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By Linda Oligschlaeger
There seems to be a pill for just about every ailment these days, but no drug company has come up with a prescription for the epidemic of poor communication protocol and etiquette that threatens us. We have all been exposed to incessant yakking on cell phones, voice mail hell and email overload, not to mention the slippage of proper face-to-face communications. The epidemic has all but obliterated the most basic of business courtesies. And there seems to be no sign of a cure!
In the days before iPods and Blackberries, business communication was primarily done by telephone and regular U. S. Postal Service mail. The pace of communications was much slower and more formal. Then along came the fax machine. Suddenly, the communication pace quickened and now it is zooming by, powered by email, cell phones and instant messaging. Clients and other lawyers expect you to be reached whenever and wherever you are; when that doesn't happen, tempers start to rise. Even among lawyers, formal letters are written much less frequently today. More formal communication by letter sent via the U. S. Post Service (aka snail mail) may seem archaic and out-of-pace with today's communications expectations. Unfortunately, along with the formality, appropriate communication etiquette seems to be dying. Proper grammar is also in decline, left behind as hurried messages are sent off in cyber land without any thought of proofing or a tone check. Although today's methods of communication can be very productive, communication blunders and rudeness can cause clients to desert you and colleagues to misunderstand you. Isn't it ironic that in the era of the greatest technological communication advancements ever known that we regularly suffer from miscommunication and communication frustrations?
In spite of the poor health of our business communications, many natural remedies are available to help. Let's take a look at a few of these.
Everyone has a preference when it comes to communication. Some people prefer to communicate by telephone; others would much rather use email. A few good people still prefer to receive your communication by fax or letter. Still others prefer face-to-face meetings. Oftentimes, the key to connecting the communication lines is to determine the other person's preferred method of communication. You're likely to avoid a great deal of personal frustration, serve your clients much better, and actually receive responses from your colleagues, if you take the time to find out how they prefer to communicate. At the beginning of the attorney-client relationship, this is an important question to ask on the client intake information.
Call Your Office – It can be very productive to have friends or associates call your office occasionally, as if they are new clients. You'll learn a lot about how they are greeted and treated by your staff. You will be surprised what you can learn for use in an office training session. What kind of a first impression does your staff leave with the caller who might be an important new client?
Train Your Staff — Everyone knows how to use the phone, so why would you want to spend money on training for that? Your staff may know how to use the telephone itself, but have you trained them on how to handle rude or angry callers or a caller with a foreign accent who is difficult to understand? Or, how should they respond if asked a question to which they don't know the answer? Training should include awareness about keeping a friendly tone and being helpful.
Use Caller's Name Carefully – Everyone likes to be called by their name; it personalizes the conversation. However, it's important to be careful how you use their name. Although more formal names (Mr. Jones, Mrs. Smith) have given way to first names, common sense should dictate when and under what circumstances to use a first name, particularly with older people. If in doubt, use the formal name until told otherwise.
Be Aware of Unintentional Rudeness – Here's an example that I come across very frequently when calling law offices on Missouri Bar business. I happen to have a long last name (13 letters) that is not familiar to many who live outside of central Missouri. I'm accustomed to spelling my last name and willingly do so many times during the day. I'm often amazed by the unintentional comments that I receive about my last name, such as, "What kind of a name is that?" or "How old were your children before they could spell their name?" I'm not particularly sensitive, so the comments don't offend me, but such unintentional comments could offend a client or, at the least, not leave a good impression.
Ask Permission to Place the Call on Hold – Staff should always ask permission to place the caller on hold. There's nothing more frustrating than being told "Please hold," followed by a click into elevator music. Maybe the caller doesn't have time to hold. It's a small courtesy that's appreciated.
Return Calls Promptly or Delegate Your Response — The #1 complaint that clients have about lawyers is unreturned phone calls. I often hear the same complaint from lawyers – lawyers not returning calls to other lawyers. There is simply no excuse for not returning telephone calls. If your schedule is so packed that you're not able to return calls yourself, delegate the task to someone who can at least acknowledge the call and offer to help.
Ask Permission to Use the Speaker Phone – Speaker phones can be very handy, especially for lengthy conversations. When used in routine calls, you risk sounding as if you're in a tunnel and cause the caller to wonder who is overhearing your conversation. The use of speaker phones can also lead to the temptation to multitask, thus not giving your full attention to the call. Paper rattling or chair squeaking is taboo on business calls. If you need to use your speaker phone, it's best to ask the caller for permission before doing so and assure them that your call is not being overheard by others.
Call-Screening Taboos – Although there are times when some form of call screening is necessary, the process can lead to problems. An abrupt tone such as, "What this in reference to?" or "What's this in regard to?" certainly can give the wrong message and put the client caller on the defensive. No one wants to feel as if they are not important enough for you to take their call.
Too Busy to Take a Message – Staff should never ask a client to call back if you're not available. Such a response sends the message that they are either too busy or too lazy to take a message.
VOICE MAIL COMMUNICATION AILMENTS AND REMEDIES Voice mail can drive some people up the wall; however, it remains a very productive tool if used correctly. Here are a few cures for voice mail woes.
