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I've very casually slipped that fact that I have to pencil in my eyebrows at least a few times, like here, and over here… and lots of ladies everywhere require the aid of a pencil or a little powder to just fill in our brows so they'll appear more full or more even. Some people have fair complexions. Some people overplucked during the
80's 90's uh-oh's their youth, and need to correct matters, otherwise they look like they're in a constant state of surprise. Gives a whole new meaning to the term high brow. (By the way, unless you're a Marlene Dietrich impersonator, this is probably a bad look for you.)
tter-life speeches when I brought home near-failing grades. And it didn't help that my main teacher that year seemed pretty sure I was an idiot – he tried to console my parents once by saying, "She's a fast runner… an excellent athlete, really… maybe she'll get a scholarship to school?" My father nearly had a stroke, I'm so sure.
Idas, you're just so… my goodness, you always knock me out, woman! Thank you SO MUCH for such kind words.
John Hughes' films were just the best BEST thing for me (for us all) during those times… hiding our bizarreness can be so tricky, and I loved seeing all his stories in the theatre, and letting all his excellent lines wormhole deep into my mind. It's sad he's gone so soon.
I cherish you, too. xoxox
It wasn't so bad – we have such a lovely community around these parts, don't we?
And yeah – I share your dislike of Treetorns aussi. Kinda glad I didn't acquire any…
I wish I'd known you too, Alice! And I figure you get a waaaaay better life when you don't peak in high school. It wasn't the worst for me either, but I'm still glad I don't have to go back. 😉
There are many John Hughes' truths.
If we were dues, it would suffice it to slap you on the back and say:
Tray, look at the balls on you.
However the female equivalent escapes me…
All I can muster is a thank you for sharing that the nice girl does get to kiss the hot guy over the glowing birthday cake.
The John Hughe's quote in particular I found relevant in my teens:
"We're all pretty bizarre. Some of us are just better at hiding it, that's all."
(The Breakfast Club).
I've also been thinking a lot about John Lennon and Yoko Ono (no idea why) and this quote comes to mind:
"There are two basic motivating forces: fear and love. When we are afraid, we pull back from life. When we are in love, we open to all that life has to offer with passion, excitement, and acceptance. We need to learn to love ourselves first, in all our glory and our imperfections. If we cannot love ourselves, we cannot fully open to our ability to love others or our potential to create. Evolution and all hopes for a better world rest in the fearlessness and open-hearted vision of people who embrace life."
― John Lennon
You are loved and loved Tracey. What an honour to know you.
thanks for sharing that, it was probably one of the hardest things for you to do! you're making me wonder if that's why i'm a "picker"…fortunately it's my legs (and because i'm a waxer as well) but i can't get a bald spot there to save my life.
i really dislike tretorns! 🙂
(Wow, I worked in Thorncliffe Park for YEARS when I first moved back here! It's changed though, wow, so different from when you were there.)
I had the great benefit of going to a small alternative school for 7/8, and the difference that made was HUGE. I was shy, but with only 63 kids in the school and most of them a little offbeat, it was a fantastic environment for those really crappy years.
It was high school in the Beaches that put me into the same sort of environment you had, where those kids had known each other forever, and all seemed to have the perfect lives and clothes and money that I didn't. It was also a very white school, which was weird coming from growing up in chinatown, but as a white kid, I it was just weird, not difficult. I always thought the few black kids or asian kids must have felt pretty weird, even if the neighbourhood and the attitudes were pretty progressive.
I found one or two friends I was super close to (still am), and did okay, so luckily, high school was neither a peak nor a horrible time. I did pick my school partly for its smaller size, partly for its language programme, so it did keep me in a smaller pond still, but the shy didn't go away any until much later, all the same. Wish I had known you!
Me, I'm not a hair puller, but I have the annoying compulsion to pick at any bump on me, which grosses me out, but this hasn't stopped me yet, all these years in. Keep thinking I need to work on that…
((hugs)) I hope so, too. For my kids, so far, there is no 'them'. So far, they take 'ethnic' features in stride like eye colour and hair colour and leggings and bluejeans. I LOVE that! And you're right, the anxiety response in junior high had absolutely nothing to do with 'them' and everything to do with my struggle to figure myself out, cope with the pressure I put on myself, and otherwise survive adolescence. Crazy diamonds, yes. They are that 🙂
Hi Heather!
Listen: you don't have to be a mom, and you certainly don't have to be Canadian to feel part of our community here… you need to be a human person, with feelings, and with a sense of humour, and a thought in his or her head – this is all we require to humour/educate/influence/inspire/enjoy here. I'm so happy you felt like commenting!
We all have our peccadilloes… and laughter can be the very best medicine, I reckon. I also understand what it takes to comment sometimes, so THANK YOU SO MUCH for taking the time, and I hope you will chime in whenever you feel the urge.
I feel your comfort – for that I thank you. Keep on reading!! 😉
I think everyone finds some kind of angst to glom onto… whether mild or severe.
Let's hope for "mild". 😉
Dude, you're sooooo right – adolescence is a bitch, no matter how you slice it. Yes. Just… yes.
The majority of beings suffer somewhat during this time of life – we have angst – it comes with the age. Some have it rough, and some have it waaaaaaaay worse. I wasn't bullied or anything – I can also count my blessings here.
I never heard the SOB/SNOB acronyms before… I grew up in Thorncliffe Park, north of the Danforth, east of Pape. The entire world was accounted for in our neighbourhood, I think, from high end to low end. Schooling in Leaside was… new. Good, but different. Anyway.
