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Jack Cole no longer kicks in doors, buys LSD, or pretends to be anything other than what he is: a retired undercover narc.
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Cole first came to Boston on a deep cover assignment unrelated to narcotics. It was 1981, and Thomas Manning, a member of the homegrown terrorist group called the United Freedom Front, was suspected of shooting and killing New Jersey state trooper Philip Lamonaco during a traffic stop. The gunman and driver made off, and authorities believed they fled to Boston. Cole was tasked with infiltrating their organization and arresting the men responsible. To do that, he lived in Brighton with an undercover identity. Since the love interest of the suspected shooter had worked in the battered women's movement around Boston, Cole posed as a Wichita State graduate student who was in town writing a thesis on domestic violence.
To build his cover in that and other situations, Cole started attending leftist meetings, and some of the politics appear to have rubbed off. He says he even met his current wife at an event for "progressive teachers." Building up to his role in LEAP, Cole also furthered his education, and in the late-1990s earned a master's in public policy from UMass Boston. In 2002, he helped found LEAP in Medford, where he still lives despite the group now having multiple offices around the world, including locations in Costa Rica, Czech Republic, and Australia.
On the heels of all his work in the criminal underbelly and with LEAP, Cole's argument is straightforward: Regulation should be in the hands of government, which would standardize the purity of drugs. That, in turn, would significantly reduce overdoses and deaths, according to his organization. Drug abuse should be handled by medical professionals, not cops and prosecutors. Users often die because they don't know how much of a particular powder they purchase, for instance, is cut with yet another foreign substance. LEAP argues that in an illegal, unregulated market users simply don't have the important relevant info.
Perhaps worst of all, says Cole, is that prohibition artificially inflates the value of drugs, and allows criminals to monopolize supply. As such, the culture fosters an underground marketplace where drugs equal money and power. Countless people, innocent and otherwise, are murdered in the process. This is not new news. Still, those arguing to end prohibition – so police can concentrate on violent crime – remain in the minority.
It's hard to align Cole's ideas with political realities. Here in liberal Massachusetts, medical marijuana dispensaries have met local opposition from the likes of Boston Mayor Marty Walsh and nearly the entire City Council. Like law enforcement officials in municipalities across the Bay State, Boston Police Commissioner William Evans has compounded the fear of medical pot with baseless rhetoric. Legalization of drugs like heroin, it's fair to say, does not appear to be on the political radar around here.
Looking back, Cole recalls the genesis of the War on Drugs. "Nixon wanted to be seen as tough on crime," he says. Since then, busts and budgets have become larger, while the purity of hard drugs has skyrocketed. Through it all, after tens of billions in spending and 40 million-plus arrested, illicit drug use is still prevalent, while here in the Northeast, we're stuck suffering from an opiate epidemic. Cole says none of this is likely to slow down. Not as long as the federal government offers grants that are dependent on drug arrests, and remains addicted to related funding.
"The federal government doesn't give you a penny to go out and arrest rapists and bank robbers," says Cole, "so who are they going to concentrate on here?"
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Cole likes statistics. Numbers, he feels, underpin his law of logic. He illustrates his points by asking specific statistical questions like "Do you know how many people are arrested annually for nonviolent drug arrests on average in the U.S?" I don't, and he's more than happy to enlighten me with an alarming figure: 1.7 million.
More stats come come tumbling out. About half of those 1.7 million, he says, were marijuana offenses. Drill down deeper, and the numbers reflect the institutional racism built into in the War on Drugs. About 37 percent of those arrested for drug violations are black, even though only approximately 13 percent of all drug dealers and users in the U.S. fit that description.
For those who need a little more convincing, Cole has additional stats, and scholarly charisma, to go around. As a result, his own number-crunching has found that roughly 80 percent of those who hear a LEAP presentation wind up agreeing that U.S. drug policy has been futile."This is not a hard sell," he says. "This is a very easy sell."
When I point to a recent Huffington Post poll that indicates low support for legalizing hard drugs like heroin and cocaine in America, Cole is dismissive, saying the dissenters simply haven't heard his group speak. To counter me, he also cites another survey in which two out of every three Americans don't think people should be prosecuted for coke or heroin possession, while 54 percent support marijuana legalization.
Of course, not everyone is sold. Beau Kilmer, a drug policy specialist at the think tank RAND Corporation, is among those don't see the wholesale legalization of drugs getting traction anytime soon. At the end of the day, the school that he subscribes to believes heroin and cocaine are too dramatically different from marijuana to group all together.
