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The Fund For The Needy
Mother of fragile child is thankful for the little things
If it weren't for Hopelink, the Redmond-based agency that helped her get the apartment that's become her baby boy's personal intensive-care unit, Sarah Eilertsen, 28, might have ended up in a homeless shelter.
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Each year, The Seattle Times Fund For The Needy raises money for select charities that help children, families and senior citizens. Throughout the fall and winter, The Times will write about the difference these organizations make in the lives of thousands and the impact those who give to the fund can make.About Hopelink |
Hopelink serves homeless and low-income families, children, seniors and people with disabilities in North and East King County. Hopelink services include food, shelter, homelessness prevention, family development, transportation and adult-literacy education. For more information, go to www.hope-link.org.Your dollars at work through Hopelink:
$25 Will provide personal-hygiene products for two individuals to prepare for job interviews; or formula for a newborn for two weeks; or food for six low-income or homeless people and connect them to future support.
$50 Will provide food for 12 low-income or homeless people and connect them to future support; or 25 meals for low-income families through the food bank; or formula for two newborns for two weeks.
$100 Will provide food for 25 low-income or homeless people and connect them to future support; or 50 meals for low-income families through the food bank.
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One-year-old Lucas Eilertsen is wired. One line, attached to a tiny foot, feeds into a machine monitoring his heartbeat, another to his throat, monitoring breaths per second. One tube supplies food and another oxygen.
The hum and shush-shush of medical equipment fill the tiny living room of the Redmond apartment where his mother, Sarah Eilertsen, holds him and rocks. Hour after hour. Day after day. Week after week. Lucas' survival depends on the oxygen tank, stacks of plastic tubing, monitors and ventilators that fill the apartment.
If it weren't for Hopelink, the Redmond-based agency that made it possible for her to get the two-bedroom apartment she's turned into Lucas' personal intensive-care unit, Eilertsen, 28, might have ended up in a homeless shelter. She was familiar with shelters, having volunteered in one as a high-school student, but she never thought she'd face living in one.
She has family in the area, but Lucas' birth came just as her parents were divorcing and her mother was selling the family home, which was bursting with other extended family members, as it was. No one — least of all Eilertsen — thought she would be coming home from the hospital with a critically ill baby who would make it impossible for her to return to work and would require nursing care and extensive life-support equipment 24 hours a day.
Despite Lucas' severe disabilities, Eilertsen treats him as any other baby, reading to him, assuming he can understand. She gave him a party for his first birthday and decorated the apartment with blue-and-white streamers and balloons and a very early Christmas tree, "because Lucas likes bright lights."
"She's an exemplary mom," Gloria Eilertsen said of her daughter. When Sarah learned of Lucas' condition, "it was devastating."
Gloria Eilertsen thought of "the responsibility Sarah would have as a new mother, how it would change her life. She'd not only be a mom but a nurse ... She is giving Lucas the best life she can give him."
Sarah Eilertsen can stay in her tidy, two-bedroom Hopelink apartment until she's able to be self-sufficient. Given Lucas' needs, no one knows how long that will be. The apartment is one of 100 such transitional housing units that Hopelink offers, said agency spokesman Glen Miller.
The waiting list for housing is long, he said. Last year, Hopelink turned away 84 families a month. This year, that number is 127 a month. To qualify for housing, families must be financially needy.
Sarah Eilertsen estimates that on the open market the apartment might rent for $1,200 to $1,400 a month. But she pays Hopelink about 30 percent of her income, or $236 a month, for the apartment, which includes water and electricity but no frills, such as telephone, cable TV or a washer or dryer.
Her mother picks up her laundry since Sarah rarely is able to leave the home. Eilertsen lives on less than $800 a month, from a combination of Social Security and state Department of Social and Health Services (DSHS) benefits. She has other expenses, such as diapers, and often has medical prescriptions that for various reasons are not covered by insurance.
Before she had Lucas, Eilertsen was a self-supporting barista with her own apartment. Then she got pregnant and her relationship with her boyfriend ended.
After an uneventful pregnancy she went to the hospital, expecting to deliver a healthy baby, but her amniotic fluid was low.
Suddenly, the planned normal delivery turned into a cesarean section. When she awoke and asked for her baby, she learned that he'd had to be resuscitated several times and that he ended up with brain damage and severe cerebral palsy and was unable to eat, breathe or move independently.
She was nearly overcome by the grave responsibility of caring for such an ill infant. Lucas' doctors and nurses trained her to do a variety of nursing tasks, including nasal-pharyngeal suctioning, which entailed running a tube through his nose into the back of his throat.
"I cried just doing it," she said. "I'd walk out of the training session and couldn't focus. But ... I knew I needed to be able to take care of Lucas."
When she and Lucas weren't staying at Seattle Children's, they stayed at her mother's house until Hopelink stepped in.
The other day, Lucas began vomiting. Eilertsen was alone, turned him on his side and began suctioning him to prevent liquid from entering his lungs. Then he began to turn blue and stiffen. The ventilator wasn't helping, so she resorted to using a handheld resuscitator to force air into his lungs, while at the same time trying to monitor his heart and keep him from aspirating.
She called 911 and he was taken to Children's, for the 16th time in the past year.
Even in the hospital, she checks the medical equipment and suctions his airway, notes his breaths per minute and heartbeat, the vital signs that make a difference between her baby living or dying.
She worries, too, about the weather forecast since storms and power outages mean having to evacuate to a place with electricity to support the medical equipment.
While Lucas has dramatically altered the life she once knew, she said: "I'm so thankful for him. I'm thankful for every minute I have with him."
Eilertsen now has 16 hours of daily nursing-care help from DSHS, but if she left Lucas completely in the care of the nurses, it would be considered respite care, something the state does not pay for.
It leaves her no time to visit friends. No time to shop or get a haircut. Bringing him along is cumbersome — it's nearly impossible because of all the life-support equipment — it exposes him to the risks of disease.
While she has friends who could baby-sit, Lucas has such complex medical needs that his survival depends on having skilled nurses, or his mother, around 24 hours a day. His grandmother says she's taken classes to be a backup but since she works and has other responsibilities, it's often difficult to be there when needed.
In the meantime, the nurses who come to Eilertsen's home have become good friends, often bringing pizza.
"She does a good job of always being thankful for all the things she does get," said Margaret Linde, one of the registered nurses assigned to Lucas' care. "She really depends on other people ... and she goes above and beyond to be super mom." As Linde picked up a green frog and danced it toward Lucas, who as usual was in Eilertsen's arms, he smiled faintly.
"He loves his green froggie," Eilertsen said. She insists he likes Burl Ives' Christmas music, Hawaiian songs and George Strait, because his eyes seem to move in the direction of the sound.
