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Smarketing for Beginners
It never ceases to amaze me how many modern marketers don't have a defined funnel where they can identify points of leverage and focus for their teams!
The Marketing Funnel
The Top Of the Funnel (or "TOFU") is normally considered a function of the traffic to the website - which is mostly true. The net number of website visitors that come to your site and have a chance to convert into a lead form the very top of the funnel. However, non-sales qualified leads (such as ebook downloads, webinar registrants, etc.) can also be considered part of the TOFU goals. For example, you may have a leads goal of 50,000 leads per month at the top of the funnel, but a different goal for sales qualified leads in the middle of the funnel. Organic visits (through SEO and blogging), social media, PPC, and offline advertising can drive more traffic while effective calls-to-action, landing pages, and non-transactional research phase downloadable offers (like ebooks) can help generate TOFU leads from that traffic.
MOFU (or the "Middle Of the FUnnel") refers to the ability to take TOFU leads and nurture them to be sales-accepted. Turning an ebook download into a marketing-qualified lead (MQL) - such as a free consultation conversion - which is significantly more likely to result in a sale for the sales rep can be accomplished through effective e-mail and social media nurturing. Although email and social media belong to all the other phases of the marketing funnel, the place in which they're most under-utilized is in MOFU. You can use email and social media automation to create a scalable method of nurturing leads, but remember that consumers don't self-segment into "TOFU Leads" and "MQLs". For them, the movement down the consumer buying cycle is a integrated and interrelated experience with various elements including your website, social engagement, e-mail communications, and other elements.
An all-too-often ignored part of the funnel is the bottom. Marketing teams often assume that once a lead has been converted into a sales opportunity - or even a full-fledged customer - that their job is finished. However, since marketing teams typically have the time and data to control the MOFU tools such as e-mail automation and social media engagement, as well as the data analytics to know what types of content and conversions have a significant correlation to a lead moving into a different stage of the funnel, it makes sense for marketing to be involved in nurturing sales opportunities that are lost as well as being responsible in part for the customer LTV output.
The Consumer Buying Cycle
Although there are many different variations in the description and defined phases of the consumer buying cycle, all cycles look fairly similar. By exploring the buying cycle along with the marketing funnel, we can see how they interact.
The awareness phase of the buying cycle is where the consumer acknowledges that they have a problem that needs solving. For example, I've moved to Nashville and I need a car now because Nashville doesn't have a great mass transit system to ferry me around. However, ground transportation is a very broad category with lots of possibilities!
The research phase is where I aggregate and organize the possible solutions relating to my newfound ground transportation needs. If, for example, you sell floor mats for cars on your eCommerce website, you can still create content that targets me here since my journey will eventually bring me to a point where I'd be prospective customer for your floor mats. However, by the time I reach a phase of the buying cycle where I'm searching for terms like "floor mats for cars" you're going to find it difficult and expensive to compete for my attention against long-tail commodotized firms like Amazon. Capturing me here is analogous to generating a TOFU lead in the marketing funnel. I may or may not be the most qualified lead and it may be that only 1 out of every 20 me's actually buys, but it's much easier to compete for my attention.
Once I've researched the potential issues and identified some possible solutions, I'll begin refining and comparing my options to each other. For example, I could take a taxi to work every morning - but that's super expensive. Jet packs always fuss up my hair, so those are out. A car would probably be the best solution, but there are many kinds! I care about gas mileage, so maybe a hybrid would be a good idea, but I'm not sure if I can stomach my friends mockery for driving a Nissan Leaf (this is the South, after all).
As I continue to analyze and weigh what's important to me and gather all the facts, I refine my options to eliminate Jet Packs, taxis, and Bentley's and wind up at deciding on a Prius (yes, I actually did buy a Prius - the mockery is outweighed by the ridiculous gas savings).
I want to buy a Prius. I know I want to buy a Prius. However, cars are notorious for having the MSRP much higher than what the dealer will settle for. Now that I know what I intend to buy, it's a question of deciding from whom I should buy it. There are many factors that enter here, such as my trust in the seller or timeline for delivery, but this phase is where I'm the most price sensitive.
If you're focusing your marketing efforts on capturing consumers already in the intent phase of the buying cycle, you're going to end up competing against large firms with much lower acceptable profit margins. Also, even if you do win a customer from this phase, because you neglected building a value-added relationship based on research and guidance you'll wind up with a price sensitive customer who's less likely to remain loyal that one that you captured in a earlier phase and nurtured through.
Once I actuall complete the purchase, you have a unique opportunity to leverage me for feedback into my buying cycle. Some of this may be survey-reported feedback, such as the Net Promoter Score for the brand or the sales associate, and some of it may be attribution-oriented feedback such as how I originally found your website (what PPC campaign, what time of day I clicked through on Twitter, what eBook I first downloaded, etc.). Also, this phase is where marketers have the opportunity to capitalize on the excitement and anticipation to upsell and cross sell materials.
A customer who makes a single purchase from you isn't the one that brings the greatest value. If I buy a $25k car and Jasmine buys a $28k car, but I come back for maintenance and buy tons of accessories, retaining me actually brings you more value that the slightly higher initial sales price of Jasmine's car. Marketers should focus on using social media, e-mail, and other customer communication technologies to communicate educational and value-added content to the customer. By making the marketing communications value-oriented for the consumers, the marketer is given a plausible pretense for engaging the consumer in post-sale transactional nurturing when it's time for maintenance, or they have a new model, or there are cool related accessories, etc.
Amplification & Advocacy
A metric that is much more difficult to track is the impact of amplification and advocacy by consumers. I never cease to be amazed by the number of business owners who claim that there primary method of driving more business is "word of mouth", yet they don't track any metrics that are related to word of mouth (such as Net Promoter Score). If specific products have a low NPS, or specific marketing collateral, or specific sales tactics, then you may actually be hurting your brand.
During the post-purchase phase, marketers should take advantage of the buyer's high and anticipation to ask them to share their experience in social media. However, marketers should remember that different buyer persona's have unique motivations for social sharing, and should align the value proposition and user interface accordingly. One buyer persona may respond to a blog article about awesome accessories, one may just need to be asked, and one might better respond if they get a discount or rebate for sharing, etc.
Marketing Unit Economics
The phases of the funnel are also the expressed component parts of the unit economics of a business equation. Analyzing the acceptable thresholds of your costs for visits, leads, and customers let's you know if focusing on one aspect of the funnel will drive greater overall enterprise value for your business. Keep in mind that each individual traffic source has it's own unit economics that you can calculate, as well as segmenting the economics by buyer persona.
You can make these numbers much more complicated, but that's what writing books is for. For the purposes of this article, I'm only defining the basics of how to calculate this to illustrate the thought process.
Cost Of Visit Acquisition (COVA)
Fairly simple and straight forward, the COVA is the amount of money invested into a given channel divided by the number of visits. If you have a social media marketing manager who makes $30k/year, and your site gets 30k visits from social media per year, then your COVA from social media is $1/visit.
Cost Of Lead Acquisition (COLA)
The COLA is the cost per visit from each source divided by the conversion rate for that source. For example, if your visit-to-lead conversion rate from social media is 5%, and the cost per visit is $1, then your COLA from social media is $20.
Cost Of Customer Acquisition (COCA)
The COCA is, then, the COLA divided by the conversion rate for that source. If your lead-to-customer conversion rate is 10% (i.e. your sales reps close one out of every ten leads you send them from social media), then your overall COCA is $200. Not bad if you're selling airplanes, really bad if you're selling iPad covers.
This illustrates how each part of the funnel's unit economics are influenced by the conversion rates.
Allocating Resources
When the above exercise is complete and your business has a beautiful, defined, measurable funnel for marketing dollar to customer value, the next step is to decide where to invest your resources. Even large, sophisticated marketing teams typically have to focus primarily on a single part of the funnel at a time. Most marketing teams are heavily focused on TOFU because it's one of the most easily trackable metrics - as well as the easiest for the marketing team to influence.
However, if the top of the funnel is growing normally and performing effectively and you're managing your cost-of-visit-acquisition but your lead-to-customer rate is performing poorly, it might make sense to focus on improving the quality of leads by identifying common characteristics of leads that do close and leads that don't - rather than simply blaming the sales team.
