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The textile industry is dirty and wasteful.
Rebecca Burgess is stitching together a local clothing movement.
When Rebecca Burgess was working in villages across Asia, she saw the impacts of the clothing industry firsthand: waste, pollution, widespread health problems. But in these same communities, from Indonesia to Thailand, Burgess also saw working models of local textile production systems that didn't harm anyone. She was inspired to build a sustainable clothing system — complete with natural dye farms, renewable energy-powered mills, and compostable clothes — back home in the United States.
The result is Fibershed, a movement to build networks of farmers, ranchers, designers, ecologists, sewers, dyers, and spinners in 54 communities around the world, mostly in North America. They are ex-coal miners growing hemp in Appalachia and workers in California's first wool mill. In five years, Burgess plans to build complete soil-to-soil fiber systems in north-central California, south-central Colorado, and eastern Kentucky.
People have asked her, "This has already left to go overseas — you're bringing it back? Are you sure?" She is. Mills provide solid, well-paying jobs for people "who can walk in off the street and be trained in six months," Burgess says. "This is all about dressing human beings at the end of the day, in the most ethical way that we can, while providing jobs for our home communities and keeping farmers and ranchers on the land."
The world feels pretty broken right now. That's why we need Fixers — bold problem solvers working toward a planet that doesn't burn and a future that doesn't suck. For our annual list of emerging green leaders, Grist brings you 50 innovators with fresh, forward-thinking solutions to some of humanity's biggest challenges. Credits
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Meet All The Fixers
Donnel Baird
This Brooklynite retrofits cities.
Nanette Barragán
This politician fights for polluted communities.
Nicole Bassett
This clothing expert revives dead threads.
John Bourne
This CEO provides clean energy for any budget.
Rebecca Burgess
This innovator is stitching together a clothing movement.
Gilbert Campbell
This entrepreneur is diversifying cleantech.
Karina Castillo
This climate organizer works on the front lines in Miami.
Chris Castro
This sustainability director drives change in Orlando.
Marianne Cufone
This urban farmer grows in tight spaces.
Carlos Curbelo
This politician reps bipartisan climate action.
Irving Fain
This farmer uses AI for efficiency.
Catherine Flowers
This civil rights activist takes on the South's sewage problem.
Rahwa Ghirmatzion
This housing advocate is rebuilding Buffalo.
Dallas Goldtooth
This comedian spotlights indigenous rights.
Ben Hartman
This farmer champions efficiency.
Davida Herzl
This startup founder built a Fitbit for the planet.
David Hochschild
This policy wonk shows state leadership on solar.
Tara Houska
This lawyer stands with indigenous activists.
Raj Karmani
This developer built an app for food waste.
Justin Knopf
This young farmer is saving soil.
L.A. Youth Groups
These teens sued for environmental justice.
Mike Lewis
This farmer gives vets a chance to grow.
Elena Lucas
This entrepreneur helps the solar industry compete.
Mark Magaña
This advocate connects green Latinos.
Cynthia Malone
This scientist brings social justice to her field.
Xiuhtezcatl Martinez
This teenager gives the youngest generation a voice.
Ahmina Maxey
This organizer fights for safer waste disposal.
Gavin McCormick
This founder empowers people to choose renewables.
Lauren McLean
This councilwoman keeps Boise booming.
Sophia Mendelsohn
This airline exec is greening travel.
Katherine Miller
This food advocate coaches up chefs.
Yorman Nuñez
This Bronx community organizer is spreading the wealth.
Kait Parker
This weather forecaster shames deniers.
Hari Pulapaka
This chef takes a kitchen sink approach to food waste.
George Reistad
This civil servant cooks up smart food policy.
Erick Rodriguez
This architect designs better neighborhoods.
Avital Shavit and Rubina Ghazarian
These transportation gurus coax Angelenos onto bikes.
Nicky Sheats
This lawyer connects justice and the environment.
Trisha Shrum and Jill Kubit
These mothers bring the future into the present.
Varun Sivaram
This physicist is shaping energy policy.
Liz Specht
This scientist connects investors to new food tech.
Steph Speirs
This CEO plants community solar gardens.
Erika Symmonds
This professional trains people for solar jobs.
Camila Thorndike and Page Atcheson
These activists want carbon polluters to pay.
Anthony Torres
This organizer is uniting millennials.
Ritchie Torres
This New Yorker champions affordable housing.
Uma Valeti
This entrepreneur is making a better burger.
Sean A. Watkins
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"Official estimates show that on every third day, over the past five years, there has been a death in India's mining sector."
This shocking stat is enough to understand how risky are the lives of miners in India. According to the annual report of Coal India, 56 miners died in 2012, surpassing the previous year's death toll of 51.
The risk of accidents in mines is enormous and workers in mines can hardly take any precautionary measure against them. The peril may come in the form of collapsing of sidewalls deep in the mines or sometime a part of the roof falls on miners. The latter happened inside a mine in Kothagudem area in the state of Andhra Pradesh on 15th February, 2013 and crushed 2 miners to death.
All these staggering facts trigger the necessity of a protection for those who risk their lives in the mines. And, there is no better safeguard for them than a personal accident insurance policy. By availing these policies, miners and their families can be compensated for casualties of different types that arise out of an accident in the mines. Yes, the concerned organizations compensate for such mishaps by paying a one-time lump sum amount. But, such compensation, more often than not, doesn't meet the actual need. This is why, workers in the mines should look for an additional protection.
Beneficial aspects of a personal accident policy
Personal accident plans make recompense for death, permanent total disablement, permanent partial disablement and also for temporary total disablement. Aside from these major benefits, these plans also offer cumulative bonus and education fund for two children of the insured person. Most insurance providers also offer a wide range of other coverages on selected personal accident plans for the following expenses;
- Broken bones
- Ambulance service for emergency
- Hospital daily cash
- Transportation of Mortal Remains
- Medical expenses for accident
- Purchase of blood
- Modification of vehicle/ residence
- Transportation of Imported Medicine
- Family Transportation
Hence, it does make sense that miners opt for these policies and stay financially protected in case of any mishap.
There are many insurance companies in India that provide personal accident policy. Unlike the life or health insurance plans where the premium amount is determined by the age of the insured person, premium and maximum sum insured amount of personal accident plans depend on the profession of the insured person. This is why, occupations are classified in three categories for a personal accident policy as per the risk factor. Miners belong to the 'heavy risk' category simply for the nature of their professions.
Source: GIBL.IN Personal accident plans for miners
Let us take a look and make comparisons of those policies that are available for miners to find out the best plan in terms of sum insured, premium amount and other parameters.
The following comparison is made for a 32 year old hypothetical person who works in a mine with a monthly income of Rs. 20,000 and considering a sum insured of Rs. 5 Lakh.
Source: GIBL.IN
There are 5 insurance policies on offer as per the given criteria. All these accidental plans offer coverage for Death, PTD and PPD, however, 3 out of these 5 policies offer protection for Temporary Total Disablement or TTD. The premium amount varies between Rs. 1,140 and Rs. 3,135. So, one has to choose any 1 plan out of these 3 policies as per one's budget.
It is notable that, these policies are quite inexpensive. One doesn't have to spend even Rs. 100 per month to buy and continue these plans. Workers in mines flirt with danger every single day and this expense is just next to nothing compared to their precious lives.
Personal accident plans for builders and contractors
Aside from miners, contractors and builders are also associated with hazardous professions. And the same goes for those engineers who are involved in superintending functions. The risk level of these professionals is considered as medium as per the norms of personal accident policy.
Source: GIBL.IN
Let's see what's in store for builders and contractors when it comes to availing a personal accident plan in India.
The comparison is done for a 32 year old hypothetical builder with a monthly income of Rs. 20,000. The chosen sum insured amount is Rs. 5 Lakh.
