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As the Trump administration tears down federal protections for student loan borrowers and turns a blind eye to financial industry abuses, it is time for California to act.
California has:
California Student Loan Borrowers Deserve Protection
California student borrowers are struggling to climb out from under crushing debt. Meanwhile, student loan companies are getting rich off of lucrative government contracts funded by taxpayer money meant to be an investment in the next generation of Americans. These companies – known as student loan servicers – use slick marketing and shady lobbying to convince lawmakers that they are helping students and their families.
In reality, student loan servicers exploit lax oversight to line their own pockets at the expense of millions of Californians simply trying to achieve the American dream.
To add insult to injury, student loan servicers routinely drive borrowers into delinquency and default by obstructing borrowers' access to critical repayment protections. In 2017 alone, more than one million Americans defaulted on a student loan nationwide – three times the number who lost homes to foreclosure. Like the fallout from a predatory mortgage, student loan distress is devastating for borrowers and for communities, ruining the financial lives of those it touches – including the seniors, veterans, teachers, nurses, and public servants who too often bear the brunt of servicing failures.
Even the Trump Treasury Department sounded alarms about this broken system, arguing that "Federal student loan servicing currently lacks effective minimum servicing standards" and criticized continuing failures by DeVos's Education Department.
As Washington turns its back on borrowers, California is fighting back.
California Attorney General Becerra sued one of the nation's largest student loan company, Navient (formerly Sallie Mae), for cheating borrowers with every type of student loan, at every step of the repayment process. Navient handles loans for more than 1.5 million people in California. Additionally, the State of California launched a new oversight program to scrutinize the practices of student loan servicers and demand new accountability for practices that affect millions of Californians.
These are critical steps to protect borrowers' rights. But to solve the problem, California needs to keep fighting for Golden State borrowers. Student borrowers cannot afford to wait for Washington to act.
California must:
Set Standards
California law should be clear: student loan companies cannot pad corporate profits at the expense of borrowers. California needs to set state standards for handling the tens of millions of student loan bills that come due in CA each year, protecting borrowers when paperwork gets botched, when payments get lost, or when loan companies change. These safeguards exist for homeowners with mortgages and consumers with credit cards, but California student loan borrowers lack the same basic protections.
Ban Abusive Practices
California needs to create new, enforceable rights for all California student loan borrowers, including borrowers who have been the victims of industry abuses. California law should ban abusive practices, ensuring these companies never take unreasonable advantage of borrowers who reach out to their student loan company for help. To hold these companies accountable, in California, individual borrowers, regulators, and law enforcement officials should be able to enforce borrowers' rights under California law.
Create a New Advocate to Stand Up for Borrowers' Rights
California should create a new Student Loan Borrower Advocate to respond to consumer complaints, sound an alarm about new breakdowns and industry abuses affecting borrowers, and refer predatory actors to regulators and law enforcement. The California Student Loan Borrower Advocate will also lead the fight to reform the student loan system by calling for changes in law or policy by the California legislature, California agencies, or federal policymakers. Drawing on the experiences of millions of California borrowers, California's Student Loan Borrower Advocate will also be a champion for borrowers in the national debate about the future of consumer protection in the student loan system.
Demand Transparency
Student loan companies thrive in the shadows, leaving borrowers, regulators, and law enforcement officials without the data they need to scrutinize individual companies' practices and spot emerging risks. By shining light on the system through the creation of anew report card for the student loan industry, California will give the public new insight—including when and why student loan borrowers default, and where industry has systematically denied borrowers' rights to affordable student loan payments. Transparency will also help honest companies compete on a level playing field for the first time.
Join the Fight: Demand a new Student Loan Borrower Bill of Rights
We're building a new coalition to fight for a California borrower bill of rights. If we are going to succeed and truly protect borrowers, we'll need to mobilize organizations representing students, workers, consumers, older Americans, communities of color, and veterans. Interested in joining us?
Contact email@example.com.
Learn more about the efforts to protect California student loan borrowers by visiting the Campaign to Protect California Borrowers' Rights:
Campaign to Protect California Borrowers' Rights
News Feed
Sacramento Bee
June 16, 2019 | The Federal Government Won't Protect Student Borrowers. California Must Step Up.
"California should act to protect millions of its residents by being the first state in the country to adopt a law requiring student loan companies to treat borrowers fairly and giving borrowers the right to hold these companies accountable when they fail to meet basic servicing standards."
Los Angeles Times
March 6, 2018 | California Braces for Battle with Trump Administration Over Student Loans
"'California led the country in enacting a licensing program for private contractors that service federal student loans,' [Becerra] told me. 'We are proud of this important program and of our strong student protections in general, but we also know we have a long way to go.' [He] said nearly a third of California student-loan borrowers are in default or delinquent in payments, which he called 'a clear indication of servicing failure.'"
San Francisco Chronicle
June 29, 2018 | Student Loan Servicer Cheats Borrowers, California Attorney General Says
"State Attorney General Xavier Becerra accused one of the nation's largest student loan servicers of cheating perhaps thousands of California borrowers…"


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A request for a Special Review Use permit by Wellsville Recreational Facility unanimously was approved during Tuesday's Board of Fremont County Commissioners meeting.
The Fremont County Planning Commission approved the SRU request by a 6-1 vote Feb. 4. During a public hearing Tuesday, three individuals from the Swissvale area spoke against the request, two people spoke in favor and one was neutral.
The SRU, requested by Daniel Cook, executive director and founder of Rivers of Recovery, and Lynda and Alfred Ira Grayzel, is for a recreational facility, which will include an outdoor-based retreat that offers recreational rehabilitation programs to disabled and severely injured combat veterans. The SRU permit is issued is for the life of the use.
The 13.26-acre property is located almost seven miles east of Salida and 55 miles west of Cañon City. Cook said use of the facility will be restricted to RoR only, will not be open to other outside groups as initially proposed.
More than 95 percent of the participants who will use the Swissvale facility are from the Warrior Transition Unit at Fort Carson.
Cook said the majority of Swissvale residents support the project, but some have expressed concern about program participants who are "disturbed" and may pose a threat of bodily injury to nearby residents as a result of post-traumatic stress disorder.
"A study done by the VA in 2013 reveals that veterans are less than half as likely as the general population to commit a crime," he said. "A new case study in 2009 found no link between crime and the armed forces."
He said RoR has had no issue with insubordination or violence since its inception in 2008, and staff members live and sleep within 20 to 50 feet of the participants.
Swissvale resident Yvonne Nelson said she has dealt with nothing but "lies" from both Cook and the Fremont County Planning and Zoning Department.
"Until my dying day if you approve this, I will be very diligent in following up with cameras and watching them," she said. "I will (devote) the rest of my days doing that; I don't want them exploiting my veterans and that's what they are doing for their own benefit."
Commissioner Ed Norden said nobody, including himself, has ever intentionally lied to her.
"I am sorry if you misunderstand the difference between a special review use permit and a building permit," he said. "Therein lies your confusion; the kind of conditions and contingencies that we are talking about have nothing to do with his building permit on a single-family dwelling. End of story."
Joyce Padilla, also of Swissvale, asked the commissioners to deny the request.
"I consider this campground a nuisance and it imposes on my personal space," she said.
Cook addressed invasion of privacy concerns.
"It is my opinion that the neighbors who are opposing this are not concerned so much about what goes on up there, but that there is something over there; one, it's a structure and two, that we're helping people," he said.
He said he feels the opponents of the project have shown no respect for moral, ethical or reasonable boundaries through their attacks on RoR, Fremont County officials and the SRU application process.
