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We found a couple of things in Elvis history that happened on April 11th (though some sources give the date of the first event as April 10th). ONE of them came very close to totally changing the face of Rock 'n' Roll!!
Elvis' plane, travelling from Los Angeles to Nashville, almost crashed on this date (April 10 or 11th…must be because of the different time zones) in 1956! He was just ten days away from scoring his very first hit; a tune that rocketed to #1 in the country and kept that lofty position for eight weeks: "Heartbreak Hotel."
It should be noted that Hoyt Axton's mother co-wrote that song with a relatively unknown country guitar player.
Getting just a bit off track before another Elvis Presley event on this date; Hoyt later wrote "Joy To The World" by Three Dog Night; another tune that made it to the top of the charts over 15 years later, making Hoyt and his mother the only mother and son to write TWO different national #1 songs!!
Another Elvis event on this day (1962)….his "Follow That Dream" movie (Elvis' follow-up to "Blue Hawaii" and his 9th film), premiered in Ocala, Florida (near where it was filmed– it opened nationally six weeks later). Some of the supporting actors in the film were Ann Helm, Arthur O'Connell and Joanna Moore.
Don't forget, "ELVIS ONLY" is an exclusive presentation of K-Earth 101 and can be heard every Sunday night at Midnight. It's a full hour of nothing but the music of "The King of Rock 'n' Roll!"
One more thing to let you know what a good person Elvis was. Most of his acts of generosity and kindness were never public knowledge. Elvis quietly paid hospital bills, bought people houses, supported families and paid off debts for friends, family and even total strangers.

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The mother-of-three who describes herself as a "firm believer in physical chastisement" said that she found herself under investigation by police and social services when the boy's older brother reported the incident in 2007.
Although the police took the case no further, social services remained involved and placed two of her children on the child protection register on grounds of "emotional abuse".
Mrs Pope was eventually dismissed from her job working with potentially vulnerable young people. The school's decision has now been upheld by an employment tribunal which found that the grounds for terminating her employment were sufficient.
She says that social services interference ruined her life and cost her her job.
But social workers have been heavily criticised for missing possible warning signs in other cases.
Is she right to defend her right to smack her children or is it now beyond the pale?


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Children ages 9-12 along with any interested family members are invited to watch the movie and discuss the book "Hoot" by Carl Hiaasen at the White Salmon Valley Community Library on Saturday, May 12, at 2 p.m.
Popcorn and drinks will be provided by the Friends of the Library.
This is the second in a series of "Read the Book, See the Movie" programs at the library.
After the movie, the next book, "Because of Win-Dixie" by Kate DiCamillo, will be available to check-out.
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Some people dread buses, especially long bus rides where the bathroom looms in the back, the air conditioning is spotty and the guy next to you is already snoring before the bus has even shifted out of first gear. But in Argentina, long bus rides represent a particular level of luxury.
After one week of lounging in Mendoza wine country, my husband and I psyched ourselves up for a long stint in Buenos Aires, the capital. The ride from wine country is 14 hours, considered grueling to some. For us, our Cama Executiva tickets meant we had second floor, reclining seats on one of the smoothest bus rides we've had during our travels through the Andes Mountains.
First Class Service from Mendoza to Buenos Aires
For 450 Argentine pesos (US$100), the cabin resembles a business class airplane. Instead of four seats across, our Flechabus had only three new vinyl loungers that flattened out to a comfortable 160 degrees. After we checked our luggage, an attendant greeted us at the door with a basket of candy and a friendly smile. Upstairs, the curtains were drawn, allowing a flood of light into the upper deck as the sun began to set over Mendoza. Engine purring, the driver shifted into reverse at precisely the moment the attendant began the first round of refreshments: Mendoza sparkling wine or champaña.
With tall flutes in our hands, we toasted to a restful journey.
After the champagne glasses were emptied and second pours offered, the attendant reappeared holding two bottles of wine before the dinner service. White wine in the left, red in the right, he worked the aisles pouring generously as the evening movie began and the city lights winked out behind us. We wrapped ourselves with fresh blankets, still fragrant from the laundry.
Three courses began. First a light snack: a cheese sandwich to accompany the regional libations. Plates cleared, our next course included a tray of salad, salami, cheese, and rice. More wine flowed and then the meat course arrived: stuffed chicken and potatoes. Full and warmed through with wine, we handed the final dishes to the attendant who then took the final order of the evening. He asked if we would like more wine or perhaps a whiskey rocks. I ordered coffee liqueur and Neil had the whiskey.
Everything ran on a well designed schedule, formulated to get us snuggled into bed and watching the final scenes of the movie as our digestives worked their warming magic. We reclined and the television flashed the final five minutes of the film. The attendant offered extra pillows and drew heavy curtains closed. I laughed to Neil as the entire cabin drifted off and the bus rolled on east toward Buenos Aires where we'd rented an apartment in San Telmo.
The night went by quickly and at precisely 9am, the attendant re-emerged from the first floor, apron on and neatly dressed. Orange juice and breakfast boxes welcomed us to the Atlantic coast as we stretched watching the landscape change from rural to urban.
Tips for Riding Buses in Argentina
Of all the countries in South America, Argentina can boast some of the best service providers on the continent. For long hauls over 12 hours, a night bus is best especially best if your budget allows for high level services usually called Executive or Suite tickets.
If you are traveling through the Andes for the first time, morning buses let you take in the sprawling vistas at 180 degree views from the second floor.
Consider packing herbal tea or pills for altitude sickness, especially if you will be climbing to or from high points above sea level.
Always ask where the bathroom is and choose a seat farthest away.
Seats #1-4 are panoramic seats on the second floor and have more leg room with unfettered views of the countryside.
Buy your tickets at least a day beforehand. This way you have the widest selection of seats and avoid last minute booking fees.
Regardless of when you buy your ticket, always ask for a discount for cash.
All bus companies share service routes and are owned in a cooperative style of business. So almost all tickets have the same fare and companies will cross-book seats for one another. So a 10pm ticket through CATA can be serviced through Flechabus. At the tourist level ticket, all service is the same in terms of amenities and safety. Sit back, relax, and sip champagne at ease.
If you enjoy wine, consider visiting this great region of the world for fine libations. Other great wine destinations include: Le Marche, Italy; Lucca, Italy; Hvar, Croatia, and Costa Brava, Spain.


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How To Lose Belly Fat: 6 Key Secrets
"More die in the United States of too much food than of too little."
John Kenneth Galbraith, The Affluent Society
While putting on weight has negative effects on the health, abdominal weight gain (visceral fat) is particularly hazardous to health. Since visceral fat is buried deep in the abdomen, it may seem like a difficult target for spot reduction. But this fat is actually quite sensitive to exercise and calorie reduction.
When you lose weight, you'll most likely lose proportionately more from the abdominal region than elsewhere. And why is that? Visceral fat is more metabolically active and easier to lose than subcutaneous fat under the skin, especially if you have plenty of it.
However, if you exercise and eat right, but you still have a belly fat. Here are several surprising reasons why – and how to fix it.
1Whole grains
The study published in the American Journal of Clinical Nutrition4 showed that a calorie-controlled diet rich in whole grains trimmed extra fat from the waistline of obese people.
Study participants who ate all whole grains (in addition to five servings of fruits and vegetables, three servings of low-fat dairy, and two servings of lean meat, fish, or poultry) lost more weight from the abdominal area than another group that ate the same diet, but with all refined grains.
