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Security officials advised that expelling the families of suicide bombers was likely to produce the biggest legal problems, while the deportation of suspected Palestinian terrorists was less complicated legally. The decision is awaiting a review by top legal officers, and is likely to provoke strong international reaction.
Israeli Regional Cooperation Minister Roni Milo was expected to push in the full cabinet a declaration of an emergency situation that would enable the use of such measures as deportations and home demolitions. "The war against terror necessitates enabling the legal system to make the changes necessary to succeed in this war," he said. "We have to take much more massive action than we have until now. If this means entering the territories and staying there for a long time, then we will have to consider it."
His comments came as Israeli troops yesterday poured into the West Bank city of Qalqilyah, and cabinet announced the army was free to move into Palestinian cities and operate in them "for as long as it is required".
Cabinet also authorised the conscription of soldiers from reserve units, who will undergo brief training before being stationed in the territories.
There is now a consensus in the security cabinet that the families of suicide bombers must be punished to discourage further attacks. But according to the 1949 Geneva Convention, an occupying power is forbidden from transferring people by force from occupied territories, such as the West Bank and Gaza Strip.
But the convention does state in the same Article 49: "Nevertheless, the occupying power may undertake total or partial evacuation of a given area if the security, population or imperative military reasons do demand."
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Major Pettigrew's Last Stand: A Novel
Random House Publishing Group, Mar 2, 2010 - Fiction - 368 pages
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You are about to travel to Edgecombe St. Mary, a small village in the English countryside filled with rolling hills, thatched cottages, and a cast of characters both hilariously original and as familiar as the members of your own family. Among them is Major Ernest Pettigrew (retired), the unlikely hero of Helen Simonson's wondrous debut. Wry, courtly, opinionated, and completely endearing, Major Pettigrew is one of the most indelible characters in contemporary fiction, and from the very first page of this remarkable novel he will steal your heart.
The Major leads a quiet life valuing the proper things that Englishmen have lived by for generations: honor, duty, decorum, and a properly brewed cup of tea. But then his brother's death sparks an unexpected friendship with Mrs. Jasmina Ali, the Pakistani shopkeeper from the village. Drawn together by their shared love of literature and the loss of their respective spouses, the Major and Mrs. Ali soon find their friendship blossoming into something more. But village society insists on embracing him as the quintessential local and her as the permanent foreigner. Can their relationship survive the risks one takes when pursuing happiness in the face of culture and tradition?
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Firm DescriptionJanine Stone provides ultra-wealthy private clients with luxury interior design, architecture and build services for prime and super-prime residences.
As one of Britain's foremost interior designers, her internationally acclaimed practice is supported by a team of 50 architects, designers, craftsmen, project managers, technicians and builders; each dedicated to striving for excellence. With offices in London, Manchester, Moscow and Milan, the firm specialises in developing, refurbishing, designing and building extraordinary private residences for the most discerning clients.
She has a reputation for working on super-league homes and top-end developments, but in person Janine Stone is thoughtful and creative. She puts the client at the heart of every design, believing that each home 'should be a perfect fit'. For her team of 50, that is the cue for expertly crafted bespoke furniture, unique decorative finishes and globally sourced antiques.
With the focus on private homes, Janine's projects include the refurbishment of a mews house in Belgravia, a new private home in Surrey, the refurbishment of an Arts and Crafts house in Kent and a new build house in Israel.


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Why DVD-ROM for Your Classroom?
What Is DVD Technology?
DVD Technology Contrasted with Other Electronic Resources
DVD FormatsMaking Note of Distinctions
Why Use DVD Technology?
Why Use DVD Technology?
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The most obvious benefit of DVD-ROMs is that they combine the increased storage capacity of the DVD-Video with the computing capabilities of the CD-ROM, including search function, complex menus, and the ability to create and bookmark specific learning pathways. Consider:
DVD-ROMs teach students how to locate, use, assess,
and manipulate information.
DVD-ROMs teach research and technology skills while directly supporting curriculum integration and new learning environments. "Traditional educational practices no longer provide students with all the necessary skills for economic survival in today's workplace. Students must apply strategies for solving problems and use appropriate tools for learning, collaborating and communicating. Today's learning environments must incorporate strategies and tools that prepare students for their futures." (National Educational Technology Standards, International Society for Technology in Education, 1998)
The important message is not that students need access to technology for its own sake, but rather that students and teachers both need access to tools that enhance learning and teaching.
In preparing learners for a 21st-century world, educators need to provide access to tools that aid and support the collection, manipulation, and analysis of information. Students need to be able to quickly locate information; assess what they have found; use the information in oral or written presentations to present their opinions and conclusions; evaluate results; and discard what is not needed.
DVD-ROMs offer rich resources teachers can use to respond to questions and take advantage of teachable moments.
"Today's world requires teaching methods that keep up with students' active lives, stimulate their intellect in an increasingly distracted society, and accomplish all this within exemplary instructional design that addresses standards-based education," says Tim Waters, Ph.D., CEO of
. "DVD-based instruction delivers on all these objectives by employing engaging media, capitalizing on what motivates students and seizing teachable moments." (
T.H.E. Journal
, August 2003)
Today's students have been raised in a media-oriented environment--TV, the Internet, and video--and are accustomed to visual images. DVD-ROM resources are motivating for students. DVD technology opens a visual window to content far richer than print. DVD-ROMs transform educational content into an engaging world of stories, facts, ideas, pictures, and sounds that students can actively explore.
The active engagement that DVD-ROMs offer students is educationally crucial, particularly in the "computer game" era. For example, students no longer have to speculate about what it was like to live during a particular time in history--they can experience it through the DVD-ROM's images and audio. By allowing students to ferret out answers to their own questions, DVD-ROMs intellectually motivate and empower them.
Additionally, DVD resources make teachers better able to deliver information using the kinds of media that mirror how students really think and learn. The versatile variety of media available on a DVD-ROM is particularly valuable, since teachers can't always know up front which approach will work for each student. DVD-ROMs also free the teacher from the primary responsibility of delivering information, providing increased opportunities to facilitate, encourage, discuss, and mentor.
