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I agonized about writing this analysis because it's very dangerous in our day & age to write the truth as we see it but far better to suffer for the truth than to hide it from my countrymen… for the moment.
GotNews.com has been researching the truth about what really happened in Charleston, South Carolina and have a few observations and more than a few questions.
Dylann Roof created his Facebook account in May. He had 80 friends. Nearly half of whom were black. Indeed, one of Roof's close drinking buddies was black. Roof's Facebook settings were such that no one could comment on them. Facebook later deleted the account. (I'm not sure why but there's always an impetus to delete the accounts of mass murderers. Maybe it's a branding problem?)
How was Marcus Stanley able to leave a comment on Dylann Roof's private Facebook page?
Archived because Facebook shut it down. https://archive.is/LM2Tt
This Anonymous poster basically had the exact same experience a few of us did:
"I actually have an interesting story about this. I was browsing Dylann Storm Roof's facebook profile at the moment that Marcus Stanley (forgiving black preacher gospel singing dude) posted that long, loving-tolerant Christian message of forgiveness on Dylann's page. Which is odd because the account settings had been either set to private or friends-only because I (along with everyone else) did not have any option to "like" or comment on any of the content of Dylan's page. It was not a public page. The only content displayed publicly was that profile pic with the swamp in the background. But you couldn't comment on the photo unless you sent Dylann a friend request that had been accepted.
But then….lo and behold! Along comes St. Marcus and he's perfectly able to post a comment – the ONLY comment allowed on the entire page – in which he humbly forgives his white hateful oppressor and offers Dylann hope in Christ.
No one was able to post a comment except Marcus. He was the first and the last. The option for other people to "like" or comment on a post never appeared because it was an otherwise private profile. Curiously, the only option available was to "share" the post on which Marcus had written his sermon so that the word could spread around and everyone could see how morally superior this ex-ganster black guy is (who is also conveniently an outspoken survivor of gun violence). What a perfect and sweet little image. Isn't that curious?"
The flood soon began:
"The Only Comment on Dylann Roof's Facebook Photo Will Bring You To Tears":
"There's Just ONE Comment on Dylann Roof's Facebook Photo, and It'll Make You Cry":
There's Only 1 Comment on Dylann Roof's Facebook Photo. And It's So Powerful It's Going Viral
There's a hundred articles with the same copy. Across conservative and liberal media alike. But none of them are asking: How could Marcus Stanley comment on a private Facebook profile without being friends with Flood? How was his account the single one with the magic access power to leave a comment? Stranger still was the available option to share material from a private profile. FB doesn't have a setting to diable likes and comments, but keep shares. Also, nothing else had the option to share, just the single photo with the good Rev's comment.
So how was the good Reverend Marcus Stanley able to leave a comment on Dylann Roof's private Facebook page? Answer: someone wanted him to be able to.
But why? And why would a Roof not have a Facebook account until May 2015? The answer is that this millennial wasn't very popular. He was a loser but that isn't going to stop the social justice warriors from turning him into a martyr.
Guns and madness… never let a crisis go to waste.
Roof was previously arrested for drugs. No one is asking the following: Why, by the way, is Roof's drug past relevant if Michael Brown's drug past wasn't relevant? If drugs affected the white Roof could they have affected the black Brown? To ask these questions is to be a thought criminal even though they are the obvious ones to ask.
An acquaintance reportedly claims Roof was on prescription pills, the side effects of which are suicide and violent thoughts. Roof was said to be interested in weird questions and ranting to friends. In February Roof was arrested after going store to store at a Columbia mall and asking about the number of employees and closing time. This is decidedly not normal behavior.
The onset of schizophrenia is roughly 21 years of age.
@HeidiL_RN Roof, 21 y/o, is reported as withdrawn, deteriorating, asks 'bizarre questions', drug abuse. pic.twitter.com/Ztv5gCxweP
— WvK (@WillvonKaenel) June 20, 2015
And the likelihood of violence increases if you do drugs.
@JEANNEinWa @HeidiL_RN The latter. *If* Roof is schizophrenic, that also drug abuser puts at high violence risk. pic.twitter.com/uSPBi9WY6J
— WvK (@WillvonKaenel) June 20, 2015
Might it be that these drugs played a role in his carnage? Increasingly it seems that while not all prescription pill users are mass killers all mass killers are prescription pill users.
While the media initially reported that Roof's father purchased the gun for him it appears, according to initial reports, that Roof purchased his own Glock with the money he got for his 21st birthday. You should still expect the usual suspects to push the anti-gun narrative though. It's gotten so bad lately that your humble editor buys ammo or a gun after nearly every mass shooting. Guns, not gold, may be the real currency of the future. At the very least it is a prudent and relatively cheap regime insurance investment.
Roof stayed and hung out with the blacks in the church for an hour before he began gunning them down. This isn't exactly the behavior of someone who is a racist but it is the behavior of someone that's crazy. If he were really planning to mess with the black community why did he kill them the day before Juneteenth? (For comparison take the example of the shooter at the Sikh temple in Wisconsin who started killing his victims immediately. If Roof is a "terrorist" he sure is a lazy one.)
The press always uses these incidents to push whatever agenda they are interested in. President Barack Obama has a long, long history of using guns to seize control from the simple minded as first uncovered by yours truly.
He was only too happy to demagogue about gun control and black murders when he sought—and lost—the Democratic nomination in one of the blackest congressional districts. He proudly called for sweeping federal legislation essentially eliminating gun rights in 2000 when blacks were dying in Chicago but not in 2015 when blacks are dying in Chicago.
Obama now says that we need to change our attitudes toward guns. Eric Holder favors brainwashing people into not liking them. Why do a free people need to brainwashed or change their attitudes? Because the government wants power.
Roof and rape culture
Roof reportedly said that "you're raping our women and you're taking over our country. I have to do it."
I don't believe that Roof actually said that simply because it is too convenient for the narrative. Why did he shoot six black women if he was so worried about women?
Might he not have thought all black lives matter? Could it have been that he was just plain crazy? Much to the media's lament, the various white nationalist and Nazi forums have taken to making fun of Roof for being a loser who killed elderly women in a church.
If Roof actually said that blacks are raping our women, he is correct on the facts about interracial rape. (He is less correct about blacks taking over "our country" given the persistent murder of the unborn.)
Blacks way disproportionately commit rapes against whites rather than the reverse. According to the U.S. Justice Department over 34,000 white women are sexually assaulted or raped by black men annually. The figures for white men raping black women are so low as to be statistically insignificant. Black lives may matter but Black women simply aren't desirable—even to rapists. That's why, according to porn star Mercedes Carrera, black women are paid the least in the porn business. The market has set its prices and spoken. (Such, by the way, is life. There are a number of sperm banks that have banned my tribe—the gingers—from participating because women don't want to have ginger children.)
Feminists don't want to talk about this interracial rape inequality. Carrera (who I met at Gamergate in LA) noted the silence with which feminists treated the brutal gang rape of her colleague, Cytherea. We aren't supposed to talk about that silence or that her rapists were black thugs with criminal records. For more on what happens when a country ignores the rape of its white women read J. M. Coetzee's masterly Disgrace about what it is like to live in modern South Africa where white women are raped as an exercise of power by poor blacks. South Africa is the world's rape capital, after all.
Was rape culture to blame in Charleston? Roof could be considered a white white knight crusading for white damsels in distress.
In truth the white cracker Roof was probably a drugged up virgin who lashed out in much the same way the rich biracial Elliot Rodger or Asian Cho Seung Hui did. Roof reportedly told black friend and drinking buddy Christon Scriven—what white supremacist has black drinking buddies?—that Roof planned to shoot up a local community college. This being South Carolina, though, he probably knew that despite the stupid law that college kids can't have guns on campus more than a few South Carolinians would be packing heat. The only safer place for a rampage was a black church so that's where he went. The only blacks who own guns aren't often in church, are they? Roof managed to gun down elderly blacks who are what is left of what's good about the black community.
Race, apartheid, and our civil wars
There's a photo making the rounds of Roof supposedly wearing a pin from pre-1990 apartheid South Africa and of Rhodesia. This supposed revelation caused Rhodesia (modern day Zimbabwe) to trend on Twitter.
This trending photo wasn't good for the narrative because it forced some cognitive dissonance. Why was Rhodesia so much better off than Zimbabwe in all the social indicators we measure?
On a personal note: the nicest dog on my paper route when I was a boy was a Rhodesian Ridgeback. Your humble reader has some friends from Rhodesia who are Jews who opposed apartheid but nevertheless fled Zimbabwe. Experience has made fools of philosophers though not, apparently, of congressmen. Indeed U.S. Senator Jeff Flake was a supporter of Mugabe and argued that Mugabe wasn't really a communist but a Western-style capitalist. Oops. Zimbabwe just announced its latest quadrillion-dollar bill, equivalent, roughly to five dollars. I'm sure Flake will do a better job with Cuba, won't he?
Money can't buy you love but sound money can buy you bread. That's why black Zimbabweans have been calling for whites to recolonize the former breadbasket of Africa, much to the consternation of Nicholas Kristof of the New York Times, who hectored the denizen of Harare that they weren't sufficiently race conscious before jetting back to collect yet another honorary degree and live in his majority white neighborhood. The black Zimbabweans would prefer to live under a white patrician than in a supposedly free hellhole. But you won't hear that while their real slave master is feted by the mayor of the most powerful city on the planet. Nor will you hear much about it when the White House invites the modern-day slave masters – black African dictators – to party with him.
You aren't supposed to ask if maybe, just maybe, black Zimbabweans and white farmers were better off under l'ancien regime. To do that is to be a racist even if it is a sincere inquiry. Progressivism means touting Rhodes Scholars like our first black President Bill Clinton and U.S. Senator Cory Booker (D-Twitter) without embracing Rhodesian Cecil Rhodes or praising Marxist progressive income tax without discussing Marx's views on the "barbarian countries." The progressives believes you can take the fruits of the racists without planting the seeds. Elizabeth Warren and Barack Obama are fond of saying to businessmen that they moved their goods to market on roads that "the rest of us" paid for. But not all groups pay their fair share in taxes or even know how to pave the roads.
South Africa just marked twenty-five years of African National Congress rule and it has been at least that many years since it completed a major infrastructure project. The Rainbow Nation's current president, Jacob Zuma, sings about having his machine gun brought to him so he can kill white South Africans, sleeps with HIV-AIDS invested prostitutes (but hey, he took a shower!), steals government money to build a swimming pool and a chicken coop on his ranch, and despite a direct order from the government, declined to arrest the war criminal dictator of Sudan on his head of state visit.
I don't know about you but I can't wait for South African Trevor Noah to do the job that the American Jon Stewart can't stop doing and lecture us still more about race relations. To his credit Noah has mocked Zuma mercilessly. Will he show the same courage in going after Obama? And if he does will be permitted to keep his job?
Trayvon Martin gave us Dylann Roof and Barack Obama gave us Trayvon
Reading Roof's manifesto you're struck by the power of memes in the Internet age to change thoughts and behavior and ultimately politics. Indeed much of his manifesto appears to be plagiarized from the various chans. If it seems cogent it is because someone else thought it and wrote it first. Still, even plagiarists make artistic choices about what's worth stealing.
Roof writes that he wasn't raised to be a racist but came to his racism through experience and observation. The child of a broken home, Roof didn't experience much white privilege. He no doubt sees the confederate flag less as a symbol of states rights or the Confederacy and more a middle finger to the power structure. In this he is very, very dangerous to the existing order. His writing is at times flattering toward Jews ("good networkers") and he's conciliatory toward Asians and even ambivalent about Hispanics until the very end. This isn't your grandfather's white supremacy which makes it far disturbing to the powers that be.
The thing that made Roof a white supremacist wasn't upbringing but the Trayvon Martin episode. In other words: Roof is reacting to the media's doctoring of the NBC News tape, the selective racial hysteria, the cover up of Martin's violent past, the denial of evidence that would have exonerated him. He is reacting to a culture that tells him that all lives matter except for white, young ones who can't get jobs thanks to the illegals that will replace them. The more we are told that Black Lives Matter and that America is going to be brown, brown, brown, a lot of young white people will understandably ask their parents and political officials how they let this happen, especially as they are hundreds of thousands in debt while their illegal immigrant classmates get tuition breaks and scholarships. The white unprivileged trailer park trash might come to resent being told how privileged they are when they are on the new plantations.
Black and progressive activists used the Trayvon Martin-George Zimmerman affair to push blacks to register to vote in the central key state of Florida. It worked, of course, with Romney losing Florida by 70,000 votes. Romney expressed surprise when he learned how many blacks voted massively for Obama. But he shouldn't have been: Obama had gotten them angry by saying Trayvon Martin could have been his son. By cynically scaring dumb black voters—police killings of blacks is low by any objective measure—Obama was able to get them to the polls. Who could forget Joe Biden's promise that they are going to put y'all back in chains?
This was the same strategy the Black Lives Matters/Ferguson rioters and activists pushed in the Michael Brown-Darren Wilson controversy until yours truly and a few others called bullshit through our reporting. (They have long memories which is why I was censored from Twitter by DeRay McKesson partnering with his ally Jack Dorsey. Fortunately the short sellers can assess Twitter's real worth.)
Like the Western-educated jihadis who become more Muslim than the Muslims, Roof self-radicalized through the Internet, picking and choosing what parts of white supremacist ideology he liked. It became a part of his identity. Who even sells a Rhodesian pin these days? How likely is that a 21-year-old high school drop out would know about Rhodesia or pre-apartheid South Africa, nations which no longer exist, except through careful study?
The photo with the badges was first remarked upon by the Southern Poverty Law Center ($PLC) which is using the Charleston shooting to push its fantasy (and fundraiser) of a white racist under every bed but which definitely doesn't want you talking about its intellectual support of the Chick Fil A shooter. Saying who is and who isn't a terrorist has a lot to do with who has power and who doesn't. This is why black cop killer Christopher Dorner isn't a terrorist despite an anti-white manifesto but Dylann Roof is thanks to his anti-black one.
As an aside, let me note that there's some debate online as to the badges photograph's authenticity. Still, in the interest of fairness, other amateur photographers say the image contrast is well within bounds. I don't know and I'm not competent to say but I'd wager that the photos are authentic.
As far as the alleged photoshop is concerned, multiple commenters noted that the contrast was well within tolerance for a non PS'ed pic.
The narrative and meme warfare
We aren't conspiracy minded at GotNews.com but it does seem odd that there's been this linkage of flags and policy so quickly.
Flag day was June 14th and suddenly people like Jon Stewart are making this argument about the Confederacy. Why? Are we seriously having a discussion about a flag and the names of streets? How Third World post-colonial.
This isn't 1960 or 1860. It's 2015. South Carolina has a black U.S. Senator, an Indian-American governor, and "bro with no ho" U.S. Senator who is rumored to be gay (not that there's anything wrong with that). This is not your grandfather's confederacy. Indeed by some estimates one in five of the people who now live in the South can trace no lineage at all to the South of 1860.
In the midst of the unpleasantness that was the Mississippi Senate primary the Mrs. & yours truly were shepherded around civil war battlefield Vicksburg by our friend Jeremiah—a black Chris McDaniel supporter who proudly wore a T-shirt bearing the confederate battle flag.
The South is complicated, y'all. Just ask this black college student who fought for the right to fly his stars and bars from his dorm room. The old joke is that the South hates blacks in theory but loves them in practice while the North loves blacks in theory but hates them in practice. The revealed preference of all of the journalists celebrating the Black Lives Matter hashtag is to live in gated communities, high-rise apartments, or lily white neighborhoods. The Atlantic's affirmative action hire—Ta-Nehisi Coates—lives far removed from blacks in a multi-million dollar home. And if you so much as mention that they live among whites and in white society you can expect to be censored. Hypocrisy is a prerogative of the powerful. How easy it is to tweet fuck the man when he's cutting your checks and afraid not to, lest you burn down his cities.
The real reason the progressive left freaks out about the Confederacy is that they fear what it symbolizes to their power. If the U.S. could collapse only 150 years ago could it collapse again? Roof seems to have considered joining the Northwest Front—a movement to start a secessionist state to the Northwest—but as a good Southern boy it wasn't for him. But it might be for others who are reading his manifesto.
Abraham Lincoln opposed secession on the Declaration of Independence grounds that you can either alter or abolish the government but you can't leave it. You can't have a more perfect union with fewer members in it. His duty, as commander-in-chief of the Union, was to preserve the Union because it was a vehicle for human liberty and a protector of rights. But what if the Union doesn't actually preserve those rights anymore for anyone? A healthy country tolerates a degree of autonomy and dissent in its state capitols, especially as the states whose flags pay homage to the Confederacy disproportionately send their boys to fight in our Middle Eastern wars. It's better to raise the good ole Southern boy's Confederate flag than the white one.
That's why the scariest photos isn't the one where he's flying the Confederate flag but the one where he's burning the American flag. If the young white men who disproportionately fight and die for America don't believe in Old Glory what hope is there?
If they can take down the South Carolina flag expect people to mess with Texas. Like the Taliban that destroyed the Buddhist temples or ISIS rampaging villages the Black Lives Matters rioters are interested in destroying whatever remains of what they'll call white supremacy but which is, by and large, white people being proud of Western civilization. "Hey, hey, ho, ho, Western Civilization has got to go!" Jesse Jackson once chanted at Stanford. And now, as black radicals destroy war memorials, they are making good on their promise. You may burn the Confederate flag but you are not allowed to burn a Koran. Tell me what you are allowed to burn and who is allowed to do the burning and I will tell you who has real power. The uniqueness of the United States—the only country to fight a massively blood civil war to free slaves—is lost on the Black Lives Matters rioters who are happy to deface Confederate war memorials but know nothing of the history they would destroy.
Indeed the whole movement can be seen as a giant effort on the part of black activists to renegotiate black America's Faustian welfare state's terms while Obama still clings to power. The strategy for those of us who love the truth must be to tell it proudly and defiantly and run out the clock and hope that the republic still matters.
But now, with the media unable to comprehend madness, a mass murder is about a flag and the usual well fed right is only too happy to follow suit. National Review's editors followed, of course, in calling for removing the flag. So much for standing athwart history yelling stop. Not to be outdone a Republican state senator is pushing for legislation to stop the stars and bars from flying from the capital. The last Republican presidential candidate announced that he thinks South Carolina should no longer fly the confederate flag.
There's nothing worse than an ex-president except, of course, a president who never was. Every time he opens his mouth he reveals how beta he is. He and his supporters insist on reminding us how often he was right, how nice a man he was, how great a president he might have been but they failed to do their job and elect him because they were so interested in selling us the nice guy who can fix the economy while Obama was accusing him of killing people and hating dogs. Romney didn't let slip the dogs of war and was too busy saying tone deaf things like "Who let the dogs out"? He's been neutered and paraded around to perform whenever the media needs its minstrel show. Not content to get his ass kicked by one half black man he did it again just for the spectacle. Small wonder that the only Republicans who are reimaging the future – Rand Paul and Ted Cruz – weren't invited to Romney's event in Utah.
Death, dissent, and the disturbed
Should we execute Roof?
A number of Twitter conservatives have argued we ought to. Whether that's because they are status signaling to their liberal masters or out of genuine conviction it's difficult to say.
While GotNews is generally supportive of the death penalty we can't see why it's a good idea here.
Roof is clearly mentally ill (or at least enough that a reasonable person would so conclude). We don't execute the mentally ill (or those with low IQ—though we are told IQ doesn't exist).
Wouldn't executing Roof turn him into a martyr among all the supposed racists out there? Wouldn't more people read his manifesto? And wouldn't that be dangerous for the Republic? The ultimate taboo in our society is race and mad men are driven as much by their own madness as they are by violating taboo, the violation of which is often cathartic. Human beings are status signaling monkeys. It's what we do. Monkey see, monkey do.


