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Hot Mug Shot Guy's Mom Comes to His Defense -- He's No Gangster!
Dreamy McMug Shot Mom Comes to His Defense He's No Gangster!
Jeremy Meeks -- aka Dreamy McMug Shot -- for sure does one thing well ... he makes good kids, and has a very loyal mom who says McMug is being stereotyped because of his old tattoos.
Meeks is currently being held on $900,000 bail for illegally possessing firearms and ammo, carrying a loaded firearm in public and criminal street gang activity.
His mother, Katherine Angier, is trying to raise money for bail using the website GoFundMe. She wrote, "Please help. My son was taken into custody on his way to work. He is a working man with a son. He is being stereotyped due to old tattoos."
She added, "He's my son and he is so sweet. Please help him to get a fair trial or else he'll be railroaded."
McMug's sister tells TMZ ... the only reason he carries guns is because he used to be in a gang and needs to protect himself. And she says, he's been a practicing Christian for 7 years.
The D.A.'s office says Meeks is a known member of the Northside Gangster Crips ... which is why gang charges were also filed against him.
Angier is hoping to raise $25,000 for her son's bail ... but as of this posting, she's only received $238.
The kid is 3 years old. The mother is McMug's wife. They have been married for 4 years.
Check out the gallery below of a few shots of Jeremy through the years. Let's just say ... a haircut did the man wonders!
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A Class Digression
For those waiting for the next macro (scripting) class, you'll have to wait a little longer. Not least, I got sidetracked by the job that pays my bills. Add in the following amusement and the fact my internet connection went down yesterday so I couldn't make sure the scripts I was preparing for lessons were really functional… It's coming. Just not here yet. Now about that "following amusement"…
Between the guild drama, time, and the holidays, I've not had extended playtime with my priest. Instead, given the small opportunities I've had, my alts have been a better option. And to be blunt, because of the burnout I've spent more time on the hunter than the priest. As a consequence, I'm itching to write about it. However, this is Priestly Endeavors, and hunters are… well, they're not priests. So, I've resisted. I DID resist, mostly, with only an aside here and there. But I've also been writing of guild and macro, and only sorta doing these from the priest perspective. And, well, it's my blog and I still itch to write of my hunter and lessons learned. So…
I will be writing hunter related articles. Not heavily, but this won't be a purely priestly blog any more. Since I am nowhere near as experienced, the lessons here will be more along the lines of a beginner discovering what experts have already known. If you're not interested, just skip the hunter category – I promise, I won't be offended. Obviously, then, this is going to be the first entry in this area.
My hunter is a Draenai, level 50. Right now he's BM spec, straight down BRK's BM boilerplate. And I love it for many, many reasons. Not least is the contrast to leveling with a priest. (Level a priest to 40 – even shadow spec. Then level a warrior in Prot spec to level 40. Then put a hunter in BM spec and level to 40. That was my experience — and it's why when I listen to warriors and pallies cry about their slow leveling I want to laugh at their ignorance while at the same time I understand their tears. Compared to the priest… compared to the hunter… Enough said.)
Anyway… I've been playing pretty intentionally as a bit of a huntard. Set a trap just in case, hit the mob with a level 1 arcane to pull it away from its peers, send the pet to intercept it (with growl, it does this 100% of the time), pop hunter's mark, start pewpew till it's dead, rinse, lather, repeat. Sometimes for variation send the pet right away, let it get a couple of hits then have it switch to the second mob, pewpew second mob to death, retarget and pewpew first mob. Fast kills, fast leveling… routinely dealing with mobs and quests that are allegedly a little too high just so I'm CHALLENGED instead of bored. (Though I admit I'm still giggling when I do more than one level in an evening even above 40. And crying when I take a break and spend three times as long with my priest running the same level but having to use quests my hunter did two or three levels earlier…)
But anyway… I'm considering challenging myself. Both in making the leveling a smidge more difficult and simultaneously forcing myself to develop more and better hunter skills. If I do this you'll see a LOT more hunter posts than if I just stay BM.
See, I'll spec SV. Possibly – PROBABLY – SV/BM. "WTF?" yell the experienced hunters. Calm down. I know – KNOW – already that this isn't the biggest BANG spec. I know that BM is the highest sustained dps and MM is the highest burst, but SV's max DPS comes from crits and most of the crits are in MM. And that's why – yes, I know – that the most common SV/something split is SV/MM. Yep. But I'm taking the road less travelled.
See, I've gotten it into my head that it's possible for a hunter to do most of if not clear most instances that are barely green (not yet gray), and MAYBE even a little higher. I'm not talking with group, I'm talking me and my pet. But to do that, I need to take care of my pet – both survivability and tankability. That is, armor, health, and ability to generate aggro. And therein lies one of my first annoyances.
See, I really like my pet. See, I happen to have two cats as pets. I picked up one at around 12 and the other around 20, worked them both to 30, but have been running one exclusively to now. Both are personal chest-thumpers — meaning I had to do a bit of work and extra effort to get them. The one I got the earliest – and is my 49 – is my lynx, Lyallii. I had to go to the blood-elf starting land to get her. The other is a ghost-saber – Mist. Mist is a dangerous kitty in BGs because she's translucent — not quite as bad as being stealthed, but still she's been missed till attacking more than not. But Lyallii… Hey, chest thumping. And personal sense of humor — Urtica Lyallii is a stinging nettle. (Properly Urtica Dioica Lyallii — if I get another fulltime pet you can see what the name will be already.) Anyway… The cat will do aggro through damage and growl. But it won't do as much as a boar. And while it'll tank, it's not as survivable as the armor pets. Which means I have to throttle my damage a bit (for that 1K initial aggro) at the same time I really need to kill the pulls before it/they kill my cat. Or, I have to be prepared to intentionally pull something off so my cat can deal with something else. While, probably, trapping yet another something… I did say I wanted a challenge. I still may end up with a different pet, and bid a wistful farewell to Mist.
For the kibitzers, I'm looking right now (level 70) at 17/24. Here's my reasoning, and after that I'll mention where I'm looking for the march to 60 — realizing that lessons learned may change my mind in any number of ways.
The BM points are 5 in endurance training, 3/3 in thick hide, 2/2 in focus fire, 5 in unleashed fury, and 2 in improved mend pet. The only one of those I'm not certain I like is the focus fire. Endurance and thick hide are tank aid. Unleashed fury means the pet has higher aggro which lets me boost my dps. Mend pet is both a tank aid (clearing those debuffs) as well as a mana saver. The former, given my plans, is more important.
Over in SV, for now it's 3 in humanoid and 2 in monster slaying. 3 in entrapment and 2 in improved wing clip. 2 in clever traps, and 4 in survivalist (helps me and my tank/pet). 2 in trap mastery, 3 in surefooted. And finally 3 in Killer Instinct.
My next 6… one more in survivalist, and then 3 in resourcefulness followed by 2 in Lightning Reflexes. I intend to max lightning reflexes and grab Wyvern sting, and then see where I am. One direction would be to pick up improved hunter's mark via lethal shots so my 'tank' does even more damage. Alternatively I can push for expose weakness and readiness. But those are decisions I'll make after I finish my next six levels — after 56, when I know more about the path I've chosen.
Feel free to kibitz. Probably won't change my mind much, but I'll be interested to see if I hit the pitfalls you predict – or can work around them as the case may be.
And as always, have fun — at least as much as I plan on having, if not more.
7 Responses to "A Class Digression"
You might consider renaming your blog to something a little less class-specific, eh.
I definitely feel for your healer burn-out. My solution was initially to roll a lock, but as easy as they are to PVE, I found it lacking–and boring. My solution was to roll a SECOND priest and spec her as pure shadow. Now I have a set of twins–good and evil–and I love them to bits.
I leveled a BM hunter after my holy priest as well. 🙂 I was able to solo clear SM with her while the mobs were still green – did a couple levels that way. I stuck to pretty much pure BM while leveling so I don't know much about the survival tree.
And here is the reason my blog is called "Mystic Chicanery" instead of "Blessing of Sacrifice" 🙂
I look forward to reading more.
I did the same thing. Some people look at me funny when they know I have two priests, but hey, I'm happy. I was fortunate enough to roll a nelf for my shadow priest (seemed like a good fit), and thanks to the 2.3-improved starshards I now have 3 dots … so hey, who needed that 'lock anyway. 🙂
I don't play a hunter (well, not yet anyway) but I love to see people try something different. Maybe it'll work and maybe it won't – but it's going to be fun either way.
