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Why DCIM software and hardware tools need a place in your data center
What's not to like about energy efficiency and simplified capacity planning? DCIM adoption continues to lag, but it's time for that to change.
- Steve Gunderson
DCIM software and hardware have become hot topics in the data center market. In fact, at the recent Data Center World trade show, nearly 20% of the sessions were focused on the topic.
Topics included:
- Sorting through the hype
- Asset management with DCIM
- Methods to determine if you're ready for DCIM
It's clear that there is no shortage of information on data center infrastructure management (DCIM) as well as the value it can provide to an organization. The goal is that through holistic, real-time visibility of the data center, users can synchronize their physical infrastructures with their dynamic and rapidly changing virtual environments.
The potential benefits of DCIM are also well-publicized. Used properly, DCIM software or hardware-based systems can make the data center more efficient, assists in the reduction of PUE and simplifies capacity planning and management. Improved availability is also frequently cited as a significant benefit to data center managers. As data centers grow, complexity usually increases and management effectiveness usually decreases, creating a need for DCIM tools.
Why DCIM adoption remains low
But in spite of the published benefits, adoption rates of DCIM tools appear to be low. Data center managers are typically conservative when implementing new technologies, and for good reason. With more than 50 different DCIM products on the market today, there are a lot of options to consider.
In addition to criteria such as feature set functionality, buyers must seriously consider the long-term viability of individual providers, since most are small, venture-backed firms. Market consolidation has already begun, creating some uncertainty in the market.
Furthermore, clients that have deployed DCIM say their expectations have not been met -- not necessarily from any lack of functionality or features, but more importantly, a lack of internal processes for maintaining the tools' effectiveness. Data centers can be hectic, fast-changing environments with demanding end users unwilling to wait for proper protocol.
Somewhere between necessity and efficiency lies a perfect world in which DCIM tools directly benefit the data center environment as designed. My sense is that DCIM tools will ultimately lend themselves better to engagements with existing service providers. These companies stand to benefit most from the efficiencies that DCIM can deliver to their processes, and they will eventually choose the best products to incorporate into their data center offerings.


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Today there a lot of talented musicians producing exciting and unique sounds. And we love to bring them to you up close as only HipLatina can. In honor of prolific talent Juan Gabriel (who passed in 2016), this week we decided to pay tribute to a few throwback songs and musicians that we love:
Juan Gabriel-Abrázame Muy Fuerte
Juan Gabriel released "Abrázame Muy Fuerte" in 2000 as the title track on his 27th studio album. The song was the theme for the telenovela Abrázame Muy Fuerte and earned a Grammy nomination for Best Latin Pop Album.

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Taylor Parkes reviews The Smiths re-issues, 25th February 1995
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This is absolutely fucking brilliant. I too was one of the doomed and this was my mantra.
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Mariners reliever Juan Nicasio to have season-ending knee surgery
Juan Nicasio, the biggest addition the Mariners made to their bullpen last offseason, is done for 2018.
Span homers in 10th, M's rally to beat Diamondbacks 4-3
The 31-year-old right-hander will undergo knee surgery that will end his season, the team announced Sunday. He has been on the 10-day disabled list since Aug. 4 with right knee inflammation, the second time this year that same knee problem took him out of action. The good news is the knee surgery is said to be more of a cleanup procedure instead of a repair to anything structural.
Signed by the Mariners last December, Nicasio entered the season as closer Edwin Díaz's primary setup man and early on was atop the American League leaderboard in holds. The Mariners liked Nicasio's durability – he was tied for the National League lead with 76 appearances with Pittsburgh and St. Louis in 2017 – but injuries and inconsistency plagued him in his first year under contract with Seattle. He was eventually moved to a middle relief role after the Mariners acquired one-time All-Star closer Alex Colomé from Tampa Bay to be the bridge to Díaz.
Nicasio finishes 2018 with a 6.00 ERA, 1.38 WHIP, 19 holds, one save and six blown saves. He is under contract through 2019.


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TIPP CITY — On May 3, local religious leaders and members of the community gathered on National Day of Prayer.
The event, held at Zion Lutheran Church for the first time, focused on the theme of "Pray for America — UNITY."
Mayor Joe Gibson read a proclamation issued by council, recognizing the tradition started by President Abraham Lincoln in 1863.
"The theme for the 2018 National Day of Prayer is 'Pray for America,' based on Ephesians 4:3, 'Making every effort to keep the unity of the spirit through the bond of peace,'" he read.
Speakers included Pastor Rachel Billups of Ginghamsburg Church, Rev. Jeff Glau of Zion Lutheran, Rev. Dan Glover of the Tipp City United Methodist Church, Rev. Kevin Guigou of Christian Family Fellowship Ministry, Pastor Josh Haas of Upper Room Worship Center, Rev. Rachel Kuhn of Tipp City Church of the Nazarene, Dr. Musa Mambula of Good Shepherd Church of the Brethren, Rev. Reggie Osborne of First Baptist Church, Rev. Jeff Seekins of Community Bible Church and Father Marc Sherlock of St. John the Baptist Catholic Church.
Each of the pastors offered prayers on a different topic, including national events and racial tensions, education and schools, the military, widows and orphans, missionaries around the world, families and marriages, the government, and spiritual awakening.
The National Day of Prayer was created in 1952 by a joint resolution of Congress, and signed into law by President Harry S. Truman. In 1988, the law was unanimously amended by both the House and the Senate and signed into law by President Ronald Reagan on Thursday, May 5, 1988, designating the first Thursday of May as a day of national prayer. Every president since 1952 has signed a National Day of Prayer proclamation.
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Data security is always a hot topic, but with the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) coming into effect in May 2018, it's especially talked about at the moment. Between the increasing number of high profile data breaches and the endless media scrutiny of the data industry, it's hard to avoid a discussion revolving around data security. It's important that your business has as many controls as possible to try to reduce your risk. These controls are split into two main categories, technical controls and procedural controls. Take a look below at the steps you can take to try and keep your data as safe as possible.
Technical Controls
In order to protect your data, you should start by deploying technical controls across your business. These technical controls vary in complexity, but they offer a level of protection to your systems and the data held within them that can help prevent data breaches.
Whenever data is involved, it's best to have some form of encryption on your systems. Whether you encrypt the data itself or encrypt the machines that the data is being held on it doesn't matter – encryption is the first and last line of defence. By using encryption, you can ensure that your data will remain unreadable and safe, even if accessed by a malicious actor. Encryption is the best way to ensure private files stay private.
Encrypt Data Transfers
There's another side of encryption that you should employ as a business, and that is during data transfers. You should aim to use Hyper Text Transfer Protocol Secure (HTTPS) or Secure File Transfer Protocol (SFTP) for file transfers to ensure data is protected during transit. Whether you are sending to a colleague within the business or to a client outside of the business, encryption data will help to protect it.
Access Control
Access to systems holding sensitive data should be restricted to those who need it. If only a handful of people have access to the data, it's easier to protect and also easier to pinpoint the source of any data breach.
Keep Software Up To Date
Most businesses have anti-virus and anti-spyware software in place, but they forget or neglect to make sure they have the latest versions or latest updates, which can open them up to all sorts of data security breaches. Make sure that your software is kept up to date to make sure you're not leaving yourself unprotected.
Isolate/Segregate Sensitive Data
Keep sensitive information on the fewest number of computers or servers possible, and be sure to segregate it from the rest of your data and network. Ensure that any unnecessary copies are securely deleted, as the fewer copies of data you have the easier it is to protect.