"They are accusing the local media of engaging in deceptive reporting and misinformation and they are accusing the building department of incompetence and participating in a conspiracy," he said.
Janet Johnson, whose property is adjacent to Cook's facility, said she has photos of active campfires on the RoR property during last summer's fire ban, but Cook said that is not true. Norden recommended Cook check the fire ban status daily for any changes. Cook said his fire pit can be observed from U.S. 50 and if there was a violation, it would be visible. Johnson said no reports have been made to law enforcement authorities.
Johnson asked for a delay in SRU approval so the commissioners could further study the request, visit the site and see it firsthand before they rule. She said the program may in fact be necessary for veterans, but Swissvale is not the place.
"I resent the fact that he came in the back door," she said. "Using a back door approach, he ran 170 vets through illegally last year."
Cook said in February that he began operating RoR in 2013 prior to the SRU application process because he felt the need to begin was urgent. He was given a "Compliance Advisory" in September 2013 by the Department of Planning and Zoning Code Enforcement Officers. Cook said that once he received the notice, he finished out the four trips that already were scheduled.
As a consequence, the board agreed that in addition to the $1,800 application fee, Cook pay a $900 fee that will be earmarked for the Veterans Memorial Park at the Fremont County Airport.
The SRU was approved with the conditions that all gates must remain closed when cattle is present, that the application be amended that the facility be used by veterans only and that compliance by Cook with Colorado Division of Water Resources be required.

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My conference notes on the talk: Managing Student Disputes through Technology by Aline Grossman, Executive Director Business Integrated Services and Traci Hardy, Project Manager of the University of Phoenix and Maddy Lakshmanan, Project Lead of Apollo Group, Inc.
The University of Phoenix is the largest private university in North America, specializing in adult (working students) education. With nearly 200 campuses, the University serves 300,000+ students with more than 100 degree programs. So it's a big place … and their challenge was to manage student disputes in a highly distributed and mostly virtual environment.
So they built a web-base Dispute Management System (DMS) and in the last four years, they have successfully processed 14,000 disputes.
The requirements document was 103 pages long. They employed traditional project management with agile development and "UI engineering" to maximize results.
Here are the layers of technologies used:
Framework: Spring MVC 2.04 (although 2.05 is apparently better)
View Layer: Ext.js, Prototype.js, JSP, AJAX, JSON
AppServer: Jboss 4.05 CA (with load balancing)
Data Layer: Hibernate 3.0
Database: MS SQL Server 2000
Authentication: ACEGI, CAS, CAP
Web Services: Xfire
Tools: Fortify (protects against SQL injection), QTP, LoadRunner (performance testing)
Libraries: Quartz
Some of the technical challenges:
Future directions for development include consolidating other dispute systems, easy access to earlier disputes, dealing with retaliatory issues, work load balancing and trending.
My next post will summarize notes from the talk The Unique Human Brain: Clues fromNeurology by V.S. Ramachandran, Professor and Director of the Center for Brain and Cognition, University of California, San Diego.


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Monday, August 3, 2009
An Introduction to Cynodon dactylon Pers.(doob)
Dr. M. P.Mishra August 03, 2009 FLORA No comments :
Cynodon dactylon Pers. (Doob/Durva)
The Taxonomic status of the plant
The Plant Cynodon dactylon Pers. is commonly known as Bermuda Grass, Cocksfoot-grass, Couch grass, Dog's tooth, European Bermuda Grass, Grama, Handjes grass and Stalian Ayrigi. It belongs to the family Gramineae (Poaceae). In Hindi language it is known as Doob and Durwa in Sanskrit.
General description of the plant
Cynodon dactylon Pers. is an evergreen perennial grass growing from 0.3m to 0.5m at a medium rate. It bears leaves all through the year and passes through flowering session usually ranging from August to October months.
The plant is strongly rhizomatus or stoloniferous, perennial, often mat like with stems usually prostrate or decumbent. It is found rooting at nodes when it remains in the contact of moist soil. Leaves are alternate with ligules less than 0.5mm long, membranous, densely ciliated with glabrous sheaths. Sheaths are ciliated near summits. Blades are linear, flat, 1.5 to 1.55mm wide, glaborous to soft-puberulent with minutely scabrus margins.
Plants vary greatly in soil and climate. They occur in many natural strains which differ widely in size. The colour of the plant is usually bright yellow green to dull blue green. Many varieties of this plant are poor in seed production. They are propagated by their creeping stems called runners.
The inflorescence is typically composed of 3 to 7 spreading spikes each 2 to 8 cm in length. Spikelets are 2 to 3mm long; sessile, appressed, alternating in two rows, compressed & composed of one floret. Glumes are lanecolate and 1- nerved. The lower ligule is usually 1 to 1.5mm long and slightly curved. The upper ligule is 1 to 2mm long and straight. Lemmas are 2 to 2.25mm long, with apex blunt to obtuse [Arnow (1987), de Wet and Harlon (1970), Munz (1969), Smith (1993)].
The flowers of Cynodon dactylon Pers. are hermaphrodite and like most grasses they are pollinated by the agency of wind (Proctor et.al. 1996). Strains of the grass show considerable variations with respect to seed-set. In general the production of seeds is very low. But the longevity and viability of seeds are very high. Once, when the plant is well established in soil, it primarily reproduces by vegetative means by rhizomes and stolons that develop extensively (Dona and De Kroon 1994).
The natural population of Cynodon dactylon Pers. has considerable genetic variation for growth traits as reported by Rochecouste (1962a, 1962b) & Speranza (1995). Growth traits include erect versus prostrate stems, penetration potential of roots and the tolerance of soil temperature (Speranza, 1995).
Distribution : Geographic
The plant Cynodon dactylon Pers. prefers light sandy, medium loam and heavy clay soils. It also prefers acidic, neutral and alkaline soils and it can grow in very acidic, very alkaline and saline soils. However, it cannot grow in shady places. It requires moistures in soil. The plant is a native of South Africa. It has been introduced throughout warm-temperate and the sub-tropical world primarily for use as a lawn grass or as a forage grass, especially in saline habitats as reported by various workers (de Wet and Harlan, 1970; Gibbs Russell et al. 1955; Omacini et.al. 1990; Santosh and Boechat, 1994; Stromberg 1995; Thomasson and Theodore 1997; and Toth et.al. 1997). Geographically, this grass is cosmopolitan in distribution.
Distribution : Ecological
The grass Cynodon dactylon Pers. is generally distributed on sandy and saline soils of open places like road sides, agricultural fields, along irrigation canals, orchards an waste places (Arnow 1987).
This plant preferably grows in a warm and sunny position in a well drained soil (Huxley, 1992). It can grow in very diverse conditions of soil, moisture and temperature. It can withstand drought conditions and has a tendency to eliminate other plants that grow besides it (Duke 1983). This grass propagates very rapidly. It roots at nodes when it comes in contact of soil. Thus it grows in such a way that it is difficult to eradicate it. This is one reason of its becoming a serious weed in a cultivated land (Duke 1983).
Cynodon dactylon Pers. grass is reported to tolerate an annual rain fall of 9 to 29 cm and an annual temperature range of 5.9 to 27.8oC. Also, it can tolerate a pH in the range of 4.3 to 8.4. It can also tolerate alkaly soil conditions, disease (to some extent), drought, frost, grazing, herbicide, heavy metal, heavy soil, insects, nematodes, peat, poor soil, salt, sand, atmospheric pollution, ultraviolet rays, viruses, waterlogging and competition of weeds (Duke 1983). This grass is best adapted to relatively fertile, well-drained soils with a pH of 6.0 to 7.0 in humid areas. Plants produce a little growth in dry weather conditions (Duke 1983). This species is hardy to about -10oC temperature as reported by Huxley (1992).