Well, what I know abouts huntering wouldn't half-fill a gnome's shot glass, so buggered if I know how well this build'll work. But I's a big fan of following the road less-walked-on, so I says go for it, and /cheer. Looking forwards to hearin' yer instance-soloing stories.


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"For demo only," Ben Krasnow gives a walkthrough in the video below of his homemade hybrid rocket engine, made by combining a rod of poly(methyl methacrylate) with gaseous oxygen. Watch as he shows the fabrication methods for constructing the rocket as well as detailing the rocket engine's ignition properties.
I built a small rocket engine for demonstration purposes… I lit the engine by inserting a burning cotton swab (with wooden stick) while a small amount of oxygen was flowing. The acrylic catches fire very easily in a pure oxygen environment. The engine can be throttled and shut off completely, which is a major benefit to hybrid engine designs.
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Gabriel Alonso, CEO of EDP Renewables North America and new chair of the board of AWEA, opened with a rousing speech outlining his plan to strengthen the organisation. He wants a clear long-term goal, industry unity, proactive communications, and to mobilise the mass of wind energy supporters who are not being heard.
Tom Kiernan, the new AWEA CEO, a brand new face in the industry, spoke of his aim to set this "industry in flux" on a steady path to stable growth. He knows that strong advocacy efforts are needed, and that the industry must work to counter the well-organised anti-wind adversaries.
His introduction, while passionate, did not carry the unbridled optimism of former CEO Denise Bode's first conference, in the same venue four years ago. Surrounded by a larger exhibition, but similarly dogged by supply-chain problems from an industry in perpetual rise and fall, Bode too was aiming for stability, through a federal mandate for more wind energy in the supply mix. Such stability remained out of reach during her tenure.
We wait to see if Kiernan's more measured approach will help him to realise a steadier path.
In Brussels, Thomas Becker has already started his new job as CEO of the European Wind Energy Association. Becker's immediate plan is to show policymakers the economic realities of building up the wind industry, how creating home-grown energy resources can bolster manufacturing and jobs while providing a lasting, secure source of power. He too plans to counter the adversaries, through the simple message that wind does not need subsidies. On a level playing field, wind is economically viable.
His predecessor, Christian Kjaer, took charge at EWEA in 2006, as oil prices continued to climb. This gave him a perfect platform from which to shout that wind energy is an energy option with stable costs. Becker has to get the same message across, but against a more difficult background of an economic rather than an energy crisis.
A shake-up at the top can work wonders for an individual, organisation or industry. Both new CEOs of the wind energy associations have the benefit of viewing the industry from outside, and seeing the bigger picture, while still being able to harness the knowledge of those steeped in the sector. The industry in flux will be hoping to see that shake-up have some effect.
Work with what is there
The efforts of the industry so far have resulted in more than 270GW of wind power turning globally. Keeping that fleet well serviced has become a business in its own right. Vestas expects to earn one fifth of its revenue this year from operations and maintenance.
From the major turbine makers introducing new servicing divisions to the third-party suppliers developing ever-more sophisticated methods to monitor and improve output, this renewed focus can help operators to squeeze every drop of performance from their projects. A well planned strategy can improve output, both raising profit and reducing the cost of wind energy.
All of which will help the new leaders tell the story that wind power is not just for the good guys who are doing the right thing for the climate. It is also an industry that can stand its ground against other energies, and bring economic benefit.
Jacki Buist is editor of Windpower Monthly


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It has been too long since the last update, but mostly due to our crazy schedules... Adam has been curling a bunch and Jamie has been studying for her certification test. Basically that leaves very little time to catch up on the blog.
Tonight, dad had a work happy hour and afterwards it turned into "beat up daddy" night. It started as some simple airplane rides, but turned into "jump on daddy as hard as you can".
While the girls only weigh ~22# and 38# respectively, it still hurts when they jump on your head!
Other quick updates include Violet is in a "YES" phase... she says yes for everything. I am guessing that will shortly change into a "NO" phase!
Sylvia is loving the latest round of snow as we have been outside working on our "castle". She has also taking a new obsession with water colors - so her artistic talents have been in full effect lately.
Mom and dad are both fine and hope to update the blog a bit more frequently!


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Hernandez recently spoke with Houston Wrestling Radio. Here are some highlights from the interview.
On what made him became a fan of pro wrestling:
It was the Paul Boesch Houston Wrestling in the 80s. There you could see the Guerreros, "Hacksaw" Jim Duggan, Butch Reed, One Man Gang, you name it. All of the biggest stars were there back in the early 80s. It was awesome!
On getting his start in the south Texas indy scene: I got trained by Tugboat Taylor and his son, Chaz in the late 90s and I started with Texas All-Star Wrestling around 1999. Back then, everything was hot. WWE, WCW and ECW was really hot. And it all trickled down. We would be drawing 500 to 800 people. Back then I was "Hot Stuff" Hernandez and I wrestled this young man named Necro Butcher. We would draw 500 people for "Hot Stuff" vs Necro in a hardcore match.
On his pre-wrestling relationship with Necro Butcher: Before I was making a living in wrestling, from about 1995 til 2001, I was an impound manager for the Houston Police Department. If you got a DWI or got your car towed for warrants, they would tow your car to a lot and you would have to come to me. I worked my way up from the night shift to manager. So I needed a night manager. The one who got the job was Necro Butcher; So he was my night manager. So if you were drunk in a club and had your car towed for illegally parking and you were talking all kinds of crap on the phone saying you would beat us up and then you would come to get your car, and then there's this big 6"5′ white hippie waiting for you. It was a sight to behold sometimes. We would get lots of cars that were illegally parked from the Houston Rodeo too. We would have to deal with a hundred drunk cowboys a night! And they all want to fight over the phone until they see us in person. Everybody's tough behind a phone or behind a keyboard.
On how he broke into TNA: I basically took chances. I was the top draw in Houston for two or three years. My pockets weren't getting any bigger. And unfortunately for pro-wrestling, it's not a team sport. If you want to make it, you have to go out there and take chances. Necro Butcher taught me that first-hand. He left Houston. He made his name on the east coast doing hardcore stuff. I did it the hard way. I went to Japan three or four times, I went to Mexico. I wrestled there with a mask when TNA called me.
His response to the question of who he would have liked to work with but hasn't: I'm very blessed. The wrestlers I've wanted to work with so far, I've worked. I've got to work a singles match with Sting. I've worked with Kurt Angle. I've got to work with AJ Styles and Austin Aries. Those two, as far as putting matches together and working the crowd… and Bobby Roode, those three are the best in TNA. I had a match with Jeff Hardy. I'm a huge fan of lucha. I've had matches with Dr. Wagner, La Parka, Cibernetico, guys from AAA. Another guy I was really a fan of, some people like him, some people don't like him, Mike Awesome from ECW. I got a chance to tag with him in Japan. My bucket list is pretty much done.
If he prefers wrestling singles or tag matches: When I first got into wrestling, I used to love singles because it's just you verses one man and a ref. It's just three guys to make one match. But then when I got on television I almost wrestled exclusively tag matches. And me and my brother, well we're not brothers but he might as well be my brother, Homicide, We meshed so well that I'd rather tag with him than wrestle any other type of match.
On what are his favorite matches of his career: Bound For Glory 2006, me and Homicide and Konnan versus AJ Styles and Christopher Daniels. We won the tag belts back in the cage. That match put us on the map. And then in 2011 with me and Homicide there was a match that wasn't seen by a lot. Ring of Honor made a special deal to have me go over there for one night only to wrestle Chris Hero and Claudio Castagnoli. It was at Manhattan Mayhem in March of 2011. We tore the house down. Nothing is better and nothing more rabid than being in front of that Ring of Honor crowd.
On his upcoming appearance for the Clutch City Productions Sports and Celebrity SuperShow on August 31st: I'll be there from 10:00am to 2:00pm. I'll be autographing pictures. I'll be autographing whatever you have, I'll also be having "SuperMex" t-shirts. You can't miss it. It'll be one of the few times in South Texas that'll you get to see the backbone of nWo. Hall, Nash and X-Pac will be there. I'll be there. Robbie E will be there. Tessmacher will be there. But just for the fact that Hall, Nash and X-Pac are there, you should go.


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I love listening to TED talks. I'm kinda addicted to them.
Brené Browns' Power of vulnerability is my favorite one so far.
I listen to them while I walk on the treadmill which makes the walking on the treadmill part suck less.
& I'm getting used to drinking more water, but it's not my favorite.