Eating a diet rich in whole grains while reducing refined carbohydrates changes the glucose and insulin response7 and makes it easier to mobilize fat stores.
When you eat refined foods like white bread, it triggers a series of events, starting with elevated blood sugar levels followed by an increased insulin response, which can cause fat to be deposited more readily. But eating a diet rich in whole grains (which also tend to be higher in fiber) helps improve insulin sensitivity. This, in turn helps the body more efficiently use blood glucose, lowers blood glucose levels, and reduces fat deposition.
2 Monounsaturated fats
A diet rich in monounsaturated fats may help prevent the accumulation of belly fat.
According to a study published in Diabetes Care in July 20072, a diet rich in monounsaturated fats (MUFA) may help reduce abdominal fat better than a carbohydrate rich diet.
When study participants ate a carbohydrate enriched diet, they tended to accumulate fat in the abdomen. When they ate a diet that had more MUFA, abdominal fat concentration decreased, even without exercise.
Monounsaturated fats come from the healthy oils found in plant foods such as olives, nuts, and avocado.
MUFAs have been linked to overall weight loss in previous studies, including a report published in the British Journal of Nutrition3, which found that substituting olive oil, a monounsaturated fat or MUFA, for saturated fat in your diet can translate into a small but significant loss of both body weight and fat mass without changing anything else about your diet or increasing your physical activity.
3More stress = more fat
If your days are full of stress, a flatter midsection will continue to elude you. That's because fat in the abdominal area functions differently than fat elsewhere in the body.
Experts do know that high cortisol levels contribute to abnormal accumulation of abdominal fat. The research at the University of California, San Francisco, shows that people with diseases associated with extreme exposure to cortisol (secrete more cortisol in response to stress), such as severe recurrent depression and Cushing's disease have more central fat, regardless of body weight5.
If you want to get rid of the midsection fat, begin by introducing stress-reduction techniques such as meditation, exercise, good night sleep.
4Avoid trans fats
Try to eliminate trans fats from your diet. Foods that are likely to contain trans fats are:
- Stick margarines and shortenings
- Packaged foods
- Bakery products (crackers, cookies, cakes)
- Potato chips, corn chips, popcorn
- Fried fast foods (fried chicken, fried fish, French fries, doughnuts)
- Hamburgers, cheeseburgers
- Desserts
Trans fat has a very powerful association with weight gain – more so than other types of fat. Diets rich in trans fat cause a redistribution of fat tissue into the abdomen and lead to a higher body weight even when the total dietary calories are controlled.
Researchers at Wake Forest University found that trans fats increase the amount of fat around the belly1. Trans fats do this not just by adding new fat, but also by moving fat from other areas to the belly. A 6-year animal experiment revealed that monkeys fed a trans-fat diet gained 7.2% of their body weight, as compared to 1.8% for monkeys on a mono-unsaturated fat diet. Computed tomography measurements in selected monkeys showed significant abdominal fat deposits in the monkeys fed trans fats. In humans, that would be enough weight gain to significantly increase risk of diabetes and heart disease.
5"Cigarette belly": want a flat belly - don't smoke
If you press towards a flat belly - don't smoke.
Typically smokers weigh less than non-smokers. This feeds the misconception that smoking makes them thin. But there is an increasing evidence that cigarette smoking increases abdominal accumulation of body fat8.
A large population-based study of British men and women6 demonstrated a strong correlation between smoking and increased central fat distribution.
6Aerobic activity & weight lifting
A combination of aerobic exercise and strength training is a proven belly fat fighting formula9. Do some physical activity on a regular basis and avoid sedentary life!
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- 2. Walker KZ, O'Dea K. Monounsaturated fat rich diet prevents central body fat distribution and decreases postprandial adiponectin expression induced by a carbohydrate-rich diet in insulin-resistant subjects: response to Paniagua et al. Diabetes Care. 2007 Nov;30(11):e122;
- 3. Piers LS, Walker KZ, Stoney RM, Soares MJ, O'Dea K.Substitution of saturated with monounsaturated fat in a 4-week diet affects body weight and composition of overweight and obese men. Br J Nutr. 2003 Sep;90(3):717-27. PubMed
- 4. Katcher HI, Legro RS, Kunselman AR, Gillies PJ, Demers LM, Bagshaw DM, Kris-Etherton PM. The effects of a whole grain-enriched hypocaloric diet on cardiovascular disease risk factors in men and women with metabolic syndrome. Am J Clin Nutr. 2008 Jan;87(1):79-90.
- 5. Epel ES, McEwen B, Seeman T, Matthews K, Castellazzo G, Brownell KD, Bell J, Ickovics JR. Stress and body shape: stress-induced cortisol secretion is consistently greater among women with central fat. Psychosom Med. 2000 Sep-Oct;62(5):623-32
- 6. Canoy D, Wareham N, Luben R, Welch A, Bingham S, Day N, Khaw KT. Cigarette smoking and fat distribution in 21,828 British men and women: a population-based study. Obes Res. 2005 Aug;13(8):1466-75. PubMed
- 7. Giacco R, Costabile G, Della Pepa G, et al. A whole-grain cereal-based diet lowers postprandial plasma insulin and triglyceride levels in individuals with metabolic syndrome. Nutr Metab Cardiovasc Dis. 2014 Aug;24(8):837-44. PubMed
- 8. de Oliveira Fontes Gasperin L, Neuberger M, Tichy A, Moshammer H. Cross-sectional association between cigarette smoking and abdominal obesity among Austrian bank employees. BMJ Open. 2014 Jul 29;4(7):e004899. PubMed
- 9. Alberga AS, Prud'homme D, Kenny GP, et al. Effects of aerobic and resistance training on abdominal fat, apolipoproteins and high-sensitivity C-reactive protein in adolescents with obesity: the HEARTY randomized clinical trial. Int J Obes (Lond). 2015 Oct;39(10):1494-500 PubMed
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The market rally this year is behind the triggering of automatic redemptions occurring this Friday on two inverse iPath ETNs canvassing broad U.S. equity markets that have fallen in value as stocks have moved higher.
The ETNs' two prospectuses call for automatic redemptions when the intraday indicative values of the notes fall below $10 a share. The termination event occurred on Friday, Sept. 7, and the redemptions will occur on Sept. 14, said Barclays Plc.
The two notes, the iPath Short Extended S'P 500 TR Index ETN (SFSA) and the iPath Short Extended Russell 1000 TR Index ETN (ROSA), both fell under that critical threshold on Friday, Sept. 7, the bank said in two separate press releases.
The stock market has moved higher in fits and starts this year, buoyed by solid corporate earnings in the U.S. and, more broadly, by increasingly substantive commitments from eurozone policymakers to keep the region's macroeconomic challenges from spiraling out of control. As an example, the S'P 500 Index has climbed about 15 percent so far in 2012.
The two ETNs have meanwhile been falling sharply. SFSA, the inverse S'P 500 note, has lost almost three-quarters of its value this year, and is now at $9.93 a share, according to data on Google Finance. ROSA, the Russell 1000-linked inverse note, has fallen by two-thirds, and is now at $9.90 a share.
SFSA had $7.84 million in assets as of Sept. 11, while ROSA had $1.41 million, according to data compiled by IndexUniverse.
In the redemptions, note holders of SFSA will receive $9.9312 a share, while ROSA holders will receive $9.8168 a share, Barclays said.