Source: GIBL.IN
There are 8 insurance policies on offer as per the given criteria. All these accidental plans offer coverage for Death, PTD and PPD, however, 5 out of these 8 policies offer protection for Temporary Total Disablement or TTD as well. The premium amount is lot lower compared to the premiums for miners and it varies between Rs. 712 and Rs. 1.682 So, one needs to select the best plan among these 3 policies as per one's budget.
All builders, engineers involved in superintending roles and contractors should get a personal accident policy. God forbid, a mishap in a construction site may take away their lives or may have them paralyzed. Even a temporary disablement will stop them from earning for weeks or even months. To counter such unfortunate situations, these professionals are better off availing these accident covers. Compared to their priceless lives, the cost of these insurance plans is insignificant.
As mentioned earlier, the premium for a personal accident policy depends on the nature of one's profession. Since, working in mine is even riskier than working on a construction site the premium is also higher for miners than builders and contractors for the same sum insured.
Insurance comparison portal is the best bet for miners and builders
It is understandable that miners and builders work with busy schedules and they hardly have time for visiting insurance offices to avail a personal accident policy. For them, an insurance portal like GIBL that lets one compare and buy policies from a single platform is perfect. It takes a few minutes to submit details and get a list of policy quotes. Then, a miner or a builder can select the best cover as per their requirement and make the payment online. IRDA approved insurance comparison portals that allows for the purchase of an insurance policy are armed with multiple safe payment gateways so policy buyers need not to worry about paying online. The soft copy of policy paper will be issued and sent to them instantly after making the payment.
Dangers are unavoidable, so it is better to be prepared in advance for adverse situations. A personal accident policy is undoubtedly the best way for miners and builders to protect themselves and their families economically if and when any unpleasant incident occurs.

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Sloane Street
London United Kingdom
Big name designer after big name designer line both sides of this luxury epicenter. We're talking Miu Miu, Versace, Fendi, Hermes and Bulgari all in a row for your shopping pleasure.
Why We Love It
If you tackle the whole stretch, "Harvey Nick's is your prize at the end," says Isabel Greiner, Galavante Co-Founder. That's Harvey Nichols to the rest of us. (She knows it so well, she gave it a nickname.)
The Details
Sloane Streets runs north to south from Knightsbridge to Sloane Square.


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Tips To Help You Improve Telephone Customer Service
With lots of competition in the market these days, many companies have given more attention to their customer departments to stay on top and survive. A company is at risk of losing to their competitors who are doing a better job when the company is lacking of excellent customer service. And this is actually among the reasons why it is vital to upgrade your customer relations constantly.
Gone are the days wherein the telephone was the only available mean for customers to get some help. Now, there are a number of self-help portals that could be accessed by clients and chat apps that are pretty helpful. Still, the fact remains that most of the customer finds telephone contact as being the best form of communication to get what they are looking for. When operating a business, it is important to be sure that everything's streamlined to be able to make telephone conversations more effective.
Here are some considerations that you have to make to better improve your telephone customer service.
Tip number 1. Choose a reliable telephone network – a network that lets you down especially when assisting a valued customer is the worst thing that can ever happen. For you to be sure that all business telephone needs are properly handled, choose a service provider that offers great packages and high quality services.
Tip number 2. Carefully choose your customer agents – how articulate are your customer agents when it comes to spoken words. To be sure that every word that will come out of your agent's mouth has great clarity and clear for customers to understand, they ought to be good in spoken words. There are numerous factors that can possibly interfere on how clear the agent can be and it helps for a business to carefully choose agents for the sake of having and maintaining effective communications.
Tip number 3. Maintain your system – if you rely largely on telephone calls, the least thing that you can do is ensuring that your telephone system is checked and maintained on a regular basis. This is done in order to keep any issues at bay that has the possibility of hindering good communication. It is common for telephones to have issues and you need to find out these issues before your clients report it to you. Maintenance can make or break your business so it is something that you should take seriously.
Tip number 4. Maintain a quiet environment – if you want customers to clearly hear you and vice versa, it will be an integral aspect of your telephone customer service to maintain a quiet environment. Remember that good companies are willing to exert extra effort to have distraction free calls.
Finding Parallels Between Telephones and Life
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quote:Originally posted by mantisnl
here`s my new one, i re-built it a few weeks ago
quote:Originally posted by dj-sean
For the same reason little kids want more and more toys probably, hehe.
I WANT MORE & MORE TOYS hehehehe
quote:rather modest for the quality of your music Mystery.. I guess it shows that it's 90% skill and 10% the gear you own...
...was thinking the same thing! There's hope yet!!
quote:what's with the dual monitors? Yeah...i was wondering that TOO!!!
Not mine...i only wish.
please review my latest AMBIENT track HERE.
that's a pretty sick setup.. u know the guy/gal (most likely a guy since chicks can only dance to it )
Youtube || Soundcloud || Synth Patch Banks
quote:Originally posted by Endre
where the fuck do you ppl get your cash from to buy all this stuff?
We sell dr00gs and smuggle illegal laborers into various countries. I also get cash for NOT playing my music in public. Call it ransom, whatever, gets me the gear I want...
Proud member of the "Filthy Zionist" coalition
so anyone want to answer the question about duel monitors and what the heck they are good for?
quote:Originally posted by alanzo
so anyone want to answer the question about duel monitors and what the heck they are good for?
Just about everything. Err I'll show you.
Gives you double the workspace. It's useful for about everything.
I couldn't imagine living without my 38 inches of love ..
Don't take me too seriously.
wow.. good stuff.. now I want to get it
off topic but CynepMeH, are you also on E46Fanatics with that sig? looks familiar
You can also setup dual monitors which just 1, pci vidcard + an agp card. Instead of buying the actualy dual head cards which are kind of expensive.
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little question, could you guys (and girls??) who have there pc and tt's (like mantisnl) on one table tell me the hight of there table please. due to the fucked up shape of my room i need to build a desk to put my pc on (and hopefully in the near future tt's too) myself.
thanks in advance,
ps. can't get my cam to work and there isn't much to show anyway, a crap pc, midikeyboard and a whiteboard
Hey Vert... that Vanguard the demo? Gotta love that synth.
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What's better in the summer than playing around in the water? Lounging in the pool, water balloon fights, and playing in the sprinklers helps us forget how much it sucks to be outside in 100+ degree weather.
Sprinklers are especially fun to play around in, particularly if you have kids; they go crazy over jumping through them. Sprinklers can get pretty expensive, but to combat this obvious treachery, people have begun channeling their inner MacGyver and building sprinklers out of junk at home.
To help give you an idea on how to better stay cool this summer, here are five DIY sprinklers made from upcycled materials.
Plastic Bottles
What better to make a sprinkler with than a plastic bottle? Literally, everyone has one in his or her house somewhere.
Curbly has made an awesome DIY sprinkler using a plastic bottle and some pens. The pens stay in place with plumbing adhesive, which is a very good idea.
PVC Pipe
Sometimes it's better to have a bigger sprinkler because they are more fun to jump through.
My Homespun Threads has made an awesome square sprinkler "pad" using PVC pipe. It is the perfect jumping through size. If I made this, I would drill holes at different angles on the pipe so water goes in every direction rather than just up.
Bike Water Ride
Sometimes kids don't want to just jump through sprinklers. Kids are very imaginative, and they get bored easy. So they want stuff that is exciting.
Expanding upon the PVC pipe idea, Crafty Sisters-NC has made a sprinkler large enough to ride a bike through.
Hula Hoop
It doesn't get more upcycled than this.
PBJ Stories has turned an old, boring hula hoop into a new, exciting sprinkler. This is such a clever way to bring new life to old, unused toys. I would do the same thing I mentioned in the first PVC pipe sprinkler.
