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Four years ago, Matt Kenevan, a veteran sales executive at the Onion, was seeking a career change. Though the snarky, satirical newspaper where he worked isn't exactly Goldman Sachs, he had wearied of "working for the man." Phase two of his professional life would be guided by a pair of workplace principles: The ability to bring his dog and rock a pair of shorts.
"I might not be getting rich, but at least I've got those two things," Kenevan quipped.
These days the 35-year-old has his fingers in local beer without actually brewing any. He produces two popular Twin Cities beer festivals. He publishes the Growler, a bimonthly microbrew magazine. He owns a St. Paul store that sells beer-related merchandise.
On Saturday, 7,500 tasters will take over the St. Paul Farmers Market for the bearded beer-businessman's sold-out Beer Dabbler Winter Carnival (3-7:30 p.m., 290 5th St. E., St. Paul, 651-528-8752, www.thebeerdabbler.com).
Kenevan's events didn't always command crowds of this size. The Wisconsin native said he will never forget his first brew-sampling soirée under his holding company, Liquid 12 Festivals. The year was 2008, and Kenevan hoped to host 12 statewide festivals that summer, but rotten weather the day of his inaugural bash in a Burnsville parking lot put his plans into perspective. "It was horrible outside," Kenevan recalled. "I didn't even want to be there. … We might've had a couple hundred people, and I lost my ass on that one. It was like, 'Welcome to the concept of beer festivals.' "
Kenevan said his festivals, which include the summertime Highland Fest Beer Dabbler in addition to this weekend's event, are the "backbone" of his business. Now in its fourth year, Saturday's frosty fête sells out annually and has seen attendance grow eight times larger than in year one.
Reflecting the recent growth of the local craft-beer community, this year's winter Dabbler will have a designated all-Minnesota section (28 strong) among the more than 100 participating breweries. The event also features two stages of live music from Heiruspecs, the Chalice, Koo Koo Kanga Roo, Bloodnstuff and others, a stable of winter-braving food trucks, a silent disco and a homebrew contest.
As his festivals grew, Kenevan left his Onion gig last February to go all-in with his non-brewing beer biz. In March, he purchased the office space/storefront on West 7th Street that now houses his shop, his magazine and his office. With the Growler, Kenevan says he has an enviable problem: He can't keep up with requests from vendors for copies of the free publication. "The feedback from the people has been beyond my wildest dream," he said.
Next month the magazine will expand into Duluth.
Part of the Growler's appeal, Kenevan said, is that it doesn't nerd out with Beer Advocate intensity. In addition to suds-centric stories, the magazine runs food features, record reviews and a column by local rapper/writer Dessa. "It's a lifestyle," he said. "We wanted to make a magazine that is comfortable for everybody to read, whether you're a beer geek, beer-curious or you don't know anything about beer."
Kenevan admits building his three-pronged business has been a challenge. But manning the Beer Dabbler shop in a knit cap and Indeed Brewing hoodie (no shorts in January) with his pooch pal Porter, he seems at peace with his lifestyle choice.
Hitting the Wall
Northgate Brewing looks to be the latest in the line of newbie breweries based in northeast Minneapolis to come to market. For the first time, Northgate's Wall's End will be available Monday at Grumpy's Northeast, 4 miles from the brewery. The English brown ale will flow at half-price, as part of the bar's "Minnesota Mondays" special and Northgate brass will be on hand doling out swag.
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Dive bar's new owner
After incessant rumors, owners confirmed last week that iconic dive bar the C.C. Club (2600 Lyndale Av. S., Mpls., 612-874-7226) is being purchased by the neighboring folks at French Meadow Bakery. In the wake of community outcry, French Meadow co-owner Lynn Gordon pledged to preserve the Whittier neighborhood watering hole, noting it was predominantly the bar's parking lot she coveted. Gordon separately mentioned that the organic cafe plans to add a wine bar come April.
Making the list
Two local craft-happy taverns recently received national nods, landing on Draft magazine's list of America's 100 best beer bars. St. Paul gastropub the Happy Gnome (498 Selby Av., St. Paul, 651-287-2018, thehappygnome.com) and West Bank beer bastion Republic Seven Corners (221 Cedar Av. S., Mpls. 612-338-6146, www.republicmn.com) were the Twin Cities' only representatives on the unranked roster. With 130 taps between them, Draft's staff was likely impressed by their bountiful beer offerings.
Michael Rietmulder writes about bars and nightlife.


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Three years ago, Cynthia Marshall of San Antonio, Texas, was looking for a business opportunity. She'd recently signed up for pre-paid Internet access with FlashNet Communications, based in Fort Worth, Texas, and was happy with the price and service. "I was thinking, 'I wish a real company like FlashNet would try network marketing,' " Marshall says.
Marshall had tried her hand at selling diet pills and Tupperware but hadn't managed to build what's needed for success: a "downline" of people she'd recruited into the business. Then she received an e-mail: FlashNet was launching a new division, FlashNet Marketing Inc., to sell its services directly to consumers through a network of independent sales representatives. Marshall attended the first opportunity meeting in San Antonio in July 1997 and signed up immediately.
Since then, Marshall has personally signed up more than 100 customers, who pay $17.95 per month or $129.95 per year for Internet access and the seasonal promotions to buy electronics at a discount. By recruiting friends and family members into the business, who in turn have recruited others, she's built a downline of 360 representatives serving 3,200 customers. As with other distributors in network marketing (also called multilevel marketing, or MLM), she receives overrides on the sales generated by everyone in her group. Soon she cut back to part time at her airline job to focus on her burgeoning business.
Like other independent representatives and distributors in the industry, Marshall has found that the Internet is a valuable tool in building her business. She has a customized Web page linked to the official company site, which her customers use as a portal to the Internet. She places classified ads on various Web sites to attract potential recruits. She uses Internet technology to keep track of sales generated by her group. But she knows she can't simply rely on the Net alone. "The Internet is just a tool, just like the classified ads," she says. "Once you establish contact, you have to spend a lot of time building relationships."
It's partly because of the Internet that the MLM industry is growing so fast all over the world. The Direct Selling Association estimates that retail sales in the U.S. direct-selling industry (consisting almost entirely of network marketing companies) grew steadily from nearly $13 billion in 1991 to more than $23.17 billion in 1998. During the same time period, the U.S. sales force, of which 90 percent work part time, grew from 5.1 million people to 9.7 million. The Internet-which allows distributors to get information out quickly, keep track of their organizations, stay in touch with other distributors and meet people they wouldn't otherwise meet-is largely responsible for that growth.