Barclays said in the press release that further information on the redemptions is available on its product website at www.iPathETN.com , and it directed readers to sections that appear under the heading "Specific Terms of the ETNs—Automatic Termination Event." The releases were dated Sept. 7.
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Why your Twitter and Social CRM efforts will fail
by Michael Maoz | May 7, 2009 | 18 Comments
I began writing research about collaboration and social networking with a piece about Mercury Interactive's use of social networking to drive down support costs and improve brand and reputation. That was seven years ago, and I had a single call from a business about the concept. Underwhelming response. They say timing is everything, but it isn't everything: the rest is hype. Right now the concepts of community, and Social CRM, and the Twitter-bug are high on the hype meter. On the one hand that makes me happy, because businesses are finally getting back to the reality that eventually their customers will control a lot of the processes that impact their lives. But there is a flip side about this sudden desire to listen: we really don't want to listen.
Listening is a skill. Good sales people listen extremely well. They are like wolves that analyze prey for the slightest weakness and then exploit it. I say this in the most positive of ways. If the rest of an organization could be as focused on uncovering what motivates a customer to act with the same degree of success that sales people do, more businesses would thrive. But what have we all done over the past 20 years? We've done our best to stop listening to the customer. We did it gradually and incessantly. First we reduced or eliminated physical locations where customers could see us and interact. But we gave them phone-based agents who were from somewhere in their own geography. Then we switched the local agents for agents from far away, with whom our customers had a harder time relating. And we layered on voice response systems so that they would not reach any human anywhere. Then this self service layer was extended to the internet. Our customers now find their own forms, search for their own answers and products, configure their own custom versions of their insurance or flight plans. And have few genuine opportunities to be heard.
Basically, we have stripped away as many opportunities to listen directly to the customer as possible – pushed them away from identifying with our businesses and value propositions. When customers want advice and want answers and want to vent – where do they go? To their peers. They Tweet. They post. They blog. They SMS. They post YouTube content about your horrendous service.
And then we wake up and say: 'We should be listening to all of this chatter. We should participate, or analyze, or manage, or enable dialogue.' It is a lit bit ironic that we focused intense effort on lowering costs through extreme self service, draining away our ability to listen, and now that we achieved what we set out to achieve we want to go back to the beginning and learn to listen. This is a great goal in two meanings: complex and positive.
Ah, but wait: are you going to go back and recalculate the true saving of outsourcing and all forms of self service to factor in the added costs of analytics, personnel to manage the listening, social software, and committees? The original cost-saving scenario will be tarnished, so my bet is you won't do it. It is a fool's errand.
If your new efforts at listening and gaining insight fail to cause you to rethink the effectiveness of your many interaction channels (not their efficiencies), it is unlikely you will find your listening skills, or bottom line, much improved. Social CRM is crucial – cross channels and across your business.
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Thoughts on Why your Twitter and Social CRM efforts will fail
I agree with your post at the core: most people suddenly woke up one morning and decided it was time to tweet or poke or whatever they heard about and they have moved into it with a vengeance — but with no plan.
However, there is one part in your blog that could be different. When you say that organizations moved to strip all contact from their operations (web self-service, automation, etc.) you are leaving out the fact that they can – if they want to – integrate their self-service into their communities (as an example) – the Mercury case study you wrote talked about this, replacing knowledge-base with community knowledge. The step to change into a social enterprise is simple to plan, hard to implement. It can all be integrated (that was the idea behind EFM), but is hard to do.
And we all know that the failure point to anything we implement in customer service is how hard it becomes.
So, there is a likely scenario when someone will realize in the near term that their ROI won't change for the worse, it will actually improve if they were to integrate it all into one solution. Just don't hold your breath
Nice post, well said.
Great post. I guess the goal is to find the perfect balance between enabling and shortening the feedback loop with customers (and other stakeholders) and enabling that feedback to be not only gathered, but acted upon, and integrated into each company's business model.
Thanks for humor seasoned wisdom.
I agree with what you say in the post, however I believe that the problem is not with social media network but rather the infancy of "voice of the customer" programs. The transformation of the importance of the customer to the organization is at the point where companies who don't listen well will start to lose market share to the ones who do.
As you point out, Social CRM is crucial, but it's just one channel in the vast array of ways that customers can tell you what they think. And since we're at the top of the hype-meter, companies are still trying to figure out how to manage this new interaction channel that has been dumped in their laps (for free).
Good post. I am sure it will generate more debate.
[…] it can grow on the outside. Companies need to be ready to listen, many are not and that is why they will fail miserably in social media. For some companies, it can be as simple as hiring a social media professional; for others it will […]
Nice post Michael. And great comments as well.
I agree there is a lot of hype with Social CRM and companies are more willing to spend time seriously evaluating how to best embrace the new demographics of their customers who are more likely to be on Twitter than speaking with their service agents. I think one of the learnings of how early solutions fell short might have been a lack of sensitivity to what Estaban mentions – a way to truly integrate collaboative technologies with existing business processes. Its just plain hard to do and when these processes are well established the inertia is a hurdle.
As you know we have worked very hard at Helpstream in addressing this very problem and have built a our community-based customer service solution on top of a business process architecture. This is proving to be very valuable so far – cross your fingers – and our customers have found it easy to adopt. We have a post up on Helpstream's blog about a recent study we did on the ROI of embracing community-based
Thanks, Bill
[…] Why your Twitter and Social CRM efforts will fail – Basically, we have stripped away as many opportunities to listen directly to the customer as possible – pushed them away from identifying with our businesses and value propositions. When customers want advice and want answers and want to vent – where do they go? To their peers. They Tweet. They post. They blog. They SMS. They post YouTube content about your horrendous service. […]
Great post!
The key concept that organizations must embrace is the reason why they do what it is that they do. IT is a tool to enable our business to get things done more efficiently and effectively. However, somewhere along the line, we have lost direct contact with the customers (internal and external) that we are supposed to be serving.
Twitter, social networking, blogging, etc. are simply noisy, distracting tools, unless organizations are passionately committed to authentically join the conversation with the customer. What makes this model work is that money is no longer the motivating factor. Customers are savvy, and can see through any organization that is exploiting a new tactic for the sake of gaining market share.
In short, there must be a return to simply knowing who it is that we serve, and then, actually serve them.
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I agree that the social CRM will fail if the company do not have a strategy to listen to its customer. However, I don't quite agree that self service and call center are the reason that company don't listen to customer. In last 10 years, many CRM inventions like online self service created a lot of values for companies and customers as well. I could check my account balance any where and any time, without having to waste my time and company's time to talk a human being. If properly implemented, CRM could also allow a company to listen to customers, if they really want to. I agree that many social CRM efforts will fail, many CRM implementation failed any way. If a company don't really value its customers, if the cost saving is the sole purpose of the project, then CRM efforts will fail, it does not matter it is social CRM or operational CRM.
[…] analyst Michael Maoz blogged yesterday Why your Twitter and Social CRM efforts will fail. It's an insightful post and one that, by coincidence, shares a theme with something I posted […]
Until companies have defined what true CRM is and how to implement and benefit from, it is highly likely that social CRM will fail. Further, the overflow of social sites and the sheer speed at which they rear their heads, will also dilute the value. Again, wrong implementation and high expections will for sure result in failure, why, simply because one size does not fit all. One success for a compan doesnt imply success for the rest. In conclusion, the lack of ownership and accountability of CRM systems accounts to 75% of failures.