Seriously the spring snow this year just went on and on and on. It was depressing. I was over the snow gear every morning. But the kids were excited to have their sledding season extended.
This boy was soooo excited about his Brody plant from preschool. Seriously some grass seed & his photo. It's the little things in life.
Waking up slowly...snuggled into old quilts, with some coffee, breakfast & journaling time is the most peaceful, calming way to start a Saturday. We need to make time to slow down and just take in our blessings more often. I think we would all be more content.
We were in charge of helping with food for our bible study, and went with a Classic BBQ theme! I loved everything about it! I loved that one of my BFF's so got into the theme with us...suppling watermelon, sunflowers, ice cream sandwiches, & a gingham table cloth! I loved having deviled eggs & Andy's smoked brisket! I love that we have such a loving bible study group!
Brody tells me all the time that his preschool is by the Eiffel Tower...
Watering and caring for my roses is one of my most favorite things to do. So happy when the snow goes away & I get my rose time!
I stopped in a local thrift store just to see if they had anything fun & vintagey one day & hit the jackpot! That nursery rhyme plate is already at home on my wall with my vintage plate collection. The gingham apron hangs in my kitchen. The jars with gingham kids are just begging for homemade strawberry jam this summer & that yellow sheet to be made into a tent in the backyard for summer reading! Oh and the chicken table cloth...well it was destined to be mine.
A good friend let me borrow her spiralizer one day, & I made zoodles for dinner....zucchini cut into spiral noodles! Soooo crazy fun! Love finding new summer meal ideas!
This was another cold, rainy, snowy April day inside putting together puzzles & playing games. Love our sweet quiet days together when the big kids are at school.


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Wyoming Joint Appropriations Committee
Point Source Youth to Expand Footprint in Fight Against Youth Homelessness
Point Source Youth, a nonprofit that helps local partners in 30 communities fight to prevent youth homelessness, is preparing to meet a key organizational goal by expanding its work into 20 more communities across the country.
Bill Prioritizes Placing Incarcerated Parents Close to Children
The 80,000 children of New York state whose parents are locked up in distant state correctional institutions might have an easier time visiting mom or dad under a bill sitting on Gov.
California Counties Empty Juvenile Halls to Combat COVID-19
Seeking to avoid outbreaks of coronavirus, within a matter of months, county officials across California have dramatically reduced the numbers of youth locked in juvenile detention facilities – a decrease that justice advocates long decrying the over-incarceration of the nation's young people might once have dreamed of.
Child Welfare League of America CEO: Field Must Confront Its Racist Roots
In the nearly two months since the police killing of George Floyd launched a global protest movement against systemic racism, the American child welfare system has experienced its own reckoning.
In June, parents marched through Manhattan, waving signs charging child welfare authorities with "stealing Black babies."
New Name. New Leadership. Same Mission.
Dear Reader,
If you have arrived at the site today and are surprised to not see The Chronicle of Social Change masthead, fear not!
The nation's leading source for child welfare and juvenile justice news has been rebranded under our new name, The Imprint.
Dozens of Prosecutors and Youth Corrections Officials Call to Close All Youth Prisons
In a sign of the nation's rapid rethinking of the justice system prompted by protests against racism and police brutality, dozens of elected prosecutors, corrections officials and probation chiefs have called for all youth prisons to be shut down.
Family Enrichment Centers Show Early Promise in New York City, Evaluation Reports
New York City's child welfare agency launched a bold small experiment in 2018: Three new community rooms deep in the city's most under-resourced neighborhoods would offer comfy, staffed spaces for families to seek no-strings-attached advice and support, computer access, meeting space or children's playtime, all at no cost.
'Family Regulation,' Not 'Child Welfare': Abolition Starts with Changing our Language
In a recent webinar about racism and policing hosted by the Northwestern Prison Education Program, abolitionist scholar and educator Erica Meiners noted that "avoiding the state's language is a key tool for practitioners of reform and abolition."
Los Angeles Weighs Ballot Proposal to Fund Alternatives to Incarceration
As communities across the U.S. grapple with how to divert money from law enforcement agencies to correct for long-standing racial injustice, Los Angeles County supervisors think the voters should decide.
On Tuesday, the Board of Supervisors voted to advance a proposal headed for the November ballot that would direct as much as $800 million "to address the disproportionate impact of racial injustice through community investment and alternatives to incarceration."


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What's Pinterest?
There's been a torrent of media interest in a new social network called Pinterest lately.
In fact, it's being billed as the hottest social media trend of 2011-2012. The explosion of traffic to the start-up's site in less than one year (from 40,000 to over 3.2 million monthly unique visitors) is perhaps an explanation of the fascination and enthusiastic declaration of it being "the Web's next best new Thing," combined of course, with the over $37 million in funding it's received.
For those of you not familiar to the site, it works as a pinboard or scrapbook, where users can create boards and pin links, photos, or videos and then share them with friends. Users can also follow other members and re-pin their content as well. The site is currently invite-only but users can also browse boards without signing up.
Currently, 70% of Pinterest's users are female and the site is getting a lot of interest from marketers and brands who want to engage consumers by promoting a lifestyle concept or get them to discover their products through a social medium. So it makes sense that as of now, the content being curated and shared leans very heavily toward fashion, home decor, food, and travel.
But what seems crystal clear to me is the site's potential to inspire and share beyond these categories and market segments. It can be used for play but it also holds potential for being fertile ground for innovation. The site is extremely visual and I can see it catering to creatives and dreamers in much the same vein as Behance, Tumblr and Vimeo do.
Dreaming 4.0
Pinterest brings to mind to my bedroom walls where as a teenager I taped up photos, posters and collages of magazine cut-outs to remind me, inspire me and nurture my spirit. It is a good habit that I've never kicked. I know many artists and creatives who maintain dream or vision boards and sometimes carry quotes, pictures or inspirational items with them at all times. Web users regularly do this via bookmarking or sharing content.
From moleskin to iPad, cork bulletin board to sleek portfolio, the concept of organizing and storing your ideas, dreams and desires remains the same. Where are you currently storing your ideas?
Why not bring this dream-catcher process inside your company or use it to connect with your followers?
|"Innovation" Pins on Pinterest
Inspire your team internally
Imagine an online pinboard dedicated to inspiring and connecting your team and other employees, allowing them to cultivate a vision and ideas together, fueling the fires of creativity and set the tone. By pinning items and tagging each other, they are collaborating and brainstorming ideas in a fun creative way that creates a strong, unified interest in your company's success.
Bring the innovation conversation online by pinning that new design, Superbowl commercial, song, gadget demo or street art that everyone needs to see. All hands on deck - Innovation warriors, come out to play!
Promote company culture externally
Pinboards can also be used to introduce and share your company's vision, mission and culture outwardly. Brands and figures like Whole Foods and Martha Stewart are already sharing via Pinterest. In this new marketing era of transparency, openness and connection, this avenue offers another way to delight your consumers by bringing them inside your corporation and showing them what you do literally and what you value.
Any social media marketer will tell you that consumers buy when they feel connected to a brand - that it reflects their shared values and aspirations and makes the consumer feel good about themselves.
Are you a creative? Are you a visionary? Are you a techie? A foodie? Connect with your peers and the people in that space, cultivate a following and then bring it back full circle.
Imagine being offered the opportunity to have a look at Guillermo Del Toro's, Walt Disney's, Anne Rice's or Steve Job's vision board, wouldn't you jump at the chance?
Have a company blog? Embed the Pinterest icon and invite readers to follow you.
Test, learn, gather insights
Pinterest may be used as a ideas bank internally but what about as a focus group? When you have a new idea or development in progress, you want to gauge interest and use failure as a learning experience. Pinterest's users share what inspires them on a very personal level.
Offer users the ability to pin your products or ideas or blog posts. Not only is it a great social marketing tool but you can use it to gather insights about your consumer base, your internal team or another audience.
What inspires them? What do they crave? What do they have in common? What are they saying about it?
Pin that new idea/concept/design and track how people react to it before actualization.
Take it to the people
You might ask people to pin photos or videos of themselves using your product, which may be used to reward your loyal customers by featuring them or for testimonials. Pass them the pin.
Take the marshmallow candy Peeps for example, it has such a devout fan culture that if you Google or Youtube it, you will find consumers doing way more than just eating them for Easter.
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You might be surprised to see online fans videotaping Peep explosions in their microwaves or using them for artistic expressions in delightful out of left field forms such as Peep sushi creations. Brands with similar devout fan culture, like Duct Tape or Lego, could easily reap the benefits of a user-generated pinboard.
