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CRM and Marketing Automation For Small Business
CRM and Marketing Automation For Small Business
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Are you at the point in your business or practice where there just doesn't seem to be enough of you to go around?
You would be surprised at how much of your process we can automate. It can be truly life changing! You need a tool to capture leads, nurture them until they become a client or patient and then find ways to continue to keep in touch in between visits or appointments so that you are always top of mind for referrals and additional services.
- Do you have a stack of business cards at your desk that you haven't followed up on, or if you have, you perhaps reached out once and then got sidetracked?
- Do you regularly overestimate what you can get done in a week and then find yourself working nights and weekends to catch up?
- Do you wish you could grow your business and get your life back?
80% of marketing automation users saw their number of leads increase, and 77% saw the number of conversions increase.
We have been advising on and implementing CRM solutions since 1996
Our Executive Director Diane Moura has provided CRM consulting services since the term was first coined by Peppers and Rogers.
CRM 101 For Small Business
CRM stands for Customer (or client) relationship management, a term coined by Don Peppers and Martha Rogers back in 1993. Credited with transforming the marketing industry from mass advertising to a one-to-one focus from business to individual prospect or client, the concept essentially reflects the way in which you would build and sustain relationships with all of your contacts and clients, if only you had the time.
In a small town a doctor would know all of her patients by name, the names of their family members and what each of them like. She would remember their birthdays and anniversaries with a special message. If she knew that one of them enjoyed long distance running she would cut out a newspaper article she saw about the New York marathon and save it for them. Her appreciative patients would refer their friends and she would remember to thank them. If she met someone new in town she would have a nice conversation to learn more about them and come out of her office to chat if she saw them pass by. She would stop to share some town news with them when she saw them out working in their garden. She would forge a relationship with them that would practically assure her of their business when they needed healthcare services.
CRM is essentially the process of taking your business down to a grass roots level, automating emails, letters, phone calls and follow ups to make it realistic for you to have that same level of relationship with each and every client and prospect. It automates what you would do naturally if only you could clone yourself.
Forrester defines marketing automation as, "tooling and process that help generate new business opportunities, improve potential buyers' propensity to purchase, manage customer loyalty and increase alignment between marketing activity and revenue."
Why is this relevant to the average small business owner?
- Savvy buyers do more research on their own and before engaging you or your sales force they are often quite well informed about their options. This requires business owners to provide automation that monitors which messages are likely to generate the greatest response and provide information at the time when the buyer is making an evaluation.
- Fewer people within your database are likely making active purchase decisions at any given time. You need to be responsive and capitalize upon every sales opportunity.
- Buying is more social. Buyers are influenced by peers and what they see online. Business owners need to be prepared by making it easy to connect and respond to inquiries and searches across channels.
Customer Value, or Customer Lifetime Value (CLV) is a measure of the profitability of a client over their entire relationship with your business. It is an important measure because it helps us to make decisions about how much to spend on acquiring a new client (acquisition cost) and retaining an existing client (retention cost). In many businesses, it is far more profitable to nurture and grow current clients than to acquire new ones. Not to say we shouldn't keep the top of our sales funnel full, but retention and lifetime value are crucial metrics to our business.
In some cases both sets of functionality are wrapped up in the same tool, but typically a CRM tool will include:
- a contact database (for prospects and clients)
- a built in newsletter function
- detailed reporting and segmentation
- varying degrees of workflow automation – industry specific CRM tools often come with out-of-the-box interfaces to common data sources
- sales funnel management
A Marketing Automation may include the above functionality, to one degree or another, plus:
- the ability to create custom automated email drip sequences as a follow up to prospect inquires via a website or landing page or manual entry such as a business card scan
- automated task management and escalation
- sophisticated reporting that will allow you to see the profitability of each of your marketing strategies
- custom landing pages
- sales funnel management (depends on the tool)
- shopping cart (depends on the tool)
- a variety of out-of-the-box integrations to data sources
There are so many CRM tools on the market that making a choice can be overwhelming. Since the tool will automate several areas of your business it is important to select something that you will be comfortable with and will serve you well. There are CRM tools that are generic across industries and may be customized, and there are CRM tools that are specific to an industry. Sometimes the industry-specific CRM tools can be fairly easy to implement but aren't always as robust.
In the early days, CRM tools were huge pieces of software like Siebel that needed to be customized for each business as part of an enormous project with an army of consultants and technologists. Salesforce was the first cloud-based tool that brought CRM to the masses. As its name implies, it's niche was salesforce automation and was well suited to sales funnel management for large sales teams. Implementation of Salesforce is still not the easiest project to take on, although you can look for partners who have already implemented a version specific to your industry.
The good news is that CRM and Marketing Automation have now reached a level of affordability for small business. A basic CRM tool can be purchased for less than $100/month and a more robust CRM/Marketing Automation tool for around $200/month.
What We Do
- We will help you to implement a Marketing Automation solution from start to finish. We'll recommend campaigns appropriate for your business, set them up for you, create draft content for your review, import your contacts, train you how to use the software, and by the time we're done you'll have live campaigns running to optimize your marketing processes. Campaigns are easily customized and only limited by your imagination.
- Appointment reminder emails and texts.
- Automatically deliver a white paper or ebook as an incentive for someone to sign up for your list
- Encourage contacts to register for an event and follow up to remind them until they register, then solicit feedback following the event.
- Create a client satisfaction survey that requests a referral and testimonial if a client had a good experience and opens a task for you to contact them if they didn't.
- Deliver your monthly newsletter.
- Send very personalized emails to individual contacts with a specific interest. For example you may want to send a "thought you might find this interesting" note including a link to an article on fishing to your clients who have that particular interest tagged on their profile.
- Take a picture of a business card at an event and your prospect receives an email expressing how nice it was to meet them and potentially including an offer of a meeting, consultation or further information as they are walking out the door!


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The Kargoyle, a chop-topped 1967 Cadillac Miller-Meteor Funeral Coach of dubious practicality and somewhat mysterious origin, slunk and slithered its way into the Adams Avenue Vons lot in Normal Heights and parked next to me. "I just moved here," said the driver when I asked if he'd like to talk about his remarkable vehicle. "Look it up online. It's been all over."
Yes, it has. The Kargoyle was created by Brett Barris, son of legendary car customizer George Barris. There it is on the Barris website, just below the classic Batmobile and right next to Jethro's hot rod from The Beverly Hillbillies. But there is no mention of what it was made for, and neither Barris Kustom nor their public relations firm replied to a request for comment. (Several websites mention an 1980s movie titled Terror on Wheels — wherein the Kargoyle was trimmed with gold instead of chrome and sported chunky golden gargoyles on its hood and a tombstone on its bumper — but no such movie shows up on the Internet Movie Database.)
The Kargoyle's new, airbushed look (complete with hydraulics) seems to have debuted in the 2006 season of The Girls Next Door, the E! reality show about Hugh Hefner's trio of girlfriends and their life in the Playboy Mansion. It's Halloween, and the girls — Holly Madison dresses as "Jackie Ho," complete with pink pillbox hat — use it to take a Haunted Hollywood tour. Before leaving, Holly nixes a trip to Marilyn Monroe's burial site, since Hefner plans to be buried right beside her. (Mission accomplished: today, Hef's slab is marked with dozens of lipstick imprints.) But no one complains about the deep creepiness of sticking the three consorts of an octogenarian lothario inside of a hearse. Nor about Bridget Marquardt posing for a photo while lying on the spot where the Black Dahlia's mutilated body was found.
The Kargoyle took part in the 2009 Long Beach Pride Parade, with a Sister of Perpetual Indulgence seated on the roof, spread eagled and feigning masturbation. That same year, it rolled in at the end of Bitch Slap to carry the film's Keyser Soze–style mastermind offscreen. Someone thinks the metal band Jugular drove it for a time. And in 2011, Tim Armstrong of Rancid used it to send bandmate Lars Fredriksen to hell in "Dante," the premiere episode of the musical webseries Tim Timebomb's Rocknroll Theater.
Then, in late 2015, it served as a publicity car for Motley Crüe's final concert. Re-named the Krüegoyle, it stopped at the Whisky a Go Go, the Rainbow Room, the Body Shop strip club, and other haunts mentioned in the band's memoir, The Dirt: Confessions of the World's Most Notorious Rock Band. Also mentioned: heroin addiction and overdose, personal betrayals, unhappy childhoods, broken marriages, drunk-driving fatalities, depression, suicide attempts, degenerative disease, stolen sex tapes, and my hometown of Cortland, New York.
For now, it can be spotted in and around Normal Heights, but maybe not for long. The website for Barrett-Jackson auto auctions lists it as Lot 1117 for its January event in Scottsdale. There is no reserve price.

