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• VIDEO: Is Thanksgiving a Secular Holiday?
By now, many of you are either dreaming of a fine turkey meal with all the trimmings, or actually in the throws of cooking one, or maybe even dusting off that fabulous family recipe from Aunt Sarah you've been meaning to tackle.
And, speaking of tackling, that's another fine holiday tradition that scores of people will enjoy on Thursday. Thanksgiving and football have been paired up since 1874 when the first intercollegiate game was played on Thanksgiving Day. Now, of course one might think the day was created for the playing of football.
By the way, it wasn't.
Was it to kick off the Christmas shopping season?
Guess again!
Whatever your traditions are for this holiday weekend, there is one thought that you might want to mull over about Thanksgiving. That is, who should we thank? The creator of football? The providence of Madison Avenue? Or the Food Network?
Thanksgiving is a federal government created holiday. It is not based on any religious doctrine like Christmas, or the commemoration of a historic event like the Fourth of July. It is a holiday created by the government for its people to give thanks.
VIDEO: Is Thanksgiving a Secular Holiday? Lauren Green Reacts.
We all know that this country is currently in conflict over whether God can be mentioned or honored anywhere in the public square; however, just by looking at the proclamation that created Thanksgiving, one could make one believe that Thanksgiving is a religious holiday — and that Abraham Lincoln, was a preacher and not the 16th president of the United States of America.
For years before the proclamation, various kinds of days of thanks were celebrated in the country. Sarah Hale, editor of Godey's Lady's Book, had persistently written presidents, urging them to establish a national day of thanks. Lincoln listened, and in 1863, while America was embroiled in the midst of a civil war that threatened to tear the country apart, Lincoln wrote in the proclamation about the many blessings the nation could be thankful for.
"No human counsel hath devised nor hath any mortal hand worked out these great things. They are the gracious gifts of the most high God, who, while dealing with us in anger for our sins, hath nevertheless remembered mercy." — October 3, 1863 - Thanksgiving Proclamation
Lincoln was a deeply devout and spiritual man. He believed in God, but his faith wasn't cultural or philosophical. It was personal. One could argue he was simply a man of the times, because the majority of citizens and founding fathers practiced a form of Christianity. Over 90 percent of founding era documents reference the Bible, and about 34 percent actually quote the Bible — so, religious language was not unusual.
But there was always something in the way Lincoln lived and delved into politics that gave evidence of him treating faith as a way life not a political agenda. For example, he didn't own slaves, while some of our most revered founding fathers did; Thomas Jefferson and George Washington to name two. But, Lincoln brilliantly knew how to achieve politically what his faith dictated spiritually.
Just read what Lincoln wrote about to whom we were to give thanks:
"It has seemed to me fit and proper that they ['gracious gifts from God'] should be solemnly, reverently and gratefully acknowledged as with one heart and voice by the whole American people. I do therefore invite my fellow citizens in every part of the United States, and also those who are at sea and those who are sojourning in foreign lands, to set apart and observe the last Thursday of November next, as a day of Thanksgiving and Praise to our beneficent Father who dwelleth in the Heavens." — October 3, 1863 - Thanksgiving Proclamation
Lincoln's last proclamation for a national day of Thanksgiving would be April 11, 1865, four days before his assassination. But Lincoln had given this country two very important elements of its heritage; its unity and its spiritual strength. Today, unfortunately we've taken both for granted. We could very well be two countries or even several countries constantly at war over trade relations or border controls. But we're not. We are one nation. The Civil War was our great test of fortitude.
We also have the right to worship as we choose, or choose even not to worship. Freedom of religion means that on this Thanksgiving Day we can thank God, thank your neighbor, your friends, yourself ... or no one. So we should at least be grateful for that.
So while you're mulling over the idea of who to thank or even if you want to be thankful at all, give some thought to be thankful that there is such a place as the United States of America.• E-mail Lauren Green
Lauren Green serves as a religion correspondent for the FOX News Channel. Prior to this, Green served as a news anchor for "Fox and Friends," where she provided daily news updates and covered arts for the network. You can read her complete bio here.
Lauren Green currently serves as Fox News Channel's (FNC) chief religion correspondent based in the New York bureau. She joined FNC in 1996. Her new book is "Lighthouse Faith: God as a Living Reality in a World Immersed in Fog."


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'Chaos Mundaka' by American sculptor, Jedd Novatt, is just over 4m tall and sculpted from bronze. Novatt says of the work, "its sturdiness is practical, and I associate it with something lasting and heroic".
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What a day, bitches. Craziness going on everywhere...most of it good sh*t, so no complaints. However, after months of waiting, weeks of being alone here and days of absolute chaos, this was our last day at the KISW studios.
Well, we're still at KISW, but the stations studios will finally be moving to our new home.
Not sure how to feel about that. Not because we've been here for the last 12 years...I'm not that nostalgic...but because for the last few weeks we've pretty much been operating on our own. Only KISW air staff have been in a place that usually has about 100 people. It was weird at first but I've grown to love the isolation. Seriously. Been much more productive.
Oh well, back to civilization next week. It'll be weird being around people again. It's been like the movie Castaway.
OK, bitches, I'm outta here.
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I've been looking a bit into some more DIY beauty options this year while we save up for a house. A lot of the more generic beauty treatments are really easy to make at home.
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Mix as thoroughly as you like, so long as it's all wet with the oil it really doesn't matter as you're just going to be scrubbing it around. In terms of oil, I used generic vegetable oil because that's all I had but you could use anything including coconut oil for something which has some added benefits.
Done! Now rub on your lips and try not to lick it off… or don't try… it tastes awesome.
