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Class of 2008 set the standard for Alabama recruiting
TUSCALOOSA _ The irony wasn't lost on University of Alabama redshirt sophomore linebacker Dont'a Hightower. Friday afternoon he was sitting with three teammates who had been in his same signing class, only for the first time since 2008 they were getting ready to go someplace without him.
Yes, Marcell Dareus, Mark Ingram and Julio Jones all had illustrious collegiate careers and are projected to be first-round selections in the 2011 NFL Draft, but there was a part of Hightower that obviously wanted to be going with them.
Maybe next year ... or the year after that.
"It's kind of weird," said Hightower, who will return for next season to try and improve his draft stock after having major knee surgery in 2009. "Coming in freshman year we all wanted to go three-and-out. It's kind of a big deal. Some guys were blessed to go three-and-out and, some guys will stay an extra year and some guys will go five years. But we're always going to stay close, we're a close-knit group.
"I wish the best of luck for them."
Even though many of them are far from completing their Crimson Tide careers, it's already apparent that Alabama's highly-vaunted Class of 2008 wasn't just as good as expected, but even better.
Consider some of the accolades: National championship, SEC championship, Heisman Trophy, numerous All-Americans, even an academic All-American.
"It was a great class," Coach Nick Saban said. "There was a lot of opportunity for these guys early in their career. These guys took advantage of it and made significant impact on the program immediately. This class had as much to do with what's been accomplished the past three years as any class, and I would say based on their performance and results it's got to be as good as any."
That year Saban's first full recruiting class at Alabama topped the Rivals team rankings ahead of Notre Dame, Florida, Ohio State and Miami. Of the 30 five-star prospects, Saban landed three including Jones, the No. 4 prospect in the nation behind Ohio State quarterback Terrelle Pryor, Clemson defensive end DaQuan Bowers and Ohio State lineman Mike Adams, and just ahead of LSU cornerback Patrick Peterson.
The two other five-star prospects have yet to land regular starting roles yet, with offensive tackle Tyler Love and defensive back B.J. Scott still working their way up the depth chart, and Scott missed all practices for the Capital One Bowl after having ankle surgery.
"I think at this point the 2008 group is certainly on its way to being the best class ever in Alabama history if it isn't already. I remember when this group was signed I talked about not just the talent in this group but also how complete the class is," BamaOnLine.com and Rivals.com Senior Recruiting Analyst Tim Watts said. "This year you see a running back, defensive tackle and wide receiver going high in the draft and next year you could see an offensive guard (Barrett Jones), safety (Mark Barron), linebacker (Dont'a Hightower) and defensive end (Courtney Upshaw) drafted relatively high and all our from the same group. Also you can't forget Terrence Cody from last year. So from a talent standpoint this is a spectacular group.
"From an achievement standpoint the numbers are just as impressive, a three-year record of 35-5 with two SEC West titles, an SEC title and a national championship, and next year they are almost a guarantee to be a two-three ranking in the country so that overall record and the accolades could look even more impressive when all is said and done."
No one may have come further in three years than Dareus, who was rated by Rivals to be a three-star recruit out of Huffman High School in Birmingham, as was one of the players who will try and replace him, Damion Sqaure.
"I had no idea I would excel the way I did," Dareus said.
"Marcell, from the day we recruited him has done unbelievable things to make himself what he is," Saban said.
Here's how the Class of 2008 breaks down:
Have gone pro: Terrence Cody, nose tackle; Marcell Dareus, defensive end; Mark Ingram, running back; Julio Jones, wide receiver.
Regular starters: Mark Barron, safety; Dont'a Hightower, linebacker; Barrett Jones, right guard; Robert Lester, defensive back; Damion Square, defensive lineman; Courtney Upshaw, linebacker; Michael Williams, tight end.
Contributors: Undra Billingsley, tight end; John Michael Boswell, offensive guard; Robby Green, defensive back (suspended 2010); Jerrell Harris, linebacker; Chris Jordan, linebacker; Brandon Lewis, defensive lineman (via junior college); Tyler Love, offensive tackle; Kerry Murphy, defensive lineman; Wesley Neighbors, defensive back; B.J. Scott, cornerback; Brad Smelley, tight end.
Has not played: Glenn Harbin, defensive end/linebacker.
No longer on the team: Chris Jackson, wide receiver (transfer to Georgia Tech); Star Jackson, quarterback (transfer to Georgia State); Alonzo Lawrence, cornerback (transfer to Southern Miss); Ivan Matchett, running back (medical scholarship); Jermaine Preyear, running back (transfer to Alabama State); Corey Smith, kicker (transfer to West Virginia).
Never arrived: Devonta Bolton, linebacker (junior college); Destin Hood, wide receiver (pro baseball); Melvin Ray, wide receiver (pro baseball).
For those who helped make up the up the backbone of the Crimson Tide the sense of kinship is as strong as ever, even among those already moving on.
"It's ridiculous," Dareus said. "We love each other like brothers. We'd do anything for each other.
"For us, to end like this, it's overwhelming. We came in and made an impact."
The same holds true for his now-former teammates, who now also start turning their attention to what's next.
"We can be a really good, dominant defense," Hightower said.
Watts reflected more on the 2008 class:
On Dareus: "Marcel sorta slid under the radar because the summer before his senior year his academics were in bad shape. To his credit he did a lot of work that year leading up to and during his senior year to make it academically. Also much credit should go to Alabama who stayed on him the whole time and committed him late in the process. At the time Kevin Steele recruiting Birmingham for Nick Saban but all the defensive coaches pitched in on Dareus.
"2008 was the deepest year in Alabama history. BOL had Marcel ranked seventh that year which was higher than most but still too low. His senior tape didn't go out until after national signing day had passed and the rankings were done for the year but I think he exceeded everyone's expectation but his own."
On Jones: "Julio was easy. I will never forget Foley sent me tape of junior quarterback Roosevelt Byrd and I thought Byrd was a solid prospect but as I watched the tape I kept wondering who this long kid who could fly was that was hauling in all these passes. I called head coach Todd Watson and he asked me how long before I noticed him. I told him I was a little over 3 minutes into the highlight tape. He laughed and said that was too long not to notice him.
"Julio and (Tim) Tebow are the kids I credit with sending recruiting at Alabama to the frenzied level it is currently at but for completely different reasons. Tebow was good with the media and Julio was did not want to be bothered by it. When I first met Julio, before he was everyone's All-American, he was as quiet and media shy as he is now. He never sought that limelight off the field.
"His recruitment was insane in a lot of ways. He took an official visit to Oklahoma our and the Rivals.com Sooner writers got quotes from him on his visit at the airport before he flew home. That was the first time anyone spoke to him in what seemed like forever. To me his commitment in this class put the stamp on in as a great class."
On Ingram: "When you look back at the lack of hoopla surround Ingram's recruitment it's sort of amazing. It wasn't until December that we felt Alabama was a legitimate option for him. Up until that point most had wrote him off as a likely Michigan State commitment. Once Alabama got heavily involved it all happened real fast. It was pretty obvious how serious he was about Alabama in January with the way he talked about getting away from home and seeing a new place.
"The thing that stood out about Mark was what an awesome kid he was. Well spoken, polite and sincere. He didn't mince his words and in a lot of ways he was a lot in high school like he was the night of his Heisman speech. It's just hard not to like a kid like that."
Summary: "I think when you look back at the 2008 group of 32 signees and you see the guys who have made, the guys who are on the verge of living up to the hype, the kids who changed schools or the ones who tried professional sports you have to be impressed with what they have done and there is still a lot more football to be played."


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Source: Secular Perspectives, July 05, 2017
ndtv.com - July 05, 2017
Open Letter From Mani Shankar Aiyar To Swapan Dasgupta
Dear Swapan,
Come off it, mate! You are just as much a victim of "rootless cosmopolitanism" as I am (your phrase from your infamous comment on human slaughter in the name of the cow in The Sunday Times of India . Else, why would you devote an entire column, as you once did, to decrying the quality of creme brulee in the Bengal Club? Your new-found saffron friends would not even know what you were talking about, let alone spell it correctly. Some years ago, I called you a "Hampstead Hindu". That is what you are and will always remain. There are surely better causes to which you should be devoting your sparkling talents (in the Queen's English, for your Hindi is risible - but don't let the RSS lot know that!) than becoming an apologist for murder.
You justify the spate of lynching we have been witnessing since the brutal killing of Mohammad Akhlaque two years ago by claiming, "There is a streak of underlying violence in India's public culture", adding, "India remains a violent place". Shhh! Don't let Modi hear that for he told his Sabarmati audience on 29 June, "We are a land of non-violence"! You could lose your Rajya Sabha seat for such insubordination.
Indeed, Modi went on to say, "We are the land of Mahatma Gandhi", adding, "No one spoke about protecting cows more than the Mahatma." And since it is you (not he) who holds several degrees in history from St. Stephen's and Oxford, perhaps you should gently lead Modi to a discreet corner and remind him that what Gandhi-ji actually had to say about banning cow slaughter on 25 July, 1947, days before we became independent, as recorded in indirect speech by the indefatigable DG Tendulkar in his masterly day-by-day rendering of Mahatma Gandhi's pronouncements on matters of grave importance, is this : "The Hindu religion prohibited cow slaughter for the Hindus, not for the world. The religious prohibition came from within. Any imposition from without meant compulsion. Such compulsion was repugnant to religion." Should Modi not have been quoting this to a gathering of gau rakshaks and not polluting the sacred precincts of Sabarmati Ashram by misrepresenting Gandhi?
