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What is Outdoor Advertising?
Outdoor or out-of-home advertising refers to any advertising that appears outside the home and includes: billboards, transit (bus) shelters, bus ads, rail ads, etc.
Who uses out-of-home advertising?
More than 70 percent of outdoor ads promote local businesses – and that number is even higher in non-urban areas. National categories like entertainment, media, fashion, travel and packaged goods are heavy users too.
Why is outdoor advertising effective?
Three (3) of the major benefits of out-of-home are:
What is a "directional" ad?
A directional ad is one that advises consumers of their proximity to your business. These ads can include phrases like "right off exit 16," or "make a left on Elm Street." Directional messages are used heavily by motel, restaurant, and retail advertisers and are especially useful for local businesses that may be a bit "off the beaten path."
How do outdoor ads compare to other local options like radio or newspaper?
There are a few key benefits that outdoor advertisements provide compared to other local media:
Do Outdoor ads work?
We urge you to look at our client testimonial section that includes testimonials from advertisers in virtually every category who have found success using outdoor ads.
How do I select an out-of-home advertising program that would work for my business?
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How much does it cost?
We work with budgets of all sizes and billboard advertising rates vary greatly depending on location, number of units and length of program. Many of our large local and regional advertisers started as a single billboard client and have grown from there. We provide the same service and tools to a local advertiser as we do to a large national account.
Advertiser Market (Trading Area)
A custom market (often a group of counties) defined by an advertiser or retailer. This market definition is typically based on sales or other marketing criteria relevant to the product or service. (See Custom Market)
The number of out-of-home units required to achieve a desired weekly GRP/TRP level for a specific audience within a market.
The distance measured between the point where an advertising unit is first fully visible to the point where the copy is no longer readable.
Audience Delivery
The size of an audience that noticed an out-of-home advertisement usually measured during one or more weeks. Audience delivery can be represented using several definitions, including impressions, ratings, and reach and frequency.
Audited Weekly Circulation
TAB independently audits inventory locations, and collects/aggregates weekly circulation data for out-of-home media according to established national procedures approved by the buy-and-seller community.
The recalled recognition of an out-of-home advertising message by an individual or audience. Ad awareness is influenced by creative copy and the consumer's relationship with the product or category. (see Noticing and Engagement).
Large format advertising displays that include, but are not limited to, bulletins, posters and junior posters.
Display area which extends beyond the live copy area, often to the edge of the finished size.
The largest standardized out-of-home format, typically measuring 14' x 48' in overall size; either sold as a permanent display or in rotary packages.
Campaign Delivery
The audience delivered during an advertiser's total campaign, by an advertising schedule, expressed in GRPs/TRPs, reach and frequency, as well as impressions.
Campaign Period
The interval of time an out-of-home advertising campaign is on.
CBSA (Core Based Statistical Area)
Defined by the United States Office of Management and Budget (OMB), a CBSA is the urban center of a city, as well as the adjacent areas, that are socio-economically tied to the urban center by commuting. CBSAs are a standard geography for buying and selling media.
The process of selecting and scheduling individual media locations to maximize an out-of-home advertising campaign's objectives.
Commercial Audience
Audience estimates of people exposed to actual advertising. TAB OOH Ratings are the first media measurement system providing true commercial audiences of out-of-home advertising rather than audiences that are merely exposed to editorial content (e.g. read a magazine, read a newspaper or tuned to a TV program, etc.)
The elimination of gaps in a media schedule by maximizing the duration of a campaign. An ideal advertising campaign would run for 52 weeks.
The sharing of advertising costs between a manufacturer and distributor or dealer.
The advertising displayed on an outdoor unit. The quality of the ad's creative design can impact the number of people who notice it. (see Noticing)
Copy Area
The viewing area on an out-of-home unit.
Count Station
A station that measures traffic estimates and patterns at a specific section of a road. All displays assigned to a count station start with the same traffic count used to determine weekly circulation. A display may have weekly circulation from more than one count station if it can be seen from more than one road.
CPM - Cost Per Thousand Impressions
CPM values reflect the cost of delivering 1,000 impressions against a specific audience noticing the advertising on OOH displays.
CPP - Cost per Ratings Point
The cost of advertising exposures that equals to one gross rating point of a target audience in any geographically defined market.
Creative(see copy)
An advertising display which is visible across traffic lanes on the opposite side of the roadway.
Custom Market
Any market used by a plant or advertiser, other than a DMA or CBSA. Custom markets are used to highlight OOH delivery within relevant geographic areas. (see Advertiser Market)
Demographic Audiences
Target audiences used to plan, buy and sell media. The demographic audiences available for TAB Out-of-Home Ratings include age, sex, ethnicity and income.
Digital Out-of-Home Media
Any out-of-home display that can update its advertising content using digital technology.
The strategic placement of OOH units across a defined market. The distribution of units will impact the reach of the campaign that is delivered.
DMA – Designated Market Area
A television market area defined by Nielsen Media Research that is also used by advertisers for multi-media planning.
The degree of value delivered to an audience relative to its cost. Usually expressed in the values of CPM (cost per thousand impressions) and/or CPP (cost per gross rating point).
The method used to hem the edges of bulletins. Finishing can include welded pockets or other operational techniques for hanging substrates onto billboard units.
Junior Poster
One of the standardized poster formats, typically measuring 6' x 12'; formally known as an 8 Sheet.
Media Mix
The combination of media types, associated with audience weight levels that are used together to meet the objectives of a media plan (advertising campaign).
Mobile Billboard
A truck equipped with one or more poster panel units. The truck can either be parked at specified venues or driven around designated localities.
Opportunity to See (OTS)
A basic measure of media exposure, OTS estimates are measures of media exposure (e.g. magazine readership or the TV program exposures) but not the advertising message.
Out-of-Home Media (OOH)
All media formats specifically intended to reach consumers outside the home.
Percent Composition
The percent of a media unit or a media schedule that is made up of a particular audience; which provides a measure of audience concentration.
A term used to identify a media company and its entire OOH advertising inventory in a market.
The total number of people or a target group who live within a market. Population of adults 18+ or other target groups within a defined market serves as the base universe from which rating points are calculated.
One of the standardized poster formats, typically measuring 10'5" x 22'8", formally known as a 30-sheet poster.
Proof-of-Performance (POP)
Certification by an out-of-home company that contracted advertising services has been rendered.
Any structure used to display information regarding a product or service.
An adhesive strip that is used to cover a portion of copy displayed on an out-of-home unit.
Standardized Unit
Outdoor units constructed in accordance with the specifications established by the OAAA.
Target Rating Points (TRPs)
The total number of in-market impressions from a target audience delivered by an out-of-home campaign expressed as a percentage of a market population.
Traffic Count
The recording of the vehicles and pedestrians passing a given point; used by TAB to authenticate the circulation that passes outdoor advertising structures.
Transit Displays
Displays affixed to moving public transportation vehicles or in the common areas of transit terminals and stations. Transit displays include, but are not limited to: bus panels, train/rail panels, airport panels, taxi panels and mobile advertising signage.
Transit Shelter
A curbside structure located at regular stopping points along urban bus routes.
An out-of-home unit with a slatted face that allows three different copy messages to revolve at intermittent intervals.
Any outdoor advertising display.
VAIs - Visibility Adjustment Index
A composite index score that refines opportunity-to-see (OTS) of a media unit that converts to audience likely to notice an ad based on the media unit's characteristics; which include but not limited to media format, unit size, side of road, road types, distance to the road and dwell time.
Murals painted or attached directly onto the exterior surface of a building.
Weekly Circulation
Number of people who pass by a specific media location based on an annualized average one-way weekly traffic count. Weekly circulation is the foundation of TAB OOH audience Impressions.
There is a wealth of industry resources available to advertisers that provide the tools, education and best practices necessary to create a successful out-of-home campaign.
The Outdoor
Advertising Association of America
The OAAA is the lead trade association representing the outdoor advertising industry. Founded in 1891, the OAAA is dedicated to promoting, protecting and advancing outdoor advertising interests in the US. With nearly 1,100 member companies, the OAAA represents more than 90 percent of industry revenues.
OBIE Awards
OBIE winners are recipients of the definitive honor bestowed upon ad creator and innovators.
Established in 1933, the Traffic Audit Bureau for Media Measurement Inc. is a non-profit organization whose historical mission has been to audit the circulation of out of home media in the United States. Now known as Geopath, our organization has expanded its historical focus. Geopath looks to the future with state-of-the-art audience location measurement, deep consumer insight, and innovative market research. We use state-of-the-art data, technology, and media research methodologies along with a holistic, integrated approach to provide powerful tools that measure and analyze audience location and show how consumers engage with out of home advertising.
geekOUT - Geopath
Geopath measures and analyzes audience location and how consumers engage with out of home advertising as they move throughout their world. Check out the geekOUT Library to get your geek on and dive into some eye opening insights about the out of home audience. This collection of research provided in convenient presentations can help show you and your clients the value of out of home advertising. Explore based on various industries, audience segments, and more.