Establishing New Learning Environments
Teacher-centered instruction
Single sense stimulation
Single path progression
Single media
Isolated work
Information delivery
Passive learning
Factual/literal thinking
Reactive response
Isolated, artificial context
New Environments
Student-centered learning
Multisensory stimulation
Multipath progression
Collaborative work
Information exchange
Active/exploratory/inquiry-based learning
Critical thinking, informed decision making
Proactive/planned action
Authentic, real world context
Reprinted with permission from National Education Technology Standards for Students - Connecting Curriculum and Technology, copyright © 2000, ISTE (International Society for Technology in Education), 800.336.5191 (U.S. & Canada) or 541.302.3777 (International), email@example.com, www.iste.org. All rights reserved. Permission does not constitute an endorsement by ISTE.
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BRUCE Foxton has the same passion for music as he did when he was in The Jam. And he said life is good after he remarried 18 months ago and has rekindled his friendship with former band mate, Paul Weller. His band, From The Jam is going from strength to strength with another packed calendar booked with gigs. And last October Bruce Foxton released the Foxton album, Back In The Room, which features Blues Brothers legend, Steve Cropper and Paul Weller.
But would Weller ever play with From The Jam?
Foxton, 57, said: "He is doing his thing. He is a happy family man- he has two boys- understandably he wants to spend a lot of time with them. "He is restrictive on what is doing this year as he wants to be with his family more.
"Hopefully we will continue to record on each other's records."
Foxton contributed to Weller's Wake Up The Nation in 2010. And they performed together at The Royal Albert Hall in May 2010.
The Jam split in 1982 and Foxton pursued a brief solo career before he joined Stiff Little Fingers who he stayed with for 15 years. For years Weller and Foxton did not get on. But Foxton said: "It went like that unfortunately for a good few years. "It took the death of my first wife and shortly followed by John, Paul's dad, to pass away.
"We realised life is too short and got it back together.
"We buried the hatchet and are enjoying life now. "It is water under the bridge."
Foxton's wife, Pat, died in 2009 from breast cancer. He said: "Pat was the sort of girl, even through The Jam and Stiff Little Fingers, she encouraged me to keep going. Even when I though I have had enough, when really what I am going to do."
He took a break from music for a while before returning, because he thought it is what Pat would have wanted. Foxton remarried 18 months ago to Kate, who he met through mutual friends and who had known Pat well. He said: "She has been fantastic. I am very happy again. My life took a nose dive. Now it is on the up again."
He also revealed: "She (Kate) was a big fan. She is a few years younger than me. She used to have a picture of me on her wall. "Who would have thought all those years later we would have finished up being married."
And he said he puts the same amount of energy into From The Jam as with The Jam. He said: "I play these songs with as much passion as I did all those years ago. It is not a cabaret act at all."
The Jam had 18 top 40 singles in the UK including That's Entertainment and Just Who Is The 5 o'Clock Hero?
He added: "I am that much older. The 35 years of leaping around like an idiot have taken its toll- cartilage operations- got myself repaired every now and then.
"I am still pretty fit. I do what I am able to do. I still go for it.
"Mentally I am about 25- physically I wish."
And he has just recorded a video with Steve Cropper for Don't Waste My Time, which Cropper contributed to, who he said was a really lovely guy. The next step is to record more and continue to collaborate with Russell Hastings- his fellow bandmate in From The Jam. He said: "We record it and put out what we believe in."
From the Jam is at Sub 89 Reading, 110 to 117, Friar Street in Reading on March 29 at 8pm, plus support. Tickets are £21.28 (including fee) Go to www.facebook.com/sub89reading


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David Buchanan, Horticulturalist
David Buchanan planted his first gardens twenty years ago in central Washington State, after learning about the heritage food movement through the Seed Savers Exchange. In addition to working for ranches, farms, and nurseries, he experimented with small grains like millet and barley, saved seeds for hundreds of vegetable varieties, and grafted and planted fruit trees. In the mid nineties he spent a year working with the Austrian counterpart to the Seed Savers Exchange, where he produced seeds to maintain thousands of vegetables and grains in their collection.
David helped found and for three years led the Portland, Maine chapter of Slow Food. He now serves on its national Ark of Taste Biodiversity Committee, which evaluates and helps preserve endangered heritage foods from around the country. He managed Cape Elizabeth's Turkey Hill Farm in 2008, and continues to maintain trial gardens there filled with over 100 varieties of fruit as well as herbs and vegetables. In addition to managing the vegetable production for Old Ocean House Farms, he consults on landscape design, runs a nursery, Origins Fruit LLC, and is working on a book about regional foods.
- Princeton University, AB Class of 1988
- Conway School of Landscape Design Masters Program, Class of 2000
David's book, Taste, Memory traces the experiences of modern-day explorers who rediscover culturally rich forgotten foods and return them to our tables for all to experience and savor.
In Taste, Memory author David Buchanan explores questions fundamental to the future of food and farming. How can we strike a balance between preserving the past, maintaining valuable agricultural and culinary traditions, and looking ahead to breed new plants? What place does a cantankerous old pear or too-delicate strawberry deserve in our gardens, farms, and markets? To what extent should growers value efficiency and uniformity over matters of taste, ecology, or regional identity?
While living in Washington State in the early nineties, Buchanan learned about the heritage food movement and began growing fruit trees, grains, and vegetables. After moving home to New England, however, he left behind his plant collection and for several years stopped gardening. In 2005, inspired by the revival of interest in regional food and culinary traditions, Buchanan borrowed a few rows of growing space at a farm near his home in Portland, Maine, where he resumed collecting. By 2012 he had expanded to two acres, started a nursery and small business, and discovered creative ways to preserve rare foods. In Taste, Memory Buchanan shares stories of slightly obsessive urban gardeners, preservationists, environmentalists, farmers, and passionate cooks, and weaves anecdotes of his personal journey with profiles of leaders in the movement to defend agricultural biodiversity.
Taste, Memory begins and ends with a simple premise: that a healthy food system depends on matching diverse plants and animals to the demands of land and climate. In this sense of place lies the true meaning of local food.
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However, Brunner was not the only perpetrator of the Holocaust mooching around the streets of the Syrian capital.
Unlike Brunner, Remer was itinerant, and spent much time in that other nest of postwar Nazis—Cairo.
You had better go anyhow, and don't bother Mr. and Mrs. Brunner all the time.
Brunner shook hands and drove away in his splendid carriage.
Hence mammalia, in whom these conditions exist, possess both the glands of Brunner and of Lieberkhn.
"Do not call my sincerity in question, sir," Brunner interrupted quickly.