Artificial propagation
Cynodon dactylon Pers. can be artificially propagated in green houses by means of seeds. Germination of seeds may take more than two weeks under suitable conditions. Though the viability percentage of seeds of Cynodon dactylon Pers. is very low, it can be propagated by seeds and replanted in suitable conditions. Duke (1983) has reported on the propagation of this plant through seeds and has estimated that 1 kilogram of seed contains, 4,000,000 seeds (Duke - 1983).
Plants of Cynodon dactylon Pers. can be propagated very easily from rooted side-shoots.
Ecological status of the plant
Cynodon dactylon Pers. or the Bermuda grass is a preferred food plant of sub-urban populations of Black-gloved Wallaby and Western grey Kangaroos in Australia (Wann and Bell, 1997). It is used as Biomass, ground cover against soil erosion through rain water and wind storms and also as soil-stabilizer. Plants of Cynodon dactylon Pers. are grown as a cover for warm sunny banks. They are also used for lawns (Huxley, 1992). Grass communities have been reported to play singnificant roles in land management besides causing seasonal variations in the biomass of standing crops as reported by Barik and Misra (1997). On the other hand, ecological studies of grassland communities have been done by various workers like Misra and Puri (1954), Misra and Misra (1981), Misra and Misra (1983), Misra (1992), Smith (1993), Speranja (1995), Wann and Bell (1997) - in respects of plants ecology, seasonal changes in leaf area index and chlorophyll in an Indian grassland, biostatistics, grassland community of South Orissa, Cynodon, morphology and phenology of Cynodon dactylon Pers. and, dietary preferences of the black goved Wallaby.
These plants stay green even during hot and dry weather conditions. They give complete ground cover in 4 to 8 weeks if they are planted 30 to 45 cm apart (Duke, 1983). They succeed on most soil types and they require very little mowing on poor soils.
This grass is very important for soil conservation due to its long runners which remain rooting at nodes. The annual biomass productivity range of this grass ranges from 4 to 52 tonnes per hectare (Duke, 1983).
Medicinal uses of Cynodon dactylon Pers.
Plants of this grass are well known for their Astringent. Diuretic and Ophthalmic properties. It has been reported that this grass is alterative, anabolic, antiseptic, aperient, astringent, cyanogenetic, demulcent, depurative, emollient, sudorific and vulnerary (Duke, 1983). A decoction of roots of Cynodon dactylon Pers. is often used as diuretic in the treatment of dropsy disease and also in the treatment of secondary syphilis (Chopra, Nayar, and Chopra, 1986). It has also been reported that an infusion of roots of this plant stops bleeding from Piles (Chopra, Nayar, and Chopra, 1986).
Ethno-herbological importance of Cynodon dactylon Pers.
According to an estimation of the World Health Organisation, 80% of the worlds population relies on herbs for its primary health care needs. Ayurveda and Siddha in India, Chinese medicines in China, Unani Medicines in Islamic Countries are traditional knowledge systems that use herbs or plant products for therapeutics on a large scale. More than 35,000 plant species are being used around the world for medicinal purposes in traditional and ethnomedicinal practices (Kumar and Singh, 2001). Cynodon dactylon Pers. occupies a key position in ethnomedicinal practices and traditional medical (Ayurvedic, Unani, Nepalese and Chinese) knowledge systems. In India and other countries herbal preparations of Cynodon dactylon Pers. are being used based on folklore and traditional wisdom.
In ethnomedicinal practices the juice of the plant Cynodon dactylon Pers. is used as astringent and is applied to fresh cuts and wounds (Chopra, Nayar and Chopra 1986). It is used internally in the treatment of chronic diarrhoea and dysentery (Nepal Dept. of Medicinal Plants, Nepal, 1993). It is also useful in the treatment of Catarrhal ophthalmia (Chopra, 1986). The leaves of Cynodon dactylon Pers. are also used in the treatment of hysteria, epilepsy and insanity.The plant Cynodon dactylon Pers. is also a folk remedy for anasarca, calculus, cancer, carbuncles, convulsions, cough, cramps, cystitis, diarrhoea, dysentery, headache, haemorrhage, hypertension, kidneys, laxative, measle, rubella, sores, stones, tumours, uro-genital disorders, warts and wounds (Duke, 1983). This traditional knowledge is in full practice among Santals and other tribe-races in Jharkhand (India) also. Arunachalam (2001) has reported that there is sufficient scope to fine tune the tribal indigenous knowledge for optimizing benefits. To facilitate this process we need to understand science behind traditions.
Place of Cynodon dactylon Pers. in Religion and Culture
In Hindu religion Puranas reveal that Durva (doob=Cynodon dactylon) was extracted out of Kshir-sagar at the time of "Samudra Manthan" by Gods and Devils. Thus, it is regarded as younger sister of Godess Lakshami. Durva is used at the time of worship of Gouri and Ganesh for `Achaman' purpose. God Ganesh loves Durva very much. Hence terminal leaf-buds of Durva are offered to God Ganesh while his worship. In Balmiki Ramayan the body colour of God Rama has been compared to the colour of Durva. Goswami Tulsi Das in his Ram Charit Manas has accepted Durva alongwith other worship - materials. In Hindu religion this grass is regarded as sacred since it is beloved of Gods, human being and also of animals. Grass Cynodon dactylon Pers. has been taken as a symbol of birth and reproduction. Hence Durva leaves are offered to newly-wed daughters at the time of their departure for their husbands' homes. Its green colour is taken as a symbol of welfare. Thus, Hindus regard this plant, a sacred plant and use it during various ceremonies they perform the whole life from birth till death.
In Sarna religion of tribes of Jharkhand, plant Cynodon dactylon Pers. has been accepted as most sacred. Since Sarna Tribes are worshipers of nature, they worship trees and plants. But Cynodon dactylon Pers. or `Doob Ghas' is given greater importance by them. In tribal culture of Sarna, infants are subjected to `Sacred-bath' with pure water mixed with leaves of Cynodon dactylon Pers. At the time of nomenclature of young children, buds of Doob-ghas are used along with turmeric, Akshat (rice-grains), water and cups of leaves. These tribal people use Doob in every ceremony at the time of wedding. Also, no worship is completed without the use of doob-ghas in Sarna religion. Even when these tribal people return after the cremation / burning of a dead body they make themselves `Pavitra' (free from all impuritries and germs) by spraying a mixture of doob leaves, turmeric paste and water on their bodies. Pahans (Priest-heads of tribal people) use doob during post-cremation ceremonies. Tribal houses are made `Pavitra' or sacred by spraying or sprinkling water with the help of doob-branches in all the corners.
The traditional, religious and cultural practices detailed above may or may not have science and technology behind them, they are very essential for the conservation and maintenance of ecosystems and environment. These were just two examples. Grass Cynodon dactylon Pers. is regarded as a sacred plant also in other religions and sects. Since this plant is included in Dharma, there should not be a question against the scientific validity of those practices with it. Khoshoo (1999), reports that Dharma embodies all that is universally and eternally true. Without Dharma, nothing can make sense. Since we cannot raise the carrying capacity of the Earth System we should conserve all resources & biodiversity with all means, traditions and religious practices. "To save our planet with all its living and non-living manifestations and to ensure the diversity that has been its strength, there is an urgent need to adopt a code, which may be called the Dharma of Ecology" (Khosoo, 1999).