"There just isn't the popular support," Kilmer says. "Especially given there's been a lot of discussion about heroin the last few months. I don't foresee serious discussion about legalizing heroin or cocaine anytime soon, but I do think and I do hope we begin to have some serious conversations about heroin-assisted treatments."
Kilmer is not alone. Vince Breuning is a recovering drug addict two years sober who runs a hotline for addicts seeking treatment. He also blogs about addiction. Breuning agrees with some of LEAP's conclusions – namely that the War on Drugs has failed and that throwing addicts in jail is ineffective. But he has misgivings about making the big leap, as it were. "I feel like they should be decriminalized," Breuning says. "Flat-out legalization? I don't know how I feel about that."
All things considered, there's hardly consensus in the drug policy reform crowd that full legalization is the cat's meow. Cole, however, is adamant. To make his case, he likes to cite the prohibition of alcohol, and how that ban wasn't lifted because pols thought booze was a great, productive substance, but rather to wrestle power away from Al Capone and company. "Prohibition doesn't work," he says. "Regulations work fine."
As for the lack of politicians with enough fortitude to carry such measures forward … to a man like Cole, who has leaped the law enforcement fence from both sides for more than half a century, it's just another hurdle.
"Things are changing," he says. "You're not seeing the picture. It's going to happen."


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The symptoms associated with changes in the color of stool generally correspond to the underlying cause (although the presence of large amounts of blood alone may lead to diarrhea and possibly cramping). In many instances, there may not be any symptoms associated with changes in the color of stool.
Bleeding from the gastrointestinal tract (esophagus, stomach, small intestine, large intestine) leading to red, maroon, or black tarry stools may at times be without any symptoms at all. Other times, these changes may have accompanying symptoms of:
Persistently gray or clay-colored stools suggest some type of obstruction to the flow of bile. Obstruction caused by gallstones usually is associated with pain on the right side of the abdomen. However, cancer of the bile duct or cancer of the head of pancreas, which also can cause obstruction to the flow of bile by pressing on the bile duct, may not be associated with abdominal pain unless the tumor is large. The obstruction to the flow of bile causes backup of bile into the blood resulting in yellowness of skin and eyes that is referred to as jaundice.
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OVERTON, Nev. – The Lost City Museum is welcoming visitors during May, Archaeology Awareness Month in Nevada, to learn about the archaeology of Nevada in a hands-on way. For those who have ever wanted to learn how to flintknap or find out how stone tools are made Lost City museum will host demonstrations.
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And if the spots are coming back repeatedly in the same places, it wouldn't hurt to look at what touches them in case it's a topical allergen that's triggering it. I have a lovely raw leather purse that was finished with some unknown conditioner- it gives me a flare up on my shoulder and palms (unusual spots for me) every time. Took me forever to figure it out because I'm not allergic to leather- just the conditioner on this specific leather... and I wore it in the winter with a coat that usually kept it from contacting the skin- so it wasn't consistent with wearing the purse- only with wearing the purse on warm days. Stuff like that.
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The Jim Webb Story
"Between 9/11 and Katrina I became so frustrated," Webb told me. To him, the government's mishandling of Katrina was another example of the poor being treated badly. As early as September 2002, Webb began speaking out, forcefully and presciently, against invading Iraq. In a September 4, 2002, Op-Ed in The Washington Post, he wrote, "Is there an absolutely vital national interest that should lead us from containment to unilateral war and a long-term occupation of Iraq?" (At that point, few people were envisioning an occupation.) He also asked: "Would such a war and its aftermath actually increase our ability to win the war against international terrorism?"
Webb had not expected to get involved in electoral politics. He prized his freedom and privacy as a writer. Further, he says, "When I left the Navy in 1988 I decided I didn't want to do any more government." So that year he turned down a Republican offer of support if he would run for the Senate against former Democratic governor Chuck Robb, and in 1994 he turned down another offer to run against Robb, then an incumbent senator, and instead supported Robb against Oliver North. Starting in the later 1990s, he also turned down several entreaties by Democrats to make a Senate run. When Webb entered the Senate race in February 2006—nine months before the election—it was described as a Quixotic adventure: he was late and he had virtually no money or staff. He was given little chance against Allen, who despite his limited intellect was considered a serious contender for the Republican presidential campaign in 2008.