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The 70th annual Tony Awards got political more than once Sunday night.
The show took aim at the presumptive presidential candidates — being largely negative toward Republican Donald Trump.
While introducing the nominees for best leading actress in a play, Nathan Lane joked that he learned the value of winning an award at Trump University. Host James Corden said that the award show's diversity would prompt Donald Trump to "build a wall around this theater."
Meanwhile, the comments were more positive toward Democratic presumptive nominee Hillary Clinton. While presenting for best featured actress in a play, Jake Gyllenhaal gave Clinton a nod, saying "Women can do anything."
Most biting of all, Corden orchestrated spoofs of famous musicals about the presumptive nominees. "The Book of Mormon" became "The Book of Moron" starring Andrew Rannells as Donald Trump.
"Hello. My name is Donald Trump, and I would like to build a wall that goes straight through your house," Rannells sang.
Glenn Close starred as Hillary Clinton — blue pant suit and all — in a spoof of "A Chorus Line" called "A Clinton Line," in which she sings actual lines from the musical: "I really need this job. Oh god, I need this job. I've got to get this job!"
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The award show and CBS also dedicated the broadcast to anyone affected by the mass shooting at an Orlando gay nightclub that happened hours before the show.
"Hate will never win," Corden said at the start of the broadcast. "Together we have to make sure of that. Tonight's show stands as a symbol and a celebration of that principle."
Many Broadway stars and Tonys attendees wore silver ribbons in acknowledgment of the tragedy.
"Hamilton" creator and star Lin-Manuel Miranda gave a moving tribute to the victims in his acceptance speech for best score, proclaiming, "Love is love is love is love."
Frank Langella spoke out as well during his acceptance of the award for best leading actor in a play.
"When something bad happens we have three choices: we let it define us, we let it destroy us, or we let it strengthen us," he said.

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Amazon.com Inc., No. 1 in the Internet Retailer Top 500 Guide, today posted a fourth quarter 2014 revenue gain of 14.6%, with North American sales increasing by 22.3% and international sales up by 3.2%.
For the full year, Amazon's revenue increased 19.5%, with North America up 24.6% and international increasing by 12.0%. The e-retailer also posted a net loss of $241 million for the full year.
CEO Jeff Bezos took the opportunity to boast about growing membership in Amazon Prime, which provides members free, two-day shipping, a selection of movies and TV shows to stream and other perks for $99 a year, a fee Amazon raised from $79 last year.
"When we raised the price of Prime membership last year, we were confident that customers would continue to find it the best bargain in the history of shopping," says CEO Jeff Bezos in the typically upbeat commentary that accompanies Amazon earnings releases. "On a base of tens of millions, worldwide paid membership grew 53% last year—50% in the U.S. and even a bit faster outside the U.S. In 2014 alone we paid billions of dollars for Prime shipping and invested $1.3 billion in Prime Instant Video. We'll continue to work hard for our Prime members."
Amazon gave no figures for Prime membership, though a recent estimate says 40 million U.S. consumers belong to the two-day shipping and loyalty program.
Amazon's share price was up more than 11% the day after the report, as Amazon surprised investors by recording a profit of $214 million in the fourth quarter, following losses of $437 million in the third quarter and $108 million in the second quarter.
A big reason for the turnaround was slowing growth in expenditures on fulfillment, which grew 17% compared with the fourth quarter of 2013 versus expectations of a 28% increase, according to investment analyst Shawn Milne of Janney Capital Markets. That slowdown in fulfillment expense increases is a surprise given the addition of millions of Prime members who get free two-day shipping and the fact that 40% of units shipped by sellers on the Amazon Marketplace now use Fulfillment by Amazon, paying Amazon a fee for shipping, but adding to Amazon's costs. Analysts say the slower-than-expected increase reflects Amazon spending at a slower rate on new fulfillment centers, while benefiting from the efficiencies of prior investments.
Those investments include deploying at least 15,000 robots at its U.S. fulfillment centers, taking advantage of its 2012 acquisition of robot maker Kiva Systems. Amazon has also built out a network of sortation centers—Amazon said there would be 15 in operation in the U.S. by the end of 2014—to sort packages before handing them off for delivery to the U.S. Postal Service, a method of delivery that is less expensive on average than delivery through UPS or FedEx.Chief financial officer Tom Szkutak offered little detail in response to analysts' questions about the slowdown in fulfillment expenses. "The team continues to work on getting productivity there," was all he said.
For the fourth quarter ended Dec. 31, 2014, Amazon reported:
• Net sales of $29.328 billion, a 14.6% increase from $25.587 billion in the same quarter in 2013. Of that revenue, about $23.102 billion stemmed from merchandise itself sold to consumers, what the e-retailer terms "net product sales"—up 9.6% year over year. The rest, $6.226 billion, came from commissions from outside merchants that sell on Amazon marketplaces, the Amazon Web Services cloud computing service and other smaller revenue sources. Those "net service sales," as Amazon calls them, were up 37.9% from last year.
• North American net sales of $18.747 billion, up 22.3% from $15.331 billion for the fourth quarter of 2013. North America accounted for about 63.9% of sales in the fourth quarter of 2014, compared with 59.9% in the same period in 2013.
• International net sales totaling $10.581 billion, up 3.2% from $10.256 billion in 2013. International accounted for about 36.1% of sales in the fourth quarter, compared with 40.0% in 2013.
• Worldwide sales of books, music and videos decreased 3.8% to $6.950 billion from $7.227 billion, while electronics and other general merchandise increased 20.5% to $20.638 billion from $17.126 billion in the same period in 2013.
• Net income of $214 million compared with net income of $239 million in the same period in 2013, a decline of about 10.5%.
• Spending on marketing increased 34.7% to about $1.526 billion from $1.133 billion in the fourth quarter of 2013.
• Spending on technology and content, including fees for licensing content for its Amazon Prime Instant Video service, increased 41.5% to $2.635 billion from $1.862 billion.
• Spending on fulfillment increased 17.3% to $3.424 billion from $2.918 billion in 2013.
• General and administrative spending increased about 39.0% year over year to $442 million from $318 million.
"When we take a step back and evaluate Amazon's holiday performance, there are a couple of reasons to their success," says Scot Wingo, CEO of ChannelAdvisor Corp., which helps e-retailers sell on marketplaces operated by Amazon and its competitors. "They started their holiday promotions early, advertising Black Friday deals in the first few weeks of November. They also invested a lot in fulfillment last year and as a result didn't have the delivery debacle like 2013. So they stole Christmas by being aggressive on the front end with early promotions, and they extended the holiday season by being able to go later with fulfillment."
For the full year 2014, Amazon reported:
• Net sales of $88.988 billion, a 19.5% increase from nearly $74.452 billion in 2013. Of that revenue, $70.080 billion stemmed from Amazon selling products itself to consumers, and those sales were up 15.1% year over year. The rest, $18.908 billion, came from commissions from outside merchants that sell on Amazon marketplaces, the Amazon Web Services cloud computing service and other smaller revenue sources. Those "net service sales," as Amazon calls them, were up 39.6% from last year.
• North American net sales of $55.469 billion, up 24.6% from $44.517 billion in 2013. North America accounted for 62.3% of sales in 2014, compared with 59.8% in 2013.
• International net sales totaling $33.519 billion, up about 12.0% from $29.935 billion in 2013. International accounted for 37.7% of sales in 2014, compared with 40.2% in 2013.
• Worldwide sales of books, music and videos increased 3.6% to $22.505 billion from $21.716 billion, while electronics and other general merchandise increased 24.8% to $60.886 billion from $48.802 billion in 2013.
• Net loss of $241 million compared with net income of $274 million in 2013.
• Spending on marketing increased 38.3% to $4.332 billion from $3.133 billion in 2013.
• Spending on technology and content increased 41.3% to $9.275 billion from $6.565 billion.
• Spending on fulfillment increased 25.4% to $10.766 billion from $8.585 billion in 2013.
• General and administrative spending increased 37.5% year over year to $1.552 billion from $1.129 billion.
"We'll be watching closely to see what kind of investments they're planning for fulfillment and sortation centers in 2015," says Wingo, who estimates Amazon operates about 150 fulfillment centers around the world. "The regions they're investing in heavily are China and India, and it's getting eaten up by the press. I think everyone will be paying close attention to their traction in those regions, as well as talks of new markets of expansion."


