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Posted 1/1/15 at 12:32 PM | Heidi Doose
Day one
Where is the truck that hit me? The muscles in my neck and shoulders are gathering around my ears for a New Year's Eve party - except I'm not celebrating! I caught a glance of myself in the bathroom mirror and I almost jerked my head off my neck when I came back for a second look, trying to figure out who was the scary woman with the bright red cheeks?
I had to send the grand babies home. There was so much crying and carrying on! But eventually I stopped because my nose was producing more mucus than a box of tissues can handle.
The coughing has gone from a cat gakking up a hairball to a visit to the sea lion exhibit at Sea World. I fear I will wake up and find a lung on my pillow. Laughing is usually joyous - unless it sounds like two weasels wrestling in a pvc pipe. No jokes please! I have to make the choice between passing out or peeing my pants!
Upon hearing the official "influenza" diagnosis, you officially become a member of a club nobody wants to join. You go through a simple initiation where you answer the phone sounding like Darth Vador and hear the reply, "oh boy! You TOO, huh?" That password gets you the latest lowdown on all the CDC internet updates, Pinterest home remedies, and stock options for Mucinex. Almost everyone, with the best intensions, ends the conversation with," make sure to get plenty of rest!" This is a cruel joke. How much healing can be had with intermittent three minute naps between coughing fits?
The good news today is that my husband has developed a new talent: guessing the approximate official reading of the thermometer. After giving me the "Influenza Salute" (hand on my forehead, lips pursed, and pensive look), he quickly whisks his hand away and douses himself in Purell before calling his bookie with a 2:1 bet on "fever of 101.5." He's actually earned enough to pay for our next vacation!
I started my Flu imprisonment with a lot of complaining and a giant pity party (in leu of a New Year's Eve party) but decided to share the fun of the Holiday Epidemic sweeping the country. More tomorrow, but right now I'm having a hard time keeepin mine eys opin andzzzzzzz.......
Posted 12/31/14 at 1:59 PM | Jonathan Feldstein
In the midst of what's known as the "holiday season" I'd like to look at another important day that most people don't even know exists. Every June, people observe International Blood Donation Day. It's not exactly a Hallmark holiday during which people buy cards or exchange gifts, but it's a terribly important day all the same.
In Israel especially, Israelis know that donating blood is a vital lifeline and they voluntarily give this precious lifesaving substance to fellow Israelis whose lives are in jeopardy. We have been blessed, additionally, at the steady number of tourists who make it a point to come to donate blood in Israel while on vacation or religious pilgrimage.
Heart to Heart is proud to support Israel's national blood bank in partnership with diverse ministries all over to save Israeli lives. We celebrate all Israel's blood donors and we are grateful to those who help us provide the resources to make this possible. But donating blood is not just for International Blood Donation Day. It's an everyday occurrence and an everyday need. FULL POST
Posted 12/23/14 at 4:40 AM | Sylvie Simms
Whether you are trying to gain, lose, or maintain weight, the proper mix of diet and exercise will help you achieve your goals. In order to succeed in your effort, it is important to monitor your calorie consumption. The three primary macronutrients that provide calories and energy for your body are carbs, proteins, and fats.
To lose weight, it is necessary to keep your calorie intake lower than your total calories burned each day. Aim to lose no more than one to two pounds per week in order to stay healthy.
If you are looking to maintain weight, you will need to stick to a certain amount of calories each day. Take your current weight in pounds and multiply by 15 to find the magic number.
Finally, if you want to put on weight, it is important to consume an adequate amount of protein in addition to taking in more calories. Analyzing your current workout routine and diet will help you see what you can do to put on pounds.
Posted 12/22/14 at 12:31 PM | Dale Fletcher
During what is often a busy week, I'd like to encourage you to slow down and take a few minutes to reflect upon the significance of the birth of Christ and to be reminded why Jesus came into the world.
This list is from a whole-person health perspective - spiritual, emotional, relational, mental and physical .health
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Posted 12/22/14 at 11:11 AM | Jonathan Feldstein
Some years ago, as our effort to bring tourists in Israel to donate blood began to take off and pick up steam, one of Israel's leading daily newspapers wrote a feature about the trend, calling it "Israel's newest tourist attraction." Since then, thousands of tourists have donated blood in Israel, making this the only country to which people travel with the specific goal of shopping for gifts at home, but leaving an even greater gift behind.
The trend of having people donate blood in Israel has become an attraction across the gamut, but is especially resonant among Christians. The number of groups visiting Israel and making it a point to help out in this most personal way by donating blood has increased, but there is always a need for more.
Most recently, a group from CrossTalk came to donate blood as a result of one of the recent terrorist attacks in Jerusalem. Singer Joshua Aaron also led a group here to do the same.
While donating blood himself, Director of Bridges for Peace in the US Jim Sulberg, commented, "One of the things that we, as Christians, can learn from Judaism is it's not just about what you think, or what you say you believe, it's about what you do." FULL POST
Posted 12/19/14 at 10:56 AM | Jonathan Feldstein
This week, I had the special privilege of attending John Hagee Ministries' 33rd annual Night to Honor Israel. One might say this is the mother of Christian events honoring Israel, as Hagee Ministries initiated this concept and it's taken off widely since. I attended another much smaller event in Cleveland, Tennessee, sometime in the late 1980s, the first Christian Zionist event I ever attended, where I was called upon to be a liaison between Jews and Christians — a role I've taken on ever since. It's a calling steeped with honor.
This week was special because I was asked to receive a gift on behalf of Hagee Ministries of $250,000 for two new Mobile Intensive Care Unit (MICU) ambulances for Israel. These two new vehicles will join a fleet of more than 1,000 other ambulances operated by Magen David Adom, Israel's national EMS, ambulance, disaster-relief, and blood-services organization. Included in this fleet are six ambulances previously donated by Hagee Ministries. Donating a seventh and an eighth ambulance to Israel is unprecedented in the Christian community, and will go a long way to save lives in Israel. FULL POST
Posted 12/18/14 at 1:33 PM | Dale Fletcher
When I visited the Billy Graham Library in Charlotte a few months ago, Laura Hillenbrand's book - Unbroken, caught my attention as it was propped up on one of their bookshelves. It recounts the life of Louis Zamperini. I bought it and read it within a week.