With therapy, Lucas may eventually be able to swallow on his own and that would make it possible for him to be free from the gastrointestinal tube. But because his brain damage involves all motor functions and cognitive skills, his life will always be dependent on medical equipment, his mother said.
"I pray every day that he'll be a normal boy and be able to someday play and laugh and run in the mud," she said, kissing his hair. "His brain doesn't give the right signals, so they don't give us much hope."
Since doctors say his life may be short, or as long as 20 years, it's hard for Eilertsen to make plans of her own. So day after day she rocks him, suctions him, watches the monitors.
"I love him so much. I hate to see him like this," she said.
"We need to be thankful we can walk. We need to be thankful we can talk. We need to be thankful we can use our hands," she said. "I look at Lucas and think every day is a blessing."
Nancy Bartley: 206-464-8522 or firstname.lastname@example.com. On Twitter @BartleyNews.
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For those who remember me, I had finally organized my last house. Then we moved and although I had packed and organized a lot of the items myself, the movers did a horrendous job of packing everything else. I'm still missing some items and they did what I specifically told them not to do - take things from all rooms just to fill a box.
Anyways, we moved to a rental (single house with a large fenced-in yard) almost 4 months ago and I unpacked most of the boxes but I still have items out in the open on top of things because I haven't put them away. A few personal things took place in this time frame and my mindset wasn't on the house at all. This house is soooo much smaller than my last place (and that wasn't big) and the kitchen is awful. The set of 4 drawers don't even have tracks and are not convenient to anything. Then there's one wide drawer between the stove and fridge that is hard to open and close so crumbs are always getting in there. And although the dishwasher appears to be normal size from the outside, it barely fits anything inside of it. Besides this, there are only three accessible outlets, one of which is for the microwave. One is part of the stove and the counter on the left side of it is quite narrow and really won't hold more than one item. And if I use the microwave and the oven at the same time, the oven works at a much lower temperature. I found this out the hard way. We're renting and I know I'll end up having to pay for this myself at $75.00/hour to fix which I'm still debating. I can't seem to find my work counter and go back and forth between 2 areas. It's just so hard to cook when you can't use 2 appliances at the same time. I feel as though I'm back in the middle ages. Are there small rollable islands that come with an outlet? Do you have to use an extension cord that goes from the wall outlet into the island outlet? That would defeat my purpose. But I wonder if I got one of those islands, then I'd have my work center and an extra plug. I do have the room to put an island. Then there's my bedroom which barely fits my furniture. I keep thinking the house was built before king-sized beds were available (lol). The linen closet is also too small. And the bathroom doesn't have any outlets. It appears that I'm living in the wrong place but the rent we're paying is really good and it's a single house that is very convenient to my job (just 1 mile away) and to shopping, etc. I also have a lease so we will be here for another 1 1/2 years or longer. How do I make this place a home? How do I force myself to get get it organized again? I feel as though I'm starting from scratch. |
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Oh, honey, I so understand the problem! We made a similar move last year, from a house we lived in for 16 years, during which I redid every inch to suit us, to a much older house with virtually no storage to speak of. This house has been renovated, so I have no complaint about its basic quality, but it has taken me a year to adjust, and I still have two rooms to deal with (we call them the Rooms of Shame...) First of all, realize that this change has probably been stressful enough to take all the starch out of you for a while. So problems and puzzles you could ordinarily solve with a snap of your fingers suddenly seem insurmountable. Then give some serious consideration to either getting rid of, or storing, everything you can bear to live without for a while. Think about all your cooking habits, and see if you can simplify them, too, as long as you live there. And one more thought, if you haven't already done this...get some help if you have to (a friend or a hired hand), and clean that awful kitchen and the bathroom within an inch of its life. Squeaky clean and sweet-smelling can make you feel a lot less overwhelmed. |
One of our homes we lived in had drawers like that.. the bottoms of the drawers just sat straight on the wooden bases? Is that what you mean? My Dad bought some kind of plastic strips.. really flat and thin, and just glued them either side of where the drawers slide. Made them glide like magic. Sorry I don't know the name of the stuff. It was not exactly tape, but it was specifically for helping drawers to slide. He just got it at a basic hardware shop. Just thought this might ease one of your problems... Cheers and hugs from Lily |
Marie, You have crossed my mind a few times since you moved, wondering how you had settled in and if you like Vanc. I'm sorry the house has so many problems. Have you had a chat with the landlord? I should think that the wiring is not up to par since there is no outlet in the bathroom. If I encountered the issues with the electrical system that you have, I would go down to the local city hall and speak to the codes officer (assuming that Canada has something similar to what we have here in the US). Find out if it meets code. If it doesn't, you have some excellent leverage for it to either be fixed, or consider moving without any lease problems. I know moving wouldn't be your favorite thing to do, but the possibility may be an incentive for the LL to do some upgrading. While you are at the city hall, see if you can get some info on tenant's rights. In the meantime, enjoy what the NW has to offer. Barbara |
Hi Marie, I'm a perpetual lurker on this forum. I too have been thinking about you and agree that you should be kind to yourself while you begin to recover from your move. If you have an incandescent fixture in your bath, you can buy an adapter at a hardware store that will give you an outlet plus allow you to use a light bulb. In any case, I'd go to a hardware store (not a big box one) and describe your problem. I think they'll be able to help you. |
Hi Marie, Another mostly-lurker, chiming in. Definitely give yourself a bit of a break - moving is stressful and overwhelming under the best of circumstances! It takes so long to figure out how things work in a new place, and you're right in the thick of it. Here is what I would probably do in your shoes. First - definitely give everything a good cleaning, if you haven't already. My mom insisted on doing this with me, when my husband and I bought our house, and it seemed so absurd at the time ("Hello? Boxes to unpack?"), but it really can help you build your connection to the new place. It will also give you time to do some more up-close assessments of areas that may not work for you. Then, set about solving the issues one at a time. If you're a list person, make a list. If lists overwhelm you, just pick one thing, resolve it, then resolve the next, etc. You could do this one room at a time (i.e. solve everything in the kitchen, move into the bedroom), or pick whatever is bothering you most overall and solve that (then move on to the next most-bothersome thing, etc). Talk to your landlord, if you're comfortable, about some of these issues. See if either s/he will solve them, or maybe give you a discount on your rent if you improve the property. If not, then I would try to stick to improvements that you can take with you (anyone remember that HGTV show "Rooms To Go"?). It might be worth it for your peace of mind over the next 18 months, though, to fix some things even if it's not money you'll recoup. Last, is definitely keep in mind the positives! Being that close to work, having a large yard, a great rate for rent, etc. I'm sure there are more - maybe even things you can work to accent as you're settling in. Morning sunlight in one corner? Put a chair there for your morning cup of coffee. Living room that's a nice size? Hang out there. Definitely ask questions around here - there are some truly brilliant minds around here (many belonging to other renters), there's nothing this forum can't solve collectively. |
