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Objective Measures: Client Satisfaction
As the second part in this series, I'd like to discuss how to objectively measure client satisfaction. We'll do this in 4 parts: Why We Do It, Ways to Measure It, and the Way I like to Do it, and What to Expect.
I've posted before about the cost of new client acquisition. Given that new clients cost you more to get, keeping the clients you have is, in essence, higher margin revenue since you typically don't have the associated selling costs. However, its hard to keep clients if you don't know you are keeping them happy. Hence, objectively measuring customer sat helps you determine if you are merely doing good enough or if you are truly delighting your client. So, you measure to know and you need to know to keep.
Ways to Measure
Start with what questions you care about. Put another way, if you could sit down with the client in person, what questions would you want them to answer? Is it about on-time delivery, excellence in project management, quality of deliverables, overall excellence? Or is it simply "Are you delighted?".
Next, what's the scale against which the answer is made? Do you want free form text so they write what they want or do you want a 1 (poor) to 5 (excellent) measure? The first often give you great data, the second is far easier to analyze and parse. You can use a combination – that way the free text gives the client a more open forum to express issues outside of the context of the measured questions. If in doubt, go with the 5 or 10 point scale and a single Other Comments field – its easier for everyone to understand.
Next, the platform. You can use products like SurveyMonkey, Zoomerang, Eloqua, or ConstantContact to automate the data collection process. The first and second are single purpose and pretty cheap. The last two are marketing automation tools that will help you tie the results into marketing data. If you are just starting, try just using email to reach out the client, and then move up to automated surveys later.
Next, track and report the results. Report to your team, your clients and use it in marketing. Store the history and watch the trend. Most importantly, set the benchmark (and no, its not 100% satisfaction – that isn't cost effective) and manage the result to the benchmark.
Last, how to start: pick a small sample of clients, tell them what you are doing, and ask them to participate. Start small, and work in progressively through your entire org.
Way I Recommend
This isn't the way my company does it today, but here's what I recommend:
- Ask one question - "Are you completely satisfied with our work and would you recommend us to our other business associates?" If the answer is a yes, score it as a 5. If the answer is a no, schedule an in person follow up to discuss the details.
- Ask this question after every major project and after the completion of any discrete piece of work. For example, if you are conducting a 3,000 seat Exchange rollout, do it after the project is over and you get sign off. If a customer calls with a request to create 3 new FRx reports (the Dynamics financial report writer), call when they are done. You can do mid-project surveys, but I prefer to handle that via project management rather than survey.
- Ask the question to both the person(s) that controlled the project, the person(s) who derived business benefit from the project and the project sponsor(s). Typically, this would be the client's project manager and the CIO/CFO. At a minimum, you must survey the folks that hired you, worked with you and paid the bills ON THAT PROJECT.
- The person asking the question CANNOT be the project manager or anyone from the consulting or sales staff that was involved in the project. It should be an independent party, but not a clerical staffer. Alternatively, you can automate it (see above) – we do to good result.
- Prepare a standard follow up document but ALWAYS do the discussion in person and include the account owner from your company. The standard follow up document should have at a minimum one question related to timely delivery, quality of the deliverable, quality of project mgt, accuracy of sales expectations, accuracy of invoicing and accounting, knowledge of the consulting staff and overall impressions (ex: On a scale of 1 to 5, 1 being Very Poor, 5 being Excellent"). This give you the scoring mechanism for anything less than a 5.
- Take the result back to the office and MAKE CHANGES BASED ON THE FEEDBACK. If you don't you've wasted your time and made the client believe you really don't care what they think.
- Once the change is made, call the client and tell them what you did based on their feedback. Set a follow-up meeting in no less than 3 – 6 mos (assuming you've done work with them again) to review and see if you've improved.
- Lastly, tie comp plans, all the way to the consultant level, to customer sat scores. This is a pretty complex issue which I don't have room to explore in this post, but may in a later post.
Two critically important things to remember:
- Don't do any of this unless you are willing to talk to the "no" people AND make changes
- You have to do the follow up in person. Phone if you have to, but in person makes all the difference. Done right, you can actually sell additional work in the meeting.
What to Expect
First, your initial response rate, unless you bug them, is going to suck. We regularly get 85% response rates, but it takes nearly a .5 FTE during our survey cycle to get to that (we typically survey around 100 customers each time.
Second, expect surprises. We found out our invoicing inaccuracies, which weren't many, caused significant sat issues. This lead to a really good improvement process around our use of Dynamics GP (which is still ongoing), which made us better for our clients AND more internally automated.
Third, expect them to keep dredging up the past. Even though you are surveying on the last piece of work or the project you did, they'll tend to rank you based on the overall experience with you. Done well, the above is a good way to get them to admit success – don't forget the personal contact.
In closing, I can't stress this enough: this process is about helping you to improve so you can serve your clients better so you can bill more time at lower cost to you. It must be done as personally as possible, and must be done with a commitment to change. If you aren't ready to change and communicate that change to the client, don't do it.
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1. Re: how to make an odd shaped pie chartSteve Fairbairn Apr 11, 2012 5:14 AM (in response to daymonic)
If your object is odd-shaped I have the feeling that it won't make a very good pie chart. It will be difficult to compare visually the relative areas og the slices.
Apart from that I don't think there's any way to divide an irregular shape automatically into slices of a predetermined area. You would presumably need to start off by finding the shape's centre of gravity but that will only get you so far. (There are threads about that. Here's a nice long one: http://forums.adobe.com/message/4279794#4279794)
2. Re: how to make an odd shaped pie chartJETalmage Apr 11, 2012 6:39 AM (in response to daymonic)
What kind of "odd shape" do you have in mind?
If you're talking about having AI's pie graph functionality automatically substitute any arbitrary shape for the circular pie, then no, there is no feature for such a thing.
If you're talking about manually substituting the arbitrary shape(s), and the stumbling block is just knowing the area of the arbitrary shape:
Illustrator's Javascript model does include an area property of the PathItem object, which returns the area of a path in square points. So you could:
1. Use the Pie Chart Graph tool to create a plain vanilla pie chart.
2. Ungroup the chart completely (several nestings deep) until you have individual paths.
3. Select a wedge, run the script (a simple script is below), note the area.
4. Draw the corresponding arbitrary shape, run the script, note the area.
5. Divide the areas to arrive at a scale factor.
6. Scale the arbitrary shape accordingly.
//script start
var docRef=app.activeDocument;
var pathRef=docRef.selection[0];
var pathRefArea=pathRef.area;
//script end
A little elaboaration of the script could automatically scale the arbitrary shape to the same area as that of the pie chart slice, but doing the simple math should not be arduous for occasional need.
So, for example, suppose you wanted to conceptually compare the counts of three separate recycled items by depicting proportional heaps of each item: aluminum cans, plastic bottles, glass bottles. You could:
1. Store a graphic of a single can, a single plastic bottle, and a single glass bottle as Symbols.
2. Use the Symbolism tools (Sprayer, Sizer, Scruncher, Spinner, etc.) to draw the three heaps.
3. Use the procedure described above to determine scale factors for the three heaps.
The results could look like three similarly- but irregularly-shaped piles of cans, plastic bottles, and glass bottles, proportionally sized to suggest the relative counts of recycled items.
3. Re: how to make an odd shaped pie chartMikeGondek Apr 11, 2012 10:19 AM (in response to daymonic)
4. Re: how to make an odd shaped pie chartSteve Fairbairn Apr 11, 2012 11:45 AM (in response to MikeGondek)
Obviously this method will work as long as the original object is roughly pie-shaped.
But what if it's L-shaped or even just plain square? You're going to get into hellish trouble reckoning out the areas of the slices (like JET explains).
It's a bit like dividing seven potatoes equally between five people – usually the easiest way is to mash them.
