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Direct mail follow-up to in-store on online purchase can be an effective way to boost customer relationships and grow share of wallet. A recent Dell computer campaign is a case in point, as noted by Paul Bobnak, director of Who's Mailing What!, in a recent Target Marketing magazine piece. Bobnak spotlights a Dell mailer to recent computer purchasers. The consumer has already shelled out for a major purchase, so if Dell wants to win more dollars, its marketers need to push all the response buttons--personalization, relevancy, exclusivity and urgency. So Dell starts by personalizing the outer 6"X9"self-mailer with bold use of the customer's first name and an exclusive, limited-time 15% discount on electronics and accessories. Inside, the first page of a two-panel spread details deals on four items, including wireless speakers. But then Dell sweetens its pitch further on the second inside page with five more reasons to buy from Dell--from easy financing to 24/7 phone support. Dell's approach may prove instructive to retailers of other big-ticket items, such as cars or appliances. For a look at the mail creative Dell used to build customer rapport and sales, go to http://www.targetmarketingmag.com/article/dell-mail-share-of-customer/
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Tuesday, April 26, 2016
Basic Tips Aid Even Small Firms in E-mail Success
E-mail marketing success doesn't have to be limited to big firms with big-data technology. A recent CIO.com article combined suggestions from e-mail experts to create 15 basic tips that put an effective e-mail campaign within reach of even small- to mid-sized businesses. Here are just the top seven as an example. Start out by segmenting e-mail lists to select the relevant content and offer by customer or subscriber group. If discounts are available for students or retirees, then segment by age as an example. Next, make sure the e-mail creative uses responsive design and is mobile-friendly. Research shows 68% of recipients open e-mail on a mobile device, and 71% of those will delete an e-mail immediately if it doesn't display properly. Consider testing text-only e-mails versus image-based e-mails to take into account the e-mail clients, such as Outlook, which automatically block images. Try to have a promotional e-mail come from a real person (not just noreply), realizing that 64% of subscribers open an e-mail based on who it is from. Then craft a subject line to maximize opens by keeping it short (lines with fewer than 50 characters have higher open rates) but at the same time compelling and urgent/time-sensitive. Avoid a mass-marketing approach and personalize the subject line and content to the target segment--going beyond first name to use other data, such as past purchase behavior, for the relevance that drives response. Finally, add a clear, visible call-to-action. Research shows that if the recipient can't understand what they're expected to do within just 5 seconds, the e-mail risks deletion! For eight more tips and resource suggestions from the experts, read http://www.cio.com/article/3057992/email/15-ways-to-improve-your-email-marketing-campaigns.html
Thursday, April 21, 2016
E-mail Sender Reputation Key to Reaching Inboxes
Reputation matters in marketing, and e-mail marketers especially need a sterling sender reputation to ensure messages reach target inboxes. Mailbox providers use algorithms to filter and remove "spam," and marketing e-mails can be swept out of inboxes based on their sender reputation metrics, explained a recent Inc. magazine article by Peter Roesler, president of Web Marketing Pros. To show how important sender reputation is to inbox placement, Roesler cited recent Return Path research. The Return Path study measured e-mail marketer reputation with a Sender Score--a number between 0 and 100 (best)--to show how mailbox providers view a marketer's IP address. Return Path found one quarter of e-mail marketers with Sender Scores between 71 and 80 had their messages land in junk/spam folders, for example. Even marketers with scores between 81 and 90 had 10% of their messages diverted to junk/spam folders. Marketers want to be in the 99-100 score range, where only 2% of messages went into junk folders. Unfortunately, most e-mail marketers fall far short in terms of sender reputation; Return Path found 52% of e-mails were sent by marketers with scores below 71. One way to end up with a poor score, Roesler warns, is trying to jump-start e-mail marketing by purchase of an e-mail list with addresses that have not been properly obtained. Many of these e-mail recipients will mark unsolicited content as spam, spoiling reputation so legitimate e-mails get dumped in spam limbo. E-mail marketers need to know how they are viewed by mailbox providers if they want to improve reputation and keep it polished. Since scoring criteria vary by provider--based on combinations of open rates, bounce rates, spam complaints, etc.--it's best to go to an outside source to check reputation metrics, advises Roesler. He suggests resources such as SenderBase.org, ReputationAuthority and TrustedSource. See http://www.inc.com/peter-roesler/why-reputation-matters-for-email-marketing.html
Tuesday, April 19, 2016
Direct Mail's New 'Moment' in the Digital Age