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Newly proposed New York City Initiative No. 1080 is raising some serious concerns within the law enforcement community.
A recent ad placed in the New York Post by the Captains Endowment Association and the Lieutenants Benevolent Association stated the following,
"The New York City Council wants to pass a law that bans police officers from identifying a person by age, gender, color or disability. If a police officer transmits descriptions beyond clothing color they can be sued for racial profiling. That's dangerous for the public and police officers."
On its face, this sounds absurd. Anyone with an ounce of common sense would argue, how can police officers possibly find suspects when they are barred from using race, color or gender when trying to find a suspect?
Upon further investigation, however, it appears the ad put out by the NYPD associations are not exactly accurate. In fact, the language of the bill that police can use such information when it is in reference to a crime. The bill actually states the following,
Ҥ 14-151 [Racial or Ethnic]Bias-based Profiling Prohibited. a. Definitions. As used in this section, the following terms have the following meanings:
1. "[Racial or ethnic] Bias-based profiling" means an act of a member of the force of the police
department or other law enforcement officer that relies on actual or perceived race, [ethnicity, religion or] national origin, color, creed, age, alienage or citizenship status, gender, sexual orientation, disability, or housing status as the determinative factor in initiating law enforcement action against an individual, rather than an individual's behavior or other information or circumstances that links a person or persons [of a particular race, ethnicity, religion national origin] to suspected unlawful activity."
The key sentence in the bill is "rather than an individual's behavior or other information or circumstances that link a person or persons [of a particular race, ethnicity, religion, national origin] to suspected unlawful activity."
What the bill is, in fact saying, is that police officers cannot use race, sex, gender, religion, etc. unless there is a specific crime that links such an individual. In other words, if an officer responds to a theft, and they get a description of the suspect, all of these factors can still be used and broadcasted in an attempt to locate, just as we do today. According to the language, officers can still use the same methods as always to track a suspect. However, the language is a bit ambiguous, and could have been written far more clearly and concisely.
Now that this has been cleared up, here comes the next question. Why? What is the goal this bill is trying to achieve? In the legislation, the reasoning behind this bill is a result of what many claim is discrimination that has become prevalent from New York's "Stop and Frisk" policy.
The legislation states:
"The City Council expresses deep concern about the impact of NYPD practices on various communities in New York City. In particular, the Council expresses concern about the NYPD's growing reliance on stop and- frisk tactics and the impact of this practice on communities of color."
"Stop and Frisk" has been at the center of debate for some time. "Stop and Frisk" was a constitutionally questionable tactic that left room for abuse and over dependence. However, to push new legislation based on this issue is a moot point.
"Stop and Frisk" has already been found to be unconstitutional. In January 2013, Federal Court Judge Shira Scheindlin ruled this practice to be in violation of the 4th amendment, and ordered the police to refrain from such practice. Based on this recent turn of events, why is this bill still being pushed? It is already illegal for police to profile and this bill only further gums up the works with more legal language to be twisted.
The NYPD associations are correct in one regard; this will only open up loopholes for sue-happy attorneys to target the City of New York and NYPD for dubious claims of profiling, which in turn deludes legitimate cases of discrimination when they arise.
Profiling without probable cause is already illegal and is broad sweeping to protect everyone. Introducing a bill that does nothing more than name specifics to certain "protected" groups only further complicate what is a pretty straightforward law. This is like introducing a bill that defines it illegal to kill women, children, men, adults, teenagers, etc. What is the point? Murder is all encompassing and the need to name specifics is just silly.
It is important to not let political correctness become the basis for policy and legislation which should be rooted in sound logic and reason. Public trust and safety are at stake. We need logical and sound legislation, not feel-good laws that muddy legal waters.
Nick is a former Arizona police officer and deputy. He is a Kaplan University Counter Terrorism and Homeland Security major, recently graduating with highest honors. Nick is a member of The National Society of Collegiate Scholars, the Golden Key International Honor Society, Alpha Betta Kappa Honor Society, and Alpha Phi Sigma Criminal Justice Honor Society. He has appeared as an expert commentator on Fox News Radio, and has been published in academic journals as well as Police One.
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For much of our lives as editors, the inside in American poetry was utterly distinct from the outside. You were "experimental" or you were not. At my first AWP meeting, in San Antonio, in the 80s, I heard Donald Justice stir up a roomful of Iowa School poets by attacking the "charlatan" Beats, "juvenile" New York School, and the "fascist" Black Mountain poets. Before he began to speak, he asked that the ballroom doors of the hotel be closed and guarded. I had known there were oppositions, but I hadn't realized how keenly the insiders felt the threat of change. At that time, outsiders had no role in the academy, so they congregated at places like St. Mark's Church, Beyond Baroque, The Poetry Center at SFSU, and Chicago's Body Politic. This was true throughout the 70s, 80s, and much of the 90s. Everyone knew what it meant to cross the boundary into academic territory, which unfailingly relied on the received mainstream dominant--for example, the free verse poem of personal epiphany. Those differences have been blurred by the tremendous growth of creative writing programs, the desire for many of the so-called Iowa school poets to join the innovative camp, and the marginalization of independent boheman sites. Whether you call it the mainstreaming of the avant-garde or the vanguarding of the academy, the result is a compromise, or mutual collapse, in which the avant-garde risks losing its signal powers of opposition and originality. At the Palm Springs AWP, 2001, Maxine Chernoff and I walked around looking for someone to talk to and found only Aaron Shurin, who was equally alienated by the Carolyn Kizer / Yusef Komunyakaa program dominant. Now all of that is changed. If you want to locate the avant-garde, you can find it the Nassau Suite at the Hilton, second floor. I don't exclude myself. I'm on two panels at the forthcoming meeting in NYC, one of which I proposed on contemporary Vietnamese poetry. The other is Newlipo: Proceduralism and Chance Poetics in the 21st Century. I'd like to be persuaded that literary professionalism is not dulling innovation's oppositional edge, or, worse yet, subsuming marginal practices in order to make them seem its own. Are Newlipo and Flarf the unrepentant, indigestible poetics of the new? Would it matter if Christian Bök and Kasey Mohammad had tenure-track positions?
I agree with Josh that New American Writing has always convened the "austerities of Language poetry and the ironic 'personal' characteristic of the New York School(s)." In an recent email, I wrote, only half in jest, that Maxine and I have been attracted to the personal characteristics of the language poets, Bernstein's wit and Hejinian's memoirist tendencies in My Life, as well as the abstract obliqueness of the New York School, as seen especially in Ashbery and Guest. As time goes by, the two camps seem all the more of a blend. There are postmodern lyric motives in Palmer, Robinson, and Armantrout, among others, but I don't believe they're specifically Californian. That late Barbara Guest look of the page, suggestive of Mallarmé, is practiced by tons of postmodern coconuts; she was born in Florida and lived most of her life in the Northeast. Our magazine, which publishes all of the above and has been described as "New York School," was published for much of its history in Chicago.


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I've taken the liberty of opening this parallel thread, in order to split off more philosophically-driven discussions of TrackerSmacker from the technical/bugfix side of things. Because, well, the main thread is almost as active as the least-active old boring threads on XDE Forums - yikes!
Anyhow, when someone has time, hopefully we'll do a split/merge of existing posts from there, into here. For now, at least there's a dedicated home for such deep critique.
Also, here's a link to some of TealC's well-reasoned push-back on TrackerSmacker, in our main twitter thread. It's worth a look, eh?


