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- PhD, Interdisciplinary Forest Ecology, University of Alaska Fairbanks
- MS, Forestry, Michigan Technological University
- BS, Ecology and Environmental Science, Michigan Technological University
Belowground Processes
I am broadly interested in nutrient dynamics in terrestrial and aquatic ecosystems, particularly in "hotspots" of soil carbon storage. As such, research has focused on belowground changes in northern peatlands, boreal ecosystems, and temperate forests, and the corresponding changes in dissolved chemistry. Ecosystem change is a pretty relative concept, but study designs incorporating experimental manipulation or natural disturbances can be particularly persuasive in learning an ecosystem's secrets.
Natural disturbances offer great opportunities to determine how ecosystems reorganize, and wildfires in particular can dramatically alter how long carbon can stay in above and belowground components of an ecosystem. Besides, getting outside and seeing first-hand how disturbances such as flooding or wildfire have altered the functioning of an ecosystem is just really exciting!
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- Soil carbon
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- Wildfire
- Black carbon
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- Turetsky MR, Kane ES, Harden JW, Ottmar KL, Manies KL, Kasischke ES. 2010. A Changing fire regime intensifies boreal burning. Nature- Geoscience. DOI: 10.1038/NGEO1027.
- Kane ES, Turetsky MR, Harden JW, McGuire AD, Waddington JM. 2010. Seasonal ice and hydrologic controls on dissolved organic carbon and nitrogen concentrations in a boreal rich fen. Journal of Geophysical Research - Biogeosciences, doi:10.1029/2010JG001366.
- Kane ES, Hockaday WC, Turetsky MR, Masiello CA, Valentine DW, Finney BP. 2010. Topographic controls on black carbon accumulation in Alaskan black spruce forest soils: implications for organic matter dynamics. Biogeochemistry. DOI 10.1007/s10533-009-9403-z.
- Ball BA, Kominoski JS, Adams HE, Jones SE, Kane ES, Loecke TD, Mahaney WM, Martina JP, Prather CM, Robinson TMP, Solomon CT. 2010. Direct and Terrestrial Vegetation-mediated Effects of Environmental Change on Aquatic Ecosystem Processes. BioScience, 60(8): 590-601.
- O'Donnell JA, Aiken GR, Kane ES, Jones JB. 2010. Source water controls on the character and origin of dissolved organic matter in streams of the Yukon River basin, Alaska. Journal of Geophysical Research - Biogeosciences, doi:10.1029/2009JG001153.
- van Verseveld WJ, Kane ES, Sobota DJ, Myers-Smith IH, Fellman JB. 2010. Reply to comment on 'Kane et al. 2008. Precipitation control over inorganic nitrogen import-export budgets across watersheds: a synthesis of long-term ecological research. Ecohydrology 1: 105–117'. Ecohydrology, DOI: 10.1002/eco.107.
- Ping CL, Michaelson GJ, Kane ES, Packee EC, Stiles CA, Swanson DK, Zaman ND. 2010. Carbon Stores and Biogeochemical Properties of Soils under Black Spruce Forest, Alaska. Soil Science Society of America Journal. doi:10.2136/sssaj2009.0152.


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Thursday, June 4, 2009
We've Finally Gotten Rid Of All The Nuts!
For a while our staff was quite worried when we said all the nuts would have to go...
We are pleased to announce that as of June 15, 2009, we are going entirely nut free in both of our facilities. This is one of the biggest product policy changes since we made most of our products dairy free. We've been peanut free for several years now but this move will eliminate all tree nuts from our product line as well. On the down side, this will force the discontinuation of our lemon cranberry almond and double chocolate almond cookies but will open up our complete product line to thousands (millions?) of people with nut allergies. We will also be announcing a couple of new cookie varieties to replace the 2 we are discontinuing. More on that in a future post.
For those of you with severe nut allergies please keep in mind that there will still be products in the market that were produced prior to us going nut free. Look for products with the following Best Before dates or later:
* Soft Baked Goods (breads, buns, bagels, donuts, etc) - 12/15/2009
* Cookies, Mixes and Ingredients - 06/15/2010
13 comments:
Iam your customer, I would like to thankyou for not putting nuts in your bake goods. Now I have the freedom to enjoy many of your products without worry. I also have nut allergies. food allergies are on the rise and alot of people can't eat bake goods because of nut contamination. Also many people are sensitive to wheat products and they have to turn to gluten free products of which your bake goods are a god send. Thankyou and may god bless you and keep your company going on forever.
- June 5, 2009 at 6:42 PM
- Shannon S. said...
Awesome job guys!
I know many nut-free families will be very happy that you've made such a bold change to your policies!
Way to go!
- June 15, 2009 at 1:56 PM
I have to say I like the idea of a peanut/nut free bakery. I also have to add that the products that they are claiming to be peanut/nut free are NOT..... M&M cookies are not nut free as even chocolate m&m's are produced in a facility containing peanuts and nuts...
BE CAREFUL what you read and even more careful of what you eat...
- June 20, 2009 at 3:57 PM
- JayB said...
Our -production facilities- are nut and peanut free as of June 15. The cookies using chocolate M&M's referred to were made only in our pastry kitchen for the local Edmonton market, and in fact, were made prior to June 15. The signs posted in our store do point out that this is still a transition period.
That being said, they were overlooked as a -potential- problem as they are not part of our regular line of products. We've put them on hold pending allergen statement review and we appreciate you bringing this to our attention.
- June 22, 2009 at 9:37 AM
- Thomas said...
thank you thank you thank you!!!
- July 8, 2009 at 9:40 PM
If we purchase online will they be nut free?
I've checked all my local stores and the products are all older than the dates you suggested and they still carry a nut warning.
I'm tired of waiting, lol.
I have five kiddos who want some goodies now. :)
- August 26, 2009 at 11:51 PM
- Jenny said...
I want to thank you for doing this. When you are completely "nut-free" will you let me know so I can share this info with my blog readers?
Thanks for your nut-free efforts!--Jenny
- August 31, 2009 at 10:00 AM
- JayB said...
We are completely nut free now and have been since June 15. It's just that there may still be products out there that were produced prior to the switch over date. The best before dates noted in the post provide the best guide.
I should also note that it is taking time for us to redo all the packaging (removing the nut warning) so many products out there which have been produced in the nut free environment still have the nut warning.
Unfortunately, it's a bit confusing but it is quite an undertaking to redo every one of the packages for our 100+ products.
- August 31, 2009 at 10:43 AM
Thank you... thank you... thank you! I am so happy we can enjoy your amazing bagels, buns, breads without the worry of nut cross-contamination!!!! I am so excited to be able to buy them at my AZ Whole Foods soon. My 9 year old son will be especially happy! Yummy bagels again!