It's no surprise when the CEO of the powerful McCann ad agency, which manages $10 billion in annual marketing spend, stands up to champion direct mail at the recent National Postal Forum. McCann is the U.S. Postal Service's agency of record, paid to push the advantages of mail. But that doesn't diminish the value of the insights offered by CEO Harris Diamond, as reported by Direct Marketing News magazine's Senior Editor Al Urbanski. Arguing that "in a world in which people are endlessly bombarded with electronic messages, direct mail is now the most welcome house guest," Diamond backs up his belief in mail's value by citing a McCann finding that the average American spends 25 minutes out of each busy day with mail. Diamond calls that 25-minute opportunity "The Mail Moment." And he offers five creative principles McCann uses in marketing campaigns to maximize results from that precious Mail Moment. First, he advises, go to the customers to understand their perspectives, looking beyond traditional assumptions; he holds up the example of Pope Francis going out at night, dressed in street clothes, to spend time with the homeless. Second, use direct mail's unique physical properties to engage in ways unavailable to digital, and he cites an Australian Air Force recruitment piece that mailed radio parts sans instructions to prospective engineers and offered a commission to any who could build the radio and tune into a dedicated station. Third, put new technologies to work with mail to enhance engagement and branding, such as using augmented reality (AR) to add a digital experience to paper. Fourth, realize it's not about mail tweaking; it's about "reinventing" the mail medium, using technology creatively to drive action and leverage the Mail Moment to the max. And, finally, make mail a tool for developing a relationship in the digital age, using data to target, personalize and touch audiences. For more details of Diamond's remarks, read http://www.dmnews.com/direct-mail/mccann-ceo-direct-mails-moment-has-come-again/article/485318/
Thursday, April 14, 2016
Amid Digital Clutter, 'Simple' Mail Wins Notice
With multiple digital channels now used to communicate with customers--e-mail, online, mobile and social--businesses risk creating so much marketing clutter that they bury message and response. We've found that targeted direct mail is one way to cut through that marketing noise--and sometimes the simplest mail message speaks the loudest. Paul Bobnak, director of Who's Mailing What!, provides a good example in a recent Target Marketing magazine article. Independence Blue Cross, a healthcare insurer, wanted to contact members ahead of a deadline for renewal of 2016 health plan coverage. Since e-mails may be ignored in busy inboxes, the insurer decided to gather text opt-ins for renewal communications with members via a single, easy response channel--their ever-present mobile phones. And then Independent turned to a direct mail postcard as an outreach device that was sure to be delivered and "opened." The company mailed a two-sided 6-inch-by-11-inch postcard prompting mobile phone sign-ups for its text-messaging service. The front of the postcard simply announced "2016 health care coverage" and "Right from your phone," and drove home the point visually with a photo of a cell phone with a big "easy" text message bubble displayed. The reverse side of the postcard laid out the few steps, via a single call, to opt-in to insurer text alerts. For a look at the actual piece, go to http://www.targetmarketingmag.com/article/ibx-keeps-mail-simple/
Tuesday, April 12, 2016
Consumers Shun Excess, Irrelevant Retail E-mail
Retailers count on e-mail to help drive sales--but overly frequent, poorly targeted e-mail currently may inspire more consumer irritation than shopping, according to recent research. A 2015 survey of more than 1,000 Internet users, conducted by First Insight, found the average consumer subscribes to 2.3 retailer e-mail lists and receives 13.1 e-mails a week from those lists. But most aren't happy about it. Two-thirds of the consumers who received six or more e-mails a week said it was "too many." In contrast, only 21% of shoppers who received five e-mails per week thought that frequency too high. Individual retailers will want to aim for fewer than five e-mails, however; 61% of consumers said their favorite retailers only send them one or two e-mails a week. Excess frequency is not the only problem. Just 25% of retailer e-mails got opened, and the most common reason consumers gave for not opening more retailer e-mail was lack of relevance. Based on e-mails received, just 18% of respondents felt retailers understood them. Indeed, the average shopper said only about 5% of retailer e-mails were personally relevant. Unfortunately for retail e-marketers, consumers tend to express their frustration by opting out, with 45% saying they unsubscribed from a retailer's e-mail list in the prior six months. On the other hand, the research also points out a solution: 43% of consumers said they would be more likely to open retailer e-mails if they knew the e-mails contained personalized suggestions of products aligned with past purchases, instead of promotion of products generally available or "on sale." For the study report: http://www.firstinsight.com/press-coverage/how-many-promotional-emails-a-week-is-too-many
Thursday, April 7, 2016
Are Wrong B2B Lead Concepts Hurting Sales?
