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Sorry there's not been a post for a while. The Protecteress of Pelarcona and I went touring Northern England and lower Scotland. Firstly we went to the Lake District, touching many of our favourite spots. Grasmere is probably top of the list, but this is Aira Force, near Ullswater.
Then onto the Borders of Scotland, up to Edinburgh, then Durham and the seaside resorts on the east coast of England, of old the host to my childhood summers and, some years later, those of my own three children.
Amongst other places, we visited Abbotsford, near Selkirk, the gothic "castle" built by Sir Walter Scott which bankrupted him. Here he wrote "Ivanhoe", amongst others of the Waverley novels, in order to pay off his debts (which he did, shortly before he died). The house was built in the 1820s, so is hardly an eighteenth century edifice, but it strikes me as the kind of building that might exist in Mendelstadt, my ImagiNation, where everything is a little over the top and off the wall (can you be both these things at the same time?)
Although we passed several battlefields, especially in the much-disputed Borders, we only stopped briefly at one, Redeswire Fray (1575), to see a mist-drenched drizzly moor.
Passing Hadrian's Wall is always interesting, too. Many years ago, in the days when the wall was much less policed, and much less visited, we walked its length, walking actually on the wall for much of its length (not allowed now). Sometimes we camped in the vallum (the ditch), once in a field with a Roman fort, once we awoke to find ourselves snowed in, once had the guyropes wrenched away in a thunder-storm. Simpler times. Happy times.
If you ever get the chance, you must visit Hadrians Wall and the Roman sites nearby: Vindolanda, Chesters, Housesteads. Even if ancient warfare is not your thing, there is nothing like the sense of history you get merely from seeing the wall.
Whitby Abbey, which we also visited, is another dramatic place steeped in history.
As is Scarborough Castle (Scarborough is my favourite of the British seaside resorts, preserving very many of its traditional pleasures). The Castle was held by the Royalists in the ECW, and besieged by Parliament with cannon sighted in a local church (where Anne Bronte's grave now is). You can see the scars. Then in WW1 it was fired on by a German destroyer. You can see the scars of history in its walls.
Anyway, 700 miles of travelling meant that nothing got painted, modelled, converted or, indeed, read! But I hope you like the photos (all taken by my dear Protectoress, except Abbotsford, which was mine.)
Now, the troops of Mendelstadt beckon me..............
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Saturday, 6 September 2008
Nearly back in the saddle
Posted by Major Wittering at 03:40
3 comments:
- Fitz-Badger said...
Nice pics, excellent vacation! I am officially envious... it's been too long since my last trip over there.
- 6 September 2008 at 13:03
- Bluebear Jeff said...
I'm jealous . . . I live in a place that has less than two hundred years of recorded history (and not much happened of note).
So I envy your ability to visit such historic places -- places I'll never get to see other than in photos.
Thank you very much for sharing.
-- Jeff
- 7 September 2008 at 01:06
- Der Alte Fritz said...
Thank you for posting the pictures. I visted the Borders area many many years ago and enjoyed seeing Abbotsford again.
Also, nice work on the Perry SYW conversion. Those will always be a special unit for you.
- 20 September 2008 at 07:53
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Friday, April 14, 2017
Paper Girls
Four female newspaper deliverers in a suburb of Cleveland are out before dawn on the night following Halloween, 1988. There are still some kids out in their costumes, but a couple looking like mummies have stolen one of the girls' walkie-talkies. They chase them and find, in the basement of an abandoned house, some kind of spaceship.
This leads to a dizzying adventure, complete with giant, dragon-like birds and futuristic people who are dressed like superheroes (these, we learn, are called "the old ones.") The girls end up transported to 2016, where one of the girls, Erin, meets her future self. That was the end of Volume 1, so of course I had to buy Volume 2.
That was just more of the same, only more dizzying. The girls are involved in some kind of time-traveling warfare, and an old hippie is behind it all. They come across a massive flying machine that looks like a steampunk dirigible, and Mac, the tough-talking, smoking girl, learns she will die of leukemia. And should they trust yet another Erin, who comes from far in the future and brings with her giant tardigrades?
Any comic that has giant tardigrades does it for me, and unfortunately Volume 3 is not out yet. But I do have to find out what happens next. This would make a great movie, if Hollywood can realize that action movies about girls can make money. Maybe HBO or Netflix can make it.
There's just something appealing about kids riding their bicycles, which Steven Spielberg knew way back in E.T. To kids from a certain era, before they could drive, bicycles represented freedom, and often adventure, I used to have some pretty goofy made-up adventures on my bike, as they can be motorcycles, rocketships, or any other mode of transportation. I'm not sure if kids ride bikes they like used to--now they are probably inside playing video games. Incidentally, in 1988 a gadget with an Apple logo on it appears threatening, as maybe it should.
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O-Linemen on the spring roster
With Justin Boren's departure, Michigan lacks depth on the offensive line. The Wolverines will be receiving some needed help prior to the Fall in the form of six (6) new recruits who were signed as part of the 2008 Recruiting Class. Until they arrive, however, new offensive line coach Greg Frey will work during spring practice with the offensive lineman currently on the roster. The O-Line is very inexperienced and Coach Frey has his work cut out for him. The players on the offensive line have earned a mere combined total of three varsity letters. This is who Coach Frey is working with:
- Stephen Schilling (Jr./So.)- 6'5", 295 lbs.
The only returning starter from last year's line, Schilling started all 13 games in 2007 with 11 starts at RT and two at RG. He earned his first varsity letter last season.
- Mark Ortmann (Sr./Jr.)- 6'7", 294 lbs.
Started two games last season at RT and played in a total of six games on the offensive line. Has appeared in a total of 13 games in his career. He earned his first varsity letter in 2007.
- Cory Zirbel (Sr./Jr.)- 6'5", 292 lbs.
Has appeared in 11 games along the offensive line in his career and has played in a total of 21 contests. Appeared in all 13 games in 2007, playing both on the offensive line and the field-goal protection unit. Has not yet earned a varsity letter.
- David Moosman (Sr./Jr.)- 6'5", 292 lbs.
Saw action as a backup center in 3 games last season. Has appeared in a total of seven contests in his career. Has not yet earned a varsity letter.
- Perry Dorrestein (Jr./So.)- 6'7", 308 lbs.
Appeared in four games last season as a backup both at RT and LT. Has not yet earned a varsity letter.
- Tim McAvoy (Sr./Jr.)- 6'6", 288 lbs.
He earned his first varsity letter in 2007 by starting a game at RG and playing in a total of five games on the offensive line. Has appeared in a total of seven games in his career.
- Bryant Nowicki (Jr./So.)- 6'9", 326 lbs.
Appeared in two games last season as a backup at RT. Has not yet earned a varsity letter.
- Michael Ramirez (Jr./So.)- 6'3", 288 lbs.
Has not appeared in a game.
- Zac Ciullo (So./Fr.)- 6'1", 268 lbs.
- Mark Huyge (So./Fr.)- 6'6", 292 lbs.
- David Molk (So./Fr.)- 6'2", 282 lbs.
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Four score and seven years ago our fathers brought forth on this continent, a new nation, conceived in Liberty, and dedicated to the proposition that all men are created equal.
Now we are engaged in a great civil war, testing whether that nation, or any nation so conceived and so dedicated, can long endure. We are met on a great battlefield of that war. We have come to dedicate a portion of that field, as a final resting place for those who here gave their lives that that nation might live. It is altogether fitting and proper that we should do this.
But, in a larger sense, we cannot dedicate—we cannot consecrate—we cannot hallow—this ground. The brave men, living and dead, who struggled here, have consecrated it, far above our poor power to add or detract. The world will little note, nor long remember what we say here, but it can never forget what they did here. It is for us the living, rather, to be dedicated here to the unfinished work which they who fought here have thus far so nobly advanced. It is rather for us to be here dedicated to the great task remaining before us—that from these honored dead we take increased devotion to that cause for which they gave the last full measure of devotion—that we here highly resolve that these dead shall not have died in vain—that this nation, under God, shall have a new birth of freedom— and that government of the people, by the people, for the people, shall not perish from the earth. (Abraham Lincoln – The Gettysburg Address)
What is ALEC?
With nearly 2,000 members, ALEC is the nation's largest
nonpartisan, individual membership association of state
legislators. Well over 100 ALEC members hold senior
leadership positions in their state legislatures. ALEC's alumni
include almost 80 current members of Congress and sitting
or former governors.ALEC's goal is to ensure that each of its legislative members
is fully armed with the information, research, and ideas they
need to be an ally of the free-market system.
Over the course of the past thirty-eight years The American Legislative Exchange Council (ALEC) corporate sector members and the legislative active members and alumni members have successfully redefined our government as "government of the corporations, by the corporations, for the corporations".
Government of the corporations, by the corporations
While no corporations actively sit in our state and federal legislatures, these ALEC member corporations are faithfully represented in the state and federal legislatures by the over 2700 active and alumni members of ALEC.
At about this time, the state chairs of ALEC are sending out letters to legislators in your state, telling them that ALEC will reimburse them for up to $1,900 to attend the ALEC annual meeting to be held in New Orleans in August.
This $1,900 is donated by corporations to be spent on "tuition fees" to the annual meeting so that the corporations can be assured that they will be able to talk with our state legislators to influence corporate-focused legislation to be passed at our state legislatures.
The corporations that attend the ALEC meeting sit with our legislators, talk with our legislators, discuss new "Model Legislation" with our legislators and VOTE on "Model legislation" that they want implemented in our government, as new legislation.
This is what ALEC refers to as a dynamic partnership in its latest corporate member brochure
One of ALEC's greatest strengths is the public-private
partnership. ALEC provides the private sector with an
unparalleled opportunity to have its voice heard, and its
perspective appreciated, by the legislative members.
Unfortunately, for "we the people", the representatives that we elected to office, who have chosen to become ALEC members no longer believe in representative government "of the people" – they now serve the corporations.
For a corporate donation of $1,900 per legislator, the corporations get our legislators undivided attention for up to four meetings every year – to write, vote on and approve – "Model Legislation" that promotes ALEC "free-market" philosophy – which is specifically written for the corporations.
Government for the corporations
It is important to remember that ALEC exists for the sole purpose of promoting a "free-market" philosophy. Free market has absolutely NOTHING to do with representation "for the people" and has EVERYTHING to do with representation "for the corporations".
Based on the research I have done on ALEC – the end result of all the "ALEC Model Legislation" is more profits for corporations and that's all ALEC is concerned with – providing more business opportunties and/or more profit for their corporate sector members. You and I, the citizens of this great country do not, repeat do not, have anything to do with their purpose and mission, unless, ALEC can use us to further corporate profits.
What does government "for the corporation" look like? How are your legislators, who are ALEC members, providing corporations with more business opportunties and more corporate profits, at the expense of the rights of the people? Well, let's take a look at just a few examples.
ALEC believes that government services provide an unfair competitive advantage to private sector companies and because of that the government sector is a major impediment to the ability for private sector companies to make more profit. ALEC's solution to this is legislation that promotes privatization of government services. We see this in the news almost every day with the introduction of voucher systems to private schools, proposed voucher systems for Medicare, or legislation that promotes privatization of government services through the use of competitive bidding for government services. These are ALL ALEC initiatives.
The problem with this model is that when you have private industry supplying government services, their customer is no longer you or me – the citizen who pays for those services. When government services are privatized, the customer then becomes the government entity that contracted the service and you and I are left without a voice regarding government services provided to us – just ask the folks in Benton Harbor. Private industry is not held responsible to "we the people".
ALEC has been at the forefront of fighting for "de-regulation". ANY type of regulation – labor, environmental, health is open game for ALEC. The one and only reason ALEC so vehemently opposes health, labor and environmental regulations is because their corporate members see reduced profits due to regulations. In 1997, the then National Chair of ALEC, Bonnie Cooper wrote a letter to ALEC members referring to these types of legislation as "heart-strings legislation" – "written as a result of an emotional appeal rather than sound reasoning".
When deregulation is allowed to occur or when funding for these agencies is allowed to be reduced – who loses? We the people. Legislation by ALEC members at the state and federal level that focuses on corporate profit above the appeals of their citizenry – is just plain wrong!
Over the past thirty eight years we have assumed that our government was a representative "government of the people, by the people, for the people" we can no longer make that assumption. Legislators at the state and federal level who are or have been ALEC members have changed all that.
It has become extremely clear to me over the last few months that the democratic leaders of this country and the news media want nothing to do with this issue. They would rather spend hours talking about divorces and sex scandals, than spend more than 10 minutes exposing ALEC.
Because of that – this is our issue to handle. This is our responsibility to clean up.
Action must be taken by "we the people."
There is only one way that we can ensure that "government of the people, by the people, for the people, shall not perish from the earth"
Over the course of the next several elections, we MUST do everything we can to identify ALEC members at the state and federal level. ALEC does not release their full membership list – they only release enough to keep the media off their back – We must identify every one of the over 2,700 legislative (state and federal) members. See this diary and see this google doc