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Tag Archives: girls
Fierce at Hands 2 Help
This week, the girls at Hands 2 Help: Passage to Womanhood have been working on projects based on the work of Mickalene Thomas. The girls struck their most powerful poses to directly challenge the viewers' gaze.
Women on the Rise and Urgent, Inc. at O Cinema
Women on the Rise teen artists participated in an art exhibition in partnership with Urgent, Inc. at O Cinema on Saturday, May 4. Urgent, Inc. presented the play She Kept the Bra On! Chronicles of a Teenage Love Affair performed … Continue reading
Upcoming Women on the Rise Girls' Summit
Don't miss our upcoming Girls' Summit happening at MOCA North Miami from May 29-31, 3013! For more information, visit the Girls' Summit web page http://mocawotr.wordpress.com/
Women on the Rise at Breakthrough Miami: Girls will be… Guys?
Our fabric collage quilt is coming together
Here are some of the individual pieces we made at Breaktrhrough Miami with artists Monica Lopez de Victoria, Dinorah de Jesús Rodriguez and Anya Wallace. These fabric collages will be joined together to make an art quilt, much like the … Continue reading
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from our recent session at Breakthrough Miami working on fabric collages inspired by Tracey Emin
WOTR makes an appearance at #1BillionRising at FIU on VDay!
We set up a booth at FIU's 1 Billion Rising event in support of and end to violence against women


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Get ready for an inspirational and content-rich event! Randy presents his material in a relatable, personable manner, and audiences feel as if they are having an intimate conversation with a wise and trusted friend, one who has been there, and can help you by sharing his mistakes and successes.
Randy H. Nelson is an expert in taking entrepreneurial leaders on a self-awareness journey during his presentations, "comfortably" guiding them outside of their comfort zones for maximum take home value for each participant.
An entrepreneur, business coach and consultant, best-selling author, and compelling speaker, everything he knows about entrepreneurial and leadership skills comes from his real-world experiences. He was a Navy Lieutenant for over 6 years, co-founded and oversaw the sale of two highly successful companies, and he continues to walk the talk by his commitment to a lifelong learning and teaching philosophy.
After learning from the many roles that he has played in different organizations, Randy seeks to help other entrepreneurs become highly educated leaders through his speaking events. He has created a qualification program (the Entrepreneurial Qual Card) to help entrepreneurs acquire the disciplines and skills necessary to grow a vibrant company, and lead it successfully.
Randy inspires his audiences with topics including entrepreneurship, business growth, professional development, and financial/overall leadership. He speaks frequently to entrepreneurial and CEO groups such as EO and Vistage and also offers additional keynote presentations and workshops geared towards entrepreneurs and business leaders.
Download Randy's Electronic Press Kit for more information on Randy and his variety of speaking topics. With his unique blend of experience, Randy expertly leads the discussion to explore the ultimate qualified entrepreneur role for themselves and their organization for the next 3-5 years. Randy shares with his audiences how to overcome the leading reasons businesses fail and underperform in an interactive session that will be sure to have each audience member inspired to commit to action and encourage accountability to maintain that momentum.
Do you know that the growth of a company is limited by the growth of its leader?
Are you prepared to grow your leadership skills as fast as your company is growing?
Did you know that the lack of self-awareness is the fatal flaw of a leader?
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You might have found yourself in a leadership position that you weren't prepared for or maybe after years of leading your company, lately something has been falling flat. To lead and grow a successful, thriving company you have to possess the right set of leadership skills.
Best-selling author of The Second Decision, Randy H. Nelson has over 25 years of entrepreneurial experience and has held many leadership roles within the two industry-leading companies he co-founded. He has been through his share of successes but more importantly, his fair share of failures that have shown him what it takes to lead a business to prosperity. Randy has long sold his two companies to Private Equity and a multi-billion dollar global company and now focuses on helping other entrepreneurs and executive leaders acquire the skills and knowledge it takes to run a successful business for the long-term.
Randy offers executive coaching and mentoring services for entrepreneurial leaders and has helped many entrepreneurs become qualified leaders for the companies they have built. He can guide you towards pinpointing the areas you need to focus on and show you the steps you can take to become the leader your business needs. Contact us today to get started!
Sometimes you need better solutions to specific issues that you are dealing with.
Sometimes you need a facilitator to help you see what you can't because you are too close to the situation.
Sometimes you need an independent advisor to help you see what you aren't able to.
On top of coaching, speaking, and writing, Randy consults for companies who may be in need of a consulting approach. Working closely with the top leaders and leadership teams within a business, he can pinpoint the areas that need to be worked on and then provide the right tools and steps to help everyone move forward together.
After spending time discovering the most important needs of each client, Randy creates a specialized consulting arrangement that suits the unique needs of your business and employees. You are not investing in a box off the shelf when you engage Randy! These consultations and workshops are the first steps to creating a prosperous company full of qualified entrepreneurs and effective leaders. Contact Randy today to get started!
"Thanks for providing a most excellent presentation/discussion on Tuesday here in Atlanta. Your approach and the methodology on how you got there was excellent. I have been going to seminars and functions that incorporate a variety of "leadership clinics" since the mid-90's. Your approach made me think differently and got me to the end result quicker with some very solid next steps. Not easily accomplished or quickly to overcome for someone with some natural skepticism"
Howard Rodgers
I'm pleased and honored to write this letter of recommendation for Randy Nelson as a keynote speaker on leadership, self-awareness, and entrepreneurship. I have worked firsthand with Randy during my time serving as the Director of North Carolina State University's GEN H.Hugh Shelton Leadership Center. Randy has been a highly rated speaker at the forum (normally 600+ attendees) and in addition has served as the moderator for high-level panel discussions. His passion, ability to engage with the audience, and his exemplary speaking skills helped make the program a huge success. Past keynote speakers of the forum have included Tom Brokaw, John Chambers (Cisco), Cal Ripken Jr., Verne Harnish and Dr. Stephen Covey.
I was introduced to Randy when he took over the leadership of the Shelton Leadership Center Board of Advisors, where I saw first hand how his focus on leadership, prioritization and his passion for helping youth and executive leadership immensely helped our organization.
I'm proud to recommend him as a keynote speaker for large and small audiences!
Chris Hitch
Randy –
I'm so grateful that you were able to come to Philadelphia to speak with the members of CEO Think Tank® as well as our strategic alliance partners and extended community.
You did a fabulous job presenting and engaging the participants. A number of the CEO's in the audience told me later that day and for the past few weeks that they were impressed with not only your story but also your transparency and authenticity. As one said, "Randy has lived it!" and that makes the difference.
You truly made the day an impactful and memorable experience.
Thank you so much for making the trip North – and I'll look forward to working with you in the future.
Warmest regards,
Cheryl Beth Kuchler
President, Ballantree Consulting and Founder, CEO Think Tank®
Thank you so much for the Second Decision presentation you made to our membership.
Your focus on owner self-awareness and their vital role in the business was the perfect keynote for our meeting. It was transparent, easy to grasp and apply, and will no doubt transform the leadership and businesses of our 500 attendees.
Special thanks also for the amount of prep work you did to understand our audience and tailor your presentation to fit our overall agenda. We work with many outside advisors and speakers and your pre-work was truly exemplary. It made your presentation feel like you speaking to us in a unique way rather than just another group of business leaders.
Thanks again for doing a great job!
Jack Tester
President & C.E.O
Nexstar Network
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Patriot Boot Camp is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit that seeks to help military Veterans and military spouses build technology companies.
A Patriot Boot Camp event is an intense 3day program where we bring in professionals with deep domain expertise to educate and mentor our cohort of early stage entrepreneurs.
In the summer of 2015 my team and I ran a Patriot Boot Camp in Chapel Hill, North Carolina.
For this event we had the great fortune of working with Randy H. Nelson. Randy's outstanding professional background as a Navy officer, successful entrepreneur and visionary leader aligned extremely well with the interests of our program participants.
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Just got a lovely nugget in my email inbox from Robert Elder, the Communications Manager for the Texas State Securities Board (the "TSSB"). Unlike many messages from his regulatory colleagues at other state and federal agencies, the stuff from Elder is quite possibly the most consistently outstanding commentary from any securities industry regulator. No, I don't always agree with TSSB's content but I do respect folks who speak plainly, call it as they see it, and don't persist in publishing the same self-serving public relations pap that oozes from far too many regulatory organizations. Elder's missives frequently have a nice edge, replete with a funny slant on some of his more barbed shots.
Among the fun tidbits from the Jan. 3, 2013 edition of the "State Securities Board Bulletin" is this lovely broadside (and a well deserved salvo at that!):
The surest sign of the new year for investors? It's the seemingly endless recommendations by financial experts on the best places to put your money in 2013. You know the drill: the personal finance magazines touting the best stocks or funds for '13; mutual fund managers touting, well, themselves; and financial commentators confidently picking stocks and predicting the directions of the markets, while others confidently predict different stocks and different directions for the markets. Here are a few things to remember as the predictions industry does its thing early in the new year:
- The old standby, past performance does not predict future success, applies to systems such as Morningstar's star ratings for mutual funds. A five-star rating, Morningstar's highest, only means that a fund has performed well in the past. A high rating says absolutely nothing about a fund's future performance; there are no crystal balls.
- Whether it's picking stocks you can own "forever," stocks for the next decade, or stocks for the next year, financial magazines generally do a poor job. The more responsible publications will, after a bad year, own up to their performance. They rarely look back on predictions they made a decade ago, however.
- Many financial gurus' exaggerated predictions are designed to grab headlines, not provide insight. They also have an underwhelming track record. CXO Advisory Group LLC tracked the approximately 6,500 predictions of 68 market experts from 2005 through 2012 and found the median accuracy of their predictions was 47%. So you could pay attention to the gurus, or flip a coin.


