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Release Date: September 4, 2012 (HBO Home Entertainment)
Color / 2011
Packaging: Digipack
Number of Discs: 2
Number of Episodes: 8
Running Time: 240 minutes
Running Time of Features: 34 minutes
Audio: English 5.1 DTS-HD Master Audio, French, Spanish
Subtitles and Captioning: English, Spanish, French, Portuguese, Dutch, Danish, Finnish, Norwegian, and Swedish Subtitles
Special Features: Commentaries (3); "Inside the Series" featurette; "3 Days Downtown" featurette
Ben (Bryan Greenberg) and Cam (Victor Rasuk) are back again and trying to make it big in How to Make it in America - The Complete Second Season! It's sort of like Entourage, but instead of trying to make it big as actors in Hollywood, these guys are trying to make it in the fashion design industry in New York City. The first season ended with the duo taking a business trip to Tokyo, but now they're back and things couldn't be better... or so it seems! Now, HBO has compiled all eight episodes of the second (and likely final) season onto DVD and Blu-ray. We'll be reviewing the Blu-ray release.
The second season begins with "I'm Good," where Ben and Cam return to NYC and are full of optimism. Meanwhile, Rachel realizes she still has feelings for Ben, but he has, well, sort of moved on. In "In or Out," Ben faces complications in moving forward in his relationship with Julie and Cam may just be ready to leave his grandmother's place. In "Money, Power, Private School," Rachel learns that Ben and Julie may be on the verge of splitting... and of course, she will be there to help in any way possible. Ben's friendship with Rachel is tested in "It's Not Even Like That."
A large midwestern retailer could be getting designs from CRISP into their store in "Mofongo," but when Nancy puts the kibosh on it, Ben and Cam take matters into their own hands. Nancy sets Ben and Cam up with a manufacturer in "I'm Sorry, Who's Yosi?," but Ben senses a conflict of interest. In "The Friction," Ben and Cam debate the future of CRISP. The season/series ends with "What's in a Name?," where Ben tries to find a way to get CRISP (oh, and his friendship with Cam) back together.
The episodes all appear to be unedited, with runtimes as follows:
Disc 1:
1. "I'm Good" (29:19)
2. "In or Out" (28:38)
3. "Money, Power, Private School" (29:08)
4. "It's Not Even Like That" (28:33)
Disc 2:
5. "Mofongo" (27:47)
6. "I'm Sorry, Who's Yosi?" (28:03)
7. "The Friction" (27:03)
8. "What's in a Name?" (29:24)
The packaging for this case is a pretty standard digipack (which HBO seems to use for just about all of their releases), and it is kind of nice to see them sticking to that standard. But what I really like about the packaging is the artwork. I'll admit, I'm probably making a bigger deal out of than it is worth, but I really do like the artwork. On the cover, we have a black and white cast photo in front of the New York City skyline... but with a white background. They've added some color to the cover, though, by putting red and blue shadow outlines around the characters, creating an effect which I sort of enjoy seeing. The back of the case has a few color photos of the cast members, along with a description of the series and a listing of special features. Inside, the three panel digipack depicts the inside of a subway station (with some more cool color effects), along with a listing of all of the episodes. There are no episode descriptions, though, as is common with HBO releases. The disc artwork is very nicely designed as well, with the series logo and the same NYC skyline photo seen on the cover. Each disc in the Blu-ray set contains four discs.
Menu Design and Navigation:
I'm deeply convinced that HBO is the one studio which has mastered the art of Blu-ray menu design. That isn't to say there aren't other good studios out there, but HBO's Blu-ray menus are truly spectacular and have great effects. The main menu features a background of a New York street corner which rotates almost (but not quite) 360ş, with video clips from the episodes in the center of the screen. The people on the streets have the same red-blue edging as seen on the cover art. Options from the main menu include Episodes, Languages, and Features. Selecting Episodes brings up a pop up menu with options of Play All and Episodes. If you select Episodes, you'll get another pop up menu which shows you all of the episodes, one by one, with a brief description, writing credits, directing credits, and options to view a recap of the previous episode and a preview of the current episode. If the episode has a commentary, you can also play it from here as well. As is typical for HBO Blu-rays, all eight episodes and all of the special features can be accessed from either disc, so if you select a special feature or episode on the other disc, you'll be prompted to insert that disc (it will play immediately upon inserting it). Each episode has roughly five chapters placed within it.
Video and Audio Quality:
I really can't find anything to complain about with the video and audio quality. It is essentially perfect throughout, with no problems at all. Of course, it is presented in high-definition, and you'll get what amounts to a true HD quality experience. The episodes are in their original aspect ratio (not at all surprising), and the main audio track is Dolby Digital 5.1 DTS-HD Master Audio. There are other audio options as well, such as French and Spanish. And subtitles? They've got them for English, French, Spanish, Dutch, Danish, Finnish, Norwegian, and Swedish.
Special Features:
They didn't really load this set up with special features, but you'll find a few of them. These begin with the audio commentaries. The episodes containing these are "I'm Good," "In or Out," and "What's In a Name?" The same people appear in all of the commentaries: Ian Edelman, Julian Farino, Bryan Greenberg. It would have been nice to have heard some other voices, but at least we've got the two stars in here.
"Inside the Series" (10:09) is just a brief behind-the-scenes look at the second season of the series with interviews from the cast and crew. There is a bit of irony in the fact that this feature seems to have an optimistic view that the series will really be taking off, but I suppose that is to be expected from any series.
"3 Days Downtown" (8:23) is one of those more personal "true story" style features, where we get a glimpse into the real stories of three young entrepreneurs trying to find their own success in New York City. Some people find special features like this to be a bit dull or obnoxious, but personally, I like these... it is interesting to see that what we're seeing on TV, while it is a fictional story, is not really all that far-fetched and there are similar stories out there.
Finally, there are "previously on" and "preview" segments for each episode. The "previously on" segments are about 45 seconds each, while the "preview" segments are about 30 seconds each. These are very useful in case you skip an episode for whatever reason or if you are trying to find a particular episode and need to see a preview to job your memory.
The special features really aren't as numerous this time. Fewer commentaries, fewer interviews, no deleted scenes... but what can you expect from a final season?
Final Comments:
Well, this is probably it... the end. I liked the show in the first season, but it never really gained much traction, and in a sense, the writing was on the wall that it wouldn't go far even before the beginning of this season. It is almost as if they didn't even really try too hard with this season, which is a shame. Apparently, executive producer Mark Wahlberg is trying to get the show to continue on another network, but that seems a little far-fetched. The show would have to be significantly changed to work on most cable networks (and it would need viewers to support ad sales), and it just wouldn't work on other premium networks. I thought that it would fill the void left by Entourage, but that won't be happening now obviously. But if you're a fan of Entourage, I still say to give this show a chance. Typically, it is compared unfavorably to that series (and I'll admit Entourage is a better show), but this show has charm too... I just wish that we could have seen it go into some deeper plot lines (you can't really do that when your entire run is sixteen episodes though, especially when plots run across multiple episodes). The series is definitely worth checking out if you enjoy series about people trying to make it from nothing to something big, and the Blu-ray set is a very nice collection... it is just too bad the series itself didn't make it big.
Final Numbers (out of 5 stars - How our point system works)
Video Quality: 5/5
Audio Quality: 4.5/5
Special Features: 2.5/5
Menu Design/Navigation: 5/5
Overall: 4.5/5
-- Reviewed by skees53 on 09/04/12
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As Telemedicine Evolves, So Do Policies Aiming to Ensure Patient Safety
Cover Story — July 2014
Tex Med. 2014;110(7):18-24.
By Amy Lynn SorrelAssociate Editor
To James Luecke, MD, and Thomas J. Kim, MD, pictures are worth more than a thousand words. They are worth their patients' very lives.
In the middle of a delivery, Dr. Luecke suspected the baby was in respiratory distress but did not have access to a neonatologist at Big Bend Regional Medical Center in remote Alpine, Texas. So the family physician went down the hall to connect to a subspecialist in Lubbock through Texas Tech University Health Sciences Center's (TTUHSC's) telemedicine program. The neonatologist saw through the video and from x-rays that the baby was in trouble and helped Dr. Luecke stabilize her in time for transfer.
Those pictures not only opened the door to a subspecialist, but they also "saved the baby's life," Dr. Luecke said. "You don't know it's a rash until you know it's a rash. You don't know it's a fracture until you know it's a fracture. In situations where you need help, and you need a visual for somebody who does it every day, that's where telemedicine works perfectly and where it saves lives."
When Dr. Kim was out of town at a conference, the Austin internist and psychiatrist got a phone call from his care team reporting suicidal tendencies in one of his juvenile detention center patients. Dr. Kim quickly determined the youth was upset about a recent court decision. The boy's family was there to testify, and Dr. Kim knew they had a rocky relationship. He told the boy to "pull it together" and he would see him via videoconference the next day.
Because the two had developed a therapeutic relationship via telehealth, Dr. Kim could "leverage his [patient's] trust to engage him at a critical moment and use telehealth to offer a timely response that avoided a costly emergency room visit and an unnecessary potential hospitalization."
