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Welcome to 1to1 Media — a multimedia resourcefor CRM and Customer Experience Professionals.
Interactions between an organization and its customers are no longer restricted to one channel. Instead, today's customers are omni-channel and are using different touchpoints to communicate with the brands they do business with.
While some organizations might find it challenging to merge the different touchpoints to ensure a seamless customer experience, integration provides a great opportunity to get more in-depth customer data that can help deliver a relevant and improved experience across the various channels.
This is a very familiar challenge for tactical and military gear retailer Patriot Outfitters. When the company started selling online in 1999, it was leveraging a custom-developed Web portal and an internally developed CRM solution, notes Pete Iserman, one of Patriot Outfitters' owners. But years later when it opened its first retail store outside Kansas' Fort Riley in 2006 and started using a POS system, the company realized that it needed to integrate its in-store and online data. "We had a hodgepodge, including a Web system, an entry-level POS system, and a finance system," Iserman says.
As Patriot Outfitters continued to grow and open more retail locations, the company's business leaders recognized the need to bring all its data into one system to gain a more unified view of its customers. "In many cases we have customers who buy both from our stores and also online, especially while they are deployed," Iserman explains. Even veterans tend to keep doing business with the company after they leave the military, making it more important to have a robust system that incorporates all customer data from different touchpoints.
To complicate matters, retail and ecommerce were totally disparate with no communication between them. They even had distinct coupons that were only redeemable through the channel that generated them, Iserman notes. Therefore, if a marine received a coupon by email while he was on leave, he wasn't able to use the coupon at a retail location on or near his base. Iserman says there was also no integration between the different retail locations, which today amount to 19, making it difficult to manage returns of items bought from a different store.
In order to address this challenge, last year Patriot Outfitters implemented a solution by Retail Anywhere, which has since been acquired by NetSuite, to give the company the flexibility to meet its growing demands and bring together customer data from multiple channels.
Having better access to customer information from both the Web and retail locations is helping Patriot Outfitters better serve its clients. For example, the company will know that a shopper who walked into a store for the first time has been a loyal online customer by having the ability to see his shopping history. Further, Iserman explains that there is real-time visibility into sales for each store, allowing the company to be agile in stocking up on items that are running low at a particular location.
Another key benefit of having access to customer information across retail and ecommerce is Patriot Outfitters' ability to tailor promotions based on a shopper's purchase history. Iserman says the company can send an email to a customer who made a particular purchase with recommendations of products that are popular with customers who made similar purchases, allowing for a more personalized relationship.
Lessons Learned
Connect different touchpoints: Customers are interacting with brands across different channels, but expect the same experience across the board.
Leverage customer data: Companies have access to large amounts of customer data and should be using this to improve the customer experience.
Personalize communications: Generic messages are likely to get lost in customers' overcrowded inboxes.
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How Californian Conservatives can Save America.
|June 26, 2013
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California has been voting Democrat/liberal for many years and there is no sign of this changing any time soon. Thus, California is going to be sticking its fat liberal thumb on the scales of American politics long into the future. I would like to propose, however, that conservatives in California have the ability to Save America. "How?" you ask. Answer: MOVE.
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Every June, we run a donor drive. In getting this year's ready, I noted that my typical proviso that ACM is not tax-exempt had more significance than in previous years. Over the last few weeks we have been regaled with case after case of conservative, Christian, anti-Obama, anti-Obama agenda organizations that have been targeted by […]
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This is a column of mine that Worldnetdaily.com published several years back. In light of recent events concerning the IRS targeting of tea party and conservative groups (and anyone else opposed to Obama's policies), it seemed appropriate to highlight it again. I am not a theologian or an economist and have never received formal instruction […]
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While this has been going on for years, the recent spate of over-the-top reactions to 'guns' in the schools is beginning to illustrate the consequences of 'political correctness' that people have also been warning about for years. In a word, we are seeing the emergence of a soft tyranny, a stripping away of liberties, a […]
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Anyone paying attention at all knows that there has been a huge run on guns and ammo in America thanks to the efforts of the number one gun salesman in America–Barack Obama. You would be mistaken if you thought that this 'run' was inspired only out of concern for stricter gun laws. Many people have […]


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so i have this page that has to show ONLY the children of the present parent, not the grandchildren.
after a long search i found this code:
<?php $pages = get_pages('child_of='.$post->ID.'&sort_column=menu_order&hierarchical=0');
$count = 0;
foreach($pages as $page) {
$content = $page->post_content;
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$content = apply_filters('the_content', $content);

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does anyone know why the 'hierarchical=0' is not working in Get_Pages or "what is wrong in the get_pages code"?
if you are looking at this page you have to know that green blocs #2 and #3 are children of green bloc #1
any help is very welcome, thnx for your time.