5. Re: how to make an odd shaped pie chartLarry G. Schneider Apr 11, 2012 1:12 PM (in response to Steve Fairbairn)
Still with the Bangers&Mash, eh Steve. Can't get the Englis out of the boy.
6. Re: how to make an odd shaped pie chartSteve Fairbairn Apr 11, 2012 3:52 PM (in response to Larry G. Schneider)
Still with the Bangers&Mash, eh Steve.
First thing I go for when visiting the UK. Can't get decent bangers here.
As fot the spuds, have you guys (stateside) got another word for mashing?
7. Re: how to make an odd shaped pie chartLarry G. Schneider Apr 11, 2012 3:58 PM (in response to Steve Fairbairn)
Usually here referred to as mashed potatoes.
8. Re: how to make an odd shaped pie chartSteve Fairbairn Apr 11, 2012 5:23 PM (in response to Larry G. Schneider)
Usually here referred to as mashed potatoes.
So that's just about the same. How about bangers or don't you have them? And I don't mean wieners/frankfurters.
Proper bangers ares made from fat pork, breadcrumbs moistened with milk, pepper, salt and various herbs.
Sold uncooked (pale and limp) and they fatten up when fried so you have to ***** them beforehand so that the skins don't split. Fry until crisp on the outside.
The final result looks something like this (the gravy is optional):
9. Re: how to make an odd shaped pie charttromboniator Apr 11, 2012 9:10 PM (in response to Steve Fairbairn)
I think it sounds (and looks) excellent, but imagination fails me when I try to figure out how to ***** them. What did Nanny omit?
10. Re: how to make an odd shaped pie chartSteve Fairbairn Apr 12, 2012 2:15 AM (in response to tromboniator)
It appears that Nanny deleted the very innocent word for what you do with a fork to make little holes.
Sorry 'bout that :-)
11. Re: how to make an odd shaped pie chartajrunke03 Apr 12, 2012 6:14 AM (in response to tromboniator)
Ahahahaha. Best post ever.
12. Re: how to make an odd shaped pie chartdaymonic Apr 12, 2012 11:03 AM (in response to daymonic)
Hahahaha how the hell did we get into bangers and mash recipees!!!!!
If I could pull this back to my original question for a minute, I'm looking for a method which can split more uneven shapes, the first one I'm working on is to relect differnt stats about wood recycling, and I want to split this odd shaped log into chunks to reflect the stats.
I did think about using the pie chart tool like Mike suggested, but that would mean the bits on the left and right have a much lower surface area than the ones on the top and bottom.
Is there no way to eithr tweak a standard pie so its shape fits this one, or to divide this up according to percentages of its surface area?
I'd really like to know as this is the only image I have which is remotely simlar to standard pies.
FYI pie and mash tops bangers and mash any day and gravy is NEVER optional!!!!!!
13. Re: how to make an odd shaped pie chart[Jongware] Apr 12, 2012 2:30 PM (in response to daymonic)
After wrestling for about 2 hours with Illustrator's immensely frustratingly limited Javascript, I'm officially giving up on this.
I came this far:
1. Select the base object, and enter a series of values. Easy as Pie Chart, so far. Even drawing a proper pie on top of the selection -- to use as a base value -- is ... doable. Just.
2. you cannot get 'the area' of a symbol or compound object. So I (manually!) draw an outline copy on top of the original and used that.
3. you cannot 'intersect', 'minus back', or do any other pathfinder operation. So I copied Carlos' method of creating a Graphic Style for Minus Back.
4. you cannot Expand Appearance from a script, and you cannot measure the area of a live Minus Back'ed object.
There goes my idea, down the drain: calculate the deviation of the sliced-up object to the value required, adjust, and re-slice the object according to this new insight.
Instead I got an entirely new insight. Guess what it was.
14. Re: how to make an odd shaped pie chartSteve Fairbairn Apr 12, 2012 5:32 PM (in response to daymonic)
We got into mashed potatoes because the best way to recycle your log of firewood is to reduce it to sawdust and then regroup it.
JET's answer is probably next best but my brain doesn't work the same way as his so I'm sure I would never get a script like he suggests to work properly.
Mike's way is good too but you would need to fiddle with it if you want to get the centre vertices to match the centre of the annual rings. I reckon I would fake it and hope that no-one would notice (which they probably wouldn't if you did it well). It has something to do with positioning the centre of the (undistorted) pie chart on a point diametrically opposite the centre of the annual rings and then moving just the centre points back the the centre of the rings, but I don't know how to do it mathematically.
Or maybe Jongware has got something up his sleeve that he's not letting on about.
15. Re: how to make an odd shaped pie chartJETalmage Apr 12, 2012 8:06 PM (in response to daymonic)
16. Re: how to make an odd shaped pie chartCarlosCanto Apr 12, 2012 9:11 PM (in response to [Jongware])
[Jongware] wrote:
After wrestling for about 2 hours with Illustrator's immensely frustratingly limited Javascript, I'm officially giving up on this.
hahaha...sorry about that Jongware, I know, it's not funny...are you implying you can actually do stuff with ID scripting?
Instead I got an entirely new insight. Guess what it was.
#@%& Illustrator Scripting?
Message was edited by: CarlosCanto
17. Re: how to make an odd shaped pie chart[Jongware] Apr 13, 2012 1:49 AM (in response to CarlosCanto)
CarlosCanto wrote:
...are you implying you can actually do stuff with ID scripting?
I sure can. You'll be amazed, but ...
Instead I got an entirely new insight. Guess what it was.
#@%& Illustrator Scripting?
right! ... so you're going to have to use InDesign to use that forthcoming Amazing Script.
18. Re: how to make an odd shaped pie chartJacob Bugge Apr 13, 2012 3:28 AM (in response to daymonic)
In a stump chart case like this it would seem appropriate to use the pith as the starting point of the chart.
The following images show a relatively simple way of making a quite accurate division in connexion with a stump that has a strongly asymmetric shape with reaction wood.
Always keep a copy of the artwork at different stages.
I) shows the stump, the stroke/nofill annual rings and the pith as a group kept on top and (mostly) locked in the following steps, the stroked and filled (outer) shape of the stump being worked with.
II) shows a division aid in the form of a 360 (1 degrees) pie chart, made from a Polar grid with 0 Concentric Dividers and 360 Radial Dividers: the Radial Dividers are extended past the outer circle, and the pie pieces are formed by Pathfinder>Divide.
III) shows the division aid centred over the pith.
IV) shows the stump moved on top of the division aid, its fill covering the inner part.
V) shows the result of Object>Path>Divide Objects Below where the stump has cut the division aid.
VI) shows the result when the outlying superfluous parts of the division aid have been deleted.
Now the division aid consists of 360 closed paths, each spanning 1 degree, all starting/meeting at the pith. These should be Ungrouped.
At any time up to this point, the total stump area may be determined, for older versions the free Telegraphics PathArea Filter may be used (available at http://www.telegraphics.com.au/sw/browse/Filters).
Now it is easy to select a number of closed paths of the division aid and use the PathArea filter (or whatever) to determine the proportion of the total area (simple division), to adjust by adding/removing and/or undoing/redoing, and then to Pathfinder>Unite (or whatever it is called in the version in question) to create a piece of the pie, and finally to increase the Stroke Weight as desired.
VII) shows the result of creating the top piece of 11%.
VIII) shows the result of creating all the pieces (made clockwise one at a time), the three 11% pieces (the first one and the two last ones) chosen to be alike, thus showing the great difference(s) in angles for identical areas.
This procedure leads to a great number of Anchor Points in the bark; it is possible to get rid of them by scaling the pieces with the pith as the key object, placing the original stump path on top, and Object>Path>Divide Objects Below, then delete the outlying parts.
It is also possible to move the pieces apart, away from the pith, if there is a wish to hurt the stump (even more).