Weed Status :
Noxious, Invasive and Injurious Aspects
The grass Cynodon dactylon Pers. or the Bermuda grass has been reported to be Photosensitizing in animals to cause contact - dermatitis and Hayfever (Duke, 1983). This grass has been listed as noxious for California and Utah.
This grass is considered a noxious weed in agricultural practice at a global level by the U.S., but its State Department of Food and Agriculture has not considered it to be a noxious weed. However, it has been considered the most difficult grass weed in the Southern United States.
Mishra, M P (2005). Succession of fungi and their ecomicrobial involvement inthe decay of Cynodon dactylon Pers. 14-21.
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Brain Unfettered
January 12, 2014
I want to share my "stuffs", I really do, but privacy.... yeah that. I don't want my stuff to spread far and wide, not that it's good enough to even do so, but it's sort of freaky to think it could. I want to just lay it all out and not be conservative with who I am, what I create, post conservatively for fear someone might.... judge me? or my kids? unfairly. Why does this matter to me? Who the fuck cares what anyone else thinks, why do "we" tend to care about such things, it's a ridiculous waste of time and energy. So with all that spewed, I guess this is my space, a space I should just be uninhibited in, I'll try. Pinky swear.
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August 20, 2013
Oh Gillio... you are lovely.
I moved into an A5 Gillio Compagna planner, I named her Sedona.
Finchley was/is wonderful, but the cardboard in it bugged me, the rings bugged me, and really I just wanted something a little nicer. I moved everything into my Gillio, she will be my life and wallet until I figure out which pocket version I want for a wallet.
Here's the packaging. I thought it was interesting the box is plain.
It also calls the planner "reddish" not orange like it's listed on the webpage.
Here she is un-stuffed. She is absolutely beautiful. And definitely in the orange family.
She sounds, smells, and feels amazing (yes I am talking about a planner).
Moved in and stuffed! Honestly I could cram more in.
I have my Rhodia pad in the big pocket, then my Moleskin camping journal in there as well.
I will need to add another pen loop, one is just not enough for me.
Here's another "stuffed" view. Super happy with her 'stuffibility"!
The pen loop holds my Pilot Prera Fountain pen perfectly.
That's it for now, we'll take a look inside next time.
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August 14, 2013
Scrawling color.
This pen case is "Designed for Arrangement". It says so right on the outside,
just check out the arranging I'm doing in this case!
This is the Lihit Lab Teffa pen case, I love it but I
am in search of wrap that will hold many pens.
All the wraps I find only hold a few.
|More Microns than I can handle.... they're everywhere in my house.
|Poor mans Copic markers, still amazing. Prismacolor Art Marker.
|Need to be careful with these, they bleed through most papers.
What are some of your favorite color pens? If you use Copics,
are they really worth the crazy amount of money?
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August 11, 2013
Keeping within the constraints.
My work space is creeping like blackberries.
Really, I'm just happy to have a space again... even if I'm overflowing my boundaries.
It allows me to breath life into the mundane.... for that, I would work in a shoebox.
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August 10, 2013
My spot in the house.
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After trying several chronodex versions, I settled on making my own. I love the other versions out there, this just works best for me. This is sort of how I see a day in my head. Anyway, being the ex-printmaking major that I am, I carved my own stamp and am happy with it being mine all mine. I'll report back in a few months on its usefulness.
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Moving from Tumblr.
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South Shore Community Action Council held its 16th annual Local Heroes awards Wednesday night.
South Shore Community Action Council held its 16th annual Local Heroes awards Wednesday night.
Senate President Therese Murray cited community activist and volunteer Aileen Droege, who died last January, for her efforts to feed the hungry. The council has voted to create the Aileen Droege Center for Nutrition at the agency's food warehouse.
Honored as Local Heroes were:
Bill and Paula Harris. He is the board president of Mayflower RSVP and a business representative on the South Coastal Workforce Investment Board. She is secretary of the Library Board of Trustees in Duxbury, serves as vice chairman of economic and community development for the South Shore Chamber of Commerce,and is past president of the Plymouth Philharmonic Orchestra board.
Raymond Burton. A member and volunteer for many years with Boy Scouts of America, an EMT instructor and trainer at Plymouth North High School and a volunteer in religious education, he also works on behalf of veterans.
Volunteer Income Tax Assistance Volunteers. Since 2007, South Shore Community Action Council, the Internal Revenue Service and volunteers provide free income tax help to hundreds of low to moderate income families. The volunteers are Gibbs Ferris, Denise Tetreault, Bill Broom, Carolyn Broom, Colleen Silva, Katie Dayie, Paul Dumais, Ann Burnham and Karen Francis. They have logged close to 1,000 hours for training and completion of more than 750 tax returns that resulted in $500,000 in refunds and saved the taxpayers $52,500 in tax return preparation fees.
Walmart. South Shore Community Action Council received a $42,500 grant from the Walmart Foundation State Giving Program and $1,000 from the Plymouth Walmart to support the Greater Plymouth Food Warehouse and the Healthy Harvest Program, which provides 28 non-profit organizations from Hull to Wareham with locally grown fresh fruits and vegetables. Plymouth Walmart store manager Saleem Shaikh accepted the award.
Anthony J. Fiore. This scout from Troop 199 in Halifax canvassed his neighborhood and collected 219 pounds of food for the Greater Plymouth Food Warehouse. He then recruited younger scouts to help him run an all-day food drive at the Plymouth Stop & Shop. They collected 1,108 pounds of food, equivalent to 850 meals for needy families.
Mary Doolan and Sowing Seeds. Sowing Seeds is a non-profit group in Marshfield that runs a clothing bank of gently used clothes for local residents and helps with transportation, home maintenance, household needs, and counseling and social services.
The event was sponsored by Rockland Trust Co. The award recipients received citations from State Senators Therese Murray, Thomas Kennedy and Robert Hedlund, and State Representatives Vinny DeMacedo, Thomas Calter, James Cantwell and Daniel Webster.


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Hello, I've use SS now for several weeks and enjoy it very much, 16-camera license and currently using about 12 cams, 5 of them PTZ cams. I also have a fairly large Indigo installation. I live on a corner with a good view of two separate streets and also a very superior view of the entire Salt Lake Valley (Yes, Utah). There are at least three viewing situations where I want to send all PTZ cams to a particular view:
1) POS1. Home Security View. All cams go to best position to view actual property. All lawns, entries, walkways... these are masked.
2) POS2. Street and Traffic View. All PTZ cams move to view the street, intersection, train crossing.
3) POS3. Valley View. All PTZ cams zoom "out yonder" to see the mountains, the sunset, the horizon....in every direction.
POS4..8 would still be used on an individual non-grouped basis.
POS1 spend most time in this view.
POS2 for the traffic may be activated also under crash-sound control...using an outdoor glass-break sensor. It won't catch traffic accidents but will catch the aftermath.
POS3 Valley view is great for seeing approaching storms. It might be auto-sampled every hour for a quick storm picture then return to security monitor....maybe, still thinking of this position.
I suppose I could write something in Indigo to control SS. But Being a newbie I haven't convinced myself SS has some of this already built in. In addition I will be installing 3 or 4 more cams 25- or 30-feet in the air just for the view and a little reduncency. 8K cams for a great valley view, so there could be 7 or 8 PTZ's to control.
A 'feature' >..... I would have all cams auto return (as a group) to security position POS1 after 2 to 10 minutes.
