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Rice Says Israeli-Palestinian Coordination Key to Gaza Disengagement
Successful Israeli disengagement seen as "foundation" for future efforts
Peaceful Israeli disengagement from Gaza could provide a "foundation" for future steps toward Middle East peace, Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice told reporters June 17.
In a June 17 airborne press briefing as she traveled to begin meetings June 18 with Israeli and Palestinian leaders, Rice said she would focus on coordination between the two sides leading up to the planned evacuation in August by Israel of 21 settlements in Gaza and four settlements in the West Bank. "Our goal has been to make sure that they're doing their planning together, in a way that everybody knows what their responsibilities will be at that time," Rice said.
Rice said to be successful, the Israeli withdrawal must be peaceful and leave, in its aftermath, a situation where the Palestinians are able "to establish authority and to begin to govern, where there is some hope for the Palestinian people in terms of economic development, where the Palestinian institutions are left in better shape after the Gaza withdrawal and therefore begin to built the institutions of statehood, that the successful conclusion of both conditions will lead to greater confidence between the parties, greater trust between the parties and, I believe, an accelerated progress on the roadmap" for Middle East peace."
Leading to the August disengagement, Rice said Palestinian leaders have made progress in the unification of security forces "into a manageable number of forces that can be trained and can act professionally.
But, Rice added, "more could be done" by the Palestinians "in terms of their ability to fight terror and what they do on a day-to-day basis. Rice said previous discussions have dealt with the issues of fugitives in some areas "so that the turnover of cities can continue. We've talked about the need not to allow arrests to become revolving door arrests. And those are all extremely important steps that the Palestinians need to take."
Among the many issues to be discussed during the meetings is the amount of equipment the Palestinian security forces will need after the Israeli disengagement, Rice said. U.S. Army Lieutenant General William Ward, who is assisting the Palestinian Authority on security, is "very close" to an assessment of the Palestinian security equipment needs, Rice said. "We will work at all levels with the Israeli government to make sure the Palestinians have what they need in order to carry out the functions that they will have," the secretary told reporters.
Rice said there were many steps on the roadmap -- the plan for Middle East peace put forward by the United States, the European Union, the United Nations and the Russian Federation -- following the Gaza withdrawal. Rice said the United States would be looking to move forward on the roadmap but the parties now must concentrate on the withdrawal. "I can't tell you how much I think this region has been bedeviled by a tendency to look so far ahead and not to concentrate on what's right before you and to build a foundation that then can move you ahead."
The transcript of Rice's press briefing follows:
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U.S. Department of State
Press Briefing By Secretary Of State Condoleezza Rice
En Route To Shannon, Ireland
I had a phone call this morning before I left with some members of the Quartet so that we were all on the same page about what we're going to be doing. And I think we're also planning to meet in London afterwards. So this is a pretty intensive period of just trying to help the parties get ready for the disengagement.
QUESTION: One of the big issues in the Gaza disengagement is balancing Israel's need for security with the Palestinian need for access. And are you planning to ask both sides to agree to a series of benchmarks or milestones so progress on issues such as the crossing points in Gaza can be, you know, measured and monitored?
SECRETARY RICE: I don't expect to ask them to put together a set of benchmarks. But I do expect to have discussions that will help me to clarify and hopefully will help the parties to clarify how they can move forward on each of these issues.
There's actually a quite long list of issues that they have to deal with. And I think they're actually working through them themselves, so I'm not here to try to negotiate settlement of the issues between them. But Jim Wolfensohn has had a couple of trilateral meetings. I think he will have further trilateral meetings to try and see if the parties can understand better each other's concerns about everything from, as you said, access issues to security issues on the day that the disengagement begins, to issues concerning the disposition of assets after the Israelis leave. But I don't expect myself to do that.
I do expect to hear from the two sides how they think they're coming on that, and to help Jim and General Ward figure out how they can engage.
QUESTION: Maybe specifically, are you going to ask Abu Mazen to try to prevent Hamas from -- to keep amassing arms, which they seem to be doing in this period?
SECRETARY RICE: Well, I'm certainly going to talk with President Abbas about the need to provide for the Palestinians to play a critical role in providing a secure environment in which the Gaza disengagement can take place. And obviously that means that the calm that he has discussed with the various Palestinian factions is going to have to hold. And, yes, I think we have to be concerned about the amassing of arms. Absolutely.
QUESTION: Yes, Madame Secretary, when the President spoke about your mission, part of it we understood was to convince the Palestinians that there was also an après Gaza, there was an after Gaza process there. Will you be discussing that with them and where are you going to start after Gaza?
SECRETARY RICE: Well, first we're going to get through Gaza successfully. Because the real point about Gaza is not to stop with Gaza. The President has been clear, we've been clear with the Israelis that it cannot be Gaza only; there has to be a day after the successful withdrawal from the Gaza.
But as the President has said, without a successful withdrawal from the Gaza -- and I mean one that's peaceful, where the Palestinians are able afterwards to establish authority and to begin to govern, where there is some hope for the Palestinian people in terms of economic development, where the Palestinian institutions are left in better shape after the Gaza withdrawal and therefore begin to build the institutions of statehood that the successful conclusion of both conditions will lead to greater confidence between the parties, greater trust between the parties and, I believe, an ability to accelerate progress on the roadmap. That's why we really have to stay focused on the Gaza withdrawal.
Now, the roadmap is a guide to the two-state solution. There are lots of steps and obligations that the parties will have that don't relate to just Gaza withdrawal. And I think what we'll be looking to do is to move forward on the roadmap. But I do not want to get the discussions distracted about what happens after the Gaza withdrawal because it's really -- I can't tell you how much I think this region has been bedeviled by a tendency to look so far ahead and not to concentrate on what's right before you and to build a foundation that then can move you ahead. And I think we just have to be determined not to have that happen this time.
QUESTION: Just following on the expectations on the security front from the Palestinians, Prime Minister Sharon is critical in saying that they have not arrested people, they have not taken control of the areas that Israel has already withdrawn from. General Ward has been quoted as saying that progress is being made. Can you be very specific about what expectations are and what you hear or what you are being told about whether the Palestinians are meeting them?