That's the thrust of a new Federation of State Medical Boards (FSMB) model policy that aims to create a roadmap for the safe and appropriate practice of telemedicine amid growing interest in the technology. The guidelines — which parallel long-standing Texas Medical Association policy and reinforce existing Texas Medical Board (TMB) rules — say that whether physicians and patients meet virtually or in person, the standard of care remains the same. That means taking appropriate steps to establish the physician-patient relationship for proper evaluation and treatment and following established principles for other key areas of medical practice, FSMB says.
The advisory document for state medical boards says physicians can safely practice telemedicine using a wide range of electronic technologies that include videoconferencing, phone, text, and email interactions. But a provision that has sparked debate goes on to say a telephone call or online visit by itself won't suffice for newly established patient relationships.
Proponents say the growing national attention validates telemedicine's place in today's health care system. Dr. Kim, who prefers the broader term "telehealth," (see "Glossary") describes the model as simply another environment — like clinics or emergency departments — in which physicians treat patients. But different care environments do not mean different care standards.
"We have the opportunity to create all sorts of innovative engagements with patients on the remote end for the betterment of their care, to take care of at-risk populations who aren't cared for at all or so minimally that it costs everyone," said Dr. Kim, who has testified on telemedicine on behalf of TMA before the Texas Legislature. But the first step, he says, "is to establish a therapeutic relationship. To do that, I need a picture, and I need sound. Without both, I do not know how I would be able to render an assessment, opinion, or recommendation, including and especially the prescribing of medications. In my opinion, this is the minimum bar for telehealth care."
But the FSMB policy has sparked criticism from some corners that the restrictions could hinder telemedicine and the thousands of patients it now reaches.
American Telemedicine Association (ATA) Chief Executive Officer Jonathan D. Linkous says the group agrees with "90 percent" of FSMB's guidelines, and most of the group's diverse membership — which includes academic medical centers, as well as hospitals, clinicians, government agencies, vendors, and companies — offers a combination of video and audio services.
But if telemedicine is going to be held to the same standard of care, "treat it the same," he said. Several hundred thousand patients access care using just the phone, and excluding it "would cut down on patient access and what doctors do every day. If you ask consumers if they want to be able to email or talk to their doctor when they have a question, you know what the answer is. This is what they want. Telemedicine is a tool, and we don't think you should have an arbitrary guideline to say you can only do certain things with this tool. We are all concerned about patient safety. But telemedicine is the future, and we hope state boards don't put a cap on that innovation."
Telemedicine Gains Momentum
As telemedicine gains momentum, so does policy interest at the state and federal levels.
Physicians, patients, and policymakers agree the technology can help spur health reform, ease care shortages, and cut down on high health care costs. At the same time, patient, employer, and insurer demands for affordable, convenient access to care have attracted a flood of companies promising to bring medicine directly to the patient via a phone call or virtual online visit. TMA has tracked several new companies expanding their business into Texas.
At the national level, Congress is considering the Telehealth Modernization Act and the Telehealth Enhancement Act, among other bills aiming to define the services and broaden Medicare payment policies, for instance. In February, a group of former Senate leaders created the Alliance for Connected Care to promote policy reform around telehealth, which includes member companies such as Verizon, WellPoint, CVS, Walgreens, Teladoc, and Doctor on Demand.
Meanwhile, Texas and other states have considered their own legislation to open up telemedicine use. TMA testified on a handful of bills introduced during the 2013 legislature, and officials expect the issue to resurface in 2015.
TMA and the American Medical Association are vigilantly monitoring legislative proposals at the state and federal levels to ensure that in all of these discussions, patient safety is paramount. At the same time, organized medicine is working within those bounds to remove potential barriers to appropriate telemedicine use related to licensing, credentialing, and payment.
FSMB President and Chief Executive Officer Humayun J. Chaudhry, DO, says his organization's policy, which included input from every state medical board including TMB and from AMA, is part of an effort by the state regulatory boards to keep pace with the rapidly changing environment of telemedicine. "I'm asked about what impact this will have on the financing and profitability of one technology or industry or another. I have no idea. We don't get into that. Our primary mission is to protect the public and promote patient safety."
The policy redefines telemedicine as care that "typically involves the application of secure teleconferencing … to provide or support health care delivery by replicating the interaction of a traditional encounter in person between a provider and a patient." It is not "an audio-only telephone conversation, email/instant messaging conversation, or fax." Nor does "treatment, including issuing a prescription based solely on an online questionnaire … constitute an acceptable standard of care."
Patient Safety First
Dr. Chaudhry says the updated guidelines reflect the fact that technological advances allow physicians to remotely, but safely, treat patients as if in the same room, but without first requiring an in-person encounter. At the same time, "we do feel that the standard of care for an in-person encounter should be similar to what goes on online."
The policy does not intend to exclude tools like phone and email. But by themselves, "they are going to have a harder time meeting all of the other requirements about the standard of care," he said.
In addition to establishing a physician-patient relationship, those standards include requirements that telemedicine physicians:
Physicians providing care via telemedicine also must be licensed in the state where the patient is located.
"Everyone talks about how wonderful technology is until something goes wrong. And that resident in one state has little recourse if nobody knows the physician practicing 3,000 miles away," Dr. Chaudhry said. "We are trying to balance the need to support telemedicine with the need to assure patient safety, and we think this is a good approach."
TMB Executive Director Mari Robinson says the federation guidelines closely mirror formal rules Texas has had in place since 2010.
Those rules, developed with input and support from TMA:
The state and national developments "recognize the idea that telemedicine has been advancing and has really started to become more readily and widely available as a valid tool to use in treating patients. But there are limiting things about it," Ms. Robinson said. "In our policy, you have to be able to gather objective information about the patient. That is the bottom line. And I am unaware of any way in which somebody speaking over a telephone can gather anything but subjective patient information on things like symptoms and history. The standard of care is the standard of care. Period."
Phone: A Critical Tool
Some telehealth advocates suggest the FSMB policy creates a separate standard for telemedicine that could ultimately harm access to care.
In a May letter, eight patient advocacy groups asked FSMB to reconsider the policy for fear it does "not account for the many safe, secure ways patients are accessing health care today, including audio-only telephone. … Our mutual goal is patient access to safe, secure telemedicine and this may be thwarted if the existing policy is allowed to stand."
In written comments during development of the FSMB policy, ATA agreed that "although there is an important move toward the use of video in providing telemedicine consults, the fact remains that the telephone is an important tool for current patient interactions," and "state policies that prohibit any such use could set back the practice of medicine and significantly limit the delivery of care."
Given the option of phone or video, 95 percent of Dallas-based Teladoc users choose the phone, says the company's Chief Medical Officer Henry DePhillips, MD. The national company contracts with insurers and employers and uses physicians to treat patients over the phone or via secure online video, although Teladoc does not conduct video consultations in Texas.
Excluding the phone could exclude a swath of patient groups, including poorer patients or seniors who can't afford or don't regularly use video-enabled devices, he adds.
"At the end of the day, the care delivered absolutely must meet the standard of care. That said, there are certain common, uncomplicated problems that can get diagnosed and treated appropriately meeting the standard of care without needing an in-person visit" or video, Dr. DePhillips said. He adds the company serves as an alternative for those who cannot access their usual source of care. "We have really worked hard to build a program that has the least amount of interference into the existing physician-patient relationship: If somebody has a relationship today with a primary care physician and can't get in to that physician timely, we are another option."
Teladoc treats minor illnesses, like sinusitis, for which he says diagnoses can be made primarily based on patient history. The company collects that information through a combination of web- and phone-based patient interactions and electronic health records, which it can access as an employer-sponsored service.
(Teladoc disagrees with TMB rules, and the two are tangled in ongoing litigation. See "Digital Diagnosis," June 2013 Texas Medicine, pages 16-22.)
Dr. DePhillips also pointed to a 2014 RAND Corp. study published in Health Affairs showing the company has safely used the services to expand access to care, particularly for younger patients without a usual source of care. Researchers also found using Teladoc to replace at least some emergency and office visits could generate savings for health plans.
But the same study concluded that such services could lead to "unintended consequences, such as fragmentation of care," and the impact "on quality of care is unclear."
A Jan. 14, 2013, report published in the Journal of the American Medical Association also showed mixed results for e-visits: Physicians ordered fewer tests but were more likely to prescribe antibiotics, compared with office visits.
Ms. Robinson says patient demand should not trump patient safety.
And while Dr. Kim agrees the phone is an important tool for all physicians, as are what he called other "single-mode" technologies, such as secure messaging and email, that exist to support care delivery, "people need to understand the risks, benefits, and appropriate use of these technologies." He says they can work, for example, as part of a broader telehealth model design and for those willing to pay for the convenience. "But don't call it a therapeutic relationship. And as for a stand-alone solution, I fear we would swing the other way and continue to offer limited support to patients."
Nor is telehealth an easy proposition.
As chief medical officer and chief medical information officer for the Houston-based Brighter Day Health, Dr. Kim manages the technology and operations involved to ensure successful care delivery. That success also means "redefining how you communicate and work with people remotely," he said, adding that continuity of care also is important. "I specifically design my clinics so I can tell my patients, 'I'll just see you next week.'"