As for the dumbing down thing… I sooooo wish I hadn't. (And sorry for that call you received back in the day, ma belle…) A protective mechanism that didn't really work. Anyway. I guess that's why there's no PhD diploma hanging on my wall now. Boo! Suck!!
PS – Thanks for thinking I'm awesome… I'm glad your hair is growing back, lady!! xoxox
Sweet lady, my friend, my Village,
You didn't force… you reopened a thought I've always had about sharing, and I decided it was high time. Thanks for the nudge.
Sharing is good… and yes, the "brave" sharing is a good thing. And it's nice to see I'm not alone in this. 😉
Oh, how I wish we were neighbours too, dear lady…
You read me loud and clear – it's so interesting to find how common this kind of thing can be – and I don't mean to say it's because of "them" – it would have probably manifested itself this way with whatever kind of stress I would have felt at this age, even if I was completely comfortable with the company I was keeping at that time.
Black kid + smart kid = uncomfortable, sometimes. Yes. Only, how I wish I had felt differently, or been stronger at the time. Le sigh. Such is sometimes the way… I hope my kids will feel more comfortable in all things, so they can shine on, like the crazy diamonds they are.
Tracey, I'm not Canadian and I'm not really a mom either (stepmom to kids who don't live with us), so in a way I don't 'belong' here. I don't know how I first came across UrbanMoms, but I've been reading it for about a year or so…mostly because I love reading what YOU write! For real. Usually you crack me up, but it's also posts like this that make me feel a little bit like part of a community because there are people who are brave enough to share some part of themselves, their story. I, too, can relate to some of the issues you have mentioned here. Many of us, much more than will comment, I'm sure, can relate to them. And sometimes it just feels good to know you're not alone, you're not the only one dealing with some 'weird' problem. I have weird problems. Usually I laugh about them, but the truth is, it is comforting to know that other people have or have had them, too. Thank you!
Our school was an interesting one eh Kath? Can I tell you that I was a NOB apparently but NEVER heard those acronyms until after I left. I'm now a proud WAY SOB!!! High school was such a stress bag. I've talked to people since who thought I was totally secure and in the 'popular' group. I never felt like that once when I was there. I hope it can be smoother for our kids.
Man, nervous barfing sounds like hell… that's gotta be rough! Glad all your eyelashes came back – it's been such a long time with me, they're forever sparse. (I wish that would happen on my legs!)
You're awesome too, lady. xox
Thank YOU for reading, Julie… takes one to know one. 😉
Ah, Tracey, you are indeed a brave lady (along with being all kinds of awesome). I don't pull my hair out, but I have struggled with alopecia areata in recent years (brought on by stress) and have had various patches of baldness in different places on my scalp, the worst being a 10cm diameter bald spot right smack on the very top of my noggin last summer. Being hairless is such a difficult thing, isn't it? And such a fine line, too, between being too hirsute and not having hair where we're supposed to, right? And now that you mention it, I do have a weird compulsion to "play with" my eyebrows (just ask Jen), but it's never caused the hair to fall out (more's the shame, as my brows are like two fuzzy caterpillars that would send even Brooke Shields running for the tweezers).
I too struggled to fit in with the Tretorn-wearing, equestrian ski bunnies who all knew each other from kindergarten onwards and saw each other every weekend at the country club and every summer at their exclusive private camps. I went to a huge high school with a large catchment area, and to this day I remember the acronyms "those" kids had for where the different groups lived: were you a SNOB (slightly north of Bloor)? Or, like me, a poor SOB (south of Bloor)? Shockingly, I can only remember there being one black kid in high school. But I can remember his name, and it seems to me he was the valedictorian of our class.
I'll also never forget learning the 'dumb yourself down' lesson – a popular and cute boy asked me for my phone number in grade 11 or 12. I handed it over, and waited with bated breath for him to call me that night. He did. I was ecstatic. He asked me only one thing: "can I borrow your History notes?" Just recalling that story hurts, and I am 43 freaking years old.
Shit. Adolescence is a bitch any way you slice it.
Oh Brave girl. Sorry I pushed you to tell. You are something else. Beautiful and heart wide open. We all have our hang ups and when I stop counting mine I will write about them too.
Self talk is pretty great but the trick is letting the strong calm voice rise up over all the other ones. I am working on that.
xxooxxo thank you for the brave sharing
Oh, honey. I wish we didn't live on opposite ends of the country. My mum moved me to an all-white, rural school when I was fourteen – all so we could have a better life. Except, of course, I didn't ship there with the rule book they had all been growing up with since they attended Sunday school together eight years ago. I had the wrong skin and the wrong clothes and the wrong hair and the wrong everything. They weren't mean. They just weren't mine, and they didn't want me to be theirs, you know? So, now I have short, thin, eyelashes with a couple of small bald spots. I know about being careful not to be the smart kid. Being the black kid was absolutely more than enough. I skipped a lot and wrote essays the night before they were due and got extra creative with the long answer questions on final exams so I would stay at the bottom edge of the honor roll and never, ever have to face the additional segregation of 'gifted'. Not there. And I stopped competing in track, too. I'd held the record 50m and 100m time for my old school, and it only took one run at my new school to convince me I did not need to stand out like that, either. What's ironic is that this effort to blend was always futile. And maybe that's why the anxiety manifested itself that way.