[…] Michael Maoz writes about the skill of listening (to the Voice of the Customer). […]
Many social media marketing/CRM efforts will fail simply because those attempting to implement them have been fooled into thinking it's a more complicated endeavor than it is. It gets exponentially easier the more effort a person/organization puts into simply acknowledging that it's all relationships, and putting forth the effort to create and maintain good ones in the first place.
It's not hard to obfuscate oneself a niche (and, in fact, many seem to take a perverse pride in doing so) by making social media seem difficult to understand. You can have teams of community managers and hired gun PR specialists doing everything but wiping your nose for you and still fail. Why? Because if you cared in the first place, YOU would be the evangelist for your product, services, company, and efforts…YOU would be seeking out those conversations, finding the tools, and monitoring channels on your own initiative. It's your business, to manage your business after all, isn't it?
The first threats to social media marketing/CRM failure arise because leadership is poor, ethics are lacking, someone mistakenly interpreted profit as being the business they were in–no culture was created within the organization that employees could and would believe in or feel good enough about that it would allow them to become natural evangelists for the products, services, company and leadership. And that poor situation means leadership isn't doing it either, obviously.
Then, you have HR departments who are clueless about what a good employee is (apparently, if they have a degree and passed the piss test, it's enough…). Not that it matters all that much if you/the company are outsourcing customer service overseas to non-native speakers of your customer's language–in order to cut costs–and using those voice-response phone systems which you yourself f-ing hate to encounter.
Companies that embrace the living economy principles, accepting a "living return" in stead of a maximum return, need far less social media PR/CRM. A living return means that you might accept less profits, but pay your workers better wages and hire locally rather than outsourcing overseas–creating a better workplace, an employee stake in performance, and contributing to the economic health of the place in which you live. Many companies/individuals simply lack the spine and ethics to do that in this day and age.
That's sad, because that very sort of culture fosters natural brand evangelism in customers–internal and external–which makes social media work to your advantage as naturally as weeds growing in an abandoned lot. Good, ethical, responsible, caring business practices are fertile soil–social media is the sun, rain, and temperature. What grows are the seeds of happy customers into stories of success.
When it's all said and done, the Mom and Pop stores, the sole proprietors striving to know every customer and make them all happy…they instinctively do social media right. It's called word of mouth and your business relationships. It's not an afterthought that you try to mitigate and manage, it's a mindset and culture you embrace.
The bottom line is that if you're running your business right and make your customers happy, you really wouldn't need to WORRY about the conversations going on in forums, on blogs, or in Tweets. You KNOW they are all good, unless they come from competitors or non-customers unfamiliar with your brand. If you are running your business right, you KNOW your social media team will address them appropriately…and that team consists of your loyal, satisfied customers–whom you listen to all the time because it's in your company's culture/nature to do so.
It's incredibly easy to do right by customers. The bizarre fact that so many companies would rather create expenses avoiding doing so in the first place is why social media marketing/CRM offers any employment opportunity at all.
And to those worrying about inbound/outbound channels, traffic online, the latest API, popular social networks, and attempting to deploy bleeding edge this and that…it's not all that complicated. You need not use nor monitor every tool, just pick a couple versatile ones and USE them…with sincerity.
A really good company would simply make a standing offer/reward to customers and have them monitor social media/conversations for the company–challenge them to find a negative conversation and report it. Then react swiftly, ethically, and resolve it. It's not hypothetical BS that can't be done…it's that companies/leadership/people seem inclined to take the easy way out instead of doing the right thing. The "right" thing ought to be instinctive, but the mere fact that it's not tells you precisely what we're not teaching and advocating in homes, at high schools, in MBA programs and online…in social media.
Business ethics classes these days are jokes, case studies in case studies and little more. In the workforce, no one has a stake in anything, it's just a J-O-B; with a society where anything goes and no one respects anything, what's to be expected? It's precisely why we're in the sorry economic situation we are today.
Great article. I'm out of coffee…
Things will have to change and I think they are starting to. There are companies that are do a great job of listening through social media. A great example of this is Scott Monty of Ford Motors. He's out there, listening to people and making a difference. Scotts efforts have improved customer satisfaction.
Many good points here. Depending on the history of a company/organization, the adeptness and sophistication at which a company can operate social crm will vary. There are some other successful uses of social crm that come to mind: Comcast, Omniture, Ford above, is a great example.
Understanding what tools are available and how to implement them, seems to me to be a tough issue for businesses to figure out right now.
Hi Michael,
I just wanted to let you know that referenced this article of yours in a blog post on TheSocialCustomer where I question whether Twitter is a serious business tool, or just a the latest silly toy for CRM professionals.
I just re-read your article and I must say I loved it as much the second time around as I did when I first read it months ago. I know that the messaging around this topic has changed and softened a bit, but I still adamantly agree with your original position that it is ironic companies are spending so much money and effort to get close to customers, after spending considerable money and effort to offload those same customers out of the contact center and over to Web self service and online communities 😉
Best regards,
@sean wilson – I agree that the key to making this whole social media marketing work is true interaction. The reason that social is popular is people don't like to be sold, and they want a break from the constant ads and marketing they see everywhere.
To really succeed with these social tools you need to use them as a communication tool, and be ready to take on the negative pub, as well as embrace the positive pub. People know that businesses aren't perfect, and if you can use these tools to personalize your business, customers will respond accordingly.
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Synopsis:A young F.B.I. cadet must confide in an incarcerated and manipulative killer to receive his help on catching another serial killer who skins his victims.
The Silence of the Lambs (1991) is an American crime thriller that is based on Thomas Harris' novel, The Silence of the Lambs (1988) which is his second novel to feature Hannibal Lecter. Hannibal is a cannibalistic serial killer and an intelligent psychiatrist. The Silence of the Lambs had a budget of $19 million and grossed over $272.7 million worldwide. Worth mentioning that this film is loosely based on the infamous Wisconsin Serial Killer, Ed Gein. The movie contains sexual references, nudity, serial killer, gross graphic images, violence, bad language, thrills, suspense, drama, action and frightening scenes. Director Jonathan Demme (Philadelphia (1993), The Manchurian Candidate (2004), Rachel Getting Married (2008)) did an extraordinary job executing Ted Tally's (Red Dragon (2002), All the Pretty Horses (2000), The Juror (1996)) screenplay.
The Silence of the Lambs revolves around Clarice Starling, who is a young FBI trainee interviewing/seeking advice from cannibalistic imprisoned serial killer Dr. Lecter so that she can capture another serial killer. Jack Crawford (Scott Glenn - The Bourne Ultimatum (2007), Training Day (2001), The Bourne Legacy (2012)) works for the Bureau's Behavioral Science Unit. Jack assigned Clarice Starling ( Jodie Foster - Panic Room (2002), Elysium (2013), Inside Man (2006)) to interview Hannibal Lecter, who is an incarcerated cannibalistic serial killer and a former psychiatrist. Clarice needs information from Hannibal, who is incarcerated at the Baltimore State Hospital for the Criminally Insane so that she can find a serial killer nicknamed Buffalo Bill. Buffalo Bill loves to skin his female victims. It did not take for long for Hannibal ( Anthony Hopkins - Hannibal (2001), Thor (2011), Red Dragon (2002), The Elephant Man (1980)) to grow furious over Clarice trying to figure him out. Hannibal gave her information about an old patient of his who turns out to be linked to Buffalo Bill.