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Letter from Washington
Today's blogger has just returned home from a trip to the United States, where the high point of the trip involved standing on the Mall in a chilly Washington D.C. on January 20 watching the inauguration of President Barack Obama. Next to me an experienced and Iraq-hardened British wire agency journalist stood silently, tears welling up in his eyes. Later, seeking to catch the Amtrak train down to New York City, the crowds were far stiffer than they had been on the Mall: police with megaphones directed hordes of us back and forth, trying to get us squeezed through the tiny choke points allowing us into Union Station. Most of us missed our scheduled trains. The crowd was extraordinarily good-natured. Almost no pushing, no shoving, but a lot of chanting: "We can't hear you!" (to the police with megaphones, competing with the news helicopters overhead) and "Trains We Can Believe In!" and the like.
We are encouraged by the change, of course: as you may know, Obama was one of three co-signatories of the Stop Tax Haven Abuse Act. This blog looks at some very early indications to see how the wind is blowing so far.
In conclusion: we are modestly encouraged, but there are some grounds for concern. First of all, the presence of Bono, the tax-dodging Irish musician, as a star performer at the even chillier pre-inauguration on January 18th, jarred with us. Much of Obama's inauguration speech, while not focussing specifically on tax, might as well have been (some of the pundits are saying that it was designed to appear to be all things to all people.) Shared sacrifice, the common good, and the relationships of trust between rulers and their people which build citizenship - these were all common themes, and taxation lies at the heart of each.
"We come to proclaim an end to the petty grievances and false promises, the recriminations and worn out dogmas, that for far too long have strangled our politics . . . what the cynics fail to understand is that the ground has shifted beneath them - that the stale political arguments that have consumed us for so long no longer apply. The question we ask today is not whether our government is too big or too small, but whether it works.
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Nor is the question before us whether the market is a force for good or ill. Its power to generate wealth and expand freedom is unmatched, but this crisis has reminded us that without a watchful eye, the market can spin out of control - and that a nation cannot prosper long when it favors only the prosperous.
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What is required of us now is a new era of responsibility - a recognition, on the part of every American, that we have duties to ourselves, our nation, and the world, duties that we do not grudgingly accept but rather seize gladly, firm in the knowledge that there is nothing so satisfying to the spirit, so defining of our character, than giving our all to a difficult task. This is the price and the promise of citizenship."
Whatever you thought of the speech, there are some more specific, subsequent matters that bear consideration. A key early indicator is that of his appointments. Here we see cause for concern, mixed with some positive signals -- especially with respect to Obama's pick of Tim Geithner as Treasury Secretary. Of particular concern here is his own personal tax affairs, as has been widely reported. The Washington Post put it like this:
"A 2006 IRS audit informed Geithner that he had failed to pay self-employment taxes in '03 and '04, when he directed the International Monetary Fund's policy development and review department. While being vetted for Treasury secretary late last year, he was told he made the same errors on his '01 and '02 returns. He calls them "careless mistakes" that he should have caught and has paid $42,702 in back taxes."
We won't dawdle on this issue - not because it isn't absolutely, screamingly important - it is, and we are horrified that this should have been allowed to stand, given that independent sources have said, looking at what's in the public domain, that Geithner probably participated in nothing short of outright tax evasion - but for the fact that this has been widely discussed and it's slightly old news already.
On a more positive note, we are somewhat reassured by Geithner's testimony at his confirmation hearing on January 21. Here are a few of the question and answer sections:
Question: The Finance Committee has had a number of hearings on the offshore tax evasion issue and I believe the next step is to pass legislation cracking down on offshore tax evaders, and I will be introducing a bill early in this session of Congress to address this problem. Mr. Geithner, I hope you will take a close look at this legislation and help us to pass it from your new perch at the Treasury Department. Will you commit to setting aside time to help us develop a solution to this problem?
Geithner: Yes, Senator Baucus, as soon as my tax team is fully in place, I look forward to setting aside time to review your forthcoming legislation and helping you, your staff, and other members of the Senate develop a solution to the problem of offshore tax evasion. I share the President's commitment to aggressively address the problem of offshore tax evasion and complement you and other members of the Senate for the work you've already done on this important issue. If confirmed, I will treat offshore tax evasion as a high priority issue and examine a wide range of policy options to address these abuses, including increasing IRS enforcement efforts, requiring greater disclosure and taxpayer accountability, and changing the presumption for transactions in tax-secrecy jurisdictions.
Question: What can the IRS do to stem the tide of scams and schemes – offshore arrangements like UBS, and abuses like the Madoff Ponzi scheme - that result in folks hiding their income from Uncle Sam?
I share the President's commitment to closing down tax loopholes. I look forward, if confirmed, to working with the committee to examine this issue. If confirmed, I will be a strong advocate for the Internal Revenue Service and its efforts to secure sufficient funding to carry out its mission successfully. Tax enforcement is a key priority for the IRS and I look forward to working with IRS Commissioner Doug Shulman to ensure that the compliance and enforcement mission of the IRS receives the necessary support and funding."
These are encouraging words, and there are various other answers Geithner gives on taxation generally, which are a little vague, unfortunately, but don't raise any specific red flags at this stage. You can read a little more, mostly on non-tax issues, here. Still, we wish it weren't a tax-dodger in this terriffically important job.


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NEWARK, DE -- Senior All-American Alex Smith led the #18 Delaware Fightin' Blue Hens Saturday night as he scored a career-high three goals, dished out one assist, and won 19 of 24 faceoffs on the way to a 12-9 Colonial Athletic Association men's lacrosse victory over Sacred Heart before a UD season-high crowd of 1,400 fans.
Smith, who has led the NCAA in faceoffs each of the last three seasons and holds the NCAA record for career faceoffs won and taken, led Delaware (8-5, 3-2 CAA) to its second straight win and helped the Blue Hens clinch a spot in the CAA semifinals to be held May 2 at either Drexel or Towson. The loss eliminated the Pioneers from playoff contention. Smith had scored just one goal all season entering the game and just 14 for his career before posting his first career hat trick.
Sacred Heart, which got two goals and two assists from Michael Collins and two goals form Peter Greco, lost its fifth straight game and fell to 2-8 (1-4 CAA). Bobby Karl added a goal and an assist and goalkeeper Ricardo Vargas recorded 16 saves. Delaware outshot the Pioneers 51-31, won 19 of 24 faceoffs, held a 42-34 advantage in groundballs, and committed 10 less turnovers, but couldn't put the Pioneers away until the closing minutes.