SECRETARY RICE: Well, we'll certainly have a better idea about that after I've had fuller discussions with a wide range of officials on both sides. But I do think progress is being made. Progress is being made in terms of the unification of the security forces. Progress is being made in terms of the Palestinians' apparent determination to streamline their security forces into a manageable number of forces that can then be trained and can act professionally. And I think they are making progress on that.
In terms of their ability to fight terror and what they do on a day-to-day basis, frankly I do think more could be done, and we've talked about the need to deal with the fugitive issue in some of the cities so that the turnover of cities can continue. We've talked about the need not to allow arrests to become revolving door arrests. And those are all extremely important steps that the Palestinians need to take.
General Ward will have very soon, I think, a pretty clear plan for exactly what needs to be done in terms of equipping of the Palestinians. It has not been all that easy, frankly, to do a kind of audit of what the Palestinians need, because the security services have been so scattered and particularistic. Now that it's become a more unified force, I think he thinks he's getting a better handle on that, including the question of what kind of equipment they need.
QUESTION: Thanks, Madame Secretary. I wanted to follow on that, because apparently the Israelis have been very resistant to allowing the Palestinians to get weapons, trucks. And how can one expect that they're going to be able to maintain the peace after disengagement if you can't get an assurance that they will be able to get this equipment? Are you confident now? And can you tell us something about the meetings that General Ward has been having? Is he going to be able to convince the Israelis to allow this equipment to come in, and where will it come from? Thanks.
SECRETARY RICE: I don't think there will be any shortage of people willing to donate equipment to the Palestinians -- sorry, to provide equipment to the Palestinians. The question that General Ward first had to answer was what do they need. And it has actually not been that easy to establish that because this has really not been one security force. We really have to recognize the degree to which this was an extremely decentralized, particularistic, individualistic set of security forces that had to be brought together under an Interior Minister. And really the Defense Minister and Interior Minister have to be answered to by these people.
I think General Ward is getting very close to an assessment of what is actually needed. And at that point, we will work at all levels with the Israeli government to make sure that the Palestinians have what they need in order to carry out the functions that they will have.
QUESTION: Thank you. You mentioned the day of the disengagement or the day it begins. What are your concerns about that day and what would you like to see each side do ahead of that time to satisfy your concerns?
SECRETARY RICE: I think everybody would like to see it be peaceful and orderly. And, you know, this is going to be very difficult. What they're doing is moving thousands of people with their effects and families, and it's going to be complicated. And I know that the Israelis have done a lot of planning, I know that the Palestinians have done a lot of planning. Our goal has been to make sure that they're doing their planning together, in a way that everybody knows what their responsibilities will be at that time.
But I think -- and, obviously, it should be peaceful and orderly so that when the Israelis leave, or as the Israelis leave, the Palestinians will be able to fill back behind them in a way that shows that they have the institutions and the capability to actually govern. I think at that point, you then have yet another element of confidence as you try to move forward on the roadmap.
There is clearly a lot of planning being done, on the Israeli side, on the Palestinian side. What we've been concerned about is making sure that everybody knows everybody's plans, and it goes to Glenn's first question that there is also a clear picture of expectations about the key six or seven issues that are there, about assets, about freedom of movement and the like. So there needs to be clarity between the two sides about what to expect. That, I think, will lead to less confusion in what is likely to be, under the best of circumstances, a pretty complicated date, set of dates.
QUESTION: While the focus is clearly going to be on Gaza, will you engage the Israelis on the settlement issue east of Jerusalem? Because the back and forth, Sharon reiterated his intention to build those 3,500 homes?
SECRETARY RICE: I will certainly say to the Israelis what we've continued to say to the Israelis, which is that the United States has very clear policy on this. They also have very clear obligations under the roadmap. And we don't intend to give -- we don't intend that the Israelis try to create facts on the ground. They simply cannot engage in activities that are supposed to somehow prejudge a final status outcome.
The President said to Prime Minister Sharon when he was there in April of last year that there are certain facts that -- certain realities that have been created since 1967 that will have to be taken account of at the time of negotiation. But it will still have to be a negotiation and any changes are going to have to be mutually agreed, and I will make those points clear again to the Israelis.
QUESTION: A broader question. Have you talked to the Israelis or engaged their views on the larger goal here for the U.S. of spreading democracy and reform in the Arab world? After all, a lot of Israelis look back to 1979 and see that they had a good ally with the Shah of Iran who was pressured out by the United States talking about human rights, replaced with a regime that is perhaps the biggest problem for them. And a lot of Israelis have said they're best off dealing with reliable dictators.
SECRETARY RICE: I just don't think that the course of events supports that argument. While it is true that -- that Israel has made a peace of sorts with its neighbors, in many examples and in many cases I think it's been a colder peace than people would have liked to have seen. And in the case of the Palestinians, I think, you know, couldn't get there with Yasser Arafat. I think that was clearly a lack of accountability to the Palestinian people that was the root cause there.
I do believe that as the Middle East democratizes and Israel is not, in effect, the only democracy in the region -- although Iraq is now on its way there -- that the Israelis will be in an environment in which governments would have to be accountable to their people. And I simply don't believe that governments that are accountable to their people are going to countenance or look the other way while people within their countries plan for the day when Israel is no more, or send their children off to be suicide bombers, or engage in the kind of activities that we saw on September 11th. And I believe that the President believes that it is a freedom deficit in the Arab world that leads to that kind of hatred. The continued absence of freedom is a threat to Israel too. And when you talk to the Israelis, I think that many of them recognize that.
The strategic goal -- goals of peace and stability in the region have not been realized in the absence of democracy and freedom. So it's time we tried democracy and freedom and see if we can't get there through that course.
(end transcript)
(Distributed by the Bureau of International Information Programs, U.S. Department of State. Web site: http://usinfo.state.gov)


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A couple of months ago, I came across a journalist testimonial on Muck Rack on the 10 things that PR professionals do that immediately get their e-mails deleted by reporters. In the piece, the journalist, USA Today writer Natalie DiBlasio, infers that while she understands how stressful the public relations environment can be, account executives […]read more
Public Relations and the Need for Organization
Posted by Samantha Wolf on July 17th, 2013
I recently visited my friend's apartment – she had just found a Craigslist roommate to fill a vacant room and wanted someone to come over and gawk at all the stuff the new girl had dumped off. When I arrived, there were trash bags piled high in the living room, miscellaneous kitchenware scattered around and […]read more


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LUMBERTON — During his debut season in cross country last year, South Robeson's Billy Jones was constantly finishing second behind a senior teammate.
