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Produce Oren Peli has become a well known entity in the horror world over the last several years. He is the writer/director of the original Paranormal Activity and the producer behind the remainder of the franchise.
Additionally, he's gone on to produce several other terror-filled offerings including Insidious, upcoming The Lords of Salem and television's The River. His latest film Chernobyl Diaries, which opens in theaters this weekend, is set in the city of Prypiat that once housed the workers of the Chernobyl nuclear reactor. The chiller follows a group of friends who sign up for an "extreme tour" through the abandoned city while vacationing in Europe – only to find themselves stranded where they are not so alone after all.
We had the opportunity to speak with the writer/producer recently about his latest endeavor, setting a thriller in the location of a real-world catastrophe – and what scares him, personally.
Screen Rant: Horror is always seeking to tap into fundamental human fears but sometimes the storylines are addressing topical issues as well. Chernobyl Diaries, among other things, is playing on concerns about nuclear energy. Do you think those issues are still as relevant today as they were at the time of the event?
Oren Peli: "I think it's something that people constantly think about. In many places around the world, all over the U.S. and Europe there are active nuclear power plants. And for many years during the Cold War the threat of nuclear war was a permanent fear. There's always the concern that human kind is biting off more than they can chew in harnessing nuclear power. There have been accidents like Three Mile Island and of course Chernobyl that make you more aware of the dangers. So definitely this is something that could be relevant. Hopefully this would never happen again, though."
SR: This was the worst nuclear disaster in history. Did you worry about utilizing this event as the backdrop of a horror movie and how people would respond to that? There's been an online campaign to boycott the movie due to its connection to Chernobyl, for example.
OP: "Well we weren't approaching it as if we were trying to make a serious documentary. It's a work of fiction so we didn't have any intention of having people take it too seriously and it didn't really occur to us that this was the kind of thing that could offend people. We've seen a very tiny but vocal minority on the Internet that have been saying that they find it offensive and definitely no one is going to force them to watch the movie, but that was never our intention. And we're actually working with a charity that specializes in working with the children of Chernobyl and they've seen the movie and they didn't seem to find it offensive at all. In fact they were happy that, because of the movie, that we're raising awareness again about Chernobyl."
SR: Were you thinking that this is something that could highlight the fears around some current nuclear threats? There are some issues with the animals in the film that make it seem like they've been affected by radiation poisoning.
OP: "I don't even know if we were thinking about it on such a philosophical level. And a lot of those things aren't meant to be explained. It's just the kind of thing we thought would be a scary concept and that people can interpret it in whichever way is scariest for them."
SR: This isn't a found footage film, but it does have a documentary/home video cinematic style. Is it important to you to capture these kinds of stories with that type of visual aesthetic?
OP: "Yes, you know other than the beginning of the movie and a small moment in the middle it's not found footage at all. But it does have a very realistic documentary style that I do like a lot. It's kind of the way that Paul Greengrass does some of his movies. I like it, it makes it more relatable and intimate and you feel like you're going along on the ride with the characters. And because of the way we let the actors improvise, it feels like you're watching people react rather than actors reading lines – so I think that's always going to be something I like. But 'Insidious' was shot in a very traditional manner and it did very well, so it's a case by case basis."
SR: Speaking of Insidious, there's a sequel in production at the moment and another Paranormal Activity out this fall. Are you thinking that Chernobyl Diaries may also be a franchise? Perhaps a series of "extreme tourism" activities gone awry?
OP: "I never think beyond one movie at a time, when I did the first 'Paranormal' I was happy to see that is was doing well, same with 'Insidious,' so it's really too early to tell on this one."
SR: We've seen the Paranormal mythology evolve over the last several films, where do you envision it going from here?
OP: "The only thing I can say about 'Paranormal Activity 4' is that it's coming out on October 19th."
SR: Fair enough. Have you thought about branching out beyond horror?
OP: "Right now I'm having fun with what I'm doing but I'd never categorically say no to something because it's not horror. I'm keeping an open mind."
SR: How do you approach each new project? Do you look for aspects of the genre that you've not yet explored and try to find a way into them?
OP: "Really it's always things that scare me like loss of control, dealing with the unknown and the unseen – whether it's a demon or something that's not supposed to be there in 'Chernobyl.' Something that's not supposed to be there and you don't know where it came from, or what it wants from you, or how to defend yourself against it. That's the root of the things I find scary. Usually I don't find gore or slasher films scary. What works for me is the slower build where you are tightening the noose around the situation until you are running out of options and then really have no idea what to do."
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To Boldly Go: The Graphic Art of Star Trek
Thirteen months after the premier of The Original Series in September 1966, the first Star Trek comic book was released, and with the exception of a brief five year period during the early part of the Twenty First Century, illustrated narratives have been published non-stop ever since. In keeping with its mission of celebrating the cartoon and comic arts, the ToonSeum will pay homage to Star Trek with a special exhibit focusing on 49 years of illustrated narratives, including historic US comic books and British comic strips from the early 1970s as well as original comic art from the 1980s and 1990s and on into the present.
While the focus of "To Boldly Go: The Graphic Art of Star Trek" will be on the illustrated medium, the exhibit will also shine the spotlight on the numerous ties between Pittsburgh and the Star Trek franchise that, like the series itself, go back decades. Leonard Nimoy, who portrayed Mr. Spock on the original series, made his Shakespearean debut at the Pittsburgh Public Theater in 1975, for instance, while Zachary Quinto, the current Mr. Spock in the new slate of big screen movie adventures, is a Green Tree native who attended Central Catholic High School in Oakland and Carnegie Mellon University before heading to Los Angeles.
Fans have likewise played an instrumental role during the five-decade history of Star Trek, and here again the ToonSeum will highlight various zines and fan fiction created in Pittsburgh, as well as a Star Trektacular convention held at the William Penn Hotel in 1975 that featured William Shatner, DeForest Kelley, James Doohan and George Takei among its attendees.
"To Boldly Go: The Graphic Art of Star Trek" opens at the ToonSeum on October 28, 2016, and runs through January 15, 2017 – a fitting tribute to the Star Trek franchise, its history within the comic arts, the fans who helped it endure, the STEM-career professionals inspired by its themes, and Star Trek's ongoing connections to Pittsburgh.
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|RITA MAE REESE is the author of The Alphabet Conspiracy and a recipient of numerous awards, including a Rona Jaffe Foundation Writers' Award, a Stegner fellowship, a "Discovery"/The Nation award, and a Pamaunok Poetry Prize. Her most recent book, The Book of Hulga, won the Felix Pollak Prize and will be published by the University of Wisconsin Press in March, 2016. She is the co-director of Literary Arts at Art + Literature Laboratory in Madison, WI. Visit her at ritamaereese.com. (Photo credit: Amanda Crim)
About the Illustrator: Julie Franki has written and illustrated independent comics, designed historical exhibits, designed and illustrated greeting cards and more for Hallmark, Inc., and designed many brand identities including the Dane County Regional Airport logo (her personal favorite). She lives in Madison, Wisconsin.