Once ALEC members have been identified, we MUST make sure that they are not re-elected in the upcoming elections. The only way to stop this subversion of our democracy is to remove these representatives from office. ALEC legislators are no longer representing the people – they are representing the corporations.
It is at times like this that remembering the past can be of benefit to us, to motivate us.
"It is rather for us to be here dedicated to the great task remaining before us—that from these honored dead we take increased devotion to that cause for which they gave the last full measure of devotion—that we here highly resolve that these dead shall not have died in vain—that this nation, under God, shall have a new birth of freedom— and that government of the people, by the people, for the people, shall not perish from the earth."
We must be
dedicated to the great task remaining before us—that from these honored dead we take increased devotion to that cause for which they gave the last full measure of devotion
Since the time my grandparents immigrated to the United States, multiple family members of each successive generation have served in the US Forces. I write this diary in their honor and in hopes that their service was not in vain.
If you don't know what ALEC is you should –
please read this, or this, or this, or this, or this.
Originally posted to MNDem999 on Sun May 29, 2011 at 10:23 AM PDT.
Also republished by Exposing ALEC and Community Spotlight.
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After the busyness of the wedding celebration, the honeymoon offers a much-needed time to be alone with your new spouse. It�s a time to relax, explore a new area of the world, and of course, a time for intimacy with the one you have just pledged to be with for life. Here are 10 ideas to make your honeymoon even more romantic:
Before you leave home, purchase a book on the art of massage. Pack along some scented massage oil, study up on the plane and then treat each other to a sensuous and relaxing message after a long day of travel.
If your room has a private balcony and the area you traveled to is warm, bring the fireworks outside for a night. The sound of ocean waves and starry skies are the perfect backdrop for an extra romantic night.
Place a number of votive candles in candleholders around your bedroom for a soft glow at night. In the bathroom, line your private Jacuzzi or jumbo-sized bathtub with a candle or two after the sun goes down. If it is just a bathtub, bring along scented bubble bath.
If you are honeymooning in a wooded area, plan a hike and an afternoon picnic with just you, your spouse and nature. Bring along a bottle of wine and glasses for a private toast to your new marriage.
Purchase a bouquet of flowers known for their powerful scents and place it next to your bed. Hyacinths or Gardenias will leave the room filled with a sweet smelling fragrance. Every time you smell the flowers again, it will remind you of your honeymoon.
Before you leave, make a tape of your favorite love songs to play before and during bedtime. Record the first dance song at your reception as number one on the tape, and re-live that first dance all over again in the privacy of your bedroom.
Wear satin or silk to bed.
Make a point each day to tell your spouse five things you love about him or her and have your spouse do the same for you.
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Tuesday, 23 September 2014
Tuesday, 9 September 2014
How to organise a Cricket Tournament
Cricket is a popular game throughout the World. How to organize a cricket tournament ? Here is the check list to consider while organizing cricket tournament (or) league. Whether its any level of tournament (Local/Corporate/State/National etc..).
Organising cricket tournament:
First raise a question ourselves: Why we are conducting tournament - Purpose of tournament, Goals of tournament (Ex: To find talent or publicity or Money or any other reason)
- Prepare tournament rules document
- Give title for your tournament and which season is running
Ex: Stars Cricket Tournaments, Season 2
- Give title for your tournament and which season is running
Ex: Stars Cricket Tournaments, Season 2
- Size of tournament (How many teams can participate)
- Size of team (Each team how many player can participate)
- Season also very Important ( should not be rain season)
- Schedules ( Dates & Time)
- Sponsors selection
- Who can participate
- For which category Age & Who can participate which category ( U-16, U-19 or any is any
Corporate or National Level )
- Collecting team and ind-vidual player data
- Issuing Id cards to each player
- Overs Limit ( either 20-20) or any defined
- Type of format (Knock out, group level etc..)
- Opening & Prize distribution ceremony if required - Inviting guest etc..
- Know about Team Point & Net run rates etc..
- Grounds selection (Hire ground, Ground conditions)
- Empires selection
- Score card providers (Live scorecard on web portal, Live telecast on channels )
- How many player per team
- Take Experts Opinions (who already run successful tournament)
- Are you organizing your tournament or through event management
- Publicity thorough ads, online cricket relevant website, social networking sites .
- Issuing awards winner/runner and best performances and prize money etc..
- Which balls & bats need to use
- Providing other facilities like transport, food & water, Dressing room etc...
- Dress code.
- Communication with teams
- if it is big tournament try to get local sponsors
- if in India organizing tournament best season is December to May
- ask to wear player helmet & Glouses for batsmens, wicket keeper
- Maintain first aid kit
- if it is big tournament try to get local sponsors
- if in India organizing tournament best season is December to May
- ask to wear player helmet & Glouses for batsmens, wicket keeper
- Maintain first aid kit
The above things should be consider to organize a Cricket tournament/ Cricket League.
If you are organizing cricket tournament you can manage your tournament updates live scores, teams, match schedules, photo, video you can place at Crictrophy. Crictrophy is offeringthis facility for free right now.
Saturday, 6 September 2014
Cricket is Popular game in the world
Cricket is Popular game in the world, Countries like India, Pakistan, Sri Lanka, Bangladesh, Cricket it is more popular. In India cricket dominated all sports and games. Formats for cricket One day matches, Test Matches (5 days), Twenty-Twenty (20 overs).
Cricket is 11 players a side game also famous as a gentle man game. The biggest event in cricket is Cricket World cup. India is current champion. Here is the World Cup Winners List. 11th World cup will be start 14th Feb, 2014.
Friday, 5 September 2014
10th M.K.Super Seven Youth National Cricket League
Selections are going at Hyderabad for M.K. Super Seven Youth National Cricket League
Tuesday, 2 September 2014
World Cup 2015 Schedule
Good News, All Cricket fans, Recently ICC announced Cricket World Cup 2015 Schedule. World Cup hosting jointly by Australia, New Zealand from 14 Feb 2015 to Mar 2015, this time total 14 nation teams participating. India is 2011 World Cup Winners.
World Cup 2015 Schedule
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Something very neat and sweet that she does for people is to write a wish fulfillment story for them. I asked her if she'd write one for me, and she did so happily! With her permission, I am publishing it here on my blog; you can see the original (and request your own!) here. She also asked me to write a one paragraph biography as well, which is included.
I was so touched by her (or is it my?!) story. She has a real gift! Thank you from the bottom of my heart, Marlayne!
I am a native Michigander; have lived in Michigan all of my life. I grew up in a home headed by my mother and grandmother. My parents were divorced before I was born, and I did not have a father figure of any kind. I accepted Jesus as my Savior in 1987; subsequently turned my back and went back into the world. I returned to Him in 2001 and will not be going back. Returning to the Lord reminded me of the joy I had been missing. This time, I felt like Peter, who said, when Jesus asked His Twelve Disciples in John 6:67 "You do not want to leave too, do you?" Simon Peter answered him, "Lord, to whom shall we go? You have the words of eternal life. We believe and know that you are the Holy One of God." I am married to the most gentle and wonderful man in the world, Fred, and am the 'mother' of two amazing English Cocker Spaniels, Toby (born in 1995) and Shelby (born in 2004, a year to the day before our wedding day!). I enjoy reading, movies, music, marathons, traveling, serving on the Video Tech Team and as a Women's Ministry Life Group Leader at church and blogging at Ponderings by Andrea.
My wish is to be able to put the past behind and live the rest of my life for His glory.
Here's my wish fulfillment story, 'Sword of the Spirit,' as conceived by Marlayne Giron:
Andrea was dreaming...or so she assumed…for suddenly she found herself standing, in of all places, a blacksmith's shop and an ancient one at that. She stood and watched in fascination as he worked and slowly became aware that she was not standing there alone. She looked to her side and then up…up…up to find a ten foot tall, incredibly gorgeous angel standing next to her. He didn't exactly look like an angel…he had no wings and no flowing white robes but someone she knew…he was definitely an angel. Her angel. Her guardian angel. He looked down upon her with eyes full of love and affection and then silently directed her attention back to the smithy.
The large burly man was sweating profusely and hammering away with his hammer and tongs upon a long metal object. Andrea could feel the heat from the furnace but when the Blacksmith plunged the metal shaft into the heart of it, she felt as though it was she. Tears sprung to her eyes and she found herself unable to breathe until once again he withdrew the metal and began pounding away on it again, flipping it over and over, tempering it relentlessly. Now she could feel each stroke of the hammer, it didn't exactly hurt but every time the hammer fell, she sensed it. She began to panic when she saw him readying to plunge the metal again into the white hot fire and the angel put his arm about her. This time she felt only warmth. Slowly she began to comprehend…she was the metal!
At that instant, the blacksmith looked up and straight at her. While his exterior was large, burly and muscular (with rivulets of sweat pouring down him) there was no mistaking his eyes! A tingle rushed up her spine.
Several more hours passed as he worked the metal, alternating between holding it to the fire, beating it down, plunging into the water and repeating the process over and over again. Finally it was done and when he had finished it was a thing of beauty. He had affixed a magnificent hilt bestudded with gemstones and gilded with gold to the end and upon the flat of the blade he had etched a glorious design. Then he carefully wrapped it in a cloth, picked up another shaft of metal about the same size and walked out of the smithy. Andrea and her angel followed along afterwards, walking just behind him as he wove his way up a winding road to a magnificent castle upon a hill. No one seemed to take notice of any of them and he continued walking, crossing through the main entrance and finally into a glorious throne room that no words could describe. Andrea felt herself begin to tremble. Even the touch of her angel's hand upon her shoulder couldn't quiet her tremors. Except for the King who sat upon the throne and two knights upon either side, the throne room was empty. The blacksmith knelt upon one knee before him and presented both the tempered sword and the unworked shaft of steel to the King.
He lifted both in his hands then handed one to each of the knights upon either side of him. With a quick bow, they took up the sword and shaft and steel and began to circle each other, moving away from the throne, Andrea and her angel. It was over in seconds. The very first blow shattered the untempered steel into shards which flew in all directions. The pieces passed right through Andrea and her angel as if they weren't even there.
The knight returned the gorgeous sword to the King with a bow, who held it aloft in his hands and admired its beauty. As he turned it this way and that, his smile broadened and with a nod to the worthy blacksmith, he laid it upon his knees.
"The workmanship is exquisite!" said the King to the blacksmith approvingly.
"But what of the other sword, your majesty?" asked the Blacksmith, acting as though the shards were not scattered about his feet.
"Useless," replied the King. "Did you not see how it could not bear up under pressure, how it shattered at the least insult? It was not tempered in the fire nor by the forge, therefore it is useless."
Upon these words the King looked directly at Andrea and beckoned her forward. With her knees knocking, she stepped slowly forward, irresistibly drawn to Him despite her fear. She stood only inches before him and felt his arms go about her in a fatherly embrace.
"You resent and wish to forget the years of your tempering, do you not, my daughter?" He said, his eyes kind and understanding. Andrea nodded, her emotions welling up. Her chin fell upon her chest and her shoulders began to heave. Pent up years of hurt, embarrassment and pain welled up inside of her and bubbled over like a gushing fountain. The King's other arm went about here and he held her close as she sobbed and wailed until she felt cleansed inside and out. His hands then went up to cup her cheeks and his wonderful, penetrating eyes searched her own deeply.
"I know every pain," He whispered softly. "I have experienced every sorrow right beside you," Andrea looked at him and suddenly it was the King and it wasn't. It was the blacksmith and the King and upon his body were the bruises that he had shared with her and also taken for her.
"Only the finely tempered steel is worthy to serve in the army of the King." He whispered, bending forward and placing a tender kiss between her eyebrows. "Go in peace, my daughter, and never resent nor regret the tempering of thy spirit."
With those words Andrea suddenly found herself sitting up in her bed staring at the nightstand clock which read 3:00am. Had it really all been only a dream? Suddenly she got the distinct impression someone was grinning at her. She turned her head and practically screamed aloud; almost waking Fred up. Next to her bedside stood her angel and this time he had his wings on and his glowing white robes.
He started dissolving like so much sugar in a cup of hot tea.
"Wait!" hissed Andrea, reaching for him. "At least tell me your name!"
"Rupert!" he responded, solidifying just a bit. "And, yes, I have always been by your side, since the moment you were born."
"Always?" breathed Andrea feeling both blessed and disappointed at the same time. "Then…why…?" The unspoken insinuation hung in the air, despite everything she had just experienced. Rupert bent down and cupped her cheek in his hand, reminding her again of the King/Blacksmith.
"There are many things I did protect you from, my little one," he whispered, his eyes full of love and compassion for her, "but you will never know of them and that is as it should be. Let it be sufficient to know that all you have gone through has made you the child of God you are today, a finely tempered sword in the hand of the eternal King!"
Finally it sunk in and Andrea bowed her head in submission. Before he faded away from her eyesight, she felt his kiss upon her bowed head.
"We are with you always," came his faint voice like a sign upon the wind and with that, Andrea sunk back into a peaceful sleep; her heart much more at peace than it had been in many years.