You go on to say these deplorable acts of lynching that have gone on unabated since Mohammad Akhlaque was assassinated by a mob instigated by BJP supporters two years ago point to "weaknesses in state institutions and the shortcomings of our civic culture" - but not apparently to the political culture being fostered by the Cult of Modi. Yes, we have known violence in our society, as there is in every country of the world. But this successive series of Murder in the name of the Cow is a three-year old phenomenon brought about by religious fanaticism as explained by Uma Bharti in an interview she gave after Modi's 2014 victory: "RSS ideology flows through every vein of Narendra-bhai Modi. He is the very embodiment of its ideals, the best vehicle to translate its vision into reality." Quite.
This RSS take-over is symbolized by men like Modi's Presidential candidate who is on record as saying Islam and Christianity are not part of Indian culture and Yogi Adityanath adding that the Taj Mahal has nothing to do with "Bharatiya sanskriti", as he delicately puts it. His Hindu Yuva Vahini chants: "Gorakhpur mein rehna hai toh/ Yogi, Yogi kehna hai". Is this not a direct invitation to fascist violence? Is this not "crude, neo-literate, insular" - which is how you believe we gentle souls on the other side of the political divide regard cow vigilantism. How would you describe it? Ah, we know, as "a popular culture centred on Hindu symbolism". Gandhi would be revolted at this traducing of a great spiritual and civilizational heritage.
Your celebration (what else is it?) of this senseless violence is based on the curious notion that "the ban on cow slaughter has become non-negotiable" Oh, really? Then why is cow slaughter rampant not only in non-BJP Kerala, but also in Arunachal Pradesh (under BJP rule) - and even in Goa under - guess who? - Manohar Parrikar, Modi's erstwhile Raksha Mantri. What of Mizoram and Meghalaya, not to mention Nagaland, where beef is the Naga equivalent of your mainland daal-chawal? And do you know that the first state in India to ban cow slaughter was Muslim-majority Jammu & Kashmir? Of course you do - but dare not say so for fear of being declared an apostate!
Oh, what a fall there has been, my countrymen. For Swapan Dasgupta, yesterday's crusader for every liberal cause (you even stood up for Salman Rushdie's Right to Blasphemy although Rushdie gratuitously chose to give four prostitutes in his book the same names as the Prophet's wives), is today's upholder of "the prohibition on beef" because this "carries a large measure of social sanction". "Social sanction" is another word for authoritarian majoritarianism. In a society as diverse as ours, it is precisely when "society" persecutes the dissenting individual that liberal democratic values protect the individual's fundamental rights.
Modi proclaims at Sabarmati, "Let us create an India our freedom fighters would be proud of". Of course, begging Modi's pardon, his forerunners were no part of the freedom movement. Where Gandhi, in the pronouncement quoted above, ended by emphasizing that cow slaughter could not be universally banned because "India was not only the land of the Hindus" but "belonged to all who claimed to be of India and were loyal to the India Union" - carefully enumerating in this regard the "Mussalmans, the Sikhs, the Parsis, the Christians and the Jews" - Modi's mentor, Golwalkar, fulminated, as Malini Chatterjee reminds us in The Telegraph, "The concept of territorial nationalism has verily emasculated our nation", declaring such inclusive nationalism as "unnatural, unscientific and lifeless". You have doubtless heard the saying from the Bible (that Modi probably has not, seeing as how it is from the Bible): "The Devil can quote from the Scripture". (Actually, the quote is from Shakespeare's The Merchant of Venice as Swapan, being the Macaulay ki aulad that we both are, has quite rightly divined).
You justify Modi by describing lynching as "an ugly phenomenon that invited harsh comments by Modi". You are too much a scholar of history to not know that when Gandhi-ji was faced with communal madness, not only in Noakhali and Bihar, but on the eve of Independence in Calcutta (Kolkata), he did not limit himself to "harsh comments". He jumped into the fray. His action on the ground earned him the accolade of being described as a "One Man Boundary Force". He walked among the rioters to becalm them, and went on a fast to mark Independence Day that almost took him to his death to bring his people - Hindu and Muslim - to their senses. Nehru famously rushed into a murderous mob, flaying them with a stick, to keep them from killing each other. That, not "harsh comments", is the real way to keep the peace when the police fail their duty.
Modi resorts to the occasional "harsh" comment before rushing off to hug one beef-eater or the other around the world. His words have proved impotent in the past because there is no action to suit his words. This hypocrisy is what makes his "harsh comments" meaningless sounds. It is not we "sanctimonious liberals" with "organic links with the Congress", as you have described us in your parallel article in The Pioneer, but the fact that there is no "middle ground" between murder most foul and the "categorically fascist" forces that took us to Jantar Mantar. As Malini has so succinctly put it, the "cultural nationalism" of the RSS is the stark opposite of the "civic nationalism" enjoined on us by the Constitution.
And, Swapan, you really are at your worst and weakest when you pick up the most meaningless argument from your cohort that "Not In My Name" was a crass example of "selective indignation" because it had nothing to say about the lynching of a Muslim policeman by a Muslim mob in Srinagar. First off, the campaign actually did condemn the lynching of the police officer, Ayub; there was no "studied silence" as you quite wrongly claimed. Unlike you, I was there, among the "thousand or so individuals - educated, articulate, aware and well-off" - as well as "shocked, indignant and apprehensive for the nation's future" (as you failed to add). I stayed in the pouring rain, soaked to the skin but moved to tears by the dramatic denunciation by Maya Rao in Hindi, English, and Urdu, through dance and mime and declamation, of the horrors that we as a nation have witnessed. She was preceded by other artistes pouring out their anguish in Punjabi and other regional languages. We were not an Anglicized, westernized crowd. I was there in my usual kurta-pyjama. You were not, in your usual slacks and shirt. There were no political personalities on the stage. It was not, as you seem to imagine from your armchair - for you were emphatically not a witness to "Not In My Name" at Jantar Mantar, although you had worn a VHP scarf and, muttering "Jai Shri Ram", wandered among the goons breaking the domes of the Babri Masjid on Black Sunday, 6 December, 1992 - it was not "social disdain for Modi and the 'Hindu' trappings of the BJP" but disgust at these killings, consciously promoted by your crowd as the vocabulary of a new politics in what used to be our democracy, that brought us together that memorable evening.
We will continue to live in the "Left-Liberal ecosystem"- what a penchant you have for fine words - until we have driven you and your ilk out of the accidental perch of power from which, with under a third of the popular vote, you are ordering, supervising and monitoring the demise of every civilizational value that you, Swapan, used to stand for.
Yours in "emotional treachery",
(Mani Shankar Aiyar is former Congress MP, Lok Sabha and Rajya Sabha.)


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here is an interesting perspective which I want to share with you (just to make sure, I do not share the claims made but nevertheless found them very interesting and helpful to understand the tradition and the process of purification better). The author of the claims is called Raj Singh:
Raj Singh claims that with the start of Swami Chinmaya Vedanta changed dramatically. He claims that Chinmayananda's guru, Swami Tapovan, was a real guru who lived not only in austerity but actually cleaned up his mind and lived in total freedom.
With the start of Chinmayananda this tradition changed as he did not live the traditional way and did not clean up his mind completely.
Chinmaya being a modern Westernized mind did not agree with the gruel austerity of Tapovan. If you read his dairies you can see his disappointments when his guru Tapovan threw away some Ladoos his devotees brought, into the Ganga. He felt that kind of austere lifestyle was unnecessary and thought some moderate comfort is OK but still thought sahdana was necessary.
He missed the point though. This world is Maya, the problems of this world are also Maya, and one who has vivek realizes this dedicates themselves only to the goal of liberation. They shun all sense objects, all wordly pleasures, all worldly duties.
His disciple Swami Dayananda went even further than him and did away with the Sadhana aspect altogether, for him only the knowledge is important. Do you know what our Swami said to us on one of these 3 year Vedanta courses, "Meditation is only for those who have dull intellect" My objection is this, you cannot decide yourself what level of austerity is good or not or how much Sadhana do you need. The Shastras very clearly say "Shun all sense objects, they are more poisonous than a black cobra, because the poison of the cobra first has to get into you to poison you, but sense objects poison you by just looking at them" It was hilarious in my ashram to see my peers chanting this verse while munching on chocolates(that the Swami gave to them!)
Furthermore, Swami Dayananda continued in this way by turning away from the "Yogic" idea of cleaning the mind and claimed that only intellectual knowledge is necessary for self-realization. Raj claimed that Swami Dayananda never actually cleaned up his mind and achieved - what is traditionally considered - a clean mind such as the one of Swami Tapovan, Ramakrishna or Ramana Maharshi.
He supports this argument by quoting Swami Tapovan who gave both - Chinmaya and Dayananda - the advice to continue meditating instead of going public.