You might run a contest asking users to submit ideas for a new product or just collect data about how they use the product to develop and innovate further.
The Myspace generation created a new wave of self-portraiturist, amateur photographers, using their mirrors and cameras to take candid shots of themselves and then posting them online that set the camera industry on a whole new design path.
Who knows what you might discover via Pinterest about your own concept and its use.
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Libraries, museums and other institutions have practiced the noble art of information science and preservation for hundreds of years. Without much praise, social mediums such as Twitter, Foursquare, Flickr, Blogger, Instagram, Youtube and Facebook have done much of the same thing except that few people view them through that digital archives lens. That was...until Facebook owned it.
There's been a lot of fuss in the last several months about Facebook's major Timeline design overhaul. Call it what you will... curation, storage, archives, historical documentation, etc., There is a global collaboratory movement happening, preserving history (public or personal) has become a social phenomena.
Why not create an open, searchable, networked, digital channel that preserves your ideas, vision and creative passions for the future? Can you see the value of such a resource?
As inspiration for this post, I ran a search for "Zurich" on Pinterest since that is where the FEI team is headed next for Front End of Innovation EMEA. The results made me 'ooh and ah' but also validated my thoughts here:
Just look at those cool offices at Google Headquarters in Zurich!
Take caution though, Pinterest (n)etiquette restricts self-promotion so follow the rules and become a true part of the community before you begin sharing your own work. You don't want to be That Guy just talking about yourself all the time.
Lastly, remember to have fun. Play, explore and share - AND dream!
I have a few invites that I'd be happy to share with Front End of Innovation readers, please post your email address in the comments or contact me directly to request.
Feel free to connect with me at Pinterest too. A special thank you to Chris Brogan, whose own Google Plus post about Pinterest and its uses inspired me to write this - Inspiration is everywhere, don't forget to pay it forward.
For further exploration into social media uses within the innovation process, you might be interested in attending our full-day "SOCIAL MEDIA SUMMIT: THE INTERSECTION OF CUSTOMER AND WEB 2.0" at the 6th annual Front End of Innovation EMEA in Zurich.
FEI Blog readers receive a 15% off discount on the standard and onsite rate by using code FEIEMEA12BLOG to register.
Valerie M. Russo is a Senior Social Media Strategist at IIR USA with a technology, anthropology, marketing and publishing business acumen. She will be attending the 6th annual Front End of Innovation EMEA in Zurich, Switzerland on February 27-29, 2012, and covering the event live via Twitter and the FEI Blog. She is a published poet and also maintains a literary blog. She may be reached at firstname.lastname@example.com. Follow her @Literanista.


text: There's something quintessentially American about Hollywood's take on Robert Ludlum's amnesiac Jason Bourne. Maybe it's that as Bourne, Matt Damon kickpunches through globe-trotting adventures so improvisationally — he's a grim practitioner of espionage jazz. But if you were to ask, "Now that there's a Damon-less Bourne movie coming out, what actually happened in those first three?" We'd say, "Um ... hey, look over there!" So, in preparation for The Bourne Legacy, we decided to figure it out. Above: The Bourne Identity, 2002 How it starts: A bullet-riddled Bourne floats in the Mediterranean. What Bourne remembers: Nothing. Well, OK: A few languages, advanced driving (and killing) skills. The bad guy: Conklin (played by Chris Cooper), head of an assassin squad called Treadstone The ally: Franka Potente's Marie Kreutz, who gives Bourne a lift The locations: Langley, Marseille, Paris, Zurich How it ends: CIA boss Ward Abbott (Brian Cox) has Conklin killed and Treadstone dismantled.The Bourne Supremacy, 2004 How it starts: A Russian spy (Karl Urban) tries to kill Bourne and gets Marie instead. What Bourne remembers: A wee bit about his first assignment The bad guys: Abbott and the Russian — naturally, in cahoots The ally: CIA deputy director Pam Landy (Joan Allen) The locations: Amsterdam, Berlin, Goa, Moscow, Munich, Naples, New York How it ends: Exposed, Abbott kills himself. Bourne makes peace with the survivor of his first hit and kills the Russki agent. Landy reveals Bourne's real name: David Webb.The Bourne Ultimatum, 2007 How it starts: Wounded and on the run, Bourne meets a London journalist (Paddy Considine) who is sniffing at his trail. Things go bad. What Bourne remembers: The procedures of Treadstone's Dr. Albert Hirsch (Albert Finney) The bad guys: Hirsch and CIA deputy director Noah Vosen (David Strathairn), who's running a new program, Blackbriar The allies: Landy and former Treadstoner — and former girlfriend — Nicky (Julia Stiles) The locations: London, Madrid, Moscow, New York, Paris, Tangier How it ends: With Bourne's limp body floating in New York's East River—until he swims awayThe Bourne Legacy, 2012 How it starts: Without Bourne. The hero is Jeremy Renner as assassin Aaron Cross. The bad guy: Byer (Edward Norton), who runs black-ops program Operation Outcome. These guys never learn, huh? The allies: Dr. Stephanie Snyder (Rachel Weisz), who helps train Outcome assassins; also, Landy How it ends: Um ... hey, look over there! (The movie comes out Aug. 3.)Illustrations: Adrian Behzadi. P hotos: Universal/Kobal Collection; UniversalAlso in this issueThe Story of Steve Jobs: An Inspiration or a Cautionary Tale?Will Wright Wants to Make a Game Out of Life ItselfUndead: The Rabies Virus Remains a Medical Mystery


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'Polite and cooperative' Casey Anthony reports to probation officer in check fraud case
TALLAHASSEE, Fla. -- Florida authorities said Thursday that Casey Anthony was polite and cooperative during a meeting with her probation officer and pledged to meet the conditions of her one-year probation for check fraud.
The 25-year-old Anthony, who has remained hidden since a jury acquitted her of killing her daughter, met with the officer for more than an hour Wednesday evening at an undisclosed location as she begin her probation. But citing death threats against her, state officials said they will not reveal her location, including the county where she will serve her probation.
Anthony has been in hiding since being set free last month after a jury found her not guilty of murder in the 2008 death of her 2-year-old daughter Caylee.
But a legal battle then commenced over whether she still needed to serve her probation.
Anthony's attorneys argued she already had completed it while in jail awaiting her murder trial. The Fifth District Court of Appeals disagreed with the argument that enforcing the probation order would violate the constitutional prohibition on double jeopardy.
Circuit Judge Stan Strickland said in January 2010 that Anthony should serve probation after her release from jail.
She had pleaded guilty to stealing checks from a friend. His instructions never made it into a written order and corrections officials interpreted the sentence to mean Anthony could serve the probation while she was in jail.
In an order this month, Strickland clarified that Anthony must begin her probation now that she is out of jail. He then recused himself from the case and turned it over to Judge Belvin Perry, who presided over Anthony's murder trial. Perry upheld Strickland's order, and Anthony's attorneys appealed last week to the Fifth District Court of Appeals in Daytona Beach. The appeals court denied a request that would have stopped her from being forced to start probation by the end of the week.
Anthony showed up at a state probation office at around 6 p.m. Wednesday. Plessinger said the probation officer went over the list of conditions Anthony must follow. She said that Anthony told the probation officer she understood the requirements.
The terms of Anthony's probation require her to physically report to her probation officer no later than the fifth day of each month and that she cannot change her residence or job -- if she finds one -- without permission. She would also need permission if she wanted to relocate to another state in the next year. She also cannot carry or possess a gun without permission and she is supposed to "work diligently" at a lawful occupation.
But Plessinger noted that thousands of people now on probation in Florida are without a job because it is difficult for them to find employment because of a criminal conviction. The state currently has a 10.7 percent unemployment rate. She said Anthony could choose to go to school -- including an online school -- while serving her probation instead of seeking a job. Anthony has not yet made a request, however, to go to school.
Perry's order gave the Department of Corrections the discretion to keep confidential information on Anthony's location. Florida authorities have chosen to keep secret not only where she is living but the name of her probation officer and the location of her probation office.
Plessinger insisted that this did not mean that Florida was giving special treatment to Anthony. State officials, for example, will not escort her to and from her home to the probation office.
"We will not be disclosing the location or anything that might lead to the discovery of her location, but she will be treated like every other offender," she said.


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"All knowledge, the totality of all questions and all answers, is contained in the dog."