The Blue Hens jumped out to a 3-1 lead in the first quarter, but Sacred Heart got a goal from Karl with just 12 seconds left in the opening period and Tony Tanzi scored with 6:43 left in the second quarter to tie the game at 3-3. Delaware scored the final four goals of the half, all in the final 6:31, to take a 7-3 lead at the break.
Delaware built its biggest lead of the night at 8-3 when Smith scored right after a faceoff win as he tallied his second goal just five seconds into the second half. Sacred Heart's Collins and Delaware's Dickson traded goals to keep the UD lead at five at 9-4, but the Pioneers scored the final two goals of the stanza as Collins and Jon Flood connected and then tallied the first of the final quarter on a goal by Evan Morgan with 11:35 left to play to pull SHU to within 9-7.
Delaware got some breathing room as Zuder-Havens scored just eight seconds later and Dickson and Smith scored over the next two minutes to increase the lead to 12-7. Sacred Heart pulled to within 12-9 on goals by Greco and Nicholas Russo, but couldn't manage a goal after the 4:49 mark.


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- Among Massachusetts women, the most commonly diagnosed cancer types were cancers of the breast, bronchus and lung, colon/rectum, and corpus uteri (uterus).
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Cancer Deaths
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- Cancer mortality in Massachusetts decreased from 2009 to 2013.
- Cancer of the bronchus and lung was the leading cause of cancer death for both men and women between 2009 and 2013. Prostate cancer and breast cancer ranked second in mortality for Massachusetts men and women, respectively. The third most common type of cancer death in Massachusetts men and women for 2009-2013 was cancer of the colon/rectum.
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Having hit a marginal setback in volumes in April this year, car manufacturers are finally gaining ground once again as sales figures in May, 2016 have turned out to be optimistic.
The growth indeed comes as a positive sign for the 2016-17 financial year as car makers have lined up a host of models for launch later in the fiscal. Making the most out of this growth has been Maruti Suzuki with as many as seven products making it to the top 10 list. However, it was Toyota that made a surprise entry to the list last month.
Toyota Kirloskar Motor's new generation Innova Crysta was the ninth best-selling vehicle in May 2016 with 7259 units moved out. To give you perspective, Maruti sold just 120 Celerios more than the new Innova, which says a lot about the people carrier's popularity. That said, a clear idea of the MPV's sales will be clear in the next couple of months.
The Swift Dzire is the second best selling car in the country
Talking about Maruti Suzuki's best sellers, the Alto and Swift DZire continue to hold on to the top positions on the list, but have seen a major spike in sales. The Alto sold 19,874 units in May this year, a good 19.85 per cent growth in sales compared to April. Similarly, the Swift DZire saw a whopping 68.28 per cent hike with 16,968 cars shipped out last month. The WagonR saw a marginal drop in numbers with 13,231 units sold last month, downy by 13.65 per cent; while the Swift has also seen volumes go down with only 12,355 cars being sold.
The difference between the Baleno and Swift is a mere 2351 units
Incidentally, the drop in sales for the Swift has been largely due to the demand for the Baleno. Maruti's first premium hatchback finished seventh with 10,004 units sold in May and a growth of 4.62 per cent. While it did not outsell rival Hyundai Elite i20 that clocked 10,472 units, the difference between the Baleno and Swift was a meagre 2351 units. The Celerio also saw a marginal drop in numbers with 7379 models moved out, a drop of 13.68 per cent over April this year.
The Vitara Brezza currently accounts for almost 50% of the total compact SUV segment sales
The newest Maruti to enter the list is the Vitara Brezza that clocked 7193 units in May 2016. The subcompact SUV has been doing extremely well for the manufacturer and also managed to outsell segment rivals Hyundai Creta (7057 units) and Renault Duster (1764 units) last month. The Brezza currently commands close to 50 per cent of the compact SUV segment sales. Talking about Hyundai, the Korean manufacturer's best selling product was the Grand i10 and moved up to the fifth position with 12,055 units sold; a jump of 22.51 per cent over April 2016.


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Back when Barack Obama first ran for President, he and his followers assured us that his election would restore love and respect for American around the world. To put it mildly, things haven't worked out that way. And it's not just because of Obama's foreign policy blunders, or America's enemies moving to take advantage of an Administration so weak that it can't even admit when it's been attacked, cooking up wild fantasies about "spontaneous protests" and evil YouTube videos instead. Despite all that swooning praise from supporters for his vast personal charm, this President hasn't connected at a personal level with many foreign leaders – certainly not nearly as well as George W. Bush did.
In fact, with Hugo Chavez gone, the only foreign leader Obama seems to click with is Recep Erdogan, the strongman of Turkey. Take a look at this article from Michael Rubin at Commentary and see if you can guess why:
It is near impossible to talk politics with Turkish journalists before everyone at the table first takes batteries out of their cell phones. The judiciary has been tapped, as have newspapers.
Erdogan has stacked previously apolitical bodies with his own party hacks, and transformed technocratic institutions to wield against the press. He has had them, for example, levy fines of billions of dollars to silence some outfits, and seized and sold at auction another. The sole bidder (after others dropped out because of political pressure)? Erdogan's son-in-law.
The newspaper Rubin refers to, Sabah, used to be an opposition paper. But now that it's been given to Erdogan's son-in-law, it's much more friendly to the regime. In fact, it just ran a guest editorial of swooning praise written by… President Barack Obama.
"Erdogan cares little about democracy," judges Rubin. "He wishes domination, personal enrichment, and a complete transformation of Turkish society that is impossible to achieve if anyone can ask questions or expose his actions."
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I planned to blog more often, but failed miserably already…It's been almost a month since my last post.
We had a week off at the beginning of January. Which we used to install LED lighting in the kitchen. I had been complaining of the lack of light on the workspaces for ages and we finally got around to install a LED strip. Which gives a huge amount of light. Works great!