Additionally, he claims that this is the reason why Swami Dayananda said:
that even realized people get angry etc to justify his own claim to being realized, because he himself gets angry and sad like us mere mortals, so he needs to justify it. By doing so he also deluding his disciples, who have personally told me "Yes, I also get angry, sad, experience lust etc....BUT"
But nothing my deluded friend. You are just like every other mortal on the planet then. There is no longer any distinction between a sage(muni) and a normal person(samanaya purusha) Rather, our scripture and shastras tell us the measure to show that you are spiritually developing is that you experience less anger, sadness, lust and disturbances(vrittis) in the mind. The mind becomes pure, still and serene and eventually 100% sattvik, so that it becomes like a clear crystal that reflects the pure Self and such a pure Self becomes Brahman. Such a pure Self attains all of Brahman intrinsic qualities: omniscience, omnipotence, omnipresence etc - verily they become a God.
Mr Dayananda is not realized, enlightened, liberated or whatever. He is a nice guy though.
Basically, apart from criticizing individuals like Dayananda, Raj claims that in earlier times Yoga/purification of mind played a much more important role in Vedanta then it does apparently today:
"It a long, arduous cleansing process that Shankara himself says takes lifetimes. Dayananda completely subverts this process by teaching that merely hearing the truth causes self-realization to happen straight away. He explains this by saying on hearing the truth "Tat Tvam Asi" explained by a qualified teacher(like him) the Brahma-vritti arises in the mind immediately and knowledge takes place instantly. This is tantamount to deluding people. Did Krishna in the Gita say to Arjuna, "Arjuna my dear, you need to find a guru well versed in the scriptures, to teach you the truth" No, instead he said to Arjuna what Tapovan said to Dayananda -- Meditate. (Find a comfortable seat, put your attention on the tip of the nose)
Today Swami Dayananda and his disciples have become the biggest pushers of the cognitive only school of Advaita Vedanta, that simply by listening to scriptures one becomes enlightened. He makes fun of Yoga and meditation and has criticised great spiritual masters like Ramana Maharishi. The version of Vedanta that Dayananda and disciples teach is a modern fabrication which is completely at odds with the Vedanta of Ramana Maharishi, Sri Aurobindo, Swami Vivekananda, Swami Ramakrishna Paramhansa, Swami Sivananda, Swami Rama Tirtha, Swami Vidyaranya all the way back to Adishankaracharya. He has reduced Advaita Vedanta to mere scholasticism.
I have spoken to many of Dayananda's deluded disciples in his Ashram and also attended workshops by "Swamis" he has trained on Advaita class who were full of arrogance(and nobody really liked them). I can see why though, wouldn't you be a bit arrogant, if you were told you "You are perfect, infinite, supreme being"?
Shankara actually reprimanded those by saying "If you are, then put this burning hot coal in your mouth"
What I gathered from Raj's writing is that direct experience is necessary for cleaning up the mind and self-realization (as he calls it).
Direct experience from his perspective is apparently achieved by scripture but mostly through Yoga and meditation.
You will continue to see this world as long as your mind is conditioned to seeing it and it is only through the act of physically purifying the mind(chitta shuddhi) will you be able to see reality as it really is. This is a long, arduous process of spiritual cleansing self-control, discipline, austerity(tapasya) meditation, which Advaita says takes millions of lifetimes. Can you see why new-age people leave that bit out?
Advaita is not for impatient, lazy, deluded or wordly people. It is for people who are very serious about spirituality and are willing to dedicate their entire life to spiritual pursuitt(moksha or liberation) That you know you are progressing on the spiritual path is indicated by your attainments(siddhis) which result due to the mind becoming progressively more pure. Such people can enter into Samadhi very easily(like Ramakrishna and Ramana Maharishi) they have a spiritual aura or glow. They are people of stable and steady consciousness(stithya prajnana)


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One of my most magical memories is of the enchanted island of Inishbofin. It was late--nearly eleven at night--but the sun was just dipping into the ocean. I sat at a picnic table outside the pub surrounded by islanders, sipping a Guinness and watching the clouds edge with pink. A handful of children kicked a soccer ball around, chasing each other through the rutted streets.
The call of the sea was strong that night, a restless luring whisper of magical things to come. If I'd known what I know now, I would have gone down to the beach on that enchanted solstice eve. I would have hidden behind the rocks and waited, hoping to catch a glimpse of the selkies casting their summer spells.
I hope I can return one day to that beach and thank them. For sharing their fairy tale, for letting me tell their stories. I would bring a handful of rose petals, and sprinkle them into the waves. And whisper words in Gaelic. That only they would understand.
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I don't get it, is he dead or alive. Or is this a statue of sorts? Smh
Statue in front on an IRS building.
Only white people will understand thism
@potrostation He was taxed so hard, he doesn't have a pot to piss in.
It's a top advisor from the Trump or Hillary campaign who already called their boss winner of tonights debate.
@toreal this is how i cum all over your mom ...
Is this a got milk commercial ?
The look when you finally get a stream of pee out of a hard-on.
And this is considered art?!?
@toreal If I start using fucked up spelling like 'thism' will that give me street cred? Is that how it works - mo' blacker = mo' ingnincy?
When do the riots start. Oh...that's right...
Ouch take a selfie sitting on his ding dong
His probation officer saw this and had a fap
Henry is this a real statue? Also should I ask about local of the said statue?
that's me after not wanking for two days
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guess where?..he is wearing a Canadian Tuxedo..
I see trollreal already has decorated his garden for Halloween.
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Maines has previously been thrown off the case after allegedly bragging about a possible book deal.
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The problem is that the judge actually hearing the case against Nancy Garrido already appointed another attorney to defend her.
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Robocall Defendants Reaped $15.6M, Regulators Charge
The Federal Trade Commission working with the Florida Attorney Generals Office, filed suit against a group of related defendants, charging them with bombarding consumers with illegal robocalls in an attempt to sell debt relief services and credit card interest rate reductions.
A federal court granted the regulators request for a temporary restraining order halting the operation, which the FTC and AG said took in more than $15.6 million since January 2013 and made hundreds of thousands of robocalls.
Collectively known as Life Management Services of Orange County, LLC, the defendants used generic names like Bank Card Services and Credit Assistance Program when calling consumers, claiming to be a licensed enrollment center for credit card networks such as MasterCard and Visa, the FTC and AG said. The defendants promised to work with credit card companies or banks to substantially and permanently lower credit card interest rates and save consumers thousands of dollars by paying off their balances three to five times faster, according to the complaint filed in Florida federal court.
Instead, consumers were charged an upfront fee of between $500 and $5,000 and the defendants made, at best, a rudimentary effort to contact some credit card companies, the regulators alleged.
The defendants further deceived consumers by offering a credit card debt elimination service. By tapping into a government fund, the defendants claimed that they could pay off a consumers debt in 18 monthsfor an upfront payment of between $2,500 and $20,000. Since no such fund actually exists, the consumers who paid for the purported service only found themselves deeper in debt, according to the complaint.
How did the agency obtain its evidence against the defendants? In the case against Life Management, the FTC told the court it relied upon a telephone honeypot, a bank of phone lines designed to attract robocalls. FTC investigators were the parties answering the calls, and had the opportunity to interact with callers to identify them and document their claims.
While the action seeks a permanent stop to the defendants operations and money for consumer refunds for violations of the Federal Trade Commission Act, the Telemarketing Sales Rule, and Floridas Deceptive and Unfair Trade Practices Act, so far the court has only ordered a temporary halt pending an upcoming hearing.
To read the complaint and the TRO inFTC v. Life Management Services of Orange County, clickhere.
Why it matters:The case was the 39th action taken since January 2015 as part of a collective enforcement effort with state regulators and other countries to halt robocall operations. Actions with agencies ranging from the United Kingdoms Information Commissioners Office to the offices of the attorneys general in Colorado, Missouri, and Washington, among others, have all focused on combatting the nuisance of illegal robocalls, the Commission explained. To further these efforts, the FTC announced that 11 international regulatory organizations signed a new memorandum of understanding to share information and intelligence in the worldwide fight against unsolicited messages and calls. Signatories, all members of the London Action Plan, include regulatory agencies in Australia, Canada, Korea, Netherlands, New Zealand, South Africa, and the United Kingdom, with the FTC and the Federal Communications Commission signing on for the United States.
Can an online lender help solve your money troubles?Andrew Housser is a co-founder and CEO of Bills.com, a free one-stop online portal where consumers can educate themselves about personal finance issues and compare financial products and services. He also is co-CEO of Freedom Financial Network, LLC providing comprehensive consumer credit advocacy and debt relief services. Housser holds a Master of Business Administration degree from Stanford University and Bachelor of Arts degree from Dartmouth College.
7 ways to declutter your debtAndrew Housser is a co-founder and CEO of Bills.com, a free one-stop online portal where consumers can educate themselves about personal finance issues and compare financial products and services. He also is co-CEO of Freedom Financial Network, LLC providing comprehensive consumer credit advocacy and debt relief services. Housser holds a Master of Business Administration degree from Stanford University and Bachelor of Arts degree from Dartmouth College.