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Was Jesus an historical person?
However, you don't have to throw away your brain to believe. The christian faith is based on reason. A lot of evidence for the truth of the claims of christ exists. (you might read some of lee strobel's books like the case for christ).
The new testament contains four "gospels" written between 35 and 70 years after christ—by eyewitnesses or their students. They preserved the oral tradition that had been taught by the apostles of christ. Oral tradition at that time was much more fixed than today.
Other contemporaries referred to Jesus, like josephus, a jewish historian.
But i think one of the most powerful evidences is that most of the disciples of Jesus—who had denied him at his crucifixion—went to their deaths claiming that Jesus had done these things. In other words, they were willing to die rather than deny the truth.
And of course, they started a movement that has grown for 2000 years—founded in large part on their testimony.
Was Jesus God?
Some people think that Jesus was just a teacher or even a prophet, but deny that he was the son of God. C. S. Lewis said that we cannot say Jesus was just a good teacher. He was either a lunatic or the son of God.
He forgave sins (something only God can do), received worship and called God his own father in a way that offended his jewish listeners.
Jesus' enemies understood the implications of his claims. "for this reason the [jewish leaders] tried all the harder to kill him; not only was he breaking the sabbath, but he was even calling God his own father, making himself equal with God" (john 5: 18).
The truth is that Jesus was crucified because he claimed to be the son of God. At his trial, when he was asked by the high priest, caiaphas, "tell us if you are the messiah, the son of God," he answered, "yes, it is as you say" (matt. 26: 63-64). It is this that inflamed the wrath of the jewish leaders. "'he is worthy of death,' they answered" (matt. 26: 66).
And Jesus told his disciples ahead of time that he would suffer and die, but then he would rise again on the third day. This sounds like the demented raving of a crazy person. Except that he did it.
What other great leader has predicted his own resurrection and then did it?
The truth that Jesus is God, the son, rests on the truth of his resurrection from the dead. "for what i received i passed on to you as of first importance: that christ died for our sins according to the scriptures, that he was buried, that he was raised on the third day according to the scriptures, and that he appeared to peter, and then to the twelve. After that, he appeared to more than five hundred of the brothers at the same time, most of whom are still living, though some have fallen asleep. Then he appeared to james, then to all the apostles, and last of all he appeared to me also, as to one abnormally born" (1 cor. 15: 3-8).
Paul and the apostles understood how important their eyewitness testimony was. And they recorded it in order to verify that Jesus christ rose from the dead.
"through the spirit of holiness, [Jesus] was declared with power to be the son of God by his resurrection from the dead: Jesus christ our lord" (rom. 1: 4).
Why did he come?
Jesus came to make God known to us and to restore us to fellowship with him.
Mankind was eternally separated from God because of our sinful nature. No one who lives is without sin.
You may say, "but i'm a pretty good person." Have you ever in your life lied about anything? Have you ever acted in self-interest in a way that hurt someone else? Have you ever let anyone down? No human being is perfect enough to be without sin.
Jesus came, born of God, without sin. In doing this for us, he bridged the gap between us and a holy God.
"the word (that is, Jesus) became flesh and made his dwelling among us. We have seen his glory, the glory of the one and only, who came from the father, full of grace and truth" (john 1: 14).
He lived the life of a man in complete submission to God, his father. He showed us what humanity was meant to look like. Then, he paid the price that we could not pay. His sinless life was given as a sacrifice in our behalf.
"for God so loved the world that he gave his one and only son, that whoever believes in him shall not perish but have eternal life" (john 3: 16).
Jesus is God's provision for our greatest need. Faith in Jesus is what heals our broken relationship with God and secures our eternal life with him.
What do i do about it?
"Jesus, i've been going my own way. I turn away now from my self-determined life and i place my trust in you to be my lord and my savior. Thank you for dying for me on the cross. Thank you that i am forgiven of my sin. I want to be your disciple. Teach me how to be more and more like you. I give myself to you today. Amen."
If you prayed this or a similar prayer, it is just the beginning of a lifelong journey with God. It is important to pray and read the bible regularly. And also, it is important to gather with others who are following Jesus so that you can all grow in your walk with christ.