Sales reps are key to converting business-to-business leads into sales for many firms. But most sales reps are completely wrong in their thinking about leads, asserts a recent HubSpot post by Ali Powell. First of all, sales reps should realize that a B2B lead is about a company, not just a specific individual contact, and any given company has many people involved in purchasing decisions. In fact, an average of 5.4 stakeholders are involved in each B2B sales deal per CEB data, Powell notes. So using an account-based approach, sales reps need to find multiple contacts at a company and engage each of them. But even before beginning to chase a company lead, it is important to research that company to make sure it is a good fit for the product or service promoted. Powell offers 12 places to start that research, from LinkedIn to news releases to internal CRM. Then compare the lead organization to the target customer profile, or at least to best clients. Sales reps can use two basic questions as a litmus test for lead pursuit, she suggests: Why am I working this lead and how can I help them? Be sure there are solid answers based on research and fit with client profile before moving forward. Reaching out to multiple contacts at a company doesn't mean a single one-size-fits-all approach, however; the sales pitch should be tailored to each individual contact's needs and roles, she advises. To tailor outreach, find a reason or trigger event to start a conversation. Here are steps suggested by Powell: Follow each contact and the company on LinkedIn; create a Google Alert to catch news and mentions online; follow the company on AngelList and Crunchbase; create a dedicated private Twitter list of contacts and company; and subscribe to the company blog if it exists. And, since leads are so valuable, be dogged in pursuit and don't quit before a definitive yes or no response, adds Powell. For the whole post: http://blog.hubspot.com/sales/sales-reps-are-thinking-about-leads-all-wrong
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Fuck yeah charge the kid. 15 years old is old enough to know better than to attack people.
An aside from this messed-up situation: Knowing what the maturity level of the average 20 year old is like, I find it amusing to see a 20 year old referred to as a "man".
Looks like the culmination of a dispute between two kids to me.
Charge them both. Why not?
Sue everybody!
Thug life!
why is a 20 year old beefing with a 15 year old?
I'm counting down the minutes until we see fools jump into this thread arguing that "15 year olds don't know what they're doing! He needs help, not jail!"
My 2 cents - he oughta be charged with attempted murder, but prosecuted as a juvenile.
Why on earth would someone think that they should resort to shooting someone? Did he really think that it wouldnt get him in trouble, that he wouldnt get caught? What a fucking idiot. I'd like to know who his parents are and what they have to say for themselves.
I agree with #8. At 15 you do kinda know better but you don't have the same brain function as an adult. Scientifically, they don't have fully developed functioning and reasoning skills.
Hence why we charge adults different than kids. Jesus. Put him in Juvie, and send him through therapy so he can be a good citizen when he gets out.
i agree with #8 too.
Morality/ethics aside, if KCPAO files attempted murder or assault 2 with a deadly weapon enhancement, the statute dictates that he's charged as an adult.
And while you're certainly right about the biology Original Monique @10, you may not have spent a lot of time around juvie. The recidivism rates for their violent offenders are extremely high, even with therapy, etc. Not sayin' that adult prison's would do him much better, of course....
Why does Slog post about in-city shootings? It's like, you want to pretend to cover real news, but only if it happens in Cap Hill, Belltown, or the CD.
I mean, more serious crimes than attempted murder happen in the metro area, but you won't see it in the Slog or Stranger.
Of course this kid should be charged as an adult. After all, we give 15 year-olds all the same rights, privileges, and respect as adults, so why not punish them that way?
Who the hell gave a fifteen year old a gun?
What the hell are you talking about, K?
The 20 year old was about to drive a car so he was probably going to inconvenience a bicyclist and pollute the Earth so he HAD to be shot.
i'd rather charge him as a juvenile, but have a harsher sentence with stricter requirements. why are juvie and adult the only options? can't we charge him based on age, and sentence based on age? he's not an adult, but he's not a child either.
@12--Actually, the statute (RCW 13.04.030) says that adult court automatically has jurisdiction over those charges if the person charged is 16 or 17. If he's 15, either charge requires the juvenile court judge to decide whether the case will be tried as an adult or juvenile.
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ST. JOHNSBURY A Vermont man is facing marijuana charges after his father turned him in to police, saying his son was growing it in some bedroom closets.
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Brazilian Beach Towel - Canga Oncinha
Let's admit it, animalier prints have always been trendy and, this year, they seem to be hotter than ever. In fact, most swimwear brands are including lots of leopard and zebra printed swimsuits in their collections and Brazil, as usual, has proven itself to be a step ahead of the rest of the world. In fact, Brazilian women have been showing off their super sexy leopard bikinis for quite a while now and you will find that most stores in Brazil offer leopard printed cangas to go with such bikinis. Oncinha is a Brazilian beach towel, aka canga, that can be worn around the waist or laid on the sand. It features some beautiful shades of brown, gold and beige which are sure to match any solid colored bikini.
Style: Brazilian pareo
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Defense Support to Civil Authorities: Defense Coordinating Officer/Defense Coordinating Element
What is it?