Webb ran an unconventional campaign, going more with his intuition than with the advice of Democratic Party professionals, who at times despaired over him. He chose his own pacing and for a stretch in the summer evinced little interest in campaigning at all. He is not one to be guided by focus groups; he doesn't play the angles. Like a boxer or a military man, Webb decides on his targets and charges straight at them. "We picked our themes and stuck with them," he says. His three campaign themes were the war, the growing chasm between the wealthy and the working class, and the exceptionally high rate of incarceration in the US. Close victories (in this case by less than ten thousand votes) can be attributed to many factors, but the consensus was that Allen's notorious "macaca moment"—his derisive references to an American-born young man of Indian descent in the crowd—made the key difference in the Virginia race. (As it happened, Allen made the comment in the rural mountain area of southwest Virginia—land teeming with Webb's relatives—which Webb carried.) The result, which wasn't known for two days after the election, gave the Democrats a one-vote margin in the Senate. Webb writes, "It's pretty safe to say that I am the only person in the history of Virginia to be elected to statewide office with a union card, two Purple Hearts, and three tattoos."
So Jim Webb arrived to the Senate with a reputation for being unpredictable, even a little weird, a little bit out of control, a little hotheaded. The sense in Washington that he was—well—different was enhanced by his famous first encounter with President Bush after the election, when at a November White House reception for newly elected members of Congress, Webb refused to shake Bush's hand. Bush then sought Webb out and asked him about his son, who was serving in Iraq, "How's your boy?" and Webb replied, "I'd like to get them out of Iraq, Mr. President." "That isn't what I asked," Bush snapped. "How's your boy?" Webb responded, "That's between me and my son, Mr. President."
In A Time to Fight, he explains that what some criticized as impertinence was a result of his disgust over the nasty Republican campaign against him, which, he said, "fell into the predictable hog trough of Karl Rovian negativity." Webb was particularly outraged by the Allen campaign's attacks on his writing as "pornographic" and the work of a "pedophile." As in the case with John Kerry, in not shaking Bush's hand Webb was following his own code of honor. When Webb's son returned from Iraq, he asked for a meeting of the two of them with Bush, and the matter was smoothed over. Webb was learning to soften his edges.
Webb early on showed in other ways as well that he was going to be a different kind of senator. When at the beginning of the new Congress, Majority Leader Harry Reid, having spent hours and hours on the intricate process of assigning committee seats, called Webb to tell him that he was being put on the Armed Services and Banking Committees—good assignments for a freshman—Webb replied that he wanted to serve on the Foreign Relations Committee instead of Banking. This just isn't done; but though it scrambled Reid's delicate arrangements, the leader went along. In fact, Reid considered Webb such a valuable new asset to the Democrats—a moderate with military credentials from a swing state—that he also took the unusual step of inviting the freshman to give the Democrats' response to the President's State of the Union address.
Webb tore up the draft supplied to him by the Democratic leadership staff and wrote his own speech. He gave the staff members fits by refusing to show them his version until shortly before the speech was to be given. In his speech, Webb went straight at Bush over the war in emotional and somewhat personal tones, pointing out that his father, he, his brother, and his son as well as other Americans had joined the military "because we love our country." "We trusted the judgment of our national leaders"; "we owed them our loyalty, as Americans, and we gave it; but they owed us— sound judgment, clear thinking, concern for our welfare"; "the President took us into this war recklessly." Webb omitted the usual laundry list of programs that makes these speeches so tedious (and that were in the staff's draft). The speech was a huge success and affirmed Webb's position as the new star on Capitol Hill.
When I was about to meet with Webb for the first time, in 2007, I expected to find someone who would be difficult to talk to, a little bit strange—someone with whom I had to be very careful not to put a foot wrong, lest I set off some land mine. What I found was completely surprising. Webb turned out to be an easy conversationalist with a low, gentle voice, a ready smile, and a sometimes very full laugh. During an hour-and-a-half-long conversation over sandwiches in his office, I kept waiting for him to be weird, but that never happened. Even Webb's looks are surprising: on television his large, flat face, with its broad forehead, looks like a potato—pale and pasty. In person his complexion is ruddy—with piercing blue eyes that suggest a man who might in fact have a wild side, a man whom one doesn't want to cross. Yet there is an air of almost preternatural calm about Webb, of a man who knows who he is. He is reserved; one gets the sense that he's seen things he just doesn't want to talk about. (This is a characteristic shared by other Vietnam veterans.)
From talks with his colleagues and others in and around the Senate, it became clear that his reputation belied the actual Webb. A senior Senate Democratic aide said, "He's proven all that wrong." Others described Webb in unusual terms, as applied to elected politicians: "polite" (I heard this several times), "shy," "modest," "a very nice person." His close friend Claire McCaskill, of Missouri, also a Democratic freshman senator, told me, "The fact that Jim is so grounded separates him and makes him seem more complicated than he is. He's not a complicated person."