I cannot omit recalling in this place a case I have already mentioned elsewhere, that of Brunner.
Brunner has translated it by 'gemeinschaftlich—durcheinander.'
He thought well of Schwab, Brunner, and the Graffs; that firm was promoting railways, he became a shareholder in the lines.
Brunner brought under notice of Speaker circumstances attendant upon mysterious disappearance of Joey C. last night.


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I have the Xbox 360 version of the game -- can I use the character creator to make a character for the game or is it only for PC versions?
- Just PC, I'm afraid. I had an old low-definition TV when DA2 came out, and I couldn't read any of the text when I played the demo. I ended up getting Origins and Awakening AGAIN on PC, and playing through before DA2. I also got the character creator and DA Toolbox. Never looked back! :) - Wandrew (talk) 00:20, June 8, 2013 (UTC)


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Okay, so I'm at a job interview and the guy says they're mainly a Mac shop, but they have a couple of PCs for when jobs come in on a PC application, and he wants to know if I can handle a PC.
I'm like, well, yeah. I've worked on them as the primary machine for 16 years now. I've worked with Macs as well, we had both in my last job.
But then he's skeptical that I can handle a Mac. I point out that the applications are identical, with minor differences in font management. He still wasn't sure.
I pointed out that I've seen dozens of people who had never worked on the PC side hit the PCs at my former employer, and that it was a minor adjustment. Learning office procedures and the corporate culture is far harder.
Plus, I said, new software comes out every so often and makes beginners of us all. Operating systems revamp, or in the case of Pagemaker to InDesign, the application itself changes to a completely different setup, and the work still has to get done. If I couldn't learn this stuff quickly, I'd never have kept a job at all. For crying out loud, I learned to do this as a one-man art department in an office where no one had time to teach me anything.
I know it's unusual for an artist to be primarily familiar with the PC. Maybe even more for the PC to be preferred, but the main reason I prefer the PC is because it's familiar. Hire me to work on a Mac and in about 45 minutes I'll start getting used to it. Do anything 40 hours a week or more and it gets to be like breathing.
But the thing that struck me as oddest was his comment about the superiority of Macs. He asked me why my previous employer had leaned so heavily to the PC side. Economics, I said, they are cheaper. Plus, the IT guy we had was biased against Macs, so we weren't likely to have more of them than we needed. And once you have an archive of legacy files, you don't want to switch because the font issues and whatnot become pretty hairy. At least in a shop with a lot of repeat orders.
But he said, 'Well, yeah they're [I]cheaper[/I]. But Macs are better.'
I didn't correct him, but having worked with both, I can say he is wrong. Unless you define better as a pretty box and a lot more money for the same thing.


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A former presidential candidate, Perry was one of the first this election cycle to use Romney's former firm, Bain Capital, to knock the former Massachusetts governor. Perry made headlines when he accused Romney of "vulture capitalism" and repeatedly targeted him as a greedy corporate raider.
Newt Gingrich also jumped on the Bain train during the primary, though he soon backed down, following a backlash of Republican scorn over attacking the business world.
Now, Democrats, including the president, are using Romney's private sector experience to cast the presumptive GOP presidential nominee as unqualified for the Oval Office, arguing the job of the president is to look out for all Americans, not simply maximize profits.
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Help with Yelp: How Online Reviews (and Filters) Can Affect Funeral Home Business August 7, 2011 by Trice Atkinson
When it comes to online reputation management for your funeral home business, Yelp is one of the major players the realm of online reviews that you should be monitoring closely. Founded in 2004 as a website devoted to helping online users connect with local businesses, Yelp has grown into one of the most popular review sites on the web. According to information provided on the Yelp site, on average more than 50 million people visit Yelp every month in search of services, and to read and post reviews. While there are a number of other websites that also offer consumers this option, what separates Yelp from the rest of pack is that it employs a fairly stringent review filter. The result is that some reviews that may seem benign and credible will not be displayed and will get filtered out. If a new-to-Yelp business is striving to establish credibility, they may of course get frustrated with reviews that they know are submitted by legitimate customers, but are still being filtered. Fortunately, in these cases consumers can still read filtered reviews by clicking on the gray link indicating the number of filtered reviews ("X Filtered") at the bottom left of any Yelp business listing. In the event you cannot not see this link, then the business listing does not have any filtered reviews.
How Credible Reviews Make It Through the Yelp FilterLet's take a closer look at how the filtering process works. As quoted from their site:
"Yelp's review filter is designed to help protect against fake reviews, including those that might be written by a competitor or a disgruntled former employee. Since it's not always easy to distinguish the good guys from the bad guys, the system sometimes affects perfectly legitimate reviews, especially those that are written by less established users. Some businesses might fear that they are being singled out among the millions of businesses on Yelp. Rest assured, the review filter is automated to reduce human bias. It affects both positive and negative reviews, and doesn't have anything to do with whether a business is an advertiser or not."
Note the word "established" in the above explanation: For those reviewers who have only posted one review on Yelp, and have not been active otherwise on the site (such as those who do not have a profile, photo, or have not "friended" others), they are much more likely to have their reviews filtered. This "filtered" status will usually change once the reviewer becomes more involved and "established" on the site — meaning more credible in the eyes of Yelp. When it comes to making it through the Yelp filter as a reviewer, it's really just about making efforts to be active on the website, and regularly posting helpful reviews.
If you find your business is receiving negative reviews on Yelp it is important to remember that reviews can change from negative to positive over time. One of the ways to help this happen is to reach out to those reviewers who were unhappy with the services you provided. An unsatisfied customer might reconsider changing their low rating to a higher one if they feel acknowledged and that the issues they mentioned in their review have been addressed. Yelp reviews are not static, and can morph in status over time. To help overcome the Yelp Review Filter, strategies can include: voting the review useful or funny, sending the reviewer a compliment, letting them know their review is being filtered and encouraging them to fill out their profile, or asking to be added as a friend on Yelp. Making efforts such as these to engage the review and the reviewer will help in getting those filtered reviews to show up on your Yelp business page.
Why Yelp is Important to Your Funeral Business, and Your Families A large percentage of consumers check online reviews when seeking a specific product or service, and often rely on web-based feedback early in their decision-making. However, a much smaller percentage actually post online feedback, and as such, a more vocal minority may have a greater impact on the decisions that your potential customers make. Becoming involved and proactive at online review sites such as Yelp is a crucial part of online reputation management for your funeral business and will pay off in the long run if you are willing to stay on top of it!
