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Definición de intemperate en inglés:
1Having or showing a lack of self-control; immoderate: intemperate outbursts concerning global conspiracies
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- I take offence at the suggestion, which would be refuted by anyone present in the Committee, that my behaviour was intemperate, immoderate, or offensive, if that word was used, as well.
- A hastily penned memo from the heir to the throne, and an intemperate radio outburst from the Education Secretary, says everything about the entrenched positions of royalty and New Labour.
- But his explanation for his intemperate outburst does not inspire confidence.
immoderate, excessive, undue, inordinate, unreasonable, unjustified, unwarranted, uncalled for;
extreme, unrestrained, unrestricted, uncontrolled, unbridled, uncurbed;
self-indulgent, overindulgent, extravagant, lavish, prodigal, profligate, imprudent, reckless, wild, outrageous, egregious;
dissolute, debauched, wanton, dissipated, dissipative
1.1Given to or characterized by excessive indulgence, especially in alcohol: an intemperate social occasion
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- Devout New England Puritans were not unusually promiscuous or intemperate.
- Why had she married this rakish, intemperate man - this man who drank himself to an early demise?
- But the hopefulness with which Joey starts the summer rapidly devolves into confusion and fright as he tries to manage his remorseful, fetching, intemperate, hyperactive, and alcoholic father.
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- Certainly, the Home Office appears to have acted intemperately, launching an appeal against his successful asylum claim on the grounds of their own incompetence (they forgot to attend it).
- His mother, Nina, drank and married intemperately.
- Similarly, one who has excessive debts should repay them before intemperately contributing to charity.
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- Rather than address these issues with cool logic and professionalism, a depressed and exhausted Harlow responded with sarcasm and insult, further dooming him to marginalization through the intemperateness of his remarks.
- Perhaps what most moves me to this unAmerican intemperateness is that there can be no doubt whatever that certain desires are in play with respect to determinism and freedom.
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Twenty elderly evacuees from the Gulf Coast are headed to Warrenville for a new home in a senior apartment complex. News 12 is on your side with how the complex is welcoming their new neighbors.
Brand new space at Village Senior Apartments is ready to house 20 Gulf Coast evacuees.
"We have plenty of closet space," said Pat Breeding.
Pat Breeding is the manager here.
"We think they just deserve it and we're just ready and willing to welcome them here in our home," Breeding said.
FEMA will pay half of the evacuees' rent. The complex's owner, Simpson Housing, will pay the other half of the rent and all utilities. The evacuees are expected to live here for six months to a year.
But of course the apartments come empty, and that's where you can help. They need furniture like couches and TV's. And in the kitchen, breakfast drinks and frozen foods are needed to fill the fridge.
People living here are welcoming their new neighbors already. They're bringing things like towels and appliances to stock the apartments. It's a group that was evacuated themselves during Norfolk Southern's January chemical spill.
"We're all seniors," said Barbara Couch.
Barbara Couch is helping out. She and others here will also give perhaps the most needed item, friendship.
"We have a good time here and I'm hoping they will join in and enjoy the activities that we have in the facility," Couch said.
"They're gonna feel right at home although it's not their home and we understand what they've been through, but we're gonna give them the next best thing," Breeding said.
People in their golden years living out the golden rule.
The evacuees will fly into Columbia on Friday, but have to be processed and Village Apartments doesn't know the exact day they'll arrive there.
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Twitter trending topics are often a great cross-section of racism, homophobia, and misogyny, but one of today's most popular hashtags has taken things to a delightful new level.
Swastikas are currently trending on Twitter. Not the word "swastika" but the actual symbol. My guess is that someone figured out how to embed a swastika in a tweet and countless others copy-pasted, because gosh, what a thrill.
As you might expect, tweets using the three-swastika hashtag are terrible — most are too dumb to be offensive, but the cavalier insensitivity and cultural ignorance is at least disheartening. Here's a sampling, for those of you who don't want to trudge through the depths of Twitter idiocy.
Memes (popularized by @DictatorHitler):
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Bad jokes:
There are countless iterations of "I did Nazi that coming" and "Anne Frankly it's offensive." You know what's really offensive? Lazy jokes.
Moral outrage:
First, let's note that @FollowMeOBAMA is choosing both outrage and tasteless jokes. Second, it's worth pointing out that the more people tweet a trending topic, the longer it stays trending. Tweeting that you're offended by swastikas while including swastikas in your tweet is one of the dumber things you can do online.
These are probably the most depressing tweets — whether it's people who don't know the difference between Osama bin Laden and Hitler, or those who actually think swastikas are illegal.
Like all trending topics, this is only temporary, so try not to let it get you down. And make sure to check out Twitter tomorrow, when we'll surely be back to hashtags like #UKnowSheAHo and #WhyDoBlackPeople.
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Definition of basipetal in English:
1(Of growth or development) downwards towards the base or point of attachment. The opposite of acropetal.
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- Expression of the DXR gene in adaxial phloem parenchyma cells was more pronounced in the young revoluted base of the leaves with a basipetal gradient decreasing toward the tips of older leaves.
- Lateral view of young inflorescence with basipetal initiation of flowers in the axil of bracts.
- Ellipsoidal microconidia and falcate macroconidia are formed from phialides by basipetal division; globose chlamydospores with thick walls are formed acrogenously from hyphae or by the modification of hyphal cells.
1.1(Of the movement of dissolved substances) inwards from the shoot and root apices.
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- In every case, the basipetal movement was greater than the acropetal movement.
- From there they will flow to other parts of the shoot in both basipetal and acropetal directions.
- However, a continuous basipetal transport of auxin from the shoot to the rooting zone (upper part taproot) is required for adventious root formation.
basipetally adverb
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- The hairs are oriented acropetally, while in the proximal part of the sac they grow basipetally, i.e., oriented toward the lemma-sac interface.
- When the exposure time was extended to 60 min, a large amount of phosphorus was transported basipetally to the shoot from root sections located 80 mm from the root tip, where the xylem is completely mature.