This different kind of senator doesn't much share in the folk habits of the body he serves in. He's not a back-slapper; he doesn't engage in the touchy-feely behavior of most of his colleagues on the Senate floor, and, as McCaskill put it, he's "not much of a schmoozer." He knows that a certain amount of collegiality is necessary to being effective in the Senate, but he doesn't go overboard. Webb is as plainspoken on the Senate floor as he is elsewhere; he observes the required courtesies, but his speech is unadorned with the flummery of much senatorial oratory.
Webb has dutifully behaved in the ways expected of a freshman: he attends his committee's hearings and studies his briefing books; he is careful about picking his moments. As a student of history and an unaffected man, Webb has a sense of awe about the Senate itself; A Time to Fight opens with a lyrical description of the prosaic act of traveling from his office to the Senate floor.
Webb's efforts at collegiality don't prevent him from responding strongly to something he finds repugnant, such as when politicians, for political purposes, presume to speak for the soldiers fighting the war. So when on Meet the Press on July 15, 2007, Senator Lindsey Graham, of South Carolina, argued that when soldiers are reenlisting at high rates "they're speaking…," Webb jumped.
WEBB: You know, this is one thing I really—this is one thing I really take objection to…
GRAHAM: …the soldiers are speaking, my friend. Let them win.
WEBB: …is politicians who—at the…
GRAHAM: Let them win.
WEBB: Politicians who—may I speak?
GRAHAM: They want to win, let them win.
WEBB: Is politicians who try to put their political views into the mouths of the soldiers. You can look at poll after poll, and the political views of the United States military are no different than the country at large.
The two men went around and around about this for what seemed like a television eternity.
Webb has been unusually effective for a freshman senator. Part of his effectiveness, I've been told by other senators, is that he is one of the very few whom the others really listen to— because of both his credibility on military issues and his powerful intellect. Republican Chuck Hagel, who isn't spendthrift with his praise of colleagues, says, "I think Jim Webb is one of the smartest guys I've ever known. He has an ability to think through issues; not many here do." Hagel and Webb have known each other for almost thirty years; along with John McCain they formed the first cohort of Vietnam veterans to serve as aides on Capitol Hill. Hagel continued:
He questions, he probes, he thinks through the consequences—we almost never do. We take an action—like going to war—without thinking. He listens. He's not a blowhard; he'll hang back and he'll listen. He's actually kind of shy, kind of quiet.
And then Hagel added, "He has courage. That's a rare commodity in the business of politics."
Recognizing the futility of Congress's efforts to directly rein in the administration's conduct of the Iraq war, Webb has concentrated on issues that indirectly affect it, and ones designed to actually help the troops—issues that he is sincere about but that also have great political appeal for the Democrats, whom Bush and other Republicans charge with failing "to support the troops." On his first day in the Senate, Webb introduced a new GI Bill of Rights, to update a more than twenty-year-old version of the policy of providing educational benefits for veterans, and the bill gained strong broad bipartisan support. Hagel, who had served in the Veterans Administration, says, "There's no one in the Senate who understands these veterans issues better than Jim. He goes deep down in—he can go toe-to-toe with anyone on it."
Webb said on Meet the Press recently that he wanted veterans treated as "affirmative figures" rather than as "victims," and that his GI Bill is one way to treat veterans affirmatively. One senator who, strangely, didn't sign on to the bill was John McCain. Webb says that he approached McCain on the Senate floor three times to try to enlist his support. When a reporter relayed to Webb a statement by McCain that Webb's staff had refused to discuss the proposal with his, Webb responded, "He's so full of it," and pointed out that he himself had phoned McCain's top aide, Mark Salter, about it. When I asked him about this incident, Webb, not looking for fights with his colleagues, tried to downplay it. And then with no notice to Webb, McCain introduced a competing bill that was more modest and had administration support.
The Democratic leadership scheduled Senate debate on Webb's GI Bill for late May as part of the supplemental appropriations bill for the Iraq war; having lost roughly forty votes to force a change in Iraq policy, to them this offered an opportunity to highlight a difference with Bush as well as to "do something for the troops." Republicans in mid-May suddenly brought up McCain's bill, in order to preempt Webb's, but Webb and his allies were able to beat it back. The Senate passed Webb's proposal on May 22 by a vote of 75–22. (McCain was not present.) Bush had threatened to veto it.