Water Park
While this last item isn't technically just a sprinkler, I felt I needed to include it because of its sheer awesomeness.
Event Horizons has turned some old PVC pipes and pool noodles into a sprinkler park! I know if I were a kid, I would go nuts over playing in this. Heck, I'd go nuts if I got to play in it now!
Do you have any other good ideas for homemade DIY-style sprinklers? Tell me below, or make your own tutorial for the whole MacGyverisms community to enjoy!
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Shops have been limited to the number of copies they could have and already the comic's all but vanished.
In desperation I finally visited the small newsagents in my hometown of Gilfach Goch, not expecting to find a copy but wonders of wonders they had two copies left - I snapped them both up. It's kind of fitting that I bought the last Dandy in this shop as I would have most certainly first experienced the comic there. It was where I bought all my comics as a kid and I even had my first job as a newspaper boy there. The shop was only two hundred yards away from my grandfather's where I spent a lot of my childhood.
Anyway back to the point - The last ever Dandy is now out and never again will we see the title in newsagents - after 75 years and 3610 issues the comic is no more. The title survived World War II and prospered during the upheaval of the decades that followed, entertaining generation after generation of schoolchildren and now, alas it is no more.
Boo- sniff, sniff.
The Dandy is an iconic title, a true slice of Brit pop culture -In Dundee, home of the publisher D C Thomson, there is a statue of popular character, Desperate Dan - Desperate Dan is a wild west character. He made his appearance in the first issue which was dated 4 December 1937. He is apparently the world's strongest man, able to lift a cow with one hand. The pillow of his (reinforced) bed is filled with building rubble and his beard is so tough he shaves with a blowtorch.
"We are the Desperate Dan appreciation society
God save strawberry jam and all the different varieties
Preserving the old ways from being abused
Protecting the new ways for me and for you" From The Village Green Preservation Society by The Kinks
It's a terrible shame that the comic is no more (well apart from the online edition but this is an interactive title and not a true comic). It's demise was even reported on the national news. - ahh well, the world turns and times change.
I would have stopped buying the comic more than thirty years ago and yet I still feel a loss by it going. It's as if a part of my childhood's vanished forever.
Meddlesome Matty, Plum Macduff, Tom Tum, Auntie Clockwise, Mitch and Mummy, the burd, Sir Coward De Custard, Jolly Roger, Hamish the Haggis, Kid Cops, Monkey Bizness, Marvo the Wonder Chicken,Bamboo Town, Bing Bang Benny, Screwy Driver, Old Ma Murphy, Izzy Skint, Tin Lizzie, Bertie Bungle and his Chemical Uncle, Freddy the Fearless Fly, Joe White and the Seven Dwarves, Own Goal,
The comic then ends with a continuation of the Paul McCartney story in which Macca gets his hand crushed by Desperate Dan before leading the Dandy characters in a rousing version of Hey Jude.
And that's it then - the end of an institution, the loss of an old friend and a sad reminder that the kids of today don't really read comic books as we used to.
UPDATE: This issue is selling out FAST in many areas! Investors are grabbing copies to sell on eBay at high prices already! (If those people had been buying the comic every week it wouldn't be ending today!) From Blimey it's Another Blog About Comics
Below is a full episode of the documentary Comics Britannia which looks at the history of the Dandy and other titles.


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In 2010, the U.S. Army Special Operations Command created Cultural Support Teams, a pilot program to put women on the battlefield alongside Army Rangers, Green Berets, Navy SEALs, and other special operations teams on sensitive missions in Afghanistan. The idea was that women could access places and people that had remained out of reach, and could build relationships—woman to woman—in ways that male soldiers in a conservative, traditional country could not. Though officially banned from combat, female soldiers could be "attached" to different teams, and for the first time women throughout the Army, the National Guard, and the Reserves heard the call to join male soldiers on special ops missions. Each had her own story, her own reason for wanting to serve alongside America's finest fighters—for wanting, as the recruiting poster advertised, "to be part of history."
In the New York Times best seller Ashley's War, Gayle Tzemach Lemmon uses exhaustive firsthand reporting and a finely tuned understanding of the complexities of war to tell the story of CST-2, a unit of women handpicked from across the Army, and of the remarkable hero at its heart: First Lieutenant Ashley White. Lemmon reveals how First Lieutenant White and the pioneers of CST-2 worked to earn the respect of combat-tested special operations warriors and illuminates the very human stakes of their battlefield successes.
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text: Amnesty International has accused Belarus of supplying Sudan with weapons that are later used by the government against civilians in the Darfur region. In a report released earlier this week, the human rights watchdog said that weapons from Belarus, China and Russia were fueling the nine-year-old conflict in the war-torn region. The report documents how the three countries continue to supply weapons and munitions to Sudan despite what Amnesty said is "compelling evidence that the arms will be used against civilians in Darfur".Countries are allowed to sell arms and ammunition to the Sudanese government, but states are required to provide "end user" certificates guaranteeing the material will not be transferred to Darfur, which is subject to a UN arms embargo. Amnesty International urged countries supplying arms to suspend all transfers to the Sudanese government to stop further shipments to Darfur. It urged the UN Security Council to immediately expand the current arms embargo to all of Sudan "in order to stop military and related supplies reaching all parties to the conflict in Darfur".


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This is a long exposure cityscape of Sarasota I took one night while waiting for the full moon to rise above the bridge. I was fortunate in that there was no wind and the waters of the bay were still. While that's great for photos it also means there are a lot of mosquitos. I had a can of repellant and sprayed myself from head to toe: a minor annoyance but its a small price to pay in exchange for perfect conditions.
Daily Image
I never know when conditions will be good for photography until the last moment. If I had all the time in the world I'd go out every night checking. As a matter of fact I did that this evening before I sat down to write this. We had some dramatic clouds and I thought to get in position, but nothing happened and I drove home without a shot. It's a numbers game; sometimes you lose and sometimes you win.
Earlier in the day I took a three-hour drive looking for compositions, in the end I got only one. The effort that goes into my photography is not carbon neutral. I should probably look into an electric car or just take the bus.
So that the time is not a complete waste I'll listen to podcasts. I can get drawn into the stories such that the traffic, distances and time are not so monotonous. Even if I come back without a good composition at least I learned something. My favorite is Radio Labs, but I also like This American Life and sometimes Tim Ferris.
other cityscapes in the gallery
A lot of effort goes into making a good podcasts and the same holds true for photos. I love doing it so I rarely notice the time, but most of the images I post involve many hours of traveling, editing, expense, and sometimes even spraying myself with insect repellant.


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Bench Press Sets And Reps
bench press sets and reps have the same role as benchs generally. The difference is right in their own design that can be folded. This attribute makes them easy to prepare and store. This type of benchs is suitable to be implemented in school districts, lecture halls, cafes, and minimalist-styled residences since they do not occupy an excessive amount of space, especially if they truly are stored or unused. The magnitude of bench press rack is normally perhaps not big, but nevertheless decent for sitting down activities and encouraging learning in the classroom. bench feature a rather wide scope of designs, materials, and selling price, which can be chosen according to the wishes and adequacy of their budget.
You'll find some choices of this crystal clear bench which may be purchased on the marketplace. It has got the same acts as a common bench by that it facilitates you to take a seat . Nonetheless, the plan of this girl bench press seems distinctive from your general bench. The transparent benchs are made from glass materials that it looks very clear and clean. Even the benchs are offered in one place or just one piece that can be taken for the needs. It's available in the minimal straight back bench or substantial back bench. Every single bench press sets and reps is additionally offered at various selling prices depending upon its own brand, quality, material, and designs. Even the tougher design is sold additional expensive.