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The idea of stacking the stones in a slanted arrangement, along a dry stone wall, came to me back in 2007. We had an opportunity to do a version of this at the Peterborough Flower and Garden Show the following year. Though I had not seen it done before, presumably slanting the stones in walls was not something new. However, I wanted to experiment with the idea a bit more, building the wall in a curve too, and have the height gradually undulate.
We added a turf top of thyme to the wall too just for effect.
The wall was a big success. There was a correctness about the slanted pattern, and it not only registered as stunning, it was still very structural. This project became the inspiration for several new designs involving the same walling 'on-the-bias' principle.
Tomorrow I'd like to look at the development of this original slanted wall concept ( with photos) as we applied to other past projects up to the present one which we recently finished in California.


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American singer and actress Jennifer Lopez, who was recently in the news for her raunchy performance on 'Britain's Got Talent', is in talks to return to the reality show 'American Idol' this autumn. However, the 'On The Floor' singer has not yet decided anything regarding her return to the judging panel.
The 43-year-old superstar has not revealed any details about her decision, or even if she has been approached by the producers of 'American Idol'. While speaking on a radio show 'On Air with Ryan Seacrest', Lopez said that she does not know what is happening and that she is yet to decide on a potential offer.
The 'Live It Up' singer went on to say that she is always open to infinite possibilities that the universe has to offer, so anything is possible anytime. While talking about her time on the popular show, the star said, "I was emotional about (leaving). I just had such a good time there. It fit … I felt like family (and) I get emotionally attached".
Lopez was recently criticized for her outrageous performance on 'Britain's Got Talent', when she appeared on stage in skimpy clothes in front of family audience. The judges on the show appreciated her performance, calling it energetic, but the audience did not share their opinion, as they took to their Twitter accounts to criticize the star.