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Synopsis: The Book of Hulga speculates—with humor, tenderness, and a brutal precision—on a character that Flannery O'Connor envisioned but did not live long enough to write: "an angular intellectual proud woman approaching God inch by inch with ground teeth."
What do you think makes your book (or any book) a "project book"?
With my first book, I really wanted to just have a collection of what I felt my best poems were at the time. I thought project books meant that it wasn't necessarily all of the poet's best work, just the things that matched the theme and/or form, sort of like how Goodwill groups all of the red shirts together. I was afraid that there would be something arbitrary and unnecessarily limiting in having a cohesive vision for the whole book. Now I think that was, to be generous, naïve (to be honest, I think it was stupid). So now I think of a project book as a collection of poems that have something more obvious in common than the fact that the author wrote all of them. One of the things I really value in poetry is repetition—a returning over and over to an idea to get at the real meat of it, and that's what I feel like great books of poetry, particularly great project books, accomplish.
Why this subject (or constraint)?
My nine-year-old daughter has asked me this question several times, and I don't think I've ever managed to answer it either to her satisfaction or my own. I became obsessed with Flannery O'Connor when I first read one of her stories in college. It was like a splinter that got lodged very deep, and over the years I would find more things that connected to her. I would also begin to understand more behind and around her stories. I think I was definitely one of the people she had in mind when she said, "For the blind you draw large and startling figures." She got my attention with those figures—the Misfit, Hulga, Manley Pointer, Mrs. Greenleaf, Mary Grace with her hurled textbook—and then she kept my attention with the depth of meaning that was packed into each story. I also fell in love with her collected letters, The Habit of Being, which led me to a lot of other great writing.
Are you comfortable with the term "project book"?
I suppose that depends on who is labeling it that and what their motives are. I think it is a very useful and accurate label, but like anything else it can be used to keep certain people out of a restricted area, such as the restricted area of serious literature. So I guess I'm saying I might have issues with how some people use the label, but not with the label itself.
Was your project defined before you started writing? To what degree did it develop organically as you added poems?
I thought it was very well defined until I actually started writing it. I had a list of poems that would go in the book and everything. The early poems were really terrible; I felt so horribly self-conscious about writing about Flannery O'Connor. I gave a reading in Milledgeville, Georgia that included a poem about her death, and O'Connor's cousin, Louise Florencourt, was in the audience. I saw her face as I was going back to my seat and she looked exposed and stricken, and though I felt real grief over O'Connor's death, I realized that she wasn't public property—that there were still people alive who had known and loved her, and I felt a responsibility toward them. It was terrible. And then I remembered what I really wanted to write about was a vision of O'Connor's. She had written, "If I were to live long enough and develop as an artist to the proper extent, I would like to write a comic novel about a woman—and what is more comical and terrible than the angular intellectual proud woman approaching God inch by inch with ground teeth?" This comment was made in the context of a conversation about Simone Weil, but she clarified in the next letter, "My heroine already is, and is Hulga." Hulga is the main character from "Good Country People," a woman with a wooden leg and a PhD in philosophy who attempts to seduce a bible salesman. Once I realized that Hulga was the key—a sort of bridge between Weil and O'Connor and also a way of seeing O'Connor without trespassing on what I felt to be private property—the book seemed to just happen.
How important was it for you that each poem could "stand on its own" or that the poems should rely on other poems in the book, or on the premise of the project itself, to succeed? What challenges did this present for you when writing single poems or structuring the book overall?
I really didn't care very much if the poems stood on their own. Early on, I decided not to send them out to journals except in cases where someone had asked to see work (with a couple of exceptions along the way) because I didn't want to think that poems that were accepted were better than ones that weren't. I was really afraid outside opinion would cloud my judgment, and so I saw the poems as all sinking, or swimming, together.
At any point did you feel you were including (or were tempted to include) weaker poems in service of the project's overall needs? This is a risk, and a common critique, of many project books. How did you deal with this?
I don't think I felt tempted to include weaker poems because they belonged to the project. I'm sure I have included weaker poems, but I did it because I like them. I was having so much fun writing the book that I wish I were still writing it, so I didn't feel tempted to include poems just to reach that magic 48 page number (though once the manuscript got there, I did relax a bit).
Did you fully immerse yourself in writing this project book, or did you allow yourself to work on other things?
Everything seemed to relate to Hulga as I was writing the book—I saw her in everything, so I couldn't really work on anything else, it would just come out Hulga anyway.
Did you ever lose momentum, bore yourself, or worry that your project could not be sustained for a full-length book? How did you push through?
When I was working on Hulga, I liked to joke about how I was collaborating with the dead—and it was great because they couldn't object to any of my decisions. It made me realize ,though, that I was interested in collaboration, that even working with the dead gave the project more life than poems I had written strictly on my own. I figured that I wouldn't find another poet who was as obsessed as I was with O'Connor (though actually there is a poet, R.T. Smith, who published a poetry book about O'Connor just last year, called The Red Wolf; and dozens of poets have written work based on or about Weil, including Adrienne Rich, Jorie Graham, Anne Carson, Robert Pinsky, and Stephanie Strickland). Besides, I might still be too insecure as a poet to collaborate with another poet.
I was, however, very interested in combining poetry with illustrations and am lucky enough that Julie Franki, a very talented (and frighteningly well-read) illustrator, lives across the street from me. She was enthusiastic about the project, but then we really didn't talk about it again for a long while. A few months later, she told me she was having trouble creating the illustrations, and I mentioned how much I admire Wendy McNaughton's Susan Sontag posters—the way she combines text and image. This clicked for Julie, and shortly after, the book won the Felix Pollak Prize, and she sent me the illustrations, which I loved. So we were working very separately, except for that initial conversation, but knowing she was working with the poems made me feel like I was part of a team, and that was encouraging.
You mentioned another poetry book about O'Connor came out while you were still working on The Book of Hulga. Did that make you nervous?
I was terrified. I had heard about it because Bruce Gentry with the Flannery O'Connor Review asked me if I wanted to review it. I knew I needed to read it but was filled with anxiety. What would I do if R.T. Smith, a much more experienced and established poet, had already covered what I thought of as "my" territory? I couldn't help but think of O'Connor remarking about Faulkner: "Nobody wants his mule and wagon stalled on the same track the Dixie Limited is roaring down." And my mule and wagon seemed pretty stuck. I read the book though and was happy to discover that it was quite good (no one wants to review a book she doesn't enjoy reading) and that it was entirely different from mine. Interestingly though, he talked in the introduction about this being his Flannery, not an actual but rather a possible Flannery. One of my early notebooks for the project was entitled My Flannery. She seems to inspire a bit of possessiveness in her fans, or maybe just in poets.
Do you have a sense of whether the fact that this is a project book helped position it to find publication more easily? Has it helped you find readers?