That meant one incarcerated 15-year-old girl could see Dr. Kim weekly, instead of waiting in long lines for an appointment at a community mental health center.
Debbie Voyles, director of TTUHSC's telemedicine program, adds that privacy and security can be concerns with telemedicine. To address those concerns, the program has a number of protocols in place: Patients visit an established medical site, which could be a school or a rural-based clinic where they routinely seek care. Care teams document the visit. Patients sign consent forms and provide copies of identification and insurance cards.
"The people on the other end know who the patients are, and the patients know them. That's where our security is built in to make sure we are appropriately treating," she said. "Taking a credit card for $39 to treat or prescribe a medicine based on a survey you fill out or a phone conversation? I don't think that's good quality care."
Licensure, Credentialing Barriers
Despite the benefits of telemedicine, some regulatory and legislative barriers still exist.
For one, because telehealth programs typically involve physicians treating patients in different geographical locations, state licensing restrictions can deter adoption. Dr. Kim recently submitted his 14th medical license application. He works in several states for his multistate company.
He's encouraged, however, by FSMB's proposal for an interstate medical licensure compact that would allow physicians to practice in multiple states without having to go through each state's individual licensure application process. State boards would mutually agree to a common set of requirements to help streamline licensing, but participation would be voluntary.
Dr. Chaudhry says the proposal, more than a year in the making, is not exclusive to telemedicine. But demand for the technology bolstered support for the idea.
Neither TMA nor AMA has taken a position on the compact, but AMA is working with state medical associations and FSMB as it's developed.
Some physicians have expressed concern such a compact could undermine states' licensing and disciplinary authority, especially in Texas, which has some of the toughest licensure rules in the country.
As proposed, however, Ms. Robinson says the compact would include eligibility requirements that exceed Texas rules, by requiring board certification, for example. Other standards would mandate a clean criminal, state licensure, and prescribing history.
TMB recently decided to move forward in discussing the idea, which would require a statutory change, with lawmakers. If physicians don't meet the heightened licensure standards, nothing prevents them from pursuing a license the old-fashioned way by going through each state's full application process, Ms. Robinson adds.
The compact would not require federal approval but has garnered some congressional support.
The move also could help streamline hospital credentialing policies to promote telemedicine.
In 2011, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) and Joint Commission promulgated rules allowing hospitals using telemedicine to rely on credentialing conducted at the distant facility where the physician is located when making local credentialing decisions.
But TMA officials say some physicians report hospitals still frequently require complete credentialing, even when doctors in another geographic location only deliver services via telemedicine.
As one of a number of payers that recognize telemedicine's benefits in increasing access and decreasing costs, Texas Medicaid is researching the credentialing barriers, as well as others, through its Quality Based Payment Advisory Committee. TMA and the Texas Hospital Association are working with the committee to help develop a uniform approach to telemedicine credentialing in line with CMS and Joint Commission regulations and state rules.
Committee Chair Mary Dale Peterson, MD, says part of the problem may stem from the fact that hospitals must rewrite their bylaws to incorporate telemedicine and the new CMS rules, and many have not done so. She also heads the children's Medicaid managed care plan Driscoll Health Plan, which contracts with The University of Texas Medical Branch at Galveston to provide child psychiatry telemedicine services to medical professional shortage areas in South Texas.
Seeking Payment Parity
Medicaid and TMA also are looking at possible payment barriers.
While the state revised Medicaid rules to eliminate rural requirements for telemedicine payment, Medicare has not, and it only covers certain services, Dr. Peterson says.
The discrepancy could pose problems when it comes to providing telemedicine services for dual-eligible patients in Medicare and Medicaid, for example.
"Telemedicine is a tool physicians can use to improve access to care not only in rural areas but also in urban areas for people who have difficulties with transportation," she said, adding Driscoll also supports tele-dermatology and sees both rural and urban shortages for pediatric specialists.
But Dr. Peterson agrees, "We have to do this safely."
Medicaid rules also say telemedicine means "the use of interactive telecommunications equipment that includes, at minimum, audio and video equipment," according to Medicaid.gov.
Dr. Peterson says Medicaid managed care plans have leeway to pay for telehealth services, but the fee-for-service rates on which the state bases managed care plan payments are inadequate.
On the commercial side, rates tend to vary, but Ms. Voyles says health plans largely have adopted the same payment rules for telehealth services as for conventional care. Texas is one of 20 states that require private insurers to cover telehealth services as they do in-person care.
However, in 2013 testimony before the Texas House Insurance Committee, Dr. Kim cautioned against insurers who contract under exclusive relationships with vendors that provide after-hours telephone access to physicians, while disallowing payment for the same activity among community physicians. House Bill 2017 by Rep. Four Price (R-Amarillo) would have required payment parity for such telephone consultations — without altering the standard of care under Texas' regulatory and statutory framework for telephonic services, specifically demonstrating an established physician-patient relationship, Dr. Kim testified.
On the contrary, TMA physicians testified against two other telemedicine bills introduced last session — House bills 1806 and 830 — that were inconsistent with care standards.
When 32 Texas counties have no practicing physician at all, and 12 counties have no physician, no nurse practitioner, and no physician assistant, "we have to be flexible enough to figure out how to take care of patients where they are," Ms. Voyles said. "But ultimately, patient safety has got to be the priority."
Amy Lynn Sorrel can be reached by telephone at (800) 880-1300, ext. 1392, or (512) 370-1392; by fax at (512) 370-1629; or by email.
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#BloggingBreakthrough - B is for Branding
This month, I'll be speaking at a university to Journalism students on "Making Yourself a Brand." While creating the content for the guest talk and workshop I'm hosting, it made me realise how many people don't see themselves as a brand.
So let me ask you a question. I want you to really think about it.
Do you see yourself as a brand?
Do you? Think about it. If you said yes, then great. If you said no, here's another question for you to answer…
Do you have your own website or blog?
I can guarantee a lot of you will say yes to that one. Now here's the last question…
Are you on social media?
I'll bet you've said yes to that too.
So do you want to know something?
You are a brand.
By having Facebook, by having Twitter, by having a blog – you all must feel that you've got something meaningful to share with others or else you wouldn't do it – and that is a brand.
And this is what week two in the #bloggingbreakthrough series is all about.
So just to quickly recap, last week we kicked off with the letter A for audience. To read that post, you can click right here.
And this is what you get as part of the #BloggingBreakthrough series:
- There'll be a post going live every Friday morning on a different letter of the alphabet, all relating to terms in the blogging industry that we need to know.
- I've changed the Periscope day – so instead of a Periscope taking place every Friday afternoon, they'll be happening on a Sunday. I thought I could reach more of you that way! These will reveal extra tips that won't be included in the blog post.
- And if you sign up to join the #BloggingBreakthrough community, you'll get access to a special freebie and even more tips every Monday.
But today, we're focusing on...
A lot of people don't see themselves as a brand or believe that they have a personal brand. But the truth is, we all do. Because ultimately, your brand is you.
Three Thoughts To Get You Started (& will also calm you down a bit…)
ONE: Yes, there's this huge online world of people doing what you want to do. Let's say you want to be an interiors writer and you look online and you see there are about 7 million other people doing this and you instantly get overwhelmed.
But the thought I want to give you is this:
You are very likely the only one out of all the people you know in your real life that does what you do. You're probably the only interiors writer your family and friends know about. And this is actually an amazing thing, because if you're able to build a strong online presence, give out useful information and develop your personal brand, then your friends and family and the people you know will have no choice but to recommend you to others.
So even if they're not interested in what you do – if they hear someone say they need interior design tips, they'll point them towards you.
TWO: You do not have to be an expert in your field. You don't have to know everything. A lot of people have the impression that in order to have a "successful" online presence and brand you need to know everything about the industry you're in. But you don't. And you don't need to feel like you need to be an expert about what's currently trending either.
THREE: You don't have to have a presence or a brand already. You don't even need to have an audience. It's better if you start from scratch and learn as you go along. Make mistakes and learn from them – then tell people about your progress. You'll learn more about yourself this way.
And just a quick FYI for all you bloggers out there - it's OK if you don't have a huge audience you don't need it. I'll give you a quick example.
I've started doing Periscopes and on my first one I averaged just over 100 viewers. Another brand on Periscope has at least 100,000 page views every month. I've been checking out their scopes and they usually average around 158 viewers.
There's only around 50 people in that difference. Yet our traffic is miles apart.
That's why you don't need a big audience.
And if you don't blog but want to build an online presence, you don't need to have built a solid brand yet. You get that by figuring out what it is you actually want to do and why. Believe me, I know how hard it is – I've been there.
Let's Get To It: What Even Is Branding?
Branding is the image you're projecting for others through all the platforms you are on. You as an individual are your brand, and these, what we call brand extensions – so your website, Twitter, your newsletter, your LinkedIn page - all work together to project your brand values to your community and audience. It's about how you represent your values in your everyday life.
Everyone reading this has a brand whether you know what branding really is or not.
