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Small Business Saturday is especially timely this year, as family and local businesses play an increasingly vital role in the U.S. economy and in the creation of the jobs. But what does it take for these businesses to grow and succeed? In addition to our allegiance and patronage, which many of us are working to provide during this weekend, Grow America's Alan Hall reports these companies need four things: Money, Marketing, Mentoring and meaningful Networking in order to take off and thrive. How do they do it?
Parker Garlitz, co-founder and co-owner of WheatGrassKits in Springville, Utah, agreed to provide some ideas and pointers in honor of the Small Biz Saturday timing today.
Garlitz is an SEO whiz. He started an Internet Service Provider in Utah in 1993–one of the state's first 3–sold it in 1998 and started playing around with the idea of selling online. On the side, he ran a laser printer repair service. He listed several refurbished printers online. Lo and behold, they were sold. Although eCommerce was still a fairly new concept, Garlitz realized he was "onto something" and commenced a booming little business selling toner, printer supplies and copies over the Internet until about 2001 or so.
Seeing his success, his younger sister, Kaitlin ("Kat"–now Kaitlin Jones) came to him in the Spring of 2000 as she was graduating high school and said "I want to do what you're doing. I want to be selling things online."
But what? Garlitz agreed to join her in starting a company. Kaitlin is a vegan and into a lot of "edgy health food stuff," he said. Sprouts, wheat grass, fresh herbs. They researched the concept of wheatgrass growing kits and launched Living Whole Foods (WheatGrassKits.com) with $100 and a credit card in Sept. 2000.
The Challenges
The "company" was actually just a website and a stack of inventory in a spare room in Garlitz' laser printer business. Within three days, they'd received their first order, from Canada, and learned their first lesson: It is very tricky to ship seeds into Canada. Juicers, kits, equipment, even supplements, no problem. But seeds? "They're agricultural and can be very complicated to ship out of country," Parker said.
They worked through the hurdles and cleared a whopping $900 in their first calendar month. They were ecstatic. The goal was to help Kaitlin pay her way through college. Neither sibling realized they were on the cusp of a "serious business," they said.
Fast forward to November, 2012. Today the company has 1,200-1,300 SKUs, 14,000 square feet of warehouse space, and hopes, depending on holiday selling traffic, to near $7 million in sales.
With a focus on make-your-own and grow-your-own healthy and organic food, they sell juicers, herb growing kits, flax seed grinding kits, oat rolling kits and stackable planters. A highly popular new product is the company's newest line of herbal garden kits made of reclaimed barnwood. The business has created 30 jobs thus far, many fulfilled by family members and friends; 16 of them full time.
The Milestones
2009 marked the move from co-location space to their own warehouse building. "We built it and own it," Garlitz said. The warehouse space has expanded as well, to a current 14,000 square feet.
Kaitlin notes that every time the business experiences a big move or a purchase the company joke is "Now we're a real business." Moving from the spare room in Garlitz' business to their own facility was milestone one. Another was the purchase of a used forklift several years ago for $1,500—finally, shipments didn't have to be unloaded by hand.
Another has been their own photography studio to prepare product pictures without having to use a garage. Having two restrooms—one male, one female–in the current warehouse space was a "real business" moment as well.
The Power of eCommerce
"I understand our product line, but I'm not a vegan like my sister," says Garlitz. "I've pretty much looked at our products as 'ultra niche'. Then one day Kat listed some of our wheat grass seed on eBay. We made five sales that week."
"I went 'Whoa!'—that was an epiphany. Our products had a wider appeal in mainstream marketplaces than I'd ever have thought." Now the company has made a concerted push to make its products ubiquitous. Through strong eCommerce and SEO strategies the business is able to accomplish about one third of its sales through third party selling channels such as Amazon, eBay, Overstock and Sears. (The company does a very small proportion of its business through brick and mortar retail sites under the product name Handy Pantry.) The company's primary website, www.wheatgrasskits.com, is the major source of its sales. Business runs year round, but holiday shopping is the company's heaviest sales and revenue season. Herb garden kits, both classic and in new barnwood varieties, are the company's most popular holiday hits.
Oh I don't know about 0 to7 mil but I know how to get from 7mil to 0. Hint: Invest in facebook stocks. Read my blog, I just started it. : http://whentosell.wordpress.com/
Cheryl, what a fun and inspiring story! Thanks for sharing!
Thanks again for a terrific article. So informative!
Happy Holidays!
Very inspirational story.
It is very interesting to see how businesses have innovated and prospered, reading their journeys gives great motivation.
Where you have stated that they encountered problems and found ways over these hurdles… It is great that they have done so. But would it be possible maybe to have a detailed story of the steps these people took to counter the hurdles they were confronted with. I understand with some businesses and markets it would not be wise to give away trade secrets, or offer competitors ways of relieving themselves from similar issues – but it would be extremely fascinating to read a detailed story of a chosen businesses start and rise, and How they overcame some major hurdles in their ways. I just think it might open up our creative solution solving abilities!
Thank you very much for a great article Cheryl, kudos!
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Joe Malley and Lou Qualliu asked district officials last week to , which are both located close to the state-mandated 2-mile mark that determines whether or not students are entitled to ride the bus.
Since then, officials went back to examine routes and found that Qualliu's home is far enough away for his son can ride the bus, but decided Malley's home was still 200 feet too close to the school.
Malley told Patch he believes his home is more than 2 miles if the measurement does not have his son walking down Old Hook Road, a busy street which is partially without sidewalks.
"Old Hook Road is unsafe for someone to get to school," Malley said.
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Malley said he is hoping Westwood Police Chief Frank Regino will determine the Old Hook Road route unsafe and tell the district they have to measure from a different path.
The men previously offered to pay for their children to ride the bus. Currently, the district does not have a subscription busing policy. Superintendent Geoffrey Zoeller said that their odds of getting a seat then would still be "vanishingly small" because the district would have to make them available via lottery to all students under the 2-mile limit.