- November 17, 2009 at 7:41 PM
Assuming that it would cost a FORTUNE to replace all of your equipment that in the past processed baked goods with nuts / peanuts (?), can you please tell us the process that took place to avoid cross contamination issues from equipment during this transition?
ie: My child has anaphlactic peanut allergies and HAS had several reactions from Spectrum's Oil (I found out later that they bottle peanut oil), another brands pretzels (they also have a peanut butter filled pretzel) but it was not labeled as such, etc, etc...
He's had reactions from places who supposedly have scheduled days when they bake certain goods and claim to sterilize their equipment so we have to extra diligent to avoid cross contamination issues...
Lastly, I AM SOOOOO THANKFUL for your company to remove all peanuts & nut products from your line!!!! Our ENTIRE family now can start to enjoy your products which we've had to avoid for so long!! :-)
- November 18, 2009 at 1:16 PM
can you tell us what brand of chocolate chips you use in your chocolate chip muffins please? ( to ensure that they are safe) thanks!
- November 18, 2009 at 1:26 PM
- JayB said...
As noted in the article, We've been peanut free for several years. (long enough that I can't remember when we did it)
The only line that used nuts (almonds only) was a single cookie line and it was thoroughly cleaned on the switch over date. We did not alternate between nut contain and nut free batches or anything like that. Once we stopped, we cleaned and began our new nut-free life as a company.
- November 18, 2009 at 1:35 PM
- JayB said...
We don't reveal our supplier sources and in this case it wouldn't matter as they don't sell to the general public as a "brand". I can say however that all they produce is raw chocolate products and they operate a nut free facility.
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The average commute in the U.S. is about 25 minutes each way. That's 50 minutes a day, more than four hours a week — and more than 200 hours a year.
When you spend that much time behind the wheel, you need to choose your ride carefully.
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With gas prices barreling toward $4 a gallon, it also has to get better-than-average fuel efficiency. And, with all the crazy drivers you encounter, making a mad dash to be on time, you have to have a car with good safety features.
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2018 Chevrolet Silverado 1500
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$1,068/mo est.
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Price Analysis
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Drive Type:
four wheel drive
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1st and 2nd row curtain head airbags
Passenger Airbag
Side airbag
Navigation system
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In-Dash single CD player
Audio system memory card slot
MP3 player
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SiriusXM AM/FM/HD/Satellite Radio
Radio Data System
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Braking Assist
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Trip computer
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Auxilliary transmission cooler
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Heated passenger mirror
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Gross vehicle weight: 7,200 lbs.
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Overall Width: 80.0"
Overall height: 74.0"
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Rear Head Room: 40.5"
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Engine immobilizer
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Tires: Speed Rating: S
Diameter of tires: 20.0"
Type of tires: AS
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Liftgate window: Power
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Hey y'all! How is everyone's week going? I am simply EXHAUSTED. This weekend just flew by with all the green festivities–so glad this week is my spring break because I am in dire need of letting my brain get some rest! I do plan on getting some scrapping done this week, too and what better place to start than with a challenge?! 🙂
This week I am spotlighting a fun little challenge that comes with a freebie: the word art challenge hosted by Bekah of Bekah E Designs! I really like the cute freebie WA Bekah has created for us to work with this month; take a look!
I love mixing script and block fonts when I do my own title work, the contrast is always so pretty and lends itself to all kinds of layouts, so you can safely assume I like this WA. 😉 I guess I'm not the only who likes it, because we've already got several pages posted in the forum using it! In need of some inspiration? Here you go…
By pamr
By ScrapinMama
By emscraps
I picked these three so you could see the different techniques that have been used with this one WA: layering in papers, flooding in colors and keeping it as-is! Of course, they're all beautiful and coordinate perfectly! Do you love versatile word art as much as I do? 😉 These layouts are gorgeous, ladies! Make sure you take a second to leave them some love in the gallery. 🙂
The month is coming to a close soon–just under two weeks and we'll be in April…EEK! Don't forget to get your challenges tallied up in the March Challenge Points Tracking thread. You'll want to make sure you get credit for all your completed challenges so you can snag a nifty reward at the end of the month. 🙂
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About RBC > Media Newsroom > News Releases > RBC seeks emerging visual artists for its 15th annual RBC Canadian Painting Competition
TORONTO, February 5, 2013 - RBC, with the support of the Canadian Art Foundation, today announced its call for entries for the 2013 RBC Canadian Painting Competition. To celebrate the 15th anniversary of the RBC Canadian Painting Competition, RBC will award a total of $115,000 in prize money, making it the largest prize of its kind in Canada.
Entries must be submitted by May 1, 2013 and winners will be announced in Ottawa at the National Gallery on October 2, 2013. The national winner will receive $25,000, two honourable mentions $15,000 each and, in recognition of the 15th anniversary, the remaining 12 finalists will be awarded $5,000 each. Along with past winners, the winning 2013 paintings will become part of RBC's Canadian art collection. More than 4,000 works of distinguished art collected over the past hundred years are included in RBC's collection.
"The Canadian Art Foundation is proud to partner with RBC to help discover and showcase emerging Canadian painters," said Ann Webb, executive director, Canadian Art Foundation and publisher, Canadian Art Magazine. "Over the past 15 years, we have seen the impressive talent that exists in our country and it is exciting to see how the RBC competition has served as a catalyst for many up-and-coming visual artists. We look forward to this year's competition and the opportunities to celebrate emerging painters and provide them with support and national exposure."
Details and rules of the competition may be found at rbc.com/paintingcompetition. The submitted works will be short-listed to 15 finalists by independent panels of regional judges. All regional jurors will come together in October to determine one national winner and two honourable mentions that will be announced on October 2, 2013. All 15 paintings will be on exhibit at the National Gallery in Ottawa. All finalists will be featured at rbc.com/paintingcompetition.
About the RBC Canadian Painting Competition
Established in 1999, the RBC Canadian Painting Competition recognizes and supports Canada's emerging artists. The competition nurtures Canadian visual artists early in their career by providing them with a forum to display their artistic talent to the country and hopefully open doors to future opportunity. The competition will award one national prize of $25,000, two honourable mentions will receive prizes of $15,000 each and, in recognition of the 15th anniversary, the remaining 12 finalists will be awarded $5,000 each. Along with past winners, the winning paintings of 2013 will become part of RBC's Canadian art collection comprised of more than 4,000 works of distinguished art collected over the past hundred years.
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Jackie Braden, RBC Brand Communications, 416 974-1724
Artist contact:
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Did Somebody Say "Fringe"?