The accuracy is well within 0.1% of the total stump area for the least accurate pieces.
19. Re: how to make an odd shaped pie chartkrazykatykay Mar 10, 2015 4:29 PM (in response to daymonic)
OMG you potato heads, you had the right answer but you didn't know it. I have a MUCH easier answer that the math above:
1. Make your pie chart in illustrator. You can color your wedges as you would like in the final. (Lots of tutorials on making a pie chart, not covered here.)
2. THIS IS THE KEY THING: Ungroup the pie wedges.
3. Create the shape you want. You just really want the outline in the end. This is your mask. I find it helpful to give it a transparency value.
4. Place your mask over the pie chart. This is where transparency is helpful.
5. Now make the mask clear -- no color value.
6. Select pathfinder > divide. Since the pie chart is ungrouped, each wedge is divided based on the outline of your shape.
7. Delete the shape parts outside your shape.
Easy as pie. No math.


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Lime Zucchini Pineapple Bread
Over 25 years ago I created a quick bread called Lemon Zucchini Pineapple Bread. I posted the bread recipe on my website about a year ago and it was a real hit. Since limes are some of my favorite citrus fruits, I naturally thought it would be a great idea to substitute the lemon flavor with the lime.
With zucchinis growing like crazy in my little garden, I thought I would give my new quick bread idea a try… I grabbed my garden basket, a sharp knife and my camera and headed out to the garden. While picking my zucchinis I had to stop and check out the other plants in the vicinity.
Fresh picked zucchini.
Grape leaf. I just love the shape, color and its jagged edges.
Some of the first tomatoes of the year. These are the Sun Gold variety. Whenever I weed or water my garden I stop by and pop a few of these juicy tomatoes in my mouth. I also like to pick a handful for my lunch or for a snack while I am working at my desk.
Part of my little garden. I try to utilize as much space as possible. Lemon cucumbers share the same pot as edible nasturtiums. Winter squash, yellow zucchini and green zucchini share a small 3 by 8 foot planting strip. There's even mammoth sunflowers growing behind them in the strip. No space in my little garden goes underutilized. Plants have to learn to share space if they want to exist in my garden. I make it a point rotate my crops from year to year to ensure good soil health. Rotating crops means I will not put plants in the same place as they were planted last year. Zucchini squash might get planted where tomatoes used to reside the prior year and vice versa.
Fresh home grown zucchini ready to be picked. Later on that afternoon this zucchini ended up in my Lime Zucchini Pineapple Bread. Adding the fresh squeezed lime juice, brightly flavored lime zest and sweet crushed pineapple makes a delicious loaf of zucchini bread. It's light, moist and perfect for a quick breakfast or with a cup of coffee on break.
To prove that my recipe was a keeper, I had to test my new bread recipe on Bruce without telling him what was in it… First of all, the man claims to hate zucchini. He would not try it in a million years if I told him that there was zucchini in it. Unknown to him, I slip zucchini in many of the dishes that I prepare for him. Okay… I guess what he does not know won't hurt him. I look at it this way. I'm doing him a huge favor. He's eating his veggies without really knowing it.
After I pulled the loaves out of the oven and let them cool, I walked downstairs with a huge grin and popped a piece of the Lime Zucchini Pineapple Bread in his mouth as he relaxed on the couch. He looked back at me and told me that it tasted good. I then happily confessed to him that there was zucchini in it… Makes 2 fabulous loaves. Enjoy! Tessa
- 3 cups all purpose flour
- 1 1/4 cups sugar
- 4 1/2 tsp baking powder
- 1 tsp salt
- 4 eggs
- 2/3 cup canola oil
- 1 8 oz can crushed pineapple drained well
- 2 cups zucchini grated
- 1 Tbs lime zest
- 1 Tbs lime juice
Begin by preheating your oven to 350 degrees. Grab 2- 4″ X 8″ baking pans and grease well. In a medium sized bowl mix the flour, sugar, baking powder and salt. Mix well. In a separate bowl, whisk together the eggs, canola oil, pineapple, zucchini, lime juice and lime zest. Add wet ingredients to the dry ingredients. Mix until moistened. Do not over mix. This will look like a thick cake batter, and that is okay, it's supposed to be that way. Add the mixture to the two baking pans and bake for 1 hour or until done. Cool on wire racks then remove loaves from pans. Slice and serve!


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Sectoo--A Live Look at Gentoo
Why Make A Security Distro?
Live Linux CDs are popping up all over the place. Mainstream distributions like SimplyMEPIS let you try before you install, as does Ubuntu and Linspire. There are also specialized distributions like Knoppix and Dynebolic.
One Gentoo Linux-based distribution, called Sectoo, might also warrant a "live" look.
Anthony Rousseau, a native of France, created Sectoo so that penetration testers and consulting companies would have a toolbox designed to help them during their work.
"Another purpose may be for the network administrators who want to test their own network themselves and find security holes. White Hat Hackers can use it with the same purpose, and discover new vulnerabilities. And, anyone can take an old box, get the Sectoo Linux CD, and transform this box into an "out-of-the-box" intrusion detection system with Snort," Rousseau said. Check the list of network specific tools.
"I'm sure that other purposes can be found, let your imagination work!" he commented.
Rousseau wanted to make Sectoo Linux a lightweight system, in terms of minimal requirements. He said that 64MB or even 32MB of RAM should be enough to run Sectoo.
For a long time Rousseau liked Trinux and other "security related" distros. Unfortunately Trinux is no longer supported. Another problem was that he was always missing a needed tool or some of the tools just didn't work. "I also wanted to find a new challenge for myself and to learn some new things, explore different ways. That's what I try to do with Sectoo Linux, to be as much complete as possible. Since this is the very beginning of the story, there is still very much work to accomplish, but the challenge is very interesting."
Rousseau tried many distributions. He now uses Gentoo as his main OS, both for laptops and servers. It was natural for him to base Sectoo on Gentoo. Sectoo is not getting official support from Gentoo, although they are using their forum boards and bugzilla system. He said that this is quite sufficient, as the Gentoo forums are very reliable.
At the moment, Sectoo is only a "hobby among friends." The friends are not all that interested in making profits, but since they have some costs for hardware and test machines, all donations are certainly welcomed. He said that if Sectoo becomes a really big distro, the team might transform the "hobby" into a company, but this is not on the agenda, now.
The team has also set a priority of creating a "LiveUpdate" system for Sectoo. "We are thinking of a rsync system with a repository, just like Portage," Rousseau said. He also wanted to improve the graphical interface, make a better menu for Xfce, write all the manuals, and support their users. They are looking for someone who likes to write documentation.
Along with finding out about how Sectoo came to be and what the team had in mind for the future, I downloaded the distribution, burned it, then gave it brief whirl.
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nic wrote:What about 'exercise induced collapse' you can google it and find vids.
Hope you get an answer
Happened again today. --- now I wonder if it IS EXERCISE INDUCED COLLAPSE (EIC)! I took temp and as best as I could read the stupid mercury thermometer, it was about 103.5.
^^^ @ Nic -- I was going to send a PM but thought I'd say it publicly -- I think I was hasty in my previous discounting of this theory - I apologize -- I have kept it in the back of my mind, tho ...
When it happened again today around noon and 74 degrees, I looked up EIC again and damned if the 2nd video in this lady's series on her border collie didn't look identical to Ruby (minus the total collapse at the end) - still watching the other vids but wanted to post this..... I'm waiting for confirmation from my vet to create an 'open appointment' on a warm-ish day to walk in, throw the ball and monitor what happens.
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I am good at very few things. Very few things, anyway, that one can get paid for. I can be charming. I have a relatively nice singing voice, and have no problem telling humorous tales or singing ditties for an audience. I can sketch pleasant renderings of people or landscapes. I am a consummate doodler. I can cook, sort of, and I can bake (usually). Oh, and I can write.
