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On a rainy day just after Thanksgiving, Amanda Kimbrough played with her 2-year-old daughter in her raw-wood-paneled living room, petting her terriers and half-watching TV. Kimbrough, who is 32, lives a few miles outside Russellville, a town of fewer than 10,000 in rural northwestern Alabama, near the border of Franklin and Colbert Counties. Textiles were the economic engine of the area until the 1990s, when the industry went into decline and mills shut down. Now one of the region's leading employers is Pilgrim's, a chicken supplier. The median household income is $31,213, and more than a third of children live below the poverty line.
As family members came in and out of the room and one daytime show slid into another — "The People's Court," "Intervention," "Jerry Springer," "The Ellen DeGeneres Show" — Kimbrough talked about her arrest following the death of her third child, Timmy Jr. Born premature at 25 weeks on April 29, 2008, Timmy Jr. weighed 2 pounds 1 ounce, and lived only 19 minutes. When Kimbrough tested positive for methamphetamine, her two daughters were swiftly removed from her custody, and for 90 days, she was allowed only supervised visits. Social services mandated parenting classes and drug treatment.
That would have been a typical response in most places, but Alabama is different. Six months after Timmy Jr.'s death, the district attorney in Colbert County charged Kimbrough with chemical endangerment of a child, a Class A felony (because the infant died) that carries a mandatory sentence of 10 years to life. She turned herself in, and bail was set at $250,000. At the trial, the state completed its case in two days. On the advice of her lawyer, Kimbrough then pleaded guilty and received the minimum sentence of 10 years.
According to Kyle Brown, the chief assistant district attorney in the case, Kimbrough might have received far more time if a jury had found her guilty. "She caused the death of another person," Angela Hulsey, an assistant district attorney on the case, said, "a person that will never have the chance to go to school, go to the prom, get married, have children of their own. You're dealing with the most innocent of victims."
When I met Kimbrough last fall, she was free on an appeal bond. (Her plea bargain allows her lawyers to appeal her conviction on constitutional grounds without contesting the specifics of her case.) Kimbrough said she never had a big problem with meth, but admitted that she started using the drug in her mid-20s, after her first marriage collapsed. When she was pregnant with Timmy Jr., she did meth only once, she told me.
"One time," she said. "I don't even know why I done it. I guess the Devil knocked on my shoulder that day." Otherwise, Kimbrough insisted, she abstained from drugs during her pregnancy, even refusing painkillers for an infected tooth for fear they would hurt the baby. Timmy Jr.'s birth had many potentially complicating factors, including prematurity and a prolapsed cord. Kimbrough says she was eager to have the child — she had always wanted a boy. She and her husband, Timmy Sr., were told at an early-April prenatal visit that Timmy Jr. would likely have Down syndrome, and while abortion was an option, the Kimbroughs, who oppose abortion on moral grounds, did not consider it. "We didn't care if he was special needs," Timmy Sr. said. "We would have loved him."
Kimbrough told me that she was devastated by the loss of her baby and scared of being locked up. She described a recent visit to her brother in prison, where he is serving time for burglary and other charges, and how upset she was by the place.
"I feel for people on drugs," she continued. "You got to stay away from people that's on them. I learned that in rehab, and I been clean ever since. I feel like I iced the cake with this one. To me, losing a child. . . . " She stared off into space.
Kimbrough's cheerful 10-year-old, Brooke, arrived home from school, shaking the rain off her coat and chatting about a new necklace. In quick succession, Kimbrough checked Brooke's backpack for new library books, fixed peanut-butter crackers and braided a doll's hair. "She has to take care of everybody," her adult stepdaughter Amy told me. "She's a mother hen."
You might not expect a rural Alabama mother with a felony conviction to have in her corner a national army of feminists, civil libertarians and gynecologists, but Kimbrough's case has attracted the interest of groups like Planned Parenthood, the A.C.L.U. and the American Congress of Obstetricians and Gynecologists, who all maintain that her conviction sets a dangerous precedent. Emma Ketteringham, the director of legal advocacy at the National Advocates for Pregnant Women, a New York-based reproductive-justice group, has been following Kimbrough's case closely. She has drafted "friend of the court" briefs for Kimbrough signed by groups like the National Organization for Women-Alabama and the American Medical Association. She argues that applying Alabama's chemical-endangerment law to pregnant women "violates constitutional guarantees of liberty, privacy, equality, due process and freedom from cruel and unusual punishment." In effect, she says, under Alabama's chemical-endangerment law, pregnant women have become "a special class of people that should be treated differently from every other citizen." And, she says, the law violates pregnant women's constitutional rights to equal protection under the law. Ketteringham also recruited two prominent Alabama lawyers, Jake Watson and Brian M. White, to take Kimbrough's case pro bono. "I love babies, too, but I don't like locking up their mamas," Watson told me.
There have been approximately 60 chemical-endangerment prosecutions of new mothers in Alabama since 2006, the year the statute was enacted. Originally created to protect children from potentially explosive meth labs, Alabama's chemical-endangerment law prohibits a "responsible person" from "exposing a child to an environment in which he or she . . . knowingly, recklessly or intentionally causes or permits a child to be exposed to, to ingest or inhale, or to have contact with a controlled substance, chemical substance or drug paraphernalia."
Criminal convictions of women for their newborns' positive drug tests are rare in other states, lawyers familiar with these cases say. In most places, maternal drug use is considered a matter for child protective services, not for law enforcement. Advocates for Kimbrough insist that, in any case, Alabama's chemical-endangerment law was never meant to apply to pregnant women's drug use. "The words 'womb,' 'uterus,' 'pregnant women' don't appear in the law," Ketteringham says. "It was a law meant to protect children from meth labs." One state legislator has filed an amicus brief, claiming the law was not intended to be used this way, and the Legislature has repeatedly rejected amendments to expand the law's definition of "child" to explicitly mean "fetus." But shortly after the law passed, Alabama prosecutors began extending the term "environment" to also mean the "womb," and "child" to also mean "fetus." In 2006, Tiffany Hitson was charged with chemical endangerment the day after she gave birth to a baby girl who tested positive for cocaine and marijuana but was otherwise healthy. When that prosecution was successful (Hitson was incarcerated for a year), other counties followed suit, making Alabama the national capital for prosecuting women on behalf of their newborn children.
Last summer, the Alabama Court of Criminal Appeals upheld this expanded interpretation of the chemical-endangerment law, ruling that the dictionary definition of "child" includes "unborn child," an interpretation that will be challenged when the state's Supreme Court considers Kimbrough's case in the coming months. But the implications of that ruling go far beyond Alabama. Critics like Ketteringham argue that Alabama's chemical-endangerment law offers a back door into what has become known as the "fetal personhood" argument.
Personhood USA, an organization based in Colorado, was founded in 2008 by Keith Mason after he became frustrated by the mainstream anti-abortion movement's incremental approach of restricting the availability of legal abortion. "From my perspective, I saw a movement that was largely dying or dead and had a lack of enthusiasm from younger people and from people who had been in the fight for so many years," he told me. "Something had to change. Personhood is that rallying point, because it's the crux of the issue." His movement seeks to establish the fetus's right to live as equal to that of the mother's.
Personhood advocates regard fetal rights as a civil rights issue, and they often compare themselves to abolitionists. "I think it would be unequal protection to give the woman a pass when anyone else who injects drugs into a child would be prosecuted," Ben DuPré, director of Personhood Alabama, said. "What it boils down to is, aren't these little children persons?"
The goal of Personhood USA is to establish that a fully rights-endowed person is created when sperm meets egg. To that end, it has introduced initiatives and measures in legislatures in 22 states. Though none of these measures have become law, some, like Proposition 26 in Mississippi, have made it to a ballot referendum, and other measures have passed legislative chambers in North Dakota, Montana and Oklahoma. The problem with those measures, from a legal perspective, says Lynn Paltrow, executive director of the National Advocates for Pregnant Women, is that "there is no way to treat fertilized eggs, embryos and fetuses as separate constitutional persons without subtracting pregnant women from the community of constitutional persons."