As you might know, the movie by the same title releases in theaters on Christmas day.
Unbroken, the book, tells about Zamperini's struggle to live. First, at sea – after his plane was downed during World War II – and then of his survival after being in several Japanese prison camps.
The book is a testament to the resilience of Zamperini's mind, body and spirit. It's also a book about the toll that severe chronic stress and a broken life can have on one's behavior and overall health.
In the book, Hillenbrand describes, with painstaking detail, aspects of Zamperini's lengthy time surviving at sea. As well, she writes about the extreme conditions and challenges that Zamperini dealt with in prison camps. The description of the brutality of some of the prison guards was painful to read.
From a mind, body, spirit perspective Hillenbrand writes about the postwar lives of the Pacific POWs. She captured the insidious nature of the emotional injuries that they received. She writes that, 40 years after the war, up to 85% of the POWs were experiencing Post Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD). Hillenbrand sites about how Zamperini personally coped with the stress of war. He turned to drinking alcohol. He became an alcoholic. His relationship with alcohol almost wrecked his marriage.
Zamperini once shared the following with an interviewer: "The postwar adjustment was really a challenge for me.... I began to take advantage of these parties and I began to overdrink.... pretty soon I found myself fading away, to the point where I realized that I was in serious need of help."
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Posted 12/16/14 at 4:39 PM | Mark Ellis
By Mark Ellis and Michael Ashcraft
She was accosted in January while staying at a small hotel in a college town. There on business, Jennifer never realized she was being followed until she turned around to close the door to her hotel room.
"It was so snowy and windy that I wouldn't have heard his footsteps even if he had been stomping," writes Jennifer Christie in a first-person account of her ordeal in Lifesite News. "It happened so fast. I got the door open, turned around to close it, and he was there – a huge man."
Her first reaction was confusion. She never had time to process the danger and feel fear. The monster punched her in the face. Apparently he dragged her into her room and raped her. Mercifully, she doesn't remember that part.
Later she was found in the stairwell. "I don't know why I was there – maybe I was trying to go for help," she notes.
In the post-rape treatment, she tested negative for HIV, gonorrhea, chlamydia, syphillis, herpes and other STDs. But they didn't check for pregnancy. FULL POST
Posted 12/16/14 at 3:32 PM | Hallelujah Diet
Whenever cold and flu season hits, what do we end up doing? We dust off that bottle of vitamin C in the back of the medicine cabinet. But really, just how effective is that vitamin C?
First of all, it's important to know how vital vitamin C is to our diet. Humans can't make nor store vitamin C in their bodies, so we have to get it from an outside source. It's important for a wide range of bodily functions relating to the immune system, growth & development, bone health and many others. Without vitamin C we could not make collagen, which explains why there are so many skin products featuring this vitamin.
Vitamin C is a water-soluble vitamin, which means it dissolves in water and the leftovers are dispelled by the body. The most common form, the kind you've probably picked up at any local drug store, is a hard tablet, capsule, pill or powder of L-ascorbic acid. The challenge with the typical forms of vitamin C is that it must travel through the digestive system, reducing the amount of viable vitamin C that is actually available for uptake. What ends up happening is that most of your valuable nutrients end up down the drain, more specifically, the toilet since unabsorbed vitamin C is excreted in the urine. FULL POST


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Summary: Microsoft has released security patches for several vulnerabilities, to include CVE-2016-3238, which allows for Windows system compromise via the installation of malicious printer drivers through a variety of methods.Reports of a compromise of a European energy company with custom malware may have been slightly overblown in the media, however the activity connects with prior threat actors and features malware that goes to substantial lengths to evade detection and analysis.A Point of Sale compromise at Wendy's is now being reported as larger than initially expected. During analysis of the first compromise, a second compromise was discovered that breached more systems. PoS infrastructure continues to be a hot target.The long-running Kelihos spambot, facilitator of a great deal of traditional spam, is now delivering a ransomware payload. The profit from ransomware activity is likely quite tempting for threat actors who are operating or renting out Kelihos.Ransomware continues to be a substantial problem, and we review the weeks most important stories as this threat continues to spread and cause more pain.
Title: Ransomware Weekly Threat Activity Review
Severity Level: Normal Severity
Published: Thu, 14 Jul 2016 20:34:03 +0000
This week some good news abounds for those battling ransomware variants. However, with good news also comes bad news. A new variant of Locky was discovered on July 12, 2016, when threat actors launched a massive spam campaign, peaking at over 120,000 messages per hour. The new variant can encrypt files without an internet connection. This new implementation brings with it a less robust encryption scheme. By implementing an offline encryption scheme, all compromised systems within a network should be utilizing the same encryption ID, making it possible for a company to decrypt all impacted systems while only paying the ransom for one. [http://news.softpedia.com/news/huge-spam-wave-drops-locky-variant-that-can-work-without-an-internet-connection-506294.shtml]. Next on the ransomware block, researchers combing underground forums found a new and inexpensive variant being marketed, "Stampado." The creators behind the variant are selling lifetime licenses and support services for $39 U.S. Crimeware as service is not new and selling ransomware as a service is not new. However, the price tag for this new variant does open up opportunities for additional and less capable actors to get involved with ransomware operations. [http://www.infosecurity-magazine.com/news/brand-new-stampado-ransomware/]Finally, the last piece of bad news, security researchers are seeing evidence hinting at a major breach at Apple. To make matters worse, additional research uncovered a ransomware campaign targeting iPhones using compromised Apple ID credentials. Once a threat actor logs into Apple services, they then use the "Find My iPhone" service to place the device into lost mode, locking the device and allowing to post a ransom demand on the locked screen. [http://www.csoonline.com/article/3093016/security/apple-devices-held-for-ransom-rumors-claim-40m-icloud-accounts-hacked.html]In the good news department, researchers have designed another 'anti-ransomware' program. The program, "CryptoDrop" is currently available for Windows based computers. Creators designed the program to recognize elements heavily associated with ransomware activities and then proactively terminate the associated program. Individuals will still lose access to a small portion of files as the CryptoDrop works to recognize and mitigate the threat. [http://www.inforisktoday.com/researchers-unleash-ransomware-annihilation-a-9255?utm_source=twitterfeed&utm_medium=twitter]Last, security researchers at CheckPoint disclosed new workaround for JigSaw ransomware. JigSaw ransomware is particularly threatening when compared to other malware families. If victims refuse to pay the ransom within the allotted timeframe, the program begins to delete thousands of files every hour. If a user reboots the compromised system, they lose 1,000 files. For additional information on mitigating JigSaw and current versions visit http://blog.checkpoint.com/2016/07/08/jigsaw-ransomware-decryption/.