But the problem with "branding" is that there are so many different ways people think about it. Here are just some definitions that I've come across for the word branding:
In her eBook, Craft Your Brand, Kory said: "Branding is the framework that you create in addition to how people perceive you, your blog and your brand."
Other definitions I've found include:
"Your brand is what people say about you when you walk out of the room."
"Branding makes a genuine impression – it inspires."
"Branding is an authentic representation of what you are offering, your vision behind it and how you walk through it."
These are all true. These all encapsulate what branding is and what it means. But you can look at it in an even simpler way than this. And actually, the most important way to look at it is this:
Your brand is your why.
I want you to start thinking about this now, as we go through the rest of this post. Just keep it in the back of your mind.
What is your why? Why do you do what you do? Why is what you want to do for your career or personal brand important? What are your values?
Isn't Branding Just About How Something Looks?
This is what we're made to believe. But here's a spoiler, friends – it's not true.
If you read the word McDonald's, Nike, Pinterest, Topshop – the logo instantly appears in your mind, right? You can picture what they look like, just from one word.
But do you know what they stand for? Do you know what their values are?
You can have the most recognisable logo in the world, but if people don't know what you do, it's not a good brand.
The point here is that branding isn't just about imagery and logos. That's not what makes a brand. You don't even have to have a logo to be an effective brand, but it helps. I'm actually in the process of getting my own logo redesigned – but it's not affected my presence online. Why? Because people know what A Branch of Holly stands for.
Branding is more than just a logo. Most people think of a brand and just look at the design side of things but there's so much more to consider.
Really, your design helps to encompass everything your brand is about.
Do you develop your brand through design? No. Because once your design is done, then it's done. But there's something else that will help you grow your brand – trust. Where do you get that trust?
Through your why.
What Is My Why & Why Do I Need It?
Figuring this out is how I started to completely transform my online presence. Once I figured out my why it changed everything. It changed my outlook, it changed the type of jobs I applied for and the type of content I created. If you unlock your why, it can be a game changer for you.
Why do you do what you do? Why do you blog? Why do you want a career in this industry? Why is that important? These are all questions you need to answer when finding out your why. Dig deep – the deeper you dig and the further you can go with the question, the more you'll realise about yourself and your brand. But you'll also discover a lot about who your audience is and ultimately, why you're doing this.
You need to ask yourself some questions – and if you want to know what these are, sign up to join the #BloggingBreakthrough community to get a free workbook on Monday.
Really, your personal brand is affected by everything in your life. But mainly, it is defined by you and what you do. Every step in your career is a step towards developing your brand. You're here now and reading this for a reason. It's helping to develop your brand – it's just up to you in what way it develops.
To help you see this a bit clearer, I'll show you the example of how I figured out my why.
So, I run a website about believing in yourself, reaching your dreams and getting to where you want to be. I also produce content helping online beginners with using blogging and social media to help boost their online presence.
Well in the past, I struggled a lot in believing I was capable enough and didn't believe that I could get to where I wanted to be. I didn't think I could achieve the things I wanted to achieve. But now I'm here, I want to help others. I also struggled a lot with my blog and social media presence in the early stages of developing my brand. I wanted a strong presence but didn't know how and I also didn't know how these things could help me. Now I do, I want to show others how it can help them.
Because I know how difficult it can be when you're in that place. I was in that place two years ago during this course. You feel stuck, you don't know what direction to go in, you don't know what's best for you and you don't know what to do, where to go or who to go to for help. You don't think you can get there.
That's why I blog. That's what A Branch of Holly is about. Now I give that motivation, confidence and help to my readers that I needed myself.
Did you see how deep I went? That's how deep you need to go to get to your why.
If you're a food blogger, it's not enough to say that your why is because you really like food. There's usually something deeper.
The majority of what shapes a brand are the things that sometimes you can't even see. They're things that are inside and hidden away, even though your audience knows they're there.
Knowing your why helps you narrow down on what you want to do, who you want to do this for, and lets you come up with endless ideas for content and resources. It can apply to anything.
Seeing and developing yourself as a brand gives you an identity that people can connect with. Whether you start a blog or put yourself on LinkedIn – that is your brand and you're putting it out there. Soon enough you'll be able to establish yourself for what you want to be known for, who you are and what you're trying to do.
It's so important to have an online presence. Think about it this way – when companies are hiring, 80% of them go on social media to look for potential applicant and 90% of them look on LinkedIn. If you want a successful career, you've got to be online.
You've got to be active. If you want to work in showbiz, tweet about showbiz. If you want to write about politics, talk about politics. Put that in your bio. Make it obvious what you want to be known for. It's the best way to get started.
And that brings us back to what makes a brilliant brand in the first place – your why.
I've found mine. Now it's up to you to find yours.
Because that, my friends, is what branding is really all about.
So if you skipped to the bottom, that's OK - we covered a lot today! But just to recap, here are the most important things you need to remember:
- You are a brand
- You need to unlock your "why" to really develop your personal brand
- You've got to be active and always embody what your brand is about
So there we go with the second letter of the #BloggingBreakthrough series! Look out for me on Periscope on Sunday when I'll be digging even deeper into this topic:
Are you excited? Yes!
And if you sign up to join the #BloggingBreakthrough community, on Monday you'll get access to a free branding workbook to help you discover your true brand.
Let's chat in the comments. What's the one thing you learnt about "branding" today that you didn't know before? What's the one action item you got out of this post?


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On the evening of February 26th, Trayvon Martin, a 17 year old high schooler who was visiting family in Sanford, Fla., was returning back from a trip to 7-11 to the residence he was visiting in a gated neighborhood.
He was a young, Black man who looked "suspicious" to self-appointed neighborhood watch captain, George Zimmerman – a man who had a violent past, himself, according to other neighborhood witnesses.
Zimmerman follows Martin in his SUV. He calls the local police dispatch for back-up because Martin looks "suspicious." Dispatch assures Zimmerman that they would be sending someone to handle the young man and instruct him to remain in his vehicle. Zimmerman ignores orders and exits the vehicle, armed with a 9 mm gun. There is an altercation. Someone screams for help just before one single gunshot is fired. That someone was Trayvon Martin, shot to death approximately 70 feet from his father and step-mother's home.
It was dark.
He was wearing a hoodie.
He was armed with an iced tea and a bag of Skittles.
Trayvon Martin suffered one fatal gunshot wound to his chest. He was listed as a John Doe and his body is transported to the coroner's office, while his family reported him missing.
Once Zimmerman was in police custody, he admits to shooting Martin, claims self defense during questioning, and is released.
Meanwhile, it's March 17th. There is no one charged with Trayvon Martin's murder – 3 and a half weeks later.
The State's Attorney has taken up the case – but only after public outrage of the incident. Still, no one – not even Zimmerman – has been arrested in connection with Martin's murder.
I just wonder: what was Trayvon Martin doing that made him seem so "suspicious" to George Zimmerman? Was it his attire? Was it the questionable way he was carrying his ba g of Skittles and bottle of tea? Was it because he was a young man of color strolling around in a gated neighborhood?
Furthermore, what was it that made George Zimmerman ignore orders from dispatchers and exit his vehicle with his gun in tow? I mean, Zimmerman had an over 100 lb. advantage on 17-year old Trayvon Martin. It's not like he was approaching a posse of young Black men loitering, or "posted up" in the gated neighborhood. No. Trayvon was by himself and was headed back to the place where he was staying. He was supposed to be in the neighborhood.
If you think that's unbelievable, just think about the hundreds, maybe even thousands, of other instances of young Black men and other men of color gunned down innocently by police, or those falsely believing they have the same power as law enforcement and seeking vigilante justice – much like George Zimmerman.
A few of those young men come to mind: Oscar Grant III (2009), Sean Bell (2006), and Emmett Till (1955). The list goes on.
What's sad is that it took a couple of weeks for mainstream news outlets to headline this case of wrongful death. What's even more tragic is that I live in a society where suspicion justifies excessive force, unwarranted searches, and wrongful deaths of too many other nameless and faceless men of color. What's deplorable is the fact historically in America, Black men and boys (and other men of color) have been viewed as public enemy number one and have been treated as such.
It pains me to hear the haunting 911 tapes recording Trayvon's last stand with Zimmerman. Warning: it entails an innocent, unarmed child screaming for help.
In 1955, it was the way that Emmett Till allegedly winked/cat-called/spoke to a white woman in Mississippi. Today it was the suspicious looking clothing Trayvon was apparently wearing: a hoodie and sweatpants/jeans.
Is that all it takes to get murdered as a young man of color?
I thought it was just drugs, neighborhood/turf violence, HIV/AIDS, and incarceration that was taking them away from us. Turns out its police brutality and vigilante justice that also makes that list.
As a sister of a young Black man and hopefully, as a mother of one in the future, this grieves my very soul. Trayvon Martin could have been my cousin. He could have been my brother. He could have been my son. It saddens me that I have to warn my brother about the dangers of looking "suspicious" and make sure he's mindful of these things to save his life. It angers me that one day in the future, I'm going to have to have the same talk to educate my sons.