The experience of publishing this book has been the exact and total opposite of my first book. The first one took about nine years to publish (and I kept re-writing, because I wanted it to be my best work). This one was a finalist for the first contest I sent it to, and then it won the Felix Pollak Prize, which was only the third place I'd submitted it to. I think its subject, the fact that its subject is something other than just me (which frankly is a subject even I am not all that interested in) really did help it find a place. It has also generated more enthusiasm. I'm not sure that will translate into more readers, of course, but it has definitely been more fun.
As a reader, are you drawn to project books? What project books have influenced you or have you enjoyed, and what do you think makes those books successful?
Early on, I was very heartened by Robinson Alone by Kathleen Rooney, which is essentially a novel-in-verse about Weldon Kees's character Robinson. She both gave implicit permission for using a character as a lens for its writer, and also raised the bar for me, because that book was so interesting and well-crafted. Also Dear Editor by Amy Newman is a book of prose poems to an editor that reveals so much about the writer's life and that, as all of Newman's books do, uses repetition exquisitely. More recently, Alexandra Teague's The Wise and Foolish Builders really showed me how many different perspectives you can use to get at the emotional heart of a fascinating subject. I know I'm leaving out a lot, but those appeared to me at crucial moments in the process of writing Hulga.
What effect do you think the prevalence of project books is having on poetry in general?
I think people do expect a reason for poems to be in a book together, and they might expect the reason to be more readily apparent than years ago. There are 4,000 books published each day in the United States—your book needs something that will make it stand out from those other 3,999.
After completing a project, how did you transition into writing something new? What are you working on now? Another project?
I'll be honest, I'm having a hard time letting Hulga go. I'm working on a novel (a story about a haunted Appalachian childhood), but so far it isn't as much fun. The Book of Hulga served as an escape from my self, and I think finding that sort of escape takes luck and a lot of work. I haven't put in enough work on the next project to get lucky that way yet.
What advice can you offer other writers, particularly emerging writers or poetry students who may be using the project book as a guiding principle for their own work?
I used quotations from Simone Weil to write a crown of sonnets and loved doing it, but then I wanted to write more poems using those lines but thought I shouldn't. Then I realized no one was watching so I damned well could. So I wrote a second crown and then a third, all using the same beginning and ending lines as the first crown. And I think those are the best parts of the book, or at the very least, they are essential to it. So I'd urge poets to keep going back to the same ground, to not worry about writing the same thing, and that if you feel like there's something you shouldn't do, then do it. It might turn into the best thing you ever wrote.


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PWD minister Eknath Shinde made this promise during a joint inspection of the Mumbai-Pune Expressway, along with transport minister Diwakar Raote
After the horrific June 5 accident on Mumbai-Pune Expressway killed 17 people and highlighted the unsafe state of the E-way, PWD minister Eknath Shinde and transport minister Diwakar Raote yesterday visited the area to review the safety measures taken.
PWD minister Eknath Shinde points at the ongoing landslide mitigation work and said it would be completed within a month.
Shared responsibility
They started auditing the expressway from Lodhiva Bridge at Khopoli. "Our government is very concerned about public safety at highways but it's also the public's duty to follow RTO rules and drive in their lane to avoid such fatal accidents," said Shinde.
Shinde and Diwakar Raote talk to the cops during the safety audit yesterday. Pics/Atul Kamble
When asked about the missing crash barriers and broken safety ropes, Shinde told mid-day, "I have passed an order to put up crash barriers wherever missing, and to repair all the safety ropes on the Expressway."
No landslides
Although there were multiple landslides during the last monsoon, Shinde promised there would be none this year. "This year, I can assure everyone that there will be zero landslide incidents in the monsoon," the PWD minister claimed, adding that the landslide mitigation work that had started in October 2015, will be completed in a month.
Trauma centre
The ministers then went to the Talegaon toll naka, where a trauma centre was supposed to become operational in 2014. As of now, there is still no facility to cater to emergency cases. Raote told the media, "A trauma centre is ready and will probably become operational in about two months."
Caught and fined
While auditing the toll naka, Raote caught a truck plying on the Expressway without a number plate. "These things will not be tolerated. We will increase the penalty amount and even punish the owners of such vehicles," he said. The truck driver, Parilal Tukaram (42), had just bought the truck in Thane. He was caught by the minister and was fined R900 for lane cutting and missing a number plate.


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Reliable Israeli Movers Go On Trial For Extortion and Theft
Monday, November 15, 2004
Movers go on trial for alleged extortion
By Peter Lewis
Seattle Times consumer-affairs reporter
FOUR people go on trial in federal court in Tacoma today on charges they extorted customers in a household-moving scam by luring them with low prices, then jacking up costs and holding their goods hostage until they paid.
Erik Deri is one of four people
going on trial in the alleged scam.
Now defunct, Woodinville-based Nationwide Moving Systems harmed more than 50 people, the government alleges. Actual and intended losses -- including the amount the defendants tried to defraud customers out of -- exceeded $1 million, prosecutors contend.
According to the government, the defendants would delay notifying customers of the inflated prices until after their goods were loaded. This had the effect of squeezing customers, the prosecutors say.
Some customers, for example, faced penalties from airlines if they canceled previously scheduled travel arrangements; some were under pressure because they had to relocate for a new job. Others were stuck because their leases had expired or their homes had been sold and so they had nowhere to stay, the government alleges.
Of seven people originally charged, three -- Martin Kirk II, 25, and Michael Airgood and Kristen Klein, both 24 -- have pleaded guilty and have agreed to testify against the remaining defendants.
They are: Erik Deri, 33; Yosef Nahum, 55; and Yuval Derei, 30, all of whom are Israeli nationals facing deportation if convicted. Yuval Derei is Erik Deri's brother. The fourth defendant, American-born Tanya Deri, 29, is Deri's wife.
According to charging papers, the investigation was sparked after a March 2003 Seattle Times article described customer experiences with Nationwide.
Each of the defendants is charged with conspiracy to commit wire fraud and interfere with commerce by extortion, which carries up to five years' imprisonment and a $250,000 fine. In addition, they face multiple counts of fraud and attempted extortion, each of which carries up to 20 years and a $250,000 fine. Some of the defendants face additional charges.
Nationwide used the Web and the Yellow Pages to advertise, and it sometimes purchased moving jobs from other moving companies. It falsely represented itself as a reputable, insured and licensed moving company, the prosecutors alleged. The scam started in May 2002 and ended in July 2003, the government said.
The trial has been delayed several times, most recently in August as a result of a U.S. Supreme Court ruling that cast doubt on the constitutionality of federal sentencing guidelines. The so-called "Blakely" ruling, which grew out of a Washington state case, established the principle that jurors, not judges, must decide the facts that determine a criminal sentence.