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Editor's note: This post is a developing story first reported by The Smoking Gun and RT. The author will be reaching out to Clinton's and Blumenthal's offices for comment and will update the post as necessary.
Confidential emails purportedly from former political adviser Sidney Blumenthal to Secretary of State Hillary Clinton have been hacked and widely distributed to politicians and news sources. Included in the hacker "Guccifer's" distribution list are Russian news services such as Pravda, Moscow Times, and RT.
We have no information about the authenticity of the hacked e mails. They will be tested over the next few hours or days.
RT has released excerpts from the purported Blumenthal-Clinton memos. RT, which is a propaganda arm of the Putin regime, will have its own agenda in selecting and interpreting excerpts, which is not immediately clear. RT focuses on two of the four hacked emails, citing sensitive sources, on the attack on the U.S. consulate in Benghazi.
The first excerpted Blumenthal e mail, dated September 12, 2012, reports that senior advisors told the President of Libya during the day of September 11 that the Benghazi and Tripoli attacks were sparked by the Cairo demonstrations and anger over an anti-Muslim video. The President himself attributed the anti-American activity at the Tripoli and Benghazi facilities to efforts to undermine his regime by tying him to the CIA. The President warned that his enemies were working to take advantage of his suspected links to the CIA at a time when Western intelligence services are under scrutiny in Libya.
The timeline reported in the Blumenthal memo is curious. He reports the President meeting with advisors during the day of September 11. The organized attacks in Benghazi did not begin until after nine PM that evening.
Supporters of Hillary Clinton might use this information to suggest that she was being fed incorrect information as the events in Benghazi unfolded. The fact that the President met with advisors before the real attack even began might cast doubt on his interpretation of events, which seemed to suggest an attack mounted by his domestic enemies.
RT provides excerpts from a second memo from Blumenthal to Clinton dated February 16 marked as coming "from extremely sensitive sources and should be handled with care." In this memo, Blumenthal reports a consensus among affected governments in the region that the Benghazi and Algerian gas field attacks were coordinated by Al-Qaeda related terrorist groups, financed by Sunni Muslim sources in Saudi Arabia.
RT does not provide information about two other Blumenthal-Clinton memos related to Benghazi.
The reader should be warned that these are first and partial accounts of hacked emails that may be fabricated by someone with a hidden agenda. Time will tell whether they have any credence. The RT selection of excerpts appears to fit into Putin's agenda. Unhappy with the overthrow of Kaddafi, Putin would want to emphasize the sinister role played by the CIA in Libya. The second memo refutes Obama's claim of an Al Qaeda on the run by showing an increasingly coordinated pattern of Al Qaeda sponsored attacks throughout the Middle East.
Well,at this point I would believe more of what Pravda tells me about it than anything Rodham herself has to say about it
It might just be my skepticism, but it seems to me the farther the RT account is from what HRC says, the more likely they are accurate.
Realism my friend: it's called realism.
Hard to say who I trust least. Thou who is trying to save their career in the states, her boss who was in an election cycle making the Al Qaeda on the run comment, or the fully state ran Putin Media.
Al Qaeda is run and financed by the United States: any news surrounding Al Qaeda should be taken with a grain of salt.
Putin run media versus Obama run media – always read between the lines.
There is an enormous amount of evidence that says you are 100% correct, sharpen. It's too bad most Americans only watch CNN/Fox/MSNBC for their news.
-US Army Veteran
Oh stop… Al Quada is not run by the United States.
What a piece of trash
Yes I agree with you.
You support Russian propaganda over your own nation. Maybe you'd be happier in Moscow. I know every American patriot would be happier with you there.
If the Sept. 11th attack started at 9pm Libyan time, it would have been in the early afternoon in DC.
If the attack, on Sept. 11th, in Bengazi started at 9PM EST…then the attack would have happened Sept. 12th in Libya.
Time zone changes…
The emails state that the Libyan president met in the afternoon to discuss the attacks. If you will refer to the original email, it does not state that he met in the afternoon Washington D.C. time; a reasonable reading of the email seems to indicate it was afternoon time for the Libyan President in Libya – hours before the attack even started. If the information in these emails supported HRC, and by inference President Obama, then the original emails would not be blocked on all US websites by our government.
First attack at 9:40 PM Beghazi daylight saving time, 3:40 PM EDT. The attack on the CIA compound was at 4 AM Benghazi, or 10 PM EDT.
Fox News will still use the unadjusted timeline to create confusion and muddy the waters.
And CNN and NBC will blame Bush.
I don't care anymore. All we get is lies about liars who lie. Go to Hell, Mankind.
Does any serious person really believe these emails are real? What a great way for Hillary to run for cover but to have supposedly "hacked" emails provide cover for what she knew and when she knew it. PROPAGANDA from Clintonistas is what is going on here. Of course, "due to the sensitive nature or the mails" – Hillary will not be able to confirm or deny the information supposedly hacked from secure, encrypted, email servers that are protected by a host of firewalls, intrusion detection devices, and anomaly detectors. I am calling complete BULL on this one. There is no way their email servers were hacked. No way – I am an expert in this arena.
Sir, the majority of the hacked emails come from AOL, which is not known for its robust security measures. For you to say there is no way that anyone's email server – federal or otherwise – was hacked shows you are most definitely no expert in the arena. From my own vast Internet and email security experience – which included work with government agencies – there are many weaknesses that a hacker could utilize for their benefit. And never discount that this "Guccifer" could be an insider.
All of this who knew what and when did they know it is useless. The big question is what are they doing about it? Nothing to date apparently.
You're joking, right? It doesn't bother you to know that the Secretary of State – and by inference, the President himself – was aware that a raid on our Libyan embassy but sat back and allowed it to happen? It certainly bothers me. I'm still not convinced the government was not involved in this somehow, as many conspiracy theorists have been saying since it first happened. If that's the case, it will topple the Obama administration, as it should.