Another desire: I would also love to be able to set all cams to night-vision color vs. IR-b&w vision. I realize night vision is low light. But a global method to do this using SS or even one cam at a time... would sure be nice. I've been focusing on 4K and 8K cams....the quality is really getting good. Yes, I'm very happy about the cams since the skylink101 cam days.
So, I realize I brought up two or three separate things here....thanks for the software. Any thoughts anyone?
October 2018
Your setup sounds great, and it's great to hear you are getting good results with SecuritySpy. Cameras have certainly come a long way - what make/model cameras are you using? Since you are happy with the cameras this would be good for us and other users to know.
SecuritySpy doesn't have a built-in feature to control the PTZ of multiple cameras simultaneously, however this can be achieved with some simple AppleScripts. For example, here is an AppleScript to move the first four cameras to their first preset position, all at the same time:
tell app "SecuritySpy"
ptz preset1 camera number 0
ptz preset1 camera number 1
ptz preset1 camera number 2
ptz preset1 camera number 3
end tell
Actual camera numbers can be obtained from the Camera Info window in SecuritySpy (if you don't see this column, click the header bar where you see the column names to add it).
This script can then be set as a trigger in Indigo. You can create multiple scripts in this way for the different views you want.
To reset to a particular preset after a certain time, you could do something like this:
tell app "SecuritySpy"
ptz preset2 camera number 0
ptz preset2 camera number 1
delay 120
ptz preset1 camera number 0
ptz preset1 camera number 2
end tell
This should work pretty well as long as there is low likelihood that one script will be called during the time that a different script is waiting in the delay period.
As for night-vision and IR, SecuritySpy does not have controls for this, because each camera manufacturer uses a different set of commands for features such as this. Once I know the make and model of your cameras it may be possible to find the right commands and therefore build a simple script to do this.
October 2018
Hey Ben thank you for the quick reply and sorry for the slow response.
You asked about the cams I've been so happy about: Here they are...
Amcrest: IP3M-941. A 3MP PTZ wifi camera, 2304x1296, with reasonable night vision (not advertised as such but if there is a little light the color is good enough). Great PTZ and preset operation on the Dahua Technology profile. ONVIF is no good for this cam in the PTZ department.
Amcrest: IP3M-943 3MP wifi bullet cam.
Lorex: LNB4421 Bullet Cam, CNV, POE, 4MP, 2688x1520. $55!!! On Amazon. I use 4 of these with an Amcrest AMPS5E4P-AT-65 extended temperature attic compliant 5-port POE+ switch with metal housing. The 5th port is gigabit for uplink. Very good pictures.
I also can list some camera's to stay away from; amcrest IP2M-xxx, and any CAM labeled insteon. I have some of both types but they are being retired. The amcrest's are just getting old. The insteons are total junk.
Thank you very much for the applescript suggestions. I understand applescript is being phased out, but I can make the appropriate Python translations. I did spend time in the Indigo application with the Cynical SecuritySpy plugin and found a ton of good fun and useful securitySpy control features. I will keep you updated when I get something worthwhile going, which shouldn't take too long. It would be a cool feature in SS though to be able to group move PTZ presets sometimes.
Looking for some good 8MP PTZ cams for high up mounting... i can see where wifi wouldn't work well at 8MP...planning on wired connection.
BTW, my Mac Mini is now running 15% loaded now with 6-fps, average 2MP cameras, times 12. I think it can handle 4 more. Thanks again. :)
October 2018
I've been looking for a 8MP PTZ camera....wired is fine. No luck....unless a turrent cam is the same as a ptz. More research.
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The IUPAC name of Triallyl 1,2,4-benzenetricarboxylate is tris(prop-2-enyl) benzene-1,2,4-tricarboxylate. With the CAS registry number 2694-54-4, it is also named as 1,2,4-Benzenetricarboxylic acid, tri-2-propenyl ester. In addition, its molecular formula is C18H18O6 and molecular weight is 330.34.
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Triallyl 1,2,4-benzenetricarboxylate
Synonym : TRIALLYL 1,2,4-BENZENETRICARBOXYLATE;Triallyl benzene-1,2,4-tricarboxylate;TRIALLYL TRIMELLITATE;1,2,4-Benzenetricarboxylicacid,tri-2-propenylester;
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It may have been cold and snowy here in the 'burbs of Washington DC, but the insanity of the Obama Regime/Democrat Party approved #Occupy Wall Street movement was as hot as ever.
While on Twitter yesterday during the snow fall, I saw Sister Toldjah mentioning how things were getting hot in Denver...and sure enough they did. Gateway Pundit has video of how police in riot gear had to hold back the squatters there, as they tried to close down the camp. One policeman had his bike kicked over and others were kicked at.
The video below shows one of the squatters trying to knock over a police motorcycle (around 1:24) and got a faceful of dirt after the policeman chased and cuffed him.
You can hear sounds of protesters yelling at cops as well, one of the #OWS crowd at about 6:30 in the video calls someone (police?) a "f**king f@ggot."
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In Oregon this morning, 30 of the squatters were arrested after refusing to leave a park in an "affluent district (Fox News). In Chicago, they want the collapse of the US Government (Rebel Pundit, via Weasel Zippers).
The #OWS permit in Madison, WI was taken away due to unsanitary conditions as well as inappropriate public behavior, such as public masturbation (Ironic Surrealism). In addition to whacking off, there are even worse stories of molestation going on at various locations, including one where a 16 year old was "pimped" out by this scary creature in New Hampshire (This Ain't Hell).
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Do you like to read romance novels? Wouldn't you like to know more about your favorite authors? Well, you came to the right place! Join the writers of Romance Weekly as we go behind the scenes of our books and tell all…… About our writing of course! Every Tuesday we'll all answer the same questions and after you've enjoyed the blog on this site, we'll direct you to another. So come back often for a thrilling ride. Tell your friends and feel free to ask us questions in the comment box.
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Online PR News – 03-June-2009 – – EMERYVILLE, CA - DIY Alarm Forum, a free resource that helps home and business owners find an alarm company, has released sample home security system component layout plans. The plans are intended to help new homeowners, potential alarm company customers, and do-it-yourselfers identify components and be well informed about their homes alarm systems. The site offers three different layouts for homeowners: one for a basic home security system, another for a typical home security system and a third for an advanced or enhanced home security system.
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Haier, a Chinese electronic consumer products maker, has announced its entry into the Indian mobile handset market with the launch of its CDMA range of mobile handsets in India in association with Tata Teleservices along with the launch of several GSM and CDMA mobile phone handsets priced, starting from Rs 2000 a piece.
Haier also declared its intent for setting up a mobile phone handset manufacturing unit in India in the next 18-24 months to address the target of selling five million mobile phone handsets in India over the next two years.
Company has also introduced a new range of both CDMA and GSM mobile phones in a price range of Rs 2,000 to Rs 20,000 for indian consumers.
Haier has approached one of the largest GSM operators in India to develop customised packages with Haier's GSM handset range.
Despite its existing brand recognition in India due to presense of its other white goods business in Indian market, this ambitious Chinese brand will have to compete head on with the likes of Motorola, Nokia, Sony Ericsson and Samsung, though its aim is not as immodest as to try toppling the leader, Nokia.
Haier's Group Chairman, Mr Chai Yongsen at the recent product lauch said with the present rate of growth, India was poised to become one of the top two mobile markets in the world by 2008.
