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We're all super stars! And some of us get badges! Oh yes, you know who the real sheriffs are in town, don't you. The beholders of cuteness! We hope you caught the grand master Yoga Kitty video, and our take 'Cops' and the yoga therein, otherwise you have no flapjackin' idea what we're talking about. No worries, we've got everything for you tied up in a tidy stack just below.
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I have a feeling that few of our intrepid public servants under the Gold Dome are familiar with the English scientist Sir Isaac Newton, except that he was the guy that got conked on the head with an apple or maybe the one that invented the cookie with figs in it.
Chances are none have read Newton's Philosophiæ Naturalis Principia Mathematica published way back in 1687 and better known as Newton's laws of motion. In it, his third law of motion states, "For every action, there is an equal and opposite reaction."
That brings me to the brouhaha that has occurred with the passage of S.B. 202 in the last legislative session, changing the rules on how we will vote in Georgia going forward. Republicans say it was to make the election process more secure. That was the action. I assume they had considered the equal and opposite reaction that was to come. At this point, it has been more than equal.
Opponents of the measure have cowed a host of Georgia-based organizations – Delta Air Lines and the Coca-Cola Company specifically – with all sorts of threats of boycotts if they don't speak out against the new law, which they claim discourages minorities (read: Democratic supporters) from going to the polls. So far, it seems to be working.
Major League Baseball has moved its All-Star game from Atlanta to Denver. Moviemaker/actor Will Smith announced he would not be filming his latest movie in Georgia, prompting an unimpressed State Sen. Lindsey Tippins, R-Cobb, to observe, "That will be one less film tax credit we have to pay. I'd say we'll be money ahead when he leaves." Zing!
While the actions of opponents of the measure have been long and loud, what about an equal and opposite reaction from supporters of the bill? All I have heard so far is a lot of mumbling and grumbling. Mumbling and grumbling have no impact on a company's bottom line. It take action.
Democrats, including the President, are referring to the voting rights bill as "Jim Crow 2.0," inferring it is racist. That very term scares the dickens out of companies who envision picket lines and bullhorns at their doorstep. Republicans badly need to refute the Democrats accusations with an equal and opposite message to these companies but I'm not hearing it.
Is there any effort on the part of supporters to call for a boycott of Coca-Cola to make the point that voting bill proponents also have clout? Anybody going out to Delta's headquarters and picket? Anybody going to resolve to fly Southwestern instead? If so, nobody has told me.
I don't think Sir Isaac covered this in his Principia, so let me. (We scientific geniuses must stick together.) There are only two ways to make a political decision – the application of pressure or the absence thereof. In this case, it is the opponents who are applying the pressure and the result is that companies are speaking openly against the new law.
And please don't tell me Coke and Delta and others are doing this out of some altruistic motive. Remember, Delta even bragged about having helped write the bill before they got blowtorched by the bill's opponents. It is all about protecting the bottom line.
These are publicly-owned companies with shareholders looking for a satisfactory rate of return on their investment. They are going to sway in whichever direction the strongest political wind is blowing. Right now, Democrats and their allies are applying gale force winds. The companies are guessing that there will be no equal and opposite reaction from supporters of S.B. 202.
In truth, Republicans in Georgia are so busy fighting among themselves and threatening to retaliate against each other over who is responsible for the lost presidential election that they seem to have lost sight of who the real enemy is.
American humorist Will Rogers once said he didn't belong to an organized party, he was a Democrat. There is no question that given what is going on today, ol' Will would be a card-carrying Republican.
It will be interesting to see what kind of action, if any, Republicans will take to counteract the Democrats regarding the voting rights bill. They had better do something equal and opposite and do it soon. Right now, they are losing the battle. And don't say they haven't been warned. When it comes to politics and physics, Sir Isaac Newton knows what he is talking about. And his fig cookies aren't too bad, either.
You can reach Dick Yarbrough at email@example.com; at P.O. Box 725373, Atlanta, Georgia 31139 or on Facebook at www.facebook.com/dickyarb


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Journalists sue U.S. broadcasting arm for wrongful dismissal under Trump
Seven foreign journalists working for the U.S. Agency for Global Media who were fired by the Trump administration have sued the agency for breach of contract and wrongful termination.
The journalists argue in their complaints that their careers and livelihoods have been significantly hurt by being fired and are seeking back pay. Most also claim that USAGM deceitfully backdated termination documents to make it appear that the agency was following the proper procedures for how to hasten their departure. Three of the seven who have filed suit, Valdya Baraputri of Indonesia and Paula Alves Silva and Julia Riera of Spain, were forced to leave the country.
The complaints note that Michael Pack, a conservative filmmaker who was installed as CEO of government-run media group USAGM in June 2020, expressed his distrust of foreign journalists working for the various broadcast entities under the USAGM umbrella and refused to renew more than 30 of their visas, causing them to lose their jobs. In an August 2020 interview with The Federalist, cited in the complaint, Pack said that being "a journalist is a great cover for a spy" and said that J-1 visa holders might try to "penetrate" USAGM.
Another of the journalists filing suit is Carolina Valladares Perez, a former war correspondent in the Middle East who previously had worked for the BBC, earning high performance reviews and a $4,000 bonus in her work as a broadcast journalist for Voice of America's Spanish service. After USAGM did not sponsor a renewal of her visa in August 2020, she was soon fired, according to her lawsuit.
"Plaintiff has since disappeared from the news radar, which has had devastating consequences," her complaint says, noting that she's only made a few thousand dollars in freelance work since. "With no show or time on-air, it has been extremely difficult to find a position as a news anchor. Over time, the audience forgets about prior on-air presence. Plaintiff has found it nearly impossible to get her career back on track."
Valladares Perez's lawsuit, which asks for more than $100,000 in monetary damages, says that the termination "devastated" her career and led to "significant financial, personal and professional harm."
The U.S. government has not filed a formal response to the complaints, and recently asked the court for an extension.
In a statement, USAGM spokesperson Laurie Moy said: "USAGM leadership has been working since January to build back the agency following actions taken by the previous CEO. Acting CEO [Kelu] Chao and her team are fully committed to seeing this work through. We have achieved a great deal, and continue to work to right any outstanding wrongs." Moy declined to comment on the specific claims in the lawsuits but said they took the matter "quite seriously." Pack did not respond to a request for comment.
The seven journalists passed full security and background checks, according to the complaints. Pack gave no evidence that they posed security risks to the country, the lawsuit says.
Some of the journalists who sued USAGM have been offered their jobs back, but others have not due to background investigation protocols and other requirements that haven't been rolled back during the new administration. All are seeking to recover back pay and related damages, according to one of their attorneys.
The lawsuits, which haven't been publicly reported, also say that the fired journalists weren't given an opportunity to defend themselves against vague accusations that they were disloyal to the United States.
"All of this occurred without USAGM ever providing Plaintiff with formal notification of, or facts supporting, any claim or allegation that Plaintiff's performance had been inadequate, that Plaintiff was untrustworthy or disloyal, or that Plaintiff was a potential spy, and without ever providing Plaintiff with a hearing in which [she] could rebut any such allegation," Valladares Perez's complaint alleges.
The complaints, filed in the U.S. Court of Federal Claims, also allege that the journalists didn't receive the required 15 days written notice of termination specified for in their contracts, and that their contracting officer backdated their termination notice in a "deceitful" way.
The journalists have also filed complaints with the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission, alleging that the government's actions constituted unlawful employment discrimination.
"VOA journalists routinely put themselves at great risk doing their job to report the news from around the world — often from hostile and dangerous places," said attorney Burt Braverman, who's representing the journalists. "USAGM's refusal to make them whole for the losses they suffered, is a real disservice to a group of loyal, committed professional journalists. USAGM needs to do right."
One of the lawsuits also accuses the agency under Trump of seeking to muzzle them, in violation of the news agency's independence.
Bricio Segovia, a former VOA journalist, alleges he was retaliated against for asking questions about the visa situation to Mauricio Claver-Carone, who was the National Security Council's senior director for Western Hemisphere affairs in the Trump administration.
In the interview, Claver-Carone told Segovia that the White House valued the journalism being done by VOA journalists and that they would have a "conversation" on the visa issues and hoped it would get "resolved as soon as possible."
The lawsuit alleges that Segovia's story concerning that interview was sanitized by USAGM, his VOA tweets were taken down and his VOA online account was quickly de-authorized. He was then suspended.