Each year the Army provides support to civil authorities as directed by the Secretary of Defense. Defense Support of Civil Authorities (DSCA) includes activities of all Department of Defense (DoD) components that provide military support to the 50 states, the District of Columbia, the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico, and U.S. territories and possessions. The Department of Defense (DoD) provides federal military forces, DoD Civilians and contract personnel, and DoD agencies and components in response to requests for assistance during domestic incidents. These incidents include terrorist threats or attacks, major disasters, and other emergencies. DSCA support is generally coordinated through the Defense Coordinating Officer (DCO)/Defense Coordinating Element (DCE). DCO/DCEs serve as DoD first responders to a natural or man-made disaster. The Army maintains a permanently assigned DCO/DCE in each Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) region to plan, coordinate, and integrate DSCA with local, state, tribal, and federal agencies. Each DCO/DCE has a permanent staff of seven personnel with planning and operations expertise. The DCO, as the Joint Force Commander, assumes operational or tactical control of all assigned Title 10 forces and DoD resources in the mission area.
What has the Army done?
Significant DSCA events by numbered region include the following:
- Deployed the Region I DCO and the Region X DCE to the National Interagency Fire Center, Boise, ID to support California wild-land firefighting operations (June 2008).
- Deployed the Region V and VII DCO/DCEs to support Midwest Flooding. Region V deployed to multiple locations in Indiana, Illinois and Wisconsin. Region VII deployed to multiple locations in Iowa and Missouri (June 2008).
- Deployed the Region X and Region III DCO/DCEs in support of the National Level Exercise 2-08. Region X deployed to multiple locations in Seattle, WA. Region III deployed to the National Capital Region (April – May 2008).
- Deployed the Region II and III DCO/DCEs to support the Papal Visit to the National Capital Region and New York City. Region II deployed to multiple locations in NYC. Region III deployed to the National Capital Region (April 2008).
- Deployed Region IX Emergency Preparedness Liaison Officers in support of Superbowl XLII to the State EOC in Tempe, AZ (February 2008).
- Deployed the Region IV and VI DCO/DCEs in support of Southeast Storms. Region IV deployed to the emergency operations center (EOC) in Nashville, TN. Region VI deployed to the EOC in Little Rock, AR (February 2008).
- Deployed Region III liaison officers to the National Capital Region in support of the State of the Union Address (January 2008).
- Deployed the Region II DCO/DCE to New York City, NY in support of NYC New Year's celebrations (December 2007 – January 2008).
- Deployed the Region II DCO/DCE with augmentation and equipment to New York City to provide command and control of DoD forces in support of the U.N. General Assembly (September 2007).
- Deployed the Region VI DCO/DCE with augmentation and equipment to Baton Rouge, LA, to support potential disaster response to, and recovery from, tropical depression 10 (September 2007).
- Deployed the Region V DCO/DCE plus augmentation and equipment to Minneapolis, MN in support of disaster (bridge collapse) recovery operations (August 2007).
- Deployed a DCE plus equipment to Corpus Christi, Texas, to support disaster response and recovery for the flooding created by Tropical Storm Erin (August 2007).
- Deployed the Region II DCO plus augmentation to Puerto Rico; the Region VI DCE plus augmentation to the Regional Response Coordination Center in New York City; the regional DCO/DCE plus equipment and augmentation to the Joint Field Office in Austin, Texas; and the Region X DCO/DCE plus equipment to Baton Rouge, La., to support disaster response to, and recovery from, Hurricane Dean (August 2007).
- Region V and VIII DCO/DCEs participate in planning meetings for the Democratic and Republican National Conventions, which will be held in their respective regions summer 2008.
What continued efforts does the Army have planned for the future?
The Army will continue providing support to civil authorities through U.S. Army North when requested. In the future, the Army will identify ways to streamline support provided to civil authorities under standing rules and regulations established by the DoD. Providing timely and appropriate response to an incident remains one of the Army's key operational concepts. The DCO/DCEs will continue to provide support as the Army's Service component command to the U.S. Army Northern Command.
Why is this important to the Army?
The Army's DSCA support contributes to relief efforts in the case of President-declared disasters. Supporting civil authorities enhances working relationships and mutual support between the Army and tribal, local, state, and federal agencies. The DCO/DCE is the key Army element coordinating DoD support to, and liaison with, these agencies. The Army continues to lend necessary assistance to civil authorities when requested by the DoD. The Army will remain DoD's premiere land-based homeland defense response force. It stands ready to provide teams of highly skilled professionals, integrated and interoperable with federal, state, tribal, and local partners, for any and all actions relevant to America's security and civil support challenges in the 21st century.


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From time to time, I plan to point my blog readers to articles on other blogs that I find especially good. I'm really grateful to my blogging friend Sierra for writing excellent pieces on the problem with what she calls "the modesty doctrine."Just today Sierra posted an amazing article called "How the Modesty Doctrine Hurts Men Too." I highly recommend you take a look, she's spot on.Sierra previously wrote an excellent piece on how the modesty doctrine affected her own life. For that, click … [Read more...]
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This is beautiful. For a full transcript, see here. I think the very best part comes at the end: "The purity myth is the lie that women's sexuality has some bearing on who we are and how good we are, because really I think we all know that young women are so much more than whether or not they have sex. We really should be teaching our daughters that their ability to be good people should be based on their intelligence, on their compassion, their kindness, not what they do with their b … [Read more...]