In 2007, Webb tried twice to force a change in the administration's policy of sending troops on repeated tours in Iraq and Afghanistan (sometimes as many as five of them) with little time in between to retrain and to upgrade their equipment. Webb's proposal would have required that troops spend the same amount of time at home as they do in battle, but both times his effort fell slightly short of the sixty votes needed to break a filibuster. Webb worries about the fact that young men and women are now frequently thrown into battle without proper training. "You can't use people like this; we have an obligation to use our troops properly," he says.
Bush, as usual, complained that Congress was trying to "micromanage," to meddle with the president's prerogatives as commander in chief. (In fact, there had been a precedent for requiring a certain amount of training during the Korean War.) After being on the defensive by opposing Webb's bill, the administration, with a big fuss, announced irrelevantly that it would reduce the length of deployment from fifteen months to twelve—with the rather large exception that this would not be applied to the soldiers already in the field.
In their first year in the Senate, Webb and McCaskill won Senate approval for a Wartime Contracting Commission—along the lines of the Truman Commission set up to investigate corruption during World War II —to look into the contracting scandals of the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan. This was an unusual achievement for two freshman senators. Passed by the House, it is about to be set up.
Webb's name often comes up in the speculation about whom Democratic presidential nominee Barack Obama will pick as his running mate. Webb follows form in saying he is reluctant to talk about such a thing. But he appears to be not without interest. The timing and subject matter of his latest book do not seem to be happenstance. And to a number of people the idea of an Obama-Webb ticket makes a lot of sense: an African-American (actually of mixed race) and a man of Scots-Irish working-class descent; a war hero who can stand up to anyone on military expertise and patriotism. In fact, in his writings, as well as in his new book, Webb has argued that a combination of blacks and the Scots-Irish working class could form an electoral majority. He argues that they have similar grievances: lack of adequate education and health care, job training and job opportunities; and that both have been put upon or neglected by the elites. To him, the basic issue is more one of class than of race.
Webb's roots lie in exactly the area in which Obama has shown his greatest weakness so far—in the Appalachian region. Though both are freshman senators, Webb combines substantial government service with close knowledge of the military and the world. One drawback is Webb's inexperienced staff, which may not be up to the challenges he faces. (Politicians are in part judged by the press and others on the quality of their staffs; word gets around, and the effects usually show.)
Like Obama, Webb offers a fresh approach to politics and stirs an excitement that would provide the ticket with more pizzazz than would some of the more conventional figures whose names are in play. (The thinking of some of Obama's advisers and members of the press reflects the old politics of selecting a running mate by geography, or to appease a particular group—which is not the politics Obama has represented in his campaign.) Anyway, picking a male "surrogate" of Clinton, as some suggest, won't appease the women who are insisting that she be on the ticket. For all the recent talk about selecting Clinton herself, this wouldn't be consistent with Obama's concept of change, and could present all sorts of complications, especially when it comes to governing. Obama hasn't tipped his hand, but it's quite possible that even if Jim Webb isn't chosen for the Democratic ticket this time around, the country will be hearing more of him in the future.
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Suzuki cleared to test SX4-FCV in Japan
The new Subaru Stella plug-in isn't the only Japanese green car making its debut next month at the G8 conference in Hokkaido. Suzuki's in the game as well with a new hydrogen fuel cell version of its SX4 crossover, the SX4-FCV. Fitted with a fuel cell supplied by GM, and a 70 MPa (10,000 psi) storage tank for the H2, the SX4-FCV has a maximum operating range of 250 kilometers and a top speed of 120 km/h (around 75 mph). Power output from the fuel cell is rated at 80 kW, while the motor delivers 68 kW. Road testing has been approved by Japan's Ministry of Land, Infrastructure, and transport, and will commence soon.
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Embarking on a New Adventure10
Today I am starting a new job and embarking on a new adventure. As most of you probably already know, I've spent the last couple of years working for Red Hat as the Fedora Project Leader. I passed the FPL baton on to Robyn Bergeron a few weeks ago, and have spent the time since doing a bit of technical writing for Red Hat and trying to figure out my next role. I looked for positions both inside and outside of Red Hat where I could exercise my talents and abilities. As much as I loved working for Red Hat, I found another opportunity that is best role for me at this point in my career.