Pack, who had previously made documentaries for PBS, came into the job with the expectation he would shake up the agency. But the journalists allege that his role in reviewing J-1 visa applications on a case-by-case basis played a "decisive" role in personally selecting the journalists that the networks employed and thus breached the journalistic firewall between the networks and their funding parent organization.
While USAGM told most of them at the time that the firings were in "the best interests of the government," the lawsuits say that they "constituted direct, improper interference by USAGM officials in VOA editorial and journalistic personnel decision-making that was not reasonably necessary, breached Plaintiff's contract, and violated applicable laws and regulations, including the statutory firewall."
USAGM, meanwhile, remains in limbo after a turbulent last year under Trump.
Even though advocates for the agency had hoped Biden would make government broadcasting a priority, the White House still has not selected someone to lead it, a Senate-confirmed position. Amanda Bennett, the former director of VOA who resigned shortly after Pack arrived, is being considered to lead the organization, according to four people familiar with the matter. One of them said her nomination could come in the next few weeks. Bennett didn't respond to a request for comment.
USAGM also hasn't picked someone to be the director of VOA, the top journalistic job in government broadcasting. Three people familiar with the matter said that at the end of March the White House's Presidential Personnel Office blocked Steve Capus, the former president of NBC News, from being named director of VOA. Two of the people said that the White House didn't block him on his merits but instead wants whoever ends up becoming CEO of USAGM to get to pick their own head of VOA. A White House spokesperson declined to comment and Capus didn't respond to a request for comment.
CORRECTION: A previous version of this report misstated Valdya Baraputri's name.


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The Millennial Traveller – (What Am I In search of?)
Within the journey part of my library, skimming books on Costa Rica and Central America, I got here throughout a book- misfiled I suppose. Caught amidst the holiday guides was "Travels with Charlie", by famed novelist John Steinbeck.Pulling it out, I retired to a nook chair. 1962, center aged, famend, Steinbeck had dropped the whole lot to take a cross nation journey, incognito, accompanied by his little canine.Thumbing by means of, I observed, wherever he roamed, the reactions had been the identical. "Take me with you" whether or not voiced or not. Why will we dream about getting away, the additional the higher?Websites, tastes, existence, journey up to now signified glamour, intrigue. Right now, from the farthest outposts, innumerable movies exist on the web. Why does it nonetheless excite so?I take into consideration individuals who stop jobs to journey. What did they hope to seek out? It could not have been for simply tales to inform.I am responsible of wanderlust myself, identical desk job, actions, assembly new individuals however by no means deeper conversations. We reside within the predictable, passive, commute to work, exit with associates, spectator sports activities, possibly jogging or to the health club. What good does that do for me or anybody?A job with no future, annoyed love life, meaningless routines; possibly change will stir issues up? Check your mettle; discover your capabilities. That craving, is it for solutions? The place do I slot in, how can I make a distinction?After I assume again on journey, I bear in mind myself envious of those that discovered community- a horse race meetup ending the cattle roundup season in Australia, a kibbutz in Israel, assembly the prolonged household working a Costa Rican hostel. They labored towards a typical objective, and mutual enhancement.Journeying by means of Israel, staying with a household who had been associates of associates, I encountered on a regular basis lives. Theirs was like mine, solely dwelling on the sting as nicely. They knew that they could be known as to conflict or bombed tomorrow and it made them humble. It additionally fostered a zest for dwelling!Recollections envelop me, the spontaneous hikes, or mates getting ready a shared dinner. The utility firm went on strike chopping the ability an hour earlier than suppertime. No worries although, somebody grabbed a guitar and everybody broke into previous Aussie people songs.I went away to reside in Australia, a man not figuring out have an excellent time. And I returned conscious it is an American problem- and a chance to show my friends.With out private encounters or challenges, journey turns into an empty visage, of museums, structure, eating places and vistas. Hardly life altering, a postcard or video would do. Journey, when uneven, exhibits us alternate options; uncooked nature exposing what's paramount.So what are we trying to find, working from or to? Regardless of what training and faith teaches us, there isn't any blueprint for a happy life. Even travelling within the US, different communities embrace totally different beliefs too.Maybe, it is the confusion of what is not acquainted, or nature in her merciless precision Melding totally different worlds, we glimpse magnificence and raggedness in different cultures which makes us mirror.I've realized by touring, dwelling regionally and mountaineering the much less overwhelmed paths. It is freed my consciousness and given me options- a extra vibrant life find what I would like. That is what's conserving me planning future journeys.Chris


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Happy New Year.
And a reminder, now that twelfth night is approaching, that the council is once again recycling Christmas trees.
On normal collection days from tomorrow (5 January) until 18 January trees will be collected free of charge, then shredded to become compost.
It's impossible not to notice trees starting to litter the streets, they should only be put out the evening before collection, and even then not on the street unless there is no other option – the council will collect trees (and your normal rubbish and recycling) from your front garden so there's never any need to block the pavement.


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And today was one of those days. When that happens, I often sit down and pretend like I know how to write, mostly reviews, but there are times I get a little poetic and when I do, things like this come out. :) You don't have to read it. I'm just leaving it here for safe keeping, and now I'm heading for the hills. :-P
Night sounds drift through a thin curtain of decomposing light, light that has been tamed and is now shrouded within the dusky gray of the softening day. A symphony of crickets accompanied by the sibilant sound of leaves slipping one against the other carries itself in through the open windows and over the gossamer fabric that plays lazily on a fickle breeze, sounds that land without effort, stroking quiet fingers along and over the landscapes of the two bodies entwined in the pale cool sheets, laying a trail of gooseflesh beneath the sheen of sweat that's testament to the mellowing of the heated day.
The room glows sepia with the flicker of a dozen candles, adding the scents of cinnamon and clove to the heady blend of lilac and summer hovering around and over them, skin shimmering in a mix of clean exertion and mellow flame where it touches the men in the most intimate way, illuminating a path to the places they will each welcome the stroke of a tongue, a soft kiss, a sharp nip to tender flesh, each laying claim to the body beneath as they battle for the lead in this primal dance.
The silken whisper of skin against skin, soft words spoken on sighs—yes, more, right there, oh God…yes. Please!—the rasp of facial hair as a kiss deepens into something frantic, something frenzied that demands rather than asks permission, each breath a testament to two lives that have somehow become one, tongues dueling not with words but with lust and love and need and want. It is a battle, this desire to take, to possess, to each overwhelm the other in a press of flesh and a joining of bodies at a place where hearts collide.
A long, low lover's moan harmonizes with the night chorus, a bass vibrato that is part pain, part pleasure, and resonates like the desperate prayer of a man seeking salvation from the only one who can offer him redemption. Face to face, touch to touch, eyes seeking and finding perfection, the two become one, sharing breaths and sighs in an endless confession, hips rocking in a synchronous rhythm both ancient and timeless; silken steel sheathed in molten heat fanning flames long held in check, now set to a steady burn that threatens to consume them the nearer they come to catching the electric current humming through their veins and buzzing along every nerve, beginning somewhere deep and unknown and primitive, then radiating outward like a pebble that's broken the smooth surface of a quiet pond, tight rings of energy growing wider as they flow ever outward from the center until they simply no longer are…
And then the world explodes in a chorus of light and color. The ambient noises that had once surrounded them are now swallowed in a litany of cries and moans and hot, heavy breaths that carry promises of forever, and words that offer praise and give meaning to that small and simple one—Love. They are each wrapped tight around the other, Yin-Yang, neither knowing where they begin and end, neither wanting to be the first to let go, neither willing to end what they'd begun, both certain that forever is built upon single moments such as this.


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One of the great parts of being back in Primary Land is teaching math. Hands-down this is one of my favorite subjects to teach. Of course, my 1st-grade friends think every subject is my favorite, but I have a special affinity for math. Everything is so hands-on and it's so real-world. Especially in 1st grade, we love the concrete, the hands-on, the games – it's wonderful!
This week, we have been working with numbers to 10 – subitizing, multiple representations, and later in the week making 10. 10 becomes such an important benchmark for students, especially as we head into addition and subtraction. Becoming fluent in 10 is a fantastic tool for mental math, and when students begin adding larger numbers (especially in other grades), having mastered 10 is critical! Therefore, we will spent a lot of time with 10, and we'll spiral review with 10 through out centers each week.