Voice Mail Greeting – The voice mail greeting should be concise and helpful. You can skip the part about being away from your desk or on another call because that's trite and obvious. In a concise, but friendly tone, the message should start with stating your first and last name and what firm you're with, which is particularly helpful with direct dial numbers. Ask the caller to leave a message. If possible, provide an alternative to reach a live person, either your assistant or the receptionist. Change your greeting if you will be delayed retrieving messages and returning calls, such as when you're out all day or on vacation.
Leaving a Message on Voice Mail – When you leave a voice message, it's again important to be concise and courteous. Messages should not exceed 30 seconds. State your first and last name, as well as your firm's name. Be sure to state your name slowly and clearly. I've spent a lot of time replaying messages to try to guess at names. State why you're calling – not simply, "Call me back." The goal is to make communication progress. Be sure to state the best time to return your call, especially if you're hard to reach. Avoid the return-number marathon; leave your number at the speed where it can easily be jotted down. Always include your phone number at the beginning and end of your message.
Email Merry-Go-Round – If more than two or three emails have not resolved the question, it's probably time for a phone call or face-to-face meeting. Long email messages might call for the same prescription. Be careful about confidential communication by email.
"Reply to All" Responses – Fast fingers that accidentally push the "reply to all" email option can annoy others or get you in trouble if the message is only intended for one person.
Be Careful What You Say — Never put in writing what you wouldn't want to see posted on a bulletin board. Keep in mind that email can easily be forwarded and forwarded and forwarded.
Smart Subject Lines – With the proliferation of spam, your genuine email is not likely to be missed if your subject line is detailed. Catch the reader's attention with the subject line, which will be appreciated.
Signature Lines – Be courteous by providing a signature line with your contact information.
Pop-Off Email — Never answer email when you're angry. It's too easy to pop off a message that you're sure to regret as soon as you hit "Send."
Tone and Email Misunderstandings – It's very easy to misunderstand the tone of an email message, particularly given the informal nature of this form of communication and the little thought that is often given to quick replies. Learn accepted email protocol, such as typing in all caps to give the impression of shouting. And, if you're joking or have a dry sense of humor, be sure the receiver understands that.
Don't Forget Your Manners and Your Grammar – Your mother probably taught you to say "please" and "thank you." Given the nature of email, this simple gesture is very important and easy to use to acknowledge a message. In addition, good grammar should extend to email usage as well as other forms of communication. For some reason, many email users seem to think that it is acceptable to let down their grammar guard when using email. It's still an important communication and you should want all your communications to be professional.
Life with Listservs – Listservs can be a great resource, but they can rob you of your time unless managed properly. Be sure to learn the rules of the list. If replying to one person, be sure to do so off list. Never "flame," attack, or take your frustrations out on other list mates. And, avoid the "me too" replies that don't add anything to the discussion. Filter your listserv messages to separate them from your regular email.
Cell phones are both a blessing and a curse. They make it possible for you to be reached almost anywhere at any time. However, besides spam and telemarketing calls, they are probably the greatest source of annoyance and bad manners in our society today. Cell phone addicts generate steady streams of an ever-increasing amount of idle chit chat that is forced upon those unfortunate to be around them.
Don't Take Calls in Public Areas – Your clients certainly wouldn't appreciate you discussing their business where it could be easily overhead, which could also breach the duty of confidentiality. It's nearly impossible to be in an airport waiting area these days without being in the middle of six or eight different conversations. When it comes to cell phone usage, it seems that courtesy to others is a forgotten virtue. If you must talk in public areas, find a location that is out of ear shot of others. Also, avoid walking around plugged into your cell phone, seemingly talking to yourself and gesturing to an absent audience.
Mute Cell Phones in Meetings – Have you ever been in church or at a funeral when someone's cell phone rang? It's fairly common today for cell phones to ring during meetings, during CLE programs, or other group settings. And, what is even more surprising is that those calls are taken during meetings. I've even seen people put their cell phone on vibrate and then set it on the table in front of them so that when a call comes in, it distracts those in the meeting as much as if the darn thing rang. If you're expecting an important call, be sure to mute your phone and locate it where you can sense the vibration without disturbing others. If the call is very important, excuse yourself to answer the call after you've exited the room.
Avoid Annoying, Cutesy Ringers – Save the cutesy ringers for the teenagers and select a ring with a business-like tone.
No Need to Yell – For some reason, some cell phone users think they need to yell to be heard. Perhaps it's the "Can you hear me now?" syndrome. Talking loudly doesn't make you easier to hear. It works much better to lower your voice and move to a quiet location.
Don't Drive and Dial – Not only have cell phones become an annoyance, they've become a safety issue. This is one area where you should avoid multitasking for your safety, and the safety of others, on the road. Many vehicles today are equipped with hands-free cell phone equipment, although cell phone calls still distract you from the important task of driving.
You only have one chance to make a good impression, and that is often delegated to your staff. Office staff should be trained in how to greet your clients and others visiting your office.