This year the top spot was his to lose, but that didn't keep him from slowing down.
"I didn't have to work this summer, so I always went and ran or did some activity during the summer to keep in shape," Jones said.
It's paid off and left him running in a league of his own. He's won five straight races including Tuesday's Three Rivers Conference championship meet at Luther Britt Park in Lumberton and was named the conference's Runner of the Year.
He did it in convincing fashion, making a late sprint in the last 100 meters to beat teammates C.J. Locklear and Austin Hunt by 13 and 28 seconds. The Mustangs trampled the rest of the conference in the boys race, finishing with five runners in the top 10 and 24 overall points.
It's competition that's led to growth for Jones and the rest of the team.
"It makes me push myself harder to get better," Jones said.
Midway through Tuesday's race, the three leading Mustangs were close, but for the final stretch Jones made an all-out sprint to the finish line. All three of the Mustangs' top finishers posted a personal best in the meet. Randy Oxendine, who finished eighth, and Brandon Hunt, 10th, rounded out the team's five all-conference selections.
In team standings, South Robeson beat Fairmont, which finished with 44 total points in the boys race.
Similar to how the Mustangs took the first three places, runners Nos. 4, 5 and 6 all finished in succession for the Golden Tornadoes.
It ultimately came down to a 100-yard dash between seniors Malik Milton and Julian Massey and sophomore Jamison Locklear.
Milton finished at 20:06, Massey at 20:07 and Locklear at 20:08.
"It was a good feeling knowing that my teammates were right behind me and that all three of us had a chance for all conference," Milton said. "We gave it all we had, we didn't get first, but we put in the effort and that's what counts."
Milton said the close finish amongst the three is the norm. It ultimately came down to the final push.
"It's conference, you've got to give it all you've got," he said.
Red Springs' Keelan McPhaul was the only Red Devil to make all conference, taking ninth in 20:31. The Red Devils took fourth in the team standings with 83 points.
Jamie Clark, of St. Pauls, missed the all conference cut with an 11th place finish in 21:21. The Bulldogs didn't have enough runners to qualify for the team standings.
Whiteville dominates girls race
Whiteville left little question about the outcome of the girls race.
The Wolfpack had six runners finish all conference, led by Madison Creech, who posted a time of 22:12. It beat the rest of the girls by more than two minutes and would have placed her in the top 14 in the boys' race.
Creech was followed by teammates that filled the top four and Whiteville finished with 18 points, substantially lower than Red Springs' 47 for second place.
The county's top finisher was Red Devil junior Daisy Vazquez, who posted a personal best of 25:41 to place 5th in her first year of cross country.
"It gets easier as you get used to the course,"she said. "The first time I didn't know the course and I came in like 30th. Since then I've dropped like five minutes, so it's good knowing the course."
Though she's dropped plenty of time, Vazquez expected to be top five based on recent success.
"Other meets I've come in top seven and one meet I came in second place, so I expected this," she said.
The Red Devils had three all-conference finishers with Rocia Penia finishing in sixth place at 26:11 and Shania Leach behind her at 26:12.
Chantara Chavis, of South Robeson, was the only other county runner to finish top 10. South Robeson finished with 98 points.
Karen Regalado was St. Pauls top finisher, taking 12th. The Bulldogs had 82 points.
Candace Jacobs, Fairmont's only runner, took 37th in 35:24.


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TargetingMantra helps businesses increase conversions and retain clients by analyzing their decisions on your site and creating targeted recommendations as well as email marketing campaigns for each user.
TargetingMantra uses a tracking pixel on your site to track the actions of your website visitors, whose information it then uses to determine their profile. Once the service is integrated with your site, the TargetingMantra team first personalizes your on-site shopping widget to optimize your product recommendations.
After enough data from your visitors habits has been collected, its intelligent recommendations can then accurately learn and then adapt product personalization for each user. The more actions your users take on your site, the more TargetingMantra can create targeted recommendations to help varying segments find the personalized shopping experience they are looking for.
Want to send hyper-targeted and personalized email followups? TargetingMantra helps you recover abandoned carts, encourage repeat purchases, and allows your business to offer the custom, tailored experience that the modern consumer expects from an ecommerce site.
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What do you need to get started?
The basic requirements to use TargetingMantra are and ecommerce store with products to sell and a solid traffic strategy.
Ecommerce Store:
Any ecommerce store using this software should have at least 50 products in their store or they will not likely receive the stellar results that you are hoping for.
Fifty is the minimum number of products to make a service like this effective, but 100–500 products is when companies start to see increases in sales, because of their scale. Beyond that, TargetingMantra is already helping significantly larger companies with thousands to millions of SKUs so it's safe to say that they can scale with your business and handle the volume.
The reason the volume is important to you is that TargetingMantra needs to provide targeted data about website visitors' choices. If your website doesn't have enough products or traffic (see below), then the algorithm cannot accurately recommend similar items for purchase.
Which brings up the second item, the site should have a mature traffic strategy.
Traffic Strategy:
Your site should have a mature traffic strategy. TargetingMantra does not directly bring in new website traffic, but optimizes the returns on current visitors to your site.
This means new ecommerce sites should expect greater returns once their traffic scales because TargetingMantra is about optimizing your current flow (and then hopefully allowing you to grow even more).
Using TargetingMantra
The program is simple-to-use once set up. Depending on what type of website platform you use, you might need a developer to help you set up your connections with the API.
For stores on Shopify or Magento:
Use the TargetingMantra plug-in instead of the API since they integrate directly. This gives you a nice, simple way of sharing product information between TargetingMantra and your ecommerce platform right out of the box.
For other solutions:
There are two initial steps that you take (about 30 minutes):
1. You will insert a pixel onto your site (this is the TargetingMantra insertion code).
2. Then, you must upload your product catalogue.
Once these two steps are completed, TargetingMantra immediately starts collecting user data. After 2 weeks, you then move to step 3, which is to integrate the widgets into your site.