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With a stay at The Ritz-Carlton, Phoenix in Phoenix (Camelback East), you'll be minutes from Biltmore Fashion Park and close to Town and Country Shopping Center. This 4.5-star hotel is within close proximity of Arizona Biltmore Country Club and Wrigley Mansion.
Make yourself at home in one of the 281 air-conditioned rooms featuring minibars. Cable programming and video-game consoles are provided for your entertainment, while wireless Internet access (surcharge) keeps you connected. Bathrooms feature shower/tub combinations, designer toiletries, and hair dryers. Conveniences include phones, as well as safes and desks.
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The largest study ever to ask whether a low-fat diet reduces the risk of getting cancer or heart disease has found that the diet has no effect.Low-Fat Diet Does Not Cut Health Risks, Study Finds - New York Times
The $415 million federal study involved nearly 49,000 women ages 50 to 79 who were followed for eight years. In the end, those assigned to a low-fat diet had the same rates of breast cancer, colon cancer, heart attacks and strokes as those who ate whatever they pleased, researchers are reporting today.
"These studies are revolutionary," said Dr. Jules Hirsch, physician in chief emeritus at Rockefeller University in New York City, who has spent a lifetime studying the effects of diets on weight and health. "They should put a stop to this era of thinking that we have all the information we need to change the whole national diet and make everybody healthy."
Once again, that deep thinker, Woody Allen, proves to be (at least) thirty years ahead of his time.
From Mr. Allen's 1973 science-fiction parody Sleeper:
Dr. Melik: [puzzling over list of items sold at Miles' old health-food store] ... wheat germ, organic honey and... tiger's milk.
Dr. Aragon: Oh, yes. Those are the charmed substances that some years ago were thought to contain life-preserving properties.
Dr. Melik: You mean there was no deep fat? No steak or cream pies or... hot fudge?
Dr. Aragon: [chuckling] Those were thought to be unhealthy... precisely the opposite of what we now know to be true.
Dr. Melik: Incredible!


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John Ndege blogs the demise of his London-based ScribbleSheet citizen journalism site, which launched last September, in a post titled "The Problem with Citizen Journalism.".
Ndege has some observations.
Among them, he thinks NowPublic may have a potentially sucessful model, particularly as a result of its agreement with the Associated Press.
ScribbleSheet is another in a long stream of examples of the how very tough it is to build a successful community model -- as a business.
One of Ndege's hard learnings: Simple display advertising won't cut it.
That calls into question the business models of a large number of sites.


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The Metric System is a decimal system of measurement that was first devised in the late 1700s as a means of standardizing and simplifying the many weights and measures that existed at that time. It was introduced by France in 1799 as an International System of Units, known by the abbreviation SI, from the French "Système International" Although the Metric System is the International System of Measurement, the United States is one of the only countries (along with Liberia and Burma) that has not adopted the metric system officially. In fact, the U.S. is the only industrialized country that uses Customary Units.
People use customary units in daily life, while science, medicine, government, and many sectors of industry use metric units. This leads to a huge disconnect between society and science in the U.S. It underscores the need for metrication more than ever.
Many questions come to mind about this disparity of units between society and the scientific world.
- Is it possible that people are turned off by science and technology because they don't understand the metric system?
- Could this make us less scientifically literate as a country?
- Wouldn't it make sense for scientists and non-scientists to speak the same language?
- As a nation competing in a global market, is the US at a disadvantage by not using the International System of Measurement?


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Darling photos by the lovely Miss Kimberly!
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With the problems that have pass trough the world these last two years, the economy getting down and the unemployment getting higher probably most of the people who got unemployed will need to change careers and find now jobs.
For people who loose their jobs and don't know how to change and get a new career there are on the market some career advisors that will help trough all the changing and how to choose a new type of job and start a new career.
Career advice specialists are highly skilled professionals with a great knowledge about the market and the careers that are in need on today competitive market. For each new place there are a lot of candidates and only the well prepared will survive and get the right job to carry on and look at the future in a bright way!
To find a job it's not easy, and to find the right job it is harder than most people can believe. The help of skilled professionals is essential in the process of finding the places and be prepared to go to interviews or to prepare the CV.
Has you see there is a lot to do in the job search for people unemployed.
But there are advices that a career advice specialist can give to people on their jobs, yes, because people who have a job nowadays will also need to know how to keep it and how to take the most of the current job.
I have found a site specialized in career advices and that a lot of people should read and think on all the thinks that they need to improve in order to keep a job, or to find a better job.
Being happy is has most important has to have a job, so there are some kind of behaviours that will help people on this task of being happy at work.
The economy it is so complicated yet that we have to do everything that we can to keep the job and to think positive. Sympathy, morale and good organization are some of the qualities needed today to have a good environment on the work place.
Don't forget that this past year the number of unhappy people has grown and the percentage of unemployed is the higher than ever, people from finance and automobile sectors are living on the edge, and they don't know if their job will be there on the next day, and has you all know all the economy will suffer with that!


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I've been creating a series of photos as the players are coming out onto the ice for their pre game warm up. I guess you call these photos a series because they are basically the same idea and style.
What I would like to do is capture the player's Pre Game Ritual.
It all starts as the players stand in the hallway underneath the bleachers near the entrance to the ice surface. They wait for one of there theme song called Hell Yeah by Rev Theory to play. Then in a single file they advance towards the ice surface just in time to hear the arena announcer yell out
" Lead by Tyler Bunz ( or in many cases Deven Dubyk)....
Your Medicine Haaaat T-I-G-E-R-S!"
and the whole Arena explodes with excitement for their home town heros!
The intensity before show time.
Can't forget The Fans..
...and yet there is players like Reid Petryk that come out with a great big Positive Attitude.
...Game in and Game out...
His laughter rubs off on his team mates!
The one thing I love about rituals is that they are all unique. Take Hunter, No matter if it's warm up or game time the mouth guard makes it's way outside the mouth.
With my Pre Game shoot , I'm perched in the opposition bench across the ice from where the Tigers enter the ice surface. While I take these photos and watch the players formative warm up. I get to see the little rituals of each individual player. Everything from juggling of a puck, to the back and forth speed skating in between the two side boards and to the goalies practicing their lateral movements in the crease.
I believe that's what drives me to take more pictures. Like I said earlier, what I would like to do is capture the player's Pre Game Ritual. To Trap, if you pardon the pun, the few moments of total concentration of each player as he follows his warm up routine.
I use art to apprehend an illusion of a players game. Even though I have my style of creating I always strive for the new and out of the ordinary composition.
With photography, I have the ability to freeze a moment in a players life..
As the players single file onto the ice surface I want to capture their Pre Game Ritual. But sometimes an ordinary routine isn't ordinary at all...
Maybe not a Pre Game Ritual....Dylan The skate Guard buddy!
To view more of these photos go to http://www.pbase.com/mcimages
Artwork http://www.versikaitis.com


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Your heart pounds, your palms sweat, you start shaking, you get short of breath. You experience a fear that seems overwhelming that came absolutely out of nowhere, and for no reason. You could have been driving your car, or awakened out of sleep, or at your desk performing your daily routine at your job. Perhaps it's the first time it's happened, perhaps not. If it's not you probably know that you aren't going to die, but you feel like it. If it's the first time you are scared to death.
No one really knows what causes a panic attack to come on. Some medical professionals say that they can be related to heredity, some say to stress. Some say if you have a history of other mental disorders, such as depression or some phobias you are more likely to experience panic attacks. Know that you are not alone. It is estimated that one out of three adults will suffer a panic attack in their lifetime.
Some professionals have broken down panic attacks into three distinct types, spontaneous, specific and situational. A spontaneous panic attack would be as suggested by its name, one that happens unexpectedly. Panic attacks called specific are brought on, as also suggested by it's name by specific repeated situations, and situational panic attacks may come while doing a certain type of activity, such as riding a bike, even though there is no panic or fright involved with the activity.
Some people suffer from a panic attack only once. These may be panic attacks which are brought on by major life stresses and ease after the stress is eliminated. Some suffer from repeated panic attacks. The type of help you seek for panic attacks and the type of help you are given by medical professionals will be based on how many panic attacks you suffer from. Some health care professionals and organizations seek to treat people who suffer from infrequent panic attacks with a step program, similar to that used with alcoholics anonymous. Some medical professionals will treat more severe and recurrent panic attacks with medication. Generally patients who suffer from repeated panic attacks will benefit by being referred to a phychologist or psychiatrist for counseling.
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Fade or Flourish?
Rethinking the role of life science companies in the healthcare ecosystem
Although this article deals with the life science industry, the lessons are profound and germane to all change marketplaces. The idea of innovating across business designs is the underpinning of our MDG process and our class at Kellogg (http://www.kellogg.northwestern.edu/execed/Programs/ORGGROW.aspx).
The life sciences industry stands at a crossroads. Its business model is broken, and the surrounding healthcare ecosystem is changing dramatically. In addition, the industry's scientific and commercial productivity has declined, the blockbusters on which it has long relied for much of its financial prosperity have come off patent, sales forces are shrinking as physician access is restricted, and payers are increasing price pressures. Economic, social and technological forces are simultaneously reshaping the world in which the industry operates.
It's clearly time for change. In today's increasingly complex and fast-changing environment, business model innovation is critical to success. Yet few understand when to make a change or – more important – how to execute one. And the life sciences industry as a whole has generally resisted developing new business models.
Life sciences companies could resist change and stick to the current course: consolidating, cutting costs, tinkering with adjacent market spaces, reorganizing the existing sales force and investing ever more money in searching for new medicines in crowded therapeutic areas. Or they could completely rethink how they engage with the healthcare ecosystem – i.e., all the entities, be they individuals, governments, healthcare providers, insurers or other life sciences companies, that help keep people healthy.
Those companies that resist change could face the very real possibility of fading into irrelevance or disappearing altogether. However, those that choose to rethink and reform their business model will likely flourish. They will potentially be very different entities than they are today, as they join in setting the agenda, enhancing healthcare and radically redefining the industry.Life sciences executives face a "moment of truth." How will they effectively transform in today's rapidly changing environment? Global business leaders are expressing a view that the speed, immediacy, unpredictability and viral nature of change mean they can no longer expect to manage through this environment. Rather, success will depend on their ability to innovate through it. In essence, there is more than one way to successfully navigate today's challenges, and each company will choose its own path. The direction of this path will determine whether it will fade or flourish.