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I did manage to get through to a voice mailbox at Lulu poetry and left a message.I received a call today from a Leon Travers and he stated that his company simply purchased the domain name of poetry.com and were in no way affiliated with them. When I asked why the domain name of poetry.com and lulupoetry.com were registered by the same company, a MarkMonitor.com he had no answer or explanation. I aksed him if ANY employee of Lulupoetry.com was or had been affiliated with Poetry.com he said no. He says his company is on the up and up and they will strive to gain the trust of anyone who does business on their web site. I am sure they will.......
I personally will never again send any money to anyone for my poems to be published unless they pay me. Or, I will self publish my work. I can't believe I was so stupid to finally give in after 2 years of not purchasing anything from poetry.com and sent them money I will never get back. I am still looking for any attorney for a possible class action lawsuit against poetry.com and the sites affiliated with it. I hope in the future, all of us who got burned will have learned a lesson and urge you to all keep writing! When you have written enough publish your own books even if it is just for family and friends to enjoy. Good luck to you and God Bless!
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North hills auto mall camp Horne rd Bought a truck off of them in aug 2011 it's now nov 2012 "nothing was wrong with the truck" after just 4 weeks I had to replace radiator,fuel pump, power steering lines, alternator, clutch, flywheel, Internet
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I was told I am the 3rd owner and everything seemed legit or so I thought. I took my test drive in the truck, when I brought it back to the lot it wouldn't start again. They replaced the alternator (3hours later I had my truck) I shouldn't have bought it or trusted these people. The warranty was rediculous and I am not happy at all.For a truck that was perfectly fine, after 4 weeks I had to take it to the shop it's been in and out of the shop since last September. So far I have had to buy a new radiator, a new clutch, flywheel, power steering lines, fuel pump, throttle cable. My throttle had got stuck and my truck took me on a ride from hell, I had to throw it in neutral and shut it off!. I hope this place gets shut down they are garbage and they do not care about anything but there money. They are going to kill Somone. I am lucky this truck is manual transmission or I would've wrecked and probably died from the speed my truck was going from an in safe throttle
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On October 2, 1973, twenty-five Midland leaders and volunteers came together to establish a community foundation. Their idea was to allow people to join together and establish a public foundation. Described as "by the people, for the people," the stated purpose of the organization was to improve the quality of life in Midland.
What is a Community Foundation?
The essence of a community foundation is many people putting their money together to address the diverse needs where they live. Gifts enable people to dream bigger, to see the many possibilities. As money is endowed, the gifts grow forever, providing ongoing support to help the community prosper.
Community foundations reflect and support donors' wide array of interests and help them address all aspects of community need including arts and culture, economic development, education, environment, health, human services and recreation.
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Grants – The foundation is concerned about the community as a whole and supports a wide variety of community programs. Grant applications are accepted four times each year. The basic principle is receive gifts, grow funds and give back. Grants total over $2million on an annual basis.
Scholarships – Promoting education beyond high school is a priority for the community foundation. Scholarships are offered to help students continue their education. Applications are accepted annually between December 1 – March 1. Scholarships provide an investment in the community's future and help students achieve their dreams.
Projects – The community foundation allows project funds to be established for specific purposes. Individuals, corporations, and family foundations may all be a part of a project. While often not the largest donor, the community foundation provides a vehicle for the project to take place. The Tridge epitomizes a project that brought Midland together with generous support from family foundations.
Giving Options - The community foundation idea is simple: anyone may use it to give something back to the community. Individuals can start a fund in honor of someone they love or to celebrate a special event. Donors can direct their gifts broadly or narrowly to issues they care about or to wherever the needs are greatest. However an individual gives, the gift can change lives today and in the future.