Not so long ago, Rand Paul—son of Ron, "modern-day revolutionary," and practicing ophthalmologist—would have been written off as a harmless political extremist. For believing that the Federal Reserve should be gutted. Or that the Civil Rights Act was unconstitutional. Or that the Department of Education is un-American. But with the help of his dad and a legion of devoted Tea Partiers, chances are good he will soon be the most radical member of the U.S. Senate
Try as they might, the gracious members of the Fayette County Republican Party cannot coax Rand Paul into their tent. It's a humid summer evening, and they are holding their annual picnic on the lawn of a forty-two-acre estate in the heart of Kentucky's horse country. The men sport polo shirts and khakis, the women sundresses and pearls. They sip iced teas and lemonade and circulate beneath a giant white party tent that's been pitched against the ominous gray clouds rolling in. The whole thing feels less like a political event than a Junior League benefit or some sort of luxury-real-estate open house—which it may well be, considering the picnic's hosts are currently trying to sell their place for $4.5 million.
This year, though, things are a little different from the past. The Republicans of Fayette County have been forced to go a bit down-market, not because of the lingering recession but to accommodate Paul and the band of Tea Partiers who swept him through the primaries and completely upended the way politics has been practiced here for generations. So tonight's menu features barbecue rather than filet mignon. And the silent auction includes Tea Party–friendly fare such as a DON'T TREAD ON ME T-shirt and Glenn Beck's new thriller novel, alongside the glass elephants and Callaway golf gear. And of course, there's Paul himself, tonight's headline speaker, who until very recently was dismissed by many in the GOP establishment as "too kooky for Kentucky."
It's time for dinner, and the Fayette County GOP chairwoman, Carol Rogers, approaches me. "I just wanted to point out that all of our candidates are serving the food tonight," she says. All, that is, except for Paul. He's standing apart from the crowd, his Timberlake-esque curls getting damp in the light drizzle that has started to fall. When Paul arrived an hour earlier, his aide told the ladies at the registration table that the candidate wouldn't be wearing the name tag they'd printed out for him. I noticed a little later that he'd relented and stuck the tag above his breast pocket, but now, strangely, it has somehow migrated to the back of his pant leg.
Paul has often refused to do the things expected of Kentucky politicians: the backslapping, the ring kissing, the traditional Derby picks (Paul's campaign said he was rooting for a "trifecta of a balanced budget, term limits, and a strong national defense"). "I don't think he even knows the words to 'My Old Kentucky Home,' " one prominent Republican griped to me. "I mean, I'm sure he knows the refrain, but you probably know the refrain." Until he decided to run for Senate last year, Paul wasn't even a politician but rather an ophthalmologist. If Bill Clinton is famous for looking people in the eye and making them feel like the only person in the room, Paul gives the impression he's checking for cataracts.
After a few more minutes in the rain, he comes inside the tent and waits to be introduced to the crowd. When it's finally his turn to speak, Paul, standing well under six feet, adjusts the microphone so that it's no longer pointing at his forehead and begins ticking off the litany of Republican talking points: no to cap-and-trade, yes to extending the Bush tax cuts, no to Obamacare.
But Paul, who prides himself on delivering his remarks without notes, makes plenty of departures from the GOP script. He doesn't so much give a speech as deliver a lecture, filled with digressions characterized by a slight air of condescension. He recites Emily Dickinson (Fame is a bee. / It has a song— / It has a sting— / Ah, too, it has a wing) and indulges himself in a dry tangent about the Ninth Amendment and the protection of rights not mentioned in the Constitution. The crowd is mostly silent and a little glazed for large stretches of the speech, but all that changes when Paul gears up for his big finish. "People try to paint the Tea Party and they say, 'Oh, the Tea Party is extreme.' I respond right back to them, 'What is extreme is a $2 trillion deficit!' They want to say the Tea Party is something that it's not. You see them condemning; you see what they tried to do to me after the election. They want to make us out to be something that we're not. But we're going to keep saying what we're about!" The audience comes to life, giving Paul his loudest applause of the night, but he doesn't stay around to soak it up. By the time the next speech is under way, Paul's already on the road, leaving the Tea Partiers and the country-club folk behind.
Had the Republican establishment gotten its way, the man delivering the keynote that evening would have been Kentucky's secretary of state, Trey Grayson. A few days after the picnic, I stop by the statehouse in Frankfort to see him. It's the middle of the workweek, but the only stirrings come from a tour guide leading a small group past some pictures of famous Kentuckians. ("George Clooney is from Kentucky. Tom Cruise went to high school in Kentucky. Johnny Depp was born in Kentucky. Annie Potts…") More than two months have passed since Paul beat him in the GOP primary, but Grayson still has the slightly dazed look of a guy trying to figure out what hit him. "We closed with ads with Senator McConnell saying, 'I need Trey.' We doubled down on the establishment message," he says. "That was a mistake." Sitting behind his empty desk in his quiet office, he shakes his head. "I wish we'd had an idea just how anti-incumbent the mood was before 6 p.m. on primary day."
Grayson wasn't an incumbent. He was running for an open seat after Kentucky's junior senator, the cantankerous 78-year-old Jim Bunning, announced he wouldn't seek reelection. But everyone in Kentucky knew that Bunning had been forced into retirement by Mitch McConnell, the Senate Republican leader, Kentucky's senior senator, and the father of the modern Kentucky GOP. And everyone in Kentucky also knew that Grayson—who in 2003, at the age of 31, had been elected secretary of state—was McConnell's choice to replace Bunning. In a Republican state party that is extraordinarily hierarchical, even by Republican state-party standards, it was Grayson's turn.
Paul had no standing within that hierarchy. Since moving to the state in 1993, he had run Kentucky Taxpayers United, a watchdog group that graded legislators on tax issues, but as Al Cross, the former political reporter for the Louisville Courier-Journal, told me, "He didn't make it very high on the radar of politics in Kentucky." Ted Jackson, a Republican consultant in Louisville, put it a bit more bluntly: "Rand Paul could have walked into the Republican Party headquarters in any county in Kentucky and no one would have been able to pick him out of a lineup."
What Paul did have was his last name. He's the son of Ron Paul, the Texas congressman and gadfly presidential candidate, whose extreme libertarianism has made him a pariah to mainstream Republicans but a hero to fringier elements of the GOP. Like his father, Paul wanted to essentially obliterate the federal government—gutting some parts (the Department of Agriculture, the Internal Revenue Service) and outright abolishing others (the Department of Education, the Environmental Protection Agency). All of which allowed him to tap into the network of "Ron Paul Revolutionaries" who'd contributed more than $30 million to his dad's 2008 presidential campaign.