Subitizing is a great skill for helping students 'see' numbers and recognizing them quickly. We have been playing a lot of "Flip, Write, Draw, and Make". Students flip the dot pattern, write the number, draw the tally marks, and make the number with manipulatives (in this case unifix cubes).
We've been rolling dice to make numbers and then, showing them in then frames. For my below-level students, we're working with 1 dice, my on-level students we've been using 2 dice, and above-level we've been using 3 dice.
Students then have the opportunity to 'fill' the 10-frame and select an answer. If a student knows the answer by sight (woohoo), he or she may just select the missing addend without filling the frame. Then, students check if their answer is correct (or are guided to a correct answer), and see a completed equation. Right now, we are NOT focusing on the equation – just the visual of the 10 Frame. Having the equation on the screen is a great side feature, though!
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It's always exciting when our Young Farming Champions go into schools as part of The Archibull Prize for the first time, but it seems YFC Sam Wan has been particularly impressed by the experience.
"HOOLEY WOOL-EY! What a day! I have been absolutely blown away by the energy of the Picnic Point High School students – the next generation ambassadors for wool."
As a first generation Australian-born Chinese from Western Sydney Sam's stereotypical career may have been accountant, doctor or lawyer; but not the predictable for our Sam. She is a wool broker with Elders!
Sam is the first to admit she didn't know much about agriculture growing up but the combination of a great high school teacher, keen classmates and a mob of black Corriedales opened up an entirely new world. And that's a world she's keen to share with her Archibull school.
"Suburban Sydney is where I started and to go back and be able to show these students the world I'm now part of was incredible. The Archibull Prize program is providing an opportunity to students that I never had and I'm so grateful for the opportunity to be a part of it."
Sam's visit to Picnic Point High School included the production of a wool stencil especially for them.
As well as donating their own stencil Sam told students of her life as a wool broker, and had a lot of fun teaching students tongue-twisters to get them used to the quick patter call of an auctioneer. She then used this to illustrate a whole range of careers available in agriculture. The fun continued when she introduced them to the benefits of wool craft and how recycling can be incorporated. Having only begun crocheting herself the week before her school visit, the kids were not the only ones learning!
With such a varied presentation there were bound to be plenty of questions as Sam soon discovered:
"I do know that I needed plenty of water to keep me going. There were questions on lanolin, wool prices, currency, wool types etc.I had no idea how many questions I was asked but the students most definitely took the opportunity to have a go at everything."
And apart from "Hooley Wooley" Sam is keen to keep using another phrase to challenge her students to become wool ambassadors with her:
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Home › Forums › Ask Ted › Alice Stancoil STM8 › Reply To: Alice Stancoil STM8
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Yes, the limiter is very good…. we knew something about low budget broadcasting in those days!
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Neo-romantic art song for piano and high voice (low voice key available on request). For advanced student, seasoned singer, or professional. Reflective, plaintive, and eloquent with flowing, expressive arpeggios under a soulful, sustained vocal line.
6:12, Ebm.
Key words and concepts: sand, sandpipers, ocean, tide, moon, sea, footsteps, loss.
Text is a poem written by Patricia Wellingham-Jones. Her website is http://www.wellinghamjones.com.
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Having a House is not easy. Especially if you stay in big cities. Let alone had a home, buy empty land just expensive. Even so, no easy is not it means no way has own residence while young. Not a few young people who've managed to have their own residence before marriage. The success of a brilliant career, making them finally get a feel what it's like to have their own work hard. Thus, what Benefits of investing in real estate while young?
Benefits of investing in real estate while young
Evidence Of Independent Living.
Thanks to residences owned, eventually a person should live alone. From there, the real independence can begin to form. How to keep your home clean, including so know trivial things such as when it's time to pay electricity and water bills.
Appreciate A Place To Live.
Perhaps when living with parents, more often outside to play or walk rather than staying inside the House. Probably because there is a thought "oh, there's been guarding the House" or "oh houses already clean" so appears indifferent attitude. While, as have your own House, the mind will change into a sense of respect to remember to have a residence need to have a business that is easy and inexpensive.
Yummy Felt Had Privacy Early On.
Because the House is your own, more livable by yourself, then free to do anything at home. Just casually linger, or learn to cook for the first time. All of these became pleasurable, because really so privacy.
Better Equipped To Raise Families.
A series of lessons from independent living in own residence at the end make someone become more mature. This certainly could be a capital importance, especially in shaping the character and attitudes towards family readiness. While from the material side, the presence of home, of course, be more value for any prospective wife's in-laws. Because, it became a symbol of responsibility also readiness in foster families
On the other hand, it is not always tangible House footprint. If it was considered too expensive, consider having a more suitable occupancy of economic capability. For example, by choosing an apartment located in a buffer. Its price is still lower than in big cities makes the apartment in the town of the buffer could be a long-term investment. Especially when the location is strategic and backed with ease of access.
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Trumpeter/composer Ryan Quigley, born in Derry in Northern Ireland, is a pivotal figure in Scottish jazz, but also plays in a wide range of other contexts. He releases his new album "What Doesn't Kill You" on Whirlwind Recordings on 9th September, launching a UK tour at Pizza Express Dean Street on 5th September and touring the UK with a quintet including US musicians Geoffrey Keezer and Clarence Penn until September 13th. He here explains the background to his first album as leader in eight years. This feature also has a premiere of the album video, launched today:
I recorded my debut record, Laphroag-Ian Slip, in 2008. That album did much to help propel me on to a different level, not only in the jazz world, but the music world in general – but I didn't imagine it would take me eight years to release my second record. There are many reasons for this, some professional and some personal.
Soon after my debut, I joined and subsequently toured with and wrote for Brass Jaw for a number of years, heavily collaborating on three albums. During this time, I also became more and more involved in the session music scene, which I love doing; and I've been so lucky to have worked for some amazing people, including world tours with George Michael and Robbie Williams.
In a flash, a number of years have passed, and I felt the pressing need to write my own music again. So I put a new quintet together with Paul Booth on sax, Steve Hamilton on piano (who was also on the 2008 album), Michael Janisch on bass and the great Clarence Penn on drums (who is a hero of mine and one of the greatest drummers on the planet). These musicians are amongst my favourite improvisers and I feel lucky that I got to record with them in the middle of a tour that we put together in summer 2014.
Steve Hamilton wasn't available for the upcoming tour, so I had to think long and hard about who could replace the unreplaceable. One name kept coming up in my thought process… Geoffrey Keezer. I had worked with him many years ago and loved his playing and music, and thankfully he agreed to do the tour. Geoffrey is without doubt one of the most important pianists of the last twenty years, and he emits an energy through his instrument that is unlike any pianist I've heard.
What Doesn't Kill You is the title of the new record. The reason behind the title is what I believe about the famous saying: 'I don't believe that what doesn't kill you makes you stronger'. In fact, I believe that what doesn't kill you makes you weaker or makes you, at best, more experienced. A lot has happened since that debut record – some great things and some tragedy, as everyone experiences in life. All of the experiences, good and bad, have left their mark in some way. The good have given me strength, for sure, but the bad things certainly haven't made me stronger.
One thing is for certain – when I get to play original music and create with some of the world's great musicians, it's an honour, it's humbling and it's something that gives me strength and a belief in myself that can always be drawn upon. I'm looking forward to kicking off our British Isles tour with this incredible band on the 5th of September at Pizza Express in London, and hope to see both new and familiar faces as we launch my new album.
LINK: What Doesn't Kill You at Whirwind Recordings
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My Radio Station
I listen to an eclectic mix of music and compiled here are about four hours of my all-time favorite tunes. I have carefully selected each one of these songs and their sequence. My radio station is a continuous loop and similar to over the air radio stations, you can't rewind or fast forward. It plays over and over and …
Listen carefully to each song because each one has special meaning to me. Turn off the lights and really listen to the messages and you'll learn more about me.
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It is the best of times, it is the worst of times — for science. Over the past several years, the world has been spectator to an alarming meltdown as one serious scandal after another has publicly exposed many of the world's most prestigious scientific organizations, institutions, and publications as being captives of rigid ideologues who employ rigged computer models, fraudulent "evidence," censorship, and intimidation to advance a radical "green" political agenda and to squelch genuine scientific inquiry and debate.
