I asked the lady running it how much their plates were and I must have made a face when she said, "Ten dollars," because she then gave me their web address and told me they were ony $6 or $7 online. Hehe. That's about how much I paid on each of the above sites, before discounts.
I've heard good things about, but have never ordered from:
So now... run free! Blow your paychecks on cheap nail polish you don't *really* need!
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Mariah Carey makes fantasies come true, and this was certainly the case for one of her backup dancers last weekend. During a performance of her Las Vegas residency "The Butterfly Returns" at Caesars Palace on Saturday, July 14, Carey took a break from scheduled programming to give her dancer, Manwe, the surprise of a lifetime.
Wearing a white gown herself, Carey called Manwe up to take center stage and introduced him to the audience. She asked him if there were any additional guests, and Manwe called up his boyfriend Sumeet.
"I've heard a lot about you," Carey said to Sumeet. The "We Belong Together" singer played it cool even though she and Sumeet were already acquainted since he reached out about the surprise proposal. He had some fun with the moment and responded, "I've heard a lot about you, too."
Carey left Sumeet to get on with the show and wished them luck as she fled the stage. "Manwe we've been planning this for a long time and you didn't know about it so hopefully you are surprised in a very big way," she said.
Sumeet picked up where she left off saying, "Manwe, it's been a really crazy year." His speech continued, but cheering from the crowd drowned out the sound in the video. The next thing you hear is Sumeet saying, "would you do me the honor," as he drops to one knee. Manwee nods yes the two share a long hug and kiss.
"He said yes!!!" Carey wrote on Instagram sharing the video with her fans. "Congratulations Manwe and Sumeet!!"
Sumeet and Manwe also took to social media and used Instagram to thank the Grammy award winner for the opportunity. "Thank you @mariahcarey for letting me steal the show for a minute to profess my love to @according2manwe #engaged," Sumeet wrote.
Sharing the video again Manwe said, "The video that went viral. Thank you to my boss @mariahcarey thank you to @bryantanaka and everyone who was in on this. And above all thank you to my future husband @sumeetnpotatoes love you with all my heart and can't wait to spend the rest of my life with you."
We can't help but wonder: Will Mimi do them the honor of performing at their wedding? Guess we'll just have to wait and see!


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Camfil worked with a school to help improve the indoor air quality for students during their critical exam period. The school got Camfil air purifiers to use in the gymnasiums where the exams were given.
With Camfil's help, the facilities management firm Norland Managed Services enabled a major bank in central London to gain major savings. See how they lowered energy consumption, CO2 emissions and filter costs.
Midwest PMS is a manufacturer of liquid supplements for livestock that are custom blended per order to various customers in the US. Their fully automated batching system combines an order's various ingredients by weight.
JPW Companies offers a wide variety of products built to last for manufacturing companies. Installed on a blasting machine, JPW Companies originally installed a competitor's dust collector to manage the facility.
Cofely, a GDF Suez company, is one of the leading experts in energy, technology and facilities management services with business outsourcing. Camfil provides City air purifiers to improve indoor air quality.
An upgrade to the CamPulse GTC filters maximised availability during the critical heating season for a Huadian plant, located in the Tianjin development zone in China. The original system could not perform during peak season.
The plant was experiencing high pressure drop and short filter life. In reviewing the situation it was determined that the hot and humid climate of Florida was degrading the performance of the filter. What was the solution?
There was a distinct odour in the manufacturer's lab and cold storage area, and employee complaints of nuisance odour eventually circulated to management where the concern was escalated.
Dalkia, a leader in gas turbines, designed 12 testing benches to compare four air filtration combinations at three sites in France with different operating environments. Four competitors were free to select their best combinations.
This key player in the industry operates one of the largest facilities in Canada, with over 150,000 square feet of space licensed for Cannabis Cultivation. The process of growing cannabis produces a strong smell.
Life at sea isn't easy. Employees at this North Sea oil rig needed cleaner air in communal areas such as television rooms and accommodation spaces. Find out how Camfil and MSV Regalia improved the air with 24/7 use of a filtration system.
Find out how this German high-tech company combated dust and particles at two large warehouses. With stock moved daily, the stored components needed protection from dust. Staff availability and good health were also top priorities.
A multinational pharmaceutical company needed a dust extraction system for their new tableting suite in Spain. The suite was comprised of six rooms, each with its own tablet machine that created explosive dusts.
Camfil secured a supply and installation contract at the Pfizer Global Research and Development Campus in South East Kent, UK, that improves air quality and saves over £2 million.
The DB Schenker logistics centre in Sweden successfully deploys a CC6000 units for filtering and purifying the air in hall areas. Commissioning these units did not require any major structural alterations.
Camfil engaged with one of the largest food companies worldwide and a global leader in the bottled water industry. The manufacturer is committed to health, hydration and the environment in particular.
Discover why Camfil was the right fit for a retrofit solution in a challenging coastal environment at Tata Power Ltd., India's biggest integrated power company.
With a reputation as the best in their area, this third-generation, family-owned body shop takes care of its classic cars – and the health of its family members – with quality air filtration solutions from Camfil.