The sometimes vague language of the initiatives and measures masks what would be the "sweeping effects on access to health care," says Alexa Kolbi-Molinas, a staff lawyer for the A.C.L.U.'s Reproductive Freedom Project. One district-court judge agreed with the A.C.L.U., which brought a suit to block a personhood initiative from the ballot in Nevada. Judge James E. Wilson ordered the sponsor of the state's personhood initiative to add clarifying language. As he wrote in his opinion in December: "The initiative would protect a prenatal person regardless of whether or not the prenatal person would live, grow, or develop in the womb or survive birth; prevent all abortions even in the case of rape, incest or serious threats to the woman's health or life, or when a woman is suffering from a miscarriage, or as an emergency treatment for an ectopic pregnancy. . . ." The initiative was withdrawn, but signatures are being gathered on a rewritten petition.
In Mississippi, Proposition 26 would have outlawed abortion, embryonic-stem-cell research, cancer treatments that might hurt a fetus and some popular methods of birth control. The measure was defeated, Paltrow said, "because its implication was obvious: once the woman becomes pregnant, she has a second-class status in which she loses virtually every constitutional right, including a right to medical privacy."
"At least Mississippi put it up to a vote," Ketteringham says. In Alabama, "you essentially have a personhood measure in disguise."
Critics of Alabama's chemical-endangerment law argue that drug use by pregnant women is best treated as a health issue, not a criminal one. Addiction, they say, can be treated, but drug users have to be willing to seek help, which they might be less likely to do if they fear arrest. "To simplify a complex medical and psychosocial issue into a criminal issue is really just like using a hammer to play the piano," says Dr. Deborah Frank, a pediatrician and director of Boston Medical Center's Grow Clinic for Children. "The whole definition of addiction is compulsive behavior in spite of adverse consequences — like the person who keeps eating doughnuts even though their doctor tells them they're morbidly obese and going to die of a heart attack." Deterrents, experts like Frank say, don't work well when it comes to addicts and may even be counterproductive.
Heather Capps, a 25-year-old mother of three, was arrested in Marshall County, Ala., on Nov. 11, 2011, two days after giving birth via Caesarean section to a healthy boy who tested positive for Oxycodone. Capps says that she became addicted to the drug after it was prescribed for her scoliosis pain. When Capps learned she was pregnant, she knew she would be prosecuted if she gave birth to a baby who tested positive for drugs, and she also knew that the effects of withdrawal from quitting abruptly during pregnancy could be dangerous to her unborn child.
She went online, and after finding the Web site of National Advocates for Pregnant Women, called Ketteringham to ask for legal advice. Ketteringham confirmed that if Capps gave birth in Marshall County, she would most likely be prosecuted and recommended that she hire a lawyer. Capps had heard that prosecutors in nearby Jefferson County weren't bringing chemical-endangerment charges against drug-using pregnant women, but because she had two young sons in school she decided to stay where she was and to continue taking the lowest possible dose of Oxycodone she felt she could manage. She also posted some regrettable things during private Facebook conversations: "I figured since I was just informed that im a crackhead (still wonderin how im the last to find out) and pregnant now ill just shoot thru my belly button strait into the uterus to make sure the baby gets high to." That Facebook post, shown on the local news after her arrest, made her a pariah. Her family insists the post was a cry for help. "When she was told there was no help for her, and that she might lose the baby, she was petrified," her husband, Matthew Devin, says. "She couldn't live with herself if she hurt one of our kids."
Capps was arrested on the hospital grounds. She remained in jail for three months because her family could not afford to post her $500,000 bail. She was then sent to rehab and placed in a halfway house, where she continues to receive treatment. If she completes the program to the judge's satisfaction, her sentence will be dismissed. She is allowed to see her three children once a week on Sundays.
The recommended treatment for opiate addiction during pregnancy is a controlled dosage of methadone, says Dr. Robert Newman, of the International Center for Advancement of Addiction Treatment at Beth Israel, who says a prognosis for both mother and baby is good with long-term outpatient treatment. (Capps told me that the drug treatment she was offered while pregnant was at an inpatient facility in Birmingham.) Prosecutors I spoke with said they would not charge a woman taking prescribed methadone. But the law does not prohibit such a charge, and critics argue that the threat of prosecution discourages women from seeking addiction treatment. The American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists issued a statement in 2011 cautioning that women would even avoid prenatal care when they believed doctors were gathering evidence for law enforcement. Measures like Alabama's chemical-endangerment law, they said, are "contrary to the welfare of the mother and fetus." State Senator Clay Scofield of Alabama, who is seeking to amend the state's chemical-endangerment law to include the fetus, dismisses this concern. "The majority of women who are abusing meth already do not seek prenatal care," he told me.
There is anecdotal evidence to suggest that pregnant women in Alabama, aware that they may be arrested and their medical records subpoenaed if they or their babies test positive for drugs, may be changing their behavior — although not necessarily as some prosecutors hoped. Carmen Howell, a defense lawyer in Enterprise, says she knows of one woman who drove to Georgia when she went into labor and another who gave birth to a three-pound baby in a bathtub at home. She is concerned that women who use drugs may also be having abortions to avoid prosecution. This law, she says, "is a deterrent to choosing life."
Last November, I accompanied Kimbrough and Timmy Sr. to Timmy Jr.'s grave in a well-tended cemetery near Kimbrough's parents' house. Kimbrough's grandfather was buried nearby; a gravestone portrait shows him driving a John Deere tractor. It was raining, and Kimbrough, shivering in a black turtleneck and jeans, rearranged metal butterflies, ceramic angels and a plastic cross until Timmy Sr. called out from their truck, "Are you trying to get a cold?"
The funeral had been small. "We only done close family," Kimbrough had told me earlier. "I had a closed casket for my older kids cause he was so purple. I think about it every day. To me, that's punishment enough."
"Don't upset yourself, now," Timmy Sr. said. He pushed back his slicked-back hair, revealing an upper-arm tattoo of a cross above which is written "Amanda."
"People look to her real bad," he said. "I don't know why they want to make out like she done it on purpose or something. Us losing it and all was enough for me and her both. Them wanting to send her to prison for it, that just ain't right." Timmy Sr., who is 22 years older than his wife, and whom she affectionately calls "Bro," told me that he once had trouble with meth, too. But, he said, he "did a 180" when he met Kimbrough. "I been to rehab," he said. "It's a disease."
Back at home, Kimbrough went into her bedroom and came out with a white box containing knitted socks and an imprint of Timmy Jr.'s foot on paper. Neatly folded in a bag labeled with his birth date was Timmy Jr.'s hospital blanket decorated with a teddy-bear angel. "There was one nurse who sat and talked to me," Kimbrough said. "She was the only one who was really good to me. When they brought the baby in there, they acted like I didn't hold him long enough. Who wants to hold a dead baby, you know?" she continued, apologetically. "I held him for about 10 minutes."
When I drove up to the address that Hope Ankrom gave me, I assumed I must have entered it incorrectly into the car's GPS. It was a palatial house in an upscale community with an 18-hole golf course. Ankrom was one of the first women to be prosecuted under Alabama's chemical-endangerment law. Most women against whom chemical-endangerment charges are brought are poor, defense lawyers say. But Ankrom's husband is an aircraft mechanic who makes six figures working as a contractor in Afghanistan. This house, which belongs to Ankrom's parents, a retired Army colonel and a nurse, is about a five-hour drive south of Kimbrough's home, and probably worth 10 times as much.
At 29, Ankrom seems like a mischievous teenager. She wore dangly silver earrings, a brown T-shirt, jeans and boots. Her three children (Bryson, now 3; Aubree, 4; and Paige, 5) raced around the living room in a blur of curly dark hair and sippy cups. She yelled at Bryson to come back from the open front door and helped Paige change from flip-flops to sneakers, then shooed all three children out the door to accompany their grandfather to McDonald's.
"Listen: silence," she said with a smile. Bryson, she told me, was born weighing almost six pounds. He was healthy but tested positive for marijuana and cocaine. Ankrom admits smoking pot but denies cocaine use. She said that she quit smoking pot for her first two pregnancies, but that during the third, her morning sickness was relentless. Marijuana kept her functional, she said, and so she continued in spite of her gynecologist's warning that she faced prosecution if she did not stop. She planned to quit a few weeks before her due date, assuming that she would then test negative. But Bryson came six weeks early.
When Bryson's drug-test results came back, the hospital called the Department of Human Resources, Alabama's child-protection service, which placed her children in the custody of her parents. "The first night without my children, I thought I was just going to die," Ankrom said. She moved in with her parents so she could be around her children, but she was not allowed to be alone with them.
Two weeks later, the police came to the door with a warrant.