However, the Net also poses a threat to the very people it helps. "Just because an MLM distributor puts up a Web site doesn't mean it will generate queries on its own," says Dr. P.K. Kannan, a marketing professor at the Robert H. Smith School of Business at the University of Maryland in College Park. "It's basically word-of-mouth. People are not going to compare Web pages and join."
"A Web site won't help you with training new recruits on how to get started," nor will it necessarily bring in the right people for your business, adds Jerry Vitale, director of sales for Enviro-Tech International Inc. of Las Vegas, a network marketing company that sells waterless cleaning products, personal care products and food supplements. "People become obsessed with some guy in Germany, while ignoring the guy two doors down who's praying for the right business opportunity."
Success Stories
Just ask 31-year-old Corey Baker, a Dacula, Georgia, independent distributor for EcoQuest International Inc. of Greeneville, Tennessee. Baker, a former computer analyst and account manager, first took an interest in MLM after attending an EcoQuest meeting with his brother, Scott, and his entrepreneurial father, J.K. Baker. They all liked what they saw and became distributors, selling air cleaners and water purifiers made by Alpine Industries (also based in Greeneville) by placing them in people's homes. Corey was soon earning up to $15,000 a month from EcoQuest, working part time. After a year, he left his corporate job; he now has 3,000 distributors in his downline and has averaged $150,000 per year over four years. "I absolutely love it," says Corey. "I love telling people about things I like."
Corey built his network the old-fashioned way: with meetings and information packets. But now the Internet helps Corey work more efficiently. Instead of conducting meetings all the time and spending eight to 10 hours on the phone every day, he refers prospects to his Web site and encourages them to send in questions via e-mail. Three times a week, he sends out e-mail updates to all his distributors. "We can be more effective using the Internet, as long as we don't abuse it," he says. "Some people use it as their only tool-it's so impersonal."
Michael Jackson, president of EcoQuest, goes a step beyond that. "The Internet is creating great havoc in the network marketing business," he says. As in any industry, upstart companies can go online and sell products at a very low cost, then go out of business. Maverick distributors can easily undercut other distributors with predatory pricing. An EcoQuest distributor, for instance, might take an air cleaner into someone's house for a three-day trial and convince the customer to purchase one. "Then the customer says 'Let me go on the Internet and see what price I can get,' " Jackson says. "The Internet dealer gets to sell one for practically nothing, because he didn't have to go through the process of the three-day trial."
The Internet as a Tool
One challenge for network marketing companies is how the company Web site should be related to those of each independent distributor. If customers are allowed to purchase products online directly from the company, are the distributors bypassed? What if people get confused and are unable to tell if a Web site is the official company site or one put up by a distributor? What if a distributor decided to make a bunch of outrageous claims on his or her Web site, marring the image of the whole company?
The best solution seems to be connected sites. At EcoQuest, the company has a well-designed site with full audio and video. Each dealer has a Web page linked to the main site, which becomes the point of access for distributors' own customers. The company controls the content, which dealers are allowed to customize. They may not put up independent Web sites. "We have the world's largest police force-our dealers are on the lookout [for nonconforming sites]," says Jackson. "When we find a maverick site, the dealer is asked to leave the company."
FlashNet has a similar setup, giving new distributors the software for a connected Web page to customize. When there's a new product, the company can update everyone's Web pages at once. However, nearly 500 distributors choose to create and maintain their own separate sites, and the company doesn't plan to prohibit that. "The Internet is an independent culture-we want to embrace that," Frey says. "We make an effort to honor the entrepreneurial spirit of those early adopters who created their own sites." About once a month, a company employee monitors all these sites to make sure they're not misleading.
Many companies now use the Net to streamline orders, revise forms (which distributors then print and duplicate) and communicate product information, all in the interest of increasing efficiency and reducing costs. Because many distributors still aren't online, though, that means running dual systems-which can actually increase the costs. That soon won't be a problem at FlashNet. "We're going to require reps to be online," Frey says, contending that a dual system is just not effective. "For those who aren't-we ask if this is really the business he or she wants to be in." It isn't that easy for companies dealing in more traditional products, where some distributors have been with the company for years but resist new technology.
"The Internet has excellent, awesome applications," Vitale says. Young people are catching on to that fact with MLM, lured by the prospect of earning $60,000 a year working at home. "Younger people are Internet-savvy, and they want to work with a company that's tech-savvy," he says. "We're teaching people about free enterprise."
Fiding a Valid MLM
Network marketing may be easier now that the Internet provides so many business-building tools, but is it right for you? That depends on your personality. MLM companies are different from each other in many ways, but they all involve either selling products or services to people you know or finding new prospects. If you find these concepts distasteful, don't bother investigating further. On the other hand, many distributors contend that the recruiting part is just like recommending a favorite movie or restaurant. Here are some questions to consider:
Is it a legitimate business or a pyramid scheme? Pyramids and ponzi schemes have each newcomer give a pile of money to someone higher up in the structure, then recruit others to do the same. Eventually, everyone involved is supposed to reach the payoff level and get rich-but there are only so many suckers in the world, and eventually the pyramid collapses. These schemes are illegal. Legitimate network marketing companies require a low initial investment and very little risk. Income is based on retail sales, not how many people you recruit.
Do you like the products? Would you buy them?
Does this company emphasize sales or recruiting? Some companies focus on presenting the products, letting interested customers ask about career opportunities. Others focus more on the money you can make by recruiting more distributors. Some companies ask you to buy a lot of products for your own use rather than sell them to others. Be sure you're comfortable with the expectations.
Party plan, person-to-person or opportunity meeting? Are you more comfortable demonstrating products to groups of people, doing in-home trials one on one, recommending products from a catalog or taking people to opportunity meetings?
What's the compensation plan? Do you have to recruit a certain number of people before you can start earning money? Does your unit "break away" at a certain level? Are people paid directly?
How good is the company itself? Make sure it's adequately capitalized, has a track record of at least two years, and has a computer system that can track sales and make sure everyone gets paid. Check out the Web site and which sales tools you'd have at your disposal. Make sure that there's a strong service department to deliver merchandise promptly and that you can get a refund on unsold merchandise.
