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January 2018 – Alex Musandiwa
Congratulations Alex Musandiwa for being awarded "Technician of the month : January 2018"!
Absolutely wonderful to receive compliments like the below from customers :
"Alex is a technician that regularly attends breakdowns on our site, I would like to compliment him on the way he attends to these breakdowns, his interaction with the various staff members and operations on site. He is a very pleasant technician to have on site, he is efficient and does not waste time."
Alex manages an average labour recovery of 68% across most months, is always willing to go the extra mile, gets on well with his colleagues and generally has a great attitude when performing his duties.
WELL DONE Alex!!!
February 2018 – Tinus Cronje
Congratulations Tinus Cronje for being awarded "Technician of the month : February 2018"!
Below the great feedback received from his manager :
Tinus is a non-qualified Tech, but in the time of being with Bobcat he Stepped up in a major way, proving himself to us as well as to the clients he deals with.
From day one he put himself out there to learn as much as he can about the machines we deal with, weather it is the Bobcat or Sany Range.
He is always willing to go the extra mile to get the job done to satisfy the clients and make his stamp in the company.
I never hear a sigh or unwillingness when sending him to a job or clients, normal hours, weekends or after hours even on Sunday Nights he attends B/Downs when needed.
I get compliments of his knowledge, attitude and his the way he carries himself as well as the Bobcat and Sany names High.
We have had compliments form clients like, T Services, with their Sany Machines, Troy from GT Plant, requests to ONLY deal with Tinus, Ingwenya New Clydes Dale Site and Minopex Phola at Ogies and Masters of Stone at Steelpoort also requests Tinus on their site as he is punctual, neat and solves the problem as fast as he can.
He has really become a household name with our clients.
He is not afraid to phone other techs or management for help to make sure the client is satisfied with the job.
His paperwork is always correct neat and completed.
Tinus manages an average labour recovery of 64% across most months and I've personally received some compliments from our sales team about his work ethic.
WELL DONE Tinus!!!
March 2018 – David Hackland
Congratulations David Hackland for being awarded "Technician of the month : March 2018"!
He has been a tremendous help in the workshop and has even assisted me in parts when I needed him.
He has never complained about assisting and has gone the extra mile many a time without a complaint.
In the absence of Justin and Brian, whenever we received technical queries, David is always willing to chat to the client and assist the client in every way possible.
David is quiet knowledgeable, I have often asked him questions about a job he is doing and he is always willing to share his knowledge with me and others.
With myself and Brian travelling quite a bit lately David has taken on the responsibility of making sure that everything in the Durban workshop runs as smoothly as possible. He has given up some of his leave days, assisted the rest of his team members and has gone beyond the call of duty to ensure we deliver on the high level of service customers have come to expect from us.
David's labour recoveries for the last two months have been above 80% and I am really impressed with the way he has taken it upon himself to assist whenever needed to make sure our Durban customers are taken care of J.
WELL DONE David!!!
April 2018 – Martin Terblanche
Martin Terblanche for being awarded "Technician of the month : April 2018"!
Based on feedback received Martin was awarded with this reward for one main reason : Pride in his work. Martin, this goes a long way as it shows in the quality you send out as well as the challenges you take on.
May 2018 – JP le Roux
"JP joined the Cape Town team in 2018 and has already shown in his short time here what it is to be a true Goscorian. JP is punctual, has a great attitude, always a willingness to help or assist and will go beyond of what is expected of him (without asking questions). JP is the kind of guy that just gets on with it and gets things done!
From day one JP put himself out there to learn as much as he can about Bobcat and SANY and he is committed to be the best he can be, showing that he has a bright future ahead of him within the group"
June 2018 – Pieter de Beer
Congratulations Pieter de Beer for being awarded "Technician of the month : June 2018"!
Below the feedback received from the service team in Kathu :
Pieter Showed improvements in not only his Technical skills but also his Admin (Timesheets, Job cards being submitted on time)
Pieter is always willing to assist all Technicians from other areas so that they can complete the jobs in a correct manner.
Pieter does well on training and we can see the effect on his jobs
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"What do you mean I'm a desert loving Englishman?" asks the clearly perturbed monarch of the Grand Duchy of Jordan
AXIOM ONE: No matter who your bloody mother really is, your real mother is England.
AXIOM TWO: If your real biological mother is English, then you're all set.
AXIOM THREE: Never trust a Palestinian. Palestinians are naggers. No I didn't say the other word. I said "Naggers".
AXIOM FOUR: Never trust a Jew. But always trust a Jew when it comes to Palestinians.
AXIOM FIVE: Palestinians can only be trusted more when it comes to Syrians.
AXIOM SIX: In truth, don't trust anybody, especially Hashemites.
AXIOM SEVEN: Anyone who is taller than 5'4" cannot be a Hashemite.
AXIOM EIGHT: Never stand next to your wife in front of a camera if you're a Hashemite. She will always be taller.
HRH King Abdullah Ibn Antoinette Avril Gardiner zawjat Hussein Ibn Zayn stands next to his Palestinian wife who is kneeling at his feet.
AXIOM NINE: Never stand next to anyone unless he or she stands in a pot hole. The exceptions are: Davutoghlu, Bouteflika, Sarkozy, Linda Hunt and Danny Devito.
AXIOM TEN: Betray everyone and don't take offense when they find out and backbite.
AXIOM ELEVEN: Anger is for the weak. Remember, there is always the country home in Kent for retirement and the billions squirreled away in the Isle of Man.
AXIOM TWELVE: When confronted with an insurgency, build a mosque or cower at the feet of a Saudi.
AXIOM THIRTEEN: All Hashemites are Masons. But, not all Masons are Hashemites.
AXIOM FOURTEEN: Your army is only as good as the Shekels in the officers' Tel Aviv accounts.
AXIOM FIFTEEN: Entertain terrorists in your country but always reserve the right to betray them.
AXIOM SIXTEEN: The best money is inherited money. The second best is the Irish Lottery.
AXIOM SEVENTEEN: Keep all secrets to yourself until you want to destroy somebody. Then rat fink!
AXIOM EIGHTEEN: Keep your friends close. But keep your enemies in prison until they go insane.
AXIOM NINETEEN: If your enemies do not go insane in prison, send them to Libya where they will go insane.
AXIOM TWENTY: If the Libyans don't drive them insane, recall your ambassador for consultation.
AXIOM TWENTY ONE: Dressing up like a stupid Arab bedouin is necessary to maintain pretenses for the Bani Sakhr and Huwaytaat.
"Hey, Abdul, why do we have to wear these Italian tablecloths all the time?". The young heir apparent (far right) was also puzzled.
AXIOM TWENTY TWO: If you've been caught letting Americans train terrorists in Jordan to overthrow a president of a neighboring country, go visit Moscow – make exorbitant promises – buy a reactor.
AXIOM TWENTY THREE: Make sure you always have your finger on the country's water spigot. If they complain, send the water to the Jews.
AXIOM TWENTY FOUR: Make sure to always have payment for water sent by the Jews to your bank on the Isle of Man.
AXIOM TWENTY FIVE: Always try to seem moderate even if you are hosting an army of cannibals.
AXIOM TWENTY SIX: Nothing is wrong with cannibals unless they're eating your skin.
AXIOM TWENTY SEVEN: Don't ever offer your skin to a cannibal.
AXIOM TWENTY EIGHT: Saudis are dreadful, smelly people. Always daub your nostrils with Vaporub before meeting them.
AXIOM TWENTY NINE: If the Vicks Vaporub doesn't work, douse them with formaldehyde and light them up.
AXIOM THIRTY: Most Saudis can be lit up without an accelerant. Most Saudis are lit up drunk anyways.
Prince Fustuq Bin 'Abdul-'Azeez Bin Khurayyaan, Saudi Arabia's ambassador to Amman, lights up the evening with his sister, Khallaa'ah, at the Raghadaan Palace. He had just swallowed 7 Captagon pills, courtesy of his cousin Bandar, and started snorting Lebanese Red Hash. It was scandalous.

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This isbelieved to be the first project of its kind
It is also considered the largest passive shading and ventilation device inthe Country which does not require the use of air conditioning
Rendering and designs of the climate ribbon show it as a melding of sculpture and science that will create breezesto passively cool the space
The Climate Ribbon works as sophisticated environmental management system
The primary objective is to provide the finestenvironmental quality within the shopping center.