Who knows what Trayvon Martin would have become? His life was cut short because of a wrongful assumption and it seems like justice is dragging its feet.
But what a lot of people neglect to realize is that what happened to Trayvon Martin is not a "Black issue." It's a Human Rights issue. Everyone should be outraged.
But for those of us who are filled to the brim with righteous indignation, it's time to DO something. Today, I called the State's attorney's office (who is now handling the case because apparently the Sanford, FL police department can't be trusted to do an appropriate investigation) to express my concern and disappointment at the fact that no has been charged for this murder. I urge any and everyone who feels the same way I do to not only sign the online petition going around, but to also call and express your concerns [407.665.6410 or 407.665.6000]. This is an issue too big not to make a move on.
Trayvon Martin and his family deserve justice.
"The limits of tyrants are prescribed by the endurance of those whom they oppress." -Frederick Douglass
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I decided to spend some time sorting out the crayons/pencils and pens from the craft boxes. I found loads of small broken crayons that would never be used and that were destined for the bin. We decided to rescue them and make them in to new crayons!
We peeled the paper from them and broke them in to tiny pieces - children love this, when do they ever get permission to snap crayons?!
We popped them in to cake cakes as we wanted to make cupcake shaped crayons! 5 minutes in the oven and they had all melted.
Once cooled and set they looked like this -
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I facilitate the product vision by researching, conceiving, wire-framing, sketching, prototyping, and mapping customer experiences. I work closely with developers and product managers to make sure tasks are on time, working in an agile environment and performing design/development team sprints. You can read more about me as a designer in this interview.When not designing, I'm hula hooping, roller skating, crafting, baking, or people dog watching.


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Denim is not something I buy often. Usually I have a couple of pairs of jeans that are my go to, and I wear them over and over again for years. I wear them until I have literally worn through them and am forced to replace them. I recently wore through my favorite pair of skinny jeans that I have had for at least six years. Naturally I have been shopping around for a replacement, but have been holding out on making the investment until I find the perfect pair. In the meantime, I have found some really cute jeans for really affordable prices. I found these fun dip-dye detail skinny jeans at Gap, and scored them on sale for $15! I love the fade away look and the super casual vibe. Maybe not an every day obsession, but fun for an every once in a while change of pace.
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Tee: Asos Boyfriend T-Shirt
Blazer: Madewell-old, similar Here
Hat: American Apparel Floppy Wool Hat
Booties: Loeffler Randall- old, love their new Fitz Chelsea Boot
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Jewelry: Margaret Elizabeth, Alexis Bittar, David Yurman, Catbird
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I have lived in Arizona for two and a half years now and the magic of fresh citrus still isn't lost on me. For the first 30 years of my life, I lived in really cold places. Logically, I knew that lemons grew on trees, but actually seeing it happen remains a special sort of sorcery. Not only do they grow on trees, but they do it so well that folks have so many lemons that they don't know what to do with them all. What a beautiful problem! My first winter here, when shopping bags full of oranges, lemons, and grapefruits started showing up on my doorstep, I was truly beside myself.
Citrus is so widely landscaped and grows so well in Baja Arizona that it's a resource worth mastering. Unsprayed backyard citrus is really a two-in-one deal because you can utilize both the juice or flesh and the skin. When I'm juicing backyard citrus or planning to eat the flesh, I always try to zest it first. (You can expect that supermarket citrus is waxed and/or sprayed, which can make using the skin a lot less appealing.) I either rub the zest into an equal amount of kosher or sea salt and let it dry on a plate on the counter or spread it in a thin layer on a parchment-lined pan in the oven overnight. Citrus salt is great as a finishing salt on things like popcorn, roasted vegetables, or brownies. Plain-dried zest can be used as a flavoring agent in all of your cooking and baking. Try stirring lime zest into your favorite banana bread recipe or adding a bit of lemon zest to your lentil soup.
What follows are both sweet and savory everyday recipes to put citrus at the center of your table this winter. However, I'd urge you to play and figure out what you like to do with what you have. Try preserving Meyer lemons in salt. It's incredibly satisfying and almost impossible to mess up. Make a batch of lime curd and freeze it for the months to come. Experiment with making your own cocktail bitters with orange rind or infuse gin or vodka with thin slices of mandarinquats or kumquats. After freeing the pomelo fruit from its thick layer of pith, a friend of mine puts the pomelo skin in her bath. If you use vinegar for cleaning, infuse your citrus skins in vinegar rather than throwing them away. Having access to local citrus is such a rare luxury that it deserves some serious nose-to-tail tactics to use up every last bit.
Lemon Cornmeal Financiers
Financiers are tiny, buttery almond cakes that get their name from the fact that they're traditionally baked in small, rectangular molds that resemble gold bars. Mini muffin pans make a more practical stand-in for the specialty pan. The cakes are rich, but not too sweet and the bright lemon flavor provides the perfect counterpoint for the nutty brown butter.
One of my ultimate kitchen pet peeves is leftover egg whites. I think egg white omelets are an egregious culinary crime, so when I make something like lemon curd that calls for a number of yolks, it's nice to have a recipe like this to easily and deliciously use up the whites. These little cakes are leavened by the egg whites and baking soda, but the whites don't have to be whipped, just whisked together until incorporated and foamy.
Lemon Curd
At least once a winter, I make lemon curd and have big plans for it. I figure I'll put it on toast or maybe ice cream. Sometimes, when I'm feeling especially ambitious, I think I might make a tart. What inevitably happens each time is that I eat it all directly from the jar with a spoon. This recipe is meant to be a companion to the financiers. They make an ideal pairing, but most important this uses the three yolks that the financiers leave behind.
Many lemon curd recipes use a double boiler. If you want to be extra cautious you can, but I find it isn't absolutely necessary. With a relatively heavy-bottomed pan over low heat, you shouldn't have a problem. I still strain the finished product through a fine mesh strainer to ensure a super smooth final texture. If you use Meyer lemons for this, it's likely you'll want to reduce the amount of sugar. If that's the case, mix together the juice and about half the amount of sugar to start out with, adding more to taste, then whisking in the egg yolks.
Lime, Cardamom, and Rosewater Posset
Possets have all of the criteria that help a treat earn a spot in my regular rotation. First, possets (originally a hot drink dating from the Middle Ages) have an adorable name. They're British! Second, they have an element of mad science. There are three ingredients—lime juice, sugar, and cream—that somehow turn into a tart, rich custard with the dreamiest texture. The simplified version of why the cream thickens perfectly instead of curdling is that the higher fat content inhibits the milk proteins from forming curds. Heating the cream helps bolster the set. The third and most important criterion is that they couldn't be easier to make.
If rosewater and cardamom aren't your thing, consider dressing these up with vanilla extract or letting the bright lime flavor shine all on its own. I always recommend folks add rosewater to taste because a little goes a long way. In my opinion, you have just the right amount of rosewater when you can definitely smell it and just barely taste it. If you're looking for the good stuff, my favorite brand of rosewater is Nielsen Massey.
Grapefruit Salsa
I can be a little skeptical of fruit salsas, but I think there's a case to be made for grapefruit salsa. Like tomatoes, red grapefruits have sweetness, acidity, and ample juice. Plus, deep in the tomato off-season, it makes a lot of sense to try a salsa made of something that's at its seasonal peak. It's a little meticulous, but worthwhile to peel the thin membrane from the outside of the grapefruit sections. Not only will your final product be prettier, but the texture will also be much more similar to salsa. Although this tastes great as soon as you make it, letting it sit for a few hours in the fridge gives the flavors time to meld. Finish this off with a generous pinch of dried ground chipotle powder to add a bit of heat and smoke. If you happen to get a grapefruit that isn't as juicy as you had hoped, add a squeeze of lime juice.
Sour Orange Carnitas
Adapted from Diana Kennedy
I have been loyal to Diana Kennedy's carnitas recipe for a number of years now. It's hands-off, simple, and stunningly good. I've made her recipe, which allows the pork to braise, then brown, in its own fat, to the letter probably 20 times, but I finally decided to tinker a bit and the results were fantastic.
The juice from sour oranges, which are widely landscaped in Tucson, make a great marinade for any type of meat. If you don't have sour oranges in your yard or a friend who does they can be difficult to source commercially, but a combination of orange and lime juice makes a suitable stand-in. Whisking up this citrusy, garlicky marinade for the pork makes a good thing even better. On practical note, I tend not to trim any fat off my pork butt unless it has a particularly large and thick layer because it will almost all end up rendering out. However, if you prefer to trim it a bit that's fine, just keep in mind that you're not adding any additional oil, so the meat needs its own fat to cook in.
Autumn Giles is a freelance writer and recipe developer whose work has appeared in Modern Farmer and Punch. She's the author of Beyond Canning: New Techniques, Ingredients, and Flavors to Preserve, Pickle, and Ferment Like Never Before.


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Saturday, November 18, 2006
Another One Bites the Dust
Friedrich Paul Berg, probably most famous among the anti-deniers for his remarks to Dr. Danny Keren of the Holocaust History Project that the "Nazis and SS were the good guys" during WWII.