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It takes a gifted artist to become a great teacher and those who dare to teach never cease to learn.
Friday, December 19, 2014
Tuesday, December 16, 2014
Bartram exhibit now displayed at UC Berkeley, CA
From the exhibit: Panicum virgatum by Susan Curnutte
"Following in the Bartram's Footsteps" exhibit features 44 original artwork in the style of John Bartram and is now on display at the UC Berkeley Botanical Garden's through February 2015.
You can find out about the exhibit details by clicking here. You can watch an excellent video about the exhibit by clicking here.
Monday, December 15, 2014
Botanical Illustration 2014 scholarship recipients
(Stones (2012), colored pencil by Elizabeth Lafemina)
Each year the School of Botanical Illustration awards scholarships for new students who are 15 years or older and planning to enroll in any of the required classes in Denver Botanic Gardens School of Botanical Art and Illustration. In 2013 we have five recipients:
1. Elizabeth Lafemina is already enrolled in the courses at SBAI since the past summer. She likes to learn how to render a subject accurately; and to master technically to capture the true identity and structure of plant while depicting its beauty. Her desire is to help the illustration field to grow through pioneering new opportunities, illustrating extinct or rare species or educating others.
(Polyporales (2014), watercolor by Stephanie Oliver)
2. Stephanie Oliver has been taking our botanical illustration classes already and would like to use her skills to do scientific illustrations for museums and scientific papers involving extinct and extant plant species, as well as create public awareness of the many plants and bird species that we may lose in the future as our planet changes.
(Magnolia, watercolor by Laurel Sprenger)
3. Laurel Sprenger will start in our school in 2015. Her background is in botany and she would like to develop her observation and drawing skills and apply that into her greeting card business and illustrating children's books.
(Swallowtail, pen and ink with watercolor by Sage Stowell)
4. Sage Stowell has a degree in environmental studies and is planning to start our courses in 2015. Her goal is to illustrate field guides and textbooks, and pursue a graduate degree in botany.
(Stain glass painting by Julie Talty)
5. Julie Talty will enroll in our courses in 2015. She is a practicing artist and has been painting, sculpting, welding and drawing. She has also been practicing performing arts. With her own words she needs to improve in the range of values, perspective, composition.
Congratulations to all of you and welcome to the School of Botanical Art and Illustration!
Saturday, December 13, 2014
Susanne Stutzman is an illustrator, wilderness advocate, and supporter of wolverine re-introduction in Colorado. She graduated from our School last year (2013).
Susanne Stutzman is an illustrator, wilderness advocate, and supporter of wolverine re-introduction in Colorado. She graduated from our School last year (2013).
Monday, December 8, 2014
Winter/Spring 2015 courses open for registration
(Mary McCauley, colored pencil)
Our Winter/Spring 2015 classes will open for registration tomorrow, December 9th, 9 a.m. If you misplaced your new catalog, you can download and print a new one by clicking here.The on-line registration site can be reached here, please note that the winter and spring courses appear now as sold out, they will go off-line between 00:00 a.m. and 08:59.99 a.m. on tomorrow, December 9th and on 09.00 a.m. they are all on-line again and ready for the registrations.
Good luck with the registration and remember that our courses typically sell out very fast -
Friday, December 5, 2014
El Charco del Ingenio in San Miguel de Allende, GTO, Mexico
Our School has partnered with El Charco del Ingenio in San Miguel de Allende, GTO, Mexico since 2009 and we have offered botanical illustration classes there 3 - 4 times/year. Our collaboration will continue and in 2015 we have planned to offer three 5-day-long workshops: one in March, one in July and the last one for the year in December.
Laurence Pierson was the teacher for our most recent workshop that ended today.
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With "decolonization" becoming the buzzword in pro-Beijing circles, Hongkong Post is said to be mulling plans to cover up the British royal insignia that many old mailboxes in the city still bear.
The department said in March that it is not desirable to have postboxes that show various royal cyphers from different British reigns.
Now it has decided to use metal plates to cover the cyphers, according to two local groups that have been lobbying for preservation of the old postboxes.
The department, however, assured that it will place seven old mailboxes inside historical buildings to ensure their preservation, Ming Pao Daily cited the groups — the Conservancy Association, and the Mailboxes Searching Team — as saying.
There are now 59 postboxes bearing cyphers of King George V, King George VI and Queen Elizabeth II. The most special one is an oval shaped mailbox in Central that features a Scottish Crown.
As of now, old mailboxes with royal cyphers are said to make up for about 5 percent of the total mailboxes in Hong Kong.
The Conservancy Association and the Mailboxes Searching Team — a local preservation organization – have both strongly voiced their opposition to the plans to change the old mailboxes.
Activists say the number of colonial postboxes has already gone down significantly over the years. In 1997, when Hong Kong returned to Chinese rule, the city was said to have had 144 such old mailboxes.
Lee Siu-man, senior public affairs manager of the Conservancy Association, said the reason given by the Hongkong Post was lame.
Describing the old postboxes as "living heritage", he questioned the department's plans to transform them.
Sin Wai-man, founder of the Mailboxes Searching Team, also expressed similar views, pointing out that the royal ciphers reflect the territory's history.
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When you plan your Travel to Italy next vacation, take note that you will be going to one of the most visited countries in Europe and worldwide.
During summers Italy is usually packed. The beaches are crowded, lots of traffic in the cities and lines at the entrance of the tourist attractions. But this is what everybody loves of Italy. It is a warm country with great people and great food; and above all, a vast history that opens up before our eyes as we walk its trails and cities.
On this site we explain each city and attraction in depth. I have been blessed with having been many times in Italy, I go by with Italian because of my Spanish and enjoyed every single place or beach in this amazing country. Here is a summary of the main attractions of Italy.
Please visit our page on Italian Beaches
Il Duomo in Florence is a major attraction
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Mount Etna – In Catania is the tallest active volcano in Europe and the second most active in the world.
Taormina – Enjoy the beautiful sight of the Bove valley.
Temple of Segesta – This is an unfinished fifth century Doric temple with no roof and no interior.
Riserva Naturale Orientata dello Zingaro – A natural reserve in Castellammare del Golfo
Valley of the Temples – Valle dei Templi in Agrigento
Ustica, Palermo – This is a little volcanic island off the coast of Palermo
Ortygia, Syracuse – An offshore island occupied by Greek colonists. The remains can still be seen today.
Isola Bella, Taormina – This is an area with the most beautiful beaches.
Cattedrale di Palermo, Palermo – This cathedral, built in 1184, replaced a Muslim Mosque
Catacombs of the Capuchins – The Catacombe dei Cappuccini), Palermo
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Visit the most beautiful villages surrounding the lakes
Enjoy breathtaking views of the Italian lakes such as Lake Garda, Lake Como, Lake Maggiore and Lake Lugano.
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Gornergrat Bahn in Zermatt – Is a picturesque train ride.
Jungfraujoch, Bernese Oberland – A trip to the highest railway station
The Matterhorn – The most famous mountain overlooking Zermatt in the Swiss Alps
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The country of Malaysia splits into two distinct regions, where the South China Sea pours in between. The peninsular Malaysia embraces 11 states and 2 federal territories (Kuala Lumpur & Putrajaya), while the East of Malaysia nestles two other states, Sabah and Sarawak, also not forgetting a third federal territory, the Island of Labuan. So as you can imagine, geographically, Malaysia is almost as diverse as its culture!
Though divided into two parts, one thing is for sure─ the stable multi-cultural climate for harmonious relations among people of diverse cultural and ethnic backgrounds. Malays, Indians, Chinese and ethnic communities all in one bubbling and bustling melting pot, creating eclectic gastronomical pursuits and a home that hosts hundreds of colorful festivals. It's no surprise why Malaysians love a good party.
If you yearn for the exhilarating sense of adventure, Sabah is the perfect place for jungle trekking, cave exploration, white water rafting, mountain climbing or deep sea diving. Your taste for the exotic culture will be more than sated by the numerous ethnic customs and celebrations which include living in longhouses or homestays and tasting the potent rice wine called "lihiing" or "hiing". Alternatively, you can just laze all day on a secluded private beach or tee off in a championship golf course in any of the many world-renowned holiday resorts.
The charisma of Malaysia is shaped by a palpable yet palatable contrast of themes. Towering skyscrapers cast shadows upon wooden houses built on stilts while luxury jungle lodges can be found deep within virgin rainforests. Lofty mountains peak through the clouds while dense rainforest-clad slopes stretch into floodplains thriving with wildlife. Highland hideaways roll down unto warm sandy shores. It's the best of both worlds.
The East of Malaysia, or better known as the wild island of Borneo sits poised amidst the whirs of ancient folklore and mystical legends.
The tittle-tattle that enkindles the east is mystical, mysterious and one of primeval essence. The Eden of the East summons mystical images of an unknown and unexplored world. But both Sabah and Sarawak's bloom into sovereignty was a struggle through centuries of various South East Asian game of thrones by the Bruneian empire, the Japanese Occupation, the British colony and the Sultans of Sulu. Outsiders lusted for the wealth of both lands that is brimming with an abundance of natural resources.
Sabah was a gem for British business in the late 19th century, when it was known was North Borneo and administrated by the British North Borneo Company. After much resistance, revolts and rebellion against the British colonization, the Japanese occupation and the Bruneian rule, North Borneo attained self-government on 31st August 1963.
However, Sarawak's strut towards independence was a result of an adventurous English man by the name of James Brooke and his success in pacifying revolts between the native's rebellion against Brunei's authority, which then rewarded him the title as First Rajah of Sarawak in 1841. After years of the White Rajah's ruling from one bloodline to the next, after years of problems like piracy and armed resistance by the natives, a new constitution was granted in 1941 by the Rajah which paved the way for self-governance by the people. And finally, Sarawak achieved its independence within Malaysia in 1963.
Tribal traditions remain as the heart-beat of these two states. 32 ethnicities make up for Sabah's 3 million plus inhabitants, the largest indigenous groups are the Kadazan-Dusun, Murut and Bajau. The first two are hill tribes, which are comprised of many sub tribes, while the Bajau are a nomadic sea-faring people who live throughout the Maritime (island) region of Southeast Asia.
The Kadazandusun folklore lives on as one of the more popular legends that envelopes the Majestic Mount. Kinabalu. The Kadazan-Dusun tribe honor the mountain as a resting place for the spirits of their departed, and thus it is sacred to them. The Rungus are arguably the most traditional of the indigenous tribes, a sub-tribe of the Kadazandusun the Rungus live mostly in the north near Kudat, many still live in longhouses.
The East's native allure further spreads to the "Land of the Hornbill", Sarawak rich with 40 ethnicities, each with its own language and customs. Major ethnic groups include the Iban – the state's largest group who were formerly known as headhunters. Iban are a longhouse-dwelling people with an impressive knowledge of the flora and fauna of Sarawak. Other groups include the Melanau – fishers and farmers believed to be one of the original settlers of Sarawak and who still practice many traditional animist customs; the Bidayuh – land-dwellers mainly concentrated in the west of the island; and the Orang Ulu – a group including many river and plateau-dwelling tribes. The majority members of most tribes have adopted either Muslim (Melanau) or Christian (Iban, Bidayu and Orang Ulu) beliefs, though some still practice traditional.
The East of Malaysia is a treasure trove of natural and cultural delights. Borneo takes you on a trip to where nature is at its most flamboyant, to where the jungles still evoke primordial mystery, to where the great apes dwell, Borneo will take you for a walk on the wild-side.
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Click here to first learn how to create your Studio Packages. Then you will be ready to sell the packages to your clients, as per the steps in this article.
Selling the package to the client.
Add your client to POS and click the Add Items link.
In the pop up window click the Package button.
On the right side panel select the desired package from the menus, and Save.
The Package will be added to the clients sale for you to Receive Payment, select payment type and Finish Sale.
Making appointments for pre-paid services, which are a part of a pre-paid package.
Once you have sold the package to your client, you can book in their pre-paid services. Go to the client'sclient card and in the Visits section click Packages.
As you can see the status is Pending for each of the pre-paid services, they are yet to be booked in and redeemed. To book one in, click the Lock In next to it link and you will taken across to your Appointments diary. The Clipboard (on the right side panel) is holding onto the service while you navigate your way around the Appointment page until you settle on the day you wish to book the appointment for.
Once you find your day, using the calendar icon in Appointments, simply click the time slot you wish to book the service into. The appointment will booked in and will automatically turn grey to indicate that it has already been paid for.
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There is one other way to redeem services which are a part of the clients pre-paid package. You can simply make the appointment for the service directly into the Appointments book. Click the clients name, Add Client To Sale and you'll notice a yellow star come up next to the price of any services which are already pre-paid as part of the clients package. Click the yellow star next to the price and redeem as part of the package.
The service will disappear from POS as it has already been paid for.
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Reviewed by Charlotte Bailey
It begins ("Baadoom!") as Gaza is being bombed. The trail of destruction of human life becomes evident through the next few chapters – "I'm OK. What's new? A student of mine got killed. It's hardly the first time, is it?" This certainly isn't a light read. Yet, cutting through the serious tone of the protracted conflict is a plot driven by relatable characters, sensitively portrayed. At the forefront are twenty-something year old twins Iman and Rashid, the latter tragically in love with a girl who does not love him back, as they struggle to find their way – their "destiny" – in a confusing world.
Against these mundane strains, the extraordinary horror of the war at the core of the book stands in stark contrast. Sabri – the eldest sibling – has had his legs blown off in a blast that also killed his wife and baby, while one of the most beautiful aspects of the novel is the depressingly evocative descriptions of the wartorn landscape. "Smoke leaked out of places where the earth had been hit, as though the horizon itself had been punctured; whorles of it twisted and expanding…"
Furthermore, Dabbagh masterfully represents the complexities of family relationships: the legless Sabri is slightly jealous that the significantly less studious Rashid has a scholarship to study in the UK. Rashid is used to getting stoned as a way of escaping, but now has a real way to get "out of it" and into the arms of his sort-of-girlfriend Lisa.
As such, the story moves to London where Rashid is amazed by the dryness of English toast. Here, the representation of the clash of cultures between Palestine, the Gulf and London and the tugging and confusion felt by these young, frequently displaced people, most acutely embodied in the unhappy and frustrated Iman, is heartbreaking. Uncomfortable in her own skin, simultaneously mindfully and mindlessly angry and determined not to become like her mother (who channels her dissident rage into pickling vegetables) she is easy prey for an extremist group. To avoid such a fate she is sent to join her father in the Gulf and then to be with Rashid in London. Her heart still in Palestine, like Rashid she is awestruck in London, in particular by how little people care about the suffering in her homeland that she affects her so acutely.
They all end up a little closer to understanding their "destiny". For Rashid, his fate is shocking and unexpected but "once he found it he became wired with a sensitivity to his surroundings that he had never previously experienced." The haunting ending to the novel is simultaneously uplifting and so, in its finale, the novel draws the reader into the dark bizarreness of war as it has done throughout the book.
Written by an author already praised for her short stories, this is a stunning debut. Compelling and evocative, it's the book's humanity that will truly touch readers.