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Now his lawyers say they have evidence, including new DNA test results, that cast serious doubts about whether Breest murdered Susan Randall on a February night 42 years ago and hurled her body, half-naked, over the Merrimack River Bridge in Concord, NH. They filed a motion Friday seeking a retrial.
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Sunday, we respect the Sabbath and head to Oxford Art Factory to take part in a Sage Francis sermon: Preparing to be preached to on politics, women, woes and existential landscapes, all in the good word of this relatively obscure American political rapper.
The support act was supposed to be Sage Francis' label mate, B Dolan, so we were surprised when we graced the church of music worship and The Herds' Ozi Batla was on stage. A commendable performance of Aussier-than-thou party tunes were played – however, given the atmosphere, perhaps someone from Sage's Strange Famous label would have been more complementary to what we are all really here to see.
And he takes to the stage with gusto and brute force. Punching us in the face with his opening performance – The. Sage. Francis. Draped in a Strange Famous cape and donning a mop top wig, no less. The room stands to attention. Then the room loses their shit; along with their screaming WHOOS and all the applause they can muster. He takes this opportunity to inform us that he recently lost a dear friend to death.
A surreal experience, given that his vulnerable confession was drowned out by the consistent cheers and hand claps of the crowd...
Australia is the last port of call on what has been a major world tour promoting his new album, Li(f)e. As a result, Sage sometimes came across as tired and occasionally omitted words from his more famous verses. This didn't seem to dull the enthusiasm of his heavy Australian fan base, though, with many of these absent lyrics being filled in faithfully by the crowd; whole verses of his dense wordplay were sung in sync with his own flow.
And so, despite overpriced drinks and frustrating security, the OAF was held together by the love that the congregation had for Sage's rhymeschemes, which really have to be heard to be believed. His lyrics are at once incredibly listenable with a good sense of storytelling, while at the same time being filled with dense, subjective metaphors.
As he says in his signature, humble style, on Lie Detector Test from the album "A Healthy distrust": "It doesn't matter/I make enough sense to seem deep… If it hurts me/ more than it hurts you/ then I won't hurt you/ I've got more sense than virtue."
The disappointed romantic's songs are filled with the venting of the worst of his times. After the epic closing song, he climbed down from the stage, sans toupee and cape to be mobbed with adulation. As we watched him being worshiped by the adoring crowd, grappling to touch their sage, you could not help but think the trials he has survived are what got him to this moment.
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At the end of (or during) this session, using your notes and ISO/IEC 17025 or NIST HB 143, you will:
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Apple Pomegranate Spritzers for a Virtual Baby Shower
As much as I'm looking forward to fall and it's cool crisp weather, I'm still grasping at summer just a bit. Apple Pomegranate Spritzers were the perfect way to toast the end of summer and a new baby, for my friend Jen!
Almost 25 years ago we welcomed our first baby into our family, a beautiful little girl. We wanted a girl first and she was perfect. So perfect in fact, we waited 8-1/2 years before we decided to have another, lol. It all seems SO long ago now, but I remember singing camp songs during bath time, watching every Disney Movie made a dozen times…… in one day, and how my heart melted every time I heard "love you mommy" with a big hug.
Today we are celebrating as our sweet friend Jen from My Kitchen Addiction, and her husband are about to welcome their first bundle of joy, a baby girl to their lives. I toast the two of you with this non-alcoholic drink and wish you the very best in your journey thru parenthood. Your lives will never be the same again, you will wonder how you ever breathed with out this little one in your arms!
I brought Apple Pomegranate Spritzers to the party table today. Aren't they pretty?!
This drink will not disappointed. It's fizzy, fruity and full of antioxidants (hello pomegranate!) and non-alcoholic. You could swap out the lemon-lime soda for white wine if you'd prefer a boozy version, say for a bridle shower, or after a day of answering "Why" twenty times.
Simple, refreshing and a perfect good bye to summer and hello to the upcoming holidays!
Several bloggers have joined together for a surprise virtual baby shower for Jen. Celebrate with us! Check out the list of participants below the recipe! Take a few minutes to click around and visit the great blogs participating!
This liquor-less libation is simple, refreshing and a perfect good bye to summer and hello to the upcoming holidays!
- 6 cups sparkling water, chilled
- 3 cups apple juice, chilled
- 3 cups pomegranate juice, chilled
- 3 cups lemon-lime flavored soda, chilled
- apple and orange slices to garnish
- In a large pitcher, combine water, juices and soda, stir to combine. Garnish with fruit slices.
- Serve immediately over ice.
"Like this recipe? Add it to your personal recipe box to make later or add the ingredients to your online shopping list to make it this week. Just click the Save Recipe button to get started."
A big thanks to Amber and Tracy for getting us all together to celebrate Jen's much awaited little addition!
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These are SO lovely, Cheryl! I think I might even bypass the tea that I wrote about. 🙂
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Yum! I could drink this all day 🙂
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Those look incredible Cheryl! Great idea!
Thank you so much, Cheryl! Your post is so sweet, and I'm so lucky to have such great friends. I am so surprised by all of the baby shower posts that I'm still kind of speechless.
And, I cannot tell you how excited I am for a non-alcoholic cocktail! This sounds absolutely amazing… I can't wait to try it! Everyone else has been getting all of the good drinks all summer, so I am claiming this one as mine and making it ASAP! Delish!
What a perfect cocktail for this wonderful Fall shower for Jen!
WOW. Cheryl, these look amazing!!! What incredible photos. I would gladly try one of these in a heartbeat! 🙂
What a refreshing spritzer! And a fun way to celebrate 10 tiny fingers & 10 tiny toes!
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So lovely and refreshing…and a nice little mocktail for a pregnant mama!
Oh yes, these do look so good and a way to make summer linger just a little bit longer! They look great 🙂
What a lovely and refreshing beverage! And good luck to Jen,! 🙂
these are gorgeous! they sounds amazing.
What a sweet idea! I know what you mean about your heart melting. My knees go wobbly every time Daisy gives me a gentle kiss on my cheek!
I love anything with Pomegranate in it. This is such a pretty color, and sounds amazing!! What a great drink to share for a baby shower.