"We will bring in new technologies and models at both the entry and top level to make a strong presence in India," MrYongsen said, adding, the company's aim was to be among the top brands in the Indian mobile handset market by the end of its first year of operations.
"Our target is to achieve a sales of 5 million handsets in India, in another 18-24 months. If we achieve this target then we would consider setting up a manufacturing unit here in India," Haier Telecom India Vice-Chairman and Managing Director Arun Khanna told reporters at the lauch in Delhi.
Analysts believes that over the next few years, Haier's sharp edge may turn out to be the size of its home market in China, which may give it the scale required to sell at breathtakingly low prices. So far, though, its handsets are not much cheaper than what rivals are currently offering.
Company added that the it was also organising a software R&D outfit in India to suit the requirement of the Indian market and meet the emerging needs of the local mobile telephony.
Haier has joined hands with TVS Electronics for customer supports through 250 service centres across India which is expected to get doubled in a year.


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At first I made Fourze-Nadeshiko ones, but at the half-way I realized Meteor would be more fit since Ryusei and Domon are both martial artist, so after finish with Fourze-Nadeshiko, I did the whole shots again from the beginning with Meteor and my usual Tomoko-wannabe using swapped Figma Kuroneko on Hirasawa Yui (K-On)'s body.
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Who hasn't been part of, or witness to, an ugly incident on the playground? You know the scene. Recess is going well, everyone is having great fun, then a disagreement ensues, over who knows what. Before you know it, there's a torrent of threatening words, a flurry of shoves and finally a knee to the gut or a punch in the face.
It can be a rough place, the playground.
If only that were the sum of the unpleasantness our kids had to endure at school.
The truth is, for a lot of school children, the bloody nose is a small matter. The much deeper pain comes from a kind of constant harassment that can push them into isolation, depression and even suicide.
Bullying takes them there, into that dark place that makes a child feel helpless and vulnerable.
The good thing is, the nation is beginning to understand that bullying can no longer simply be dismissed as a way of life, as something that children do and have to go through. Now, there is an understanding that it can and should be combated.
Over the next few days, JJIE and the Southern Education Desk (SED) will be examining the problem of bullying. You will be able to read the stories on both websites, but you will also be able to listen to them thanks to our partnership with the SED.
The SED is a consortium of public radio stations clustered in the Southeast with a collective journalistic mission to explore "the challenges and opportunities confronting education" in the South.
Bullying is, indeed, a challenge. But in the struggle to understand and curtail it, there is also opportunity. In our effort to make our schools a safer, more tolerant, more understanding place we are making our society safer, more tolerant and more understanding.
In this series, the focus is on Georgia. We do that not only because JJIE and SED are located here, but also because the state has recently put some punch in its anti-bully law, broadening it to include the younger and, therefore, often the more at-risk of the school population.
One of those vulnerable kids was 11-year-old Jaheen Herrera, who took his life in 2009 after a long period of being harassed at his school in suburban Atlanta. It was a staggering tragedy that sparked lawmakers in Georgia to implement a stronger anti-bully law.
Georgia, then, has made some progress in protecting its school children, but there's still a lone way to go. And that journey is complicated, emotional and sometimes difficult.
Beginning tomorrow, JJIE's Chandra Thomas and SED's Maura Walz, however, bring clarity to this issue with compelling stories of parents, children and administrators grappling with it every day.
We hope you will take a few minutes to read and listen to what they have to say.


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1) 7 days Training program for Engineers conducted by EDC:
Haldia Development Authority (HDA) organized a training programme in collaboration with Engineers Development Council (EDC), New Delhi at Haldia Bhawan during 06th to 12th May,2010. In the training programme various topics mainly from civil engineering were covered. During the first session, various aspects of project management such as project basic attributes, milestone, deliverables, resource type, optimum utilization of resources, laws of project management, DPR preparation, Project Management Information System, CPM, Quality Control, and Quality Assurance etc. were discussed. Some of the topics from concrete technology, MS-Project, Auto Cad had also been discussed.
Then a discussion on transportation engineering was held, in which issues such as transportation system, control system, flow entities, Indian road classifications had been included. At last some of the ideas from Information Technology such as SCADA System, sensors, RTU, PLC, had been discussed. In next session, representatives from HDA, Haldia Integrated Development Agency Ltd. (HIDAL) & Jamshedpur Utility Services Company Ltd. (JUSCO) presented on various topics, mainly on water distribution system at Haldia. At the last segment, discussion was maderegarding building material, pavement material, design of flexible pavement for rural road, culvert etc.
Training of HDA Officials :
- a) 11 weeks Remote Sensing and GIS Training at Department of Science and Technology, Bikash Bhawan: The Planning Assistant, HDA was sent for capacity building in GIS to attend 11 weeks course on RS-GIS, in November, 2010, to Bikash Bhawan.The training was arranged by Department of Science and Technology, Govt. of West Bengal.
- b) Assistant Engineer (Civil) attended the workshop on "Kolkata city Dialogue on Air Quality and Transportation Challenge: An agenda for action" on March 16, 2011 at Royal Bengal Auditorium, City Centre, Salt lake City, Kolkata. The workshop was a joint initiative of Kolkata Metropolitan Development Authority and Centre for Science and Environment, New Delhi. The workshop was on transportation system, traffic safety and air pollution problem.
- c) Executive Engineer (Electrical) and Assistant Engineer (Civil) attended a Workshop on "Regulatory and Policy Framework for Market Development for Renewable Energy in India" on 4th and 5th October, 2010, organized at Astor Hotel, Kolkata. The workshop was on different types of Renewable energy, their source, cost and policy frame work for marketing the Renewable energy.
- d) Executive Engineer (Civil), HDA attended the Technical Seminar on 'Use of Fly Ash in Concrete and Construction Sector' which was organized by Centre for Fly Ash Research and Management (C-Farm) on 31st January'2011 at Kolkata. In the seminar, discussion was held on use of fly ash for cement manufacturing, in concrete reducing the cement consumption resulting economical construction, reclamation of low lying area, construction of road embankment, etc.
2) Extension of Haldia Planning Area:
In the year 2013, jurisdiction of HDA has increased to 1982.07 Sq km(Approx) covering total Sub division of Haldia and Tamluk.
3) Development of Sub Divisional Hospital:
The Board of HDA in its 96th Meeting had suggested exploring the feasibility of development of Sub Divisional hospital at Haldia on PPP mode. The matter was informed to the Health and Family Welfare Department, Govt. of West Bengal for their opinion in this regard.HDA has already ear marked a site near Khudiram Square for development of Sub-Divisional Hospital on PPP Mode.
4) Residential/commercial project on PPP:
HDA engaged M/s Bengal SREI Infrastructure Development Limited to prepare a concept plan about the viability/feasibility of different sites to be used for residential cum commercial purpose.M/s Bengal SREI Infrastructure Development Limited has identified one location at Basudebpur near Khudiram Square to be utilized for development of commercial cum residential purpose on an area of about 2 acres. HDA has already advertised for Expression of Interest for development of Residential cum Commercial complex at Haldia.
5) One of the major achievements of HDA in the financial year 2012-2013 is the Prestigious Satish Samanta Haldia Trade Centre at Sanhati Maidan, Ranichak, Haldia. This is a platform that provides world class facility for trade promotion, boost export and import in Haldia . The project has been implemented by HDA with the financial assistance from Commerce and Industry Department and local industries at a cost of Rs. 25 Crore on an area of 18 acre.