What You Need to Know about CFPB's Proposal to Ban Mandatory Arbitration Clauses in Financial Contracts
On May 5, 2016, the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (the CFPB) published in the Federal Register its 376-page proposed rule to limit the use of mandatory arbitration clauses in certain financial contracts. The proposal focuses on contract provisions that bar consumers from filing or participating in class action lawsuits in the event of a dispute, thereby limiting consumers recourse to arbitration (the Proposed Rule). The Proposed Rule, if passed, would allow consumers to bring class action lawsuits against banks and other financial service providerseven if the parties have an existing agreement to waive their right to a trial.[i] The Proposed Rule marks the CFPBs latest effort in moving away from the general preference for enforcing arbitration agreements as a matter of freedom of contract between the consumers and companies, a principle that was long established by the Federal Arbitration Act of 1925 and the Supreme Courts landmark decision in ATamp;T Mobility v. Concepcion.[ii] The CFPB has already previously banned the use of arbitration clauses in mortgage loan contracts.
The limitations set forth in the Proposed Rules are twofold: first, financial services providers may not use a pre-dispute arbitration agreement to dismiss or stay class actions. This limitation must also be clearly stated in the arbitration clause.[iii] Second, the Proposed Rule requires financial institutions to report records and correspondence concerning the arbitration proceedings to the CFPB, such as the claims raised, the awards received, as well as certain correspondence exchanged with the arbitration administrations. The Proposed Rules 90-day comment period closes on August 22, 2016.
The Proposed Rule applies to several categories of financial services providers, including loan brokers, lease and finance auto brokers, banks, credit-card companies, financial data processors, debt collectors, and certain merchants and retailers.[iv] Note that the ban only applies to financial contract with respect to the financial products and services specifically enumerated in the Propose Rule, which include student loans, debt relief services, credit card and charge card transactions, certain auto and title loans, payday and installment loans, debt settlement and foreclosure rescue services, and credit counseling.[v] Companies that also provide other financial services not enumerated in the Proposed Rulessuch as providing business creditsmay continue to use the arbitration clauses to bar class action suits with respect to those services.[vi]
The Proposed Rule came as a result of a 3-year long research conducted by the CFPB on the use of pre-dispute arbitration agreements in connection with the offering or providing of consumer financial products or services. As stated by the CFPB director, Richard Cordray, the CFPB has determined that many banks and financial companies avoid accountability by putting arbitration clauses in their contracts that block groups of their customers from suing them.[vii] Among other things, the research according to the CFPB indicates that consumers are generally reluctant to bring individual lawsuits against financial companies to recover losses less than $1,000, and even fewer consumers are willing to engage in arbitrations. By permitting class actions (or having several person(s) sue on behalf of a larger group of people who would otherwise not elect to files a complaint in court), the CFPB hopes to provide those consumers an effective tool to challenge financial companies through aggregated claims so as to eliminate the barriers to judicial relief that may arise in consumer finance contexts, which often involve small-dollar individual claims.
Opponents of the Proposed Rule have raised concerns that the ban might end up hurting rather than helping the consumers. Their chief argument is that a proliferation of class actions will only help plaintiffs lawyers and not consumers, and that the costs incurred by financial institutions to defend against litigations and to submit arbitration information will get passed on to consumers in the form of higher service fees. They have also noted that the CFPB ignores the benefits and opportunities from online dispute resolution, and that the Proposed Rule will force market participants to eliminate the use of consumer arbitration processes altogether.
The CFPB is now in the midst of collecting public comments and has already received an abundance of feedback from both consumer advocates and industry advocates. Dorsey will continue to monitor the development of the Proposed Rule and provide update. In the meantime, it is advisable for banks and financial institutions to start thinking about the strategic and other benefits from submitting public comment and which of their existing service contracts may be subject to the new requirements, so that they are ready to make the necessary alteration and supplementation when the rules are in effect.
[i] Provided that the agreement falls within the Rules applicability date.
[ii] 131 S. Ct. 1740 (2011)
[iii] The financial providers may comply with this requirement by amending the language in their arbitration agreements to include the following language proposed by the CFPB: We agree that neither we nor anyone else who later becomes a party to this pre-dispute arbitration agreement will use it to stop you from being part of a class action case in court. You may file a class action in court or you may be a member of a class action even if you do not file it. Or they may provide consumers a separate notice.
[iv] The proposed rules specifically exclude a number of service providers, including broker-dealers subject to the regulations of the Securities and Exchange Commission, including those promulgated by the Financial Industry Regulatory Authority; State and Federal government agencies; financial service providers with fewer than 25 customers in the current year and the preceding calendar year; and merchants, retailers, and seller of nonfinancial goods or services.
[v] The Rule would apply to pre-dispute agreements for products listed in Section 1040.3(a) to the extent they are consumer financial products or services as defined by 12 USC. 5481(5).
[vi] The CFPBs proposed language is as follows: We are providing you with more than on product or service, only some of which are covered by the Arbitration Agreements Rule issued by the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau. We agree that neither we nor anyone else will use this agreement to stop you being [from] being part of a class action case in court. You may file a class action in court or you may be a member of a class action even if you do not file it. This provision applies only to class action claims concerning products or services covered by that Rule.
[vii] Press Release, Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, CFPB Proposes Prohibiting Mandatory Arbitration Clauses that Deny Groups of Consumers their Day in Court, available at http://www.consumerfinance.gov/about-us/newsroom/consumer-financial-protection-bureau-proposes-prohibiting-mandatory-arbitration-clauses-deny-groups-consumers-their-day-court/.
Biz Briefing
Welcome to the June 20 Monday Business Briefing, your private business intelligence digest from Insider Louisville.
Survey: Employers worry health care mergers will increase costs
Say hello to another powerful opponent of the two proposed health care mergers: corporate America.
Hartford, Conn.-based Aetna wants to buy Louisville-based Humana, while Anthem wants to buy Cigna. The US Department of Justice is investigating whether the mergers would materially reduce competition.
While the companies have said the mergers would cut costs and improve care, organizations including the American Medical Association have raised objections to the deals, saying they would reduce competition and increase consumer prices.
Corporate America, too, does not seem to be buying the insurersâ claim that the mergers would lower prices, according to an article in Modern Healthcare.
âMany large employers wonât be disappointed if officials torpedo the deals,â the article read. âSeveral surveys of Fortune 500 companies and other big employers reveal nervousness that the reduced competition among health insurers will mean higher healthcare costs for them.â
Modern Healthcare said employers have more of a stake in the Anthem-Cigna deal, which deals more with large employers, than in the Aetna-Humana combo, which provides more services to elderly Americans on government insurance. âBoris Ladwig
See Spot Grooming amp; Daycare growing, looking to franchise nationally
When I first talked to See Spot Grooming amp; Daycare co-owner Khris Batts two years ago, the company was preparing to open its second location and Batts said she wanted to open five stores by 2022.
While that seemed like an aggressive growth plan at the time, Batts and co-owner William Berry have kicked it up a notch. On June 27 with six years left on their 10-year plan, they will open their fourth store. The new store is their third in Louisville and will be located at 5909 Timber Ridge Drive in Prospect. See Spot's other stores are in St. Matthews, on Lime Kiln Road and in Bradenton, Fla.
See Spot offers a variety of grooming services, daycare and training for dogs and cats as well as 24-hour daycare at its St. Matthews store. See Spot employs 45 people company-wide.
Batts and Berry already are looking for their second Florida store and fourth Louisville location. They plan to alternate opening new stores between Louisville and Florida.
âThe [Florida] market very much duplicates the market here in Louisville in terms of income, population, dog ownership,â Batts said.
In the meantime, they also are talking to potential franchisees.
âWe are on the verge of beginning to franchise this,â Batts said. âIt's a matter of who's going to be the first.â
Before they finalize any franchise agreements, however, they are focusing on opening the Prospect store.
âWe really want to be more hands-on with the process,â Berry said. âWe want the stores, no matter where they are, to be very uniform. There is a very high standard that we have.â
See Spot has an academy in Louisville where it trains all groomers, and the stores have open floor-plans, allowing customers to see animals being groomed and trained.
âWe take a very consultative approach with the customer. We really want to learn what they are looking for,â Berry said. âIf you are going to come in and spend your hard-earned money on your little fella or little girl, we are giving you something that you want.â
As it looks to pick up its growth pace, See Spot will undoubtedly exceed its original 10-year plan goals, and it seems on its way to becoming another successful Louisville-based chain.
âThere's a huge appetite in the market for what we do, and the industry itself is really underserved, Batts said. It is a craft.â âCaitlin Bowling
SuperChefs reopening in new location next month
The superhero-themed restaurant SuperChefs is rising from the ashes this July 9, according to the restaurant's Facebook page.
Like any respectable superhero, the breakfast, lunch and dinner restaurant has battled back after a fire destroyed its original St. Matthews home. Although it forced the eatery to close for six months, SuperChefs is preparing to come back stronger than ever.
We have grown since January and can't wait to show you all whats next, chef and SuperChefs partner Darnell Ferguson said in a post back in April.
During the past six months, Ferguson has been readying the restaurant's new location at 1702 Bardstown Road, the former home of Strati Wild Italian, but he also got the opportunity to meet one of his real-life heroes.
After celebrity chef Rachel Ray heard his story, she invited him on the show where he met chef Emeril Lagasse, who Ferguson said inspired him to become a chef. Lagasse then brought Ferguson down to New Orleans to show him around his restaurant there and teach him some of the knowledge he's picked up in his many years.