Source: Researchers Unleash Ransomware Annihilation - InfoRiskToday
Title: CVE-2016-3238 Allows for Windows System Compromise via Printer Drivers
Severity Level: Normal Severity
Published: Thu, 14 Jul 2016 20:34:03 +0000
Microsoft has patched a vulnerability for CVE-2016-3238, described as a Windows Print Spooler Remote Code Execution Vulnerability [https://technet.microsoft.com/library/security/MS16-087]. The issue can be exploited by a legitimate printer providing a trojaned driver, by a fake printer delivering a malicious driver, or via Internet-enabled mechanisms that provide for Internet-based printing. Windows machines configured to allow installation of printer drivers on demand are more vulnerable to the threat since a UAC prompt does not take place when a system is in an unpatched state. Researchers at Vectra Networks described the threat http://blog.vectranetworks.com/blog/microsoft-windows-printer-wateringhole-attack but have not provided exploit code. Exploit code is not really needed, in at least one of the attack scenarios, however, a shell script and other material are provided that could easily be modified and weaponized.
Source: CVE-2016-3238 Allows for Windows System Compromise via Printer Drivers
Title: Compromise of European Energy Company with Custom Malware
Severity Level: Normal Severity
Published: Thu, 14 Jul 2016 20:34:03 +0000
SentinelOne published an interesting blog "SFG: Furtim's Derivative," on July 12, 2016, describing a malware sample associated with threat activity involving an energy company in Europe. The blog post covers an extensive array of anti-analysis routines at play within a sample of the SFG malware binary, two privilege escalation exploits, and one UAC bypass, before describing the final payload which performs typical actions of information gathering and reporting back to a C2. In an interview with ThreatPost, researcher Joseph Landry indicated that the Furtim malware was also downloaded as the final payload in some instances. This malware is being described as "Furtim's parent" based on the title https://sentinelone.com/blogs/sfg-furtims-parent/.
Source: Targeting of European Energy Company with Custom Malware
Title: Kelihos Spambot Now Delivering Ransomware Payload
Severity Level: Normal Severity
Published: Thu, 14 Jul 2016 20:34:03 +0000
The Kelihos spambot is a long-running threat that continues to operate and is known mostly for delivering traditional spam associated with so-called Canadian pharmacies. Recently, researchers at University of Alabama noticed a distinctly different linked payload - the WildFire Locker Encryption ransomware - being delivered by Kelihos, which represents a dangerous turn for this prolific and long-running spambot [http://garwarner.blogspot.com/2016/07/kelihos-botnet-delivering-dutch.html].
Source: Kelihos Spambot Now Delivering Ransomware Payload
Alpha Testing the AlphaLeon HTTP Bot
ASERT was initially alerted about an emerging threat called AlphaLeon by Deep & Dark Web intelligence provider Flashpoint in August 2015. It caught and kept our interest because it sounded like it could be a new "banker" malware family. While it took some time to find samples of the malware in the wild, this post […]
Wed, 09 Mar 2016 15:21:37 +0000
Estimating the Revenue of a Russian DDoS Booter
At the end of 2014, ASERT presented research where we mapped some DDoS booter advertisements on Russian language forums to their behind-the-scenes DDoS botnet infrastructures. For this post, we will follow up on that research a bit by looking at another one of these mappings and trying to estimate the revenue generated by the DDoS […]
Wed, 02 Mar 2016 11:00:15 +0000
Dumping Core: Analytical Findings on Trojan.Corebot
Download the full report here. The Corebot banking trojan was initially discovered and documented last year by researchers at Security Intelligence. Since then, it has evolved rapidly and, in terms of capabilities such as browser-based web injections, it is now similar to the dominant banking malware such as Zeus, Neverquest, and Dyreza although its actual impact to date is […]
Wed, 10 Feb 2016 11:00:54 +0000
The Big Bong Theory: Conjectures on a Korean Banking Trojan
Download the full report here. ASERT has been analyzing samples of a banking trojan targeting South Korean financial institutions. We call the banker "Big Bong" and provide, in this threat intelligence report, an in-depth behavioral analysis of the malware from builder to bot and from installation to exfiltration including obfuscation techniques, certificate use, and VPN-based […]
Wed, 10 Feb 2016 11:00:16 +0000
Uncovering the Seven Pointed Dagger
The full report "Uncovering the Seven Pointed Dagger: Discovery of the Trochilus RAT and Other Targeted Threats" can be downloaded here. Threat actors with strategic interest in the affairs of other governments and civil society organizations have been launching targeted exploitation campaigns for years. Typically, these campaigns leverage spear phishing as the delivery vector and often […]
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Top Attacks (past 24 hours)