An upper glazed "skin" provides rain protection and solar filtering. A continuous series of fabric blades providessun shading. Climate Ribbon surfaces are inclined and sloped to channel rainwater to specific collection pointswhere it is stored and re-used for planting irrigation and other purposes.Fabric blades are fixed to the underside of the steel framing, forming a sinuous and fluid ceiling to the publicstreetscape(fig.10). The angles of the blades are determined by the parametric solar studies, varying as a function ofthe built context and sun angles. Fabric is a material that is curvable and twistable and can achieve the variable pathsto the blades that the solar studies require. It is stretched on steel framed skeletons with a gently curved tube forlower member. The fluid surface is a complementary contrast to the angular facets of the glazed topography. It is anexpression of the fluidity of a breeze and at the same time a reference to the traditional sun shading louvers ofcolonial and period architecture that provide soft and indirect light.


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Theerror we get on the iPhone app is:
"Youare not logged in or you do not have permission to access this facility"
Weare logged in and the permissions are global within the forum. I havelogged on with the same user on both Android and iPhone, it works on the Android, not on the iPhone.
We are due to launch the new forum early next week and move our 13,000 members over, so will need to fix this urgently as it's one of the positive points we are pushing.
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Friday, July 8, 2011
Christmas In July Crop Starts Today!!
Happy Fri.!
Hi~ya all!
I hope everyone is having a lovely Friday, and getting ready for the weekend. I want to share with you a fabulous Crop that will be starting today. It is the Christmas In July Crop that is going on over at the Black Cat USA Forum. It is being sponsored by friends of mine on the MTC forum. Now you can use any cutter that you have, Cricut, Black Cat, Silhouette, etc. They don't mind, but you will need 3-rd party software to be able to cut with your machine. I participated in the Christmas hop that we did on the MTC forum. It was loads of fun. Since my MOJO is in the tank, I thought, this will give me some inspiration, which at the time I don't have.
Come and join us, you need to register on the Black Cat Forum to view all the details. Have a great weekend all!
"Um Buggin"
5 Comments:
- DonnaMundinger said...
Well hon, wish I could join you, but I dropped the ball and have no software. Enjoy, though. I wanna see you crafting! xxD
- July 9, 2011 at 6:14 AM
- Carole Beath said...
I have no software either.... but I know your mojo will pop up out of the tank going 100 MPH soon. Very soon. Sending hugs.
- July 9, 2011 at 7:08 PM
- Audrey Frelx said...
Hi, Lillie!!! Hope you all had fun at this crop!!!
Sorry I haven't been around for a bit, but I've been having a terribly busy summer. Hope you, your mom, and the family are all doing well!!!
Anyway, I just wanted to drop by to say "hi" and that you've been in my thoughts and prayers!
I saw you stopped by a while ago and thanks for coming over, always a pleasure to have you visit!
Hugs, my dear friend!!!
- July 17, 2011 at 2:59 PM
- Audrey Frelx said...
Hi, Lillie, I was going through the neighborhood trying to catch up on some visiting and couldn't not stop by to say hi to you!
See ya later, my friend!!! Can't wait to see some of those MTC projects! I know yours will be gorgeous!
- July 27, 2011 at 5:22 PM
- Audrey Frelx said...
Just in the neighborhood, again... LOL!!! Hello!!!
- August 7, 2011 at 4:46 PM


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Trillium Secure Expands Executive Team
SUNNYVALE, CA and TOKYO, Mar 21, 2018 – (ACN Newswire) – Trillium Secure, Inc., the global leader in transportation cybersecurity technology, known for its disruptive 'SecureIoT' Cyber Security-as-a-Service (C-SaaS) platform, today announced that Dan Viza has joined the company as Senior Director of Global Business Development and Strategy.
Dan brings to Trillium over two decades of experience in automotive technology R&D and product commercialization. He will be managing customer and partner engagements as well as product and service definition.
"Dan's proven track record of identifying and building relationships with customers and partners will give a strong boost to our go-to-market efforts as we roll out our Cyber Security-as-a-Service platform this year," commented Keith B. McDonnell, Chief Operating Officer at Trillium Secure. "Dan will lead efforts to identify, quantify and communicate the value of our disruptive, data driven service business model to vehicle insurers, fleet owners, car makers and end consumers."
Dan has been engaged in business development, product marketing, strategic planning, venture investment and M&A throughout his career at Motorola, Freescale Semiconductor and NXP Semiconductor.
"I am excited to join the Trillium Team. The company has earned strong interest from across the transportation industry as a result of its disruptive approach to cyber-securing connected vehicles. I am confident that we will positively impact the transportation industry by reducing the risks associated with a "zero day" for car makers, fleet owners and insurance providers, while enabling recurring, subscription revenue streams based on securely harvested vehicular data."
About Trillium Secure, Inc.
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Located on the south end of the island, the sand and waves at Higgs Beach are a quick walk or bike ride away, and so is the colorful display of wings at the Key West Butterfly and Nature Conservatory. When you need some food, a drink, or simply the excitement of a crowd, take a two-block stroll over to Duval Street and find everything you desire.
Back at the house, watch time slip by as you lounge by the pool, grill up fresh seafood on the barbecue, or watch a show on the flatscreen cable TV. A full kitchen lets you whip up meals for the whole group and everyone will fit around the stylish dining table. Planning your days is easy thanks to free WiFi, and a private washer/dryer and outdoor shower make cleaning up after the beach a simple affair. The family dog is also welcome to join you here for an additional nightly fee.
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Okime (Basic Design)
'Okime' is the basic design for Maki-e. The profile of the design is drawn on a thin piece of Mino paper. The drawing is traced in lacquer or 'Gohun', pigment made from shells. Then, it is placed on the surface of the work and the picture is transferred onto it. Since those designs are usually owned by craftsmen, they are not shown to the public. However, Zohiko occasionally exhibits them because we maintain a collection of about 5,000 pieces of Okime. They are assumed to have been created at Zohiko's Maki-e Art School when it was in operation.


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Today marks 6 months since we went to our annual Christmas party, came back to my dad's house to sleep and ended up in the ER with the trial of our lives. I was just reading some of my old posts about how I was sure that we were headed for greener pastures. How for … Continue reading Wednesday
We are traveling back to Southern California soon for a visit and I keep catching myself saying, "when we're home we can..." But last week we put Arizona plates on our cars and we are daily running into people we "know" at the store. Today I am chasing down three packages that got accidentally sent to the … Continue reading Home
Baby Spica Cast Adventures {part three}
This whole "baby wearing a cast" thing requires a lot of trial and error no matter how much research I do. This week includes trying yet another sleeping position, introducing solid food a bit early in an attempt to avoid diaper blow outs and looking for a stroller that she'll fit into. But so far, we are surviving … Continue reading Baby Spica Cast Adventures {part three}
Baby Spica Cast Adventures {part one}
Two weeks ago, our 3 month old baby had hip surgery. The day went really smoothly-we were perfectly on time and organized-which isn't always the case. But as is always the case, we were incredibly well taken care of. Our big kids went overnight to their "cuzzies" house, our dog went to "Camp Barry" (my … Continue reading Baby Spica Cast Adventures {part one}
New Every Morning
My kids are asleep in their beds, which is good news for them because I am not fit to be with others right now. The last two hours were not ones I am proud of and as I hang my head in my hands, all I can think of is, "His mercies are new every … Continue reading New Every Morning
Star Wars Party {6th Birthday}
I love honoring milestones and making time to weave the golden threads of celebration into life, so here's another fun idea to add to my party planning series. For most of us born in the mid-70's, throwing our kids a Star Wars birthday party is almost as exciting as being at our own 30 years ago. My husband was (and still is) a big fan, … Continue reading Star Wars Party {6th Birthday}
I Hate Dinner
I am currently living under a big dark cloud. I am easily frustrated, mostly disengaged and always tired. I'm nauseous from the moment I lift my head in the morning until after I fall asleep each night. I have spent much of the past four weeks in my pajamas, canceling everything on my calendar and … Continue reading I Hate Dinner


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On our journey with Teddy over the years, we have felt
that we have had to do a lot of 'training,' usually of those
who have letters after their last names or fancy titles before
their first. From one of the first pediatricians to see Teddy
to psychiatrists in hospitals and psychiatric residential treatment
centers; from teachers who were certain all he exhibited were
tantrums to principals who acted as if a child with disabilities
was the worst thing to have in their school; from lawyers to
judges, from police officers to life squad members, from
claims representatives (obviously) trained to automatically
deny a certain percentage of bills (especially psychiatric) to
denominational insurance executives who always seemed to
manage to come up with one more hoop for us to jump through,
we have spent more months and years trying to convince the
experts that we knew our son better than anyone else might.