Thank you for your replies. Please keep them coming. I wish I could get the house sparkling clean but there is so much stuff all over the place (counters, dresser tops, desk top and floors) that I'd be overwhelmed trying to clean it. When we moved, I thought I had gotten rid of every unneeded item. I worked really hard and was ruthless to come to this conclusion. Yet, I feel so overwhelmed by the stuff out in the open everywhere that's not yet found a home and don't know where to start. I was thinking last night that there are 9 areas in my bedroom and if I did one a day, I'd be ready to get it sparkly clean in 9 days. But it's been really hot here lately and there is no central air. SO when I get home from work, I just don't seem to get the energy to start and just think about it instead of just doing it. Do I just throw everything into boxes that has not yet found a home and deal with it all, one box at a time? Or do I do room by room? |
You are not alone! I bet that many of us have felt the same in homes that were not quite the best fit. One strategy that worked for me is to pick a single (could be small) place in each room, and make it into very pretty focal point. I had a bedroom that was 6x10' (and this was the biggest bedroom LOL) so my queen sized bed just wedged from wall-to-wall at one end. BUT it had a sunny window. I sewed simple, open weave linen curtains, and put a glass piece where the sun would hit it and reflect. When I was in that room I focused on that beautiful square foot - the glass piece and the sun filtering through the linen curtains. It took my mind off the rest of the cramped mess. In the dining room I painted one wall a dramatic color. (In a rental you could try hanging a flat sheet or fabric piece with liquid starch so it is removable). Other rooms - think about keeping most stuff tucked away out of sight, but put out a favorite vase, picture, fruit in bowls, fresh flowers. Just a little focal point - rotate with the seasons. hth, Lena |
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Marie, Your last post struck a chord with me from a previous move we made. My husband knew that the movers would also unpack us as part of the contract (govt. move). For some never to be known or understood reason he wanted them to unpack the boxes 'so the boxes would be gone'. They told him they didn't put stuff away, they just took it out of the box. I came home from work to find all the countertops in the kitchen, all tabletops, a 9-foot bar top, and 1/2 the floor in the kitchen covered with dishes, silverware, glasses, appliances, food, canned goods, paper goods, placemats, tablecloths, dishtowels, cleaning supplies,etc.etc.etc. In an extra bedroom they had literally 'dumped' boxes of shoes, sewing supplies, clothing, bathroom supplies, etc. That pile was 3 feet high. I don't think I have ever been so angry, both at my husband and the movers, but mostly my husband. I went to the bedroom, scrounged a change of clothes, and told him I would be back when it was cleaned up. So he took off three days, put away the kitchen, and reboxed and sorted the 'pile', and then I came home. When we moved the last time, we were in an apartment for 6 months, and then moved into our home, so everything but clothes and minimal lines was in storage. No repeat of the last fiasco. The point of my story is this; I didn't unpack a box until everything from the last box was put away. I realize there is that 'thing' that doesn't fit anywhere, so it goes back in a box to be dealt with later. I never unpack a box just to unpack it, unless I am prepared to put it away. That's the only way I can deal with it. And yeah, I've still got some boxes, but at least the stuff isn't sitting around looking at me. So, how is this going to help you? If you are still unpacking, STOP! If you try to keep on at this point, you will really overload your self. In an effort to get yourself to a comfort point, pick a surface, just one, and address that surface only until it is cleared. If you have stuff that you don't know what to do with, put it back in a box and label the box so you can easily retrieve it if you need to. Knowing how hard you worked to pare down before the move, I wonder if you have set the bar really high for your self and have some self expectations that are unrealistic. You are in a smaller home, the rooms are smaller, you are dealing with electrical inadequacies, AND you are working outside the home, hey, give yourself a break, and think of all you have accomplished in a relatively short time!! Marie, it's just 'stuff', and WHEN it comes out of the box is not the most important thing in your life. You won't have a lot of hot weather there, so make a pitcher of iced tea and go sit outside when you get home tonight. The boxes will wait. Barbara |
Do I just throw everything into boxes that has not yet found a home and deal with it all, one box at a time? Or do I do room by room? I think the answer to this depends on how you prefer to work. For me, I'd probably throw it all into boxes - doing a rough sort as I go. (i.e. "this box is stuff that will probably go in the bedroom. This box is stuff that will probably go in the living room, etc). That would give you a) some instant gratification, b) room to work, c) the possibility of just pitching the whole blessed box if you find you haven't touched in in a year. :D I would also recommend that you make the two rooms you mentioned into your priorities: the bedroom - so you have somewhere restful to go at night (also important if you have a partner, to show the importance you place on your private space together), and the kitchen - so you can handle the basics of eating/etc with as little hassle as possible. Do you have room to create a staging/work area - maybe a basement or other out-of-the-way place? That could be somewhere that you stack the boxes that you're working through them slowly. (And if it's the basement - cooler temperatures as a bonus!) And definitely give yourself time to enjoy the weather and the new place! When I'm having motivation issues, sometimes I'll make deals with myself: tidy for 10 minutes, and I get 20 minutes on the porch with my novel and iced tea. (These are days when I'm reeeeeallly unmotivated; set the ratios to whatever works for you). Don't forget how much time you put into the previous house. This one won't magically come together, unfortunately. But! You do have all those wonderful skills, tips, tricks, etc that you learned while doing this before; you just get to use them again in a new place. ... |
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I have a different idea for you, and I know this from experience...I have been where you are! It is completely dispiriting to live in a mess, and you might actually be a bit depressed by the stress and the unhappiness it causes. So I would do two things. First, go see your doctor or a good therapist, and find out if you are depressed, and if a course of antidepressants might help you. Try to get up early every day and go for a long, brisk walk before it gets too hot. Brisk daily exercise is the world's best remedy for the blues. You may think you don't have time, but you will get the time back double in energy and focus. When you lock up the bin at the end of the day, you are finished, and the job is not all over the place screaming at you. Put on some music, pour yourself a glass of wine, and revel in that day's accomplishment. And go to bed early so you can get up early, refreshed and ready to cope. (This is the crucial step if you get up early to walk...) I know you can do it. Keep checking in...we are all on your side! |
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Mary Huff asks "Let me start by saying that I enjoy watching the DCC Ladies every season Was just curious why you have a 5 year cap on cheering?"
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Vickie L. writes "I am a teacher overseas—I teach many technology and career classes. Having watched several of your seasons I have noticed several candidates have their prospective careers lost due to Facebook and other such social media outlets. My students, middle and high school aged boys and girls, do not see the future ramifications of these current decisions. Are their any words of wisdom you could have for them to these ends? What would your cheerleaders who have lost jobs have wished they would have known?"