Of course, this is why CMO's exist - to make the hard choices of steering the direction of the marketing team's focus - so there's no set formula for deciding where the most leverage is in your marketing funnel. What matters most is the rational calculus of deciding where investing resources will have the greatest impact down your funnel. If, for example, your wonderful marketing team is generating 50,000 leads per month, it might not make sense to push everyone super aggressively to try and hit 55,000 leads per month when the lead-to-customer close rate is hovering at 1%. It may make more sense to segment and focus on how the marketing team can empower the sales team with collateral or better nurture leads to become sales ready to improve the efficiency of sales rep time.
Remember, at the end of the day the purpose of the marketing organization is to drive measureable value for the sales team. We work for the sales team. Now, this doesn't mean that the VP of Sales is always right - just as the business axiom of the customer always being right isn't necessarily true. But the wonderful thing about inbound marketing is that we can precisely attribute lead conversions to specific marketing actions and types of content attracting specific personas. It's much easier to change our methodology and the leads that we're attracting than it is to change the entire sales organization if the sales organization seems to be unable to close specific types of leads and better at closing others.
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Liar, Liar Pants on Fire:
The Rules For Lawyers Have Changed
"The lawyer is mandated to remedy the falsity, even if it means informing the court that the client is lying ... Thus it is not only truth by others, but as importantly, truth from attorneys that is mandated."
By RICHARD MEEHAN
The Cool Justice Report
Feb. 15, 2008
EDITOR'S NOTE: This column is available for reprint courtesy of The Cool Justice Report, http://cooljustice.blogspot.com
The Rules of Professional Conduct (RPC) are the Bible governing lawyer ethics. Despite the cynicism of some wags, we do try to police ourselves as a profession and adhere to a code that places respect for the process above all other considerations.
Lawyers have always had an obligation to be truthful with the court. Overzealous representation should not lead to an attorney misrepresenting the facts or misleading a court on issues of legal authorities. Traditionally, the RPC required that an attorney not participate actively in presenting false testimony before a tribunal. That rule has been amended to demand even more of lawyers.
Rule 1.6 of the RPC requires lawyers to maintain client confidences. The sanctity of the attorney client privilege is no less than the sanctity of the seal of the confessional between priests and penitents.
But what is the lawyer's responsibility when he learns that a client has given false testimony? Does the privilege mandate attorney silence and allow a subversion of the truth finding purpose of the judicial process?
Win at all costs is not acceptable in our profession. Clients may think that they can tell their lawyer the truth of their involvement and then require the lawyer to sit, silently, as they take the witness stand and blatantly lie. They feel that the privilege insulates them from exposure. After all, how can a lawyer rat out his own lying client?
Rule 3.3(a)(3)of the RPC states: "A lawyer shall not knowingly . . . Offer evidence that the lawyer knows to be false. If a lawyer, the lawyer's client, or a witness called by the lawyer has offered material evidence and the lawyer comes to know of its falsity, the lawyer shall take reasonable remedial measures, including, if necessary, disclosure to the tribunal."
It is no longer a judgment call. Lawyers are mandated to inform the court that a witness, including their client, has offered false testimony. Clearly that obligation imposes a duty of diligence upon an attorney, in the first instance, to understand the substance of intended testimony from any witness. Though powerful, the rule does not require the lawyer to judge credibility. In many trials witnesses tell divergent versions of an event. That does not equate to perjury. Honest mistakes and the frailty of human recollection, faulty at times, do not require an attorney to act under this rule.
The rule does not make a lawyer a guarantor that each witness to be offered is completely truthful.
What if a witness has consistently misled the attorney and then testifies in the same manner? Unless the lawyer has reason to know that the information about to be offered is untrue, he or she has not violated this ethical canon. The key word is "knowingly." As lawyers we pride ourselves on being better than average judges of human character, but our judgment is not infallible.
What happens if the attorney learns subsequent to testimony that his witness or even his client has lied under oath? This is where the rule has its greatest impact. The lawyer is mandated to remedy the falsity, even if it means informing the court that the client is lying. The ramifications for the client are considerable. At the very least the client is exposed by his own counsel to a charge of perjury. In the federal system the sentencing judge can increase the severity of the sentence based upon a theory that the defendant has obstructed justice by giving false testimony.
The rule is not limited to court proceedings but, ". . .applies when the lawyer is representing a client in an ancillary proceeding conducted pursuant to the tribunal's adjudicative authority, such as a deposition." The clear intent of the Commentary and Rule is to require the lawyer to protect any fact finding process from the intrusion of false testimony.
In addition, the rule provides that a lawyer shall not knowingly make a false statement of fact or law to a tribunal or fail to correct a previous false statement made by the lawyer. Thus it is not only truth by others, but as importantly, truth from attorneys that is mandated.
The Commentary that accompanies the RPC states provides greater guidance to the bar. Lawyers must attempt, first, to dissuade a client or witness from offering false testimony. Failing that, the rule allows an attorney to refuse to offer evidence that they know to be false even against the client's wishes. In instances where the lawyer subsequently learns of false testimony, he must first remonstrate with the witness in an effort to educate the witness on the need to be candid and to correct the misleading testimony. Failing cooperation from the witness, the lawyer then must act decisively and inform the court of the lies.
As the Commentary states: "The disclosure of a client's false testimony can result in grave consequences to the client, including not only a sense of betrayal but also a loss of the case and perhaps prosecution for perjury. But the alternative is that the lawyer cooperate in deceiving the court, thereby subverting the truth-finding process which the adversary system is designed to implement."
Thus the integrity of the judicial process far outweighs any false sense of impunity when a client tells his lawyer that he intends to lie on the stand, or the lawyer subsequently learns that such has occurred. Trials are a search for truth, despite Hollywood misconceptions. Lawyers are first and foremost, officers of the court.
Bridgeport attorney Richard Meehan Jr. was the lead defense counsel for former Bridgeport Mayor Joseph Ganim's corruption trial. Meehan is certified as a criminal trial specialist by the National Board of Trial Advocacy since 1994 and serves on the organizations Board of Examiners. He is a Charter Fellow, Litigation Counsel of America -- Trial Lawyer Honorary Society. Meehan has also obtained multi-million dollar verdicts and settlements in complex medical and dental malpractice and personal injury litigation. He is a past president of the Greater Bridgeport Bar Association and appears regularly on Court TV. Website, www.meehanlaw.com

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On Monday I posted part 1 of our Weaning Diary. (This was supposed to be a weekly update but I've decided that the odd update in the week would be handy also [ and easier for me to follow too])
Monday it was mostly all about Baby Led Weaning.
Toast was working really well for us, and still is, and Harry seems to love avocado more than anything. Everything else has had him turning his nose up or throwing up.
I wanted to mix it up a bit so on Tuesday I decided to add some pear to the avocado, blitzed it in the food processor to make it a puree and added it to some toast.
He loved it! At first I thought he'd cottoned on to the fact that I was trying to trick him but he seemed to like it anyway.
He took in too much toast at one point and gagged and didn't seem to want anymore toast after that.
Instead I decided to spoon feed the avocado and pear puree I had made.
The results:
He really enjoyed this so it's given me a bit more confidence to make my own puree's and to try spoon feeding as well as giving finger foods.
I think one of the hard things about weaning is being told either go for purees or baby led weaning. There's never a middle ground of doing both.
I'm going to rip up both rule books. If my baby wants some puree he can have it, if he wants to feed himself some toast, then he can.
Infact this mornings breakfast consisted of banana and cream cheese on toast as well as some puree.
Rules are meant to be broken......


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9 Of the Best Restaurants in Myrtle Beach
No trip to Myrtle Beach, South Carolina would be complete without visiting one of the many restaurants available; all serving a wide range of cuisines and offering a variety of different dining experiences to choose from. In fact, the only downside to visiting the dining scene in Myrtle Beach is having to make up your mind when it comes to which ones to visit!
Of course, in this seaside resort town, seafood is the main staple, and it's the star of the show in many of the signature dishes offered by the town's best dining names. From the borders at Calabash, the self-dubbed "Seafood Capital of the World," to Murrells Inlet, affectionately known as the "Seafood Capital of South Carolina," you'll find a long list of restaurants offering up the best catch of the day.
If you're looking for more variety, then you simply won't get more choice anywhere else than you do on the Grand Strand. With many entertainment complexes and things to do, there's certainly no shortage of eateries, restaurants and diners offering everything from a quick bite to eat to a greasy burger and beer, or a meal before a night out on the town to a lavish 5-star meal at a world-famous fine dining location.