Where have you been the last 5 years? NOTHING i repeat NOTHING this president could do would topple his administration. For the media and his many followers he could get up on stage and start shooting followers with an AK47 mowing them down and his admin and him would find a way to spin it and make it look like he just killed tea party members so, "its okay". They dont just support him, they WORSHIP him like a god and have for the last 5 years. He can do no wrong as far as they are concerned. He has done almost ALL of the same things GW Bush did and not a peep from the media or the liberals, yet when GW did them they were in the streets protesting EVERY WEEK.
James you are correct,
A few quotes to prove your points.
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2. Never waste a good crises, disaster or why not create one as diversion. Obama and company good at it also..
"That propaganda is good which leads to success, and that is bad which fails to achieve the desired result. It is not propaganda's task to be intelligent, its task is to lead to success."
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3. Sequester lies it was the Republicans fault.. Continue with below
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Isn't it interesting we "finally" find information on Benghazi from foreign sources! The Obama administration is the most secret and dangerous administration out ranked possibly by Nixon. Nixon's evil was "local and stupid as shown by Watergate" – Obama's is dangerous and we will never know what actually takes place… that is…unless foreign sources advise us. What has happened to the America most of us older citizens knew… and why!
Nixon's Watergate was childs play to what is going on in the Obama adm.!
And yet, not one politician, on either side, is calling for his resignation!
Could it be that her recent "change" in position regarding same-sex marriage was based upon her knowing her e-mails had been hacked? Love messages to the "real" love of her life? Maybe?
Herself like the rest of the Democrats she's in bed, with are despicable people with no other agenda than enriching themselves and wielding power. You can bet, if there is any information that will cause harm to the above mentioned goals, the state controlled media will cover up for and make excuses for the Obama regime as they always do. After all, the low information morons can't be allowed to find out the truth. Of course as stupid and gullible as the low information voters are, it's highly doubtful that even presented with the smoking gun, they would question the regime they love so much.
Amazing how FORBES is trying to cover for these lying POS.
'Benghazi Hill' clearly needs to clean up herself up before running for POTUS in 2016… after all, "what the hell difference does it make at this point?"
Regardless of whether of not this is true, they left those people there to die in favor of an election. Just like Johnson in Viet-Nam. They left us there to die for politics. The real enemies of the people are supposedly working for them. Disgusting lying scumbags. Everyone of them.
agree with Alvin. Never have we witnessed such cronynism, spending and executive privilege taken to such a level. Are there no decent men in DC??
Or has honor and courage been lost?
Print the content of the allegedly stolen e-mails. We are smart enough to read them. We do not need you to tell us what was in them in the form of interpretation or summary.
Bear slaps Ogress, exposes the emperor's new clothes.
We can only hope that the information included in these e-mails brings out a glimmer of what the Obama Administration has been hiding. Don't want to
think illegalities / conspiracies occurred until proven. All we do know is that the Administration has lied to cover up what what happening and that the 30+
survivors are hidden away from the media and the public, and purportedly from Congress. . Facts, not opinion.
Where's the email that proves Hillary Betray Us came up with the lying excuse about the movie instead of what really happened in the Benghazi terrorist attack that killed three Marines and our Ambassador.
Your reporter is lazy. Have him cross check with the other Western parties that received the same memos. He should have done this prior to writing this. Without doing the crosscheck it appears he is doing damage control for Hillary.
Regardless the content of Hillary's email the entitled ones will vote her into the next Presidency. Like it or not this is the current trend until it ends, badly I'm sure.
Oh, Oh. They're referring to Russia now as Putin's Regime – that's not good. We all know what happens when the US declares someone's government a 'regime'.
"The reader should be warned that these are first and partial accounts of hacked emails that may be fabricated by someone with a hidden agenda."
The reader should be warned that these are first and partial accounts of hacked emails that have not been reviewed by the banker controlled media, and edited for public consumption.
Ha, ha, ha. Love it. Really, they're probably doing backflips over how they will lie and excuse any leaked information away – I know, let's call Russia a 'regime' – that works everywhere else, and then let's say it's 'Putin's' regime to make it sound like some sort of evil dictatorship – ya that will work. Then, we'll discredit their media (as if our own isn't confirmed to be total propaganda at this point), and say they're in the toilet for Putin.
Here's an idea: you had 7 hours of live drone footage at Benghazi, and troops stationed at nearby posts. You had months, weeks and days of warnings, even warnings the same day. Instead of granting extra manpower to protect your embassy (and the sensitive secrets it contained on missions and objectives in Libya) you scaled back and reduced their round alotment. Then, even when marines volunteered to go and help the embassy, clearly under attack – engulfed in flames and gunfire – you told these brave men to stand down.
Benghazi was treason – I can determine that without the emails and so was 'fast and furious'.
I was really happy to see that Hillary has been to the "body shop." She has a really good plastic surgeon and he's taken years off of her. She doesn't look a day older than 80! Can a permanently embalmed, on display Hillary be in our future?
the Debbie Boone "lifestyle lift"
i agree with the lawyer….. these are propaganda sent by HRC campaign for Pres. Why haven't we seen or heard from the survivors? Yeah, you know why…..
Hillary Betray Us – her outright lies after the Benghazi terrorist attacks.
I really don't care WHAT the memos say. Hillary swore UNDER OATH that she didn't even READ the urgent cables from Amb. Stevens warning about insufficient and deteriorating security at the Benghazi Embassy. On that ALONE she should have been REMOVED before her "retirement" from the State Department. Absolute criminal negligence. Can you imagine just ignoring urgent messages from your AMBASSADOR at the most dangerous embassy in the world? And this woman thinks she deserves to be president??? How SICK can Americans be to vote for this woman?