Basically, I would be a good hostess. I am excellent wife material. Add a few harp lessons, and I would have been in high demand in the nineteenth century.
I am, however, helpless when it comes to office work. I am qualified only to be an editor or a copyeditor, and I hate editing and copyediting. Above and beyond my hatred of editing, I deeply, deeply loathe offices. The fluorescent lighting, the bad coffee, the squeaking door of the ladies' room—I'm breaking out in hives even thinking about it. I find nothing as depressing as sitting in a cubicle. I know, I know, it's no one's idea of heaven. And I don't want to sound like a big ol' crybaby, but that's exactly what I am. I really can't do it. I spent almost every day at my last job weeping at my desk or sniffling in the bathroom stall or choking back tears on my way to the bad Thai place down the street. I racked up sick days and came in late and "worked from home" and took long lunches and missed deadlines and practically begged them to fire me. Finally I managed to get out by first getting myself knocked up and then developing an agonizing array of repetitive stress injuries. It's not a strategy I would recommend.
Anyway, then I had this kid, and decided, for lack of any better ideas, to stay at home. This is a life that works for me and makes me happy; I would not go back to office life for anything. My time is my own (when it's not hijacked by Henry's latest Star Wars fantasy) and when the child is away or asleep I can do some freelance writing, and work on Big Secret Projects that might someday result in some money.
That said, I'm not making enough money—we're not making enough money—and changes have to be made.
For a time I seriously contemplated quitting the blog, as it was a drain on my free time, which is the only time I have to generate any sort of income. Then I realized how much this site means to me. Quitting wasn't –and isn't—an option. But because I have to prioritize the projects that pay (alliteration!), Finslippy often falls by the wayside, and then I get grumpy emails from you. And you know I don't ever want to see you grumpy.
All of this is my incredibly roundabout way of saying that I am going to make more of a commitment to Finslippy in the coming months, and along with this increased commitment, you will see an increased number of ads. I will try not to make them overly obtrusive, but I know that no matter what, some of you will find them so. It's not possible to make everyone happy. And the bottom line is, there's nothing better than getting paid to do something you love.
I hope my ads don't make you too grumpy. But then, if your grumpiness is all I have to suffer in order to keep basic cable, then I'll have to live with it.


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The new and improved Ben Affleck has a soft spot in his moviemaker heart for the Toronto International Film Festival.
In his directorial debut, he signalled a refreshed approach with his gritty 2007 detective flick Gone Baby Gone, which featured Amy Ryan's Oscar nominated supporting actress performance.
For his next effort, Affleck upped the ante considerably by co-starring and directing the well-received 2010 crime thriller The Town, which had its premiere at the Toronto festival and went on to earn Jeremy Renner a supporting actor Academy Award nomination.
The 40-year-old Affleck happily returns to the 2012 edition of the festival with Argo, which gets its world premiere Sept. 7 and opens in theatres Oct. 12.
Time will tell if his latest production will receive Oscar love, but most pundits agree the movie seems to be headed there.
Directed by and starring Affleck, Argo chronicles the events surrounding the 1979 Iranian hostage-taking dilemma in which six American Embassy employees managed to hide out at the home of Canadian Ambassador Ken Taylor (Victor Garber), then sneak out of the country as 52 of their colleagues were being held at the U.S. embassy.
As history tells us, the 52 were eventually released after 444 days, but the story behind the six escapees wasn't revealed until the information became declassified in 1997.
That's the crux of Affleck's movie yarn, which is part thriller, part fiction-based-on-fact ticking-clock drama and part self-aware comedy skewering, yes, Hollywood. How so?
Affleck portrays real-life CIA operative Tony Mendez, who formulated the plan to rescue the six Americans by pretending they were part of a Canadian sci-fi movie crew scouting locations in Iran. The name of the movie: Argo.
Besides the tense rescue mission, the film details, with insider wit, how Mendez set up a pretend Hollywood production company to give credence to his deception.
Indeed, it's a different thematic world than his crime stories Gone Baby Gone and The Town. In fact, the only thing the latest Affleck film has in common with his previous projects is a superb cast.
Alan Arkin plays old-school Hollywood producer Lester Siegel, who delivers many of the caustic lines in the process of setting up the fake Argo production. John Goodman is movie makeup man John Chambers, who was, indeed a bona fide CIA freelancer, and Mendez's guide into the film industry.
Breaking Bad's Bryan Cranston manages some scene-stealing of his own as Mendez's immediate CIA boss, who seems to be as cynical as he is intelligent.
In fact, Cranston juggled a few things just so he could do Argo because he was so impressed with Affleck's Gone Baby Gone and The Town.
As it turns out, Cranston wasn't disappointed. In the end, he was impressed with the film results and Affleck's effortless ability to work efficiently on both sides of the camera.
"I really think he's going to be the next Clint Eastwood," says Cranston, who has directed and starred in lots of Breaking Bad episodes. "He was always in total control of what was going on, and that really was something to observe."
It's anything but a secret formula. Affleck learned on The Town that the double duty can be taxing if you haven't laid out precise procedures for each day. "Always be prepared," says Affleck.
Coincidence or not, he had just wrapped The Town when he happened upon Chris Terrio's screenplay for Argo, which is based on the Mendez memoir The Master of Disguise and a Wired magazine piece.
The actor-director was hooked immediately, and soon cut a deal with partners George Clooney and Grant Heslov, who held the movie rights.
After casting fell into place, problematic locations were resolved, as well. For the chaotic Tehran sequences, Affleck filmed exteriors in and around Istanbul, including pivotal moments when the Islamic student revolutionaries storm the U.S. Embassy.
His movie star status came in handy, too. Thanks to his Jack Ryan role in 2002′s The Sum of All Fears, he had a relationship with CIA officials, and managed to parlay that into very rare permission to film scenes at the agency's Langley, Va., headquarters.
All things considered, the movie turned out as positive as the CIA mission it defines.
What Affleck says that he hoped to present — and what he liked about Terrio's script in the first place — is a film that avoids lecturing moviegoers.
"It was clearly written by somebody who had similar taste to mine, which errs on the side away from telling the audience what to think, and allows it to make its own determinations and insights," Affleck tells the Los Angeles Times.
As for his career rejuvenation, he keeps it simple. "I don't know what this is, but I like it."
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By Matthew Heimer
The shaky condition of state-employee retirement funds has been a simmering concern for decades now, as pension commitments made to state workers—some reasonable, some rash—threaten to become impossible to sustain. A report this summer by the Pew Center for the States said that the gap between states' pension promises and the money set aside to pay those bills had reached $1.38 trillion. This week, the investment research firm Morningstar released a pension nerd's companion to the Pew piece, a state-by-state breakdown, aptly dubbed The State of State Pension Plans: A Deep Dive Into Shortfalls and Surpluses, that makes the pension controversy personal by putting a per-capita price tag on it.
The report breaks down pension funding and shortages not only by state, but by individual pension plans under each state's umbrella. So after learning that Illinois (my home state, sigh) is in the worst shape of any state, with only 43.4% of its obligations covered by cash on hand as of 2011, you could discover that the state's General Assembly Retirement System, which covers retirement for various state lawmakers, is in even worse shape, at 21.2% funded. (Morningstar considers a 70% funding level to be "fiscally sound"; in all, 21 states fall below that threshold.)
But perhaps the most compelling stat in the report is what Morningstar calls "UAAL per capita"—which essentially represents how much money every person in a given state would have to kick in to make up their state's pension gap. My wife and I (and all of our neighbors) would each have to write a check for $6,505 to make up Illinois's shortfall, but things could be worse: In Alaska, where there's a much smaller population to bear the cost, the per capita tab is $10,235.