Housing sales continue to rise in Louisville MSA
Median home prices were up 3.3 percent to $155,000 in the first five months of 2016, and the number of homes sold jumped as well.
As of May 31, the number of houses sold in Louisville's Metropolitan Statistical Area reached 6,489, up 11.3 percent during the same period last year, according to the Greater Louisville Association of Realtors.
Housing inventory remains low. Active listings on May 15 this year were 23.7 percent lower than on the same date in 2015, with only 4,451 houses listed.
The limited inventory of homes for sale is not just limited to Jefferson County. Bullitt and Oldham County inventory is also down 21 percent and 25 percent respectively, GLAR president Greg Taylor said in a news release. Continued low mortgage rates are keeping affordability intact; however, our members are seeing rising prices in neighborhoods that attract first-time buyers due to the low inventory. âCaitlin Bowling
Magazine heralds Copper amp; Kings' brandy as up-and-coming drink
Copper amp; Kings, Louisville's funky little Butchertown distillery, just received some national love from trade magazine Beverage World, which named the company's brandy line as one of the 10 up-and-coming drinks of the year.
In its annual Breakout Brands issue, editor Jeff Cioletti chatted with distillery co-owner Joe Heron and praised him for carving out a niche in a very underserved segment of the craft spirits industry. When asked about his initial idea to make brandy in the middle of bourbon country, Heron answered: We saw an opportunity to do an authentic American brandy that was defined by an American paradigm using American whiskey as a reference point â and American music and culture, as opposed to some traditional aspiration.
A bottle of Copper amp; Kings brandy also is prominently featured on the magazine's cover. Cheers! âSara Havens
Kentucky to the World hosting talk with private businessman Junior Bridgeman
Louisville businessman Ulysses Junior Bridgeman, who usually shies away from the limelight, will record an interview about his life and business before a live studio audience later this year.
The event is for a podcast called Breaking the Mold created by Louisville native Evan Roth, managing partner of wealth management firm BBR Partners in New York City. Roth's brother Daniel Roth, executive editor of LinkedIn, will co-host the podcast episode.
The interview will take place on Aug. 3 on the fourth floor of The Henry Clay Building, 604 S. Third St. The event will begin with a reception with appetizers from Wiltshire Pantry and a cash bar from 5:30 to 6:30 pm, followed by the recording from 6:30 to 8 pm Tickets are $25 and available for purchase here.
Kentucky to the World, an organization that aims to improve the state's image around the globe, is hosting the event. âCaitlin Bowling
Better Business Bureau: Keep an eye out for these scams, Louisville!
The Better Business Bureau serving Louisville, Southern Indiana and Western Kentucky recently released a rundown of scams that trapped local residents, and the organization is cautioning others to beware.
Top of the list is fake Muhammad Ali memorabilia. Although the release doesn't cite any specific examples, the BBB encourages consumers to think before they buy and make sure they can verify the authenticity of an Ali item.
While some websites or individuals are selling legitimate items like signed paintings, others could try to profit off of his death, the BBB said in the release.
Scams on the rise locally include phony IRS calls that claim a taxpayer owes the government money; people promising loan debt relief services to college students in exchange for a large fee and personal information; and phony calls from someone claiming to represent Publishers Clearing House.
Seniors also have reported receiving calls from people who alleged to be a grandchild and say there were arrested overseas and need money. Other residents have received calls offering fake mystery shopping jobs.
In another instance, a local woman hired a locksmith she found via Google who promised low prices. She was charged triple the quote, stated the BBB, which encourages consumers to check for reputable company's on its website.
For more information about these scams and others reported to Louisville's BBB, check here. âCaitlin Bowling
Kindred to build rehab hospital in California
Louisville-based Kindred Healthcare plans to build a 58,528-square-foot, 52-bed rehabilitation hospital near San Diego.
The nursing and rehab hospital company has signed an agreement to create a joint venture with Palomar Health, a governmental health system, which will staff the facility.
Palomar spokesman Chris Saunders told Insider Louisville that he did not know the cost of the project, because no Palomar funds are involved. He said Kindred has secured financing through a third-party contractor and that information about the projectâs cost would have to come from Kindred.
Kindred spokeswoman Susan Moss did not reply to an email.
The partners hope to open the hospital on the campus of Palomar Medical Center in Escondido, by the third quarter of 2019.
Saunders said the two-story facility will have a positive impact on the San Diego economy because it will create new jobs within the health system and the community at large. He said Palomar does not yet know the exact number of jobs the facility will require.
Kindred CEO Benjamin Breier said in a press release that âcollaborative efforts ⦠have helped our inpatient rehabilitation services business outperform peers in key clinical measures.â
Kindred this year has made significant moves to adjust its portfolio of long-term acute care hospitals, or LTACs.
In April, the company said it had signed an agreement to sell 12 LTACs to a private investment fund. This month, Kindred sold two more LTACs, to Select Medical Holdings Corp., but also bought four LTACs from the same company. Kindred essentially swapped two of its hospitals in Cleveland, with a combined 183 beds, with four SMHC facilities in Houston, Colorado Springs, Denver and Indianapolis, with a combined 189 beds. Kindred also paid the Pennsylvania-based company $800,000. âBoris Ladwig
Microenterprise loans to boost 13 local businesses
The mayor has announced 13 microenterprise loans worth $128,000 to local small businesses. The 13 recipients are all low- to moderate-income entrepreneurs. For a business to be considered a microenterprise, they must employ fewer than five people including the owner.
These loans are revolving loans administered by the city's Microbusiness Development Program, which is dedicated to helping small businesses find success in Louisville.
âWe know that every one dollar in program costs generates five dollars in benefits for our microbusiness owners. And that helps our families, our neighborhoods, and our whole city,â Mayor Greg Fischer said in a press release. âThese results prove that our investment in this program, and other programs like this truly make significant, even, life-changing impacts in the lives of those we serve.â
The loans were:
- $15,000 loan to Manhattan on Broadway, 716 East Broadway. The loan will allow the owner, Nachand Trabue, to purchase more inventory, sound and video equipment. This project will add two full-time positions.
- $15,000 loan to George Addison, doing business as BeeNetworks Media Group, which specializes in marketing and media video productions. This will allow the owner to purchase supplies and inventory.
- $15,000 loan to Romanique Beauty Salon, 5201 Dixie Highway. The loan will allow the owner, Janisha Ditto, to buy production equipment, signage and marketing materials.
- $15,000 loan to Future Pioneer Learning Center, 7731 St. Andrews Church Road. This will allow the owner, Roshunder Gordon, to purchase childcare equipment, insurance and signage for an expanded facility. This project will add four part-time positions.
- $15,000 loan to Doaty Distribution LLC to purchase box trucks. The loan will help the owner, James Doaty, expand routes to five other locations for deliveries of snacks.
- $15,000 loan to Wright Amount located in Chef Space, 1800 West Muhammad Ali Blvd. This will allow the owner, Tracy Wright, to purchase inventory, rental space and food trailer.
- $8,000 loan to All is Fair in Love and Fashion to buy inventory and equipment. The loan will help the owner, RaeShanda Johnson, expand production services.
- $5,000 loan to Extreme Appetite LLC. This will allow the owner, Damira Trabue, to provide mobile food catering services.
- $5,000 loan to The Black Italian, a food catering service. This loan will allow the owners, Paula and Anthony Hunter, to purchase inventory, space and a vehicle and support transportation for customers.
- $5,000 loan to Jaceâs Childcare, 4107 Cane Run Road. This loan will assist owner Keishonda Clark in buying some new equipment, and rental assistance.
- $5,000 loan to Queens Crown Lunchbox and Catering. The loan will allow the owner, Katrina Dawson, to purchase a stove and inventory to operate business.
- $5,000 loan to Garry Sloan, doing business as GT Transportation LLC. The loan will help purchase office furniture, printing equipment and supplies.
- $5,000 loan to Rebecca Jones, doing business as Genesis Tax Service, a startup tax service. The loan will allow the owner to pay for tax software and equipment. Melissa Chipman
Southern Indiana tourism bureau seeking artists to celebrate 'Bison-Tennial'
The painted bisons will be on display in Indiana's 92 counties. | Courtesy of Indiana Association of United Ways
The Clark-Floyd Counties Convention amp; Tourism Bureau is accepting proposals from regional artists for a project celebrating the state of Indiana's bicentennial.
The bureau received a 5-foot fiberglass bison from the Indiana Association of United Ways, which is facilitating a statewide project where each of Indiana's 92 counties will display one painted bison. Think the horses around Louisville.
The local CTB plans to place the bison outside its offices at 315 Southern Indiana Ave. in Jeffersonville and is looking for artists to submit possible designs that include authentic visitor experiences available in Clark and Floyd Counties.
Artists must submit their proposals to the CTB office by noon on Friday, June 24. Finalists will be announced after two weeks and take part in follow-up interviews.
One requirement of the project is that children be involved. For more information, email CTB executive director Jim Epperson at jepperson@
Brown-Forman to host annual meeting July 28
Brown-Forman Corp. will host its annual shareholder meeting at 9:30 am July 28 at its conference center at 850 Dixie Highway in Louisville.
Those whose shares are registered in the name of a bank, broker or other holder of record must bring documentation of stock ownership as of June 20. Both holders of Class A or Class B shares may attend, though only those who hold Class A stock may vote. Those who wish to vote by proxy can call 800-652-8683 or click here.