—Franz Kafka
Aperture Foundation is pleased to offer a limited-edition photograph by Daniel Naudé from work featured in Aperture magazine issue 207 (Summer 2012). While on a road trip through South Africa's Karoo region in 2006, Naudé encountered a feral dog foaming at the mouth and wearing an intent gaze. This run-in motivated Naudé to begin his series of photographs of the Africanis, wild dogs thought to have migrated from Egypt and now inhabiting the South African countryside. Although in Naudé's images the dogs appear to sit politely and patiently for their portraits, photographing these lithe, skittish animals is not an easy task. The Africanis project is the first of three series by Naudé to examine the complicated relationship between humans and fauna, and the symbolic roles that animals often play in our world.
Daniel Naudé (b. 1984, South Africa) received his BA from the University of Stellenbosch in 2007. His work was featured in 2011 in Peekaboo—Current South Africa at the Tennis Palace Art Museum in Helsinki, and in Fotografia contemporanea da Medio Oriente e Africa at the Fondazione Cassa di Risparmio di Modena, Italy. He is represented by the Stevenson Gallery in South Africa and lives in Cape Town.


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Some things I made a while ago that I wanted to post about. I haven't had time to do them, but now that I'm back at my apartment and done with an exam, I can get back to the regular grind. But for now, enjoy some photos. :)
Tuesday, November 30, 2010
Charms, Earrings, & Bracelet
Some things I made a while ago that I wanted to post about. I haven't had time to do them, but now that I'm back at my apartment and done with an exam, I can get back to the regular grind. But for now, enjoy some photos. :)
Thursday, November 25, 2010
Happy Turkey Day!
I know I haven't blogged in a few days, but I wanted to wish everyone a Happy Thanksgiving! I'm home for the holiday and I'm working at my job for a few days, so I haven't had any time to take pictures of anything or anything like that for my blog. I work in retail and tomorrow the place I work at is opening at 4AM, so I'm scheduled to be there at 3:30... Ekkk. So I'm going to try to go to sleep early. The only problem is, I'm freaking out about this exam my professor scheduled for Monday, the day after our break, which would be this monday, at 8AM. So I really want to study, but I really want to go to sleep, ahhh... Stupid professor. haha...
Anyway I hope everyone enjoyed their meals and stuffed their faces, because I know I did! Haha...
Sunday, November 21, 2010
More charms....!! (PIC HEAVY)
Yesterday(Saturday) I had no classes and no homework/tests/assignments due, so I worked my little heart out making more charms. :)
On your right hand side of my blog, you'll notice that I have an Etsy.com account.
*If you're interested in purchasing any of the charms I've made, you can click on there and purchase through there.
*All you need is a Paypal account.
*If you'd like me to create a specific charm or different colors of a charm I've already made you can request it, just shoot me an email: firstname.lastname@example.com
*Most charms cost $4.00 unless otherwise specified.
Anyway.... here's some charms I made yesterday...
Chicken Patty with lettuce
Hot dog with ketchup
Pretzel with salt
Chocolate cupcake with a chocolate chip cookie topping
Fun cupcake with a smile :)
Blueberry cupcake.. MmMmMM
Happy Pumpkin
Pie of pumpkin pie with whipped cream
Army of snowmen
Snowgirl with earmuffs
Snowgirl with a fun hat
Snowgirl with a scarf
I hope you enjoyed!! I'd love to hear your feedback!! :)
Saturday, November 20, 2010
Cupcake Ornaments! Christmas Post
Went to my local Wal-Mart and they had all these adorable ornaments! Most are only like $2.00 or $3.00. I'll be using these for my pink Christmas tree when I go home this coming week for Thanksgiving. They're so adorable, I had to share!
Peppermint Candies
I finally have a topper for my tree!!
Also when I was at K-Mart with the fiance I found this adorable tree with all homemade ornaments on it. These photos were taken with my IPhone so they're not that great of quality, but you get the idea... The prices on the ornaments are pretty expensive, for one you're looking at $4.00 or $5.00, if not more. But they are adorable!!
Friday, November 19, 2010
Collective Haul!!
This is basically a continuation from my last haul. Something things I've boughten over the last month or so and some is from my birthday...
Over-the-knee socks. <3
Wet Seal
Lace-back cardigan
Lace-back cardigan
Lace detailing
Lace Cami
Over the knee socks
More over the knee socks
Rue 21
Victoria Secrets
Yoga leggings, and boyfriend fit pants
My new "book bag" for next semester
And of course a YouTube video of everything, the prices are said in the video if you're curious. :)


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Discussion in 'Tejas and the Gulf States' started by mouthfulloflake, Feb 20, 2010.
oh well. another attempt straight down the shitter.
Hmmm, that spot looks familiar. We're gonna try this gain huh? I'm in but not until next week sometime. BTW that's not much of a clue.
If were doing this, what are the rules if any? Do we have a limit as to where the tag can come from? IE: within "X" miles of F'ville or anything?
1. Has to be within a 100 mile radius of F'ville
2. Pic must have a time/date stamp and bike must be included in the pic
3. One descent clue to location
4. Once a pic is tagged.....must have a new pic (tag) to post or it will not count
we will get it to work this time....I will get this one on monday....Im in wichita at the moment getting my taxes done...
CRAP, I forgot the timestamp, I never set it on the camera ( changing batteries its always wrong) so I turned the stupid thing off.
DO I have to do anotherone in the morning?
or can Mine stand Smoothie?
A better hint, that place is less than 10 minutes from the Fayetteville square.
better grab another one...with a time/date stamp or people will start bitching from the get go...
that one has a time stamp ( 2 actually) just not a date stamp.
date stamp...
nah, too many rules
im out.
The time was 02:11 on your GPS and since it is not dark we can assume it is actually 2:11 PM or 14:11 if you prefer.
The date is missing but you uploaded it today so we might think it is not a stock picture from another time. 'Slick Butt' (:: I mean Smoothie) will have to makle an official ruling but I think the FYV locals can safely have a go at "TAG" ing it.....
Good picture by the way.
After it is found, would you please show the clue that is on the GPS that makes sense to someone who does not live in FYV
Upon preview I see he has already made his decision so get out there tonight or it will be found before it is legally posted....... Bawahahaha
nah, im trying to help here, but im not inclined to work much harder at it.
here is a hint for you Gus, you can see the bridge from google maps street view.
time was 2:10 on my bike clock too opposite side of the dash
the intended GPS clue was NORTH, the bridge runs N/S
good lord, I can see why we have never been able to have a TAG thread before..
four simple rules.....
welp..that leaves me out! too many rules!
4 simple rules that were laid out AFTER the fact.
Gesus Krist....you guys are a bunch of picky mofo's
that is exactly my point... haha
#5..to much for ya doc
yep..and so are the 1st 4 :huh
OOHHOOHH! I know where the bridge is! Can i just say it or do i hafta ride there and get a pic of the german pig sittin on the bridge?
I drove over that bridge the other day in the F250, and there were guys fishing off of it, and they wouldnt get off and let me by?! I squeezed by and I figured one of them was goin in the drink.
got to get a pic with DATE STAMP and your bike...then have a new pic to post


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President Barack Obama threw his star power behind the Democrats' embattled Senate leader, who finds himself in a tossup campaign against an ultraconservative tea party favorite in America's most-watched Senate race.
Republicans have made Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid their top target in the Nov. 2 election. The minority party needs to gain 10 seats to wrest control of the Senate from the Democrats, and unseating the most powerful Senate Democrat would deal a major blow to Obama, who reminded supporters of Republican opposition to his agenda.
Reid is tied in the polls with relative unknown Republican Sharron Angle in a race that has attracted millions of dollars from across the nation.
"I know sometimes over the last two years as we've been grinding out change, doing battle ... dealing with obstruction, dealing with the 'no-you-can't' crowd, I know sometimes you might have gotten discouraged," Obama said at the nighttime rally for Reid on the third day of a four-day campaign swing. The rally's Democratic organizers estimated the crowd at 9,000.
"The work of bringing about actual change is so hard," Obama said. "I'm here to tell you Nevada don't let anybody tell you that what you've done didn't matter."
Obama was trying mightily to reknit the coalition that sent him to the White House with big outdoor rallies in Los Angeles and Las Vegas and fundraisers for Senate candidates. The president was reaching out to Latino voters, college students, women and other Democratic-leaning groups as he sought to boost the candidacies of key congressional allies whose success or failure on in the Nov. 2 election will help determine the fate of his own agenda.