Description Attacks per subnet Change from yesterday CVE Percentage VNC network scanning activity 43009.51 +94.9 %85.8% SSH brute-force login attempts 808.85 +108.0 %1.6% ntpdx overflow attempt 385.85 -13.2 % CVE-2001-04140.8% MYSQL brute-force login attempts 371.88 +93.8 %0.7% [more] Description Attacks per subnet Change from yesterday CVE Percentage SNMP private community access attempt 232.47 +1005.0 % CVE-2002-00130.5% POLICY PE EXE or DLL Windows file download 47.47 +308.4 %0.1% Microsoft Windows ASN.1 Library buffer overflow attempt 46.38 +303.3 % CVE-2003-08180.1% ASN.1 constructed bit string 46.41 +302.5 % CVE-2005-19350.1% SNMP MS Windows getbulk request 314.86 +290.8 % CVE-2006-55830.6% [more]
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Top Scanned Services (past 24 hours)
Description Traffic per subnet Change from yesterday Latest CVE Percentage TCP/5900 23.54 MB -10.8 % CVE-2006-430947.8% UDP/53413 15.13 MB +16.0 %30.7% UDP/5060 (sip) 2.66 MB -16.6 % CVE-2006-01895.4% TCP/23 (telnet) 2.48 MB -20.3 % CVE-2007-09565.0% ICMP/8 573.19 kB +69.4 %1.2% [more] Description Traffic per subnet Change from yesterday Latest CVE Percentage TCP/111 (sunrpc) 369.77 kB +inf % CVE-2007-36180.8% TCP/5000 (commplex-main) 153.09 kB +inf % CVE-2001-08760.3% UDP/45339 121.75 kB +inf %0.2% UDP/1046 (wfremotertm) 105.89 kB +inf %0.2% UDP/4011 (pxe) 102.54 kB +inf %0.2% [more]
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Top Threat Sources (past 24 hours)
Country Rank Attacks per subnet Scans per subnet Botnets Phishing DoS CN (China) 1 16940 11.20 MB 1 513 246 US (United States) 2 9380 6.07 MB 3 27925 828 VN (Viet Nam) 3 5900 5.89 MB 0 204 24 KR (South Korea) 4 7250 5.82 MB 1 316 469 CA (Canada) 5 727 2.57 MB 0 2018 51 TW (Taiwan) 6 36 1.96 MB 0 23 3 NL (Netherlands) 7 3066 1.46 MB 2 783 33 JP (Japan) 8 2982 1.30 MB 1 27 30 BR (Brazil) 9 0 1.17 MB 0 597 209 RU (Russian Federation) 10 27 1.12 MB 0 873 42 RO (Romania) 11 0 866.23 kB 0 673 68 DE (Germany) 12 17 724.63 kB 1 2244 41 UA (Ukraine) 13 9 671.76 kB 0 125 0 TR (Turkey) 14 113 542.23 kB 0 920 5 CO (Colombia) 15 0 535.30 kB 1 145 7 PL (Poland) 16 25 413.70 kB 0 2678 0 GB (Great Britain) 17 349 367.90 kB 1 1995 31 FR (France) 18 50 365.65 kB 10 1368 15 IN (India) 19 215 339.70 kB 0 423 57 EU (European Union) 20 94 237.59 kB 0 714 15 ASN Rank Attacks per subnet Scans per subnet Botnets Phishing DoS AS4837 (CHINA169-BACKBONE) 1 15951 7.07 MB 0 135 19 AS9318 (HANARO-AS) 2 6161 3.36 MB 0 0 24 AS18403 (FPT-AS-AP) 3 5874 3.30 MB 0 0 23 AS4134 (CHINANET-BACKBONE) 4 273 3.42 MB 1 140 15 AS6428 (CDM) 5 2 2.12 MB 0 0 0 AS4766 (KIXS-AS-KR) 6 278 1.59 MB 0 292 42 AS3462 (HINET) 7 3 1.59 MB 0 0 0 AS19994 (RACKSPACE) 8 2697 1.20 MB 0 0 0 AS16265 (LEASEWEB-NETWORK) 9 2635 1.07 MB 0 203 9 AS7922 (COMCAST-7922) 10 121 803.58 kB 0 0 5 AS7552 (VIETEL-AS-AP) 11 0 792.36 kB 0 0 0 AS3786 (LGDACOM) 12 808 623.67 kB 0 0 8 AS45899 (VNPT-AS-VN) 13 11 427.05 kB 0 0 0 AS30083 (SERVER4YOU) 14 0 420.20 kB 0 0 0 AS9121 (TTNET) 15 0 403.57 kB 0 0 5 AS24086 (VIETTEL-AS-VN) 16 0 386.57 kB 0 0 0 AS8708 (RCS-RDS) 17 0 351.34 kB 0 0 9 AS8560 (ONEANDONE-AS) 18 120 316.28 kB 0 835 0 AS29073 (QUASINETWORKS) 19 367 310.93 kB 1 149 0 AS12322 (PROXAD) 20 27 276.86 kB 6 559 0

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On article Panasonic gives details of power zoom-enabling firmware v1.1 for GH2, G3, GF3 and GF2 (38 comments in total)
It is a situation of planned obsolescence. Nothing I discover, I know. But for both manufacturers do not leave out products that are very well built and designed to replace cameras even worse in order to maintain the new regime imposed by the runaway consumer society, which needs new and new gadgets. Actually it does not work again as the best, but as the last and already has a timbre that social prestige is what sells. Olympus will continue to "decline" eps, spls, epmis until you drop.
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Reward Doubled In Rowan Student's Murder
There are 3 comments on the CBS 3 story from Dec 12, 2007, titled Reward Doubled In Rowan Student's Murder. In it, CBS 3 reports that:
Prosecutors announced a $50,000 increase in the reward designed to bring the person who killed a Rowan University student to justice.
This will be the first holiday season Donnie Farrell's family has to spend without him.
It has been almost two months since someone robbed and killed the 19-year-old Rowan University student, and now comes news the reward in the case is being substantially increased.
Initially, $50,000 was offered after the October 27th fatal beating.
Morris County, where Farrell is from, the Gloucester County Prosecutor's Office and Rowan University have contributed to the reward. Read more
Join the discussion below, or Read more at CBS 3.
#1 Dec 13, 2007
i cant believe that someone is that low that they have to go and steal from a sophmore and they killed him
#2 Nov 12, 2008
I hope that someone comes forth with information about this murder soon. You know that these guys brag on what they do. In thier sick, demented minds, they think that crime and cruelty is "cool". Pray for this family, and pray that someone has a conscience and goes to the police.
#3 Mar 21, 2010
The murder of this innocent white college kid on the street, by black unknown suspects, remains still unsolved nearly three years later. While this Gloucester County unsolved murder case has mostly received only local news coverage so far, a teenager pulling a mildly offensive to black folks prank with the public address system at a Walmart store elsewhere in Gloucester County gets worldwide news coverage, and Gloucester County assigns detectives from the prosecutor's office to track him down. It's so nice to see that political correctness puts the priorities of Gloucester County in order.