Maintain a Friendly, Helpful Attitude – There's absolutely no other alternative. Clients are often involved in an unsettling situation when seeing their lawyer and may be extremely stressed. A helpful and caring attitude can make that experience much easier and will certainly be remembered by clients. That client's first impression of your service is often made by your front line staff. I've had clients tell me that they were very pleased with their lawyer, but went somewhere else because the front-line staff person was rude to them or made them feel uncomfortable.
Gossiping About Others in Waiting Area — Why is it that office staff sometimes act as if those in your waiting area are hearing impaired and won't overhear what they're saying to each other? It's usually quiet and no one else is talking but them, so everything they say is overheard by those waiting. Office gossip makes the person waiting wonder what is said about them after they leave. Careful consideration should be given not to discuss any confidential or sensitive information while someone is in earshot.
Your Full Attention – You and your staff should be certain that you give your clients or visitors to your office your full attention when meeting with them in person. Taking calls from others or doing other things while meeting with them sends a message that others are more important.
The Cure The epidemic of high-tech communications problems can –and should – be stopped from spreading any further. If you haven't guessed by now, the cure for most communication ills and woes is simply a healthy dose of courtesy and common sense. In fact, no form of communications technology is incompatible with good manners. Effective communication — whether by cell phone, email, telephone and voice mail, or in person — is critical to a successful and efficient practice and can make your professional life much more enjoyable and productive.
Linda Oligschlaeger served as the Membership Services Director at The Missouri Bar from 1991-2012 where she oversaw the Law Practice Management Information Center.
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6:00am Thursday 21st November 2013 in News By Wendy Brading
AS a gardener, Steve Woods is used to overcoming challenges ranging from floods to droughts and storms to insects.
But Steve has a whole other problem in the grounds of the Old Rectory care home in Lexden - rabbits.
Over the years, he has planted out hundreds of plants, carefully grown from seed, only to have them decimated by the greedy bunnies within 24 hours.
After trying a range of unsuccessful deterrents, he is now trying a new eco-friendly idea - human hair.
Rabbits, allegedly, are deterred by the smell so Steve is giving it a go.
He said: "We have beautiful gardens here, really lovely grounds which are an acre large.
"It is really tucked away, you think you are in the countryside.
"I have worked here since November 2010 and the gardens were a bit forlorn then.
"We are trying to help them recover but we have a problem with some long-term tenants - the rabbits.
"We have put in different plants but whenever you do, the rabbits think it's meal time.
"I grew more than 200 marigolds from seed and they made a lovely show in the beds.
"I spent a whole day planting them out. By the next day the rabbits had eaten the lot.
"I think they text their mates when I put a new load in."
Steve got the garden prestine for the Colchester in Bloom competition - only for the rabbits to sabotage his entry.
He said: "I put the plants in a few days before; they cost about £300. Within 24 hours, the whole lot had gone.
"I got up at 5am the morning of the competition to put in what I had left but I was embarrassed.
"All my best stuff had been eaten by the rabbits."
Mr Woods' tactics to beat the bunnies have included sprinkling fragrant soap over the plants but it washed away in the rain.
The new suggestion came via Colchester in Bloom chairwoman Pam Schomberg.
She had been discussing Mr Woods' dilemma with her hairdresser, Angela Mitchell, who runs Alter Ego hair salon in North Hill, Colchester.
Angela is from Minnesota in the US where hair is commonly used as a garden deterent.
She said: "Back home, we put hair around the plant and vegetable beds to keep the rabbits and deer out of the garden.
"We have collected about 15 rubbish sacks of hair from the salon and the smell from it makes the rabbits thinks humans are there.
"It is a friendly way of deterring them."
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Hamiltonandy says...
I get great pleasure in crunching the invading snails and this year especially the slugs. Proper mesh fencing should keep rabbits out. If I fstill aced a rabbit invasion there would be lots of traps to permanently sort out the problem
12:24pm Thu 21 Nov 13
concernedrefuture says...
The problem with traps is that most are indiscriminate AND they need looking at twice a day. There is only one way to deal with rabbits and that is to ferret all the nearby sources and then erect a proper rabbit proof fence.
Of course 'lead poisoning' is an alternative and the result is delicious in a pie!
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On today's edition of Best Android Phone Reviews we're going to check out the Motorola Droid Razr Maxx. This is my personal phone and, so far, all time favorite phone. I have been a fan of Motorola devices for a while, and although they have had a questionable record of quality, they certainly have outdone themselves with the new Razr line. Motorola used to be known for their trendy sleek Razr lines back in the feature phone days and they haven't been seen for years, until now! Check the full review after the break for more details!
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The operating system is stock Ice Cream Sandwich but you can upgrade to Jellybean if you search out the file. The file to upgrade is unofficially official, by which I mean it was released early by mistake and the download roll-out was stopped, so there is an official file with no need to jailbreak your device out there. No risk, no bricking, just a slight upgrade with the ability to use Google Now Widget. Just having Jellybean keeps it as one of the best android phones out there, in my opinion.
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RICHMOND, Va. (AP) - In a reversal, the Virginia Board of Health on Friday approved abortion clinic regulations that include strict building standards that abortion-rights supporters say are aimed at closing down the centers.