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Wednesday, February 13, 2008
The prog-rock ballad. A particularly unsung micro-genre full of lovely little gems. After punk came along, the foolish idea of "guilty pleasures" took hold, as the catechism forbade any response to the likes of ELP or Yes other than mockery and revulsion. As with any such ideological musical taboo, the rejection of prog was just fucking stupid, as if somehow four crusty little morons with one good three chord a-side were nobler than three pompous keyboard klowns with one good 3 minute section on one of their side-long cantatas. The finest parody of prog was on a National Lampoon album entitled "Good Bye Pop" - a true laff riot called the "Art-Rock Suite" (the album also contained a superb Neil Young spoof called "Southern California Brings Me Down"). But easy as it is to mock prog-rock, go look at some of Gentle Giant's live work on YouTube; some of those things are mind-blowing.
I attended a wedding many years ago; the couple were amiable stoners who selected ELP's "Still You Turn Me On" as their first-dance-as-man-and-wife number (for the record, ours was "Je T'aime... Moi Non Plus"). All was fine - the couple swaying happily 'cross the floor to Greg Lake's romantic bellowing - until this forgotten, manic "swing your partners" hoe down section (with muy goofball fiddly synth farts) suddenly intruded, leaving Mr and Mrs baffled and frozen still until the mellow part resumed. Obviously they hadn't considered that bit, recalling only the main ballad part. And that's one problem with prog balladry... these guys wanted every track to be a cornucopia of textures and tempos so that some guy in a suburban bedroom could sagely note: "Didja hear that, Ant'ny? That was fuckin' 5/4 time right there."
With the advent of e-z editing on the computer, I was suddenly able to - ferinstance - excise all that claptrap about "the show that never ends" and 7 minute rototom workouts on "Karn Evil Nine" , leaving only the cool fake-Irish jig bit in the middle. Swell stuff. Another great joy was finally wedding the first and second stanza of Pearls Before Swine's "I Shall Not Care" so that Sara Teasdale's poem plays intact without the interminable freakout section that separates them on the album like an ornery bridge troll.
But I gotta say, there are a host of truly lovely ballads stuck throughout these prog albums, and here are some faves. You might find them indistinguishable from their chart-topper cousins like ELP's "Lucky Man" or "Dust In The Wind" by Kansas; to that I can only say : "ah, get fucked." Generally speaking, they avoid the power-ballad formulas of most classic rock horseshit, but they aim for something more rarefied than straight singer-songwriter or pop ballads... when it works, they get to the place a lot of today's chamber-pop artists aim for. Nothing too obscure on this list, I think. Make up a list of your own! Show it to somebody other than me and compare notes!
In no special order:
GENTLE GIANT - "THINK OF ME WITH KINDNESS" - This is from their "Octopus" album, the one with the very rad Charles E. White lll die-cut cover. GG were an eccentric act, but pretty popular for a while. They had this fixation with Rabelais, and wrought a weird Renaissance/Zappa music that they acknowledged was an acquired taste. This song is just gorgeous, even with a sort of "inhibited organum" middle section that I imagine might throw some finicky listeners. The rest is a lovely balance of gentle melodicism, soft jazzy riffing and a nearly Broadway climax. Musically, they were impeccable, and this is one of the few things of theirs that impresses directly and sweetly without all their usual ants-in-the-pants hi-jinks.
MOODY BLUES - "FOR MY LADY" - The word "lady" is a dangerous word for a song title. I once determined, in one of my "bad song" moments (I have a hobby of writing deliberately "bad songs" as opposed to the really bad ones I write in earnest), that "Rock and Roll Lady" would have to be the title of the rankest rock song ever. Dunno if anyone ever wrote one with that title, and I'd be shocked if there weren't dozens of them, but I couldn't craft a turd of sufficient majesty to deserve that title, so it remains theoretical. Anyway, Ray Thomas, the big ol' mustachioed galoot who usually just stands there hitting a tambourine while Justin Hayward sings, wrote this song. It's sort of a sea chantey -cum- light country tune with only slightly pretentious lyrics (and I LIKE pretentious: Scott Walker's very medium was pretense, and he's the motherfucker) far removed from all the "cold hearted orb that rules the night" sassafras that fills their albums in between the swell pop songs. It's a wonderful, largely ignored track.
GENESIS - "DANCING WITH THE MOONLIT KNIGHT" / "AISLE OF PLENTY" - This is one of those edit jobs I did on the pc, essentially taking the very first part of the "Selling England By The Pound" album and chopping out the rest of the album, laying in the very last part of the last song, which reprises the melody. (Just cut after the line "digesting England by the pound" and crossfade into the part beginning "I don't belong here, cried old Tessa out loud..." if you're trying this at home) The result is a striking, brit-folky melody that starts plaintive and builds very effectively, with mysterious consumer-culture-what-the-fuck lyrics that give the effect of meaning something real, and maybe they do. Peter Gabriel sings it to a fine turn.
VAN DER GRAAF GENERATOR - "HOUSE WITH NO DOOR" - OK, sorta obscure, maybe, but John Lydon's beloved Peter Hammill led this band, and they - and he - maintain a substantial cult. The rest of the album is pretty great King Crimson-ish stuff with saxes and Hammill's anguished existential wailing, but this is a special gem. Long and slow piano-based depression deluxe. It's a bit like what post-Syd Pink Floyd might've done if they could harness Syd's own mortal terror, as on "Dark Globe." Despite the harrowing self-pity of the piece, it remains lyrical and beautiful, and never feels too long.
KING CRIMSON - "LADY OF THE DANCING WATER" - Here we go again with the "lady" business. Evidently, a lot of Crimson fans loathe this song and its singer, Gordon Haskell. Proves what a load of twats they are. Gordon's voice is a little "rough" compared with Greg Lake's Nelson Eddy bit, which makes it better by me (check his album "It Is And It Isn't" - a terrific set including "No-one's More Important Than The Earthworm" - a great song later covered by Stackridge). Here he sings at a whisper, over gentle guitar and flute. I could've chosen another nice Crimson ballad, like "I Talk To The Wind", but this is more unusual and delicate, almost like some of Donovan's very fine work on "Gift From A Flower To A Garden."
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Are you on the go with your business?
Do you dream of having a business where you can work from anywhere?
Maybe you want to travel the world, or maybe you simply want to spend time outside at a local park.
It really is possible. I've been doing it since 2003!
Many of my friends and colleagues have businesses that can be ran from anywhere in the world too.
What have they put in place in their business that allows them to have the freedom to work from anywhere?
I've asked them to share some of their tips and strategies and I'll share their responses over the next few weeks in my series: Freedom to Work from Anywhere: Living the Mobile Life.
Today, we'll hear from Kelly Roach and Georgina Sweeney.
Top 10 Travel Tools On-the Go Entrepreneurs
It's a mobile world and that means you no longer need to be tied to a desk or an office to run your business! Here are my top 10 on the go mobile tools that let me roam free!
- Paypal – take payments and make payments as easy as 1,2,3
- Square – credit card swiper can be used with or with out the actual card to take payments.
- Skype– conduct client consults across borders and take client calls on the go. Get new clients from anywhere!
- Hootsuite – mobile app-stay connected on social media, pre-plan posts, ensure no black out periods while traveling
- Trip-it – store all of your travel details in one place automatically combined to create a travel itinerary for car service, hotel, flights etc.
- Audio Acrobat – if you do any type of coaching or consulting this allows you to record and send recorded audios to clients
- Dropbox – amazing tool for sending and storing big files, can be accessed by multiple parties and updated in real time-incredible for working with virtual support teams and staff members across the country
- Dragon – dictate and send messages to your team or to yourself when typing is not an option or you need to be hands free
- Time Trade – great appointment setting tool with ability to send reminders, client invites, and preset options for clients to select times available on your calendar
- Webex or Go to Meeting – great options to access webinars and visual presentations, trainings, etc while on the go
Thanks to Kelly Roach – Helping Small Business Owners Rapidly Grow Their Income While Reducing Their Hours.
Three Global Business Tips
- If you use PayPal to accept payments, let them know in advance that you will be out of the country and logging into your account from a foreign location and/or another computer. Otherwise you run the risk of your account being frozen and having to prove your identity.
- To overcome jet lag and avoid crashing before your new local time bedtime, bite into the inner flesh of a fresh lemon (not the outer skin.) It's a little intense, as you can imagine, but the rush of vitamin C and the tart taste will give you a natural boost for several hours without resorting to caffeine and other stimulants that will disrupt your sleep later that night.
- Bring plug adapters for all the countries you'll be visiting.
Thanks to Georgina Sweeney – Transformational Business Coach and Money Mentor: She helps heart-centered women entrepreneurs create their own freedom in business & life: the freedom to be who you are, do what you love & earn what you want NOW!
What Tips, Tricks, Strategy, Operations Setup Do You Recommend?