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Donna Louise here. I'm feeling better now after coming down with some nasal thing. My friends have diagnosed me with allergies which are now, and will continue to be, affected by the mold. Seems the winter was not cold enough to kill it all and now mold colonies threaten to take over the world.
Then there were the friends who told me that I brought this cold on myself as a way to stop and rest for a few weeks. "Donna Louise, you've had so much happen to you since the beginning of the year that, once your body relaxed, you could experience being sick to recover." The logic of that argument escapes me.
My BBFF, Bob, told me he didn't believe those people. "You just got sick. Who wouldn't given the warm, sunny, 80 degrees days followed by the cold, gray 35 degree days." That's one reason I like Bob. He doesn't lay a guilt trip on me…usually.
After the threat of snow, which did not happen, and a hard freeze, which also did not happen, and a forecast for the mid- to upper-50s today, I'm healed. I will leave the house soon for the closest branch of the public library to pick up my zombie detective mystery by Kevin J. Anderson. With book in hand I'll go visit my friend at the tea shop and find out what's been happening in her life lately, followed by lunch and then tea and cookies with friends at 4. Sounds like a wonderful day.
As my birthday anniversary approaches, I'm planning several events to celebrate another year completed. A dear friend and her husband have asked me to dinner on Saturday and the ballet. Normally I would not attend a ballet, who needs to see dancing anorexia, but my friends have scored tickets for Les Ballet Trockadero de Monte Carlo.
When Daphne told me her plans for our evening, I must have sounded less than happy because she said, "They're men in tutus doing ballet. What's not to like about drag ballet?"
I breathed a sigh of relief because I thought it was one of those state ballets, but Icouldn't argue with her about fun of seeing me in pink (I hope they're pink) tutus. If I understood correctly, the troupe will dance "Laurencia," a Soviet-era ballet where the peasants rise up and kill the evil Commander who has taken Laurencia to "know" her (if you get my drift) and imprisons her husband, Frondoso. The proletariat won't stand oppression of their kind and rise up…typical Soviet-era ballets from all that I've seen. All power to the people! Sounds perfectly dreadful, but with men in tutus going en pointe and whirling around the stage appeals to me. So I'm off to the ballet on Saturday night.
Speaking of power to the people, planning session will occupy a great deal of my time in the coming week or so. On May Day SIS (Sisters in Struggle) plans a big parade and demonstration in honor of women and their right to control their own bodies. The Penile Auxiliary will march in the parade. I never grow tired of seeing huge penises marching in precision drills.
One of the women's groups has made a huge globe which they will carry in the parade with an equal number of men. At some point they will walk away leaving the guys to carry the burden of the world on their shoulders alone. It's a visual aid.
Some of the women may go topless, but that depends on how warm it is on the day of the march. We're sure to attract a crowd.
Spring is here…again…and a young woman's thoughts turn to borrowing books from the public library. I've got to go before the homeless people take control of the first floor. Bless their hearts, some of them haven't bathed for at least two years and the library is always too hot on days like today. At least the guys are polite. Ah, such is life in the early part of the 21st century.