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Well Happy Fathers Day to all the fathers out there. Well my dad is a huge Star Trek fan, and his series choice is "Star Trek: The Next Generation". well my brother has slowly been buying him model ships and other memorabilia from the different TV shows...so naturally I needed to make him a room sign for all of his stuff. Below you will find everything I used on this project. Sorry I was not able to make a video of this project due to many other things going on in my life currently. Just not enough hours in the day. But if you need more instructions than I give please let me know!
So here is the finished project. Below this you will find the steps
Step One:
I bought this shadow frame and paper pack at Joann's. The background is the standard star blue paper. I also then used the following stickles all over the background to give the look of stars. I used Star Dust, Icicle, Diamond, and Frosted Lace. I simple put dots on the existing stars on the background.
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You will need to download the following pictures onto your hard drive to open in the Silhouette Designer Edition software. You will import all three photos and trace them. Cut out two sets of the ship, two sets of the badges and one set of the characters.
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Once you have the charters cut out I used a black sharpie to go over their black pants and shirts to give a nice dark look. I then took martha stewart glitter pens in coordinating colors and went over all of the color in their shirts and above their shoes. I used black enamel paint on their shoes. I used a metallic silver paint pen for their buckles and accessories including their communicator badges. I used the same Martha Stewart Glitter pens on the three color badges above and the enterprise ship. On the ship I cut out the bottom part and the top part and use foamed squares to lift this above the other part of the ship. I then took black ink and using a foam brush I lightly brushed the top of the photo to give it a distress/worn look. I then cut out the three insignias from the badges and raised them up using foam squares. Raise up the characters and all 6 of the badges from the background using foam squares.
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Go to www.dafont.com and download the Star Trek font and load it into the Silhouette Software and type your sentiment or name. Go over all of the letters with Star Dust Ranger Stickles Glue. Cut out the main insignia from another printed badge to place in between the word star and trek. Raise up the name and room with one set of foam squares and the Star Trek with two sets of foam squares (one placed on top of the other).
I hope this helps and if you have any other questions feel free to contact me on my blog under the contact section!!!


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Liechtenstein post will issue a postage stamps to create awareness about the various renewable energy sources.
In 2004 the Government of the Principality of Liechtenstein published its wide-ranging and ambitious Energy Strategy 2013. Its contents included the stated aim of reducing greenhouse-gas emissions by more than 8 % over the 1990 level by 2013. This is to be achieved by selective and subsidized thermal refurbishment of existing buildings or increasing to more than 10% the share in overall energy consumption of renewable energy sources such as hydropower, solar energy and geothermal energy.
The "Renewable Energy" series of stamps is devoted specifically to these energy sources, which are characterized by being self-renewing and thus sustainably available resources. The first part of this series highlights "Hydropower" (face value CHF 1.00), "Wood" (face value CHF 1.40) and "Near-Surface Geothermal Energy" (face value CHF 2.80) as such renewable energy sources. The proportion of wood in the biomass is to be substantially raised in the coming years by, among other things, increasing the number of wood-chip heating systems installed in public buildings.
Hydropower is converted into electrical energy by means of turbines and generators. The "Wood" stamp depicts the wood-chip wave formation typically produced by the rotary stirrer used in a special heating apparatus such as this. In the still young process of geothermal energyrecovery (terrestrial heat) the energy stored in the earth is turned into usable heat.
CHF 1.00 – Hydro power
CHF 1.40 – Wood
CHF2.80 – Near-Surface Geothermal Energy
Title: Renewable Energy
Date of Issue: 6 September 2010
Country: Liechtenstein
Denominations: CHF 1.00, CHF 1.40, CHF2.80