Cheryl! These are absolutely GORGEOUS!!! Totally saving this recipe for non-boozy…and boozy occasions!
Fruity & Fizzy is right up my alley! Beautiful!
These look so beautiful & delicious! I love what you said about having a "boozy" version "after a day of answering "Why?" twenty times"… lovely photos, too! Thanks for sharing!
Pomegranate and apples–so perfect for fall! I love this. 🙂
Delicious mocktails for a mama-to-be! Love the color 🙂
This sound sooo good!! I'm all about the virgin spritzers these days 🙂
They are indeed pretty, here's to Jen and her growing family!
Such a beautiful drink for Jen and her shower. Congrats to her!
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Aw, reading everyone's post for Jen's baby shower has me nostalgic for soft baby skin and pink one day…way down the road {as a Grammy} ;D Love the spritzer!
Yummy! I'll have to try these … and luckily my dear friend is pregnant so this will be perfect!!!
Yay! Congratulations to Jen! Everything looks so delicious! 🙂
My gosh, so fresh and colorful. Just want to taste it!
These are just beautiful Cheryl, and perfect for a fall shower! Thank you for bringing them along – they look so very refreshing!!
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Cheryl, will you come over and make these for me? I could use the antioxidants and refreshing bubbles on my sore throat! (I've brought back some sort of bug from Vermont.) These drinks are just what I need. Thank you so much for joining us in the virtual shower!
Love this pink drink!!
These look beautiful and sound delicious!
Such a pretty drink!
Beautiful photos, Cheryl. This is definitely the perfect drink for a baby shower.
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VOTE: The Alumni Bracket Sweet 16
Frustrated that schools during March Madness are strictly evaluated by something as insignificant as basketball ability, The Wall Street Journal created the first-ever Alumni Bracket last week. Here, the colleges and universities participating in this year's NCAA tournament were judged by an entirely different set of criteria: How great are their alumni?
For each of the 68 schools involved, we selected a starting lineup of five influential alums from the worlds of business, entertainment, politics and art. It didn't matter if these alumni were living or dead, undergraduates or Ph.D.'s, or even whether they graduated. They just needed to attend. The only ineligible alumni were people who are primarily known as athletes, coaches, team owners or announcers.
Based on our best judgment, we played out the whole tournament using the actual 2014 bracket. The winning team in each match-up was selected based on which group of players we deemed more famous, revered and/or important. There were definitely a few surprises. Senator Marco Rubio's Florida Gators were stunned in the first round by the No. 16 seed Albany, led by the potent combination of Steve Guttenberg and Harvey Milk. Former Israeli prime minister Golda Meir and Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella led Milwaukee to the Elite Eight. And Rudy Giuliani's Manhattan College team also proved a bracket buster.
But at the end of the day, the chalk prevailed. Harvard's potent combination of four U.S. presidents and the world's richest man proved too much for any opponent. The Crimson defeated Wisconsin in the Alumni Bracket final despite a noble effort from Badger point guard Frank Lloyd Wright.
But with the Sweet 16 comes a new weekend and a fresh chance to shuffle the deck!
There are 16 basketball teams remaining in the actual tournament, and here's how their alumni match up. (Thankfully, Harvard was already eliminated.) Some of the match-ups are tough: George Washington Carver battles Meg Ryan; James Earl Jones takes on Cormac McCarthy. While some look like routs: We doubt Father Guido Sarducci and Dayton can pull an upset over Sandra Day O'Connor's Stanford team.
Vote on who you think wins the alumni battle for Thursday and Friday's eight games.
SOUTH REGION: Florida vs. UCLA
Marco Rubio, U.S. Senator, Florida
Bob Graham, former U.S. Senator, Florida
Faye Dunaway, actress, "Bonnie and Clyde"
Joe Scarborough, TV host, "Morning Joe"
Stephen Stills, musician, Crosby, Stills & Nash
Jim Morrison, musician, The Doors
Francis Ford Coppola, director, "The Godfather
James Dean, actor, "Rebel Without a Cause"
Carol Burnett, comedian, "The Carol Burnett Show"
Ben Stiller, actor/director, "Meet the Parents"
SOUTH REGION: Dayton vs. Stanford
Erma Bombeck, humorist, syndicated columnist
Joseph Desch, inventor; WWII codebreaker
Mike Turner, U.S. congressman, Ohio
Don Novello, comedian, 'Father Guido Sarducci'
Charles Pederson, Nobel Prize-winning chemist
Herbert Hoover, 31st President of the U.S.
Sally Ride, astronaut, first American woman in space
John Steinbeck, author, "The Grapes of Wrath"
Sandra Day O'Connor, first female Supreme Court Justice
Larry Page/Sergey Brin, founders, Google
EAST REGION: Virginia vs. Michigan State
Edgar Allan Poe, author/poet, "The Raven"
Tina Fey, writer/actress, "30 Rock"
Katie Couric, TV journalist, "CBS Evening News"
Ted Kennedy, former U.S. Senator, Massachusetts
Robert Kennedy, former U.S. Attorney General
Michigan State:
James Caan, actor, "The Godfather"
Eli Broad, billionaire philanthropist/entrepreneur
Sam Raimi, director, "Spider-Man"
Tom Sizemore, actor, "Natural Born Killers"
Lloyd Groff Copeman, inventor of the electric stove and ice-cube tray
EAST REGION: Connecticut vs. Iowa State
Meg Ryan, actress, "When Harry Met Sally"
Moby, musician/DJ
David Lee, Nobel Prize-winning physicist
Bobby Moynihan, comedian, "Saturday Night Live"
Bob Diamond, former CEO, Barclays
Iowa State:
George Washington Carver, pioneering scientist/botanist
Tom Harkin, U.S. Senator, Iowa
Henry A. Wallace, former Vice President of the U.S.