Air is the only ingredient involved in every aspect of food and beverage manufacturing. Air comes into contact with products from storage of goods all way to packaging. How can we help to keep your food processes safe?
Three air handling units supplied air to critical processing areas in one of the largest frozen food manufacturing facilities in the U.S. The prefilter and final filter combination saved the plant over $33,000 per year.
A life cycle costing (LCC) analysis proved that the Camfil Durafil filter operated at a 24% lower energy cost per year than the Viledon T-60. Camfil's product would save the customer $14 per filter per year vs. the alternative.
Increase production efficiency, reduce your environmental impact and keep your shop and workers safe. Camfil industrial air cleaners work hard for Georgian Gates, so they can focus on getting the job done.
Healthcare facilities depend on Camfil to help them maintain the highest levels of cleanliness for promoting health. This Dublin hospital used our filters to prevent exposure to a potentially harmful airborne fungus.
Camfil's customers rely on us to protect their employees' health by improving indoor air quality. Listen to how a leading logistics company worked with Camfil to solve air problems in their distribution centre.
Nestle wanted a turnkey installation and a guaranteed price for a dust collection system at their frozen dinner plant. The application called for two collectors to handle the various types of spices and additives.
H.C. Ørstedsværket is a building of architectural significance. The buildings are to be used for new energy production, but before this can happen, existing boilers and other equipment must be removed.
The leading independent energy producer in Thailand operate gas turbine combined cycle power plants with an output of 1600MW each, with four M701F4 gas turbines, two steam turbines, and six generators.


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Hello, furiends. It is time for me to tell you about my blood sugar readings for the week. Before I do that, I will share with you a picture of my good furiend Anakin. Anakin, you see, was born without his hind legs and he did not have a pelvis.
But furiends, he does not let this slow him down. As his human says, he is full of love and life. And here is Anakin, relaxing in his favorite cat tree.
Anakin has come a long way from a tiny feline who escaped humans trying to help him. He learned to trust his human, and now he is happily living inside. And furiends, look at that fluffy tail of his. When I am annoyed, I do not think my tail gets as fluffy as Anakin's tail is normally!
I am proud to call Anakin a furiend. He is another special needs cat who shows that while we may need more attention, we are very good at showing affection to the humans who care for us.
Now, on to my blood sugar readings. For the week, my blood sugar readings averaged 174. That is a little higher than the 161 we saw the week before, but it is still a good average. The human is a little concerned, though. We saw two blood sugar readings that were lower than we like. And then we had to skip my insulin shot.
On the occasions where my blood sugar was low, I nommed very quickly. And as you can see, my blood sugar went back up after I did that. But we still do not like seeing readings that low. The human does not know why this happens. Sometimes, it will be fine, but then sometimes, it drops too low. He will continue to monitor this and see what we can do.
I will tell you about my blood sugar readings next week. Until then, remember that felines like me and Anakin, despite our special needs, can be very fun felines!


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Most of the people would have been embarrassed at some point because of bad breath, which could have forced them to try everything possible to stop it. However, not many promised solutions end up giving desired results.
A recent study shows that at least one in every four suffer from a common ailment known as tonsil stones, which is accumulated inside the mouth causing the patient to develop deposits of debris and bacteria.
Once they are accumulated, they start to produce sulphur which isn't great for a person's breath. To make it worse they are trapped which makes it difficult to remove them.
Most of them fail to detect and also struggle to remove them. Though, there is nothing to be worried of it is necessary to address the issue to prevent bad breath. To begin, proper oral hygiene is important, A cotton swab can sometimes be used to remove stones that have already begun to accumulate inside of the mouth.
They sometimes fall by themselves and on a few occasions you can make the use of garlic. The stones may come out on their own during a good old fashioned coughing fit, so don't make the mistake of assuming that something more serious is taking place if the stones are to show up.
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Welcome to our PYMNTS Summer School 2013 Recaps – a series designed to bring our readers everything they need to know from the faculty, fellows and forward-thinking innovators we've assembled at PYMNTS Summer School. Each day, a different PYMNTS.com editor will give you a rundown of the best quotes and most interesting ideas from mobile payments ecosystem experts, as well as reaction from attendees and more.
PYMNTS Summer School officially began on Monday, August 12, at the Harvard University campus in Cambridge, Massachusetts, with notable appearances by Dekkers Davidson, CEO of Merchant Customer Exchange, and Faisal Masud, the executive vice president at Staples. The event continued on August 13 with exciting talks from Bill Ready, CEO of Braintree, and Daniel Eckert, senior vice president of Walmart.
All of this led up to day three of PYMNTS Summer School: seven hours jam packed with speeches from key executives at major mobile payments players and emerging mobile powerhouses, and of course, closing remarks that reflected on three days of deep dives into the mobile market.