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Riley: 2016, the year that hockey died in CanadaWhen I was 11 years old, growing up in this country, my heroes had magical names like Sittler and Salming and Lafleur.
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I'm With the Bandwagon: A pair of blue line specialsThe everyfan's guide to the Sens in the playoffs. In our Game 1 outrage following P.K. Subban's Lizzie Borden routine, and our continuing dismay over Erik Karlsson's inability to slap one past Carey ...
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Superheroes unite! In-house Louisville branch participates in YUM! Brands vendor fair.
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Cleveland bankers and clients supported Bridgehaven Child Advocacy Center by participating in the annual Purse Bingo event.
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Dallas Banker Emily Zoog was featured on the panel for "Today's Best Business Practices" at a recent CEO Focus DFW event.
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Our Woodlands branch hosted a BBQ lunch to benefit the Breast Cancer Charities of America.
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Dallas Green Bankers teach financial literacy classes at local high school in partnership with their annual Junior Achievement Career Day.
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Cleveland Green Bankers participate in annual Relay for Life to benefit the American Cancer Society.
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Green Bank sponsors Distinguished Leadership Award with the Plano Chamber of Commerce.
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Business Banking Officer Rich Rector is an excellent resource for finding other business service in The Woodlands.
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Green Bank planted this seed as an early contributor-- student-founded non-profit offers smiles to young patients.
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The Cleveland Chamber of Commerce names Green Bank "Business of the Year."
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USDA loan helps Green Bank customer build state-of-the-art battery recycling facility.
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Dallas Green Bankers joined with Rebuilding Together's Homes4Heroes program to present a remodeled home to a veteran and his family.
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Liverpool Message Board
Team to face Unirea away?
With the Blackburn game less then 48 hrs after our Europa tie, it is just as well the squad is starting to fill back out!
Degen Carragher Agger Insua
Lucas Aquilani
Kuyt Gerrard Riera
Subs: Torres, Mascherano, Skrtel, Insua, Cavalieri, Ngog, BenayounSort: Newest | Oldest | Most Replied Expand all replies
Interesting to see so many people putting Degen in at full back after his last horror appearance in that position against Arsenal, when he came on as sub for Carra. Wasn't he running away from goal as his man was heading the ball into the back of our net?
Nice to see on or two agreeing that Kyrgiakos should be playing for us in Europa given that he can't play in EPL at the moment, too.
Also interesting that many (most?) are not picking Torres to start. Is there something you know that the rest of us don't? Surely, if Europa is our last chance at silverware then Rafa HAS to start with his strongest lineup? These guys showed us at Anfield that they can defend. If we go behind we are totally fukked. We need to kick them in the teeth in the first 30 minutes by scoring one if not two goals, away ones at that.
Definitely concur with the notion that Aqua is not a holding/defensive midfielder. He must be played in an attacking role, as he was at Roma if we are to get the best out of him.
It is a pity that Rafa is such a negative tactician. Both Aqua and Lucas are/were attacking midfielders before coming to Liverpool. Just imagine the creativity and flair if Rafa allowed Aqua, Gerrard and Lucas to be our attacking midfield, with no sign of Masch in the starting eleven.
In my dreams I would be sending out a starting 11 like this:
(Hey, I managed to count to just 11 this time)
Once we had knocked 2 past them (anywhere up to 60 minute mark) then I would make a few changes like:
Kuyt on for Benny
Torres off for Ngog or Babel (weight of public opinion here, Babel not my choice really but give him his head in Europa and let him "prove" himslef maybe.)
Masch on for Gerrard.
Then Lucas and Masch play holding mid, Aqua moves up to play off Babel (or Ngog) and Kuyt does his headless chook impression and basically gets in everyone's face giving them no easy possessions.
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A Yahoo! User Feb 25, 2010 16:06 Flag
I'm not picking him due to an interview the other day on LFC TV where they stated that Torres should be given a couple of cameo performances from the bench against Man City and Unirea leading to a starting place against Blackburn, the reason for this given was due to Jimmy Case stating that no one will really know the state of Unirea's pitch until they actually kick off and this could have a knock on effect in terms of his injury, I for one don't think he should be risked from the start but should start on Sunday, we'll have enough to take us through to the next round with Torres on the bench imo.