Starting today, I'll be working for Bluehost — one of the largest web hosting companies in North America. (Or, more specifically, I'll be working for Bluehost's parent company, Endurance International Group.) My job will be focused on open source outreach and community building, and helping Bluehost build better relationships with open source developers. I'll be taking the lessons I've learned from the Asterisk community and the Fedora community and applying them to other open source communities. Don't worry — I'll still be actively involved in most of the same open source communities that I've been participating in over the past several years, and I'll be participating in a few new ones as well. I'll still be working remotely from Virginia, so that I don't have to uproot my family and move across the country.
I'll share more details of my job over the coming weeks and months. In the meantime, you know where to find me — trying to make the world a better place, one conversation at a time.
Documentation (or the lack thereof)0
I'm in Seoul, Korea this week teaching one of the ever-popular Asterisk Bootcamp classes. As luck would have it, my hotel room has the most amazing remote control in the world! Not only does it control the big ol' LCD TV and the DVD player, but it also controls the air conditioner and all the lights in the room (including both lights in the bathroom!)
In trying to actually use the remote control, however, I was given a stark reminder of how important documentation can be. As you probably already know, I try to take an active role in the documentation teams for both Asterisk and the Fedora Project, but never seem to make the time to write as much as I'd like. As such, I can only hope our documentation efforts are more effective than the yellow labels on my remote control — just documenting the bare minimum and forcing the user to experiment to do anything useful (and very likely getting lost in the process).
(It's my own personal opinion that this is one of the ways that free/open source software often fails to keep up with it's commercial rivals; Many open source projects can't afford to hire technical writers, and if they're lucky enough to have volunteers do the work, there often isn't much praise for the hard work and effort that goes into it.)
If this reminder has you feeling the same way I am, why not step up to the plate and help out on the documentation front? After all, the fearless leader and the rest of the docs crew needs your help! As the old adage goes… many hands makes light work! We'd be glad to have you join our ranks.


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I can't say enough how glad I am that we have let the people close to us be part of this journey.
We ran into one of Nicole's coworkers in the waiting room once, someone she had never really spoken to before, and instantly bonded over this shared struggle. We have hung out with them several times now and appreciate having someone else who gets it and is in it right now. We check in with each other all the time.
My closest friends think to reach out to me once in a while to ask how it's going and how I'm holding up. This morning my best friend sent me a text with just hearts, which I received as I was waiting for the sperm to be washed. She was thinking of me at that very moment and just wanted me to know that.
My family is rooting for us nonstop and allow me to fill their phones with group texts at every stage of the process. They are excited and encouraging at every step, never telling me not to get excited or not to get my hopes up.
Our cantor didn't even blink when I asked him during Tikkun Leil Shavuot if I could use the privacy of his office to take my 9:00 injection at the break.
My coworker who had five IUI cycles before conceiving keeps an open door so I can come have a "moment" in her office after getting the official call in the middle of a workday. She helps put me back together and gives me the space to grieve for a bit before facing the rest of the day.
My other coworker, who is struggling to conceive their third and is doing IUI, checks in weekly to see what is going on with us and to share her own challenges. She is someone with whom I never have to feel like I'm talking about it too much.
Our friends A&A are our only same-sex-parenting friends, our only friends who have been here and can give us a different perspective than anyone else can. They also gave us a hand-done Chinese fertility drawing that they used when they were going through this to hang in our bedroom, and heaps of books and magazines.
This is tough stuff, and I can't imagine going it alone. Being surrounded by love and support and positive energy keeps us uplifted when we most need it.
I am a 30-year-old social worker living in Long Island and planning excitedly for the next phase in our lives. This blog is a place for me to express my thoughts and feelings about the process, from dreaming to planning to conception to pregnancy to birth to parenting. This is where I document our journey to motherhood. I also recently converted to Reform Judaism, and this experience is inextricably interwoven with the rest of my life experiences.
Thursday, June 5, 2014
The Importance of Support
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Customers … love them. Can't get enough of them in fact (obviously). However, I have on a more regular basis, lifted my phone and inspected the caller display with some amount of concern, or dare I say dread? Lately it's given me the gut feeling of knowing that this caller will probably not amount to much, other than perhaps wasting another five minutes of my day; notice the emphasis on another. In the interests of privacy (I would also like to keep this customer) I shall refer to him as Client A from here on out.
Client A is an absolutely great guy and I've enjoyed repeat business from him over several months. The repeat offense, however, continued to rear its ugly head in the way of "On-going Care" over the phone and through email. What started out as a small, innocuous issue steadily increased into a weekly problem which I desperately needed to get under control. Questions, questions, and more questions about computer (and more frustratingly non-computer) related issues, and not just calls, but emails as well. Emails which now don't get answered which leads to … yup … more phone calls.