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Reminisce and See What You Missed at the 2013 AFP Leadership Academy
October 23, 2013
On Oct. 2-5, more than 300 of AFP's chapter leaders, administrators, board members and diversity thought-leaders gathered in Pittsburgh, Pa. for the 8th Annual AFP Leadership Academy. It was a jam-packed four days—there were plenaries with esteemed and inspiring speakers such as Ed Rensi, former CEO of McDonald's USA, division driven education sessions to highlight all of the exciting projects on the horizon at AFP, breakout educational sessions on leadership and tips on running your chapter and nonprofit, and kicking it off was a gathering of diversity thought-leaders for the first ever AFP Diversity Summit.
If you were there, you may have had the chance to hop on stage and do a faux interview with Carmi McCook, the closing plenary speaker who is a nationally recognized communications expert known for helping high-profile professionals become more powerful and credible communicators. Or maybe you were in the Chapter Management 101 Workshop, throwing around balloons (it's a "you had to be there" kind of moment). Perhaps you snuck out during lunch and savored the local fair at Primanti Bros.—French fries on a sandwich, need we say more? And maybe, just maybe, you were lucky enough to see the new town floating monument—a giant rubber ducky.
In the case that you weren't in Pittsburgh for this thought-provoking, inspiring and FUN event, we've got some of the top takeaways to share that will give you a taste. Whether you're an AFP chapter leader, aspiring leader within your nonprofit, the CEO of a nonprofit, or a budding nonprofit professional, you are sure to gain some guidance from the insights shared at this gathering of leaders in the field and within AFP.
Let's Talk About Diversity
More than 50 individuals participated in the live discussion at the first annual AFP Diversity Summit, all revolving around, what else, diversity! More specifically, inclusion. A culmination of the discussion will be released soon, but until then, here are some bites:
- Stephen Peeler, Vice President of Development at ASAE and a summit facilitator, poses the question, "How do we include, introduce or measure the 'Value of Diversity' to people we meet?" Think about it.
- @AliceFerris, an attendee at the summit, passes on the inclusion insight: Focus on culture, not diversity.
- @StephenPeeler shares a picture of AFP President and CEO Andrew Watt personalizing the impact and value of diversity in his life.
- Immediately following the summit, we were able to nab facilitator Alexis Terry for an enthusiastic recap of the summit—and a look at what's to come for diversity and inclusion!
Whipping Your Chapter Into Shape
Growing every year, the pre-academy workshop—Chapter Management 101—was attended by more than 160 chapter representatives in Pittsburgh. Check out the panoramic shot that AFPeep and Pittsburgh native Dave Tinker snapped in the ballroom:
- @davethecfre says, "Being AFP chapter president is a 'big picture' job."
- @mkta6874 wants to know, "Why are there balloons on the table? Interesting morning…" It's a Chapter Management 101 Workshop secret…but we'll give you a sneak peek:
From One Hero to Another
The opening plenary is kicked off with an honoring statement by Ed Rensi, former CEO of McDonald's: "You are absolutely my heroes and heroines." We can tell this is going to be a great session!
- Inspiring one-liners from Rensi that will resonate with fundraisers:
- He sides with us! @LeahEustace shares a quote from Rensi, "The fact that our government thinks we ought to get rid of the tax benefit to charitable giving is insane."
- Corporations are important to build relationships with, but don't just work with the corporation—work with their employees directly. @mbakercfre shares, "Without profit there is not charity, without charity there is no profit – corporations have no souls but the workers do." @LeahEustace adds from Rensi, "Corporations don't have souls. Their souls lie within the people who work there." Point taken—go straight to the workers to collaborate with a corporation.
- As Ellen Degeneres would say, "be kind to one another". @Willie_Matis shows that Rensi concurs, "A great civilization is measured by art, education, and how its people treat each other."
- @afpwpa: "The needs of our society know no color or gender. The fundraising field needs to become more diverse." We're working on it!
- And then, this happened: "@davethecfe: Ed Rensi just donated $1,000 to #AFPLeadership attendee who asked the first question. A woman from St. Tammany Hospital near #NOLA." Incredible!
Lead, Inspire, Educate
@afpwpa gears up for round two: "Lots of great education for morning 2 of Leadership Academy."
Day two brought education sessions galore! Here are some top highlights:
- Julie Dixon, who presented, The Rules of Engagement: Building Your Brand and Meeting Your Mission Using Social Media, says, "Having a social media profile is the mark of a credible org today." Does your nonprofit have one?
- More Dixon insights:
- "Engagement on social media is not just about the number of followers, it's about the give and take—the values exchange."
- Facebookers beware: "URL shortening services work for Twitter, but not for Facebook."
- More Dixon insights:
- Sam Deep, who brought us, Ten Tools that Build Teams, cuts right to the point, and urges you to do the same: "Non-performers should be on performance improvement plans, or heading out the door."
- More from Deep:
- "Profit isn't a goal, it's an outcome. It's a mistake to keep our people's eyes focused on numbers."
- Rumored to be Deep's favorite word: Expectation. "Number one reason why people don't meet expectations is because they don't know what they are."
- More from Deep:
- Adrian Sargeant, Professor of Fundraising at the Center on Philanthropy at Indiana University, brought an animated and enthusiastic twist to the future of AFP's education. Twitter was, dare we say, a "flutter" with Sargeant quotes and sparked insights:
- @DerekdeLouche: Outstanding Fundraisers understand what they do today as part of a long term system and bigger picture – Adrian Sargeant
- @StephenPeeler: Make sure your fundraising team has a culture that accepts failure. Learn from mistakes. Modify behavior of a consequence.
- @Willie_Matis: Embed yourself in the front lines of your organization. Learn from EVERY part of your org. That's when you become a leader.
- Sargeant defines a "great fundraiser":
- Michael Kumer took us to a place of "zen" with The Zen of Strategic Thinking. He challenges you to look at your mission statement—will it fit on a t-shirt? Because it should!
- Big announcements came out of the Marketing and Communications plenary—a new AFP awards process, complete with video! Check out the Prezi presentation highlighting the new features for 2014! http://prezi.com/1hrk6z8fvp34/afp-awards-program-update/?utm_campaign=share&utm_medium=twitter&utm_source=buffer
Be An AFP Star!
Carmie McCook wrapped up the lively four day event with on-the-spot interviews engaging the audience—no stage fright in this crowd!
Scott Decksheimer is pulled on stage for an interview in front of the audience.
- McCook is a master trainer for media interviews, keynote speeches, high-stake presentations and crisis communication situations, and even she says, "Talk is cheap…until you say the wrong thing." Watch what you say, especially in today's world—social media cannot be erased.
- When preparing your responses during interviews, McCook tells you to know the key points you want to make, and use examples to back them up!
For more from these sessions, you can find some of the full handouts here.
The 8th Annual AFP Leadership Academy in Pittsburgh was enlightening and recharging for our leaders and future leaders. With all of the exciting innovative changes in the works for AFP, the 9th Annual Leadership Academy is sure to be even better. Not to mention that it's in…Puerto Rico! Roberto Soto-Acosta, AFP board member and Puerto Rico native talks about his homeland's ties to fundraising, and the incredible resort where we'll be hosting the 2014 AFP Leadership Academy!