(Morningstar is not currently making the entire report available online, but Governing magazine's By The Numbers blog has done a helpful breakdown of the key statistics here.)
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(HOUSTON) – A 10-count federal indictment charging five Kenyan nationals with conspiracy to commit marriage fraud, marriage fraud and visa fraud has been unsealed following their arrests, United States Attorney José Angel Moreno announced today along with Peter S. Hargraves, Special Agent in Charge of the Diplomatic Security Service's (DSS) Houston Field Office.
The indictment, returned by a Houston grand jury under seal on Nov. 17, 2010, charges Houston area residents Andrew Mitema, 31, Herman Ogoti, 50, Alfonso Ongaga, 33, Andrew Mokoro, 32, and Rebmann Ongaga, 30, with conspiring to commit marriage fraud for the purpose of evading the immigration laws of the United States beginning in January 2001, marriage fraud and benefit/visa fraud as a result of each having conspired together to recruit and pay United States citizens to enter into fraudulent marriages with each of them for the purpose of receiving lawful permanent resident status or citizenship.
All five defendants were arrested Friday by special agents of the Department of State – DSS who conducted the investigation leading to the indictment. All five defendants appeared in federal court today before U.S. Magistrate Judge Frances Stacy and have been ordered to remain in custody pending a detention hearing set for Wednesday, Nov. 24, 2010, at 10:00 a.m.
According to allegations in the indictment, before entering the United States, each of the defendants applied for student visas. Four of the defendants were granted student visas and used the visa to enter the United States, but Rebmann Ongaga was refused a student visa. After his student visa was denied, Rebmann Ongaga's married a recruited United States citizen in Kenya and later entered the United States with a spouse visa. The indictment further alleges that the other four defendants, after entering the United States, married recruited American citizens to enter into fraudulent marriages in exchange for cash to evade the immigration laws of the United States. All five of the Kenyan nationals paid the recruited United States citizens approximately $5,000 to enter into the fraudulent marriages, according to the indictment. As part of the conspiracy, the indictment further alleges the defendants recruited family members of the United States citizens to marry other Kenyan nationals.
"The U.S. visa is one of the most coveted travel documents in the world, and foreign nationals who acquire visas fraudulently to enter the United States may do so in order to carry out criminal activities, including terrorism," said Hargraves. "This case demonstrates Diplomatic Security's commitment to investigating these crimes and helping bring them to justice."
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Last August, I was doing a radio show with Brian Ward and watching a news feed on my iPad as we were broadcasting. I was stunned to see, coming over the wire, the news that the Miss World contest had just finished up in Inner Mongolia, and Miss China had won. The result was considered a dubious, home town decision. But what astonished me was that the pageant had gotten so little coverage in the U.S. that it sneaked up on me: I didn't even realize it was going on until it was over. I vowed not to let our readers down again!
So I checked out Miss Universe, the other big international beauty pageant, and found that it will take place on December 19 at Planet Hollywood in Las Vegas. This time, I will keep our readers up to date on all the twists and turns of the competition!
It is too early for betting odds to take shape, but lots of national pageants have been completed and many contestants have been named. The pageant is using Facebook to communicate with its fans, and if you go here, they have posted photos and some basic information about the first 16 contestants. They will add more photos in the weeks leading up to the pageant's finale. You have to be careful about drawing conclusions from a single photograph, but the first 16 contenders look like a strong group. Australia has become a pageant hotbed, and this year's Aussie, Renae Ayris, exemplifies the trend. Click to enlarge:
Mexico has been another frequent source of pageant champions. This year's Miss Mexico, Karina Gonzalez, has 451 Facebook likes so far:
Miss Ecuador has gotten a lot of attention from Facebook fans, but I'm not sure I am a believer:
I would say that one favorite has emerged clearly from the first batch of 16, and 785 Facebook likers agree: Miss Peru is outstanding. No surprise there; Scott's wife is from Peru, too. But Miss Peru, Nicole Faveron, could be seen as a professional competing against amateurs. She is a Maybelline model and is the first Peruvian to sign with Ford Models:
The Miss Universe pageant doesn't have a talent competition; when it comes to talent, you're looking at it. So in a sense, Miss Universe is the pageant for purists. We will conclude with a parting shot, so to speak, of Miss Faveron:
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Conventional wisdom seems to be the Raiders ought to rip the bandage off the wound and be done with it.
Dump JaMarcus Russell, as of yesterday, when he apparently arrived at the Palms in Las Vegas to begin serious preparation for an offseason of conditioning and work study.
Before even getting into the fact that what goes on in Vegas surely doesn't stay in Vegas, here are some of the thoughts about why the Raiders should end it with Russell:
— It's better to admit the mistake now than to carry it in to 2010.
— It would placate a dwindling fan base which boos at the very sight of him. Russell's face showed up on the big screen as he sat courtside at the Celtics-Warriors game and was booed. Judging from a number of e-mails, there are some fans who have no intention of renewing their season tickets if he's still on the team.
— It would send a message that slackers aren't tolererated _ regardless of their status in the draft or what they've been paid.
It's so sensible. So logical. It just feels right.
It's also off-the-charts wrong.
Let's get into the economics, the cold numbers which rule just about everything. If the figures presented by the National Football Post's Andrew Brandt are correct, and being that he's a former NFL exec I'm assuming he's seen the contract and understands it better than I ever could, the Raiders have guaranteed $3 million of a $9.45 million salary for 2010.
They're going to pay that amount if they cut him or not. Salaries are paid through 17 weeks of the season, starting in Week 1. The Raiders can wait all the way up to the final cut to determine whether they want to pay out the rest of the $6.45 million.
Keep in mind the financial future is a little cloudy with no collective bargaining agreement. There may or may not be a salary cap, and if there is not, there has been talk of penalties for teams that dump huge salaries.
Keeping Russell on the roster at present won't cost them a dime. They'd simply be dumping him out of anger for his disinterest and lack of production.
The alternative is to put it in the most blunt terms possible to Russell that he is on notice. When Tom Cable benched Russell, it was with the blessing of Al Davis. Surely he sees his investment is in trouble. Davis should demand Russell hire a personal trainer and drop a significant amount of weight. He weighed in at the NFL scouting combine at 265 but was 256 at his LSU workout two weeks later. That's a good place to start.
Hit the film room hard. Back away from the party scene and nightlife. In other words, grow up and be an NFL quarterback.
If Russell fails to heed the warning, he can always be cut before the regular season begins. And frankly, having him around with minimal reps and then dumping him right before the eyes of his teammates as the regular season approaches would send a better message throughout the locker room than doing it now when everyone has gone their separate ways.
The flip side is what if Russell finally gets it? As bad as those two turnovers were against the Ravens, didn't anybody notice Russell looked better dropping back and throwing on target than at any time this season?
It's not like Russell got any help from the running game or the Raiders inexperienced crew of wide receivers while he was the starter. It didn't help that Chaz Schilens, the one wideout he connected with in camp, was lost with a broken foot and didn't return to midseason.
Yes, the Vegas trip looks bad given that Russell was "excused" from the final team meeting. Richard Seymour was excused also, and if I remember correctly, neither Nnamdi Asomugha or Shane Lechler were around when the Raiders broke up after last season's finale.
It's a different perception with Russell because he's not an established player and he doesn't appear to have much support in the locker room. You'd rather have him upright and attentive, taking in everything there was to say about how the Raiders will attack next season.
But near as I can tell, he wasn't actually in Vegas at the time of the meeting and he's free to do as he wishes once the season is over. He's an adult, if not exactly a mature adult. Rest assured Russell isn't the only Raider or NFL player in Las Vegas at the moment.
This isn't to be construed as a defense of Russell or a belief that he'll attain the "greatness" Al Davis has predicted for him.