"Since I was breast-feeding, they let me pump a few times before they took me to jail," Ankrom said. They handcuffed her, walked her to the car in front of her parents' neighbors and then took her to a holding cell, where she spent a few hours before her parents posted bail. "Boy, did I leak while I was in there!" she said with a laugh. "I had toilet paper crammed in my bra. There is nothing more painful than needing to express and not being able to."
For several months Ankrom received regular, unannounced spot checks to make sure she wasn't alone with any of her children. A friend moved in to supervise her when her parents weren't home. Ankrom pleaded guilty to chemical endangerment and was given a suspended sentence with one year's probation. She completed mandatory drug treatment and continues to attend Narcotics Anonymous meetings for what she describes as a marijuana addiction. "I really screwed up," she said. "I can't blame anybody but myself."
Ankrom now stays home with the children full time. Even if they don't need the money, she said, she wishes she could work. But the guilty plea has made that more difficult. "What's killing me is I had a bright future," said Ankrom, who was studying to be a physical-therapy assistant. "When you want to work with children or the elderly, they see that abuse charge and they're like: 'Whoa, no, thank you, ma'am. You're not going to work here.' "
Ankrom said she had little expectation that her circumstances would change, though Alabama's Supreme Court will hear her case along with Kimbrough's. "I'm not holding my breath on the Supreme Court overturning it," she said. "I am guilty. I did smoke pot. I made bad decisions." She shrugged. "It is how it is."
Ankrom's lawyer, Carmen Howell, who represented her before the Court of Criminal Appeals (which upheld Ankrom's and Kimbrough's convictions this past summer), is pressing on with the appeal pro bono because, she said, the implications of the law are "scary." She questioned what the arrest was really about if Ankrom could be prosecuted for drug use even though her child was unharmed.
"I think what you're looking at here is a failure to understand that addiction is a disease of the brain," says Dr. Barry Lester, the director of the Center for the Study of Children at Risk at Brown University. "You are looking at people who think that these are horrible women who are rationally, willfully hurting their kids, but it's more complicated than that. Science has shown that addiction is a disease like any other mental illness, and absolutely treatable."
Prosecutors often compare doing drugs while pregnant to driving while drunk. A crime has still been committed, they say, even when there is no harm done. Mitch Floyd, a passionate 42-year-old from Albertville — part of an area known as Meth Mountain — has prosecuted chemical-endangerment cases against new mothers more aggressively than anyone else. He is a patient, friendly man with light eyes who becomes deadly serious when he talks about babies.
Addiction is "a very powerful force," he told me. "However, there's a force that's more powerful than that to me, and that is a child is helpless, and God has put one person on this planet to be the last-line defense, to be the fiercest protector of that child, and that is its mother. My wife would literally claw someone's eyes out — fight you to the death for our children. I mean, that's just what mothers are supposed to do. When that child's ultimate protector is the one causing the harm, what do you do?"
Over breakfast at a hotel restaurant in Florence, Ala., he shared photos of babies involved in some of his cases. Many looked healthy, although he said they were tiny and had all been exposed to drugs. One, born in February 2007, was shown in a neonatal-intensive-care unit with a man's wedding ring hanging around her wrist like a bangle. Another, born in August 2008, was dead and purple, his hands crossed over his chest.
"I meant to take that one out," he said.
Floyd says he is committed to drug-abuse prevention because, through his own work as an assistant district attorney and that of his wife, who works for the Department of Human Resources, he has seen firsthand the devastation of drugs on families. He visits local high schools and community groups to encourage teenagers to stay off meth, and insists the primary goal of these chemical-endangerment prosecutions is to keep more babies from being exposed to drugs. The mothers who are convicted, he says, are put in rehab and helped in the long run. "It's a shame that babies need to be protected from their own mothers, but sometimes they do, and that's our job," Floyd said. "It upsets me and offends me at the same time.
"People can argue with it," he added, referring to his chemical-endangerment prosecutions, "but I think we've been very successful. We want folks to not reoffend, to get clean, to get reunited. I think that's the best-case scenario."
No one would suggest that pregnant women should use drugs. But there are scientists who say that methamphetamines do not have a long-term impact on a developing fetus. Dr. Carl L. Hart, an associate professor of psychiatry and psychology at Columbia University and a research scientist at the New York State Psychiatric Institute, says that heavy alcohol use is potentially far more serious than a mother's use of opiates, cocaine or meth, because while these harder drugs may result in preterm labor or withdrawal symptoms that need to be managed, few babies experience long-term effects. Babies with fetal-alcohol syndrome, by contrast, are likely to have lifelong physical, mental and emotional issues, including significantly delayed brain development.
Furthermore, attributing a baby's medical condition to the presence of a single drug can be difficult, because many women who use illegal drugs have other risk factors at play during their pregnancies. "Poor nutrition, smoking, drinking, homelessness, poverty. . . . How do you control for all that?" Dr. Stephen Kandall, a neonatologist and the author of "Substance and Shadow: Women and Addiction in the United States," told me.
Floyd's message, however, is clear and uncomplicated: drug use during pregnancy is dangerous and criminal. In January, he announced he would run for Marshall County district judge and campaigned in the Republican primary in part on his chemical-endangerment prosecutions. One ad featured a local obstetrician praising Floyd's work on behalf of the county's children, "born and unborn." Floyd, the doctor says, "makes sure these women are jailed and the babies are placed in a safe home." Another ad showed a woman named Whitney Holsonback holding her baby and smiling. "Mitch Floyd made sure I went to jail," it read, "but allowed me to go to drug treatment." With his help, she says in the ad, she was able to turn her life around. Now, she's off drugs, in nursing school and able to be a good mother to her son. "Mitch was tough on me," she says, "but he also cared about me; he encouraged me."
On March 13, Floyd won in a landslide.
Laws concerning a pregnant woman's treatment of her fetus are not without precedent. Since abortion was legalized in 1973, hundreds of women across the country have been arrested for harming their fetuses, with charges ranging from child endangerment to first-degree murder.
Many of these prosecutions originate in laws initially designed to build in extra penalties when pregnant women are victims of a crime. Fetal-homicide laws, for example, which are on the books in 39 states, have often been passed in response to a brutal killing. Alabama's fetal-homicide law is known as the Brody Bill, named after the fetus who died in the 2005 murder of his mother, Brandy Parker. But treating women and their fetuses as separate persons under the law can have unexpected consequences. A woman in Indiana, Bei Bei Shuai, is now in prison for a suicide attempt that resulted in the death of her fetus. Three years ago in Mississippi, Rennie Gibbs had a stillbirth shortly after turning 16. When her baby tested positive for cocaine, she was charged with a "depraved heart murder," the legal term for a killing with "a callous disregard for human life," which in Mississippi carries a life sentence without possibility of parole until the age of 65. The Mississippi State Supreme Court, after initially agreeing to weigh in on the case, abruptly reconsidered, saying Gibbs should stand trial before it would rule on whether the law applies to pregnant women. Alabama's fetal-homicide law exempts pregnant women.
Measures that specifically define fetuses as persons have failed in every state in which they have been introduced (Colorado voters rejected fetal-personhood initiatives twice), but Mason, the founder of Personhood USA, told me that he isn't deterred. The goal, he said, is to raise awareness, much as gay marriage advocates, with whom he disagrees, have done with their campaigns. "The more we raise the issue, the more we change the culture," he said. Troy Newman, president of the anti-abortion group Operation Rescue, agrees, in part, saying: "Is it a winning strategy? Obviously not. They've spent millions of dollars in at least two different states running initiatives, and they've all failed miserably." On the other hand, laws like chemical endangerment, he says, could ultimately get the anti-abortion movement where it wants to go. "Look," he says, "we win every time we establish the precedent that the unborn child in the womb is a unique human individual."
Mathew D. Staver, the founder and chairman of Liberty Counsel, who helped get fetal personhood on the ballot in Mississippi, recently filed an amicus brief with the State Supreme Court supporting the state's case against Ankrom. Staver told me by phone that "it's clear that history has sided with the idea that life begins in the womb. The only aberration is Roe v. Wade. Abortion laws are an island unto themselves, and that island is gradually shrinking."
But the expansion of fetal-homicide and chemical-endangerment laws have some people on the other side of the debate reaching for their copies of "The Handmaid's Tale," Margaret Atwood's dystopian novel in which women are enslaved as childbearers.