Takeaway IdeasCreate or claim the business listing for your funeral business on Yelp (and other online directories/review sites), fill out all applicable fields, and engage with consumer feedback regularly.
Encourage satisfied families to write and post reviews by offering great customer service.
Reach out to your reviewers (that includes both positive and negative).
Check out Yelp (and other online directories/review sites) to see what consumers are saying about your business!
Knowing what to do is the first part of battle. Creating a funeral home marketing plan and engaging your families will provide further positive results. Take some time now and look online for your funeral home business and see what families are saying about you.


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Dec 12 Posted 2 years ago
Hey all,
I am a sociota user. Its really one of the best latest tools..... why is this not included in the list ?
Nov 5 Posted 2 years ago
Hi Pam , really beneficial article with brief and to the point stuff, what I was looking for.
Oct 27 Posted 2 years ago
Wanna just add an information about the new analytical tool i.e. SocialClout, which according to me consist of a complete suite of tools that help Businesses to manage their social media marketing and monitoring initiatives. It Includes Monitoring, Listening, Engagement workflow, Social Media Analytics, Social Media lead generation and competitive analysis.
I would ask you to visit www.socialclout.com and evaluate by trying out our 30 day free trial. Would appreciate your feedback. This tool would be a great asset to the marketing teams of small businesses because it is rich in feature and competitive in pricing.
Sep 3 Posted 2 years ago
My company just started using Plumlytics. Amazing insights for a ridiculously affordable price. I highly recommend checking it out.
Sep 3 Posted 2 years ago
Great list. You should consider adding Trenspire to the list though. It has excellent Twitter monitoring and analytic capabilities http://www.trenspire.com . Check out their video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q4xza74JDqE&rel=0
Aug 21 Posted 2 years agoThis is Mrigank from the socialclout team. SocialClout is complete suite of tools that help Businesses to manage their social media marketing and monitoring initiatives. It Includes Monitoring, Listening, Engagement workflow, Social Media Analytics and Social Media lead generation. Would request you to visit www.socialclout.com and try out our 30 day free trial. Would appreciate your feedback.This tool would be a great asset to the marketing teams of small businesses.
Jul 23 Posted 3 years ago
This is a great list with brief information of each tool. I am using Social Pulse™ (http://socialpulse.co) automation tool. This is one of the best social media analytics tool which has real-time, analytics, automated publishing, monitoring and weather triggered ads publishing. Everything in one place!
May 19 Posted 3 years ago
Great article, but looks like it needs an update. Some have closed, some have been purchased and some have merged...And would be great to see Oktopost on the list!
May 13 Posted 3 years ago
Hi Pam!
These are all pretty solid... However, one that was not mentioned here was #evalue analytics. I used it recently...the inisights it provides are actually much more detailed and substantial than most these other ones... its an amazing platform for monitoring and overall analytics. example: http://www.evalueanalytics.com/1158/social-pages/Mercedes-Benz
Apr 18 Posted 3 years ago
Hi there!
Post was interesting but I wanted to ask you all for a little advice: I'm in a hurry to get an app to help me monitoring my client's reputation/mentions. I know and have tested mention.net and it's definately a great tool: reliable and fast as hell. Thing is I do need more than the alerts they give (instead of nº of mentions) so I'm trying to figure out if there's any other app with a similar reliabilty but with more room for individual alerts.
Btw I do use seo tools as moz, majestic, ahrefs and such but their "mention trackers" aren't as fast and reliable (in spanish, little detail ^^). And for some of the tools you talk about Pam, I'd love to use them but they're far away from my budget :\
I mean it's great but if there's any other new tool, as post is from last year, I'd love to hear from it. thank you :)
Apr 17 Posted 3 years ago
This is a really great list! I am currently researching a ton of different options for tools. I also came across this other article which I would like to share. It was a company that interviewed a TON of different social media managers for what they used every day and ranked them according to the votes that they received. Pretty cool huh? article: http://www.watsonnowlin.com/top-social-tools I started using at least 3-4 tools from this list alone and I can say that it has made a real life difference in my daily activities.
Apr 16 Posted 3 years ago
This list of social media tools would definitely help website owners. Thanks for sharing such informative and helpful post with us.. Waiting for your next post.. Keep sharing...
Mar 12 Posted 3 years ago
You guys must also include Sociota in your list. We have very powerful features on Social Media Management, Marketing and Analytics. A must check out site if you are working in this space.
Feb 26 Posted 3 years ago
I'm the Director of Marketing at an IT company in Dallas and one of our big concerns is how users are interacting with content we post to our website and blogs. More specifically; how users share that content to social media and whether or not we actually have engagements and conversions from the content. SocialRest gives us those metrics. They need to be on this list. They're tools are awesome!!
Feb 11 Posted 3 years ago
What about understanding what is in PHOTOS? Ditto has a tool that helps marketers see how their brand appears in social across tumblr, twitter, and instagram. Try it here: http://www.startditto.com
Eager to get your feedback!
Jan 31 Posted 3 years ago
I've been using Brandwatch (http://www.brandwatch.com) for a few years now and I'm always impressed by the felixibility of the tool and quality of the data.
Also it's not really an analytics tool but FollowerWonk (http://followerwonk.com/) is really handy as a quick way of identifying influencers and segmenting your followers.
Jan 10 Posted 3 years ago
Pam- this is a great list. Thanks for putting it out to the world. I found your link today from a Seattle PR friend who sent me this post: PRDaily article http://www.prdaily.com/Main/Articles/15854.aspx
Very helpful notes, especially happy that you included notation for free and paid resources.
Dec 4 Posted 3 years ago
You're welcome, Jen -- it's a great tool!
Dec 4 Posted 3 years ago
Thanks so much for including Meltwater, Pam!
Nov 22 Posted 3 years ago
I have tried Karma is very good and gives you that sense of competition, I also like HootSuite better than Sprout, for reports and analytics CrowdRatio it's been helping me for the past month.
Nov 13 Posted 3 years ago
Dear Pam Dyer,
Nice list, but how about web2monitor? ;-) Do you know it?
From infospeed (http://www.infospeed-research.com/ ), a social media monitoring agency from Cologne/Germany.