Critiquing the Purity Culture
When I wrote about the purity culture and sexual dysfunction last week, I had no idea how many chords that simple post would touch. I had no idea how much attention it would get. Only fifteen hours after I posted it, it had more page views than any other post I have ever posted. Not more than any other post had after fifteen hours, more than any other post had total. Today, it has more than twice as many page views than any other post. To be perfectly honest, this attention surprised me. Perhaps … [Read more...]
Purity Balls: They're Barking Up the Wrong Tree
Yesterday I posted about about purity balls, and pointed out that fathers should have nothing to do with their daughters' virginity, unless they're reverting to some sort of Old Testament "fathers own their daughters virginity and women are property" mentality. Since then I have watched this documentary and done some thinking. See, the argument is more sophisticated than "your virginity belongs to your father."In the documentary, Randy Wilson of Generations of Light Ministry states that … [Read more...]
Your Virginity is YOURS – Not Your Daddy's
I just came across this:Golden Isles Father Daughter Purity BallYou really should go to the link and look at the pictures. Let me give you some examples below:Here's the thing. I have nothing against a girl deciding not to have sex until marriage, but that needs to be her choice. It's not her dad's choice, not her pastor's choice, not her mom's choice, not anyone else's choice. If a girl decides she wants to not have sex until marriage, it's her … [Read more...]
Sexpectations: Purity, Courtship, and Dating
A good deal of the pain we feel in our day to day lives comes from unmet expectations. As an example, if my husband doesn't put his dirty clothes in the hamper I become upset, but only because I expect him to put them in the hamper. If I didn't it wouldn't upset me. The same is true, for example, of my parents: they feel a great deal of pain today because I didn't live up to their expectations as an adult daughter. If they hadn't expected me to submit to my father, they would not have been upset … [Read more...]
I Wear A Bikini (Gasp!)
Earlier this summer, I watched two teenage girls playing in a pool. They were both carefree, both playful, and both fairly new to their suddenly womanly bodies. The first wore a bikini, the other a one piece swimsuit with a high neckline and shorts. The first was an exchange student from Europe, the other my sister. As I watched the exchange student frolic in her bikini, innocently and without a care in the world, I wished that I had been able to be so comfortable in my body so early. It is … [Read more...]


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One of only seven in the world and the only one in North America, the Baha'i House of Worship is the largest and oldest surviving Baha'i Temple. Standing on the shores of Lake Michigan, the auditorium, with its walls of lace-like ornamentation and its dome rising 135 feet above the main floor, offers a scene of unsurpassed beauty. It is surrounded by exquisite gardens and fountains. This imposing and dramatic structure has received numerous design awards, and is on the National Register of Historic Places.
The opulent Cuneo Museum and Gardens, located on 75 acres and dotted with formal gardens and statuary was the perfect setting for the wedding scenes in "My Best Friend's Wedding." The gazebo where the best friends were caught kissing was built specifically for the film, but Cuneo's owners liked it so much they decided to keep it permanently. Take a guided tour through the historic Mediterranean-style Cuneo mansion to see Renaissance artworks and lavish European furnishings.
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My Best Friend's Wedding - Cuneo Museum
In this romantic comedy a food critic jealously tries to put a stop to her best buddy's wedding. The movie filmed extensively around Chicago, including the historic Drake Hotel on North Michigan Avenue; on a Mercury boat cruise as it sailed down the Chicago River; and at the suburban Cuneo Museum & Gardens, a Mediterranean-style mansion that features 75 acres of beautiful formal gardens. The gazebo featured in one of the wedding scenes was built for the film, but Cuneo's owners decided to keep it permanently.
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Nestled among fragrant pines and sumptuous flower gardens stands the Chapel in the Pines, a charming Victorian-style country church.
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The Barn at Allen Acres Wedding and Reception Venue sits on 3 and 1/2 acres just on the edge of town in Rock Falls IL. The property is surrounded by a cornfield and offers a serene tranquil destination for your wedding and reception. The property is less than a 5 minute drive to restaurants and hotels. The Dairy Barn was built in the 1920's and restored in 2011. It boasts a beautiful 26 foot vaulted ceiling in the upstairs haymow with some of its original architecture still intact. During the process of the restoration, reclaimed barn wood and reclaimed hardware were used whenever possible, maintaining the rustic feel of the Barn. We've added a 5 foot wide set of stairs leading to the upstairs space and a small deck with stairs, off of the back of the Barn, giving the bride a dramatic entrance down the aisle and to the alter. The upstairs haymow has a capacity of 150 people for a wedding ceremony. The downstairs area, where the dairy cows were kept, in the early years of the barn, also has a capacity for 150 people.