New Attitude
Love the idea of network marketing but hate the idea of selling skin cream? Two old-time network marketing companies have launched Internet subsidiaries that are attracting a new demographic: young, tech-savvy entrepreneurs eager to make their fortunes from the Internet.
- Last September, Amway Corp., the granddaddy of network marketing companies, launched a separate e-commerce site called Quixtar Inc. Both companies are based in Michigan, and both attract distributors through opportunity meetings that promise financial freedom to those willing to buy most of their household goods through the company and persuade others to do the same. But while Amway relies on catalogs, Quixtar provides an interactive Internet portal with a wide range of company products plus links to roughly 100 "partner" e-tailers.
- Meanwhile, Nu Skin Enterprises Inc. of Provo, Utah, which has built a global MLM company with its personal care and nutritional products, has launched a network marketing company called Big Planet Inc. The primary product is an Internet access device called the iPhone, a telephone and Internet device in one that provides customers with Internet access at the touch of its screen-but always through Big Planet's portal, which sells a wide range of other technological equipment. "Of every 10 presentations, six adopt it," says Scott Schwerdt, COO of Big Planet. "Most people keep it in their kitchen."
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GrooveCloud is a collaborative music sequencer for the Android platform that enables users to make music together. Within GrooveCloud, songs can be composed by multiple musicians at the same time. For example, imagine yourself arranging a drum pattern while a friend is taking care of the bass section and someone else is arranging the track. The interaction is also available in the mixer and the fx section, allowing remote set of the mix scene on all the devices connected.
GrooveCloud was designed to respond to a specific need: having a musical sketchpad with a "cloudy" feel. If you have experienced musical collaboration you are likely to have been into a number of frustrating problems like missing plugins, lost revisions, lost files. Also, the practice of bouncing projects might diminish the musical interaction always found in "live" jams.
GrooveCloud is truly a social sequencer, being connected to social networks like facebook, twitter and soundcloud, letting users interact with their real friends.
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When Should You Collect Social Security?
Many Americans begin collecting benefits too early, costing them dearly.
May 26, 2009 -- Forget about your investments for a moment. Yes, I know, your portfolio has lost more than 30 percent in a year, but chances are there's another critical financial issue that you've spent a whole lot less time thinking about.
That is when and how you will collect Social Security retirement benefits.
Make the wrong choice, and you could lock yourself into 30 years of reduced income. Make the right choice, and you could more than make up for what you've lost in the past year's market turmoil.
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The simple fact is most Americans start collecting Social Security retirement benefits at far too young an age. The typical American begins collecting within one of year of turning 62, the earliest age possible.
By doing so, these early retirees settle for a monthly benefit that right now is 25 percent less than what they would receive at their full retirement age (currently 66). For today's recipient eligible for the maximum monthly benefit, that's the difference between $19,665 and $26,220 a year.
Wait until age 70, and the difference is even greater: $19,665 at 62 and $35,672 at age 70. (All figures are in today's dollars.)
The cynics rightly point out that recent projections show the Social Security Trust Fund will be exhausted in 2037. But even without any changes in the system before then, current Social Security tax payments will be able to fund benefits at reduced levels.
I happen to believe that by 2037 there will be some type of fix in place even if the political courage to do so now is lacking.
In general, the longer you can wait to collect Social Security, the better off you will be, particularly if you are in good health and stand a decent chance of living into your 90s.
That said Social Security is not a one-size-fits-all program. When and how you should begin collecting will differ with your circumstances, including your health, income, net worth, marital status and spouse's age and work history.
Retirement and Social Security
Factoring in all of these issues can make for a complicated decision as you approach your retirement years. That's why I say anyone in their 50s or older should learn more about how Social Security works and start thinking about what's the best way to maximize their retirement income.
In recent years, academic studies have highlighted several ways for eligible recipients to maximize benefits. One strategy involves paying back to the Social Security administration what someone began collecting at age 62 to qualify for a higher monthly benefit based on an older starting age.
A second strategy for married couples suggests maximizing the couple's joint benefits by claiming a wife's Social Security benefits at an early age and then delaying the husband's collection of benefits until beyond his full retirement age.
The Center for Retirement Research at Boston College outlined another strategy in a recently published paper entitled "Strange But True: Claim Social Security Now, Claim More Later."
It explains how married individuals can benefit from provisions that allow them to collect either a "retired worker benefit" based on their own earnings and/or a "spousal benefit" equal to one half of their spouse full retirement age benefit.
Before full retirement age -- now between ages 62 and 66 -- the Social Security Administration awards an individual whichever benefit is higher. But upon reaching full retirement age, individuals can choose which to receive. This means married individuals can claim a spousal benefit at age 66 and then switch to their own retired worker benefit at a later date.
"This approach allows a worker to begin claiming one type of benefit while still building up delayed retirement credits, which will result in a higher benefit later," explains the paper, which was published in April. Its authors are Alicia M. Munnell, Alex Golub-Sass and Nadia Karamcheva.
Those likely to benefit most from this approach are husbands in two-earner couples. In most cases, the paper explains, the optimal strategy is for a wife to begin collecting Social Security at age 62 as the first step.
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The second step would have the husband claim the spousal benefit based on his wife's earnings when he turns 66.
Then, in a third step at age 69, he would claim a higher retired worker benefit due to the delayed retirement credits for waiting beyond age 66, and stop receiving the spousal benefit he had been collecting.
If the woman is the higher earner within the couple, the roles would be reversed.
The paper's authors explain that for this strategy to work the individuals must be married, at least one of them healthy enough delay claiming until 66 and both spouses must have an earnings history.
"The higher and the more equal the earnings records, the more to gain," the authors note.
This is only a quick summary of the "Claim Now, Claim More Later" strategy. I offer it only as example of why it's a good idea to learn more about how Social Security benefits work and to think carefully before you begin collecting.
To learn more, visit the Center for Retirement Research at http://crr.bc.edu/. Also, be sure to visit early and often the Social Security Administration Web site, www.socialsecurity.gov.
This work is the opinion of the columnist and in no way reflects the opinion of ABC News.
David McPherson is founder and principal of Four Ponds Financial Planning in Falmouth, Mass. He previously worked as a financial writer and editor for The Providence Journal in Rhode Island. He is a member of the Garrett Planning Network, whose members provide financial advice to clients on an hourly, as-needed basis. Contact McPherson at email@example.com.