Do you have a virtual business? Do you enjoy working from more than one location? Or, do you want to get your business to a state where you can? I'd love to her your thoughts in the comments.
until we talk again,
Live Fully -- Love Openly -- Laugh Often -- Leverage Your Brilliance -- Connect Authentically -- Get Your Message Out -- Serve with Impact -- Prosper Everyday
Live Fully -- Love Openly -- Laugh Often -- Leverage Your Brilliance -- Connect Authentically -- Get Your Message Out -- Serve with Impact -- Prosper Everyday
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As you are reading this there is only seven more hours till we ring in the New Year. And there is only thirty-four hours left of our Indiegogo campaign to raise money to print the book and build a well with Charity Water ends. It interesting how these two things have lined up; One being we start a new year filled with fresh starts and more changes in our everyday life, and second our project will come to a close with Indiegogo. It is interesting how time plays out. How so many things revolve around time; how our lives have a rhythm with it, and how time can give so much meaning to things and how we wear a watch to tell us what time it is so that we know where we should be and when things are scheduled to happen. Oddly, I wear a watch but not to tell me what time it is, but to remind me that time has not stopped for anyone and won't move backwards for nobody, only forwards with it perfect rhythm.
But with New Years and time comes questions of what does the future hold for us, for me, and for this book. What will happen when time runs out on the clock and we will be so far from our goal? What will tomorrow look like when we start a new year? And what will happen to everything we have been fighting for when this year ends? A lot of these questions we will keep asking every year and some we will find answers to someday. But what I can tell you about the book is that we will let the time run out on our campaign. Who knows what can still happen. So many amazing things happen in the last few seconds of something big, so it may just happen for us. But if not we will figure it out, like we always do.
During my time home we talked about what will happen to A Year Of Adventure, My Dear. What we could do, what we are willing to do, and what could be best. We talk about what it would look like to just put it up online and if someone really wants one they can buy one and there would be no profit to be made or well to be built. Still while I was home, I had the chance to hang out with someone I truly look up to and hold in high regard. He is a smart man that has never steered me wrong, and while we were sitting at one of my favorite restaurants, he said that he thinks that this is not over yet, that there is still much more left to this story and Sarah's work is to good to just stop here. And truthfully I think he is right. I think we have come to far to not try something else and see if we can get published, or a large platform to help get Sarah's last work out there.
So before we make any final decisions on what we will do, and before Fin is written I think 2015 will be the year were we find the perfect ending to this long story. Thanks you for reading, for hoping, and supporting.
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Japan is known for its cutting edge technology and the 2015 J-Pop Summit is introducing its Interactive Pavilion to showcase some of the coolest new Japanese tech to North America.
The tech will be broken into three segments: Home, Work and Mobility – featuring the latest innovations from companies like Ricoh, Canon, Toshiba, and Jins. Plus, Kodansha Comics will be bringing the Colossal Titan from its hit manga series Attack on titan.
2015 J-Pop Summit will take place August 8th and 9th at the Fort Mason Center in San Francisco's Marina district. Follow the jump for much more…
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The pound sign (#) used to be a thing we pressed at the end of entering numbers in an automated system. This all started to change in 2007 with the introduction of hashtags which used the pound sign as a folksonomic tag.
According to an infographic from OfferPop, a social marketing platform provider, since it was first proposed for use on Twitter, the hashtag has evolved into a "hyperlinked verb" and a shorthand tool for message optimization. Simply put, it's a way for social media users and marketers alike to organize information. Kind of like the tags and categories on a blog or website.
The OfferPop infographic charts the history of the hashtag from its organic inception to its current position as a pop culture and marketing phenomenon. Interestingly enough, the hashtag took off during the San Diego wildfires in 2007 but weren't officially incorporated into the Twitter infrastructure until 2009.
Now hashtags have become a social media standard being used to organize content on Google +, Instagram, Tumblr, Facebook, Pinterest and even Flickr. It's even become a mainstay in integrated marketing campaigns for brands looking to capture the attention of social media audiences. In fact, half of the 2013 Super Bowl commercials contained a hashtag. And you know you've hit the big time when there's an SNL spoof.
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My little guy just received his August Citrus Lane box today!
This is the first time that his box hasn't arrived in the date range that they say it will (17th-22nd of the month). We received it on the 23rd, so just a day late...but their shipping seems to be getting slower & slower.
ANYWAY! We received the 11 month boy box. I have my son aged up a few months because we had received a few things that were below him in the last box. I would rather have things we have to put away for a few months than things he's already too old to use.
Here's what we received:
1. Snuggly Lotion from Babytime
2. Growth Chart from Petite Collage
3. Snack Container from Innobaby
4.Turtle on Wheels from Green Toys
I'll be honest...the box looked a little empty to me at first. Don't get me wrong, I like the items we received. The toy, growth chart, and snack container will all be used! Eventually, the lotion will get used too. It just seemed like there should be one other thing.
However, when I check up the items & their cost, we definitely got our money worth!
Snuggly Lotion $9.50
Growth Chart $20.00
Snack Container $3.99
Turtle on Wheels $12.99
Total: $46.48
We pay $19/month. Woohoo! I'm excited to find a place for the growth chart. I'm not sure I would have started one if I didn't receive it in the box, but now I'm excited to get it up and get measuring! I love the Green Toys brand so I know the turtle on wheels will be great! And who doesn't carry snacks with them?!
If you were unsure about Citrus Lane, I definitely say give it a try. They constantly have promotions, deals, and discounts. I just purchased a Mystery Box yesterday! I think the mystery boxes may be my favorite :) They also allow you to add items to your box for no additional shipping charges! I added a few items this month, so when I opened the box it actually looked like this...
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On Thursday evening PMFD was dispatched as part of a 1st Alarm assignment to Upper Nazareth for the reported electrical fire in a garage. 27-13 and Fire Commissioner Gallagher were at the firehouse for a meeting and were out the door responding within a few minutes. Both units arrived on scene and went to work. Commissioner Gallagher established command while the crew from 27-13 put 3 lines in service, secured a water supply, and put the deck gun in service within a few minutes. As additional units arrived on scene the bulk of the fire was extinguished. Crews remained on scene for the duration of the evening into the early morning mopping up. In total Palmer sent 3 engines and the truck to Nazareth Additional departments on scene included 54,50,53,46,40,15,52,36,48,14 Ems 50,27
Crews made a great stop preventing this fire from being much worse then it was. Strong work to all units on scene.
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50 Cent Faces Arraignment on Domestic Violence Charges
Rapper 50 Cent hasn't been making too many positive headlines this summer. Due to an incident in June, he faces arraignment today on domestic violence charges relating to an alleged assault on his ex-girlfriend and damage to her condo.
These are the same allegations 50 Cent previously denied and poked fun at on Instagram. If he's convicted, 50 Cent faces up to five years in prison and $46,000 in fines.
The alleged attacked occurred on June 23. Reports say the 'Before I Self Destruct' rapper got into an altercation with his ex-girlfriend, Daphne Joy. When she barricaded herself in her bathroom afterward, Fif kicked the door down and then kicked her.
He apparently destroyed furniture, chandeliers, a lamp and a TV before leaving. Police estimated 50, born Curtis Jackson, caused $7,100 worth of damages.


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Hedge Funds Have $74 Billion as Europe Fire Sale Delayed
Bloomberg reported that hedge funds and private-equity firms have amassed an unprecedented $74 billion to invest in distressed debt in anticipation that Europe's sovereign-debt crisis will push banks into the biggest fire sale in history. The problem, Bloomberg said, is few are selling.
Bloomberg said Apollo Global Management, Oaktree Capital, Avenue Capital and Davidson Kempner Capital Management are among U.S. firms that have flocked to Europe, setting up offices and raising funds to benefit from the most severe period of distress in the region.
Bloomberg quoted Christopher Hart, president elect of the Turnaround Management Association UK as saying, "There are quite a lot of opportunities, but the problem is whether banks are selling." Hart added, "As the adage goes, 'a rolling loan gathers no loss.'"
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Evidence indicates that credit expansion by banks is declining and securitization is plunging. James Kwak feels that the securitization market will not get back to the levels seen before the crisis.
The debt-securitization market, which enabled banks to package corporate loans, home mortgages, student loans, auto loans, credit card loans, and other debts into all types of complex securities and resell them to investors, and thereby freeing the banks to lend more, has been the source of roughly 60 percent of all credit in the United States. Now, all private debt securitization has virtually dried up, though the Fed has used its $1.25 trillion credit line and spent about $905 billion buying government-guaranteed mortgages (of fanne and Ginnie Mae's and Freddie Mac) in an effort to keep mortgage rates low. The Fed is also trying to get investors to use the credit provided at attractive terms under the Term Asset-Backed Securities Loan Facility (TALF) to buy the securities.
However, as Paul Krugman argues, the end of securitization and the return to the traditional model of banks making and holding loans should be welcomed and finds no reason to consider securitization to be superior to conventional banking. He feels that instead of reviving the securitization market, the Fed should be trying to get banks to start lending out of all those excess reserves they currently hold.