3. Integrate the widget / make API calls (1.5 - 3 days for tweaking the recommendations)
Once complete, you are now able to make up-sells and item recommendations to visitors in the widget areas!
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To give you a better sense of how TargetingMantra works, we have a video that walks you through a systematic overview on how to use this software.
Here are the topics / features we cover in the video:
- Integrate API
- Catalog
- Widgets
- Mobile
- Analytics
Furthermore, here are a few other excellent features that can really give you a boost that we did not discuss in the video.
Now that you had the opportunity to do a custom search, you will want to create personalized emails based upon demographics and past purchasing preferences. This is where the TargetingMantra Email feature becomes very useful.
Five different email solutions exist to keep tabs on and market to prospects and clients throughout the various phases of the sales process.
The five email solutions are:
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- Purchase Confirmation Recommendations Emails
- Abandonment Cart Follow-up Emails
- Product View Follow-up Emails
- Targeted Campaign Emails
For example, if a company has contact with a consumer who abandoned the cart, they can create a customized email for that particular customer to learn more about why they abandoned the purchase. Over time, this will help increase the percentage of clients who will continue with a purchase.
The email feature enables ecommerce stores owners to have these type of interactions with clients throughout the sales process.
Attribute Search
Above and beyond the analytics on the site, there is an attribute search. Here clients can search for specific products and categories to determine their level of success with each product.
The attribute search helps you with analytics for specific items and categories so you know how to focus your sales efforts in the future.
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Integrations / Add-ons
TargetingMantra has a number of integrations to improve the usability of the product. They even have iOS and Android complete mobile support to ensure that users are able to create mobile products.
As we mentioned above, they have a Shopify and Magento plug-in to help customers integrate the platform with their ecommerce site.
Instead of using an API, this automates the process. TargetingMantra can integrate with any custom ecommerce system via the API.
They also have a number of additional plug-ins slated to come out over the next few months.
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Customer Support
TargetingMantra provides phone customer support for Medium and Enterprise-level customers. They also have a ticket system for Starter and Small-plan customers.
The pricing model for TargetingMantra uses API calls. Widget impressions help to determine the monthly price you pay for the software. The software has four levels of service: Starter, Small, Medium, and Enterprise. Each level of service comes with lower cost per impressions, as well as increased services and support.
Furthermore, TargetingMantra provides new clients with a 30-day trial of the software to determine the effectiveness on their own site.
Finally, if you want certain features like Email Targeting, you should be looking to sign up under the Medium and Enterprise level plans.
See Full TargetingMantra Pricing Info
Final Thoughts
TargetingMantra is an excellent tool for ecommerce stores looking to increase their conversion with their current customers and traffic. The personalized shopper understands what your customers are looking for on the site by interpreting their behavior and makes intelligent recommendations to your customers automatically.
It's easy to use (once it's set up) and gives you fairly comprehensive control over the recommendations and upselling of products.
TargetingMantra is based around data, like traffic volume and actions performed, and does not necessarily do well with low traffic. While it is not a direct a traffic-driver, TargetingMantra will lower your CPA (cost per acquisition) because of increased conversions and increase repeat visits and loyalty. These factors will help indirectly sure up your traffic over time, so don't be confused when you see a steady traffic increase from a conversion tool.
So if your site is just starting out, and doesn't have the most significant numbers, give TargetingMantra a call and get a consultation as to how it will best work for you. They can help let you know when is the right time to go all out with their implementation.


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A strange thing happened to me this morning.
Here's the latest from our Highly Placed Professional:
I saw an internal telephone number flash across my phone screen, and a woman's voice asked in a rather kindly fashion if it was me. She was from compliance.
My somewhat less than enthusiastic affirmative was met by a cheery: 'Don't worry!', but the damage has been done - no-one wants to hear from the thought police, especially at the start of the week.
So what had I done wrong ? I knew there had to be something. Well it turned out I'd been chatting on an internal messaging system to a work colleague here. When the chat box threw up the instruction: 'You're about to use a bad word. Proceed?', I'd naturally proceeded!
It was a Friday afternoon, and I was tired. And this was a good mate, with whom I'd progressed from the paper thin work relationship to something almost akin to friendship.
Anyway, we employed some slightly colourful language, though nothing particularly salacious, and it turns out that the electronic system we use throws up an email report for Compliance detailing bad language.
The quiet word in my ear, however, was not just a polite warning - my Compliance colleague was hoping to reduce her own future workload. You see, the reports just keep piling up - and she didn't want any more bad language reports on her desk any more than I wanted to be in one.
Anyway, the moral is: If the computer asks you if you're sure you want to use 'a bad word', it's probably best to say 'no'. It just makes life easier - both for yourself and for Compliance.


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CSWO lambasts Minister, lists out anomalies in PDS
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Shillong, Oct 31: Reacting to Meghalaya Food and Civil Supplies Minister, Dr RC Laloo's claim of the state lifting its PDS quota for the last six months and distributing it among the AP, BPL and AAY families, Civil Society Women's Organization (CSWO) Wednesday said, "There are many cases filed against the dealers who have deprived the people of their quota of Rice and action is not taken yet in most cases by the Administration.â€
Lambasting the Minister for allegedly making a false statement during the conference of Food Ministers in New Delhi, CSWO President Agnes Kharshiing said, "So stating in New Delhi that all the beneficiaries are receiving PDS is false, and there is a rise in such violations of the Supreme Court Order. The PDS is lifted no doubt but diverted to the pockets of the few in Power.â€
Listing out some of the numerous cases anomaly in PDS in Khasi – Hills of Meghalaya, she highlighted that in Wahlakhiat a dealer who had siphoned off 2 months quota was still given the permission to be the dealer which is against the Essential Commodities Act.
In Klew Village, Ri Bhoi District, the Headman deprived the villagers of Upper Klew of their quota and even names of the dead reflected in the BPL list yet no action has been taken as yet against the person in spite of the Police report submitted to the office of the Deputy Commissioner, Ri Bhoi District.
In Mynsain, Ri Bhoi District a complaint lies where villagers were deprived of their quota for 10 years and yet the administration of Ri Bhoi was instead, investigating as to who contacted and informed the CSWO.
In Thieddieng village, falling under the Mawsynram Block the people were also deprived of their PDS and an FIR was filed which is charge sheeted by the Police but the file is lying somewhere in the Courts.