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Those that love music, understand that it unites. To honor the love for music, Armin van Buuren brings his annual mix series, live recorded on party island Ibiza. 'Universal Religion Chapter 7' is a fact, and so or the numerous musical jewels selected for it. This sampler brings you three brand new UR7 exclusives, with tunes by Antony Waldhorn, Eximinds and an Aly & Fila remix.
Something must be in the waters of Moldova. Last years Universal Religion has an intro track of Andrew Rayel. This year, that honour goes to his Moldovian colleague Antony Waldhorn. A young talent, producing some of the most outstanding uplifting tunes since 2010. With the grotesque and overwhelming tune of 'Theatrum', he may have found his big breakthrough.
The Russian/Belarus duo of Eximinds have ever had a sweet spot in Armin van Buuren's music taste. There's just something about their ways with melody… and that's exactly why their new tune 'Euphoria' found its way to CD 1 of UR Chapter 7. A melodic trancers that simply lures you in.


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Designed after the nearly impregnable coastal Martello watchtowers in Italy, the Fort East Martello was never completed and never saw hostile action. Its outer bulwark and inner citadel with eight-foot thick granite walls built during the Civil War era were a monument to military engineering and could have withstood any amount of bombardment at the time. But the development of explosive shells made these defenses passé.
Today its casemates, citadel and courtyard are home to a vast collection of Key West and Key's artifacts and historical records as well a military memorabilia. The view from atop the central tower affords visitors a spectacular panorama of the Atlantic coast of Key West. In the garden an 80-year-old playhouse provides children with insight into how kids lived and played in old Key West. Inside the galleries are the state's largest collections of painted wood carvings and drawings by Mario Sanchez and the scrap metal "junk" sculpture of Stanley Papio, both of whom are internationally renowned folk artists from the Keys.
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I haven't posted on here for a while, and lots have been going on. My new website is very nearly done – hopefully all will be live before the end of January, this will incorporate an updated version of thegreatwar100.com website, my stand-alone microsite dedicated to enabling kids, teenagers and adults alike to learn about the Great War without having to read 900 page epics.
I have also been asked by The History Press to write a book on 'Heroes of The First World War'. The contents of this book will be to take 20 soldiers or officers that served in the First World War and write a full profile on them, really getting into detail to understand the individual and their experiences during this conflict. If you have a family ancestor that had a remarkable story, perhaps they won a gallantry medal or fought at pivotal battles such as the Somme or Passchendaele, and you would like them considered for inclusion in the book, please just let me know! Just email me at email@example.com or contact me via Twitter @military_search
There is also some really exciting news on a new charity bike ride. I can't say too much, as the details have not been nailed, but 'Cycling The Line – Part Deux' will be announced shortly, and it promises to be an absolute dandy!
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The cover star of CRAFT Volume 08, the Weaving issue, Travis Meinolf continues to be up to great things. He regularly updates his Action Weaver blog with his newest happenings, workshops, and weaves. One of the coolest projects he worked on as of late is a collaboration with tailor Roy Slaper. Back in 2007, Travis hand-wove his own denim (apparently to to impress Sensei Nakajima on his visit to CCA), and Roy recently helped him to fashion the denim into proper jeans.
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April 7, 2013
Delays in implementing popular pieces of ObamaCare are hurting it with Democrats.
Ahead of an election year in which Republicans promise to make healthcare an issue again, Democrats are criticizing the White House for delaying policies that could help build support for the unpopular law.
Democrats complained this week about a one-year delay in a key program designed to help small businesses — a central selling point for the healthcare law that now won't be in place when voters head to the polls next year.
"Senate Republicans will have the opportunity to campaign against Obamacare's rising health care costs, burdensome paperwork and broken promises and could use it to motivate voters against Democrat candidates, especially vulnerable ones in red states," Republican strategist Ron Bonjean said.
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Qing Hu, a professor in the Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science (EECS) and a principal investigator in the Research Laboratory of Electronics (RLE), has been awarded the IEEE Photonics Society's 2012 William Streifer Scientific Achievement Award. Hu is cited "for pioneering contribution in the development of high-temperature, high-power, and broadly tunable THz QCLs, and applications in imaging and sensing."
As head of the Millimeter-wave and Terahertz Devices Group in RLE, Hu has made significant contributions to physics and device applications over a broad electromagnetic spectrum from millimeter wave, THz, to infrared frequencies. These contributions involve both technology development for detectors and sources, and system-level imaging and sensing applications. Within this body of work, Hu's most distinctive contribution is his development of high-performance THz quantum cascade lasers and real-time THz imaging, that is, making movies in T-rays. This work will lead to important applications in sensing and imaging.
Hu received his BA from Lanzhow University in 1981 and his PhD in physics from Harvard University in 1987. From 1987 to 1989, he was a postdoctoral associate at University of California, Berkeley. He joined the MIT faculty in 1990 in EECS and was promoted to full professor in 2002.
Hu is a fellow of the Optical Society of America (OSA), the American Physical Society (APS), the IEEE and the American Association for the Advancement of Science. He has been an associate editor of Applied Physics Letters since 2006, and was the co-chair of 2006 International Workshop on Quantum Cascade Lasers.


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A Kansas man was arrested after a loaded handgun was found in his carry-on luggage at O'Hare International Airport over the weekend, authorities said.
Dean Bieker, 54, was charged with trying to bring a loaded gun onto a plane, a felony, according to Cook County Jail records.
Bieker, of 158th Street in Olathe, Kansas, was arrested about 1:30 p.m. Saturday as he went through a security checkpoint at Terminal 3, according to a police report.
Transportation Security Administration screeners spotted the image of a handgun in Bieker's carry-on bag in an X-ray machine, according to the report. Officers brought the bag into a screening room, where they unloaded and secured the gun.
Bieker appeared in Cook County Bond Court Sunday and was released on bond, according to court and jail records.
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Assassination in Court, U.S. Argues to Make Legal What It's Always Done
What an incredible era we live in!
Today in federal court, government attorney Douglas Letter argued against a lawsuit brought by both the ACLU and the Center for Constitutional Rights (CCR) that the U.S. executive power had the right to kill an American citizen abroad, without review by the judiciary. In his argument to drop the suit, brought on behalf of the father of "radical" Muslim cleric Anwar Al-Aulaqi [Awlaki], Letter claimed, ""If we use lethal force we do so consistent with the law."
According to the Christian Science Monitor story on today's proceedings:
The lawsuit does not seek to prevent the government from carrying out targeted killings. Instead, the ACLU is asking Judge Bates to examine the government's criteria for placing Awlaki on the alleged kill list.