This meant we haven't gotten around to sort out the hallway yet. This will have to wait just a little bit longer.
I've been very busy with BookCrossing. As I blogged earlier, I've committed myself to a 365/365 challenge. I've also managed to commit myself to the 52/52 challenge. Which basically means I have to release 52 books in 52 different towns. Not sure how that happened. I think it had something to do with night shifts and the inability to cope with the severe lack of sleep…
So far I've released 52 books and 4 more to come on a set time. I've also managed to rope in my coworkers to help with the 52/52 challenge. This means I'm now up to 9 different towns all over the Netherlands.
So, still to do is the hallway, which won't happen quickly. My parents in law agreed to help, but my father in law has a suspected hernia, which prevents him from even moving around. His backpains are currently controlled a bit by Morphine.
Jay and I have agreed on asking a painter to do the window and door frames inside. This would take us forever and since we have a few broken doors this is quite vital. My dad has agreed to help us place new doors once the door frames are painted.
We also had a minor problem with our washing machine. The morning after my night shifts I sat watching Homes Under The Hammer when I suddenly thought I heard a tank coming through the street. This would have been unusual, so I walked up to the kitchen window to look out. I then realised the incredible amount of noise was actually coming from somewhere above me. Turned out the washing machine had decided it was time to find a better spot. It was literally jumping up and down. I tried holding it down (silly, i know) when I noticed a burning smell and some smoke coming from the machine. I figured it was time to pull the plug. Thankfully in time to save the laundry, which contained my favourite sweater and jeans. My neighbours across the street were kind enough to lend me their washing machine for a bit so I could at least get the washing done.
So now we have a brand spanking new washing machine! Which, somehow, takes way longer to wash than the old one did…
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Day 1: Did you know that Rachel's original last name was Robbins?
Behold the pilot script for Friends, where Rachel was "Rachel Robbins," Phoebe was more into busking, Monica was a little more cynical, Joey was kind of mean, and the show was called Friends Like Us. But beyond the superficial differences, you really do get a glimpse of the show Friends would eventually become, particularly in the more gentle moments between Ross and Rachel. Man, those two.
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I work at a small consulting...will look more sleek. There will be 15-25 slides that will need work - they will need to fit within our general brand look/feel, be editable by us (ie, you must create them in PPT), and all fit together nicely. We'll give you basic wireframes and/or copy of what we're looking for on each slide and you'll go from there.
We are invited to the local industry event to do a 3 minutes pitch for our software solution. For this, we need an appropriate set of visual...industry event to do a 3 minutes pitch for our software solution. For this, we need an appropriate set of visual slides to support our storyline. We're missing visuals for two ppt. slides. Deadline: 24 August
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Ah, summer Fridays, where the conditions are pretty much ideal for incubating pun-filled Twitter joking. Thanks to Best Show on WFMU co-host Tom Scharpling and the music-licensing company Bank Robber Music, Twitter this afternoon was taken over by people riffing on the catalog of venerable indie Merge Records and various foodstuffs. Hilarity followed, as did a potential menu for a dinner party before this weekend's big Archers of Loaf gigs.
To drink:
Wye Oak-Aged Chardonnay #cafemerge
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In the bread basket:
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Effective Email Marketing for business
Sending emails just to a group of people is not an email campaign. Certain ethics should be followed while setting up an email campaign, to make it effective, so that it reaches brings in branding and conversions to you. If you are first-timer making an email campaign or already if you have run an email campaign and failed, no matter, make it right next time, so that you get purpose and intention of the email campaign fulfilled. Below are the few things you need to look at, whilst shooting an email campaign.
1. Understand the Objective & Plan the Email Campaign
It is more important to understand for what and whom you are sending the email, and what is the purpose (objective) and result should be. The email campaign can be to generate business leads, to promote and raise awareness about your product brand, or sending it to existing customers to increase the retention rates or to do up-selling / cross-selling. Once you understand the business requirement, make a plan to get ready with the campaign. Below are few important things to be considered while shooting the email campaign.
a. The Database
Database plays a crucial role in email marketing. If you have got a database of your own or you are hiring a email marketing agency to do an email campaign, make sure that the database is authentic and not Bot-Generated. Authentic is permission based-email marketing, whereas bot-generated is the database which is acquired from the web using some scripts.
If you are shooting an email campaign for a Car Rental Company or Hotel, the email content should focus more on the brand and enquiries.
b. Target Audience
Identify your target audience, based on criteria which match your business. Few things to be considered would be the people age group, industry, income level, gender etc. If your target audience is not well planned – this might lead to a failure. Example, if you are sending an email campaign to sell cars, and the age group is less than 18 that doesn't solve the purpose, as age is not suited and income level would be less.
c. Email Response Tracking
When the email is shot, you need to know what the open rates are and click rates. This report will ensure how much your brand has reached the people and how many are interested etc. Don't forget to use the Google UTM – to track your hit rates in the analytics. If an agency is doing it or you have got the bulk email software make sure you have the option to view the reports.
d. ROI
Know your budgets and act accordingly. Plan your email campaign, in a way that you can take the return on investment, based on the conversion rates.
2. Creative
Creative is one of the important factors which are an integral part of success to an email campaign. The creative, should be designed in a way that it gives trust to viewer. Things to keep in mind while designing.
- Logo – Make it look prominent
- Prime Message – provide short ,simple and upto the point
- Call to action – What users wants to do.
- Font & Color Usage – Make sure you use the right color which matches your logo and more importantly based on the region of target audience.
- Images – Use appropriate images.
3. Subject Line
50% success of your email campaigns Open-Rates / Click-Through depends on an effective subject line. Make sure you use a subject line that gains the interest and attention of person who opens the email. Do not use the words, free, offer, and discount, also unethical words in the subject line, as most of the web / email engines, consider them as spam.