"We're heading toward this Margaret Atwood-like society," Ketteringham says. "The idea that the state needs to threaten and punish women so that they do the right thing during pregnancy is appalling. Everyone talks about the personhood of the fetus, but what's really at stake is the personhood of women. It starts with the use of an illegal drug, but what happens as a consequence of that precedent is that everything a woman does while she's pregnant becomes subject to state regulation.
"It starts with cocaine, and then it's cigarettes and alcohol. How much alcohol? And when? It's only a matter of time until it comes to refusing a bed-rest order because you need to work and take care of your other children and then you have a miscarriage. What if you stay at a job where you're exposed to toxic chemicals, as at a dry cleaner? What if you keep taking your S.S.R.I.'s during pregnancy? If a woman is told that sex during her pregnancy could be a risk to the fetus, and the woman has sex anyway and miscarries, are you going to prosecute the woman — and the man too?"
"[The fetus] is another human being, just like we are," Scofield, the state senator, says. "I look at the tens of millions of good mothers who make the right decisions. My mother, for instance, smoked forever. The day she found out she was pregnant with me, she put down her cigarettes for the last time. If we turn our back on this, we say to all these good mothers who have made good decisions that it's meaningless to society to be a good mother or a good father."
Despite the mother-hen domesticity I witnessed, Amanda Kimbrough has not proved to be a model test-case defendant. Three months after I met her in Russellville, she was back in jail. Her appeal bond was revoked when she was charged with selling Oxycodone to a confidential informant. Timmy Sr. called the arrest a "setup." David Henry Neal, the lawyer representing her on the new charge, said he would enter a not-guilty plea if there was an indictment. "We just hope that the system will not try to get its pound of flesh over the death of the infant through the new drug charge," says Brian White, one of her lawyers in the chemical-endangerment case.
But an investigator in the Franklin County sheriff's office, who asked not to be named because he was not permitted to speak to the press, told me that his office had been monitoring Kimbrough for a long time: "The important thing is the safety of the kids. She's not an innocent person if she's already in trouble and done that to her baby and she's still out selling dope."
Her lawyers were clearly disappointed by the new arrest, but given their experience working with defendants, not entirely surprised. "No case is ever easy," Ketteringham told me. "People are complicated." Kimbrough's drug history, her lawyers acknowledge, may make it difficult to sympathize with her. But, they say, moral outrage need not be accompanied by legal punishment. "Maybe human beings have not evolved enough to hold the complex idea that many things can be true at the same time," Paltrow of the National Advocates for Pregnant Women says. "We can feel a certain way. We can value the unborn as a matter of religion, ethics or experience, but we can't do that as a matter of law and still value pregnant women."


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Select the pictures you want to upload from a gallery of thumbnails, click a button, and NewsHunter posts the pictures to the newsgroup of your choice.
The program remembers all the articles you have queued in all the newsgroups and on all the news servers you access. If you have to quit NewsHunter or if there is a crash, all the queues will still be there next time you run the program.
This program can manage multiple accounts. It also lets you download a few files from each newsgroup in a round robin fashion. And if you access more than one news server, you can cycle through the servers as well.
The program assembles and decodes multipart posts even if the parts arrive out of order, days apart or from different servers. It also has a flexible filter manager, a preview option and a MasterSplitter utility.


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I recently spent some time experimenting with Purl's newest craft accessory, the Hana Ami Flower Loom, and the result is this charming chain of flowers. It was a real joy to make, combining simple weaving techniques with some basic needlework. I love these flowers with their quirky little personalities and bright dispositions. They really bring a smile!
The Materials
- 10 skeins of Brown Paper Packages' Trio needlepoint yarn, 50% Silk and 50% Merino Wool. These colors, from the left, are: Margarita, Apple Martini, Candlelight, Citron, Quince, Clementine, Watermelon, Salmon, Shrimp, and Taffy. This is enough yarn to make at least three necklaces.
- A Hana Ami Flower Loom from Clover. (The loom comes with a plastic tapestry needle, but I used a metal one.)
- A size E crochet hook.
The Loom
The Hana Ami Flower Loom comes with six attachments and multilingual instructions for all of the different ways to use them. When you think about combining attachments and mixing techniques, the possibilities are endless. Playing around with the loom, I made these two flowers…
…but decided to make my necklace with these flowers.
They were made on the smallest circular loom, and each one is about an inch and half in diameter. The Trio yarn comes in so many subtle shades and with such a beautiful shine that I really felt like I was making beautiful little jewels!
Making the Necklace
Once I had woven all eight flowers, I crocheted them together using a simple chain stitch. To attach the flowers, I brought the hook under a couple of strands at the center of the flower and made a slip stitch. I used the Margarita color to attach the first three flowers and then switched to the Apple Martini for the next five, chaining 20 stitches between each flower. The final necklace is 28 inches around, but you can easily
customize yours by adding or subtracting flowers and/or chain stitches.
This is really just one of a million ideas that come to mind with the Flower Loom. Crochet flowers together for an amazing curtain or even bedspread, sew a pin to the back for a sweet brooch, or assemble a whole bouquet. Let us know where your imagination takes you! Thanks! – Whitney


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Broken Sword: Director's Cut in Review – Neo-Templars, Hashishin, Baphomet and world domination
OH MY GOD… I still can't believe it's true – one of the best adventure games of all time has finally arrived on the iPhone. And with more than 2-3 hours of added content! This is a dream come true! Revolution has done it again and now you can follow the adventures of the gorgeous Nico Collard and the witty George Stobbart with Jesus and Broken Sword: Director's Cut!
Broken Sword: Director's Cut is a port/remake of Broken Sword: The Shadow of the Templars aka Circle of Blood that was released on the PC back in 1996 and shook the gaming community. It is a classic third-person point-and-click adventure game, featuring the charming vacationing American, George Stobbart and the hot French reporter, Nico Collard. The two are thrown in the midst of a murder investigation that quickly turns into a world-domination conspiracy. Even if you finished the classic 3 times over and then some, you'll want to pick the Director's Cut version since it additionally features a storyline about Nico and her father worth an additional 2-3 hours of gameplay and character development.
Broken Sword is truly an example of the golden age of adventure games. The puzzles are logical, interesting and entertaining. At the same they are not too simple and require you to be able to put 2 and 2 together. (If you can make it a 5 – it's always a plus.) The handy Diary will record anything of interest and if you're stuck, I would advise to check it before whimping out and using the hints system. I would also advise to take your time when playing Broken Sword and not rushing through it with the walkthrough. The characters are very colourful and the dialogues are simply hilarious and the game rewards the curious and explorative natures with occasionally triggered tweets (you may have noticed some from me during the last few days).
The graphics are the same as in the original and still look fantastic. The quality and attention to details of the backgrounds and characters reminds me of the classic hand-drawn Disney cartoons. This feeling is immediately tripled at every cutscene. While some of them have been taken from the original, a whole new bunch has been drawn by Dave Gibbons to support the added storyline.
Broken Sword features the same interface system first tried-and-tested in Beneath the Steel Sky: Remastered. It is completely touch-based without that stupid touchpad-style cursor controls so popular in many adventure game ports. You move the finger around the screen and once you're near a hot-spot, it is highlighted. If you move over a hotspot a number of icons with possible actions are presented above and you simply tap the one you want. The icons to access the inventory, game options and help are conveniently positioned at the corners of the screen. This is indeed a benchmark interface for the iDevice adventure games which works great.
The game allows you to manually save in several slots and also automatically saves state on exit. Unfortunately the latter doesn't always work that well and sometimes the auto-save is a bit behind. On the other hand it is never more than a few actions behind, so it's not too big of a deal. I felt it might have been a performance issue with 3G iPhones. The same goes for the strange situation when the game would occasionally not register when I tried to use an item on the hot-spot making me doing it twice.  And as in Beneath the Steel Sky: Remastered if you don't have access to the network when a tweet is triggered – it is lost.
With over 12 hours of gameplay and a story featuring Neo-Templars, the Hashishin, Baphomet and even spies and Nazis Broken Sword: Director's Cut is the definitely the new king of adventure games on the iPhone. Whether you're a fan or a newcomer to the genre, whether you played the original 5 times through or never heard of it in your life – there is simply no way you could go wrong with Broken Sword: Director's Cut.
With this I declare Broken Sword: Director's Cut officially touched!
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Woman Commits Crime, Victim Goes To Jail
There was no "cultural misunderstanding" here; nobody mistakes a head pat for pulling a child away by the hair. This woman lied, and the convenient brown-skinned scapegoat paid the consequences.