Some of the preeminent scientists involved in promoting global-warming alarmism have been disgraced and discredited, after being caught in flagrante in unethical and illegal activities. Even before the 2009 "Climategate" e-mail scandal, many leading scientists who had earlier been true believers in man-made global warming (anthropogenic global warming, or AGW) had begun jumping ship and joining the AGW skeptic side. Since then, the defections have turned into a veritable flood, making this one of the great untold stories of the major establishment media, which continue to trumpet the alarmist propaganda.
Two defections were particularly striking as world leaders and tens of thousands of delegates, NGO activists, and journalists gathered in Rio de Janeiro in June for the United Nations Rio+20 Conference on Sustainable Development. In an interview with the U.K. Guardian on the eve of the summit, James Lovelock, the British inventor, NASA scientist, author, and originator of the Gaia Hypothesis, mocked sustainable development as "meaningless drivel," and said the UN makes "a mess" of everything it gets involved with. In 2006, Lovelock, one of the world's most famous environmentalist gurus, asserted that due to global warming "billions of us will die and the few breeding pairs of people that survive will be in the Arctic where the climate remains tolerable." He now says his predictions were "alarmist," and he criticizes his former comrades for having turned environmentalism into a "green religion." Lovelock also endorses nuclear power and expanded development of natural gas through hydraulic fracturing, or "fracking." But his ultimate heresy is his withering rejection of so-called "renewable energy," especially wind power, as a viable replacement for carbon-based fuels.
"We rushed into renewable energy without any thought," says Lovelock. "The schemes are largely hopelessly inefficient and unpleasant." He has upset many of his erstwhile green brethren for attacking wind turbines and wind farms as "ugly and useless."
Professor Fritz Vahrenholt is another recent green heretic. A founding father of Germany's environmental movement and a director of one of Europe's largest alternative energy companies, Vahrenholt stunned the "greens" in February of this year with publication of the climate-skeptic book Die Kalte Sonne (The Cold Sun), which scorches the UN's Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) and other alarmists. Co-authored with noted geologist/paleontologist Dr. Sebastian Lüning, the book was published by one of Germany's premier book publishers and (amazingly) received hugely positive reviews in the major German media. On February 7, Germany's leading daily newspaper, Bild (16 million circulation), devoted a half page to the Vahrenholt story, under the headline: "The CO2 Lie: Renowned team of scientists claim the climate catastrophe is fear-mongering by politics." Bild followed up with a series of stories on Vahrenholt's defection and the mounting evidence of massive fraud from the climate alarmists.
Germany's flagship weekly news magazine Der Spiegel featured a four-page exclusive interview with Vahrenholt. Europe's climate-alarmism industry was shellshocked. On June 18, two days before the opening of Rio+20, Vahrenholt sent another shock, with an op-ed in Britain's Telegraph.
"For many years, I was an active supporter of the IPCC and its CO2 theory," Vahrenholt wrote in the Telegraph. "Recent experience with the UN's climate panel, however, forced me to reassess my position. In February 2010, I was invited as a reviewer for the IPCC report on renewable energy. I realised that the drafting of the report was done in anything but a scientific manner. The report was littered with errors and a member of Greenpeace edited the final version. These developments shocked me. I thought, if such things can happen in this report, then they might happen in other IPCC reports too."
Crash Goes the "Consensus"
"All agree that climate change is an existential threat to humankind," stated UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon, before the UN's 2009 Climate Change Conference in Copenhagen. "All agree"? "Existential threat"? In this statement, the chief UN bureaucrat took the false "consensus" claim a quantum leap beyond even Al Gore's lurid assertions. The Gore choir has been declaring for years that there is an overwhelming "consensus" among scientists that catastrophic AGW is real and imminent. According to Ban Ki-moon, we've gone beyond consensus to unanimity, and not just among scientists but "all," presumably meaning every person on Earth agrees that global warming is a dire threat to humanity's very existence. That, of course, is nonsense.
However, while Ban's unanimity plea is easily recognizable as patently ridiculous, the consensus claim has bamboozled a great many people, including scientists who should know better. Aside from the fact that science is not determined by consensus, but by observation, experimentation, and measurement, the truth is that the AGW "consensus" involves a relatively small coterie of climate scientists who have been placed in key gatekeeper positions, enabling them to co-opt the claim of "scientific consensus" on AGW, while squashing dissenting voices and branding all dissenters as "cranks," "outliers," or, even, "deniers." The use of the "denier" label is an especially odious tactic, intentionally aimed at smearing fellow scientists who dissent from AGW theory as equivalent to Holocaust deniers. The Climategate e-mails showed top climate activists at major universities and other institutions conspiring to punish scientists with opposing viewpoints and to prevent them from being published in the scientific literature. It also showed that they were going to great lengths to doctor their evidence to make it "prove" their preordained outcomes. What's more, they have refused to make their data publicly available to scientific peers for independent review — as genuine scientific procedure demands — and when pressed on the issue, have claimed that the evidence has been "lost." Some of the top names in climate alarmism — Michael Mann, Phil Jones, Kevin Trenberth, Rajendra Pachauri, Stephan Ramsdorf, James Hansen, Peter Gleick — demonstrated repeatedly that they are engaged in abusing science for a global political agenda.
The AGW consensus scam is one of the most astounding frauds in all of history, not only because it is patently false, but also because it is being used to propel the most sweeping and authoritarian scheme for global economic, social, and political regimentation the world has ever seen. This is not merely a theoretical scientific debate; the alleged "science" is being used to drive policy and legislation — at a global level. The policies they have already succeeded in imposing have caused devastating impacts, especially on the world's poorest populations. The additional policies they propose would cause even more horrendous results. The AGW alarmists insist that "science has spoken," and it is telling us, they say, that we must subject ourselves to UN-mandated global governance — which is to be determined, of course, by scientists who toe the UN-approved, IPCC-certified party line....
A large number of noted climatologists, paleoclimatologists, meteorologists, atmospheric physicists, geophysicists, oceanographers, geologists, and scientists in virtually every field has been challenging the claims of the UN's IPCC and vigorously denouncing the politicization of IPCC "science" to promote costly and draconian global policies. Some of the IPCC's most severe critics are scientists who have served as lead authors and expert reviewers of IPCC reports and have witnessed from the inside the blatant bias and politics masquerading as science. Former and current IPCC experts who have spoken out against the IPCC's abuse of science include such prominent scientists as:
Dr. Richard Lindzen, MIT climate physicist and Alfred P. Sloan Professor of meteorology, Dept. of Earth, Atmospheric and Planetary Sciences;
Dr. John Christy, a climatologist of the University of Alabama in Huntsville and NASA;
Dr. Lee C. Gerhard, past director and state geologist with the Kansas Geological Society and a senior scientist emeritus of the University of Kansas;
Dr. Patrick J. Michaels, former Virginia State climatologist, a UN IPCC reviewer, and University of Virginia professor of environmental sciences;
Dr. Vincent Gray, New Zealand chemist and climate researcher;
Dr. Tom V. Segalstad, geologist/geochemist, head of the Geological Museum in Norway;
Dr. John T. Everett, a former National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) senior manager and project manager for the UN Atlas of the Oceans.
The above-mentioned IPCC experts represent only a tiny subset of the scientists involved in the climate debate who take serious issue with the alarmist claims. More than 31,000 scientists in the United States have signed a petition urging the U.S. government to reject the kinds of AGW policies proposed by the UN and environmental extremists. The Petition Project, organized by Dr. Arthur Robinson of the Oregon Institute of Science and Medicine and Dr. Frederick Seitz, past president of the National Academy of Sciences, refutes claims that there is any kind of "consensus" regarding man-made global warming as a crisis or existential threat. The petition reads, in part:
The proposed limits on greenhouse gases would harm the environment, hinder the advance of science and technology, and damage the health and welfare of mankind. There is no convincing scientific evidence that human release of carbon dioxide, methane, or other greenhouse gasses is causing or will, in the foreseeable future, cause catastrophic heating of the Earth's atmosphere and disruption of the Earth's climate.