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Probe of Einstein's Brain Reveals Clues To His Genius
Re:Yet Another Einstein Article (195 comments)
Electron velocity is a standard component of the Bohr Model.
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Re:Yet Another Einstein Article (195 comments)
Electron velocity is a standard component of the Bohr Model.
Re:News For Nerds (113 comments)
Is that why they bothered posting corruption allegation on a blog with the aim of informing the public? Why risk being arrested if everyone can work it out for themselves?
Re:News For Nerds (113 comments)
So does this mean you potentially get offended when people bash "stupid Americans", or does the label apply only when convenient?
Re:Yet Another Einstein Article (195 comments)
2. Perpetual motion is idiotic; There has never been a case of it being observed.
Said the electron to the nucleus.
Re:as loudly (459 comments)
I used to make badly written programs as a kid, so does this mean I have to quit my job?
My boss said he would give me a glowing referral for any one of our competitors. He's a pretty cool guy.
-Gen Y v86 signing off
Re:No, ROMs and emulators (127 comments)
Everything becomes rare over time, you just have to wait long enough. Of course, if cryo-freezing yourself doesn't work out, maybe that ET cart will net your grand-kids at least $5. Or whatever the steel bottle-cap equivalent is.
Re:Lets try logic (590 comments)
Cancer is a part of nature, but that doesn't mean we need to accept it as incurable.
Lets try logic (590 comments)
If PETA suddenly started getting more share of the pet adoption market, the net survival rate of non-PETA shelters would drop accordingly. Pet adoption demand has been easily met every year, so your point is pretty much moot. PETA itself claims it does not see euthanasia as a means of population control, but as a last resort for animals suffering painful, terminal conditions (supposedly).
I would be more comfortable with the shelters spaying / neutering wild pets in a catch and release type of program, but this method is more expensive than putting them to sleep, and the net suffering (due to the typically brutal lives that wild pets usually endure fighting disease and competing for territory and food) would actually decrease slower per dollar invested, in theory. I'd love to see some data on this, but I've been unable to find any studies that try to approach this from a purely pragmatic angle.
On the topic of euthanasia as a means of population control, is there a point at which killing one animal so another animal will suffer less worth it if the net suffering relieved is great enough, or is allowing both animals to suffer always the better choice? Is a live of misery still worth living? I still have no idea
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Don't joke about that, that's how lp0 died.
Re:Get out (219 comments)
From what I've heard in the industry, it is. This BBC article is a little dated but is a good outline of some of the key points. Popular Mechanics did a good piece on the issue a few years back, if you're up for a longer read.
Re:Get out (219 comments)
go home to your damn USA and fix your problems
And yet, one of the USA's biggest problems is China spying on US corporations. Though, unlike China's propaganda division, I admit that the Tu Quoque fallacy is not a defense for USA's (or China's) actions.
Misleading title! (219 comments)
I entered this story under the pretense that I too could become a spy.
Posted from China, Texas.
Re:An e-book is not a book. (465 comments)
It's fantastic to have so much space reclaimed that other homes have stuffed with shelf upon shelf of books, video games, movies, and albums
I still find it strange that people would not like to have shelf upon shelf of books, games, movies and albums.
Re:Let Me Understand This (444 comments)
It's just a politician's hypocrisy as usual. Whenever a politician accuses you of something you can be 99% sure it is what they themselves are guilty of.
I stopped caring about being popular a long time ago.
Then why the angsty statement about not caring?
Re:No harm done (630 comments)
An armed guard is a good idea, but it may be cost prohibitive. The guards themselves would also be another potential point of failure.
Most shootings happen at close distances, so it would fallow that non-lethal weaponry such as tazers (with projectiles) could be effective in many scenarios. The issuance of non-lethal weaponry to staff with a breif, possibly one-time training session would have a real shot at lowering classroom shooting fatalities.
It may still seem to be cost prohibitive, but how would it compare to the proposed $200M gun buyback program? Another issue could be that like with guns, the weapon could be used against the employee. However, trading potential deaths for potential injuries sounds like a win to me.
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I absolutely can elaborate on specifics, but specifically which specifics are you having trouble finding with Google?
I guess I'll just do a quick run-down:
Sentence 2 part 1: See media footage from any major tragedy. I assume you must be a small child or live in a cave for this not to be completely obvious, but just in case, an example: Hurricane Katrina was publicly touted as "Gods wrath" by several Cristian organizations. And who can forget the September 11th attacks endless media coverage of religious responses.
part 2: This is inherent in almost all religious ideologies. If you don't believe me, just ask your pastor/priest/rabbi/etc
Sentence 3 part 1: Read any "holy" text from any religion that wasn't invented yesterday and compare it with their current accepted dogma. Even (most) Christians believe that killing people by throwing stones at them for simply being gay is simply barbaric.
part 2: Track accepted dogma over the centuries and notice how they always seem to lag behind society.
Sentence 4 part 1 is a conclusion based on facts stated in sentences 2 and 3 and the knowledge that almost all religions declare their view of morality to be "absolute".
part 2 is evident every time anybody questions any religion that considers itself above questioning. This is a general attitude that can be readily experienced yourself; just try it.
I've given you all the clues you need to easily find the truth, now all you need is the will (and Google).
Re:Gingrich & Huckabee Weigh In (1168 comments)
Gotta love religious propaganda. They often use tragic and violent events such as these to push their ideologies, and then act as though human morality is derivative of their religion. This is also despite the fact that they must ignore large portions of their holy texts for their religion to be considered morally acceptable in modern society, and their dogma must constantly be updated throughout the ages to not fall behind society's definitions of morality. No other type of ideology can bill itself as containing an absolutist definition of morality and also change so dramatically over the course of the ages, but this is what happens when you allow any subject to become offensive to question.
The utter tragedy in all of this is that the more they distract from the actual causes of the incident, and the more it is exploited by the news media, political parties, and religious organizations for monetary, political, and ideological gain, the more our children are at risk from future incidents.
Re:You kidding me? (1168 comments)
Is this sarcasm? Is there even any correlation between mass murderers and illicit drug use?
If anything, we should be seeking medical help for the mentally unhinged instead of having the "its the family's problem" attitude we've taken. And god help us if we try to tell you how to raise your kid.
Its time we stop treating mental illness as some sort of shameful failure and as the medical problem it is, just like drug addiction. But that doesn't sell on the airwaves, and there is no one left in the news media with even a shred of integrity, which means we are going to have to do it all ourselves.
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I detest drama, not "noise". But I do love AC trolls (:
Re:So.. what the hell IS Quantum computer anyway? (47 comments)
Once, a long time ago, Slashdot was known as "news for nerds". We've come a long way, but every once in a while one of these sciency articles will slip through.