He also had a freewheeling campaign operation that depended on, and thus endeared him to, the media. "We took every interview, answered every question, and he became the rock star that he is because of that," says David Adams, the Kentucky blogger who served as Paul's campaign manager during the primary. The press, in turn, repaid him with coverage that portrayed him as an underdog crusader rather than a radical ideologue.
Most important, Paul had the nothing-to-lose freedom to attack the most powerful figure in Kentucky—and in some respects national Republican—politics: McConnell. "I got into this initially because there were rumors they were trying to push Jim Bunning out of office," Paul said on the stump. He didn't need to remind voters that McConnell was the one doing the pushing. And he didn't need to point out that Bunning had defied McConnell by refusing to vote in support of the bank bailout in October 2008. No matter how muddled and contradictory the Tea Party message can sometimes be, the TARP legislation, as the bailout is known, has always been a fundamental part of its creation myth. When you talk to Tea Party leaders, they'll express their disgust with Obama, for sure, but they'll also point out that the movement was formed not in response to the president but in response to the bailout—which was voted on before Obama entered the White House—and that those who supported it should be held accountable.
That's how McConnell, a guy you'd think would be wildly popular with Republicans in Kentucky (he'd spent the last three decades turning it from blue to red and now, as minority leader, is masterfully using Senate procedures to obstruct and frustrate Obama's agenda at every turn) came to be a target of the Tea Partiers within his own state. The fact that he'd been in Washington so long—and had been one of thirty-four Republican Senators to vote for TARP—was proof that he was tainted. "There's a difference between a Republican with a little R by his name and a conservative," a Tea Party leader named Mica Sims said of McConnell when I spoke with her in Lexington. "The next time he has an election, he'll probably have a primary challenger."
Paul capitalized on the rage toward the bailout and toward McConnell (who himself isn't on a ballot until 2014) to hammer Grayson throughout the primary. It didn't matter that Grayson also opposed the bailout; Paul attacked him for holding a fund-raiser with seventeen senators—including McConnell—who voted for the TARP legislation. Grayson was McConnell's guy, and Kentucky conservatives were going to use him to send a message. Paul wound up trouncing him by twenty-three points.
He didn't get to savor his victory for long. Less than twenty-four hours after his triumphant speech—"I have a message, a message from the Tea Party, a message that is loud and clear and does not mince words: We've come to take our government back!"—Paul found himself on MSNBC's Rachel Maddow Show. One year earlier, he'd gone on the program to announce he was going to run for the Senate—an announcement Maddow greeted with the prediction that Paul (and his father) were the type of Republicans who could help the GOP get its "mojo" back. Now he was returning to where it all began, as the newly minted Republican nominee. Except this time, Maddow pressed him on what she described as "the potentially more controversial side of his small-government views"—specifically his stance on the most sacrosanct piece of legislation of the twentieth century, the 1964 Civil Rights Act. Paul, who's not one to back down from a debate, declared his philosophical opposition on the grounds that the federal government shouldn't interfere with private businesses.
The fallout was immediate, and with his general-election campaign threatening to implode before it even began, Paul was forced to issue the sort of press release seldom seen in Obama's America (or Reagan's or Nixon's, for that matter), stating "unequivocally" that he "will not support any efforts to repeal the Civil Rights Act of 1964." Republican heavyweights like Karl Rove reportedly told him to stop talking to the press—which he did, including backing out of a previously scheduled interview on NBC's Meet the Press, joining Louis Farrakhan and a Saudi prince as the only people to have canceled on the show in its sixty-two-year history. Then Paul went into the political equivalent of the witness-protection program ("Where in the world is Rand Paul?" asked the Associated Press); his campaign told inquiring reporters that he was busy seeing eye patients in Bowling Green.
When he emerged a couple of weeks later, Paul was a different candidate. He had replaced Adams as campaign manager with Jesse Benton, who is married to Paul's niece and who managed his father's 2008 presidential campaign. Under Benton, the Paul campaign became a more traditional, press-wary operation. "The scrutiny and the media bias we encounter makes us have to be much more message-disciplined," Benton told me in a brief interview that occurred only because, after numerous unreturned phone and e-mail messages, I finally showed up unannounced at Paul's campaign headquarters. "We're fighting to go to Washington, D.C., and there are a lot of folks out there who are trying to stop us."
Paul now confines his national media appearances to Fox News and conservative talk radio. In Kentucky, the campaign often doesn't release his schedule to the state's papers and TV stations (reporters have to get word of Paul's appearances from third parties), and at one point during the summer he refused to answer any questions that weren't previously submitted in writing.
I witnessed the campaign's rather ham-fisted press strategy firsthand in August when I wrote a story for GQ.com about Paul's college days at Baylor University in the early 1980s. The piece primarily dealt with his membership in a secret society called the NoZe Brotherhood, which existed, in part, to torment the Baylor administration. The story recounted a prank Paul and another NoZe brother had played on a female friend, who claimed that the two had showed up at her apartment, tied her up, blindfolded her, and then drove her back to their apartment, where they tried to get her to do bong hits with them. When she refused, they drove her to a creek, where the prank got even weirder. "They told me their god was 'Aqua Buddha' and that I needed to bow down and worship him," the woman recalled to me.
Days before the story ran, I'd asked Benton in an e-mail if Paul had any memory of the prank. He replied with a classic nondenial: "During his time at Baylor, Dr. Paul competed on the swim team and was an active member of Young Conservatives of Texas," which I quoted at the end of my piece. The Aqua Buddha story ran on a Monday and quickly mushroomed into a political scandal. By the end of the day, Benton was telling reporters that I had been spotted digging through the Dumpster at the Paul campaign's office. By the next evening, the Paul campaign sent out a fund-raising e-mail, referencing my story and asking, "Can you help our campaign fight back, today and in the coming weeks, against the libelous attacks of the leftist media?"
The biggest challenge for Paul these days, however, is not deflecting questions about bong hits and Aqua Buddha. It's not even fending off the constant attacks from his Democratic opponent, Jack Conway. ("We are going to take a two-by-four to the guy every day," one Democratic strategist says of Paul.) It's figuring out how to cozy up to the GOP establishment without alienating his rabid base. Once Paul won the nomination, his purity test regarding the bank bailout, which had been his most potent weapon in the primary, went out the window. In late June, Paul headed to D.C. for a fund-raiser of his own, hosted by twelve Republican senators, nine of whom voted for the bailout. But the trip wasn't just about raising money; it was also a sensitive diplomatic mission to reassure Republicans that he's not the fringe figure they fear—that he isn't, in effect, his father.