Oh my friend. I was an eyelasher puller outer all through the same time period that you write about (on top of many other things that I know now were anxiety related). What pleasure I got from having a spot on my eye lid with no lashes. Odd thing is – they did grow back. But I think I stopped doing that when I started nervous barfing (not bulimia…just so nervous I wouldn't eat or I'd gag….welcome to my postpartum). You're so awesome Trace – what a great, honest post.
Wow Tracey. Thank you for sharing this with us. It reminds me of my highschool days in a predominately white school (I'm mixed). I thought you were a cool kat before, now I think you're courageous AND cool. Thanks. Just thanks.
[insert long sigh] And now, I just want to hug you and hug you, Ali… yes, when anxiety is high, this kind of thing creeps back in, but it's good to identify what's up, and stop yourself – that works for me. I'm so happy you shared, too. 🙂
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I have a spot at the back of my head that I occasionally go back to when anxiety is particularly high. mine is not hair pulling actually…but it's more like…scalp picking? But it's sort of the same with me…when I have the thought to pick at it…I remember…I think about it. And I stop myself.


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Even after the recent mid-July arms race that saw most of the NHL's premier heavyweight fighters scooped up off the free agent market, teams who are lacking in grit still have options as July nears its end.
With heavyweights such as Steve MacIntyre, Eric Godard, Eric Boulton and Cam Janssen finding new homes, teams would be wise to fight fire with fire, and we'll look at the 12 best tough guys on the market**, with predictions* to where they'll land.
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Dallas-based Energy Future Holdings, Texas Biggest Power Generator, Piles On More Debt
The announcement that Energy Future Holdings, the biggest generator of electricity in Texas, is going to issue $750 million in debt probably could have been timed better.
Earlier this week, the company announced it was going to terminate the pensions of about a third of its workforce by the end of they year. The week before that, EFH announced a second-quarter loss of $696 million. That was down from a $705 million loss the year before, but it still amounted to an 18 percent decline in revenue.
The $750 million in debt, due by 2017 and 2022, will be used for a few purposes, though none are described in detail in its Securities and Exchange Commission filing. The proceeds are intended to repay an inter-company loan from Texas Competitive Electric Holdings, its retail and generation subsidiary (stay with me here), to the parent company, EFH. Some of it, the release says, will be used to pay dividends to EFH. The rest will go toward some nebulous "general corporate purposes."
EFH, like most of the generators in Texas, has struggled over the last several years with low electricity prices, primarily set by the price of natural gas. But unlike most Texas generators, EFH has $42 billion in merger debt to pay off. When the former TXU was purchased by private equity lenders led by Kohlberg Kravis Roberts, they were betting on the high price of natural gas setting a high price for electricity. The opposite happened, and since then, EFH has sought to refinance debt it can't currently afford to pay and push it further out into the future.
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Corey Seager named California League MVP
Dodger prospect Corey Seager has been named the 2014 Most Valuable Player in the Class-A California League.
Seager, who was promoted to Double-A Chattanooga in mid-July, had a .411 on-base percentage and a league-leading .633 slugging percentage with 18 homers in 365 plate appearances for Single-A Rancho Cucamonga this year.
A 2014 Futures Game selection, Seager is the No. 16 prospect in baseball according to MLB.com. The 20-year-old infielder now has a .356 on-base percentage and .495 slugging percentage (119 plate appearances) in the more challenging Southern League.
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On a rainy, wind-swept night in 1959, Alfred Hitchcock and his wife Alma attended the premiere of the classic Cary Grant movie "North By Northwest" at the United Artists Theatre in Chicago.
An unspecified number of F-22 stealth fighter jets arrived in South Korea on Sunday, Mar. 31, 2013. According to the Wall Street Journal, the aircraft flew from Kadena air base, in Okinawa, Japan, to Osan, South Korea to take part in Exercise Eagle Foal.
Celebrities gathered at the El Capitan Theatre in Hollywood Wednesday night for the premiere of Walt Disney Pictures' highly anticipated "Iron Man 3," opening in theaters May 3. Gwyneth Paltrow, who plays Pepper Potts in the Marvel franchise, stunned in an Antonio Berardi dress that covered her front ...
Halloween is nearly upon us! To celebrate, we've drawn from this Wikipedia list of quotes spoken by the man whose name is synonymous with fear: Alfred Hitchcock.
A group of Canadian neuroscientists says they have successfully used an episode of the suspenseful Alfred Hitchcock Presents television series to record the conscious experiences of a patient who has been in a vegetative state for 16 years.
The researchers at Western University in London, Ont., released a paper Monday about a brain scanning technique that monitors the response of non-responsive patients to a shortened version of the episode, Bang! You're Dead.
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Tetanus Vaccine
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What Does This Vaccine Help Prevent? | What Is the DTaP Vaccine? | Who Should Get Vaccinated and When? | What Are the Risks Associated With the Tetanus Vaccine? | Who Should Not Get Vaccinated? | What Other Ways Can Diphtheria, Tetanus, and Pertussis Be Prevented Besides Vaccination?
What Does This Vaccine Help Prevent?
This vaccine helps prevent:
- Diphtheria—which causes a sore throat associated with a thick covering in the back of the throat
- Tetanus—which causes painful muscle tightening all over the body (also known as lockjaw)
- Pertussis—which causes bad coughing spells and may occur at any age, but when it occurs in infants and young children, it makes breathing, eating, and drinking difficult; also known as whooping cough
What Is the DTaP Vaccine?