The meeting agenda includes such items as electing directors to the board and voting on a proposal to double the number of Class A shares, a move related to the previously announced 2-for-1 stock split. âBoris Ladwig


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Slow is just another word for timeless.
But to us, slow fashion means refining timeless clothes, living in the here and now, and staying true to our roots. Actually, slow fashion doesn't even mean "fashion" as such to us. What we do is make cool, contemporary garments for confident girls who want to put a little extra niceness and style into their everyday lives. Simple as that. Slow fashion according to Monamici also means using high quality, sustainable and certified fabrics that won't take an unnecessary toll on our planet, as well as producing our clothes close to our home in Sweden.


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Oh to be a fly on the wall in a room full of your company's customers when they're openly discussing their challenges and activities. Fortunately, I was such a fly at last week's Aberdeen Essentials Breakfast event and I was able to pick up on some of the genuine, unfiltered sentiments that many marketers share.
In full disclosure, my job is to conduct research and publish content intended to help marketers market more effectively. Call me a little over-ambitious, but whether a company does business with Aberdeen Group or not, if you're in marketing, I'm writing for you.
This brings me to the overarching challenge that needs to be addressed in this post – there is a disconnect between true marketing best practices and the terms marketers use to describe them. For even the smartest, savviest marketers out there, this disconnect creates confusion, stress, and unneeded complexity. These marketers hear descriptions of best practices and strategies that they should do, but ambiguity of definitions and implications makes it difficult for them to translate these things into marketing actions that they can do.
For me, the most striking realization came from questions and comments around personas. As a word, "persona" already has a rough history. For one, it's Latin, meaning it already comes with an air of academic gravity. Making matters worse, its initial meaning as "a mask; a character played by an actor" aptly carries deceptive implications.
What's a persona to a marketer? What's a persona to a sales person? What's a persona in terms anyone can understand? For many marketing and sales professionals, a persona is a complicated compilation of intelligence and insights on specific buyers that may take weeks, months or even years to complete. That is, personas, as such complicated collections of insights, are trapped in a state of disuse because they're conveyed in a complicated format that is hard to work with in the standard marketing and sales process.
So what really is a persona, in business terms, and why are personas seen to be worth such comprehensive efforts?
The simple answer is that personas are people. The dramatic, Charlton Heston answer is that "THEY'RE PEOPLE; PERSONAS ARE MADE [or, serve as a fair representation] OF PEOPLE!" In marketing speak, having "comprehensive, well-informed buyer personas," basically translates to having a healthy understanding for the types of people to whom you're marketing and selling. Within this context, personas, or you know, types of people, come with implicit action items.
Lead Nurturing/ Nurture Marketing: While there are plenty of research-backed best practices around lead nurturing, it's really all about the definition of "nurture" itself. Your marketing efforts should "care for and encourage the growth and development of" your buyers. This doesn't necessarily mean a complicated system of timed-out email campaigns. It simply means building programs (it could be as basic as loaning out subject matter experts from your company to help solve problems for worthwhile prospects) that set up buyers for success and growth before they buy. Parents "nurture" their children, and the meaningful weight of such behavior is what makes the principle behind "lead nurturing" so powerful in marketing.
Social Media Marketing: This is establishing credibility, trust and rapport by being social. It's not merely using social media channels and technologies. Social media management and marketing technology can't help marketers who can't manage to be social and communicative in their efforts. One-to-many broadcasts are monologues, not conversations. "Social" doesn't mean Facebook, Twitter, or SnapChat, it means the stuff going on between the people in those places. Worry about the stuff going on, not the venues.
Content Marketing: This is offering valuable, substantive (it HAS content) materials that are worth the time and attention of the people who consume it. Content is not just "stuff." If you want to be effective with content marketing, just ask, what are you giving your target audience in the material, and is it valuable enough for them to do something (give information, read another asset, talk to sales, etc.) in return?
Data-Driven Marketing: This does not mean data is at the wheel and marketing doesn't have to think. Data-driven marketing is using the data you can make sense of as a marketer and putting that insight into action. It doesn't have to be over complicated. Even the Best-in-Class marketers keep things simple in what they measure and report on. The implications of data are actually pretty simple, where can you start using data effectively, and how can you grow your skills and use-cases over time?
Brand Awareness: Doing a lot of frenzied marketing activities does not mean you've achieved brand awareness. It means you've done a lot of marketing activities. Brand awareness needs to be aligned with how buyers being aware of your brand translates to further action, and then how those desired actions are measured. "Awareness" is an intangible thing, but what happens from awareness is not. If you can understand the measurable elements, you can improve the immeasurable object.
Storytelling: Stories that connect with buyers are important for marketing efforts, but again, this is one side of the buyer/seller conversation. On a date, if you tell a lot of your stories, and don't hear a story or two from your date; 1) your date might think you're a narcissist, or 2) your date might be hiding something. In marketing and dating, stories should simply be road maps for conversations.
You talk about how your company quadruples customers' revenue streams while rescuing puppies from shelters (good for business and dating) and the other person tells you of their own puppy and how more revenue would open the door for a dog-friendly workplace. The stories funnel the conversation to be a match. (If the other person tells you he/she hates puppies, you also know it's not a match, and you should run.)
Aptly enough, in ending this story on storytelling, we want to hear your stories of marketing terms, tactics, and strategies that have truth to them, but which often have something lost in translation. What's your story?


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Free Speech, 'The People's Darling Privilege':
Struggles for Freedom of Expression in American History
By Michael Kent Curtis
Duke University Press, 520 pages, $32.95
Free Speech, 'The People's Darling Privilege':
Struggles for Freedom of Expression in American History
By Michael Kent Curtis
Duke University Press, 520 pages, $32.95
Law Without Values: The Life, Work, and Legacy of Justice Holmes
By Albert W. Alschuler
University of Chicago Press, 325 pages, $30
"Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press, or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the government for a redress of grievances."
The text is brief. Rarely in American history have so few words inspired the writing of so many. During the last 200 years, the 1st Amendment to the Constitution has inspired hundreds of significant judicial opinions, a few thousand books and countless law journal, magazine and newspaper articles. A literature so vast suggests that the 1st Amendment occupies a central place in American law and life.
If Americans know nothing else about constitutional law, they know that the 1st Amendment guarantees them freedom of speech and religion. Or does it? With regard to freedom of speech, the 1st Amendment was never an absolute, as Michael Kent Curtis demonstrates ably in "Free Speech, 'The People's Darling Privilege': Struggles for Freedom of Expression in American History."
Curtis, a professor at Wake Forest University Law School and a leading scholar of the history of the 1st Amendment, resurrects the long-neglected and surprising story of free speech in 18th and 19th Century America and reveals that the right to political expression, which we take for granted today, was often in jeopardy and even dangerous to exercise.
Freedom of speech was not always the crown jewel of the Constitution. The 1st Amendment attained significance only in the modern era, since about 1920. Prior to that, during the lost years that lasted more than a century, the 1st Amendment existed in a constitutional wilderness and was not preeminent. To illuminate the status of freedom of speech during that era, Curtis fixes on three episodes:
"The struggles recounted here occurred in major American political battles that erupted from 1798 to 1866: the struggle between Federalists and Jeffersonian Republicans over the 1798 Sedition Act, the fight over slavery and the attempts to suppress anti-slavery speech, and the attempts to suppress anti-war speech during the Civil War. These were the most significant national free speech controversies between 1791 and 1868."
The Bill of Rights became law in 1791, but just seven years later the 1st Amendment was under attack. Partisan feuding between the Federalists, the party of George Washington and John Adams, and the Republicans (also derisively called democrats by their foes), the Jeffersonian faction, resulted in the passage of the Sedition Act in 1798. That act made it a crime to "write, print, utter, or publish . . . any false, scandalous, and malicious writing or writings, against the government of the United States, or either house of the congress of the United States, or the president of the United States, with intent to defame . . . or to bring them . . . into contempt or disrepute; or to excite against . . . any of them, the hatred of the good people of the United States." A Vermont congressman was convicted under the act, sentenced to 18 months in prison and fined; several Republican newspaper editors were prosecuted. Indeed, the raucous press was the real target of the Sedition Act, and many papers were forced out of business. Timed to expire when Adams left office, the act died in 1800. Over the years scholars have offered various explanations for the Sedition Act, and Curtis explores them all, including the notion that sectionalism and the dispute over slavery were the backdrop for the act.
It was the increasingly bitter sectional conflict over slavery that provoked a series of free-speech crises and that culminated in civil war. From the 1830s on, the South tried to suppress the rising anti-slavery crusade. Pro-slavery leaders tried to have the Post Office ban abolitionist newspapers and publications from the mails, put bounties on anti-slavery leaders, had the U.S. House ban for a time the acceptance or discussion of anti-slavery petitions from citizens, and enacted laws in individual states that punished anyone who spoke against slavery. Southerners schemed to extradite abolitionists for trial for the crime of fomenting slave insurrections. Mobs attacked abolitionist newspaper presses in several cities and murdered Editor Elijah Lovejoy in Alton, Ill. But the pro-slavery powers failed in their quest to manipulate the federal government into suppressing the national debate over slavery. That debate made possible the rise of the Republican Party and lifted Abraham Lincoln to the presidency.