In Nongkwai, falling under Pynnursla Block, about 70 families are deprived of their Right to food. The Office of the Deputy Commissioner, East Khasi Hills District, has appointed an unknown dealer who is a politically linked man, and the people's choice was ignored. When the people wrote to the DC their letter seems to bear no meaning as he never responded to them. They have not got their quota, now for almost two years.
In Madanryting, Mylliem Block most of the names of the BPL card holders are people owning big houses, while the poor do not get Ration at all.
She observed that the Gram Sevaks and inspectors are drawing their pay but not at all checking on these anomalies and no action is being taken against them. Many beneficiaries in West Khasi Hills and other Parts of the state are also suffering and are also made to, at times, take 2 kg of bad rice mixed with good rice, he claimed.
Kharshiing further pointed out that the APL cards are not distributed to the people and most of the quota disappears.
"In Ri Bhoi District most APL cards are getting only 10 kg per family while the amount should be 35 kg per family,†she said adding "Many Dealers distribute the PDS within 2 or 3 days or maximum in a week and the poor families who cannot lift the PDS within that time lose out on their quota, and this is in violation of the Supreme Court Orderâ€.
She stated that the CSWO will take all these issues up with the Chief Secretary and if there is no response then the Organization threatened to report to the Supreme Court Commissioners who have been appointed by the Supreme Court to monitor the implementation of the PDS.


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An elementary school in Gladstone was locked down for several hours Friday afternoon after a report of gunshots in the area.
A man suspected of firing the shots surrendered peacefully Friday evening. He had been in a standoff with police from inside a home in the 7300 block of North Wyandotte Street, near Linden West Elementary School.
There were no reports of injuries, but the students at the school spent about three hours gathered at the far side of the building from where the shots appeared to come from. About 4:30 p.m., they were loaded onto school buses and taken to Antioch Middle School, where their parents picked them up.
Gladstone police said the first shots were reported about 1 p.m. When police arrived, they heard a second volley of three shots and called in other agencies.
Officers quickly determined the shooting did not happen at the North Kansas City district school at 7333 N. Wyandotte St.
Kansas City police, Clay County deputies, Platte County deputies, the Missouri Highway Patrol, and Riverside and North Kansas City police responded to help search the area. About 1:25 p.m., more shots were heard and were believed to be coming from a house on Wyandotte close to the school.
Police closed nearby streets while they investigated.
The man taken into custody lived at the home with his parents, who assisted police in the negotiations for his surrender shortly after 6 p.m., said Capt. Ken Buck of the Gladstone Public Safety Department.
Parents were alerted about the lockdown by email and message alerts sent by district officials.
Most children were picked up by their parents by 6:15 p.m.
North Kansas City Superintendent Todd E. White was at Antioch Middle School and reported that parents were generally satisfied with the way the district handled the situation, said Mary Jo Burton, district spokeswoman.
Burton said although the students spent the afternoon in a different part of the school from their normal classrooms, they went on with their schoolwork.
It was a different kind of day, but the teachers made every effort to make sure the kids were productive with their time and were not upset by the temporary arrangements, Burton said.


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|Keeping valued employees-- You don't have to say goodbye
|By looking for innovative ways to woo back former employees back, IT managers find new strategic staffing tools.
|By Stephanie Wilkinson
October 1999
|In this article:
CSX Technology Inc.
|The Boomerang Effect
|When The Grass Isn't Greener
|Retaining Vs. Rehiring
|Reunited (And It Feels So Good
|Strategies For Attracting Back Former Workers
|What does it take to keep high-tech happy?
|Portrait Of A Boomerang
One night last November, Joan Worthington went to a cocktail party at the Camden Club in Baltimore. She caught up with old friends, shared some wine and cheese-and went home
with a new job.
It's not unusual for IT professionals to find jobs through friends at parties. Worthington's story is noteworthy because her new employer is actually the same one she left seven years ago, and the company arranged
the party just to hire back former employees.
Jacksonville, Fla.-based CSX Technology Inc., Worthington's employer, is at the forefront of a new trend in IT staffing-finding innovative ways to get valued ex-employees to return to the fold. The tactics for doing just this range from keeping in touch with former staffers through e-mail to hosting "alumni reunions," such as the one Worthington, a pricing-system and project-management expert who left CSX to start her own consulting firm, attended at the Camden Club.
Such strategies can benefit both sides of the employment equation, say human resources experts. IT managers regain the services of talented staffers who already know the company's business, and those talented techies return to an organization they know values them highly.
"The fact that CSX was reaching out to me made me feel good," Worthington agrees. "They were saying, 'You were valuable to us, and we'd like you back.'"
Retaining IT employees tops the agenda for HR personnel, right up there with attracting fresh talent, says Nathan Ridnouer, head of the Human Resources Forum at the Information Technology Association of America (ITAA), based in Arlington, Va.
"With the job market for IT workers so tight, companies are knocking themselves out to find new and better strategies for locating high-tech talent," he says.
Patricia Christensen chairs the ITAA's HR Group, whose members go on retreat three times a year to hash out their thorniest staffing problems.
"This year and last have been especially difficult for finding and keeping talent," she says. "Our members are finding that the younger staffers-those who have been with a company four or five years-are the quickest to leave. They're the ones who believe that the grass is greener over the fence. It's a sticky problem."
Putzier developed the term after listening to innumerable laments from HR execs about "the revolving door" in IT organizations-people coming to work at a company and then leaving soon after. Putzier believes the solution is to make sure the door makes one more revolution and deposits the employee back inside the company.
"Why not take advantage of the possibility that your ex-employees may want to annul their divorce from you?" Putzier asks. "Boomerang strategies can bring them back." First, IT managers in charge of hiring need to realize that "when someone leaves, it doesn't mean he or she is dead," he says. "You have to find ways to stay in touch, to keep your hooks in them." Putzier offers several simple boomerang strategies. Among them:
|Send former employees a list of job openings.
|Put them on the mailing list for press releases that tout how well the company is doing.
|Encourage their friends still working for you to keep the lines of communication open.
|Invite them to the company picnic or a departmental holiday party.
|Remind them that they are missed.
"Remember, these people have egos, just like the rest of us," Putzier says.