Carrie Chapman Catt, women's suffrage leader
Thomas H. MacDonald, civil engineer, built U.S. highway system
WEST REGION: Arizona vs. San Diego State
Barry Goldwater, 1964 U.S. presidential candidate
Savannah Guthrie, TV host, "The Today Show"
Kristen Wiig, actress, "Bridesmaids"
David Foster Wallace, author, "Infinite Jest"
Geraldo Rivera, TV Host, "Geraldo"
San Diego State:
Gregory Peck, actor, "To Kill a Mockingbird"
Julie Kavner, actress/voice artist, "The Simpsons"
Darren Kavinoky, TV legal analyst
Raquel Welch, actress, "One Million Years B.C."
Art Linkletter, radio/TV personality, "Kids Say the Darndest Things"
WEST REGION: Baylor vs. Wisconsin
Ann Richards, former Texas governor
Thomas Harris, author, "The Silence of Lambs"
Willie Nelson, country music singer-songwriter
Lawrence Sullivan "Sul" Ross, former Texas governor, Confederate Army general
Jeff Dunham, ventriloquist
Frank Lloyd Wright, architect
Charles Lindbergh, aviator
Dick Cheney, former vice president of the U.S.
Saul Bellow, writer, "Herzog"
John Muir, naturalist/author
MIDWEST REGION: Kentucky vs. Louisville
Ashley Judd, actress, "Kiss the Girls"
Mitch McConnell, U.S. senator, Kentucky
William Lipscomb, Nobel Prize-winning chemist
Harry Dean Stanton, actor, "Big Love"
John T. Scopes, teacher, 'Scopes Monkey Trial'
Diane Sawyer, news anchor
Sue Grafton, author, "A is for Alibi"
Marsha Norman, playwright, "The Color Purple" (musical)
Robert Worth Bingham, newspaper publisher
Robert Nardelli, former CEO, Chrysler
MIDWEST REGION: Tennessee vs. Michigan
Cormac McCarthy, author, "The Road"
Kurt Vonnegut, author, "Slaughterhouse Five"
Howard Baker, former Senate Majority Leader/White House Chief of Staff
Charles Holliday, chairman, Bank of America
Clarence Brown, director, nominated for six Oscars
Gerald Ford, 38th President of the U.S.
James Earl Jones, actor, "The Great White Hope"
Arthur Miller, playwright, "Death of a Salesman"
Mike Wallace, journalist, "60 Minutes"
Madonna, pop singer


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What You Will Learn
This white paper, intended for business decision makers, describes Cisco's strategic vision for Customer Collaboration, which will lead the next wave of growth in the customer care industry. Covered topics include how businesses and organizations can take advantage of the following four elements to improve their customer care with a more proactive engagement model:
● Social media
● Network-based recording and analytics
● Video
● Web-based collaboration desktops
Today, we are sitting at the edge of a major transition in the customer care market. The manner in which customers prefer to interact with companies is changing substantially, and businesses of all sizes are challenged with providing customer care in the manner in which customers wish to be served. This provision goes far beyond what many have termed the "multichannel contact center" and into the realm of what Cisco calls Customer Collaboration.
Customer Collaboration combines traditional contact center technology and processes with important additions in critical areas to enable businesses and organizations to build deeper relationships with their customers - strengthening loyalty and generating additional revenue. Customer Collaboration empowers businesses and organizations to escape from the largely reactive mode of traditional call centers and instead embrace a much more proactive engagement model with their customers.
Simply put, Customer Collaboration creates customer intimacy and delivers business value, and Cisco - the worldwide leader in unified communications - is leading the way.
The Four Elements of Customer Collaboration
Cisco is leading the development of Customer Collaboration solutions in four primary areas: social media customer care, network-based multimedia capture and recording, new agent desktop paradigms, and focused video solutions (Figure 1). These areas build upon existing Cisco customer care capabilities and innovations in speech self-service, presence-based enterprise experts, multichannel customer care, and virtual contact center routing and reporting.
The Social Web
Consider first the explosion of the social web. From Twitter to Facebook to YouTube, people worldwide are engaging in an ever-increasing number of online conversations and interactions. And part of that conversation is consumers talking about the companies with which they do business. Sometimes they say good things, and sometimes they complain. The question is: are companies listening? And can enterprises react to both the good and the not-so-good comments coming from customers in social media? Cisco believes that leading-edge organizations will incorporate the ability to capture, analyze, and prioritize customer conversations originating in the social web and then assign the most relevant interactions into the workflow of customer care representatives. This paradigm provides order to the often-chaotic world of social media conversations, and allows businesses to respond in an organized and measureable way (Figure 2).
Engaging in social media customer service is a journey, with a sensible migration path for businesses and organizations that embark upon it. Those that begin the path reap certain benefits, but the true rewards come from those that progress along the path, moving steadily to the upper levels (Figure 3).
Level 1 companies are silent when it comes to social media. They listen only.
Level 2 companies use Facebook and Twitter to put out the same messages they communicate on advertising channels. With Level 2 we see examples where customers tried to reach out to the company on social media by posting on a Facebook wall or sending an @reply on Twitter, yet they were ignored.
Level 3 companies reach out to customers with targeted social media marketing activities specifically intended to create engagement, such as editorial commentary on blogs and Facebook, useful product-related information, and even contests. Level 3 companies typically view service-related questions as an unwanted side effect of their social media marketing activities. Customers who reach out for assistance on social media may receive blanket responses such as "call our call center for help with that problem", or they may receive a specific email address that goes to an inbox or mailer that is not managed with workflow. The result is that the customer service experience on social channels is precarious at best. Opportunities to differentiate the brand and learn from customers by capturing comments are missed. Even worse, without direct support on social channels problems may escalate, potentially becoming public relations problems.
Level 4 companies have a plan in place to provide customer service through social media - and they have assigned staff with the specific goal of providing such service on social channels. Companies at this level are currently experiencing benefits of competitive differentiation, increased customer satisfaction, and loyalty building.
Level 5 companies proactively try to engage with customers - even those who have not directly addressed them. This engagement could mean searching for existing customers to help, or it could mean proactively targeting prospects who have expressed a need. This proactive approach contributes to customer delight and fosters brand advocates. Companies at this level are also taking advantage of social media for business intelligence, capturing the input gathered on social channels and distributing this information to relevant team members within the enterprise. The end effect here is building a virtuous feedback loop where customer feedback facilitates organizational performance breakthroughs.