Buffalo Bill kidnaps Catherine Martin (Brooke Smith - Interstellar (2014), In Her Shoes (2005), Series 7: The Contenders (2001)) who is a U.S. Senator's daughter. After a series of events, Hannibal is out on the loose and the action starts as Clarice has her hand full with serial killer issues and nightmares from her childhood. With all said, this movie was exceptional that excelled in many ways. I gave this film a nine because of the few minor plot holes, goofs, and minor blemishes it had. The movie was a treat in every other possible way with above than average acting, exceptional cinematography, A+ special effects and makeup, top notch editing, and excellent dialogue.
About The Silence of the Lambs 1991
Original Title: Silence of the Lambs
Year: 1991
Runtime: 118 minutes
Type: Movie
Genre: Thriller, Drama, Crime
Total Avg. Votes: 16
Writers: Thomas Harris, Ted Tally
Director: Jonathan Demme


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Rugby player banned after racially abusing opponent
The Rugby Football League has banned a player for six matches for racist abuse against an opponent.
Tom Morgan, of South Wales Scorpions, was found guilty by an RFL tribunal following an incident during a Championship One game against London Skolars last season.
A statement read: "Morgan, who failed to respond to contact from the RFL, was found guilty in his absence of using offensive or obscene language based on race or ethnic origin against London Skolars player Lamont Bryan."
Morgan has not played for the Scorpions since a game against Doncaster on July 1.
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Diverse views welcome at UCCS
To the Editor:
I am responding to Malcolm Howard's recent article in the Independent regarding my decision to discontinue the appointment of Ed Sbarbaro at the University of Colorado at Colorado Springs (Public Eye, June 29).
While university regulations prevent me from going into the details of my decision, I wish to assure the readers of the Independent that academic freedom is alive and well at the university. My decision to not renew Sbarbaro's appointment was based on several factors, including student complaints about his teaching.
Sbarbaro was not fired from the university. He was hired on an at-will appointment, which allowed either party to terminate the relationship without notice. I simply chose not to continue his appointment at the end of the spring 2000 academic year. This decision was based on my commitment to the high teaching standards of the University of Colorado.
The Graduate School of Public Affairs is a nationally respected professional school where students prepare for careers in public service. Our students are often working professionals who hold full-time jobs in addition to their studies. They are serious students who are accustomed to discussing controversial issues. The faculty who teach our programs hold diverse views and engage their students in spirited discussions.
As dean, I expect students and faculty to bring varying points of view to the classroom and for the university to offer a forum for all ideas. Those expectations are the principles upon which the university is built. They have not changed.
-- Kathleen Beatty, Dean Graduate School of Public Affairs
University of Colorado at Colorado Springs
Please see Backtracks, page 47, for more on the Sbarbaro/UCCS story and an Independent production error which excluded comments by Beatty and associate dean Fred Rainguet. We regret the error, and offer this follow-up as a clarification. -- Ed.
Governor's office turns deaf ear to educators' concerns
To the Editor:
Our organization recently sent this open letter to Governor Owens:
We appreciate your taking time to answer letters and faxes of CSRSEA, Colorado Springs Retired School Employees Association, regarding your "Putting Children First" education agenda. However, we found your answers to our questions regarding the getting and maintaining of quality educators less than adequate. Nor did we ever learn the source of the additional funding incentives of SB 186. Our concerns for adequate provision of Special Education funding was not dealt with by the Legislature until Feeley's HB 49 resurged before recession; we are grateful you signed HB 49, although it was not a part of your legislation. Capital improvement relief fortunately came about with the judicial decision and enforcement -- small credit to the Legislature and the Governor's office.
We were very disappointed in the hasty passage of SB 186 and your reticence, not listening to the thousands of Colorado educators, retirees, parents and children highlighting their protests in the "Ask A Teacher" rally at the Capitol. We find the grading, testing, and labeling of rural, inner-city, and minority school communities degrading, humiliating, and demoralizing to the education profession and the students. Daily we learn of the loss of good teachers and principals who are leaving the field of education because they can't make it with the inadequate salaries paid them and they are deserting the inner-city schools to work in the more affluent suburban areas.
We also take note in the news the conflicts and instability of the city charter schools which are non-inclusive and non-accountable for usage of public tax money and are short-lived, on average, three years in duration. We concur with the low grades or incompletes accorded to the governor and the Legislature by the Denver Post and our local papers. "Putting Children First" has not in actuality been the reigning philosophy or accomplishment of the past Legislature or executive offices.
The vetoing of a recent health bill designed to make immunizations of children and the tracking of health records more available appear to add injury and insult to "Putting Children First."
We must conclude, in retrospect, that your offices and those of the legislators were sold a bill of goods by corporations, such as Vulcan, Inc. and other corporations whose intent is to weaken public education. As schools break for the summer, there is small, temporary relief or postponement of the inevitable consequences and outcomes of short-changing our children, now and in the future. We expect these to emerge as the summer progresses and schools resume and take into account their small gains.
Please remember that groups like CSRSEA and AARP have much individual and collective experiences to assist you and the legislature in implementing change and improvement of our public and private education systems. Please include us in your planning as we are significant as voters!
Respectfully submitted,
-- Legislative Committee, CSRSEA
Flora M. Holmes, Chair
Members: Bill Brandenburg, Margery Pugh, Rose Trigg, Joan Stokes, Beverly Disch, Wayne Bricker
Preserve peace and quiet in national parks
To the Editor:
In April 2000, the National Park Service announced a ban on snowmobiling in most national parks in the continental United States. A month earlier, the NPS proposed to ban snowmobiles in Yellowstone and Grand Teton National Parks because of the adverse impacts that snowmobiles have on park air and water quality, non-motorized park users, and park wildlife such as bison, wolves, and grizzly bears. Now, the NPS's efforts to rid many of our national parks of these dirty, smelly, and noisy machines is under attack in Congress.
As early as Monday, June 26, Senator Larry Craig (R-ID) will offer an amendment to the Senate Interior Appropriations Bill to place a moratorium on all NPS snowmobile restrictions until the EPA publishes final rules on snowmobile emissions and provides time for the snowmobile industry to mass market new machines. Such an amendment would allow snowmobiles to run roughshod throughout our national parks for more than a decade and, perhaps, indefinitely.
Senator Craig and like-minded legislators are only interested in protecting the recreational interests of snowmobilers and the financial interests of the snowmobile industry -- not in protecting our national parks, park wildlife, air quality, and natural quiet for all Americans. Your help is needed to ensure that Congress does not prevent the NPS from enforcing existing law and banning snowmobiles from most parks.
Please call your two Senators immediately (202/224-3121) and ask them to oppose any amendment offered by Senator Craig or anyone else intended to undermine the ban on snowmobiles in national parks, including Yellowstone and Grand Teton National Parks. You can also call The Fund for Animals at 301/585-2591.
Remind your Senators that numerous studies have documented that snowmobiles harass and disturb park wildlife, substantially degrade park air quality, and destroy the serenity and natural quiet in our parks; that a ban on snowmobiles is consistent with NPS statutes and regulations, which are intended to protect and preserve national parks in an unimpaired condition for the benefit of current and future generations; and that according to a poll by the National Parks and Conservation Association, 59 percent of Americans support a ban on snowmobiles in national parks.