I would like to see that tool in your final list. ;-)
Cheers & Thanks
Nov 6 Posted 3 years ago
Hi Pam, nice List, thanks a lot! But i think you missed quintly, former allfacebookstats. It is a brilliant tool for benchmarking your social media profiles with competitors, the most professional one I often heard, so I really wonder why it's not in the list. You should definitely check it: http://www.quintly.com/
Nov 6 Posted 3 years ago
Hi Pam,
Succinct roundup!
I'd like to suggest webfluenz as well, quite a robust and cost effective tool.
It was featured in the Top Social Media Monitoring Tool Report by Goldbach Interactive. It's also been getting some great reviews.
- Shobha Thomas, Research Analyst, Webfluenz
Oct 23 Posted 3 years ago
This a great list of tools - very useful. For your next review, please include SNA Lizzner (http://www.snalizzner.com). If you need more information about our social analytics tool, do not hesitate to contact us. (phk at social-3 dot com)
- Philippe
Oct 10 Posted 3 years ago
Thanks for the post, Pam!
Yet, I believe that you might have missed some cool SMT gems that are out there (BuzzBundle) which I was surprised not to find in your long list of SMTs. I've been using it for quite a while and I'd say that it'd replace a third of your list with ease.
Therefore, I've a question:
Are you planning on writing a review of the major SMT suites? I'd love to read that!
Sep 26 Posted 3 years ago
I like your post on Social Media Tools, Undoubtedly you have send great message to people who are very keen learner on Social Media. I'm also using one of the social media tools for monitoring and tracking is Easesocial. This influence me very much.
Best Regards
Digital Marketing Executive
Sep 26 Posted 3 years ago
Interesting List
Sep 13 Posted 3 years ago
Thanks for this great list. We would be very happy if you would add our Tool Replise (http://www.replise.com) to the list. Comprehensive Monitoring with own crawler and historical data and we also have a team of data analysts that is happy to help getting intelligence from your data
Garbis, CEO Replise Germany
Sep 11 Posted 3 years ago
Great list Pam!
As an update, SWIX Analytics (#39) has been merged into a new platform called Source Metrics. You can find it here --- (http://sourcemetrics.com/)
Aug 20 Posted 3 years ago
Wow! This is a great list! What's interesting is when you search for "viral" nothing comes up on the page...And not one of these services could even tell you about viral content. They only watch "what" people are saying, sentiment, etc. and "who" is talking about your brand.
You should give http://www.ViralityScore.com a look. It will let you measure how viral content is.
Aug 9 Posted 3 years ago
Another great platform tool that you should add to the list is PromoJam - the self service social marketing platform for running and tracking social, direct and mobile marketing campaigns with ease on Facebook, Twitter, Instagram and Pinterest. They have extremely affordable prices, are used by big and small brands / businesses across the country. Can you include them in the list? Check it out - http://www.promojam.com/
Aug 6 Posted 3 years ago
Thanks for the great writeup, Pam!
You've done fantastic job, as I've seen quite many products I hadn't known about.
As for my contribution, there is also a great SMM & social reputation tool called BuzzBundle.
As far as I know, the tool is the only one that supports YouTube management along with other major social networks. Another awesome feature of BuzzBundle is that it allows tracking brand mentions online, which applies to own and competitors' brands.
Jul 12 Posted 4 years ago
Thanks so much for including MediaMiser, Pam!
Like many of our competitors, we offer free trials. We'd welcome you and your readers to take MediaMiser for a spin during their vendor evaluation process.
If you'd like to see a video demo of our newest product, MediaMiser SNAP, click here:
A full overview of our suite of products can be found here:
And samples of the types of media analysis you can do with our products are here:
Hope your readers find this helpful!
- Laura Slater, Marketing Manager @MediaMiser
Jun 10 Posted 4 years ago
How come no one ever mentions Sendible? This is by far the best tool I have found for the 76 social networks I oversee. I tried everything else, HootSuite, TweetDeck, Seesmic, SocialOomph, etc. CoTweet wanted $18,000.00 a year for 15 accounts (but you can get an unlimited enterprise account for $100,000.00 a year.) I pay $40.00 a month for up to 100 accounts with Sendible. No brainer, right? Plus, it has tools NO ONE else offers and it's reports/metrics are very intense too! I used Ping for a while, but was just so frustrated with it. I gave up when I couldn't reach anyone for customer support. And for the record, I would grade Sendible's customer support on the same level as Zappos.
I work for the largest broadcasting company in the world, it's good enough for us, is it good enough for you? Check it out for yourself, http://www.sendible.com
I know this sounds like a commercial, but I honestly can say I don't know what I'd do without it. I only wished someone had told me about it sooner. It truly is a Social secret weapon!
P.s. Sendible offers a free trial. But if you want to sit through a boring demo with a sales person, CoTweet is more than happy to take an hour out of your day.
Jun 6 Posted 4 years ago
Thanks for the comprehensive list. Would love to see Social Business Analytics included in your next review. If your readers are like me, they appreciate taking a look at the newest apps out there.
-James (CEO, The Social Business)
Jun 3 Posted 4 years ago
I am currently using Hootsuite as my main tool to monitor all my social media activities and it is very reliable. I hope they will make more updates for the software as I found it very useful in my needs. Meanwhile, just sharing you what I've stumbled upon on Google, here's a list of over 20 social media monitoring software with a comparison of all the features.
May 21 Posted 4 years ago
hilarious - as if someone could juggle 5 of these, you show 50 "top" tools and so far the commenters want you to basically double the last. ROTFL
May 20 Posted 4 years ago
Excellent job rounding up this list, Pam.Thanks so much for including CARMA! We also run a robust blog that explores media measurement and a know a number of posts in there focus on social media measurement strategy http://www.carma.com/blog/
May 17 Posted 4 years ago
Hi Pam,
did you try our facebook analytics tools? ShoorK{metrics} for competitors monitoring (http://metrics.shoork.com) and ShoorK{analytics} for fan pages detailled statistics analysis
Jean-Michel TRAYAUD - ShoorK Co-Funder
May 16 Posted 4 years ago
Hi there Pam, don't forget us - I'm the communications manager at iSentia (formerly Media Monitors Group) the largest media intelligence company in the Asia-Pacific region, with the leading online business intelligence offering in 14 countries via two leading paid social media solutions in Brandtology (number 1 across APAC and one of China's top 4 social tools according to Gartner) and BuzzNumbers, market leader in Australia and New Zealand. Our mission? To discover and share valuable insights that drive smarter decisions. Check: http://www.brandtology.com/get-started/ourservices/our-clients and http://www.buzznumbershq.com/about_us and www.isentia.com
May 15 Posted 4 years ago
Great roundup, Pam! Thanks so much for including Synthesio in your list! I just wanted to add - Synthesio just launched an impressive new feature for reporting - ReportBuilder - making reporting easier and less time consuming: http://synthesio.com/corporate/en/2013/events/synthesio-global-listening-reportbuilder-launch-party-at-iwny/ Let me know what you think!