Everywhere he went the president asked voters to keep on believing in the promise of change, even though he acknowledged that it's been slow to come and that the euphoria supporters felt when he won the presidency in 2008 has dissipated.
Obama's campaign stops were timed to energize the Democratic base in both California and Nevada where early voting is already under way.
His visit to the U.S. gambling capital was meant to give a boost to Reid, who hope to avoid the fate of former Senate Democratic leader Tom Daschle who lost by a narrow margin in South Dakota in 2004.
Like incumbent Democrats everywhere — and more than most — it's not only a Republican rival that Reid is combatting. It's the troubled economy, in the state with the nation's highest rates of unemployment (14.4 percent) and home foreclosures, where the recession has taken a big bite out of Nevada's main tourism industry.
Republican candidate Angle, campaigning Thursday in Las Vegas with former House Speaker Newt Gingrich, urged Reid to "man up" and accept his share of blame for the state's economic woes.
Reid has responded to such attacks by saying Angle like other tea party-backed candidates is too extreme for Nevada voters. He has called her an ally of the special interests and advocate for jettisoning government agencies and privatizing programs for the elderly and veterans that millions of Nevadans rely on.
The Nevada Senate race is now a test of strength for the fledgling tea party movement, which advocates smaller government and lower taxes.
The 61-year-old Angle, a former state lawmaker — like tea party-backed candidates in other states — defeated a favorite of the state's Republican establishment in the primary election.
Her ultraconservative policies have hurt her in the general election campaign with some moderate Republicans and leaders of the state's gambling industry backing Reid. She has countered by casting Reid as a career politician who lives in a fashionable condominium in Washington and is out of touch with the state he has represented in Congress for decades.
Polls show that the 70-year-old Reid, who is seeking a fifth Senate term, remains very unpopular among Nevada voters, but the Senate race is among the tightest in the U.S. with both candidates polling just under 50 percent.
Reid has fiercely courted the Hispanic vote in the contest against Angle, who has run TV ads with images of dark-skinned men and a map of Mexico to highlight her support of strict immigration policies. Hispanics are a growing voting bloc in Nevada, where they make up roughly 25 percent of the population. More than 80 percent of the Silver State's Hispanics hail from Mexico.
The crowd in Las Vegas was a fraction of the audience that had flooded a sunny quad at the University of Southern California in Los Angeles to hear Obama. USC officials estimated that 32,500 people were there and that 5,000 other people watched on television from an overflow area.
Obama campaigned in Los Angeles for Sen. Barbara Boxer of California, who is in a tight race with former Hewlett-Packard Chief Executive Carly Fiorina, and Jerry Brown, the Democratic candidate for governor. The USC rally brought a dash of Hollywood celebrity as Jamie Foxx warmed up the crowd and Stevie Wonder performed for supporters at Boxer's earlier fundraiser with Obama.
As Obama campaigned on the West Coast, Democratic and Republican party leaders back in Washington privately scrutinized the latest polling data to determine where to spend their limited resources on TV ads and get-out-the-vote efforts in the final 10 days of the campaign.
Democrats were increasingly focusing on the most competitive states and congressional districts in the hope that a superior turnout operation will help them win enough races to hang onto control of Congress, even if only by a slim margin.
Republicans were zeroing in on states where they've seen their leads shrink in recent days — like the Pennsylvania Senate contest — as voters started paying increasing attention ahead of Election Day.
Attention was focused heavily on the most competitive Senate races — California, Pennsylvania, Illinois, Washington, Colorado and West Virginia along with Nevada — and roughly two dozen House races in a battlefield that's rapidly expanded to 75 or more seats in play. Republicans would need to win 40 seats to take the House.


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I'm not sure why, but the surprise appearance by former Gov. Jim Edgar at the Illinois State Fair's Republican Day last week didn't generate much media coverage.
Despite the fact that Edgar is a Republican, this was not an easy "get" for Republican gubernatorial nominee Bruce Rauner. I'm told it took weeks of careful wooing and negotiations through one of Edgar's old cronies. Edgar backed state Sen. Kirk Dillard in the GOP primary against Rauner, but he has also expressed public and private concerns about how Rauner is portraying himself on the stump and about how that confrontational attitude could manifest itself if he's elected governor.
Another reason why I'm perplexed by the lack of coverage is that Democratic Gov. Pat Quinn has repeatedly gone out of his way to praise Edgar since Dillard's Republican primary loss. Quinn consulted with Edgar before his post-primary budget address, seeking his advice on keeping the income tax at current levels and providing some property tax relief. Quinn then mentioned Edgar by name during his actual address, saying the former governor was right to keep a tax hike in place.
If Quinn was hoping to somehow neutralize the still popular Edgar, he failed miserably. Edgar said at the State Fair last week that not only did Rauner have an opportunity to finally end one-party rule, but "The Blagojevich-Quinn governorship has been a disaster for Illinois."
Oh, man, that's gonna leave a mark.
"Outsiders" can make some Illinoisans uncomfortable. Despite the blathering of editorial boards and pundits, quite a few voters here subconsciously or otherwise still "don't want nobody what nobody sent." The Edgar endorsement could go a very long way toward soothing fears by moderate to liberal independents about how Rauner may be just too new, too unknown and too risky to be trusted with the office.
Meanwhile, four years ago I wrote that Gov. Quinn wouldn't know a campaign theme if it was bleeding to death in his front yard. His 2010 State Fair Governor's Day speech was rambling, disjointed and unfocused. Not this year. Quinn's theme so far is pretty darned clear: Bruce Rauner is an out of touch billionaire whose policies would harm working people.
But can it work? So far, the attacks seem almost juvenile, catty and not well produced. "Look! Over there! Rauner is rich! He's rich, I tells ya!"
The Quinn campaign appears to be following the Obama 2012 script very closely (and that script was based in part on Quinn's 2010 campaign against Bill Brady). The first thing they have to do is establish in voters' minds that Rauner is a plutocrat. Once that message is baked in, the big hits connecting him to nursing home and hospital deaths and whatever else the Quinnsters have in their opposition research files can be dumped on Rauner's head.
The political professionals who attended Governor's Day this year weren't confident at all that Quinn could pull this off. Then again, they had zero confidence in Quinn four years ago and he managed to edge out Brady. But, of course, there's no third party candidate willing to spend close to $4 million and split the anti-Quinn vote with Rauner this year, as there was in 2010.
In contrast, the GOP operatives who attended Republican Day four years ago were upbeat and hopeful, but quite concerned about the physical mechanics of GOP nominee state Sen. Bill Brady's campaign. Those fears turned out to be justified. This time around, there were few if any fears expressed about the way their guy is running his show.
And probably for good reason. The Rauner folks say that the Republican Governors Association has been tracking the number of contacts made at the doors by GOP gubernatorial campaigns. Rauner's door-to-door contact effort so far ranks number one in the nation – even ahead of Texas, which has a far larger population than Illinois.
Rauner, by the way, left after his State Fair appearance for a 38-county bus trip blitz through downstate Illinois. The schedule looks brutal.
The idea is to pack as many downstate appearances in before Labor Day and then focus mainly on the Chicago media market until November. It's the smart move because downstate is so huge that it can't be easily and quickly traversed.
The governor, on the other hand, has focused much of his summertime attention on the Chicago area, perhaps because polls show he has real trouble with his Democratic "base."
Rich Miller also publishes Capitol Fax, a daily political newsletter, and CapitolFax.com.


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Forget streets – Google wants you to explore the planet. Taking users off the beaten track, Google has added a bunch of Street View-style image galleries that let you enjoy some of the highest peaks in the world.
Revealed on Google's Blog, you can now scale the likes of Mount Everest, Elbrus and Kilimanjaro from the comfort of the living room sofa, avoiding arctic conditions and dangerous climbs.
Google undertook a huge expedition to acquire the images, and anyone interested to learn more can attend a special Google Hangout taking place right now.
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Won't get fooled again? Zbigniew Brzezinski tells Mubarak to step down
Paul Joseph Watson
Prison Planet.com
Monday, January 31, 2011
Zbigniew Brzezinski has called for Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak to step down as globalist stooge Mohammed ElBaradei prepares to act as the pied piper for a revolution that has been hijacked by the global elite.
Speaking with fellow CFR member Christiane Amanpour, Brzezinski told ABC News' This Week that Mubarak must be convinced by "outside advice" that "It is in his interest as well as in Egypt's interest that he goes and that he sets in motion a process which facilitates that."