More than 1,000 internationally renowned scientists have gone further; they have not merely signed a petition, but have made public statements challenging key claims of the AGW alarmists. Published in 2010, in a report by Marc Morano of ClimateDepot.com, this important collection of statements is an update of a similar report of 700 scientists' statements published by Senator James Inhofe of the U.S. Senate Environment & Public Works Committee. The 1,000+ lineup of scientists reads like a Who's Who of the global scientific community. It includes:
Dr. William Happer, Cyrus Fogg Bracket professor of physics, Princeton University;
Dr. Leonard Weinstein, 35 years at the NASA Langley Research Center and presently a senior research fellow at the National Institute of Aerospace;
Nobel Prize-winning Stanford University physicist Dr. Robert B. Laughlin, formerly a research scientist at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory;
Dr. Anatoly Levitin, the head of the geomagnetic variations laboratory at the Institute of Terrestrial Magnetism, Ionosphere and Radiowave Propagation of the Russian Academy of Sciences;
Swedish climatologist Dr. Hans Jelbring of the Paleogeophysics & Geodynamics Unit at Stockholm University;
Burt Rutan, renowned engineer, inventor, and aviation/space pioneer;
Dr. Willie Soon, Harvard-Smithsonian Center astrophysicist;
Dr. Syun-Ichi Akasofu, emeritus professor of physics, and Founding Director, International Arctic Research Center of the University of Alaska Fairbanks;
Dr. Bjarne Andresen, physicist, and professor, The Niels Bohr Institute, University of Copenhagen, Denmark;
Dr. Ian D. Clark, Professor, isotope hydrogeology and paleoclimatology, University of Ottawa, Canada.
Fifty-three authors and five reviewers are all that might generously be said to have explicitly supported the claim of a significant human influence on climate. Forget any notion that 4,000 scientists supported the claim or even the 3750+ people as mentioned by the IPCC. Also forget any notion that all 2890 individuals who were authors, reviewers or both supported the claim. The only explicit evidence is for support from just less than 60 individuals.
Please note, the number of scientists in the IPCC report that the organization may honestly be able to say have endorsed the IPCC's AGW catastrophism, is more on the order of 50-60 individuals, not 4,000. That is a very significant discrepancy, to say the least! It has taken a long time for the thousands of AGW skeptics (or "climate realists," as many prefer to be called) to come to the fore. Why is that? Astrophysicist Dr. Nir Shaviv of the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, a former AGW believer himself, says most scientists are so busy in their own specialties that, like most laymen, they don't consider that the "consensus" may be completely contrived. But that has changed, he says. "Each one of us was working in his or her own niche," says Shaviv. "While working there, each one of us realized that things just don't add up to support the AGW picture. So many had to change their views."
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The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) has yet again been caught exaggerating 'global warming' by fiddling with the raw temperature data.
This time, that data concerns the recent record-breaking cold across the northeastern U.S. which NOAA is trying to erase from history.
If you believe NOAA's charts, there was nothing particularly unusual about this winter's cold weather which caused sharks to freeze in the ocean and iguanas to drop out of trees.
That's because, as Paul Homewood has discovered, NOAA has been cooking the books. Yet again - presumably for reasons more to do with ideology than meteorology - NOAA has adjusted past temperatures to look colder than they were and recent temperatures to look warmer than they were.
We're not talking fractions of a degree, here. The adjustments amount to a whopping 3.1 degrees F. This takes us well beyond the regions of error margins or innocent mistakes and deep into the realm of fiction and political propaganda. https://www.sott.net/article/378122-NOAA-attempts-to-erase-record-b...
Thanks, Planet Twelve. Misinformation or disinformation, either way Lord Monckton is pushing something other than the whole truth about "global warming" and/or "climate change." Apparently anything is better than the common man learning "global warming" was specifically designed to cover up/explain away the effects of Planet X. The Zetas were onto the "global warming" hoax in 1996.
The fact that ZetaTalk accuracy extends back 17 years is rather conveniently ignored by the (paid) professional and (attention seeking) amateur debunkers. The debunkers continue to concentrate on details they mistakenly assume the public cares about while ignoring the big picture and all of the evidence Planet X has been messing up the neighborhood since at least 2003.
ZetaTalk: Cataclysm Masks (Note: Written June 15, 1996)
In an effort to avoid admitting that the cataclysms are approaching, the establishment throws out alternative explanations.
What Lord Monckton claims is the reason for "global warming" is still not the truth! He would have to admit that "global warming" was designed to cover up the truth about Planet X to not be just adding more disinfo to the pile.
Lord Christopher Monckton, chief policy advisor to the Science and Public Policy Institute and former science advisor to Margaret Thatcher, tells The New American from Rio that the just-concluded Rio+20 conference was not about saving the planet or eradicating poverty, but about shackling the plant under global government. He also optimistically stresses that the "pointy heads here in Rio" have failed despite their declaration of success and that "the game is up."
Tens of Billions of dollars spent on supporting the Global Warming Lies.
Thousands of Scientists saying they do not agree with the findings, and have been silenced for so long.
Governments like the Australian government rolling out their new "Carbon Tax" so they can extort even more from the masses. The cover up artists should be concerned, as the more the tide of consciousness grows to the facts as presented here and on www.zetatalk.com the less authority they will have, and that will be a time when we can begin in earnest to help one another prepare for the coming Poleshift.
I for one hope that this man Koh-Ichiro Morita did not die for nothing, time for the Astronomers to come clean about PlanetX.
as per http://poleshift.ning.com/profiles/blogs/7-of-10-status-as-of-may-1...
But the gloves have come off with the recent assassination of a Japanese astronomer working on the Atacama Large Millimeter Arrays
(ALMA) radio telescopes in Chile. In a highly suspicious assault, where the police did not even note a head injury, Koh-Ichiro Morita was pronounced dead 6 hours after being taken to the hospital. Per the Zetas, this was a loud warning to any other who might be inclined to break the long-standing cover-up over the presence of Planet X in the inner solar system. Per the Zetas, Morita declined protection from the Council of Worlds, choosing instead to become a martyr in the cover-up wars.
Japanese Astronomer Found Dead in Chile
May 8, 2012
Koh-Ichiro Morita was found still alive outside his apartment at around 2 am morning reportedly with an injury to the head. He died nearly six hours later at a nearby hospital. Investigators have not yet determined the cause of death. Local reports indicated Morita did not have visible injuries, though a medical report supposedly mentioned a brain injury. Morita worked the past two years at the Santiago headquarters for the Atacama Large Millimeter Array (ALMA) in Chile's northern Atacama Desert.
ZetaTalk Expose 5/12/2012:
Lately the cover-up has gotten vicious and forceful, as they sense they are about to lose the battle. Morita was one member of the community who was restless, and did not like being ordered into silence on a matter so vital to the inhabitants of planet Earth. His death was sent as a message to others of like mind. The battle over the cover-up is becoming more polarized. Morita's death has been announced as brain damage from a blow to the head, but as news articles show, this was not evident when he was found, unconscious, nor is it logical that he would be in hospital for 6 hours yet not be saved. The skull is opened to relieve pressure if bleeding is present. He was slipped a poison, ingested prior to returning home, where he collapsed before getting to his apartment. This was not enough to kill him, a botched job, so he was finished off in hospital.
Thanks to you Bill for posting such an important blog


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So the folks over at Independent Security Evaluators claim to have found a remote iPhone exploit. Evidently this is big news as it has already garned an article in the New York Times (talk about media whoreing) and been granted a coveted speaking spot at the Blackhat Security Briefings early next month. Must be a pretty bad spl0it to get all this attention, right? Doesn't sound like it, more like they were just the first folks to find a decent sized hole.
Sure there have been other holes found, like figureing out how to change the color of your charging battery from green to neon pink or bright blue, or managing to hack in a custom ringtone or the big one of being able to bypass the AT&T activation but still be able to use the phone. These are all kind of rinky dink holes though, nothing that puts your personal data at risk. This new hole claims to do just that.
According to the folks at Independent Security Evaluators thier proof of concept code can read the log of SMS messages, the address book, the call history, and the voicemail data. Pretty damning stuff to be sure. So why is this not a big deal?
First of all the delivery method is little convoluted and requires some social engineering to convince the user to visit a compromised web page or to use an untrusted wireless network. These are the same attack vectors that plaque laptops and other PDAs, nothing new here. What is new is that this effects an iPhone, that is why it is getting the press. I also suspect that this will be pretty trivial to fix. From the details that have been released so far I suspect that just by altering iPhone's Safari to prompt the user when downloading and running applications should do the trick.