To justify lethal action, the ACLU suit says, the government must be able to demonstrate that the targeted killing is necessary to prevent a direct and imminent threat to public safety. In addition, the suit says, the government must be able to show there are no non-lethal options available to neutralize a threat from Awlaki.
According to a joint press release by ACLU and CCR:
"If the Constitution means anything, it surely means that the president does not have unreviewable authority to summarily execute any American whom he concludes is an enemy of the state," said Jameel Jaffer, Deputy Legal Director of the ACLU, who presented arguments in the case. "It's the government's responsibility to protect the nation from terrorist attacks, but the courts have a crucial role to play in ensuring that counterterrorism policies are consistent with the Constitution."
Chickens and Coincidences
It seems strongly coincidental that on the day of the hearing, a new Awlaki video should appear on the scene, courtesy of the dubious SITE Institute, remembered for their unveiling of another timely video, the 2007 Osama bin Laden 9/11 statement, which featured a robotic, unmoving bin Laden, which even MSNBC questioned as faked. Then there was that Gainsville, Georgia chicken farm, whose lawsuit against SITE is still pending, accused by SITE of funneling money to terrorists. SITE's founder Rita Katz delivered one of the more memorable of all "war on terror" quotes when she told 60 Minutes, ""Chicken is one of the things that no one can really track down."
Now SITE is back, with a new name (from SITE Institute to SITE Intelligence Group), with a new fire-snorting Awlaki video, just in time for the government's arguments to dismiss the suit that would challenge the government's right to kill the U.S.-born cleric, supposedly hiding out in Yemen, a leader of Al Qaeda on the Arabian Peninula (AQAP). The New York Times led the way with a blog story by Robert Mackey this morning, "Kill Americans, Says Yemeni-American Cleric." The story followed the news last week that You Tube had removed all of al-Awlaki's videos from its site. Mackey references SITE and their new Awlaki video, while blandly noting that Monday was the day "a federal judge will hear arguments in a lawsuit brought by civil libertarians who claim that the Obama administration does not have the right to order the targeted assassination of Mr. Awlaki and other suspected militants." Gee, what a coincidence the headline for that same Monday article quotes the same Mr. Awlaki as inciting the killing of Americans. As is often the case, the rest of the U.S. press stood up and saluted as the Times sent the story up the proverbial flagpole.
"How popular will Anwar al-Awlaki's latest video be?" asks the Christian Science Monitor. CNN weighed in, too: "U.S.-born cleric rails against Yemen, Iran, United States." Paula Kruger at Australia's ABC was not to be outdone, however, with a headline clanging in its clarion call of danger: "US-born cleric calls for death of all Americans."
ANWAR AL-AWLAKI (translation): Do not seek any permission when it comes to the killing of the Americans. Fighting the devil doesn't need a religious edict, deliberation, prayer or guidance. They are the party of the devil and fighting them is the personal duty of our times.
We reach that moment when it is either us or them. We are two opposites that will never meet. They want something that cannot happen unless they wipe us out. This is a decisive battle. This is a battle of Moses and pharaoh; this is a battle of righteousness and falsehood.
"We reach that moment when it is either us or them." Well, if it was your head being hunted by the CIA or the Pentagon's JSOC Special Forces assassination squads, you might see the world that way, too. In fact, the blurriness of right and wrong is only made worse by the U.S. assertion that it can kill whomever it wants to, irregardless of constitutional niceties, if only it can claim the right is somehow lodged in the 9/11-inspired Authorization for Use of Military Force. Congress has rubber-stamped the AUMF for years now, and President Obama dutifully pressed it upon a Democratic Party-controlled House and Senate… well, once controlled, as Democratic Party lassitude in the wake of the worst economic recession, if not depression, in sixty years saw their short lived ascendancy in both houses of Congress come crashing down around their well-deserving heads.
Mackey at the Times makes sure we don't forget that Awlaki is associated with AQAP, which smuggled — no doubt in Mackey's mind — those bomb packages on freight cargo jets last month. And he notes that a Yemeni judge has issued an order for Awlaki's capture. But, in the tradition of open-mindedness so bally-hooed around the Times, he gives the final word to legal pundit Jonathan Turley, who noted last August:
If a President can unilaterally kill a U.S. citizens on his own authority, our court system (and indeed our constitutional rights) become entirely discretionary. The position of the Administration contains no substantial limitations on such authority other than its own promise to make such decisions with care.
Bathed in Blood
"War is the statesman's game, the priest's delight, The lawyer's jest, the hired assassin's trade," wrote the Romantic English poet Percy Bysshe Shelley almost 200 years ago now. But one can only look back to an interesting story in the London Times to gain another kind of perspective on the current events surrounding the obscene U.S. argument for assassinating its own citizens without due process, of running hit teams and killing or death lists.
In 1976, journalist Peter Watson was at a NATO conference in Oslo, when a U.S. Navy psychologist, Dr. Thomas Narut, from the U.S. Naval Hospital in Naples told Watson and New Jersey psychologist Dr. Alfred Zitani, that the Navy sought men to train as assassins in overseas embassies. The following is from the London Sunday Times, "The soldiers who become killers," September 8, 1974, but reproduced from a conspiracy site, as the original, and most references to it, plentiful even when I first read about it some years ago, are limited now to a few dozen conspiracy sites. The story is also told at some length in Watson's book (out of print), War on the Mind: The Military Uses and Abuses of Psychology, published by Basic Books in 1978.
[Narut's] naval work involved establishing how to induce servicemen who ma[y] not be naturally inclined to kill, to do so under certain conditions. When pressed afterwards as to what was meant by "combat readiness units," he explained this included men for commando-type operations and – so he said – for insertion into U.S. embassies under cover, ready to kill in those countries should the need arise. Dr. Narut used the word "hitmen" and "assassin" of these men.
The method, according to Dr. Narut, was to show films specially designed to show people being killed and injured in violent ways. By being acclimated through these films, the men eventually became able to dissociate any feelings
from such a situation. Dr. Narut also added that U.S. Naval psychologists specially selected men for these commando tasks, from submarine crews, paratroops, and some were convicted murderers from military prisons. Asked whether he was suggesting that murderers were being released from prisons to become assassins, he replied: "It's happened more than once."