Here are some of the most popular restaurants in Myrtle Beach:
If you are a lover of Italian food, then no visit to Myrtle Beach would be complete without a meal at Rossi's, an authentic Italian restaurant located in a strip mall just off the well-walked Restaurant Row. It may be an unlikely location, but don't be put off – once you've walked through the doors, you'll feel like you've been welcomed into an Italian home, with tasty food and exceptional service that keeps visitors coming back for more on a weekly, monthly or annual basis.
Here you can find all your favorite traditional Italian dishes, such as lasagne, ossobuco, and linguini, with prime cuts of beef and meat that's been seasoned and marinated to perfection. Due to its location, it's one of the best restaurants to choose if you're likely going to follow up with a night on the town.
The Library
Located in the downtown district of Myrtle Beach, in one of the older buildings, The Library has often been described as a hidden gem by its customers, who have been coming back for more since the doors first opened back in 1974. Offering a classic, traditional atmosphere and a menu that is traditional, you can find long-established, yet well-loved European and Continental cuisine available, with famous dishes such as Steak Diane and Strip Au Poivre, served by classy, tuxedo-clad waiters offering impeccable table service. The Library offers something for everyone; with old classics and new, creative and unusual dishes to choose from, you're sure to find something for everybody in your party to enjoy.
Mr. Fish Seafood Market & Grill
If you're heading to Myrtle Beach to sample some of the famous seafood that's been caught on the shores that very day, then Mr. Fish, created and owned by a famous local fisherman, is the place to be. Recently, it has relocated to a newer and more spacious location to accommodate the ever-growing number of guests that keep coming back for more. Offering a comfortable, casual environment, it's the perfect place for seafood lovers to get a spot of lunch or settle down for a satisfying evening meal. Crab cakes, fish tacos, she-crab soup and shrimp and grits are just some of the most popular menu items, which can be ordered in any part of the new multi-room venue, which now includes a sushi station – great for those who want a healthy option.
Collector's Café:
Unique in that this restaurant is also partly an art museum, Collector's Café serves classic American food with an artsy twist. With an extensive menu that makes it quite tricky to narrow your choices down to just one dish, Collector's Café offers a wide range of 'surf and turf' dishes, and takes full advantage of the catch of the day like many other restaurants in this town.
Just some of the most popular menu items are made with key ingredients such as lobster, yellowfin tuna, crab meat, and prime cuts of beef. In addition, the art gallery setting makes it a more romantic choice for a meal than many other options – perfect for Valentine's Day or another special occasion.
SeaBlue Restaurant and Wine Bar
When it comes to the restaurants available to visit on the Grand Strand, SeaBlue isn't the typical option. A modern, trendy diner that looks like it's been plucked out of the fashionable part of a major city, SeaBlue offers a unique and relaxing atmosphere with green and blue lighting that perfectly sets the scene for a romantic meal, or a relaxing evening with friends or family sampling the local food.
The menu has been described as 'filled with masterpieces'; there are a range of fresh seafood or meat dishes to choose from, along with the hugely popular tapas menu. If you're eating before a night on the town, then don't forget to head over to the bar, where you can enjoy some specially mixed cocktails and drinks that you won't find elsewhere.
Greg Norman's Australian Grille
The namesake restaurant of the famous golfer, Greg Norman, has truly shown his passion and flair for food, bringing some of the best flavors of Australia to the South Carolina coast. Native Australian dishes are the star of the show on the menu; you can choose from popular favorites such as pan-seared prawns, the Brisbane-seasoned filet, and a grilled rack of lamb, along with many Australian classics.
If you have food allergies or special dietary requirements, for example, asking the chef to use hemp or vegetable oil instead for your dish, then don't forget to let your server know when you place your order. When you eat here, you're not just going to enjoy great food – you'll also learn about the millions of miles that Norman traveled during his career as a professional golfer, getting to taste some of his favorite foods and dishes that he tried along the way.
Sea Captain's House
Another top restaurant to visit in Myrtle Beach is Sea Captain's House – a great place for fresh seafood that'll keep seafood fanatics happy. A former oceanfront hotel, it became a temporary restaurant all the way back in 1962, during renovations. However, more than fifty years later, the locals and visitors liked the restaurant so much that it quickly became a permanent fixture in the town. With stunning views of the Atlantic Ocean to enjoy while you eat, you can choose from a menu that cooks up only the best of Southern hospitality and cooking.
When it comes to dishes, there's so much to choose from, including their famous seafood platters, to traditional Southern staples like shrimp and grits. Even if you don't like seafood, don't worry – there is plenty here on the menu to choose from for everybody.
Frank's Restaurant
In the prime location of Pawley's Island, home to a historic seaside village, Frank's Restaurant combines traditional Southern hospitality with South Carolina cuisine under the same roof. While Frank's has managed to earn its glowing reputation for the succulent steak and chops on offer, like many other restaurants in Myrtle Beach, it's also one of the best places to visit for seafood dishes, especially the Southern favorite of shrimp and grits.
When it comes to the ambience and atmosphere, this place certainly does not disappoint, with cozy outdoor seating set amidst twisting oak trees and sparkling stars. For a more casual experience, visit their sister eatery Frank's Out Back, which features the same, traditional American dishes with a stronger focus on the local seafood and many unique, casual dining favorites, including a range of tasty wood-fired pizzas.
Bistro 90
Although Bistro 90 is off the beaten path in relation to many of the other popular restaurants in Myrtle Beach, it's definitely worth the travel. Spending extra time getting to this place to taste some of the menu available at Bistro 90 makes it entirely worth it. You can find this restaurant in the small community of Longs, which is located on Highway 90, between North Myrtle Beach and Conway, around ten miles from the coast.
Here you can find a tasty menu filled with classic Italian dishes, selections of fresh seafood, and fresh, succulent cuts of beef that are aged and prepared on-site. Visitors recommend trying the nightly specials, while those who'd like to visit a little earlier in the day can find a delicious lunch menu on offer. With a romantic, ambient atmosphere and first-class service, it's the perfect location for a cozy meal for two or a chilled out dinner with friends or family.
Have you visited any of these popular Myrtle Beach restaurants? Send thoughts and recommendations in the comment section.
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Helmet cam captures Russian skier's shocking fall (VIDEO, PHOTOS)
The skier in question is Ivan Malakov who was competing in a Freeride World Tour event in Fieberbrunn, Austria. The Freeride World Tour is a touring competition held at venues across the northern hemisphere on dangerously steep slopes as skiers and snowboarders compete for title of World Champion.
The video begins with Malakov confidently launching himself down the enormous mountain. He appears to be progressing well until one mistimed turn sees him lose his balance, sending him careening out of control.
Scary moment of my life, falling on last @freerideworldtour comp in Austria... 💩✊ Через несколько дней после падения нашел в себе силы пересмотреть видео со шлема, куда более жесткое чем я мог себе представить! #FWT17 #freerideworldtour #fieberbrunn #ColumbiaRussia #HEADwhatsyourlimit @head_ski #GIROsnow
The Russian, currently ranked sixth on the tour, can he heard gasping and grunting in pain as he tumbles down the incredibly steep slopes. At one point, a sickening crunch can be heard as his body crashes down the mountain.
When he finally comes to a halt, Malakov sounds remarkably calm as he informs rescuers that he thinks he's okay. He explains that he fell on his back and "it's hurting, but not so much." The film finishes with shots of the rescuer's stony faces as they airlift the injured skier off the slope.
The tour later tweeted that Malakov was okay after the accident.
Jeremie Heitz, Ivan Malhakov, Mark Mikos & Dennis Risvoll fell but they are OK and conscious. Join us live on https://t.co/WbhGznjPhC— Freeride World Tour (@FreerideWTour) March 8, 2017
The skier posted an image of a spinal x-ray following his crash, telling his fans that "nothing is broken, I feel bad, but I hope for quick recovery!"
The Russian was one of five skiers who fell during the competition in Fieberbrunn, according to La Côte. The "massacre" prompted skier Nicolas Vuignier to tweet that the organizers should stop the competition.
@FreerideWTour this is a massacre 😨— Nicolas Vuignier (@NicoVuignier) March 8, 2017


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Alexander Bickel
The Judgment of This Court
Judicial review "has the power to construe and apply the Constitution in matters of the greatest moment against the wishes of a legislative majority" (235). Bickler believes that justices must not simply draw upon textual and doctrinal interpretations, but "immerse themselves in the tradition of our society and of kindred societies that have gone before." Chafee: A judge "is likely to be resorting to a body of principles which may have no physical location, but neither has courage nor loyalty nor love of truth" (237).