Julie Meredith (Marketing Manager, Synthesio)
May 14 Posted 4 years ago
Nice list, Pam! Would love to see Compass Labs' CLIQ Social Intelligence included in your next round-up!
May 14 Posted 4 years ago
Hi, Pam -- this is a fantastic round-up of all the available free and paid monitoring and analytics tools. Thank you for including CyberAlert on your list. Hopefully, communications pros will learn that it's important to experiment with several services before finding out what works for them (that's why so many services like CyberAlert offer free trials!)
May 14 Posted 4 years ago
An extensive list of social media monitoring tools here. Would love to see Sentiment Metrics included next time ;)
If you would like any more information about our enterprise solution, please get in touch:
Lucy, Social media Community Specialist at Sentiment Metrics
May 14 Posted 4 years ago
Good Morning Pam - that's a great list of tools. I want to introduce you brandchats.com we are in San Francisco and Spain. We've international international customers and coverage.
BrandChats focuses on gathering and sorting every bit of information relevant to your brand. Everything from brand mentions and the competition to the keywords that are related to the business is monitored and measured in real time. You can monitor anywhere people are talking about what matters to you, whether it is Twitter, Facebook, Flickr, Picasa, Youtube, or blogs, forums and news sites.
May 14 Posted 4 years ago Incredible list of tools.. As social media is slowly reigning the online world, these kind of tools will surely contribute to the online success of any business. People do believe in real reviews and social media is the platform that is giving boost nowadays.
May 13 Posted 4 years ago
Pam - that's a great list of tools. It would've been great to see Sendible.com listed here. We would love to show you a demo of our product when you have a chance.
May 13 Posted 4 years ago
And Simply Measured is...?
May 13 Posted 4 years ago
Pam, thanks so much for including uberVU! I'm really excited to see our product among this list of other great tools (and some worthy competitors). If you ever have any questions about uberVU - for a future post or just your own research, I'm happy to answer them. You can reach me at elisabeth at ubervu dot com.
- Elisabeth, Social Media Marketing & Community Manager at uberVU
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Washington, D.C. - A mock wind turbine will be erected Monday, March 12 at noontime in Washington, D.C.'s Freedom Plaza to highlight the threat that wind, a celebrated alternative energy source, poses to the American bird community.
"If I was a bird, I'd be an angry bird right now," said David Almasi, executive director of the National Center for Public Policy Research and director of the National Center's "Occupy Occupy DC" project. "Countless innocent birds that only want to be with their eggs die every year from crashing into wind turbines. The environmentalists who promote wind energy at the expense of the birds are green pigs!"
Monday's event is part of The National Center for Public Policy Research's "Occupy Occupy D.C." events at Freedom Plaza. The National Center obtained a five-week permit from the U.S. Park Service that forces the Occupy D.C. encampment to share the park between February 12 and March 15.
A report by the National Research Council estimated that wind turbines kill approximately 100,000 birds every year. The American Bird Conservancy claims the number could be triple that estimate -- affecting the songbird community most of all.
"At some point the slaughter of birds and bats by taxpayer-subsidized wind turbines is going to trigger serious legal action," added National Center Senior Fellow Bonner Cohen, Ph.D. "If the full force of the Migratory Bird Treaty and the Endangered Species Act were brought to bear on these unsightly killing machines, investors would turn their backs on this artificial industry in a heartbeat."
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Undocumented Immigrants in City of Farmers Branch: Policy Analysis of Ordinance 2903
Undocumented immigration is an important societal issue today. Even though there are many federal law enforcement agents working to reduce the number of undocumented immigrants, the United States is not effectively enforcing current laws. As a result, there are several local governments taking action to develop new policies that would better enforce existing immigration laws. This paper will examine ordinance 2903 of Farmers Branch, TX, where local politicians hope to enact an ordinance banning undocumented immigrants from renting real estate for either housing or business purposes. It will also evaluate the equity, efficiency, and effectiveness of the ordinance, providing a policy alternative and suggesting recommendations to address the issue of undocumented immigration.
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EXCLUSIVE: Showtime is developing Pure Evil, a drama series executive produced by feature producing duo Arnold and Anne Kopelson. The project, which is being written by Trey Callaway (CSI: NY), centers on a brilliant and sinister CEO of the world's largest tech & media conglomerate. Callaway will executive produce with the Oscar-winning Kopelsons. Steve Barnett, president of Kopelson Entertainment, will also produce. This is the first TV effort in a decade for Arnold and Anne Kopelson who executive produced the CBS series The Fugitive, based on the it 1993 movie they also produced.
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I've been waiting for something new from these two pros. I'm a big fan of good movies and good tv, and with the Kopelsons involved, I know I'll be watching something really good!
Thanks Bonnie your parents must be pleased you can barely read and write. Those three idiots will ruin what seems like a good idea.
Anybody remember "Profit" on Fox starring Adrian Pasdar? Hopefully they can take this type of show and put it on Cable and it will flourish. Looking forward!
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Worked for these two years ago. There's a reason you haven't heard from them since 99′ and it's because of loglines like this.
Trey is a great writer. I love the Kopelsons. Glad they have come out of retirement. It will be wonderful to see some well produced entertainment coming from them. I used to see all there movies when I was a kid. Go Anne and Arnold! Thanks for the update.
It's just that hard to get things made…
Ha! Retirement… The money fox sinked on their deal could balance the budget. Must be tough going from plush Century City digs to sharing office space with Kinkos and Petsmart.
Whatever happened to their big budget underwater movie Riptide? Or the one with the talking animals?