So basically continue safe computing practices, don't be complacent and don't put to much trust in your devices and you'll be fine. Vulnerabilities that require user interaction like this one aren't what you should be worrying about, attacks that compromise entire cell sites and infrastructure like the one that hit the Greece Olympics or the hack that hit Paris Hilton are what should be keeping you awake at night.


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The use of Pilsner as a beer in weight loss is more than just a fad. Not only is this beer a great way to make your own beverage, but it also offers plenty of health benefits. By combining these two elements, you can enjoy a great tasting beverage and reap the rewards of better health. Here are a few reasons why you should be considering the use of Pils as part of your weight loss program.
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The history of beer can be traced back a long time, and it's a great place to start when you're trying to learn about how the industry started. The foundations of this industry can be traced back to the Medieval times, and it wasn't until the industrial revolution that it really took off. The idea of brewing was first used as a way to serve the soldiers, and then it became a profitable enterprise.
For a while, they made do with barley, but by the late 1800s, they were getting their hands on wheat, which was easier to process and to produce. This enabled them to offer what we know today as a wheat beer. This helped pave the way for the rise of the light lager.
If you were looking for something that is higher in calories than a beer, this beer would be perfect. It has a higher alcohol content than a light beer, but it also has more calories per serving. When you drink Pils to lose weight, you're really helping yourself and your body.
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If God sees that the intellect has entirely submitted to Him and puts its hope in Him alone, He strengthens it, saying: 'Have no fear Jacob my son, my little Israel' (Isa. 41:14), and: 'Have no fear: for I have delivered you, I have called you by My name; you are Mine. If you pass through water, I shall be with you, and the rivers will not drown you. If you go through fire, you will not be burnt, and the flames will not consume you. For I am the Lord your God, the Holy One of Israel, who saves you' (cf. Isa. 43:1-3).
When the intellect hears these words of reassurance, it says boldly to its enemies: 'Who would fight with me? Let him stand against me. And who would accuse me? Let him draw near to me. Behold, the Lord is my helper; who will harm me? Behold, all of you are like an old moth-eaten garment' (cf. Isa. 50:8-9).
If your heart comes to feel a natural hatred for sin, it has defeated the causes of sin and freed itself from them.
Keep hell's torments in mind; but know that your Helper is at hand. Do nothing that will grieve Him, but say to Him with tears: 'Be merciful and deliver me, 0 Lord, for without Thy help I cannot escape from the hands of my enemies.' Be attentive to your heart, and He will guard you from all evil.
You should shut all the gates of your soul, that is, the senses, so that you are not lured astray. When the intellect sees that it is not dominated by anything, it prepares itself for immortality, gathering its senses together and forming them into one body.
If your intellect is freed from all hope in things visible, this is a sign that sin has died in you. If your intellect is freed, the breach between it and God is eliminated. This is how to overcome sin.
Based on Saint Isaiah the Solitary, Prophet Isaiah
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Understanding how sea level rise will affect San Mateo County residents, businesses, and the community services and infrastructure we all rely on is the first and most crucial step in building prepared, healthy and safe communities. The San Mateo County Sea Level Rise Vulnerability Assessment aims to do just that.
Assessment Goals
Map Assets and Future Risk Scenarios
Assess Vulnerability
Provide Actionable Results
Build Awareness
Facilitate Collaboration
Places at Risk
Places at Risk
Our networked infrastructure, which contains roads and highways, electric substations, and wastewater treatment plants that are essential to day-to-day community and economic functions and complex grid of services mean that sea level rise could affect us all. For example, a flooded highway, wastewater treatment plant or electrical substation could temporarily shut-down businesses, close roads and lead to many community wide disruptions. By working together, we can protect our community's many assets, including neighborhoods, businesses, parks and beaches – places we all love.
Explore this section to better understand the risks across the entire Bayshore and the Coastside from Daly City through Half Moon Bay (not including south of Half Moon Bay) from a 1% annual chance storm plus 3.3 feet of additional sea level rise.
|Future Erosion*
|Mid Level Scenario**
|Electric Substation
|Wastewater Treatment Plant
* Erosion impacts are estimated with 4.6 feet of sea level rise, but modeling does not consider shoreline armoring
** Estimated impacts are based on 1% annual chance storm or 1 in 100 chance of a storm occurring in any given year, plus additional 3.3 feet of sea level rise.
Read more about how sea level rise could affect our different sectors and networked infrastructure in the County. Estimated impacts are based on a 1% annual chance storm, plus additional 3.3 feet of sea level rise (mid-level scenario).
27% of electric substations, 32% of transmission towers, and 67% of power plants could be exposed to flooding leading to community-wide disruption.
6% of rail stations (BART and Caltrain stations), 20% of County highways (Highway 101, State Route 92, State Route 1) and local roadways, and the SFO and San Carlos airports and Port of Redwood City could be at risk from flood damage.
Read more about the potential impacts and solutions for Transportation infrastructure and facilities in San Mateo County:
66% of parks, 85% of wetlands, and all our beaches could be lost to temporary or permanent flooding.
Read more about the potential impacts and solutions for Recreational and Natural places in San Mateo County:
80% of existing levees, berms, and other shoreline features could be exposed.
Read more about the potential impacts and solutions for Flood Protection Infrastructure in San Mateo County:
54% of wastewater pump stations and 63% of wastewater treatment plants could be exposed.
Read more about the potential impacts and solutions for Wastewater Systems in San Mateo County:
22% of storm drains, 63% of stormwater pump stations, and 49% of outfalls could be exposed to flooding.
13% of schools, 13% of emergency health care facilities, 12% emergency shelter sites, and 18% of police stations could be exposed to flooding.
Read more about the potential impacts and solutions for Community Services and Critical Facilities in San Mateo County:
13% of closed landfills and solid waste facilities could be exposed to flooding.
Read more about the potential impacts and solutions for Closed Landfills and Solid Waste Facilities /in San Mateo County:
People at Risk
People at Risk
Our built environment, which offers housing, transportation, and community services, and the biodiversity of our natural and recreational spaces, wetlands, beaches and forests contribute richly to our quality of life. They enhance our physical and mental wellbeing, and are a central part of what makes San Mateo County such a wonderful place to live, work, and learn. Our community needs to work together to ensure that we continue to be mentally and physically healthy.
We support mental health and prevent social and economic disruption by protecting our homes, infrastructure, businesses and community services. These enable us to work, access support systems, and meaningfully engage with our neighbors and communities. Avoiding disruption and displacement also reduces risks of stress, depression, suicide, and chronic illness.
We promote physical health and wellness by ensuring access to medical services and recreational areas, and by staving off post-flood related health hazards. Planning ahead can limit instances of trauma, drowning, carbon monoxide poisoning, mold-induced respiratory problems, water-borne diseases, and food-borne illnesses caused by food contamination and spoiled perishables.
Acting now will protect the livelihoods, health and wellness of over 100,000 people. We can make a difference by handling problems before they get worse, especially for those who have limited resources to prepare and recover including our children, elderly, lower income residents, and those who face unstable housing conditions and with limited access to vehicles. Taking action now is essential to the quality of life our entire community and in the best interest of our future generations.
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What Really Earns Loyalty in the Local Business World?
The author's views are entirely their own (excluding the unlikely event of hypnosis) and may not always reflect the views of Moz.
St. Valentine's Day is on the way, and I've been thinking about love and loyalty as they apply in the local business world. It's been estimated that it costs 7x more to acquire a customer than to retain one; in my city, most of the major chains offer some type of traditional customer loyalty program. Most rely on a points-based system or an initial sign-up investment to receive benefits, but I wondered about Main Street.