Bickel wants to know: If there are universal moral truths to be considered in constitutional law, why is it that moral and reasonable people can differ so frequently? (Most cases are not unanimous.) Renan: Truth is constituted of nuances, and these are not equally visible to everyone. Chafee: "We cannot get outside ourselves to do our thinking and each of us inevitably puts something of himself into the general principles"
Frankfurter: Judgment must "rest on fundamental presuppositions rooted in history, to which widespread acceptance may fairly be attributed." Why not let a political institution do this? No, Congress and White House are only suited to find the existing consensus. "The Court should declare as law only such principles as will-in time, but in a rather foreseeable future-gain general assent." Should the court really seek to guide public opinion? This seems far out of line from any judicial I have heard about.
However, consider this example of the value of public opinion. Prof. Black argues that the Supreme Court (1962) would not consider striking down all capital punishment under due process or cruel and unusual punishment. However, it would have been intelligent to say at that time that capital punishment will always be tolerated by U.S. constitutional law. For myself, an easier example is that of Texas v. Johnson, the flag burner arrested at the 1984 national GOP convention. I doubt very much flag burning would have been protected before the 1960s (during WWII or the McCarthy investigations?) Yet now the Supreme Court has recognized it as protected speech.
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Bickel: What passes for "ultimate, final judgment of the Court is quite frequently a judgment ultimate and final for a generation or two" (244). That is fine though, and raises the interesting issue of how much can change in 1.5 generations.
School Segregation Cases (17 May 1954) resulted in no real change in school policy but it was critical because, as Lincoln had said of slavery, "where the public mind shall rest in the belief that it is in course of ultimate extinction" (245-6). By Jan 1955 more than 500 school districts had abandoned segregation, however small a fraction of total segregated school districts. This decree was not the final action of the court on segregation. The force of law is yet to come.
All Deliberate Speed
The court usually gives very specific orders with regard to the circumstances presented by the evidence. However, its power does not derive from circumstantial adjudication but rather from the interpretation and construing of const. law, and the establishment of theory to navigate new and difficult terrain. Bickel (247):
- may only decide concrete cases and may not pronounce general principles at large
- but it may decide a constitutional issue only on the basis of general principle
In desegregation, ruling on behalf of a few dozen minority children is not too difficult. ("Send them to a white school.") However, this does not provide a guide for future integration. Will all black students go to white schools and overload the previously white schools. Will 50% of each school swap places to produce racial equity at both schools? If the previously black school is in much worse condition than that for whites, who is to move and who is to stay? Also, some deficient black schools would not be fully successful in transferring their students to a school whose students enjoy a head start in academic, social, and cultural matters. Successful integration practices are necessary to fulfill the principle of racial equity. The local school bureaucracies are so entrenched in the politics as to be unreliable and the court is forced to detail how segregation will be achieved, but must apply general principle to determine "who, what, where, when, how."
Occasionally, all courts may call for a result within their jurisdiction which is impossible to immediately achieve. Bickel cites anti-trust orders against American Tobacco Co., GM Corp., and DuPont as examples. The court is once again required to set a time table for specific action when the executors of the court order are also defendants.
In addition to accomplishing the effect of the ruling, the court must "gain assent, not necessarily to have it." In drafting judicial orders, the court ignores foreseeable opposition to the detriment of its own objective: the rule of constitutional law. Criminal law succeeds because a very small minority is prosecuted in accordance with the wishes of the overwhelming majority. Prohibition laws relating to sex and gambling usually fail because one large population attempts to prosecute another large population. (Or, in more ironic cases, those prosecuting eventually suffer prosecution under their own prohibition.) Segregation was practiced widely in the South just as drinking and gambling have been popular in the US in most places. Thus segregation is difficult to prohibit directly and some cooperation of the guilty parties becomes prerequisite to integration. Finally, the court does not wield any police power of its own. It assumes that the executive branch will enforce its rulings. In cases which may involve unusual resistance, cooperation in the letter and the spirit is needed from bureaucrats and police. (Bickel notes "there are degrees of enthusiasm in rendering executive support.")


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By BRETT MARSHALL
It is becoming an all too familiar scene for the Garden City Buffaloes baseball team.
And Thursday at Clint Lightner Stadium, in a single game with rival Dodge City, it was another nightmare that has become part of the first half of the season for coach Bill Wilson's Buffaloes.
The Red Demons took advantage of six walks issued by GCHS pitchers Edgar Montoya and Logan Dechant en route to an 11-6 victory, while the Buffscommited five errors and in general, contributed in every way to the Dodge City triumph.
Even after trailing 7-0 at the end of two innings, the Buffs wasted a five-run fourth that pulled them to within one of the Demons, yet couldn't get the tying run across home plate.
Then, the Red Demons pulled away for the second time, scoring twice in the fifth and once each in the sixth and seventh frames. Meanwhile, the Buffs were stymied by reliever Austin Weiser, who slammed the door on the GCHS offense in his three and one-third innings of work. In that time, Weiser struckout seven, walked one and hit a batter.
"We put a couple of people out on base, we drop a fly ball, just so many things that come back to beat you," Wilson said afterward. "Edgar (Montoya) didn't have a good day. He was up in pitches and that's why we pulled him. We've got our pitchers not throwing in their zone and we didn't hit the ball well, for the most part."
If it hadn't been for a big hit, the biggest a player can get, the Buffs would have gone down even more silently.
But Marcos Zapata belted a grand slame home run over the right field fence in the fourth to clear the bases and rally, albeit briefly, the Buffs to within one at 7-6.
"He's a dead-pull hitter and I've told him that when you get one in your zone, go after it and he did," Wilson said of Zapata's blast. "But we just made so many other mistakes. We had base-running mistakes, once getting thrown out at third on a stupid play. We go out and kick a couple of balls and don't cover second base on a steal. Those things are not insurmountable, but it makes it tougher to come back."
Zapata had a single in the first while Isaiah Rodriguez' double in the fourth was the only other hit the Buffs could manage.
The loss dropped the Buffs to 2-7 overall and 0-1 in the Western Athletic Conference. The Red Demons improved to 4-1 overall and 2-1 in the WAC.
Next up for the Buffs will be a 4 p.m. Tuesday home doubleheader against Hays at Clint Lightner.
Dodge City 070 021 1 -- 11 7 2
Garden City 010 500 0 -- 6 3 5
WP--Weiser and Wells; LP--Montoya and Solorio. 2B--Garden City (Zapata). HR--Garden City (Zapata). LOB--Dodge City 6, Garden City 7.
Boys tennis
The Garden City Buffaloes tennis team left Hutchinson on Thursday with a lot of positives as they began a three-day run of tournaments in central Kansas.
The Buffs just missed capturing the Salthawk Invitational, finishing with 52 points to winner Hutchinson Trinity's 53.
Senior Brian Clarke, getting his first competition in singles, won the No. 1 singles division by posting a 4-0 record.
Evan Riggs and Denton Keller placed fourth at No. 1 doubles, going 2-2, while Brevin Irwin and Dozie Ekweariri were 10th in No. 2 doubles and Sebastian Kyaw was 11th in No. 2 singles play.
"Just one win from any spot would have given us the team title," said GCHS coach Rod Robinson. "The second place finish is still nice."
For Clarke, the day was a dominating performance as he lost only six games in the four matches. He defeated Kevin Kraus of Salina South (8-0), Nathaniel Clennan of Trinity (8-2), Tyler Wright of Buhler (8-0) and Evan Bently of Trinity (8-4).
"He played great, winning his first tournament out as a singles player," Robinson said of Clarke, who had been paired for three previous seasons with Riggs at No. 1 doubles. "He pretty much dominated the singles draw today."
Riggs and Keller won their opening two matches, defeating Mitchel Beyers and Lucas Caywood of Buhler (8-4) and Matt Dick and Shawn Bontrager of Newton (8-4) before losing to Hutchinson's Sam File and Collin Queal (8-3) and then dropping an 8-5 match to Eric banning and Dominic Delucas of Trinity.
"They played well at the beginning but then had trouble with the Hutchinson team (File/Queal)," Robinson said. "I'm sure they would like another shot at the Trinity team because they led for most of the match."
Irwin and Ekweariri also went 2-2 in their matches, losing to Salina South's Pierce Carey and Matt Berneking (8-1), defeating Dodge City's Matt Goedeken and Dillon Burkhard (8-1) and then Hari Ramanmon and Ryan O'Neal of Wichita East (8-6) before losing to Beyer and Caywood of Buhler (8-3).