So, five years ago, when we set out on our encounter with the
justice system, we assumed that we would once again have to
'break in' a new expert, the psychologist from the developmental
center up in Columbus where Teddy had been placed after he
had been charged with murder. We assumed that this person
would come in having given Teddy tests that really never showed
anything because they asked Teddy to do things he couldn't do.
We assumed that this person would rely on what the books told
him about persons like Teddy, what the studies had shown, what
the statistics indicated. We assumed that we would have to deal
with another 'caring professional' who really could care less about
what the parents thought, felt, imagined, feared.
But we were wrong.
Dr. Khan got it. Simply by spending time with Teddy, talking with
Teddy, getting to know him, caring genuinely for him (and yes, testing
him), he discovered how profoundly damaged Teddy was; more importantly,
he discovered the profound gifts which were Teddy's. Dr. Khan never
indicated by word, by body language, by dismissive gesture that we
didn't know what we were talking about; rather, he treated us as partners
in seeking the very best for Teddy. He never questioned the FAS, he
confirmed the MR diagnosis, he recognized the need for Teddy to be
placed in a safe, secure environment, not just for 12-18 months and then
discharging him because 'nothing more could be done for him' but for
his lifetime because everything could be done for him in such a setting.
At that all important hearing which would decide Teddy's fate and future,
Dr. Khan shared the facts, the findings, the statistics he had found. But
then, as he has done at every successive (mandated by law) hearing
since, he gently and kindly explained to the judge just exactly who
Teddy was, the depth of his brokenness, and the reality that he would
never 'get better,' that there would never be a medication that would
'cure' him, that his disabilities were profound and life-long. And as we
sat there that first time and in all the hearings since, we wondered to
ourselves, 'where has this guy been?'
In the last five years, Dr. Khan has been a professional to Teddy and
to us, and a sharer of compassion to our entire family. He has always
been there for Teddy, when Teddy was upset about something that
someone had done or didn't do, as well as when Teddy just needed
to share a joke or a car magazine with someone. He has been that
calm, caring, trusting harbor for three folks who had ridden over
stormy seas for so many years.
Tomorrow, I will go up to Columbus to celebrate Dr. Khan's
retirement party. And as I drive up there I will wonder, as I
have for so many days now, how do I thank this good, this
gentle, this compassionate soul for saving three lives?
© 2011 Thom M. Shuman
Monday, May 23, 2011
He got it
Posted by Thom M. Shuman at 10:05 PM
2 comments:
- Joanne said...
I think you frame that post and give it to him. For what better gift could anyone ask or want?
- stinuksuk said...
i agree with Joanne. Surely, that is the best way to say thank-you for the gift of grace Dr. Khan has been to Teddy and to your family.
Thanks be to God for all God provides, even if it takes awhile.
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Suppose you went to your Aunt Margie's for Thanksgiving dinner and she has just baked your favorite dessert, homemade apple pie. You are about to indulge yourself when Aunt Margie interrupts and says, "You can't have that now. Lunch is ready. You can have it for dessert."
She serves you turkey and dressing with all the trimmings and you stuff yourself like it's your last meal. You go back for seconds and when you're done, you have too loosen your belt. Then Aunt Margie comes out with a large piece of apple pie and places it in front of you. You tell her, "Ohhhh, take that away. I can't eat another bite. I'm stuffed!"
Thirty minutes ago you were craving the pie and now you can't stand to even look at it. What changed? Your hunger drive has been been fulfilled, so the temptation is no longer there!
The same thing that works for your hunger drive also applies to every other desire and drive in your life. If you fulfill your drives in God's way, you won't be hungry for forbidden fruit. To listen to the entire message about the 6 keys to overcoming temptation, go to
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"Dancing with Death"
Why are we so eager to invite Death's touch and kill our children, our parents, or even ourselves?
You may say, "We are not killing our children!" You may say, "we are not killing our parents or ourselves!" but you would be mistaken. About one million unborn children are killed each year in the USA, and "the American Hospital Association" ... [points out] "that as many as 6,000 deaths per day are in some way planned." That's over two million per year!
But not all of those whose deaths are "planned" are terminally ill. Sometimes patients are killed because they are cognitively impaired. You say, "We do not do that!" Let's be honest about what our society is doing. The brain-injured, those with dementia are being routinely "processed" through hospice. Nurses report that, "hospice is going into the nursing homes (the "corrals") and killing them." Nurses say that dementia patients are being put on hospice even though the patients have no terminal illness at all. They're physically stable, yet in a week or two? They're dead. Of course, hospice will say they have "end-stage dementia" and other "qualifying" criteria for admission to hospice. But those determining what the criteria are and who is admitted ... are the same people who say that those with dementia are "better off dead" because their "quality of life" is "unacceptable." It's the same type of group that inspired the Nazis to label the disabled as "useless eaters."
Families are convinced by authoritative staff wearing white coats that it's time to "let them go." Staff and family members wink and lie to themselves and each other about what "letting them go" means. They know they are "planning" the death of the vulnerable, but they deny vehemently that they are "killing" them, just as mothers who have their babies killed will only say they "aborted" them but would never "kill a baby." Some cold-hearted staff may kill knowingly, but they don't let the families "served" know exactly what they are about.
Even physicians may find their loved ones threatened in today's system! Just today I received a call from a physician whose brother manipulated their mother into hospice without the power of attorney for health care decisionmaking that the physician had. The brother was seeking to inherit the house and assets of their mother sooner, rather than waiting for a natural death and was pushing morphine and sedatives on the patient when they were not necessary at all. The physician intervened in time to save her mother, but not every patient is so fortunate!
In some hospices, hospitals and nursing homes, clinical standards of care are thrown to the wind, and just about every terminally ill or severely disabled patient enrolled is put on the "slice and dice" diet of Morphine and Ativan. If one won't kill you, the other will. There's no escape: you're medically sedated and given no food or water. When the overdose of morphine reaches the critical level, it sends your blood pressure plummeting and slows your breathing. With little water given, the fluid volume in your blood decreases, the blood pressure drops even more and the circulatory system collapses. You die. Anybody, even the healthiest among us would die. The staff call it "terminal sedation," but it's without a doubt medical killing (euthanasia).
Of course, that's not hospice as it's "supposed" to be; that's hospice as it is today in many places! You have to remember, the Euthanasia Society of America started out in the 1930s to change how America thought about dying and how we died. They are the ones (under the new name "Choice in Dying") that gave us (in the 1970s and later on) the Do Not Resuscitate Orders ("DNRs"), Advanced Directives and Living Wills, all of which are designed to limit care given and hasten death.
Although these forms and documents are cleverly marketed to the public as a way of having a patient's wishes honored, if you ask to be treated and not be put to death, your wishes will be overridden. Doubt it? Just try demanding care in a hospital when the physicians don't want to provide that care (when they think you are better off dead): the hospital's "futile care protocol committee" will override you and they will refuse to provide that care. They will say that the treatment you seek is "futile," that it won't "help" you (even if it would help you live), that it won't improve your quality of life "enough" (as they define "enough" ... not as you see the issue). You see, your view doesn't really matter! Of course they'll go through the motions of offering you the bogus option of finding another hospital that will treat you (which in almost all cases they know you won't find at all). The game is rigged, and it's rigged down a one-way street named "imposed death."
New laws are being passed to make sure you don't get the treatment (including food or water) you ask for when the doctors believe that treatment may be futile. But what should we think about doctors with an agenda, who receive financial bonuses for reducing expenditures for patients? Doctors would say, "that never happens!" ... as if they are all saints ... but we know better! Thanks to "managed care" and physician incentives, many physicians now have an ulterior motive and no longer solely base their decisions on what is "best" for the patient. More and more often, their decisions are based upon what is best for the doctor financially, with the HMO paying legally permitted incentives, i.e. "kickbacks," to him for denying treatment (limiting HMO expenditures) to patients!