Simply pay this article no heed, good netzien, and I'm sure we can get back to our endless Apple vs Microsoft vs Linux vs liberal vs conservative vs cut vs uncut vs AMD vs Intel vs Oprah retard flame wars in no time. Wretched hives from the chans to even the AOL forums will be green with envy.
"Fix reason firmly in her seat, and call to her tribunal every fact, every opinion. Question with boldness even the existence of a god; because, if there be one, he must more approve the homage of reason, than that of blindfolded fear." - Thomas Jefferson


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A Reason to Care About Hockey: Crosby vs. Ovechkin
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For members of smart society whose knowledge of hockey starts and ends with the fact that Rangers hockey star Sean Avery once interned at Vogue, it's worth feigning an interest in the Olympic puck scene and tuning in to watch the epic clash of the titans that's set to take place tonight at Canada Ice Place, in Vancouver, as Sidney Crosby and Team Canada suit up to take on rivals Alexander Ovechkin and Team Russia.
Need a primer to impress your pals if you are watching the game down at New York City's Avery-owned sports bar Warren 77? Yesterday on VF.com, former N.H.L. star and U.S. Olympian Bret Hedican discussed the rivalry between Crosby and Ovechkin:
The game within a game to watch is Canadian forward Sidney Crosby and Russia's Alexander Ovechkin, who are two of the best players in the world right now. On any given day in the N.H.L., either of these men can be leading the league in scoring. These two have had games against each other that are already of legendary proportions. If one scores three goals in a game, the other matches it. When one wins the M.V.P. of the league, the other wins it back-to-back. When one wins a Stanley Cup, the other goes on a mission to equal that. (We just need to stay tuned to see if it happens this season!) They probably respect each other, but no doubt they don't buy each other chocolates.
And earlier this month, VF.com dissected the rivalry between Team Canada and Team Russia:
The Vancouver Games are just the latest chapter in this hockey saga, which dates back at least half a century. The sparks really started to fly in the 1970s, a decade that saw Team Canada boycott both Winter Games on the grounds that the Soviet team was illegally using non-amateurs. As an alternative, both nations assembled their top pros for an eight-game "Summit Series" in 1972 that came to be one of the major events in international sporting history. Canada—after getting trounced in the Montreal opener, then accusing the Russians of bugging their hotel rooms and engaging in referee-related foul play in Moscow—won it by a hair but were stunned at how close they'd been to losing in a sport Canadians had assumed they dominated.
But fashionistas who, try as they might, will never be able to understand the difference between blue lines and hem lines, should chew on this: in light of Avery's foray into the fashion world, are athletes out to conquer Seventh Avenue?


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Creating Excellence in Worksite Wellness: Taking your program to the next level
This course, held on Thursday, March 7, 2013 at GOSH, was co-sponsored by CROET, the Oregon Healthy Workforce Center, SAIF Corporation and the Portland Business Journal. Listed below are materials developed for and presented at this course.
Keynote: Worksite Health Promotion: Sharing Data and Evidence about Making Wellness Programs Effective
Ron Z. Goetzel, Ph.D., Emory University & Truven Health Analytics
State of the State Panel
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- Dawn Robbins, Wellness@Work, Oregon Public Health Institute
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Re:Clearly obvious... (170 comments)
Printed books are not manuscripts! Say monograph instead.
Re:When will he be arrested? (666 comments)
The fact that lower speeds are safer doesn't mean that lower speed limits are safer, because speed limits have very little effect on the speed people actually drive. In the famous federal study "Effects of Raising and Lowering Speed Limits on Selected Roadway Sections" (Publication No. FHWA-RD-92-084), speed limits were raised and lowered by up to 20 mi/h, and the change in average speed was never larger than 1.5 mi/h.
Re:world before Snowden and after, - B.S. & A. (247 comments)
There has been much debate over what sort of man (and/or divine being) the historical Jesus was, but this idea that he was a purely fictional creation has no credence among scholars of the period. For a treatment of the subject at length, read Did Jesus Exist?: The Historical Argument for Jesus of Nazareth by Bart Ehrman (a very distinguished, religiously agnostic professor of religious studies at UNC-Chapel Hill, and the author of the leading introductory textbook on the New Testament).
Re:The Big Issue with Galileo (206 comments)
The 1615 proceedings are not those that led to Galileo's house arrest and the ban on publication of all of his works. The reasons for that can be read in Galileo's sentence, which can be found on pages 287–291 of Finocchiaro's The Galileo Affair: A Documentary History. The Inquisition, noting that Galileo was previously denounced in 1615 for "holding as true the false doctrine taught by some that the sun is the center of the world and motionless and the earth moves even with diurnal motion", goes on to conclude that "That the sun is the center of the world and motionless is a proposition which is philosophically absurd and false, and formally heretical, for being explicitly contrary to Holy Scripture". Furthermore, a general prohibition of heliocentric works was added to the Index of Forbidden Books, and was not removed until 1758; the works of Copernicus and Galileo specifically were removed in 1835.
I've tried to see the Church's side of things, but it turned out their side was that Galileo was a heretic, and his heresy was saying that the Sun doesn't move like it says in the Bible. Whatever Galileo may have done to rub people the wrong way, that is the root of the issue in the cardinals' own words, and Pope John Paul II was quite right when he called the matter a "tragica reciproca incomprensione" caused by theologians "traspo[nente] indebitamente nel campo della dottrina della fede una questione di fatto appartenente alla ricerca scientifica."
Re:Why illegal? (403 comments)
Historically, suicide victims forfeited their property to the king (often ruining their family) and were dishonourably buried.
Re:let me unpack this for you (440 comments)
Read that article carefully. It doesn't say "the models" have failed—it contrasts novel near-term models with "conventional climate projections", which are made on scales of decades rather than years and are of proven reliability. The radiation balance of the Earth is still positive, and even if not as much of the energy is going into the surface and atmosphere as some scientists have predicted, ocean temperatures show that the world is indeed getting much warmer. Both forcings and feedbacks are up, up, up, and we are in record-breaking territory right now, with every decade that goes by becoming the hottest decade on record. Anyone who thinks we don't have a problem is deluding themselves.
Re: Fuck 'em (204 comments)
Spontaneous building collapses were a serious problem prior to the development of classical mechanics. In ancient literature, it's how Job's children die, and Simonides of Ceos discovers the method of loci after miraculously escaping a collapsing banquet hall.
Re:They're just getting a head start on Obamacare. (365 comments)
Actually, ignorance of the law is a valid defence for U.S. federal tax crimes, a rare exception to this principle. In Cheek v. United States, a tax protester had his conviction overturned because the jury had been instructed that a belief that one is not breaking the law only negates willfulness if that belief is reasonable. Of course, he owed his taxes with penalties whether he was convicted or not, and he was convicted anyway upon retrial.