As a result, U.S. District Judge Franklin Burgess of Tacoma recently ordered the Nationwide case split into two parts. If jurors convict, they would then reconvene to consider additional evidence, such as the vulnerability and number of victims and amount of financial loss, that could lead to stiffer punishment.
The trial is expected to last about a month. The government plans to introduce roughly 400 exhibits and call nearly 100 witnesses, records show.
Among the victims on the government's witness list is John Jennings, a former Issaquah resident, who told The Times his move to Florida in September 2002 was spoiled by Nationwide.
He said the company had revised the price upward from $3,000 to $16,000 -- and then refused his request to unload his possessions after he objected. Ultimately, the total cost of his move, after hiring a different company to retrieve, move and re-store his possessions, exceeded $11,000.
Another victim scheduled to testify is Sarah DeLassus, who hired Nationwide to move from Seattle to Antioch, Ill., in February 2003. She said her belongings arrived two weeks later than promised. Virtually everything she owned was broken, shredded, soiled, splintered or otherwise mutilated, she and her mother said.
DeLassus estimated the loss at between $4,000 and $5,000. In addition, several boxes of her belongings never arrived, she said.
DeLassus said the government's Seattle-based witness/victim coordinator told her earlier this year that "she had never worked on a case where people were so eager to participate" as opposed to feeling annoyed about having to testify.
The defendants' attorneys have been mum about their trial strategy. But a criminal-defense attorney familiar with the case said he expects the defense will focus on the forms customers signed when they agreed to hire Nationwide, specifically regarding permission to charge more if customers underestimated how much stuff they had.
Lawyers for Tanya Deri and Yuval Derei have minimized their clients' roles. At a hearing last year, for example, Jim Frush, representing Tanya Deri, described her as "tangentially involved," a characterization disputed by Assistant U.S. Attorney Kathryn Warma.
Deri's lawyer, Peter Camiel, said his client responded to his older brother's (Erik Deri's) invitation to join the business, but didn't start working for Nationwide until March 2003. Derei worked primarily as a dispatcher and had "very limited contact" with customers, Camiel contended.
A development that could be useful for the defense was the firing earlier this year of the government's case agent: Melanie Jaimerson, a Seattle-based special agent with the Department of Transportation's Office of the Inspector General.
Defense attorneys were eager to learn whether her dismissal was related to the Nationwide case. But after her personnel file was submitted to the court under seal, Burgess said it was not.
Still, the defense has copies of the interviews Jaimerson conducted with witnesses. If the witnesses tell a different story under oath than they told her, the defense could use the transcripts to impeach their credibility. And because the government has scratched Jaimerson from its witness list, she would not be available to assist in countering such attacks.
If history is any measure, the defendants face an uphill battle.
The Seattle prosecution is similar to other recent federal extortion cases that implicated Israeli-run moving companies around the country, including California, New York and Florida. In virtually every instance, the defendants pleaded guilty or were convicted by jurors, officials said.
In the Nationwide case, prosecutors plan to present a household-goods moving-industry expert to testify about standard practices adopted to avoid customer fraud, obtain accurate moving estimates and resolve consumer complaints.
By contrast, Nationwide customers will testify that their goods were damaged and/or stolen, and that their efforts to file claims with the company were typically "rebuffed, ignored, or evaded," the government said in court papers. And in some cases, the defendants stole household goods entrusted to Nationwide's care, the government contends.
Peter Lewis: phone 206-464-2217
Copyright © 2004 The Seattle Times Company


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I've been seeing the term "bucket list" a lot lately, the idea being a list of things you want to do before you die ("kick the bucket"). Do you have a list like that? Are there some things that you still want to experience or accomplish?
My own list would read something like this:
(1) Continue doing what I'm doing,
(2) Appreciate what I have as long as I still have it, and
(3) Hope it lasts a good long time.
Andy and I are in our harvest years now. (He's 78 and I'm 73.) The work of the past year or so has paid off—he's cheerful and enthusiastic in the morning as he goes up to the mountains. In addition to plowing the road when needed, burning slash and planning his future fruit trees, he's designing a solar hot water system for the roof so we can eventually have radiant heating in the cottage. He's already given the preliminary plans to the architect and is starting to order the parts.
And I'm getting back to some projects I was working on before building the house and dealing with insurance receipts—learning to draw and playing with different fonts in designing graphics for my blog posts. I have a rule that I post once a week on each of my two blogs and I always have to include a picture or a graphic related to the topic. I spend a lot more time on those than I do on the words because for me they're the most important—I'm a visual thinker.
One of the main reasons I started blogging was because I wanted to learn to express myself more in pictures, and the internet was an ideal medium. It's a soul-satisfying lifelong pursuit.
No, I don't need any more items on my bucket list. How about you? Is your life soul-satisfying? Do you need to add something?


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By the report of the Congressional proceedings, we perceive that this important subject was finally disposed of in the House of Representatives on Monday last, by a vote of 102 to 97, and that so far as the government of this country is concerned, the fate of the Indians are determined. The President and both houses of Congress have now united in setting at nought the treaties which have been made with the Indians, and in disregarding the faith of our republic, which had been so frequently and so solemnly pledged to protect them in the enjoyment of their possessions forever.- We leave for others to determine in what light this policy will place us, in the estimation of the world and on the page of history. If the violation of plighted faith on the part of the Carthagenians has subject that people to the reproach of the world, and exposed their memory, as a mark for the finger of scorn forever, what may not be said of the government of the United States, which has in a single session of its Congress, overturned the policy which it had pursued for half a century, and trampled under foot the most solemn obligations imposed by treaties repeated and renewed with all the formalities and sanctions of law. In submitting to the decision of Congress upon this subject, the citizens of the United States who have opposed this iniquitous proceeding, have the consolation of knowing that they have done their duty.--They have petitioned and remonstrated, against the infraction of our treaties, with all the earnestness which the occasion demanded, and with all the eloquence and force which the truth and justice of the cause afforded; and if they have remonstrated in vain, they have notwithstanding, washed their hands of the sin which has now been committed, and thrown the burthen [sic] with all the obloquy attached to it upon the friends of the administration. In the course of the debate upon this bill, it was boldly avowed by Mr. Lewis, that the bill was known to be the leading measure of the present President, and that therefore, those who avowed themselves the friends of the administration were bound to support it, and that if they did not, they would be faithless, and traitors to their party.--We have before said that this bill was to be considered as a party measure,- but we have seen no open avowal of the fact before. His declaration proves that in depriving the Indians of their right of property and security, in driving them from the lands which they have inherited from their ancestors, and from the homes which they have hitherto justly claimed as their own, justice has been sacrificed on the shrine of party, and principle and honesty have been permitted to share her fate. If the people of the United States are willing to sanction such a proceeding, adopted with such motives, the time is not remote when party will on all occasions triumph over principle, and when the institutions of our country will become the sport of artful and designing demagogues.--Ct. Mir.