"They played hard in each match and considering it was their first time to be partners, I didn't think it was too bad," Robinson said of Irwin and Ekweariri.
Kyaw also posted a 2-2 record for the day, losing to Trinity's Evan Bently (8-2) and Alex Mansfield of Wichita East (8-7, 8-6 tiebreaker) and then defeating Jerod Fox of Newton (8-3).
"He had a 6-1 lead in the tiebreaker with East, but couldn't get that last point," Robinson said of Kyaw. "He beat two No. 1 singles players, so I don't think he did too badly today."
The Buffs were to play at the rescheduled Salina Central Invitational today before heading to McPherson for its tournament on Saturday.


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1: Mrs. Torres is my art teacher. I really enjoy her class. She taught me many new techniques in art.
2: This is my Shabti. | A Shabti is a small human figure representing a person who would perform a given task for the deceased in the afterlife.
4: Inspired from Georgia O'Keefe
5: Australian dot painting
8: LEAVES | Recycled Flowers
9: My Pumpkin Submarine | Mr. Popper's Penguins
10: Bowling Girl | Tiger Mask
17: Chinese Brush Painting | Art Camp 2006
20: An artist caricaturized me in San Diego. I tried to trace his work and do it myself
22: We do many projects in our class | With mom when I got citizenship award for "Self Control"
24: Portrait of ATATURK
25: Ataturk's Daughter | It was a privilege to meet her
26: 23 April Children's Festival
27: Display of my art work, singing and jump rope show. | Snapshots from Children's day celebrations & TALENT SHOW
28: Our group participates in many events in DFW
30: I won the 3rd place in a drawing competition during Addison World Festival
31: Turkish Marbling Art | Did you know that TULIPS came to Europe from Turkey?
32: I had a great experience playing soccer in Coppell
33: Playing Badminton is a lot of fun.
34: I love traveling and seeing exotic animals in real life. | Iguana Island, Turks and Caicos
35: I wish I could have one as a pet, but they seem to be happier here | Boatswain's Turtle Farm Cayman
36: My self portrait 2006 | Lion 2005 | I LOVE MY FAMILY


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Morocco coach Renard wants his fringe players to be ready
By JEROME PUGMIRE
ST. PETERSBURG, Russia (AP) Morocco has waited 20 years to return to the World Cup and coach Herve Renard is urging his fringe players to make the most of every opportunity on the world stage.
Even if some players barely see any action, Renard expects the entire squad to put the nation's hopes ahead of their own personal goals when Morocco plays Iran Friday in its Group B opener.
"Maybe you only play five minutes," Renard said Thursday, "but they can be the most important five minutes for your country and your team."
He will not tolerate fringe players moaning about lack of playing time.
"There's always a bit of frustration when you're part of a squad, but you have to work hard and wait for your chance," Renard said. "That's what football is like. They have to be ready and mentally prepared to take up the challenge."
The challenge in Group B will be daunting. Morocco's other opponents are European champion Portugal and 2010 World Cup winner Spain. Despite the challenges, this is no sight-seeing exercise for Morocco.
"We're not just here to take photos of St. Petersburg's monuments," Renard said. "We're here because we're competitors."
In the two-plus years Renard has been in charge, the coach instilled confidence and closeness on the team. Morocco did not concede a goal in the decisive round of qualifying and is unbeaten in 18 games.
"We've been very tough to beat," said captain Mehdi Benatia. "We want to prove we should be respected."
Morocco's previous appearance on the biggest stage was in 1998, about the same time the 49-year-old Renard began his vagabond-like coaching career in the lower echelons of French football. Morocco's star that year was attacking midfielder Mustapha Hadji, who is now one of Renard's two assistants at this tournament.
Morocco has traditionally had skillful midfielders while lacking a clinical center forward. That hasn't appeared to change and the Atlas Lions' hopes are resting on attacking midfielder Hakim Ziyech.
Ziyech plays for Ajax in the Dutch first division and has been linked with a number of clubs, including Roma in Italy's Serie A. Renard wants him to secure a dream move through his performances in Russia.
"He has the talent and the skill to do that," said Renard. "For a coach, it's fantastic to have a player with his skill. He sees a lot of things before the others."
Iran's main attacking threat comes from Sardar Azmoun, who has scored 23 goals for his country. While skillful, he could also cause Morocco's defense problems with his strong heading ability.
"He's a striker of the highest quality. But in the qualifiers we came up against Gervinho (Ivory Coast) and (Pierre-Emerick) Aubameyang, and they are tough to stop," Renard said. "We'll be ready to stop him."
AP World Cup coverage: www.apnews.com/tag/WorldCup
Jerome Pugmire on Twitter: www.twitter.com/jeromepugmire
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At Days of the Dead, Cuzz Gekas and I met PJ Soles, one of my all time favorites. We talked to PJ about her career, including Stripes and Carrie. In turn, PJ told us about her newest project, The Show, an upcoming movie written for the screen and directed by Matt Russell. It is based on a short story by Bentley Little. PJ's description intrigued me and her exuberance sold me.
I contacted Matt and he graciously agreed to answer some questions. Today, I am running the first two questions.
Q-How did THE SHOW project get started?
MR-I first read "The Show" in Bentley Little's anthology THE COLLECTION, and I immediately saw the film in my head. I wrote an adaptation of it just as a personal exercise, but turned it in for a class assignment in film school a few months later. When my class responded strongly to it (I was told by one classmate that it gave him nightmares), I decided I would attempt to option it. Very quickly though, I discovered that Bentley is a tough guy to get ahold of. Unlike most people in this media-obsessed world, he's very reclusive. He has no website, no Twitter or Facebook, not even an e-mail address! It was only a happy coincidence that I came in contact with another horror novelist by the name of Scott Nicholson, who often corresponded with Bentley and was nice enough to forward my request to him (the long version of my quest to option the rights can be found on the film's blog at DeepDishCinema.blogspot.com). I received a letter from Bentley a couple of months later, and he and his agent were generous enough to grant me a $1 option, but the terms are such that I cannot make any profit from the finished film. I cannot sell copies on DVD or charge admission for screenings. I can, however, submit it to film festivals and the finished film will be posted in its entirety on the official website once it completes its festival run.
It's a big risk spending this much time, effort, and money on a short film, especially one that you cannot see profit on, but this is a story that I've been wanting to tell for quite some time, and I'm finally going to be able to exorcise this demon! I'm also very honored and gracious to be given the opportunity to bring Bentley's work to the screen. He has long been a great contributor to horror fiction (he's one of Stephen King's favorites), and I think his work deserves as much attention as it can get! If the finished film leads even one person to discover his work, I'll be happy.
Q-Can you tell us a little about the plot of THE SHOW?
MR-I can't divulge too much of the plot right now so I'm afraid I will have to resort to the official synopsis: One night while out with his best friend, Danny learns about The Show. A form of entertainment unlike anything he ever could have imagined, with an allure too tempting to resist. What their money buys them is more than just spectacle, but a glimpse into the darkest depths of human nature. As time passes, Danny soon realizes that his morbid curiosity may have consequences unlike any he could have foreseen. Consequences that will force him to face everything he's ever truly feared...
If you're one of those people who cannot wait, the story can be found in Bentley Little's book, THE COLLECTION. It's a very creepy and intense story that unflinchingly examines a lot of dark human issues while also scaring the hell out of you simultaneously, which is what great genre fiction is all about.
I hope you learned a bit about The Show Come back tomorrow for the next part. Until then, please check out TheShowmovie.com, The Show on Facebook and The Show's Twitter page.


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Zap2it First: 'New Girl's' Jess puts a new spin on the one night stand with Josh Gad
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Cerveceria Nacional -Learnership
To provide 16 learners with an opportunity to enrol for a national certificate in food and beverage packaging (NQF 3).
They will enter into a one-year, fixed term contract with Chamdor Brewery, during which they will undergo both on-the-job
and off-the-job learning, culminating in a national qualification.
Competence Requirements
Minimum Matric with Maths, Science & English.
Technical Courses (N2, N3, N4, N5 or N6) will be an added advantage.
Experience in a food and beverage packaging line will be an advantage.
Personal Attributes:
Self motivated.
Attention to detail.
Ability to interact well in teams.
Ability to work effectively in teams
Output and Accountabilities
The Learnership is a structured learning programme that combines on-the-job learning as well as off-the-job learning in an
integrated programme. The off-the- job component covers more theoretical aspects of the learning with work-based
learning providing the opportunity for application of the theory and the further practical learning experiences required.