He looks to be cruising his Rolls Royce down the same road as Ryan Leaf, but not allowing him a chance to take one of the last exits with nothing financial at stake until September doesn't make any sense.


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Keeping the Farm in the Family
It is not only slow food specialists and vegans from away who are at the forefront of the resurrection of farming on the South Fork, but also some of the "founding children," descendants of the earliest European settlers, many of whom have been farmers for generations.
Sam Lester III is such a person. Farming land his ancestor Jeremiah Lester bought in 1851 from Hervey Dayton, part of a huge tract that once straddled Further Lane and Skimhampton Road in East Hampton, Mr. Lester started at the age of 5 with a self-serve apple stand and a can people could put their money in. He charged $5 a bag.
In his middle and high school years, it became a full-scale produce stand with tomatoes, cucumbers, string beans, peppers, beets, carrots, eggplants, watermelons, and canteloupe. He would work at the stand on weekends and after school in the fall and all summer.
After attending college at Johnson and Wales in Rhode Island, where he studied business, Mr. Lester went to work for his father, Sam Lester Jr., a builder who retired recently from the other family business, construction, to farm land with his wife, Maura Lester, in Vermont.
Last year Sam III tried his hand at his grandmother Rose Lester's recipe for beach plum jelly, and decided it was good enough to sell at the farm stand. That marked the beginning of the Pantigo Farm Company, which he started with his girlfriend and business partner, Hillary Levine. Over the winter they went to markets and fairs all over Suffolk County to see how other farmers were running their businesses.
They started using vineyard grapes and now have an arrangement to use the grapes local vintners don't need to make cabernet franc, chardonnay, and merlot jellies. The farm stand has a Web site as well, pantigofarm.com, and can be found on Facebook as Pantigo Farm Co.
Last fall, Mr. Lester and Ms. Levine made a cranberry sauce from hand-picked Amagansett cranberries, cooking it down with port wine. The Art of Eating bought some and served it at its slow food event. "Once I saw the demand, there was no stopping me," he said recently. "When the demand really hit me was when I was doing the wine jellies. I felt confident within my own game," he said.
Now he and Ms. Levine make beach plum barbecue sauce, garden relish, strawberry rhubarb jelly, and a host of other jams, jellies, and salsas. In addition to the few acres behind their farm stand, on which they have fruit trees, vegetable crops, including horseradish, different types of tomatoes, berries — elderberries, wineberries, gooseberries, black and red currants, blackberries — and beehives, Mr. Lester farms another five acres on Bistrian land on Spring Close Highway, where he is about to plant fall crops. He uses no pesticides or herbicides on any of his crops, and even does his own weeding.
Ms. Levine, who grew up in Swampscott, Mass., learned to bake and can from her mother and she helps with the jams and also bakes bread, wild cranberry and orange loaf, and blueberry-zucchini bread, among other delicacies. Her title includes manager.
On Aug. 1, when they move the operation into the first house on the right on Skimhampton Road, they plan to have a full market that will extend the season until December. "People like to buy jellies and jams as Christmas gifts," Mr. Lester said. He is hoping his father will sell him the house one day, which would help him continue the family's farming and cooking legacy.
Mr. Lester promised a beach plum ice cream that he plans to sell through the end of August. "Every day is a new step forward," he said. "When I can get a little breathing room by being able to put out 400 jars instead of 40, it'll allow my brain to come up with some more wacky stuff."
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If members of Congress want to be there to greet President Obama as he walks down the aisle of the House chamber for his State of the Union address tonight, they're going to have to save their seats now.
There are currently four members holding their aisle seats for the State of the Union address later today, more than nine hours before the speech is scheduled to take place.
Those members (at the moment): Reps. Al Green (D-TX), Sanford Bishop (D-GA), Sheila Jackson Lee (D-TX), and Barbara Lee (D-CA).
But while Rep. Eliot Engel (D-NY) said on MSNBC Tuesday that members can just leave items in a chair and claim it later, according to a note sent to members from the speaker's office this morning, if a member wants the seat, they have to stay in it the entire time.
"Members are requested to be on the floor and seated no later than 8:25 p.m.," a note from the speaker's office to members read. "As has been the practice in the past, Members will not be allowed to reserve seats prior to the joint session by placement of placards or personal items. Chamber Security may remove these items from the seats. Members may reserve their seats only by physical presence following the security sweep of the Chamber."
There are a number of seats that currently have bags and coats on them in an effort to save them for the address later. It's unclear if Chamber Security will, in fact, enforce this policy.


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COLUMBUS - The West Virginia Wicked (9-10-2) 18U softball team had a late season surge
COLUMBUS - The West Virginia Wicked (9-10-2) 18U softball team had a late season surge that had them winning their region and advancing to the USSSA fast pitch Midwest sanctioned World Series in Columbus Ohio last weekend.
The tournament featured teams from the United States and Canada.
The girls came out of the gates on fire and won their first three tournament games. They ran into tough pitching from Kentucky and Ohio based teams that eventually kept them from making a deeper run.
The Wicked got good piching from Reese Gandee, Dusti Fisher and Karly Fitzsimmons throughout the season and post season.
In game one the girls faced an Illinois based squad and won 18-5 on the strength of Ali Cunningham and Ryne Hill's inside the park home runs
Hill went 4-for-5 with three RBIs. Ashley Mellinger went 3-for-5 with two RBIs, Karly Fizsimmons went 3-for-5, Allie Cunningham went 2-for-5 1 RBI, Abby Brannon went 3-for-5 with an RBI and a triple and Reese Gandee went 2-for-4 with a double.
Game two found the girls facing an Ohio based team. The Wicked were victorious 8-0. Catcher Ashley Mellinger led the way offensively. Mellinger went 3-for-3 with an RBI and a homerun.
She also hit one through the fence that was ruled a ground rule double. Allie Cunningham went 2-for-2 with an RBI and a triple.
The girls faced an Indiana based team in game three. The Wicked won a tight one 4-2. Ashley Mellinger went 2-for-3 with an RBI and two Doubles, Abby Brannon went 2-for-3 with a double and Sapphire Parsons went 2-for-2.
In game four the Wicked took a 9-0 thumping and had trouble getting anything consistent going on offense. Allie Cunningham went 1-for-2 with a double. Kayla Ford went 1-for-2 and Sapphire Parsons went 1-for-2.
Game five was the end of the road for the girls as they fell to a good Ohio based team 4-2 (different team than game two). Allie Cunningham went 2-for-4, Ryne Hill went 3-for-4 with two doubles and Ashley Mellinger went 3-for-3.
"If these girls hit next spring like they have the last two weeks I really believe they can make a serious run for Ripley High School," said head coach David Gandee.
Reese Gandee (pitcher), Ali Cunningham (outfield)Ashley Mellinger (catcher) and Ryne Hill (third base, outfield) each earned individual game MVPs for their work on the field.
Coach Gandee and CoachDoug Vannest spoke proudly of the effort the team gave them this summer.
"It was an honor working with them I just want to thank the team and everyone who helped us out for all of their hard work," said coach Vannest.


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Cocaine Is A Hellava Drug!Sunday, August 18th, 2013
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Find out what actually caused the 2008 crash. See why the "war on drugs" is nothing more than a scam. In the 9 minute clip above on the Keiser Report, you will see the connection between The Federal Reserve Bank, Wall Street, and Cocaine. Don't miss out on this one. The information is unfortunately enlightening!


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Lezley Saar:
Paintings from the Rap Series
Gallery Talk:
October 16-January 4, 2002
Eve, 2000
Offered in cooperation with the Bronx Museum of the Arts exhibition One Planet Under a Groove: Hip Hop and Contemporary Art in acknowledgement of their 30th Anniversary Year.