THE INDIANS--The bill provided for the removal of the Indians, has at last passed the House of Representatives by a vote of 102-97. The interest felt on the subject by the members, as well as the community at large, appears to have been intense. If a single member was absent, who was in town, or indisposed and unable to be present, it was made the ground of a motion to postpone the consideration of the subject. The votes on all the questions were very close, there being a majority only of two of three votes. The friends of the bill, however, were determined to crowd it through, and as far as possible without argument. They seemed to fear, as well they might,an exposition of the subject. They did not vindicate their own course, nor did they seem willing that the opponents of the bill should have a full opportunity for its discussion. The previous question was moved and sustained in every stage of the business. All amendments were put down without discussion, by the weight of the majority. The object with the Government and its supporters seems to have been, without any regard to the rights of the Indians or our obligations to them, or contracts with them, to drive them out from among us. It has been in vain that the demands of strict right have been urged, in addition to those of magnanimity, generosity towards those who have been greatly injured by us, & unable to protection to those who are feeble & protect themselves. The course taken bears strong marks of meanness and unfair dealing, and there is no wonder that its vindicators should blush at the measures adopted. The silent & despotic course which has been adopted by the continued suppression of all discussion, is well worthy the arbitrary measures provided by the bill itself. It is in vain to say that the bill only provides for their voluntary removal. The real design and aim cannot be disguised. The whole tenure of the measure adopted, and the language of the President and of the supporters of the bill, shows that the design is that of forcible removal. We regret the inhumanity and deep disgrace attending this tranaction [sic]. The only alleviating circumstance is the strenuous opposition which it has received from so many of our Representatives. Our own Representatives, to a man, voted against the bill.--Norwich Courier.
From the Albany Christian Register.
Present State of the Indian Question.
--The law recently passed by Congress on this subject, is entitled, "An act to provide for an exchange of lands with the Indians residing in any of the States or territories & for their final removal West of the river Mississippi." It provides for the removal at the expense the United States, of such Indians of any of the tribes as shall desire to remove, and for an appropriation of lands in exchange for those they shall give up. True, none are to be removed who shall not request it; but then the rejection of two amendments proposed by Mr. Frelinghuysen in the Senate, and of others of like import in the House of Representatives, leaves those who do not choose to remove, exposed to the tyrannical laws of Georgia, Alabama and Mississippi.
The rejection of these amendments amounts to this:THE UNITED STATES GOVERNMENT WILL NOT PROTECT THE INDIANS FROM THE LAWS OF ANY STATE OR TERRITORY THAT SHALL SEE FIT TO EXTEND THEIR LAWS OVER THEM. And the United States Government WILL NO LONGER CARRY ON INTERCOURSE WITH THE INDIANS AS INDEPENDENT AND SOVEREIGN NATIONS.
Such is the actual state of things in relation to those much oppressed human beings. But it is to be remembered, that they cannot be removed without requesting the government to remove them. They have only to sit still and see whether these states will carry into execution the laws they have enacted against them. We cannot give up the hope, that, "light will spring up in the midst of the darkness" that overshadows them. We cannot give up the hope, that Georgia, Alabama, and Mississippi will pause before they execute their most oppressive and tyrannical laws against the Indians, until one more opportunity shall offer of bringing the subject before Congress. But if not, if they should push on in their infatuated course, and tread those defenceless [sic], peaceable, neighbors and allies down to the earth--it will be nothing strange, should the war-whoop resound in the ears of the white man, the scalping knife do its own hand the executions of justice, and the vindications of his wrongs in his wonted, though almost forgotten savage mode. It will then remain to be seen, whether the government of the United States will allow a single state to carry on war by itself: and if not, whether they will sustain Georgia; or redeem their violated faith to the Indians, by protecting them.
Voluntary emigration of the Indians.
It is easy to foresee that it will be rung from one end of the United States to the other, that no compulsion is to be exercised towards the Indians for their removal; that none will be removed who shall not desire to remove. This is not so. For, notwithstanding the plausible form of the law for their removal, this act of the general government is to be taken in connexion [sic] with the laws which they knew Georgia and other states had passed in relation to them, and with their own violated faith in refusing to protect them. These form one whole. This voluntary emigration is like the voluntary emigration of the Puritans to America, when they were driven from their homes by the fires of persecution, and compelled to seek a refuge n the howling wilderness.--It reminds us of Bonaparte's "forced loans." The capitalists were told you shall lend me money or go to prison. But do not say you were compelled to go to prison: if you go, you go voluntarily.
This is in fact, the sum and substance of the whole Indian question: and it ought to be carefully laid up in the memory of every reader. Ibid.
The Indian Bill passed.--The bill providing for the removal of the Indians
to some territory beyond the Mississippi to be selected, surveyed and defined,
has at length passed both houses of Congress; and as it is said to be a favourite
[sic] executive measure, there is no doubt that it will promptly receive the
President's signature. From what is called party national policies and executive
questions we have desired and do wish carefully to abstain. But it ill becomes
the conductor of a free and independent press to keep silent when silence would
be criminal. It is only the servile and contemptible who ascribe infallibility
to party, or who transmute that which is a violation of all laws, social, political
and divine, into acts of merit, and justify them on the principle of policy
and power. Our busi- [sic] should be applaud what is meritorious, and reprobate
what is unjust. It is our duty to obey the laws; but it is no less so, when
we believe they are not made in conformity to the honour [sic] and interests
of our country to exhibit their moral iniquity, and the men who made them, to
the reprobation of the world. Never was an act recommended by any executive,
or passed by any Congress of these United States, fraught with darker and deeper
national disgrace, than the one we speak of. Our language is too feeble adequately
to express our opinion of its character for obliquity & injustice. Indeed
this alone seems to be the only object it can certainly secure. We naturally
ask what good can arise from it to the nation? What security is offered to the
Indians by such a transfer of location? Will the national faith, which had been
pledged to protect them where they are, be so renovated and changed, that future
safety and protection will be better secured? Will that nation which has sacrificed
its honour [sic] to mammon or party, be more scrupulous for the time to come?