Further characteristics of a Learnership are:
A Learnership leads to a national qualification registered on the (NQF) Qualification Framework.
The qualification is based on SAQA (South African Qualifications Authority) registered unit standards.
The unit standards are written to reflect value adding skills required in the workplace and contains the outcomes and
assessment criteria.
Competence is demonstrated in the workplace utilising a variety of assessment methods and using the assessment
criteria as the standard of performance
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criteria for short-listing.
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Tron (TRX) is one of the biggest cryptocurrencies in the crypto market (and stays in the spotlight, always). The worth of the digital asset increased by 2000% in mid-December 2017 to early January 2018. As one can imagine, Tron's 2000% growth made it attract lots of crypto investors in the crypto sphere.
Today, everyone around the world has heard of Tron (TRX) – in one way or the other. But in this article, let's find out what makes this cryptocurrency extremely promising. Without much ado, let's take a look at Tron (TRX).
Tron (TRX) in brief
Tron is a decentralized network that focuses more on the entertainment industry. This platform ensures P2P technology and makes use of blockchain technology to share and receive contents globally; let's just say it's the future of the entertainment industry (yes, it is safe to say that).
The main coin of Tron is Tronix or TRX, and the easiest way to TRX is by sharing contents through the platform.
Moving forward to Tron's market overview, Tron's current price sits at $0.03336 (at the time of writing), its market capitalization is $2,193,034,839, and the 24-hour trading volume is $175,410,000 – according to CoinMarketCap. An important fact about Tron is, TRX is not mineable, unlike Bitcoin.
The reason why Tron wants to revolutionize the entertainment industry
In today's world, content sharing and creation can only be done through Facebook, Netflix, YouTube, Apple, and Spotify mainly. However, if you are the type that would love to make huge bucks through blogging, music, videos, and so on, then you need to go through one of these middlemen (YouTube and the likes) to reach your target audience.
Here is where Tron comes in – Tron is a platform that wants to eliminate the use of middlemen before contents can be shared. Facebook, YouTube, Apple, Netflix, etc., always take a certain percentage of the revenue that your contents generate. In fact, these platforms will own a right on the revenue that you make. They also have the authority to get your contents censored. and there is nothing you can do about that.
However, problems like these will not surface if content providers use a platform like Tron (TRX). Tron's dream (we would rather say purpose) to revolutionize the industry is huge and the platform is seen as the future.
If a user makes use of Tron's protocol, he/she has the ability to create, share, and upload contents to the blockchain network. Once done, the user can get paid based on the number of views that he/she receives without having to pay fees to any third-party.
Moreover, it is important to know that Tron's community decides the success of your contents. This means that your contents can't be censored or controlled by anyone at any time.
The Tron's Foundation
Tron Foundation is headed by Justin Sun and it is a non-profit company that is based in Beijing, China. The aim of the foundation is to ensure that its platform works with all fairness and transparency.
The Tron Foundation is under the regulation of the Accounting and Regulatory Authority of the company and the Company Law of China.
Justin Sun, the CEO of Tron Foundation, has had an astonishing career and he was listed in "Forbes 30 under 30 in Asia." His application, Peiwo, has more than 15 million subscribers worldwide and it is the first application that streams and accepts cryptocurrencies.
Even though Sun has been recognized as the protégé of Jack Ma (the founder and CEO of Alibaba, I don't think there was a need to mention this but I did anyway), he was also been known to be dedicated and diligent during his study days at Hupan University. Justin Sun also graduated from the University of Pennsylvania.
Tron's collaboration with top financial companies
Tron (TRX) has bagged lots of partnerships with different companies in the Financial Industry and some of them include Bitman, oBike, and Zag S&W. Of course, financial entities are not the only ones Tron (TRX) has partnerships with. The company has vSport, Game.com, OBike, PornHub, Gifto, and UPlive in its partnership bucket too. And yes, there also is a secret Tron project (possibly partnership) that is going to be announced at the mont of this month. Tron partnerships with all these mega means that the coin is not just a hype, it has a bright future ahead.
What makes Tron distinct and promising?
Apart from Tron's partnership with top companies in the world, there are few things that make Tron different and promising.
- Tron empowers content providers to own their contents
The fact that Tron gives content providers the ability to own their contents makes the platform a good choice. Considering this, crypto enthusiasts believe that Tron (TRX) is taking the lead on the advent of the third web.
- Ability to build smart contracts
For developers, Tron (TRX) provides a platform that allows the building of smart contracts using any programing language.
- Interoperability
The interoperability level of Tron (TRX) is quite remarkable. For instance, let's say you are using a car-sharing application that operates on Tron's network. Every time you want to rent a car using the app, you are compensated with tokens by the car-sharing company. You also have the ability to use your coins to buy-back free rental bikes later on. With Tron, you can also use these coins in exchange for goods that are free, if the goods chain is built on Tron's network.
Final Words
There are lots of good things present around Tron (TRX); big partnerships with top companies, third-party Dapps, and its futuristic ambitions. Although the network has had lots of controversies, it still thrives to maintain its goals in the crypto world. No hype here, buddies. When the facts are this good there is no need for embellishment. Be patient, you will encounter big Tron bull soon.
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text: The awesome YA author Melissa Walker occasionally publishes a "cover story" on her blog: using her awesome girl-sleuth abilities, she unearths the story of a cover. Don't you sometimes wonder how the cool cover designs of your favorite books got to look the way they do? The cover story answers your questions!Today, the cover story is about the Morgan books! Get the inside scoop about how all three of these very cool covers came to be. Enjoy!


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Dollar Crash 2011 coming to a neighborhood near youPosted: February 28, 2011 in Finance, Stock Market, USA
Tags: dollar crash, dollar crash 2011, market crash, stock market crash
Update: The Shutdown of the Federal Government and what it means for youPosted: February 28, 2011 in Government, USA
Tags: can i still work if the government shuts down, government shutdown, market crash, shutdown of the federal government
As Republicans and Democrats continue their battle of dick measuring here is a detailed Q & A of how you are going to be shafted by Federal Times.com
What a shutdown would mean for you
With no agreement yet in Congress on how to fund agencies after the continuing resolution expires March 4, the threat of a government shutdown appears likely. The Federal Times staff researched your questions about how pay, annuities, benefits, facilities, technology and contract work would be handled during a shutdown. Here's what we found out:
Q: What happens when the shutdown begins?
A: You'll probably have to go into your office briefly Monday, March 7 (or earlier if you work on the weekend) to receive your instructions. If you're an "excepted" employee, you'll keep working. If not, go home and wait for further instructions.
Pay and benefits
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Federal Times research by Sarah Chacko, Nicole Blake Johnson, STEPHEN LOSEY, Andy Medici and Sean Reilly
Dollar could crash at any moment!Posted: February 28, 2011 in Finance
Tags: dollar crash, DXY, market crash, us dollar
James Turk on King World News begins to speak about the dollar crash that is not being talked about. The dollar crash that is inevitable. He goes into areas that highlight some current events and their effect on an already very weak dollar. I predict anything 72 or below on the DXY it will crash. Turk uses the limit of 77 on the DXY. Either way, we will know soon enough.
Turk – Dollar Ready to Collapse, Silver Squeeze to Continue
With gold higher and silver up almost $1.30, King World News today interviewed James Turk out of Spain. Turk had this rather frightening warning about the dollar, "The dollar right now is hanging on the precipice. If we break below 77 on the dollar index, look out below. I don't think people really appreciate how scary the dollar chart is here, or how ominous the implications really are. There's no predicting how far the dollar could plunge if confidence breaks."
Turk continues:
"You've got civil war breaking out in North Africa and you have rebellions happening in the Middle-East. In this kind of geopolitical situation, in the past the US dollar would always rally, but this time it can't even bounce. You know Eric the other side of this coin is that if the dollar falls off the edge of a cliff, precious metals are going to skyrocket."
When asked about silver Turk stated, "During the most illiquid time of the trading day, somebody decided to take out all of the stops in silver. If you were not following during business hours in the Pacific Ocean you missed it. I woke up this morning and looked at the chart and couldn't believe what happened while I was sleeping.
The important point Eric is that no technical damage was done and in fact the situation has become even more bullish because that little smack down overnight took out all of the weak hands.