Save Yourself The Time And Money
I hope these tips come in handy for you and that you take a moment to learn how to better protect your data, sensitive or not. When you look at the big picture, the bottom line is: it's much more expensive to fix a breach than preventing one. Most of the time, you can prevent data security breaches by practising safe tech, as outlined in the tips above.
Procedural Controls
Deploying the best controls on your systems act as a defence that system hackers have trouble penetrating. However, these controls mean nothing if you haven't got your procedural controls in order. What people always forget is that data security starts with you.
There are a number of procedural controls you can put in place to help protect your data, and these types of controls involve you and your employees.
Train Your Staff
Our number one tip will always be to train your staff! By training your staff, they know what is expected of them and it will put information security at the forefront of the decisions they make. Make sure your staff are aware of the dangers involved in their role and what policies you have in place to mitigate these dangers, such as password policies or Bring Your Own Device (BYOD) policies.
Data Transfer Policy
One thing we've seen happen over and over again is staff thinking they can transfer data using emails because they think it is secure. Email is by nature, unsafe. Emails can be sent to incorrect recipients or be intercepted, and both of these constitute a data breach. Every company should have a transfer policy in place and staff should be trained on it.
Password Policies
You should have strong password requirements on your systems and this should be reinforced by good staff training around complex passwords and their benefits. Use of different characters, a mix of upper and lower case and numbers – whatever it is, a strong password is a better defence than a weak one.
Train your staff
I'm not sure if I've mentioned this, but our top tip is to train your staff! This is so important. You can have every documented procedure, every control or every safety measure in place but they mean nothing if your staff don't understand, know or care about them. In 2015, 60% of all attacks were carried out by insiders, both malicious and accidental. Don't put yourself at risk.
So there are my top tips – as you may have noticed, the theme to this blog post is to TRAIN TRAIN TRAIN your staff! It's so vital and it has been proven over and over again that a lack of training can cause some of the biggest data breaches. The American department store Target, for example, was brought down by a phishing email opened by a member of staff. Sony has also been a victim of phishing in the past.
Data security starts with you!
If you would like any more information, please comment below or get in touch. Although Cybercrime is on the the rise, you can put your trust in us – take a look how. We're an ISO 27001 accredited business, which means that we follow information security best practice, and deliver an independent, expert assessment of whether your data is adequately protected. Get in touch to find out how we can help you to achieve sophistication with not only your data security, but also your email marketing.


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Business Data Propensity Scoring
Posted by admin in Responsiva on June 13th, 2017
When evaluating the best prospects to market to, business data propensity analysis will establish a propensity score and pinpoint the right sectors.
General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR)
Posted by admin in Responsiva on June 12th, 2017
What is the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR)?
- The GDPR is a new EU regulation to replace Directive 95/46/EC which will be directly applicable in every Member State. This means there is no need for the UK to implement any secondary legislation
- The aim is to harmonize all data protection law across the EU and increase individual rights
- The regulation will come into force on 25thMay 2018
- Brexit may have some impact on the implementation in the UK, however it is likely that the UK will need to be compliant with the regulation in order to continue trading with the EU.
Confusion still reigns over what the current and proposed legislation is for B2B email marketing. The European Commission has now published the final version of its text for the replacement for the ePrivacy Directive (which will become a regulation) and there are still no proposed changes.
Here is an overview of the final version of the regulations:
- Employees of corporates, ie. limited companies, publically limited companies, limited liability partnerships and government departments, can be emailed without prior consent.
- Employees of corporates must be given the option to easily unsubscribe or opt-out from receiving email marketing.
- Sole traders and partnerships are treated as consumers and will require opt-in.
Will these rules apply to your existing customers and prospects? If you obtain an email address for a sole trader or partnership whilst negotiating the sale of a product or service then you can use their email for unsolicited direct marketing purposes provided the following apply:
- Your marketing is for similar products or services offered by your company
- Your company told the recipient at the time of collecting their email address that it would be used for unsolicited email marketing and you provide a clear unsubscribe/opt-out at the same time
- Your company provides a clear unsubscribe/opt-out option every time you send an email message if the recipient did not unsubscribe/opt-out at the point of data collection.
Rachel Aldighieri, MD at the Direct Marketing Association said of this final version, "…the possibility of email marketing for these businesses (corporates) moving to opt-in… caused serious concern across the B2B marketing industry. If they had gone ahead, these alterations to the law could have had a profound and negative effect on the UK economy, so we welcome today's announcement from the European Commission."
Business Data Cleansing
Posted by admin in Responsiva on May 9th, 2017
Ensure your business marketing database is kept fresh and up-to-date with business data cleansing.
Business Data Scoring
Posted by admin in Responsiva on April 11th, 2017
After a b2b data specification has been applied to the business universe, there are often more prospects than desired. In these instances it could be worth applying a business data scoring model to select the best records for your marketing.
Specify Business Marketing Data
Posted by admin in Responsiva on March 23rd, 2017
An Intro to Responsiva's B2B Data Services
Posted by admin in Responsiva on March 17th, 2017
b2b data services from Responsiva…
Business Data Branch Count
Posted by admin in Data Services, Responsiva on March 6th, 2017
Featured Data Variable: "Branch Count"
The "Branch Count" variable doesn't appear on standard business data supplies, because more questions would be raised than answered. Yet it's a very powerful selection filter. The branch count field has a numerical value, relating to the number of sites per company.
Some examples of high branch count businesses by their respective industry sector;
With perhaps the exception of the post offices (which tend to be semi-independent), these 15,000 business records represent just seven companies. And it doesn't take a genius to work out which specific companies they are.
Taking the dispensing chemist by way of example. Having 2,672 branches means they are on every high street. Would you want to market your business to each of these at a branch level? There is virtually no branch-level autonomy, so the answer is almost certainly no.
Branch Count – Beware!
One of the shameful elements of the data industry is that (in being financially rewarded for supplying the largest possible data volume to clients), unfortunately there is an 'incentive' for these records to be included within your file. Personally I would regard this as short-termism, as the data quality will be massively diluted and usually lead to client dissatisfaction.
It genuinely saddens me to audit client databases sourced from another supplier where the file is heavily peppered with certain American (fast food) restaurants or 'big four' supermarkets. And I have no qualms in stating that their database (if diluted to an unacceptable level) is unfit for purpose. Good data suppliers should apply a duty of care in filtering out unsuitable prospects.
Whilst filtering can never be perfect, there are some basics which should be applied as standard. Unless requested otherwise, high branch count records are automatically recommended for exclusion by Responsiva.
How Is the Information Evaluated?
The branch count field is not a perfect value. It is evaluated by applying some intelligence to company name matching. And there are some anomalies. As a general rule, the likes of matching "M&S" with "Marks & Spencer" will be fine. And there is also some intelligence in segmenting company names such as "Red Lion" or "Taj Mahal"; which to the human eye will all be independent entities.
But where the branch count gets it seriously wrong is with hotels. By way of a fabricated example, matching "London Hilton Park Lane Metropol" with "Hilton Picadilly Manchester" is not realistic. So the branch count for hotels tends to be blank, and this is one sector where chains can slip through the net.
Head Offices?
Often I am asked if the head offices of businesses are identifiable. The reality is that they aren't; many companies use their accounting and auditing firms (or a PO Box address) by way of their Companies House registration, so matching to this file is not the right way forward. Quite simply it is not worth the risk of including every branch within your database, so the high branch count records are usually best excluded as standard.