The trade centre has 20000 sqft. Exhibition hall, auditorium, exhibition stalls, and open air stage, amphitheatre, meeting and conference rooms, library, guest house, gym, Indore games rooms, restaurant, cafeteria, swimming pole, food courts, parking lots and landscaping, etc. which will provide state-of-the-art urban and industrial infrastructure to the city of Haldia.
6) Considering the advancement of technology in the field of high resolution imagery based precision mapping HDA has taken initiatives for preparation of a multipurpose GIS Based map upto plot level for the old planning area. For this, HDA has also established an independent GIS Cell with required hardware and software for the proper functioning of the cell. The hardware, including latest work stations, plotters, printers etc had been procured earlier.


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Hydroponics Online Stores & Websites Rake In A Estimated $55 Million Dollars In First half Of 2010 Says HydroponicsWholesale.com
(1888PressRelease) The Hydroponics business is very lucrative and HydroponicsWholesale.com is taking a step further and offering franchise opportunities to land based stores and hydroponics websites to make a part of $200 Million Dollars. Hydroponics Entrepreneurs are cashing in on services tied to growing hydroponics plants and also for organic use with vegetable and hydroponics store franchises. Hydroponics Wholesale( Http://www.hydroponicswholesale.com ) is now opening hydroponics franchise stores to the public. Entrepreneurs that wish to sell hydroponics systems and nutrients and lighting to growers are encouraged to apply with Hydroponics Wholesale now online. The hydroponics industry is booming, with retail sales up from $15 Million in 2006 to $55 Million in 2010 and climbing month by month. Hydroponics Wholesale has set their hydroponics affiliate program( http://www.hydroponicswholesale.com/affiliate.php ) and a franchise program through Family Hydroponics Stores and products, where they help get hydroponics store owners and hydroponics website owners off the ground and making money off hydroponics products. Hydroponics Wholesale carries the exclusive line of House and Garden nutrients, which thousands of growers use to get high yield and quality products. HydroponicsWholesale.com now ships within 24 hours from their humboldtwholesale.com drop ship locations across the states, closest to the customers location is insured for fast delivery.
HydroponicsWholesale.com is offering through their RSVP form on their contact us page, any hydroponics or gardening website can put a new HydroponicsWholesale.com tracking banner, to receive 8% referral fee, for all purchases, that their website drives to HydroponicsWholesale.com One of hydroponicsWholesale.com affiliated websites, made over $2,000 last month, while sending visitors over to Hydroponics Wholesale through their banners and text link ads on their website. This is big opportunity and hydroponics related websites should be making money now and should contact us to get our banners to place on their website for revenue gain says" Jeff a long time manager at HydroponicsWholesale.com. To learn how to grow, please see the new HydroponicsWholesale.com Blog ( http://www.hydroponicswholesale.com/blog ) Source: http://www.1888pressrelease.com/hydroponics-online-stores-websites-rake-in-a-estimated-55-pr-219388.html


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My favorite guerilla lead gen program aimed at CEOs July 15, 2010Posted by Mike Gospe in Integrated Marketing, Lead Gen.
Tags: activities & offers, direct marketing, Lead Generation, marketing blueprints, marketing strategy, strategy, thought leadership
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One of my most favorite lead gen programs I worked on was about 10 years ago when I was VP of marketing for a knowledge management start-up. This was during the early days of online search. Using today's terms, we offered a software-as-a-service (SaaS) product/service that allowed users to get immediate answers to their questions. What was unique at the time was that our engine was very advanced and would offer up correct and relevant answers as opposed to a laundry list of links.
Since we were a start-up, our marketing budget was non-existent. Our objective was to seed our sales pipeline quickly with a dozen well-qualified, brand name customers that we could eventually use as public references. Our only choice was to approach this project as a guerilla (see Jay Levinson's many books on Guerilla Marketing). So, we got creative.
- We built our own list of target companies. We carefully matched our product strategy with a prioritized set of target segments. Rather than blanketing all potential audiences, we produced a list 500 target companies. We needed wins quickly, and we felt we had a good story to tell. So, with a laser-focused ambition, we set our sites and did not waiver from them.
- We researched each company to confirm the name of their CEO and to obtain his/her email address and an issue they were facing that was relevant to our product. How did we do this? We were blessed to have one of the most savvy executive admins around. She called into each company and navigated to her counterpart – the CEO's executive admin. Calling on behalf of our CEO, she explained that we wanted to share some information that her CEO would find interesting, based on an issue his/her company was wresting with, as noted in the news, their website, etc. She asked for his direct email address so she could send our information on behalf of our CEO. (This approached worked exceptionally well for several reasons: this was not a telemarketing call — it was exec admin to exec admin; we were not selling anything; we were honest, forthright, and polite. To our delight, we captured and verified 80% of the CEO email addresses this way.)
- We created a standard email for this program, then tailored it for each CEO. Our email (ghost written for our CEO) was one paragraph in length and included a mocked-up screen shot of how our product would look on the target's website, under their brand. So, while the data in the screen shot was bogus, their company logo, homepage design was obvious. Several energetic souls in our support team built these screen shots for us.
- The call to action was personalized by our CEO. It may seem ironic, but our goal was not to sell our product. At least not at first. Instead, the text of the email illustrated our idea/value proposition. We showed the mocked-up screenshot to show how our product/service might look on their home page. Using regular language (not jargon or energized marketing-speak), we asked them if they thought this was a crazy idea. In closing, we asked them to contact our CEO to provide us with some feedback. The telephone number we provided was to a new line that that marketing team would answer as if we were the CEO's office.
- We created a separate email mailbox for our CEO and distributed these emails from that account. Twenty emails were developed and dropped each week. (Remember, we had no budget to outsource any of this work.) It took time to tailor each email, but we didn't want to wait for all 500 to be ready. Also, by staggering the drop, we could learn how effective we were being by watching our response rates.
We successfully ran the program for 6 weeks before we claimed victory. We received a 12% response rate and won audiences with a number of brand-name customers. My personal favorite was an email response we received from Michael Eisner (then the head of Disney) who directed us to follow-up with his VPs of marketing and support. Everyone was copied on his response; the skids had been greased; we were in business!
Have a creative lead gen story to share? I'd love to hear it!
Your "Customer Advisory Board" (CAB) Resource Center October 26, 2009Posted by Mike Gospe in Customer Advisory Boards.
Tags: CAB, CABs, Customer Advisory Board, Customer Advisory Boards, Customer Council, Integrated Marketing, marketing programs, marketing strategy, strategy, thought leadership
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2013 Update: Visit my new blog focused on Customer Advisory Boards, including two new guidebooks that unlocks the secrets to harnessing the power of this executive group.
The Dow is flirting around 14,000 and many expect signs of recovery to continue to blossom in 2013. Kicking off or rejuvinating your company's CAB (or Customer Advisory Council – CAC) program is an excellent way to strengthen customer loyalty and ensure you are on the right (roadmap) track for 2013 and beyond.
I've been facilitating CABs and other executive summits and offsites for more than 10 years. Here is a collection of articles that offer insights, tips, and best practices that will help optimize your program and build stronger executive relationships.
- Are you getting strategic insight from your best customers?
Customer Advisory Boards help you validate and refine your product direction
- What Came First, the CAB or the Executive Relationship?
- CAB or no CAB? That is the question
- A CAB Agenda to Engage Customers
- A Tale of 2 CABs: Feedback from the Front Lines
- How Three Collaboration Trends are Reshaping Marketing
- Customer Advisory Boards: Frequently Asked Questions
- Expect More Out of Meetings: Professional facilitators can keep your meetings focused and productive
- Anatomy of a Successful CAB
Building an "Awareness/Thought Leadership" blueprint April 27, 2009Posted by Mike Gospe in Integrated Marketing.