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Nissan: U.S. market share may fall due to parts
There is a risk that Nissan Motor Co's (7201.T) U.S. market share, which has been on the rise, may fall due to a lack of auto parts from Japan, North American Chairman Carlos Tavares said on Wednesday.
Tavares said the risk would be minimal if suppliers could quickly support a ramp-up in production. Speaking to Reuters on the sidelines of the New York Auto Show, he called the next few weeks "critical" to gauging the health of parts suppliers.
Through March, Nissan had 9.3 percent of the market share in the United States for the year, according to Autodata. The company finished last year with share of 7.8 percent.
"It's fair to say that there is some risk," Tavares told Reuters of losing market share in the United States. "We think it's not going to be very big if we are able to ramp up."
Automakers have been plagued by parts shortages, especially specialized electronics, since the March 11 earthquake and tsunami in Japan.
Nissan in North America has "significantly" more than a 25-day supply of vehicles to help it weather the parts crisis, Tavares said. When the earthquake hit on March 11, Nissan had a 70-day supply of cars.
"Luckily, we had some inventory and a cushion. We expect that the ramp-up will catch up before we reach a point of disruption," Tavares said.
He said the company expected to be at 50 percent production within a few weeks and at full production by May or June, when it would see if the supply chain could support increased production.
At the time of the March 11 earthquake and tsunami in Japan, Nissan's inventory was about 45,000 cars above its year-ago level, Tavares said, adding that cushion was expected to last until production increases.
"Hopefully we will not lose momentum or not much momentum," he said.
So far, the industry and Nissan are gaining a better grasp of the parts shortages, Tavares said. The number of parts the company is closely monitoring has shrunk and there are fewer surprises.
"Parts which were in short supply yesterday are fixed today," he said. "In some cases, we changed the sources. In some cases, the supplier fixed the plant."
Nissan was among automakers that moved to relying heavily on single suppliers for individual parts for cost and efficiency. Tavares said he does not expect a big change in auto industry practices because of the parts shortage.