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"Then the bedlam of Ellis Island—a maelstrom of people and bundles and a babel of tongues."—Max Glass
The Case
It is said that 40% of Americans can trace their heritage through the gates of Ellis Island. I can trace 100% of mine, although the only account of the transition comes from a 19-page autobiography by my uncle Max Glass, my maternal grandmother's brother, who arrived in this country in 1906. There, he was detained for three days, while his mother was inspected for possible trachoma, a common illness among immigrants. When he first set foot on the mainland, he was offered a banana, which he tried to eat with the skin on.
From 1892 to 1954, Ellis Island was the first port for 13 million immigrants. The History Channel documents the experiences of these new Americans in a three part documentary from 1997, appropriately entitled Ellis Island. Mandy Patinkin narrates, with archival footage and interviews with both historians and actual immigrants to tell the story. Beginning as far back as the days of indentured servitude in the 18th century, America was a prized destination for many people. Of course, there were plenty who did not choose willingly to come here (namely slaves), but immigration by the 1850s (mostly Irish and Germans) had grown to the point where New York, the preferred landing spot for most travelers, felt the need to set up the Castle Garden facility to process the flood.
By 1890, the federal government had taken over the operation, and Ellis Island became the central clearinghouse. Xenophobia and political backlash (especially paranoia about communism) made Ellis the "isle of tears" after World War I, and the island fell into disrepute until its final closure in 1954. Even during its heyday, some immigrants (especially first and second class passengers aboard the arriving ships) were treated with open arms, while others (those in steerage) were run through a gauntlet of medical, psychological, and later even literacy tests to prove their worthiness.
You will not hear much of this story in Part I of Ellis Island, a shapeless mess that jumps around the story in fairly arbitrary fashion. The story here feels generic; no names or personalities stand out. If the Ellis Island story is about how immigrants formed their identities as Americans through the gateway experience, Part I seems surprisingly free of personality, other than a healthy dose of sentimentality.
Part II shapes up considerably, finally getting to the actual experiences of immigrants on the island, and the interviews feel more specific, capturing the voices of the people involved. One woman recalls (accompanied by an archival photograph) being handed a glass of milk and a doughnut on her first day, and we finally feel that we have arrived. Part III maintains the momentum of the story, chronicling the descent of Ellis Island after anti-immigration laws became the fashion in 1924. Ass the processing facility became more of a dormitory for potential undesirables awaiting judgment, the Statue of Liberty ironically only showed her back to those staring out the windows of the dilapidated buildings on the island.
A fairly bare bones approach (no subtitles and only a timeline as an extra) suggests that the History Channel does not consider this program, originally shot on videotape (which makes for a predictably low-budget feel), a prestige package. In spite of this, Ellis Island is at least worth a rental, if you cannot actually catch it for free on cable. Given America's current ambivalence toward its immigrant roots, most of us would do well to remember where we came from and what it took to get here. When I entered my Uncle Max's name into the Ellis Island genealogical database (check it out for yourself) while writing this review, he came up as the earliest listing. This makes me feel somehow, oddly, anchored.
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I've build a dedicated PC for use in Dental Clinic, but I found out that it's very difficult to setup the computer "idiot-proof" enough. It has to do 2 simple things:
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– the camera has standard USB interface like any common webcam
ability to play selected short instruction video on demand
– video player with non-desktop look&feel and simple UI = XBMC is great for this.
And there must be the ability to switch between the two with simple keypress.
I'd like to use no mouse at all. The connected mini-keyboard has very poor touchpad anyway...
My temporal solution
I already use a combination of Windows 7 + Cyberlink YouCam + XBMC + AutoHotkey, but this setup has a few major flaws:
something goes wrong every moment, it's not a "press this for camera, and press this for video section"
YouCam quits fullscreen mode every time it pops up some kind of message (connection lost) and after waking from sleep. I have to use touchpad to click OK and then click Fullsceen button again.
Win 7 is overkill for my needs, if I used for example OpenELEC, I wouldn't even need any hard drive. Second, I don't need OS with a desktop here.
Is there any reliable solution? OpenELEC or XBMCbuntu could be nice, but how to setup the system to perform this way?