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"[Embroidered Ground] is divided into a series of short essays on a wide range of subjects, each building on the others until a full picture of the garden, and the gardener's life, emerges. Dickey writes about learning to share the garden with a new plant-loving husband and their ideas for simplifying the garden as they grow older. In her view, a garden, at its best, is like the embroidery of the book's title: 'the results of a passion, our joyous individual efforts of expression in color, pattern, and texture, woven with leaves and flowers, in partnership with nature.'" Country Gardens
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Embroidered Ground
Revisiting the Garden
By Page Dickey, William Atherton
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A Stroll Through Duck Hill
The Flower Gardens
No gardens were here, no flowers at all other than some twisted, shaggy-barked stands of lilacs that bloomed lavishly in May. When I came to Duck Hill thirty years ago, I was faced with a featureless canvas, nothing but ragged lawn and rough grass surrounding the house, and a young, weed-choked wood and a small field beyond. I brought with me a few treasures from my previous home — a clump of lungwort, Pulmonaria angustifolia, gentian blue in April, carried from home to home since it was given to me by generous neighbors when I was twenty-three and gardening with babies at my feet; a division of a May-blooming, fragrant daylily, golden yellow and star-shaped with brown dashes on the backs of its petals, related, I suspect, to the species Hemerocallis dumortieri. It was originally a gift from a friend named John and ever after has been called "John's daylily." I brought snowdrops, winter aconites, and Dutchman's breeches from the woods I used to own, a few tubers of a delicate white Siberian iris that naturalized in the meadow there, and several young bushes of antique roses — albas, damasks, gallicas — that I couldn't bear to leave behind. These, and more, I heeled into a square of dirt in the field above the house where the previous owners had had a vegetable patch. Then I plotted my first garden.
The old farmhouse sat squat and prim, facing south, in an open, sun-filled spot above a river valley. The maple that once stood by its front door had long since died, but ancient sugar maples and white ash still surrounded the property at its perimeters, providing shade at a distance and a beautiful backdrop. That first autumn, I staked out and dug flower beds around a fifty-foot-square piece of lawn just below the house, using the front door as the central axis. I ignored the fact that the land sloped a bit away from the house to the south, for, with limited means, I couldn't afford terracing, and I knew at least that the flowers would like the good drainage and exposure. The angled beds were generous in size, a good ten feet deep (and became more generous over the years, as straightening the edges each spring meant cutting away a little more lawn). I enriched the soil with manure from a neighboring farm and compost I had brought from my old garden, let the beds settle over winter, and in the spring planted them with the treasures I had heeled into the field. Other perennials, grown from seed or bought from mail-order nurseries, were added, and in the fall, daffodils, tulips, alliums, and Asiatic lilies were woven into the mix. To frame and enclose the garden, I planted a hedge around its outer edges.
Today, the main garden — for that is what we call it, because of its ample size and seniority — remains essentially the same, though inevitably some of its inhabitants have changed over the years. Shrub roses — gallicas, rugosas, Rosa moyesii,R. glauca — still share the beds with sturdy perennials, grasses, and bulbs, in a color scheme that is dictated by the roses' bluish pinks and velvety plums, combined with hues of blue, white, and clear yellow. In each of the four corners, a crab apple tree (the variety 'Katherine') offers some shade. It is a small-growing crab, slightly pendulous in habit with foliage that, I've discovered, doesn't flourish in our humid summers, becoming powdered with mildew and curling in distaste; but it is a memorable pink and white confection for a week in May. Great boxwood bushes mark the four entrances into the garden, axes of a central cross that cut through the enclosing privet hedge, which is now six feet high and clipped to a sharp horizontal line.
Because this garden is large in scale and seen across a generous square of lawn, bold stands and sweeps of plants seem to work best. Each month has its show, starting in April with the beloved lungwort, which paints the ground blue beneath the crabs and threads through later-blooming perennials in the back of the borders. In May the brief but glamorous flowering of the peonies is accompanied by amsonia's sky blue haze of starry flowers, and finally the early roses, the double pinks and deep crimsons of rugosas, tall silver-and-plum-leaved R. glauca with its tiny pink and white flowers, and R. moyesii, equally tall and arching, its branches studded with simple flowers of deepest red. Groves of lace-white sweet cicely (Myrrhis odorata) and fern-leaf tansy, hostas, iris, heucheras, and burnets offer a counterpoint of richly patterned foliage. By July the garden is brightened by clear yellow daylilies, pink burnets, and coneflowers. Joe-Pye weed is allowed to bully its way into the back of the borders, and its great umbels of soft mauvy pink in August and September complement speciosum lilies and wheels of summer phlox in rose pink and white. Asters bring a haze of blue and purple to the borders in autumn, and the waving seed heads of grasses here — pennisetum, deschampsia, panicum, hakonechloa — are at their most beautiful.
To set off the bold plantings in the main garden, the stretch of lawn serves as a quiet plane, a negative space, so rare and precious in a gardener's garden. We forget in our insane desire to have ever-more plants how important it is to have unplanted stretches as contrast, simple planes — lawn, field, sky. Fifteen years ago, in my madness, I considered cutting up that square of lawn to add four large, square flower beds (oh, the sun! the roses I could grow!) so that this garden would be nothing but beds intersected by grass paths. In a dreamy way, I plotted it out on graph paper. But my oldest daughter, Kim, hearing of my scheme, pleaded with me not to, saying she hoped one day to be married on that piece of lawn. Who would not listen to such a plea? And indeed she was married there, on a sunlit June evening in 2001. We woke to rain that day, buckets of it, and in the afternoon I caught a trickle of tears on Kim's face as we walked in our slickers and boots up to the tent in our back field where we knew the wedding ceremony would have to be. But just as the guests were arriving, the rain stopped and the clouds gave way to golden end-of-the-afternoon sun. We hurriedly wiped off the chairs, set them on the lawn, and rolled out a red carpet, and she had her garden wedding. The year before, on another beautiful evening, Bosco and I had celebrated our own marriage on the same patch of grass.