4. Emailer Template
The email template should be HTMLized and also alt text should given, so if images doesn't open from HTML the text version will ease the user to read. Now that the technology is developed, most of the people they check email using their iPad, iPhone, blackberry or any other mobile applications. So the email template should be designed and developed in a way that it is compatible with the latest technology.
5. Landing Page
Whilst the call-to-action is there in your email template, make sure it is linked to the right place in the website. The Landing page should be designed extra-ordinary to ensure, it is more informative and will interest the customer to make an enquiry or opt for the service.
6. Email Testing
Don't forget to check the emails with different email ids and email service provider before shooting it to customers. (Check in Gmail, yahoo, hotmail, your official email id, outlook, apple etc). This test is important as this will show you how the readers will see your email. Make sure that the images are not broken, unnecessary spaces, mails are not ending up in spam folder, html and text version works fine etc.
7. Use Unsubscribe Link
Always use a unsubscribe link at the footer of the email. So that readers can unsubscribe for your email anytime and also web servers makes sure it is not spam and is permission based.
8. Email Servers
Make sure your email server or the client's email server can handle bulk number of emails. If there is lot of emails being sent from specific IP, which doesn't have the capacity to handle, high risks are there to get you website/server blacklisted. This is either for bulk emails being sent is specific pulse time or even because of high bounce rates.
9. Communicate across Various channels
If emails are sent make sure you are communicating it across various channels like website home page banner, advertisements etc. wherever possible to make it effective and aware.


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And that's why you started this thread, and that's why we're having this discussion.
If I tried to create my own system it would be flawed and biased as well. I believe there
is no real "one-size-fits-all" solution.
All matters of abortion, parentage and parental rights, cut deep into the philosophical,
religious, and moral fiber of what it is to be human. There is no easy answer.
Originally posted by CobraCommander
It makes perfect sense. Stealing a man's seed is the same thing as raping a woman. And you make jokes about it.
Originally posted by Funshinez
Originally posted by CobraCommander
It makes perfect sense. Stealing a man's seed is the same thing as raping a woman. And you make jokes about it.
How about if you don't trust someone don;t have sex with them? Doesn't that make more sense than being really crazy paranoid about women "stealing seed". And, baby, judging by your posts in this thread, i can 100% certifiably guarantee no one is going to try to steal your seed. You're safe from seed stealers, i promise. Now quit worrying and go get 'em killer. =D
Originally posted by CobraCommander
reply to post by SHABBYCAT
It costs no more than $100 a week to raise a child. Cut than in half, since the mother is responsible for the ohter half, and a man's "obligation" should never exceed $50 per week.
EDIT to add: And that includes healthcare. If the father is providing the medical, his payments should be even less.edit on 1-6-2011 by CobraCommander because: (no reason given)
Originally posted by CranialSponge
If men could get pregnant, birth control would be free and abortion clinics would be on every street corner.
I personally know of three women that are paying court ordered child support to their exhusbands because the husbands won the fulltime custody. One of those women also pays alimony due to her higher income level.
The US is a bass ackwards country still stuck in the 17th century.
Those who whine about the laws in a 17th century country need to pull their heads out of their self-pitying arseholes and demand change.
Murder is the unlawful killing of another human being with "malice aforethought"
"[a] human being" —it refers to a discrete life form that has properties of mind (i.e. experience and character, cf. sentience), which are deemed to constitute a more complex and evolved state than simple organisms (i.e. that have only "life functions").
Originally posted by CobraCommander
reply to post by Anthony1138
Your choice, your responsibility. Shared choice, shared responsibility. Equality. See how that works?
Well here we have it folks, I was correct. Any chance to bash females.
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Come into the main concourse where Boots and other shops are located. Turn left past the ticket office and come out the glass doors at the end. Take the 2nd left down Wellington Street (the 1st one is Aire Street which takes you to the car park at the back of the station). Take the third right turning – Queen Street – and walk to the end. You will see Bagel Nash in front of you. Turn right down St Paul's Street. On your left you will see Pizza Express and the turning for Park Square West. 51a St Paul's Street is a shiny grey building on the right, between UCU and DLA Design. There is a buzzer controlled entry and our offices are on the first floor.
Walking from the city centre
Come down the Headrow heading out of the city centre. You will pass the Town Hall on the right hand side and you then come to some traffic lights. Turn left here – into Park Square – and carry on past the grassed area in the middle and down past Pizza Express until you get to St Paul's Street. Turn left and our offices are on the opposite side of the road.
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R/GA has gone through many an evolution since it was founded in 1977. Under the leadership of its beret-wearing, future-minded chairman Bob Greenberg, it has morphed from a stellar movie title shop, to a digital studio, to major digital advertising player and now, an all-in-one full-service agency, product developer and consultancy.
Following its success with Nike Fuelband, R/GA pulled off another massive Nike feat-the overhaul of Nike's online presence with the award-winning OneNike. The platform unified the entire Nike story--everything from products, shopping, campaigns, services and inspiration--and 70 different digital properties into a singular, integrated ecosystem that works globally, across multiple devices.
Other ideas proved transformative for brands' business. The agency brought beauty shopping into the future with a new website for L'Oreal that brought complete personalization to customers across multiple devices. It also made the daily commute a lot more exciting for makeup shoppers with the "Intelligent Color Experience," an interactive shopping kiosk at New York's Bryant Park that could analyze customers' outfit and give makeup recommendations based on their attire. Even more important, shoppers could buy the goods on site.
R/GA also created a unique digital marketing tool for, of all things, a CPG brand, spice manufacturer McCormick. The agency created Flavorprint, and algorithm-based tool that does for flavor and food planning what Netflix and Pandora do for Movie and music. The service uses an algorithm to measure the flavors within ingredients and recipes and can help customers identify recipes they will like.