One thing which could encourage our work on the office can be an arnold bench press. The bench press sets and reps is among the important supports in office activities & most men and women devote their hrs at hours sitting at benchs. However great your bench is if it isn't taken care of it is going to be busted as well. It truly is our responsibility to have the ability to care for the furniture or office benchs that we have nicely. Good maintenance should be carried out in order office benchs that are owned might last and continue long when we work with them. It's perhaps not unusual that you see a busted off ice bench on the wheel and seat, the seat wheel could be broken, the seat on the bench is either damaged or peeling, the arm rest is damaged and there's a problem with the other seats.
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Chivington, Colorado: The air is restless here, always stirring, rustling the stalks of dried buffalo grass and sage, whistling endlessly through miles of rusted barbed wire.
For many years, this was a dead place. Cheyenne and Arapaho stayed away.
But each November for over a decade now, Laird Cometsevah has driven here with his wife, coming 400 miles from their home in Oklahoma. He prays for the people, his relatives, whose bones lie in this ground, alongside U.S. Cavalry bullets. He smokes tobacco, as tradition says, and leaves offerings of dried meat, corn and chokecherries. He walks along the rolling plains of southeastern Colorado, on the banks of the Big Sandy, and he hears the children crying.
Among the brilliant feats of arms in Indian warfare, the recent campaign of our Colorado volunteers will stand in history with few rivals and none to exceed it in final results.
--Rocky Mountain News, December 17, 1864
It's just after lunchtime in Cheyenne, Oklahoma, where it's 89 degrees in early May. Farmers wearing sleeveless T-shirts lean against the wall of the Trading Post convenience store, sipping Slurpees and watching semis rumble by. The Black Kettle Museum stands open for business, waiting for business, waiting. A waitress at the B & H restaurant slumps in a back booth, crunching ice cubes with her mouth open, watching a whirlwind sweep across a parking lot.
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In a corrugated-tin building beside a metal shop--the only place in town big enough to hold a meeting of twenty people--Laird Cometsevah sits with his wife, Colleen. They've been here all morning, listening to a man from the U.S. Park Service talk about creating a memorial to those who died November 27, 1868, at Washita River, just a mile away.
At dawn that day, General George Armstrong Custer led the 7th Cavalry into the peaceful camp of Chief Black Kettle and killed anywhere from 35 to 200 men, women and children, including Black Kettle, a prominent Cheyenne leader who'd been seeking a truce with the whites. The attack catapulted Custer to national fame and escalated tensions between Plains Indians and white settlers.
Park Service officials say they want the memorial to present all sides of the attack. They want to stay true to historical fact. They want to present a balanced interpretation. And so they have invited representatives from the Cheyenne tribe, the local chamber of commerce, congressional offices, historical societies and other groups, who discuss in exhausting detail every point of contention. They carefully weigh each phrase. And then, in a long, tedious process, they try to forge statements that will remain fair and accurate and stand for years to come.
Hours tick by.
A parks employee stuffs a glazed donut into a Styrofoam cup.
A geologist yawns.
Laird and Colleen listen intently. They woke at 5 a.m. and drove 57 miles from their home in Clinton to get here. They don't usually attend government meetings; they usually aren't invited. But this meeting is different, and they're curious. They take the opportunity seriously.
Laird is a Cheyenne chief; Colleen is a genealogist and historian. Together they help scholars compile accurate accounts of the Cheyenne's past and work to preserve tribal records. They have come to offer a perspective of the so-called Indian Wars not found in most textbooks: that of the Indian survivors.
At 67, Laird is an imposing figure: over six feet tall, somber, with dark glasses shading his eyes and a low, raspy, Oklahoma twang to his voice. Colleen is more outgoing, quick to smile, on this day wearing pink. They both like to laugh. They travel everywhere together.
When the meeting began, Laird introduced himself by his Cheyenne name, Whistling Eagle. He said his great-grandfather, Cometsevah, had survived the attack at Washita, as well as an attack at Palo Duro Canyon, Texas. These are all related, he said. Even Little Big Horn. It all starts at Sand Creek.
Few dispute the basics.
At dawn on November 29, 1864, almost 800 soldiers from Colorado's 1st and 3rd cavalries led by Colonel John Chivington attacked the peaceful camp of Black Kettle on the Big Sandy and killed some 163 Cheyenne and Arapaho men, women and children. Ten soldiers also died.
From there, accounts diverge.
Some historians say Sand Creek must be viewed within the context of its time. Not to condone. Not to defend. But to understand. And at the time, white settlers in Colorado were on the edge of hysteria.
Two years earlier, some 700 pioneers had been killed during the Sioux Uprising in Minnesota. Afterward, rumors swirled that Indian tribes were uniting for war. Stagecoaches were raided; mail carriers refused to travel across the Plains. Newspapers raged: "Indian vs. White Man," "More Indian Outrages," "The Indians Are Coming!"
In June 1864, a family named Hungate was killed by four Arapaho on their ranch 25 miles southeast of Denver. The mutilated bodies, including those of two children, were brought back to the five-year-old town and placed on public display.
The impact was immediate.
"Nowadays we find it hard to believe there was a real possibility that all whites in Denver could be wiped out by Indians," says historian Tom Noel. "But when people saw those girls carved up, it certainly enhanced that possibility in their minds."
In August, territorial governor John Evans won authorization for a 100-day volunteer regiment, the Colorado 3rd Cavalry, which fell under the jurisdiction of Chivington. He was a six-foot-four-inch-tall Methodist preacher who'd gained hero status by fighting back Texas Confederates in northern New Mexico during the 1862 battle of Glorieta Pass. Chivington's new orders: Punish hostile Cheyenne and Arapaho.
That fall, while focusing most of his attention on pushing for Colorado statehood and his own political career, Chivington recruited soldiers, conducted occasional (and uneventful) patrols along the Platte River and bristled at the nickname given to his regiment, "the bloodless thirdsters."
Evans had given Cheyenne and Arapaho chiefs who sought peace--including Black Kettle--an ultimatum: Surrender or risk attack. In September, representatives from both sides gathered for a summit at Denver's Camp Weld; Chivington was present. When Black Kettle asked how he could protect his people, he was told to report to Fort Lyon southeast of Denver and turn himself him. Which he did. Black Kettle and his people accepted U.S. protection and were fed and allowed to camp outside Fort Lyon for several weeks. When supplies ran low, he was told to relocate about forty miles away at Sand Creek, also known as the Big Sandy, where buffalo had been sighted. Wait there, officers said, until instructions come.
Instructions never came.
In November, as public pressure mounted and the 100-day deadline for his volunteers loomed, Chivington and his troops marched in secret to Fort Lyon. Where were the Cheyenne? he asked.
Sand Creek, officers at the fort replied. But Black Kettle was under protection of the U.S. flag, they said; hostile Cheyenne, including the Dog Soldiers, were camped fifty miles away from Sand Creek at Smoky Hill. Attacking Sand Creek would be wrong, the officers told Chivington.
It would be murder.
"Damn any man who is in sympathy with an Indian," Chivington responded, and he prepared his troops.
"Put on your 1864 hat," says Duane Smith, a historian from Durango. "What would your feelings be toward the Cheyenne and Arapaho? There was a lot of misunderstanding, racism and bigotry on both sides. It's like Desert Storm or the Ayatollah Khomeini when people said, 'Bomb them to the Stone Age!' It's no different with Sand Creek. People who had the power did exactly what they wanted."
At 8 p.m. on November 28, Chivington began marching toward Sand Creek with some 600 volunteers from the 3rd Cavalry, 125 seasoned 1st Cavalry troops from Fort Lyon and four twelve-pound mountain howitzers. At first light he addressed his troops: "I don't tell you to kill all ages and sexes, but look back on the plains of the Platte, where your mothers, fathers, brothers, sisters have been slain."
The bloodless third was about to change its nickname.