Whilst head offices are impossible to accurately identify, they can be implied. This can work well with companies having 10 – 20 branches. The best way of achieving this is in selecting data where there is also a director level contact name at site. Most multi-premise businesses would only have managerial contact name (e.g. Branch manager) at each site.
So the records with a director level name will generally have at the very least some autonomous decision-making capability.
Business Data For Postal Mailings
Posted by admin in Responsiva on March 6th, 2017
For the last decade and more, social media has been the marketing buzzword. But does it really work? The free elements of Twitter & Linked-in certainly have merit, but both require a dedicated daily investment of time. Whilst paid-for advertising via many different social media channels has yet to yield well for Responsiva. With the internet being so huge there are now too many platforms to strive to be noticed on, which has diluted its marketing effectiveness.
From Responsiva's experiences, postal mailings (of 5,000 units) have consistently proven the most productive with their return since 2003. Telemarketing a close second.
The Investment (For 5,000 Posted Letters)
An investment of £1,750 with the mailing house buys the paper, printing, packing, mail-merge, envelopes, printed return address and the postage costs. All that the mailing house requires is the letter text and the business data to send it to. This equates to a cost of 35p per letter.
Postage rates decrease for larger mailing volumes, whilst the consumer posting a handful of letters can expect to pay 55p each just for the stamps. With a volume of 5,000 units the postage element of the mailing equates to just 23.7p per unit.
In addition to the investment of £1,750 there is the cost of the data element. However, data is supplied for multiple usage so can be re-used up to (realistically) twelve times. So it would be reasonable to say that the "all inclusive" costs of a 5,000 letter mailing would be around £1,850.
Return On Investment
The ROI will vary according to the message, target market and products & services being offered. But what can be reasonably anticipated is the volume of responders. For the last fourteen years in running postal mailing campaigns of this magnitude, the responses have always been between 0.8% and 1.2%. i.e., 40 – 60 responses.
This equates to an average £37 per inbound enquiry.
By Comparison
Good quality (telephone verified, permission based) cold email marketing will rarely yield more than one enquiry per 1,000 units. The cost of those 1,000 units will be more than £37.
Telephone marketing has value added services such as dated call-backs and opt-in email address harvesting. Those emails will be far stronger than the aforementioned cold ones. But the typical cost per day of calling will not usually generate a cost-per-lead as low as £37. If a telemarketer is costing £250 per day, seven leads would be required.
During 2007 – 2008 the cost per enquiry from 'adwords' campaigns was as low as £20 – £25. This escalated over the following years to exceed £50 per enquiry. Today the figure is closer to £100, though I concede that this cost per enquiry will vary according to the keywords and campaign.
So although a postal mailing of 5,000 units requires some investment, they have proven the most effective route to market from Responsiva's experience.
B2B Marketing to the Big Fish
Posted by admin in Responsiva on February 15th, 2017
B2B Marketing to the Big Fish
Do you market your company to the larger, corporate organisations? I wonder why so many small companies do this, as there are six key reasons why they should consider alternatives.
There is no denying that winning a blue chip client gives some prestige, and fully merited pride, but these qualities alone do not increase the bottom line financials. And in most cases (if not all) any corporate win would be accompanied with a non-disclosure agreement, meaning that the only person you could share your pride with would be yourself. And perhaps your spouse.
The six reasons why I would never proactively chase a corporate client in the b2b marketplace are as follows;
1. Risk Exposure
Bringing it down to simple sums, would you prefer one corporate client earning £10,000 worth of profit, or fifty SME / micro clients earning £200 profit apiece? The end number is the same, but the business model is very different. Just last month I spoke with an old colleague who was having to re-think his business plan. Riding high for two years on a single major account, the work had now dried up. Sure, he should have spent those two years planning to attract the next major account. But how many actually do that? Major accounts by their very nature usually demand all your resource, and then some. Being creatures of habit, it is so easy to slip into a comfort zone, ride that wave of plenty and without forethought of its future decline.
2. Lead Time
SME / micro businesses tend to make swift decisions. Whilst we all work in different industry sectors, the data industry is no different to any other where lead times are concerned. SME and micro businesses usually make purchasing decisions within a few days, sometimes even immediately. Corporate clients investing in a multi-million-pound database management service over three years do not decide so quickly. During past employment I witnessed such proposals take between six and eighteen months to reach a decision. Great when they do, sales people's jobs have been lost when they don't. And as an SME / micro business owner, I could not wait eighteen months for a decision on my next sale anyway.
3. Procurement
Small businesses do not have a procurement department. My last experience of procurement was about ten years ago, involving a marketing data proposal for one of the UK's major energy companies. Responsiva were up against twelve competitive proposals. Six were discarded immediately, and the b2b marketing department met to discuss the remaining six. Three of these (which included Responsiva's) were then selected to go forward to procurement. From that point, communication with the company was not permitted until the procurement department had made their final choice. Responsiva was not selected. Some months later I called my contact in the marketing department for some feedback, and was told:
"Toby, your proposal was the best of the lot; it fully understood what we were looking to achieve, was realistic and honest in all elements of delivery, demonstrated you had the right skillsets and data sources, had a simple contract 'opt out', and was very reasonably priced.
However, it was the first of the three proposals to be discarded by procurement because of the size of Responsiva. You are a small business, the other two are huge companies with a global presence. So if something were to ever go wrong, we could not then justify having selected such a small business as Responsiva as our supplier on such an important initiative."
Probably the greatest piece of feedback I have ever received, and since then have stuck to the SME / micro business target market. Only chase opportunities you can realistically win.
4. "We are BIG CHEESE"
One the greatest challenges with the corporate world is that there is a tendency to use their brand name to drive down prices and reduce your margins. Case in point, how supermarkets historically treated farmers. This is not to say that all corporates are the same, but even within the marketing data industry this same method of approach has risen its head many times. Under previous employment I turned down the custom of two well-known brands, because they demanded a significantly reduced price (far below the rate of any other client) on account of their brand name. Aside from not being a major sale opportunity, their brand could not be used by way of testimony either. Business is only good business if it is fair for both parties, and that does not mean undervaluing your service on account of a client having a known brand. The truth is that brands should be more (rather than less) caring about their suppliers, especially in today's market where consumers have a notably significantly reduced brand loyalty.
5. Greater Competition
Even with the challenges associated with wooing corporate clients, there is no denying that we all still love to win major accounts. And that is the same for our competitors. So it follows that 80% of your competitors are chasing the 20% biggest prospective clients in the market. Markets don't take long to become saturated, and those 20% who represent your future major accounts become exponentially harder to reach and do business with.
6. The SME / Micro Market
If major accounts make up 20% of your target marketplace, then it follows that the SME / micro business market has four times as many prospective customers. Actually it is far more extreme than this 80:20 rule; just 2% of businesses have more than 50 employees, meaning that 98% of companies are in the SME / micro category. It's a huge market in terms of prospect numbers.
As an added bonus, less of your competitors are chasing these. They will make decisions faster, have little or no procurement, are unlikely to display brand arrogance and are also likely to pay you on time – or even in advance.
The only downside is that they generally have less finance to invest in your services.
The solution; adapt your service to the SME / micro business (offering a downsized service to suit them), and market your business to win more of them as customers.
Back to Basics in B2B Marketing
Posted by admin in Responsiva on January 30th, 2017
The advice of most business coaches is to test and measuring (approximately) ten different marketing channels, whilst others recommend sticking with just the best two or three initiatives which work best.