And while the digital innovation continued, in 2013 R/GA came full-circle and returned to its filmic roots with a big push into broadcast. The agency teamed with Cheil on a massive soccer-themed campaign promoting Samsung's Galaxy mobile devices. It featured a series of cryptic, sci-fi themed films that pit famous football heroes as the defenders of an earth under threat of alien invasion. According to Mr. Greenberg, the campaign, created alongisde Cheil, was a concerted effort between the agency's New York, L.A. and San Francisco offices."We are going from the web, to mobile, to social, to TV," he said. "It's the opposite of the traditional agencies, and there's no digital agency that can produce quality storytelling consistently across multiple offices."


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Research Fellow, Bristol Zoological Society and University of Exeter
I am an ecologist and conservation biologist with the Bristol Zoological Society and the Environment and Sustainability Institute at the University of Exeter.
My research focuses on the population demography, behaviour and conservation of seabirds, particularly how they interact with human impacts in the marine environment.
My work is funded by the Zoological Society of San Diego, the Leiden Conservation Foundation and a number of other charitable trusts.


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Ashen Victor
Story & Art by Yukito Kishiro
English Adaptation – Fred Burke & Toshifumi Yoshida.
Publisher – Viz.
"Do not fear the ashes…for you were born to victory!"
Sport can be fun, right? Ice hockey, basketball or rugby, there's something for everyone. An there's undeniably a certain level of controlled violence within sport. Ashen Victor, or perhaps I should say Motorball as it was first introduced in the legendary Battle Angel Alita mangas, looks at the way sport works and throws a few specific ones such as Rugby, Ice Hockey and your preferred racing sport such as Formula 1 into a room, bludgeons them half to death with some healthy cyborg amalgamation and lets them loose into a land where death and violence is a simple way of life.
Voila you have Motorball where cybernetically altered players blaze around a circuit on what's basically skates though they move at about 300km/h chasing…the Motorball no less. It doesn't matter who has the ball for the longest but who crosses the finish line on the appointed lap with it that matters. The ball's a round thing with holes for gripping and little stumps that rotate to dislodge the players grasp. Putting fingers in the bowling ball-esque holes disables the stumps, though does nothing to the lethally minded competitors behind and in front of the ball carrier. There are no real rules on use of violence in Motorball perhaps other than the more the better, fans sure like it, but if there was any rules there would be no real way to enforce them as anyone stupid enough to try and stop what's more often than not basically a razorblade sprouting tank moving at 300+ km/h should at least know they'd end up as a minor speed bump, paintjob for the player and spectacle for the crowd. Besides which the crowd, especially those in the special seats that show the game from a specific Motorballers field of vision, violence and crashing is what it's all about.
That little explanation was for anyone not familiar with the world of Motorball as it holds a central role in what's essentially a very…very violent sports drama. As I had said previously Motorball was first introduced through the Battle Angel Alita mangas created by the same author. Through "Killing Angel" and "Angel of Victory" Kishiro focused on the bloody world of Motorball and the sort of characters that compete in it though the focus was always Alita's struggle to find herself. For love of what he had created in those mangas, Kishiro set out to expand on the gritty, lethal world of Motorball through another's eyes, long before Alita came to race through the ranks. And so, Snev, amongst many other characters, were born.
Ashen Victor is a story about overcoming your demons and accepting who, what and where you are. Snev lives in 'The Scrapyard' of Battle Angel Alita saga's creation, though long before the rusty angel is found and resurrected. Down here snuff films about hookers getting vivisected is common street fare and small crying children are silenced with a swift kick to the head which everyone else just walks around the mess it creates. In Snev's own words "This…this is a frightening place…" an he's not joking around. That's one of the things that makes Kishiro's art so sadistically beautiful but I'll comment on that goodness later.
As you may have guessed, (or did I already say?) Snev is a Motorballer though a very unique one as he's titled the Crash King. In his six months of play he hasn't finished one race though not through lack of talent, in his tryout he had exceptional talent, just that his inner demons force him into the circuit floor for the sheer ecstasy of crashing. One of the useful things about being almost completely cybernetic is the body can be smashed into a beautifully drawn oblivion without killing the actual player, which Kishiro and Snev have made excellent use of in Ashen Victor.
Aswell as Snev overcoming his demons and struggling to survive in The Scrapyard, there is an intricately weaved story of deception, murder and corruption behind the Motorball circuit as after the ball crosses the line and the people go home, the team managers have to deal with the politics, profits and losses which was one of the main things that wasn't dealt with in the two Battle Angel Alita mangas that covered Motorball. How this conspiracy spills out into the lives of others is what makes Ashen Victor so interesting over the simpler battles held on the Motorball circuit, though they all play an integral part in the stories development, bringing it all to a whole singular piece.
No manga review would really be complete without discussing the artistic style and that's especially true for any manga created by Yukito Kishiro. I'd really like to add some more images but if I wait to find the cables I need in boxes having recently moved and such, this'll never get posted so you'll have to take my word on it. As I've already noted on, Kishiro's style is very dark, and in that he holds power in the realm it's used. Except for a few small exceptions such as light shadow and skin under metal, Kishiro's style is to use a harsh contrasting black and white form throughout Ashen Victor, giving it an appropriately dark outlook. Other facets of Kishiro's art is that of the abstract figurative kind, such as one moment where the Motorball actually grows a mouth and starts giving Snev a pep-talk. The ball bitching at him is a representative of his realisation and will to succeed instead of crash and burn. Being hounded by the ecstasy of crashing, his crash demon is represented by a strange figure that bears a sharp, nearly demonic contrast in that his skin is pure black and his running vest white. With jagged teeth and some sort of mist flowing from his mouth, it taunts Snev into what he wants him to believe is the only truth – burning along the circuit floor. At one point the characters are shown as insanely scribbled stick figures rushing along on an equally jagged backdrop of just black scratched lines, followed by the form of two black hounds attacking one another. The symbolism or sensation gained from this and so much more that I really shouldn't comment on fills in on the effect to convey the adrenaline rush and madness that truly is Motorball.