Currently, most enterprise customers with whom Cisco has spoken fall within the middle of this schema (at levels 2 and 3), with leading-edge companies falling into the top of the range. As the benefits of social media customer care become increasingly understood, an increasingly large number of companies are making plans to move to the top of the range. This trend is accelerating, because competitive pressures to keep up are especially pronounced in the social media customer care arena because of the highly public nature of the medium.
Multimedia Recording and Analytics
Whereas the social web is one example of real-time intelligence creating improved customer care, a second aspect of Customer Collaboration comes from businesses keeping contact center agents and supervisors up-to-date with relevant information regarding customer interactions. This goal is ideally accomplished by a real-time multimedia recording and processing solution that embeds capture functions in the network and securely delivers customer conversations - including voice, video, and screen data - for use with enterprise applications such as compliance, quality management, analytics, and tagging. Select applications can then feed updates and information to customer care agents and supervisors, and provide valuable data for postcall training and process-improvement activities (Figure 4).
Contact centers handle thousands of customer conversations a day, but unfortunately much of the business intelligence from those conversations is never used, because it is either too expensive to capture or too difficult to mine for useful information. Cisco solves these challenges by recording conversations on the network - rather than a device - simplifying the architecture, lowering costs, and providing optimum scalability. Just as important, network-based recording allows the captured media to be quickly available to analytics applications - regardless of location - through simple application programming interfaces (APIs). These interfaces implement open web standards, enabling a new ecosystem of partner value-add applications that can gather useful information from conversations, either in real time or after the call is over.
Consider, for example, how a speech analytics application could detect stress levels in a caller's voice, or spot keywords in a conversation that might not be readily apparent to the customer service agent. The agent could be alerted to these conditions and prompted with ways to steer the conversation toward speedy, successful resolution. With Cisco, gaining valuable business intelligence from customer conversations is no longer an unattainable goal.
The third Customer Collaboration trend Cisco is leading can be called "focused" video for customer care, meaning that video elements are engaged in the call flow only when they truly provide demonstrable value; this scenario saves on bandwidth requirements and minimizes operational costs. Thus, caller self-service sessions might best be supported with audio-only interactive-voice-response (IVR) systems or applications on intelligent devices that then escalate to video interactions when a customer service representative becomes available (Figure 5). Cisco offers such video solutions today with the Cisco® Unified Customer Voice Portal (CVP).
If a picture can be worth a thousand words, consider how much time a customer care representative can save by showing a caller how to do something, rather than by just describing it. And video lets the caller display information to the representative - such as damage from an auto accident shown through a mobile device.
With video, it is critical to make certain that the supporting infrastructure remains consistent to the maximum extent practicable, regardless of the video endpoints (for example, a mobile device, kiosk, PC, or telepresence). This consistency minimizes operational costs, and provides a consistent caller experience. Cisco video customer care solutions help ensure this consistency by supporting video as an intrinsic capability on the network.
Collaboration Desktops
The fourth example of Customer Collaboration can be found in next-generation agent and supervisor desktops that integrate traditional contact center functions with video, enterprise social software, and business intelligence from recording and analytics. These new collaboration desktops tie all the pieces of Customer Collaboration together and integrate them into the traditional agent workflow. Cisco is delivering such a personalized work environment that uses a web-based client with all the power and capability of traditional "thick client" applications (Figure 6).
Agent speed, efficiency, and accuracy are paramount in modern contact centers. A second or two saved on each call can add up to millions of dollars in savings for a large contact center over the course of a year. Cisco's new collaboration desktop saves precious time for busy customer service representatives by integrating all the information they need - including the new sources of business intelligence - into a single, customizable cockpit that enables them to help callers faster, better, and with higher accuracy.
Cisco is providing Customer Collaboration solutions in these four areas that can deliver tangible benefits to businesses and organizations by taking advantage of the power of the network and our collaboration architecture. Customer Collaboration is truly realizing Cisco's strategic vision of leading the next wave of innovation and productivity.
For More Information
For more information about Customer Collaboration and Cisco customer care products, please visit: http://www.cisco.com/go/cc.


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"I had no idea so many god-awful places exist in this world….Catherine Price is a hilarious guide to all that is sucky."
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Irreverent and compulsively readable, 101 Places Not to See Before You Die highlights desitinations we can all live without--like Jupiter's Worst Moon, an Outdoor Wedding During the 2021 Reemergence of the Great Eastern Cicada Brood, and fan hours at the Las Vegas Porn Convention--while reminding us why we're willing to put up with the bed bugs and the food poisoning and set out to explore the world.
Because bad places make good stories
The Testicle Festival • Garbage City • Rush Hour on a Samoan Bus • Y our Boss's Bedroom • Ibiza on a Family Vacation • Stonehenge • The Road of Death • A North Korean Gulag • Fucking, Austria • And 92 More!
From the Grover Cleveland Service Area to the Beijing Museum of Tap Water to, of course, Euro Disney, 101 Places Not to See Before You Die brings you lively tales of the most ill-conceived museums, worst theme parks, and grossest Superfund sites that you'll ever have the pleasure of not visiting. Journalist Catherine Price travels the globe for stories of misadventure to which any seasoned traveler can relate—including guest entries from writers such as Nicholas Kristof, Mary Roach, Michael Pollan, Rebecca Solnit, and A. J. Jacobs—and along the way she discovers that the worst experiences are often the ones we'll never forget.
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"This clever collection of travel advisories lists all the places that are definitely not worth a trip, including a rendering plant, Times Square on New Year's Eve, and, bien sûr, Euro Disney." — Entertainment Weekly
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"101 Places Not to See Before You Die takes a fascinating and hilarious look at some of the least appealing places and events on the planet—from Montana's Testicle Festival to the Amsterdam Sexmuseum—and explains in lucid terms just what you'll be missing out on." — Salon
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SANTA CLARA -- The 49ers were "absolutely" aware of cornerback Eric Wright's recent drunken-driving arrest, but it was a failed physical that caused his trade from the Tampa Bay Buccaneers to be voided, 49ers general manager Trent Baalke said Tuesday in a rare media session.