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This is a quick update to let you all know that Blogger team has put an end to Blogger in draft blog which was introduced in 2007 in parallel to Blogger draft service which lets users to try new things before they are released at Blogger.com. The blog was used for keeping users up to date with the latest features, widgets and other miscellaneous developments. Updates will now be shared on their official Google Plus page and you can follow latest news by adding them to your circle. This surely is a step to promote Google's giant project which is their social networking tool: Google+. You must keep in mind that Blogger in Draft service is still alive and you can continue playing with unreleased features of Google blogger through your Draft dashboard. Its only the blog that will no more be updated.
How To Follow blogger updates?
You are provided with two options:
1. Follow and subscribe to Buzz Blogger
buzz is where blogger developer shares latest news, announcements, new products, monetization tips, gadgets, template designs, and important events. I would strongly recommend you keep a close look at updates shared here to keep yourself on the track.
2. Follow and Circle their Google+ page
Here you will find the team even more energetic and prompt to comments. You can directly communicate with them and post your feedback and suggestions. You can also inform them of any bugs or problems you may be facing. You can join Blogger's Google+ live hangouts and socialize like never before. I am sharing below the latest hangout on Blogging for Your Business which took place on May 16, 2012:
The hangout shared important tips for people looking forward to promote a product or brand, drive traffic from search engines and social media, post topics, trends etc. Below is the summary of the discussion that took place
1) Decide on goals. Do you want to promote your products and services? Drive traffic to your website or store? Brand yourself as an expert in your field? Make sure your blog helps you reach your business goals before jumping in.
2) But I already have a website? Why not have both! You can make your blog posts the dynamic part of your website, and still keep the static pages for "About Me", "Hours and Location", "Products" and more. Blogger even allows you to create those static pages easily: http://goo.gl/oDTuZ
3) Establish yourself as an expert. Have a bakery? Post pics of your latest creations or share your favorite recipes. Own a boutique? Write about the latest trends you're seeing and stocking for. When your content is followed and shared, you'll be able to drive traffic to both your website and store.
4) Use social media to draw traffic. Using things like Google+ and Twitter can help get the word out about your content. If you're a brick-and-mortar store, building that social media presence can help you tap in to new audiences and potentially bring in new customers.
5) Have fun. Blogging doesn't need to be a chore. Write short and sweet posts, with lots of visuals, and don't feel like you need to post every day - try once or twice a week to get started.
The last point where post frequency is concerned they mentioned you don't need to post daily, you can try posting once or twice a week. I would strongly object to this point because this is where you shatter all your blogging goals. Millions of pages are uploaded daily and internet is being overloaded with tons of content. Competition is extremely high and search engines are even smarter. Blogs that do not update daily fail in attracting robots, fail in building consistently increasing readership and suffer in terms of page impressions and ultimately low revenue at the end of the month. Google and Bing loves blogs that provide fresh and new content daily. In order to turn the wave of all organic traffic towards yourself and build yourself as an authority you must update your readers daily and ping spiders several times through new posts and comments. This is what that turns out as traffic and handsome revenue at the end of the month. Please carefully read our tips on post frequency to understand this fundamental blogging requirement:
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Among all the things that smartphones have made possible, the use of applications might just be the best. Gone are the days when people would be stuck with the stock applications on their phones. Applications like Facebook and Whatsapp have made it a lot easier for people to communicate with others.
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Whatsapp, ever since its inception, has revolutionized smartphone communication. It offers free messaging services to its users and you don't have to worry about mobile plans just to send a message to someone. This has made Whatsapp one of the most popular apps among children and teenagers, who use it to reach out to their friends and share media with them.
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The problem with such apps is that they let teenagers do a lot of things for free, which opens certain dangerous doors. For one, anyone can contact you at any time if you are not careful, and children are prone to trusting strangers and getting in trouble. They can also share inappropriate media files over such apps, and that concerns many parents.
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By Terry Cutler
It is unlikely that Samsung has a team of "listeners" recording your every word or idle chatter as you watch your favourite shows, because these TVs do not live up to the Smart billing – they are not really so smart, but as we are digitally inclined we might expect such news, or revelations when it comes to these Smart TVs or other devices.
So when someone read Samsung's privacy policy, and called the company, the word circulated that the company was actually listening to your every word. Below is what was written in the Samsung policy.
Please be aware that if your spoken words include personal or other sensitive information, that information will be among the data captured and transmitted to a third party through your use of Voice Recognition.
Samsung changed that paragraph in response and no longer warns you outright but smothers it over with legal ease
To provide you the Voice Recognition feature, some interactive voice commands may be transmitted (along with information about your device, including device identifiers) to a third-party service provider (currently, Nuance Communications, Inc.) that converts your interactive voice commands to text and to the extent necessary to provide the Voice Recognition features to you.
While there is a microphone built into every set, and in your remote, Samsung claims it is only used to respond to a specific set of predefined commands for things like changing the channel or muting the volume, and nothing it hears is sent to any server.
Xbox 360 and Xbox One Kinect service, LG's Smart TVs, Amazon's Echo speaker, or Microsoft's Cortana — mostly for connecting to the Internet, and maybe – and that's a big maybe – they could spy in us, but it's unlikely.
If this concerns you, just go to settings and turn off voice recognition.
- Samsung's privacy policy clearly states how their voice tracking is done by a third-party service provider (Nuance Communications)
- Voice activated
- Part of this new trend of always connected. Internet of Things
- Always on, always listening. Spying.
- As per Samsung's own policy, these Smart TVs are internet connected and are designed to be in passive data collection mode. This presents a security risk.
- Hackers could take over control of such devices (as with the baby monitors) and collect information you don't want anyone else to know, i.e. credit card numbers, phone numbers, addresses, etc
- Could even become possible for a hacker to determine what times of the day your tv is on and off, giving him insight into your schedule
- If concerned, always turn off voice recognition
- Please be aware that if your spoken words include personal or other sensitive information, that information will be among the data captured and transmitted to a third party through your use of Voice Recognition
- Devices currently known for being internet connected: Samsung smart tv, Xbox 360 and Xbox One Kinect service, LG's Smart TVs, Amazon's Echo speaker, or Microsoft's Cortana — mostly for connecting to the Internet.
I'm a government cleared cybersecurity expert (a Certified Ethical Hacker), and the Vice-President of Cyber at SIRCO, an investigations and protections firm in Montréal, Canada.
I'm also a frequent contributor to National & Global media reportage about cyber-crime, spying, security failures, internet scams, and the real social network dangers that families and individuals face every day.