"A bunch of my buddies had left to join SAP and they were making a lot more money there than I was here. It seemed like a good thing," says Hoes. Within weeks, however, Hoes realized that the environment at SAP "just wasn't me." He was back at Cyborg within five months. "I was comfortable doing that partly because we'd left each other on such good terms," Hoes says. "They made it clear in my exit interview that they were sad to see me go."
Putzier lauds such kid-glove handling of departing employees and recommends an additional tactic. "Why not send out an exit questionnaire to the employees two weeks after they've started their new jobs?" he says. "They may be at just the point where it's dawning on them that what they had with you is better than what they've got now."
Many companies acknowledge that strategies like those suggested by Putzier are a good idea, though they have yet to implement them. United Parcel Service of America Inc., for instance, has no formal program for luring back ex-employees. "It's something we're studying," says Ruth Zimmerman, workforce planning specialist at UPS in Mahwah, N.J. Several former IT workers have rejoined UPS in recent years, she adds, "but they generally approach us, rather than the other way around. We evaluate them on a case-by-case basis."
At other companies, especially those blessed with unusually low turnover rates, the idea of luring back former workers holds little to no appeal. According to Ron Griffin, CIO of Home Depot Inc., headquartered in Atlanta, "We may not even be inclined to pursue people who have left us."
In addition, some companies claim that devising strategies for rehiring former employees is akin to putting hay in the barn after the horse has bolted. The smarter strategy, these companies claim, is to keep the horse from bolting in the first place. At Southwest Airlines, the IT HR department emphasizes hiring people whose personalities mesh so well with the corporate environment that they don't want to leave, rather than trying to lure back former employees.
"We do a lot of behavioral interviewing," says Erica McKay, an information systems recruiter at Southwest in Dallas. "We're very up-front about our corporate culture. As a result, we don't have a lot of people who don't fit in here. So, in the end, we're keeping the people we want to keep."
If a Southwest IT worker does leave, McKay says, the reason is probably valid, so concerted efforts to rehire the employee would be wasted energy. Indeed, Southwest boasts a turnover rate in its systems department this year of about 8 %, or 12 to 20 % less than the national average. "I can think of two people who have left and come back," McKay says. "One relocated to another part of the country, but then moved back. The other left but realized within three months that he'd made a mistake. He came back to us."
Reunited (And It Feels So Good)
Still, companies like CSX feel the extra effort involved in getting employees like Worthington back is worth it. Not only did the Camden Club party boomerang Worthington back to the company, but three other former IT employees also took advantage of the offer that night, and two more are in the process of returning right now. With a guest list of around 50 former staffers, that's better than a 10 % success rate, notes Jack Morgan, assistant vice president of human resources at CSX. Rates like that have persuaded the company to try it again: On October 13, CSX will throw another alumni party in Jacksonville.
"It's really not an expensive thing to do, compared to other recruiting options," says Morgan. "And it's a way to connect with these people without calling them up at work."
The company tries to make these parties fun, handing out model trains as door prizes and wine glasses as party favors. CSX managers come prepared to schmooze, but with a low-key attitude. None of the invitees were asked to bring a resume to the Baltimore event-the party was purely for sharing information and reestablishing old contacts.
"I was impressed that several senior managers came up from headquarters in Jacksonville to speak with us," Worthington says. "They and the local managers discussed the company's direction, the new and exciting projects going on, and then opened the floor for questions."
CSX has developed strategies for rehiring along with its extensive employee-retention program. Through an attractive combination of employee benefits, the company has managed to reduce its annual IT employee turnover from roughly 20% in 1997 to 11% this year. Among these benefits are quarterly bonus payouts, instead of annual or semiannual, and an employee-rewards program that awards outstanding employees and managers with perks such as movie tickets, shopping sprees, and cash. The company has created a work and life committee that handles issues such as child and elder care and diversity awareness. Employees also have access to a virtual university that allows them to upgrade their skills for free and at their own pace.
Worthington, an independent consultant for the seven years after leaving CSX, was also impressed by the generous terms of her re-employment. CSX agreed to reinstate her to her former level of service, meaning she didn't have to wait an additional five years to become vested in the company. She retained her previous amount of vacation, and the company agreed that she could return to CSX and begin part-time work while she wound up her commitments to her own clients.
"Tactics like these aren't hard [to implement], but they may raise a few eyebrows among traditional-minded human resources managers," notes Putzier.
Another benefit to expending time and energy in pursuing former employees is increased loyalty among the returnees. According to Putzier, studies by workforce market research firms, such as William M. Mercer Inc., in Louisville, Ky., show that employees who leave and come back are among a company's most loyal.
"They know what else is out there, and they've still chosen to return," explains Putzier. "To be fair, they also admit they'd be embarrassed to leave again." //
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SOURCE: Turning Winds Academic Institute
March 27, 2008 15:31 ET
TROY, MT--(Marketwire - March 27, 2008) - Turning Winds Academic Institute, a therapeutic
boarding school located in northwestern Montana, is taking a unique
approach to helping at-risk teens who suffer from substance abuse,
behavioral disorders and other related issues. The school is currently
implementing its program in a three-step "phasing" process, which includes
orientation, transition and aftercare.
The school provides assistance to both boys and girls, ages 12 to 18, and
is accredited by the Northwest Association of Accredited Schools and
National Independent Private Schools Association. The school's secluded
location allows for a distraction-free education, while offering students
the opportunity to develop to their fullest potential. The phasing program
also gets parents and counselors involved after students leave school and
integrate back into their home environments.
"Our proven program helps teens find the potential that is within all of
them," said Owen Baisden, vice president of operations for Turning Winds
Academic Institute.
"We feel all three phases are extremely important, including the Aftercare
phase, which is implemented once a student leaves our facility," he added.
When a student arrives at Turning Winds Academic Institute, he or she
begins the Orientation phase, which can last anywhere from four to six
months. Also known as the stabilization phase, students participate in
individual and group counseling sessions, life skills classes,
team-building activities and outdoor adventures to cultivate personal
growth and internal change.
The second step, or Transition phase, prepares students for transition back
into the home environment. During this phase, emphasis is placed on
emotional, behavioral and academic stability. Teens start the transitioning
process back home, which includes a series of visits from family members
and short home visits for each child.