-- Michael Markarian
Silver Springs, MD
Buyers beware
To the Editor:
I read with interest Bob Campbell's article about our community's system that treats the buyer of homes like babes in the woods that are there for the fleecing ("Slip Slidin' Away," June 29).
The article points out that our local developers are not really much different from those around the other parts of the USA. Look at the homes that slide into the Pacific ocean, those that are washed away by hurricanes on the east and gulf coasts, those that are burned by naturally occurring forest fires and on and on.
Caveat emptor is your armament; first by getting foreknowledge of the product prior to laying your money on it. But we do expect oversight of things where we do not or cannot be expected to have this expertise. You put your sights down the gunbarrel on a very sorry situation. Buyers who come here from places that do not have landslide dangers, caused by Mr. Newton's law of gravity, are unsuspecting. I would think that the businesses that provide mortgage monies for the buyers would like to protect their capital by requiring independent analyses of the soils upon which these half-millon dollar houses are being built. In most cases these mortgages are probably abandoned from by the stunned owner who cannot go back into his house after it has been condemmed by local authorities.
Keep up your good work of ferreting out issues that need our attention.
-- R. Hurliman
Colorado Springs
Share the wealth
To the Editor:
It is an interesting story ("Manitou residents fight off expansion," June 15). We lived in Manitou for seven years and loved the community. We were just sad when we had to move because we could not afford to live there anymore.
I can see people not wanting the addition but you have to remember that they already have a piece of the pie. It would give more families a chance to live in that beautiful community. Once people have it they don't want others to have a chance at the same -- we saw that all the time when we lived in Colorado.
-- Jim and Ann Reed
Baxter, MN


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The life, times, and travels of a remarkable instrument and the people who have made, sold, played, and cherished it.
A 16-ounce package of polished wood, strings, and air, the violin is perhaps the most affordable, portable, and adaptable instrument ever created. As congenial to reels, ragas, Delta blues, and indie rock as it is to solo Bach and late Beethoven, it has been played standing or sitting, alone or in groups, in bars, churches, concert halls, lumber camps, even concentration camps, by pros and amateurs, adults and children, men and women, at virtually any latitude on any continent.
Despite dogged attempts by musicologists worldwide to find its source, the violin's origins remain maddeningly elusive. The instrument surfaced from nowhere in particular, in a world that Columbus had only recently left behind and Shakespeare had yet to put on paper. By the end of the violin's first century, people were just discovering its possibilities. But it was already the instrument of choice for some of the greatest music ever composed by the end of its second.
By the dawn of its fifth, it was established on five continents as an icon of globalization, modernization, and social mobility, an A-list trophy, and a potential capital gain.
In The Violin, David Schoenbaum has combined the stories of its makers, dealers, and players into a global history of the past five centuries. From the earliest days, when violin makers acquired their craft from box makers, to Stradivari and the Golden Age of Cremona; Vuillaume and the Hills, who turned it into a global collectible; and incomparable performers from Paganini and Joachim to Heifetz and Oistrakh, Schoenbaum lays out the business, politics, and art of the world's most versatile instrument.
©2013 David Schoenbaum (P)2013 Audible, Inc.
"Everything violin"
I really enjoyed this treatise complete on the violin. Whether you make, play or just love to listen to the violin, you will enjoy this book. The research represented by this very detailed book must be immense indeed. As a violin maker I have read many books on the violin and its history, but this one blows them all out of the water. It is all in this book and presented in a wonderful way.
"Excellent Book"
I went ahead and downloaded this book because I saw that it was Roger Hargrave approved. But I wasn't expecting it to be nearly as good as it was.
I saw that another reviewer complained that it felt like just a bunch of random facts about violins, and I can see what he meant, however I still found it incredibly interesting. There is a lot of history associated with the violin, and this book covers every single aspect of that history from musicians, to making, to literature etc.. I'm actually impressed by how organized it was. David Schoenbaum also throws in some entertaining jokes, anecdotes and other stories that keep you interested in what's going on, and the narrator does a great job delivering even the most sarcastic bits.
Overall I'd say this is one of the best audiobooks I've ever heard. It has so many facts, I will probably listen to it at least three more times before I get them all, but to me that's a bonus.
"Disappointing musical history book"
After having enjoyed several of the Great Courses musical history lectures, this was very disappointing. It is merely a laundry list of every minuscule item that in any way references or possibly relates to the violin. No analysis, no discussion of works, no comparisons of players' styles. Just obscure fact after obscure fact. Maybe better in written form as a reference but not recommended as an audiobook.
"Entertaining and educational"
It is a long read, and might well exhaust someone who does not love the violin, but I do love violins and I really enjoyed the book. It covered much more material than I had expected, but the writing was crisp, clever, and clear. For anyone who loves history and the instrument, it is a worthwhile read. I will likely come back in the near future and reread some of the early history again.
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When Derrick Kelly committed to Kentucky last night it wasn't just another ordinary commitment. His verbal pledge pushed the Wildcats to No. 1 in the Rivals.com Team Rankings.
We aren't talking Kentucky hoops recruiting which basically recruits itself with eight national titles in men's basketball.
This is Kentucky football sandwiched in the ultra-competitive SEC East with traditionally powers Florida and Georgia. The job that head coach Mark Stoops and his staff have done in a short period of time on the recruiting front is borderline amazing. Kelly said it was a big reason he wanted to be a part of the trending up school.
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"For me I always liked Kentucky. My cousin Eric Kelly played defensive back there, so I knew about them. I see a big turn around coming for them behind Coach Stoops that's why I chose Kentucky," stated an excited Kelly.
The physical offensive lineman was in Lexington last weekend for a camp and enjoyed the campus, facilities, and being around the other players.
It felt like a commitment was imminent, but yesterday's timing was flawless.
Did Kelly know that his commitment would give them the No. 1 recruiting class with eight months to before signing day?
"Yes sir. I checked out everything. They played a big role in it. It's very special. I called Coach Peveto around 9:30 last night to tell him I was committing. He was excited. Then I called Coach Stoops and told him the news," remarked Kelly.
Now he wants to turn his focus to his senior season and building upon this year's class.
Time will tell if Kentucky can hold onto the No. 1 spot come February. However, the recruiting turnaround has been fun to watch and has refreshed a stagnant program.


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BFG Tech Announced 512 MB 6800 Ultra
Subject: Graphics Cards | March 25, 2005 - 10:07 PM | Ryan Shrout
It looks like the first comany to announce a product on NVIDIA's 6800 Ultra reference platform is none other than home-grown BFG Tech.
Lake Forest, IL — ( March 24, 2005 )— BFG Technologies®, Inc., a leading U.S.-based supplier of advanced 3D graphic cards and other PC enthusiast products, announced today that they will offer an overclocked 512MB PCI Express™ version of their award-winning BFG GeForce 6800 Ultra OC™ graphics card.
'For the PC gamer and enthusiast who wants bragging rights to one of the most robust graphics cards on the planet, this is the card to own,' said Scott Herkelman, executive vice president marketing for BFG Technologies, Inc. 'Combined with BFG Tech's true lifetime warranty and a bundle of free extras, the unmatched performance of this overclocked 512MB graphics card should prove an attractive product to hardcore gamers everywhere.'
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Martinsville Considering Reversion Into Town
Martinsville, VA - Officials in Martinsville are taking another look at reverting the city to a town, just like Bedford has recently done.
Reverting to a town would make Martinsville a part of Henry County, and ultimately save money. Martinsville officials have talked about reversion in the past.