Of course, some people should be allowed to die when it truly is the end. But that "logic" can be, and is, abused. People are labeled as "DNR" inappropriately so that even minimal, ordinary treatments like providing food and water are denied them with the intent that they die sooner, ... much sooner.
The Euthanasia Society of America later known as Choice in Dying merged with Partnership for Caring (a hospice lobbying group) which merged with Last Acts (a hospice lobbying group) which was absorbed by none other than the largest hospice lobbying group in the USA, the National Hospice & Palliative Care Organization, which represents two-thirds of all hospices in the USA!
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You don't need to be a conspiracy theorist to know that hospice in America has turned the corner from a life-affirming, compassionate way of serving the dying and allowing a natural death in its own timing, to an agenda-driven, lean, mean killing machine! The dots are connected and there's no denying how the transition occurred. Back door euthanasia is happening throughout our nation, now, already. We need have no fear of "sliding down the slippery slope" toward euthanasia; we're already at the bottom.
Although good end-of-life care is needed for the terminally ill, we all face a formidable task if we are to avoid having our loved ones euthanized, "assisted" to death or "third-wayed" through terminal sedation. Even physicians and nurses (who are knowledgeable about health care, medications, life and death decisionmaking, and legal documents) are finding that they have been misled and that their loved ones have been killed in a hospice setting. It takes an awareness of the dangers faced, as well as constant vigilance and assertive advocacy, for the vulnerable to be protected from an untimely death.
You may have bought the idea that "hospice is the rightful alternative to euthanasia," or that "we don't need euthanasia; what we really need is 'good' palliative care." The only problem with that position is that the supposed "rightful alternative to euthanasia," hospice (where palliative care for the terminally ill is provided) is now the fast track to a hastened death. And often that hastened death is being imposed through inappropriate "terminal sedation:" Morphine and Ativan (or their equivalent) plus removal of hydration till you die. So much for "another way." It's being called the "third way" of killing, making legalization of open euthanasia and assisted-suicide unnecessary. It's cheap, convenient, looks outwardly "peaceful" and allows everyone to lie and pretend that nobody is being killed.
Just like "abortion." With all the killing going on, the main thing "they" want to make sure of controlling is the terminology. Killing cannot be called "killing." It has to be called "termination of pregnancy" or "abortion." Medical killing of the elderly, disabled or chronically ill cannot be called "killing." It has to be called "euthanasia" implying it is a good ("eu") death ("thanos"). But in truth, babies are not just "killed," they're shredded live in the womb by fiends who lie to mothers (telling them their baby is not a "baby") and make six figure incomes doing so! In truth, the elderly, disabled and chronically ill are not just "killed," they are dehydrated to death often while being sedated against their will and overdosed against their will with morphine. We have received numerous reports of such killings done against the wishes of the patient who is railroaded into hospice without their permission, even though the patient is conscious, competent and able to make their own decisions!
Over 45.5 million babies have been killed since the black robed "in-justices" sitting on the U.S. Supreme Court provided us with their lethal 1973 Roe v. Wade ruling. The justices sitting on the Supreme Courts of the 1700s or 1800s would be outraged and utterly dismayed, unwilling to believe that their successors actually approved, as a "Constitutional" right to privacy, the horrific destruction of millions of lives that the Constitution expressly forbids!
According to the Fifth Amendment of the Constitution: "No person shall ... be deprived of life, ... without due process of law," yet babies are deprived of life without their day in court. What about their right to life? What about their right to the much touted "choice" when it comes to their living or dying? The twisted killers simply redefine "life" to exclude unborn children so that Constitutional protections no longer apply! And those who promote euthanasia have long sought to redefine the cognitively impaired and disabled as nonpersons as well, so they can begin a campaign of eugenic killings, just as Hitler and the Nazis did.
Euthanasia advocates say that a "better world" will result when the disabled, cognitively impaired and elderly are eliminated. They say that our "scarce" medical resources would be "better spent" when none of our funds go to caring for these. Their "final solution" is to harm those who most need help. They have successfully replaced the "sanctity of life" ethic with the "quality of life" ethic as the overarching determinant of who shall live and who shall be made to die. Their agenda is truly a dark and low path, and our society has swallowed this agenda completely. There is little more for the euthanasia advocates to accomplish since even without legalizing euthanasia, the killings are going on unchecked just the same!
What anguish results from the killings of the vulnerable! How many families have forever been split apart! Often, one or two greedy family members seize control of the patient, manipulate the very willing health system to force death upon the vulnerable patient and then grab the estate, the house, and the money. Those family members who loved and cared for the patient are not only left to relive the nightmare of witnessing murder, they are berated by the hospice staff who killed their loved one and who now tell them they need to "accept death." And many hospices all over the country cooperate with those who seek to plunder the estates of the vulnerable, as if the lethal and undue influence exerted over the vulnerable is "just fine."
But everything is not "just fine!" Jesus said that those who are hungry, poor, disabled or ailing are those we should be feeding, clothing and caring for! His message is quite different. Can you imagine Him choosing to deny the thirsty water? Can you imagine Him sedating a patient who begs not to be sedated? Can you imagine Him overdosing a patient who needs no morphine? Can you imagine Him hastening the death of a person of any age, whether a baby, fetus or adult? How can we possibly believe that our society is moving down the right path? Yet, these and other ways of harming patients occur every day.
You say, "We are not killing our parents or ourselves!" However, "Markson (1995) points out ... the American Hospital Association ... [recognizes] that as many as 6,000 deaths per day are in some way planned by the patients, their families or physicians in the US." ["Euthanasia as an Option: A Note" by Leo Chan and Donald Lien
While there are numerous ways to hasten death, some common methods of inviting Death's presence are: ceasing to provide routine medications, ceasing to provide food and water, choosing not to treat treatable infections, choosing not to provide oxygen for those who need it, administering medications which directly cause death, administering medications which cause a medically-induced coma in which the patient is not provided hydration or nutrition, and so on. All of these methods (except the administration of lethal medications) allow the physician, nurses and even family to "wink" at each other and pat each other on the back, saying, "We didn't really kill the patient. We just "allowed" him to die."
However, death would have occurred later had the decision to hasten death not been made. Objective analysis of what is going on would require us to admit, "Yes, we chose to, and actually did, hasten death. Yes, we chose to, and actually did, kill the patient." If you are intellectually honest, you may argue why you think killing the patient is a good thing, but most of those who promote abortion, euthanasia or assisted suicide actually lie when they try to "sell" society on the idea that killing the vulnerable is a "good," even a "great" thing!
The founders of the modern abortion movement admit that they lied in order to make abortion legal. They came up with "catchy slogans" in order to sell abortion to the rest of us. They told us that abortion would be limited to extremely rare circumstances. Once legalized, they have promoted abortion so that it is used casually as a method of birth "control" with lethal effect on the babies and devastating effects 1, 2 on the mothers who have been misled about the consequences of following such evil advice.
The abortion industry has made billions of dollars worldwide and "the Planned Parenthood organization has earned net profits for the past 18 years in a row, totaling $538 million," providing what it calls "reproductive services." However, they are just death mills massacring the defenseless babies and damaging the lives of the mothers who use their services, only later to find out about the severe and negative consequences to their physical, mental and spiritual well-being.
See "How Lying Marketers Sold America on Unrestricted Abortion" in the eye-opening book, The Marketing of Evil by David Kupelian, p 189-212; Cumberland House Publishing, Nashville, TN (c) 2005
By deceptively manipulating the good-heartedness of the American people, they succeeded in convincing us that to save the lives of this bogus number, "10,000" women, a few unborn "fetuses" or "products of conception" (never called "babies") should be destroyed. "Better that innocent babies be killed than a bogus number of women die???" But it has not been just a few killed! Because we assume that the children we actually want will survive into adulthood, we have the evil "luxury" of killing 1 million of our own babies each year. How strange a time this is!
You say that the unborn babies are not "babies;" they are only "fetuses," or "embryos," or clumps of "tissue." Modern science has determined with certainty that from the time of conception, a unique life begins. In the case of animals, nobody disputes that conception is the starting point of a unique life. However, when it comes to a human baby, we suddenly turn unscientific and dogmatically try to twist the facts so that the "convenience" of killing our own babies is made to appear "ethical," "moral," or "good." Why do we have to lie to ourselves and everyone else when it comes to such widespread killing?