For six hours, Chivington's men showered the village with bullets, chasing fleeing Cheyenne and Arapaho up and down Sand Creek, butchering men, women and children, cutting away body parts as trophies.
"You have to remember that most of these were not trained troops but volunteers," says Mike Koury, a military historian whose Old Army Press published the Chivington defense, I Stand by Sand Creek. "These men enlisted in a moment of passion. Everyone had seen the Hungates or knew someone who had. This is a lot different than someone from back East who had never been threatened by Indians or did not have a personal stake. These people knew someone who had been killed or had their horses stolen. These people were angry. They were scared. It was personal. And they vented on the Indians. They might have been the wrong Indians, but they were close enough. They would do."
Chivington sent battlefield dispatches claiming 500 Indian deaths, including those of five chiefs, and 500 animals captured. He also reported finding "a white man's scalp, not three days old" in a Sand Creek lodge.
When they returned to Denver, Chivington and his "bloody third" were greeted as heroes. Their trophies hung in a theater. The Rocky Mountain News reported: "Cheyenne scalps are getting as thick here now as toads in Egypt. Everybody has got one and is anxious to get another to send East."
In January 1865, Chivington was mustered out of the Army and his 100-day regiment disbanded.
"You never condone killing women and children," Koury says. "But to his last dying day, Chivington said he stood by Sand Creek. If you had to ride a stagecoach through the Plains or had a family that did, you might be awful glad he did what he did. When he died, he had the largest funeral in Denver until Buffalo Bill. Nothing is as black and white as it appears."
That became clear within months of Sand Creek, when another version of the battle began to emerge. Eyewitness accounts of the attack reached Washington, D.C., where a joint congressional committee was holding an inquest on Civil War atrocities. At the committee's urging, the U.S. government condemned Sand Creek as a "gross and wanton" massacre and in a treaty promised to repay survivors for their losses. Later that year, Governor Evans was removed from office. Chivington, now a civilian, went unpunished.
What Laird Cometsevah heard, he heard from his father, who heard it from his mother, who camped at Sand Creek when she was five or six years old. Old enough to remember the soldiers coming.
The story was told as Laird and his family sat outside under a thatch of willows, making a fire, cooking supper, boiling coffee. It had been passed down through the family, by elders telling children, children growing up and telling their children.
The way Laird's father told it, there was a lot of turmoil and disagreement between Indian and non-Indians. After gold was discovered in 1858, cattle drives had come across the Indian lands, the men stealing horses, causing trouble. The Indians tried to keep them away. They tried to protect what belonged to them.
Black Kettle went to Denver to try to speak of peace for his people. He was led to believe that Fort Lyon troops would protect them if they stayed on a reservation along Sand Creek. So they set up camp there.
Black Kettle's camp had many elderly people, children and widows. He tried to take care of them. That was his duty as a Cheyenne chief. The young men, they probably were at Smoky Hill with the Dog Soldiers, who lived apart from other Cheyenne, banned after a killing among themselves.
At the time, Colonel Chivington was tied in with Governor Evans, who had wanted to invite non-Indians into the area since gold was discovered. Gold didn't amount to anything for the Cheyenne. Anyway, Governor Evans formed this militia with Chivington.
Early one morning--they always said it was morning--some young people were herding horses when they saw images coming from the south. It was early, with the sun just coming up, and they couldn't see too well. It was cold. Very thin snowflakes were falling.
The young people thought what they saw were buffalo. Then they realized it was U.S. troops. Quite a few of them. Chivington's troops, coming toward the camp. So these young people ran back and told the village.
The troops got closer.
Black Kettle came out of his lodge holding a long pole with the American flag and a white flag underneath. He stood in front of his teepee and told his people, "Don't run. Don't run. Don't be afraid. Come around me. The soldiers won't hurt you. As long as we have this flag, they won't bother us."
Chivington's troops divided in three groups. One headed off the herd of horses on the south side of Sand Creek; another group of troops dismounted and went upstream toward the camp; the third group of mounted troops came from the northeast.
Chivington's men started shooting. They ignored the flag, the truce of peace, whatever you want to call it. The troops walked through the camp, shooting, killing, they even walked over their own flag.
Chief White Antelope came out of his teepee. When he saw the soldiers weren't going to stop shooting, he started singing his death song. They shot him down as he stood singing.
Laird's great-grand-father, Cometsevah, lost two of his six children when the shooting started--his oldest boy and his oldest daughter. He also lost his younger sister, who was twelve or fourteen years old. She died at the beginning, too.
Cometsevah ran toward the commotion and tried to fight. That's one of the laws of a Cheyenne chief. When your people are attacked, you go forward and stand your ground until your people can run away. While Cometsevah fought with the other men, the women, old people and children moved upstream, maybe two miles.
Colleen's great-grandfather's brother ran to the camp from the horse herd; his mother and father were already gone. He picked up his war things--his war bonnet, his shield and the gun that his father had given him. As he ran up Sand Creek, soldiers shot at him the whole way. All the feathers were shot off his war bonnet, but he didn't get a scratch.
Black Kettle and his wife left the flag standing and went up the creek after the rest of the camp. Halfway there, Black Kettle's wife was shot down. When he looked at her, she looked like she was dead, so he ran.
The troops were shooting at them from three directions. The women dug into the sand, making pits to hide from the gunfire. That's how they survived.
Cometsevah caught up with them sometime later.
By the time the shooting stopped, Laird's father said, the sun was straight up in the sky.
Cometsevah and the other men went back toward the camp, where they could see smoke. The troops had burned their lodges. Cometsevah walked through the camp, looking for the bodies of his missing children and sister, whose Indian name was Tallow Woman. He couldn't find them. He didn't know what the soldiers had done with them. Maybe cut them up. But he knew they were dead.
These troops, they mutilated people. Bodies had arms gone, legs gone, fingers cut off. Heads were missing. A lot of the women were cut open. Even Chief White Antelope had his ears cut off. Things of that nature.
When Cometsevah got to his lodges, he saw nothing but ashes. All his belongings, his winter supplies, were gone.
He looked all around.
Everywhere he saw dead Cheyenne. Elderly people. Women. Children. Babies.
He looked back at the ashes and saw his peace pipe. Just the bowl remained. The stem had burned. That pipe was all he had.
Cometsevah went back to tell his wife and the others what had happened. He looked at where the Cheyenne people had died. And he said, "The sand was red with blood."
All Cometsevah could do was sing his chief songs. He couldn't do anything else.
So he sang.
Anyway. That's what Laird's father told him, as his father's mother had told him.
The words "Sand Creek" appear on a marker outside the Colorado State Capitol, erected in 1909 and commemorating Civil War battles. This spring, legislators called for Sand Creek to be erased from the list. Was it a battle or a massacre? The debate still rages.
"Today we obviously condemn it," says Tom Noel. "But we have different values, different sentiments and a different worldview than people did 133 years ago. If you go back and see the Hungate massacre, that makes it a little easier to understand why the great majority sided with Chivington and rationalized or pardoned his activities. Even with nightmares like Hitler, there are reasons and contexts explaining what happened. Historically, it's important to look at all sides."
"I firmly believe there were hostiles in that camp," Mike Koury says. "Logic tells you women and children could not have held off 700 well-armed troops for six hours. There were a hell of a lot of warriors there. They put up a darn good fight."
"Should we apologize for Sand Creek?" asks Duane Smith. "That's absolutely ridiculous. Why should we? I know I sound like a bigot, but there were a lot more women and children killed in Minnesota. Are the Sioux apologizing? If my grandmother had been killed at Sand Creek, I'd certainly be horrified. But an awful lot of people justified it to the day they died.
"This was part of a civil war that had been going on since 1622," Smith continues. "Two American armies were fighting for their homeland. That is not unusual in world history. We're making it into something it's not. Are we ever going to reverse it? No. So why dwell on that history? Learn from it. Let it go."