The DTaP vaccine is composed of diphtheria and tetanus toxoids that can create an antitoxin, and small pieces of inactive pertussis bacteria.
Who Should Get Vaccinated and When?
The DTaP vaccine is generally required before starting school. The regular immunization schedule is to give the vaccine at:
- 2 months
- 4 months
- 6 months
- 15-18 months
- 4-6 years
What Are the Risks Associated With the Tetanus Vaccine?
Most people tolerate the tetanus-containing vaccines without any trouble. The most common side effects are pain, redness, or swelling at the injection site, mild fever, tiredness, nausea, or vomiting. Rarely, a fever of more than 105 degrees Fahrenheit (40.6 degrees Celsius) and seizures may occur.
Acetaminophen is sometimes given to reduce pain and fever that may occur after getting a vaccine. In infants, the medication may weaken the vaccine's effectiveness. However, in children at risk for seizures, a fever-lowering medication may be important to take. Discuss the risks and benefits of taking acetaminophen with the doctor.
Who Should Not Get Vaccinated?
The vast majority of people should receive their tetanus-containing vaccinations on schedule. However, individuals in whom the risks of vaccination outweigh the benefits include those who:
- Have had a life-threatening allergic reaction after a dose of DTaP
- Have had a brain or nervous system disease within 7 days after a dose of DTaP
Talk with your doctor before getting the vaccine if you have:
- Epilepsy or other nervous system problems
- Severe swelling or severe pain after a previous dose of any component of the vaccination to be given
- Guillain-Barre syndrome
- Moderate or severe illness—wait until you recover to get the vaccine
What Other Ways Can Diphtheria, Tetanus, and Pertussis Be Prevented Besides Vaccination?
The best way to prevent diphtheria is to get vaccinated.
Caring properly for wounds, including promptly cleaning them and seeing a doctor for medical care, can prevent a tetanus infection.
You can help prevent pertussis by keeping infants and other people at high risk away from infected people.
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DTaP vaccine: What you need to know. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention website. Available at: http://www.cdc.gov/vaccines/hcp/vis/vis-statements/dtap.pdf. Updated May 17, 2007. Accessed June 7, 2016.
Immunization schedules for infants and children. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention website. Available at: http://www.cdc.gov/vaccines/schedules/easy-to-read/child.html. Updated May 4, 2016. Accessed June 7, 2016.
10/30/2009 DynaMed Plus Systematic Literature Surveillance http://www.dynamed.com: Prymula R, Siegrist C, et al. Effect of prophylactic paracetamol administration at time of vaccination on febrile reactions and antibody responses in children: Two open-label, randomised controlled trials. Lancet. 2009;374(9698):1339-1350.
11/4/2011 DynaMed Plus Systematic Literature Surveillance http://www.dynamed.com: Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). Updated recommendations for use of tetanus toxoid, reduced diphtheria toxoid and acellular pertussis vaccine (Tdap) in pregnant women and persons who have or anticipate having close contact with an infant aged < 12 months—Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices (ACIP), 2011. MMWR Morb Mortal Wkly Rep. 2011;60(41):1424-1426.
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A woman is suing rapper The Game, claiming that he damaged her reputation with a post he made about her on Instagram, Facebook's social picture- and video-sharing app, the Hollywood Reporter is reporting.
He reportedly posted a picture of Karen Monroe, who once worked for The Game as a babysitter, with a caption reading, "Beware if this person is watching your children, she is a very dangerous babysitter." He also reportedly used Twitter to rant about her services. The Game fired Monroe for "lying, stealing, screaming at his children, mistreating other children," and doing things "unbecoming of a babysitter."
More than 1 million followers have seen the picture The Game posted, and Monroe is now suing him, claiming that she is receiving death threats from his fans and being harassed online. She also alleges that because of the hoopla, she has suffered depression and is now unable to work in the industry. She's after an unspecified amount in damages.
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How Savvy Firms Monitor Customers' Online Chatter
People react to the Publishers Clearing House sweepstakes in one of three ways: Some hope that the next knock on the door will be a member of the company's Prize Patrol carrying a giant check; some think the whole thing is a joke; and others exploit its brand for scams.
Tracking the buzz from all three types -- and responding to it -- has grown ever more complex with the spiraling growth of social media, says Josh Glantz, vice president of Publishers Clearing House Online, the Internet arm of the company that claims to have awarded more than $200 million in prize money in the past 30 years.
In addition to a small, internal social media team that uses tools like Google Alerts, Glantz recently hired an interactive marketing company to provide a more thorough social media reputation management service. It provides him with reports and analysis of all of the chatter on blogs, microblogs, forums and chat rooms, as well video-sharing and social networking sites.
In just one month, Glantz says, these efforts uncovered 73 blog posts mentioning scammers who call people and pretend to be from the sweepstakes giant. "We look at social sentiment very aggressively, because we have a sensitive brand to protect," he says.
Monitoring, analyzing and responding to what consumers are saying on social media sites are no longer just activities for big-name companies. With consumers sharing their experiences through Twitter, Facebook, YouTube and other outlets at "the speed of thought," as Gartner Inc. analyst Toby Bell puts it, this is quickly becoming an essential piece of any company's risk management and customer engagement strategy.
Social media monitoring efforts usually start in marketing or public relations departments. But as they become more important and expand to other areas of the company, the IT department will need to play a role.