I am always looking for new initiatives to trial for Responsiva, and in doing so measure the results rigorously. Different businesses and approaches to market will inevitably yield different results, but hopefully in sharing Responsiva's marketing experiences you might give feedback on your own strategies and suggest any new ideas. I really welcome them.
The initiatives listed below are just those targeting new customers. Customer management, reactivation, referrals, rewards etc would open up a whole new article.
Social Media: The Free Stuff
The four big names are well recognized; Linked-in, Twitter, Facebook and YouTube. Each offers a different approach to market and all four should be explored. Put things into perspective though: to manage them effectively, in my opinion, an investment of a minimum ten minutes of your time is required daily. Do the math and that equates to a solid week's work per year. Or a whole month's work if you do all four. Whilst corporates can invest in teams of employees to manage their social media, the small or micro business cannot. So getting the balance right with time invested in social media is key. After dabbling in all four, I narrowed Responsiva down to just two: Linked-in and Twitter. Ten minutes per day on each keeps the accounts growing, and both have yielded (some, but not many) enquiries. Neither are the most effective route to market, but there is no cost other than small investment of time.
I am planning the creation of a few promotional videos as well this year. Not yet convinced of their value, but they can be spread across all social media channels.
Company Website
Many micro businesses avoid building a website. They can be costly to set up and maintain, but remain an essential source of information for prospects to be pointed at in order to feed into the enquiry process. A high budget is not essential these days, so at the very least a holding page with some basic facts is better than none. A website is essential; it says what you do.
Content Articles
These are also free in terms of cost, but require the investment of time; a commodity in short supply for the single-person business such as Responsiva. Nobody can write about a company better than the business owner, so this process absorbs another thirty minutes or so each week. Business services need exposure, making written content invaluable. The most rewarding aspect is that a weekly article can be uploaded to the website and all social media platforms, so everything is connected to the aforementioned free channels and feeds into them well.
Online Advertising / Pay-per-click
Responsiva used to invest heavily in Google & Bing pay-per-click advertising. But by 2010 the cost per click had increased (and the rate of enquiries decreased) to the point where these once-lucrative campaigns were costing more than their return. Whilst I wouldn't rule out trying these marketing channels again in 2017, it would be with some degree of trepidation and tight budgetary caution. Test & measure precautions prevail.
Alternative historic advertising channels have included online directories. And here is an amusing story which I really want to share. Responsiva used to advertise with several online directories until 2012, at which point it was considered to be a waste of money. One directory called me to ask for a renewal and explained that if I searched google for a specific search term then I would see their advert in first place. Indeed it was. So I asked what would happen to that advert if I cancelled my subscription, to which they replied the placing would be lost. "Does that mean the one in 2nd place will then become 1st, the 3rd place go to 2nd etc?" They agreed. In second place at that time was my own website, so I explained that by cancelling said subscription my own website would be promoted. They didn't take it particularly well.
Social media (pay per click) advertising with the big four is always worth exploring. I ran a campaign throughout January 2017 with Linked-in pay-per-click. 100 clicks later and zero enquiries from this channel. Perhaps my message was wrong, or the website not engaging enough. But I did test thirty different advertising messages, and the website hasn't changed since yielding multiple enquiries from other channels. So I got to thinking that this wasn't a great route to market, and canned the campaign just before month-end. Trying out Twitter advertising next.
Search Engine Optimization
Wasn't this the in-thing of the Naughties? Six historic SEO contractors have been tested. Three were good; one of them was fantastic. Two others delivered virtually nothing and the sixth I never heard from again after paying for a service. I feel some empathy for the genuine players in the SEO sector; Google can punish them heavily with an overnight update that trashes the keyword rankings they have fought so hard to deliver for you.
Perhaps the main issue with SEO is that you feel like the donkey with a carrot two feet in front of your nose. Who is to say what your competitors are investing in this activity? As a general rule the big guns win top slots by paying more. But what has been won exactly? It can take a heavy investment to gain a first placing in Google, and the finances only self-justify if the return is in balance. From personal experiences, there have been some good SEO campaigns which yielded fairly well, and were delivered by genuine professional effort. So I will dabble in this channel from time to time, but recommend a "proceed with caution" approach and always check references of SEO providers before embarking on a new supplier in this field.
Trade Press (Magazine Advertising)
Every industry has its trade press magazines. Perhaps a thing of the past in paper form, but they still exist online. In the days of employment, I used to read the likes of Precision Marketing & Marketing Week religiously, and even The Grocer was a very popular industry-related publication. Data Strategy came on the scene a little later and that was a well-refined magazine which I genuinely looked forward to reading. So I tried some advertising in two of these but the responses (and sales from those responses) did not marry up well with the investment.
Corporates can afford to advertise under the guise of 'brand awareness', but micro companies cannot; they need a return on investment. So it is unlikely I would ever consider trade press advertising again. Partly because I take the view that a high percentage of the readers of these magazines are suppliers (sellers) into such trades, rather than the traders themselves (buyers).
Networking Events / Business Breakfasts
I tried many of these when first starting out; some are more formally structured than others. My personal preference is towards the less-well structured, enabling you time to meet people. Whilst the early mornings lead to giving up on this concept for a few years, I re-visited them at the start of 2017 and was pleasantly surprised, so am now committed to attending one event per month. It's enough.
Data Driven Marketing – Postal Mailings
I started Responsiva in 2003 with some door-drop letters in local business parks, offering data services. This didn't work: no responses. So I then sourced a database of 500 targeted business prospects and wrote a mail-merged letter to them. Five responses came back. One was a time waster, four wanted a quotation, one converted to sale.
500 postal letters flowed from my home every week thereafter. The numbers were religiously accurate: (+/- 1) five responses each time. Four or five quotes and one new customer.
Nowadays I do none of this manual printing & packing, and pay no silly prices for stamps either. Batches of 5,000 – 8,000 letters are printed at a time, using the services of a mailing house and earning the postage discounts available from this larger volume.
Results remain good; 5,000 letters will get 40 – 60 responses and win 8 – 10 new customers.
The message needs to be clear: Say what you do, keep it to one page, drop the cheese and end with a simple call to action: a no-obligation freebie. The freebie is a simple concept; it's simply to enable a live demonstration of service with no invoice being raised. A win/win.
For Responsiva, postal mailings started as the primary route to market and remain key today. Perhaps that's due to knowledge of getting the right data to market to.
Data Driven Marketing – Email Marketing
Cold b2b email marketing has not been as successful. Unless you have previously touched a prospect from alternative channels, do they really want to receive a cold email from you? This frustrates me a little; marketing to cold business emails is perfectly legitimate (though many email platforms don't permit it), but I take their point. The truth is that it's a very lazy way to operate, cutting corners to hit a prospect. At least a postal letter shows you care enough (chose them specifically) to invest in the stamp. Marketing data with email addresses can be useful; such as forming the postal letter text to include "I will be emailing you on <date> to <email address> to provide you with more information". At least then your company has introduced itself more professionally and had its first touch. I haven't emailed cold for many years now; all prospects have had at least one touch first.
Data Driven Marketing – Telemarketing
Finally, telemarketing. This is the biggest mixed bag of the lot. Being labour intensive it requires a premium investment, but who should make those calls: a sole trader telemarketer, a larger company, or employ your own in-house cold caller (even just on a part-time basis)? There are merits and pitfalls with each option, and I have experienced good and bad campaign results with all three. Either way this route to market does need to be tried and tested.
Keep it simple, cut the cheese and don't lay a silly trail of golden breadcrumbs which attempts to force prospects into saying "yes" to. It's quite basic for Responsiva: would you like to test some free samples? Prospects will give a direct answer to a direct question.