Clearly, we lie to ourselves about these dastardly deeds, because we know that the unborn baby is a baby. It's just like soldiers in wartime who give the enemy some dehumanizing label to help them cope with the knowledge they have just killed another human being. If you see the enemy as a human being, it is much harder to kill them. If you see the baby as a baby, it is much harder to kill them. If you see your parents' lives as valuable and sacred, you cannot easily kill them in order to get your hands on their home and assets sooner rather than later! And if you see your own life as given to you by God, you kill yourself only with trepidation and fear, knowing you are doing wrong.
Why not just honestly say, "I want to do what I want when I want and how I want, and if I want to kill my baby, I'm going to do so." And, "if I want to kill my parents or myself, I'll do that too!" "You have no business stopping me from killing whomever I want to kill." Where does it stop? When you disgard the sanctity of life ethic, you allow rationalized justifications for the killing of more and more categories of people. You start with killing "inconvenient" babies, move on to killing unwanted or inconvenient parents or children, and end with killing yourself. Your "convenience" is more important than the life of those who depend upon you? What insanity has taken hold of our nation!
We must realize that the "whatever" generation is leading our society into a cesspool of devastation. It is important that we refrain from killing! It is important that we care for those who need us! "Whatever!" is not the answer that will save our nation! We must choose to honor life!
Why do we have to lie about the consequences of killing all these babies, parents and even ourselves? The media and pro-killing advocates lie and deny that there are any harmful consequences of killing. They refuse to acknowledge the deep grief women incur when they kill their own babies. They refuse to acknowledge any of the physical adverse effects of abortion and suppress knowledge of the many research studies showing such harmful consequences.
When our lives are threatened by those who wage war, why would we wish to kill our own? When we face threats from all the usual forms Death takes: natural disasters, accidents, starvation, disease and old age, why would we actively seek death?
I am not saying that there doesn't come a time when it truly is appropriate to "let go," but it seems our society is eager to rush headlong into Death's embrace. Generations ago, death was feared and depicted as something evil. Recognizing death as a naturally occurring fact of life is part of wisdom; seeking death unnaturally is true perversion! It seems that in health "care" we are hastening death very casually and, more and more universally.
Non-Christians regard the Bible's Book of Revelation as the ravings of a madman; some simply put their hands up in exasperation and admit they don't understand it. Most cannot see beyond its haunting visions of devastation and most don't want to realize that it offers the sobriety necessary for sanity to prevail in this world. Its message is so forceful it shakes us out of our somnolent delusion and entreats us to "wake up!" "be aware!" and "choose!" But what is it that it asks us to choose? its horrific visions of death? Or Life?
"I looked, and there before me was a pale horse! Its rider was named Death, and Hell was following close behind him. They were given power over a fourth of the earth to kill by sword, famine and plague, and by the wild beasts of the earth." Rev. 6:8This is just one of the visions shared in the Book of Revelation. Revelation is considered a "scary" unintelligible book by many readers, and is skipped over by most. It describes the horrific as well as the divine.
It would seem that with all the threats to life mentioned: the "sword" (war and murder), "famine" (starvation), and "plague" (deadly epidemics), a reasonable society would be eager to preserve life at every opportunity. War and murder have been occurring somewhere in the world nonstop, millions of people starve to death each year, and deadly epidemics wipe out millions again each year! Even knowing all of this, we do not seek to preserve life at every opportunity. In 2018, about 3.1 million children die from undernutrition each year! We also know that each year, a few million children in poor countries die of disease that can be prevented.
To those who succumb to war, famine and disease, death is no stranger, and Revelation's horrific visions are not a distant, future event. Death's lethal touch reaches millions though they plead to all of us for mercy, for help and for life.
It is easy to fail to appreciate the tremendous transformations made in our modern society through medical science and other technologies. Sanitary water supplies, controlled garbage removal, clean methods of handling food, pasteurization and even basic hand washing have literally saved hundreds of millions from unnecessary deaths, deaths that occurred regularly not so long ago when society had to do without the knowledge and practices that serve as basic supports of modern society. With the advent of antibiotics and other medications to treat serious diseases, infections and diseases that once wiped out millions have been rendered manageable. What is considered a "lifetime" has been expanded from 30 or 40 years steadily upward to 60, 70, 80 years and more. A long life now is time enough to become complacent and lose sight of Death's ever-present shadow.
Just 100 years ago, it was unlikely that all one's children would live to adulthood. Any family member's death was possible, and because life itself was precarious, it was understood to be more precious than gold. Death's proximity gave rise to a deep appreciation for the wonder that is life. Now that life seems to be less threatened, how is it that we have been convinced that it is "ok" to kill our own children? And how is it that mothers and fathers are initiating these killings with casual disregard for the grave evil done? How is it that our government legalized the killing of our children? How is it that society regards the ability to kill one's own children as a supreme and fundamental "right?"
Jeremiah 31:15 reminds us of the sane response to a child's death:
"A voice is heard in Ramah, mourning and great weeping, Rachel weeping for her children and refusing to be comforted, because her children are no more."And many mothers do weep for their children that are no more, whether they die from war, starvation, and disease, or if they killed these children themselves. The grief is unending, eating away at the heart, so bitterness and anger replace what could have been joy and peace. But what kind of mother or father does not weep for the children they have killed? What kind of people have we become?
You may say, we don't approve killing our own children, but the truth is: yes, we do ... to the tune of over 45 million killed! Unborn children are children just the same. If modern science has demonstrated anything about the issue, it is that from the very beginning of conception, any life including human life begins. This is the most basic fact of biology, yet we pretend that the truth is not the truth and the facts are not the facts. The unborn baby is very capable of feeling and responding even within the womb.
Those who market the death industry favor federal power when it comes to the U.S. Supreme Court's ability to override state laws limiting abortion, yet oppose federal power when it seeks to stop the killings in Oregon under its supposed "Death with Dignity" Act legalizing assisted-suicide. Their support for either position is based not on principle, but on a convenience of circumstances: whatever position promotes the ability to kill is supported, wherever the debate occurs.
We are a sleepwalking nation, dishing out death casually and insanely to those we have a sacred duty to love. There are wars, crimes, starvation and disease threatening to end life at any moment, yet we choose to kill the unborn, the born, the disabled and diseased, the elderly and the weak. Only a lost nation could so actively reject the gift of life! Isn't life precarious enough without seeking to dance with death?
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BT opens nominations for the Information Security Journalism Awards 2013
International category introduced for the first time - opening up competition to journalists outside of the UK
Entries are now open for the seventh annual BT Information Security Journalism Awards. Created in 2005, the awards recognise, reward and inspire journalists working in this hugely important field.
Up until now the awards have celebrated the quality of security journalism in the UK and the importance of information security to British organisations. This year's awards open up the competition to journalists from outside of the UK with a brand new international category, acknowledging the growing popularity of the awards and the increased importance of information security in the global market place.
Last year there was an encouraging response to two new categories – Best Investigative Feature of the Year and Best Security Broadcast Feature/News Story of the Year. The expert judging panel commented that the quality of entries was outstanding. A broad range of entries were received from news outlets including The Guardian, BBC News and Channel 4 leading to the awards being the most prestigious to date.
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- Ron Condon – Freelance Journalist
- Graham Edwards – Head of Group Information Risk, Centrica Plc
- Professor Dr. Hannes P. Lubich – University of Applied Sciences, North-Western Switzerland
- Malcolm Marshall – Global Leader, Information Protection Services, KPMG
- Professor Fred Piper – Information Security Group, Royal Holloway, University of London
Misha Glenny, independent journalist, author, and winner of last year's Best Investigative Feature of the Year award said: "There is a growing recognition that information security is at the heart of contemporary business and families' digital life. The need for informed, readable and cutting-edge journalism about Information Security has never been greater. BT's awards are making a significant contribution to sharpening the output in this key area of the media."
Ray Stanton said: "The awards have now become a fixture in the calendar for information security journalists, reflecting the increased importance of information security and the valuable work that the media does in this field.