According to the city attorney, officials are analyzing some new studies as they make their decision. Bedford's reversion takes effect July 1st.


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Second grade teacher Becca Haddaway is weeks away from walking down the aisle with her high school sweetheart when she learns that the Heron Island Elementary School is about to be shut down. Knowing that losing the school would devastate the fragile island community, Becca pushes aside her wedding plans to save it. But the one man who can help her is determined to make her question every decision she has ever made - including the man she's about to marry.
Former Navy SEAL Colin Foley is finally starting to feel whole again after losing his leg on a career-ending deployment in Afghanistan. After struggling for months to figure out what to do with his post-military life, he's found a new mission - opening a rehab center for wounded veterans on the peaceful Chesapeake Bay island. All he needs now is a woman to share his new life with...and he knows exactly who he wants.
With a little help from the island's magical wind chimes, can Colin convince Becca to change her mind before it's too late?
©2015 Sophie Moss (P)2015 Sophie Moss
"Heartwarming veteran story!"
Wind Chime Wedding written by Sophie Moss is a wonderful and heartwarming contemporary romance with a military hero! This book begins not long after the first book ends on Heron Island, a small residential island in the Chesapeake Bay, Maryland. It was so nice to see many familiar faces from the first book, Wind Chime Cafe, which is not surprising considering the setting is primarily set on an island that has a total population of 200 residents year round. Cafe owner Annie and her fiancé Will (who are still not married) make a few appearances in the story. And the ending of this book is so satisfying on many fronts!
Wind Chime Wedding centers on second grade teacher Becca Haddaway who is only a few weeks away from marrying her high school sweetheart after 16 years of being engaged, and moving to Washington, DC. Distracting her from her wedding plans is a fight to keep the school she loves so dearly open. Not only does she teach there, she attended the school as a child, and she teaches in the same classroom that her deceased mother taught in 16 years before. Simply put, she loves living on Heron Island and doesn't want to move away from it and all of her friends. Thankfully, she is finally starting to have second thoughts (as if being engaged for 16 years wasn't enough).
Helping Becca in her cause to save the school is former Navy SEAL Colin Foley who arranges a meeting between Becca and his father, the current Maryland governor. Colin has been living on Heron Island for the past year renovating an old inn and converting it into a veteran's center for wounded soldiers. Colin's backstory is just heartbreaking. Besides losing his leg serving his country, he lost a finance the day he got back from war, and his mother blames him for the death of his younger brother who died in military service "following in his footsteps." Colin's mother is just downright nasty and she tries to sabotage the veteran's center by trying to taint the funds supporting it. I hope she rots in jail!
Hollis McCarthy narrated this story and I was thoroughly entertained by her performance. Her narration flows naturally at an even pace and she was easy to listen to. She has differing voices for all characters, male and female, and young and old. Hollis exhibits the right amount of worry, exasperation, and yearning in all the right places. I cannot recommend this book enough!
"another beautiful romance on Heron Island"
This is a beautifully written story, full of emotionally charged moments, powerful descriptions and a feel good vibe that will reach your heart from the start and never let go. I didn't think I would love another story as much as I loved book one, but the author managed to make me change my mind. I adored Colin and Becca's story as much as I did Will and Annie's. I hope the author will write many more books in this series because I truly love Heron Island and its residents. This is an ideal pick for lovers of small-town romance with emotions playing the most important part. The author doesn't need to resort to graphic sex scenes to make the reader feel the chemistry and love between the characters and I admire her for that. I enjoyed the story that much more because of it.
"Enjoyable series"
Wind Chime Cafe and Wind Chime Wedding are light romances that end well. Just what I look for when I need a "feel good" book. Along the same lines are the Carolina series by Virginia Kantra and series by Alison Kent (and deliciously narrated by Natalie Ross). Kindle Unlimited members get this one at a bargain price. Definitely worth it!
"Another beautiful love story by Sophie Moss"
Sophia Moss and Hollis McCarthy are a perfect combination for listening a wonderful book. This story too, in a small island, a woman who almost got married to the man who thought was the love of her life, until she meets the LOVE OF HER LIFE. Full of romance, the second one in the series, lovely as the first one.
I really adore Hollis McCarthy's voice, she is sweet and gives extra romance and love feeling in every book she narrates.
I received this audiobook in exchange for an honest review. All thoughts opinions and ratings are my own. I was under no obligation to post a review or give positive feedback.Thank you very much Sophie Moss and Holliw McCarthy for this book.
"Pure Sophie Moss - yay!"
What a pleasure to hear another Heron Island romance unfold! After having established the underlying setting and the storyline in the first book, Wind Chime Cafe, Sophie Moss builds on our familiarity with the characters and draws us in even more. At times the plot was a bit predictable, but there were enough twists and turns and artful details to keep it fresh and interesting to the very end. I am hopeful there will be more Wind Chime books in this series! Hollis McCarthy gives us another outstanding narration with an easy-to-listen-to voice.
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Nissan Infiniti G37 Coupe news - Infiniti and beyond - 2007
Say hello to the
Infiniti G37 Coupe.
The name might not ring
too many bells on these shores, but all that should change within the next
year. See, Infiniti is Nissan's luxury brand - the same as Lexus and Toyota.
While Infinitis have never
been sold in the UK before, the first showrooms are due to open in 2008. Four
models will initially be available, all based on the same platform as the
Nissan 350Z. And that includes the G37 Coupe.
Due to be formally
unveiled at the New York motor show in April, the car's being firmly pitched as
a BMW 3-Series rival. No idle boast, that.
The G37 Coupe gets a
bumped-up version of the 3.5-litre V6 found in the 350Z. Bored out to 3.7
litres and capable of producing 330-odd horses, it's the first-ever application
of Nissan's 'Variable Valve Event and Lift' (VVEL) technology.
Similar to BMW's
Valvetronic, VVEL controls valve lift to create a flatter torque curve and
improved economy.
Channelling its power to
the rear wheels through a six-speed manual or five-speed auto 'box, the G37
Coupe even gets the option of all-wheel steering.
It's one of those
technologies that rears its head from time to time only be swiftly dismissed,
so it'll be interesting to see whether Infiniti can make it work.
And if all that wasn't
enough to whet your appetite, rumours abound of a twin-turbo version appearing
sometime in the next couple of years. With the Nissan GT-R out this autumn,
Infiniti doesn't want to be seen lagging behind its more utilitarian brother.
What do you think?
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Sandra Beckle, Head Librarian at the Clinton Williams Library, says that the downfall of the economy can be directly traced to unpaid book fines, a financial staple for libraries.
"We need people to pay their fines for the good of the economy. The money generated from fines go towards businesses in the local community. Money is spent on manicures we get at Mandy's Salon on Poplar St. and on lunch at Denny's every Friday.
"Since people haven't paid their fines, we haven't gone to Mandy's and she had to close her business. Denny's laid off half of their lunch staff because we haven't been able to support them."
Situations like this are happening throughout the country. If you have an overdue book, you are strongly urged to pay the fine and return the book.


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St. Louis officer shot, expected to recover
KMOX-TV says Officer Joseph Haman remains in critical but stable condition after being shot multiple times
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ST. LOUIS — St. Louis's police chief says an officer who was shot as many as eight times during a traffic stop is expected to survive.