Such a supposition, entertained by the men who have thus sported with the scared
honour [sic] of this nation, would only be fastening a stigma of infamy upon
their own characters, as if they entertained the idea that a worse than themselves
could not succeed them. They may hope for an approaching millenial [sic] of
happiness and justice; but they take especial care, as far as this precedent
is concerned, to throw obstacles in the way of its approach. Now the Indians
are to be removed. But nothing is said of the bounds of their territory, or
whether they are to have any more than a few acres each for the raising of corn,
turnips, and other vegetables. Nothing is said, while they are again thrown
into nature's wildness and incivilization [sic], as to whether they are to have
a like ample range for their hunting--no,no: their crime seems to be their aim
at civilization, and this must be arrested. They are to have a location adjoining
some of our states or Territories. Their neighbours [sic] will be the same as
formerly. They will, in a short time be surrounded by men who will trespass
upon there [sic] rights--envy them of their possessions--covet their improvements--and
seek, through some quirk or quibble, to involve them in trouble that they may
have them removed from their habitations. The guarantee of laws is no protection,
when men, having the power, make laws to violate justice. Soon the minions of
a popular executive will cut the knot they cannot unite--might will trample
on right--former precedents will be acted upon, and law, justice and human rights
will change their character as our elections change an administration. The intruders
upon Indian rights will be encouraged to proceed--they will throw their toils
over, create difficulties among, intrigue to circumvent, and then make laws
to overpower them. An executive promise is no charter of rights. New commentators
and exponders [sic] of laws will arise, as we have seen them arise, utterly
disregarding the most sacred treaties-men whose godhead is power, whose creed
is policy, whose greatest virtue success, and who, for a trifling consideration
of interest, which is neither needed or required, would shake the very pillars
of our constitutional fabric and threaten the nation with blood and ruin! On
this topic we dare not indulge our feelings. No predilections of party, or of
party leaders, can influence or draw us off from what we owe to the cause of
a righteous principle and of immutable justice. When the character of our nation
is wounded we should not be silent; nor will the hope that the supreme court
may yet restore our nation to its wonted dignity, remove the opinion we entertain
of those who have thus impaired it. --The Phil. Sun.


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- #OverlyHonestMethods The ultracentrifuge was run at 10,000 rpm because setting it higher trips the circuit breaker.
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http://twitter.com/Fishy_Hayes/status/299222636330897408— Malorie Hayes (@Fishy_Hayes)Wed, Feb 06 2013 18:26:50
- Apparently a full microfuge tube rocking on a cold-room rocker is universal for "shut it off, it's not important" #overlyhonestmethods
http://twitter.com/manyfacesofPTB/status/299195832522121217— Paul Barnett (@manyfacesofPTB)Wed, Feb 06 2013 16:40:19
- There was a 20 hour incubation between centrifugations because the centrifuge broke down during the night #overlyhonestmethods
http://twitter.com/dylanorion/status/299166279200284674— Dylan Burdette (@dylanorion)Wed, Feb 06 2013 14:42:53
- We don't know how this method was performed because the PhD student's lab book is written in Chinese. #OverlyHonestMethods
http://twitter.com/OverlyHonestly/status/299163171996987392— Overly Honest Method (@OverlyHonestly)Wed, Feb 06 2013 14:30:33
- Western blots are not included because the machine short circuited and burnt itself and all of my membranes #overlyhonestmethods
http://twitter.com/CateLW21/status/299144727721295874— Cate Williams (@CateLW21)Wed, Feb 06 2013 13:17:15
- As long as being overlyhonest... previous tweet should've read "wine, cheese, The Bachelor, powerpoint #overlyhonestmethods"
http://twitter.com/PlanetDr/status/299038341012262912— Sarah Horst (@PlanetDr)Wed, Feb 06 2013 06:14:31
- Data was analyzed and graphed in MS Excel because the lab ran out of SPSS and Sigma Plot licenses. #overlyhonestmethods
http://twitter.com/FinsFare/status/298987311218176000— FinsFare (@FinsFare)Wed, Feb 06 2013 02:51:44
- February 6
- ran reaction in toluene instead of benzene because the bottle of benzene looked older than my advisor #overlyhonestmethods
http://twitter.com/ArielFabulous/status/298916358329098241— Ariel Furman (@ArielFabulous)Tue, Feb 05 2013 22:09:48
- I used these statistical measures because I didn't know how to change the default settings in my data analysis software #overlyhonestmethods
http://twitter.com/DrYashGad/status/298889490284556289— Yash Gad (@DrYashGad)Tue, Feb 05 2013 20:23:02
- There was a strange gunk in the bottom of the tubes, but we used them anyway because they still worked #overlyhonestmethods
http://twitter.com/abi_bouw/status/298815066126569472— Abigail Bouwman (@abi_bouw)Tue, Feb 05 2013 15:27:18
- Butterflies are important indicators of climate change impacts, but mostly they're just pretty #OverlyHonestMethods
http://twitter.com/OverlyHonestly/status/298814039331577856— Overly Honest Method (@OverlyHonestly)Tue, Feb 05 2013 15:23:13
- Prepared slides were used when the slides looked wrong b/c the TA forgot to peel the plastic film off the cover slips. #overlyhonestmethods
http://twitter.com/MissFlyBai/status/298795445944217602— Laura Keller (@MissFlyBai)Tue, Feb 05 2013 14:09:20
- Just seen a pair of undergrads try and use a vortexer as a centrifuge. #OverlyHonestMethods
http://twitter.com/randomletters92/status/298762631035105280— Owain (@randomletters92)Tue, Feb 05 2013 11:58:56
- lecturers picking out and presenting only the pretty results "because they look nicer on the slides" #overlyhonestmethods
http://twitter.com/JLMorris91/status/298744083206254592— J Morris (@JLMorris91)Tue, Feb 05 2013 10:45:14
- We used the old version of the analysis software because newest version was so buggy it wouldn't run without crashing. #overlyhonestmethods
http://twitter.com/ornithologypsy/status/298707385944506369— Kim D (@ornithologypsy)Tue, Feb 05 2013 08:19:25
- So then I switched focus, because my advisor ran out of funding and I had to jump on a different grant. #overlyhonestmethods
http://twitter.com/suzigordon/status/298654434081263616— Suzi Gordon (@suzigordon)Tue, Feb 05 2013 04:49:00
- The reaction was complete when the compound changed to green & the crazy Russian postdoc said it tasted 'OK' #OverlyHonestMethods
http://twitter.com/OverlyHonestly/status/298625400249131008— Overly Honest Method (@OverlyHonestly)Tue, Feb 05 2013 02:53:38
- February 5
- "oh that hole is from the pick axe" #RichardIII #overlyhonestmethods
http://twitter.com/Sophie_c9/status/298542488447225857— Sophie Clarke (@Sophie_c9)Mon, Feb 04 2013 21:24:10
- Tubes left to incubate for as long as it takes me to reply to a text message. #overlyhonestmethods
http://twitter.com/thehappy_nerd/status/298541595484102656— Melissa Maloo (@thehappy_nerd)Mon, Feb 04 2013 21:20:37
- We only surveyed students because we could stand in the classroom and glower at them until they completed it. #OverlyHonestMethods
http://twitter.com/OverlyHonestly/status/298507466935762944— Overly Honest Method (@OverlyHonestly)Mon, Feb 04 2013 19:05:00
- my PI wasnt happy with the results of our lab over the last 3 weeks so he scheduled a lab meeting for Saturday, 10PM. #overlyhonestmethods
http://twitter.com/overlyhnstmthds/status/298502539043827713— overlyhonestmethods (@overlyhnstmthds)Mon, Feb 04 2013 18:45:25
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Ask Mick LaSalle: Heights can surprise
Published 5:53 pm, Thursday, June 6, 2013
Hi Mick: I get the impression that most of the male movie stars are under 6 feet tall. Is this a rule? Are most of the leading ladies just a little over 5 feet tall?