David Halaas, chief historian for the Colorado Historical Society, could not disagree more. He has worked with Laird and Colleen Cometsevah--the Historical Society produced a videotape on Sand Creek four years ago in which both Cometsevahs told their families' stories--and learned from them that Sand Creek was a turning point for the Cheyenne. After the massacre, they never looked at white leaders the same way. There is a direct line between Sand Creek and the Battle of Little Big Horn. (It leads through the Washita River Camp, which is why Halaas, like the Cometsevahs, attended the Park Service meeting in Cheyenne, Oklahoma, earlier this month.)
"Sand Creek is a watershed," he contends. "For the Plains people, it was a lesson. It showed that the U.S. had declared war on their way of life. It proved to the Cheyenne that the U.S. could not be trusted. After it, everything changed. Sand Creek was the catalyst for twelve years of intermittent war. It was an act of genocide on all Indian people. Chivington wasn't out to kill only hostiles. He was out to kill Cheyenne. The closest and easiest was the peaceful camp at Sand Creek. It was condemned and repudiated by the government in the strongest language you can use."
Chivington was driven by self-interest, adds Andy Masich, vice president of the Colorado Historical Society. He wanted to further his political ambitions. He wanted a grand exit from his military career. He deliberately deceived the public by inflating casualties.
"He fanned the flames of hatred," Masich says. "It was he who created a sense of hysteria among his men by telling them to remember the Platte. It was he who said, 'Take no prisoners.' It was a personal agenda. There may have been a man or two at Sand Creek who participated in a raid, but that doesn't mean every man, woman and child was fair game. Those things don't make it right."
"A massacre is a massacre," Halaas adds. "It was much more than an outpouring of emotion by a bunch of thugs. Sand Creek was protected by the U.S. flag. You can't ignore that."
As for being "men of their times," Captain Silas Soule was a man of his time, too, Masich points out. And he refused to kill. "It looked too hard for me to see little children on their knees begging for their lives," Soule wrote, "to have their brains beaten out like dogs." But Soule himself was later killed in Denver by a Chivington supporter.
"The government, most people in the country and nearly all Army officers in the West believed it was an unwarranted massacre, even during the horrors of the Civil War," Masich says. "It is not a case of the Cheyenne saying frivolously that people should not forget. The government was wrong. It said it was wrong. It said--in a treaty--it would repay survivors. And that hasn't happened. Is that frivolous to bring up? No. That's justice."
"What happened there was an American tragedy," Halaas adds. "It's important not just to the Cheyennes, but for all Americans. It must be remembered."
Eight miles north of Chivington, the town named after the leader of the Colorado 3rd Cavalry, at the entrance to a patch of rangeland, stands a sign: "Absolutely No Trespassing." Across a dirt road providing access to that land lies a telephone pole. Beside that, attached to a fence humming with an electrical charge, sits a solar-powered battery.
Presumably, this primitive security system was put there by landowner William Dawson (who didn't return Westword's calls). The official site of the Sand Creek Massacre is on Dawson's land. Although he's allowed access to historians, Indians and others, Dawson has had trouble with certain people fascinated with that spot. Trouble like visitors trespassing at all hours of the day and leaving behind trash. Trouble like losing his patience and taking a car license plate from one visitor and demanding $25 in cash, blocking the path of another visitor and threatening to keep him there, holding a third at gunpoint.
In October, Dawson pleaded guilty to three felony charges stemming from these troubles and agreed to perform community service and resign from a municipal judgeship he'd held in the nearby town of Eads for ten years.
Later he offered to sell the land, a 1,425-acre parcel.
That's when Senator Ben Nighthorse Campbell entered the picture. Campbell, who's a registered member of the Cheyenne, didn't want to see the site of the Sand Creek Massacre developed or destroyed. So this spring he held a press conference to announce a bill he'd crafted to preserve the Sand Creek Massacre site.
The bill seems almost certain of passage. There's just one problem: No one is sure exactly where the massacre occurred.
Neither U.S. Cavalry troops nor Cheyenne survivors left detailed coordinates. All historians have is a vague description: forty miles northeast of old Fort Lyon.
A 1908 newspaper reported that three Sand Creek veterans had gathered for a reunion at the battlefield. When they looked around, though, they discovered they were in the wrong place. They spent several days searching for artifacts and collecting bones that turned out to be cattle. In the end they narrowed it down to seven possible sites.
In 1923, another newspaper reporter searched for Sand Creek. She interviewed ranchers in nearby Chivington and declared the massacre site "somewhere in this vicinity."
In 1950, Leroy Hafen, then Colorado curator and chief state historian, plopped a bronze marker just east of Chivington that said: "North eight miles, east one mile, is the site of the Sand Creek 'Battle' or 'Massacre.'" Hafen did not say how he arrived at the spot. But there the marker stood.
By the early Nineties, history buffs with metal detectors had been all over the site. And in July 1993, they shared their dilemma with the Colorado Historical Society: They hadn't found anything. Although up to 800 soldiers had fired on Sand Creek for more than six hours, unloading two or three tons of lead bullets and cannonballs, the metal detectors came up empty.
"From what we've found," Halaas says, "everything is in doubt."
Sand Creek survivors could have scattered items as they fled. The Big Sandy could have shifted course. Floods could have washed away artifacts. The Dust Bowl could have covered evidence. But still--nothing?
"I was shocked," Halaas says. "Up until that time, I had no reason to question it. You'd think we'd know where the Sand Creek Massacre occurred. It's like losing Gettysburg."
Historians studied records and did more research. They pored over maps again and again. They interviewed Cheyenne, questioned ranchers. A team of researchers combed the site and concluded that what was needed was a professional, systematic search.
In 1995, the Colorado Historical Society commissioned a team of historians, archaeologists, geologists and metal-detector clubs to pinpoint the site. They fanned out over a 1,000-acre search area centered on the Dawson land. They took aerial photographs. They used ground-penetrating radar. They stood ten meters apart with metal detectors. Their discovery: one picketpin (used to tie a horse), one .54-caliber mini-ball, one .58-caliber mini-ball.
"That's relevant material, but very disappointing, considering the two to three tons of ammunition fired," Halaas says. "We can't say it's the site. We can't say it's not the site. This may indeed be it. We just don't know."
A full report is due at the Colorado Historical Society next month. In the meantime, Campbell's bill, which authorizes the Park Service to locate and buy the land for a national historic site, waits in committee.
Halaas is optimistic. If Campbell's proposal passes, a more thorough records search would begin--as well as a high-tech site survey including infra-red satellite imagery.
"I think we'll find it," he says. "I hope we'll find it. But there's no guarantee."
The United States, being desirous to express its condemnation of, and repudiate the gross and wanton outrages perpetrated against certain bands of Cheyenne and Arapaho by Col. J.M. Chivington while said Indians were at peace with the United States and under its flag, whose protection they had been promised and induced to seek, will grant three-hundred-and-twenty acres to each of the following chiefs...and will, in like manner, grant to each person made a widow or lost a parent, one-hundred-and-sixty acres...
--Article Six, Treaty of the Little Arkansas, 1865
Laird keeps his great-grandfather's pipe with his most important things. It's made of dark-red stone and has Cometsevah's personal markings. Laird sometimes holds it in his big, callused hands, examining the smooth contours, the place where a hole was worn through.
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He thinks about his great-grandfather often, and about all those people running along the creek. Today when he walks through his town, he sees his ancestors in the old people warming themselves in the sun, in the children romping.
Old people and babies.
Laird and his wife carry the stories inside them. They pass along what they know, do what they can to keep history alive, wait for the U.S. government to fulfill its promise. The survivors of Sand Creek never got the reparations they were told they'd receive. Making Sand Creek a historic site would be a start.