Module 5 – Digital Wallets and Currencies
Karen Webster, CEO, Market Platform Dynamics (MPD), opened the day's first module on digital wallets and currencies by reminding the PYMNTS Summer School fellows of an important if oft-forgotten influencer in the shopping experience: consumer habits. A key reason why mobile wallets have failed to capture market share, Webster suggested, is that digital wallets aren't yet leveraging traditional shopping cues to power new digital platforms.
The MPD CEO quickly unveiled a detailed matrix to illustrate hype versus reality in the mobile wallet industry, and she wasn't afraid to call out the industry for what she called its "tremendous hype."
This declaration set the stage for Mario Shiliashki, senior vice president and group head of U.S. Emerging Payments at MasterCard, who took a different approach from Webster in his address. Rather than starting with a challenge, he began by injecting some levity into the conversation – showing a YouTube video that illustrated the pain points associated with mobile payments.
Still, it wasn't long before he was willing to deviate from the expected industry script.
"MasterPass is our version of the digital wallet infrastructure," Shiliashki told the gathered fellows. "This is not a MasterCard wallet, it's part of an infrastructure."
Shiliashki stated that his company is not alone in its user-first approach. In many examples of successful mobile wallets – Uber, Chipotle and Hotel Tonight, to name a few – payments are taking a backseat to features that provide a magical consumer experience, he noted. He instructed fellows to view wallets as part of an omnichannel shopping experience; one where enhancing the ecosystem around the payment mechanism should be the goal.
Merchant Warehouse's CEO Henry Helgeson, was quick to take on the issue of mobile wallet adoption from another angle.
"The issue isn't consumer engagement, the issue is how do we connect with the merchants," Helgeson told the PYMNTS fellows.
Helgeson went on to define the current mobile wallet marketplace as a crowded ecosystem that is posing a challenge to merchants. Mobile wallet providers, Helgeson said, need to convince merchants that they have value, and that means changing the way they think about their point-of-sale systems (POS). The Merchant Warehouse CEO said that check-ins, QR codes, and compound transactions all fundamentally change POS, and because the shift is so large in the minds of business owners, many will be "gun shy" about pulling the trigger on mobile.
Still, Helgeson left the fellows with hope that widespread mobile wallet adoption will come to pass. The CEO said he believes adoption will happen, though it is likely to be a multistep process that takes years.
Live Case Study #3: Foursquare
Jeff Bussgang, Harvard Business Senior Lecturer and Partner at Flybridge Capital, set the tone for his interactive module by rolling up his sleeves and diving into the session's key question: why is Foursquare successful?
Bussgang attacked the blackboard, prompting fellows for their analysis of Foursquare's successes, methodology and monetization. It wasn't long before Bussgang engaged the gathered fellows in an argument that pitted younger attendees and more experienced fellows against one another. Once the company's failures and successes were thoroughly dissected, Bussgang moved to frame the case study in the context of the event.
"Who would you rather be today," Bussgang asked. "Head of Level Up, director of Google Wallet or operating partner at Foursquare?"
While we won't reveal the answer, we will say that the winner wasn't Foursquare. With this in mind, Jake Furst, Foursquare's director of monetization partnerships, took the stage to field questions on his company's past, present and future.
Furst dismissed the claim that his company never thought about monetization, and cited statistics that indicated Foursquare is still a viable competitor in its field. Furst noted that Foursquare tips are growing faster than Yelp reviews, and that he expects the number of the company's tips to overtake Yelp reviews next year.
MODULE 6: The New Point of Sale and the Transformation of Retail
As with the day's first module, Webster once again greeted the gathered PYMNTS fellows with remarks that would set the tone for the next session. She defined the transformation of retail as being about how technology is recrafting the relationship between merchants and consumers.
Jon Stine, Cisco's director of retail and consumer products practice, took the stage first, and quickly commanded the Harvard lecture hall with a booming voice that focused attendees on the bigger picture.
"Mobile is about immediacy," he said. "[Consumers] don't love your apps like you do. Apps are secondary to immediacy."
Stine's language was meant to drive home an essential point: retailers need to influence decisions not only today, but in a future where mobile screens are increasingly becoming a way of life. A smartphone, he said, "doesn't offer strategy, it offers tactics."
While Stine focused on large retailers and even bigger concepts, Ken Paull, CEO of ROAM, illustrated how small merchants have driven the mobile point of sale (mPOS) transition to date, and he predicted that big things are still in store for players in this sector.
"As hot as the mPOS market is, most of the market is still available," Paull said, citing the fact that 70 percent of the total U.S. market is still available for mobile expansion.
Paull countered Stine's heavy imagery with facts that drove home his message. For example, he noted that in five years time, the majority of retailers will be using mPOS systems.
PYMNTS fellows weren't just treated to facts and forecasts in this module, however. Nadia Shouraboura, the CEO of emerging retail player Hointer, brought the session to a close by illustrating how a truly forward-thinking mobile strategy could not only change the customer experience, but cut costs for retailers.
Shouraboura gave real-life examples of how her retail company is bridging the gap between eCommerce and traditional in-store experiences to create a store that's so easy to manage, one high schooler can run it. The CEO of Hointer said that the future of retail is about making everything self-service and simple, and suggested with her inspiring story that no idea is too far-fetched when retailers think creatively about how mobile can change the shopping experience.