Gary Schneider, Alameda
Hi Gary: It's not a rule. It's just that most men, in general, are under 6 feet tall, including men claiming to be 6 feet tall. (And we all know that every guy who's a fraction over 5 feet 9 claims to be 5 feet 11. In fact, there are almost as many guys claiming to be 5 feet 11 - or "a shade under 6 feet" - as there are people calling themselves "storytellers" these days. Scary.) But there's no pattern. As for women, actresses come in all sizes. A few French actresses I've interviewed have turned out to be smaller than I thought, because in their films, they stand next to French actors, who are shorter than you expect. So if you see Sandrine Bonnaire standing next to Daniel Auteuil, for example, you might subliminally assume she is 5 feet 6, because you assume Auteuil is 5 feet 9 or 5 feet 10, but actually she is at most 5 feet 3.
But everybody is always some kind of surprise physically, either bigger or smaller. Anthony Quinn was huge. Bruce Willis and Sylvester Stallone were more compact than I expected, not short, but slimmer than what you detect onscreen. Denzel Washington was the only actor I ever met who looked exactly the same in person, as if he had strolled from the screen into the room. By the way, you always hear that this or that action star is 5 feet 2 - the claim is often made by people who've met them, and yet it's never true. What happens is that people unconsciously expect to look up at movie stars - people expect them to be 7 feet tall - and when they turn out to be normal size, they're seen as tiny.
Hey Mick: If you could go back in time over the past century to review films for the local newspaper, are there any decades you would prefer? Or would you rather remain in the present?
Paul Sheinfeld, San Rafael
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Hey Paul: That's a fun question to think about. For me the best era for films would be from around 1924 to 1934 - but after that, movies got disappointing, and I'd be frustrated. I know people remember the late 1930s as a golden age, but for regular, run-of-the-mill releases? It wasn't so great. Then again, I look at this as a writing job, not a going-to-the-movies job, and from a writing point of view, bad movies can be as interesting as good ones. So it's something to consider. There are practical matters, of course, such as typewriters instead of computers. That would be rough. On the other hand, no Internet - that would be a relief at this point. I'd love to go around wearing a hat, too, and I do think I could rock spats as well as anybody. Also, let's assume I'm a young man in the 1920s. The women were gorgeous then. Women's styles were even more flattering in the early 1930s - women's hair was natural looking, the dresses were naturally contoured, not overly fancy.
But again, the downside: weird hair by the late '30s. Shoulder pads in the 1940s. In terms of women's styles, things pretty much went to hell from about 1935 to Julie Christie. Plus, those newspaper guys in the old movies just don't look healthy. And having lived through the '70s, would I really want to go back to a time when you couldn't get away from people smoking in restaurants? On a more serious note, while it would be fascinating to go back in time and experience my favorite cinematic era as it unfolded, I'd be sacrificing the perspective of history, which makes watching those films so satisfying. So I'd have to decline and stay right here. However, if I could go somewhere on vacation? I'd go to 1932 in a minute, and not just for the movies, but for the shopping. The exchange rate would be incredible. {sbox}
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Canada expands eligible occupations and trades for permanent residency
Nurses, accountants and financial managers to be eligible for Skilled Worker stream for first time
In the lead up to Canada's "Express Entry" programme, which opens next January, significant changes have been announced to three of the country's permanent residency pathways which may offer Irish workers new options for moving to or staying in Canada.
The cap for the Federal Skilled Worker programme will increase five-fold this year, from 5,000 to 25,000. Applicants with a job offer can still qualify even if the quota has been filled. The number of eligible occupations under the programme will more than double, up from 24 last year to 50. New occupations on the list include nurses, doctors, financial managers, accountants, computer technicians and university lecturers. Click here for a full list of eligible occupations. (Note that some occupations have been removed however, including chemical engineers and cardiology technicians)
The list of eligible trades under the Federal Skilled Trades programme will be expanded from 43 to 90. Click here for a full list of eligible trades. The cap has been increased from 3,000 to 5,000 for this year.
The Canadian Experience Class, which offers permanent residency to workers who have at least 12 months' skilled work experience in Canada, will have a cap of 8,000 this year beginning May 1st. (Note: an original cap of 12,000 for the year beginning November 2013 has been reset to 8,000).
The changes, which come into effect on May 1st, form part of the Department of Immigration's new Express Entry initiative (previously known as Expression of Interest), which aims to "ensure a steady supply of skilled workers who are settling in Canada permanently and helping to supplement the Canadian workforce in areas where there are skills shortages".


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Dan Hamhuis is one who regularly counts his blessings.
The Nashville Predators' defenseman is as earnest as any 27-year-old father of two, solid in his faith and unwilling to take his physical gifts for granted.
In a little more than two weeks, though, he might have to pause to count his money as well. There's likely to be lots of it.
Hamhuis is scheduled to become an unrestricted free agent when the National Hockey League's next contract year begins on July 1. If he does, he will be one of the most sought-after players available, because of the combination of his age and consistent production over an extended period of time — not to mention that impeccable character.
"I'm at a point in my career where there are lots of options," Hamhuis said shortly after the season. "I don't want to close the doors on anything."
While dozens of players in the league go through that process every year, his situation represents something brand-new for the Predators. This is the first time the franchise risks getting nothing in return for a guy it selected in the first round (in 2001) and developed into a full-time NHL player. The Predators typically cherish their draft choices, particularly the top ones.
Under the current collective bargaining agreement, players are eligible for unrestricted free agency at 27 years old, three years younger than under the business plan that was in place when the franchise joined the league.
"If you're a team whose bread and butter is young players and draft picks, this is part of the system that's not good," Nashville General Manager David Poile said. "It's not good for us at all, but this is the system we have right now."
Predators' management and Hamhuis (along with his representatives) discussed an extension at times during the season but agreed to halt talks at the Olympic break so the player could remain focused on hockey. Since Chicago eliminated the Predators in the first round, negotiations have resumed — but with little progress.
"It's going to be a difficult negotiation," Poile said. "What they're looking for doesn't fit into our budget … and I don't see it as something we can make work for us right now."
The closest Nashville ever has come to this scenario was in 2007, when Scott Hartnell, the sixth overall selection in 2000, was traded to Philadelphia less than two weeks before he was to hit the open market. The Flyers immediately signed the rugged forward to a long-term deal, and this season he played a significant role in that team's run to the Stanley Cup Finals.
Goalie Brian Finley, the first-round choice in 1999, was not offered a contract following the 2005-06 season, but he had not established himself as an NHL player, and management had decided that he never was going to be one. Others, such as Scottie Upshall and Ryan Parent, were traded years before their free agent eligibility.
"Scott Hartnell was our player and Dan Hamhuis is our player," Poile said. "Both of them still should be ours, but that's not the way it works."