I don't believe that Hillary Clinton was criminally negligent in failing to read those emails requesting help, I believe that she is criminally responsible with criminal intent.
Why not ask this woman about her love affair with globalism? Might be eye opening as to where her real allegiance lies (hint: not with America).
They weren't just "e-mail message" they were OFFICIAL EMBASSY CABLES. And they were issued as URGENT. She is a disgrace.
The timeline in Blumenthal's email is NOT CURIOUS – it is dead on. Months ago, CBS posted the 3 emails that the State Department sent out to many people in the administration concerning info received by State Dept staff in Tripoli concerning the attacks as they occurred. The D.C. time on the Sept 11, 2012 emails were 4:00 pm, 4:54 pm, and 6:07 pm (images of these are available online). (This would be consistent with Libya time of 9 pm there as the sun rises in the east.) As to the likelihood that 0bama met with anyone on Sept 11 concerning Benghazi, his official schedule posted on the White House web page showed him meeting at 5:00 pm with Biden and Panetta in the Oval Office one floor above the bee-hive of activity. But, weeks later he denied that they talked about Benghazi. . . . and surely this is the curious statement: that the President, V.P. and the Secretary of Defense (and whomever else) did not discuss the attack as it was occurring and they were huddled.
Her attitude and comments during the hearings lead me to believe that she knew more regarding the deaths of the ambassador and the others than she cares to admit.When she said what difference does it make now she showed how callous she is.
True. She was behaving like a spoiled child with a dark secret during the hearings. "What difference does it make!?" A childish outburst like that is unbecoming of a secretary of state – and now her and Michelle want to run for president and vice-president versus Jeb Bush?
My God America! Wake up! They had 7 hours of live feed from one of their drones and plenty enough warning to secure the embassy.
This is a scam , hillary set this up to create a a phoney vindication of her implication on bengahzi . She needs to clear her name for her run at the WH so she stages phoney emails and a pretend hack. Who uses Yahoo email for top secret email communication. Everything they do is a lie and propaganda to fool the subjects.
I'm just curious why this is coming from the Russian media and not our own media? Are they vetting the information in the memos before publishing?
Sounds like Sid set this all up. The excuse and Mei Culpa!
Sad that we must rely on Russian TV to get the details.
It says a lot when we have to rely on hackers to find out what our government officials are doing (or more accurately, the job they are not doing but should be). It says they are lying to cover us their inaction and to falsely place blame elsewhere. Obama and Hillary let our ambassador and 3 other US citizens die to help ensure Obama's election. Hillary shows she didn't even care, saying "what does it matter?".
This story will eventually come out: survivors will be interviewed, documents will come to surface (via hackers likely), and someone or several books will come out about it. But now that Obama has been re-elected "what does it matter?" It matters to citizens to know what their elected leaders aren't doing.
The time for hidden secrets is almost over….with the Internet and hackers, we may yet come to know as citizens of the Earth, just what happened, is happening and will happen…Guccifer…keep up the good work.
Never trust the Russians. They lie more than any other nationality on the planet, except for Kenyans.
If anyone wants to know the truth of what the e-mails contain, change the sender's name from Blumenthal to Cheney and the recipient's name from Hillary Clinton to George Bush and the entire e-mail chain will be published on NBC, MSNBC, The New York Times, and the Washington Post within minutes and verified as "gospel."
According to a report this morning, some of the hacked emails reference a women's rights conference last week at the U.N. at which Hillary apparently performed her "infamous" stroke victim impersonation to a surprising raucous response from delegates. Bill Clinton and Al Gore both attended the conference for the sole purpose of watching Hillary's "hilarious" performance. http://www.thedailyrash.com/hillary-clinton-does-hilarious-stroke-victim-impersonation-at-u-n
You lost me at "RT, which is a propaganda arm of the Putin regime", you know because Forbes is 100% agenda-free.
"The timeline reported in the Blumenthal memo is curious. He reports the President meeting with advisors during the day of September 11. The organized attacks in Benghazi did not begin until after nine PM that evening."
So 9:00pm Libya time is what, 4:00pm Washington time?
What's curious about that?
It took the Russians to release this? wtf
"The RT selection of excerpts appears to fit into Putin's agenda."
What a coincidence, most of the American media appears to fit Obama's agenda.
Or it could be someone with an agenda to prop up HC for 2016. I am taking bets, anyone want to wager?
Piano Legs will have a lie crafted for every eventuality. Let's see ALL of these hacked emails – we'll make our own decisions as to what they 'meant'.
Curious – does Sid Blumenthal still have Top Secret clearance(s)? If not, I'm sure the AG will have Mrs. Clinton up on Treason charges after a thorough investigation….
Has ANYONE in the Obama administration told the truth about ANYTHING? I think not, we have a delustional, pathological lying dictator as POTUS. He truly believe he can say and do what he wants. Sadly, our "elected" representatives sit by and watch, not doing their jobs nor are they listening to their constituents. We are so screwed.
Dafuq did i just read? These may or may-not be emails to or from Hillary Clinton. And they may or may-not have been fabricated by Russians? When this came across the editor's desk did he say "Great work! No need for further investigating, they will read this and they will like it!" this is pathetic and a joke.
"Time will tell whether they have any credence." Investigating what you report will also tell….but who has time for that?
If these "e-mails" end up showing hillary in a good light, you can be sure they are PHONY and have been disseminated by hillary's own minions in an effort to help pave the way for her run in 2016. Just like her sudden switch from being anti gay marriage to pro, this hag will say and do anything to gain power. But always remember, that 3:00 a.m. call finally came in and it was from Benghazi, and neither her or barry where ready or responded. They wouldn't even take the call.
Just release them all in their entirety and let us judge for ourselves. For some reason I think if the totality of these E-mails come out it'll sink any chance she has in 2016. Although seeing Obama re-elected…..
You don't tug on Superman's cape
You don't spit into the wind
You don't pull the mask off the Lone Ranger
And scandals don't stick to this Administration.