"These systems open up opportunities that cross organizational silos, and CIOs are in the right position to understand the technology layers and how the data should connect to the business strategy," says Nathan Gilliatt, principal at Social Target LLC, a research and consulting firm in Apex, N.C.
At a minimum, he says, IT leaders should understand the goals of social media monitoring and engagement initiatives. And as practices mature, they should help to combine social media analysis with data from other systems to gain new customer insights.
The clock is ticking
It's a big challenge not only to draw a bead on what's being said on social media, but also to figure out how to respond effectively -- and to do so within an increasingly compressed time span.
"Companies used to believe a 24-to-48-hour response time was sufficient, but the clock has been reset," Bell says. "If a customer service representative doesn't respond to someone complaining fairly quickly, it looks like I'm ignoring the customer."
"Response has to be in minutes," agrees Jeremiah Owyang, a partner at Altimeter Group, a San Mateo, Calif.-based consultancy. Think of celebrated incidents that brought Domino's Pizza and the makers of Motrin unwanted notoriety -- the former from an employee-made video that offered an unpleasant look at the way pizzas are made, and the latter with a short-lived ad campaign called "Motrin Moms" that some people found offensive.
Both companies waited more than 24 hours to respond to the chatter on social media, and that was enough time for the incidents to enter mainstream consciousness. "Tweets become blog posts, YouTube videos or articles," Owyang says. "Companies have to respond in real time."
If a savvy company sees a Twitter complaint about long wait times on the phone, it might immediately respond with an apology and offer the customer a discount on his next purchase.
"The risks of not being engaged grow as consumers test this with their favorite companies," Bell says. And whereas it once might have been enough to monitor, measure and react to specific situations, it's now imperative to engage proactively and frequently, he says.
Besides, companies that are on the leading edge of social media monitoring are putting pressure on those that thought they could fly under the radar, Bell says.
Consider these examples:
- Comcast Corp. and Zappos.com are both known for engaging customers on Twitter, particularly with quick responses to complaints. Zappos CEO Tony Hsieh now has 1 million Twitter followers, and Comcast's Frank Eliason (a.k.a. @comcastcares) is one of the best-known customer service representatives in the U.S.
- Microsoft Corp. engages with millions of IT professionals on social media. Using monitoring technology from Visible Technologies Inc., Microsoft identifies 3,000 blog and forum posts per day and then narrows them down to 400 posts that are scored as negative, positive, mixed or neutral. After further review, the engagement team responds to 30 to 60 of the posts.
- Southwest Airlines Co., well known for its Twitter communiqués to 1 million followers, uses software from Radian6 Technologies Inc. to track social media. That helped it quickly respond to the Twitter storm that arose when film director Kevin Smith complained via a tweet that he was forced off of a flight for being too fat.
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The field of social media monitoring has quickly grown beyond simple tools such as Google Alerts and Twitter Search to encompass specialized digital marketing agencies and software-as-a-service offerings that provide analytics via a dashboard.
However, the allure of real-time consumer opinion and brand sentiment available on social media -- along with growing alarm over how quickly public opinion can turn against you online -- is leading companies to combine social media data with enterprise applications such as customer relationship management and business intelligence systems. As that happens, monitoring-service providers are adding hooks to enterprise applications.
"IT is just waking up to this," Owyang says. "They're realizing departments are deploying their own systems and doing their own thing, and the challenge is that customer data is being spread out in silos. IT is starting to realize it needs to step up and come to the table with an enterprise view."
Altimeter calls this "social CRM," which Owyang says comprises the following five fundamental processes:
- Monitoring.
- Mapping (linking social profiles to customer records).
- Management (creating business rules and processes).
- Middleware (enabling data to flow between systems and dashboards).
- Measurement (using BI tools to identify trends, gauge sentiment and make predictions).
Suresh Vittal, an analyst at Forrester Research Inc., argues that social monitoring platforms gather data but don't provide marketing insights. "Marketing teams need a process in place to interpret and analyze data and produce actionable insight," he wrote in a recent report. "This means sharing insights with all front-end and back-end systems like CRM, call centers and Web sites that influence customer interactions." While it's possible to share such insights manually, he wrote, "eventually marketers must budget for systems integration."
Vendors last year began integrating their social analysis platforms with CRM applications, particularly Salesforce.com, Gilliatt says. With those systems, users can create or update entries in the CRM application without leaving the social media analysis tool and send the information to customer support teams. The episode is captured in the customer record for future reference. Most of the platforms also offer APIs for custom integration with other software systems, Gilliatt says.
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DirecTV Inc. is a good example of a company that's integrating social media data throughout the organization. The company began investing in social platforms more than five years ago, says Charles Miller, director of digital care and social media strategy, and today it uses several monitoring tools. One is Visible Technologies' online monitoring platform, which, Miller says, converts qualitative comments into a quantitative structure to help measure consumer sentiment and identify trends.
Online monitoring has proved to be an early-warning system that allows DirecTV to respond to problems quickly. On the opening night of the 2009 college football season, Miller recalls, DirecTV's social media group noted chatter about the loss of a high-definition version of a popular sports channel. "Within two to three minutes of spotting this, we notified our broadcast team, who went into immediate channel-recovery mode," Miller says.
Through forums and other online venues, the team advised viewers to watch the standard version until HD could be restored. Simultaneously, it notified customer care representatives of the issue and the resolution. "When this was solved, we directed followers back to the HD channel," Miller says.