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The holiday shopping frenzy is starting. Are you in control of your finances or are they in control of you?
Here are a few tips for controlling your holiday spending. Students can find more information—articles, tutorials, and financial calculators—on the WGU Student Advantage website.
Get help with your finances: WellConnect offers access to extensive budget and debt consultation services and resources at no cost to students. Students and/or the members of their households have unlimited access to budget and debt counselors who will help formulate a budget and develop strategies on how to better manage finances. Access these services by calling 1–877–685–3269 or by requesting a call online.
Create a holiday budget: Determine what you can realistically afford to spend on the holidays and set aside that amount in cash. Avoid using your credit cards. Instead make all your purchases using debit cards or cash.
Avoid binge spending: Limit any impulse purchases by giving yourself a spending limit. For example, limit yourself to spending up to $20 when you feel like buying something that is not included in your holiday budget.
Decide who really needs a gift: Do your adult friends and family members need purchased gifts this year? You might draw names to limit the number of gifts you give in your extended family. Consider giving gifts of time or service to your adult friends and family members.
Shop smart: The Internet makes it possible to compare prices at multiple stores quickly. You can also call stores directly and find the best prices. Some stores will price match, so you can find the best price and then receive that price at a store near you.
Budget for giving: This season provides opportunities for sharing with others, but be sure to include those expenses in your budget. Decide in advance where to give and how much you can afford to give.
For help with budgeting or just more ideas, call WellConnect for confidential financial consultation services: 1–877–685–3269. Visit the Financial tab on WGU's Student Advantage website for financial calculators, tutorials, and articles.
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Roy Drusky – Danny Boy lyrics
Oh Danny Boy the pipes the pipes are calling
From glen to glen and down the mountain side
The summer's gone and all the roses falling it's you it's you must go and I must bide
But come ye back when summer's in the meadow
Oh when the valleys hushed and white with snow
Yes I'll be here in sunshine or in shadows oh Danny Boy oh Danny Boy I love you so
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Mountain Guides
We are currently accepting applications for the 2018 summer season.
We actively recruit mountain guides who are dedicated to pursuing excellence in guiding and teaching on the world's most beautiful and challenging mountains. Alpine Ascents is a world leader in guiding great mountains around the globe for over 20 years. We guide on seven continents and operate climbing programs on Mt. Rainier, in the North Cascades, and in Denali National Park. Alpine Ascents has offices in Seattle, Washington and Talkeetna, Alaska.
Mountain guiding is a highly demanding field which requires great physical and emotional stamina, patience, solid technical skills, strong decision-making abilities, and a passion for imparting knowledge to others. In turn, guides are rewarded with a life in the outdoors, professional growth and development opportunities and very competitive wages. Successful mountain guides applicants will possess the following skills and certifications:
- Strong understanding and mastery of alpine climbing skills
- Ability to assess the needs of the individual and group for safety and success
- Teaching techniques appropriate for adult learners with various climbing abilities
- Experience climbing (and preferably guiding) in the areas where Alpine Ascents offers programs
- Ability to perform and teach self-arrest and crevasse rescue skills
- Minimum of three years alpine climbing and preferably guiding experience
- Excellent ability to lead, communicate effectively and efficiently, be congenial to co-workers, clients, and the general public when guiding, and teach in a kind and friendly manner under stressful conditions.
- Maintain current WFR, CPR, and avalanche certifications. Lead guides on Mt. Rainier must hold an Avalanche II certification.
- Hold a valid U.S. driver's license
We are actively recruiting female guides.
Most guides begin on our domestic programs in Washington guiding on Mt. Rainier and in the North Cascades. Those who successfully complete 1-2 seasons in Washington are often asked to guide on expeditions such as Denali, Aconcagua, or the Mexico Volcanoes. A select few guides will be offered the opportunity to join us as guides in the Himalayas, on Kilimanjaro, and in Antarctica.
Qualified applicants will be invited to attend a training/try-out in the spring of 2018. This training is designed to familiarize guides with the teaching methods and philosophy of Alpine Ascents guiding. Those who successfully complete this training will be scheduled for the summer season and are expected to be available from May-September. Housing is provided for guides between most trips.
Experienced Guides
Guides with 5+ years of professional mountaineering guiding experience are welcome to send an employment resume, completed climbing resume, and letter of interest to firstname.lastname@example.com. Guides will be interviewed and hired based on need and availability.
Alaska Guides
Guides with significant Alaska guiding experience who meet the above criteria and are interested in working in our Alaska program should send an employment resume, completed climbing resume, and letter of interest to firstname.lastname@example.com. Preference will be given to guides with successful Denali guiding experience. Qualified guides will be interviewed and hired based on need and availability.
To Apply
Please submit the following to the Guide Operations Manager, Mary Brown at email@example.com:
- Completed Pre-Employment Application
- Employment Resume
- Completed Climbing Resume
- Copies of current medical training certifications. Indicate your intention to obtain or recertify if not current.
- Copy of Avalanche course completion.
- Copies of other professional certifications such as higher medical training and AMGA course completions/ certifications.
All application materials are held in confidence. Thank you for your interest, and we look forward to hearing from you.
Alpine Ascents is an equal opportunity employer actively encouraging applicants of age, race, religion, color, handicap, sex, physical condition, developmental disability, sexual orientation or national origin.
It is the policy of Alpine Ascents International not to discriminate against any employee or any applicant for employment because of age, race, religion, color, handicap, sex, physical condition, developmental disability, sexual orientation or national origin. This policy shall include, but not be limited to, the following: recruitment and employment, promotion, demotion, transfer, compensation, selection for training including apprenticeship, layoff and termination. Except with respect to sexual orientation, this company further agrees to take affirmative action to ensure equal employment opportunities.
Frequently Asked Questions
Unfortunately at this time we do not offer internship opportunities. We do hire summer gear and logistics staff each spring for the summer season, which offers a great deal of learning about working for a guiding company, but does not include field time. If you are interested in opportunities as a summer staff employee, positions will be posted in early January. You can e-mail Matt Miller at firstname.lastname@example.com at that time.
Yes. We maintain a guide house in Ashford, WA.
Guides can generally expect 60+ days of work in the summer season depending on performance and availability.
The program was everything I thought it was going to be. It was well planned and executed. Thanks for a great trip. I have never been outside the city and it was a blast. Guides were incredible


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There isn't a week without new BMW spy photos and for the past few days, spy photographers around the world have been working hard. So, let's take it slowly and start with the new BMW 5 Series, one of the most awaited BMW new models to be released next year.
The sporty, classy and luxurious sedan will make its debut next Spring and BMW has already entered the final stage of the testing process. From now on until the expected unveiling in December, 5 Series test mules will continue to lose their funky, but effective camouflage and reveal some more skin for our eyes, the eager BMW fans.
With the bodystyle, BMW will revise the term successfully used in past, "Die neue Klasse", to welcome its new F10 5er, the 6th generation model of the highly successful and important mid class sedan (or if you perceive history the 7th generation if you include the predecessor to the 5er the BMW 1500.
The new 5er will of course replace the successful and avantgarde looking E60 series of the BMW 5er and will be an all new car from the ground up although with the advent of the BMW 5er Gran Turismo although a member of the same family on the exterior surface there are few areas shared with the 5er . For months, the perception of the new 5er has been false, many of us believed that the new, premium member of the 5 Series family, Gran Turismo, will be the base for the new 5. Rendering artists were having a blast drawing left and right renderings of what the new model will look like, but all of them shared one thing: numerous similarities between the GT model and the new sedan.
Sources close to BMW have many times revealed some of the secrets behind the new model and have mentioned as well that very few common design elements and parts will be seen across the two cars. Truth is that only door mirrors , side indicator lights and door handles are the relatively evident components identified between the 5er and the 5er Gran Turismo.
As seen in the photo below, the new white LEDs seen on the GT will indeed make into the 2011 5er as well, one technical element that will please many of the BMW fans.
The 5er preserves the exclusivity of a new BMW and avoids duplicating the 7er's look as a smaller 7er or the phrase known as "One sausage different lengths" BMW have made the new 5er express a dynamic looking appearance that will not only be individual from its inhouse family but also amongst its competitors. The more dynamic styling expresses an intent to disguise the heavy look seen in a mid segment sedan the wider track also contributes to the solution an integrated wider twin kidney grille. More compact but wider than the 5er Gran Turismo or the BMW 7er. The wider grille adds more visual to the cars low and wide appearance.
From a technology stand point, Efficient Dynamics will be highly featured in the next generation 5er with the usual features now taken for granted but new developments will also feature such as specially designed aerodynamically designed wheels that will now become a cornerstone of Efficient Dynamics.
As we approach the end of the year, more information will be released, including teasers and spy shots.[Source: Auto Gespot ]


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Image Gallery: Spider silk production
Spiders use silk for many purposes - to protect their young, catch food, make homes and move around. They are the only animals which use silk in almost every part of their daily lives. The original spiders, represented today by the primitive, segmented, mesothelid spiders, had eight pairs of silk spinning organs or spinnerets placed under the middle of the abdomen (Mesothelae). In mygalomorph and araneomorph spiders the spinnerets have moved to the end of the abdomen (Opisthothelae). In these spiders the anterior median spinnerets (AMS) are either no longer present or remain in some araneomorph spiders as a modified spinning structure called the cribellum. Mygalomorph spiders have four or six spinnerets, compared to six in most araneomorphs.