So much for that "we're not deniers" crap and the other "a terrible tragedy befell the Jews of Europe, but not mass murder" garbage that Berg et al. spew.
Anyway, if you look at this RODOH thread that began on the topic of producer gas as an alternative to the CO sources at the Reinhard(t) camps and Zyklon-B, you'll see Fritz Berg make a blunder of epic proportions. Debating our own Nick Terry, Berg is told that "KTI chemists helped out, as you surely should know by now," by Nick.
Berg responds, "Who are KTI chemists?"
[[insert sound of crickets chirping, followed by immense laughter]]
Nick replies, "You realise you just destroyed any credibility you might have had on the subject of CO gassings by the Nazis in WWII by saying this."
Fritz won't admit his blunder and, yes, the thread is polluted by remarks by me to Berg about his having posted my parents' address in Usenet a year or so ago, but the "biggest expert on CO gassings" in the world just shot himself in the foot with a sawed-off shotgun.
Today was a good day...
9 comments:
- Sergey Romanov said...
Heh, you've got a fairly "big" fish!
- Saturday, November 18, 2006 12:18:00 pm
- Nick Terry said...
Imagine if Mattogno didn't know what 'ZBL' meant ;-)
- Saturday, November 18, 2006 12:39:00 pm
- Sergey Romanov said...
Just in case someone would wish to misrepresent Fritz Berg's boo-boo in the future:
"Friedrich Paul Berg
Posts: 36
(11/18/06 0:46)
"Friedrich Paul Berg
Posts: 39
(11/18/06 1:06)
My--oh my! KTI is Kriminaltechnisches Institut. And, I didn't know that.
So what!
- Saturday, November 18, 2006 2:08:00 pm
- Trigat said...
Great job! And you didnt even do anything, you let the opposition demolish themselves. Anyways, congratulartions!
- Saturday, November 18, 2006 10:32:00 pm
- Clampett said...
These clowns are diverting folks from real scholarship.
Say, Why did the Nazis select the Jews for persecution and why did that spiral into the holocaust?
- Sunday, November 19, 2006 10:55:00 pm
- Scott Smith said...
NICK said:
<< Berg responds, "Who are KTI chemists?"
And he was fishing for your point...
...which is still lame, btw.
The notion that Rube Goldberg gaschambers were not bogus because "KTI chemists" supposedly worked on the problem is another specious Holoclaim.
It's ultimately a circular argument.
Berg's point about the Rube Goldberg, and even absurd, nature of these supposedly ad hoc and amateur Nazi gassings is still valid; indeed, if anything, it shows that IF the Holoclaims were true, then NO technical expertise was brought to bear at all--which is laughable if this was really a Hitler directive, as claimed.
Saying that Professors Fiddler & Funk of the Fuddler & Fink Technical Institute endorsed phrenology (or gaschamber tommyrot) does not make it scientifically grounded, let alone true.
Plus, Berg is an interested amateur with a solid engineering background, not a Holostudies academic. Thus, he may not know the latest in Holostudies phrenology--even if the significance of something merited attention regarding his thesis, which has not been shown.
- Friday, November 24, 2006 11:53:00 am
- Nick Terry said...
"Plus, Berg is an interested amateur with a solid engineering background, not a Holostudies academic. Thus, he may not know the latest in Holostudies phrenology--even if the significance of something merited attention regarding his thesis, which has not been shown."
Cut the crap, Scott. KTI chemists were referred to explicitly in Matthias Beer's 1987 article on the development of the gas vans. And before and after this date many a time. I would say the chances that Berg has avoided Beer's article while perusing alt.rev or Nizkor are.... nil.
That's just one source. KTI chemists advised on the use of CO for the EUTHANASIA program, carried out gassing experiments for NEBE at MOGILEV, developed the GAS VANS and one even went out to BELZEC as a consultant, but his advice wasn't needed.
- Friday, November 24, 2006 2:59:00 pm
- Nick Terry said...
"The notion that Rube Goldberg gaschambers were not bogus because "KTI chemists" supposedly worked on the problem is another specious Holoclaim. It's ultimately a circular argument."
No, the circular argument is yours. Enough already with the 'no true Scotsman', Germans were wonderful engineers fallacies.
- Friday, November 24, 2006 3:01:00 pm
- Nick Terry said...
and stop licking Berg's arse. It's embarrassing.
- Friday, November 24, 2006 3:01:00 pm


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Salaam and hello earthlings,
I have been away for too long, I know. It wasn't intentional to leave this site dusty, let alone abandoning it absolutely.
I have been ... busy? Yes, I was and still am. Busy living my life, not virtually.
Family is my priority. My dear kids are always hanging onto me, leaving me with no time to blog entirely.
As for my job, well, what can I say? So far, it's been okay. I am trying hard to keep my head above water, on top of everything else.
Our new abode is another story. Been living on our own for almost 6 months now. Tough, hands down. But you learn independence all the same. Tiring, yes. Exhausted more like it. Burnt out at times. And we've lost a few kilos, if I may add.
I have a lot - like, really a lot to tell. Until we have secured ourselves a decent internet plan, my presence here might be minimal. I just don't fancy updating from my mobile. Satisfaction not guaranteed.
As for now, it feels so good to be typing away (courtesy of my parent's wifi) and this short update will suffice for now. In case you're wondering, we are doing more than fine alhamdulillah.
"I am too blessed to be stressed"
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St Paul's Catholic CollegeProviding Education For The Diocese Of Westminster
The theme of this year's Science Week at St Paul's was 'Investigating Temperature'. At lunchtimes, the whole Science team worked with 140 students from Years 7 and 8. The students carried out a heat-giving experiment making foam and watched amazing demonstrations using liquid nitrogen where they were encouraged to think about how very low temperatures affect the materials around us.
Science Week is also a great way for younger children to develop an interest in Science so we were delighted to welcome teams from 6 primary schools to St Paul's to take part in our after school event, alongside more of our Year 7 students. Mr Vandenberg gave the performance of a lifetime and entertained our budding young scientists with more wonderful demonstrations using liquid nitrogen such as making chalk hovercrafts, popping lids off pringles tubes and hammering nails made of supercooled blutack into brittle sponges. Children also had the chance to conduct experiments including how ice cold temperatures affect our muscles, how polar water currents work and how some chemical reactions absorb heat.
A firm favourite with the children is the Egg Competition which looked at how eggs shatter when they have been frozen in liquid nitrogen at -1960C. The student teams were then challenged to make a module to carry an uncooked egg which, when released from inner orbit (ie, dropped from a great height from a very tall ladder), would fall to the ground unbroken. All teams created some fantastic pieces of work. The winning team for Year 7 was 'The Elements' from 7E. The winning Primary School was 'The St Michael's Scientists'.
The Science Department would like to thank all the wonderful sixth formers who supported the after school event by working with student teams, helping our busy technicians and ensuring our visitors were greeted and directed well.
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Gay Retirement Communities
Gay and Gray Baby Boomers. The number of gays and lesbians in their 50's is expected to swell from approximately 2 million individuals today to 5.7 million by 2020. A handful of retirement communities market themselves to gays and lesbians, but don't currently offer a wide range of options. This spells development opportunity.
Gray gays have no intention of going back into the closet or facing any type of bigotry in their senior years. A proposal for a posh, gay-only, retirement community goes before the Santa Rosa, CA planning commission this fall. The proposed Oaks at Fountaingrove would offer gay and lesbian couples and singles over 65, a "gracious, accepting and secure environment" to live out their senior years with varying levels of medical support, according to Bill Mabry, a partner in the $75 million project by Aegis Senior Living of Santa Rosa.
The growing, gay retiree demographic is seriously underserved. Like the rest of the population, gays and lesbians tend to become more isolated as they get older. Unlike their hetrosexual counterparts, most gays do not have children. Senior gays need a safe place to go where they can rely on others in their communities as the age.
Growing old with people who have the same lifestyle is a great thing. Gay Americans want a place developed and run by other gays and lesbians, with all the services and ammenities available to hetrosexual retiree's.
Thankfully, gay, baby boomers are in the right place at the right time to address their own retirement needs and wishes. It will be interesting to watch what changes the educated and well-heeled, gay and lesbian community bring to light. Queer Eye for the Retired Guy… If the history of this community is any indication, we may all enjoy our golden years with a lot more style.
Tommorow, get the low down on the gay retirement communities that currently exist, along with the communities in the planning stage. Please blog in or email firstname.lastname@example.com, if you have news to contribute about gay retirement.


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Golf Products
Many business meetings can take place outside the workplace today. A softer approach to networking events and meeting potential new clients usually take place at golf courses around the UK.
Products printed with your logo give a lasting impression to your meeting without the hard sell.
Promo Solved would recommend you consider golf box sets, trophies and golf balls. But you may wish to go a little further and give away folders branded with a marketing message.


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Somewhere in United States
2017-11-09 14:20:03
Nigerian/419 Scam
|+5 Proposal!
X-Originating-IP: [18.104.22.168] Known Scammer Nigeria (ISP: Globacom Limited)
Introducing a crude oil Business to you that would be of great mutual benefit and would like to know if you are interested reply so i can provide full details.