Tags: awareness, Integrated Marketing, marketing blueprints, Marketing Campaigns, marketing programs, thought leadership
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One of the most common types of marketing programs are the "awareness & thought leadership" programs. This specific program has the objective of focusing the company on the business and solutions topics the customer cares about. Instead of immediately diving down to the feature-rich technical jargon, this program marks an important step to communicating to customer executives that we truly understand their business issues. It positions us as business partner, and thus allows us to take a consultative approach in dialoguing with customers and prospects.
Reading left to right, notice that we've identified the intended target audience on the left. (Personas would have been developed in detail prior to designing this blueprint.) Across the top, the customer's buying behavior has been listed — in this case moving from "awareness" to "interest". The first step of expressing interest is usually seen in the prospect searching for information. (This is not an comprehensive example; other forms of engaging in awareness and interest activities will be covered in future posts.) Like branding, this type of program is best viewed as an ongoing investment in creating and maintaining "aircover" for your marketing efforts that will frame specific product launches and promotions.
Each box in the blueprint references a "theme" and the "marketing methods" (i.e. articles, Web, executive presentations) used to communicate the theme. We cast our net wide by starting with business topics that should appeal to both the CIO and IT director. Popular themes can be thought of as the "what" themes: — What industry trends will influence the industry? or What impact can we expect the current economy to have on consumer behavior? or What are the three primary investment priorities for telco CIOs in 2010? For best results, a company may have one or two business themes that will be explored all year. It's best to be focused.
Next, we move on to solutions-based themes. Think of these topics as "how" themes — How will companies balance containing costs while protecting the network? or How are companies maximizing the ROI of their outsourced functions and programs? These topics tend to get more specific in prescribing a criteria for success. For best results, a company may entertain 2-3 solutions topics that support each business theme, per quarter. This allows additional solutions topics to unfold over time, thereby providing flexibility to leverage new product launches and current events that may impact buyer behavior.
Notice that in neither the business-topics nor the solutions-topics have we put our product in the headline. This is important. The value that your company brings is in sponsoring these topics and providing business and solutions savviness. Via your sponsorship, customers will make the connection to your products and services. Like chapters in a book, these discussion topics will build and evolve each quarter, providing rich content for prospects to review and respond to.
But our marketing efforts are only just beginning. Ultimately, the best qualified leads are the ones who seek us out. So, we whet their appetite with our business and solutions topics, and we give them an opportunity to raise their hand to request more information. And, we'll be on the look out for prospects who exhibit certain behavior based on the topics they find of interest and the information they share with us along the way. (I'll share some best practices on establishing lead qualification criteria and scoring in a later blog post.) In either case, we'll be ready. That's when our demand generation programs kick in and we actively confirm that they are indeed qualified as we quickly stream them through the sales cycle.
Next month I'll share an overview of a couple of blueprints for demand generation programs.
For more information, please read Marketing Campaign Development.


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While the Klan's public rallies and cross burnings brought to mind a county fair or a church revival, the soul of the Ku Klux Klan revealed itself most plainly later in the night, after the children's games had finished and the burning cross extinguished.
This is an updated version of a story that I first published in the winter 1996 issue of Southern Exposure. It's the 6th in an 8-post series on the Ku Klux Klan in eastern N.C. that I've been putting up all week and which I'll finish up on Sunday.
This can certainly be seen in the county where I grew up. By 1965 the Klan had organized at least three Klaverns in Craven County. They held open air rallies on the outskirts of New Bern, the county seat, as well as in Vanceboro, Jasper, Ernul, Dover and Cove City.
I'm sure the Craven County KKK was not the state's most violent, but the KKK papers revealed a remarkable litany of crimes. Among them, in February 1965, Klansmen bombed St. Peter's AME Zion church and two automobiles in New Bern. St. Peter's is the historic mother church of the AME Zion denomination in the South.
The blast came close to killing 2 people, civil rights attorney Julius Chambers and a local NAACP leader, Carolina Chadwick. Chambers was later head of the NAACP Legal Defense Fund, chancellor at North Carolina Central University and co-founder of the UNC Center for Civil Rights.
Another explosion that day ripped apart Oscar's Mortuary, a black-owned business in New Bern's Pembroke neighborhood. Outside town, the local Klan later bombed the Cool Springs Free Will Baptist Church, a white congregation, apparently to retaliate against a minister that had taken a stand against the KKK.
Yet another blast severely damaged the St. Joseph Free Will Baptist Church, home to a black congregation near Vanceboro.
A member of that Klavern also shot a state trooper. Others stoned a school bus. Still others paid nighttime visits to parents, grandparents and teachers of any race who cooperated with school desegregation in any fashion, such as accepting jobs at Head Start centers or after-school programs that enrolled black and white children.
In Vanceboro, the Craven County Klansmen burned a cross and torched an outbuilding on Mayor Royce Jordan's front yard and repeatedly attempted to assassinate him. Jordan, who was white, had been an outspoken supporter of school integration.
Craven County's Klansmen also traveled into neighboring counties. According to the KKK papers, they staged violent attacks on civil rights marchers in Plymouth and Williamston. They also threatened to drag black teachers out of a formerly all-white school in Onslow County, 20 miles to the south.
Like most Klaverns, the Craven County group showed a marked preference for harassing the community's most vulnerable. In a trademark case of Klan viciousness directed at the weak, in January 1966 Klansmen harassed and threatened a mentally handicapped white child for playing with black friends.
They took me out
To some lonesome place.
They said, "Do you believe
In the great white race?"
– from Langston Hughes, "Ku Klux"
Those were just the tip of the iceberg. I have been interviewing Craven County families for decades. Again and again, I learn about another KKK atrocity of some kind that apparently never made it into SHP or SBI records, or onto the pages of local newspapers or into the files of national civil rights groups. We know only a tiny fraction of what the Klan did at night.
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The INFINITYS Badminton Academy was borne of a long held ambition to create a wider and more comprehensive badminton progression route for juniors in Gurugram and beyond. We have always known that more coaching, training and competition is necessary to allow any committed junior player to reach their full potential. The Academy will provide all the resources to allow any junior – or any adult, for that matter – to take their sport to whatever level they wish. INFINITYS Academy started on 3rd September 2017 and it has since grown from strength to strength.
Through the badminton academy, many people who have never played badminton before have developed a passion for the sport; many people who have played before but were never serious have developed a competitive spirit. All in all, IBA has promoted the sport of badminton greatly within the community and hopes to continue doing so.
At INFINITYS Badminton Academy, we are a team of badminton fanatics aiming to build a state-of-art facility for both pros and amateurs. We strive to bring awareness, and raise the popularity of this wonderful sport to this great city of diversity that encompasses endless possibility. We welcome players of all ages and levels to come play, learn, socialize and just have fun. So whether you are a beginner, a pro, or somewhere in-between IBA is for you.


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" Tum mera haath pakad kar chalogi. Ek shahzaadi ki tarah, ek umang bhari dulhan ki tarah. Duniya dekhegi aur kahegi ke kitni khoobsoorat dulhan hai." – says Armaan, while he sees off his beloved daughter on the day of her wedding.
Daughter and Father are known to have a very special bond; He is her first love and her role model for manhood. Ek Shaadi 100 Baraati , with an undercurrent of this special bond , explores the intricacies of a wedding event, which for most men and women in the Indian subcontinent remains the most colorful event of their lives.