A Yahoo! User Feb 24, 2010 21:23 Flag
Confirmation torres wont be starting the game.
Unirea is playing at home a goal down, they are the underdog and have nothing to lose, so I expect they won't play defensively. They will throw everything at us in the first 15 minutes. That's why I think it is important to start with Torres because we can hit them with a quick counter attack. Kuyt is not fast enough and Babel or Ngog are not potent enough. Torres is the only person who can hurt them and get the job done before half time!
I'd have in starting 11
Kelly Agger Kyrg Aurelio
Kuyt Masch Stevie G Babel
El Nino
If fit they should start
A Yahoo! User Feb 24, 2010 04:31 Flag
Degen Soto Skrtel Aurelio
Lucas Masch
Kuyt Aqua Yossi
Subs: Cavaleri, Babel, Agger, Carra, Ngog, Gerrard, Torres
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A Yahoo! User Feb 24, 2010 04:58 Flag
Where would the creativity come from in that team El Nino.
Secondly, Pacheco is'nt a striker, so are you saying you expect an attacking midfielder at 5ft6" to lead our attack ..?
Kenny 7 Suarez Kenny 7 Suarez Feb 24, 2010 02:38 Flag
Degen Carra Agger Aurellio
Kuyt Lucas Aquilani Yossi
I know more or less our best 11 but we only just beat them at anfield and this will give them a huge confidence boost coming in to this game and playing at home and with our form they will fancy there chances.
We have to win this game and comfortably, this is our only chance for silverware.
A Yahoo! User Feb 24, 2010 02:18 Flag
Disagree with Aquilani at the side of Lucas, this player is not an holding midfielder and when people realise this the better.
I feel a little aggrieved that you have left Pacheco out, this player needs game time in this cup, and if he don't feature more regular I can see him been on his way.
I'd personally like to see.
Darby Soto Agger Aurelio
Gerrard Lucas
Kuyt Aquilani Riera
Subs: Cavalieri Kelly Carra Pacheco Torres Ngog Amoo.
A cameo appearance in the last 20-25 minutes from Pacheco, I've added Torres as it would be good to give him another 10-15 minutes game time.
Guys some great line ups and ideas but i bet none are right-rafa will prob go tru with a strange looking team-why not play with kyrg-was our best defender since xmas and also play stevie, nando and yossi-if their fit enough to warm the bench surely they'd be itchin for a game????
A Yahoo! User Feb 23, 2010 21:02 Flag
Fine by me bud.
But why do you refuse to answer my questions?
Fine daniel, we disagree then.
A Yahoo! User Feb 23, 2010 20:51 Flag
So where exaclty does it say this? What are you telling me to stop reading? I am not reading anything! I am just giving my opinion, and my opinion is that he is a striker, not a winger. I dont care what it says on some website, this is MY opinion!
Carra Skrtel Agger Aurelio
Lucas Mascherano
Maxi Gerrard Riera
Question for you Hobitez. Why do people keep pushing babel. He is over-rated, over-paid and unfortunately over-here. Another poor effort on Sunday, when given the chance.
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A Yahoo! User Feb 23, 2010 18:03 Flag
And where was he playing mysteron? It certainly wasnt up front!
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Umut Bulut struck a last-gasp winner as Galatasaray booked their place in the last eight of the Champions League courtesy of a 3-2 win at Schalke.
The substitute striker raced clear deep into stoppage-time to end the German side's hopes and clinch a 4-3 success on aggregate.
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Ex-Schalke midfielder Hamit Altintop drew Fatih Terim's men level with a sensational 35-yard drive before Burak Yilmaz lobbed Timo Hildebrand to all-but kill off the hosts' hopes.
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- Converting shapes to paths and paths to shapes
- Moving, deleting, copying, and rasterizing shape layers
- Drawing pen paths
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- Combining shapes
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Here we're going to look at combining shape layers with photographic images. I'm going to recreate this image. Let me break it down for you first of all. I have a background field of color. On top of that, I have a shape layer, this target shape, but we're using it as a sort of light burst. On top of this, I have a photographic image which has been masked to reveal that light burst in the sky. Then we have some clouds. These clouds were adapted from some Illustrator symbols which I copied and pasted into Photoshop and then applied some simple layer effects to, and we've got each of those on a separate layer.