I have to hang my head though, the cause of this problem was undoubtedly my fault, I made the mistake of not setting boundaries and I needed to get the issue under control. This issue with Client A and other clients have led to the birth of a new phone/email support service for which I now introduce a charge.
Ok, Client A is of course a repeat customer so some of these offenses can be forgiven to a certain extent, but the reality is that accumulated time eventually started amounting to accumulated hours … unbilled hours. Up to this point I never really had any need to charge for phone or email support, so I originally took no action when planning out my business services. It was my thought that introducing charges for phone and email based questions would only serve to put people off (my original goal), but in fact the reality was the complete opposite.
There really was a strong market out there for this sort of service (even for a small business) and having done some market research with my existing client base, most fully intend to make use of it in the future, around 90% of them in fact. The idea that they can contact their tech support guy for the smaller issues as well as the larger type failures seems to be a very appealing thought. "Continued peace of mind." was one such comment. On deciding that this service needed adding I gave thought to the various ways this could be done.
Phone/Email Support – Basic Business Models
Introducing phone and email support can shift your business model slightly and opens up a couple of approaches.
- Casual Approach
This is me, I very much take the casual approach to this service and overall do not focus on it as a core offering, more of an additional service to my existing client base. At the end of the day I'm not sat around waiting for the calls and emails to flood in, I'm mostly doing the day job, consulting, and doing call outs at evenings and weekends. Between these I'll catch up when I'm next at my desk. I receive several items a week and now have the peace of mind that the time is being billed accordingly. I've probably lost a couple of clients due to the inclusion of a charge but the trade-off was financially worth it.
- Primary Approach
Some businesses take the phone and email support as their primary core service by talking the issues through and perhaps moving to full remote session support billing hourly from the moment the call begins. The model can be very profitable and customers benefit from an almost instant support service provided that the caller to technician ratio is kept in check. If there is an onsite requirement then a third party may be called out to service the computer relieving the business of the hands on work.
- Mixed Model
The mixed model takes on both of the above approaches by introducing a fully manned desk working alongside onsite support techs to provide the full support experience. That way your internal support desk can deal with the small phone/email issues remotely, leaving you or your other support techs to deal with issues needing up close attention. Again we have the issue of needing to staff this model correctly but it offers the most complete support service and is often the goal of many computer support businesses.
Charging for phone and email support
Deciding your rate is your first job and then making the decision on how to implement that rate. This will often depend on the above models as well as your own experiences providing over the phone/email support. Given my Casual Approach and only offering the service to existing clients makes this very easy. I already have a good relationship with the client and I only tend to bill them once they've accumulated at least an hours' worth of phone and email support, then that's at my normal hourly rate.
- Premium Rate Numbers
You can of course choose to purchase a premium rate number to avoid having to bill your client directly. Setup and rental costs can often be quite high for small businesses and probably not really an option unless taking the Primary business model approach above. Callers are often unsure about calling premium rate numbers given that unless they have a stop watch, they have absolutely no idea how much they've just spent getting help creating that pesky shortcut.
- Prepay Schedule
Another option which could easily be applied to Primary and Mixed models is the inclusion of a prepay schedule. A way of arranging payment up front, prior to commencing the support service. This was also brought up by Thomas Mulkey in response to my recent Late Fees article as a way of avoiding the use of late fees altogether. Not something that you could easily include in the Casual approach, having paid upfront your client may be expecting a quick response to their query, just something to keep in mind.
Keeping Track on Time Spent
Another important factor is keeping tabs on the time you spend responding to calls and emails. "Easy!" I hear you cry, pen and paper, excel, OneNote, Evernote are great tools for noting down and things like Excel provide a means to work out the charges etc. I did this for a week and got so confused with the stacks of notes I accumulated (throughout several locations) that I decided to look for something specific.
For me personally I'm now using Zoho for the Time Tracking service which you can put against my individual customer records, with a handy built in stop watch it allows me to bill the time I spend exactly and invoice it when I'm ready at a click of a button.
It started small but Toggl has expanded into a comprehensive set of tools to help you manage, track your time and bill accordingly for projects of any size. Insanely flexible with an extensive array of reporting tools. Time tracking projects can be done via the site, a desktop widget and smart phone apps. Pretty cheap at $5 per month and will integrate with Freshbook, Quickbooks and others.
- GTime
Another interesting one for those using Google Docs is the GTime tracking tool, a desktop app that records all the data back into a Google Doc Spreadsheet. Simple and east to use, take a look here and see if it works for you.