Ron Paul, in addition to his extreme views on the federal government, has been a harsh critic of the Republican Party's "military adventurism," and in the past Rand has faithfully echoed his father's views. He opposed the war in Iraq, once characterized the September 11 attacks as "blowback for our foreign policy," and scoffed at the threat of Iranian nukes. And yet here he was in Washington, seeking out a secret meeting with some of the Ron Paul Revolutionaries' biggest bogeymen. At a private office in Dupont Circle, he talked foreign policy with Bill Kristol, Dan Senor, and Tom Donnelly, three prominent neocons who'd been part of an effort to defeat him during the primary. "He struck me as genuinely interested in trying to understand why people like us were so apoplectic," Senor says of their two-hour encounter. "He wanted to get educated about our problem with him. He wasn't confrontational, and he wasn't disagreeable. He didn't seem cemented in his views. He was really in absorption mode."
The following month, he met with officials from the powerful lobbying group AIPAC (the American Israel Public Affairs Committee), which has frequently clashed with Ron Paul over what the group views as his insufficient support of Israel. Paul, according to one person familiar with the AIPAC meeting, "told them what they wanted to hear: 'I'm more reasonable than my father on the things you care about.' He was very solicitous."
All of this has left Republicans in a state of high anxiety about which positions Paul will maintain—and which ones he's willing to bend on—once he enters the Senate. "After the primary, there's been a split and a debate," a Republican strategist involved in efforts to derail Paul this past spring tells me. "Half of us think Paul is far more ambitious than his father—he doesn't just want to prove a point, he wants to be a player—and that his ambition will outweigh his ideology." According to this view, Paul's success will ensure his obedience. "I think he'll be laundered by the Senate a little bit," another prominent conservative predicts. "He'll still sometimes be a pain in the neck for the leadership, but I'd expect him to get Senate-ized over time."
But not everyone is so sure. Says the Republican strategist, "There's the other half who think he really is his father's kid, he's kind of a schmuck, and he may well lose a seat we should otherwise win—and frankly, we aren't terribly upset about it."
This debate is at its most intense inside the head of Mitch McConnell. During the primary, McConnell's only meeting with Paul took place in a hangar at the Louisville airport. According to a person familiar with the conversation, McConnell pressed Paul to pledge to vote for him for Republican leader—something Paul refused to do. (Billy Piper, McConnell's chief of staff, denies that his boss sought Paul's commitment.) All these months later, Paul still won't make a firm pledge. "The whole question of 'Will Rand vote for McConnell for leader?' is a power play," explains one Paul ally. "If Mitch is a little bit on edge, so much the better. He should be."
The two men didn't sit for a meeting again until four days after Paul's primary victory—this time in Frankfort for a GOP Unity Rally at which Grayson, McConnell, and other prominent Kentucky Republicans endorsed Paul. After the rally, the group retreated to a conference room in the Kentucky Republican Party headquarters (officially known as the Mitch McConnell Building), where McConnell realized he was no longer in a position to be making demands of Paul. "He wasn't forcing opinions on anyone," one of the meeting's participants says of McConnell. "He just gave advice on the things Rand wanted advice on. He was in answer mode." Since then, McConnell has continued to go to bat for Paul, privately and publicly. "He's doing the professional thing," says Michael Clingaman, a former ecutive director of the Kentucky GOP. "He's laser focused on what matters most: retaining the seat and keeping the numbers in the Senate."
Under McConnell's leadership, the Senate GOP caucus has marched in remarkable lockstep; defections and dissent are rare. In the absence of any actual policy proposals, this has been the Republicans' great strength. But there's a real worry within the power center of the GOP that Paul will take his seat and eventually throw all the happy party conformity into disarray. In July, Paul told the National Review that he intends to form a "Tea Party caucus" in the Senate. "I think I will be part of a nucleus with Jim DeMint and Tom Coburn, who are unafraid to stand up," he said. "If we get another loud voice in there, like Mike Lee from Utah or Sharron Angle from Nevada, there will be a new nucleus."
And therein lies the problem with the Tea Party candidates. The more they become an electoral force, the more the Republican establishment has to cater to them, and the more vocal and disruptive to the party's actual agenda they'll potentially become. It's one thing to oppose Obama; it's another to oppose legislation and threaten relationships that have been central to how the GOP does business. Paul doesn't support the military spending most of his fellow Republicans slobber over. He doesn't support handing out big fat prescription-drug benefits to private insurance companies. He doesn't support the earmarks that Republican senators, especially McConnell, use to curry favor with voters back home. And in a chamber where arcane procedural rules make it possible for a single member to gum up the legislative works, the presence of just one rogue Republican—much less a whole Tea Party caucus of them—could be enough to make the Senate Republicans finally seem as undisciplined and dysfunctional as the Democrats.
Back in Kentucky on a Tuesday night in the middle of the summer, a state-rep candidate named Frank Haynes is holding a rally at a National Guard armory on the outskirts of Frankfort. Republicans happen to be in the minority in this part of Kentucky ("Being a Republican here is like being in the desert," the local GOP chair tells me), so the crowd of fifty people sitting in metal folding chairs is a pretty respectable turnout. But rather than talk about the state issues that might have an actual bearing on his race, Haynes stands before them and compares Nancy Pelosi to Nikita Khrushchev and Mao. "If you've been watching what's going on the last eighteen months, you see the ultimate goal that the progressives have," he says. "The hippies of the '60s are now the ones that are in control of Congress, and their goal is to make this a totalitarian government where they control every aspect of your life."
Paul has driven two-plus hours from Bowling Green, where he spent the morning doing eye surgery, to make an appearance on Haynes's behalf. He delivers the closest thing he has to a standard stump speech—the only new part, to my ears, is a quote from T. S. Eliot—and after he's done, I and a few other reporters sidle up to him.
One asks Paul about his now familiar contention that the press is out to get the Tea Party. "I don't ever call somebody a Muslim or do any of that kind of stuff," he replies, "but if there's a picture of President Obama as a Muslim, everybody says that's what the Tea Party is about." He adds, "I was at Bush's first inauguration with my two small children, and people came up to us and would yell stuff, like—" he pauses and mouths the word fuck—"you to my kids and stuff, you know? But does that represent all Democrats?"
Just fifteen minutes earlier the candidate whom Paul came out to support was likening the current Speaker of the House to a former Soviet dictator, so I ask if he thinks that's what the press might be referring to when they say the Tea Party is extreme. He leans forward and smiles. "Well, I think whether or not your analogies are over the top, whether you might extend an analogy farther than others might, is not something to be reviled. It's just an opinion, you know?"