Although Brzezinski warned of a "global political awakening" during a CFR meeting last year that threatened to topple the existing international order, it is unsurprising that Brzezinski is calling for the ousting of Mubarak despite the fact that he has been a dutiful servant to the new world order elite.
It became known in Brzezinski's globalist circles at least three years ago that Egypt was teetering on the edge of revolt and that another political entity would fill the inevitable vacuum of power if the elite didn't get ahead of the game.
That's why the American Embassy trained rebel leaders to infiltrate opposition groups from the very beginning, as the Telegraph revealed on Saturday.
The geopolitical maneuverings of the US military-industrial complex don't take away from the fact that the revolt in Egypt is driven by genuine grievances relating to spiraling food prices, high unemployment, policy brutality and the grass-roots drive to unseat a 30 year dictatorship.
However, if they allow globalist carpetbagger Mohammed ElBaradei to seize power, demonstrators are ensuring that their actions are in vain and ultimately worthless.
Addressing protesters in Cairo yesterday, ElBaradei demanded Mubarak step down and promised "change within days".
"You are the owners of this revolution. You are the future," ElBaradei declared. "Our essential demand is the departure of the regime and the beginning of a new Egypt in which each Egyptian lives in virtue, freedom and dignity."
Egyptians may be the owners of the revolution, but the owners of ElBaradei himself are busy hijacking that revolution by installing a puppet that will be just as compliant with Egypt continuing as a globalist client state as Mubarak has been for the past 30 years. Meet the new boss, same as the old boss.
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ElBaradei serves on the Board of Trustees of the International Crisis Group, who on Friday issued a press release protesting the decision on behalf of Egyptian authorities to place ElBaradei under house arrest.
International Crisis Group is a shadowy NGO (non-governmental organization) that enjoys an annual budget of over $15 million and is bankrolled by the likes of Carnegie, the Ford Foundation, the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, as well as George Soros' Open Society Institute. Soros himself serves as a member of the organization's Executive Committee.
In other words, this is a major geopolitical steering group for the global elite.
The fact that their man ElBaradei is being primed to head up the post-Mubarak government should set alarm bells ringing in the ears of every demonstrator who is protesting in the name of trying to wrestle Egypt away from the clutches of new world order control.
Indeed, even Mubarak himself is now seemingly catching on to the understanding that his usefulness to the global power elite has run its course, remarking during a national address Saturday that the protests were "part of a bigger plot to shake the stability and destroy the legitimacy" of the political system.
ElBaradei is the central figure in a long term plot to subvert and steer the outcome of a revolution that the global elite knew was coming three years ahead of time. Although his installation as puppet president may see political freedoms temporarily restored as a symbolic gesture, Egypt's destiny will still be firmly under the control of the same parties that have pulled Mubarak's strings for the past three decades.
Sham Afghanistan-style rigged elections will ensue where the Egyptian people are given the false decision of choosing between two globalist-controlled puppets. The international media will hail the event as a momentous occasion for democracy in the Middle East and broadcast endless images of purple fingers, but the true legacy of the revolution will be eviscerated and Egyptians will eventually realize that they were the victims of a cruel deception.
Paul Joseph Watson is the editor and writer for Prison Planet.com. He is the author of Order Out Of Chaos. Watson is also a fill-in host for The Alex Jones Show. Watson has been interviewed by many publications and radio shows, including Vanity Fair and Coast to Coast AM, America's most listened to late night talk show.
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Weight Loss How To Stop Food Cravings And Lose Weight With EFT —Lose Weight With EFT
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When you find yourself wishing that you had more willpower, consider this:
*Willpower* is not what you need, and it won't sustain you.
What is more helpful is what I call "willingness."
Are you willing to walk away from that sweets table so that you can feel good leaving the party?
Are you willing to pass *it* up for now?
Are you willing to wait until you are actually hungry and so you can enjoy and savor?
Are you willing to feel a little bit uncomfortable because that donut shop is calling your name?
Are you willing to feel your feelings instead of stuffing them with food?
If you can find your point of willingness, to make even the slightest change…then you have some breathing room.
"Even though I really want ______ I choose to be willing to let that go for now…"
I once worked with a woman in one of my groups who only wanted to focus on the positive.
It "worked" for her, in the sense that focusing on the positive made her feel good and helped to keep her mood stable.
Even though she had experienced major losses and a nasty divorce, she didn't get stuck dwelling on the past.
But not everyone can let go of the past so easily.
Our minds function much like a computer, with one glaring exception.
There's no delete key!
The brain remembers and stores everything that happens to you. When everything is working smoothly, information is taken in and processed, so that you are ready for whatever comes next.
But when major stressors occur and everyday frustrations add up, we sometimes get caught in a loop, affecting us much like a computer virus. It slows us down, making us more tired and sluggish, showing more signs of overload and stress.
The problem with these loops is that it makes it hard to get through the day holding onto our good intentions.
That report did not get done by 3 p.m.? …Now I'm fatigued and heading to the vending machine to bribe myself to keep going and get through the day…
In the case of a computer, we can hit the delete key or restart the whole system to try to stop the "bad" behavior, and speed things up a bit.
But with ourselves, there's no delete key…and taking a nap to refresh our systems in the middle of the day is usually frowned upon at work. If our thoughts get stuck in a negative loop, it's not so easy just to delete or let it go.
When we pray or focus on a positive mantra, like my client did, we are asking for a change. We WANT to feel differently, so we can act differently…not the same old, well worn downward spiral.
Same with our minds.
If you ask your mind to do something for you, it will. This is the concept behind "Ask and Receive"
It's why people use affirmations.
They feel good as long as you stay focused on them.
But they require a lot of focus and repetition.
Z Point is a simple technique that will help you automate the process. It sets the mind into action in a way that you specify.
The process of using a single word or phrase triggers a response.
Many people have used Z Point to help manage and "tone down" their emotional responses. With emotions under control, then food can just be food. Relationships improve. Habits improve. Thinking improves.
We humans may not have a delete key, but we do have spiritual technologies that help us to deal with excess emotions that muck up our systems.
It's as simple as identifying the change you wish to create and repeating the "go" signal to let go of the past and step into your new future.
Mindless eating is the exact opposite of what you want when it comes to losing weight. Even more important is feeling in control of your eating and yourself.
Mindful eating is ideal, but just being able stop mindless eating would be a tremendous help to stop this weight loss saboteur.
Habits can be tricky to deal with. Some habits are beneficial to us, but others are unwanted and unhelpful. Habits are by definition "mindless" and some habits are great and we need them – we can't consciously think about every single thing we do or we would go crazy. But when habits involve mindless eating, then it tends to be quite frustrating and even harmful. We all have mindless habits we'd like to change.
As difficult as it may seem, a habit is just a series of steps that has a beginning, a middle, and an end. It's like a program that starts running on your computer. Something triggers it to start, and it can run automatically. It can feel like you have very little control. This technique is designed to put more control back into your hands.
Join me to learn how to use Emotional Freedom Techniques (EFT) to break mindless eating habits.
Get mindless eating tips, learn about mindless eating products, a mindless eating ebook, and download the mindless eating pdf (details to come in the mindless eating summary to follow the podcast.)
EFT Tapping Helps Weight Loss:
Watch this quick EFT tapping video that shows one of the participants in the Feed Your Hungry Heart tapping film project discuss the changes she notices from daily tapping.
Listen for what changes "Missy" is noticing in her everyday life. Even small changes can add up to big results in the long run.
See if you can find all the different EFT tapping benefits that Missy is experiencing!
The EFT tapping technique is an incredible tool for all aspects of weight loss. Consistent and targeted EFT tapping can affect:
1. How you feel about yourself. Worthiness is a control center for every aspect of your behavior in every area of your life.
2. Tapping for Emotional Balance: Your emotional balance affects your food cravings and food choices.
3. What you choose to eat on a daily basis. Over time, the amount and type of foods that you choose makes a difference in your weight.
4. Reduce weight loss sabotage: Regular EFT tapping helps you to stop sabotaging your weight loss. After all, what good is weight loss if you keep sabotaging it?
5. Use tapping to make your diet and weight loss easier and more effective. Tapping to lose weight just makes sense!
Sign up for the newsletter to get EFT tapping weight loss scripts, EFT tapping video and the EFT tapping chart.
Tapping for the weight scale: If you avoid weighing yourself because you don't like what you see on the weight scale, then watch this short video to see how I recommend tapping to desensitize yourself.