Historians, politicians and scientists will argue for years to come about the morning of November 29, 1864. They will discuss where it took place, how it should be explained and what it means today. The survivors and their families already know.
"As long as there are Cheyenne living," Laird says. "There will be Sand Creek.


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When asked why Bickford doesn't appear likely to be signed, general manager Alex Anthopoulos hinted that there are factors at play aside from just money.
Bickford was taken with the 10th overall pick in the 2013 First-Year Player Draft, and the recommended slot value is just above $2.9 million.
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Kara Swisher interviews Aydin Senkut, a "super angel," a new class of investor who is increasingly competing head on with traditional VCs for start-up deals.
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Blizzard held a live Diablo 3 Q&A on Thursday which was aired on Facebook. Feedback has been mixed but we never expect to learn much new information from these Q&A sessions.
Back in the good old days there was some real value in Q&A sessions but it's been many, many yeares since they have been of much of value to the community. This is because they have been controlled with questions carefully picked prior to the Q&A sessions and questions not being fully answered. Perhaps these need to be a little longer than 30 minutes to satisfy more of the player base.
If you missed the session, you can now watch the full version with Diablo 3 CM Brandy Camel and senior game designer Joe Shely after the break. Nevalistis also responded to some criticism from fans today in a post.
The content of our questions were sorted on both popularity and frequency, and we tried to get a variety of different community interests. There were actually a lot of questions from achievement hunters, for example, and we want to make sure as much of our community is represented as possible. That may mean you're not as interested in every question that's asked, but someone else in the community is.
There were also questions that we just cannot answer, either because we don't have an answer or because it's about something that's not ready. The Necromancer is a good example. We know a ton of you are super stoked to get your hands on the class and want to know more, but it's a work in progress that isn't ready to be discussed in detail. As things get solidified and we have information to share, we'll most certainly target future communications around those details.
I'm also curious as to what people thought of Facebook and interacting with the stream via that platform. I know it's not for everyone, and as we speak, I'm working on a YouTube upload so those without Facebook have another location they can watch it on.
We have data to collect, feedback to read, and planning to do for the new year, so I wouldn't expect another Q&A this month (something something holidays, something something New Year), but this will not be the last (even if the format might see a little tweaking) and we'll find a cadence that fits our development schedule.


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Sales Job Titles and Descriptions
A sales job, broadly defined, is simply one in which your primary job is to sell something. Obviously, this is a very big category, and your duties will depend on what you are selling (life insurance? aircraft carriers? socks?), whom you are selling to (retail customers? other businesses?), and whether yours is a supervisory or management position.
Job titles in sales run from entry-level customer service representatives to executive vice presidents.
Sales Management
Management positions can range from managing other employees, to managing existing customer accounts, to developing strategies for the sales team's success. Many management job positions have an assistant management level one step beneath.
Business development managers are focused on developing strategies for increasing sales, improving customer relationships, and generating new prospects. Marketing managers are concerned with increasing market share of their company's products, planning and directing marketing policies and monitoring trends in their industry. Territory or regional managers have responsibility for specified areas, ensuring their sales reps meet goals and maintain existing clients.
Executive-Level Management
Once you add "director" or "vice president" to a job title, you're at the executive level of management.
Directors supervise groups of managers, and vice presidents supervise the directors. At this level of management, you're establishing and managing sales goals for the entire company or major pisions of it, and you're developing strategies to reach long-term company goals.
Which industry you're in might not matter as much at this level, since you are dealing mostly with organizational issues and interpersonal matters that remain roughly the same no matter what you are actually selling. You may find yourself advancing your career by moving from one company to another, regardless of industry, rather than within a single company. Possible job titles include Director of Inside Sales, Director of National Sales, Executive Vice President of Sales, or Sales Director.
More Sales Job Titles
- Account Executives
- Account Manager
- Account Representative
- Advertising Sales Representative
- Area Sales Manager
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- B2B Corporate Sales
- Brand Ambassador
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- Business Development Representative
- Channel Partner Sales Executive
- Corporate Sales Account Executive
- Customer Care Representative
- Direct Sales Manager
- Direct Salesperson
- Director of Inside Sales
- Director of National Sales
- Director of Sales
- Distribution Sales Representative
- District Sales Manager
- Enterprise Resources Planning Representative
- Enterprise Sales Representative
- Equipment Sales Specialist
- Executive Vice President, Sales
- Financial Advisor
- Financial Planner
- Financial Sales Assistant
- Fixed Income Specialist
- Franchise Development Manager
- Group and Events Sales Coordinator
- Group Sales Manager
- Healthcare Sales Representative
- Industrial Sales Representative
- Industry Representative
- Inside Sales Manager
- Inside Salesperson
- Insurance Sales Representative
- Investments Representative
- Key Account Manager
- Major Accounts Manager
- Manager, Business Development
- Market Development Manager
- Medical Sales Representative
- National Accounts Sales Analyst
- National Accounts Sales General Manager
- National Accounts Sales Representative
- National Sales Manager
- Outside Sales Representative
- Regional Dealer Recruiter
- Regional Sales Account Manager
- Regional Sales Executive
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- Retail Sales Representative
- Retail Store Manager
- Route Sales Representative
- Sales Account Executive, Small and Medium Business
- Sales and Community Marketing Manager
- Sales Assistant
- Sales Associate
- Sales Coordinator
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- Sales Trainee
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- Strategic Account Manager
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- Territory Sales Representative
- Wealth Management Advisor
- Wholesale Sales Manager
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Within an hour of realizing the loss, I'd called the non-emergency number for a police report (done over the phone, to my surprise). I canceled my American Express and Visa. I called the TSA, then O'Hare TSA.
"People forget their ID all the time," said the weary-sounding agent. "We have a procedure. When you get to security, tell them exactly what you told me."
When I revealed to the screener that I didn't have ID, a brisk man came out from the back of the security area. I knew he wasn't the airport supervisor, because I'd heard HIS voicemail message about being on vacation until after the holiday, but this guy was undeniably in charge.
"None of this exists," he says, waving away the black and white printouts of my passport and new driver's license that I made from the ALA computers. "We can't take reproductions."
He is younger than me, but constantly harangues the other officers. "Who's on break? Anyone not on break needs to give me an explanation why the line is so long. And why weren't these people with their bags?"
"You pack it, you deal with it," he said. "This is what pisses me off."
He asks what I have with me with my name on it. I find my Alabama Education Association card and Council of Leaders of Alabama Schools card, both nested with my loyalty codes instead of in my wallet. "What are these?" he asks.
"Union cards," I respond.
He says that while I don't have government issued ID, I have ancillary ID, so he would let me through.
He starts using codes with the army of agents -- DID (don't have ID?) and "modified female assist," which ended up being terribly thorough. To her credit, the officer did clarify just what she'd be doing, and check that it was okay she do it out in public. She explored every inch of the seams of my white Gap skinny jeans.
Without my wallet, I had been worried about not having enough money to check my bag. I could give them the scant $25 in borrowed and found cash I had. But what if it is was over weight? I spent Tuesday night condensing my belongings. But I shouldn't have worried. I actually didn't touch my bags again after I revealed I didn't have proper identification.
The officer in charge moved them through the x-ray machine himself, using the plastic cups for wallets and jewelry to isolate my bags and gives a coded instruction, "between the bowls."
After my pat-down, he starts inside my bags. He opens the zippered compartments holding high heeled shoes, hardback books, documents in Sanrio folders. He pokes at my clothes, largely combinations of purple, silk and floral, with an Isadora Duncan-esque quantity of scarves. It is then that he says to me, "You don't happen to be one of those librarians, do you?"
"Oh, wait," says another officer walking by, smirking ever so slightly "You're coming from that library conference, too?"