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If the goal of the day's events was to discuss how merchants and consumers are using mobile, the final speaker's aim was to illustrate how the gathered fellows could get great, forward-thinking mobile products into the hands of customers using unexpected approaches.
"We thought there'd be no better person to give us that insight than Jonah Berger," Webster said, before introducing the Wharton Business School professor and bestselling author.
Berger touched on a host of unusual topics from Honey Nut Cheerios to cheese-loving pandas to cats who play turntables, all in an effort to encapsulate how an idea can capture the public's imagination and spark word-of-mouth marketing.
"Good stories are not just good stories, they carry something along for the ride," Berger said. "Stop selling. Think about what story is going to carry your brand along for the ride."
Webster returned at the close of the session to encapsulate not only Berger's lesson, but the lessons from the entire three-day event.
"It's not about payments, it's about reinventing the experience of shopping for merchants and consumers," Webster said. "It's not about the device… but moving the experience to the cloud so we're device agnostic and are leveraging the cloud to drive new experiences wherever those devices will be."
"This is happening now, and mobile is accelerating the pace at which things are happening," she said. "This is about what you can do today to prepare for tomorrow."
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"I think that's PYMNTS.com has introduced a fresh new approach to industry collaboration that dispenses with the sponsorships, the sales pitches and the more canned talking-at approach that not only dominates, but constrains the industry from soliving complex problems. The result is a generation of very real, new understanding amongst the participants. What we get to take away from this is a more refined understanding of the mobile environment and a clearer idea of what it's going to take to be successful." – George Danforth, Vice President of Emerging Products at PULSE.
"I appreciated MasterCard's perspective on digital wallets, and what it would take to for mass adoption. I felt that was very candid and made a lot of sense. I also enjoyed Henry [Helgeson]'s presentation about how the ecosystem works within the payments industry and how various players interact within each other." – Matt Inan, Director of Business Development and Channel Sales at eMobilePOS.
"What I thought was really good … I came from the ISO world, and I think it's a forgotten world. I think its great that they brought some awareness around all partners in the ecosystem in the transaction flow. We often get focused on the big guys, but there are a lot of merchants with standalone terminals that we do have to solve for." – Misty Novich, Senior Group Manager with Strategic Merchants Relations at Discover.
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As TRON: Legacy shapes up to be one of the biggest movies of the year, director Joseph Kosinski's list of potential projects continues to grow. Heat Vision reports that New Regency is developing Andrew Will's sci-fi action spec script Archangels for Kosinski to direct. Kosinski is also producing the film alongside Ridley and Tony Scott via their Scott Free production company. According to HV:
The script is set in the near future and is described as a Bourne-style thriller crossed with alien elements. The protagonist is part of an elite force that is tasked with tracking aliens who get past Earth's defense system.
Hit the jump to learn more about the other films Kosinski has in development and the presence TRON: Legacy is planning to have at this year's San Diego Comic-Con.
First up, Kosinski is signed on to helm the remake of the 1979 Disney sci-fi flick The Black Hole. Disney is also moving forward with a sequel to TRON: Legacy, which should give you a hint of how much faith they have in the project. Even the polishes are being done with the help of prestige players with David Fincher giving Kosinski feedback on the film, and writers Brad Bird (Ratatouille) and Michael Arndt (Toy Story 3) to write pages for re-shoots last month. It's safe to presume that if Legacy is the smash hit Disney thinks it will be, the studio will exercise the option in Kosinski's contact to have him direct the sequel.
TRON: Legacy is also looking to be one of the most talked about films of this year's Comic-Con. Disney has gone so far as to brand Thursday "ComiTRON" as the film's panel takes place that day at 11:15am in in Hall H (the biggest room in the San Diego Convention Center, Hall H holds over 6,000 people). The studio will also be revealing TRON: Legacy inspired merchandise on that day. Basically, I hope you're looking forward to TRON: Legacy because if you're attending this year's Comic-Con, it's sure as hell looking forward to you.


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Tuesday, 21 July 2009
A Phone Call
Sometimes, I get a wrong phone call here in Germany. It averages around four times a month.
This past weekend....near 7PM on Sunday evening....I had this call. It was a German guy and he started running off in a hurry....in German. In the background, I could hear ambulance sirens, yelling in the background, and fire trucks. It took around 30 seconds to get him to stop, and then I kinda mentioned I was American and this was a wrong number. He was sorry, and then hung up.
I kinda sat there and paused over the call. Evidently, this was one of those circumstances that would have been interesting to know the situation. The caller was either calling to announce he'd been in an accident, or calling to let someone know that their house was on fire.
For two days, this has kinda bothered me. Things happen, and you'd just like to know the final outcome, even though you don't know these people. Heck, maybe two beer trucks collided.
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Flights of fantasy: a reformulation of the flyers' dilemma
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Young, M, Markham, F, Reis, AC & Higham, JES 2015, 'Flights of fantasy: a reformulation of the flyers' dilemma', Annals of Tourism Research, vol. 54, pp. 1-15.