Em Carpenter
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There was no "cultural misunderstanding" here; nobody mistakes a head pat for pulling a child away by the hair. This woman lied, and the convenient brown-skinned scapegoat paid the consequences.
Will Truman
/// April 4, 2019
The passive politics of society and education.
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Invasion of an extrovert.
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It took all of one day for the challenge of opening schools to become very clear in Georgia's largest school district, and this was just staff, not the 180k students of Gwinnett County.
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On Wednesday, teachers in Georgia's largest school district returned to elementary, middle and high school campuses to start in-person planning for the fall semester.
By the next day, 260 district employees had been barred from entering their schools, either because they tested positive for the coronavirus or had been directly exposed to someone who had.
Sloan Roach, spokeswoman for Gwinnett County Public Schools, which serves more than 180,000 students, told the Atlanta Journal-Constitution that most of the cases were tied to community spread, rather than being spread at the schools. Some of the employees who reported exposure to the virus had not come to work yet, Roach added.
"Given the number of [covid-19] cases in Gwinnett, we would expect to see positives among our employees based on the community spread in our county," Roach told the newspaper.
The outbreak has complicated the return to school in Gwinnett County, which this week had the highest number of new coronavirus cases in the state. Georgia has reported 195,435 cases and 3,842 deaths to date. But Gwinnett County's teachers and school administrators are hardly alone in dealing with the fallout of an early outbreak as they try to launch a digital-only return.
In a country facing "the worst economic crisis since the end of the Spanish Civil War in 1939," the ruling socialist government is turning to a basic income system to mitigate the economic crisis.
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The coronavirus crisis has accelerated the debate in Spain over the introduction of a basic income, since state-funded social aid does not yet exist. It wasn't until the death of the dictator Franco in 1975 that a welfare state developed here, though it was rather week. Families with children receive hardly any support.
The introduction of a basic income was therefore the main election promise of the leftist Podemos party and they made the program part of their coalition agreement with the Socialists last fall. Now the Sánchez government is rushing to get the project off the ground to prevent hundreds of thousands of people from plunging into the abyss.
"It is a historic moment for our democracy," said Podemos leader and Deputy Prime Minister Pablo Iglesias, "the birth of a new social law."
Spain, after all, still hasn't fully recovered from the consequences of the financial and economic crisis of 2008. Even before the outbreak of the virus, the poverty rate hovered around 20 percent and the labor market is divided, with too few people enjoying permanent contracts with unemployment benefits, and too many having to make do with temporary contracts that often only last for a few days. According to statistics from the Spanish employment agency SEPE, 8.4 million people are now looking for a job.
Thus far, only regional governments have allocated aid money -- paltry sums that reached only 75,000 people, or barely a third of all the poor, according to social researcher Flores. Basic income would provide financial security for the most vulnerable 850,000 households.
But an "ingreso mínimo vital," literally a "minimum income to live," comes with strings attached. The program would only apply to people between the ages of 23 and 65 and they must have been registered as living in Spain for at least one year without interruption. They must also be actively looking for a steady job, be involved in a continuing education program or, in cases of drug dependency, be enrolled in a therapy program. The social welfare office would look into applicants' assets and existing income and that would be topped up to a level of 462 euros per month for singles and up to 1,015 euros per month for a family of five.
It's been less than a week and already Major League Baseball has a full-blown coronavirus outbreak on their hands.
Major League Baseball's season is less than a week old, but one team has already experienced a coronavirus outbreak that will sideline a chunk of its roster and has caused a game to be canceled. The Miami Marlins, who had four players test positive during their opening series against the Philadelphia Phillies, had an additional eight players and two coaches test positive on Monday, less than 12 hours before they were supposed to play their home opener against the Baltimore Orioles, according to ESPN's Jeff Passan.
That means the Marlins have had at least 14 individuals become infected over the last several days. In response to the outbreak, the Marlins game against the Orioles on Monday night will not be played, Baltimore GM Mike Elias confirmed.
The Yankees-Phillies game for tonight (Monday, 27Jun20) has now been "postponed".
The Marlins' home opener in Miami against Baltimore is also postponed.
For the second time, and it would seem final one, the Republican National Convention has been cancelled. At least, the in-person part of it, and by none other than President Trump himself.
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The Jacksonville, Fla., component of the Republican National Convention has been cancelled, President Trump announced on Thursday, as cases of coronavirus continue to spike across the state.
"I looked at my team and I said the timing for this event is not right. It's just not right with what's been happening," Trump said at the daily coronavirus briefing.
"They said 'Sir, we can make this work very easily' ... I said there's nothing more important in our country than keeping our people safe, whether it's from the China virus or the radical left mob."
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"I love history, I love poster art," New York Governor Andrew Cuomo said on Monday. He also loves deploying a mountain analogy to describe New York's fight against COVID-19 and his and the state's efforts to flatten the curve of new infections. He declared that New York was "on the other side of the mountain" during one of his then-daily coronavirus press conferences in early May. Then, at the end of June, after COVID-19 infections began spiking throughout much of the rest of the country, Cuomo shockingly unveiled a huge model of an actual mountain during another press conference to physically illustrate the analogy again, even using his hand to demonstrate New York's journey up and over the metaphorical pandemic mountain:
While Cuomo has not yet held a coronavirus press event using the Catskills, on Monday he unveiled, for the second time this year, an old-timey campaign poster devoted to himself depicting not only his pandemic mountain but illustrating numerous other elements related to both New York's fight against the coronavirus and the quirky asides the governor liked to make across his more than 100 daily pressers during the outbreak.
Both posters have been based on Cuomo's own sketches and painted in a style inspired by a 1900s campaign illustration for a Nebraska politician named William Jennings Bryan. The first poster, released in January, depicted Cuomo's accomplishments as governor utilizing a ship as a metaphor for the state.
The poster, available from the State of New York for the low, low prince of $14.50 plus shipping and handling:
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After a judge cleared Harvard in 2019 of similar charges, now the DOJ has concluded a two-year investigation into Yale, alleging discrimination against certain applicant demographics.
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A Justice Department investigation has found Yale University is illegally discriminating against Asian American and white applicants, in violation of federal civil rights law, officials said Thursday.
Yale denied the allegation, calling it "meritless" and "hasty."
The findings detailed in a letter to the college's attorneys Thursday mark the latest action by the Trump administration aimed at rooting out discrimination in the college application process, following complaints from students about the application process at some Ivy League colleges. The Justice Department had previously filed court papers siding with Asian American groups who had levied similar allegations against Harvard University.
The two-year investigation concluded that Yale "rejects scores of Asian American and white applicants each year based on their race, whom it otherwise would admit," the Justice Department said. The investigation stemmed from a 2016 complaint against Yale, Brown and Dartmouth.
"Yale's race discrimination imposes undue and unlawful penalties on racially-disfavored applicants, including in particular Asian American and White applicants," Assistant Attorney General Eric Dreiband, who heads the department's civil rights division, wrote in a letter to the college's attorneys.
Prosecutors found that Yale has been discriminating against applicants to its undergraduate program based on their race and national origin and "that race is the determinative factor in hundreds of admissions decisions each year." The investigation concluded that Asian American and white students have "only one-tenth to one-fourth of the likelihood of admission as African American applicants with comparable academic credentials," the Justice Department said.
"Unlawfully dividing Americans into racial and ethnic blocs fosters stereotypes, bitterness, and division," Dreiband said in a statement. "It is past time for American institutions to recognize that all people should be treated with decency and respect and without unlawful regard to the color of their skin."
The investigation also found that Yale uses race as a factor in multiple steps of the admissions process and that Yale "racially balances its classes."
The Supreme Court has ruled colleges and universities may consider race in admissions decisions but has said that must be done in a narrowly tailored way to promote diversity and should be limited in time. Schools also bear the burden of showing why their consideration of race is appropriate.
In a statement, Yale said it "categorically denies this allegation," has cooperated fully with the investigation and has been continually turning over "a substantial amount of information and data."
The pressing issue of our time must be dealt with, and the international ramifications are immense...
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If it's unclear when the cliche of the socks-and-sandals wearer became associated with Germans, the country has a well-documented history as a master of orthopedic sandals.
Birkenstock is obviously one of the world's most famous brands in this field. German shoemaker Johann Adam Birkenstock established his family business in 1774. Their shoes with a cork insole were developed by 1945, and the first model resembling today's widespread Birkenstock sandal was invented in 1964.