Brad Wallwork
|Falcons-fan (Somewhere in United States) Added the following extra information on :2017-11-14 13:59:10
Haven gone through the M.O.U and agree with the terms of agreement to further and manage our new Business,you are now advice to contact Natwest Bank, as their contact details is below this mail to make inquires on how to open an Online Account with their Bank and get back to me with their reply so i can advice you on how to go about it
Accounts Dept: firstname.lastname@example.com | Customers Dept: email@example.com
I advice you write to them now cause customer's are already waiting for the Account details to make payment for Light crude Oil so you can give me the account details once it's open for me to forward to them to start making payment,there after as agreed on i will be advising you on how to share the proceed after making supply.
Brad Wallwork. Manager, Drilling & Completion Iraq-North Oil Company.
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Subject: Contact Bank Immediately
|Falcons-fan (Somewhere in United States) Added the following extra information on :2017-11-14 11:48:09
Good day to you.
Please find copy of the Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) from our legal team below this email and also you are advice to read carefully and sign the Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) by spellingyour name under with a capital letter and returned back to us immediately.
So that we can direct you on how to contact the BANK, where you will opened an ONLINE BANK ACCOUNT in your name a personal Offshore Trade Bank Account, Where our clients/ buyers will be making payment into.
Please note that, every paper works has been completed and also the company registration is also completed and Registrar by the Ministry of Trade. We cannot keep waiting because for every day we stand to lose money so we need to get this put together right away.
ALTAMI AND COMPANY, A1Karrad p.o box No:10014 code12921,Baghdad,Iraq
MEMORANDUM OF UNDERSTANDING Between
for Establishment of BHAJI OIL COMPANY In Private Sectorin Erbil,Iraq 13...November...2017
Between Fouad Mohamad Salaam Ali (First Part) and George smith (second Party).This MOU is under the authority of government code 8750,8570,8528.1, and 8270 and other status as appropriate
PREPAREDNESS ROLES AND RESPONSIBILITIES 1,The First Party agrees to provide all help,prebailing incentives and facilities clarence Neccesary for setting up aforesaid company in Iraq,consistent with the various constitutional and startutory provinsion required to set up such,on the corperation of second party.
2,In accordancxe to creation of company the first party shall respond to all assistance needed to set up company in Iraq,with approval from second party.
3,First part will be in charge of funding the process of acquiring all documents neccesary for the complete registration of the company.First party will be in charges of all staff employments facilitiesand logistics needed to export the Light Crude Oil Daily from kirkuk to Turkish export terminal of ceyhan.
4, The first party will prepare the neccesary documentation from the region of kirkuk and to the ministry of Oil (Iraq) that will back up the second party as the Foreign Independent contractor to export these Barrels of Light Crude Oil.
5,The first party must present to the second party copies of all legal and neccesary documents binding the setting up of the company.this documents must include copies of company Registration form,company account Statement in Iraq,certificate of Incorporation,Deed of Agreement and copies of payment receipt from buyers.
6,The first party shall secure Buyers (Purchasers) of the Crude there in Iraq,A Deed of Agreement shall be signed between the buyer's (purchasers) and the second party.
I will appreciate your immediate response to mail and also awaiting the signed copy of the Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) from you ASAP by spelling your name boldly with a capital letter and date.
Brad Wallwork. Manager, Drilling & Completion Iraq-North Oil Company.
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Subject: Read The M.O.U carefully and get back tome ASAP!
|Falcons-fan (Somewhere in United States) Added the following extra information on :2017-11-12 14:26:34
Good Day,you are advice to filled and signed the Company Registration Documents attach to this message and Returned back to us urgently for further procession in this Crude Oil Transaction..
The company's name will be BHAJI OIL COMPANY. I was told by the Ministry of Trade, Registrar of Company that the name Bhaji Oil is available for use. I need you to sign on Item 15 and fill Item 7 on the company's registration forms attached to this email. I clearly marked the areas you need to fill with a bold blue arrow marking.
I have/will filled the other parts that needs filling. Please note that a MEMORANDUM OF UNDERSTANDING will be signed between you and my associate to ensure that both parties keep to the terms of agreement.In any case all is set now.You will have to open a foreign account in your name in a bank outside your country and outside Iraq were it will be wiser to secure our investments as I have mentioned in my previous email. It must be afresh account and not an already existing account to be opened in your name as such there is no need for the incorporation papers since it is a personal trade account.
This is your primary obligation/assignment in this business deal.This account must not be your existing account; it must be a fresh account solely for this business purpose only. This account is where the purchaser(s) of this crude oil will send all payments to. As I may have told you a Russian(actually Georgian old Soviet Union) Oil magnate is investing heavily in Bhaji.I will communicate to you the contact details of the bank were you will need to setup the offshore account once the M.O.U documents is signed by all parties involved. This is the best way I have found it will protect us from any insecurity and International Financial Regulatory Agency's scrutiny as these Russians/Georgians have a way of doing business to avoid any forms of taxes and raised eyebrows since they are in key positions in government so let them be our guide in that regard as to where to bank the funds they are providing which will transcend into our business purse in the long run once operations start fully. So you should follow our instructions strictly. We will not request any up front fee from you for any expenses here in Iraq.
You will manage and notify of any funds you receive in the account and would be given instructions for wires also to all the necessary parties.As a matter of fact we expect 20 Million USD by the upper week from a billionaire oil magnate in Georgia and there is the need to speed up the account opening as I would need to forward the details to my client and this means you get your percentage if the funds hit your account which you will open. I need your co-operation on this please.We really don't have enough time on our side here. As days pass by, we loose money. I'll make sure I hurry the Registrar of Companies in getting Bhaji Oil Company registered on time. We'll start exporting immediately we secure the License for your company. This wouldn't take much time with my current influence and position with Iraq-North Oil Company.
I will be anticipating hearing from you soon along with the filled Company Registration Documents so we can proceed urgently, without any delay from your side.
Sincerely, Brad Wallwork. Manager,Drilling & Completion North Oil Company.
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Subject: Fill and sign the Company Registration Documents attach
|Falcons-fan (Somewhere in United States) Added the following extra information on :2017-11-11 09:37:58
Thanks for your reply
I want you to be rest assured that this Business transaction is risk free.I have attached copies of my associate's international passport to this email. You will agree with me that due to my current official position with Iraq North Oil Company I cannot be directly/openly involved with you in this partnership. This is were my associate Fouad M. Salaam comes in. He will represent my interest in this partnership.I will take charge of all over-site functions to ensure that everything is legally processed and concluded as planned. This business deal should be concluded within three months with your full cooperation and adherence's to instructions.
***We are registering a Company here in your name. The new legislation allows/permit foreigners to partner with local individuals to invest in oil exploration to improve local content in the sector to compliment the foreign multinational companies.
***This contract is for just 3 months.
***Your major portfolio in this deal is to setup/activate/manage/disburse funds accrued from the sales of these crude daily in an offshore account with a Bank that will be communicated to you later. We don't want the money here in Iraq due to the ever changing political climate. You will be responsible for setting up this account. All proceeds from the sales of the light crude oil will be channeled into a new offshore account that you will setup in your name.
Hence the company will be registered in your name here in Iraq. It will be called BHAJI OIL COMPANY. Your physical presence in Iraq to stand as the independent foreign contractor is not really important if you do not wish to come down as we only need to register you as a Foreign Contractor to export these barrels. I and my associate will handle all cost/facilities/manpower required to explore/store/export these barrels. These are our primary responsibility and will be clearly drafted out in the M.O.U.
We will commence the paper work on the Foreign Company Registration Form from the Ministry of Trade. I will use my influence to break through the rigorous bureaucratic process of setting up a company of this nature here in Iraq. There is nothing to be worried about because you will reserve the sole signatory to the account but will disburse the proceeds on my request as will be agreed to in the M.O.U which will be signed by all parties involved. We have a reserve of bout 2.5 M Barrels of light crude. This should with the current market price yield well over Five Hundred Million Dollars. Please we need to honorably accepts these terms and project plan so we can proceed. The success of this should pave way for future and further business deal.
I will require a copy of your International Passport or Driving License and your Full Legal Names,Contact Address(City, State, Zip code),Age and Occupation present and past ( if any) to continue and commerce the company registration.
Sincerely, Brad Wallwork. Manager, Drilling & Completion North Oil Company.
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Subject: Thanks for your reply
|Falcons-fan (Somewhere in United States) Added the following extra information on :2017-11-10 09:52:07
Iraq has the world's second largest proven oil reserves and extraordinarily cheap to produce. As the Manager Drilling & Completion of Iraq NORTH OIL COMPANY I'm able to secure extra barrels of light crude oil from an isolated oil well in Kirkuk with a producing capacity of 100,000 barrels per day (bpd) through the same source Iraq's North Oil Company produces theirs. Iraq major oil production fields has been taken over by some foreign multinationals such as Shell, BP, Exxon Mobil, Chevron and Total due to it's need to raise its oil daily production to 6 million barrels per day. Stipulating how foreign investment will be governed is also critical amid concerns that Iraqi oil revenues has been squeezed by these large oil firms granted special treatment with the help of the US government.