The cross path in the main garden leads to smaller gardens on each side. To the west, in a half-shaded spot, I made a small enclosure of white flowers, finding the idea of such a limited palette appealing. Its luminous blooms, I knew, would light up this shadowy place, and shimmer with the approach of nightfall. Its diminutive size, thirty-five feet by forty, was not at all intended, but dictated by the discovery of a septic tank on one side and septic fields on the other. Unexpected developments such as these often give a garden character. The smallness of the white garden turned out to be its asset, giving it a sense of intimacy in contrast to the large, open feel of the main garden. Two bracket-shaped borders are backed by a three-foot-high boxwood hedge, which highlights the white flowers and the silver and variegated leaves. Four large, round bushes of box mark the little garden's central grass path, and a stone vase, sporting white violas in spring and variegated geraniums in summer, stands in the center. Much is made of bulbs in this garden — white-flowering daffodils, tulips, alliums, and lilies — for they take little room and generally pack a punch. Single-flowered white peonies, Campanula latiloba 'Alba', summer phlox, and lacy-leaved burnets with bottlebrush blooms weave through the beds. White Japanese anemones and false asters, Boltonia asteroides, offer a final show. Despite the tiny size of this space, I included several shrubs for weight and winter interest — two fragrant white rugosa roses, the elegant Rosa × dupontii, hydrangeas, a variegated dogwood. Just as overscale furniture is sometimes effective in a small room, statuesque plants can often be charming if unexpected in a small garden.
For many years, an old white ash shaded this little place, and, under its limbs, I clustered chairs for lingering with a glass of ice tea or wine. The ash is gone, felled by the fungus that is sweeping this area, and has been replaced by a young hybrid dogwood; but the chairs are still here. Sitting here many years ago, I was struck by the fact that, at the opposite end of the axis through the white garden and the main garden, I was looking at a blank green wall, namely, the tall hemlock hedge that screened our property from the road. I felt something needed to be added to end the perspective and catch your eye: a statue, perhaps, or a large, beautiful vase. As a temporary measure, I placed an old stone urn we had in front of the hedge, a little too fancy in style, I thought, but all right until I found something more appropriate. The urn is still there.
The space between the main garden's privet hedge and the hemlock hedge was long and narrow, quiet and green, a grass walk barely twenty feet wide and sixty feet long. What fine backdrops those hedges would make for a double border of flowers, I thought one day, and proceeded impetuously to dig beds all along their lengths. I scattered hybrid rugosa roses down the long borders, and underplanted them with perennials and bulbs (in like colors of clear pink, magenta, plum, and cream) that would offer a succession of flowering and good foliage from spring through fall. I dotted boxwood bushes down the edges of the beds, for contrast as well as added structure and winter color. The hemlock garden became a pretty place for a number of years, romantic and heady with fragrance when the roses were blooming, and pleasing in its limited color scheme. Cranesbills in various pinks and magenta carpeted the ground in summer, and plum-colored burnets, spotted foxgloves, and pink astilbes added vertical plumes and spires; in autumn, low asters washed the beds with pink and white, and the charming bush clover, Lespedeza thunbergii, exploded with a fountain of magenta pea flowers.
Having three garden rooms of soft and muted colors, I longed for something fiery — yellow, red, orange, gold. Just beyond the kitchen terrace to the north, there was a scruffy grass slope that burned out with the first hint of a drought, remaining an eyesore through much of the summer. With the help of a stonemason, the slope was terraced with small retaining walls and steps, and in beds between gravel paths I planted what I called the nasturtium garden. Visitors are always asking where the nasturtiums are, but I named the garden that not because it contains nasturtiums particularly (we do plug some in occasionally), but because it celebrates those luscious hot colors. Daylilies are the stars here from May through October, mostly species and early hybrids that are fragrant and star-shaped in golden yellows, oranges, and rusty reds. Poppies are here in abundance, the old-fashioned orangey red oriental packed with crepe paper crinolines, and a fragile paler Atlas poppy that flowers through much of the summer. A winterberry, Ilex verticillata 'Winter Gold', with berries that are not gold but a luminous orange, and a black pussy willow (Salix melanostachys) serve as a backdrop to this garden, and six box bushes mark its central path. In summer we add tender cupheas and crocosmia in pots for some extra shots of scarlet and orange.
Yellow has seeped into another small garden on the other side of the pussy willow, an extension of the herb garden that unfolds its pattern above the kitchen terrace. This was originally my vegetable garden, and laughable as such, with barely enough room among annual flowers for a few rows of lettuces, one maybe of beans, and a tomato plant or two. The vegetable garden finally graduated to a respectable size at the back of the property behind the barn. Now this is the last of the flower gardens we pass through on the way to the barn or the meadow and pool, a small graveled enclosure surrounded by beds of clear yellow, white, and blue flowers with a sporadic dash of red. A fence fashioned from locust posts and thin locust branches borders this garden, half obscured by the shrub rose 'Harrison's Yellow', an old twisting-branched purple-leaved smokebush, Viburnum plicatum 'Summer Snowflake', and the black salix. Perennial yellow daisies — the tall willowy Helianthus 'Lemon Queen' and coreopsis (our native C. tripteris) — along with a white selection of Joe-Pye weed, its great heads alive with butterflies, back the garden with blooms in summer. Miniature trumpet daffodils and the pale sky blue grape hyacinth 'Valerie Finis' bring the borders alive in early spring. A stone rooster on a round pedestal marks the center of this small garden and is surrounded first by pots of yellow violas and later, in summer, by agapanthus and pineapple lilies (varieties of eucomis).
These rooms of flowers, each with a character and color scheme of its own, were added gradually over the years, not with any master plan in mind, but one by one, as the desire took me, but always connected with a strong axis in the form of a path, so that you catch glimpses of one garden from another, and are lured on in your stroll around the house.
The Herb Garden
Just beyond the kitchen, on a piece of slanting ground that was leveled by the previous owners to accommodate a plastic aboveground pool, I hacked away at the stony earth that first year to make a garden of herbs. I planned the garden in a geometric pattern of small beds and gravel paths around a central sundial, using the kitchen door as my main axis. An opposite axial path led down a few steps to the eventual white garden on the south, and up a step to what is now the little yellow garden to the north. Boxwood bushes were planted to mark the entrances and a hedge, originally of barberry I regret to say, was planted around its perimeter. Because the garden was raised — up several stone steps from the kitchen terrace — it was high and dry and sunny, just what most herbs crave.