The story goes into various mind-control methods by which the training was done. The Pentagon denied the story, and also wouldn't allow Watson access to interview personnel at the U.S. Naval Neuropsychiatric Center in San Diego, where the training was supposedly done. The whole tale might seem fantastic, unless one remembered that the U.S.-sponsored Phoenix Program in Vietnam was responsible for the assassination of 20,000 or more people in the 1960s. The U.S. also supplied assassination lists to the Indonesian government during the bloody 1965 coup that slaughtered half a million people.
"For the first time, U.S. officials acknowledge that in 1965 they systematically compiled comprehensive lists of Communist operatives, from top echelons down to village cadres. As many as 5,000 names were furnished to the Indonesian army, and the Americans later checked off the names of those who had been killed or captured, according to the U.S. officials," Kathy Kadane wrote for South Carolina's Herald-Journal on May 19, 1990. [Kadane's article also appeared in the San Francisco Examiner on May 20, 1990, the Washington Post on May 21, 1990, and the Boston Globe on May 23, 1990.]
The Indonesian mass murder program was based in part on experiences gleaned by the CIA in the Philippines. "US military advisers of the Joint US Military Advisory Group (JUSMAG) and the CIA station in Manila designed and led the bloody suppression of the nationalist Hukbong Mapagpalaya ng Bayan," notes Roland G. Simbulan (Covert Operations and the CIA's Hidden History in the Philippines).
The history of the United States and assassination, post-World War II, and particularly from the 1960s on, has been a sorry tale of botched public attempts (as of Castro), and a bloodbath dealt by U.S. proxy death squads, and if we can believe the Watson story, by deep cover U.S. assassins themselves. In 1976, in the wake of the many revelations about U.S. government crimes, including assassinations, President Gerald Ford issued a presidential directive (EO 11905) banning assassinations, a directive whose basic premises lie in shreds after ten years of Bush/Obama rule.
It would be remiss not to note in this context the blood bath that is U.S. history on the subject, not to bring up Phoenix, and all the rest of it. Recent revelations in the Iraq logs Wikileaks cache of documents suggests that the U.S. helped form torture squads, and perhaps death squads in Iraq. In any case, they certainly turned thousands of prisoners over to Iraqi forces they knew from hundreds of observations were torturing prisoners, often to death. This deliberate war crime, a direct violation of the Convention Against Torture treaty, was conducted under both the Bush and Obama administrations. But where in our society is the outrage? The society cannot seems to pick itself up out of the muck of triviality and standard party politics and cable TV scandal-mongering.
So forgive me if I don't jump on the bandwagon to talk about Bush and his approval of waterboarding claims. Is he smug? Of course he's smug, because Americans have been ignoring news about torture and assassinations on behalf of the ruling elite for decades now. I don't know what it will take to turn such a historical situation around. Looking at the young and those vulnerable to such confusions as massive societal hypocrisy can allow, one can understand why some have turned even to radical Islam. But I can't recommend it. I'd like to see the young take up the banner that was once Percy Shelley's: free love, hatred of tyrannies, including — if not especially — the tyranny of one's own state, and equality of all sexes, peoples, religious practice (including atheism), and add to it the wisdom of a century's struggle for economic justice and against the exploiters of mankind.
But for now, all forward-seeking and progressive individuals should be backing the CCR/ACLU lawsuit, because if the U.S. gets its way, tomorrow it may not be the unsavory Awlaki, it may be you or me. And anyone who was forced to study history a semester or two knows that to be true.


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Black Hawk's newest casino will feature a 7-foot, 4-inch Sasquatch named Harry at the entrance.
Ed and Shirley Smith, the owners of the Sasquatch Casino, said they'll also have a separate butt statue and a sign that reads, "Rub the Sasquatch butt for good luck," at the entrance. That came at the request of patrons of their other casinos in Black Hawk, the Wild Card and Black Hawk Station.
"It'll be ahead of the Sasquatch so they get to the butt first," Ed Smith said.
The Gaming Commission awarded the Sasquatch its gaming license today.
Smith said the Sasquatch cost $8,700. The casino will be Read more…


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In commemoration of Black History Month, this series highlights African-American history in Florida.
Emancipation, and the period of Reconstruction that followed, brought civil rights to freed slaves throughout the former Confederacy for the first time. Black communities organized and built churches, schools, hospitals, businesses, and civic organizations. These institutions developed separately from their white counterparts during the era of legal segregation known as Jim Crow.
The legal gains of the 1860s and 1870s proved short-lived, and full equality remained only a dream until the triumphs of the modern Civil Rights Movement in the 1950s and 1960s.
The Florida A&M University Hospital symbolized efforts by the black community to provide for its own health and wellness during segregation. Officially dedicated as a hospital on February 7, 1951, the institution first opened as a sanitarium in 1911. Before integration led to its closure in 1971, FAMU Hospital served as the only facility of its kind for African-Americans within 150 miles of Tallahassee.
The photographs featured in this blog post show scenes from FAMU Hospital in September 1953. These images are part of the Tallahassee Democrat Photographic Collection, which is currently in the process of digitization.
Want to learn more? This Friday, February 28, 2014, Florida A&M University and the Florida Division of Historical Resources will unveil a historic marker commemorating FAMU Hospital. The ceremony begins at 10 AM at the intersection of Palmer Avenue and Adams Street on the campus of Florida A&M University.
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Shot fired during deputy's struggle with teen suspect
Teen faces felony charges involving gun, burglaries
A 14-year-old in Marion County faces a string of felony charges, deputies said.
The teenager was taken into custody on Wednesday afternoon and charged with numerous burglary charges, resisting arrest and the possession of a firearm.
The teen fits the description of someone who is responsible for a number of burglaries in the Ocala area.
When detectives spotted him, they said the teen took off on a bicycle, then abandoned the bike and ran. They said he took a gun from his waistband and threw it in some bushes.
When a detective confronted him, the teen allegedly tried to grab the deputy's gun, according to a news release. The gun went off, firing one shot. No one was hurt.
The suspect was then placed under arrest and booked into Marion County's Juvenile Detention Center.
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It is true that connections to remote X Window servers should be always made over SSH. SSH supports X windows connections. So my task was allow X over ssh but block unprivileged X windows mangers TCP ports.
The first running server (or display) use TCP port 6000. Next server will use 6001 and so on upto 6063 (max 64 X managers are allowed from 6000-6063).