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Application to the Yakima River Basin
Application to the Yakima River Basin
The initial application of the WARSMP was in the 23,000 square mile San Juan River Basin, a major tributary to the Colorado River. Beginning in fiscal year 1997, the focus of the WARSMP has been the application of the DSS to the Yakima River Basin located in eastern Washington (fig. 2). The basin has a drainage area of about 6,200 square miles, and produces a mean annual unregulated runoff of about 5,600 cubic feet per second (4,055,000 acre-feet) and a regulated runoff of about 3,600 cubic feet per second (2,606,000 acre-feet). There are 8 major rivers and numerous smaller streams associated with the Yakima River.
The headwaters are on the humid east slope of the Cascade Range where mean annual precipitation is more than 90 inches. The basin ends at the confluence of the Yakima and Columbia Rivers in the low-lying, arid part of the basin that receives about 6 inches of precipitation per year. Most of the precipitation falls during the winter in the form of snow in the mountains. Mean annual precipitation over the entire basin is about 27 inches--equivalenty 12,000 cubic feet per second or 8.7 million acre-feet. The spatial pattern of mean annual precipitation resembles the pattern of the highly variable topography (fig. 2). Altitudes in the basin range from 400 to nearly 8,000 feet.
Agriculture is the principal economic activity in the basin, followed by recreation and timber use. The average annual water-demand is about 2,500,000 acre-feet, or nearly 65 percent of the mean annual unregulated flow. Most of the demand is for irrigation of about 500,000 acres in the low-lying semi-arid to arid parts of the basin. The demand is met by storage of water in 5 major reservoirs that can store 1,065,000 acre-feet or about 26 percent of the mean annual natural flow of the river. The basin has more than 80 canals, 5 diversion dams, and 15 major return flows. Nearly 45 percent of the water diverted for irrigation is eventually returned as both surface and ground-water, at varying time-lags, to the river system. During the low-flow period, these return-flows account for about 75 percent of the water in the lower river system.
The headwater drainages are the sources of water, and the major water uses occur downstream in the drier parts of the basin. Thus, the variability in topography, climate, and water use creates long distances between the supply and demand areas, which in turn, results in spatial and temporal contrasts in the quantity and quality of streamflow.
Issues of many western states are common to the basin. These issues include Indian treaty rights, historical water rights, over-appropriation of water, reservoir and irrigation development, increasing demand for wildlife and anadromous and resident fish, water-quality of the streams and ground-water, and the interaction of ground-water and streamflow. Mnay of these issues are compounded because all new demands are being met by ground-water sources. Judicial law also affects the water-management in the basin, and will continue to do so.
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A veteran of the US Navy and an employee of Bass Pro Shop, he died Aug. 1, 2014.
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Moroka Swallows scored three goals in the first half as Mbulelo Mabizela, David Mathebula and Bennett Chenene all found the back of the net to hand the Birds a 3-0 win over Bidvest Wits in an Absa Premiership match at the Dobsonville Stadium on Wednesday night.
In only the second minute Swallows were in the lead as they forced an error from the Wits defence. Wits centre half Mabizela netted in his own net when his right-footed clearance found the back of his own net to make it 1-0 to Swallows.
Swallows were in ascendency and soon made it 2-0 two minutes later. Lerato Chabangu crossed in from the right side of penalty area and Mathebula scored with a right-footed shot into the bottom-right of goal from left side of six-yard box.
Wits were reduced to shooting from range early on in an effort to reduce the deficit.
Sibusiso Vilakazi drilled in a right-footed shot from over 35-yards out, but saw his shot saved by Swallows keeper Greg Etafia.
But in the 22nd second minute the Students were made to pay again.
Chabangu was once again the provider from the right side when he set up Chenene and the left wingers left-footed shot into the top-left corner of the net from right side of six-yard box made it 3-0 to Swallows.
Roger De Sas young men went into the break trailing by 3-0 against the experienced Birds outfit.
In the 56th minute, Swallows captain Lefa Tsutsulupa unleashed a right-footed shot 20 yards from the right side, but it went over the bar.
The Birds were in full flight and at it again two minutes later when a shot by Chabangu from 30-yards out on the right channel was saved by Wits goalkeeper Emile Baron.
In the 76th minute, Wits had a chance to get a goal back when Swallows defender Luvhengo Mungomeni was adjudged to have fouled Wits striker Bradley Ritson in the box.
A powerful penalty taken right-footed by Sibusiso Vilakazi towards the bottom-left of goal was brilliantly saved by Etafia.
The match ended 3-0 with the Birds gaining revenge over the Students who knocked them out of the Nedbank Cup a few weeks ago.
Moroka Swallows (3) 3 (Mabizela 2 og, Mathebula 4, Chenene 22)
Bidvest Wits (0) 0
Moroka Swallows: G Etafia; G Mapemba, L Mungomeni, S Lekgothoane, M Sibaya; G Nergadze, L Tsutsulupa (Khumalo 62), B Chenene, D Mathebula (B Thwala 74); L Chabangu, S Nomvethe (M Maleka 83)
Bidvest Wits: E Baron; M Mabizela, S Mngomezulu, D Spencer, P Phungwayo; B Jayiya (Koapeng 61), A Langwe, L Masalesa, Sbu Vilakazi, M Timms (Miller 69); Sif Vilakazi (B Ritson 46)


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A new report from Kantar Worldpanel ComTech says that Android devices as a group outsold the iPhone in the United States during the three months ending January 2013, with their share of total sales rising to nearly 50 percent.
The report, based on the results of Kantar's ongoing consumer panel research, saw U.S. Android sales rise a little more than 6 percent compared to the same period one year ago, while iOS lost just less than 5 percent, finishing at about 46 percent. Sprint customers were particularly likely to buy Android devices during the studied time frame, according to the study -- to the tune of 72 percent of all smartphone sales.
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Kantar says this was due in part to a holiday price break on the popular Samsung Galaxy S III, which sold for as little as $99 on that carrier. On average, Sprint smartphone buyers paid $95 for Android devices, compared to $146 for iPhones. The previous period's figures were much closer, according to the report, at $127 and $130, respectively.)
Sprint remained in third place among carriers in smartphone sales at 14 percent, while AT&T took second with 28 percent and Verizon led with 35 percent.
Kantar's findings tallied roughly with a recent comScore report on overall market share, which found that Android users made up 53 percent of all U.S. smartphone subscribers, compared to iOS' 36 percent, during the fourth quarter of 2012.