Three months after the board backed clinic rules that exempted existing facilities from such strict standards, the board reinstated the provision imposing the new-hospital construction specifications.
Abortion-rights supporters who cheered the board's surprise action in June were equally vocal in jeering its about-face.
"Shame! Shame! Shame!" some critics shouted as board chairman Bruce Edwards of Virginia Beach tried to gavel them into silence and a police officer ushered them out of the packed meeting room. After they were gone and the board recessed, abortion opponents applauded.
The board voted 13-2 to enact the regulations, including the provision requiring all abortion clinics - including the 20 already operating in Virginia - to meet the same architectural standards as new hospitals on issues ranging from doorway widths to room sizes. The board had previously voted 7-4 to exempt existing clinics from the building requirements, but some members changed their minds after Attorney General Kenneth Cuccinelli, an anti-abortion Republican, said they had overstepped their authority and refused to certify the regulations.
Abortion opponents said the regulations will improve health and safety at medical facilities that have long operated without oversight.
"Virginia's women are better off after today's vote," Victoria Cobb, president of the Family Foundation of Virginia, said in a statement. "The hysterical claims of the abortion industry that today's vote denies access to health care are simply untrue."
State Health Commissioner Karen Remley told the board that all of the state's abortion clinics have already been inspected, and none have indicated they intend to close. Eleven have been licensed after submitting plans to correct deficiencies, while corrective plans for others are pending.
Tarina Keene, executive director of NARAL Pro-Choice Virginia, said that doesn't mean the clinics will be able to remain open.
"Of course they're all trying to make a good faith effort," she said, but some clinics will have to come up with as much as $1 million to "reinvent themselves as hospitals." Clinics have two years to meet the requirements.
Disappointed abortion-rights advocates directed much of their anger at Cuccinelli, accusing him of bullying board members into abandoning their independent judgment.
"It's confounding except to say that clearly the attorney general's intimidation tactics worked," said Katherine Greenier of the ACLU of Virginia.
Cuccinelli said in July that the building standards were mandated by the law passed by the General Assembly in 2011 requiring the licensure and regulation of abortion clinics, so the board had to include them in the regulations. He also told board member his office might not represent them if they ignored his advice again and got sued.
"I'm really stunned by the level of politics that entered into this debate," Keene said.
Jeff Winder of Nelson County accused Cuccinelli and Republican Gov. Bob McDonnell, who also opposes abortion, of "taking tyrannical action to promote a religious right-wing agenda." Speaking during an hour long public hearing before the vote, he said the board did the right thing in June when it exerted its independence on the building standards issue.
"I encourage you to have the backbone to stand up for your convictions," he said.
Board member James H. Edmondson Jr. of McLean unsuccessfully tried to persuade his colleagues to stick with their previous position, saying they have an obligation to base their decisions based on sound medical and scientific evidence - none of which supports the strict building standards, he said.
"Please, don't be cowed by an assertion that you don't have the authority to do what our job is to do," he said.
Demonstrators also targeted the attorney general's advice. "Hey Cooch, stop bullying the board," a sign held by one said.
Cuccinelli has maintained that his advice to the board is based on the law, not ideology. The regulations now go back to Cuccinelli, who will decide whether to certify them now that the building standards have been reinserted.
"Whatever the decision, it will be determined solely on a legal basis - as was the decision on the prior version of the regulations - not on the basis of whether or not we agree with the policy," Cuccinelli spokesman Brian Gottstein said in a statement.
Edmondson, who along with H. Anna Jeng of Norfolk voted against the regulations, said he and his colleagues "were thrown into a totally political situation and we didn't cope very well." He expressed frustration at what he said is a mixed message from the General Assembly.
"On one hand they say be a regulatory body - you are independent," Edmonson said. "On the other hand, 'Do as we say.'"
Edmondson and Jeng are among the five board members appointed by former Gov. Tim Kaine, a Democrat. The other 10 were appointed by McDonnell.
The regulations, which took effect on an emergency basis Jan. 1, also deal with issues including staff training, sanitation and equipment standards.
If the attorney general and the governor sign off on the regulations, they will be open to another public comment period before a final vote by the board next year.
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The Austin Police Department is investigating the shooting death of a man in North Austin early Wednesday morning.
According to APD, a 911 call came in at around 3:00 a.m. reporting a disturbance in the 600 block of West Grady Drive. The call was upgraded to shots fired as officers made their way to the scene. Upon arrival, officers were flagged down and pointed in the direction of a possible suspect in the shooting.
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I initially thought the Lakers just needed some rest in order to get back in contention. They had played well into the finals for the past three seasons. But when you tally how much rest they will be getting this season, it would only amount to about 14 games at the max.
It's not as if the Lakers ran into a bad matchup and won a couple of games. They were completely exposed by the Mavericks.
Gasol was probably just tired from being ridden so hard early in the season and the Lakers as a whole probably punched themselves out with that huge post all-star break surge that saw them nearly catch San Antonio for the number 1 seed. (But judging from his huge drop-off in play, you have to consider the possibility there is an undisclosed injury hampering him.) He and Odom (31 years old) seem to be the healthiest key players on the roster.