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i need to get something printed its a car i made it i need to sign an NDA may need some rework just the last save, so there aren't any cleanings going on(i didn't do any cleanup on it) shoot me an email or message me here. its a car, i want it printed, and i want to talk about it along the way lets talk ive been working here and there to get the money but now i have it so lets get started i want to have a working model by next year so lets see to it that this is the best 3d print i can possibly get ive worked hard on it and now its time for someone else to help me, no one can do this on their own we can print in parts later in the year but for now i want to get the idea into my hands to work up how its going to work we'll talk to electrical engineers, materials scientists and other engineers to get this going. I want a working model by next year so be good at 3d printing there really isn't any space for training here have confidence in your ability to deliver because we just might be starting a company here depending on how we meet our goals lets get started Andrew basically be someone who can do printing really well and who can do some rework really well you need to be a printer and a modeler to a sketch make degree i made this in ketchup make so it was free, be resourceful and don't ask too many questions on anything but the car, don't ask me about how to do things in ketchup kuz then I'm teaching you and i came here to pay you, students don't get paid. im not going to babysit anyone either you know your stuff or you don't. this is going to last one year so next your you'll be able to say you've been a part of something im all about living life but i go in deep about my abilities believe in yourself and be a printer that knows how to not get your prints warped because if you send me something and i don't like it because your extruder was too hot on the final layers then you might not get rehired. about me im a total hippie and use really loose language but im professional and i hold three jobs in NYC with a full time schedule


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I have never had an experience with creating simulations or 3D objects, but I want to start learning them, and create a small application, which will simulate topological objects in 3D. What I mean by "topological object", is mathematical topology (algebraic/general topology), meaning torus, knot, Möbius strip, etc. So, I don't mean anything like network topology.
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Skip to comments.The Werewolf Principal[Terrorist Attacks In Germany After WW11]
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I am perfectly willing to be persuaded....but facts are needed to nail down your comparison at least if want to claim that the violence was on similar scale.
I want to know too. I wandered around Austria and received no warnings to beware. The fact that this is so 'buried' makes the whole matter suspect.
A division losing 47 men would be easy to find if it is true. Just ID the Division. All divisions published their history. The 101st had a whole TV series A Band of Brothers which included their occupation period. You are right to want documentation. This is beginning to not pass the smell test.
I wonder if the same undocumented stuff if circulated about the Japan occupation.
Your point about people at the time "not caring" about numbers is bogus. They kept good enough records that we know, for example, that 297,000 Americans died in combat action in WWII. Now....how many died in postwar combat action? The burden of proof is on you since you are advancing a revisionist theory that even the Center for Military History regards as wrong.
Sorry quantity pushing the same story doesn't count. A lot of people believed NY Times Jason 'Blair' too. If it can't be verified, it is just BS.
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Sports re: Is There Anyone Left?
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How about this solution for the doping problem in competitive cycling: legalize it. EPO, transfusions, steroids, surgically re-routing muscles, synthetic blood, removal of unnecessary organs, ECMOif it can be done, you should be allowed to do it.
As Fnarf commented:
Cycling is all about efficiency of body processes. Cyclists are machines for moving oxygen through the blood. They are vastly more efficient than this than you or I, or even other athletes. Your average baseball or football player would have a massive stroke or coronary half an hour into the first day if they tried to do what these guys do.
It all comes down to the genetic handyour lungs, your blood cells, your hemoglobin, your heartyouve been dealt. By allowing some shuffling of the deck, wouldnt more cunning enter the sport?
Why should nerds be limited to testing, to spoiling the fun? Let cycling become the 21st century sport it wants to be.


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Like a hardcore maestro, Jim Powers weaves two separate tales of male dominated debauchery around a pair of girls who have a penchant for filth and a high tolerance for pain.
Audrey Hollander plays the wife of a man in over his head with debt, and offers herself up as payment with the promise that the half dozen or so men who've come to collect "can do whatever you want to me. I'll lay back and just take it."
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All accounts scanned from QR codes now display the word "WordPress" above them. I'd like to be able to disable this: it can be confusing when a site has nothing to do with "WordPress.org" or "WordPress.com" (other than using WordPress as the engine).
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The Missingby Andrew O'Hagan
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Hailed by the Times Literary Supplement as an "International Book of the Year" on its publication in Britain, The Missing is a fascinating literary meditation on missing persons by the acclaimed young Scottish writer Andrew O'Hagan.
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Hailed by the Times Literary Supplement as an "International Book of the Year" on its publication in Britain, The Missing is a fascinating literary meditation on missing persons by the acclaimed young Scottish writer Andrew O'Hagan.
Writing with what one reviewer praised as "passion, eloquence, and honesty," O'Hagan explores one of society' most enduring, yet unexamined, concerns—missing persons. He writes movingly of his own grandfather, lost at sea during World War II; of Sandy Davidson, the three-year-old who disappeared from a construction site near O'Hagan's childhood home; of James Bulger, the toddler abducted from a mall in Liverpool and murdered by two ten-year-olds in 1993; and the twelve young women Fred and Rosemary West murdered and buried in their Gloucester backyard over a period of nearly thirty years.
In all of these cases, O'Hagan goes out with police and meets with social workers and families, always looking for the deeper truths so often left forgotten. What kind of lives did those who have gone missing lead? What made them disappear? What happens to those left behind?
Merging social history, memoir, and reportage, The Missing is one of those rare books that bring a neglected corner of human experience into the public eye, and a memorable debut from an exceptionally perceptive and talented new writer.