Then on top of that we have this piece of type which has been converted to a shape layer. It has some effects applied to it. Lastly, we have that just to finish the whole thing off. So I'm going to switch now to this, the starting point, and step number one is to create a mask for the picture. So I'm just going to do this kind of roughly using the Quick Selection tool, which happens to work very well in this instance.
So I've gone over the sky. I've unlocked my background layer. And because it's the sky that I want to mask, I'm going to hold down the Option or Alt key and click on that to see the transparency beneath it. So next, I'm going to come to my Custom Shape tool. And from my Custom Shapes, I'm going to choose my target which we've used once before. It does turn out to be quite useful, this one. It's right there.
It is a little bit unwieldy, because we are going to need to drag it beyond the bounds of the image. So I'm going to put my cursor at roughly the center point and then start drawing the target, holding down the Alt key so that we draw outwards from the center. I just want to make sure that the edge of the circle is not going to be visible on the edge of my canvas. So there, that seems to be big enough. Now I need to move that underneath my picture layer. And I also don't want to see these edges, which are going to keep cropping up every once in a while.
They are a bit irritating. But if we press Command+H or Ctrl+H, they will go away. Beneath this, I want to put a solid layer of color. So I'm going to choose Solid Color and I want a darker blue. I'll drag that underneath the shape layer and that's what we get. So I'm now going to turn the type on and I have a separate exercise where we'll be talking about how exactly this gradient was made, because it's a bit tricky since the type is on a curve.
But for now, I'm just going to turn that on in its finished state. I'm going to turn on the Butter layer and let's go and get some clouds now. So I'm going to pop over to Illustrator and use one of the Illustrator symbols. So the symbol that I want is this cloud. It's in the Nature symbol group which you'll get to by coming and clicking on bottom left of the Symbols panel. Then when you find it, you can click on it and it will be added to your Symbols panel.
Then you want to add an instance of the symbol to your artboard just by clicking. Now at the moment, this symbol is actually a lot more complex than it appears. It's got a gradient in it and that's not going to translate to a Photoshop custom symbol. So we need to simplify it. First thing I'm going to is I'm going to break the link to the symbol. Then I'm going to come to the Object menu and choose Expand Appearance. Now you might think that would be enough. But if I were to now copy this and go over to Photoshop and then paste it and paste it as a shape layer, we can see that we are going to still end up with this border around it.
So that's not any good. We need to go one step further. So I'm going to undo that, switch back to Illustrator. I've already expanded the appearance. Now I can expand it. Expanding it is going to allow me to expand the gradient that fills this shape into a specified number of objects. So when I do that nothing really appears to change, but there is now a gradient that has been rendered as a series of lines.
We want to get rid of all of those. In fact, if we go to the Outline View, we can see them all there. They're no good for us. All we want is the cloud shape. So I might here just be able to select the cloud shape. And if I clicked on the outline of the cloud, I can see its segments and then hold down the Alt key and click on it and then I get the whole cloud. I'm now just going to nudge that up a bit, away from all that gradient stuff, which I can then come and delete or just ignore.
Back in the Preview View mode I need to make sure I have all of those anchor points solid so that the whole thing is selected. Now I can copy it, now I can go back to Photoshop, now I can paste it as a shape layer. Now it's going to come in as a single shape. So now I want to change the color of it. I'm going to press my D key to go to my default black and white with white as my background color. Command+ Backspace or Ctrl+Backspace to fill it. I might want to transform it and I can position it.
And perhaps I want to give it a little bit more character than it currently has. So if I were to go to my layer styles, let's see. We can give it an Inner Shadow and possibly we could also give it a Satin effect. If I turn on Satin, and I think I'll dramatically need to reduce my Opacity. But I can now drag around inside the shape to sort of drag the cloud shape within itself.