The key to all marketing is test & measure, so I am delighted to have tried out so many channels and met so many suppliers along the way. The overwhelming majority want to deliver a great service with positive ROI. Back to the first paragraph of this article; it would be better to stick with just the best two or three initiatives which work best, whilst dabbling in other marketing channels periodically.


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SWAT team called to arrest suspect in Sacred Heart
RENVILLE COUNTY–A suspect wanted on a Mille Lacs County warrant for fleeing a police officer and hitting him with his car was arrested Friday in Sacred Heart with the assistance of a SWAT team from the Brown-Lyon-Redwood-Renville Emergency Response Unit .
On Friday, Nov. 30, the Renville County Sheriff's Office learned of an arrest warrant for Dwight P. Steele, Jr., 38, of Elk River, and that Steele may have been at a residence in Sacred Heart.
The warrant was issued by Mille Lacs County for Fleeing a Peace Officer in a Motor Vehicle, 4th Degree Assaut on a Police Officer and Driving after Cancellation-Inimical to Public Safety.
Steel was charged with striking an officer in Mille Lacs County with his vehicle while attempting to escape law enforcement. Steele did escape and a warrant was issued.
Law enforcement obtain a search warrant to search the Sacred Heart residence for Steele. Several attempts to get Steele to surrender were unsuccessful. Due to Steele's past assault and past aggressive behavior the Brown-Lyon-Redwood-Renville (BLRR) Emergency Response Unit/SWAT Tema was called.
At 7:43 p.m., following entry into the house, Steele was located and arrested by the team without incident. He was transported to Renville County Jail, where he will be held until Mille Lacs County takes custody of him.
Two other people at the residence prior to the search were also arrested and booked for Aiding an Offender. A third person had earlier attempted to flee from the house, but was captured, arrested and booked into Renville County Jail for Fleeing a Peace Officer and Aiding and Offender. The names of the three suspects has not been released, pending review and formal charging by the Renville County Attorney's Office.


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If your vet tells you that Kitty has sarcoma or adenocarcinoma, it is not good news. Both are types of cancerous tumors, but found in different parts of the body. Your cat's prognosis depends on various factors, including whether the cancer has spread.
Both sarcomas (also known as fibrosarcomas) and adenocarcinomas can affect felines, but in different ways. Sarcomas infiltrate the soft tissues, including muscle, cartilage, tendons, fibrous tissues and fat. The skin is its primary target, with sarcomas usually quite locally aggressive. Adenocarcinomas, on the other hand, affect glands and organs and are systemically aggressive.
Most cats diagnosed with sarcomas came down with this cancer because of a reaction to a vaccine. While it's not uncommon for an injection site to swell slightly after a shot, the area shouldn't remain swollen. If after three months, a lump persists, grows larger, or is the size of an olive or bigger, take your cat to the vet for an examination. According to Vetstreet.com, approximately 1 to 2 out of every 10,000 vaccinated cats develops this vaccine-related tumor. Those are very low odds -- the risk of your cat coming down with a disease because you failed to vaccinate him is much greater. Treatment includes surgical removal of the tumor, followed by radiation and chemotherapy. In order to reduce the number of vaccine-related sarcomas, major national veterinary organizations have developed guidelines for vaccine injection sites and inoculation frequency. The rabies and feline leukemia vaccinations are the most common culprits in vaccine-associated sarcoma.
Adenocarcinoma in Organs
Unlike sarcomas, adenocarcinomas aren't related to vaccinations. Adenocarcinoma tumors often appear in a cat's gastrointestinal system, but other common areas include the lungs and pancreas. According to the Connecticut-based Veterinary Cancer Center, it's important to remove the tumor even if it's metastasized, or spread to other areas, as cats treated surgically live longer. The center also recommends chemotherapy for the patient.
Glandular Adenocarcinoma
Glandular adenocarcinoma often appears in the salivary glands, where it quickly metastasizes to other areas of the body. Another type of adenocarcinoma affects female cats: mammary gland cancer. In cats, mammary gland cancer is the equivalent of breast cancer in women. If your cat is spayed, the odds of developing mammary cancer are extremely low, as long as she was spayed before the age of 2.
If your vet diagnoses a sarcoma before it becomes invasive, your cat might have a good prognosis. Rabies shots are given in the rear right leg, while feline leukemia vaccines are injected into the rear left leg; if your cat develops a vaccination sarcoma on either site, leg amputation can save his life.
The prognosis for most with organ-based adenocarcinoma isn't favorable because these fast-growing malignant tumors metastasize. If treated for organ-based adenocarcinoma, your cat might experience a good quality of life for a year or more. If a mammary adenocarcinoma is found early, before it is has spread, your cat can live for years after surgical removal of the tumor.
- Vetstreet.com: Vaccine-Associated Sarcomas in Cats
- American Veterinary Medical Association: Vaccines and Sarcomas: A Concern for Cat Owners
- University of California Davis School of Veterinary Medicine: Canine and Feline Vaccination Guidelines
- PetMD: Intestinal Cancer (Adenocarcinoma) in Cats
- VeterinaryPartner.com: Mammary Cancer in Cats
- South Carolina Veterinary Specialists: Feline Fibrosarcoma
- PetMD: Mouth Cancer (Adenocarcinoma) in Cats
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Real-world date: October 4, 2007
Hanorian date: StockTend 21th
Moon phase: 6 days past Full.
Season: Late summer
Weather: Rain, cooling temps.
When the session began the group had just finished healing up from their (undocumented) encounter with goblins, hobgoblins and bugbears. After healing the group decided they had not used up too much of their powers to continue on, and so they began to move forward to see if they could locate and rescue Belvin's brother Jorje.
Finding a locked door at the end of the hall, they decided to pound on it for some reason. This sent a resounding boom down the hallway. Upon finally unlocking the door, when it was opened a dense mist began flowing from the room into the hallway. The group decided to head back down the hallway to another door, which they were able to open without any trouble. Inside they found a lot of paperwork (most in common) and a terrified unarmed goblin. After attempting to get the goblin to answer some questions, a second door in the room was opened and a second goblin, this one armed, rushed in only to get quickly killed. They then returned to attempting to get the first goblin to tell them where the prisoner cells were. Eventually the goblin drew them a crude map.
As this was going on, a loud knock came on the door, and a voice in goblin demanded entry. After trying to get the captured goblin to fool the knocking intruder, the group decided to open the door. Outside the door a large hobgoblin looked inside, then suddenly grabbed the captured goblin and pulled him outside. This led to a short battle where Alec found himself mostly in the way. By the time Alec got moved out of the doorway, the hobgoblin decided to run away, fleeing through the mist back into the previously opened, but unentered door. Which he slammed shut.
The group again made their way to the door at the end of the hallway and opened it, revealing a room full of dense mist, which began flowing out into the hallway and dropping in the room. Suddenly a bolt of blue energy came streaking down the hallway striking Butterchin and doing significant, but not fatal, damage. Just as suddenly the entire room turned pitch black. The group decided to fling a couple of vials of alchemist's fire into the room. The second one must have hit something because a shriek of pain from a female throat broke the silence. Immediately after that the room's darkness disappeared and the group found themselves looking at two large orcs and a young lady in red and yellow robes. The orcs advanced to flank the doorway and Belvin fired off a sleep spell which put the orc on the left side of the door down. Taking their chance, the group entered the room, taking more blue energy bolts from the young woman.