This has lead to the Iraq government (Parliament) to enact a new law to improve local content by allowing its citizenry to partner with individuals who win contracts and must take on a local partnership that in turn must have a minimum 25% stake in the deal. Individual Foreign Contractors can set up Local Companies in Iraq with a local partner who in turn must have 25% stake in the company to explore some the scattered isolated Oil wells.
Origin:……………….KirKuk-Iraq Quantity:…………….100,000 Barrels Per Day for 3 Months. Contract period:…......3 Months. Delivery: …………....Turkish Export Terminal of Ceyhan. Price:..……………… As Agreed in Contract
I will prepare all the relevant Documents to Register a Local Company here in your Name as required by the laws of the land with the help of Legal Experts, but it will be stated in the documents that I actually own 10% stake in the company, as this is the only means we can export the crude oil from Iraq. You will be required expected to open/setup and manage an offshore account in your Name in a Bank in one of the top Oil Producing Countries for smooth transfer of the Oil proceeds(funds). This account is where the eventual buyer(s) of this crude oil will transfer all payments to.Also an MOU(Memorandum of Understanding) will be signed between you and I to ensure that both parties keep to the terms of agreement. I will be responsible for the exportation of these barrels and the expenses involved.
Once the barrels have been exported and sold we shall share the proceeds in the ratio of 80% for me considering the fact that we are the originators/initiators and initial financier of this partnership business and then 20% for you. I will instruct my legal team to commence the paper work as soon as I get the Foreign Company Registration Form from the Ministry of Trade process by the Oil Ministry once you indicate your final/total interest by confirming/providing me with the following information required.
Full Legal Names; Contact Address(City, State, Zip code); Office Phone/Home Phone/Cell Phone; Occupation present and past ( if any): Age:
I will appreciate your immediate response and also indicate if you wish to proceed with the contract partnership.
Sincerely, Brad Wallwork Manager,Drilling & Completion North Oil Company
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Subject: Proposal Details as Requested!


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Study: African fruit is untapped resource
A report suggests native African fruits are an untapped resource that could help combat malnutrition and boost rural development on the African continent.
The U.S. National Research Council said African science institutes, policymakers, non-governmental organizations, and individuals could use modern horticultural knowledge and scientific research to bring "lost crops" such as baobab, marula, and butterfruit to their full potential.
The report said current tropical fruit production in Africa is dominated by species introduced from Asia and the Americas, such as bananas, pineapples, and papayas. Those and other crops arrived on the African continent centuries ago. Already improved through horticultural selection and breeding, they increasingly displaced the traditional species that had fed Africans for thousands of years.
But, the report said, with renewed scientific and institutional support, Africa's native fruits could make a much greater contribution to nutrition and economic development.
The researchers said fruit trees and shrubs also offer long-term benefits by improving the stability of the environment.
The report is the third and final volume in a series that also explored the benefits of Africa's indigenous vegetable and grain crops.
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Posts Tagged 'Nitzer Ebb'
Electronic Aid To Haiti
We all share a planet that is repeatedly shattered by human tragedies. Each and every tremor at the far end of the world is an apocalypse for thousands of people whose lives are often threatened by the vagaries and whims of a hard climate. Even the small funds this compilation might raise could help a […]
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Pouppée Fabrikk Reunites
The Swedish EBM act Pouppée Fabrikk reunites after 7 years of (almost) total absence from the scene. The news has been announced on the band's myspace site. Frontman Henrik Bjoerkk returns on vocals and Christiaan R. (C.A.P./Menticide) joins the band as full member, filling the place of former member Jouni Ollila. The PF studio has […]
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"Work or Riot!" – This is the motto of Pascal Z, vocalist, machinist and programmer of the one-man commando ELITE!. This is why he, a Frenchman who was raised in Düsseldorf, has done mainly one thing during the past months: hard electronic work. His third album with the powerful title "Totenkopf" supplies twelve times tough-minded […]
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New release from Elite!
Elite! is exactly what it say it is: ELITE! This France based old school EBM act presents more DAF and Nitzer Ebb style the way it was back in its glory days, than most today's bands do. Especially early DAF influence is more rare in modern EBM, but Elite! proves that wrong through such stand-out […]
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Turnbull A.C.'s – "Let's Get Pissed" (OUT302) Label: Out Of Line Released: June 13th, 2008 Turnbull A.C.'s, as you may recall, was one of the infamous street gangs from the cult classic film, "The Warriors". It sure is a fitting name in that, Pontus Stålberg (Spetsnaz) and Lars Karlsson bring us a hard hitting full […]
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As some of you die hard Nitzer Ebb fans may already be aware, the men have been working on a new album for over a year now. Latest leaks say that the album is pretty much complete. The band is now looking for record labels to partner with to release in a new "creative format". […]
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Vancouver 97 CD
Vancouver 97 CD
We recorded this album as the title tells, in Vancouver 1997. The main man at Universal Records, Doug Morris, had personally signed us to the label. Why it has taken twelve years to get this music out, we don't know… "it's just the way it goes."
Never The Bride never give up. We have rescued our music from the vaults of The Armoury where our album was recorded with the late and legendary producer Bruce Fairbairn, who produced colossal platinum selling albums for Aerosmith, Metallica, Bon Jovi, INXS, Kiss and Van Halen. Sadly he died soon after our album was recorded. You can read about him here. A great guy who really loved his music and Never The Bride.
The musicians joining Nikki and Been on this album were Doug Boyle on guitars, Trevor Barry on Bass, Frosty Beadle on Drums and additional programming and keyboards from Canadian, John Webster.


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So this week, I thought I would share some photos of the unique and beautiful jewelry produced by the artisans at Art Is In Market, Livonia.
|Necklaces and matching earrings created by Maureen Mitchell-Tardivi of Bijounique
|Colorful, one-of-a-kind button bracelets, also by Bijounique
|Karen Meller of All Glass Creations makes dichroic glass bracelets and pendants.
|Karen also makes unique glass cuff bracelets and hair accessories.
|Linda and Joe Ignaczak of Authentic Creations work with gems, shells and natural stone to create their necklaces...
|... and earrings.
|Veronica Tobey makes lovely, light and comfortable fiber jewelry.
|She has both necklaces and bracelets available.
|And then, of course, there are my own Gossamer Tangles creations -- earrings...
|... necklaces ...
|... and a bevy of brooches, among other things.


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A.M. Radio: 5 Awesome Songs Named After U.S. States
Artists from Joni Mitchell to Ja Rule show their favorite states some love through the beauty of song.
Arrested Development—"Tennessee"
This early '90s hip-hop classic put Arrested Development on the map, and at the top of the Billboard Rap Singles charts.
Dr. Dog—"Alaska"
Indie band Dr. Dog penned a song named after the most northern state in America on their album We All Belong.
Joni Mitchell—"California"
Joni longs for her West Coast homeland on this beautiful Blue album cut.
Cee Lo Green—"Georgia"
Cee Lo dedicated this soulful 2010 single to his home state.
Ja Rule f/ Fat Joe and Jadakiss—"New York"
Ja Rule recruited fellow New York rap heavyweights Fat Joe and Jadakiss for this R.U.L.E. album single.


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Mableton in Cobb County, Georgia — The American South (South Atlantic)
"The Only Advantage of the Day"
Schofield reached & fortified these crossroads -- a strategic position that posed more of a threat to Johnston's Kennesaw line than the assaults by 8 brigades further N. -- a fact noted in Sherman's dispatch to Thomas as "the only advantage of the day". (38 - IV - 610).
Erected 1954 by Georgia HIstoric Commission. (Marker Number 033-62.)
Marker series. This marker is included in the Georgia Historical Society/Commission marker series.
Location. 33° 50.687′ N, 84° 34.967′ W. Marker is in Mableton, Georgia, in Cobb County. Marker is at the intersection of Floyd Road and Concord Road, on the right when traveling north on Floyd Road. Touch for map. Marker is in this post office area: Mableton GA 30126, United States of America. Touch for directions.
Other nearby markers. At least 8 other Site: Wm. Moss House (about 500 feet away, measured in a direct line); The Extended Right (approx. 0.2 miles away); The March to Soap Creek (approx. ¼ mile away); The Mable House (approx. 1.3 miles away); Battle of Ruff's Mill (approx. 1.4 miles away); Turner's, Howell's Baker's & Sandtown Ferries (approx. 1.9 miles away); Ross' Headquarters (approx. 2.2 miles away); Toward the River (approx. 2.3 miles away). Touch for a list and map of all markers in Mableton.
Regarding "The Only Advantage of the Day". Floyd Road follows the route of the Old Sandtown Road at this point.
Categories. • War, US Civil •
More. Search the internet for "The Only Advantage of the Day".
Credits. This page was last revised on June 16, 2016. This page originally submitted on April 2, 2010, by David Seibert of Sandy Springs, Georgia. This page has been viewed 992 times since then and 34 times this year. Photos: 1, 2, 3. submitted on April 2, 2010, by David Seibert of Sandy Springs, Georgia. • Craig Swain was the editor who published this page.