Lezley Saar considers today's rap stars on par with Africa's legacy of griots, the oral storytellers who preserved tribal heritage in the absence of written languages. These portraits offer compassionate interpretations of particular rappers' personalities, yet represent neither African-Americans nor the rap genre. Though only seven paintings are presented here, Saars series includes Southern rappers Ghetto Twinz, Gangsta Boo, Juvenile and Yukmouth, East Coast rappers Lil' Kim and Eve, West Coast rappers Tupac Shakur and Snoop Dogg and Cleveland natives Bone Thugs-n-Harmony for their tough reality-based poetry and innovative tunes. The painting Rapper's Delight, which portrays various rappers, borrows its title from the Sugarhill Gang song that first popularized rap. Self-described thugs and dimes (independent women), such rappers are mostly associated with Gangsta rap, a subset of the rap genre.
Gangsta raps' raw power, poetic language play, polyphonic musical structure and running commentary concerning life's every day trials have intrigued Saar since its inception in the early-1980s. Rap is sometimes a scapegoat for youth violence. However, it would be more apt to compare its role to that of 1970s folk songs, whose messages of peace were deemed threatening, and even unpatriotic, when viewed as disrespectful of those serving in Vietnam. Not surprisingly, Saar deejayed as a member of the Souls of Black Folk Collective, while studying broadcasting in the early 1970s.
Saar is best known for painting on such diverse surfaces as books, texts, fabrics and restretched thrift-store paintings. Here, Saar transforms album covers, money, gold lamé and traditional African fabrics into canvases. Each background evokes a different attitude. Gold lamé and images of fantasy vacations characterize glamour's allure. Johnny Mathis albums contrast Yukmouth with an earlier era's musical legend. Cheesecake poses from 1950s' record albums offer historical antecedents for today's sexy chanteuses. Curious objects are adhered to several paintings. Wigs evoke Lil' Kim's evolving persona, boxing gloves reflect the Ghetto Twinz's struggles and a skull recall death's proximity. Gold chains and jewels express society's stress on status, an Erkel doll with the not symbol painted over it belies this nerdy television icon's popularity and graffiti graphics link rap lyrics to graffiti motifs
According to the Nation magazine, hip-hop is not only the lifeblood of the American music industry, but it enjoys the most racially and economically diverse audience of any popular genre. Almost ten industry magazines are dedicated to hip-hop music and culture, of which rap music is a subset. Just as poetry is not always responsive to literal interpretations, rap lyrics are often ironic or satirical, sometimes bordering on the ridiculous, which is why rap is ripe for misinterpretation. Thus, rap is often the focus of cultural inquiry. One Planet Under a Groove: Hip Hop and Contemporary Art is currently on view at the Bronx Museum of the Arts. Seattle's Experience Music Project has a permanent hip hop display and roots, rhymes + rage: the hip-hop story, organized by Cleveland's Rock and Roll Hall of Fame and Museum, traveled to the Brooklyn Museum of Art last fall. Last year, both Oberlin College and the University of Wisconsin held conferences to explore hip-hop as a force for social change. The Prison Moratorium Project's No More Prisons hip-hop tour hit 40 cities this year.
Sue Spaid
Lehman College Art Gallery
Bedford Park Blvd. West Bronx, New York 10468
(718) 960-8731
Ghetto Twinz, 1999


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Wolf Hunting Foes Will Be At T-Wolves Home Opener
MINNEAPOLIS (AP) - A group leading the opposition to wolf hunting and trapping in Minnesota will have a special presence at Target Center when the Minnesota Timberwolves host the Orlando Magic in their home opener.
Howling for Wolves has been designated the Timberwolves' "nonprofit of the game" for Wednesday night's matchup. The group's supporters will sit in special sections, and a 30-second public service announcement will encourage fans to visit the group's booth and sign a petition to stop the upcoming wolf season, which begins Nov. 9.
It costs $2,000 to get designated a Timberwolves nonprofit of the game. Benefits include 100 tickets. Timberwolves spokesman Brad Ruiter says a wide variety of groups have signed up to do it over the years, and it does not constitute a team endorsement of their views.


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Here is a thread for emerging Disney actress Dove Cameron. Dove Cameron was born January 14, 1996, and is 17 at the time of this posting but turning 18 soon!
Dove is an American actress who is best known for her role in The Mentalist and the Disney Channel Original Series Liv and Maddie. She will appear in the Disney Channel Original Movie Cloud 9.
This starlet is a major fox! I mean 17 and already a ton of bikini photos, gotta love her that! She also manages to be very elegant and sexy while retaining her cute innocence as well...unlike many 17 year old Disney girls. Hopefully she will maintain it.
At any rate, the count down to January 14 begins!
Dove Cameron - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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A purchased policy that pays a fixed amount of benefits every year -- although most annuities actually pay monthly -- for the life of the person who is entitled to those benefits. In a simple life annuity, when the person receiving the annuity dies, the benefits stop; there is no final lump sum payment and no provision to pay benefits to a spouse or other survivor. A continuous annuity pays monthly installments for the life of the retired worker, and also provides a smaller continuing annuity for the worker's spouse or other survivor after the worker's death. A joint and survivor annuity pays monthly benefits as long as the retired worker is alive, and then continues to pay the worker's spouse for life.


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World's First All-Diamond Ring Will Set You Back $68 Million
Yes, there is now a ring made entirely out of a single diamond. Conceived by Swiss jeweler Shawish, the 150-carat diamond ring was cut into shape using laser technology. But don't pull out your checkbook just yet– Shawish calls this one of a kind ring the "ultimate treasure" and at $68 million, it comes with the 'ultimate' price tag as well.
Here's the promotional video, which is probably the closest us mere mortals will ever come to this ring.
Likely reserved for billionaires and/or the bride of Scrooge McDuck, the woman who is lucky enough to wear this ring surely needs her fingers insured. Whoever buys it for her may also want to really consider if the relationship is worth $68 million. That said, if the diamond ring doesn't fit, don't ask us how they're going to re-size it.
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SHOREHAM — Local lawmakers at Monday's Legislative Breakfast at the Shoreham Congregational Church shared details the fiscal year 2016 state budget of $1.46 billion.
Rep. Diane Lanpher, D-Vergennes, a member of the House Appropriations Committee explained what was a difficult process of closing a $113 million revenue shortfall. The committee ultimately recommended $52.8 million in long-term cuts, $23.8 million in one-time cuts and revenues, $35 million in new fees and taxes, and $1.7 million in earnings from renting prison beds to the federal government.
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As the Senate takes up the House passed education bill, H.361, the goal in the legislation is to take small steps toward progress, allow for local control and not threaten schools or communities with repercussions that cause undue hardship. The legislation does this, ironically, by being purposely imprecise. But it's that imprecision that critics have attacked.
MIDDLEBURY — Candidates running for the two Addison-I seats, the Vermont House district that represents Middlebury, have been invited to take part in a forum on Tuesday, Sept. 23, at Middlebury's Town Hall Theater. The forum will begin at 7 p.m. and run to about 8:30 p.m., allowing time for the audience to ask questions of the candidates and time to visit with the candidates after the forum.
Like many of my fellow Middlebury residents, I am interested in supporting the best ideas and in encouraging the most well motivated people to work on behalf of Middlebury and Vermont. Recently I've encountered a fresh voice among us, someone who is not afraid of hard work and who has no more patience with the same old tired "politics as usual" than I do. I think that you will want to remember his name; it is Calvin McEathron.
As election season ramps up, I want to urge voters to fully evaluate their options before checking a box on Nov. 4. Here in Vermont, we have one of the oldest legislatures in the country and as a young citizen I believe it's time to bring a fresh perspective to the statehouse. While age and experience can often define a successful politician, a prolonged stay in any job can stifle new ideas or solutions to reoccurring problems.