The search was markedly lessened in ferocity.


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Living in God's Rest... At Peace in a Chaotic World
Nancy LaPointe, author of Living in God's Rest... At Peace in A Chaotic World, doesn't believe in coincidence. She believes that God has a plan. So when the idea of "resting in Him" started turning up repeatedly in her life-on the radio, in emails, in whatever she was reading-she listened. She began to study the concept and felt that God was leading her to share His revelations with others.
And who doesn't live with stress these days? As I was reading Nancy's book, I was struck with how much I needed to hear its message. I quickly recognized myself in her portrait of today's busy independent professional, doggedly juggling career, family, social and community activities, personal endeavors and hobbies. Not just keeping up with the Joneses, but staying out in front of a whole pack of strong-willed, determined Joneses.
Both our human nature and society drive us to prove our worth through how much we can handle. We wear our busyness like a badge of success, but at what cost? The price of a culture of highly focused, highly busy individuals is the absence of peace. Nancy quips, "You would have to be a total iconoclastic hermit to be living in this decade and not be aware of the events taking place around us that are chaotic." We live in a time of increasing unrest and epidemic hyperactivity. Fear, rebellion, violence, and evil are escalating all around us.
A central message of Nancy's book is that we can experience inner peace no matter what is happening in our lives or in the world. But "resting is much more than just taking a nap or stopping our frantic pace of life for a quick breather before running onward." Chasing after the world's ways of dealing with stress-vacations, self-help books, prescription drugs-may offer temporary relief, but in the end, will not bring deep or lasting peace. Entering God's rest requires us to grow spiritually and learn to depend on Him. It means "living so close to God that we can hear His heartbeat."
Neither does resting in God mean that we live without worry or fear, for we are human after all. It means trusting God in a way that brings peace to the soul, "understanding that His plans and purposes are always good, regardless of how they appear at the time."
"Resting is totally about trust." When we abide in trust and faith that God is in control and we are not, we can close our eyes to what other people want, demand, or think. When we understand that God has all wisdom and knowledge by which to govern and lead, we are freed from the need to carry our own burdens and freed from the false notion that we control destiny. We no longer need to drive ourselves to exhaustion trying to amass worldly accolades, material wealth, or personal achievements. We find rest in our submission to God's control.
God's rest is also about freedom. "Freedom means you are not chained, in bondage, drowning, or suffocating. It means you sleep soundly. It means you don't have migraines, muscle tension, stomach cramps, bad moods, or temper tantrums." When body, soul, and spirit are in harmony and at peace, we enter God's rest.
With insight and clarity, Nancy reveals how wrong thinking has led us down a path of destruction. She then tenderly and compassionately redirects readers toward the perception that peace and rest come from a total reliance on God. This cannot happen without an understanding of who God really is, as well as who we were created to be. So many things can get in the way of our peace, and we must be willing to eradicate obstacles and view the world in a different way.
Through poignant examples and personal stories, Living in God's Rest provides the ultimate step-by-step guide for learning to let go of tensions, worries, and past traumas that bind us, so that we can learn to relax in God's grace and enter a place of rest, regardless of what is happening all around us.
Nancy LaPointe grew up a New Mexican, mostly in the Artesia/Carlsbad area, but lived most of her early years in Lubbock, Texas. Moving to Las Cruces in 1989, she met and married her husband Hank, and they lived in Las Cruces until 2006 when they relocated to Ruidoso. "We had enjoyed this area all our lives and felt at home finally living here full-time."
Nancy has a bachelor's degree in social work, and a master's degree in pastoral counseling. She started out working in medical social work, but finding herself very involved in ministry, decided to obtain her graduate degree in counseling. She was ordained as an associate pastor at a large, non-denominational church in Las Cruces, where most of her time was focused on counseling and in healing ministry.
Many people in Lincoln County became acquainted with Nancy when she served as the Coordinator for the Lincoln County Community Health Council until 2010, when the state legislature ended health council funding. She has also served as a counselor at the Nest and as a chaplain for hospice patients.
Enjoying retirement and continuing to do some healing ministry, Nancy now is focused on writing and creative arts. She leads a ladies' Bible study group at Angus Church and is active with the Cleansing Streams ministry through Grace Harvest Church. She is currently working on two new books and hopes to publish within the next 3-6 months.
Living in God's Rest, published by West Bow Press (a division of Thomas Nelson), is available through all major booksellers, including ebook versions. It is also available through Nancy's website: www.nancysview.com. She will be happy to send a signed copy if you indicate your request on the website.
Feel free to check out Nancy's facebook page at www.facebook.com/pages/Nancy-LaPointe/296109380491574.
Hello Everyone!
I pray you are all well and have had a wonderful weekend and a restful and enlightening Sunday! Speaking of restful Sunday, I am so excited and honored to be able to introduce you to a new book that will bring new focus on a subject as old as history.
A good friend of mine, Nancy LaPointe—who is a Christian counselor and an author — has a recently published her new book entitled, Living In God's Rest: At Peace In A Chaotic World. Rather than rush right into this book review, I would like to present what I perceive to be an intense experience in discovering God's rest and peace for the author. This experience can be yours also!
I personally met Nancy and her husband for the first time through a mutual friend. Nancy and her husband came to our mission church on the Mescalero Apache reservation in SE New Mexico to offer their gift of service during a revival we were holding. The second time that we worked together revolved around her providing Christian counseling for one of my church members.
She is the real deal and her main purpose for writing this book is in obedience of her call from God to do so. That being said — let us take a look at what I call a very Spirit-filled and spiritually enlightening experience. Yes, that's right. I said a spiritually enlightening experience, not just a great read from a great book.
Nancy has a way of making God's truths come alive. Her writing style is one of lively communication, a — from her to you — verbalization in written form that expands your thinking about God's word while lifting you to new heights of understanding and application of God's truths. In other words, her new book is an experience of meeting God face-to-face as you lose yourself in its pages.
Nancy's book is organized into 16 delightful chapters that take you on a journey of understanding, desiring, and finding God's rest. It is full of biblical Scripture references that provide contextual truths as sign posts on your journey of discovery. God's rest for yourself and those you love can be found within its pages. You will find extremely comforting and beneficial meditations on Scripture that provide the living water from the well of Jesus' love.
This book paints a picture, in well chosen and thoughtful prose, revealing the Chaos in the world and God's answer to it. With stunning narrative and talented story-telling, Nancy paints that picture in multi-colored dimensions that not only make her words come alive but allow her words to sink deep down inside — providing a warmth of understanding that you can't bear to put down.
This is one book that provides a three-dimensional look at the many aspects of resting in God. Unlike other books that touch on this subject, the reader comes away from the experience with a deep and abiding desire to have a closer walk with Christ. Learning how to live in God's rest allows you to see yourself in perspective, to notice the anxiety that comes from running from crisis to crisis — depending on self. You discover and gain experience putting your faith and trust in Him.
Nancy describes the experience of putting on Christ and His righteousness and seeing yourself and the world in like-mindedness with Him. Nothing can grow your faith better than seeing things through His eyes. The medical profession has known for decades that rest for the body is one of the best medications one can have for physical illnesses. Nancy provides a worldview from God's plan for us. She provides guidance in discovering your path to living in God's rest for healing damaged emotions and the damaging effects of depression. We are vividly shown how to recognize positive change, how to prevent satanic deception, and to be humble and accepting of God's sovereignty in our lives.
This book also tackles the subject of suffering in the lives of Christians and sheds truth on this subject in a way that opens the heart and provides understanding. The last two chapters of Living In God's Rest wrap this package of the pearls of wisdom that are found between its covers. I choose to allow you to discover these blessings, like a child opening its long-awaited presents, because the joy is in the discovery! Happy discoveries!
Until next time!


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