I always find this one a bit hit and miss as to exactly what you're going to get, but I'm going to increase the Size, increase the Distance, reduce the Opacity, click OK. One other thing I might consider here is coming to the mask and feathering the mask. So now that I have the one cloud there's nothing to stop me duplicating it to get others. I want to make sure that I'm not in any danger of duplicating the vector mask within the shape layer, but I actually want to duplicate the whole thing. So I'm going to click away from it. Click back on it so that the vector mask is not selected.
Then with my Move tool selected, hold down the Alt key, drag away from it, possibly press Command+T to go to Free Transform. Maybe I can have this one go the other way. Maybe I can rotate it slightly. Maybe I can just adjust its scale a little bit so that it's not quite as uniform as the one that we already have. Let's see, let's have one more of those, and this one we'll make a little bit smaller.
So there's just one of many, many, many things you can do combining your shape layers with your photographic images. In the next movie I'd like to show you how to get this gradient effect working with a shape layer that's been derived from type.


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Friday, 26 August 2011
The Tennessean is carrying the story this morning, but here is the Gibson Guitar press release:
The Federal Department of Justice in Washington, D.C. has suggested that the use of wood from India that is not finished by Indian workers is illegal, not because of U.S. law, but because it is the Justice Department's interpretation of a law in India. (If the same wood from the same tree was finished by Indian workers, the material would be legal.) This action was taken without the support and consent of the government in India.
On August 24, 2011, around 8:45 a.m. CDT, agents for the federal government executed four search warrants on Gibson's facilities in Nashville and Memphis and seized several pallets of wood, electronic files and guitars. Gibson had to cease its manufacturing operations and send workers home for the day, while armed agents executed the search warrants. Gibson has fully cooperated with the execution of the search warrants.
• Raid shut down Gibson factories and cost company money
• Wood seized was Forest Stewardship Council Controlled
• Nearly two years later, no charges have been filed
The Justice Department has asked the judge to stop the court case indefinitely.
• Information sought in raid was already made available
• Not about illegal logging, not about conservation, not about the environment
CEO Henry Juszkiewicz told The Tennessean:
"Over the last two years, we have hired 580 American workers," he said. "We are one company that is manufacturing in the United States, that is hiring people ... and yet the government is spending millions of dollars on this issue.
"We feel totally abused."
The Wall Street Journal has more on environmental enforcement run amok.
Posted on 08/26/2011 5:48 AM by Rebecca Bynum
26 Aug 2011
Who cares what the law is in India? The job of the US government is to enforce US law, not Indian law. Sheesh!
26 Aug 2011
A Vaste Programme of Programmers
Or: Shine On, Harvest Whirlwind
Or: Plucky Little Plucking Gibson Girls Plucked From The Plight Of Poverty
Lugo shows an appalling contempt for the executive branch's prosecutorial discretion prerogative and that hypocrite would likely not agree that importation of say, unfinished monkey wood goods***, is a far worse crime than, say again, the monkey shines and fraud committed in the importation of computer programmers from India via the H1B program and he is also likely opposed to Obama's decision not to deport those illegal aliens guilty only of invading** the United States. Such an invasion is, of course, genocidal when carried out on a massive scale, and genocide of Ice People is not to be prosecuted, but, rather, celebrated. Any failure to so celebrate is racist and I'll wager that Lugo is so racist that he believes that Obama* wasn't born in the US and should be deported.
* "No, not that Obama, silly.": http://www.nationalreview.com/corner/275661/obama-arrested-drunk-driving-massachusetts-mark-krikorian
** Well, that and relatively "nonviolent" felonies, and yes, invasion (more by Mexicans & their OTM cousins than by Indians) of the US is non-violent because the evil Ice People have wisely decided not to violently resist it, unlike the Amerinds, who, in contrast, were, like, totally justified in torturing and killing said Ice People.
[The guitar company should make amends by paying reparations to India and by replacing its current workforce with Indian Gibson Kelly Girls (and boys, and no, don't call them "girls" or "boys" even if they're underage - at the risk of litigation, and yes, they would be here only temporarily, and yes, there should be proportionate representation by Muslim Machine Gun Kelly Girls.]
*** Also see the precedent-setting Foreign Corrupt Practices Act or Baksheesh? Sheesh!
Tags: Refugee Quangos, Onyangos, Deportation a no-go in a felonious foreigner farrago


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