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We position pleasure travel within Beck's risk society as a contradictory form of consumption that simultaneously produces individual pleasure and global environmental risk. We examine the paradoxical emergence of the 'anxious traveler' from this contradiction, arguing that this social category is necessary to individualize and apportion the global, environmental risk associated with frequent flying, and hence legitimate the reproduction of unsustainable travel practices. We identify several future scenarios that may synthesize this frequent-flying dialectic. On reflection, these scenarios themselves appear as cultural productions, suggesting that our attempts to imagine the future are crippled by the hegemonic ahistoricism associated with contemporary capitalism.


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Receives calls when your phone's screen is off. Simple, clear interface.
Call quality isn't as good as Skype's. Some calls didn't connect. No SMS ability.
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iCall lets you make and receive phone calls using an iPod touch or iPhone over Wi-Fi, but call quality leaves something to be desired.
An ambitious voice-over-IP app for iPhones and iPod touches, iCall teaches their big competitors Skype a lesson in how to receive phone calls. But iCall's subpar call quality and problems connecting some calls cause me to prefer Skype as a way to make calls on Apple gadgets without involving AT&T.
iCall starts right up to its dialer, a minimalist affair with a big "Place call" button at the bottom. Under the Place Call button are five tabs: Recent Calls, Contacts, Keypad, Voicemail and Settings. Contacts just opens up your iPod/iPhone's address book; Voicemail dials iCall's voicemail number. This is a phone-calling program, so there's none of that IM-ing and "Skype name" nonsense you see on iCall's big competitor.
But I started getting stymied by iCall from the start, when it wouldn't connect through our corporate network. iCall said that our IT department was blocking their UDP ports. When I asked why Skype had no problem getting through, iCall basically called Skype naughty.
That wasn't the only disconnect I had. From 3G networks, 4G networks, and public hotspots, iCall's calls didn't go through about 20 percent of the time. When they did go through, they sounded more compressed and staticy than Skype calls. iCall also lacks Skype's SMS-sending ability and has old-fashioned dial-in voicemail rather than the slicker visual kind.
I don't want to condemn iCall too roundly, though, because of its facility in receiving calls. Skype makes great calls, but iCall is better at receiving them. For one thing, it works when your iPod's screen is off and locked, as long as iCall was the last thing you were doing, and you don't try to do anything else.
The program also offers to punt your calls over to another number (your iPhone's real number, for instance) when it isn't running, andget thisif you pick up the other phone, say "hang on a sec," and then launch iCall on your iPod, it takes over the call. That's pretty neat.
iCall's rates are about on par with Skype's. Their "Total Access" plan costs $9.95/month (Skype's equivalent costs $8.95) and includes unlimited domestic calls, a personal dial-in phone number, and voicemail. iCall didn't have any 212 area code numbers available when I checked, though they did have 718s and 917s, which are almost as good. (I'm a phone snob; you won't catch me with a 347.) Pay-by-minute rates are 2.1 cents/minute for domestic calling, compared to Skype's 2.4.
iCall has potential, and it can show Skype a thing or two about receiving calls. But until they get their call quality and ability to successfully complete calls up to Skype's standards, they won't be my first choice for VoIP on an Apple device.
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If you have ever been to the South of France or turned on your TV to hear about a luxurious beach town, then you know St. Tropez. St. Topez has become the celebrity vacation spot. Pictures will surface of A-listers hanging out on their multi-million dollar yachts while they ride up and down the beach of St. Tropez. So for a place as luxurious as it is, does the Dior St. Tropez Tote deliver? It has been many moons since we have discussed Christian Dior bags on Purse Blog because, flat out, I didn't like them. They were not worth ragging on, but they weren't appealing in the least bit. But the Dior St. Tropez Tote is straight from the Resort Line and the fuchsia quilted shiny nylon is perfect beach bag material. The price is steep for a beach bag, but when in St. Tropez you need to be showing off your luxurious side. The silver tone hardware leaves this bag with a casual look, and I love the fact that there is a front zip pocket for easy access. The top is open, which makes for easy entry for both you and the pick-pocketer who bumps into you. The dimensions are 12 1/2″H x 15 1/3″W x 4 1/3″D. While it is also available in black, I would definitely opt for fuchsia. Buy through Saks for $1300.
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1 Vital Prophetic Protocol We Should All Follow – Jennifer LeClaire
I've seen some disturbing prophetic words on the Internet recently regarding specific dreams and visions over high-profile leaders in the body of Christ.
One of those words described a vision of two publicly named spiritual generals down on their knees repenting to one another, suggesting that another great awakening hinged on this act. A second prophecy suggested a different leader—again, publicly named—was fighting for his life because he did something illegal in the spirit that let the devil attack him.
Needless to say, I was disappointed to read these articles online and more disappointed that others picked up on them and parroted what they read, even adding their own interpretations and speculations. I reached out to some of the authors but the practice continues—and it grieves me.