"We are delighted to host the event for the seventh year and remain committed to improving information security in the UK and internationally. We recognise the vital role that journalism plays in raising awareness among businesses and the public about the issues surrounding security and the steps that can be taken to remain secure.
"Over recent years we have seen increased depth and new styles of reporting on information security. To recognise this, last year we introduced two new award categories: Best Investigative Feature of the Year and Best Security Broadcast Feature/News Story of the Year. This year for the first time we have opened the awards up to journalists outside the UK by introducing a brand new international category."
The winners will be announced at an awards lunch to be held at a central London venue in November 2013. Awards will be presented in the following categories:
- Information Security Journalist of the Year - £2,000 prize
- BT Enigma Award - £1,000 prize
- Best Information Security News Story of the Year - £500 prize
- Best Security Broadcast Feature/News Story of the Year - £500 prize
- Best Overall Information Security Feature Article of the Year - £500 prize
- Best International Feature/News Story of the Year - £500
- Individual Feature Article Awards for:
- Best Privacy Feature of the Year - £500 prize
- Best Cybercrime Feature of the Year - £500 prize
- Best Investigative Feature of the Year - £500 prize
The deadline for submissions is 23 August, 2013. Shortlisted awards entries will be announced in September 2013.
Follow this year's awards online on Twitter at @securethinking or through the hashtag #BTISJA. Regular updates will be posted on the BT Let's Talk Security blogwww.bt.com/letstalk/security, Facebook https://www.facebook.com/btletstalk and LinkedInhttp://www.linkedin.com/company/bt-global-services?trk=hb_tab_compy_id_1181 .
Award submission instructions
All entries must have been published or broadcast between 01 July, 2012 and 30 June, 2013. With the exception of the Best International Feature/News Story of the Year category the awards are open to journalists working for UK-based publications/news outlets. Entries can be accepted from journalists, their editors or publishers.
For the Information Security Journalist of the Year category, entrants must submit five articles written by an individual journalist to be eligible for this award.
The BT Enigma Award is decided by the judges and awarded to the journalist who, in their opinion, has made an outstanding and consistent contribution to information security journalism. This is based on submissions to the other categories.
For the Best Security Broadcast Feature/News Story of the Year category journalists, editors or producers are asked to submit the relevant file on a DVD, CD, or file transfer. This can include broadcast packages/reports that have been featured on broadcast news or on news websites.
The new Best International Feature/News Story of the Year category is open to journalists writing for non-UK based publications/news outlets. Articles submitted must be written in English or translated into English.
For the remaining categories journalists, editors or publishers are asked to submit one article per category. Entries can be made to multiple categories but an individual article can only be submitted once (however, articles submitted for the Information Security Journalist of the Year category can also be submitted into other categories).
Entries must be accompanied with the following information:
- Award Category:
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Please email entries to Camilla Morgan-Giles at firstname.lastname@example.com or send by post to Porter Novelli, 31 St Petersburgh Place, London, W2 4LA, England by 23 August 2013.
Notes to editors
List of 2012 winners:
- Information Security Journalist of the Year: Tom Brewster (TechWeekEurope)
- Best Information Security News Story of the Year: Nick Hopkins (Guardian)
- Best Overall Information Security Feature Article of the Year: Danny Bradbury (Infosecurity)
- Best Privacy Feature of the Year: John Leyden (The Register)
- Best Cybercrime Feature of the Year: Danny Bradbury (Infosecurity)
- Best Investigative Feature of the Year: Misha Glenny (Guardian)
- Best Security Broadcast Feature/News Story of the Year: Geoff White and Benjamin Cohen (Channel 4 News)
- BT Enigma Award: Paul Marks (New Scientist)


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The AntiSocial Engineer Limited Privacy Policy
Last Updated on Jan 16th, 2019
This privacy policy will help you understand what information we collect and use at The AntiSocial Engineer Limited, and the choices you have associated with that information. When we refer to "The AntiSocial Engineer Limited," "we," "our," or "us" in this policy, we are referring to The AntiSocial Engineer Limited,, which provides the Services to you. The "Services" refers to the applications, services, and websites (marketing and product) provided by The AntiSocial Engineer Limited. The AntiSocial Engineer Limited may, from time to time, introduce new products and services. To the extent that these new products and services affect this policy, we will notify you as described in Section 8 below. The use of information collected through our service shall be limited to the purpose of providing the services for our customers and as specified herein.
If you have any questions about this privacy policy or our practices, please contact us. If you have an unresolved privacy or data use concern that we have not addressed satisfactorily, please contact our office at https://theantisocialengineer.com/contact-us
1. Information We Collect and Receive
2. How We Use the Information We Collect and Receive
3. Analytics, Cookies and Other Web Site Technologies
4. Information Sharing
5. Communicating
6. Accessing Your Data
7. Security
8. Changes to this Statement/Contact Us
We collect several different types of information in order to provide Services to you, including:
Customer Account and Registration Data: This includes information you provide to create your account with us or register for events, webinars, surveys, etc. and may include, first and last name, billing information, a password and a valid email address.
Service Data (including Session and Usage data):
When you use our Services, we receive information generated through the use of the Service, either entered by you or others who use the Services with you (for example, schedules, attendee info, etc.), or from the Service infrastructure itself, (for example, duration of session, use of webcams, connection information, etc.) We may also collect usage and log data about how the services are accessed and used, including information about the device you are using the Services on, IP addresses, location information, language settings, what operating system you are using, unique device identifiers and other diagnostic data to help us support the Services.
Third Party Data: We may receive information about you from other sources, including publicly available databases or third parties from whom we have purchased data, and combine this data with information we already have about you. We may also receive information from other affiliated companies that are a part of our corporate group. This helps us to update, expand and analyze our records, identify new prospects for marketing, and provide products and services that may be of interest to you.
Location Information: We collect your location-based information for the purpose of providing and supporting the service and for fraud prevention and security monitoring. If you wish to opt-out of the collection and use of your collection information, you may do so by turning it off on your device settings.
Device Information: When you use our Services, we automatically collect information on the type of device you use, operating system version, and the device identifier (or "UDID").
2. How We Use the Information We Collect and Receive
The AntiSocial Engineer Limited may access (which may include, with your consent, limited viewing or listening) and use the data we collect as necessary (a) to provide and maintain the Services; (b) to address and respond to service, security, and customer support issues; (c) to detect, prevent, or otherwise address fraud, security, unlawful, or technical issues; (d) as required by law; (e) to fulfil our contracts; (f) to improve and enhance the Services; (g) to provide analysis or valuable information back to our Customers and users.
Some specific examples of how we use the information:
◦Create and administer your account
◦Send you an order confirmation
◦Facilitate and improve the usage of the services you have ordered
◦Assess the needs of your business to determine suitable products
◦Send you product updates, marketing communication, and service information
◦Respond to customer inquiries and support requests
◦Conduct research and analysis
◦Analyze data, including through automated systems and machine learning to improve our services and/or your experience
◦Provide you information about your use of the services and benchmarks, insights and suggestions for improvements
The AntiSocial Engineer Limited also collects and stores meeting attendee information in order to fulfil our obligation to our customers and provide the Services. With their consent, we may also directly provide product and other The AntiSocial Engineer Limited related information to attendees. The AntiSocial Engineer Limited will retain your information for as long as your account with us is active, to comply with our legal obligations, to resolve disputes, and enforce our agreements.
If you wish to cancel your account or for us to stop providing you services, or if we hold personal information about you and you want it to be removed from our database or inactivated, please contact us here.
3. Analytics, Cookies and Other Web Site Technologies
The AntiSocial Engineer Limited is continuously improving our websites and products through the use of various web analytics tools, which help us understand how visitors use our websites, desktop tools, and mobile applications, what they like and dislike, and where they may have problems. While we maintain ownership of this data, we do not share this type of data about individual users with third parties.
Geolocation and Other Data:
We may utilise precise Geolocation data but only if you specifically opt-in to collection of that data in connection with a particular service. We also use information such as IP addresses to determine the general geographic locations areas of our visitors. The web beacons used in conjunction with these web analytics tools may gather data such as what browser or operating system a person uses, as well as, domain names, MIME types, and what content, products and services are reviewed or downloaded when visiting or registering for services at one of our websites or using one of our mobile applications.