The content of these emails isn't likely to have any meaningful repercussions, no matter how provocative.
Interesting analysis on RT. I've found RT to be more informative and objective than any American or European news outlets.
1) If the email has been so widely disseminated, why hasn't a copy of its contents been released yet? Ethics concerns over their authenticity? Hasn't stopped anyone before.
2) Who was responsible for the use of Comic Sans in RT's excerpts of the emails? Was this Hillary's associate, or subtle commentary on the part of Russian writers?
She won't admit to anything until after her 8 year term in 2024.
The video? https://docs.google.com/file/d/0BxV2HFmw-aNMS25PTkVuSDJucnc/edit?usp=sharing
Oh pleeeeez – Russian television and then emails may be fabricated by someone with a hidden agenda disclaimer. Get back to us when there is substance. Of course we know there is an Obama Administration U.S. consulate Benghazi coverup but until the liberal media in the US stops aiding and abetting the Obama regime, nothing will happen.
It is cleansing time for Hillary. I do believe that Blumie released the info. They have 4 years to cleanse her image as a left wing, don't give a damn about the US witch. They, Hillary and the BerrackO administration, knew and did nothing about it.
Hacked emails are open to all sorts of manipulation and given that the Russians are involved, I can easily see them doing Obama a favor and make it seem like the info they got from "Lybian authorities" was to be trusted. Was our own admin. duped? I doubt it. Clearly there has been a massive coverup and I wouldn't be surprised if the Russians are in on it. Does anyone remember the open mike comment Obama made to Medyev saying once re-elected (like he knew it was going to happen) he would be more flexible with Putin. Is this Russian "interpretation of the hacked emails part of Putin's Thank you to Obama?
I'd believe the Devil before I'd believe ANYTHING coming out of the oral sewers of Shrillary or Obama or their myrmidons Rice or Power.
"Pravda" in Russian means "the truth" In times of Soviet Union this newspaper was most autority source. That's why a hacker try to add this material in it. Russia for now is well known as a young hackers. But All these conspiracy theories and skandhas make more panic and are destabilize the situation in people society.
AP, which is a propaganda arm of the obama regime, will have its own agenda in selecting and interpreting excerpts, which is to say that they will use this illegally-obtained data to discourage and discredit Clinton so that she will be a non-factor in the 2016 presidential election, thereby freeing the way for obama to secure an unprecedented third term courtesy of his continued abuse of executive orders.
Yeah. Sid Blumenthal writes with all caps to the SecState whom he has known for decades that THIS INFORMATION IS RULLY, RULLY SENSITIVE, SO DON'T, LIKE, GIVE IT OUT TO RUSSIANS OR ANYTHING. And he makes big with the diacriticals in an email.
The bullshit is strong with this one.
Are there emails from Bill remarking how Hillary "Meets more Putin than I do" in these new leaks?
It figures RT would be the first and only outlet with the cajones to release the contents of these hacked emails. I am positive that every other recipient has been threatened with harm if they dared do it. Sadly, I trust RT more than I do the liars and propagandists in our own media. The Clintons are criminal cutthroats.
Russian Television (RT) is propaganda outlet for Putin. No different than NY Times, USAToday, CNN, MSNBC, NBC, and Time Magazine. Btw, Hillary should no better than to conduct GOVT business using PRIVATE resources (email). This is forbidden.
I don't believe a thing that comes from the Clinton Camp. I am more iclined to believe that this is yet another setup and lie to the American people. She is full of shit and evil. Same with this entire administration…I can't wait for the revolution to begin!
As expected, most of the major media are ignoring this story. I've only seen it on TSG and here.
Please, the Bush emails were released immediately by this hacker. STILL no emails from from this one. There will be no emails because the hacker is sympathetic to the left and the Clintons.
It is a sad but accurate commentary on the sorry state of our own liberal, lapdog, lamestream media that we must watch RT, or read Pravda, France 24, The Daily Telegraph-UK, Canadian Press or some Egyptian magazine to find out what's really going on in our own country and in some countries overseas.
The so-called Fourth Estate, once The People's bastion agains corrupt government and officials, has been sold to liberal ideology and its furniture and other trappings are mainly more decorative than practical any more.
I thought Hillary already settled this matter? She said it didn't matter who killed the Ambassador. Who cares who killed them?
As she said, there were only 4 dead Americans. Who cares. Why does it matter?
Benghazi aside, isn't it nice to know Hillary remains so chummy with the likes of Sid Vicious, so much so that he's sending her "extremely sensitive" memos through the State Department email system (even after Rahmbo prohibited her hiring him outright). I wonder what other members of the Clinton illluminati await in the wings to plague us once again.
RT is more accurate in terms of reporting the truth than any mainstream news outlet in the United States. I have a mountain of evidence on the matter.
-US Army Veteran
Clinton is using "counter-propaganda" is justify her stupidity (I mean criminal actions) in Benghazi.
So a warning about the content of the emails is given, but no emails in the article. ???????
Ahhh….HRC has got a myriad of issues to contend with, not the least of which is Huma Abadin in my gut I believe the two of them are an item and Huma has told HRC to obfuscate and this will reveal itself through Guccifers' hacking revelations.
"Unhappy with the overthrow of Kaddafi, Putin would want to emphasize the sinister role played by the CIA in Libya. "
So then Forbes are you in agreement that the CIA had a "
sinister role" in Libya and if so could you please report what they were doing (maybe providing weapons). Otherwise, it would seem you would want to change this wording as it implies this is a known fact.
Emails show Al Qaeda growing. Obama told us Al Qaeda on the run. Obama wanted to win the election so badly he lied and let 4 Americans die in Benghazi, then lied about protestors, covered up for Al Qaeda, and jailed a Christian film maker. But as Hillary says, "What difference does it make now?" What matters now is rehashing Bush's administration and blaming everything on Bush. It all makes sense.