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There's some interesting history behind the Board of Longitude. It was formed in 1714 to judge prizes of up to £20,000 for a reliable method of determining longitude at sea (this was the scientific problem of the day, comparable to the modern search for a cure for cancer or theory of everything). In the early days, the board was flooded with crank proposals, and the commissioners' duties consisted of individually writing letters of rejection. When John 'Longitude' Harrison arrived in London in 1730 with plans for a clock that could keep accurate time at sea, the Board of Longitude, though it had been in existence for more than fifteen years, kept no headquarters and had never held a meeting. He sought out one of the board's most famous members, Edmond Halley, at the Royal Observatory.
Halley knew that longitude could be determined from the time if a sufficiently reliable clock could be built, but that was a big 'if'. Not exactly qualified to judge Harrison's ideas, he sent him to the country's leading clockmaker, George Graham. Harrison went to see Graham in the morning; Graham invited him to stay to dinner and finally sent him off with a generous loan with no interest and no hurry to pay it back. Harrison took five years to build the sea clock, which performed beautifully on a test run to Lisbon, and he had every right to demand the test run to the West Indies required to claim the prize, but one person was unhappy with the clock: Harrison. He could build one even more accurate, he thought. And he could make it smaller. All he asked was £500 for further R&D.
Harrison finally became satisfied with his clocks in the 1760s, around the same time that the lunar distance method became practical; the methods were widely used in conjunction until the price of marine chronometers came down. The Board of Longitude stuck around as publisher of the The Nautical Almanac—of which you've found the first edition—and was finally dissolved in 1828.
Incidentally, Harrison's clocks were the subject of a memorable simile by Lord Byron, in Don Juan:
Oh! She was perfect, past all parallel—
Of any modern female saint's comparison;
So far above the cunning powers of hell,
Her guardian angel had given up his garrison;
Even her minutest motions went as well
As those of the best time-piece made by Harrison.
Re:Now they've done it... (309 comments)
It's a Futurama reference. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HIWHMb3JxmE
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The idea is that the value of gold is very stable, with its price only climbing because of the ever-falling value of fiat currency, so pricing goods in a quantity of gold will give an idea of the real value. You often hear such things from people who want to return to the gold standard. For example, "the stock market might have gone up 200% in nominal terms, but if you price it in gold, it's still just one-eighth of an ounce."
Re:The internet, where religion comes to die (191 comments)
Wishful thinking. Plenty of people see sceptical arguments on the Internet and are not convinced, and some people even still convert to religion rather than away from it. Predictions that atheism or deism will soon conquer superstition throughout the civilised world have been a "year of Linux on the desktop" thing for centuries—think of Nietzsche's famous pronouncement that "God is dead!" But this seems about as likely as conquering the presumption that atheism is "obvious" and nobody who gives the question thought will come to a different conclusion. Loudmouth "philosophers" like Richard Dawkins have made a lot of noise in the last ten years, but there's no reason to see any more significance in this than in 19th Century crowds flocking to hear Robert Ingersoll, or H. L. Mencken's ridicule of belief in the pages of the American Mercury.
Re:Is there enough data (623 comments)
What, anywhere? Of course.
Re:Quick... (439 comments)
The Met Office made a post on their blog repudiating the Daily Mail report, noting that this is the second time this year that this reporter has published misleading information on this subject: http://metofficenews.wordpress.com/2012/10/14/met-office-in-the-media-14-october-2012/
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Chick Fil-gay can and absolutely did say what they said.
You believe they deserved massive free publicity and record-setting sales?
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Both are correct.
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Under the influence of Christian theology, you have totally misread Genesis 3. The Book of Genesis was written hundreds of years before the birth of Jesus by men you do not think were divinely inspired, so why do you blithely accept that its purpose is to set up the Jesus story by establishing the need for redemption?
In "Tree of Knowledge of Good and Evil," "knowledge" is meant in the sexual sense in which it is used elsewhere in the Bible, and "good and evil" is a figure of speech called a merism, two opposites joined by the word "and" to mean "everything," like when we say in English that someone searched "high and low" to mean that they searched everywhere. After the couple eats from the tree of knowledge, they immediately become aware for the first time that they are naked (Genesis 3:7), and then Adam "knows" his wife (Genesis 4:1) and conceives Cain. Nowhere in the text is this knowledge depicted as intellectual or ethical. The part about labour pains is not a curse like the curses on the man and the serpent; she will have pain bearing children simply because she has chosen to have procreative sex rather than to live forever. It has to be one or the other, because it was recognised in ancient times that reproducing immortal beings would overwhelm the world. Genesis does not judge Eve for what she did; maybe it's a good thing that she brought sex into the world. Anyway, since this immediately follows a contradictory creation myth (Genesis 1:1 through the first half of Genesis 2:4), it's clear that neither was meant to be taken as literal historical truth anyway.
Re:Guess he never saw the Creation museum... (779 comments)
I mean, just look at your post! You don't do anything to show that the words Aquinas wrote were anything other than a work of fiction; instead, you hammer on his authority, try to show off your historical knowledge, and seem to be arguing that because I compared Aquinas to Rowling I'm wrong. You say nothing to bolster what should be your point, namely that Aquinas is right; instead, you harp about how I'm disrespecting him.
No, my point is that most critics of the church are ignorant of its teachings and traditions. I am not a Catholic.
Re:Guess he never saw the Creation museum... (779 comments)
Do you have a bachelor's degree in philosophy and have concluded that Harry Potter contains no meaningful ideas?
So you haven't read (or, I suspect, heard of) the Summa, then? You see no problem with criticising the church when you are ignorant of its teachings and traditions? You are willing to vocally criticise the church when you have not given even cursory study to the logic behind its point of view?
Not only that, but you, who are unfamiliar with the work of St. Thomas, feel that all the respect for him by people who are familiar with his work must be undeserved just because he believed in the existence of God? If you knew who he was and had a specific problem with his reasoning, I would respect that. Instead, you are just dismissing one of the most important figures in Western philosophy by comparing him to J. K. Rowling because you are unwilling to consider the possibility that somebody came up with an answer to your devastating "prove it" argument in the 13th Century.
You're the one who brought it up; are you saying that you were only making a general statement without having any specific examples in mind?
Yes, I was just making an observation about why people believe in God. If you want an example, though, consider Acts 9:3-9.
Re:Guess he never saw the Creation museum... (779 comments)
The Harry Potter novels fill seven volumes and should address all of your epistemological concerns.
Wow, you've got some balls to equate a thinker like St. Thomas Aquinas to J. K. Rowling. I guess you have a bachelor's degree in philosophy and concluded that the Summa contains no meaningful ideas after studying it in the original Latin?