Lastly, after arriving home, students work with an assigned therapist for
weekly counseling sessions and continued support during the critical
Aftercare phase. A brief return visit back to Turning Winds Academic
Institute within three months of departure is recommended.
The entire program averages approximately 12 months per child. With
enrollment capacity of only 40 students, the school's small environment
allows for intensive focus on each individual, allowing no child to slip
through the cracks.
For more information, visit www.turningwinds.com or call 1-800-845-1380.
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LONGVIEW, WASHINGTON -- I submitted an offer on a bank-owned property through Coldwell Banker Bain Real Estate and they were less than honest about submitting offers. Then when a full price offer was made, he stated that the offer was outbid. Property is still on the market, not pending and he sent a rejection of offer that had no dates or names, just stamped rejected. Every time an offer was made he stated that there was another offer that was better. He wouldn't accept the earnest money, only a letter of proof of funds. These were all cash offers with no strings. He has been nothing less than dishonest.
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Future Focus is a medical spa located in Corpus Christi, Texas. We've been working with them for the past 3 years and recently teamed up with them to design and develop a new web presence. After several months of work and collaboration, we finally launched the new site, which is powered by eControl, a Content [...]
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1. Consider a tree in which each internal node has c or more children,
where c is a constant integer of value 2 or more.
Show that the number of internal nodes, I, in the tree and the number
of leaves, L, are related by the formula: L-1 >= (c-1)I.
Hint: Use tokens. How many tokens should a leaf receive, and what do you do with the tokens?
2. Consider a tree in which each node is colored either red or green.
You are allowed to cut edges in this tree.
Your goal is to choose the subset of edges to cut so that the resulting
subtree rooted at the original root r has the largest possible excess
of red over green nodes (possibly, this excess is negative).
Design an algorithm to compute this excess.
Hint. Compute this for every node in the tree. How do you decide whether to cut an edge?
Problems 2.12, 4.16. (See back of text, pages 399-405).
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Exclusive to this year's Travel Retailing & Destination Expo (ASTA-LA) taking place in Los Angeles on Sept. 7-9, the U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) will be hosting in-person interviews and enrollment for the Global Entry Trusted Travel program, which allows expedited clearance for pre-approved, low-risk travelers upon arrival in the U.S. Doug Hofsass, the associate administrator for risk-based security for the Transportation Security Administration (TSA), will also be on hand to present two seminars that will provide attendees with an in-depth look at TSA's PreCheck Program and the Custom and Border Patrol's Global Entry program on Sept. 7 and 8.
"This year, ASTA's Travel Retailing & Destination Expo is in a unique position to allow attendees not only to become Global Entry experts, but to become Trusted Travelers as well," said Nina Meyer, ASTA president and chair. "This limited opportunity affords ASTA-LA attendees the opportunity to experience the process of becoming a Trusted Traveler firsthand so that they can assist their customers and train their colleagues as well as gain insight into the finer details of the program and how it will help their clients."
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X Factor bosses are considering adding a fifth judge to the panel in the wake of the furore over Cheryl Cole's refusal to vote, it was reported today.
The proposal is said to be in the process of being finalised with programme boss Simon Cowell putting the finishing touches to the plan.
A group of 20 fans of the show were called to a summit to brainstorm ideas about how to improve the show, The Sun reports.
The show has come under fire after Cole said she was "refusing point blank" to make a choice when two acts she has mentored ended up in the bottom two and judges were asked to choose who should go home.
Her decision not to vote led to Katie Waissel surviving a third sing-off on the show on Sunday as a result of the other judges' majority decision.
Instead Treyc Cohen was sent packing.
X Factor host Dermot O'Leary had been told by producers to accept a majority if Cole refused to make a choice. Some people have chosen to see this as evidence the show was fixed, but show bosses said he was merely being reminded of the rules.
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Hundreds of viewers have complained to media regulator Ofcom about the incident.
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My Space Is Not Your Space
- My Space Is Not Your Space
- Popular Sites
(teens/young adults, 14 to 30 years old)
MySpace is the gateway social-networking servicethere is nothing wrong with passing through it, but make sure you get to the other side. It's garish, loud, and infinitely customizable. Almost everybody I know, of every age, has a MySpace page. Officially, you have to be 14 years old to sign up, but my stepson signed up when he was 11 and simply claimed to be 100 years old. If you are older than 30, it is time to move on. Leave the page up as a testament to your youth, but it is time to put away childish things.
There are two exceptions to this rule. First, if you are a musician, a MySpace page is job requirement. MySpace made its bones helping bands connect with fans, and it remains one of the best ways for bands to reach fans. I would also make an exception for political candidates, though I don't really believe Rudy Giuliani and Hillary Clinton are staying up late updating their Top 8s. These Potemkin pages may be a farce, but they're still better than having kids get all their political information from South Park.
(old Friendster users, 25 to 35)
It isn't that no one under 25 should have a Friendster page; it's just that no one under 25 has one. The company claims to have more than 48 million members, but I bet most of those pages haven't been updated in a long time. Industry reports claims page views are rising, but it seems to me Facebook and MySpace are stealing Friendster's lunchand eating it at the cool kids' table.
(professionals, 22 to 80)
LinkedIn is designed for business networking and makes it pretty easy to connect to your peers and keep your professional history online. Just don't try to use it for romance. This is a place to do business.
(straight singles, 35 to 60)
After you put your single waysor that first marriagebehind you, this is the place to go for romantic compatibility. Unfortunately, the site doesn't offer any options for gay people. Founder Neil Clark Warren says it is because he hasn't done enough research into same-sex relationships to provide accurate matches. Yahoo! and Match.com will gladly fill in the gap.
(beautiful, rich, and powerful of any age)
For the most exclusive social network, you can try to get into aSmallWorld. Whereas most networking services want to do everything to get you to sign up, aSmallWorld probably won't let you pass the home page. To join you have to be invited by a trusted member. Once past the virtual velvet rope, you are presumably treated to pop-ups for high-end cognac and oceanfront real-estate in the Hamptons. I will report back as soon as my invite arrives.
There is a community for everyone, every reason, and every season online. One giant, connected, indiscriminate network would look like, well, the Web. Sure, online social networking is all the rage, but you have to know your place. Just because you get an invite doesn't mean you should accept it. Please network responsibly.