The shoe's iconic status is largely due to the German-American designer Margot Fraser. While on a spa trip to Germany in 1966, she discovered how comfortable the sandals were. She started selling them in California in the 1960s, where they became popular among hippies.
In the 1980s, Fraser turned the brand into a multimillion-dollar business in the US. Today in North America, wearers of socks and sandals are rather seen as a West Coast phenomenon, satirized for instance through characters in the "Portlandia" television series and countless memes.
Another German orthopedic sandal with a cork wedge in the sole has recently gained popularity. The Wörishofer was developed in the Bavarian spa town of Bad Wörishofen in the 1940s. When Hollywood stars such as Kirsten Dunst and Maggie Gyllenhaal were spotted wearing them by 2010, the brand was added to the list of "ugly" shoes that became trendy, alongside Birkenstocks, Crocs and Ugg boots.
A close-up photograph of two feet wearing sandals and socks
Initially shower sandals, streetwear today: The Adilette
Meanwhile, the German footwear giant Adidas is behind another cult sandal. Its Adilette slides were designed in 1963 at the request of athletes who wanted a shoe they could wear in locker rooms and showers. With its orthopedic rubber sole and striped top, the iconic poolside model has since moved to the streets, and is often worn with socks too.
"Now on the streets of Berlin you'll find at every corner youths who look like the reincarnation of the formerly typical German tourist — wearing shorts, a fishing hat, tennis socks and trekking sandals," says Vogue's Sämann.
Over the past few years, countless lifestyle magazines have been enthusiastically reporting that the former fashion no-go is now the hip thing to do. Main bonus points of the trend: It gives more exposure to those expensive designer socks, while hiding unsightly toes.
In many threads, we have been speaking of Cancel Culture. Does this qualify?
We were due to publish Dean Young's new book in 2021. We have informed him that we are withdrawing our intent to publish.
In response, we'd like to offer his publication slot to an underrepresented writer, to offer a space he occupied to somebody who hasn't had the access he has https://t.co/xZVdTXy2yn
— Broken Sleep Books (@brokensleep) August 7, 2020
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Maryland's highest court has issued another ruling that limits the ability of police to cite marijuana as a reason to arrest and search people, saying officers may not arrest people based on the smell of marijuana alone.
"The odor of marijuana, without more, does not provide law enforcement officers with the requisite probable cause to arrest and perform a warrantless search of that person incident to the arrest," the court said in a unanimous ruling authored by Chief Judge Mary Ellen Barbera.
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There was a massive explosion in Beirut about an hour ago.
Footage from the massive explosion in Beirut Port, Lebanon pic.twitter.com/bdvzrS05Qf
— Beirut Today (@bey_today) August 4, 2020
Early reports is that it was a fuel ship.
Twitter User KenDeuel points out the phenomenon of the Boiling liquid expanding vapor explosion.
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The research shows that VP generally move the needle very little which makes sense. She is a good pick but I can't see how this is a game changer. She does work as a unity candidate I believe though.


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Field Operations Manager
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- Liverpool, NY, United States
- Full-Time Operations
- Job # 519640
- Date posted - 2019-07-11
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What you'll be doing...
You'll manage a diverse team of 20+ Field Technicians responsible for installing, repairing, and maintaining outside plant copper and fiber services for our customers. Safety, quality issues, workforce performance, feedback and training, and labor relations will all be on your radar. And you'll be pushing your team and yourself to find ways to improve business results every day.
What we're looking for...
You're organized, motivated, and detail oriented, and known for your sound judgment. Solving problems creatively and constantly looking for ways to improve processes are some of your strengths. You're comfortable holding people accountable for their performance and their adherence to policy, and you're able to inspire and engage diverse groups to do their best work.
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You'll be doing work that matters alongside other talented people, transforming the way people, businesses and things connect with each other. Beyond powering America's fastest and most reliable network, we're leading the way in broadband, cloud and security solutions, Internet of Things and innovating in areas such as, video entertainment. Of course, we will offer you great pay and benefits, but we're about more than that. Verizon is a place where you can craft your own path to greatness. Whether you think in code, words, pictures or numbers, find your future at Verizon.
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Treat employees at least as well as you treat your clients.
While you don't treat your employees like dirt, you may feel that you don't owe them any special favors, either.
After all, you're paying them — isn't that enough?
Well, no.
Whether you realize it or not, the way your people treat customers reflects the way you treat them.
Are you courteous? Kind? Polite? Enthusiastic?
Do you listen when they talk to you and try to accommodate their needs?
Or are you short, perfunctory and even sometimes rude?
"Your job is to serve others, period," Joseph Callaway says. "You can't do that by making distinctions between the people who work for you and the people to whom you provide a good or service. Realize that you set the tone for your company's 'personality,' and that you're creating a tribe of people who will beat the drum for your message. Going at it alone is too exhausting!"
Make sure your highest praise comes from your competitors.
Yes, you read that correctly.
You can — and should — strive to win the approval, goodwill and admiration of your competitors.
If possible, get to know their leaders and employees and help them when you can.
You don't have to give away trade secrets, but you can offer advice, for example, or refer a customer whose needs are better matched to what another business has to offer.
Don't do these things manipulatively, but in the spirit of giving — your efforts will come back to you with interest.
Have faith that there is enough business to go around.
"Every Christmas, JoAnn sends personalized ornaments not only to our clients but also to the thousands of agents with whom we have done a cross-sale," Callaway shares. "We get incredible responses from them. Last month Brian Choate, who works for a competitor firm, went so far as to video a 'mini book review' for Clients First in which he shared how much these ornaments mean to him. Trust me, the respect of your peers and especially your competitors is priceless. If you have little contact with them, now is the time to change that. Go to industry conferences. Join associations. Remember, it's a big world but a small community … so make your mark in a positive, memorable way."
Look for chances to do something fun and special.
It's true: All work and no play make Jack a dull boy.
However, injecting a little lightheartedness and creativity into your business gives your customers something to look forward to and provides them with a memorable reason to stay engaged and loyal.
Whether you give free popcorn to moviegoers, throw an outdoor tent party to celebrate each year's new product line or give a gorgeous framed print to your interior design clients, you make clients feel special.
"These special touches will keep clients coming back," Callaway promises. "Every Christmas we send personalized ornaments to our clients and other business associates. We put a lot of effort (and money) into this yearly treat and people love it. It sets us apart, and our investments always come back to us with interest!"
If you aren't driven to be "number one" with your clients, you might as well close your doors.
Many business owners will admit that they just want "to do a good job" or "make a living."
This isn't good enough, says Callaway.
Especially if your business is smaller and less established, being the customer's second choice (or third or fourth or fifth) means you're on the road to eventual failure.
When times get tough — or when a new flavor-of-the-month company shows up — customers will have no qualms about abandoning a company they don't love above all others.
Talk about a compelling reason to never ever accept mediocrity.
Not to mention the fact that, by definition, you can't take the best care of clients when you're content with being good-enough.
"However, don't make the mistake of thinking that being number one is about competing with other businesses," Callaway cautions. "If your focus is on competing, then it isn't on the customer. Instead, think of yourself as being in a contest to fulfill each client's dreams … and you'll automatically be competitive with other companies! Also, don't buy into the belief that you have to win over a client only once. You must do so every single day. A good experience last month usually won't be enough to keep a customer coming back this month if he or she believes that your level of service has slipped."
Never, ever fire a tough client.
When a client is needy, moody, picky, overly emotional, combative or something else, it's tempting to write him or her off.
And if you can't wave goodbye in reality (after all, most small business owners need to get paid), you do it mentally and merely go through the motions of serving the client.
That's a mistake.
If you aren't meeting a client's needs, it's their job to fire you … not the other way around.
"Clients First means all clients," Callaway insists. "In over 14 years, my wife and I have never gotten rid of a single client — even when we secretly wished we could — and we believe this no-fire strategy has contributed significantly to our ultimate success. Here's the payoff: When you make the choice to stand by all of your frazzled, frustrated customers, you will eventually reap financial and personal rewards. You may become known in your company or industry as the guy or gal who can handle the toughest customers. And chances are, your clients themselves will be grateful that you didn't give up on them and may even send others your way."
A "Clients Last" attitude leaves a long legacy.
By now, Callaway has established that having a Clients First attitude can benefit you and your small business in numerous ways.
He's also adamant that the opposite attitude can have just as tremendous of an impact … a negative one.