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PECOS, February 24, 1997 - Reporters calling at all hours of the night
are the biggest problem Jeff Davis County Sheriff Steve Bailey has
encountered with the Rick McLaren - Republic of Texas saga.
Bailey said this morning he has not yet received a warrant for McLaren's
arrest, but when he does, he will serve it - "like I have done all my
McLaren failed to appear in court Friday for a pre-trial hearing on a
burglary charge. Bailey said the clerks's office has yet to issue a
"I am sure they will. They may be dealing with the bond forfeiture or
something. I may get it today or tomorrow," he said.
Meantime, McLaren has been the center of a media circus, and he claims
Republic of Texas defense forces have been alerted and will converge on
Fort Davis if anyone tries to arrest him.
That's not so, said Republic President Archie Lowe and Secretary of
Defense Roger Erickson.
Lowe said in a memo dated Feb. 22 (Saturday) at 9:35 p.m., that
information coming from the "Embassy" at Fort Davis is erroneous.
"There is no siege at this time; however, we will continue to keep you
informed. False information went out through one `White Eagle Otto,' who
is not an officer of the Republic of Texas," Lowe said.
"Disregard any information concerning Texas Defense Forces alerts unless
received directly from the Secretary of Defense, Roger Erickson, or from
my office, which constitutes the proper chain of command in emergency
situations or for the issuance of alerts," he said in the memo posted on
the Internet.
Lowe said that any defense forces alerts and pertinent information will
be posted on the site at http://www.texas.by.net.
Bailey said that the sheriff's office is "just going on with our normal
life" this morning.
"We just got through catching six wets and are dealing with the Border
Patrol," he said.
He noted that McLaren makes a lot of statements that don't make sense.
"Last week, we worked a driver's license check, just me and one deputy,
three miles outside of town, and he put it out that there were hundreds
of deputies and Department of Public Safety troopers with machine guns
swarming the embassy," Bailey said. "This is ridiculous. But that's him."
Erickson said in a memo to "All Defense Force Personnel" that he has
been preoccupied coaching his wife on the delivery of their baby boy,
but he had been in contact with Ambassador McLaren and Major Leonard.
"I have read the embassy press release," he said. "Major Leonard was
instructed to assess the situation and make a judgment as to the
validity of possible danger to Republic of Texas Citizens. If he
believed an alert was warranted, he was in full authority as commander
of District One to issue a District One alert.
"This would not affect any other district. He was to follow the
procedures in the issuing of said alert. The alert is to be signed,
posted for all in the designated area to see, and the Secretary of
Defense and the President are to be notified before hand if at all
possible. I have not received notification of an alert by Major Leonard
at the issuing of this memo (Friday).
"Contrary to the `Official Embassy Press Release,' I have not placed any
units of any kind of an alert, pending or not," Erickson said. "Unless
you see a signature and receive confirmation, do not act or draw any
conclusions. All information is to be questioned so as to make the best
choice. Lack of information or misinformation could cost needless loss
of lives.
"If there has been any contact internationally in regards to the
situation at Fort Davis or pending alerts, it has been without
authorization," he said.
PECOS, February 24, 1997 - A Kent woman is in guarded condition at an El
Paso hospital after her vehicle was struck by a train Saturday afternoon.
Guadalupe Baeza Marta, 46, who was driving a 1989 Fort Escort, was
northbound on Farm to Market Road 2424 about 5:30 p.m. Saturday.
She attempted to cross a marked railroad crossing when she was struck
by a train. The intersection is located about 1-10 of a mile mile north
of U.S. Interstate 10, according to the Texas Department of Public
Safety report.
The road crosses the railroad track just north of the mile marker 177
(Kent) exit on I-10.
Investigating trooper was Timothy Collie of the Van Horn DPS office.
Culberson County Sheriff Glenn Humphries said the crossing is marked
with red lights and a sign.
The Union Pacific locomotive was driven by Henry Burnadette of El Paso.
Marta suffered internal injuries and was initially taken to Culberson
County Hospital from where she was airlifted to Thomasson Hospital in El
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When not reading or catching up on all of the film and TV that she has no time to watch, you can find Charly somewhere in Leeds where she works as an Information Services Librarian. She loves libraries because, of course, they contain books but also because she's a bit of a cataloguing and classifying nut- hence the nickname, Dewey.
In July 2015, she finished up her Postgraduate Diploma in Library and Information Management at Manchester Metropolitan University, is currently working towards chartership status with the Chartered Institute of Library and Information Professionals, and would love to start an MA Children's Literature one day.
She'll read almost anything except Mills and Boon type romances, she just can't. Her favourite genres are sci-fi and fantasy, and contemporary fiction although in 2016 she hopes to read more classics and literary fiction.
Here at Dewey Girl, she writes about her love of books, posts reviews, book hauls and monthly wrap ups as well as items featuring bookish gifts she has bought and events that she has been to.
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The annual Title I Parent Meeting will be held on Wednesday, May 23, 2018 at 2:00 p.m. in the DHS Library. Everyone is invited to attend to speak with and meet the teachers, paraprofessionals, and guidance counselors that service the Tuscumbia City Schools System through Title I. We will be sharing what we have accomplished at Deshler High School with Title I funds.
The Tuscumbia City School System does not discriminate on the basis of race, color, national origin, sex, disability, or age in its programs and activities. The following people have been designated to handle inquiries regarding the non-discrimination policy. Vickey Moon, Federal Programs Coordinator, Title VI & Title IX Marsha Ricks, Special Services & 504 Coordinator, 303 North Commons Street East, Tuscumbia, AL 35674 (256)389-2900
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Free lesson of juggling in form of a workshop. Several jugglers will take care to give everybody individual care and individual lesson.
You don´t need any special equipment, the juggling equipment will be free available at the place.
You will pay the fee 2€ at the entrance to the room. The fee doesn´t change no matter how long you will stay here or if you will come more times.
You are welcome to this workshop at any time from 17:00 till 22:00. The time you choose in the web form for this event is not obligatory for you (it is just to give us some impression when to expect most of people).


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I bought these as wedding favors and I love them. The only negative thing I can say is the picture is a bit misleading. I thought the string around the jars would be included but it was not. However, I received the package in a timely fashion and nothing was damaged. Thanks!!
Yes, I would recommend this to a friend.
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www.spikynorman.net is a non-commercial domain and nether sells or promotes any commercial products or services.
Those domain steeling scum are back again. This time its is pimping home loans. I just had to clean up about 80-90 email bounces from various servers round the net that mistakenly though that <random_charcters>@spikynorman.net had sent out some spam. Some of the guilty sites being spamvertized are www.mortgagelf.com, www.go-funding.com, www.mortgage-lowsz.com, www.funding-talk.com, www.funding-live.com, www.lendingxid.com. Some of these sites share the domain name server at nsx.your-mort.com and some at HOSTALL4YOU.COM. According to whois I see a certain Fred Willard holds the registrations. Well Fred possibly of Centreport NY Zipcode 11721 may you suffer the plague of a 100,000 telemarketing phone calls each and every day.
A: Drug dealers, pimps, Stock pump 'N dumpers, loan sharks, grifters and The freemasonstore.com.
So not much change there then, the usual street corner crowd; scary how they are right inside your house now. Just about all legitimate business has fled back to banner ads and direct contact. The good news is that the practice of direct domain name theft reported in Sept 2003 has stopped for me. It can still be seen in use by the email viruses and spyware that inbed themselves into home PCs. The other good news is seeing some spamers getting felony jail time and bankrupted by law suits from Microsoft. Savor such sweet justice as "AOL Gives Away Porsche Seized From Spamer" in March 2004 this is not just not seen often enough.
That old rogue Sanford Wallace (prove. Cyber Promotions Inc) was back in the news last fall 04, caught pushing spyware to promote sales of spyware clean-up tools. "The complaint, filed by the FTC in the U.S. District Court of New Hampshire, alleges that Rochester, N.H.-based Seismic Entertainment Productions Inc., Richboro, Pa.-based Smartbot.Net, and Sanford Wallace, the president and owner of both companies, operated a series of Web sites that automatically and secretly downloaded spyware programs onto the computers of Internet users who visited the sites." Just how much hate and loathing can one persons cyber karma stand ?
--- UPDATE On 2006-03-22 the FTC filed a suit again against Wallace and SmartBOT for practices similar to the 2004 suit. This time Wallace and his co-defendands were ordered to pay $4,089,550.48 in fines.
Still some way to go on stopping email spam but there has been progress in other areas. Over the years since '92 when this sblog (very slow blog) was started the USA has introduced Junk fax laws, a DoNotCall registry to prevent telemarketing calls and the CanSpam act all aimed at reducing the number of unsolicited commercial communicatons. Keep on trying lads those pesky marketers are still one step ahead.