Inside the room the group quickly dispatched the second orc with a devastating scorching ray from Belvin. Turning towards the girl, the group suddenly was surprised when a halfling crawled out from under the sleeping orc. The girl immediately turned and fled out a door on the left side of the room. Another door was open directly across from the door the group had entered through.
The battle with the halfling did not take long, but as he fell more blue streaks of energy hit the group from the open hallway. As Euha and Belvin chased after the girl, they were hit by spears thrust through the wall by hidden goblins, felling Belvin.
As the goblins battled the group, the girl hid and returned several times, firing her blue bolts of energy. As she distracted the group a pair of goblins entered the room with healing potions and attempted to revive the down halfling. Both were killed as they tried to save the halfling, and as the girl rushed the room to try to distract the team, she too was finally cut down.
Belvin was then revived and the group began the dreary task of looting the bodies.
Total experience:
2 locks picked – 100 xp
6 goblins killed – 600xp
1 hobgoblin killed – 150xp
2 elite orcs killed – 600xp
1 warlock killed – 900xp
1 spellthief killed – 900xp
That's a total of 3,250 xp, or 813 each, which added to your 5,169 gives you now 5,982 xp. Next level up is at 6,000 xp.


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Why Did You Become a Web Designer?
You are probably one of those who chose web design because you are passionate about it; or not. You may have chosen it because your father owned a design company and he wanted to integrate you into it. Or because you started off as a content writer and after writing on design topics for two years you decided to give it a try. Regardless of where you come from, pretty much all of us head the same way: either work for a company or freelance – there is not that much else out there.
However, there are endless possibilities for us in the web design world – it is quite easy to grow both in skills and personal experience. Each one of us has a life planned and a path he wants to follow, even if there are many overwhelming challenges to get through.
But sometimes you just have to ask yourself, what is it you want to achieve during your career?
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Answering this question is not easy to do and to get the best answer you need to look back at how you started. What feelings did your first job give you? Did you become a designer by accident, or was it something you always planned? Do you want to work as a designer for your whole life, or is it just something you want to use to get a bigger role in the future? It is important to answer these questions because each aspect brings about different outcomes. Some future outcomes bring much more than the others and if you always wanted to become a web designer, then it is highly likely you will always be happy with your career choice. Designing only for the money might not make you so proud of yourself – Steve jobs once declared he would rather go to bed every night knowing he did something great the previous day than being the richest person in the cemetery.
There are lots of reasons why an individual wants to be a designer. You might be a creative person, like the fact that you have the opportunity to work freelance, enjoy mixing both left and right brain work by coding and designing at the same time or enjoy working in a sector that is growing. Of course there are many other reasons, but these seem to be the most popular.
If you still need to plan your career path, then there are two things you should do. First, make a list of things that make you get up all excited in the morning when you go to work. Then, make a list of things you think should be improved. Afterwards, make a short narrative about how your career has been to this point. Clarify your roles and what you like and don't like about your career. Lots of new job descriptions are written every year, so you might as well be the creator of your new job if you feel like it, but you first need to know where you want to head to in order to reach that point.
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If you are in the field because you are a creative individual, then design is definitely for you. You can be the creative director of a company because creative people tend to do really well when being in charge of a focused area of work. They might not be the best managers or business people, but they are definitely great at managing teams in their field.
If your main skill is flexibility, you are most likely what every company owner looks for. You can be everything, from outsourcing partner to company partner. You probably have the highest chance of living the dream and creating your own business. You probably like managing people, being in charge and taking care of every small detail – then this is for you. You can step by step decrease the number of hours worked for others and increase the hours spent on building your own company. In a few years this company might bring you money without you having to lift a finger.
If coding and designing are what you're in for, you are great for working in a company or even freelance. You can develop interfaces, applications and even advise people in regards to what might be best for them when they decide to create a website. If you want to aim as high as possible, right now that would probably be Apple. I doubt there is better design out there, both for their web identity and for their products. I am sure there is a reason behind many Product and Industrial Design programs using Apple's products as case studies.
If you're in it for the money, you can pretty much accomplish this everywhere. However, I advise you that being in something for the money only brings short term enjoyment and you might have to change careers several times throughout your working life. In the design field you would be suitable for an executive staff job more than a regular day to day coding job. You can also start your own business and if you are flexible and good enough, this will make good money for you.
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What you want to achieve depends also on what you want to focus on. Do you want to provide for your family and make sure they have everything they need? Do you want to offer services for the small companies who need start-up help? Do you want to provide services for specific communities only? I have a friend who owns a company that focuses on churches. They only design for churches and they have quite the portfolio. It is totally up to you what you focus on, but remember every decision you make will reflect upon you later in your career.
To give you a more specific answer, Mark Zuckerberg makes donations. Google's co-founders have become philanthropists. Adriana Huffington wrote about how to maintain your health if you live and work in a fast-paced digital environment. Every one of those is a legacy they left behind. What is it you want to leave behind?
Some other questions you might ask yourself are: do you want to design for you or for others? Do you want to take direct responsibility for your actions? What kinds of websites do you like to design? Are you more excited about coding or actually building interfaces? Do you want to write about design or actually do it – or both?
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Working as a web designer is hard work, and many times you will have to spend more than 60 hours per week forcing ideas out. Challenges are out there at every step and it is purely impossible not to run into them now and then. If you know what you want from life and mostly from your web design career, and you are ready to work hard for it, it is difficult not to enjoy great times. Before making a decision, think about what you want to achieve – then work for it, and sooner than you think you will find yourself on the right path.
Until next time, let's hear your opinions on this topic. Do you think you made the right choice? Is there something you would like to change in your approach?


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Are matching tattoos ever a good idea?
For some people, the idea of getting matching tattoos with a partner is like, the ultimate romantic gesture; for others, it's firmly on the list of 'things I will never do no matter how much I love someone or how much tequila I've drunk'. So is it ever a good idea?
Like any Big Decision, figuring out whether or not to get a matching tattoo with your boyfriend/girlfriend/lifelong friend/that guy you just met last week means taking a lot of things into account. First up is the design you're planning on getting; let it be noted that, in our personal opinion, getting someone's name is never a good plan. Ever. We'd go so far as to say you may as well just break up. Same goes for anything involving hearts and/or flowers. Yikes.
If you're serious about getting a matching tat, think a little outside the box; choose a symbol that means something to both of you, or something related to a place that you both love, or just anything that doesn't immediately scream 'I'M A PUZZLE PIECE AND THE OTHER HALF IS ON MY BOYFRIEND BECAUSE I JUST LOVE HIM SO MUCH'. Subtlety is key, folks. Anyway – isn't it all just a bit more special if you're the only two people in the world who can look at that tattoo and immediately know what it means?
Of course, you also need to consider what will happen to your ink if the relationship you're commemorating falls apart in spectacular, heart-wrenching, ball-of-flames style. Is the tat subtle enough that you'll still be able to live with it? Or would you rather slice it right off your arm rather than ever see it again? We're not being cynical or anything here but hey, relationships and friendships end. You gotta think about these things.
Oh, and one final word of advice – if you do the whole 'matching tats' thing while drunk, you probably deserve to regret it. Sorry.


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A school culture that supports and role models smokefree behaviours is important in order to create positive change. Policies and procedures should support and promote smokefree, and schools should ensure they comply with the Smokefree Environments Act (1990).
For sustainable change, it is also important to embed smokefree messages and practices into Curriculum, teaching and learning, and Community links and partnerships.