A recent ranking of this year's potential NHL free agents by one online outlet listed Hamhuis as the fourth-best player overall and second among defensemen.
His appeal is rooted in the fact that he figures to provide a greater degree of certainty than most free agents. In six NHL seasons, he never has missed more than four games. His annual point total never has strayed far from 25 — with the exception of 2005-06, when he racked up 38. His average ice time has been even more consistent.


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It doesn't matter how big or small your company is. It doesn't matter if you're B2B or B2C or B2monkeys. It doesn't matter if you're selling widgets or whatsits or high-end consulting-on-a-stick. Each business has the same single, most valuable asset and many of them squander it on a daily basis. I blame marketing.
You see most marketing has a pretty big blind spot when it comes to existing customers. Most marketing is all jacked up about getting leads and landing the next customer. Most marketing is kind of a jerk when it comes to loyalty and longevity. It behaves more like a sleazy operator who is only out for a one-night stand. This type of marketing is deeply immersed in the "hunter mindset" – you know – the one that's all about "targeting" and "capturing." (…or, putting notches in the headboard. Eww.)
Where's the sense in that?
Why go to all the effort of "capturing" new business if you're just going to dump it the next day for the hot, new thing that walked through the door? How about instead of leaving your customers for dead, you took the time to nurture your relationship? Tell me, what are you doing to keep the romance alive?
Too many brands respond to that question with a blank stare. Mistake.
That's how affairs start. Take your customers for granted and their hearts will start to wander. They might suddenly look up and realize that the grass looks a lot greener on some other brand's front lawn. That spells trouble for you on multiple fronts. Not only do you potentially face being dumped, you are losing out on your easiest and most profitable sales opportunities. It's a well-known fact that it's less expensive to sell to an existing customer than to land a new one. Lose a customer and you're literally losing profits right off the bottom line.
So – what should you do?
To keep your customers deeply in love with you, you have to continue to woo them long after you've initially won their business. Make them feel special. Show them you care (talk is cheap, people). Listen to them and pay attention. Skip the flowery whispered nothings and deliver the real goods. Be there when they need you. Keep your promises. Fess up when you screw up and – for the gods' sakes – say you're sorry.
Still not sure where to start? Here's a quick brainstorm of ideas for small (and big) ways you can show your customers you still think they are all that and a side of fries:
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- Create and deliver a stellar customers-only newsletter with insider tips, tricks, specials, and events
- Offer customer-only access to in-house experts via webinars, forums, or live Q&A calls
- Publish content that's designed to serve the needs of customers (instead of to sell prospects)
Ask them what they are thinking (and listen when they tell you)
- Run routine satisfaction polls
- Have a prominent feedback form or "idea box" on your site – actually read (and respond to) submissions
- Do bi-annual customer survey that lets them get really in-depth with feedback
- Deputize key customers to help you make your products and services better – invite them to participate in internal conversations, give them a seat at the table
Say thank you
- Don't take any customer loyalty for granted – show your appreciation all the time
- Offer special deals – give stuff away
- Surprise them – delight them – give them something to talk about
- Remember the power of the "just because" gift … no strings attached
In short, be real and treat your customers the way you'd like to be treated.
Your customers truly are your most valuable asset and they deserve your deep appreciation and undying loyalty. Deliver that and you'll have a customer for life and an evangelist for your brand. It doesn't get better than that.
What are you doing today to make your customers feel loved? What can you do tomorrow?


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Parties in the Pacific Lumber Co. bankruptcy case on Thursday launched their final salvos in the 16-month war over how the 140-year old timber giant will be reorganized.
The arguments had Judge Richard Schmidt of Corpus Christi, Texas, frustrated and apparently torn between a plan he seems to want to approve and one he can confirm as a matter of law.
Schmidt changed his earlier protocol of allowing attorneys to argue their cases largely uninterrupted, instead grilling lawyers representing bond holders with hundreds of millions of dollars invested in Palco's 210,000 acres of timber.
With a nod to a plan submitted by Palco creditor Marathon Structured Finance Fund and Mendocino Redwood Co., Schmidt said the court wants to put in place a plan that deals with Scotia, the Palco mill and the timberlands together.
"There's no doubt that if your plan is confirmable, it's going to get confirmed," Schmidt said to Mendocino Redwood attorney Allan Brilliant.
It was unclear by deadline exactly when Schmidt would rule, but he has said he's aware of Palco's financial position.
But Schmidt also listened to -- and questioned -- noteholder attorneys trying to convince him that even if Mendocino Redwood's plan seems more attractive, it isn't allowed under bankruptcy law. Attorney Bill Greendyke argued that even Marathon's all-cash offer to pay off the timber notes wouldn't make bond holders whole, because it wouldn't allow them to hold a lien on the property and potentially benefit from the investment down the road.
"I'm telling you that the law is that you can't do that," Greendyke told the court.
Greendyke said that he believes Mendocino's plan would illegally transfer value from timber-holding Scotia Pacific to Palco, stripping away some bondholder assets.
"Everybody who gets crammed down in a bankruptcy case thinks their property is being taken away," Schmidt commented.
The Mendocino plan calls for a merging of the timber and lumber operations of Palco, and a reorganization of the timber town of Scotia. It is looking to pay the noteholders $530 million in cash for the land. That plan has been recognized by the court as being the cleanest transition to getting the company operating normally again.
It also has won the support of Palco and its parent company Maxxam, unsecured creditors, the state of California, and state regulators and legislators.
But bondholders want to hold an auction for the timberlands, which they claim are worth $603 million, based largely on a bid by Texas investor and poker player Andy Beal -- which incidentally expires today. They have held that an auction is the only way to determine the true value of the property.
Palco attorney Shelby Jordan said that the noteholders months ago put a $440 million value on the land when it suited them, then later found other experts to cook the books to find "$150 million of trees." He also pointed out that Beal refused to show up to testify that his offer was for real.
Timber baron Red Emerson's Sierra Pacific Industries recently put forward an offer to buy the mill and power plant for $27 million plus $18 million in capital, and sink $70 million into improvements. But Sierra Pacific's offer is contingent on a 15-year log supply agreement that would take all logs with whomever ends up owning the timberlands. That's something Beal Bank previously has been unwilling to consider.
Marathon attorney David Neier said that with an uncertain months-long auction that requires additional financing under the noteholders' plan, bondholders could realize far less than they would get under Marathon's plan. He said that Beal's plan is nothing but a liquidation plan.
"It's Mr. Beal's own version of a Texas chainsaw massacre," Neier said.
Throughout the lengthy proceedings, Schmidt has signaled that the value of the timberlands would be key to determining how the case is resolved. He has said that if he determines a value for the claims, it can be forced on other creditors, and that bankruptcy often involves changing the structure of debt.
At the same time, Schmidt acknowledged that the support of any one plan -- or its benefits to a community -- could not override the law.
"I can't bend the law to make it better for Humboldt County," Schmidt said.
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