Bryant has been as durable as a cyborg, but finally appears to be slowing down. He is no longer a lock down defender, and can only occasionally take over a game on offense.
There is no denying that Artest is extremely limited on offense and his defensive play has diminished considerably. The Lakers are now stuck with an overpaid small forward, a situation the Spurs are in. Andrew Bynum is an excellent big man but will probably be plagued by injury problems throughout his career, Derek Fisher has no business manning a starting PG position for the Lakers or any team for that matter.( I don't think Blake is the answer)
The Western conference will probably not be any friendlier next season as Westbrook and Durant continue to grow up and the Grizzlies continue to improve. The more I think about it, barring a not unthinkable trade for a gun like Dwight Howard, the Lakers title window has slammed shut. Your thoughts please.


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Let me be the first to say, (the First, so far as I've been able to ascertain, on this new Pan's Labyrinth of a SB Nation Site), I do not like the new CH thing. It feels like "money" got a look at the traffic being generated, & tried to fix something that was not broken in order to corner a new marketplace. Admittedly, however, I am not a huge fan of drastic change, so I'm going to give the new Canis a moment to settle in...while I thrash around and create another Tao Te Wolves.
This Chapter seems to be an Homage to the relentlessness of Wolves'-Fan-Dom, in the face of innumerable obstacles -- and the interminable interlude between meaningful active phases of our beloved NBA season. And So On,
Tao Te Wolves, Chapter Four:
The Tao is like a well:
used but never used up
It is like the eternal void:
filled with infinite possibilities
It is hidden but always present.
I don't know who gave birth to it.
It is older than Time.


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The Release of Hector's Hymn
Friday 22nd of August, 2014
Exclusive sneak premiere!
With only a week to go until the release of (r)Evolution, we have a very special treat for you: an exclusive sneak premiere of the video for the second single, "Hector's Hymn", which gets an official release tomorrow. But why wait, when you can click on the link below and experience it for yourself RIGHT NOW!
Thursday 21st of August, 2014
A glimpse of our upcoming music video!
Curious of what the upcoming music video and the upcoming album will bring you? We bring you a glimpse of what to come! Check out the trailers for (r)Evolution in the video section.
In case you missed our unique Glory To The Brave show at Wacken Open Air 2014. You can watch the show in our video section. Additionally the show is available as an on-demand video here.
It will also be aired on German TV on these dates!
Monday, 11th of August at 02.00 CET on 3sat.
Saturday, 16th of August at 20:15 CET on ZDF Kultur.
All info about this is available here.
Thursday 7th of August, 2014
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A (r)Evolution is coming!
Hail, Templars of HammerFall, and welcome to our brand new online world! Bushido, the first single from the upcoming album (r)Evolution, is out now, and the rest will follow in a matter of weeks. Here are the release dates:
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In the coming weeks, more and more features will be added to the site. We have some very exciting things planned for your online experience! So sit back, enjoy the first new song from HammerFall in 3 years, and let the way of the warrior guide your being!
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Hello Fear The Fin Readers. I got a wild hair up my ass to talk about our one united dream. The Stanley Cup. A certain question is raised when this subject comes into play.
Are we capable of getting out of this "post-season slump"? Hell yeah. You can only be ousted from the playoffs so many times before your hulk-like rage starts to build up. Not to mention, we are getting tremendous offensive play from our lines. Not always pretty, but effective. Defense. Different story.
Turnovers. They are a bother and they hurt the team. Nobody is perfect. No player is perfect. But when your defensemen aren't up to the task, it is troublesome. With the recent acquisition of Niclas Wallin, it does add what Doug Wilson calls "depth" to our blue line. With Marc-Edouard Vlasic out, it does vitiate our defensive corps and renders us moderately ineffective. Wallin needs a chance to get acclimated to our system, and given proper ice time to mesh correctly. He is a strong player, and also a Stanley Cup Champion. So it shouldn't be hard.
With the Olympic break around the corner, he should have no problem getting up to par.
Unfortunately, Nabokov can't win every game for us. He needs help. We sure as hell have the firepower. We just need the tanks to provide reassurance of a finals appearance. I truly believe no team is more deserving than the San Jose Sharks. We are going to be one hell of a contender when we get back from the break.
I sincerely believe that Canada is going to get the gold. If that is the case, our Canadian players are going to know what winning is all about. I mean who wouldn't want an Olympic gold medal and the Stanley Cup in the same year?
Further questions are raised. What about injuries? What about exhaustion? It's a scary thought, but a reasonable one. We will have plenty of time, in my opinion, to get back to full strength if that's the case.
Stanley Cup Champions this year?
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Around 200 empty homes brought back into use (From Harwich and Manningtree Standard)
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Around 200 empty homes brought back into use
12:00pm Tuesday 7th January 2014 in News
ALMOST 200 empty homes across Tendring have been brought back into use in the past year.
Town hall bosses have used a range of measures to cut the number of properties that have been vacant for six months or longer.
There were 885 homes listed as being long-term empty in March this year, but the number has now been reduced by 197.
Tendring Council said it has been helping owners to address the situation.