"The Bucs were very forthcoming with the information, and we definitely knew what his status was," Baalke said. "Our medical staff wasn't convinced he was ready to be put on the field, so we didn't pass him."
The Buccaneers subsequently waived Wright, who is now an unrestricted free agent. Baalke said the 49ers won't close the door on Wright or any available player, but the team filled its only vacant roster spot when cornerback Lowell Rose re-signed earlier Tuesday.
"All the work we did and the discussions we had with Eric when he came in here was very positive," Baalke said. "There were some concerns, we addressed the concerns. But once again he's not with us, and we'd rather talk about the guys that are here. He just didn't pass the physical."
Wright battled an Achilles injury last season before getting suspended four games for violating the league's policy on performance-enhancing drugs. He also was arrested last year for suspicion of drunken driving in Los Angeles, but no charges were filed. Baalke cautioned reporters about reading too much into Wright's most recent DUI arrest.
Asked if Moss has inquired about re-signing, Baalke replied: "I can't say whether he has or hasn't. Once again, nobody's off limits. Nobody."
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jake... the government already has access to everything on my computer. spying on civilians has only become more widespread and commonplace under obama. nothing is a secret. everything that exists in digital form is SAVED, cell phone calls, gmail chats, everything. this bill has nothing to do with that. presumed innocence has been dead since the towers fell.
redball... good... maybe all these digital dj characters will have to make their own music and people will begin respecting artists who create their own music again. i'll happily take nuclear winter off the internet.
i also find it hard to believe that they will be able to scan zip files to find if i sampled otis redding or not... thats gonna be impossible for them... they'd have to shut down the entire internet...
i believe in intellectual property.
isn't there something in this bill though, that allows the government to close down sites deemed as "other" ie: questionable material, IE: wikileaks, etc .
Wed Sep 29, 2010 10:38 am
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Of course they can look inside a zip file, it's not that hard. You can see this in action on almost all corporate email systems. It is, however, thwarted by password protecting the file and then giving the password openly. There will be workarounds to everything.
However, the point is that it's automatic policing, and it will automatically police you. Just like how YouTube's system already catches copyrighted content but allows content creators to reject uses that are covered under fair use, the Internet of the future will serve to destroy fair use for all. Or at least make fair use so expensive that it is effectively destroyed.
And, of course, sometimes it won't just be fair use. Sometimes it'll be an automatic take down of SFR because Sage posts one of his own tracks. It will pit artists against their own distributors in a protectionist model where the distributors always call the shots.
For the record, I believe in Copyright and I believe in patents. I think they're both useful tools that are required for a creative society to properly reward creators. However, they're also growing too strong and the enforcement far outweighs the needs. The terms are also out of sync with reality and they favor a system in which culture is increasing controlled by corporate interests. Thus, I oppose giving new enforcement tools without fixing the old ones. I oppose supporting old business models via overly punitive legal codes.
And then there's that last tidbit, and it's what I was eluding to in the first place. Yes, multiple sections of ACTA and this entire bill are really aimed at a sort of information control and enforcement that has little to do with the entertainment industry and much more to do with the high availability of information on the Internet. Both this and ACTA are structured such that they'll give the government more control over what can be shared and what can't be, and they will be used extensively for enforcement outside of copyright infringement. The DMCA already proved that, during the first decade of its existence it was used for everything from stifling free speech to preventing aftermarket inkjet cartridges. Every indication shows that these laws will be manipulated and misused similarly.
And I promise you that independent artists will not make appreciably more money.
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I'm pretty sure Sage already ran into that issue this year with youtube taking down the video for Best of Times I think?
Wed Sep 29, 2010 11:55 am
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well that sucks then.
i was listening to alex jones(i know) talking about this bill last night, and it was kind of freaking me out... but then i was trying to research the bill today i couldn't find any good information on it... you got any good sources for this? i need to know more about this.
funny thing, is obama's internet "czar" plays MMOS and is a huge proponent of creative commons and open source media, i guess that doesn't mean shit anymore.
Wed Sep 29, 2010 11:56 am
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Well, I don't know what Alex Jones said about the bill but the likelihood here is that these things will be used for some information control, but the broader concern is the cultural control these measures are meant to either defend or hand over to large corporations. Just like the DMCA these things are always very easy to use for a big corp with a huge legal team and lots of political and enforcement connections but it'll be nearly impossible for the little guy to successfully use them.
The government is likely to use this to kill off sites like Wikileaks, though a Wikileaks.de registration or something similar would not be effected and to kill that off would likely cause an international stir. Otherwise it may be used to quell some homespun dissenters but most of the laws on the books allow that to happen anyway. In fact, they've been using existing laws to help kill off botnets and spammer hosts.
The bigger problem with things like this is that they are only truly effective against legitimate sites. An illegitimate site goes away and a new one that circumvents the legal tool pops right up. For instance, if this only pertains to US registrations then any foreign TLD would be exempt.
The only way that doesn't work is if the argument is that we run the Internet so all registrations come through us. That argument is dangerous because it could produce the dreaded Great Net Split where the rest of the world finally grows tired of the US claiming ownership of the entire network.
Even if we assume that something along those lines occurs then all it would take is for a user to swap out their DNS server and they'd be able to use the foreign DNS. There's also short-term workarounds to DNS problems, like using URL shortening services.
You should be able to see how this would greatly harm any legit website caught up in the scuffle. Meanwhile illegitimate websites expect this sort of thing and normally have some sort of social network to help spread the word about workarounds. A legit website can't continue to operate when the only way to get to it is a shortened URL redirect. An illegitimate website can with no harm done.
The assumption I make is that most people involved already know this to be true. They either think that killing the US TLD DNS entry will have more effect than I believe it will, or they just don't care and they have ulterior motives. I'm betting on the latter, and I think the motives are to get the more effective (though more draconian) ACTA pushed through negotiations with the provisions that only the US is interested in.