With this month's important options expiry now behind us, I'm looking for higher prices next week. Even though the March/May spread has flattened a little, the backwardation continues to grow to 2015 and has ballooned further to $1.16. The short squeeze is continuing to develop. The shorts are trapped and whether the trap springs this week or in a month or two I don't know, but we are getting very close."
When asked about gold specifically Turk remarked, "While silver did get hit in overnight trading, gold hardly moved and then snapped right back. Remember I said last time that the gold chart is beginning to look really strong, that is what the event last night displayed.
Gold is incredibly resilient and looks coiled for an explosive move higher. We started our initial probe of the all-time high this week closing in on $1,430 before backing off. Look for another probe of that $1,430 level very soon. It won't be long Eric before we take out that all-time high, particularly if the dollar falls off the edge of a cliff."
It is worth noting that in his King World News interview today Art Cashin also warned about the US Dollar being on the verge of serious trouble. KWN readers globally should keep a close eye on the dollar next week to see if it begins to break down. If that happens it will increase bids in both the gold and silver markets.
Eric King
My market crash view sharedPosted: February 24, 2011 in Finance, Stock Market, USA
Tags: Crash 2011, depression, Dow Jones, market crash, shit hit the fan
I predicted in '06 the market come to a screaming halt soon, it happened in '07. Since then I have said we have not left this depression, we are simply experiencing a cycle within a cycle. This is still a depression folks and now this, what we call in the dating world "rebound" is coming to an end. I told my friend who trades a ton of stocks, "Mike, get into cash. The market is way oversold and it is going to crash (this was at 10,900 DJIA area). It is taunting people right now to throw money in, but it is going through a bubble". It has since moved upward of 12,300, everyone screaming at the top of their lungs "We are fine, we are back in business" as markets in easterns countries have crashed the country into bankruptcy like Bangladesh.
Marketwatch.com has now published a post that strengthens what I've been repeatedly saying.
Market Crash 2011: It will hit by Christmas
Commentary: The S&P 500 is worth only 910. Get out or lose big
By Paul B. Farrell, MarketWatch
SAN LUIS OBISPO, Calif. (MarketWatch) — Politicians lie. Bankers lie. Yes, they're liars. But they're not bad, it's in their genes, inherited. Their brains are wired that way, warn scientists. Like addicts, they can't help themselves. They want to sell stuff, get rich.
We want to believe they're telling us the truth. Silly, huh? Both trapped in this eternal "dance of death" controlled by programs hidden deep in our brains, telling us what to do, telling us to ignore facts to the contrary — till it's too late, till a new crisis crushes all of us.
Psychology offers us a powerful lesson: Our collective brain is destined to trigger a crash before Christmas 2011. Why? We're gullible, keep searching for a truth-teller in a world of liars. And they're so clever, we let them manipulate us into acting against our best interests.
In fact, behavioral science tells us that bankers and politicians are lying to us 93% of the time. It's 13 times more likely Wall Street is telling you a lie than the truth. That's why they win. Why we lose. Because our brains are preprogrammed to cooperate in their con game. Yes, we believe most of their lies.
One of America's leading behavioral finance gurus, University of Chicago Prof. Richard Thaler, explains: "Think of the human brain as a personal computer with a very slow processor and a memory system that is small and unreliable." Thaler even admits: "The PC I carry between my ears has more disk failures than I care to think about." Easy to manipulate.
Eternal love story: Your brain's in love with Wall Street's brain
Thaler's a quant, speaks mostly in cryptic algorithmics. So if you really want to know how Wall Street's con game works on you, Barry Ritholtz, the financial genius behind "Bailout Nation," recently summarized it in the Washington Post: "Humans make all the same mistakes, over and over again. It's how we are wired, the net result of evolution. That flight-or-fight response might have helped your ancestors deal with hungry saber-toothed tigers and territorial Cro Magnons, but it drives investors to make costly emotional decisions."
Humans have something "akin to brain damage," says Ritholtz. "To neurophysiologists, who research cognitive functions, the emotionally driven appear to suffer from cognitive deficits that mimic certain types of brain injuries. … Anyone with an intense emotional interest in a subject loses the ability to observe it objectively: You selectively perceive events. You ignore data and facts that disagree with your main philosophy. Even your memory works to fool you, as you selectively retain what you believe in, and subtly mask any memories that might conflict."
Worse, there's no cure.
Your brain needs to believe lies; Wall Street loves telling lies
Examples: USA Today headline: "Average Bull is 3.8 years: We're not at 2 yet." More upside. Wall Street loves it. The Wall Street Journal: "Stock recovery in high gear … S&P500 now speeding toward its next landmark," double its March 2009 bottom.
Other lies: Inflation and rate rises won't push China and America over the edge into a new bear recession. That one's real popular in Wall Street's echo chamber. Wall Street also cheers every time cable pundits and journalists repeat their favorite statistic: That stocks rally in the third year of a presidency, often more than 20%. Yes, Wall Street loves those 93% lies.
Biggest lie? Wharton's perennial bull, Jeremy Siegel, of "Stocks for the Long Run" fame, recently told a TD Ameritrade Institutional Conference, "There's nothing but upside to come …the next several years are going to be good for stocks."
Yes, one of Wall Street's favorite co-conspirators is hypnotizing thousands of our best money managers and advisers into believing the lie that this bull market will roar indefinitely. Worse, they'll use that message to sell naive investors on buying whatever junk Wall Street is selling.
Get the picture? A little conspiracy begins in your head, a conspiracy between your gullible brain and Wall Street's con men selling hype, hoopla and happy-talk. Listen and you'll lose.


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Socrates, Plato and Aristotle were a teacher-student trio, called the "gang of three" by Edward De Bono, for their contribution to human knowledge.
But as the world and Pakistan celebrated the Teacher's Day this Monday, I couldn't help but remember, the dozens of teachers who have taught me since the age of five.In the last twenty years, I have been to three private schools, one semi-Government college and countless tuition centres. But honestly I can remember only a handful of teachers who were kind and out of them only two stood out for their talents. The rest were insipid at best and many of them confused "authority figures" with "authoritarian figures". A few could even make North Korean generals blush.
I understand that discipline is a problem in a class of thirty plus but our pedagogical systems over-emphasize order, and indeed hierarchy. The teachers seem to have internalized the ancient caste system - Brahmins being the top five rank holders with everyone else following them. The failures occupy the bottom of the food chain, getting minimal attention when perhaps they need it the most - or at least be treated equally.
We don't just need more formal training and intellectual talent in teachers; instead teachers need to reform the way they conceptualize students and education. Right now it is too meritocratic - merit being defined in a rather quantitative and left-brain-centric manner. Moreover, we have devised the schooling (private and government) in a manner that a significant amount of the de facto education cost is still borne by the parents. The parents have to hire multiple tutors for their children or else the grades come tumbling down - largely because our exams are designed to test rote learning, not analytical or creative abilities. The textbooks, the school curriculum, tests and exams all require supervision. Since the curriculum is so rigid and long, teachers enjoy this diffusion of responsibility and move on from those who cannot cope.
In the west, teaching is considered more prestigious because the pay is respectable if not great and teaching even the youngest students would require serious diplomas and practical training. Teaching is considered a lifelong profession. More importantly, teachers are told to push every student without hurting their self-esteem. In Pakistan, most of my teachers were females, waiting to get married or with children studying in the same schools. For many of them, teaching was the last resort to kill time till before they got back to a "real career" or of course home-making. This adversely affected their dedication and performance, very rarely did a teacher own the failure of its students, like they prided in their success.
Every teacher, no matter how mediocre, considered themselves to be a potentate who deserved unconditional reverence. But they didn't offer the same respect to their students, especially those whom they perceive as "losers" (I often fell in this category), bullying them, passing under-the-belt comments and retaining a bias when checking a paper.
This made progress harder. They probably told - and continue to tell - themselves that these kids should study more and its their fault that they don't. Sometimes we are lazy indeed, but sometimes we are genuinely in trouble. My only issue with the brilliant movie Tare Zameen Per was that it had a dyslexic child with a nerve-transmission problem, whereas perfectly normal kids can become just as lost in class and teachers need to understand them more. In Class 5 geometry, I was a zombie. The teacher noticing this, started asking me questions. Several months of classes, with me being asked five or six questions and standing there clueless for the rest of the class. She probably thought that this negative reinforcement would make me study harder. In any case, she obviously liked that feel of being the master of the class and overlooked my robotic embarrassment. But I genuinely never understood geometry and still don't. Same was the case in with my A levels' Chemistry teacher, who not only asked me all the questions but also picked on me regularly and pestered me to leave the subject - which I ultimately did.