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Steve Gleitsmann
GET IT Mobile
For those of us that aren't familiar with Get It Mobile, please tell us a little more about your company and platform.
GET IT is a programmatic agency that drives mobile user acquisition and re-engagement campaigns through our proprietary buy-side platform. We work with some of the largest ad buyers in the industry and are known for our transparent and data driven approach to media buying.
Unlike many of the other players in our industry, we run campaigns towards specific KPI targets rather than an arbitrary cost metric (think ROI and ROAS targets instead of CPI or CPM). Our programmatic buying engine utilizes our partners' performance data to optimize bids in real time and drive budget toward higher value traffic while automatically turning off underperforming media.
All of our data is exposed to our partners so they can monitor bids on any network, and even review performance line items from clicks to installs. This approach allows our partners to focus on the more important metric of optimizing their overall margin rather than individual ad purchases.
Both mobile and programmatic as separate categories are extremely hot in the world of digital advertising, and GET IT Mobile sits at the nexus of both. Can you share more on how mobile programmatic works, and where you source your inventory from?
From a technology point of view, mobile programmatic isn't any different than programmatic advertising on the web, but when it comes to in-app inventory, targeting the right audience is a completely different game. On web, individuals can be easily tracked as they move from site to site. When marketers try to reach a specific audience on the web, they can simply tap into commercial DMP data to optimize their campaign. This does not work for in-app advertising.
Mobile apps are essentially silos that don't allow any targeting based on cookies, which means none of the web-based tracking and targeting methods work. There are a lot of advertising companies that tout their ability to effectively reach users on desktop and mobile alike. This is very misleading because it usually means their mobile reach is limited to mobile web inventory, which can be targeted and tracked like traditional web inventory. Considering that about 80% of all mobile usage is now in-app, this means that the marketer misses out on a huge portion of traffic that, in our experience, yields a lot more value than mobile web inventory.
At GET IT we are focused solely on buying in-app inventory and we use proprietary programmatic and segmentation technology to target users that are most likely to meet our partners' performance targets. As for our inventory sources, we have the ability to buy from a variety of networks and exchanges both via direct API integrations and via RTB. Historically, we have had tremendous success on Google as many of our partners found this to be the most challenging network to transparently buy media at large scale.
Programmatic has been known to be a high-frequency, mechanized, automated way of buying digital advertising at scale. However, it definitely doesn't have the reputation of having custom or high-impact inventory available through it. What types of custom ad units are currently available through your mobile programmatic platform and do you eventually see all custom formats being available programmatically?
Programmatic is a means and not the end. The goal for any marketer is to target the most relevant audience in the most effective way. And what's more effective than to have computers automatically take care of audience evaluation, segmentation, and ultimately, the ad buy? Our system can set up to 1 million bids per second on millions of media segments. Imagine how many people it would take to do this without computers.
We are running a multitude of different ad types at all times including; text, banner, and video, and there's no reason why certain ad types could not be managed programmatically. In our experience, you can drive very high-impact campaigns programmatically if the network offers the appropriate inventory quality and if you have the ability to target effectively using the right medium. If the network does not offer quality inventory, you need to take your ad spend elsewhere. The only way to determine the quality of a given network or channel is to carefully analyze how the media actually performs for the individual advertiser.
This is one of the reasons why we advocate against the simple CPI metric. Cost per install can only tell you how much media costs, and not how well your ads performed. It is also important to note that we have seen a shift of high-value inventory moving away from the open exchanges and into private marketplaces where it can be sold at a higher price to a more exclusive group of ad buyers. Although more expensive, this media may still back out for the marketer if downstream revenue events prove to outweigh the costs.
How has ad blocking affected mobile inventory, especially mobile inventory that can be purchased programmatically?
When I think about ad blocking I always wonder why it took people so long to adopt this technology, both on mobile and on desktop. Being an avid mobile user myself, I've had my share of horrible experiences. From intrusive ads and extreme lag to the infamous auto-redirect to the app store, I understand the frustration inferior ads can cause a user.
As for the impact on our business, there hasn't yet been any as we exclusively target in-app inventory, and ad blocking currently only works on desktop and mobile web. I also think that the in-app advertising experience is a very different, and arguably superior experience to what you find on mobile web. Because apps automatically optimize ad placement and the app store submission process has become quite rigorous, apps with poor user experience are finding it harder and harder to be published.
From an industry perspective, I think ad blocking is healthy because it creates a dialogue between the advertiser and the consumer. The advertiser is forced to provide a better user experience, and if ad blocking continues to gain momentum, the user might eventually be asked to pay for content that had been previously been ad sponsored.
Mobile eCPMs have been known to be much lower than desktop, either due to lack of brand advertiser demand (or lack of knowing how to tackle mobile still), or lack of high-impact units on handheld devices. Are eCPMs really lower on mobile, and if so, why do you think that is the case?
eCPMs vary widely across different media segments and there is an ongoing effort to improve the advertising experience on mobile devices. Since our focus is mobile first, I don't have much in the way of comparison data, but I would expect eCPMs on mobile to continue to grow as more brands have the ability to effectively target and bid on in-app inventory.
From your internal data, what are some emerging markets where large swaths of mobile inventory are becoming available through exchanges?
Exchange based buying continues to be a lot more popular in the western hemisphere than in Asia where we have not seen a lot of quality inventory offered via RTB. Recently we have seen a growing number of companies in China that now offer inventory directly to western buyers, but we have not had an opportunity to evaluate if this inventory is sourced from quality publishers or simply repurposed from other exchanges.
Overall, given the trend of premium inventory moving to PMP, it is going to be interesting to see what kind of inventory will continue to be available on the open exchanges.
What are some of the core differences of mobile in-app inventory as compared to mobile web inventory? Are there different use cases for each?
Mobile web inventory has always been tricky due to tracking and attribution issues, as there is no device ID to collect. It has also not performed well for us from a monetization perspective so we stopped buying mobile web about two years ago. Some of our advertisers acquire mobile web inventory from other advertising companies.
If the price is right and the inventory is available at sufficient volume, it certainly helps drive app store ranking. As I had pointed out earlier, targeting mobile web inventory might also make sense for a marketer who is already targeting users on desktop because of reusability of web based targeting data.
Ad fraud is one of the biggest problems in mobile advertising, with many marketers claiming to have been sold fraudulent impressions or even installs. How can a marketer best mitigate their purchase of fraudulent impressions or users on the open exchanges?
Fraud obviously is a hot topic in our industry and unfortunately, there isn't a silver bullet. As fraud detection improves, so does the ingenuity of the fraudsters. One easy and effective step to combat ad fraud is to always know the origin of the inventory. We have seen a lot of questionable traffic that is re-brokered among the various offer boards and exchanges.
Large and reputable networks such as Google and Facebook leverage their own inventory and deploy their own fraud detection. This is by no means a perfect solution, but we have seen relatively low amounts of questionable traffic coming from our tier-one partners. Marketers that buy traffic on an open exchange need to ensure that their advertising partner has the ability to identify potential fraud patterns either directly on acquisition or by monitoring post-acquisition events like tutorial completions or sign-ups.
Our system monitors post-acquisition events by default because we associate a conversion value with each ad click or user engagement that we drive. The most important value to our clients in the mobile games space is an in-app purchase event, and we can tell relatively quickly if a traffic source does not yield any revenue.
This is yet another example why we encourage marketers to focus on conversion funnel events instead of CPI or CPM. We have seen a lot of traffic that meets our partners' CPI targets but resulted in zero value further down the funnel.
There is such a large plethora of advertising companies, ad tech providers, and web publishers that sell directly to advertisers, that it is almost becoming impossible to keep up. Do you think that these many vendors existing is sustainable, and how do you see the market evolving over the next few years?
Predictions in an emerging industry are always tricky, but I think it's safe to assume that many of the current advertising companies will disappear once marketers get more sophisticated about determining the real value of an ad impression, app install, or whatever their internal performance metric is. I am still seeing a lot of arbitraging of cheap traffic, and while I don't think that this will ever completely stop, I believe it is going to get a lot more difficult for the individual advertising companies to get paid for traffic that simply isn't worth anything.
At the same time, I expect the dominant advertising companies to be less open to any of the smaller players in order to protect their own business. Though, they will probably claim it's for the protection of their users' privacy. One of the biggest obstacles in our industry is the inability to match mobile device IDs and cookies in a scalable way. The companies that are most likely to solve this problem are the ones that have a strong presence on both the traditional web and on mobile. Think Alibaba, Amazon, Google, Facebook, and Tencent to name a few.
The real value in advertising is accurate targeting and user profile data, and I expect that companies who have this data will protect it a lot more securely in the future.
Lastly, what is your take on the future of mobile advertising?
In the future, we will no longer talk about mobile advertising as a separate entity like we do today. Instead, we will simply talk about advertising across a myriad of different touch points where mobile is just another piece of the puzzle. Other pieces will include IoT devices and cars. Because when your car drives itself, you'll have plenty of time to look at ads.
GET IT is the leading programmatic mobile user acquisition solution running on the worlds top mobile ad networks. We manage large-scale, ROI-focused user acquisition campaigns for some of the biggest brands in the mobile industry. We do this by leveraging GET IT proprietary programmatic high-frequency bidding technology to drive major volume for premium quality app installs throughout the world.
GET IT campaigns are fully managed, completely transparent to our clients, and driven by our partner's exclusive business metrics. www.getitmobile.com
GET IT is profitable with extremely strong revenue growth.
The company was founded by the brains behind Google Earth and is backed by Javelin Venture Partners.


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This lady from Elgin, Illinois has been charged with using a 94-year-old woman's credit card for fertility vitamins and donor sperm to get herself pregnant. And congratulations are in order, because she's pregnant.
A pregnant hairdresser accused of bilking an elderly client from Lisle and using the money to cover purchases from a sperm bank has pleaded not guilty to identity theft and financial crimes charges, according to DuPage County prosecutors. Jenifer Perik, 42, of Elgin, was arraigned Monday before Judge John Kinsella. Perik is accused of making about $6,000 in unauthorized purchases on the credit card of one of her hair clients, a 94-year-old woman. She was arrested earlier this month. At a subsequent bond reduction hearing, it was revealed that about half of the unauthorized purchases were for sperm from a clinic that has offices in Virginia and Maryland. The website for the clinic advertises its high-quality donors and says that only 1 in 200 candidates are accepted. Perik is believed to have paid about $3,000 to have three to five samples shipped to Illinois, Assistant State's Attorney Diane Michalak said at Perik's bond reduction hearing. The hairdresser is about seven weeks pregnant, Michalak said, but the prosecutor said she didn't know whether it was as a result of in vitro fertilization. She is free on bond and her next court appearance is set for June 5. Authorities allege that Perik used the elderly woman's Discover card information to make about 35 unauthorized purchases between August and December last year. The woman's daughter noticed suspicious transactions on her mother's statements.Jenifer was released on $75,000 bail. If convicted (ahem, when she's convicted) she faces up to 15 years in prison.
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Today, Mike Gillis said the swirling rumours about Torts' imminent firing were started by bloggers. I know, right? The Canucks have been spiralling down the standings since the beginning of January. Their head coach tried to fight another team's head coach, on camera no less. Ryan Kesler is allegedly dying to be traded. And even though the team had one of the most mind numbing, embarrassing losses in recent memory the other night that people all across the NHL were talking about, it's obviously bloggers that are responsible for these scandalous firing rumours.
Now, we could all be offended at these allegations. But I prefer the more glass full approach of being incredibly flattered! I mean, Mike Gillis thinks we're talented enough to start rumours about a head coach being fired apparently out of thin air. It sounds like he admires our pluck and gumption.
Gillis has made several mistakes recently, most notably turning his embarrassment of riches in goal into two Swedish rookies who aren't sure if they want to be Batman. Or almost guaranteeing no free agents of any consequence will want to sign here in the off season. But rest assured, Mike Gillis is not afraid to voice how highly he thinks of us bloggers. And for that I salute him.