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Mick Jagger Net Worth
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Source of Wealth:Music
Birth Place:Dartford, Kent, England
Weight:142 lbs (64 kg)
Marital Status:Partner (Melanie Hamrick)
Full Name:Michael Philip Jagger
Date of Birth:26 July 1943
Ethnicity:English and Cornish
Occupation:Singer, Musician, Actor, Record and Film Producer
Education:London School of Economics
Children:8 (Jade, Georgia, Karis, Elizabeth, Lucas, Jim, Gabriel and Deveraux Octavian Basil)
About Michael Philip Jagger
English musician, singer, and songwriter, Sir Michael Philip "Mick" Jagger has a net worth of $360 million. He is best known as the lead vocalist of rock band, The Rolling Stones. Sir Mick Jagger has also acted in and produced several films.
Jagger's career has spanned over fifty years. His performance style has been said to have "opened up definitions of gendered masculinity and so laid the foundations for self-invention and sexual plasticity which are now an integral part of contemporary youth culture". In 1985, Jagger released his first solo album, She's the Boss, and was knighted in 2003. In early 2009, he joined the eclectic supergroup SuperHeavy.
Listing 147 shows to an aggregate audience of around 4.5 million people and taking two years to complete, the Stones' most recent tour held the highest grossing record for three years at $558.2 million (£341 million). But it didn't run entirely smoothly: shows had to be rescheduled when guitarist Keith Richards fell out of a coconut tree while on holiday in Fiji between legs and needed surgery to his head.
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Senate Declares June 12 Democracy Day
The Nigerian Senate has passed a bill, which formally declares June 12, democracy day.
Senate President Bukola Saraki
The bill, which originated from the House of Representatives, affirms President Muhammadu Buhari's decision to move democracy day celebration to June 12.
On June 12, exactly 25 years ago, Nigerians went to the polls in the third republic of its democratic dispensation to elect a president in which two major political parties, the Social Democratic Party (SDP) and the National Republican Convention (NRC) contested.
The election was annulled when results already indicated wide margin victory for Chief MKO Abiola.
The decision of both chambers of the National Assembly to declare June 12 as democracy day is symbolic and it is in line with President Buhari's policy statement.
The bill contains three clauses, which amend the public holiday act, and this decision though late in coming has vindicated growing number of Nigerians who clamoured for the actualization of June 12.
Although President Buhari's inauguration will come up on May 29, the major celebrations have been moved to June 12.


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Professional Qualifications Steve Schattgen has over 29 years of experience in various aspects of commercial real estate. He has been involved in the building management, sales, leasing and development of commercial properties in St. Louis, MO and for the last 17 years in the greater Fredericksburg, VA region. His emphasis in commercial real estate focuses on sales, leasing and development of office, industrial and retail commercial real estate. Tenant/User • Virginia Medical Imaging • Rappahannock Family Physicians • HDT Global • Medical Services of America • RPI GROUP • SA Medical • Coastal International Security • CVS • MTEQ • National Counseling Group, Inc. • Rappahannock Foot and Ankle Specialist • Advanced Auto • Creative Color • HomeInstead Senior Care • Surgical Associates of Fredericksburg Landlord/Owner/Developer • Hazel Land • Tricord Homes • Bowman Companies • KW Commercial • SA Medical • C & M Properties • KPS Properties • Redstone Properties • Big Apple Investments Community/Philanthropic Service • Board Member – Spotsylvania YMCA, President 2005, 2006 and 2007 • Youth Soccer coach 2000-2009 • Youth basketball coach 2008-2009 • Assistant Scout Master 2005-2013 Education and Awards • Bachelor of Arts in Business Administration from Westminster College in Fulton, MO • 2005 FAAR's (Fredericksburg Area Association of Realtors) top commercial real estate agent • 2005 Coldwell Banker's Platinum Level of Distinction (over $52 million in sales) • 2006 Coldwell Banker's Silver Level of Distinction • 2007 Coldwell Banker's Bronze Level of Distinction Personal • Resides in Fredericksburg, Virginia with his wife and four children • Interest & Hobbies include: raising four children, swimming, home improvement, sailing
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Eviction number two. I managed to scrape up enough money for a nice place, and we were there a month. I spent almost every night we were in that apartment there alone. With no dependable phone, outside of town, and a building filled with people I did not know. It was made clear I was not to open the door to anyone or leave while he was gone, except to go to work. I am sure he had someone watching the apartment to report everything I did and every person that came in and out of the building. He always knew everything, right down to the time I got up in the middle of the night to go to the bathroom.
I started cooking everything when we moved in to the third place, because he had taken to threatening me that he was going to poison my food. A few times, I would have sworn I tasted something that did not belong, and he became irate when I refused to eat it. I was annoyed that I had to do this, too, because I did everything else: all calls, doctors, prescriptions, legal / financial paperwork, looking for work for him, drafting for him, working my own job, cleaning, laundry, dishes, and now the one last thing that I had a break from was now mine.
Eviction number three. We stayed at a hotel for several weeks. During this time, he got me to leave my job. We were supposed to be moving out-of-state. Fortunately for me, the job I would have had was rescinded, but it also meant I was trapped with him all day, every day.
And still the violence worsened. He had taken to hitting my head in the middle of the night and starting arguments over delusions he had. I had no privacy left; he even made me shower and go to the bathroom with the door open. If I dared close it, it meant that I was hiding something. He would attack me in the shower. When I was cooking. Watching TV.
Someone helped him get the next apartment. Here is where I suffered the most. He turned it into his party house, and he outright tormented me. He started slamming my head against door frames until my ears bled, profusely. He started pushing me down and dragging me around by my hair. Punching me in the stomach. Continued beating my legs with metal bars. I still have repercussions from this. He had knives stashed around the apartment. He had weapons I didn't know about.
He beat me to get my 401K, and I relented after a few hours, because I wanted it to stop, and I wanted him to leave. He would beat on me with his dirty, drugged up friends sitting on my couch downstairs, because I told him to get the trash out in the dumpster where it belonged. He started having his dizzy drug-crazed street women trick for free drugs so he could continue to binge. One day he called me over saying he had something to show me, and he promptly put a handful of bullets in my face. Just because I show you the bullets, it doesn't mean the gun is in the apartment. Kevin had people constantly watching me, reporting back to him whatever they saw happen.
By this point, it was now a well established routine that I would be forcibly kept awake for days on end, and then he would allow me to fall asleep only to wake me up by punching me in the back of the head. I refused to sleep with him. He would beat on me for days on end overnight while I tried to sleep. I refused to relent, as did he.
Eventually each time, it would come down to the point where I could physically no longer endure the pain, and I face the humiliation and give in. So he would stop. So he would leave me alone. He would never rape me; he wasn't the type for this. For him, it was about holding the control and proving that he had total control over me. And eventually I tired of this choice, and I simply refused to make it. When I stopped giving in, he came even more brutal in his punishments.
And still his drug abuse worsened. Eviction number four. We tried to stay with someone, but we ended up sleeping in the car. We finally found a place, and things just kept right on plummeting. The last night in this apartment was too traumatic to go into great detail about. (The story is posted on my blog under the post "The Great Pork Rib Caper".) I will say I did not sleep, which was a normal occurrence. From 9:30 that night until 7:45 the next morning, he terrorized me. I had a hammer waved in my face, was back against the wall and punched in the head repeatedly. Hit in the side with what I think was the knife sharpener. Threatened with a 2 x 4 he pulled from the closet. Backed up against the wall and slapped across the face. Hit in the face with a shoe. Punched over and over in the head. When he tired of using his fist, he grabbed a can out of the kitchen cupboard and repeatedly hit me in the head with that. He also waved a switchblade in my face and had it pointed at my throat before I left for work.