Android could easily expand upon its gains in the near future, as the highly anticipated Samsung Galaxy S IV is set for release in mid-March, the company confirmed this weekend, and new devices featured at the Mobile World Congress hit the market.
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Black Out: The City Sponsored Gentrification of Bayview Hunters Point
An interview with Longtime resident and Greenaction organizer Marie Harrison.
In a public hearing last month, city commissioners unanimously approved a decade in the making plan to redevelop an astounding 1400 acres in Bayview Hunters Point. The Redevelopment Agency now awaits Board of Supervisor ratification before implementing its plan. Bayview Hunters Point, along with nearby Visitation Valley and the Outer Mission district, house 73 percent of the city's 7 percent African-American population. While two city hall hearing rooms were set up to accommodate the overflow crowds of primarily BVHP residents, a Redevelopment Agency representative spoke narrowly to their anticipated concerns. With a lowball guarantee of 25 percent affordable housing in the new, otherwise market-value housing units, he ensured that the housing security of current tenants would not be jeopardized by eminent domain as it had been during the redevelopment of the Fillmore 40 years ago. But as police presence in BVHP has become more hostile in recent years, residents displaced from the Fillmore decades ago are now recognizing the tactical measures that drove them out, of which eminent domain was just one. Marie Harrison is one such resident. She told Fault Lines about the eviction game plan that was executed in the Fillmore that is now being applied in Bayview Hunters Point.
Fault Lines: How long have you been a resident of Bayview Hunters Point?
Marie Harrison: I have lived and raised three children in BVHP. I moved out shortly and moved back in. I guess you should know that when I moved out, it was to help save my 4 year old grandson; another asthma incident that the doctors could not deal with. Our [BVHP] asthma rates are higher than the asthma rates in the whole city.
FL: Police occupation and incidents of brutality in BVHP have been fairly common over the last few years. Was it that way since you can remember, or was there a turning point?
MH: Actually, no it wasn't that way since I can remember. I remember BVHP when there wasn't nearly as much gang violence. And then when there were incidents of violence it was usually one or two people battling it out and they would box but they weren't trying to shoot and kill each other.If you go back a little ways you'll remember at one point there was a riot that occurred in BVHP and that was over a young man being shot in the back. That was an incident that occurred when I guess the community itself just had enough. There was no employment, and drugs started to filter into our community, and all of the sudden our people became not the victims but we became the culprits. Nobody would take two steps back and take a look at the fact that wait a minute, these folks barely go out of the community. I remember in a mothers group that I work with, it was such a big concern over all of this shooting that we asked people to start looking out for how all these guns and bullets and stuff were getting here, and who's bringing the drugs in here and not getting stopped? I mean, our community is just filled now with police officers.
FL: Do you perceive an objective of this police occupation?
MH: Can I relate that to something I remember from the Fillmore? I consider my family to be refugees from the Fillmore district. I was talking to some folks who came from the Fillmore and some of the things that we remembered happening. All of the sudden the police started becoming real aggressive and they were always angry whenever they showed up for any incident in the Fillmore. It was always a battle. It wasn't like I'm here to help, it was always a major deal and no one could figure out what's different, what's going on? Why are they doing this? Same thing is happening here in BVHP. They don't come in saying I got a call or this and this and this, we heard what's going on. They come in gunstrong. Then all of the sudden, the small businesses that were lining Fillmore street started getting all of these visits from folks who were writing them tickets
up for not being up to code on this, and it was the first time I ever heard the word blight being used. Anything that wasn't up to somebody else's standard or you needed a coat of paint or your wiring wasn't right, that was considered blight, and guess what? You either bring it up to code, which usually cost you a fortune, and you never had the money to do, or your property got taken from you. They also improved the transportation: the bus lines up and down Fillmore
Street.Now we have a light rail that's about to come down Third Street. Now they're visiting our business and looking for code violations, they're citing blight in the community, and not only that, but Bayview has become the largest project ever, since the inception of redevelopment.
FL: Developers have used projects like the light rail to hang jobs over the heads of a community that has experienced an unemployment rate of 20-30 percent since the closing of the Naval shipyard in 1974. How has that played out for the community?
MH: One of the things you heard at this hearing you were at: they talked about how this remodeling of BVHP was going to bring all these jobs. Well let's not go back to the old stuff, let's just deal with the new stuff. The light rail wasn't going to be built unless Bayview
built it. Did you see any of us out there digging those ditches or laying those tracks? Absolutely not. When we start complaining and we shut it down on Third Street, we made the mistake of allowing one of the agencies—that's the young community developer designated at the time—to do the negotiation. And what did they do? He settled for them hiring three people. Three people out of the whole doggone community and then what did he settle for? Flaggers! A union flagger starts off at $21 an hour. The people that they hired in Bayview to be flaggers were making $8 and $9 an hour. And they were not being invited to join the union. One worked for a month and a half and didn't get fired, she got laid off while they hired her next door neighbor. Then she (the neighbor) worked for a month and a half and they laid her off. So the idea is—and it took a contractor to actually explain this to me—if I don't fire you I can still use your name and when you say I didn't hire anyone from BVHP I can run down the roll and show you her address and that she was hired this day, and she's not fired. She just ain't workin'. There is an alternative to this redevelopment
of the community. There is always an alternative, and there's always a better way to do it. The problem is that it means less money to the pockets of the folks that are footing the bill, and more money into the pockets of the folks who are going to have to deal with the consequences. I think really and truly, what needs to happen is that these (our) folks are going to have to get themselves ready for a battle. We're going to be fighting there tooth and nail. They promised that they wouldn't use eminent domain but they've already started the process.
Marie Harrison is a community organizer with Greenaction and will run for SF District 10 Supervisor this year.


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Transwestern announced Andrina Shields has joined its Phoenix office as vice president of multifamily investment services. Shields is an expert in multifamily operations and revitalizing troubled assets. The co-founder of Heads on Beds, a consulting group that advises multifamily property owners on ways to add value to their holdings, Shields brings more than 25 years… Read More →
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On November 30, 2010, in Tucson, Arizona, suspected gunman Jared Loughner was able to buy a Glock 19 semiautomatic handgun, which he then outfitted with a special extended magazine that afforded him 18 more bullets than a standard magazine would have. In light of Saturday's massacre, we thought we would remind you of the places Loughner wouldn't have been able to legally buy a gun, and why.
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