- Smartphone Apps
Searching your respective app store will quickly reveal a wealth of tools dedicated to this purpose, having at least one of these tools handy on your iphone, wp7 or android will undoubtedly prove useful when you're not stuck in front of the PC. If you happen to be on your mobile then your call records will at least provide you with call times for detailed recording at a later date.
So there you have it, charging for phone and email support is really quite easy and you may find that clients love you for it! Just be sure to communicate it well and manage their expectations of the service accordingly, you don't want to take the casual approach only to be hounded night and day over the phone. On the flip side if you decide to use it as your core support service then be sure you can handle the incoming calls, hold music isn't a great look for any business. Of course there are plenty of methods and a variety of tools out there to smooth the process over. Zoho is my personal choice but certainly not the only option so please share your tools and ideas with your fellow Technibblers in the comments below.


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Cell structure
Plants and animal cells share the same basic structural features, although plant cells have a few extra bits.
Here is a diagram of a typical animal cell:
Animal cells come in all kinds of shapes and sizes but have the same basic features.
The control centre is the nucleus; this contains all the genetic information for the cell and controls all its activities.
The cytoplasm is like a big soup of chemicals in which the reactions occur.
Then forming the outside of the cell is the cell membrane, which acts as a barrier and controls the transfer of materials into and out of the cell.
Note: Some animal cells do have a vacuole.
Here is a diagram of a typical plant cell:
Plant cells also come in a variety of forms but share similar features. In addition to the three basic features found in animal cells, plant cells have some useful extra ones.
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Slidell church built in 1886 destroyed in overnight arson fire, authorities say
Updated On: Aug 15 2013 05:01:58 PM CDT
Authorities in Slidell are investigating a string of arsons that happened overnight Thursday.
Watch: raw video of fire | Aftermath video | Investigator speaks
In one of the instances, a church built in the 1800s was burned to the ground.
The Light of the World Church in the 400 block of Indian Village Road was built in 1886, officials said, and was completely destroyed in the overnight blaze that began about 10:40 p.m.
Nearby, a building and vehicle on Indian Village Road are suspected of being the subject of arson as well, authorities said.
Authorities with the St. Tammany Fire District and the St. Tammany Parish Sheriff's Office are investigating the incidents.
According to Pastor Freeman Simmons, the church was the first church in Slidell. It had been vacant since it was damaged by Hurricane Katrina but was in the process of being repaired.
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A zero-cost traffic fix for the Puget Sound areaNovember 11, 2013 @ 1:36 pm (Updated: 12:01 pm - 11/12/13 )
The Dori Monson Show.
As I came into the office Monday morning, I was driving the speed limit the whole way in. There was no traffic because it's Veteran's Day.
A few years ago, I noticed the Friday before a three-day weekend, like Memorial Day, Labor Day, those days, there is no traffic at all. So I went to the DOT traffic stats and just saw how many cars are on the road. I was wondering how many fewer cars were on the road those days. The answer is 10 percent fewer cars. That's all it takes to go from gridlock to driving the speed limit: 10 percent fewer cars.
There was a new study (from Inrix) that just came out today that said Seattle traffic is the sixth worst in the United States. Governor Inslee is about to unveil his multi-billion dollar transportation tax plan at this special session. Everybody says we can solve the traffic problem if you give us billions and billions of dollars.
I am here to tell you right now, you can solve the transportation problem at zero cost if they would implement my plan.
This is all they'd have to do:
All government workers who do not have to deal with the public face-to-face, don't work 9 to 5. About 15 to 20 percent of our total workforce is government employees. If you're a government worker, we'd have a couple of shifts, 3 p.m. to midnight, 10 p.m. to 6 a.m.
By the way, even if you come face-to-face with the public, how nice would it be when you have to go get your driver's license, to not have to take time off work and get to the Department of Licensing before 5 p.m? Why not have the DOL office open until 10 p.m. or 2 a.m.? You'd have zero lines and we'd have a government that is truly serving the people.
That is all it would take to solve our regional transportation woes, get government workers off the road between 6 a.m. to 9 a.m. and 2 p.m. to 6 p.m.
I guarantee it would work. It would cost nothing. The one complaint I've heard about it is from government workers who say, what about our families. And I would say, if you don't like the hours of your job, go get another job.
Before you agree to spending billions of dollars more for transportation, I want you to know there is a zero-cost option available that would solve, fool-proof, zero-cost, every transportation problem we have in this region.
Taken from Monday's edition of The Dori Monson Show.
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