Wed Sep 29, 2010 1:44 pm
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Hopefully none of this happens. Life would suck if it did. Or would it? Would it be better if there was an actual reason to not go on Facebook besides that it is already pointless?
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Ahhh, internets. Quit worrying. Settle down.
Seriously. Okay? Kisses.
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I don't think the layman should worry about any of this at this point. ACTA isn't settled and is a long way from ratification. Even if this law is passed it will affect very few people.
I don't think the layman should be excited about either, though. Nor should most artists.
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Damn it, Redball. Stop scaring me.
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Editor's note: Longtime Summit Daily photographer Mark Fox's last day at the newspaper is today, when he leaves to pursue a new career in, of all things, blacksmithing. To mark the occasion, friends and former colleagues of Fox, M. John Fayhee and Alex Miller, conducted a Facebook chat, part of which is transcribed here. Alex Miller: So what was the SDN like in 1989 and what did the "photo department" look like?M. John Fayhee: We worked out of half of a building on 3rd Street in Frisco. For the first month, we had a photographer from Vail who drove over to Summit a few hours a day, then he drove the film back to the VD office for processing. Fox started about a month into the paper's existence. Jim Pavelich, who started the VD and SDN, felt that the most important editorial position for any daily paper was its staff photographer. When Pavelich was interviewing photographers, one guy looked like an artsy-fartsy type, dressed like he had just flown in from a Greenwich Village art opening. The other guy was dressed in a suit. That was Mark Fox. Pavelich made the smartest hiring decision of his life when he went with Mark.AM: I can't picture Mark in a suit. But OK. Thinking of Mark as a photographer, I appreciated how he always positioned himself as an observer. Even when he's not wielding a camera, it's often the stance he takes. MJF: I think the suit was suitably out of fashion. Yeah, there's no doubt that Mark's disposition has translated well to his photography. A lot of shooters make themselves the center of the scene they are photographing. Mark's nature is to stand on the sidelines ... he's content to let the action play out around him. Another component of his photographic skill set is that he manages to make his subjects feel comfortable in his presence. AM: It's true. Mark has the ability to go up and talk to strangers and get them to be in his shot without scaring them away.MJF: He emits a quiet sense of confidence, whether he's in the presence of a reporter when he's shooting or alone.AM: There was only once I've been out on something with Mark that his camera failed. And of course he shot in many very cold, very blizzardy situations and still somehow came back with the shot - and the cutline info.MJF: I've been with him when he actually forgot his camera. We were hell and gone up Georgia Pass doing a story on the first volunteer trail crew bringing the Colorado Trail into Summit County. Around dusk, we hear all this foul language coming from Mark's truck and see gear flying all around ... He had forgotten his camera bag and had to use my little point-and-shoot. Thing is, though: He still got a bunch of great photos.AM: So this blacksmith thing - I'm truly excited for Mark and very curious to see what he comes up with. He showed me a few early "training" pieces, but I imagine he'll be moving into more interesting stuff before long.MJF: This interest in blacksmithing speaks volumes about Mark's creative worldview. His photography has always maintained a very healthy relationship/balance between art and craft, which is necessary when you need to get a half-dozen compelling photos into print every day of the week. He has always been most interested from a photography standpoint in old stuff - deteriorating ranch buildings, old barns, cowboys and Indians, that sort of thing. It does not surprise me that he has become interested in a new creative outlet that is equal parts art and craft and that reflects his interest in old-timey stuff. I wholeheartedly admire his decision to take up something completely new and different at his advanced age.AM: Pushing outside one's comfort zone is never easy, but this move makes a lot of sense to me for the reasons you mentioned. Plus, I think from a purely business standpoint, Mark has an established, trusted and even beloved brand in Summit County. I think people will be excited to see his work and buy it. MJF: I assume he's thinking in terms of producing salable work. I think there's more to it than that, though. I don't know that he necessarily lives in the past, but I think he reflects positively upon a more deliberate, less digital time. I believe he is looking at his blacksmithing at least partially as performance art, a way to connect not just himself but others to another time, another way of doing things and looking at things. This is a bit out of character because, as you said earlier, with his photography, he likes to stand and observe. I don't think he is inclined to merely hammer metal in a darkened room. I think he wants to show people how it's done. And I think he wants to develop Popeye forearms and impress women.AM: So I know Mark may be somewhat embarrassed by this little hagiography, but I have to say I think the people of Summit County owe him a huge thank-you for chronicling the life of the place for the last quarter century. And certainly the newspaper would not have been what it was without his terrific work. MJF: It's good that Mark is going to stay in Frisco and to stay visible and involved. I just hope the people of Summit County realize what a treasure they have in Mark Fox. I think they do, and I think that recognition speaks volumes about the people of The Summit.
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Definition of fraternal in English:
1Of or like a brother or brothers: his lack of fraternal feeling shocked me
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1.1Of or denoting an organization for people, especially men, that have common interests or beliefs: a network of political clubs and fraternal organizations
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Born: November 2, 1871, Troy, Ohio
Died: July 15, 1955, Pasadena, California
William DeWeese Cairs was a mathematics professor at Oberlin College. He was secretary-treasurer of the MAA for its first 27 years.
In 1943, the MAA and the American Mathematical Society established a bureau to provide information on available college mathematics teachers in an effort to alleviate "The Problem of Securing Teachers of Collegiate Mathematics for Wartime Needs."
At the annual business meeting in November 1944, Cairns was made honorary president for life.
1892 Ohio Wesleyan University, A.B.
1897 Harvard University, A.B.
1898 Harvard University, A.M.
1907 University of Göttingen, Ph.D., advised by David Hilbert
In 1899, Cairns began teaching at Oberlin College. He earned his Ph.D. on a two-year leave. He headed the Oberlin mathematics department from 1920 to 1935, when he retired.
Cairns was secretary-treasurer of the MAA from its founding meeting in December 1915 through 1942. When Cairns retired as secretary-treasurer, the first president of the MAA, E.R. Hedrick, wrote,
In the extent and value of [Cairns'] services to the Association, he is rivalled only by Herbert Ellsworth Slaught (1861-1937), also an enthusiastic and constant worker for the interests of the Association from the time of its founding. To these two men far more than to any others the Association owes its success and its present strong position.