At first, I was like a deer in the headlights: scared and having absolutely no idea what direction I should go. I just knew that I had to get out. There was no planning for what came after. I felt a shroud of loss, defeat, and finality wrap around me as I pulled the door closed behind me. As the key turned in the lock, I sighed heavily. What do I do now that I have nothing? Is this what I really have to do to escape this monster? Once I do this, I am not coming back — for anything.
I hesitated for a moment at the top of the stairs, and as my hand lifted off the banister and I walked down the stairs, I cut my losses and accepted the fact that everything I now owned on this earth was this androgynous outfit he forced me to wear, and the disheveled contents of my purse. When I stepped off the last tread on onto the creaky wooden floor, I turned and looked back, hoping he wasn't watching. He was not there.
Still feeling tense and unsettled from the last ten hours of abuse I will ever have to suffer, I said a prayer and opened the entry door. The bright sun and birds singing in the tree in front of the porch made the chill in the air a surprise. It was a beautiful December morning, and the gargoyle standing in the living room window watching me with shifty eyes was unaware that he was about to see me walking away from the apartment house for the last time.
Saying that I had nothing at that point was true and untrue at the same time. By my estimation, I escaped with everything that I needed: my life and hope. And fortunately in my case, even with no possessions, I had my job. I do have to acknowledge the fact that this was only the case because, when faced with my unemployment soon to come to a close, Kevin pressed me to work.
He wasn't ready for the free money to end, nor did he want me out of his sight. His appetite for drugs won out over the control, and I was given an eight hour reprieve from him five days a week. Had he allowed me any breathing room, I would have brought my financial documents to work and locked them in the bottom drawer of my desk, but he had exclusive control over all aspects of finances. I was just expected to hand over the money, and when I resisted every time, I was duly punished.
I say my being allowed to work was fortunate, because for so many being abused, this is not the case. They are held hostage within the walls of their home and to be able to work is a lifeline they are denied. The abusers know that their victim will eventually seek to use this as a means of escape, as I did. I believe in my case that it was a blessing to be with an out-of-control addict at this point, because he was so desperate for more money to get high, he was willing to let me escape the confines of my prison to get it for him. Even with this escape, it was still incredibly difficult to get away from him.
He had ridiculously focused radar to pick up any change in my thinking. Kevin knew when I was thinking about leaving him, and every time he tightened up the choke hold at just the right moment, all without me revealing anything to him. But that morning I left, he was so unstable and unfocused in his actions, I believe I could have done just about anything and he would have been blind to it. His anger would get so out of control that he would "black out," as he calls it.
I remember stories he told me of the things he "woke up" to doing to the mother of his children. By the simple rule of logic, she should also be dead several times over. We were both saved all those times because something snapped him back to reality at just the right moment.
Despite the innumerable times I explained to people why I was okay to be broke, carless, staying with others, and pretty much owning nothing, so many of them chose to focus on the objects that I left behind, and they relentlessly pushed me and tried to bully me into going back to that place of torment to get it. I wanted no part of this. They were things. How could anyone view these to be so important? Did they already forget the danger I fled? How was my life debased to be equal with replaceable material possessions? I had to remind them that had Kevin killed me — and he would have killed me — that they could not resurrect me from the dead. But I could go to any store at any time and buy plenty more things.
Let us not forget that everything I had owned was tainted with violent memories of varying degree. Never again did I want to lie down to sleep at night and be reminded of all the times he dragged me across the bed by my hair, onto the floor, and across the room to a corner where he could pummel me with wanton abandon. Never again did I want to look at the drawers he had his clothes in, the same drawers that doubled as hiding spots for paraphernalia, and be reminded of all the punishments I received for throwing out his tools and flushing broken pieces of rock down the toilet. The knives he would threaten me with and ultimately almost used on me. The makeup I had to buy in an attempt to cover the black eyes. I wanted to wash my hands of it all and be done. I wanted to start from zero.
My parents went back against my wishes and got what was left when Kevin was evicted in April. It still sits out in the storage barn. I have not looked at it since December 14th, and I will never set my eyes upon it again. It can rot there. They can burn it, bury it, sell it, use it for target practice, give it away. I will not mourn it. I will not miss it. It is just a pile of some things I used to own once.
So I walked away, owning nothing, and I had no money until the next week. While I was completely neurotic and scared for my life, there was a sense of relief on some levels, because from this point on, I could live without him hovering over me waiting to pounce. And it would take a while, but I would rebuild my life again. I could confront my faults and fix them, and I could work on beginning the tedious job of erasing his voice from my head. The complete and absolute freedom from him and the fact that I am alive is worth more than anything on this earth. There are no possessions in any amount that can compensate for that or be able to achieve the same peace of mind.
I may have atrocious credit, a mountain of debt, and a long road ahead of me before I can be completely self-sufficient, but I am alive. I am alive and well, I am baptized, I have friends, a social life. I can go into a store and buy whatever I please. I can leave the house wearing makeup, jewelry, and dress clothes with my hair done and not worry about what punishments will befall me later.
But most importantly, I have my life, my freedom, and love. I spend most of my time smiling and laughing, not crying or pleading with an uncaring monster to spare my life. Not dodging punches and slaps or things being thrown at me.
About the Author
My name is Amy. I am not what one would consider to be a typical survivor of domestic violence. However, there is no such thing. I am a self-professed geek who prefers documentaries, biographies, and history over drama and action. My time would be better spent in galleries, museums, and bookstores than anywhere. I speak three languages and have plans to learn more. I play flute and piccolo and regret not continuing with piano.


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Friend called today to help with tree clearing tomorrow. Never worked with chainsaw before and I think he has, so it'll be all good. Dear Trees, sorry for having to cut you down. I will do a lil' something tomorrow beforehand, before renting the chainsaw 😦 , to say my thanks for your presence in the frontyard.
Was describing what he was noticing upon cleaning up and rearranging the fish tank. Won't get into it all the details here, but let's just say, he was trippin' out, as was I, on how the fishies in the fish tank, and the buddha roopa (form of buddha) — all the elements in the tank made him reflect on the social relationships that are part of the household he's been livin' in.
two neon tetras + one "sucker" fish / plecostomus + one image of the buddha
"looking with his buddha eye", friend was trippin' on the social – group dynamics of this whole aquarium set up. and guess, who in the house was a monastic praktisyoner with the wat pah nanachat monastery???
equanimity. seeing or "not seeing". perceptions. skillfulness. fishies in the tank. buddhaform. can you see it? can you see it?


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If you want a smack in the face from some up and coming EDM talent, then look no further than the latest release from DJ and producer MAKJ. Mackenzie Johnson's career has been gathering momentum since his appearance at IDfest back in 2011. Since then he has retreated from touring but only to hone his producing skills. Hakaka is surely a testament to his time spent honing and producing.
Hakaka opens with a bang and MAKJ immediately deploys one of it's strengths, which is a runaway bassline that constantly drives the track forward. The breaks only provide a brief space of relaxation before the bassline kicks off again with MAKJ adding another exciting element to the production.
The track is exhilarating and a great effort from MAKJ, who has recently secured himself a residency at the XS Las Vegas. This meteoric and seamless rise of success seems to reflect little upon the tracks Polynesian title, which means Good Fight. Hopefully his success should remain plain sailing with plenty of tracks like this along the way.
Stream here or buy on Beatport.


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