It violates prophetic protocol to publish dreams, visions and other prophetic expressions about named ministry leaders—and especially when the utterance makes a public cry for repentance or offers a rebuke—without approaching the people you're writing about to get their blessing.
Yes, There Are Exceptions
Matthew 18 dictates we approach a brother who has sinned privately, but even words that don't deal with sin need to be hashed out with the person before you "go live" on the Internet. Such prophecies can have unintended consequences, even if they are true.
There could be times when the Lord would lead a prophet to bypass this process—and it could be impossible to reach the person on which the prophecy centers—but I believe that prophet should then take the word to a prophetic counsel of elders that would pray over it and offer wise counsel on when and how best to release it, if it needs to be released at all. In other words, there needs to be accountability…Read the Entire Article Here.


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Lifestyles of the Lichen Farmers
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Go the green way by cutting down on electricity bills and unnecessary lighting. Carry torches that brighten wherever you carry them. Plumbing and potable water? Not a problem anymore; Just remember which way is downstream. Call your neighborhood LMB ogre and see if you qualify***!
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There are those who claim the Star Child Skull(SCS) is real. You can hear their side of the story here >>> It's Real! and here, It's Really Real. There are others who say it's wishful thinking, at best. You can … Continue reading
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Without a Car on the Peloponnesian Peninsula
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Just added: a link to Petite Planete photo album of the Mycenae region >> Album I refuse to drive a car in foreign countries. If I can't read the signs, I don't drive. My phobia of driving is easily accommodated … Continue reading
Attract Readers with a Word Cloud
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A word cloud is a collage of words generated from a text file by software. It's cute, it's cool, and it's easy—if you aren't too demanding. I am. Here's one for my short story Vickie Falls to Vegas. Words that … Continue reading
The Asteroid Belt-The New Frontier
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Why Seek a 'Federal Vessel Arrest' Instead of a State Court Judgment?
Federal law only "trumps" state law in areas where a specific federal law or federal legal concept applies. There is no specific federal law or legal concept that protects a vessel from being seized to satisfy state court judgment. A vessel is, therefore, not protected from a sheriff's levy (through a court-ordered writ of execution) to satisfy a state court judgment.
Notwithstanding the state law option, technically — yes — a vessel arrest through a federal court is, in fact, the only way to "initiate legal action against the boat." But in this case, our reader does not need to initiate legal action against the boat. He can satisfy the judgment through action against the owner and his assets, one of which happens to be the boat.
This sounds like we're splitting hairs, but a federal vessel arrest is literally an action against the boat itself, as if it were the entity responsible for the debt. It is a procedure that is available in a maritime collection case, but it is not required and it is often prohibitively expensive. The deposit required by the U.S. Marshals alone may amount to $20,000, and this does not include the fees charged by the commercial custodian who keeps the boat during the pendency of the legal action or the legal fees charged by the attorney.
There are, nonetheless, a few problems that our reader may face when using state law procedures to satisfy a claim involving a boat. The biggest problem is that he may need to deal with competing creditors and other maritime lienholders. A county sheriff may sell a boat on behalf of a judgment creditor, such as our reader, but neither the sheriff nor a state court judge has the power to sell a documented vessel free of all liens or claims. That power rests solely with a federal judge in a vessel arrest case.
The relative speed of federal vs. state procedures may also be a problem for a claimant. The state law procedure described by our reader required him to sue the boat owner and take that litigation all the way to judgment before a writ of execution could be issued by the court to order the sheriff to take the boat into custody. A federal arrest case calls for the boat to be taken into custody on the first day of the federal lawsuit. This could be a significant issue if the boat is a "flight risk."
Ultimately, the question of whether to use a state or federal procedure will depend on the facts of the case, and an experienced maritime attorney should be consulted before any decision is made.


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1995 Honda Civic Hb Vx
Home >> 1995 >> Honda >> Civic Hb Vx
How many miles per gallon does a 1995 Honda Civic Hb Vx get?
A 1995 Honda Civic Hb Vx gets up to 47 miles per gallon in the city, up to 56 miles per gallon on the highway. This means a 1995 Honda Civic Hb Vx can get up to 51 miles per gallon overall.
* The estimates are based on the assumptions that you travel 15,000 miles per year (55% under city driving conditions and 45% under highway conditions) and that fuel costs $2.224/gallon for regular unleaded gasoline, $2.724/gallon for premium and $2.362/gallon for diesel.
(All amounts in USD. Costs updated on October 3, 2016 from AAA Fuel Gauge Report)
^ E85 prices cannot be accurately calculated, therefore they are based on the price of Regular gasoline.


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GERD Treatment in Homeopathy:
Gastro esophageal reflux disease (GERD) also called acid reflux is a digestive disease in which the stomach acid or bile irritates the food pipe lining. It is a chronic disease and acid reflux or heart burn twice a week may indicate GERD.
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- Feeling full too fast
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Homeopathy is very effective in managing all the symptoms of acid reflux and prevents any relapse. Homeopathic medicines decrease acidic buildup, rebalanced pH by cleansing and restoring the digestive system and strengthen the esophageal sphincter. Homeopathic medicines are non-habit forming and are not addictive.