He pauses for a moment, as if wondering whether he should say more, then gives in to the urge. "But I don't hear that and say, 'Oh, he's absolutely wrong.' I hear him and say that our country is slipping towards that, and there could be a time when we slip and lose a lot of our freedoms. I'll say things like that Ben Franklin statement: 'Those who give up their liberty for security will have neither.' I worry about a time when we would have chaos in our country and then a strong national leader would come along and say, 'Give me your liberty and I'll give you security.' Not that it's imminent or happening tomorrow or applies to any particular players on the stage, but there are historical examples."
Paul pauses again, although this time it's not out of any hesitation on his part; he's just making sure we're still with him. "In 1923, when they destroyed the currency, they elected Hitler. And so they elected somebody who vilified one group of people, but he promised them, 'I will give you security if you give me your liberty,' and they voted him in. And that's not to mean that anybody around is Hitler, but it's to mean that you don't want chaos in your country. And we could have chaos, not just because of the Democrats, but because the Democrats and the Republicans have all been spending us into oblivion. And having a massive debt runs the risk of chaos at some point. Not tomorrow, maybe not next week—I mean, I can't even predict the stock market six months from now. But I think that a country is in danger that spends beyond its means and lives beyond its means. And I don't ever say it started with President Obama. I think it started long ago."
It's an incredible performance, one that begins with a gentle distancing from a loony analogy before reframing the analogy to make it seem less loony, then introducing a new analogy that isn't just loony, it's repugnant, but that also, as the analogy gets fleshed out in greater detail, begins to reveal itself as conforming to a certain logic that might be worthy of debate—all before ending on a bipartisan, pox-on-both-their-houses note that makes it clear that no, he was not comparing Obama to Hitler.
Unlike some of the prominent Tea Party leaders he's routinely lumped in with, Paul is not an idiot. When I asked a friend of his to characterize Paul's conversations with Sarah Palin, who provided him with an early endorsement, the friend replied: "Brief." Paul doesn't avoid the press because, like Sharron Angle, he's afraid of revealing his ignorance; rather, he does so because he's afraid he'll be unable to resist the temptation to prove how smart he is.
"If you challenge him intellectually, he's incapable of letting it go," says one GOP consultant to whom the Paul campaign has reached out for advice. "I'm sure he's wonderful at dinner parties, but he can't be having a dinner party debate with Rachel Maddow on national television." In fact, it's easy to imagine that in Paul's heart of hearts, he'd much prefer being interviewed by a smart person who deeply disagrees with him, like Maddow, than a doofus with whom he's in superficial accord, like Sean Hannity.
And yet it's the Hannity watchers of the world who have transformed this awkward man—someone who has more affection for the dead poets he quotes in his speeches than for the audiences to which he gives them—into a populist hero. To their ears, Paul isn't articulating a dogmatic ideology that has traditionally held little appeal to most Americans because it privileges the free market above everything else; he's offering the only appropriate response to the tyrannical socialist agenda being perpetrated in Washington. He isn't making a tortured historical analogy about the dangers of centralized power; he's calling Obama Hitler. It's why, back during the primary, as Michael Clingaman put it, "people were ready to walk over glass to vote for Rand Paul." And it's why, come November, they'll be ready to do so again. When I ask David Adams, Paul's erstwhile campaign manager, about his old boss's many peculiarities, he replies: "He's a once-in-a-lifetime character. He's perfectly suited for this moment." The moment is strange enough that he's probably right.
_Jason Zengerle is a senior editor at _The New Republic.


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We've come a long way since the AM radio and the 8-track cartridge first let us take our entertainment on the road. These days automotive audiophiles have almost unlimited choice in custom sound equipment, from sweet-sounding stereos to "doof-doof" boxes that'll make your ears bleed. Here's how to make some sound decisions about your in-car audio system.
There are essentially two main areas that need to be considered in upgrading your sound system. The first is getting the music into the car - via radio, tape, CD, MP3 player or mini-disc unit, etc. The second is getting the music out of the car - via speakers, amplifiers (amps), subwoofers and so on. You can upgrade either of these areas alone, to some extent, but best results will be obtained by planning a co-ordinated approach.
Most modern cars come with a basic (or "stock") sound system including an AM/FM stereo radio and single-disc in-dash CD player (these days CD players are pretty much standard, replacing the cassette players of the previous era). Some CD units now offer support for MP3, WMA and AAC. Most basic systems will have four speakers (two in front, two in back). Some mid-range (and many upper range) cars also come with a 6-12 disc CD changer (or "stacker").
While CD stackers used to be the ultimate in audio one-upmanship over your neighbour, the popularity of the Apple iPod hard-disk based portable music player has lifted the bar dramatically, offering thousands of songs at your fingertips - far more than even MP3 CD-compatible stackers can offer.
Customising your in-car sound system can range from the modest to the magnificent. The simple addition of an amp can lift your car's sound profile to a much more enjoyable level. But for some people the bigger and bolder the system, the better.
More upper range cars are now offering the option of iPod integration as an option, or even as standard equipment. These include BMW, Mini, Mercedes-Benz, Volvo with Honda, Volkswagen, Nissan, Audi and even Ferrari featuring the ubiquitous iPod in upcoming models.
The aftermarket is booming too. Several top car stereo accessory manufacturers now offer iPod integration for most cars, from iPod-ready head units to self-install options to professionally installed interfaces.
Alpine, Pioneer, Clarion, Kenwood and a growing list of others now offer integration accessories that make the iPod, Creative's Zen, and other portable MP3 players work like part of your sound system. This lets you use your head unit (main system control interface) for navigating and choosing songs, displaying all the information on the main unit interface. It is easier to use and therefore less distracting while you are driving, so it is safer than having to fiddle with the MP3 player itself. And the bonus is that these systems also charge your iPod, and other MP3 players, while you drive, so when you stop you simply pop the portable player in your pocket and you're charged up and ready to go.


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A full list of the Simple Living Challenge steps can be found here.
"Out of clutter, find simplicity. From discord, find harmony. In the middle of difficulty lies opportunity." Albert Einstein
Much has been said about decluttering and much more is being discussed daily on blogs about simplifying and slowing down. I guess, the topic has become banal but that is usually a sign of intransitive importance.
I loved a sentence in Karen Lee's consumerism post of yesterday and I have to quote it today:
And, now, we are grappling with shortage of resources while we are living with garbage and clutter of "stuff" that we have to be encouraged to de-clutter and simplify.
Our greed or rather, misunderstood notion of well-being has turned us into pack rats. We have become slaves to our vices and with time we have learned to love this self-imposed slavery. But freedom is just the first step. Because after we have freedom of clutter we will lay the basis for freedom of mind. And when it comes to the mind, the sky is the limit.