Following up on a previous post made by another reader: our MSM has failed to bring clarity to the time zone differences between Washington, DC and Benghazi, Libya. A late night terrorist attack in Benghazi is mid-afternoon in DC… 6 hours difference. In mid-afternoon, September 11, the White House staff, the Department of State, the CIA, the Department of Defense… all were up and running.
Who can believe anything this administration has told us about Benghazi? Why are the suvivors being hidden away?
The media went after John Edwards untii they found pics, and the proof of a love child.
WHY NO MEDIA WANTING THE TRUTH ON BENGHAZI? Too much Obama worship?
Geez, even they say these may be made up, if you dont know there real, then why report them..ahh, because you really dont want to know if their real, because you know their not……more republican propaganda, because the truth is not on your side…
It is a sad state of affairs that this piece of trash can be our Secretary of State.
Hillary, you need to call Pelosi and ask for her plastic surgeon's number, that man works miracles!
The sad thing is that I am not sure which regime is worse…Putin's or Obama's.
What a Goldmine for Forbes. This is your number 1 most popular story.
And you end it with "The reader should be warned that these are first and partial accounts of hacked emails that may be fabricated by someone with a hidden agenda."
Fine Reporting.
The Russian Media does not like Hillary.
Remember the Fake article from Russian Media in December that said Hillary was in an Airplane Crash in Iran?
It was proven to be fake. Yet, thousands of right wing blogs picked it up and weaved this intricate plot involving conspiracies, Benghazi, Osama is alive, Hillary is dead, she faked the accident so she wouldn't have to testify. On and on.
Those stories are just like this story.
As you pointed out, "The reader should be warned that these are first and partial accounts of hacked emails that may be fabricated by someone with a hidden agenda."
I hope this can sink Clinton.
Authenticity is the chance one takes when viewing "hacked" documents. The people involved can always cry "fake" while the hackers can claim them as 100% accurate. The only sure way is for those concerned is to divulge the original version which in this case would prove that she perjured herself!
I believe that the time gap is to create confusion http://www.ruvaseguridad.com
Brilliant Mr. Gregory! Can you get something out of DSGE to confirm or deny the content? I'd really like to know and would be grateful.
The fat bitch deserves it all.
Wow-I've heard of photo-shopped pictures but these are a little extreme.
why would sidney blumenthal know the first thing or anything about libya and the attack in benghazi. he was absolutely never in the loop about any of this important natl secuirity material.
No, the question Mr. Lenzner is "why shoiuld SB know the first thing…"?
It shows the total ineptitude of this Administration and specifically, the DOS/Clinton in handling of foreign affairs.
Everybody and their (BO) dog has trapsed through the story on this and still we are no closer to the truth than on 9/11.
Do your job!
What I find incredible is that in this day and age, Hillary Clinton would trust her email to AOL.
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What difference does it make at this point …?
what a scum sack with hair ooh she is so anti-american!
HRC is one to be known for telling huge whoppers and the MSM will not acknowledge these constant inconsistincies or the fact that is a family past time. The russkies might lite her up but the MSM will sit on it's thumb again….
THis is to keep Hillarys name out there. Liberals will eventually get pissed and this is what Hilarry and company want, stay pissed and remember my name..
HRC. " I am not a crook!"
That is why I love FORBES…
(They are looking around.)
I read everyday both nations news.
I believe, I see a bit more than some patriots :)
Who cares..tired of hearing about Billary, Bill and there spoiled daughter.
Well, it's (Most Read in the last 24 hours)… :)


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I am not British, but I can see many similarities between the Republican party and the "Tea party" movement in the U.S. and the Tories. Both are very dependent on their electoral base in the South and have a shrinking, but wealthy electorate that is generally speaking older and not in tune with time and the wider electorate (see the gay marriage issue). What I don't understand is why the Tories are not in favour of Scottish independence. Politically they have nothing to lose in Scotland and with Scotland out, they can secure political domination in the remainder of the UK. Or are those Tory voters in the Home Counties just too nostalgic about or fond of the good old Empire and Britain's standing in the world, which would suffer if Scotland would leave the Union ?
"The usual suspects"? Are those that John Major categorised, rather more colourfully, as "the bastards"?
What does 'Dave' stand for? The country will only be given a referendum if the Conservatives win the next election and then he will only vote YES if he secures several reforms. Will he win the next election, very doubtful and the reforms are unidentified.
This speech was shallow at best and appeals to the commentariat, but there was no meat on the bone just delay and prevarication. This was not statesmanlike, just a politcian trying desperately to secure his dwindling base.
The Tories have always tried to retain power on the use of "gimmicks" to fool UK civil society - so nothing new here then!!
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We were having our daily budget meeting Tuesday — the meeting where we decided what and to put in the next day's edition and where — when Editor Samantha Perry reminded us to keep an eye on the search for Jimmy Hoffa. A former mobster had pointed out a particular field to the FBI, and he sounded credible. For instance, he said Hoffa had been "whacked on the head" with a shovel.
For the very few Americans who have never heard the name, Jimmy Hoffa was a former president of the International Brotherhood of Teamsters. He had alleged ties to the Mafia thanks to the millions of dollars generated by union dues and investments. He was imprisoned in 1967 after being convicted on racketeering charges, but was later released on the condition that he not seek the Teamsters presidency until 1980. From what articles I've read in the past, Hoffa fought this prohibition and stood a fair chance of getting it overturned.
On July 30, 1975, Hoffa went to a meeting; to this day, we're not exactly sure who he was supposed to meet. He was last seen at the Machus Red Fox, a restaurant in suburban Detroit. As far as anyone knows, that was the last time he was ever seen. He joined pilot Amelia Earhart in the ranks of American legend by disappearing without a trace.
This is why Samantha and the rest of us in the newsroom were so interested. If Hoffa was found, it would be a huge story.