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Reversing Polarity
In school my geography teacher talked about different types of industry and how some were tied to locations i.e. in heavy manufacturing the manufacturing needed to take place close to rail or sea transport hubs to make distribution of the product cost-effective, in the pharmaceutical industry location was tied to having a high quality local staff to work at the manufacturing plant.
In the software industry things are a little different, the output product from the process of manufacturing software is code. Code can can be instantly distributed to any location on the planet with an internet connection, similarly the workforce building software can work from any location.
In an age where "software is eating the world", talented software developers are the new kingmakers of industry.
World IT centers such as San Francisco, London, New York, Berlin, and Dublin all have thriving software industries and software developers moving to these cities can jump from company to company over time and make big money. This life is not for everybody, especially when people start to settle down and have families.
What is the point working long hours if you don't get to spend any time with your family? Possibly both you and your partner are working full time and your kids are in childcare from 08:00 to 18:00 each day?
I have spent allot of time in most of the software capitals of the world, and I have the fortune of spending most of my time with software people. Software developers like to hangout with interesting people, they like to work on interesting problems, they like to eat nice food, drink craft beers, and make fancy coffee.
Many of my friends in the software industry are also gay, lesbian and transgender. Some of my gay friends are married with kids. I have to say these people are the some of the best and most inspirational people I have met in my life. Many of my friends live in evolved places like California.
Bringing it all together:
I started my company nearForm with some great people 4 years ago. I felt the call to move to San Francisco and wanted to move my family out of Tramore, but my wife and daughter convinced me to make my life here and to build nearForm here.
We're doing it, we're winning big business deals all over the world, and we are making allot of our software in Tramore, there's a really big opportunity for us to create something lasting and of scale.
nearForm is now in a major growth phase – and people are now starting to relocate from San Francisco and other software capitals of the world to Tramore!
It's now entirely possible that Tramore can become the go to place for international tech companies to base themselves, but we have to make this place hospitable and show the world that Ireland is an evolved society that treats everybody equally.
We don't need much to make Tramore perfect – the odd good summer, good coffee, beer and quality jobs for people.
More people want to move here – lots more people.
Things don't have to be the same as they used to be where the brains of Ireland were forced to move abroad for jobs is no more.
I'm hoping that YOU vote YES to marriage equality on the 22nd of May to make our town and our country a place where we treat everybody equally.