Debate Dan on this topic at go.pcmag.com/costa.
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Labor groups file election law complaint against Wal-Mart
[JURIST] The AFL-CIO [official website] and three other labor groups filed a complaint [PDF text] with the Federal Election Commission (FEC) [official website] on Thursday, alleging that Wal-mart Inc. [corporate website; JURIST news archive], the largest employer in the US, violated federal election laws by forcing employees to attend meetings where political and presidential campaign issues were discussed. According to a report [text] by the Wall Street Journal , the labor groups Change to Win, WakeUpWalMart.com, Americans Rights at Work [official websites], and the AFL-CIO filed the complaint based on Wal-Mart meetings which were intended to convince lower-level department heads that electing a Democratic president would make it easier for workers to unionize, which in turn could lead to lower salaries and violations of privacy. According to the labor organizations, federal regulations allow companies to promote voting for a presidential candidate to high-level managers but not to lower-level managers and department heads. The Washington Post has more. The New York Times has additional coverage.
At issue is the Employee Free Choice Act [HR 800 materials], which would require a company to recognize a union as soon as a majority of a company's employees signed cards saying they want to organize a union. Democratic Party presidential candidate Barack Obama (D-Ill) [campaign website] supports the legislation, while Republican Party presidential nominee John McCain (R-Ariz.) [campaign website] does not. In June, the US Supreme Court [official website; JURIST news archive] ruled [opinion text; JURIST report] that a 2000 California law [Assembly Bill 1889 text] that prohibits employers from using certain funds they receive from the state to influence union elections is unconstitutional. Previously in 2006, the US Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit upheld [PDF text] the California law, ruling that it was neither preempted by the National Labor Relations Act [text] nor rendered unenforceable by the US Constitution's Supremacy Clause.


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Online Profit Strategy
EnlightenMental Productions was hired to redesign and develop the website for Online Profit Strategy. We created a very custom WordPress integration with custom plugins for UI, Lead Generation, and Portfolio management.
De'Lish Catering – Website Development
De'Lish Catering is a Minneapolis/Twin Cities based catering company. EnlightenMental Productions was hired to create their online presence using their current brand and design assets. A WordPress website was created that features interactive navigation. Animated rotating background images, and easy...
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S-Trip! recently required an updated User Profile section for users to access their account details. EnlightenMental Productions worked closely with their staff to integrate a custom feature.
Laugh Out Loud Twin Cities
Laugh Out Loud Twin Cities is an annual benefit even that raises support and awareness for children at Gillette Children's Specialty Healthcare. EnlightenMental Productions was hired to build a custom WordPress theme and plugins to allow them to easily manage...
STONE Lounge
STONE Lounge is a Minnesota based restaurant that required a new website design and complete development. EnlightenMental Productions designed a fresh new look to incorporate their warm inviting atmosphere.
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EnlightenMental Productions was tasked with creating a full set of marketing materials for childcare center in Byron, MN. We used their logo and basic branding styles to create a business card design for their upcoming grand opening.
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Fans of Halifax pop-rock band Neon Dreams have great taste in music, and now they're getting a treat for their tastebuds from Vandal Doughnuts.
The North End bakery affixed to Gus' Pub at North and Agricola streets has named one of its confections after the group. On International Women's Day today, proceeds from all sales of the Neon Dreams doughnut will go to Adsum for Women and Children.
The band itself will put on an acoustic performance at 2 p.m. with guest Jodi Guthro, inviting attendees to contribute to the cause and enjoy a mid-afternoon snack in the bargain.
"I gotta say, it's pretty sweet to be a doughnut," says drummer Adrian Morris, before sighing, "OK, that was a bad dad joke.
"But it's true that we're pretty excited about it; it's cool."
Morris says he and bandmates Frank Kadillac, Matt Gats and Corey LeRue found out about their immortality in icing when they were alerted to a post on Instagram about Vandal's new creation, a deep-fried circle of dough covered in day-glo lime glaze and hot pink sprinkles.
"We didn't expect it at all. When I first saw it I thought it just happened to be called Neon Dreams, but then I read the caption where it was called a Halifax musical tribute," he recalls.
"I thought, whoa, there's a doughnut named after us! and immediately I had to go try this thing. We like that they're a local company, and they're always trying new and different things with their doughnuts. This just came about one day when they were experimenting."
Vandal reached out to Neon Dreams' management to see if the band would be interested in joining forces for an International Women's Day fundraiser. Already aware of the quality of the product and the importance of the cause, the band didn't hesitate to say yes.
Thursday's event also comes in the wake of Neon Dreams making national headlines by dropping out of its cross-country arena dates on B.C. band Hedley's Cageless tour, following allegations of sexual misconduct by the headliners. At the time the band stated that it couldn't in good conscience continue on the tour, and for the most part their fan base and hometown supported them in their decision, although Morris says there was some backlash from diehard Hedley fans.
"We felt like the victims' voices were more important in this situation than to continue playing," says Morris, who feels that International Women's Day was a perfect opportunity for Neon Dreams to show support for those who need help in times of crisis.
"Adsum is a really cool organization that provides funding for shelter for women with families."
The matinee performance will also allow fans to hear acoustic versions of the band's signature blend of electric guitar and electronic sounds, like the catchy new single Shape of My Mind which just premiered last month.
Morris says it points the way toward a harder edge to Neon Dreams' sound, compared to what's been featured on EPs like To You and Wolf, Princess & Me.
"There are a lot more rock elements to it, and it's just more heavy. There's still that electronic vibe, but it's a lot more hard-hitting and we're really excited about it.
"Especially for me and Matt, we're more involved in the recording process than ever. We make sure there's live drums on everything now, and lots of guitar. We really want to encapsulate everything that's in our live show."
At this point, LeRue enters the room and picks up on some of the doughnut talk, and expresses his own enthusiasm for the combination of fundraising and fried pastry.
"It feels good. It's great to be recognized, and this thing at Vandal is a really positive thing, a great cause and a great look," says the songwriter, producer and DJ.
"I still haven't tried one. When I went down they were sold out so I can't wait for (today). My inner Homer Simpson is so pumped about having our own doughnut."
It sounds like the shape of LeRue's mind is currently round, with a hole in the middle.