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2010 Elite Women Regional Economic Development Trade Summit
Delaina Flowers, Pittsburgh Good News Reporter
It's not far from Pittsburgh to our sister city of Cleveland for the Elite Women Regional Economic Development Trade Summit. Listen in tonight and we believe you will be inspired to make the trip on May 5th.
40 plus exceptional speakers will lead the 2010 Elite Women Regional Economic Development Trade Summit Workshops. The objective is to support and encourage women in our region -NE and NW Ohio, Michigan, Pennsylvania, Indiana, West Virginia, Kentucky and Canada- to be economically self sufficient.
Behind this Summit is a 50 member statewide steering committee organized by Rita N. Singh, the Summit Underwriter, Producer and Chair of the committee.
"When women are involved in the economy, important shifts happen." says Rita.
Stephanie Phelps, PR/Marketing Chair for the summit and host of Time Warner Cable TV show, "Another Look."
Tammy Elois Camper, President & Principal Resultant of Strategic Transformation Partners LLC and Summit Speaker
Rita Singh, Conference Organizer and Underwriter. Founder of Elite Women Around The World project, S&A Consulting Group LLC & Miraj International LLC
DeLores Pressley, Personal Power Expert and Keynote Speaker.
What is the mission of the "Elite Women Around the World Project"?
The Summit objective is to support and encourage women in our region to be economically self sufficient. The regions covered and invited to participate are NE and NW Ohio, Michigan, Pennsylvania, Indiana, West Virginia, Kentucky and Canada.
When and where is the Summit?
The Summit will be held Wednesday, May 5th At Tri-C Corporate College East in Cleveland, Ohio from 8am-6pm.
4400 Richmond Road
Lawerenceville Heights
$75 Full day, $45 for young professionals and $35 for students
Register at www.sa-consultinggroup.com
What's in it for you?
Workshops will include:
• "The Power of One" One Woman! One Business!One Nation & One World! by Almas Jiwani, President of United Nations Fund ForWomen - Ontario, Canada
• "Creating Powerful Connections that COUNT!"
with DeLores Pressley, Motivational Speaker, Personal Power Expert, and Coach.
• "Strike A Business Match"
by Tammy Elois Camper, President and Principal Resultant of Strategic Transformation Partners LLC
• "Womens' Health Issues"
with Dr. Hebert of Cleveland Clinic
How to Sell Anything by Creating a Platform Online by PPL's own TechnoGranny, Joanne Quinn-Smith
What will the day entail?
The Summit will consist of • Workshops • Exhibitors• Lunch • Keynote Speakers• A reception
Why should women attend?
• Critical advice • Expert guidance• One on one business counseling • Speakers• Tips on leveraging social media • How to grow your bottom line
Stephanie Phelps, Summit PR/Marketing Chair and host of Time Warner Cable TV show, "Another Look."
The original 30-minute television show made its debut in Cleveland, Ohio in April of 2000. Another Look is today a locally aired cable television program in the Cleveland Ohio area on Time Warner Cable 15 channel. The program, hosted each week by Stephanie Phelps, Anthony Brown, and Melanie Murphy gives viewers ANOTHER LOOK at news, movies, sports, entertainment, the arts, special events and more around North East Ohio. The show maintains a high-energy magazine look and feel with enlightening topics and guests. Features include interviews, movie reviews, lifestyles, performances by musical talent and dramatic artist. This highly popular show delivers educational and informative programming with a focus on the African-American community.
Stephanie Phelps
Summit PR/Marketing Chair and Host of Another Look
DeLores Pressley, Keynote Speaker for the Summit, Motivational Speaker, Personal Power Expert, and Coach
DeLores Pressley is one of the most respected and sought-after experts on success, motivation, confidence and personal power. She is an international keynote speaker, author, coach and the Founder of the Born Successful Institute and DeLores Pressley Worldwide. She helps individuals use personal power to live their ideal life, increase confidence and lead a life of significance. Her story has been touted in Glamour, Washington Post, Black Enterprise, Success, Essence, New York Daily News, Ebony and Marie Claire. She is a frequent media guest and has been interviewed on every major network: (ABC, NBC, CBS and FOX) including America's top rated shows; OPRAH and Entertainment Tonight.
DeLores has spoken to 107,000 people in over 65 major cities and countries. She is the author of Clean Out the Closet of Your Life, Believe in the Power of You and Oh, Yes You Can. Oh, Yes You Can: A How To Guide for Rebuilding Confidence and Achieving Success is her most recent book. She has received many awards and recognitions for her work. She produces Speak for Hire, an educational program teaching entrepreneurs, speakers and coaches how to speak and grow their business. DeLores is the Co-Host of radio show; "Wriggling in the Middle on WHBC 1480am.
DeLores at the Summit
I will be the opening MC and will also speak at the event. My topic is "Creating Powerful Connections that COUNT!" I will talk about how to make powerful connections at work and in business:
• Start a Happy Hour (not about drinks) • Start a Mastermind Group • Seek out mentors - be a mentor
• Volunteer • Take risks • Be an expert
I believe entrepreneurs should become speakers to help grow their business. I work with business owners to help them use the power of their voice to grow their business. I have a new product to help business owners achieve this. Speak to Grow Your Business is a 2 set CD, a Bonus DVD and Downloadable Workbook. For more information go to http://www.speaktogrow.com/
We help people realize, refine and release their personal power.
Listen to me every Monday at 9:00am - 10:00am on WHBC 1480am www.WHBC.com
Join me on www.facebook.com/DeLoresPressleyfanpage
and www.linkedin.com/in/DeLoresPressley
Web www.DeLoresPressley.com
email email@example.com
Office: Toll free 877.550.1751 Fax: 330.649.9309
Tammy Elois Camper, Summit Speaker and President and Principal Resultant of Strategic Transformation Partners LLC
Transformation Partners LLC (STP) is a management consulting firm that provides thought, leadership, clarity and solutions that challenge business processes in the areas of PEOPLE and STRATEGY. Led by Tammy E. Camper, the Company helps business leaders make better decisions, deliver improved business performance and take advantage of windows of opportunity even when the course of action isn't clear.
Tammy at the Summit
I got involved by seeing information on LinkedIn which is a wonderful tool. I sent Rita information about my company and told her that I was interested in helping in any way she needed, even though I am in PA (outside the Philadelphia area). I've been drumming up some calls to action by sending the information out to those organizations that I am associated with of which most have Chapters in every state.
I will be presenting a short keynote in the morning on Leadership and then in the afternoon I will be presenting my "Strike A Business Match" workshop.
The workshop
The term "business matchmaking" has become a buzz word for many organizations. Come prepared to take away strategies you can use immediately such as:
• Which Match Do I Strike?
• The Match That Won't Light!
• The Match is Lit – Now What?
• And much more.
This will be a fast paced and interactive session so come prepared and be prepared to Strike Your Business Match!
Benefits from this dynamic session include:
• Turning Contacts into Contracts with the right Strike of the Match!
• Maximize your networking skills to find the "decision maker"
• Leverage your WBE/MBE/SDB/SMALL status as an asset
• Learn to think like the "buyer" and not the "proposer"
Tammy Elois Camper, President & Principal Resultant
Link to me on LinkedIn or Facebook
O) 800-940-0267 x703
Strategic Transformation Partners LLC
Making Strategy & Skills Connect
STP is a certified MBE/WBE company
4400 Richmond Road
Lawerenceville Heights
$75 Full day, $45 for young professionals and $35 for students
Register at www.sa-consultinggroup.com
Pittsburghers can direct all questions about the summit to Pennylvania Regional Co-ordinator, Joanne Quinn-Smith at 412-628-5048.
Let's get out of Pittsburgh for a minute, make some new business connections, and party in Cleveland. TechnoGranny is staying an extra day to see the Rock N Roll Hall of Fame a second time
To hear this episode of Positively Pittsburgh Live in its entirety go to http://www.talkshoe.com/talkshoe/web/audioPop.jsp?episodeId=350647&cmd=apop
Delana Flowers is a Positively Pittsburgh Live reporter, an independent writer and owner of Ingenuity Copywriting ©, writing effective copy so you don't have to. Services include copywriting for newsletters, blogs, ad copy, marketing pieces, articles, reviews, invitations, postcards, flyers and more.


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"Whatever is said in Latin sounds profound."
I feel this way about the new watch I picked up in Seoul. It's a nice watch, looks expensive and hefty, and nice leather wristband. I've worn it to several business meetings and people praise it. I feel like a million bucks, and none of them know the secret.
That I bought it for $10 from a street vendor. =)
(Thanks to Rob from Spain for this quote. I'm hoping my brother will read this and smile.)


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Wow, what a powerful movie. I watched this last night and I was so amazed, not just by the fact that it's a true story, with actual first person video of the entire storm (Hurricane Katrina), but what really struck me was that it was from the point of view of a poor couple from the 9th ward who were struggling to survive before the storm but had the foresight to document the event and to seek out documentarians to get their story out there, never victims, but always strong and caring.
If I taught high school in the city, I would show this to my students in a heartbeat because it really gives voice to the voiceless and shows their experience is a shared experience and a valid experience, wherever you come from, you can be in charge of your choices and your future, no matter what life throws at you. The woman filmmaker, Kimberly Rivers Roberts decides to record her neighborhood and the storm, keeping her caring, sunny disposition throughout, later revealing a powerful rap persona, Black Kold Medina and we learn she has had a life no one would envy but has not let this keep her down.