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Inequality is in. The president, you have probably heard, has declared
If you traffic in opinions, as a pro or an amateur, you'd better have opinions about inequality. And so I set off into the intramural battlefield to see what's up.
For starters, economic inequality is manifestly real, growing and dangerous. The gulf between the penthouse and the projects is obscenely wide. Obama cited some of the startling numbers: The top 10 percent of Americans used to take in a third of the national income. Now they gobble up half. The typical corporate C.E.O. used to make 30 times as much as the average worker. Now the boss makes 270 times as much as the minion. Many factors have led to this trend, including the offshoring of work to low-paid foreign labor, the automation of everything from manufacturing to meter-reading, a
The alarming thing is not inequality per se, but immobility. It's not just that we have too many poor people, but that they are stranded in poverty with long odds against getting out. The rich (and their children) stay rich, the poor (and their children) stay poor.
A stratified society in which the bottom and top are mostly locked in place is not just morally offensive; it is unstable. Recessions are more frequent in such countries. A widely praised 2012 book, "Why Nations Fail," argues that historically when the ruling elites have pulled up the ladder and kept newcomers from getting a foothold, their economies have suffocated and died. "The most pernicious fact of inequality is when it translates into political inequality," said Daron Acemoglu, a co-author of the book and a
The left-left sees economic inequality as mainly a problem of distribution — the accumulation of vast wealth that never really trickles down from on high. Their prescription is to tax the 1 percent and close corporate loopholes, using the new revenues to subsidize the needs of the poor and middle class. They would string the safety net higher: expand
The center-left — and that includes President Obama, most of the time — sees the problem and the solutions as more complicated. Yes, you want to provide greater security for those without independent means (see Obamacare), but you also need to create opportunity, which means, first and foremost, jobs. Yes, you can raise taxes on the rich, but you don't want to punish success. "You want to increase social mobility by providing an opportunity for the bottom to become rich, not forcing the rich to become poor," said Acemoglu, who aligns more with the center than with the populists.
The center-left (I'm somewhat oversimplifying these categories) agrees on the menace of inequality, but places equal or greater emphasis on the fact that the economy is not growing the way it did for most of the last century. The sluggish growth means that not only are the poorest stuck at the bottom, but the broad middle is in economic decline. "The central economic problem is that a middle-class wage does not make a middle-class life anymore," said Jon Cowan, president of Third Way. This diagnosis leads to somewhat different priorities. Of the arguments that pit Democrat against Democrat, three strike me as most important:
The first is how to restart the engine of growth. The populists favor putting more money in the hands of the bottom and middle, who will then spend us back to economic vigor. This is classic Keynesian thinking, largely vindicated by history. But the center-left points out that our economy is already 70 percent dependent on domestic consumers, way more than other developed countries. Liberals of all shades favor greater government investments in education, infrastructure, clean energy and other research. But they divide over policies that might unleash the energy of the private sector. In a line from his speech that was not widely quoted, President Obama said, "The fact is if you're a progressive and you want to help the middle class and the working poor, you've still got to be concerned about competitiveness and productivity and business confidence that spurs private-sector investment." While closing loopholes, Obama would also lower corporate tax rates; he would do trade deals to expand our diminishing share of foreign markets; he would shrink long-term deficits and streamline regulations.
The second argument is over entitlements. The left-left seems to believe that government investments — roads and bridges, clean energy, education, etc. — and more-generous safety-net benefits can all be had by milking the rich and cutting military spending. Most centrists would raise taxes some and cut defense spending some, but they say that unless we also curb the growth of entitlements, the stampede of baby boomers into Social Security and Medicare will crowd out everything else. Between now and 2030, the working-age population that pays into Social Security grows by 15 percent; the over-65 population that withdraws from Social Security grows by 65 percent. No one on the left favors entrusting Social Security and Medicare to the mercies of the private marketplace, as some Republicans do. But while the left tends to treat entitlements as sacred (Senator Warren and others would increase benefits for everyone, even the rich), centrists favor measures to slow the growth of entitlements: using a cost-of-living adjustment (COLA) formula that more accurately reflects how people spend, cutting benefits for those who don't really need them, possibly extending the
And a third difference between the near left and the far left is the question of making government more efficient. This is not so much a policy dispute as a mind-set. In education, health care, Social Security and other areas, the center seems more receptive to reforms intended to get decent results at lower costs. Further left, reform is seen as a euphemism for taking stuff away, and often resisted. The left responds to rising costs with rising subsidies; the center looks for ways to change incentives. Thus centrists put into the Affordable Care Act a so-called Cadillac tax, which aims to assure the government is not subsidizing plans that encourage a lot of unnecessary treatment. The idea encountered resistance from the left, led by unions that had negotiated hard to get more lavish coverage.
There is more common ground than you would know from watching the op-eds fly. Almost everyone to the left of
Neera Tanden, president of the Center for American Progress, the liberal think tank that hosted Obama's speech, has quarreled with the centrists at Third Way, but defines the basic problem — immobility and declining middle-class wages — in the same way. Her group has advocated Social Security reforms similar to Third Way's — including the contentious COLA fix. Significantly, many centrist Democrats who used to side with the budget hawks have mostly conceded that the federal deficit is not a near-term problem for the economy.
Liberals from Elizabeth Warren to Third Way have one other thing in common: a Republican-controlled House that hews to a discredited gospel of gutting government, cutting taxes and letting the market sort it out. Barring a purge of Congress, most of the ideas put forth by the liberals, center-left or left-left, are going nowhere in the partisan sludge pit that is Washington. If you want to see good intentions turned into actual success stories, innovation pressed into service against inequality, you should turn your attention elsewhere — to cities. In the new year, I plan to do that.Continue reading the main story


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With a versatile layout which would suit couples and families alike, the Flatford is a well proportioned 3 bedroom property which comes with a detached single garage.
The lounge/dining room is perfect for entertaining, with French doors opening out to the private rear garden, while the breakfast kitchen has plenty of space for relaxed family mealtimes. A handy storage closet and a guest cloakroom are also located off the entrance hallway.
Upstairs, the master bedroom includes an en suite shower room. Also on the first floor are a well proportioned guest bedroom, a main bathroom and a further bedroom which could alternatively be used as a nursery or study.
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Situated just minutes North of the peaceful, Northumberland town, St. Andrews Gardens is just a stones throw from Morpeth.
Rich in history, this bustling market town is within easy reach of the A1 and just 20 minutes fron Newcaslte city centre.
With a wonderful mix of shopping, beautiful parks, walks and eateries St. Andrews Gardens has it all on its doorstep.
Slotting in to the leafy surroundings, St. Andrews Gardens will incorporate lots of green open spaces to ensure that the site benefits the local area, aesthetically.
On the outskirts of Morpeth, the variation of house styles assures that there will be a design suitable for every buyer.
From First-time buyers to those looking for some extra room for a growing family - St. Andrews will be able to offer you the well-designed, thoughtfully planned new home you're looking for.
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The Government backed Help to Buy scheme is available here. The scheme is open to both first time buyers and home movers alike, and means you'll need just 5% deposit to buy a new home.
With Help to Buy, the Government will lend you up to 20% of the value of your new build home via an equity loan. You will need to secure up to a 75% mortgage and put down a 5% deposit. You'll own 100% of your home from day one.
Help to Buy is also available in conjunction with our easymover scheme, which means we could help you sell your existing home and pay your estate agent fees. Find out more about how the Help to Buy scheme works.
Why not consider Part Exchanging your existing property for a brand new Taylor Wimpey home? With our Part Exchange scheme, you could move into a new Taylor Wimpey home without the hassle of selling your old one.
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Terms and conditions apply to the Part Exchange scheme.
Easymover is available here, which means you could reserve a new Taylor Wimpey home at this development - even if you haven't sold your existing property.
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Please slit your own throats.
Someone needs to drop a giant fucking "L" on this city
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A doctor accused of mistreating a Chicago woman while she was in labor with her fifth child has been fined $500 and placed on one year's probation by a state regulatory agency.
The Illinois Department of Financial and Professional Regulation disciplined Dr. Scott Pierce on Monday for violating the state Medical Practice Actin connection with an incident involving Catherine Skol, who arrived in labor at Rush University Medical Center in March 2008.
Pierce, an obstetrician-gynecologist, chastised Skol for not calling first and denied her pain medication because he was angry, according to a civil lawsuit filed in Cook County in December. He allegedly told a nurse Skol deserved the pain because she had not called ahead.


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Saving Money for Retirement is not a Option
Have you been thinking retirement or how much longer you will have to work? In case you aren't, you should to be. Of course, retirement is nothing that you have to be worried or concerned about, but these days is the time for you to start planning. In all honesty, it doesn't matter whether you are 20 years old or years old. It can never be too soon to start getting ready for your retirement.The first step in saving for retirement is to figure out how much money you will need to save and what will the requirements. When doing this, make sure you keep the inflation rates in mind.You know as well as I do prices will go up it's just like taxes and death.You can find online calculators or a talk with a financial ad visor can give you an estimated inflation rate to work with.Then add 2 percent for good measure.In keeping with estimating your retirement money needs, look at your funds coming in and expenses going out. As for needs, you will need your house and the utilities, food to eat, cars,insurance and cash for your healthcare. These tend to be items that you will never live without.In my case the internet is something I cant live without.
Next, examine your wants. Where might you want to live in retirement? What do you want to be doing in (like a hobby) retirement; biking, Rv or raveling abroad? To have the your retirement years, be sure that you have enough money to do so.Additionally would need to be covered for the unexpected. Often times, the unexpected is taken into account like a medical emergency or possibly a death in the family, however in this case it may be living longer than expected.We can only hope so. Many seniors are enjoying longer than expected life. Unfortunately, many of them may also be running out of money because of this. Don t let yourself be one of these people.Now could be also the opportunity to start paying off any money your debt. The earlier you will be able to pay off your debts, the better your finances will surely be. Both you and your family won't have to worry about your unpaid bills returning to haunt you afterward. You can also create savings by paying off your debts as early as possible. Charge card fees along with other similar late fees can add up, taking valuable money from the your golden years. Once your debt has been paid in full, take the of equal value moneys you were putting towards your debt and dump it into your retirement account/saving account.While it was previously stated, you may wish to seek professional help. This help can come from an accountant or perhaps a financial ad visor or someone ho has been there done that. These professionals can help you create a solid retirement savings plan. For example, they can help you reduce your spending, develop a savings plan, along with help you allocate your funds directly into correct accounts.
When you are employed, you need to have a the better money you should save.