Google Analytics and Adobe Marketing Cloud:
We sometimes use Google Analytics as described in "How Google uses data when you use our partners' sites or apps." You can prevent your data from being used by Google Analytics on websites by installing the Google Analytics opt-out browser add-on here. Portions of our website may also use Google Analytics for Display Advertisers including DoubleClick or Dynamic Re-marketing which provide interest-based ads based on your visit to this or other websites. You can use Ads Settings to manage the Google ads you see and opt-out of interest-based ads. We also use Adobe Marketing Cloud as described here. You can opt-out of use of this information as described below.
Tracking Technologies:
The AntiSocial Engineer Limited use cookies and similar tracking technologies to track user traffic patterns and hold certain registration information. Tracking technologies also used are beacons, tags and scripts to collect and track information and to improve and analyze our service. If you wish to not have the information these technologies collect used for the purpose of serving you targeted ads, you may opt-out here, or if located in the European Union, click here. The Help menu on the menu bar of most browsers will tell you how to prevent your browser from accepting new cookies, how to have the browser notify you when you receive a new cookie and how to disable cookies altogether. You can still review the website if you choose to set your browser to refuse all cookies; however, you must enable cookies in order to establish an account and to install the Services.
Examples of Cookies We Use:
Session Cookies
We use these cookies to operate our websites.
Some cookies are essential for the operation of The AntiSocial Engineer Limited websites. If a user chooses to disable these cookies, the user will not be able to access all of the content and features.
Preference Cookies
We use these cookies to remember your preferences.
When you register at a The AntiSocial Engineer Limited website, we use cookies to store unique, randomly assigned user IDs that we generate for administrative purposes. These cookies enable you to enter the The AntiSocial Engineer Limited sites without having to log on each time.
Security Cookies
These cookies are used for general security purposes and user authentication.
We use security cookies to authenticate users, prevent fraudulent use of login credentials, and protect user data from access by unauthorized parties.
Mobile Analytics
We use mobile analytics software to allow us to better understand the functionality of our mobile software on your phone. This software may record information such as how often you use the application, the events that occur within the application, aggregated usage, performance data, and where the application was downloaded from. We do not link the information we store within the analytics software to any personally identifiable information you submit within the mobile application.
Social Media: Our sites include social media features, such as Facebook, Google and Twitter "share" buttons. These features may collect your IP address, which page you are visiting on our site, and may set a cookie to enable the feature to function properly. These services will also authenticate your identity and provide you the option to share certain personal information with us such as your name and email address to pre-populate our sign up form or provide feedback. Your interactions with these features are governed by the privacy policy of the company providing them.
4. Information Sharing
Ensuring your privacy is important to us. We do not share your personal information with third parties except as described in this privacy policy. We may share your personal information with (a) third party service providers; (b) business partners; (c) affiliated companies within our corporate structure and (d) as needed for legal purposes. Third party service providers do not have access to personal information.
Examples of how we may share information with service providers include:
◦Fulfilling orders and providing the services
◦Payment processing and fraud prevention
◦Providing customer support
◦Conducting research and analysis
◦Providing cloud computing infrastructure
Examples of how we may or disclose data for legal reasons may include:
◦As part of a sale or merger where all or substantially all of our assets are acquired, customer information will be one of the transferred assets.
◦As required by law, for example, to comply with a valid subpoena or other legal process; when we believe in good faith that disclosure is necessary to protect our rights, or to protect your safety (or the safety of others); to investigate fraud; or to respond to a government request.
We may also disclose your personal information to any third party with your prior consent.
5. Communications
The AntiSocial Engineer Limited may need to communicate with you for a variety of different reasons, including:
◦Responding to your questions and requests. If you contact us with a problem or question, we will use your information to respond.
◦Sending you Service and administrative emails and messages. We may contact you to inform you about changes in our Services, our Service offerings, and important Service related notices, such as billing, security and fraud notices. These emails and messages are considered a necessary part of the Services and you may not opt-out of them.
◦Sending emails about new products or other news about The AntiSocial Engineer Limited that we think you'd like to hear about either from us or from our business partners. You can always opt out of these types of messages at any time by clicking the unsubscribe link at the bottom of each communication.
◦Conducting surveys. We may use the information gathered in the surveys to enhance and personalise our products, services, and websites.
◦Offering referral programs and incentives, which allow you to utilise email, text, or URL links that you can share with friends or colleagues.
6. Accessing Your Data
Our customers can always review, update or change personal information from within their account. The AntiSocial Engineer Limited will also, when you request, provide you with information about whether we hold, or process on behalf of a third party, any of your personal information. Please contact us here if you need assistance in reviewing your information. The AntiSocial Engineer Limited will respond to your access request to review the information we have on file for you within a reasonable time.
We may also collect information on behalf of our customers, in order to provide the services, and we may not have a direct relationship with the individuals whose personal data is processed. If you are a customer or end-user of one of our customers, please contact them (as the data controller) directly if: (i) you would no longer like to be contacted by them; or (ii) to access, correct, amend, or delete inaccurate data. If requested to remove data by our customer, we will respond within a reasonable timeframe.
We may transfer personal information to companies that help us provide our service, and when we do, these transfers to subsequent third parties are covered by appropriate transfer agreements. We will retain personal data we process on behalf of our customer for as long as needed to provide services to our customer. Also, we will retain this personal information as necessary to comply with our legal obligations, resolve disputes, and enforce our agreements.
The AntiSocial Engineer Limited is headquartered in the United States of America and maintains a global infrastructure. Information that we collect and maintain may be transferred to, or controlled and processed in, the United States and/or other countries around the world. When you provide us with information, or use our website(s) and services, you consent to this transfer. We will protect the privacy and security of personal information we collect in accordance with this privacy policy, regardless of where it is processed or stored.
7. Security
The AntiSocial Engineer Limited follows generally accepted standards to protect the personal information submitted to us, both during transmission and once it is received, however, no security measure is perfect. We recommend safeguarding your password, as it is one of the easiest ways you can manage the security of your own account – remember that if you lose control over your password, you may lose control over your personal information.
8. Changes to this Statement/Contact Us
We may update this Privacy Policy to reflect changes to our information practices. If we make any material changes we will provide notice on this website, and we may notify you by email (sent to the e-mail address specified in your account), prior to the change becoming effective. We encourage you to periodically review this page for the latest information on our privacy practices. If you continue to use the Services after those changes are in effect, you agree to the revised policy


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At 8:50 on a Wednesday morning, nearly two dozen shoppers hovered in front of H&M's new global flagship store on the corner of West 34th Street and Avenue of the Americas in Manhattan, eager to get inside as soon as the doors were unlocked at 9.
Directly across the street, a Gap store was also preparing to open. A lone woman stood in front. She was handing out fliers for a Cuban restaurant as pedestrians hurried by.
The contrast summed up the state of American retailing. One by one, iconic brands like Gap, J. Crew, American Apparel and Abercrombie & Fitch have reported slumping sales, while chic and cheap foreign fast-fashion brands like H&M, Uniqlo and Zara are opening bustling stores and luring away customers once devoted to a more basic American style.
American midmarket fashion has lost its way, and no other company epitomizes that as much as Gap. The company announced last week that it would close a quarter of its 675 North American stores over the next few years.
But the closures represent the latest in a decade of stumbles for a brand that was once so cool that the actress Sharon Stone wore one of its turtlenecks, with a Valentino skirt, to the 1996 Oscars. In 1998, its "Khaki Swing" television commercial, all smiles and American optimism, aired to 76 million viewers during the final episode of "Seinfeld." The brand also became seared in popular consciousness that year as the maker of Monica Lewinsky's infamous stained blue dress.
In a presentation to investors last week, Art Peck, Gap's chief executive, spoke somewhat poignantly about the brand's downward trajectory. When Gap's latest round of store closures is done, its footprint in the United States will fall to just two-fifths of its peak in 2000.
"We had our moments of glory, but they're not followed with consistent moments of glory," Mr. Peck told investors at Gap's corporate headquarters in San Francisco. "None of us are happy with our performance now."
Once the master of casual, supplying Americans with staple khakis, denims and button-down shirts, the company is finding that its once-stable American customer base has splintered. Luxury is booming; at the other end of the market, discount retailers like T. J. Maxx and Burlington Stores are seeing robust gains. Gap, Abercrombie and their peers are stuck in the middle.