It is a garden primarily of scents, pungent and sweet, some thrown into the air, others released as we rub a leaf or tread on a green carpet, a medley of perfumes on a summer's day from thymes, sages, artemisias, lavenders, and mints; tansy and sweet cicely; pinks and roses. It is a garden for touching and smelling, for snipping: a garden of lore and history too, for there are endless tales of how these plants were used over the centuries, and still are, in medicine, as dyes or bug repellents, in cooking and the making of perfume.
The garden is prettiest in June, when the thymes that spill out of the beds are studded with tiny mauve and white flowers, and blue-green mats of cheddar pinks and cottage pinks are littered with spicy pinwheels, and the roses, ancient damasks and gallicas prized for their perfume, are daily opening their sweet muddled blooms. Rosa mundi, streaked and splashed with crimson, pink, and white, fills one corner, its branches low and spreading to four feet, through which starry, spherical heads of Allium christophii thrust and explode. Spears of Florentine iris in ghostly gray-white flower accompany the rose 'Leda', sometimes called the painted damask, extravagantly dressed in white petals tipped in crimson, a graceful five-foot shrub that weeps over the hedge near the kitchen terrace. Pink ruffled 'Celsiana', another gorgeously fragrant damask, mingles with furry apple mint, sweet cicely, and bee balm (Monarda didyma) in another corner. Bushes of the gas plant, Dictamnus albus, in white and streaky mauve add their lemony scent and are valued verticals along with foxgloves and, later, tall yellow and white mulleins, varieties of verbascum.
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Jesse Jackson Jr. pleaded guilty Wednesday to misusing $750,000 of campaign funds and he acknowledged the charges against him, including conspiracy to commit wire fraud and mail fraud and and making false statements.
The charges require a maximum sentence of five years in prison, a fine of $250,000 and an order of restitution.
Judge Robert Wilkins said he didn't know what sentence he would give Jackson, but noted that he can go beyond the five-year maximum.
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Former Illinois Rep. Jesse Jackson Jr. arrives at the federal courthouse in Washington where he pleaded guilty to using $750,000 of campaign funds on luxury items
Jackson Jr.'s father, Rev. Jesse Jackson (left) and his wife Jacqueline Lavinia Brown (right) arrive for the hearing
Former Chicago Alderman Sandi Jackson, wife of Jackson Jr., is pleading guilty to a charge of filing false tax returns
The charges against Jackson require a maximum sentence of five years in prison, a fine of $250,000 and an order of restitution
Jesse Jackson Jr.'s spending included:
- $43,350 on a gold-plated men's Rolex watch
- $9,587.64 on children's furniture
- $10,105 on Bruce Lee memorabilia
- $11,130 on Martin Luther King memorabilia
- $22,700 on Michael Jackson items, including $4,600 for a 'Michael Jackson fedora'
'I'm not bound by the sentencing guidelines,' Wilkins said. 'The sentencing guidelines are advisory, and they are something I am bound to consider.'
When asked whether his hospitalization for bi-polar disorder impacted his ability to comprehend the charges against him, Jackson responded, 'I fully understand the consequences of my actions.'
Jackson, 47, has already been ordered to pay a judgement of $750,000 and surrender some of the goods he purchased.
Among the items he bought with campaign funds were a $43,450 gold-plated Rolex watch, $22,700 on Michael Jackson items, - including $4,600 for a 'Michael Jackson fedora - $10,105 in Bruce Lee memorabilia and $11,130 in Martin Luther King memorabilia.
wife, Sandi, a former Chicago alderman, is facing a separate felony
charge of filing false tax returns for six years. She is also planning
to plead guilty and she faces up to $250,000 in fines and up to three
years in prison.
When asked whether his hospitalization for bi-polar disorder impacted his ability to comprehend the charges against him, Jackson responded, 'I fully understand the consequences of my actions.'
Judge Robert Wilkins said he didn't know what sentence he would give Jackson, but noted that he can go beyond the five-year maximum
Rev. Jesse Jackson, issued a statement Monday asking for prayers for his son, his daughter-in-law and their children
But Sandi Jackson will likely avoid prison time and instead get probation, consider the couple has two young children, ages nine and 12.
Jackson's father, the famed civil rights leader Rev. Jesse Jackson, issued a statement Monday asking for prayers for his son, his daughter-in-law and their children. He noted that Jackson Jr. suffers severe mood swings associated with bipolar disorder and that his mental health is further strained by the 'press knocking at his door.'
'Jesse remains under tight medical supervision,' the reverend said of his son. 'He is struggling with the highs and lows of his bipolar disorder.'
'Please pray for him, Sandi and their children,' Jackson Sr. added.
Jackson Jr.'s defense will likely try to use his mental health disorder to lessen his sentence.
Jackson Jr. entered Congress in 1995 and resigned last November due to the federal investigation into his use of campaign funds.
Jackson's wife Sandi resigned from the Chicago City Council in January 2013
Jesse Jackson Jr.'s spending included $43,350 on a gold-plated men's Rolex watch and $9,587.64 on children's furniture
Jesse Jackson Jr. resigned last year after nearly 17 years in office
In a statement last week, Jackson Jr. apologized to his friends and family for his 'errors in judgement.'
'Over the course of my life, I have come to realize that none of us are immune from our share of shortcomings and human frailties,' he said. 'Still, I offer no excuses for my conduct, and I fully accept my responsibility for the improper decisions and mistakes I have made.'
He added, 'While my journey is not yet complete, it is my hope that I am remembered for the things that I did right.'
Jesse Jackson Jr. (left) raises the hand of his father Rev. Jesse Jackson after introducing him at the Democratic National Convention
Jesse Jackson Jr.'s spending included $43,350 on a gold-plated men's Rolex watch, which may or may not be the watch he is wearing in this photo
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Maybe he's turned to follicular abuse to distract him from his apparent fetish for watching girls pee. Pope (Colin Cunningham) needles him for trying to catch a glimpse of Grace dropping trou, but is interrupted by an sudden sniper attack, felling Grace and pinning down the Berserkers and elements of the 2nd Mass. Grace has other problems, for while her flak jacket stopped the bullet, the force of the shot knocked her down, sending a piece of rebar through her skull. Gee, and she was such a well-developed character.