DirecTV's IT group integrates customers' social attributes into its CRM system so that data can be mined for insights later. "As CRM social integration deepens, IT will be more and more involved," Miller says.
Social media insights also influence product design. DirecTV's engineering team gets comments about beta offerings from its customer-run online community and incorporates those suggestions in the company's products, Miller says. "We have also built relationships with brand advocates and influencers," he says. For example, he adds, "sharing our mobile DVR scheduler with iPhone, BlackBerry, Android and Palm enthusiasts has been particularly effective in driving adoption rates and getting feedback on the [mobile] apps."
In the future, the key differentiator will be how organizations take what they learn from monitoring social media and share it with product managers, Miller says.
Gartner's Bell agrees. "Even companies that think they don't have a consumer-facing product will be surprised to know they're still being reviewed or reacted to," he says. "And if you [aren't] participating in that, it will have a negative effect."
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Listed as a defensive end, Acho's NFL Scouting Combine numbers stacked up well against many of the top linebackers. He ran 4.68 seconds in the 40 and a 4.32 shuttle, while his vertical jump and bench press repetitions were also top-15 marks for a linebacker. Perhaps most importantly, he showed the versatility to drop back and cover, as well as his demonstrated ability to rush the passer.
"I'm not sure what led to me lasting this long in the draft but what I do know is that it's all part of God's plan and it's all part of God's timing, so I knew that he would put me where he wanted me to be," Acho said. "I know a lot of other teams have been talking to me and have been really wanting me to come to their organization, but I know this is going to be the perfect fit.This is going to be the right place and I couldn't imagine a better place to play."


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The sparkling wines of Champagne have been revered by wine drinkers for hundreds of years, and even today they maintain their reputation for excellence of flavor and character, and are consistently associated with quality, decadence, and a cause for celebration. Their unique characteristics are partly due to the careful blending of a small number of selected grape varietals, most commonly Chardonnay and Pinot Noir. These grapes, blended in fairly equal quantities, give the wines of Champagne their wonderful flavors and aromas, with the Pinot Noir offering length and backbone, and the Chardonnay varietal giving its acidity and dry, biscuity nature. It isn't unusual to sometimes see Champagne labeled as 'blanc de blanc', meaning it is made using only Chardonnay varietal grapes, or 'blanc de noir', which is made solely with Pinot Noir.
Of all the wine producing regions in California, Sonoma County is one of the most highly regarded, having had a long and fruitful history which has helped shape the American wine industry. Within Sonoma County, we find the AVA of Russian River Valley, a beautiful viticultural area centred around the Russian river, and responsible for around one sixth of Sonoma's high quality wine production. The vineyards of the region were first planted some two hundred years ago by immigrant communities coming over to California. At first, the vines planted here were generally for private consumption - a reminder of home gardens in Spain and Italy - but by the beginning of the twentieth century, business was booming with a couple of hundred wineries in operation, thanks to the unique nature of the terroir and the effectiveness with which the grapes were growing.
The Russian River Valley is renowned worldwide for the character and quality of its wines, which are the result of the region's perfect, cool climate, which is affected by the Pacific fog which rolls in over the valley. This coolness tempers the strong sunshine of the area, and allows for a longer, slower ripening season - thus adding character and expression to the grape varietals which grow there. The main vines grown in Russian River Valley are cool climate grapes - Pinot Noir and Chardonnay - which make up for over forty percent of the grapes grown there. The hillier parts of Russian River Valley have had great success with Syrah and Zinfandel, and other parts of the region are experimenting successful with Bordeaux grapes, too.


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Traditional margaritas are made in glasses with salted rims. These cooling Lime Margarita Bars are made with salted pretzels, so you get that salty taste in every bite. (And you don't sip these, so you don't need straws!)
Makes: 20 bars
Preparation Time: 5 min
Cooking Time: 35 min
2 cups finely crushed pretzels
1/4 cup sugar
1/2 cup (1 stick) butter, melted
2 (14-ounce) cans sweetened condensed milk
3 eggs, lightly beaten
1/2 cup fresh lime juice
4 teaspoons grated lime peel
1. Preheat oven to 350 degrees F. Coat a 9- x 13-inch baking dish with cooking spray.
2. In a medium bowl, combine pretzels, sugar, and butter. Press firmly over bottom of prepared baking dish. Bake 8 to 10 minutes, or until crust is firm; remove from oven and cool slightly, leaving oven on.
3. Meanwhile, in a large bowl, combine remaining ingredients. Pour into cooled crust. Bake 25 to 30 additonal minutes, or until center is firm. Cool completely on a wire rack, then cut into bars.
These freeze well, but be sure to place them in a tightly covered container. When ready to serve, just remove as many as needed and thaw at room temperature for about 30 minutes.
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RANGELY I Although tournament competition will not begin until next month, practice for winter sports, including wrestling in Rangely, started more than a week ago.
Panthers return two state qualifiers
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RANGELY I The Rangely Panthers qualified four wrestlers for the 2013 Colorado State Wrestling Championships held last weekend in the Pepsi Center. Senior Colton Coombs, who was a state-qualifier for the third time, finished sixth in the 160-pound 2A bracket. Panther junior Lucas Heinle (145) and sophomore Ethan Allred (152) both won one match in […]
RHS sends 4 to state tourney
RANGELY I Only six Rangely wrestlers competed in the Region 1, state-qualifying tournament last weekend in Grand Junction and four qualified for the Colorado State Wrestling Championships to be held in the Pepsi Center in downtown Denver, which started Thursday afternoon.