On the subject of the characters I'm kind of in two minds as to my feelings. Not in that the characters that are used are bad, just it's a shame that none from Battle Angel Alita were used. Ajukutty for instance was labelled the Crash King of the circuits there but his story was that he goes more for making others crash, taking everyone down with his martial arts rather than getting the ball over the finish line. When I first heard about Ashen Victor I'd thought it was actually his history, which would have been interesting though that it isn't far from detracts from the quality of the story. It would have just been fun to see some of those familiar characters on the Motorball circuit in their prime, maybe the champ Jashugan before he had perfected his Machine Klatsch. On the other hand it's nice that Kishiro didn't pick up any of his old characters as without them Ashen Victor is for one free from any possible loopholes or little things that people with nothing better to would find and point out. An whereas it would have been cool to see a side-story of how Jashugan competed with Ed to the point of where he was damaged so bad that as in the Battle Angel mangas he needs constant medicine to keep his arms stable, that none of this is touched on gives it a nice detached feeling. It holds the Motorball circuit true to it's name, though after that all is new and fresh for the reader. Maybe even just a cameo from one of the motorballers on the circuit would have been neat but that's no big loss.
On having read another short review regarding this manga, I can understand better why Kishiro broke it away from any small connection to the Battle Angel's saga or characters as the reviewer said some could have wondered just what it really had to do with Battle Angel Alita. The distinction is that Motorball was created within the Battle Angel's series of mangas. In Ashen Victor, it's that same sport from that same excellent writer and artist, though otherwise, right down to the players and teams, it is a completely self-sufficient manga and not just milking a popular character liscence.
Due to all this, Ashen Victor becomes a nice short manga that gives itself out equally to those who don't know who Alita is or what Motorball is as it does to those who are – like me – waiting with baited breath and quick delivery for Battle Angel Alita – Last Order vol. 04 – Angel of Protest, and everyone in-between that's perhaps not as raving a fan. Anything you need to know is given to you as the story opens up, and if there's something you don't know, neither did I as you're not supposed to until the time is right, which could well be when the book finishes up as it'll give something to carry to the next page for.
Recommended for anyone looking for some quick, dark and violent sci-fi action with wonderfully gritty artwork and a full, involved plot development. Especially for those who were taken in by the enthralling Motorball days of the Killing Angel though readers should be aware that the sport itself is the only connection held to the Killing Angel.
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This is from an article in the Wall Street Journal 4/22/12 entitled Rethinking the War on Drugs. It concludes, "The U.S. has reached a dead end in trying to fight drug use by treating every offender as a serious criminal. Blanket drug legalization has some superficial charm—it fits nicely into a sound-bite or tweet—but it can't stand up to serious analysis. The real prospects for reform involve policies rather than slogans. It remains to be seen whether our political process—and the media circus that often shapes it—can tolerate the necessary complexity."
I had long been a supporter of Decriminalization of Personal Drug Use, in fact, I posted it as a bill here. It was highly rated but then after reading this article, changed my mind, withdrew it, and replaced it wth what I now believe to be the GREATER approach.
The article continues, "Legalizing possession and production would eliminate many of the problems related to drug dealing, but it would certainly worsen the problem of drug abuse. We could abolish the illicit market in cocaine, as we abolished the illicit market in alcohol, but does anyone consider our current alcohol policies a success? In the U.S., alcohol kills more people than all of the illicit drugs combined (85,000 deaths versus 17,000 in 2000, according to a study in the Journal of the American Medical Association). Alcohol also has far more addicted users.
Any form of legal availability that could actually displace the illicit markets in cocaine, heroin and methamphetamine would make those drugs far cheaper and more available. If these "hard" drugs were sold on more or less the same terms as alcohol, there is every reason to think that free enterprise would work its magic of expanding the customer base, and specifically the number of problem users, producing an alcohol-like toll in disease, accident and crime."
There were a number of programs mentioned in this article that include, significantly increasing the tax per alcohol drink, to frequent mandatory and random drug and alcohol testing for repeat offenders with brief incarcerations for failures.
The end result is heavy users changed their behavior with much less time endured behind bars, with much less cost, overall, to society. But, in a culure that values "easy" answers this requires that we care enough to implement a more difficult (yet cheaper) solution.
The article was co-written by Dr. Kleiman, professor of public policy at the UCLA Luskin School of Public Affairs. Dr. Caulkins, Stever Professor of Operations Research and Public Policy at Carnegie Mellon University. And Dr. Hawken, associate professor of public policy at Pepperdine University. They are co-authors of "Drugs and Drug Policy: What Everyone Needs to Know."
You can read the whole article here.
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Filmmakers Suree Towfighnia (pictured above) and Courtney Hermann went to South Dakota many times over the course of four years to film the story of the White Plume family.
POV: What kind of crew did you have during the shooting of Standing Silent Nation? And how did the shoots work given that you and Courtney lived in two different parts of the country?
Suree Towfighnia: Our crew's pretty much always been Courtney and myself, and luckily we can still have a conversation at the end of it all, because it's really challenging to constantly be working with one other person. That being said, we couldn't have made the film had it not been for the multitude of people who have come and gone throughout the process.
Unfortunately for us, the times when we brought in outside people as part of the crew were never the times that anything important was happening. So it was frustrating, and mostly it was just the two of us out there in the middle of the plains, cleaning gear, cooking dinner and trying to shoot and do sound and look at footage and make sure we're not missing the story. Remarkably, our friendship remains intact!
Courtney moved to Portland right when we started making the film, and I lived in Chicago, and the movie took place almost directly in the middle of our locales in South Dakota. We would both go out there for a week or two every other month for a couple of years. Sometimes when we would fly out there, nothing would happen, and we'd feel like. "Oh my god, we just wasted all this money, and all we did was sit around waiting with our cameras." Other times when we would be in South Dakota so much would be happening, and it would just be me, or it would just be Courtney, and we were doing everything ourselves.
We're first-time filmmakers, and we weren't very strong at prioritizing grant writing and fundraising because we were too busy making our film, teaching, going to grad school, trying to have a life, etc. Initially, we were making the film mostly on our own financing. I wouldn't recommend that for anyone else, but that was the only way we knew at the time to accomplish the kind of film that we were trying to make.