If they personally experienced the presence of their Lord, did He provide any means of verifying this fact? Perhaps by telling them something they otherwise wouldn't know? Maybe by doing some healing (since He seems to be fond of claiming that particular miracle)?
Because, you know, without that little bit of external confirmation - well, there's all sorts of drugs that will make you feel like you're in the presence of God (and another class entirely that'll make you feel like you are God). If such effects can be achieved pharmaceutically, why is the actual presence of God more likely than a spontaneous hallucination of God?
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UPDATED 6:26 PM CST Dec 17, 2013Nebraska Gov. Dave Heineman introduced the recent winners of a recent Powerball jackpot on Tuesday afternoon.
Video TranscriptWHEN YOU WIN THE POWERBALL YOUR LIFE CHANGES IN AN INSTANT. AND THESE NEBRASKANS ADMIT THE PAST FEW DAYS HAVE BEEN AN ABSOLUTE WHIRLWIND. ( when i noticed our numbers won i just prayed, i know god has a plan for us. ) SO WHAT'S THAT PLAN? FIRST AT FIVE...THE HARRIGS SHARE HOW LIFE HAS CHANGED ALREADY. GOOD EVENING I'M MELISSA FRY. AND I'M ADRIAN WHITSETT. THIS AFTERNOON IN LINCOLN DAVID AND ERICA HARRIG CLAIMED THEIR 61 MILLION DOLLAR POWERBALL JACKPOT. AND TALKED ABOUT EARLY RETIREMENT AND THEIR FUTURE. K-E-T-V NEWSWATCH SEVEN'S TONY CORNETT IS LIVE IN LINCOLN WITH MORE ON THEIR PLANS.IT'S NOT OVER UNTIL THE GOVERNOR HANDS OVER THE BIG CHECK...AND THAT'S WHAT TODAY IS FOR DAVID AND ERICA HARRIG OF GRETNA...THEY ACCEPTED THE BIG CHECK AND GAVE US SOME INSIGHT INTO THEIR NEW LIVES AS MILLIONAIRES... (Nat snd, "Here it is ... the second biggest ever.") BUT CLEARLY, IT'S THE --FIRST BIGGEST-- DAY EVER FOR DAVID AND ERICA HARRIG...BUT THEY MAKE IT CLEAR ONE THING WILL --NOT-- CHANGE..(David Harrig, "I told our friends. If you were friends with us on Tuesday, you're friends with us today, period. We don't want to lose them. They are who defines us.")THEY'VE QUIT THEIR JOBS TO FOCUS ON THE MOUNTAIN OF NOT JUST NEW WEALTH, BUT INTIMIDATING RESPONSIBILITY.ERICA SAID SHE --THOUGHT-- ABOUT CONTINUING TO WORK...(Erica Harrig, "Yeah, I had every intention of working until I was 40, and I went into work on monday and retired immediately.")BESIDES, THEY SAY, THIS LOTTERY WIN IS NOW MORE THAN A FULL-TIME JOB FOR BOTH OF THEM...(David Harrig, "It's been a whirlwind, scary somewhat. Fun, mostly fun.")AND THE HELP TO SUCCESSFULLY LAUNCH THEIR NEW LIFE IS IN PLACE...(David Harrig, "That same team is going to protect us from ourselves. So there's not going to be a story down the road where we are in a ditch somewhere I can guarantee you that.")AND THEY'VE EVEN GOT A PLAN FOR THE PLAN...IF DOWN THE ROAD IT LOOKS LIKE THEY'RE STRAYING FROM THE PLAN ... (David Harrig: "We've asked family and friends to make sure.Erica: KEEP US GROUNDED AND IF WE GET TOO BIG TO ROPE US IN.")BUT THEIR MAIN PLAN IS SIMPLY TO STICK TO WHO THEY'VE ALWAYS BEEN...(David Harrig, "We're not going to change. Still wearing the old Nebraska hat. It's not going to change.")THEIR ADVICE ON HOW TO WIN...? YOU GOTTA PLAY ... (Erica Harrig, "He plays weekly and if it's big enough it's Wednesday and Saturday. YEAH AND I THINK WE BROKE EVEN. Ha aha." ) BUT DAVID HARRIG SAYS HIS PLAYING DAYS ARE NOW OVER...HE'S NOT PLAYING TONIGHT'S MEGAMILLIONS ... HE'S SAYS HE'S GOING TO LET SOMEONE ELSE HAVE A CHANCE... BY THE WAY... HE'S TAKING DELIVERY OF A NEW, RED CORVETTE IN A COUPLE OF WEEKS...REPORTING LIVE FROM LICOLN, TONY CORNETT, KETV
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Set in the opening years of the next century, "Antarctica" presents a tour of a terrestrial continent that is nearly as alien and inhospitable as our nearest neighbor in the solar system. Combining the extrapolative techniques of science fiction with the reportorial style of a popular history, Robinson creates a fascinating portrait of a harsh environment that at first seems to offer little more in the way of dramatic interest than rocks, ice and penguins. The action in "Antarctica" revolves around three primary characters. For a General Field Assistant known only as X, his Antarctic sojourn has devolved into a lonely exile filled with meaningless scut work and endless tasks for the scientists living there. His former lover, adventure trek guide Valerie Kenning , relishes the sensation of living on the edge that the continent continuously provides, but resents the clients who insist on taking unreasonable risks. And Wade Norton, an aide for California Senator Phil Davis, arrives at McMurdo Station to investigate reports of missing equipment and possible sabotage. The pending non-renewal of the Antarctic Treaty means that the continent's natural resources might soon be up for grabs. With the rest of the world battling the ravages of global warming, many groups fear an ecological disaster in Antarctica. As X, Val and Wade discover, some individuals are willing to use extreme, and potentially deadly, means of promoting their political agendas. The plot of "Antarctica" moves at a stately, some might even say even glacial, pace. Robinson takes his time in setting the scene and introducing the characters. Sometimes he indulges in lessons in geology, meteorology and politics well past the point of the average reader's interest. Nevertheless, Robinson finds clever ways of conveying the natural majesty and human history of the continent. Especially compelling are the chapters told from the perspective of a Chinese video artist named Ta Shu, who recounts for his audience back home the tales of Scott and Amundsen, the first men to attempt to reach the South Pole. Robinson excels in describing what makes Antarctica so unique and mysterious. At one point of her expedition, Val muses, "And it was easy to take the icescapes down here for granted anyway, because they were so ubiquitous, and so spectacular everywhere, but in a fractal way, self-similar at all scales, so that one lost perspective. It was like becoming an ant and hiking through the ice tray in your refrigerator; there are scores of beautiful ice formations in every refrigerator, but how many people notice? You had to be a connoisseur of ice." Robinson proves himself just such a connoisseur. After a band of "ecoteurs" disrupt the carefully maintained survival systems by blowing up research stations and jamming communications satellites, the second half of the novel amply rewards the reader's patience. Cut off from their supplies and unable to communicate with the outside world, Val, Wade and X struggle to survive in an environment where a single misstep can mean disaster. That's when all of Robinson's careful scene-setting pays off. In its second half, "Antarctica" becomes a suspenseful adventure, lyrically described and morally complex. By the time X, Val and Wade achieve their individual goals, Robinson has made the reader care about not only their fates, and about the fate of an entire continent. (c) 1998 by Michael Berry |


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March 2012 By Erik Cagle, Senior EditorKeeping It Safe and Secure
Doug Hammerseng, vice president of sales for GLS Companies, notes that about a dozen clients had requested information regarding the handling of their data and its security. After investigating options, GLS decided to opt for the SOC 2 reports.