Many people don't like to weigh themselves because they feel bad if they don't like what they see on the scale. I personally DO weigh myself almost every day just to make sure that I'm staying on track. It doesn't bother me if I see my weight go up a lb. or 2 because I know that there are normal fluctuations, and I can usually trace it back to something I have eaten, so it teaches me about how my body responds to the foods I eat. And to me, it's just feedback. That is the attitude you want to have.
But if it bothers you to step on the scale, then you are missing out on valuable feedback and you may have to desensitize yourself to it. Avoiding it does no good, because then you wait too long and you don't realize how far off track you can get in a short time.
So here's what I recommend. Before you step on the scale, tap for anxiety and use this affirmation:
Even though I'm anxious, I choose my response with love.
Then step on the scale and no matter what it says – tap:
No shame – no blame.
Then step off the scale and tap:
I release unhealthy behaviors and dissolve them into light.
I love and forgive myself completely.
My weight is not my worth.
Continue to tap "no shame – no blame" throughout the day if it helps. And remember, whatever it says on the scale is just a number. It doesn't have any meaning, except to point you in a direction. And it certainly is not a measure or your worthiness or unworthiness. So take it for what it's worth and don't give it any power to change your mood or ruin your day. If anything, it should motivate you.
I think it's great for accountability – not for judging yourself, just for learning –and there is nothing worse than seeing your weight creep up on the scale. Avoiding seeing that does no good – that's just resistance and fear. This series of videos will help you to use tapping to develop good habits, so sign up if you want to get more great video tips in your inbox.
It takes courage to tell your story, and to tell it on film for the world to see, it takes a lot of courage. In the interview above, you'll hear from Judy, one of the participants in the upcoming film.
Judy has had a lot of trauma in her life.
She's also had a lot of therapy …and been on a lot of diets.
None of them ever worked.
The missing piece of all those attempts was what she is learning now… how to deal with emotions.
Judy has a ways to go and her life isn't perfect (whose is?)
She's dealing with a painful relationship issue right now.
But this time, she's not eating to mask the pain.
Hearing Judy's story will encourage you.
She's not done yet, as you will hear in the interview.
But after a few tapping sessions, she finds herself not finishing food she would have gulped down unconsciously in the past.
She feels healthier.She feels better about herself.
She feels more *connected* to life and to other people, and more comfortable in her own skin.
Weight issues can make you want to both isolate yourself and *insulate* yourself from a world that can be harsh.
You can feel really alone.
When you lose weight by dieting, the reasons you overate are still there.
When you deal with your emotions and stress, often the numbers on the scale are the last things to change.
This can be frustrating, of course, but I think getting a permanent upgrade in how you feel about yourself is worth the wait.
We're all walking around with undigested feelings. Weight loss is often the end result of processing and managing those feelings in a better way.
That takes some skill and a lot of support.When you start to feel better, you do better, and then things start to change.
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3 Emotional Eating Coping Skills: Consider these facts about emotional eating:
Emotional Eating can be disastrous to your body and to your confidence. In order to make progress, coping skills for eating disorders need to be firmly in place. Coping without food is not always easy at first. Tapping can help you curb emotional eating, but there are other skills you can add as well.
Managing negative feelings and stress is an essential skill for weight loss. Whether you use tapping or not, you simply can't keep weight off without being able to manage stress! Luckily, emotional eating coping skills are a set of skills you can learn, practice and improve over time.
If you often wonder "Why an I an emotional eater?" or "Why do people eat emotionally?," listen to this audio to learn about the triggers for overeating and ways to cope without turning to food. You'll learn to build eating and coping mechanisms right into your day.
Join me as I share 3 essential emotional skills for weight loss that can help make your tapping more effective.
Boost your emotional toolbox!
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Watch this episode of the TV show "What Matters Most" as EFT Expert Karin Davidson is interviewed about how to use tapping. Toward the end of the video, she talked about how you can use tapping while you are whining and complaining to clear all the little daily stresses and annoyances that we all feel. Karin is an excellent EFT Trainer.
You may remember that I interviewed her on my EFT Weight Loss radio show here.
Please share this important video and let me know what you liked best in the comments!
So much of weight loss is about how you feel about yourself…
Are you overeating because of the overwhelming need to please others?
Are you ready to release the beliefs that keep you stuck, like "I am bad"…or "I am not worthy?"
Does your inner critic need to be retrained (or retired)?
Would you like to stop thinking there's something wrong with you and stop giving yourself such a hard time?
Join me and my guest, Andy Hunt, to learn to change those limiting beliefs. Andy is author of "Getting Out Of Your Own Way: Finding and Releasing Unconscious Blocks with EFT"
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TIME: 12 noon Eastern Time
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At a time when the U.S. is facing an acute shortage of nurses, The Graduate Center of the City University of New York has established a new Doctor of Nursing Science (DNS) Degree Program aimed at training nursing educators, as well as researchers and other health care leaders. The new program was approved at the June meeting of the New York State Board of Regents and will begin this fall. The degree will be offered in conjunction with Hunter College, Lehman College, and the College of Staten Island.
"At the same time that health care providers are facing a critical shortage of nurses, nursing education programs are facing a critical shortage of faculty," said Graduate Center President William P. Kelly. "Here at the doctoral level, the net result is an extraordinary need and opportunity for us to educate new nursing faculty who will in turn prepare students to enter a vital and rapidly expanding career field."
Designed for students who already hold master's degrees, The Graduate Center's DNS program is unusual in that it is structured to allow nursing professionals to continue working while pursuing their doctorate. The rigorous curriculum, which will require a dissertation, will focus on clinical research and will prepare graduates to undertake projects that improve patient care and results.
In addition, the new program will complement The Graduate Center's existing clinical doctorates in Physical Therapy and in Audiology. The three clinical disciplines will be combined under Clinical Doctoral Programs, headed by Dr. Barbara E. Weinstein, Executive Officer. Dr. Weinstein sees the perhaps unique possibility of creating interdisciplinary studies aimed at fields where all three clinical specialties have related needs, such as gerontology.
The DNS program has been developed to address a shortage of doctoral-trained nurses in New York City, helping to close a critical health-care gap. It is the only nursing doctorate program to be offered by a public university in the metropolitan area. In all (public and private) there are just five doctoral programs in nursing in the state, along with only one in New Jersey, two in Pennsylvania and two in Maryland.
Building on CUNY's tradition of excellence in nursing education, the program is expected to attract national nursing scholars eager to conduct clinical research and mentor the next generation of nursing faculty and nursing leaders. Graduates of the program will be prepared to fill faculty positions in schools of nursing, take on leadership positions in health administration and policy, and to assume staff positions as clinical nurse researchers.
Approximately ten students will be accepted in the first academic year, and 15 each will be enrolled in the second through fifth years. The curriculum consists of 48 credits, 9 in nursing science, 18 in research methods, 9 in health care and policy studies, 3 in research practicum, 3 in electives or independent study and 6 in dissertation seminar. Prospective students seeking more information should contact Robert Biondi, Assistant Program Officer of the Clinical Doctoral Programs, at 212-817-7980, or visit their website
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Two days after its launch, the iPhone's new fingerprint technology has already been hacked, according to a report.
A group of German hackers called the Chaos Computing Club claim to have hacked into Apple's Touch ID and are now in the running for $13,000 in prize money, according to Reuters.
The fingerprint technology was meant to make it harder for strangers to get into Apple's handsets, but security experts and a venture capitalist firm put a bounty on the iPhone's new technology to see who could hack it first. Although the group's claim isn't verified yet, some iPhone security experts said they believed the report, first shown on the group's website video, was real.
"Fingerprints should not be used to secure anything. You leave them everywhere, and it is far too easy to make fake fingers out of lifted prints," a hacker named Starbug was quoted as saying on the CCC's site.
The group said it simply photographed an iPhone user fingerprint and then printed it on a transparent sheet. It then used the sheet to make a mold of a "fake finger," Reuters reported. The group said the same process has been used in the majority of fingerprint sensor hacks.
Authors Charlie Miller and Dino Dai Zovi, who wrote "The iOS Hacker's Handbook", said they believed the claim was legitimate. "The CCC doesn't fool around or over-hype, especially when they are trying to make a political point," Dai Zovi told Reuters.
Both Nick DePetrillo and Robert Graham, security experts, launched a contest for the first hackers who "cracked the iPhone," with $10,000 thrown in from I/O Capital, but all said they need to make their own determination about who won the prize.
Each Apple device has been hacked in days or even hours of its launch, so this is nothing new. However, the idea that fingerprint technology is supposed to make security tighter on the iPhone, makes this hack a bit more embarrassing for Apple.