POV: You're shooting in a beautiful but very harsh part of the country. Can you talk about the importance of geography and land to the film?
Courtney Hermann: It's really hard to take a shot out there without it being beautiful. The landscape out there is gorgeous, and it also is a little bit overwhelming at first. The land is a really important character in "Standing Silent Nation." It's the land base for the Lakota people and their nation. It provides the resources that the White Plumes would like to use so that they could create some kind of an economy to support themselves and the tribe at large. It's beautiful, it's rugged, it's harsh, and I think that Lakota values are reflected in that landscape somehow. It's a place where there are no stores and no jobs and no bank and no close gas station and no medical facility, but the Lakotas are making a go of it out there, because that's their land. And even though the sovereignty of the Lakotas has been eroded over time through violations of treaties, that land base is still intact, and it's a really important character in this story. That land represents the Lakota's historical existence, and it also represents the possibilities for the future.
POV: There are beautiful shots of the hemp field during different times and seasons. Why did you keep going back to shoot the field?
Hermann: Over the course of the four years during which we shot the film, we would try to hang out in the hemp field during different seasons and document what was happening to the land. When we first saw the field and shot it, it was the year after the DEA had carried away all the plants. The seeds kind of trickled behind the agents as they walked, and the plants grew again the next year. That field was green and quite beautiful.
Then we kept visiting that field again and shooting the plants through the seasons and through their whole life cycle. It was important for us to keep revisiting the hemp fields. The hemp plant is possibly like the new buffalo for the Lakota, where every part could be used for all manner of things. It represents the ability of the White Plume family and the Lakota to sustain themselves on their own land. And so it was really important to us to continue to go back every time we visited and get as many shots of this surviving hemp as possible. Not only was the hemp representing the possibility to sustain this family into the future, the plant itself was living and regenerating without being tended to; it was a true survivor, much like the spirit of the Lakota people. Hemp survives season after season, year after year.
POV: Can you talk about the music you used in the film?
Hermann: The music that we use in Standing Silent Nation is primarily from the Crazy Horse Singers, a group out of Manderson, South Dakota. We also used music from people in the White Plume family. Most of the music that we use in the film is from people who live on Pine Ridge currently.
POV: How did you end up with the video that the DEA took when they raided the White Plume's farm?
Hermann: We didn't know that this footage existed for a really long time. Later, we came upon a producer from New York, and she had some footage of the White Plumes planting hemp the very first year. Through the Freedom of Information Act, she had found this videotape that the DEA agents in the field had taken during the first raid of the White Plume crop. We got that footage from her.


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Autism and Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD) are general terms that are used for a series of complex lifelong disorders where the affected person has difficulty in social interaction, communication, verbal and non-verbal communication, has restricted interest and activities, repetitive behaviour, lack of empathizing, etc. Its symptoms tend to emerge between the ages of two to three years. The number of autism cases is increasing worldwide.
The exact causes for autism disorders are unknown to the current science, though it is believed that several complex genetic and environmental factors are involved. Though there are many theories put forward, none of them sufficiently explain causes of the wide and diverse variety of symptoms seen in autism.
As per the following DF analysis, causes of autism and related disorders are mainly dependent on conditions arising out of if and how VP-LB communicate and how CB-ROMs are built and used.
Based on the above, the notion that autism is a developmental disorder can be confirmed by the fact that VP is developed over time and CB-ROMs are built using VP-LB communication.
Following explains mechanisms and defects that are responsible for most symptoms seen in autistic patients.
Importance of CB-ROMs in a Social World
If I punch a punching bag, I will not feel guilty for the bag, as I know it does not have any sensations and feelings. If I punch you, I know you have sensations and feelings and you won't like it, which is derived from the fact that (based on my own experiences), I don't like it when someone punches me. It sounds like common sense, but that is how we come to know of other people's experiences and mental states.
In detail: Extrapolated mental states (as given under title Building CB-ROMs) like intentions, desires, beliefs, opinions, wishes, etc., and subjective experiences of others are connected and mapped by a person to his own experiences and mental states
(as mentioned under title Understanding Other People's Minds). Usage of common resources
(more under title Using Common Resources) to process similar experiences between personal B-ROM and CB-ROMs enable him to realize, based on his own mental states and experiences, how his actions are affecting the other person. Such realization gives him the ability to empathize with others, or, "put him into another person's shoes". This begins to happen in early childhood, when, typically through explanation from another person (or via knowledge gained from other external sources) a child learns to connect and map other people's experiences and mental states to his own. As mental states are mainly responsible for actions, having knowledge about other people's mental states allows him to predict their actions.
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Ben reviews cookbooks.
In a back-to-school column, Chris Bonnor and Bernie Shephard question whether we really have private schools in Australia any more.
Years ago we began to widen school choice by increasing public funding of private schools. We were told this … would be a good deal for taxpayers when families paid much of the schooling bill. … And now [that] promise – that publicly subsidised private schools would actually save public funds – is under challenge. The public funding of private schools has risen to the level where the running costs of most private schools are now substantially met by combined state and federal funding. If a private school is defined by who pays then they are rapidly becoming public.
They still collect fees, a hangover from when they needed the money to match the investment in public schools. But for all but the wealthiest schools the fee income seems to be icing on the cake. When we realise that schools enrolling similar students churn out similar results, it becomes harder to justify the icing – especially when governments are such big partners.
(Fair play to Bonnor and Shephard, they've managed to blow some fresh wind into the sails of a report they wrote six months ago for the Centre for Policy Development: Uneven Playing Field: The State of Australia's Schools.)
My very safe prediction for 2017 is that the usual suspects (Simon Birmingham, Kevin Donnelly, the IPA muppets) will again tell us that increased education spending hasn't improved our academic results, and that it's more important to consider how the money is spent.
I agree! Let's ask whether the money pumped into over-resourced private schools couldn't be better used elsewhere.


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