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I am preparing to write a section in my forthcoming book on technology integration about the different perspectives that teachers and researchers have on changes in classroom lessons. To do that, I have looked back at the handful of posts I have written since 2009 on this point so I can figure out what to say in this forthcoming book.
Here is one from November 2009 along with a reader's thoughtful comment (and criticism) of the position I take in the post.
Over the years, I have interviewed many teachers across the country who have described their district's buying computers, deploying them in classrooms while providing professional development. These teachers have told me that using computers, interactive white boards, and other high-tech devices with accompanying software have altered their teaching significantly. They listed changes they have made such as their Powerpoint presentations and students doing Internet searches in class. They told me about using email with students.Teachers using interactive white boards said they can check immediately if students understand a math or science problem through their voting on the correct answer.
I then watched many of these teachers teach. Most teachers used the high-tech devices as they described in their interviews. Yet I was puzzled by their claim that using these devices had substantially altered how they taught. Policymaker decisions to buy and deploy high-tech devices was supposed to shift dominant ways of traditional teaching to student-centered, or progressive approaches. All of this in years when No Child Left Behind, extensive testing, and coercive accountability reigned. What I encountered in classrooms, however, departed from teachers' certainty that they have changed how they teach.
I am not the first researcher to have met teachers who claimed substantial changes in their teaching in response to district or state policies. Consider "A Revolution in One Classroom; The Case of Mrs. Oublier."
In the mid-1980s, California policymakers adopted a new elementary math curriculum intended to have students acquire a deep understanding of math concepts rather than memorizing rules and seeking the "right" answer. The state provided staff development to help elementary teachers implement the new curriculum. Then, researchers started observing teachers using the new math curriculum.
One researcher observed third grade teacher Mrs. Oublier (a pseudonym but hereafter Mrs. O) to see to what degree Mrs. O had embraced the innovative math teaching the state sought. Widely respected in her school as a first-rate math teacher, Mrs. O told the researcher that she had "revolutionized" her teaching. She was delighted with the new math text, used manipulatives to teach concepts, organized students desks into clusters of four and five, and had student participate in discussions. Yet the researcher saw her use paper straws, beans, and paper clips for traditional classroom tasks. She used small groups, not for students to collaborate in solving math problems, but to call on individuals to give answers to text questions. She used hand clapping and choral chants—as the text and others suggested—in traditional ways to get correct answers. To the researcher, she had grafted innovative practices onto traditional ways of math teaching and, in doing so, had missed the heart and soul of the state curriculum.
How can Mrs. O and teachers I have interviewed tell researchers that they had changed their teaching yet classroom observations of these very same teachers revealed familiar patterns of teaching? The answer depends on what each person means by "change" and who judges the worth of the change.
Change clearly meant one thing to teachers and another to researchers. Teachers had, indeed, made a cascade of incremental changes in their daily lessons. Researchers, however, keeping in mind what policymakers intended, looked for fundamental changes in teaching. In the case of Mrs. O—from memorizing math rules and getting the correct answer to focusing on conceptual understanding. Or in my case, getting teachers to shift from traditional to non-traditional instruction in seating arrangements, lesson activities, teacher-talk, use of projects, etc. In one instance, teachers saw substantial incremental "changes," while researchers saw little fundamental "change."
Whether those teachers' incremental changes or the fundamental changes state policymakers sought led to test score gains, given the available evidence, no one yet knows.
So whose judgment about change matters most? " Should researchers "consider changes in teachers' work from the perspective of new policies….[or intentions of policymakers]? Or should they be considered from the teachers' vantage point? (p.312).
Researchers, however, publish their studies and teachers like Mrs. O seldom tell their side of the story. Yet teachers' perceptions of change have to be respected and voiced because they have indeed altered their practices incrementally and as any practitioners (lawyers, doctors, accountants) will tell you, that is very hard to do. How to honor teachers' incremental changes while pointing out few shifts in fundamental patterns of teaching is the dilemma with which I have wrestled in researching high-tech use in schools.
I now include a long comment to the above post from Brian Rude, a community college teacher. It was written on November 18, 2009
Larry, you sound frustrated. You are frustrated because teachers don't do things quite the way you believe they should? So who's right, you or the teachers?
I am no fan of B. F. Skinner, but he did say one thing that I think is very important. (At least I think it was Skinner. It was decades ago when I read this.) He said "The mouse is always right." The context here is a psychologist doing an experiment with a mouse, and being frustrated because the results don't come out as the psychologist would like and expect. It is quite understandable that the psychologist would blame the mouse, but it doesn't take much reflection to realize how wrong that is. Of course the mouse doesn't get it! It's a mouse!
You say, "Policymaker decisions to buy and deploy high-tech devices was supposed to shift dominant ways of traditional teaching to student-centered, or progressive approaches." Why on earth should it? Who's right, the policy makers or the teachers? High tech is going to change the essential nature of teaching? Why should it?