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7 U.S. Code § 136k - Stop sale, use, removal, and seizure
Whenever any pesticide or device is found by the Administrator in any State and there is reason to believe on the basis of inspection or tests that such pesticide or device is in violation of any of the provisions of this subchapter, or that such pesticide or device has been or is intended to be distributed or sold in violation of any such provisions, or when the registration of the pesticide has been canceled by a final order or has been suspended, the Administrator may issue a written or printed "stop sale, use, or removal" order to any person who owns, controls, or has custody of such pesticide or device, and after receipt of such order no person shall sell, use, or remove the pesticide or device described in the order except in accordance with the provisions of the order.
If the pesticide or device is condemned it shall, after entry of the decree, be disposed of by destruction or sale as the court may direct and the proceeds, if sold, less the court costs, shall be paid into the Treasury of the United States, but the pesticide or device shall not be sold contrary to the provisions of this subchapter or the laws of the jurisdiction in which it is sold. On payment of the costs of the condemnation proceedings and the execution and delivery of a good and sufficient bond conditioned that the pesticide or device shall not be sold or otherwise disposed of contrary to the provisions of the subchapter or the laws of any jurisdiction in which sold, the court may direct that such pesticide or device be delivered to the owner thereof. The proceedings of such condemnation cases shall conform, as near as may be to the proceedings in admiralty, except that either party may demand trial by jury of any issue of fact joined in any case, and all such proceedings shall be at the suit of and in the name of the United States.
A prior section 13 of actJune 25, 1947, was classified to section 135k of this title prior to amendment of act June 25, 1947, by Pub. L. 92–516.
1988—Subsec. (b). Pub. L. 100–532, § 801(h)(1), directed that sentence beginning "In the case of" be moved from par. (3) and become a full measure sentence after par. (3).
Subsec. (c). Pub. L. 100–532, § 801(h)(2), substituted "sold. On" for "sold: Provided, That upon".
Amendment by Pub. L. 100–532 effective on expiration of 60 days after Oct. 25, 1988, see section 901 of Pub. L. 100–532, set out as a note under section 136 of this title.
For effective date of section, see section 4 of Pub. L. 92–516, set out as a note under section 136 of this title.
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I am from St. Louis, Missouri. I went to Columbia College for my undergraduate degree in Social Work. After graduating I completed my Master's degree in Social Work from Saint Louis University. In 2014, I worked as a Social Worker at South City Preparatory Academy, a charter school in St. Louis. I then taught 1st grade Math in Tulsa, Oklahoma during the summer of 2015 before teaching 2nd grade at University Academy the past 2 years. I couldn't be more excited to work with your children this year and to be a part of the University Academy community. The parents, teachers, and students that I have met have shown me what a special place this school is. Here's to a great year and please reach out to me if you have any questions, concerns, or issues.
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WINSTON-SALEM, N.C. – Wake Forest University Baptist Medical Center's BestHealth® website has received a Health Care Standard of Excellence Award from the Web Marketing Association based on its "Outstanding Achievement in Website Development."
"To be recognized by the Web Marketing Association for outstanding achievement in web development is a prestigious honor," said Jan Strohl, senior marketing manager for e-business. "It is a tribute to Wake Forest Baptist's web team's efforts to bring quality health care information to the people of our region."
There were more than 2,300 entries for this year's WebAwards. Entries were judged on top web site design, copywriting, innovation, content, interactivity, navigation and use of technology.
The Web Marketing Association was founded in 1997 and is made up of Internet marketing, online advertising, PR, and website design professionals. This is the 10th year of its WebAwards.
Media Contacts: Shannon Koontz, email@example.com, or Karen Richardson, email@example.com, at (336) 716-4587.
Wake Forest University Baptist Medical Center is an academic health system comprised of North Carolina Baptist Hospital and Wake Forest University Health Sciences, which operates the university's School of Medicine. The system comprises 1,187 acute care, psychiatric, rehabilitation and long-term care beds and is consistently ranked as one of "America's Best Hospitals" by U.S. News & World Report.
Media Inquiries 336-716-4587Patient Information 336-713-0000Satellite Interviews 336-716-4434
Research conducted by Wake Forest Baptist Medical
Center and reported at the Alzheimer's Association International Conference
shows that lower blood pressure reduces the risk of mild cognitive impairment
and dementia.
Disclaimer: The information on this website is for general informational purposes only and SHOULD NOT be relied upon as a substitute for sound professional medical advice, evaluation or care from your physician or other qualified health care provider.


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Originally posted by Carseller4
Wait.....this idiot stood in front of a running bulldozer?
Hold on.....I can't stop laughing!!!!
Trying to catch breath......
Originally posted by Swills
reply to post by buster2010
Since that is one of the two possible reasons I gave I was right, so to you I say no
Originally posted by RealSpoke
He picked up the dirt right before he hit her, she shoudl have been visible before then......
Originally posted by RealSpoke
So he knew she was in the area, or protestors were at least...it was unsafe to continue so he should have stopped.
Originally posted by spoor
Originally posted by seethetruth
i drive a heavy good vehicle if i run anybody over or kill anybody i get 2 years in prison and thats mandatory, theres no plea its straight to prison
So if you are driving down the road at 80kph and somebody jumps in front of you and are killed, you go straight to prison.... care to show us all this law?
For a start i should not be going 80 kph were there are people walking, it in the eu hgv drivers rules and regulations..
As a hgv driver as soon as you put your taco-graph in to the vehicle you are responsible for everything to do with that vehicle , as a driver you have to be reading the road and pedestrians all the time so if somebody does run out in front of you then you was not paying attention..
The US activist Rachel Corrie, whose death beneath an Israeli military bulldozer made her an international symbol of Palestinian resistance, bore sole responsibility for the incident that killed her, a court in Israel ruled.
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Pedestrians have the rights, divers don't.


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We are testing Ver 7 Beta in our network installed on a Winsows Server 2008 with about 30 clients.
I want to access Wingate trough GateKeeper from a client PC in my local area network
I tried to simply copy GateKeeper.exe and run it but is not enough. It needs some dll to run correctly: SSLeay32.dll, libeay32.dll, ToolkitPro1342vc60U.dll.
So my first question is: are these dll and exe file enough to have gatekeeper working on a PC? Is there any way to install it from a setup?
Second stage is the computer IP connection string. I use : 192.168.10.1:808 since my Server has 192.168.10.1 as static IP. Trying in this way I get an error: Connection refused by server. So I guess that I need permissions to connect gatekeeper from a local network. So I go in "remote control service properties" and I try to insert a permission in the binding panel: "bind from any IP address in the local area network".
At this point I have connection from my client and I can use gatekeeper….
My question is :
is it everything correct in my procedure? Any risk? Any missing file?


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Author Cathy Crimmins described the incidents surrounding her husband Alan's traumatic brain injury or TBI in June 1996. The couple had won a vacation to a secluded lakeside cabin at Bob's Lake through a raffle at their child Kelly's school. Kelly was age seven at the time. They were very excited, but the trip was much harder and less relaxing than they had planned. They had to fetch water a long distance to their cabin, and a local man tried to rip them off with a boat rental.
Friends arrived at the cabin, some of whom were long-time friends dating back to Cathy and Alan's days together in graduate school. Despite days of rain, the travelers attempt to have fun - swimming, telling ghost stories. The vacation's end soon came, and Alan loaded dirty laundry and garbage on their boat rental to...
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Cabi's 2015 spring collection includes several styles of dresses and tops, two different types of pants, shorts and a romper. Many of the pieces feature detailed prints, horizontal stripes and bright colors, while others come in solid neutral colors, such as white and black.Continue Reading
Several pieces of the spring 2015 line emphasize loose, comfortable fabric and flowing lines, such as the gauzy, see-through peasant blouse, the twirl dress, the kaleidoscope top and the pebble pants. Other pieces focus on updates to classic styles, such as the cotton staple t-shirt, the pleated country club shorts, the coast crop pants, the u-neck shirt and the banded tank. The rest of the collection includes a Madrid top with lace details, a calf-length twist-back dress, a wrap one-piece romper and a form-fitting t-dress in rayon with ruching on the sides.
Carol Anderson, a former designer for Nordstrom, founded Cabi as a direct-sales company. The name stands for Carol Anderson by Invitation. Like many direct-sales companies, the company sells its clothing through sales consultants, called stylists, who offer the clothes to small groups of women at parties that they or their friends host at their homes. These stylists work as independent business owners who earn commissions on their sales.Learn more about Clothing


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With special guests The Delta Rhythm Kings
One of today's hottest slide guitarists shows how to get the sounds that drive the best electric rock and blues bands: vibrato, dynamics, intonation, slide-hammer technique, damping strings and much more. Includes sizzling versions of: Look Over Yonders Wall, The Sky Is Crying, Walking Blues, Tip Walk, Black Cat Bone to illustrate turnarounds, endings and complete solos in several styles. 90-MIN. Includes music and tab.