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Warwick has unveiled the Corvette $$ NT Special Edition 68, a custom shop bass inspired by the General Motors 1968 Model Corvette Stingray. The hot-rodded bass shares the car's style with a Candy Apple red finish and an airbrushed aluminum center section while the Corvette name is inlaid into the tigerstripe ebony fingerboard.
Available in 4-, 5-, and 6-string versions, the bass features neck through construction with a swamp ash body and maple neck. Electronics include a pair of MEC passive MM style humbuckers matched with an active MEC 2-band EQ.
The Warwick Corvette $$ NT Special Edition 68 is available now. For pricing and more info, visit the Warwick website.
Warwick Corvette $$ NT Special Edition 68 Specs:
- Construction: Neck Through
- Machineheads: Warwick
- Nuts: Just-A-Nut III Brass
- Neck Wood: Maple
- Fingerboard Wood: Tigerstripe ebony
- Fingerboard Inlays: Corvette custom inlays
- Fingerboard Radius: 20˝
- Scale Length: 34˝
- Frets: 24
- Body Wood: Swamp Ash
- Pickups: MEC passive MM style H/H
- Electronics: Active MEC 2 band
- Bridge System: Warwick standard 2 pcs
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Press release 148/2017
4 September 2017
Minister for Nordic Cooperation Anne Berner will attend a meeting of the Ministers for Nordic Cooperation in Copenhagen, Denmark, on 5 September 2017.
The Ministers are expected to decide on the Nordic countries' new programme in response to the 2030 Agenda, called Generation 2030, and on the future of the Arctic Cooperation Programme for 2018–2021.
The Ministers for Nordic Cooperation will also discuss the budget of the Nordic Council of Ministers for 2018, the continuation of the mandate of the Freedom of Movement Council, and be reported of the impacts of the temporary identity and border checks in the Nordic countries.
Inquiries: Acting Chief of the Secretariat for Nordic Cooperation, Counsellor for Foreign Affairs, Johan Schalin, tel. +358 295 351 781.
The Foreign Ministry's email addresses are in the format firstname.lastname@example.com


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Kristen Wiig was so ready to move out of her SoHo loft, she emptied the place even before she put it on the market.
The barren apartment may not look like much, but the price tag says otherwise.
It's all yours for $2.595 million, CB! has confirmed.
The top floor unit is true Big Apple living with gorgeous eastside and southside views facing One World Trade Center and City Hall and 6 floor-to-ceiling windows that drench the rooms in sunshine.
Manhattan living doesn't come cheap, and at 1,400 square feet it may seem small, but the 11.5 foot ceilings and open floor plan create a multi-million dollar living space.
The open kitchen features only the finest, like Electrolux Icon professional range and microwave, Sub-Zero refrigerator, Bosch dishwasher, Waterstone Water Filtration System, and butcher block countertops. And when it comes to Wiig's boudoir there's built-in storage, a walk-in closet and amazing skyline vistas all the way downtown.
The condo makes up for its lack of bathrooms by making the one as luxe and large as possible with separate rain shower and cast iron tub.
And on top of the nearly $2.6 million just to call the pad home, the new homeowner will also have to fork over $838 a month on top of the hefty mortgage payments for building maintenance costs.
But the former SNL comedienne will be walking away happy if she gets the seven digits she wants. She bought the spread in 2009 from Mad Men and Thor: The Dark World director Alan Taylor for bargain $1.5 million.
And by the looks of the older pics, she gave the digs a facelift over the years with new hardwood, paint and modern touches.
Peek inside Wiig's digs in the CB! gallery above.


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Sonoma Serenity Home 1 ReviewsRetirement Home
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Every resident that I have spent time with here at Aegis, has taught me how to appreciate the past as well as the present. I have a new found love for...
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I know several older folks that live in Park Towers and they love it! For one, there is a mandatory meal plan. Some people prefer this to eating alone...
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There are many groups that seniors may sign up for to keep themselves active and busy. There are games, festivities, and cultural get-togethers. Bingo...


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He loves it because somewhere someone will ask the Christmas questions: What's the big deal about the baby in the manger? Who was he? What does his birth have to do with me?
And the answers he's found give us all hope. God knows what it's like to be a human. When we talk to him about deadlines or long lines or tough times, he understands. He's been there. He's been here. Because of Bethlehem, we have a friend in heaven.
And Christmas begins what Easter celebrates. The child in the cradle became the King on the cross. Because of Bethlehem, we have a Savior in heaven.
These are the heart shaping promises of Christmas. Long after the guests have left and the carolers have gone home and the lights have come down, these promises endure.
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LOS ANGELES --One of two former Miramonte Elementary School teachers accused in a child abuse scandal appeared in court Thursday.
Second-grade teacher Martin Springer is accused of fondling a girl in his classroom three years ago. He was released on bail Friday.
A judge denied a request by Martin Springer's attorney to have a GPS monitoring device taken off.
Springer is allowed to leave his house, but has to stay at least 250 feet away from any park. He is also not allowed to be in the company of minors or contact any of his alleged victims.
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Offices evacuated during bomb threat
Police evacuated part of a Financial District high-rise Monday, after a man angry that he had been turned down to appear on a TV game show walked into a law office wearing a blinking device that he described as a bomb, authorities and witnesses said.
Police also cordoned off the area around California and Battery streets before arresting the man in the law office at 275 Battery St. The situation was resolved around 1:30 p.m., and police were reopening the streets around 2 p.m.
The incident began when a man walked into the Lieff Cabraser Heimann & Bernstein law office and indicated to the receptionist that he had a bomb, police Sgt. Neville Gittens said. Police were called at 12:40 p.m.
Officers evacuated the legal firm's offices on the 28th, 29th and 30th floors and arrested the man. His name has not been released.
Gittens said the man had a device made of a white tube and some sort of flashing light. The bomb squad was examining it to determine whether it was actually an explosive, he said.
Anthony McDaniel, facilities manager at the law office, said the man was holding a note and wearing a belt with a blinking light. McDaniel said the man indicated he was angry because he was passed over to appear on the TV game show "The Price is Right."


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My husband and I have now set the Nam Hai in Hoi An as the standard by which we will measure all other resorts. The pools, the architecture, the beach, the villas are all amazingly gorgeous and the service is superb- friendly, attentive, and efficient. Sun and stifling heat kept us by the pool most of the day, but what a perfect place to be looking out at the sea and listening to the crashing waves. We had our lunch at the poolside restaurant and the food was delicious, although we only sampled the Vietnamese cuisine and can not give you a comment about the western food.
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Tatra National Park (TANAP) - diverse flora and fauna with many endemic species
Tatra National Park (abbr. TANAP) is situated in North of Central Slovakia in the High Tatras. The National Park covers an area of 738 km2. The park offers 600 km of hiking trails and several ski resorts. A trip to Lomnicky peak by chair lift is among the most attractive adventures for tourists in the High Tatras. It reaches the differential height of 1,700 m and carries tourists to a height of 2,634 m above sea level in only a few minutes.