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After many years, dragons have hatched again outside the ancient city of Cassarick. But something is wrong with the creatures; each is inferior or weak in some way, and many die. Tending these stunted dragons has left the people of the surrounding area weary. The Traders Council, the city's leadership, fears that if the Rain Wilders stop providing for the young dragons, the hungry and neglected creatures will rampage and destroy Cassarick. To avert catastrophe, the council rules to relocate the young dragons to "a better location" up river, and residents are recruited to escort the valuable yet fearsome creatures on the arduous journey. Among them are Thymara, an unschooled Rain Wilds girl of sixteen, and Alise, a wealthy, educated, and deeply unsatisfied Bingtown Trader's wife.
Witnessed from the viewpoints of these two very different women, Dragon Keeper tells the story of this disparate band of humans and dragons as they make their way along the toxic and inhospitable Rain Wild River in search of their new home---the ancient, long-lost city of Kelsingra.
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This is my first read of one of Robin Hobbs' books. The foreshadowing of events is magnificent, as well as the character development. My major issue, is the lack of geographical knowledge, and perhaps that is because I have started with the wrong set of books.
As to the comments about the Narrator, I envision Dragons to have very different voices and pronunciations then we do, so the accent works for me.
If you are debating listening to this one, I suggest you give it a shot. I was unsure at first, and actually for several hours into it. But I couldn't stop. I could see the shadows of the future, but had to go on to see how it all came together. I'm looking forward to the next one.
meandering story with poor character development
not robbut I liked all the fool booksin hobb
good narration but tedious writing
about 30% of them
"Robin Hobb, you should be ashamed"
Most of Mrs. Hobb's stuff is great. This is book sucks. Do not pay for it!
Not have a terrible book. No mystery, no fool
Anne needs to be a guy with more range in character
"Waste of time and money"
While I've read a number of Hobb's books and enjoyed them, I listened to this for over 5 hours and couldn't find any of the plethora of characters I cared enough about to continue with the book. I kept hoping it would pick up, but when I checked reviews on another site, I found many folks felt the same. What were her editors thinking? despite the signature, this review is written by a female reader.
"Another great story by Robin Hobb."
Same world as others, but completely different storytelling, details and surprises. Loads of intrigue of which even Shade would approve.
"Narration is distracting"
Not really...the way she narrates the story is strange. I'm not really sure what/how the narrator decides is the best way to tell the story but in this instance, she was totally wrong for the book. The bad thing is, in order to finish out the series, I have to deal with the same narrator--almost makes me not want to spend the credits--but I will so that I can find out if the dragons make it to Kelsingra...
The length was definitely worth the one credit price...although the narrator wasn't.
I like Robin Hobb's books...have read about half of her books but with this story, it seemed to drag...there was too much descriptive fluff and not enough meat to the story---not to mention the ending....goodness, it was abrupt; no kind of wrap-up or such. I'm all for spacing it out if you want to keep the reader hooked for the next book but this ending was horrible.
"There is NO ending!"
Well, the story was way to slow to start and the story completely cut off in the middle of the plot, so starting the book around the time where the (story, adventure, publisher's summary, etc.) begins would be a great start and INCLUDING AN ENDING would be a great clincher. These two traits and the premise of damaged dragons (might) make it a 4-star book. Robin Hobb needs to write more engaging characters and clean up the over-abundance of flashbacks before I consider 5 stars.
Lock In by John Scalzi and narrated by Wil Wheaton. After that, I'll probably re-listen to Naamah's Kiss by Jacqueline Cary and narrated by Anne Flosnik (the same narrator here). I love the world-building in those novels and Anne Flosnik brings so much emotion to the main character Phedre. It's honestly one of my favorite audiobook performances ever.
I love Anne Flosnik. She does a great job of bringing the characters to life. If you want a better example of this, she did an AMAZING job narrating Jacqueline Carey's novels.
Extreme Rage. I was expecting the next chapter of the book and heard the "Audible hopes you have enjoyed this production" instead.
I am returning this stupid book.
"Horrible Narrator"
Could care less about the characters. last few chapters the best. Skip the story. It is nowhere near the quality of the Fitz and the Fool story line.
I'm a web developer based out of Sacramento, I listen to books while I work, and love audible.
"It was ok"
I give this 2 stars because it was ok. It wasn't bad, but not a whole lot happened either. Frankly I think 200 pages could have been edited out and it would have been much better.
When a story is slow and then finally moves incrementally at the end, having 200 pages or more of bloat just doesn't help.
I will continue reading the series I hear it picks up in the second book, but I'm not exactly over thrilled to pick up the next volume either. because there weren't any characters that I felt really attached too, in fact there where a few I didn't like at all, but I do like Hobbs method of developing characters, so that will keep me going.
"Struggling to fill a word quota?"
The whole series is full of padding. The same events shown several times from different viewpoints, or the same past events described over and over. I felt treated like a goldfish that is unable to remember anything that happened more than a few pages back. Listening to the entire series back-to-back made it even worse, since each new book assumed you remembered nothing of the previous one. I suspect the author was simply trying to fill her word quota and didn't really have enough story for four books.
I wish I had time to read books on paper, it would have been better if I had been able to skip/skim through the endless repetitions.
Narrator was slow, making it even more tedious.
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Miratel Cuts Light Fixtures 50%, Energy Use by 40%
By retiring 200 traditional fluorescent light fixtures throughout its 17,000-square-foot office facility, Miratel Solutions expects energy usage reductions of more than 40%. The Toronto-based call center announces that they have added to their environmental initiatives by retrofitting all office light fixtures to energy efficient units.
Their current configuration of 200 light fixtures uses 800 T12 fluorescent lamps with magnetic ballasts and will be retrofitted with electronic T8 ballasts.
"This change has represented a minimum impact of a 40% decrease in energy usage as we only require 400 T8 lamps in comparison to the 800 T12 lamps previously required. Also, because we are using half the amount of individual components the end-to-end consumption, from manufacturing to waste disposal, has been cut in half," said Angela Puzzolanti, co-owner of Miratel.
Miratel brands itself as a green call center, offers end-to-end managed services including inbound and outbound call center, professional fundraising, e-commerce and mail services.
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A handful of retailers are riding high on the mobile commerce wave. What's keeping others out of the water?
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On average, 30% of weekly sales originate on mobile devices.
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On April 14, 53% of all sales were from mobile devices. And it's no fluke.
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Fanatics will pay $183 million for Dreams Inc.
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