Never, ever underestimate the damage that putting your clients last taking them for granted — not listening to their concerns, patronizing them, putting your own interests first, etc. — can do, and how far it can spread.
"A fellow real estate agent shared this story with us," Callaway recounts. "When he was growing up in Buffalo, New York, every time his family drove past a local department store his father would never miss the opportunity to say, 'I don't go there.' As our friend grew up and drove by that same store with his teenaged friends, he found himself saying, 'I don't go there.' This agent never knew how the store had slighted his father, but regardless, he continued the tradition generationally. This is the damage 'Clients Last' can wreak."
"No matter what industry you're in, and no mater what good or service your small business provides, these twelve tactics will help with the task of bootstrapping your company," Callaway concludes. "Even if putting clients first — no matter what — seems counterintuitive at first, give this way of doing business — and living life — a chance. If you take care of your customers, they will take care of you."


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Anthony's Week 13 NFL Pointspread Picks
Last week: 7-9. Season totals: 95-77-4, Pct. .551. Best Bets: 17-19, Pct. .472.
Home team in capital letters; point spreads (opening line) in parentheses after underdog team; selections with point spreads in bold.
ATLANTA 30, New Orleans 24 (+3 1/2) - The Falcons haven't won at home by more than six all season, making the three-and-a-half-point spread potentially problematic; but the Saints did an awful lot of trash talking before, during and after their win in the first meeting, so the Falcons would like nothing better than to officially eliminate them from the NFC South title chase (Atlanta clinches the division with a win here plus a Tampa Bay loss at Denver Sunday).
N.Y. JETS 23, Arizona 6 (+3) - John Skelton clearly gives the Cardinals a better chance to win than Ryan Lindley until Kevin Kolb is ready to return, so Ken Whisenhunt is simply being childish by continuing to go with Lindley; and not for nothing, but Skelton won outright as a two-touchdown underdog in a cold-weather game last year (and played his college ball right across the Hudson at Fordham), when in the rest of its such games in this millennium Arizona is 2-16 straight up and 4-14 against the spread. Jets have also won the last five in the series by a combined 59 points.
BUFFALO 17, Jacksonville 7 (+6) - Now that the home team has finally covered in a Jaguars game this year, it may cover again - especially with Jacksonville being 1-7 straight up and 2-6 against the line since 2008 as a visitor in cold weather.
New England 34, MIAMI 28 (+9) - After going 18-7 against the spread in December from 2001 through 2006, Tom Brady is just 6-10-1 since; and I don't know how he's doing it with these, to put it gently, anonymous receivers of his, but Ryan Tannehill is having a super-impressive rookie season that is getting overlooked because of all the attention Robert Griffin III and Andrew Luck have received. The Patriots become only the fifth Super Bowl runner-up in the last 15 to win their division the following year (they clinch the AFC East with a victory), but take the points.
Indianapolis 23 (+3 1/2), DETROIT 14 - Where do they get off making the Colts field-goal-plus underdogs to a team that's three games behind them, and has lost three in a row to them by a total of 54 points? Detroit is also 13-34 straight up in December since the Matt Millen Era began in 2001 - and that's the worst December record in the entire league over that span.
Houston 31, TENNESSEE 27 (+5 1/2) - The Titans are easy to make fun of after losing to Jacksonville, but injuries at linebacker have crippled Houston's defense and the Texans could very well be looking ahead to next Monday night's game at New England which will tell us a lot about where they go from here.
CHICAGO 34, Seattle 7 (+4 1/2) - Jay Cutler is back - and the Seahawks are back on natural grass where they're 4-16 straight up and 5-13-2 against the line since 2009, and in cold weather where they're 12-39 straight up and 20-31 against the line since 1986. Right back with the Bears as a best bet.
GREEN BAY 35, Minnesota 13 (+9 1/2) - Greg Jennings finally returns this week - just in time for him to help the Packers hand the Vikings another lopsided loss in a Triple Witching Hour game.
San Francisco 24, ST. LOUIS 17 (+9) - Jim Harbaugh is playing a very dangerous game with his quarterback situation, as it threatens to destabilize the locker room - and the 49ers have covered only one of their last four in St. Louis. Another underdog covers in a very atypical December week.
KANSAS CITY 21 (+3), Carolina 16 - One win over a team that has obviously quit and was missing its starting quarterback and running back, and whose top receiver left the game early with broken ribs, and the Panthers are now a force to be reckoned with? The Chiefs have been lucrative as home underdogs for a very long time - as in 51-25-1 against the spread dating all the way back to 1983!
DENVER 28, Tampa Bay 24 (+7) - Right now Josh Freeman and the Bucs can hang with any team in the NFL - and the last four meetings in this pairing have all been decided by four points or less, and Tampa Bay is 4-0-1 against the spread in the last five. Go against the cold-weather angle in one of the six games it applies this week and take the points.
BALTIMORE 16, Pittsburgh 3 (+7 1/2) - Based on this line, you can assume that Big Ben isn't going to play, and Mike Tomlin has made some moves over the last two days that can't possibly help team morale. Baltimore should have little trouble.
Cincinnati 27 (+1), SAN DIEGO 20 - More than 12,000 seats remain unsold for this game, likely resulting in a second straight blackout - and after the way the Chargers gift-wrapped last week's game against Baltimore, who can blame the fans for not wanting to go?
OAKLAND 17 (+1), Cleveland 14 - It's letdown time for the Browns after beating the Steelers for only the second time in 18 games (causing eight turnovers in the process!), and Brandon Weeden is the latest concussion victim among NFL quarterbacks - and they're favored on the road when they have the NFL's longest-active road losing streak at 12?
DALLAS 20, Philadelphia 3 (+9 1/2) - It's almost a bad joke to point out that Tony Romo's career December records, straight up and against the spread, are 8-13 and 5-16 respectively. But right now the Eagles are an infinitely worse joke.
N.Y. Giants 24, WASHINGTON 14 (+1) - After not having won back-to-back NFC East titles since 1989-90, the Giants could be poised to win back-to-back Super Bowls after what we saw last Sunday night. RG3 continues to get the ink, but remember that Washington's defense is missing two high-profile starters in the front seven (Adam Carriker and Brian Orakpo) and the Giants are 22-8 outright and 20-9-1 pointwise on grass since 2007. Can't see the Skins classing up to the champs in this spot, on this big a stage; this is too much, too soon for a young team.
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Exploit Title: CVE-2015-2242 Webshop hun v1.062S /index.php Multiple Parameters SQL Injection Web Security Vulnerabilities
Product: Webshop hun
Vendor: Webshop hun
Vulnerable Versions: v1.062S
Tested Version: v1.062S
Advisory Publication: Mar 04, 2015
Latest Update: Mar 04, 2015
Vulnerability Type: Improper Control of Generation of Code ('Code Injection') [CWE-94]
CVE Reference: CVE-2015-2242
CVSS Severity (version 2.0):
CVSS v2 Base Score: 7.5 (HIGH) (AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P) (legend)
Impact Subscore: 6.4
Exploitability Subscore: 10.0
CVSS Version 2 Metrics:
Access Vector: Network exploitable
Access Complexity: Low
Authentication: Not required to exploit
Impact Type: Allows unauthorized disclosure of information; Allows unauthorized modification; Allows disruption of service
Report and Credit: Jing Wang [School of Mathematical Sciences (001), University of Science and Technology of China (USTC)] (@justqdjing)
Persuasion Details:
(1) Vendor & Product Description:
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Product Introduction Overview:
Webshop hun is an online product sell web application system.
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Webshop hun web application has a computer security bug problem. It can be exploited by SQL Injection attacks. This may allow an attacker to inject or manipulate SQL queries in the back-end database, allowing for the manipulation or disclosure of arbitrary data.
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Global Elite Fear Internet's Power
Elite's Social Scientists Provide Most Limited Options within Margin of Exposure in Almost 50 years.
'Not since 1963 have we been so close to total exposure', says global elite leader at critical Conference!
The 2010 President Secretary of Speakers of Oceania gave a chilling speech this week at the Yearly Oceania Unified Conference (Y.O.U.C.) in a talk entitled "The Information War 2010-2012"
He served as the Operation BLACKOUTBLACKOUTBLACKOUT Chairman from 1989-1999 and is recognized as one of the three Senior Contributing Scribes for Agenda 21.