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Twitter Tuesday Phrase That Pays Needs YOU!
Hey Swaggernauts!
It's Tuesday, which means it's time for the Twitter Tuesday Phrase That Pays (a.k.a. TTPTP), the contest where your creativity is rewarded with Swag Bucks (in addition to that warm, fuzzy feeling). Instead of all the bells and whistles, we're going to keep it really simple.
If you want a chance to win the #TTPTP, just do the following:
- Make sure you have a Twitter account, it's free to create an account and sign up.
- Make sure you follow Swagbucks.
- Create a message in 140 characters or less that has #TTPTP in it, along with whatever the TTPTP challenge is.
- Enter that message into the "Compose New Tweet" box on the left-hand side of the Twitter home screen.
- Hit the "Tweet" button to broadcast your message to the world, and sit back and wait to (hopefully) be rewarded for your wit and creativity.
- Include your Swag Name in the tweet!
Today's #TTPTP Challenge is to create a tweet that includes this hashtag: #WithoutSwagbucks (see examples below)
- #WithoutSwagbucks I wouldn't see so many cute cat pics #TTPTP
- #WithoutSwagbucks my searches have no meaning! #TTPTP
- #WithoutSwagbucks I wouldn't have so many $5 Starbucks gift cards! #TTPTP
On Wednesday, 3 Runners Up will win 50 Swag Bucks and one lucky winner will be awarded with 500 Swag Bucks!
Don't forget to include your Swag Name!
Be creative! Good Luck! Have fun!
This week's runners-up (winning 50 Swag Bucks each) are:
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Congratulations to our winners and everyone who submitted an entry!!! We love hearing how you use Swagbucks and the rewards you redeem with your SB!
See you next week for another exciting installment of #TTPTP!
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DVD-89 provides a visual analysis of the principles of final electrical testing for printed circuit boards including Bed of Nails and Flying Probe systems, electrical continuity, resistance/ohms, IS and SH shorts, OP and RO faults, capacitance testing, lot learn/lot comparison (golden board), net-list testing, alignment features, adapters, probe strikes/damage, fault codes, defect analysis systems including head's up display, camera systems and combinations, and an overview of conductor and solder mask repair procedures. An excellent introduction to this relatively complex process for new hires and cross training. Time: 29 minutes.
Notes on DVD / OVT Product Descriptions:
Items preceded by an order number beginning with DVD, are digital video products. These DVDs are designed to play on DVD movie players. They can also be played on computers using DVD playback software.
Items preceded by OVT are Online Video Training products. These digital movies are designed for playback on computers / networks – depending on the license type you purchase. OVT-(S) is Site License (single facility). OVT-(G) is a Global License (multi-site).
Training Certification is an ideal way to train and verify competency in key subject areas, like ESD Control, Lead Free Soldering, Component ID, Safety, and Acceptance Standards. These multi-media based resources include everything a trainer needs to instruct, test and certify that their operators have completed a course successfully. All students with a grade of 70% or better on the final examinations qualify for IPC Training Certification. Please see the sample certificate (.pdf) which allows for user-customization of student name, instructor, and date of completion. There is no expiration / renewal date for any Training Certification program, and they may be administered by anyone in your company.
As an operator-level credential, Training Certification demonstrates mastery of the specific theory and knowledge contained in the course, as evidence of competency for ISO training requirements through an industry-developed training program. Training Certification does not qualify instructors or students to teach or interpret IPC specifications, or assure proficiency in the physical skills required to create products to the requirements of IPC specifications.
Like all IPC Video / DVD, OVT and Computer-Based (CD) training programs, Training Certification is available for unlimited students per the particular licensing structure chosen. These media-based training solutions are created in cooperation with volunteer industry experts – to ensure technical accuracy – and are free from commercial bias.


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X-Blades is the first action game in anime-style developed in Russia, executed in the best traditions of this genre and will certainly astonish the users with its beautiful graphics and many other elements as well, such as intriguing plot, unusual enemies and rich arsenal of murderous skills and magic, which allows the user to fight monsters as efficiently as spectacular. For those who are longing for epos the developers propose to become part of a legend of a mysterious artifact, hair-rising curse and secrets of ancient civilizations.
Users keen on slashing combats will find a huge variety of ways of eliminating countless enemies. Two powerful gunblades which the heroine always carries about allow the user to make a real slaughter in close combat and also feel like an habitue of a shooting gallery. Apart from all kinds of standard guns, which may be everyway upgraded, the arsenal includes more than fifteen smashing spells – so no one would begrudge the heroine's enemies.
X-Blades features a special combination of cinematic style, beautiful animation, and relentless, high speed gameplay. Players assume the role of Ayumi, a stunningly seductive yet tenacious heroine who battles enemies with her pistol blades, acrobatic ability, and magic spells. With full anime cut scenes, the story unfolds revealing demonic powers and spectacular landscapes, all ripe for exploration and battles.
Features :
- The secrets of ancient civilizations, mysterious creatures and inimitable sceneries of the fantasy universe — that is what the plot (consisting of a number of stories) embosoms;
- The main heroine is a beautiful girl, hunting for treasures and artifacts which dower the possessor with destructive magic skills;
- Comprehensible game control allows to demonstrate the beauty of the battle and unbelievable skills and combinations with only clicking few keys. But it pales beside the special mode when the heroine finds alternative form and her power and speed increase in a few times;
- The heroine's weapon are two powerful gunblades which can shoot like guns and hack like a sword at the same time. Furthermore, when the weapon is forceless, magic skills will help;
- Role elements — an opportunity to improve the skills and upgrade the weapon;
- More than 20 magic spells and combat ploys, tens of unique enemies, 30 big and picturesque locations;
- The result of the game depends directly on the player. The plot contains two endings and one of them causes absolutely unpredictable consequences.
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New Fan Engineering App AvailableNovember 18, 2014
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Health & Safety
Sometimes a traveler will experience physical discomforts due to a change in environment. A person's organisim is used to a particular regimen of food and type of climate. Some bodies are more sensitive than others to changes and so the reality is that even though precautions are taken, your teen may experience mild discomforts. We do, however, take precautions. All drinking water is bottled and fresh fruits and vegetables are prepared with potable water as well. Each teen is required to be provided with a mosquito net and Cucuyo encourages your teen to check with the Center for Disease Control about suggested vaccines.
Bonao has it's own hospital and various clinics. Should your teen need medical attention beyond the scope of these facilities, he/she will be taken to Clinica Abreu, the Peace Corp's hospital of choice in the Capital. The iNext health insurance that Cucuyo provides for your teen covers these expenses in most cases; though it is important to read the iNext policy carefully as well as understand what your teen's home health policy covers when the policy holder is overseas.
The Dominican Republic is one of the most stable countries in Latin America. Bonao is not a big city, but unfamiliar surroundings always pose risks. This is why we will cover health and safety information with your teen in their handbook and during the cucuyo orientation. Each teen's Dominican family must always be informed as to their whereabouts during the day. At night, in addition to your teen's Dominican family, his/her youth coordinator must be called and informed and your teen may never go out at night alone. Public transport is prohibited at night.


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Every month, one of MailChimp's designers creates new art for our billboard at the corner of Krog Street and Dekalb Avenue here in Atlanta.
The location of the billboard isn't the greatest. It's too high if you're driving. It's too low if you're riding the train. Pedestrian traffic is minimal.
But it's directly across the street from the Krog St. tunnel, which has long been Atlanta's most notable street art message board. Artists, vandals, and community organizers continually paint over each other's work, with everything from intricately designed murals to hastily scrawled ads for the neighborhood wheelbarrow festival. It's messy. To some people, the tunnel might be a little intimidating.
For as long as I can remember, the only constants at the Krog tunnel have been layers of paint, creativity, and change.
We love that at MailChimp, and it inspires us. We're definitely not alone, either—someone wrote a symphony about the Krog tunnel last year. It's a meaningful place.
After our second Krog St. billboard design replaced the first one, a few of us wondered what to do with the discarded vinyl. Usually it would just sit in a warehouse and gather dust before getting thrown away. David, one of our designers, quickly reminded us of Plywood People, a nearby organization that upcycles old billboard material into handsome bags and wallets.
Plywood is a dozen miles east of the MailChimp offices in a community called Clarkston. In the 1990s the State Department identified Clarkston as one of a handful of places in the United States to resettle refugees. When I was growing up nearby, Clarkston was a sleepy, homogenous small town. Now it's one of the most diverse communities in the world. The change has been remarkable and rocky. More than 45% of the people in Clarkston were born outside of the country, and each year brings several thousand more refugees to the area.
Displaced people who settle in Clarkston only receive 90 days of government assistance. Many don't know a word of English. Most have fled traumatic conflicts. Once they arrive, a good number of the adults can only provide for their families with difficult, low-wage jobs in chicken factories more than an hour away. Not even 10 years ago, local government officials refused to let the kids play soccer.
The folks behind Plywood People knew they could serve their community better.
They began their Billboard Bags program to employ refugees in a valuable, sustainable trade. The women who work with Plywood People receive financial training, ESL classes, and a good job close to their families. The bags and wallets they make are excellent. They're layered with meaning.
So every month after the folks at CBS install our latest billboard art, our accommodating sales executive delivers the old vinyl to our office. Then I drive the vinyl over to Plywood, and the women who work there turn it into something beautiful.
Finally, we take the bags to events we help sponsor. It's a pleasure telling folks about our billboards at Krog St. and sharing the story of the women who transform them. People like receiving free stuff, sure. But when they find out that their new bag has been meaningfully made by inspired people in our community—that's when they're delighted.