This is a notice to let you know that some ugly spammer scum has been using random address within the Spikynorman.net domain as a from/return address. Non-delivery bounces came started to come in from aol dated from
Date: Tue, 02 Sep 2003 00:49:24 -0100
Using these addresses as spoofed from and reply-to addresses
Reply-To: "Derek Hess" <firstname.lastname@example.com>
Reply-To: "Alejandra Cisneros" <email@example.com>
Reply-To: "Eugenio Ziegler" <email@example.com>
Reply-To: "Kenya Odell" <firstname.lastname@example.com>
Reply-To: "Yong Norwood" <firstname.lastname@example.com>
Reply-To: "Odis Whitney" <email@example.com>
Reply-To: "Avis Eddy" <firstname.lastname@example.com>
Reply-To: "Doris Bishop" <firstname.lastname@example.com>
Reply-To: "Ivory Payton" <email@example.com>
Please remove the X from the address to get the exact address used. This notice will be on a website and I really don't want these address scraped and reused.
I have control over all email addresses in the spikynorman.net domain and none of the above addresses exit. They appear to be randomly generated.
The subject lines of the emails that were bounced were
Subject: RE:Order Prescription Drugs- Save icaw sq pnz
Subject: RE:Your Best Source For Prescriptions Online Is Here vmipjzpz
Subject: RE:Online PharmacySOMA,VIAGRA,MUCH MORE gqiwqeni l cntyh
Subject: RE:Phentermine, Viagra, Xenical, Ultram, Adipex mbinhzbg
Subject: Online PharmacyFioricet,SOMA,MUCH MORE fm s r
Subject: Fwd:Shipment information radudh
Subject: Fwd:SOMA - Viagra - Phentermine - Ultram - Ambien - Diflucan Free Overnight Fedex rfoesdztjd kzty nqm
Subject: RE:prescription medications online slvyu
The real origin of the emails are the usual selection of email relays in .edu and .forign spaces This theft and missuse of the spikynorman.net domain name has been going on for over a year now.
These appear to be the very familer prescription medicine scam emails. The spikynorman domain, as can be seen from the website www.spikynorman.net has nothing to do with such scams. The spikynorman.net site is wholy non-comercial containing information about a number of topics none of which is anyway related to the sale, or promotion of prescription medicines.
The owner and operator of the spikynorman.net domain hates email spam and its perpitrators. Spikynorman.net supports organisations that campaign against email spam and internet fraud.
For more infomation about email spam and frauds on the internet please see
www.cauce.org and www.fraud.org.
P.S. This type of illegal domain-name "borrowing" for spam has also seen by other domains such as www.linux.org as described here.
I moved to a software company and have been there for over four years now. We deal on a daily basis with 100s of customer by phone, email, ftp and www site assistance. I managed to keep the new work email address hidden from spammers for about a year. The address did leek out after a technical posting sent to what I thought was a private email list. The posting was archived on a web page. After tracking down the web page (thanks be to Google) and discussing with the admin he did blank out the address. Of course it was too late by then. See the Spamdemic diagram for information on how addresses are passed between spammers.
Microsoft Outlook is specified at work and for that there is now a spam solution. The saviour is Cloudmark This company is in first release of a plug-in for MS outlook that uses peer-to-peer sharing of email checksums to classify inbox messages and move spam messages to a separate folder. This is such a great idea and with 300,000+ (May 2003) users so far, it is nailing about 9/10 inbound spams. For the 1/10 that it misses just hit the "Block" button and the spam is removed from sight and a note is sent to other cloudmark users that this message is spam. This works very well given the global 24 nature of the internet; europe marks overnight USA spam and visa versa.
Spamvertizing - The strip mining of email addresses from web pages, usenet, DNS records, and other spammers lists then sending 2 or 3 spams a day for the usual junk. There is the glimmer of an opt-out link but this is a waste of time. No sooner have you opted out from E-mailSavings aka link2buy.com you start getting email from ConsumerDirect aka link2buy.com and on and on and on. They are scum along with their partners at Discover cards who shamelessly use their services. This LOL reply was in a recent complaint "Discover Card is very selective about the advertising methods of our company. " Phone them up and tell them what you think next time you get such spam
My advice is only try to opt out of email from companies that have a working phone number and real mail address on their web site.
Spam Read receipts disguised in HTML email. Spammers embed code in their emails that in combination with a web site script acts as a read-receipt. Using this method they can see which address are "live" and therefore worth selling on to other spammers. The code works like this, An .html format email is sent with a coded request to a web site for an image. The image request is passed to a script that records the request code but always delivers the same image. As your email address is embedded in (or recorded against) the coded request for the image the spammer knows who has read or previewed the email. This covert read-receipt is triggered even if you just preview the message on-line and trash it immediately. Here is what the code looks like, it is an image request to a jsp script page passing the code "MO01234_20020945_3652"
<img src="http://xxxxmate.com/c/i.jsp?MO01234_20020945_3652;2103867038=h" alt="xxxxmate.com">
To protect against this read your email off-line or pre-screen your email by subject and sender without the preview pane on. Alternatively have your spam filter move the junk to a non-preview spam folder for later checking and binning.
Virus distribution. The distribution of computer virus by bulk email is nothing new, with infected attachments being the favoured route. The tricks used to induce the recipient to open and activate the attachment are various but include Discusing the documents as a celebrity picture and using the recipients address book as the onward distribution list in a way similar to a worm. One recent wrinkle is to disguise the email and attachement as a security update from Microsoft.
Some friends of mine had decided to climb on the net and get email accounts. Just for fun I printed out one of the many generous offers from business contacts at the NIGERIAN NATIONAL PETROLEUM CORPORATION who may or may not be related to Mrs. Marian Abacha, the widow of late Gen. Sani Abacha to send through my bank account Thirty-Eight Million, Six Hundred Thousand United States Dollars (US$38,600,000.00). Much to my surprise one of my friends, a retired accountant of about 65, said that he had seen such scam letters going round the financial institutions of London over 15 years ago! Sigh, the best scams are the oldest. Click here for more official details of these dangerous 419 scam aka Advanced fee fraud. Do your duty, tell newbies about this one.
There are various proposals, the main ones are
And all you have to do is just send your contact details over to these lads, along with your bank account details and they will just send you the money, yeah, yeah in your dreams. What really happens is you will be asked to send first a small amount then larger and larger amounts of "Advanced fees" to them. You may even be invited to a foreign country so that you can be held for ransom or blackmailed, up close and in person.
I was getting two or three a week all year, some of these tabulated by a perl scipt, listed by date here. There is lots of information about this type of crime on the net just put 419 into google, one of the better site sites is http://www.crimes-of-persuasion.com/Crimes/Business/nigerian.htm
Take care out there .....
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I signed up at the website www.cauce.org as I whole heartily support the aims and the objective of ridding cyberspace of UCE.
As I read the material and FAQ on the site a couple of points came to mind that you might like to consider.
The arguments contend that UCE generates large amount of internet traffic and reduce available bandwidth on the net. Whilst this is true and UCE can/has blown away various mail servers on the net I feel that the point is not strong or compelling for the following reasons
I feel that arguments against UCE based on the content of that UCE is a waste of time because one persons porno is anothers Art, one persons political truth is anothers vile propaganda, one persons special offer is anothers shopping opportunity. Its the messenger we want to slay not the message. UCE is bad because of the *way* it is sent not what is sent. UCE from the Girl Guides advertising the "cookie website" would be just as bad.
A major problem with the "remove" process, which you rightly stated is deeply flawed, is that in larger corporate environment the mechanics don't work. From many companies the news posting host is different from the internet mail dispatch host. So even though inbound UCE is routed from the news host you can't reply to it from that machine, only the mail dispatch host. With this and the fact that the address to which the USE is sent is often hidden in the headers means that the spammer, if he should be so inclined to honour the remove, won't have the news posting host address in the remove mail only the mail dispatch host address. I personally don't trust big remove database because many of the sleazier sites that do UCE will just download the remove list and mail to it knowing that it has a very high valid mail address hit rate.
I feel that the one of the strongest argument against the USE is that it breaks the implied freedom "Not to hear your free speech" If you get paper junk mail you can bin it without reading. In most countries you don't have to go to church or political rallies if you don't want to hear what is said. You are free to close the door on salesmen and door step campaigners but you can't get away from UCE. UCE stifles free speech in a way that would never be tolerated IRL. If you have a town meeting or public discussion forum, stand up and make a point you don't expect to have the next speaker try to sell the crowd on some MMF scam or spout some political/religious tract. By bombarding the mailboxes of people who post to comp.technology.widgets with off-topic UCE mail people are put off from contributing to USENET and this stifles real free speech. It's harassment. I am supprised that the subscribers of AOL/compuserv/.... have not filled a class action suit against the worst offenders. $5 per head into a campaign pot would buy a lot of lawyer power.