Paul Honeywood, interim leader and cabinet member for housing, said: "This is an excellent result and is shows that our policies in this area are paying off handsomely.
"However, we will not be resting on our laurels and work will continue to reduce this number even further."
Officers have been contacting owners of empty properties to find out why they are empty and encouraging them to bring them back into use.


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DOJ Abortion Violence Suits Cratered Under Bush
Friday, June 12, 2009 at 6:00 am
The fatal shooting allegedly by a known white supremacist at the Holocaust Memorial Museum Wednesday in Washington is the second murder apparently motivated by a hateful ideology that's come to national attention in the last two weeks. James W. von Brunn, the 88-year-old suspect and convicted felon, was well-known for sending mass e-mail messages such as "It's time to kill all the Jews" and promoting elaborate conspiracy theories on his Website. Similarly, Scott Roeder, the 51-year-old accused of murdering abortion provider Dr. George Tiller in his Wichita, Kans. church, had a long history of ties to a violent right-wing extremist group, had previously threatened another abortion provider, and had just that week vandalized Tiller's clinic.
Just as federal law specifically penalizes hate crimes, the law also makes it a federal crime to threaten or commit violence against abortion providers, or to vandalize their clinics. Yet as TWI revealed last week, the criminal law was not being enforced. The day after Dr. George Tiller was murdered, TWI obtained data revealing that under the Bush administration, criminal enforcement of the federal law designed to protect abortion providers and clinics had declined by more than 75 percent over the last eight years.
But there's also a civil component to that federal law, known as the Freedom of Access to Clinic Entrances Act, or FACE Act. That part of the law allows the attorney general to seek an injunction and compensatory damages for anyone who's been harmed by any activity that violates the law. And it turns out that the Department of Justice over the last eight years didn't use that part of the law to protect abortion providers, either.
Under the FACE Act, in addition to criminal charges, the Justice Department can obtain damages and an injunction against anyone who "by force or threat of force or by physical obstruction, intentionally injures, intimidates or interferes with or attempts to injure, intimidate or interfere with" anyone who provides or receives reproductive health services. It also allows the government to prosecute and sue anyone who "intentionally damages or destroys the property" of an abortion clinic, because they are frequently vandalized as part of protesters' intimidation tactics. The clinic where Dr. Tiller worked, for example, was repeatedly vandalized, including just days before his murder.
Yet despite these broad powers that Congress granted the attorney general in 1994 to prevent and combat violence against abortion clinics and providers, the Bush administration almost never used them. From 2000 until 2008, during the eight years of the Bush administration, the Justice Department filed only one civil case under the FACE Act. From 1994 until 1999, in contrast, in just five years of the Clinton administration, the Department filed 17 civil cases under the FACE Act — in addition to its much heavier load of criminal cases that we've reported before.
It's possible, of course, that the law was so effective in its early years that it deterred all future violations. "I do think that the statute was very effective," and "for the most part there were fewer complaints coming to us," said Cathleen Mahoney, vice president and general counsel of the National Abortion Federation and director of the Justice Department's Task Force on Violence Against Reproductive Health Care Providers until 2006.
But crime statistics provided by the National Abortion Federation show that violence did not stop when the Bush administration came into office. The group reports 3,291 acts of violence against abortion providers in the United States and Canada between 2000 and 2008 – and that's only the number of incidents they know about. (The total number of incidents in the U.S. alone was not available.) The group warns on its Website that "actual incidents are likely much higher." That number does not include threats, vandalism and harassment, which are also violations of the FACE Act.
The NAF — the organization that most closely tracks such data in the United States — also reports that between 2000 and 2008 there were at least 17 cases of "extreme" violence against abortion providers in the United States, such as arson, stabbing and bomb attacks. At least 607 letters threatening Anthrax contamination (they did not actually contain anthrax) were sent to abortion providers between 2000 and 2002 alone. During the entire eight years of the Bush administration, the federal government prosecuted only 11 individuals for any acts of violence against abortion clinics or providers.
Former Attorney General John Ashcroft, although opposed by many abortion-rights advocates for his vehement opposition to keeping abortion legal, did prosecute the infamous anti-abortion activist and convicted felon Clayton Lee Waagner for the anthrax threats, which attracted significant public attention because they were sent just after lawmakers and news organizations received letters containing anthrax spores, prompting nationwide fears of deadly biological terror attacks.
Waagner was an easy target: a fugitive who'd escaped from jail in February 2001 while awaiting sentencing on federal weapons charges, he was already on the FBI's Top Ten Most Wanted List, the U.S. Marshals Service Fifteen Most Wanted List, and the Ten Most Wanted List of the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms. He was arrested in November 2001 and promptly claimed responsibility for over 550 anthrax threat letters sent to abortion providers in October and November. The letters were signed by the Army of God, an extremist anti-abortion organization that openly advocates violence against specific physicians who provide abortions. Waagner's supporters in the Army of God, however, were not prosecuted or even sued for civil damages or injunctions under the FACE Act, although the group was responsible for distributing a manual that supplies detailed instructions for attacking abortion clinics, manufacturing bombs and cutting off the hands of abortion doctors, according to SourceWatch. The FBI has characterized the prosecution of Waagner as a "counterterrorism case," suggesting that the "Army of God" is considered a domestic terrorist organization by federal law enforcement.