I was about 14 years old when Hoffa's disappearance was the big news story of the day. A big search was conducted, but it failed to yield any trace of the former union boss. Private citizens joined the search and attacked any suspicious patch of dirt with their shovels. I still remember this one news photo of two elderly ladies digging away. Some commentators wondered what would happen if an individual found Hoffa. Would the finder want his or her picture taken next to the grave?
Naturally, the conspiracy theories started immediately. Some people thought the CIA had eliminated Hoffa because he knew about mob plans to assassinate Cuban dictator Fidel Castro on behalf of the federal government. Others wondered if the FBI was involved. The most common, and credible, theory is a Mafia hit. The mob was satisfied with the new Teamsters president and didn't like the idea of Hoffa rising to power again.
Of course, the next mystery is how Hoffa has remained missing all these years. Conspiracy theorists have "found" his remains under home plates at baseball diamonds, in football fields, and many lonely meadows. When I was attending Marshall University in Huntington, I heard Hoffa was under a hotel's swimming pool. A friend of mine heard the tale of how construction workers suddenly poured the pool's concrete at midnight, and only a few days after Hoffa disappeared.
If the authorities had found Hoffa quickly, he would be half-forgotten today and not a major figure in American mythology. His disappearance is a favorite topic among conspiracy buffs and fans of mob movies alike. When the Telegraph news staff started talking about Hoffa, the subject of mob movies came up.
Personally, my favorite mob movie is "The Godfather." It's a classic American film, and I like the novel just as much. The tragedy and violence it depicted should convince anybody that the Mafia is not a good organization. Samantha recommended the mob movie "The Departed" with Jack Nicholson; I'll have to rent that one night.
My Dad has always liked movies about 1920s gangsters and criminals like John Dillinger, and I'll admit how this rubbed off on me. Dillinger was a bank robber who was a celebrity in his time: people suffering from the Great Depression often blamed banks for their plight, and Dillinger was seen as a Robin Hood striking a blow for the common man. Personally, I think he was a sociopath. He was a serial bank robber who enjoyed committing crimes. I doubt he would have lasted long in today's world. Anyone who idolized Dillinger hopefully got a wake-up call when he was shot and killed.
I think some people don't want Hoffa to be found because it would mean an end to the mystery. Mysteries are fun, but I like to have a solution when I read a whodunit. I'm sure Hoffa's family would like closure after all these years. It's easy to forget Hoffa was a man with a wife, children and real friends who were not business associations or mobsters, and they want to know what happened to him. Whoever was responsible for his disappearance are elderly and even dead, but there still might be a chance for justice.
This won't keep me from seeing any mobster movies featuring somebody's take on how Hoffa disappeared and why he was made to disappear. I want to know exactly how whoever did it managed to keep the secret all these years. The mystery continues, and I want some answers.
Greg Jordan is senior reporter at the Daily Telegraph. Contact him at email@example.com.
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Sweetheart Shuffle 5K, Louisville: Aaron Bauer, 20, of Houston, Ohio, was the overall winner in 16:06.5. Libby Long, 29, of Covington, Ohio, was the top female finisher, third overall, in 19:19.1. Libby Long and Josh Long, 28, was the top "couples" team in a combined 41:04.
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| are the same people being held accountable for them. Most experts say, however, that the system works if both the user side and the storage side are working towards the common goal of driving down costs. For example, if storage services operate on a chargeback basis, storage managers are probably working towards specific cost cutting goals. It's therefore in their best interest to meet the SLAs, says Mark Friedman, the vice president of storage technology at DataCore in Ft. Lauderdale, FL. "You enforce SLAs best at the level of the cash register," he says.
If the need for Blu-ray sometimes seems far fetched, holographic storage has risen to the level of science fiction. Since the 1970s, the notion of holographic storage has been tantalizing: Instead of having a single laser burn bits into a recording layer, two lasers could create a holographic 3-D image of data, which in theory could result in much higher capacity and faster read performance. But the stumbling blocks--particularly the search for a suitable storage medium--have been huge.
Bell Labs, one of the world's premier research facilities, worked on holographic storage for 10 years. In early 2001, Lucent--Bell Labs' new parent company--spun off InPhase Technologies, whose research team included scientists responsible for 20 patents on holographic storage. By that time, researchers had at their disposal new laser technology developed for DVD and improved CMOS sensors used in digital cameras--the latter vital for reading embedded holographic images. In April 2002, InPhase demonstrated Tapestry, a write-once holographic recording system targeting the professional video industry.
Just like the first holographic system developed in the 1960s, Tapestry relies on a single laser beam split in two: a reference beam and a signal beam. With Tapestry, the signal beam passes through a modulator that works like a transmissive LCD screen. The modulated signal beam becomes a projected laser image of data, so that when the two beams reconverge in the recording medium, the resulting interference pattern creates a 3-D image that traverses the entire thickness of the material. To read data, the reference beam passes through the recording medium at various angles, enabling a CMOS sensor on the other side of the disc to capture multiple data views of a single physical segment.
Special multiplexing techniques involved in writing and reading holographic images were only part of Tapestry's breakthrough technology. The largest single advance is the photopolymer recording medium, which displays high photosensitivity plus the highest dynamic range of any holographic material--not to mention the ability to be manufactured into a CD-sized disc that's durable and cheap.
The Tapestry prototype encodes its photopolymer discs with a succession of 1.3Mb holographic images, yielding a recording medium that can hold 100GB and be read at a high transfer rate of 20MB/s. Seek times, although not disclosed, are estimated to be quite slow--hence the initial target of video applications, where sequential streaming rather than random access is the name of the game. InPhase--which believes it will be shipping Tapestry in volume in 2004--also plans a rewritable version, although no timeframe has been set. InPhase will undoubtedly develop holographic systems for more generalized applications, but the company is wise to target a suitable vertical market first, particularly with so much R&D to amortize.