I picked 15 locally owned businesses at random to see if they had created loyalty programs, and then I checked Google and Yelp to see if any of these programs had been inspiring enough to generate mentions in reviews (the most obvious online signs of devotion or dismay) in the past year. Here's what I found:
|Business Model
|Loyalty Program
|Mentions in Reviews
|Toy store
|$10 coupon for every $200 spent; $5 birthday card gift; teacher discount
|1 mention
|Grocery store
|Grocery purchasing card that donates to local schools
|0 mentions
|Video store
|Rent 12 videos, get 1 free
|0 mentions
|Craft store
|Senior Tuesday 10% discount; birthday discount of 20%
|0 mentions
|Hardware store
|No program
|Purchase $25 rewards card and get 10% off of purchases for 1 year
|1 mention
|Complimentary birthday or anniversary dessert
|0 mentions
|No program
|Get 10 stamps for beverage purchase and get a free drink
|2 mentions
|Clothing boutique
|No program
|Kitchen store
|No program
|Bike shop
|Spend $6,000 and receive free flat repair, swag, free event entry, and more
|0 mentions
|Hair salon
|Get 7 cuts and receive ½ off on merchandise
|0 mentions
|No program
|Pet supply
|Buy $5 card, get 5% off of merchandise for the year
|2 mentions
At a glance, 2/3 of the independently owned businesses in this city have created loyalty programs, and in the last year, there were 6 total mentions of these benefits in all of the reviews earned by the 10 businesses offering these programs. Of course, this doesn't mean that more customers aren't participating in these programs, but it does seem to indicate that the majority of customers feel positive about a business for reasons other than official loyalty programs, at least in my small study.
So, what does foster loyalty? In the reviews I looked at, nearly all happy customers referenced either a specific great experience or an ongoing positive aspect of the business. These memories, if impressive enough, are what drive good reviews and help customers to remember to return for further good experiences. Then there's the flip side — experiences so negative that they can drive a customer away forever.
Given the high cost of acquiring new customers vs. retaining existing ones, I'm going to document here 5 personal experiences with local businesses that made me vow never to return, and then I'll follow that up with 5 excellent experiences that not only merited a great review from me, but have also lead to multiple transactions over the years. It's my hope that these personal mini case studies will give local business owners and local SEOs a glimpse into the mind of one unbiased consumer, and that the findings will be widely applicable to most business models.
Bad business
|The bad experience
|What could have made it better?
Lack of empathy
Worms in the rice bin of the bulk section of the local grocery store! Yuck! Reply from the store clerk? A very bored "Oh." No apology, no offer to get a manager. Not even an, "Eww!" of shared feeling.
I've never bought bulk from them again.
Show me you care
The wormy rice grocery store clerk could have mirrored my dismay and gotten a manager over immediately to explain how the merchandise had gotten bugs in it, and have let me seen them removing the bin before I left the store.
Staff not only need to be treated empathetically by employers, but need to be trained to share that culture of empathy when confronted with customer complaints.
Lack of training
Shopping for an exercise bike at the local sporting goods store, I was pleased to find floor models you could try out. Unfortunately, none of the staff knew how to turn the bikes on. They all stood there scratching their heads and saying, "I dunno. Maybe there's a key or something."
Needless to say, a transaction never happened.
Show me you're trained
Staff could have phoned the owner to ask how to operate their bikes, or at least have taken my name and number to have the owner invite me back for a personal demo.
Owner could have assured me he was scheduling a staff-wide training session to ensure I'd have a better experience next time.
Lack of management
In the midst of a family emergency in a rural area, I needed lodging pronto. What I found was a room filled with dead bugs, inch-thick dust, and a fridge festooned with green mold. Owner response? His housekeeper was having "emotional problems" and he guessed he ought to check up on the place from time to time. Ya think?
Had to scramble for another place to stay in the next town, which was the last thing I needed to be doing that day.
Show me you're on top of things
This couldn't be fixed on the spot because the owner had let things slip for too long. He might have offered to help me find another place to stay, given me some local coupons, or done something to express his regret.
Any business owner who isn't overseeing his own business lacks the necessary commitment to succeed.
Lack of quality
My community has a hate-hate relationship with the only local fabric store franchise, attested by a volume of negative reviews. The place is an absolute mess and basic, high-quality fabrics are almost always lacking. The inventory is cheap and disorganized.
I'll drive for hours to shop elsewhere, or shop online. This chain is my very last resort of desperation, because I know I'll be disappointed and feel unhappy if I go there.
Show me you're responsive
Read the bad reviews and then poll the customers to find out what local sewing enthusiasts would love to see stocked in the inventory. And keep the store clean at all times!
Playing the monopoly card because you're the only game in town is not going to win loyalty. Should a more responsive competitor open its doors, the existing chain could see its customers leave in droves.
Lack of accountability
When the electronics franchise in my area sold me an external hard drive that blew out my computer, I expected... something. Maybe an apology? Maybe a free fix-it service? I got neither.
Instead, I got a condescending speech from a manager explaining that he wasn't responsible for the products he sold. If I wanted to pay his tech team for diagnosis, they'd get back to me in a week to tell me how much more it would cost to fix my computer. I haven't trusted the company since.
Show me you're responsible
Instead of rudeness, the manager could have mirrored the horror I was feeling about my computer, offered free overnight diagnosis, and demonstrated that corporate policy stood both behind the products sold and behind me — the customer!
Any business policy that fails to recognize that customers are the lifeblood of existence is exposing a glaring weakness, and a competitor with a genuine plan to win customer loyalty can make that weakness work for them.
Good business
Now, for the good stuff! These experiences were impressive enough to make it into my permanent memory bank, and moreover, have been the foundation of repeat transactions. Here's a chance to consider whether your customers are having similar positive experiences when doing business with your company.
|Great job!
|Why does it work?
Superior selection
Twice a month, I take a 3-hour trip to shop at an independent market that offers a selection of produce and groceries with which the local natural food chain can't even compete. The food has a clear emphasis on local sourcing, is clearly labeled with its farm or origin, is fresher, and — a major biggie for me — is 100% organic.
Markets nearer to me simply don't have this superior quality, aren't 100% organic, and often carelessly mislabeled products.
Proven quality
You'll notice I didn't say I shop there because it's cheap. Quality matters more to me than anything when it comes to the food I purchase, so I'll go a country mile and to some expense to get the best I can afford. This can be applied to any product lineup when the customer base is looking for the best.
You can go the extra mile, as well, to explain why your products/services are superior to other offerings. Educate customers and then let them experience the difference.
Superior staff
My favorite plant nursery is owned by a family that knows absolutely everything there is to know about gardening. They've got an amazing library of horticultural books, too, and often look up unusual plants for me, sharing their knowledge and their delight in all things green.
I value their expertise, and make my major annual purchase of vegetable starts from this nursery each spring, knowing every question I have will receive a helpful answer.
Proven training
Everyone who works at this business either knows the answers to my questions or knows how to get those answers for me. You may not need a staff of wizards, but the infrastructure needs to be there so that every employee knows who to ask when they don't know the answer to a product or service question.
Your investment in employee training — in educating the people who represent your business — is priceless.
Superior convenience
My family may be in the minority, but we only own one car. And when that car gets worked on, we've had oodles of fun sitting for 4 hours on a hard bench in a dirty parking lot in 101 degree weather, waiting to get back on the road.
But one local automotive chain has started offering courtesy cars — you can believe we're going for that!
Proven support
It's the sensitive business that implements policies that make life a little easier for customers at times of inconvenience. Maybe that means offering water in a lobby, shortening check-out lines, or narrowing service window timeframes to limit long waits.
Put yourself in the customer's shoes in a not-fun situation and ask if there's anything that would make it a bit easier. Offer that support.
Superior atmosphere
Are there places you hate to shop? That dark cave, or hulking warehouse, or total zoo! You feel lousy and tired being there. You'd rather be anywhere else.
Remember the fabric store, mentioned above? In contrast, there's a small quilt shop in town that I can go to for some of the things I need, and the soft lighting, soft carpets, and beautiful organization of the merchandise make shopping there a treat and a pleasure. I shop there whenever I possibly can.
Proven welcome
Cleanliness, organization, a user-friendly floor plan, and visual appeal are conducive not just to one-time purchases but to return visits to enjoy the welcoming vibes of a place.
Volumes have been written about trapping customers in "mazes" to make them purchase more. Sadly, it works, but do you feel you'll win more loyalty and better reviews from customers who feel trapped or customers who feel welcomed?
Superior individuality
Big brands have their place, but it's at the locally-owned business that customers are likely to have the most unique shopping experiences. From the first time I visited one of the many farm stands in the area in which I live, I was delighted with their rustic tin shed, befriended by their down-to-earth staff, and touched that they often threw something extra into my shopping bag — an apple, a bunch of thyme, a variety of melon I'd never tried.
The upshot: I shop there once a week, every week of the year.
Proven creativity
Big box stores may be here to stay, but Main Street is still fighting. The big box is not going to give you a free lettuce, or lend you an umbrella when it rains, or tell you to pay them next time when their power goes down. It's not in their corporate policy to do those things.