I think my view is evident by now. If we want to learn about teaching and learning, we'd better look closely at what teachers and learners actually do, not what we think they should do. We need to ask why they do what they do, not why they don't do what someone else thinks they should.
I teach lower level math courses in a community college. Every day I struggle with how to make students understand. I use high tech, everyday. I'm using high tech right now to write this. I'm not writing with a pencil or a fountain pen as I did in my youth. But that is pretty much irrelevant to the essential task of stringing words together in a way that will effectively communicate thoughts. Similarly the essential tasks of teaching have never changed. You need some way to present information. Students must attend to that information. They must build structures of knowledge in their minds. A lot of feedback is necessary for this to happen. My job is to provide them with the raw materials to build those structures of knowledge, and to guide them, as best I can, in how to build those structures of knowledge. Thus everyday I go to class and very carefully explain mathematical ideas and how to put them together. Everyday I do my best to put together well chosen problems for well designed homework assignments. Everyday I complain, at least to myself, about the bad textbooks we are stuck with. Every day, both in class and helping students individually in my office, I get questions that reveal misconceptions and errors of one sort or another in the thinking of students. I struggle to understand those misconceptions and errors of thinking, and to set the students on the right path again.
Almost everyday I make out handouts (usually pull them up from previous semesters and revise as needed) because that's often the best way to make an assignment that meets my idea of what a good, effective, productive assignment should be. Well designed homework assignments are crucial, in my opinion. That's where the rubber meets the road, so to speak. Math is a subject of ideas, but almost all math is learned by almost all students by doing problems. And they have to be the right problems, problems that provide the framework for students to put together mathematical ideas in ways that construct real knowledge. I am quite aware that many would dismiss me as a "worksheet teacher". Who cares? I use high tech to make these handouts. But that is irrelevant to the essential nature of what I am doing. I am essentially doing the very same thing I did as a young teacher in the 60's when I would make handouts on a spirit duplicating machine (and the kids would sniff them when they got them). All that high tech is no more central to the essence of teaching than is having a nice car to get me to work, rather than the 55 Chevy that took me to work in the early sixties.
I'm not claiming Mrs. O and the other teachers you describe are doing the best possible job in every situation. And I'm certainly not claiming that I do a perfect job in every situation. I am just saying that to be frustrated because they don't do things the way you think they should, is to be like the psychologist who blames the mouse. The mouse just doesn't get it. Of course. It's a mouse. The teachers just don't get it? Of course, they are teachers. They have reasons for what they do, though they may be no good at all in explaining those reasons, or even recognizing them. When there is a difference in what researchers and policy makers think is desirable, and what teachers actually do in the real world, I'll go with the teachers every time.


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This mod replaces the blue serverside crosshair with an accurate high contrast crosshair in the color of your choice and activates serverside crosshair by default. Crosshair mods such as "Reload Timer" still work.
default crosshair is not visible for everyone
Why use the serverside crosshair?
The clientside crosshair is very inaccurate. there are huge differences in serverside accuracy calculation and also the turret lags far behind the clientside crosshair on the screen. The serverside crosshair is simply more accurate. But the main reason for using serverside crosshair is server-lag. the serverside crosshair takes lag into account while the clientside crosshair doesnt. (very important when firing on the move or turning the turret!)
if you peek around a corner and fire at the enemy using the clientside crosshair, your shot often will hit a wall next to you, even though you had a clear shot at the enemy. thats because the server fired you gun from the position you were 2 seconds ago (still behind the wall).
If you have the serverside crosshair on the enemy, you will always hit him (unless you have paketloss of course).
Turret-lag when turning the turret:
when turning the turret at max speed the gap between clientside crosshair and actual turret orientation becomes huge. even more with lag and paketloss. and even more when turning the hull. today i did a u-turn in my Lorraine and the difference between client crosshair and serverside crosshair was 90° (!) over a period of 5 seconds.
While the clientside crosshair is often totally off, the serverside crosshair is displayed with only a minor error of 40-100ms
Support for colorblind players
most game developers do not take into account that many players have trouble seeing certain colors.
The amount of players with color weaknesses is higher than one might think. Most players dont even know they have a weakness.
Red/Green weakness: aprox 15% of players
Blue weakness: less than 1% of players
I dont have a blue weakness but still i had trouble to see the blue default crosshair. That's why i have created this mod. All players should have equal chances. The optional "Crosshair Pack" offers crosshairs in 8 colors and good contrast so that all players get the chance to play with a perfectly visible crosshair.
13 different shapes
The "Crosshair Pack" includes many different shapes, such as: circle-shape, circle-dot-shape, semicircle-shape, square-shape and german shape.
If you have a color weakness you should pick a shape with high contrast.
circle-shaped crosshair:
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Serverside Crosshairs (8.1):
thanks to garnet_auxo for updating the script files!
This mod changes zoom-levels of sniper-mode. if you want to set your own zoom levels, open the "input_handler" file and change it to your liking
use this catalog to find out which colors your eyes perceive best.
(some people have problems with red and green, others with blue. if a color looks blurry instead of sharp to you, dont pick it!)
(small crosshairs work better in 3rd person view)
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