The first optical drive bearing Nakamura's blue laser technology--dubbed Blu-ray--should arrive in the summer of 2003, courtesy of the CO-based optical storage technology pioneer, Plasmon. The drive's ultra density optical (UDO) discs--measuring the same diameter and thickness as DVDs--promise to hold 30GB. But how deep into the enterprise will this dramatic advancement penetrate? That remains an open question.
The problem is simple: There's a general lack of interest in optical technology among IT managers. "Optical has just lost so much ground," says Gartner Group analyst, Mary Craig. "The optical jukebox market has been declining on the unit level for seven consecutive years." The reason is twofold: On one hand, IDE arrays deliver a much higher performance than optical at a slightly higher cost. On the other hand, tape delivers a much higher capacity at an extremely low price. Optical is getting squeezed between the two. And with the addition of relatively inexpensive serial ATA drives, the squeeze is getting even tighter.
The pressure is on for optical technologists to deliver new, cost-effective, high-performance products as soon as possible. For example, by 2007, Plasmon expects to ship a UDO unit that spins two-sided, 120GB discs with a cost per gigabyte of only 50 cents. After 30 years of promises, an alternative technology known as holographic storage may actually arrive as soon as 2004, serving up 100GB discs out of the gate.
These developments may be welcome, but very likely concomitant advances in RAID and tape will continue to relegate optical to archiving e-mail, checks images, storing transaction records, medical images and other items requiring long-term storage and occasional retrieval. In fact, Enron and WorldCom may be the best thing that's ever happened to optical in quite a long time, because corporations face new pressures to store critical information in formats that can't be tampered with. In the enterprise, the whizzy new Blu-ray and holographic technology will probably be consigned to the mundane--but necessary--task of helping companies meet regulatory requirements.
MO is dead--long live UDO
Currently, magnetic optical (MO) stands as the most successful optical technology in the enterprise. First introduced in the late 1980s, MO is the iron-clad storage medium of choice, with a 30-year shelf life, the ability to withstand a million rewrites and a casing that shields the CD-size disc from dust and scratches. Hewlett-Packard and Plasmon dominate the MO market, with HP looking at licensing Plasmon's UDO technology.
But MO has "hit the wall," according to Gartner's Craig. She says current MO technology can't get beyond the maximum capacity of 9.1GB per cartridge--some of the priciest gigabytes that you'll find anywhere.
With UDO, Plasmon will initially target the MO market, drastically lowering cost while maintaining reliability. Unlike MO, which uses a combination of laser and magnetic storage technology, UDO employs phase change technology similar to that found in ordinary CD-RW drives: A pulsing laser burns dull spots in a reflective crystalline layer, which can be restored to its original reflectivity (i.e., erased) with a beam of lesser intensity. An advantage of phase change over MO is that it supports true write-once capability, which is necessary to meet certain regulatory requirements.
Blue lasers operate at a wavelength of 405 nanometers (nm), enabling them to produce a smaller focal point than the 650 nm red lasers that burn DVDs. That means more data can be packed into tracks and the tracks themselves can be closer together.
Damon Ujvarosy, VP of engineering for Plasmon, faces several challenges in rolling out the first UDO drive. To keep the price of the drive reasonable--and to hit Plasmon's cost per GB target of $2--he still relies on existing technology. For example, for the laser, he chose a lens with a numerical aperture (NA) of .7, rather than the .85 NA stipulated by consumer electronics companies that developed the Blu-ray spec. The lower NA results in a slightly larger focal point, but eliminates the need for spherical aberration correction. This is a lens technology demanded for consumer Blu-ray that has "not really been developed yet," says Ujvarosy.
Another problem lies in the detectors that read laser discs. "Silicon detectors classically are very good at detecting red," says Ujvarosy, "but their responsivity falls off a cliff as you get down around the blue violet region." With such low signal levels, a preamp with extremely low noise characteristics is essential. In addition, the disc surface needs to be free of smudges and dust--which is why Plasmon will be opting for an MO-style protective casing.
Plasmon will offer both read-write and WORM versions of its first UDO drive, which will deliver transfer rates as high as 8MB/s along with a 25 ms access time. The company conservatively estimates that its WORM discs will have a 50-year shelf life.
Stumbling over DVD
Plasmon hopes UDO's relatively low cost will help the technology sell beyond MO customers, extending perhaps as far as near-line enterprise storage. But UDO isn't intended for consumers. That distinction belongs to the forthcoming Blu-ray drives planned by such consumer electronics giants as Phillips, Pioneer, JVC, Toshiba, Sony, Matsushita, Hitachi, Sharp, and others. The first consumer Blu-ray devices should hit the market by 2004, offering a 27GB capacity per disc and a 36Mb/s transfer rate.
With CD and DVD technology, mass production for consumers drove down the cost of components first and enterprise products debuted later. But most observers agree Blu-ray will take three to four years--perhaps longer--to gain popularity among consumers. Why? For one thing, neither recordable nor rewritable DVD has caught on yet among consumers or enterprise buyers, posting a lackluster $169.6 million in sales for 2001. In the consumer space, DVD+RW (DVD plus rewritable) appears to have the best shot, thanks to support for low-cost 4.7GB DVD+RW and DVD-R discs that work in most standard DVD players. DVD-RW (DVD-rewritable) drives cost more than DVD+RW drives and burn discs compatible with fewer DVD players.
But neither DVD+RW nor DVD-RW is on the horizon for enterprise optical. In the enterprise data center, the next most popular optical device after the MO drive is still the 12-inch WORM drive. CD-R has gained some traction but the insurgent technology today is DVD-R, which provides a low-cost alternative to the 12-inch WORM. Pioneer originally developed DVD-R for the desktop, and has been selling its 720 disc, $16,000 DVM-7000 jukebox to enterprises since 1999.
This was first published in March 2003