So assuming that you are going to force user to use ssh for remote connections, here are rules for IPTABLES (add to your firewall script):
iptables -A OUTPUT -o eth0 -p tcp --syn --destination-port 6000:6063 -j REJECT
iptables -A INPUT -i eth0 -p tcp --syn --destination-port 6000:6063 -j DROP
a) The first rules blocks outgoing connection attempt to remove X windows manger.
b) The second rule block incoming request for X windows manger. By using –syn flag you are blocking only connection establishments to the server port.
This is the good way to disallow unprivileged X windows mangers – TCP 6000:6063 ports 🙂


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This is an excerpt from Prescriptive Stretching by Kristian Berg.
Using the wrong technique during stretching can waste your time and increase your risk of injury. Be aware of the fact that when you stretch a muscle, you will also perform at least one action that is directly opposite to what the muscle does as it works (contracts).
If the function of the muscle is to bend the elbow, you need to straighten the elbow in order to stretch it. If a muscle flexes the hip, straightens the knee, or increases the arch in your lower back, in order to achieve a stretch, you need to extend the hip, bend the knee, or lessen the arch of the back. Performing only one of these actions will not yield the desired stretch. It can also increase the mobility in the joints too much, which can lead to injury. Follow the instructions for stretches closely in order to exercise effectively and safely.
To stretch safely, you must adhere to the four main principles of avoiding pain, stretching slowly, stretching the right muscle, and working only the necessary joints and muscles. These guidelines are designed to make your stretching safer and more effective and to increase your awareness of your body.
If you stretch carefully, your muscles will react in the desired manner. If you force the stretch, your muscles will not want to cooperate. If you stretch to the point of pain, your body's defense mechanisms will kick in, thinking something dangerous might be going on. When muscles register pain, they try to protect themselves by contracting. This is the opposite of you want to achieve by stretching. Of course, very slight pain during a stretch can feel good if the discomfort does not spread to the body. However, you must be able to distinguish between the burn of stretching and pain that will lead to an injury.
If you throw your arms or legs out during the stretch, the muscle will stretch too fast. This makes the body think that the muscle is about to get torn or injured. Once again, it will try to protect the muscle by contracting it, preventing you from reaching your goal.
Although this might sound obvious, you must use correct technique in order to follow this rule. Movement that goes a couple of degrees in the wrong direction can mean the difference between stretching the muscle and pulling on the joint capsule or similarly harming the body. To save your body and valuable time, it is important to do things right!
Stretching that is careless or poorly done can negatively affect other muscles and joints, actually worsening your condition. This common mistake is the main reason why some people consider stretching worthless or painful.
Stretching correctly demands good technique and practice. As in any other discipline, practice makes perfect. Make sure that all your angles are correct as you start the movement. You must move with the right speed and with the right posture. Your focus should be moving the joint as little as possible as you stretch the muscle. Human nature is to take the path of least resistance, which makes us feel flexible and comfortable. However, this approach is not the way to get a good stretch.
Most people feel more comfortable and flexible when they are warm. However, can you stretch without warming up first? If you follow the basic guidelines on stretching, you will not risk an injury. It can be difficult and impractical to warm up every time if you are trying to correct a condition that requires you to stretch 10 times a day.
If you work out to feel good and to stay fit, it is fine to stretch before, after, and even during a workout. If you lift weights, it may help to stretch both the muscle that you are working as well and its antagonist. If the antagonist is flexible and pliable, the stretch will be easier and the risk for injury will decrease. Stretching the calves during a run can help avoid injury, since tight, shortened calf muscles often affecting your stride.
Maximizing the effect of your stretches should be part of your daily habits, just like brushing your teeth or showering. Your muscles need frequent maintenance as well. This is especially true if you suffer from problems related to tight or shortened muscles. Although you might feel silly stretching at work, it can help you avoid getting headaches or throwing your back out. An employer who really cares for his employees will allow for stretching breaks in the morning and afternoon.
You don't really need any equipment to be able to stretch. Stretching exercises can be done at home, at work, or at the gym. A wall, a table, a phonebook (to stand on), a towel, or an ironing board all work well as equipment.
Several methods for stretching exist, but the basic idea is the same. Stretches should elongate the muscle.
The safest and most effective approach is the PNF (proprioceptive muscular facilitation) method, also called contract-release. This method is based on tricking the body's own defense mechanism. First, stretch the muscle until it starts to work against you, and your body sends a message to the muscle to tighten up and defend itself. As you hold the position, the muscle will dismiss the possibility of danger and the body will relax again.
You can also voluntarily tighten the muscle to calm the body's defenses. The PNF method is designed to make sure that your body does not fight the stretch. Adhere to the four basic principles for the greatest benefit.
1. Assume the correct starting position.
2. Stretch until you reach the ending point.
3. Relax.
4. Tighten the muscle without moving it.
5. Relax.
6. Stretch to the new ending point.
Repeat the last four steps three to six times, depending on the exercise and your goals.
An ending point is a position from which the movement stops for any reason. Certain ending points are movable and others are set. Whenever you stretch a muscle, you will reach an ending point sooner or later. You may stop when you feel a sting or pain in the muscle. The movement may also be stopped by soft tissue (muscle and skin) or bony parts running into each other. During the PNF method, an ending point is reached when you feel a light sting in the muscle. If you reach a different kind of ending point, you need to stop the movement to correct your technique or possibly take a break from stretching that muscle. Certain stretches cannot be performed unless other muscles have been stretched first.
Without the correct starting position, whether standing, sitting, or lying down, it is impossible to stretch effectively. For this reason, you need to spend time learning this position before moving on to the rest of the stretch. If the starting position for a stretch is difficult, you might want to use a mirror or have somebody check your posture.
During the stretching phase, you try to elongate the muscle until you feel a light sting. Naturally, the stretch should be done slowly and with control in the right direction to be effective (to prevent activating the body's defense systems).
During the relaxation phase, you simply hold the position at the ending point while relaxing the muscle as much as you can. At this point, you are trying to reduce the body's attempt to tighten the muscle. If you are actively able to relax, the stretch will be more effective.
This is another method for distracting the body in order to fool its defenses. You will contract the muscle being stretched against some form of resistance (your own hand, the floor, or the wall) in order to prevent movement. Contracting without moving further disarms the body's defense system. During this phase, the light sting you felt in the previous phase should diminish or disappear. If the pain increases instead, you went too far in the initial stretching phase. If you did everything right, you will now feel able to stretch again until you reach a new ending point.