Because there is an amazing number of information on the Internet about decluttering in any area of modern life, I would like to give you just a few points to think about before I list a few decluttering information sources for further reading.
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How we accumulate clutter
- We love to identify with the stuff we own. It boosts our confidence and places us in a particular emotional spot, we think that the objects we own will show our belonging to a particular caste of people.
- Humans have a natural tendency for over-stocking for rainy days. We all have it to some extent and while no two people are alike, I bet that even the most minimalistic of people, say for example Leo Babauta, can find a thing or two to declutter today.
Why would we want to clutter
Only a small percentage of people actually realize what they are doing while they stuff their homes with useless clutter. It is only after a
little long while that some of us get a different perspective and wake up to a suffocating home.
So, the answer to this question is: We don't strive to clutter. Clutter happens when you are not careful what you buy, and most importantly when you don't ask yourself whether you need the things entering your house.
Why would we want to declutter
For all the good reasons of course! Clutter takes away energy and positivity from us. I have woken up to a messy, cluttered house and I don't ever want to remember that feeling again. Even the thought of it burdens me. I like to start my days in a clean, uncluttered environment that will set the tone of the rest of my day.
I have noticed how my surroundings affect my thinking and working in a cluttered environment doesn't lead to creative results.
On the contrary, working, or just being in a clean, organized space gives space for my imagination to roam and I am able to enjoy even the most mundane of activities.
How to start decluttering
Start slow. Start small. But start.
You can set your timer on 20 minutes and devote them to a drawer, a shelf or a cupboard that needs a little decluttering love.
Big plans usually end up plans forever. Instead of overwhelming yourself with the idea of decluttering all your rooms in a week, take your journey one day at a time. You will keep your enthusiasm longer and you will have the job done!
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How to stay decluttered
Read! No matter what promises you make to yourself, in a couple of months they will fade. To avoid frustration keep on reading time and again, go through decluttering stories, yes, I mean all those endless posts on all blogs. Just read and the decluttering bug will get to you sooner or later.
And to make sure you have materials to read, here is a list of useful posts on decluttering in all spheres of life:
- How to Declutter
- Ecokaren's 2012 Declutter Challenge
- Five Ways to Simplify Your Virtual Life
- Declutter Your RSS
- A 3-Step Cure For Digital Pack Rats
- Declutter Forever
- Organizing 101: Resolve to Declutter
- Declutter 101: Where Do I Start?
Share your experience: Do you think you are the cluttering type? Even if your answer is no, I challenge you to go ahead and open a drawer. Get rid of 5 things that you should have long time ago. Do you think you can do that tomorrow again? And the day after tomorrow, until you have only the most important and valuable objects left to serve you?
Step 1: Embrace Your Imperfections
Step 2: Simple Living as Men's Trait
Step 3: The Rules of Simple Home Organization
Step 4: Simple Crafting for Happy People
Step 5: Simple Scheduling and Planning Routines
Step 6: Spend More Time With the People You Love
Step 7: Spend More Time Alone
Step 8: Connect to Your Inner Self
Step 9: How to De-Stress
Step 10: Learn to Live With Less and Enjoy it
Step 11: Start a Debt-Free Life
Step 12: How to Overcome Consumerism
Step 14: Get Rid of Toxic Cosmetics and Reclaim Your Natural Self
Step 15: Wean Off Plastic
Step 16: Celebrate Your Story
The Final Step: Gratitude
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A Consumer Guide to Dealing with Unsolicited Direct Marketing.
Data Protection legislation takes the sending of unsolicited direct marketing ("junk mail" or "spam") very seriously and offers protection against this practice. The application of data protection law varies depending on the medium through which the marketing is delivered. What follows is a summary of the main types of direct marketing and advice on how to deal with them.
Postal marketing
This is the traditional and oldest form of direct marketing. For mail received through your letter box to be considered to be direct marketing it must be addressed to a named person and must be promoting a product or service. Unaddressed mail put into your letter box or mail addressed to "the occupant", "the resident" or "the householder" does not necessarily involve the use of personal data and consequently data protection legislation does not apply.
If you do not want to receive direct marketing, you have a right to notify the sender that you object to receiving such material. It is against the law (Section 2 of the Data Protection Acts) for an organisation not to respect a written request from you. If you continue to receive marketing after you have objected you can make a Complaint to the Data Protection Commissioner.
There is also an obligation on an organisation that has not obtained your details directly from you to inform you of the original source of your details. This will enable you to contact the original organisation and object to it using or distributing your details for marketing purposes.
The Electoral Register
You have the right to prevent information about you on the register of electors being used for marketing purposes. Each local authority maintains a Register of the individuals in its area who are entitled to vote in elections. Two versions of the Register are kept. The "Full Register" contains the names and addresses of all those entitled to vote. The information in the Full Register can only be used for electoral purposes or for other purposes laid down by law. The "Edited Register" contains a sub-set of the names and addresses on the Full Register. The information on the Edited Register can be used by companies for direct marketing.
You can find out if you are on the Edited Register by looking up the Register at your local authority office public library or Garda station. You can also check online at www.checktheregister.ie.
If you wish to avoid receiving unsolicited marketing material based on the electoral register it is important that you tell the local authority by ticking the "opt-out" box on the registration form that is distributed to households or by contacting the local authority
Electronic Marketing
The Electronic Privacy Regulations (SI 336 of 2011) give you the right to prevent organisations from using electronic means (phone, SMS,email, fax) to contact you in order to sell you a product or service. The rules that apply to the different means of electronic marketing are set out below.
Marketing Phone Calls
The easiest way to prevent organisations phoning you on your fixed phone number (landline) for marketing purposes is to have your preference recorded on the National Directory Database (NDD). The NDD is traditionally the tool used to produce printed telephone directories and to supply details for directory enquiry functions. You can now contact the company to which you pay telephone line rental - see List of Phone Providers and their Details - and inform them that you want your preference not to receive marketing calls recorded on the NDD. This is a free service. It is an offence for a person to make a marketing call to someone who has a preference not to receive marketing calls recorded in the NDD unless the caller has some form of consent to make such calls. More detailed information on how to prevent colds calls may be found here.
If you get a sales call more than 28 days after your details have been recorded in the opt-out register of the NDD you can make a complaint to the Data Protection Commissioner. We can investigate and prosecute the company if necessary. If you are not on the NDD or if you receive a marketing call on your mobile phone you can ask the caller not to call you again for marketing purposes. It is against the law for an organisation to ignore your request. If that happens you can make a complaint to the Data Protection Commissioner.