Teachers in college were part of a bigger game. They were more qualified, career women, with more funding and power. This just attracted more boot-lickers, blackmailing and nepotism. There were exceptions because you are a certified adult in college and teachers either become friendly or respect your talents. Since there were marks for class participation, the freedom of speech barrier was often lifted.
But during those years I was forced to question how much respect these teachers deserved, if any. Just because someone is an elder, parent, teacher or more knowledgeable shouldn't mean we have to respect them. I obviously didn't howl at anyone on the blackboard but I didn't respect most of them either. They don't just need to outsmart but also have an inherent value and understanding of us.
There are teachers I miss. My English teacher in 10th who wore sarees and discussed Virginia Wolf with us, my arts teacher in 3rd, whose zest for colors inspired me forever. My patient Physics teacher in class 9th and finally my English teacher in A levels who has improved me as a person forever.
This article was first published in The News on Sunday.
This article was first published in The News on Sunday.


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Mr. Richard Thomas,
Tax Treaty Team, 100, Parliament Street, London, SW1A 2BQ
December 2nd 2009
Dear Mr. Thomas,
I wrote to you on July 20th a detailed letter and you courteously acknowledged that letter on the 4th August, saying that I would receive a fuller reply in due course. I still await that reply.
The letter of July 20th has a background essentially of the old Convention (DTC) (UK/France) then and now in part at least, still in force. It also refers to the new DTC of 2008.
Nothing materially has changed but I have been pursuing the case.
You must be aware that I have presented a Petition before the EU Committee on Petitions, who have acknowledged my petition and I await further news in that regard. The details of that petition can be read on my blogsite. I pray that when you do so, you take cognisance of the situation, mentioned in the petition, where if all income were taxed in France I could derive benefits from the tax rebates on employment of a home help and contributions to a French Charity to support the education of a boy in Cambodia. Because of the interpretation of the DTC these rebates are denied to me, since the income tax is paid to the UK!.
For all these reasons my total tax bill is somewhere about 1,000 euros higher than it would be for a Frenchman in the same circumstances.
In the meanwhile....
I have been in correspondence with an international tax specialist with regard to the French interpretation of the taxation procedures in the proposed 2008 Convention.
The Articles of the New Double Taxation Convention mentioned above are in spirit identical to the same Articles of the previous Convention (1968 No. 1869) The outcome is little different from that which I have previously stated. Nevertheless I am informed that the French are likely under DTC 2008 to calculate the tax due in a slightly different manner. I suspect that the situation thereby actually worsens for the British Government Pensioner.
[Calculation on income which includes UK Government Pensions].
Gov pensions = A, UK Tax = B
Any French income (or other foreign source income which is taxable in France) = C
French tax is calculated on A+C = D
French tax attributable to A = (A / (A+C)) x D = E
French tax payable is D minus E. [note that it is the attributable tax which is deducted in the calculation, not the actual tax paid! ]
Clearly and it is irrefutable logic - if B minus E is greater than zero ( UK tax less the French attributable tax) then the British National tax payer pays more tax overall than if he was a French National.
Further and again the logic is irrefutable; if a French National had EXACTLY the same career history as myself and therefore the same income and sources of income - then he would pay less tax than myself.
This situation infringes ARTICLE 25 (paragraph 1) on non-discrimination which I repeat here:
Individuals who are nationals of a Contracting State shall not be subjected to any taxation or any requirement connected therewith, which is other or more burdensome than the taxation and connected requirements to which nationals of that other State in the same circumstances, in particular with regard to residence, are or may be subjected.
The case is absolutely clear.
Now again I repeat to you Article 26. 1.
Where a resident of a Contracting State considers that the actions of one or both of the Contracting States result or will result for him in taxation not in accordance with the provisions of this convention, he may, irrespective of the remedies provided by the domestic law of those States, present his case to the competent authority of the State of which he is resident, OR IF HIS CASE COMES UNDER PARAGRAPH 1 OF ARTICLE 25, TO THAT OF THE CONTRACTING STATE OF WHICH HE IS A NATIONAL.
I have written three times (third time by recorded delivery) to M. Comolet-Tirman [your counterpart] in Paris and have had no reply to any of them. This is also mentioned in my petition to the EU as is my correspondence to yourself.
You are the competent authority of which I am a national.
I have in my EU petition proposed two alternative solutions.
1. To remove in France all calculation relating to the British Government pensions taxable in the UK under OECD recommendations in the French tax calculations - as is the case in Spain and probably other EU countries.
2. To remove all necessity to tax the Government pensions of British residents in France in the UK, thus causing them to be taxable in France.
I repeat to you, Mr. Thomas, that it is the bounden responsibility under International Law for the British Government to uphold the interests of me, a British Citizen, and to intervene with France to correct this unfairness and irregularity. I demand, with the right of a British Citizen, that action is taken.
I give you official notice in this mail of my contention as required under Article 26.1 of the convention.
Copies of this mail to;- not disclosed here
Brian Cave


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What does learning look like?
My 12-year-old son Jack wrote a lovely guest post about why it frustrates him when people say video games are a waste of time or that kids shouldn't play them. For him, video games fit into a larger picture — they connect to books and movies and making stop-motion films and writing stories. They connect to role-playing games and computer programming. They connect to history and literature.
What does learning really look like?
I've worked with teachers who completely supported the idea of child-led learning, but they were uncomfortable with the way it looked in their classrooms. The teacher next door was teaching with themes and pre-decorated her room. Every bulletin board was decorated by the teacher, every wall had colorful posters, and the reading and block areas were adorably set up with little touches chosen by the teacher.
The teacher attempting child-led projects had to start the year with an empty slate for her students. Her walls were empty; her bulletin boards were empty. Her tabletops and shelves waited for the children's work. The room was left for the children to decorate with their work. Next to her neighbor's classroom, hers looked bare and neglected.
Once the school year was underway, the theme-using teacher had bulletin boards holding two dozen sets of very similar-looking papers attractively backed with construction paper. Work hung from the ceiling on pieces of yarn. She had made a huge poster talking about the current theme, decorated with the students' names.
In the project classroom, the bulletin boards were half full of drawings and sketches and xeroxed pages — everything was black and white. The shelves were full of projects-in-progress: to the outside eye, it looked like a collection of garbage on its way to the recycling bin. The block area wasn't tidy — a large construction sprawled across the floor and stayed there day after day.
The teacher worried about how this looked to her boss, to the other teachers, and to the parents who came in. They looked askance at what seemed to be disorder, mess, and maybe a lack of TLC. Didn't this teacher want her room to be cute?
To the practiced eye, however, the children in the project room gave off a low hum of purposeful activity. The children were adding to their block structure over weeks; they were working hard on their constructions. They talked excitedly about their work. The drawings that were beginning to cover their walls weren't ignored — they were referred to again and again. The room didn't look like much at first glance, but the activity in the room was mesmerizing.
To get to the authentic learning — the involved, intense focus, the flow — you have to be able to put up with the half-formed, messy look of workers who are creating from the ground up. You can't pre-decorate — you have to let the children paint the walls with their ideas. You have to leave room for them to fill the space with their learning. You have to give them time to construct their knowledge slowly.
Likewise, with a child pursuing his own interest at home, it may not look like much to someone coming in from outside. They may see a child playing a video game, a box of dirty rocks, a pile of empty containers taped together. They may not get it. For you to get it, you have to pay attention. You have to dig a little to see if your child is just making a mess or goofing off or if he's intellectually engaged and connecting ideas.
Our children are in the world, exploring. We may or may not understand what attracts them and what they're doing with their interest. We need to take the time and make the effort not just to leave them space to explore, but to learn to recognize and appreciate what's really happening in the room. We can't be those casual bystanders who don't really get it — we have to pay attention so we can know what's happening under the surface. Because to the uninitiated, learning might not look like much on the surface. Only the engaged mentor knows what real learning looks like.
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This is so interesting! My son, who is not homeschooled, worked on a project this year that he completed independently with materials we had at home. He was thoroughly engrossed in it for days, working on it immediately after school for large chunks of time, completed the arbitrary requirements, and was proud of his work. He received a poor grade on it b/c it didn't look as "put-together" as the other projects completed by his peers, regardless of the fact that he learned from the project, even if it wasn't as "pretty" as everyone else. He was devastated, and so began our discussion about the fairness of grades and teacher subjectivity.


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