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Not my favourite, but perhaps the perfect wine for you: Domaine de Ribonnet Clément Ader 2001
No substituting a Gamay for a Malbec in today's post -- although I will say I'm going to pretty much offer a bonafide endorsement as this bottle was darned close to making it into my fave top five last year.
I thought I was the owner of all remaining bottles in Montreal back in November. And I think I was until the SAQ went and restocked the warehouse with more. Now there's enough for everyone who reads this website. Which is a good thing. Plus, not only is it back on shelves, it's still appearing as the great 2001 vintage (click on the label image for vendor product info). And because it's a typical Bordeaux blend, this wine is just starting to show off its stuff.
But you know, I guess I put all these things it had going for it aside. Because in the end -- after all the bottle hunting, schlepping them home and the copious note-taking -- I didn't think this was among my personal favourite wines. I'm down to two bottles of it and I'm not even planning on getting more of the new stock that's been released. Why? Maybe Eric Asimov's current discussion at The Pour on why people increasingly "hate" Bordeaux (or Cabernet-based wines that approximate Bordeaux) has something to do with it.
(For the record, to "hate" Bordeaux is to value taste over judgment, which, for so many reasons, is fine in wine criticism as long as you know you're doing it... Lyle Fass seems to be aware of this and I think Eric Asimov is too.)
Without further ado, here's what to hate:
This is a classically styled wine blending the big Bordeaux grapes -- 40% Cabernet Sauvignon, 30% Merlot and 30% Cabernet Franc -- so no dangerous change-up from blackened Cahors to light-bodied Beaujolais on tap here.
It's actually classic Bordeaux grapes in the form of a vin de pays or French country wine. The vdp region is Comté Tolosan, which lays outside the doorstep of the Gironde, nestled in the Pyrenees that approach the Midi of the South of France. The location means it can only ask for a fraction of what you'd expect to pay: $18.75, or a total of exactly $225 for a case.
So this, folks, is where your bargain wine is at.
Domaine de Ribonnet Clément Ader Vin de pays du Comté Tolosan 2001 (Note: Clément Ader is not a winemaker, but rather a French aviator to whom this cuvée is dedicated.)
Eyes: Deep purple with dulled edges.
Nose: Rich red fruits, grenadine and lots of berries, stewing, with hints of licorice and leather and maybe animal, and over time, a crystal clear impression of muddled strawberries with white pepper. Yummy.
Mouth: Decanted for about two hours to open it up, the Ribonnet Clément Ader possesses dusty tannins and a gauzy minerality. It works against the fruit at first pour but after three hours in a carafe, the earthiness begins to balance fruitiness. After longer than that black fruit and licorice start to dominate the flavour profile. A solid wine that combines both the austerity of a fine Bordeaux and the sunniness of a Midi wine.
Stomach: Wraps itself around food quite well at this point. It leans on it and perhaps needs it when first opened, a half-dozen years into its life (with at least another half dozen to go).
Christian Gerber, Beaumont, Lèze, France. 13%. Certified organic wine.


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I feel like writing a short story since I can't ride at the moment, will write a couple of chapters at a time and see how long I can draw it out for. Wish me luck as my hope is to get this Freshly Pressed.
Chapter 1:
The morning sun is starting to rise over the distant hills, far-away trees illuminated by the warm glow. The sky is painted in a deep blue, small whiffs of clouds hovering overhead and birds of all shapes and sizes fly above, emitting their morning call.
A deep rumble cuts through the crisp air, the monotonous bah-bah-bah from the powerful engine, hanging like the early morning fog around the bike, steam rises from the race-can, giving the impression of a dragon, ready to decimate it's foes. The matte black fairings hug the bike and the sunrise gleams in the mirrored visor of the rider who sits atop the tuned beast.
He clicks it down into gear and with a twist of the throttle, the bike launches into the distance, rear tyre spinning with a cloud of smoke and drifting out onto the cold tarmac beneath the rubber. The roar from the engine penetrates the picturesque scene and echoes throughout the hills. The wind pushes against the rider and as he pushes on the bars going into corners, the bike settles down and grips the road with what seems like an unbreakable bond, his knee scrapes the road as the bike pivots through the canyon. Coming up to a tight corner, he gradually pulls on the front brake, getting harder and harder and the weight lifts from the rear and the front of the bike loads up as he approaches the corner, lifting off the front brake he locks his leg into the tank and leans out, feathering the throttle and kicking it down gear by gear, maintaining traction little by little.
He is getting faster and faster as the bike and him become one, corner after corner and the constant rise and fall of the engine revs. It seems like nothing can stop him now, moving like a bat out of hell he tears through the canyon, alone and alive he is on fire, with not a worry in the world. With a glance in the mirror he notices the flash of a headlight, quickly gaining on him, he looks back to the road in front of him and picks up his pace, barely braking into corners, he looks to carry as much speed as he can through each corner. The rear tyre starts to break free on the corners from the enormous amount of stress being placed on the tyre, as this happens he weights the outside peg and drifts it around each corner, but yet, he can still not lose this light behind him. The engine is screaming out in ecstasy as he pushes it harder and harder, as he comes up the a tight decreasing radius corner he pulls hard on the brakes and drops off his speed, kicking down a few gears and breaking the rear tyre loose and drops once again into the corner.
The light behind him comes up beside him like a shadow into light and moves around the outside of him, they are almost touching as they scrape through the corner and into the next one, the shadow rider pulls ahead of him and blocks off his line into the next corner, forcing him to brake early and adjust his line, bewildered by this mysterious rider that has just overtaken him. He follows the rider through the next corner, slowly losing ground as he tries to push harder and harder, riding at 100% of his ability to try to match the other rider.
As he comes into the corner before the one way bridge he looks to go around the outside of the other rider, dropping in later than his competition, pegs scraping the ground in a flash of sparks, it is now that he realises that he won't make this corner and tries to turn even tighter, much of his body is now close to the ground that is sweeping by, at what seems like the speed of light. His peg digs into the road and before he can realise, the bike digs down and flicks him off.
Tumbling through the air like a rag-doll with the bike following him like a dog and his master. The ground seems so far away now and he is hoping to land on something soft, though in this canyon, it is unlikely that he will find anything resembling soft. He falls back down the the ground and just before he hits, he comes into contacts with the branches of a nearby tree, limbs flailing he now falls to the ground with a loud thud and the crumpling of bones throughout his body, he lies there alone yet alive, on fire with the rise and fall of his chest as he loses conciousness.
The other rider notices he has come off and returns as soon as possible, he sees the bike strewn across the road like an abstract painting and hears the muffled moans of the rider he passed earlier. He pulls out his cellphone and tries to call an ambulance but as he goes to dial he realises that there is no reception this far into the canyon, with no help to arrive he removes his helmet and makes his way down the bank to where the body lies, twisted and beaten, alone but still alive…just.


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Happy Tuesday!
We are finally enjoying some nice weather...so I thought we should do a bright and happy Inspiration post!
We are expecting a large shipment tomorrow with some new lines that have beautiful summery designs...
Lemonlush by Studio Calico
Good Day Sunshine by Simple Stories
The Story Of Us by Simple Stories
Studio Calico has been one of our best selling lines - they have a TON of awesome embellishments! The bright colours in this line make it so fun to create!
Check out Nicole Samuels' super fun layout with Lemon Lush!
Every summer, Simple Stories designs such a gorgeous line...and this year, Good Day Sunshine is one of their best!!! Such beautiful colours and patterns...check out Kim Kesti's cute card!
And Vicki Boutin's fun layout
And the last new line doesn't have bright colours...but is perfect for documenting a summer wedding!! We are always on the lookout for unique wedding lines instead of the same old stuff and this one caught our eye right away!!
Check out the beautiful layout and Project Life page I found on Simple Stories' blog featuring The Story Of Us
For a TON more ideas with this gorgeous paper, check out their Pinterest Board!
There is a ton more goodies expected tomorrow - last week we didn't even get any of the Mirabelle collection on the floor before it sold out so we reordered it; restock in the beautiful Prima Time Traveller and Sea Shore;and........ GELATOS (finally...lol)
Have a great week!


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White separatist propaganda turns up at Fort Carson, Army Times
Jun. 10, 2014 - 06:00AM |
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A flyer and CD that a Reddit user says was found at Fort Carson, Colo. (Via Reddit user jhb2wr)
White supremacists are recruiting at Fort Carson, Colorado.
Law enforcement officials at the post are investigating after propaganda flyers for Northwest Front, a self-described white separatist organization, were found on post and turned over to authorities, according to post spokesperson Dani Johnson.
The flyers, posted to Reddit early Tuesday, urge troops to join the group's drive to create a "white nation" in the Pacific Northwest and "secure the existence of our people and a future for White children."
"Ever wonder if you are fighting for the right side?" says one flyer, which accuses the Pentagon of targeting white men and Christians.
A Reddit user who describes himself as a paratrooper, jhb2wr, posted to Reddit saying he and some other paratroopers "found about a dozen sealed plastic bags blowing around Fort Carson with this flyer and a CD inside."
Reddit users responded, urging the soldier to turn the flyers over to authorities and not to put the CD into a computer for fear of computer viruses.
Current and former members of the military have long been coveted by neo-Nazi and white supremacist groups for their tactical skills and ideological beliefs, and efforts to recruit them are nothing new, according to scholar Brian Levin.
"It's like, do the Yankees want a great pitcher," said Levin, director of the Center for the Study of Hate & Extremism at California State University.
"Neo-Nazi and white supremacist groups are happy to have people commit acts of violence in the name of their ideology without being a card carrying member of their group — lone wolves," Levin said.
What was unusual to Levin was the discovery of the flyers on the post rather than in the surrounding community, which suggests to him the flyers were distributed by a service member with ties to or leanings toward the group.
"This really needs to be investigated," he said.
Just this week Barcroft TV reported that a Ku Klux Klan faction announced its plans to recruit troops exiting the military, drawing on their expertise as the organization engages in military-style training for an expected race war.
The last major case to link the military and white supremacy was in April, when Frazier Glenn Miller — a retired master sergeant who served in Army Special Forces — is accused of shooting and killing three people in Overland Park, Kansas. A New York Times opinion piece that followed, discussing veterans and white supremacy groups, angered veterans groups.
In August 2012, white supremacist and former soldier Wade Michael Page allegedly shot six people and wounded four others at a Sikh temple in Oak Creek, Wisconsin. He was killed in the incident.
Also in August 2012, it was reported that a former Missouri National Guard member provided combat training to a white supremacist group, a recently released court document shows. The guardsman later aided with prosecution of members of the group.