Please elect Amy Sheldon to Vermont state Legislature. She will provide a strong voice for Middlebury voters in Montpelier toward progress in health care, affordable housing, environmental stewardship and economic justice.
Amy knows state bureaucracy in her capacity as a natural resource professional. She brings vision through her experience in town planning. We are fortunate to have her as one of many candidates running for this office.
Laura Asermily
I am writing in support of Amy Sheldon as one of Middlebury's representatives in the Vermont House. I have known Amy for nearly 12 years and have always been impressed by her dedication and commitment to our community. From her early efforts as the executive director of the Middlebury Area Land Trust (MALT), founding the Trail Around Middlebury (TAM), to over a decade of service on our planning commission, Amy has helped shape our community in a way that makes it more accessible and sustainable for all.
Donna Donahue is a calm, insightful, organized, thoughtful and engaging leader who will do a great job representing the town of Middlebury in Montpelier. Donna has a unique ability to listen carefully to ideas and concerns, to understand business, individual and community needs and then to drive solutions that accomplish the desired results. Donna leads to positive results, she does not direct the results.
MIDDLEBURY — A primary runoff will be required to whittle down the Democrat candidates vying in the Addison-1 House district this November, while the county's two incumbent state senators face no challengers in their re-election bids.
That's just part of the 2014 election picture, which became clearer this week following the June 12 filing deadline for candidates vying for statewide offices as well as Vermont House and Senate seat and county offices.
It is good news to learn that Fred Baser is running as a Republican for representative from Bristol, Monkton, Lincoln and Starksboro.
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Westside Mobile Home Park at 8393 U.S. 51 N. in Millington has sold for $3.3 million. Jason W. Hutchison and Angela B. Hutchison, doing business as Trio Properties, purchased the 36.3-acre site in a July 1 warranty deed from Forbess Properties, a partnership between Robert A. Forbess and Michael E. Forbess.
Developed in 1969, the Class C park is on the west side of U.S. 51 between Wilkinsville Road to the north and Cuba Millington Road to the south. The Shelby County Assessor of Property's 2013 appraisal is $1.2 million.
The buyers filed two loans in conjunction with the purchase: a $2.5 million trust deed through InSouth Bank that matures in July 2018 and a $2.3 million trust deed through Forbess Properties that does not list a maturity date.
Forbess Properties bought the property in 1996 for $1.7 million.
Source: The Daily News Online & Chandler Reports
– Daily News staff
Early voting in advance of the July 16 election day in the six suburban towns and cities in Shelby County topped 3,500 through Saturday as the early voting period moves into the home stretch.
Voting on the municipal school districts referendum questions opened Saturday at sites in Germantown, Collierville and Bartlett resulting in the largest daily turnout since the early voting period opened June 26.
A total of 2,084 citizens in the suburbs voted Saturday for an overall total for the period of 3,670.
The early voting site at Collierville Church of Christ had 780 early voters followed by 725 at New Bethel Baptist Church in Germantown and 577 at Bethel Church in Bartlett. Two citizens voted early at Downtown Election Commission headquarters, 157 Poplar Ave.
Voters from any of the six suburban towns and cities can vote at any of the locations through Thursday, which is the last day of the early voting period.
– Bill Dries
With demolition winding down, Methodist University Hospital is poised to begin construction of a $33.5 million expansion and renovation of its emergency department.
The expanded emergency department will add 93,000 square feet of new space and 6,200 square feet of renovated space. Once complete, the expanded emergency department will add 16 patient treatment areas, bringing the total to 54.
As part of the renovation process, the main entrance to the hospital will be temporarily relocated from its current location off of Eastmoreland Avenue to off of Bellevue Boulevard.
A new circle drive is being created off of Bellevue to allow vehicle drop-off access during construction. Pedestrian access to the new entry will be available from the marked walkway along Bellevue. The entry point to the marked walkway is at the corner of Eastmoreland and Bellevue.
Entry to the existing emergency department on Eastmoreland will remain unchanged.
– Jennifer Johnson Backer
Wells Fargo is holding a free Home Preservation Workshop in Memphis for troubled homeowners.
Wells Fargo has invited 1,250 mortgage customers to the free workshop, which will be held Thursday, July 11, from 9 a.m. to 7 p.m., at the Memphis Cook Convention Center. About 75 Wells Fargo home preservation specialists will be on hand to answer questions, make alternative arrangements and offer help where possible to any homeowner whose mortgage is linked to Wells. That would include people who have mortgages through Wells Fargo Home Mortgage, Wachovia Mortgage, Wells Fargo Financial and Wells Fargo Home Equity.
Homeowners who owe more on their mortgage than the value of their home could be eligible to refinance their loan based on criteria including demonstrating ability to repay. Depending on eligibility for a loan modification, homeowners who are behind on their payments may also receive a principal reduction on their mortgage.
Walk-ins are welcome, but Wells Fargo recommends people register to guarantee the ability to meet one on one with a representative. Customers should register by July 9 at www.wfhmevents.com/leadingthewayhome or call 1-800-405-8067 for more information.
– Amos Maki
Preparations are underway for the launch of Memphis' first logistics hackathon.
It will happen sometime this fall with the date still to be determined, and it's being spearheaded by the Memphis Bioworks Foundation and Start Co.
The idea is for developers and logistics professionals to come together for a weekend of competitive designing and coding. They'll tackle logistics challenges faced by large companies like FedEx and will have the opportunity to work with application programmer interfaces to develop logistics solutions.
Additionally, Memphis Bioworks and Start Co. have been planning to launch a new logistics accelerator that would be similar to the existing ZeroTo510 accelerator, which focuses on medical device startups.
– Andy Meek
Thomson Reuters will suspend its practice of distributing results from consumer surveys a couple seconds early to clients who pay the news and business information provider for advance access.
A company spokeswoman said Monday that Thomson Reuters will simultaneously distribute survey data at 9:55 a.m. starting Friday from the University of Michigan Surveys of Consumers after the New York State attorney general requested the suspension.
The attorney general's office is investigating the early data access, and Thomson Reuters said it is cooperating with that review.
That twice-monthly survey is separate from the consumer confidence index produced by the private research group the Conference Board.
Thomson Reuters pays for exclusive access to the University of Michigan results, and some of its clients have been paying extra to receive the data two seconds before other clients receive it at 9:55 a.m. This allows high-speed computers to make trades before others gain access to the data.
Thomson Reuters then sends out a news release about the survey at 10 a.m.
Modern stock trading is dominated by automated computer systems that make trades in fractions of a second, and traders can profit from receiving data even milliseconds before its public release. Consumer sentiment regarding the economy is watched closely because consumers' spending accounts for about 70 percent of U.S. economic activity.
The attorney general's office said in a statement the two-second edge that Thomson Reuters gives to some high-frequency traders amounts to an unfair advantage as those traders "execute enormous volumes of trades in the blink of an eye."
Thomson Reuters said separately it "strongly believes that news and information companies can legally distribute non-governmental data and exclusive news through services provided to fee-paying subscribers."
– The Associated Press
A decision by the state Board of Education to change how teachers are paid has led to a social media push to remove Education Commissioner Kevin Huffman.
The Tennessean reports the creation of two Facebook pages calling for Huffman's ouster as well as a Change.org petition that has hundreds of signatures.
Huffman's ouster would be unlikely, as Gov. Bill Haslam, state education board chairman Fielding Rolston and outside education advocates came to his defense. Rolston noted it was the board's decision, not Huffman's.
The board approved the changes last month after supporters and opponents argued for two hours over the matter. The measure changes the minimum teacher salary schedule, reduces steps in salary increases from 21 to four and eliminates incentives for doctorate degrees and post-master's training.
"I think we've made it abundantly clear we asked him to do this," Rolston said.
Haslam released a statement in support of Huffman.


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