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Rio Blanco County will be represented by 12 wrestlers, including the county's only regional champion, T.J. Shelton, in the Colorado State Wrestling Championship which starts today in the Pepsi Center in Denver. Shelton will be joined by seven other Meeker teammates and Rangely will send four wrestlers to compete in the "Big Show."
RHS ready for regionals
RANGELY I The Rangely Panthers wrestled five dual meets in Meeker last Saturday in the final matches of the regular season and will now compete in the state-qualifying regional tournament this weekend at Grand Junction High School. The Panthers had seven varsity wrestlers and won one of the five duals.
RHS wrestles in Rifle, GJ
RANGELY I Rangely wrestlers Lucas Heinle and Ethan Allred went undefeated in matches last weekend in Rifle and Grand Junction. The Panthers will wrestle five duals in Meeker this Saturday in the final competition before the state-qualifying regional tournament Feb. 15 and 16.
Panthers crown two champs
RANGELY I Almost half the the Panther wrestling team did not compete last weekend because of illness but four of the five who did wrestle placed in the top three, including two individual champions.
RHS crowns 3 champs
RANGELY I More than 140 wrestlers from 12 different schools in Colorado and Utah competed in the Panther Invitational last Saturday and the Panthers crowned three champions. The Panthers also hosted a triangular the night before the tournament and defeated the Olathe Pirates by one point but lost to Steamboat Springs by six.
Coombs places sixth at Vernal
RANGELY I The Panther wrestling team opened the 2013 part of the season in Vernal, Utah competing in the 40th annual Tournament of Champions. They came home with one placer.
RHS Panthers wrestle in Utah
RANGELY I The Rangely Panthers wrestling team ended the 2012 portion of the wrestling season with two dual meets in Utah before Christmas break and will cross the state line again when they return in 2013 to wrestle in the Tournament of Champions in Vernal, Utah, starting Jan. 11, 2013.
Rangely wrestlers in Kremmling
RANGELY I The Panther wrestling team continues to be short wrestlers due to illness and injuries but seven team members did travel to Kremmling for the annual West Grand High School invitational and two returned with medals.


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What The Intimate Package (10 people including Bride and Groom) includes:
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Monster Coming Out Of The Ground!
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TooMuchCake on
THAT is fabulous! The party goers will be thrilled! Or scared half to death!
karapags on
scary! Looks great
Edee on
wow, great job, I'd have a hard time eating him though :D
lorrieg on
That is so good and so disgusting at the same time. How did you sleep with it in the house? 8O
ctackett on
Wow!! The talent on this site is non-surpassed. Great job!!
THESUGARCOW on
That is so good and so disgusting at the same time. How did you sleep with it in the house? i agree 8O
THESUGARCOW on
im a chicken! icant finish eating now :cry: wow it is totally scary :cry: what a talent
messyeater on
THESUGARCOW on
probably i will have a nightmare tonight with this! cake eating me!
bettylou2 on
THESUGARCOW on
:cry: :cry: i cant stop looking a it! is so incredible oh man 8O
Wendoger on
OMG!!! This is absolutley raunchy as heck!!! I LOVE it!!!! Its soooo nasty looking! Fantastic!!!
indydebi on
Duff would be proud!!!
THESUGARCOW on
oh forgot! you should make another one the bride! :? i would love to see it :lol:
pbjoachim on
"oh forgot! you should make another one the bride! Confused i would love to see it Laughing" Very funny ;)
bakenboi29 on
8O This is amazing, scary, and gross at the same time but I love it! I love horror movies especially zombie movies and you did a great job.
shanzah67 on
8O 8O good job...pretty gory though! They'll love it!
kr1970 on
your sculpting talant is incredible - but why would anyone want to eat something that looks like this!?! Of couse they like to cut up cute puppys too don't they! Weirdos haha :wink:
pastryjen on
gross, hideous, scary...well done!
all4cake on
That is unbelievably gruesome!!! Wow! You know you did a good job when your monster cake gives people nightmares! For real...this one is scary as sh%$!!!
cinjam on
Woah - totally gross, totally awesome
susanscakebabies on
This is awesomely gross! ;-) I couldn't look at it while I was eating my breakfast. Too creepy so I had to come back when I was done to comment on it. Great gory job!!
Dawn2467 on
Amazing sculpting!!!!...Wow, this is great!!!...My 2 yr old says he needs a bath...Incredible talent!
Taigen on
AWESOME!!! He will be the hit of the party
CarolAnn on
Well it's scarey looking because it looks so real so you obviously did a great job here. I could eat it for sure because it's cake, heck I'd even offer to cut it all up right away, from the back!! And with the face pieces literally face down.
maryindublin on
eeww, fantastically icky! love the detail of the tendons in the neck.