Learn more about Prescriptive Stretching.
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In case of any SEO professional who prefers to collect email leads from web forms, the most dreaded part comes in the end of the month, when they need to report conversion results to clients- verifying, re-verifying, downloading and exporting them to create the useful month-end report. However, there are ample of reasons to optimize the work flow to the point that it almost reduces your time to half and a project that usually takes hours is now completed into minutes. Let's find out how to do it.
There are various ways through which you can scrape leads from gmail. Either you can shell out bucks to get a program like U Bot that will play an imperative role in automating the task without putting much effort. Also, you can get the program like Imacros and can learn how to create right macros that will then scrape from your email box. Whatever way you use, you want a definite solution that can help you in automating the task without putting much effort. There is a program on black hat world that can easily work on windows, therefore, your Mac users will need to install windows in order to use it. Though, the name sounds weird and you may be hesitate in downloading anything from black-hat websites but in fact, comments and reviews do not say anything negative.
This program works favourably for other email hosts also. While, trying it make sure you are putting your applicable login details and you should be able to easily scrape email from your host. Before making use of egregious scraping on your email account, you should make sure you are carefully checking your terms of service in order to avoid getting banned from your email service. Many times, email service does not allow scrapping because it can create bandwidth issues, if you are having thousands of email to export. So, make sure that you are in fact keen to do this if you want to put a large load of use on the email services.
After scrapping all your email as it saves as a text file, now you need to import it into excel so that it shows all tab-delimited items as columns and you can save yourself from manually copying and pasting every single one. In order to do this, you need to open up your file in excel by clicking on file>import. Then it will ask you: what type of file you are interested to import? By default, it will choose the CSV format but you can choose the text file format as our program has saved this to a text file.
Now, you need to click onto the file that you are interested to open and click on "Get Data." The text import wizard will give you settings to choose from. Choose the "Delimited" option unless it is already checked by default. Then click on Next. At this step, you will see the set of delimiters that your data is having.
Those who are using outlook, depending on the version, it can be a daunting task to get the data out of the program. Outlook features macros, that allow you to export all your data in a very short span of time in few seconds!
To sum up, by using the above methods, it is possible to curtail the time that you have spent on manually verifying and copying/pasting leads directly from your email box. The entire process will be completely automated and will make your reports impressive.


text: KC is a fifth generation cattle rancher from Wyoming, making him the obvious choice to talk about all things alternative rock. Once he was able to finally find a road (dirt) that led out of the state, he headed to southern California for school and some significant culture shock. Picking up a few part time shifts between classes at a local alternative rock station he eventually started working for local concert venues as a stage hand. A couple summers spent working with the biggest bands touring around the millennium and he was hooked. The Triangle of today is almost unrecognizable from 5 years ago. The same vibe that is alternative music has taken over the area. Living ITB means exploring the latest restaurant or brewery, checking out all of our awesome music venues, and shamelessly claiming its all research when the boss asks why your eyes are bloodshot.


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Children should wear school sweatshirts and should be worn with grey trousers, shorts or skirts. School uniform includes the wearing of sensible shoes, not trainers or high heeled shoes please. Plain coloured socks and tights are preferred.
You can now order Melrose Primary School uniform direct from Border Embroideries by clicking the link below
Fashion trousers and sports or brand named clothes e.g. Nike, are not part of our uniform.
A sports kit consisting of white or navy shorts, tee shirt and gym shoes should be kept in a drawstring bag in school (except when clothes are being washed!). Sports kits are often needed in addition to designated P.E. days.
Please make sure that children's clothes are named. We gather a huge amount of unclaimed 'lost property' over the year. Name tags may be ordered; forms are also available from the office
In hot weather girls may opt to wear school dresses, preferably in red check.
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One of the most helpful ways to promote many businesses is through positive word of mouth marketing.
In other words, happy clients tell other people they know about the great experience they have enjoyed when buying from your business.
There are many ways to get positive word of mouth marketing happening.
Something that you may want to test in your own business is 'how' you follow up with a new customer in the first month after they have bought from you.
The reality is that many customers never hear back from a business after they have made a purchase of a product or service.
Think about all the products and services you've bought in the last six months.
How often did you hear back from any of these businesses?
In most cases, not that often.
Remember "Out of mind" means no opportunity for further business and referrals from a customer.
One approach that can be very helpful is the 1-5-15 day follow up schedule.
(It's called this because you take specific follow up action on days 1, 5, 15)
Here's how it works:
Day 1: Within 24 hours of the first sale to a new customer send a short handwritten thank you note. "Dear Mr Smith, I enjoyed helping you choose your new widget. I trust you will enjoy years of enjoyment with it. Best wishes. Your Name."
A thank you note will take you about 2 minutes to write and is very rare in business today. It's a nice personal touch that shows a customer you appreciate their business.
Day 5: Approximately 5 days after the sale deliver a small present to the purchaser. It could be a small pot plant, a gift book, a couple of free movie passes. Enclose a short thank you note that says something like "Dear Mr Smith, I appreciate you being a customer and thought you would enjoy this small gift. With my compliments. Your name."
The gift you send doesn't have to cost a lot of money.
One car dealership sends their clients a personalised desk calendar that has a lovely colour photo of the customer sitting in their new car. Customers love this unique memento and often keep it on their desk. This leads to other people picking it up and talking about it. So this simple added value gift often results in further business for the car dealership.
Day 15: Approximately 15 days after the sale make a quick follow up phone call. Ask them how their widget is going and how they are finding it. This follow up call lets the customer know you value the relationship with them even after you've made the sale.
The 1-5-15 day follow up can be adapted to any business by changing the days you take follow up action on.
For instance, you may implement a 1-14-21 day follow up in your business.
Or perhaps yours is a 1-10-30 day follow up.
The key idea with this 1-5-15 follow up system is that you are in contact (in an added value way) three times within the first month of a new customer making a purchase.
This shows the customer that you are serious about treating them well and looking after them on a long term basis. This is a very rare experience for most customers!
'If you do build a great experience, customers tell each other about that. Word of mouth is very powerful.' - Jeff Bezos
Action Exercise:
Develop a 1-5-15-30 day follow up plan you can use with your own customers.
What specific action steps will you take on the following days? (Feel free to change the days given here to other days if it would be more appropriate for your business.) Day 1, Day 5, Day 15.
Then use this follow up plan with all your new customers and notice what happens.


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