Yet despite the prosecution of Waagner in 2001, the Army of God today continues to do much the same thing. The group and its members continue to support and advocate the murder of abortion providers. Its Website, for example, on Wednesday celebrated the Tiller murder in this banner headline: "The lives of innocent babies scheduled to be murdered by George Tiller are spared by the action of American hero Scott Roeder. George Tiller the Babykiller reaped what he sowed and is now in eternal hell." It commends previous convicted murderers of abortion doctors as "heroes," and continues to host the "Nuremberg Files," a notorious list of the names of abortion providers and recipients, with a line through those that have been killed and names grayed of those who have been murdered. (The Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals in 2002 found that these constituted threats to the doctors.) As Rachel Maddow recently described the Army of God's current Website on MSNBC: "You can actually scroll through pages and pages of mug shots and descriptions of bombings and shootings and murders and attempted murders — all praising the perpetrators, and even suggesting ways to get away with the same types of crimes that these people committed but you could do it without getting caught."
Although such conduct has in the past led to violence, the threats are often not prosecuted by local police. According to Dr. Susan Robinson, who used to perform abortions at the same Wichita clinic as Dr. Tiller did before it was closed: "they allow the anti-abortion protesters to set up dozens of crosses and leave them all day. Dr. Tiller went to the city attorney over the crosses, and complained that people block the clinic driveway," she told journalist Amy Goodman. "He told me that the city attorney said, 'I would rather be sued by George Tiller than the anti-abortion folks.' "
The federal law was enacted in part to fill in the gaps when local authorities refused or lacked the resources to bring charges. "Often local police won't enforce the local laws against trespassing," explained Mahoney, the former federal prosecutor. "It's politically charged and local police want to stay out of it." During her tenure at the Department of Justice, Mahoney said it was the Civil Rights Division of the Justice Department that was charged with enforcing the FACE Act. That's the same division that Inspector General reports and Congressional hearings eventually revealed repeatedly made hiring and enforcement decisions based on conservative political ideology rather than merit.
In the one situation in the last eight years that the Bush Justice Department decided did merit a lawsuit, in 2007, the charges were so serious that it's not clear why the administration filed a civil suit rather than criminal charges. The federal government sought only an injunction – essentially, a court order telling the defendant to stop.
But this was no mere schoolyard-style harassment. According to the legal complaint filed by the Justice Department, John Dunkle, another member of the "Army of God", had been publishing a monthly Web newsletter "encouraging readers of his publications to use deadly force against specifically identified reproductive health clinic physicians and staff, providing instruction on how to employ deadly force tactics; provoking physical and verbal confrontations with reproductive health clinic physicians, staff and patients at various clinics" and "publishing internet postings containing photographs and the home addresses of reproductive health clinic physicians and staff," among other things.
The government also claimed that he "threatened a specific female clinic physician until she ceased providing reproductive health services in fear of the Defendants' threats to her life."
Those threats included "explicitly encourag[ing] his readers to kill the targeted individual by shooting her in the head"; publishing her name, photo and home address on his Web page and blog; and publishing instructions "regarding the specific means to kill the targeted individual, as well as how to escape detection upon the commission of her murder." Such postings dated back more than two years, identifying the same person.
There is no question that such threats are criminal under the federal law, say legal experts. "Physical obstruction is not protected, violence is not protected and true threats are not protected," said Louise Melling, Director of the ACLU's Reproductive Freedom Project, which has submitted several amicus briefs to courts defending the constitutionality of the federal law. A "true threat" has been defined by the courts has a threat that would reasonably be interpreted by the person hearing it as a serious threat to their safety.
Yet in the case of John Dunkle, whose threats caused a reproductive health provider to quit her profession, the government did not seek criminal penalties or even any monetary damages to compensate the victims and deter future crimes; it simply asked the court to tell him to stop.
Department of Justice spokesman Alejandro Miyar said that department officials decide whether or not to prosecute or seek damages in cases "on a case-by-case basis, and a number of factors are taken into account, including — among others — whether there is an identifiable subject and whether the matter is being pursued by local officials." He was not aware of whether Dunkle had been prosecuted for related acts under state law, and there was no indication in the documents filed in the federal case that he had been.
Threats against abortion providers appears to have had a serious impact on the availability of the procedure, and particularly on the ability of women to obtain legal later-term abortions, even when the pregnancy threatens the woman's life. According to the Guttmacher Institute, a nonprofit organization focused on sexual and reproductive health research, only two percent of all abortion providers in the United States currently provide such procedures, which are most heavily targeted by extremist anti-abortion groups. Women most commonly seek such abortions due to abnormalities of the fetus and threats to a woman's health or life, and in many states they're only legal if the woman's health or life is in danger. Dr. Tiller and his clinic were therefore frequent targets of both violent threats and actions, up until the day before his death.
The FACE Act was adopted to prevent and prosecute this sort of violence, in part because Congress concluded that existing state laws and local law enforcement were unable to do the job on their own.