FeGe_Cakes on
That is gross and amazing at the same time. Unbelivable. Great Job. I keep looking at the head trying to figure out how it is supported. And the ears and mouth....awesome. 8O 8O
beechy on
this is brilliantly horrible,i'd be too scared to eat it.its great well done you. :wink:
SpudCake on
I love this cake! My daughter said he looks like a nightmare she had (she's 17).
heavenlys on
That is nasty!!! But ina good way :D
IHATEFONDANT on
I think you did a wonderful job!!! It is scary..icky...just what they probably wanted!!! Great job!! :D
ncbert on
Must have been nice for once not having to smooth the buttercream! LOL....Totally ROCKS! :evil:
Prudence on
Wow! This is fantastic! Great job!! And scary!! :evil:
amberhoney on
How can something that looks so disgusting be making my mouth water? You must have had a lot of fun making him!
ljdills on
Very cool. This cake looks like something straight out of a horror movie.
kaymak on
That's disgusting!! :lol: Incredible job
springlakecake on
omg! thats so gross! but cool!
cambo on
This is AWESOME!
marecip on
Awesome!!!!! What a party centerpeice...soooo gross. Fabulous sclupting on the face did you use something other than cake for the mouth & nose?
dragonflydreams on
. . .D . . . I . . . S . . . G . . . U . . . S . . . T . . . I . . .N . . .G . . . (well done :wink:)
cupcakers on
It is so ugly but loooks sooooo good
Cathee on
that is the grossest cake I have ever seen! BUT IT ROCKS!
jen1977 on
EWWWW! You did a great job!
Charmed on
fantasticaly gross!!! I LOVE IT !! Great Job!!
Bijoudelanuit on
amazing job, but completely disgusting! ... perfect for Halloween!
KrisD13 on
This is the most disgustingly great cake decorating job........Ewwwww! and WOW!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
dwbeall on
That's awsome! how did you support it?
Melvira on
O...M...G... That is the most disgusting, wonderful, nasty, amazingly cool Halloween cake ever!!! I am in LOVE!!
summerfun on
I love your cake, you have a great imagination, I would like to see what your support looked like.
tararw on
I think this is the creepiest cake I have ever seen. Great job!!!!
BethLewis on
Outstanding work! It's so Tewtally gross - "gag me with a spatula" great! :D
ombaker on
Disgusting...ly perfect!
petalosr on
Liis on
AWESOME! my 9 year old would have out of his body experience if he'd get something like that!
Liis on
I had to show it to him. Mum mum mum please i need his for my birthday! It looks i may need to ask your premission to copy it l ;)
eilers on
That is so unbelievably disgusting!! Superb cake making. I bow to your design & sculpting skills!
jtlccbrown on
UNBELIEVABLE!!! That is great! I love this idea and you are sooooo talented. You gave a new meaning to Halloween cake.
sprite2611 on
Great job 8O
Bourgonsgirl on
THis is truly disgusting! Awesome job! Could you tell me how you did it? Supports, nose, etc,,, Please!~!!!!!!!!!
Bourgonsgirl on
THis is truly disgusting! Awesome job! Could you tell me how you did it? Supports, nose, etc,,, Please!~!!!!!!!!!
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Hilton Okinawa Chatan Resort - Chatan
You will be spoilt for choice in terms of dining at this hotel as there are 2 restaurants serving breakfast, lunch and dinner where you will find great menu choices and a nice spot to eat during the day. Relax in the indoor pool and 3 outdoor pools, and enjoy the waterslide and sun loungers. The pool bar and bar/lounge are ideal spots for drinks before heading down to the restaurant to sample the delicious menu choices.
A health club and spa services are among the leisure facilities on offer. Child-friendly amenities at this hotel include a children's pool and supervised childcare/activities. Free WiFi and high-speed (wired) Internet access is available.
Hilton Okinawa Chatan Resort - Chatan
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Hotel size
- This hotel has 346 rooms
- This hotel is arranged over 9 floors
- Check-in time starts at 3 PM
- Check-out time is noon
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Required at check in
- Credit card or cash deposit required
- Government-issued photo ID required
- Minimum check-in age is 18
Travelling with others
- One child (5 years old and younger) stays free when occupying the parent or guardian's room, using existing bedding
- No cribs (infant beds)
- Pets not allowed (service animals welcome)
- Free WiFi and wired Internet access in public areas
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In the hotel
- Supervised childcare/activities (surcharge)
- Full breakfast daily (surcharge)
- 2 restaurants
- Bar/lounge
- Coffee shop/café
- Poolside bar
- Free beach shuttle
- Number of outdoor pools - 3
- Indoor pool
- Health club
- Spa services on site
- Playground on site
- Scuba diving nearby
- Snorkeling nearby
- Water skiing nearby
- Windsurfing nearby
- Children's pool
- Waterslide
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- Business center
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- Tours/ticket assistance
- Dry cleaning/laundry service
- Laundry facilities
- Luggage storage
- Multilingual staff
- Elevator/lift
- Safe-deposit box at front desk
- Terrace
- Accessible bathroom
- In-room accessibility
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- In-room climate control (air conditioning)
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- Minibar
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- Iron/ironing board
- Blackout drapes/curtains
- Turndown service
- Premium bedding
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- Bidet
- Free toiletries
- Hair dryer
- Pay movies
- Premium TV channels
- Desk
- WiFi (surcharge)
- Phone
- Refrigerator
- Daily housekeeping
- In-room safe
Special features
DiningSURIYUN - Overlooking the ocean, this buffet restaurant specializes in international cuisine and serves breakfast, lunch, and dinner. A children's menu is available. Open daily.
Corrente - This restaurant specializes in Italian cuisine and serves lunch and dinner. Guests can order drinks at the bar and enjoy alfresco dining (weather permitting). Open daily.
Mahru - Onsite lobby lounge. Open daily.
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Optional extras
WiFi is available in guestrooms for an extra charge
High-speed Internet access (wired) is available in guestrooms for an extra charge
We have included all charges provided to us by this hotel. However, charges can vary, for example, based on length of stay or the room you book.