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Scottish journalist O'Hagan explored the United Kingdom in search of stories of people who have vanished. He begins with his own grandfather, a sailor lost at sea, and continues the search through the ugly tenements where he grew upand where several boys were lost. He interviews the families of these children, and their agony is horribly vivid. One father happened upon a look-alike of his missing son and almost begged the boy to move to his house and pretend to be his son. Other parents obsessively flip through photographs of their missing children, forever frozen in time at the age they were when taken. The police call the vanished "mispers," for missing persons, and are only now beginning to compile records on the subject. O'Hagan also visits a grim center for homeless teens, where the residents do their best to sever any remaining familial ties. He follows the trail of a number of lost girls to the home of Fred West, who killed at least 25 female boarders and buried them in his backyard. These stories are unrelenting, and O'Hagan presents solid insights into both the minds of the families and those of some who've deliberately disappeared. But the grisly litany would have been better served by the presence of real insight into why people vanish. He revisits the murder scene of James Bulger, a young boy killed by two 10-year-olds, and recounts episodes of his own cruelty, as a child, toward other children. But while O'Hagan raises the fascinating specter of child sadism, he doesn't speculate on its causes, quickly dropping the matter.
Though somewhat lacking in a sense of the big picture, this is a powerfully observed and often heartbreaking portrait in miniature of those who disappear and the effect on those they leave behind.
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CHICAGO – The stage play that Harry Lennix is in town to direct – "A Small Oak Tree Runs Red" – is in its last weekend, and is giving the actor/director the best notices of the theater part in his long and successful career. For more information about the play, and ticket availability, click here.
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CHICAGO – Technology has done double-edged service and disservice to the legendary Hulk superhero character from Stan Lee's Marvel Comics.
In peering at the CGI-created ripped body of nothing remotely reminiscent of Edward Norton, the 2008 film iteration of "The Incredible Hulk" has a leg light years up on Lou Ferrigno's character in the 1978 television series of the "The Incredible Hulk".


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Aerogels with Glass-like Transparency for Cherenkov Detectors
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Abstract50713-98-I Aerogels with Glass-like Transparency for Cherenkov Detectors--Aspen Systems, Inc., 184 Cedar Hill Street, Marlborough, MA 01752-3017; (508) 481-5058 Dr. Redouane Begag, Principal Investigator Dr. Kang P. Lee, Business Official DOE Grant No. DE-FG02-98ER82534 Amount: $74,926 The Cherenkov detector community has long been looking for a reliable source of aerogels with glass-like transparency and high monolithicity to enhance the sensitivity of high energy particle detectors. Aerogels with their extremely low density, refractive index and reasonably high light transmission are highly desirable materials. However, aerogels generally have been rather translucent or opaque rather than transparent like glass. A modified two-step process for making aerogels with glass-like transparency, using an experimental three-liter reactor has been developed. This project will refine and scale up this process to make it commercially viable. It will closely monitor and investigate factors influencing transparency and monolithicity and also look for aerogel dopants that may significantly increase Cherenkov light emissions. Commercial Applications and Other Benefits as described by the awardee: Transparent aerogels will be very useful for Cherenkov radiation detection, extra-high R-value window glazing, light transmitting structural panels, and skylights._
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Mouse and rat model firm Taconic and tau oligomer-focused company Oligomerix are putting their heads together to evaluate the Taconic tau mouse model as a tool for preclinical testing of compounds for Alzheimer's disease. The model, which is used in neurodegenerative disease research and is also known as the JNPL3 mouse, is part of the Taconic Transgenic Models™ (TTM™) portfolio of in-licensed transgenic models.
Taconic's tau mouse model carries the transgene for the human mutation of tau, the microtubule-associated protein. Oligomerix is testing the hypothesis that accumulation of the tau protein—specifically tau oligomerization—is linked with Alzheimer's disease progression and therefore a good potential target for developing new therapeutics; the company will use Taconic's model to develop assays to detect tau oligomers and evaluate the model's utility in preclinical testing using reference compounds already screened in cell assays.
Oligomerix' president and CEO James Moe, Ph.D., said in a statement that using the firm's small molecule tool compounds to validate target engagement and mode of action in vivo is an important milestone for its tau oligomer formation inhibitor program. "As we continue pursuit of discovery and development of novel therapeutics for Alzheimer's disease and other tauopathies, we are also interested in the future use of this model to enable Oligomerix to carry out its downstream lead candidate in vivo screening, optimization, and selection of candidates for IND enabling studies," he added.
Taconic's mice appear to have garnered recent interest with regard to other CNS diseases as well: Last month, Taconic teamed up with the Michael J. Fox Foundation for Parkinson's Research and Thomas Jefferson University to create, validate, and distribute a genetically engineered rat with fluorescent dopamine-producing neurons that are affected in Parkinson's disease. The participants say this partnership provides easy and open access to this rat model, making it available to researchers at a low cost.
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