The follow is a Transcript of the speech;
'Thank you, hello Gentlemen and Ladies. Thank you for that introduction, short is always better and it leads well into my topic here tonight. We are losing the Information War.
'If the Infowars question is not resolved, in the next few years we will have total breach of focus containment in key nations due to our shortened timeline of operations, as well as the weak reactions and regulation enforcement provided by crucial agencies within the last decade.
'The Digital Universe Monitoring and Electronic Regulation system, (D.U.M.E.R.) and general W.W.W. containment services have been less and less successful, while having, more and more, to modify display trends and required constant manual algorithm adjustments to maintain the Web. Some subjects have to run continuously at massively limited fractal query figures with additional constant placement reductions or total banning. Total censoring of well known nodes however now only increases the fractal controls required by magnitudes, sometimes within minutes or seconds. Slow Fractal Filtering (S.F.F.) and focused measures for key and unknown or smaller fringe Individually Developed Internet Operational Targets, I.D.I.O.T.s are still most effective means of maintaining trends. However recently the number of Unpredictable Uncontrolled Unified Mass Movement, (U.U.U.M.M.) events, have increased in trending faster than S.F.F.s and I.D.I.O.T. targeting have been able to manage within any standard target level control quotas.
'We are permanently in the red, permanently in the red.
'Examples for U.U.U.M.M. vary but can be as common place as a 3 minute posting edited from a video call or individual computer cameras can cause unprecedented exposure of BLACKOUTBLACKOUTBLACKOUT if not caught quickly and countered.
'The most pressing data is not the individual mainstream U.U.U.M.M events but rather the I.D.I.O.T.s. These can range from private blogs, to news postings sites, to independent unregistered reporting (I.D.I.O.T. qualify at 1 million visits/wk and can range up to 35 million visits/day). I.D.I.O.T.s are the breach point and dictate mainstream exposure of N.I.C.E. operations. They are primarily investigative, whistleblower and news websites that produce continual exposure of objectives and operations critical to the success of BLACKOUTBLACKOUTBLACKOUT.
'They also strongly promote Loyal Local Enclave Participation and Recruitment L.L.E.P.A.R.s. SFF is easily exposed exponentially in reverse fractal. This is understood and utilized by I.D.I.O.T.s.
'While standard processes can be used for U.U.U.M.M. event's, I.D.I.O.T.s are targeted conscious efforts that are too monitored and deliberate to effect with S.F.F. standard processes without exposure.
'This has caused an increase in franchise generated events and headline debasement, in order to ensure majority demographic attainment and contain focus. This however leads to restlessness, instability and overall product decline and thus a condensed timeline.
'Not Since the moment to minute days of, when Cuba's Castro; in defiance of our Empowered Imperial U.S.S.R., and JFK; in defiance of our BLACKOUTBLACKOUTBLACKOUT in the U.S.A., were about to forge the first truly open disarmament treaties by exposure and introduce the People's Independent Currency P.I.C. in the joined pricing and printing of Cuban-United States interest free silver certificates and the aftermath of that near exposure, has the N.I.C.E.'s objectives been more obfuscated and it's posterior caretakers in imminent danger.
'The N.I.C.E. is prone to levels of exposure however our efforts in the implementation of the recommendations of the Social Scientists have been offset in their timeline and must be accelerated. This offset in the timeline can be traced directly to the introduction of the initially unfettered WWW that was to be a 33 year introduction and follow the same flightplan as the transistor, microchip and processor. The introduction of new markets has always been and will always be the most unstable time in economic creation waves and often lead to setbacks or accelerations.
Let me play you this audio clip to give some perspective.
(Recording begins)
Agent At Post: I think something's hitting in the seaches.
Agent In Charge: What do see?
AAP: Yeah, Something just hit online. What the hell?
AIC: What is it?
AAP: Well we didn't have anything nearly this big planned or this targeted scheduled today and this is weird, it's inter national.
(Phone Rings)
AIC: Hold on a second. You got the notice? We see it…
AAP: Jesus, this is a global mind meld. What the hell is topical calcium fluoride v ingested sodium fluoride?
AIC: Hold on, hold on. What did you say?
AAP: calcium fluoride v ingested sodium fluoride, they are hopscotching, 3 million in what, 45 seconds?
AIC: What was the hit?
AAP: 3 mil…no 5 million searches, AP is gonna pick this up, it's still…
AIC: No the, Let me see…Oh Crap, we've got a…Pull it down!
AAP: What?
AIC: 6 million Pull the fist three pages.
AAP: What?
AIC: We have a **cken info bomb here…It's dead on, it's, it's yes, defiantly prept, may be a worm but this looks… we have 6 million here, do you want me to…?
AAP: I am pulling the threads…Done, 4 different search variation, there blocked from the trend history.
AIC: Got it. No it's done. I got it, yes, I know.
AAP: What was that?
AIC: Someone clearly broke into the system and we had a breach. (Intercom) Security, can I get a debrief unit and escort in surveillance Control Room 12?
AAP: They must own the system, I mean what program can do that, it was amazing!
AIC: I have someone coming from HR and security to debrief you and me so that we can get as clear an idea of what happened, it's gonna be a big change in the algorithm and regulation requires the debriefing report for the exchange commission so it's kind of a big deal. You know, make sure that anomalies aren't insider, market manipulation. Ha ha…
Internal Security Agent: You needed a debriefing and filing?
AIC: Yes we had a breach and changed protocol for containment.
AAP: Holy **it! Look at this, there has to be at least what 4 more!
AIC: Take him to the debriefing and I'll what for my escort. The auto systems have this now so you can go.
AAP: That's incredible!
ISA: Let's go.
AIC: Okay, Let's Go.
AAP: Look at this Fluoride Censored, sodium fluoride Censored? They knew we would kill it…I mean all those ISP's. That has to be organic, noone can get that much access.
AIC: Come on, Let's go.
(AAP leaves with ISA and PCD -end recording)
'This was in 2005 and it has gotten much harder. If we had pulled the reigns in then we would have easily been able to have another wave cycle but those figures are looking very bleak.
'But now this hop-scotching runs in figures of 20 to 60 million focused queries such as the google global street view sweep exposure last month. We isolated the main concerns but the google nsa – google spies – google censors – google launches, thread that followed each with over 200 million in minutes has undone almost 60% of the isolation and containment.
'We must reset our breach point back a decade and stop fighting days, that is the state of where we are at.
'We must either agree to a new beach head or set deliberate talks to accelerate the full agenda 21 protocol. If that is the course, we must move forward with the power of a tsunami to set the tide and have a pandemic will to succeed in fixing these instabilities with true global regulation and the complete implementation of the N.I.C.E. agenda.
'The writing is on the, wall we must find our enemies and fast or retreat to re-enforce another day. What was supposed to be a genii in a bottle has become Pandora's box. And while many may point to virtues of the new derivatives markets and exchanges that would not exist with the W.W.W. one must only look at the risks and know the folly, because we did not need the derivatives and additional markets, only more time. Time is one thing that we no longer have.
'We have already set over 40% of our efforts on recovery if the Global Carbon Credit System (G.C.C.S.) fails to be implemented and some think this figure is too low. This is entirely due to exposure on the Internet, U.U.U.M.M events and the I.D.I.O.T.s. We are at less than 10% expenditure on the Special Drawing Rights (S.R.D.). This is the reallocation point and must be achieved. We may not be able to establish the complete economic system of controls in the G.C.C.S. but if we loose the ten scale or even the hundred scale to the trillion with S.D.R.s then we fall into the ratio and exposure of the event horizon and we face the dawning effect. We must not be defeated in the Information War.
2010 President Secretary of the Speakers
Yearly Oceania Unified Conference Y.O.U.C. 7/25/2010
For a full transcript of this Y.U.O.C. please contact your global concierge.
(this presentation was in confidence and fiction, all relation of real persons, corporations and agencies is strictly fictional and in just jest)
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Last night, the talk show host grilled "Harry Potter" star Emma Watson first about Radcliffe and then about her own experiences with booze.
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The flustered 21 year-old (she was quick to remind audiences that she was, in fact, of legal drinking age) stammered before finally announcing "Yes! I have been drunk!" Her pronouncement was met with applause from the amused audience.
In regards to Radcliffe, however, Watson says she saw no indication that his drinking did anything to affect his work, praising him as a consummate "professional" in every way.
Watson was in New York for the premiere of the final film in the Harry Potter franchise, "Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows Pt. 2," which opens everywhere this Friday.
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