Your locally-owned business gets to react to spur-of-the moment customer needs, creatively customize shopping experiences, and put a genuine human face on transactions. With a unique approach, you can become a cherished local institution.
Making a local business policy
For independently-owned businesses, official loyalty programs can offer an extra reason for customers to return to you, but the findings of my little research project indicate that they are not the core catalyst of great reviews or repeat business.
As a local business owner, you have the necessary freedom for making a particular culture, rather than a program, your official policy. So much of this comes down to basic acts of thoughtfulness: matching product/service quality to customer needs, running a well-cared-for ship that puts customers in the mood to buy, and training staff not just to answer questions but to use their own talents to provide creative solutions at the spur-of-the-moment. Sometimes, it's the smallest thing that can make a memory and gain consumer loyalty — something as small as offering genuine thanks for doing business, or genuine empathy when a customer is disappointed. While looking at reviews, I couldn't help noticing the repeat use of the word "love."
"I love their selection!"
"I love how helpful they are!"
"I love their bagels!"
Can you think of any other word with a more promising ring of loyalty?
Humans are generally loyal to family and friends because of the ties that bind, stitched with countless memories of important shared experiences. With business, it's different. I'm not intrinsically bound to any company — not until they've created enough of a good impression to make it into my permanent memory bank, reminding me to "please, come again." And a bad enough experience stays imprinted on my mind for a very long time, too. Like the elephant, I never forget.
What will your local business be doing in 2016 to go above and beyond? To go from just doing business to doing it memorably well? Please, share your plans to inspire our community!


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Why did you choose graduate school at IUPUI?
The Lilly Family School of Philanthropy offers the best program in Philanthropic Studies, and I knew it would set me up for success in the nonprofit sector. Plus, the location in downtown Indianapolis, on the IUPUI campus made the choice so easy for me!
What has been your favorite academic accomplishment since you've been here?
I have loved being able to apply what I'm learning in the classroom directly towards what I'm doing in my internships and work. Sometimes, it's a unique perspective I can bring to the table at a committee meeting, and once, I had a work assignment to write a particular kind of solicitation letter – and I had just written one for a class the week before – so I could literally use my homework assignment in my work environment. How cool is that?
What do you enjoy most about life in Indianapolis?
I love the mix of urban and natural life around downtown – the canal and green space right next to cool restaurants and major buildings. I'm always discovering something new here!
Please provide some details about your work/research as a graduate student and/or any activities you are involved in.
My first year, I was a Graduate Assistant at the St. Vincent Foundation, which serves a major hospital system in Indiana. I worked directly with supervisors to plan presentations, prepare solicitation letters, and coordinate details for major events.
Over the summer, I had an internship with Gleaners Food Bank, and I got to create a fundraising program for them to help reach lower- and mid-level donors more effectively. I got to treat that experience like an experiment, trying different ways to engage donors (from phone calls, postcards, and event invitations) to see which people preferred, and which strategy raised more money.
This year, my Graduate Assistantship is with The Fund Raising School, which is the top provider of professional development for professional fundraisers – and they're housed at IUPUI in the Lilly Family School of Philanthropy, too! I am doing marketing work for them, managing their social media presence, designing their annual course directory, and finding new ways for them to reach more prospective students.
The School also helped me find a work-study position before I came to campus, and I ended up working for Lake Institute on Faith & Giving, which researches and provides professional development for religious leaders about fundraising. They're also housed on campus with the IU Lilly Family School of Philanthropy. Over the last two years, I've been doing administrative and marketing work for them, which has been really fun. All of these experiences have made me so much more prepared for post-grad life!


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I sincerely believe that it is better to give than receive.
Don't get me wrong, I definitely enjoy an unexpected surprise, but for true soul fulfillment nothing beats delighting others.
Many people think of delight as a feeling you derive from something else. You take delight in visiting the beach or being with your grandchildren. If someone asks you to lunch, you might be delighted to join them. When your heart is filled with joy, your life is filled with delight.
However, delight doesn't always have to be about receiving. It can be about giving as well. Instead of always being on the taking end go out and delight others instead.
Think about what you can do to brighten the day of the people you meet.
I'm not necessarily talking about doing things for people – though an unsuspected favor could be quite delightful. I'm talking about how you present yourself to the world and how you share your external emotions. It's about being delightful.
When someone asks me about my day, I don't provide them with a laundry list of daily grievances. Instead, I try to be delightful and surprise people with a sunny demeanor. Try it sometime! I promise you they'll respond in kind. That level of positivity is contagious, and attracts others to your outlook. Think of that good friend who always makes you smile and laugh whenever you are together. That person is a delight to be around. Be like her. Exude joy with everything you do.
I seek to delight those around me.
I make it my goal to go that extra mile for my clients and customers. I want them to be happy, not just in the work I do, but in their everyday interactions. I know it can be a struggle sometimes, but try to show courtesy to your co-workers and associates even when you don't think they deserve it. Stick to the higher ground and be gracious.
I make a point to be present in the moment and truly listen to what others have to say.
It can be an effort sometime to keep my attention focused, but much wisdom can be gained through listening to what others have to say. Laugh at a funny joke or express sympathy after a sad story. Ask questions or give advice when appropriate. A lot of people just want to be heard. Let them know you are there.
I've learned not to conceal my inner self. Instead I've begun to smile from my heart and show people the true, authentic me. I warmly recommend you do the same. People take delight in knowing the real you, and not just a false image you project in public. Let down your guard and worry less about what others think.
I'm gaining comfort with myself and carry my head held high with assurance. Confidence breeds even more confidence – not just for yourself but for others as well. During times of uncertainty, many seek a leader who knows what she is doing. By staying positive you become that ray of light in the middle of the dark storm. Your delightfulness brings them comfort in an otherwise difficult time.
I invite you to share your delights with others.
Soak in the wonders of the world and bask in the thrill of new experiences. Inspire others to do the same. Delight your children or grandchildren with wonderful life stories and encourage them to follow their own joy. Delight those around you and you will live a delightful life.
*As previously published in the July issue of Soulwoman eMagazine. You can download the current issue of Soulwoman eMagazine at http://soulwomansanctuary.com/emagazine


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Another treatment option for genital warts
I have had warts for about fifteen years and I usually have them frozen, but I have heard there is a cream out now. Have you heard this and do you know anything about it?
— chilled out
Dear chilled out,
You heard correctly. Imiquimod (brand name Aldara) is a prescription medicated cream that can be used to treat external genital warts caused by the human papillomavirus (HPV). Imiquimod is an immune response modifier, which means that not only does it clear the warts; it also stimulates the body's immunity against HPV.
Traditional treatments for genital warts have focused on the physical removal of the warts themselves through cryosurgery (freezing), lasers, or use of certain chemicals. These procedures take place in hospitals or health care providers' offices. Imiquimod cream, prescribed by a health care provider, can be used at home by an individual. The medication needs to be applied to the warts three times a week at bedtime and then washed off each morning, for up to four months. It's important to know that imiquimod cannot be used internally (e.g., inside the vagina or anus), and that sexual activity is not recommended when the cream is on — so people need to apply it after having sex.
Half of the people using the cream in studies reported that their warts completely disappeared within four months, and most people stayed wart-free for as long as three months after treatment. Some who used the cream reported skin irritation (such as redness, inflammation, itching, burning, and scaling), but these were mostly mild to moderate cases.
Another at-home treatment available by prescription is podofilox gel (brand name Condylox). Podofilox is applied in the morning and at night for three days, followed by a four day rest period. Then, if the warts are still present, the cycle can be repeated. People using podofilox should refrain from having sex for the duration of the treatment, and, like imiquimod, the gel cannot be used internally.
Remember that imiquimod and podofliox are treatments, not cures. Although warts may develop while being treated, these medications provide more options for people with genital warts to help manage the infection. Even if warts are not visible, people with genital warts, and people who do not want to get genital warts, would be wise to use safer sex strategies or techniques to prevent transmission. Using condoms, for example, can help decrease the chances of getting a skin-to-skin contracted sexually transmitted infection (STI), such as genital warts or herpes.
If you are thinking about trying imiquimod or podofilox, you can see your health care provider to discuss which treatment method will work best for you.
Way to keep an ear out for new developments in HPV treatment,
Originally published Jan 25, 2002
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