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Shambel Zeru fled violence in his home country of Eritrea, lived in a refugee camp in Ethiopia and is now a senior at South High School. Zeru's trip to Washington was part of the Refugee Congress, which included one refugee from each state. Zeru shared his story with Colorado Matters host Nathan Heffel.
Listen to Shambel's interview here: Colorado High Schooler Advocates For Refugees On National Stage


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I also went up against the man and prevailed. You see, a couple of weeks ago, I got a jury duty summons. I was due to report to court today. I had resigned myself to just going, but then Jason reminded me that I'm not technically a California resident, and therefore not obligated to serve. Because Jason's home of record with the Navy is Massachusetts, we pay taxes there and our various civic duties are owed to the commonwealth. All I had to do was fax some paperwork over to the county courthouse, and I was off the hook. Woohoo! An unobstructed workweek for me. Hmm, maybe I shouldn't be so excited about that...
Over the weekend I did some relaxing, but also some exercising, some cleaning, and some grocery shopping. It was my last weekend as a boat widow, so I wanted to get things in order around here before the husband hurricane returns.
I hung some pictures in the living room and in the hall outside our bedroom:
I had to evict the barn spider from the web she had strung from our patio roof overhang all the way over to her original web on the sliding door. I felt bad destroying her hard work, but there are plenty of other places for her to build a web that don't involve me inhaling it every time I go outside. You can't see the web in the picture, but she's hanging in the center of it. It was strung perpendicular to the two wind chimes. It was huge!
Had I left it there, this is what I imagine would have happened to me eventually:
Oh, and one more thing. These guys:
Look like my guys when they were little:


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Spanning five years the trial will assess will the impact of the beavers' activity on the long-term sustainability and maintenance of the "slowing the flow" artificial wooden dams. The dams have been helping to protect areas including nearby Pickering from flooding. This will be the first time in the United Kingdom that the effects beaver have on artificial dams has ever been studied.
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|Release Date: August 8, 2017
from Berkley Books
Goodreads | Amazon
"New York Times bestselling author Tara Sue Me is back with a scorching new romance--tenth in the
Submissive series.
Lynne has not wanted for anything since she began working as Nathaniel and Abby's nanny--until the night they invite her to a group BDSM meeting. The abrupt breakup she had with her last Dom made her turn her back on the lifestyle, but now she's ready to dive back in. When she starts chatting on online BDSM message boards, she's shocked to discover Simon, her former Dom, is a frequent poster--and even more shocked at herself when she creates a secret identity and strikes up a conversation.
After messaging with a mysterious submissive online, Simon forms an immediate connection. Lynne and Simon's D/s relationship grows in intensity, but can their relationship survive after the truth is exposed, and Lynne's identity is laid bare?"
My Thoughts:We are now ten books into this series and it continues to deliver. Simon and Lynne were both so great and I loved them together so much. As always, the book was ridiculously steamy but it still had a ton of heart.
Lynne and Simon are a second chance romance and that is one of my favorite tropes. I loved them both individually and together and I so loved that they were exactly what one another needed. Their chemistry was crazy intense and I loved that even though they had drama they were never over the top angsty.
So a big part of this book relies on secrets between the couple and I'll be honest, secrets are not something I deal with well, especially when I am in on the secret. It's just a plot line that typically makes me crazy. However, Tara Sue Me made it work. She sold me on something I don't typically love and I think that says a lot. The key is that it doesn't drag forever and the fall out is realistic and painful, but also dealt with maturely.
One thing these books always tech me is that I am SOOOOOO not submissive in nature, cause oh my how the guys drive me insane. I get so cranky with them and I typically argue with them in my head and try to make the heroine say what I'm saying. But at the same time, I always love the dynamic between the characters. Just goes to show you don't always have to fully relate to a story to love it.
The Flirtation is another great addition and I love getting to check in on past characters again. I swear, I could read about these characters forever and never get bored and I kinda hope I get to.


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This is an interesting question that I was asked recently;
I hope you can give some guidance here. The rules in golf in general can be summarised in my opinion, with "is it fair?" In a situation where there is casual water on a fairway and the player's ball is in this area quite close to the edge of the fairway, but the rough is severe, does this mean in order to take relief he doesn't actually get relief. This would make the definition of relief nonsensical in my opinion. I guess he would be better off taking a penalty and drop, keeping the point where he picked up between him and the hole. In my humble opinion this would not be in the spirit of the game and if it was match play I would allow my opponent a drop giving him relief not nearer the hole?Although the Rules of Golf are intended to be equitable their correct application may not always result in an outcome that players perceive to be fair. Of course, this is also true of the game of golf. If you were watching The Open Championship on the wonderful links at Royal St. George's GC in mid-July you will have seen that an excellent drive might glance off a mound in the middle of a fairway and then roll 50 more yards sideways into a pot bunker. Other examples of golf not being 'fair' are when your ball comes to rest in someone else's divot, or an unraked footstep in a bunker; when you have to take mandatory relief (e.g. from a young, staked tree), dropping your ball at a point where your next stroke will be considerably harder than where it lies next to the tree; or when a well struck ball deflects off course signage and bounces back past you, a true instance of a 'rub of the green'. Similarly, one poor shot may end up in a clearing, with a direct line of play to the green, while an arguably better shot comes to rest under the only bush on the course; some balls ricochet off trees back onto the fairway and others into the undergrowth, one player's ball may come to rest just in bounds and another's six inches away out of bounds (as in the photo above); one ball may rattle through branches and fall to the ground, whilst another may stay lodged in the same tree out of reach. This is golf as we all experience it and it is definitely not fair!
The Rules are the Rules. A player whose ball lies in casual water in the circumstances described by the questioner above does have several options. He may play the ball as it lies in the water. He may take relief without penalty by dropping it within one club-length of the nearest point of relief, even though that may be in the deep rough. He may also deem his ball unplayable and take one of the three options afforded by Rule 28, under penalty of one stroke. In the context of the Rules relief does not mean that the player will necessarily get a clear shot from a good lie in the direction that they wish. What it does mean is that the player is permitted to lift and drop their ball in accordance with the Rules to avoid the object, water hazard or abnormal ground condition that was interfering with their lie, stance or area of intended swing. Players have to accept that this will often result in them having to play from a place that is more difficult that where their ball originally lay.
Of course the Rules often work in the player's favour. If you are a regular follower of my blog you will have read just as many instances where a player has benefitted from knowing the Rules and used them to their advantage, as instances where they have incurred penalties for not abiding by them. Regarding the circumstances of the question above, the ball could just as easily been at rest in casual water in the rough where the nearest point of relief was back on the fairway. Players must accept the bad fortune with the good.
There is one more important observation to make concerning the original question. if you offer an opponent or fellow competitor relief when they are not entitled to it under the Rules, and they accept, knowing that they are not entitled to it, then both sides should be disqualified from the competition for agreeing to waive a Rule of Golf (Rule 1-3).
Good golfing,


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Civilization and Its Discontents
explain both the nature of mind, according to Freud, and how it got that way.
1. " Drawing on Civilization & Its Discontents and using the quote from Plato below for your example, concisely and clearly explain Freud's view to your fascinated audience. explain both the nature of mind, according to Freud, and how it got that way.
Leontius, the son of Aglaion, was going up from the Piraeus along the outside of the North Wall when he saw some corpses lying at the executioners feet. He had an appetite to look at them but at the same time he was disgusted and turned away. For a time he struggled with himself and covered his face, but, finally overpowered by the appetite, he pushed his eyes wide open and rushed towards the corpses, saying, "Look for yourselves, you evil wretches, take your fill of the beautiful sight." –Plato