Cairns published extensively in the Monthly and authored additional papers in other journals. He was also a member of the American Mathematical Society and represented the MAA on the council of the American Association for the Advancement of Science.
American Mathematical Monthly obituary by W.B. Carver
"Our Retiring Secretary-Treasurer" by E.R. Hedrick
Records of editors, presidents, and secretaries from MAA headquarters, William Deweese Cairns, includes obituary, 1939-1955 at the Archives of American Mathematics


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SACRAMENTO -- A judge ruled late Wednesday that an Arizona group that stunned California's political world with an anonymous $11 million donation must turn over documents to the state's campaign finance watchdog so it can determine whether the group broke any laws.
Two hours after listening to arguments from both sides, Sacramento County Superior Court Judge Shelleyanne Chang affirmed what she'd tentatively decided a day earlier: to require Americans for Responsible Leadership to comply with the Fair Political Practices Commission's request to audit all emails and other communications related to the group's donation to the Small Business Action Committee.
Chang ordered the group to turn over the documents to the FPPC by Thursday at 5 p.m., but attorneys for the group said they would appeal the decision.
"The Court finds that irreparable harm has occurred and continues to occur as each day passes, and voters continue to cast their votes without information that may influence their votes," Chang wrote.
The question of disclosing the donors was paramount in the FPPC's lawsuit, given that the election is only days away and the significance that the $11 million can have in influencing the election's outcome.
"This was a really huge contribution that was made with no information associated with it about who the donors were -- and the voters have a right to know this," said Ann Ravel, the chairwoman of the FPPC.
The out-of-state mystery donation -- which experts believe is California's single largest anonymous political contribution -- was made only two weeks ago to the business group running campaigns against Proposition 30, Gov. Jerry Brown's tax-hike initiative for schools, and for Proposition 32, the measure that would curb the ability of unions to collect dues from its members.
"We are disappointed in today's court ruling," said Matt Ross, spokesman for the Arizona group's legal team. "We have asserted all along that the FPPC does not have the authority to issue an audit in advance of the election. We continue to believe so and will appeal this case."
But Ravel said she will ask the state Court of Appeal to deny the appeal for a stay.
"It's quite clear they won't abide by this order, so we are going to go to court," Ravel said. "We know their M.O. is to delay. Hopefully, the court will make the decision quickly."
If the appellate court denies the group a stay, Ravel said, the FPPC will demand that the group turn over the records immediately. If the agency determines that the group broke campaign finance law, it would demand it disclose its donors immediately.
"And if they fail to do so, we'd go to the court to get them ordered," Ravel said.
At Wednesday's hearing, a Virginia attorney representing the group accused the FPPC of trying to "railroad" the group.
"We believe an audit is not authorized, that it would violate First Amendment rights, and that (the FPPC) must show irreparable harm, and it hasn't done so," said Jason Torchinsky, a partner with the firm Holtzman Vogel Josefiak, which represents the Arizona group.
The $11 million donation has become a rallying cry for Gov. Brown, who has kept up pressure on the campaign trail to "unmask" the Arizona group while he seeks votes for his measure, which would raise income taxes on the wealthy and hike the state sales tax by a quarter-cent to help fund education and other programs.
And it brought scrutiny to the growing practice of nonprofit groups pouring millions of dollars into political campaigns this year. Under IRS codes, nonprofit 501(c)4 organizations like the Arizona group are considered social welfare organizations that are not primarily involved in politics and thus not required to disclose their donors.
Key to the FPPC's inquiry is whether the group solicited funds of more than $1,000, which would make it a campaign committee that would have to abide by California law.
The group's attorneys contend that the state never audits campaign committees until after they turn in their final reports in January. But the FPPC said the group doesn't get the benefit of the wait since it did not form as a candidate or a committee.
Ravel said attorneys for the group are simply trying to run out the clock.
"The respondents are doing everything they can to stall," Ravel said. "It's clear they don't want to comply with California law -- their arguments indicated that. But we're going to be very aggressive in filing appeals if we have to opposing any stay."
The FPPC is seeking all communications related to the donation -- including text messages, emails, letters, notes from phone calls, minutes -- between the group's board of directors, donors, attorneys and the Small Business Action Committee.
Torchinsky had argued that the Supreme Court's 2010 Citizens United decision protected the group from having to disclose their donors. But Chang knocked back that position in her tentative ruling.
Chang said that although Citizens United allows unlimited spending by corporations, it does not address whether donors should be publicly disclosed.
She said "nothing in Citizens United" prohibits the state from mandating disclosure.
Contact Steven Harmon at 916-441-2101. Follow him at Twitter.com/ssharmon. Read the Political Blotter at IBAbuzz.com/politics.


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Vinitaly: The Aftermath & After Party
Post by Chuck Hayward | May 25th, 2011
After any major wine event, the behind-the-scenes folks gather together, take a load off and have a drink (or three). Standing on your feet all day and pouring wine to assorted consumers and sales reps, followed by entertaining clients at dinner takes its toll. So when everything is said and done and the credit card slips are signed, those with some spring left in their step converge on "the" place to be. Every city has one: The Supper Club in Melbourne after Wine Australia, The Matterhorn in Wellington following a session at the New Zealand Pinot Noir Conference and RN74 after anything in San Francisco. And following a big day at Vinitaly, the entire wine world crowds into the Bottega del Vino, one of the best wine bars on the planet.
Tucked away on the Scudo di Francia, the traditionally-styled wine bar Bottega del Vino had an inauspicious appearance from the outside, save for the throngs of people that packed the alley and made getting to the door quite a challenge. Working the crowd, I shouldered my way through to the entrance, greeting friends and business associates along the way. Once past the security guards (Vinitaly crowd control), you enter a warm space crammed with wooden tables and walls lined with hundreds of old wine bottles. Every seat was occupied, and waiters and busboys darted past clutching bottles and glasses. The noise level seemed to ebb and flow on the same tide as the bottle fills. (more…)