The other strong argument that I feel was not covered well on the site was the Data protection principal. In some countries there exists the principal in law that computer data collected may only be used for the purpose that it was given. By attaching your address to a post you are saying that "You may reply to me about the *content* of this post by follow up or email" You are not saying that "You can mail me with any old message that you want" because the act of posting to a limited news group signals only your intent to converse only on the topic of the group. UCE breaks that principal just as badly as a utility company starting a credit card and junk mailing all its captive subscribers without first asking the opt-in question.
RFC ahead.... This idea is lobbed the air for general discussion. One possible solution to the USE question would be to use the existing DNS service to allow administrators to display the UCE policy of the domain. If you had a campaign to get all admins of domains to put up a host/mail address called nouce@domain or ucepolicy@domain that would indicate that UCE should not be sent or that you have to mail the responder ucepolicy@domain to get the domain UCE policy. The policy document could be of the form topic flag modifier{,flag modifier} where topic would follow the USEnet groups hierarchy eg rec. comp. biz. alt. and flag would be a=Allowed, b=ByRequest, g=goviahost mailhost@domain, f=feeis $nnn, r=returnaddressmust be valid. By publishing that you will charge Email spamers to use your equipment to advertise, at say $10 a message, then follow up with an invoice and writ to both the originator and the carrier, you should see some effect.
Kindest regards
Also posted to news.admin.net-abuse.email without much response.
I read with interest "Wham Bamb stomping out Spam" which failed to mention an important free speech issue. By collecting and abusing Email address from web pages and Usenet postings UCE is stifling public discussion in a way similar to a shouting drunk at a town meeting. We have the right not listen to their free speech. It not just the commercial adverts UCE is used to promote www sites and, insult to injury, Bulk email packages.
The idea that "remove lists" could help is farcical, firstly if you need to send a remove request you have already been hit, Secondly a remove list is a big list of valid Email addresses and Email list abuse is what these people do. The fact that one of the mass Email sending products, advertised by the sending of UCE, is called "Stealth Bomber" should indicate that this is not a product conducive to the public good.
To solve this problem in a way that provides a place for legitimate internet marketing the following is proposed.
Mark your territory, its common practise IRL to put up a "Trespassers will be prosecuted" board so put up a policy file on your www server that states your policy on unsolicited mail. I suggest a file www.YOURDOMAIN.NAME/ucenote.txt and an autoresponder mail address firstname.lastname@example.com
Sample policy can be along the lines of any of the following
"1.0 The owner/operator of internet YOURDOMAIN.NAME domain asserts that unsolicited Email costs us time and effort to deal with and we reserve the right to recover from the sender, or their service provider, the costs of our wasted time at the rate of $100 per message." or "2.0 The owner/operator of internet YOURDOMAIN.NAME domain asserts that unsolicited Email costs time and effort to deal with and is rejected by some mail users in this do main. All unsolicited Email for users in this domain must be sent to uehost.YOURDOMAIN.NAME to allow us to apply filters at the mailbox owners request." or "3.0 The owner/operator of internet YOURDOMAIN.NAME domain is happy to provide a full message service. In the light of this co-operation please send a single copy of your messages for wide distribution to email@example.com" or "4.0 There are no restrictions on unsolicited Email to YOURDOMAIN.NAME internet domain."
You can also add any of the following policy riders to the end of the file
All Email to this domain must have a valid return address. List owners if you are sending more than 20 messages to this domain at once use uehost.YOURDOMAIN.NAME Mailsizelimit=nnnnn bytes UCEMarkerstring=x-advert UEMarkerstring=x-uemail subject_type_here ReqMarkerstring=x-req subject_type_here
To encourage the most persistent offenders and their suppliers how about starting a class action lawsuit to recover the total costs incurred by us all in processing their messages. Persistent offenders will be deterred by a few heavy hitting invoices and "junk fax" type regulations.
Don't for get to put DomainIsPosted See http://www.YOURDOMAIN.NAME/ucenote.txt before sending Mail or DomainIsPosted EMail email@example.com to your Signature file.
As the bulk mailers are so good a slurping usenet postings Announce your domain policy to news.admin.net-abuse.bulletins as "mail policy for *@YOURDOMAIN.NAME"
For a follow up discussion see newsgroup news.admin.net-abuse.email to which this will be posted as "Bulk mail .. State your policy"
It all gets very serious on the frontline of the Email Spam wars. On the one side you have Millions of irate mailbox owners, who quite rightly, resent the interruptions and offence brought by the daily torrent of unsolicited adverts for phone cards, MakeLoadsofMoney scams and sleazy webshows. On the other you have the hundred or so electronic fly posters, casting into cyberspace email flyers, ducking and diving from volleys of revenge mail bombs, hoping and praying for just 0.01% payback. In the middle you have the Internet service providers, struggling with highjacked email servers and machines overloaded with ballooning news and mail storage areas.
Email addresses are automatically scooped from both Web pages, Internet News posting and worst of all "Remove me from your list" email replies. A single posting to some news groups, notably news.admin.net-abuse.email, can result in a scream of adverts, hate mail and just plain Email garbage. Once your Email address has been discovered it is never forgotten. It is not uncommon for academic computer accounts that have been dormant for years to crust up with megabytes of email. It is somewhat ironic that a large percentage of that junk email is trying to sell you the tools of the bulk email trade. With promises of free nearly advertising and staggering returns, packages with names like "Stealth Bomber" and "Floodgates" are offered for sale with CDs of millions of addresses. Truly a nightmare for most people struggling under the barrage of interruptions from phone, fax and Windows general protection faults.
The big players in the Bulk Email industry, barely legitimate in the light of its favourite products and a ban on Junk faxing, have clubbed together to offer a global remove service to users and list filtering for the trade. The Internet Email Mail Marketing Corp (http://www.iemmc.org but don't go there) operates under a cloud of suspicion. Exploring the rather thin Iemmc web site reveals complex way of adding an email address to the supposedly global mail filter. Its not an easy feeling offering up a virgin Email address to the very group people that have been hassling you for months taking no notice of protests or remove requests. As it happens the Iemmc filter process leaks, its coverage is patchy but worst of all if you complain to firstname.lastname@example.com by email from another address you find that address is harvested and passed around.
Hiding under phrases like "Its free speech protected by the constitution" and "Its not illegal yet." the truth is that bulk mailers don't really care about those that reject their messages, why should they ? It is that fraction of a % positive response that they are searching for. You can slam the door on hawkers and refuse to buy The Watchtower but those interruptions happen just one a week or so. How would you handle a queue of uninvited callers knocking down your door every morning ? Meanwhile software (ro)'bots war over newsgroups pushing global posting and cancel rates to unprecedented highs. What ever happened to the right not to listen to someone else's free speech ?
It gets pretty ugly sometimes, on the sending side it is common practice to bounce bulk email of someone else's email server, which is about as honest as using the office franking machine after hours to send out the club newsletter you just photocopied for free. To avoid vengeful mailbomb retaliation and "illegal use of account" terminations senders often disguise the return address and routing headers. It is kind of weird to get mail from addresses all over the globe only to find that it is the same old tired messages you have seen countless times before. The practice of phoning up the advertised freephone numbers, just to have an argument about marketing methods, and thus run up a bit of their phone bill is widespread but if done cross border will cost you money. Gangs of annoyed system administrators gang up on other service providers that fail to enforce any kind of reasonable acceptable use policy by blacking out areas of the internet.
Its worth fighting, like graffiti and broken glass in a kids playground, its a problem of the modern age that tarnishes the promise of a better lifestyle. For more information and http://www.cauce.org/
Foot solider in the Spam wars.
It is quite easy to have some fun at the bulk mailers expense, and it doesn't cost money to make them look stupid. It may even may help to slow down the bulk mailing operations by watering down the lists. The lifeblood of bulk mail operations is fresh new addresses and reusing the old ones; well give them something to chew on. Hey they don't have to be real addresses, in fact that would only encourage the pests, go on be creative. Add a page or section to your website with some random text dotted with loads of made up but real looking mailto address tags. firstname.lastname@example.com, firstname.lastname@example.com, email@example.com are a few for starters. Sign off your news postings with a selection of address only one of which is obviously correct. If you are firstname.lastname@example.com sign off with email@example.com, email@example.com, email@example.com as well as your real address. Dont forget to mangle the return address in your news posting software and give a clue which is the real address in the text. When you do get nuked in the spamwars, just think of all that chaff blown away to bit-bucket haven on the winds of cyberspace.
Remember.its.is@not against.the@law to.convert.the@whole firstname.lastname@example.com firstname.lastname@example.com address@list firstname.lastname@example.com firstname.lastname@example.com Pick up some public domain word and get mangling.
For a more permanent solution sign up with www.cauce.org.
Do you hate junk memos by email ?