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5th World Choir Games – The TV-Show
März 20, 2010 20:06
The summary of the ORF TV show from 26th July 2008 presents the most beautiful impressions of a unique choir show. The exhibition hall in Graz transformed for one evening into a stage for an international and colourful choir performance.
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III. Frank Teen Sin
did I tell you I fell in love with language
he hatched in the basement of a house
it had moist stone walls and a kind of phosphorescence enough to read by
oh and firelight (a thing california girls crave more than horses)
he lived in the dark with the kind of live things you know by touch
prone to excess fur spare parts
which came up through the drains and holes in memory
ideas like radio waves15 things do not unmake themselves
only pass out of range down a well into the woods
the house itself was technically living
there was the memory of its wood frame and that it reproduced
it was a pastiche that had grown a mouth
15 In free space all electromagnetic waves obey the inverse-square law which states that an electromagnetic waves strength is proportional to 1/(x2), where x is the distance from the source. Doubling the distance from a transmitter means the strength is reduced to a quarter, and so on. Propagation on earth is also affected by a number of other factors determined by the waves path from point to point. This path can be line-of-sight or over-the-horizon, aided by bouncing off the ionosphere. Lower frequency, long-distance propagation follows the curvature of the earth. (http://radiopropagation.quickseek.com)
a Free space is a theoretical perfect kind of emptiness where only the phenomenon you are considering exists.
"Built from the runoff of pop culture with resurrected familial history and electrified by anagrammatic hijinks, F-Stein reanimates the shape of the book. Here is a serial poem in which the recto-verso division highlights the mind's oscillation between information gathering and creative impulse: musically-driven, memory-drenched lines meet internet-heavy notes and nods."
-Noah Eli Gordon, Assistant Professor of English, University of Colorado and author of The Source
Co-founder of Small Desk Press, L.J. Moore lives in San Francisco in a basement by the beach. L.J.'s poetry, essays, photography and reviews have appeared in Spectrum, Midnight Zoo, Danse Macabre, Coracle, 14 Hills, Limestone, Jacket, Kalliope, Transfer, Goetry, Sidebrow and are forthcoming in Instant City. She is also a co-author of a collaborative book of poetry based on found photographs entitled Shadows: The Disappearing Woman.


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The survey revealed that queries from the city regarding sexual health stood at 36% and mental health at 20% over the past one year.
Lybrate, a digital partner of Indian Medical Association, has around 90,000 doctors on its portal and app. Titled 'Lybrate healthscape India-2015', the survey analysed five million online interactions between users (both genders) originating from Hyderabad and doctors between January and December 2015. The other two issues most discussed with doctors by tech-savvy Hyderabadis included lifestyle dilemmas (28%) and women's health issues (16%), the survey revealed.
When it came to their sexual health, queries most often oscillated between issues regarding sexual stamina, premature ejaculation, erectile dysfunction, sex during pregnancy, safe sex and sex libido.
Elaborating on the survey, Saurabh Arora, founder and CEO, Lybrate, said, "Upon analysing the data, the major health problems in the city seem to be sexual and mental health related. We built the plat form to keep the identity of users anonymous so that they can discuss any health problem freely and this is why many people were comfortable talking about these subjects."
Dr K Srinivas, who has been on Lybrate app since its launch in January 2015, feels that sexual and mental problems are interconnected. "It would not be wrong to say that 60% to 70% of sexual problems originate from mental health issues," said Srinivas, neuro-psychiatrist and sex therapist, Maxcure Hospital, Madhapur.Citing an example, he said cases of premature ejaculation could be linked to anxiety, depression, adjustment disorders and to the psycho-social environment of the patient. "Though only 8% to 10% of online queries translate into actual visits, solutions is such cases involve counselling and psychiatric medicines," he added.
Sexual and mental health turned out to be the most discussed issues in other metros as well with queries relating to these subjects amounting to 75% of all discussions in New Delhi, 67% in Mumbai, 49% in Kolkata, 49% in Chennai and 45% in Bengaluru.


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I said a little while back that I was going to start putting translations of songs on to the blog. Today, i'm finally getting round to starting this. Although this blog is first and foremost for my poetry, I believe the work of others to be much more important than my own. Which is why I have chosen to translate German songs into English and share them with you. I will only be doing literal translations and will not attempt to turn them into neat English poetry; I'm very rarely impressed by poetry translations that choose to keep the form and rhyme as meaning is lost and the power of each word is weakened. It's certainly true that the rhythm and flow…which I just happened to talk in about in my last post… can be easily lost in a literal translation, but whatever one does, a translation of poetry will never be as good as the original. So, Below is the original and a translation of the first song I have chosen to look at. Zeitgeist by Faun. All thanks goes to Faun!
Das Rad dreht sich weiter
Doch alles bleibt stehn
Wir versuchen im Dunkeln
Das Licht zu verstehen
Hab keine Angst und
Fürchte nur was dich
Nicht versteht
Das Rad dreht sich weiter
Doch alles bleibt stehen
Wir schließen die Augen,
Als wenn wir nicht sehen
Die alte Welt versinkt
In einem Meer
Aus Ideen
Wohin wollten wir gehen
Wo sind wir nun
Zu tief geschlafen
Um weiter zu ruhn
Noch eines wollen wir
Wenn alles anders wird
Noch eines wollen wir
Uns wieder finden
The Cycle turns further
Yet all stays the same
We try in the dark
to understand the light
Have no worry
and don't fear what you
Don't understand
The cycle turns further
Yet all stays the same
We close our eyes
as if we don't see
The old world sinks
Into a sea
without ideas
Where did we want to go?
Where are we now?
too deeply asleep
to rest further
Still we want one thing
when everything changes
Still we want one thing;
find us again.
Below are two links to the same song-one the studio version and the other a live version. It's worth listening to both as they have a very different feel live, and are one of the best live acts I've come across. If you aren't familiar with the modern style of 'mittelalter' music be aware before listening that it is rather different to most styles about at the moment.
And one last thing. Have a go at naming all the instruments used by this band. Luckily, it's easier to get all the instruments on this song than some of their others!


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Our Vision: New Life Baptist Church is a community of broken people that exists to connect other broken people with a new life in Christ.
Our Mission: Is to be a church that embodies this grace-filled life that allows us to worship freely, love radically, serve willingly, live boldly, and develop maturely.
Our Core Values: The church in Acts Chapter 2 was committed to five core values. Therefore, we embrace these as our core values:
The Word
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Come join us as we kick off our new Wednesday Night Youth school year!
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So, last night I had a Bacchus Belgian Ale, which was a surprise beer for me as I had forgotten where or when I bought the bottle and was just doing a little cellar cleaning. It turned out to be a very nice sour ale. Then after publishing my review, I checked my email and lo' and behold, there's a Sour Beer Tasting event this Friday, March 16th, at one of my local craft beer shops, Pacific Park Market. So I'm going to keep riding the Sour Beer train this week.
Below is the content of the email invitation, along with a link to the Facebook event page. I'm planning on attending, so I hope to meet you there. I'll be the guy in the Beer Soaked sweatshirt.
Ken at Pacific Park Market hosts beer and wine tasting events throughout the year in the tasting corral in the middle of his store. At these tastings, he not only shares bottles that he has available for sale, but also breaks into his personal stash to share some goodies as well. In the past beer tasting events that I've attended, there were always lots of craft beer fanatics like ourselves hanging out and having a good time. Ken is very knowledgeable about this stuff so I'm looking forward to learning a bit more about Sour Beers this Friday. Fair warning, it can get a tad bit crowded as there's always a great turnout. (I've never been to one of the wine events, but I'm sure they're great too, if you like that sort of thing.)
The Event Details
This week! (By popular demand)
Sour Beer Tasting
Friday, Mar 16, 6p – 8p
$5 per person
– Cuvee des Jacobins Rouge
– New Belgium La Folie
– Russian River Consecration
– Oud Beersel Kriek
And from my stash (so far)
– Russian River Consecration (batch 2)
– Bruery Pinot Lambicus
Ever wondered about these odd sour beers on the shelf? Come by Friday night and give them a try!
Historians speculate that the first "beers" made by man, were in fact, sour ales, fermented by wild yeasts and bacteria, so come get a taste of history.
As always, keep checking on our Facebook page, and the event page there to stay updated on last-minute beers to be added to the lineup.
The Location
Pacific Park Market
27792 Aliso Creek Road, Suite B100,Aliso Viejo, CA 92656 – (949) 831-0330