"We were trying to figure out, from a sales perspective, what...would grab a prospective client's attention," he says. "Security breaches have garnered a lot of media coverage, and we knew that it was a growing concern. (SOC 2 audit standards) formally puts us out there in front of the market."
Data security is only part of GLS' value proposition. The printer serves an advisory role with clients at the genesis of a campaign, leveraging past experiences to provide guidance on messaging and market targeting. Multichannel integration, including QR codes, PURLs and Websites, augments the essential, traditional direct mail-based address hygiene functions such as CASS (Coding Accuracy Support System) certification, NCOA (National Change of Address) and Intelligent Mail Barcode (IMB) tracking services.
"With postage being the largest part of direct mail campaigns, we do everything we can with customers' files to optimize their postage," says Steve Lasher, GLS' head of mailing operations. "That includes looking at drop-shipping entry points, meeting critical in-home dates and doing LTL (less than truckload) directs, where we enter the mail into the SCF (sectional center facility) to coincide with the sale or event. We work closely with customers to help plan their campaigns."
To what degree does guidance play in the role of database management? Are printers custodians or advisors? Take Colormark Inc., of Kansas City, MO, which now considers itself a marketing solutions partner that offers assistance at the concept and design phases of a client's project. Data development and leveraging tools are vital elements to the printer's tool belt but, as database manager William Mitchell points out, comfort and confidence go a long way with the direction clients take.
"As a company, we still see a disconnect with our customers in them not getting art directors and creative people together with IT or data people way upstream in the process," Mitchell remarks. "It's common to see a customer with fantastic data and no idea what to do with it; and, on the other hand, a customer with a great campaign idea and horrible data."
Those frustrations may come with the territory, but they are a mere bump in the road. Tiffany Edwards, cross-media platform database manager for Colormark, notes the printer does client presentations that illustrate how data can be used to improve response rates. The printer works with them on a one-to-one basis, reviewing their data and suggesting how it can best be leveraged. Colormark will also make suggestions on new data than can be collected to gain even better penetration with their recipients.
"By being able to have these kind of conversations, clients turn to us for guidance on new projects and what kinds of capabilities we can help them with to drive their response rates up," she says. "By looking at their situations and suggesting solutions that make sense for them, a trust is developed. Sometimes it doesn't make sense to use a PURL and we will tell them that, even though it may mean the project cost comes out to less. In the long run, the relationship that is developed is more important than the short-term sale."
Colormark performs CASS, NCOA and de-duping duties, and Mitchell points out that clients usually send in multiple data file formats, which must be merged to create usable data. Data accuracy, more than security, is critical.
"Ultimately, the accuracy of the data is only as good as the instructions or the information given to us," he says. "We ask as many questions as we can up front and our data experts know what to ask to get the most efficient, accurate outcome."
Japs-Olson Co., the pride of St. Louis Park, MN, is a commercial printer and direct mail specialist with customers who have a strong understanding of database marketing and personalization, not to mention solid segmentation and analytics knowledge. Michael Murphy, Japs-Olson president, says his firm's value proposition is in using software and imaging systems to create the complex levels of customization that his clients require.
"We have many production platforms that are optimized for the level of customized message and quantity," Murphy says. "We will suggest a certain press or format configuration if we feel that it will be beneficial to their program.
"Many times, customers are used to a certain workflow and do not understand that, with minor changes, we are able to reduce their cost and time to market. The more we understand our customers' objectives, the more we can bring our production expertise to create the best workflow."
Data security is a priority for Japs-Olson, which takes a layered approach that includes physical, operational, auditing and disaster recovery. Murphy notes there are specific elements of verification to ensure the security of customer data. As for printers expanding their database management capabilities, it's important to keep abreast of the evolving nature of marketing programs.
"Every segment of our customer base is developing more targeted messages through customization and personalization," he states. "As our customers change, we must add data management and database expertise to facilitate these new marketing programs. We will all be required to develop bigger, stronger and more sophisticated data management systems." PI


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After a three game losing streak, the Wayne State women's basketball team (10-8, 5-6 GLIAC) bounced back with a win against Ohio Dominican University (6-11, 2-9 GLIAC), beating the Panthers 74-70 on Jan. 21.
The first half started off as a tight game until the Panthers took a seven point lead, 16-9, at the 12:37 mark. Their lead didn't last long, however, as Paige Sickmiller, who led the game with a season-high 20 points, made a three-pointer, cutting the lead to 18-14.
The Warriors started to gain momentum after that. Phaebre Colbert, the WSU's junior forward, made an and-one layup, followed by another three-pointer from Sickmiller – which gave the Warriors the lead 22-21, with 7:26 remaining in the half. Colbert finished with 15 points and five rebounds.
WSU held on to the lead for the remainder of the half, heading into the locker room up 34-33.
The second half started off great for the Warriors. Deanna Crumpton, who ended the game with 13 points, made a three-pointer which pushed the lead to five, 46-41, at the 15:21 mark. Still, the Panthers kept fighting back as Meredith Fox, who led the team with 19 points, made a jump shot, which brought them within two, 53-51, with 10:40 remaining.
The score remained close until the Warriors took a six point lead, 68-62, with only 2:22 left in the game. However, the Panthers came back with a couple three-pointers making it 70-68. Colbert ended the game with two clutch free throws, giving the Warriors a 74-70 lead.
WSU's Juanita Cochran stepped up big with 15 points and nine rebounds. On the contrary, the Panther's Abby Glover also made 15 points along with seven rebounds.
The Warriors made 56 percent of their field goals and an amazing 83 percent of their three- pointers. ODU, on the other hand, made 47 percent of their field goals and 41 percent from downtown.
The Warriors play their next game at home against Ashland University Jan. 26 at the Matthaei.