Lets try to fix this by putting an update into the employee handbook
I feel that it is important to add a section in the Email bit of the handbook on the appropriate use of Email lists. Something along the lines of .... Email takes employee time and effort so please make sure that your message is both relevant and appropriate to all those on the list. Please don't send binary attachments of gifs or spreadsheets. Make the information available on the WWW or a file server and send only an URL referrence.
Please don't use company wide email for on-going discussions reply only to the sender of the message.
Please don't send global mail about personal hobbies or interests that are not directly related to our business. (If you hate calls from timeshare salesmen you will know what we mean)
Global remailing of jokes and humour whilst fun gets tedious when you have 300 emails to wade through after a week off.
Please don't send "Have you seen Bill ?" messages to everyone in the company. You can contact the reception desks and departmental administrators to achieve this.
Please don't send out the same old message every week, week in, week out to the same people.
Please don't send "I am going to be away next week... " to every one in the company ... that's what voice mail greetings are for. Are you *really* that important that everyone has to know where you are every day.
Please dont send information of a very transient nature many people only read email once a day or less. Global Emails interrupt everyone business -- consider carefully the relevance of your message.
If you have been on the net for a while you will have seen one of the panic stricken Email Virus warnings about Penpals/Goodtimes/Join the crew. They are of course bogus but insidious in nature and seem to resurface every 6 months or so. Stomp on this newby tat by mailing the following to all those on the distribution list for the copy you received.
Dear Internet user
I have sent you this because you sent or where sent a panic stricken warning about an email virus. Please think for a moment, do some research and consult your service provider/system administrator before acting on similar messages.
The Penpals goodtimes and join the crew email virus warnings are a hoax. These bogus warnings do damage and waste time by being passed on as authentic.
You could say that "The warning is the virus" so dont pass it on.
See Web page http://ciac.llnl.gov/ciac/CIACHoaxes.html for more details on this and other internet hoaxes.
Kind regards
A.N.Internet user
Its not surprizing that all those sad lonely spamers have nothing better do over the holiday break than going round stuffing peoples mail boxes. Notice also the clever and effective marketing ploy of sending the same stuff over and over and over and over again.
This in just one day between Xmas and New Year 97
*162 email@example.com Sat Dec 27 06:15 wiggie woo for free *163 firstname.lastname@example.com Sat Dec 27 06:18 wiggie woo for free *164 firstname.lastname@example.com Sat Dec 27 06:35 Spirit of Christmas in your church! *165 email@example.com Sat Dec 27 06:35 Spirit of Christmas in your church! *166 email@example.com Sat Dec 27 07:23 wiggie woo for free *167 firstname.lastname@example.com Sat Dec 27 07:42 wiggie woo for free *168 firstname.lastname@example.com Sat Dec 27 08:41 Spirit of Christmas in your church! *169 <firstname.lastname@example.com Sat Dec 27 11:56 $50,000 in 1 to 3 months... $$$ while you sleep *170 <firstname.lastname@example.com Sat Dec 27 11:56 $50,000 in 1 to 3 months... $$$ while you sleep *171 email@example.com Sat Dec 27 13:26 For The Business Minded - Bulk Mail For Profits ! *172 firstname.lastname@example.com Sat Dec 27 13:54 For The Business Minded - Bulk Mail For Profits ! *174 successcanbeyours@ Sat Dec 27 20:36 *******72hr. WARNING NOTICE!!!! ***** *175 email@example.com Sat Dec 27 22:42 WARNING!! DON'T GET SCAMMED !!! *176 email@example.com Sat Dec 27 22:47 WARNING!! DON'T GET SCAMMED !!! *177 firstname.lastname@example.com Sat Dec 27 22:48 WARNING!! DON'T GET SCAMMED !!! *178 email@example.com Sat Dec 27 23:03 WARNING!! DON'T GET SCAMMED !!!
Since the first days of 1991 I worked at a supercomputer manufacturer as a software analyst. It was a demanding but enjoyable job running on the bleeding edge of technology with some of the most fiercely demanding customers and kick-ass computers. It was a stressful job in many ways, the expectations of the customer base where as high as the systems where complex. The company being one of the founding internet nodes was wired and uses the net as a support and collaboration tool.
It came as somewhat of a surprise to feel the scum on net backwash so hard. The Email spams started as a trickle in 96 with just a few a month but rapidly grew to the point where I personally received 15 to 20 a day, to a variety of working permutations of my address. I would get the same messages to email@example.com, firstname.lastname@example.com, email@example.com, firstname.lastname@example.com and latterly the same names @sgi.com It did not take long to work out that the remove process was a sham and the messages where entirely scams and irrelevant. A couple of small postings to news.admin.netabuse.email ensured a torrent of revenge mail, sometimes as many as 30 at a time.
Like many people I found the pestering persistence of the spam an annoyance that brought an unreasonable level of stressful anger but I soon felt powerless to prevent the torrents of turdletts that swamped the important messages in my Email box.
It was especially frustrating to realise that because the mail addresses were being ripped from USENET postings we are all getting shafted two ways. The email spam was the obvious one but my favourite discussion groups were dying as fewer and fewer people would put their heads above the parapet to suffer the relentless torrents of spam email. This is the real "Freedom of speech" issue. Those apologists who say that off-topic commercial postings to focused news groups are acceptable are just too dumb to read traffic signs and may very well be seen driving the wrong way up the freeway as a legitimate expression of free choice. If you want a news group talk.freedom.nopostingrestrictionsons then make the group and shut the hell up and stop clouding the real issues. Freedom of speech is indeed a treasure but there is no guarantee anywhere of a free audience. The tatic of news post cancling was also seriously flawed the off-topic posts should just have been moved to appropriate biz. groups. This would have avoided all those bogus freedom of speech claims.
I signed onto a couple of mailing lists for technical news updates, and you can be sure that even "legitimate" mailing lists screw up. Double sends and a removes that don't work are common but that is not spam just normal organisational incompetence that teaches you who not to trust with your stock and money matters.
I did my share of spam hunting. You can reply to fresh modem originated spams with a lot of packets when you have a top-of-the-line Cray hooked to a T1 line. I talked to a loads of service providers and sysadmins from ripped off school and company mail relays, with just a single exception, all the people I spoke with were just as annoyed as I was about the whole spam issue. How little it must really matter to the big internet industry players that this is still a problem for so many.
Wow I did party the night Scamfraud lost his net ( twice ) but why has it taken so long to flush out the rest of the bottom feeders ?
I am on the outside now, since my recent change of company the whole ghastly situation is starting to recede now. I trashed the whole 6 Mbyte, 7500+ message spam collection, when I moved, only wishing I could have burnt some of the senders along with the garbage. No external spam for nearly a quater now and I feel calm. So be prepared to move Email address, it is the best, but least satisfactory way to get out from under.
As for Usenet, history may very well see the death of Usenet in the 90s in the same light as the destruction of the rain forests of Canada and Brazil, global resources destroyed by the greedy and lost for want of effective action.
It is somewhat hearting to see that the FTC in the USA has signed up to the issue with the release of its "Dirty Dozen Spam Scams list" I had hundreads of examples of each along with many other scammy looking posts of medical plans, sports betting, charity pleas and remove list frauds. Don't ya just know that they will be just as effective as the banks are in eliminating credit card fraud and the EPA is in keeping healthy fish in the sea and lakes.
I see that O'Reilly are publishing a book called" Stopping Spam" No doubt it will comprehensivly cover the topic and help progress the cause of Spam reduction.
Nolonger at cray.com but probably still geting spam at that address.


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Chionochloa flavicans (Miniature Toe Toe) Native
Kingdom: Plantae
(Unranked): Angiosperms
(Unranked): Monocots
(Unranked): Commelinids
Order: Poales
Family: Poaceae
Genus: Chionochloa
Species: C. flavicans
Binomial name: Chionochloa flavicans
Synonym: Chionochloa "flavescens"
Common name: Snowgrass (from the Greek chion, snow and chloe, grass, Miniature Toe Toe
A stout wide spreading native tussock growing up to a 1m tall. Is endemic to the North Island of New Zealand and is found in the Coromandel Peninsula and also can be found from the East Cape to Hawke's Bay. It grows on cliffs and rock faces from sea level to 975m.
The weeping green leaves are up to 12 mm wide and are larger than most tussocks similar to it. The flowering plumes (up to 30+cm long) which appear on 1.5m stems in summer can make it look similar to the Toetoe species. The plumes begin a green colour and as they age turn light brown.
A different form, C. flavicans forma temata, can be found growing on Te Mata Peak near Havelock North in the North Island. It is often sold as Chionochloa "flavescens" which is incorrect and only creates confusion with the true C. flavescens.
It is the most widely planted by councils and for highway plantings due to its low maintenance.
Young plants.
Close up of a stem
The top surface of a leave.
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Looks useful. Thanks, Tomer.
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