But they have also faltered at a game they once dominated: being the go-to destination for the legions of teenagers and young adults with money in their pockets and time on their hands. That role has fallen to juggernauts like H&M, based in Sweden, and Zara, owned by the Spanish company Inditex, which turn out cheaper versions of runway trends in weeks. H&M's 368 stores in the United States, set to grow by 65 this year, get a fresh shipment of styles daily. Uniqlo, owned by the Japanese giant Fast Retailing, is most like Gap in that it sells basics. But Uniqlo markets basics at cheaper price points, in dozens of colors in high-tech fabrics, and offers midprice collections by designers and celebrities, including Jil Sander and Pharrell Williams. The company's footprint here has grown to 42 stores in four years, and more are planned.
In September, yet another foreign fast-fashion brand is set to land on American shores. Primark, based in Dublin, plans to open 20 locations and will sell items for even less than H&M: Its latest catalog features $8 halter neck dresses and $10 bikinis. American retailers still outnumber the upstarts, but they are locked into outdated formulas.
"Back in the '80s and '90s, there wasn't real access to higher-level fashion," said Kate Davidson Hudson, co-founder and chief executive of Editorialist, an online fashion magazine. "It was the heyday of business casual, and stores did well selling core staples."
"But now, everybody sees what's on the runways on social media and on blogs, and everybody's a critic, and shoppers want it as soon as they see it," she said. "Brands like Gap just feel very dated."
Sales at Gap stores open for at least a year, a closely watched figure in the retail industry, have fallen for 13 straight months. The company's upmarket brand, Banana Republic, has also stumbled, though Gap's cheaper Old Navy label has done well.
At Abercrombie & Fitch, comparable sales have fallen for three straight years and the brand is in the midst of an overhaul, which includes covering up the hunky shirtless male models who functioned as something of a corporate logo. Last week, the brand confirmed that Katia Kuethe, formerly of Lucky magazine, would be its new creative director. Even J. Crew, long a retail darling with a fiercely loyal following, has suffered from an increasingly stale formula of print, sequins and basics. J. Crew announced early this month that it would eliminate 175 jobs and replace the head of women's design at its namesake brand.
The two-block stretch of 34th Street between Fifth and Seventh Avenues is a time capsule of retail, anchored on one end by the massive century-old Macy's Herald Square store and increasingly populated by the foreign chains of the moment — Zara, Uniqlo and three H&M stores, including the airy 63,000-square-foot flagship, which opened last month and is, according to a corporate spokeswoman, the largest H&M in the world.
Sprinkled among them along the crowded sidewalks are older, familiar American mall staples like American Eagle, Banana Republic, Old Navy and others, along with Gap.
At a vibrant, three-story Uniqlo, Dhushyanthy Tharan of Hoboken, N.J., shopping on her 26th birthday for a long-sleeve button-down shirt, said she found the selection to be of higher quality and more stylish than at the Gap. "I love their materials, the cotton and linen, and their style," she said. "It's very young."
"I have checked at American Eagle and the Gap," she added, "but I never really find anything there."
One of the people waiting for the H&M doors to open was Tianna Robinson, 30, of Brooklyn, who, unsatisfied with her wardrobe choices that morning, planned to pop in to buy a shirt for a business meeting later in the day.
"I know that no matter what," she said, "I'll be able to find a shirt that's presentable and price-worthy. And it's cute!"
H&M is her "go-to" store, Ms. Robinson said, but she also likes Zara. "Gap," she added, "I don't go to as much, to be honest."
Mr. Peck and his team seemed to suggest to investors last week that Gap and its sister brands would start to emulate their fast-fashion rivals. Gap's brands will focus on improving the product, they said, and on speeding up the time it takes to get new styles into stores.
"We are looking at what is starting to trend externally, and feeding that into our process very quickly to testing," said Jeff Kirwan, Gap's global brand president. "Then if it tests well, and we feel confident in the early results, we're going to invest more and move on forward."
But in reality, it will be difficult for Gap and other American brands to catch up to the likes of Zara, for example, which owns garment factories around the world, giving it a measure of control that permits a quick response to emerging trends. That "vertically integrated" setup lets fast-fashion brands constantly deliver new styles to stores, often in small batches. Fast-fashion retailers have come under increased scrutiny, however, for their heavy reliance on low-wage factory workers, many of whom work in dangerous, grueling conditions, as well as for the environmental toll of throwaway fashion.
Nevertheless, it takes far longer for Gap, which does not own any factories, to source new designs and get fresh styles on its racks. The company hired new design chiefs this year, but in a telling sign of just how much it lags in speed and flexibility, Mr. Peck said that their new products would not show up until next spring, because the brand had already bought the bulk of its stock for the rest of this year.
"Vertically integrating your supply chain can take years to accomplish, and tens of hundreds of millions of dollars to implement the right way," said Andrew Billings, senior manager of the retail and consumer practice at the New York consulting firm North Highland. "That's not something that's going to happen overnight."
That doesn't mean the process couldn't be faster. Even without its own factories, a company like Gap could "work with your design team and reduce the number of sample rounds to make quicker decisions," Mr. Billings said. "They might be able to turn something over in 15 weeks, which would be drastically faster than your typical fashion calendar, which is more around 45 weeks."
American brands are also saddled with the remnants of a shopping mall culture that is fast vanishing. Many of Gap's coming store closures are expected to be at malls that have suffered from declining foot traffic and slumping sales. The national retailers that once anchored those malls, like J. C. Penney and Sears, also are floundering, at the same time as e-commerce is picking up steam.
By contrast, the foreign labels setting up shop in the United States are getting their pick of the best real estate, said William Susman, managing director at Threadstone Partners, a New York consumer and retail advisory firm. And overseas retailers, from the start, are used to operating all of their locations as high-traffic, high-grossing flagship stores, he said.
"The mall doesn't really exist abroad as it does here. You have High Street locations in Europe whose economics really resemble flagship stores," Mr. Susman said. "They have a very different real estate strategy."
But most pressing for declining brands, retail specialists say, is bringing a dose of inspiration to an outdated assortment of clothing. At J. Crew, that means fewer fashion faux pas, like its universally panned "Tilly" cropped sweater that wound up on the sale pile. For Abercrombie, that means less reliance on logos to appeal to a generation now tired of blatant brand marketing. For Gap, that means sprucing up what has become a lineup of bland basics with no discernible point of view.
That hasn't happened yet. The brand appears to be sticking to its basics strategy, albeit in a dizzying array of choices. Gap offers at least 11 categories of women's jeans: true skinny, slim straight, girlfriend, authentic boyfriend, sexy boyfriend, always skinny, curvy skinny, real straight, perfect boot, long & lean and legging.
"There's no creative direction, there's no creative identity, and the shopper can perceive that," said Ms. Davidson Hudson, of the Editorialist. "Gap needs to say: Here are the two silhouettes that we think are important this season. These are the two we're standing behind. Here's your perfect pair."
Daniel Kulle, president of H&M in the United States, had similar advice for his American rivals. He said that H&M still saw "a huge opportunity to grow, for the next couple of years," in the United States.
"If you don't keep constantly updating your fleet, if you don't have the right trends and collections season after season, your customers are just going to go somewhere else," Mr. Kulle said in an interview.
"You have to keep your customers curious," he said. "Then they have to keep coming into your stores to see what's new today."


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Welcome to this week's edition of Front Line Friday with my regular guest, Bridget Gleason. I recently attended an inspired concert at the Meadowlands by The Boss himself, Bruce Springsteen. What a show. He engaged the audience in a performance that lasted nearly four hours and not once did he take a break. At age 67. The energy, commitment and enthusiasm that Bruce brought to the stage was remarkable.
What struck me the most was that after a legendary career that has spanned more than 40 years Bruce sang every song like he had something to prove; as if it were his first, and last, chance to impress us.
It set me thinking about our profession of sales. Why do we struggle to bring our best selves, our "A" game, to each and every sales interaction we have with prospects and customers?
Join Bridget and me for this episode of Accelerate! as we discuss how developing good sales habits, practicing consistently, and prepping for each sales call like it's your first – and executing each and every sales call like it's your last – helps build your skills and elevates your productivity. And, in the process, creates your own legacy of excellence.