It is an offence for a marketer to call you on your mobile phone for marketing purposes unless you have consented to the receipt of such calls on your mobile phone.
Marketing faxes
A marketing fax cannot be sent to an individual (as opposed to a business) without prior consent. However if you have a home office or work from home and use the fax in that context (even in part) then your prior consent is not required. In that situation you can notify the sender that you do not wish to receive such marketing faxes and that person is obliged to respect your preference. If your preference is ignored you can make a complaint to the Data Protection Commissioner.
Electronic Mail
Electronic mail (i.e. a text message, voice message, sound message, image message, multimedia message or email message) for the purpose of direct marketing cannot be sent to you without your prior consent unless it is from someone with whom you have a current customer relationship. The Regulations specify that the marketer must have obtained your contact details in the context of the sale of a product or service to you not more than twelve months prior to the sending of the direct marketing communication or, where applicable, your contact details were used by that marketer for the sending of electronic mail to you within that twelve month period. The rules for direct marketing using electronic mail are simple:
Marketers may send you electronic mail for direct marketing purposes where:
- You have given them explicit consent to do so within the last twelve months,
- they have obtained your personal contact details in the course of a sale to you of a product or service within the last twelve months, they informed you of their identity, the purpose in collecting your contact details, the persons or categories of persons to whom your personal data may be disclosed and any other information which is necessary so that processing may be fair, and
- the direct marketing they are sending is in respect of their similar* products and services only, and
- you were given a simple cost-free means of refusing the use of your contact details for direct marketing purposes at the time your details were initially collected, and where you did not initially refuse the use of those details, you are given a similar option at the time of each subsequent communication. (If you fail to unsubscribe using the cost-free means provided to you by the direct marketer, you will be deemed to have remained opted-in to the receipt of such electronic mail for a twelve month period from the date of issue to you of the most recent marketing electronic mail).
Marketers may not send you any electronic mail for direct marketing purposes in the following circumstances:
- if you have not given your prior consent to receiving such mail within the last twelve months in accordance with the options set out above,
- if the identity of the sender has been disguised or concealed or a valid address to which you can send an opt-out request has not been provided, and additionally, where the electronic mail is an email communication, a valid address at which the sender may be contacted has not been provided.
- if you have joined a club to which you pay a subscription for text, multimedia or email message services, unless the direct marketing is directly related to a similar* product or service to the subscription club of which you are a member,
If you are receiving electronic marketing messages contrary to these rules, you may complain to the Data Protection Commissioner.
Premium Rate Services
Premium rate services are subject to rules which are overseen by the Commission for Communications Regulation (ComReg). You can contact ComReg if, for example, you have subscribed to such a service and have difficulty unsubscribing. Further information is available on the ComReg website, www.phonesmart.ie.
How to complain
A complaint about unsolicited direct marketing can be made ONLINE, or in writing to:
Data Protection Commissioner
Canal House,
Station Road,
Co. Laois.
LoCall: 1890 252231
Phone: 057 868 4800
Fax: 057 868 47 57
When making a complaint, you should provide as much information as possible, including your own contact details; time and date of the message; a copy of the message if possible, or a summary of contents if not; information about any previous dealing with the sender of the message as well as a statement that you are making a formal complaint. Additionally, if the Commissioner decides to prosecute an offender, you may be asked to give a sworn statement or to appear in Court to give evidence.
Advice on how to protect yourself
Some of the information used to market you is in the public domain, such as the telephone directory or the Electoral Register. However, as stated above, you can still control how that information is used by marketers by having a marketing preference recorded by the bodies compiling such public databases.
In other situations, marketers generally do not obtain your details unless you have either directly given them your contact details or have supplied contact details in the context of entering a competition, a promotion or some form of lifestyle survey. If you are supplying contact details in these circumstances read the conditions of entry carefully in order to understand how your contact details may be used. If the conditions state that your details may be used for marketing, or passed onto third parties to use for marketing, you must judge whether entering the competition is worth it. Even where you do supply contact details, you can always change your mind at a later date and inform that organisation that you do not want to receive marketing. However, this may be of little value when the organisation has already passed your details to third parties.
In general, when you are asked for your contact details, you should ask why they are needed. If you are not satisfied with the reasons offered, or do not trust the organisation, you must judge whether you want to risk volunteering information.
Be careful when supplying details on a public space such as a website forum. Details may be viewed by people without your knowledge and used without your consent. Similarly, be careful if you have a website and are placing contact details on it. Such details are commonly harvested by unscrupulous marketers.
By being careful about how you supply your contact details, you can do an awful lot to limit the use of such data by spammers.
If you own a mobile phone, be careful who else you let use it. It has been known for "friends" to subscribe each other to various services. The same applies to use of your e-mail account.
Further Information
This guide only contains brief details on dealing with unwanted direct marketing.
More detailed information on how to prevent colds calls may be found on the Comreg Consumer Website
There are also provisions relating to direct marketing calls from financial services firms in the Financial Regulator's Consumer Protection Code.The advice of the national consumer agency in relation to unwanted sales calls can be accessed here.
Case Studies relevant to this topic include:
- Case Study 15/07 – Unsolicited postal marketing from Supermarket
- Case Study 4/07 - Company ordered to suspend phone marketing
- Case Study 5/06 - Company ordered to delete database used for sending unsolicited SMS messages
- Case Study 11/05 – Prosecution of company for unsolicited marketing communications


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The HTML5 video tag obviously requires a standardised codec in order to achieve full interoperability, but the browser makers have been unable to reach a consensus about which codec to implement in their browsers, HTML5 specification editor Ian Hickson writes.
Google implements both Ogg Theora and H.264 in Chrome, but sadly, the expensive licensing costs for H.264 prevents other Chromium distributors from implementing H.264. Google also said that Ogg Theora's quality-per-bit is not yet good enough for the volume handled by YouTube. Mozilla implements Ogg Theora, but not H.264 due to not being able to provide a license for downstream distributors. Opera will most likely implement Ogg Theora as well, but won't implement H.264 due to its prohibitive licensing costs.
This means that three of the major browser makers standardise on Ogg Theora. While Theora may not be up to par with H.264 yet, the fact that so many browser makers decided to implement it may speed up its development.
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According to Hickson, this situation could go either of two ways (or both):
- Ogg Theora encoders continue to improve. Off-the-shelf hardware Ogg Theora decoder chips become available. Google ships support for the codec for long enough without getting sued that Apple's concern regarding submarine patents is reduced. => Theora becomes the de facto codec for the Web.
- The remaining H.264 baseline patents owned by companies who are not willing to license them royalty-free expire, leading to H.264 support being available without license fees. => H.264 becomes the de facto codec for the Web.
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