When President Clinton signed the FACE Act in 1994, he said: "We simply cannot – we must not – continue to allow the attacks, the incidents of arson, the campaigns of intimidation upon law-abiding citizens that (have) given rise to this law," citing the murder of Dr. David Gunn in Florida in 1993, and the shooting of Dr. Tiller in both arms outside his clinic in Wichita that same year.
"No person seeking medical care, no physician providing that care should have to endure harassments or threats or obstruction or intimidation or even murder from vigilantes who take the law into their own hands because they think they know what the law ought to be."
The statistics on enforcement of the FACE Act by the Justice Department suggest that during the Bush administration, protecting those physicians was no longer a high priority.
13 Comments
Comment posted June 12, 2009 @ 5:32 am
It's about time that police and law enforcement agencies should take seriously encitement to crime and hate mongerers, enforce restraining orders and prosecute using all available laws.I wonder sometimes if law enforcement officres are familiar with the laws and want to apply then accordingly or succumb to intimidation by hoodlums. The public needs to be more aware and demand adequate protection
Comment posted June 12, 2009 @ 6:57 am
Nice work, Daphne!
Comment posted June 12, 2009 @ 7:58 am
I don't expect Congressional Democrats or our Department of Justice to do much more than a bandaid fix to this problem.
After all they have known for years that Bush, Cheney and their appointee lawyers most certainly violated US Federal Anti-Torture Laws (including torturing prisoners to death – Murder!) AND REFUSED TO ENFORCE THE FEDERAL ANTI-TORTURE LAWS.
Anything they do for abortion clinic crimes will probably be smoke and mirrors.
Unless our Congressional Democrats and Obama are Soft On Crime
They will enforce All Of Our Federal Laws.
Could we see some fight from our Congressmen?
To Prosecute Them For Torture
Over 250,000 have signed
Join them and call yourself a Patriot
Pingback posted June 12, 2009 @ 11:10 am
[...] Washington Independent: Criminal enforcement of the law intended to protect abortion providers and clinics from violence declined by more than 75 percent during the Bush administration. [...]
Comment posted June 12, 2009 @ 12:32 pm
It's about time that police and law enforcement agencies should take seriously encitement to crime and hate mongerers, enforce restraining orders and prosecute using all available laws.I wonder sometimes if law enforcement officres are familiar with the laws and want to apply then accordingly or succumb to intimidation by hoodlums. The public needs to be more aware and demand adequate protection
Comment posted June 12, 2009 @ 1:57 pm
Nice work, Daphne!
Comment posted June 12, 2009 @ 2:58 pm
I don't expect Congressional Democrats or our Department of Justice to do much more than a bandaid fix to this problem.
After all they have known for years that Bush, Cheney and their appointee lawyers most certainly violated US Federal Anti-Torture Laws (including torturing prisoners to death – Murder!) AND REFUSED TO ENFORCE THE FEDERAL ANTI-TORTURE LAWS.
Anything they do for abortion clinic crimes will probably be smoke and mirrors.
Unless our Congressional Democrats and Obama are Soft On Crime
They will enforce All Of Our Federal Laws.
Could we see some fight from our Congressmen?
To Prosecute Them For Torture
Over 250,000 have signed
Join them and call yourself a Patriot
Pingback posted June 12, 2009 @ 6:00 pm
[...] DOJ Abortion Violence Suits Cratered Under Bush: "From 2000 until 2008, during the eight years of the Bush administration, the Justice Department filed only one civil case under the FACE Act. From 1994 until 1999, in contrast, in just five years of the Clinton administration, the Department filed 17 civil cases under the FACE Act — in addition to its much heavier load of criminal cases that we've reported before." (via @chelseagsummers) [...]
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[...] in Bush Administration, Terrorism at 10:50 am by LeisureGuy Daphne Eviatar at the Washington Independent: The fatal shooting allegedly by a known white supremacist at the Holocaust Memorial Museum [...]
Comment posted June 23, 2009 @ 9:44 pm
Maybe the Bush administration should be held as an accessory to murder, with regards to the death of that doctor in Kansas? No?
Comment posted June 29, 2009 @ 1:57 pm
I am looking for information she stated on the Morning Joe Show about the failed Obama plan. Is there a written account of this interview held 6/29/2009?
Comment posted April 30, 2011 @ 3:10 am
How can people read this knowing the Federal Government is controlled
and staffed by the biggest hate group in the world "The KLAN" and this
super race of scumbags will enslave and/or kill every human person in
America. They are collective, mind controlling, and telepathic and they
control the money, the jobs, and the fake government. So, what can we
human people do? Organize or die like dogs or pigs because that is what
the evil Klan aliens think human people are. If you think I'm joking then try
and look me up on the Net? I'm the most censored man on the planet and
I'm not allowed to discuss my story or lawsuit with any outsiders(human people) and I'm being kept on the streets in the Klan cities. From coast to coast
Klan! That is the agenda.
From Klan Slo via Klan SAMO, CA,
Wayne E. Manzo, PhD
Former NASA Lewis Engineer who was framed at LEWIS and
then thrown out of America.
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