Chief Dan Isom says the 26-year-old policeman was talking to a driver outside the car he had just pulled over Thursday morning when someone in the vehicle's back seat opened fire, wounding the officer.
Isom credits the officer's bullet-resistant vest with saving his life. The victim's name was not released, though he remained hospitalized and was undergoing surgery later Thursday.
Police say they had three of the car's occupants and were searching for the suspected gunman.
Isom says the officer is a former Marine who served in Iraq and has been with the department since October 2008.
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Dierks Bentley, Kacey Musgraves, Kelly Clarkson Among ACM Honors PerformersTaking place Sept. 8 in Nashville, the ACM Honors is an annual showcase paying tribute to special award recipients including Carrie Underwood, Toby Keith, Kris Kristofferson and the late "Cowboy" Jack Clement.
Q&A: Darius Rucker Says His Success In Country Is About 'The Music' And Being 'Kind Of A Nice Guy'Darius Rucker never questioned the fact that country music is where he belonged.
Chris Young Talks George Jones, Brad Paisley & His New Album 'A.M.'Chris Young's new album A.M. hits shelves on Tuesday (Sept. 17), and the singer is anxious to get the music in the hands of his fans.
ACM Honors Ceremony Pays Tribute To Singers, Songwriters & Country Music LegendsJason Aldean, Guy Clark, Lady Antebellum, Blake Shelton, Keith Whitley and The Judds were among the artists celebrated during the ACM Honors event last night in Nashville, which was hosted by Dierks Bentley. Read our review and see photos!
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Jeremy Hobson: Well the Chinese New Year isn't just a cause for celebration. Feng Shui masters are using the ancient Chinese art and their knowledge of this Year of the Dragon to predict economic trouble in the year ahead.
And according to one Feng Shui master, there isn't much to look forward to.
In today's Mid-Day Extra, the BBC's Kate McGough reports.
Kate McGough: Today we're entering the year of the "water dragon." So according to Feng Shui masters we should be watching out for floods and other natural disasters involving water, that could damage the global supply chain.
The dragon is believed to be especially lucky and many couples across Asia are making an extra effort to give birth to "dragon babies."
But even the economy can't escape predictions from the elements in the Chinese Zodiac - and the year of the "water dragon" is not good news there.
If the stock market is influenced by the collective mood of the people, then a "water year" is bad news. In Chinese mythology "water" is the element that makes people afraid and depressed. So we shouldn't expect a strong recovery.
But according to Feng Shui master Raymond Lo it's not all bad news:
Raymond Lo: Water means money so that means we see some prospect of improvement in the American economy.
And according to Raymond, people want change in a water year to wash away old-fashioned beliefs. So there should be more protests and government changes in the year ahead.
In London, I'm the BBC's Kate McGough for Marketplace.


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"As expected, the crew of the Soyuz TMA-15 successfully landed at 10:16 (0716 GMT) around 88km north of the town of Arkalyk," a spokesperson for Russian mission control told AFP.
Belgian Frank De Winne, Canadian Robert Thirsk and Russian Roman Romanenko had spent around half a year in space, arriving at the ISS on May 29.
Television pictures showed the astronauts being pulled from the capsule and put onto stretchers by Russian cosmonaut-retrieval crews wearing blue jackets and warm hats to protect against the cold Kazakh weather.
De Winne - the first European to command the ISS - waved to the television camera as he was loaded onto a stretcher.
Space travellers have trouble walking when they return to Earth after long stays in zero gravity.
"They all feel good.... I congratulate everyone. The main thing is they are all alive and well," Anatoly Perminov, head of the Russian federal space agency, told a televised news conference after the landing.
The three space travellers were expected to return to the Star City cosmonaut training centre outside Moscow later on Tuesday to be reunited with their families and continue readjusting to gravity.


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NORWALK (CBS) — A man authorities say raped a young woman he hired to baby-sit his children may have done the same thing to other women.
Kevin Cady, 53, was arrested last week on suspicion of drugging and raping a 22-year-old woman he hired through an online baby-sitting service to watch his children while he was at work.
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SoundImage2 posted a topic in Amplifier TroubleshootingWe have a small installation we are doing for a bar consisting of a consumer CD player feeding to a Crown 14M mixer, then onto a CDi1000 amplifier. Channel 1 is feeding a JBL Control SB-2 subwoofer, both voice coils in parallel, and Channel 2 is feeding a pair of JBL Control 25T's (70v.) I have input 1 "Y-d" internally to feed both channels, and a 100hz crossover engaged. Channel 1 is Lo-z and 2 is High-Z. Amp is running in stereo mode. The problem is, I can be clipping the output of the 14M mixer to the amp, and have the level of the amplifier completely wide open, with very low sound output. The signal lights light up constantly on the front display, but I've seen nothing above the -20dB indicator ever light up. We have tried 2 separate CDi1000 amplifiers, both brand new, with the same outcome. With these relatively small speakers, this setup should be screaming. Any ideas? I'm guessing there is some setting that I'm overlooking...


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From Maroon Lake TH
Friday July 15, 2010
After working all day Thursday my wife and I readied our TrailBlazer and hit the road for Basalt where my wife's niece and her husband live. Getting started at just about 5:50PM we found the traffic to be manageable as we drove out of Louisville and south on Route 93 took a right on Route 6 through the canyon to I-70 to Glenwood Sprgs where we exited and took Route 82 to Basalt arriving about 9:45. My wife would be staying here so we off-loaded her bike and some other gear at her nieces place and then I continued on to the roundabout in Aspen for Maroon Bells where I drove up the overnight hiker's parking lot, very dark and most quiet.
Arriving I found the parking lot to be jam-packed and managed to "shoehorn" into the last available parking spot right at 10:35PM, plenty of cars but nobody around. It was still quite warm at 69 degrees and the heavens were brilliant with stars as I made ready to sleep in the back and set my watch alarm for 3:30AM and turned-in right at 11:00PM………..way tired.
For whatever reason my watch alarm failed and I awoke somehow knowing it was later than I planned for and found the time to be 4:28AM……………I was now a full hour behind schedule. Wasting little time I got up and prepared a quick cold breakfast of oatmeal bars, banana and a quart of Gatorade. The day was just starting to break and only the brightest stars could now be seen as I readied my pack and started across the parking lot for the trail to the right of Maroon Lake at 5:10AM
Arriving at the lake I was treated to a magnificent view of the glass-calm lake with two ducks swimming towards me and the surrounding peaks with the Maroon Bells directly ahead and their snowy couloirs most visible. I then made rather quick work of rounding to the right of Maroon Lake and heading right verses straight and soon found the sign for Crater Lake. I took this well-worn trail up through the forest while gaining elevation and found the temperature to already be rather warm especially for this time of day. I had perspired through my hat as I made it to a rocky opening where things flatten-out some and found a large cairn on the left. This marks the trail for Pyramid Peak.
I made the left turn from the Crater Lake trail and was now heading up into a bushy section with many beautiful wildflowers and soon started to head up a series of rocky switchbacks up into more forest with actual solid rock "stair steps" where the CFI volunteers have done a great job carving-out this trail. Gaining some higher ground I soon was rewarded with a most wonderful, alpenglow view of the Maroon Bells in there early morning splendor.
I never tire of such natural beauties and stood in awe while snapping a picture as the day was perfect without a cloud in the skies………….absolutely gorgeous.
Gaining elevation with every step as the trail climbs steadily via switchbacks and traverses and along some cobbly/rocky sections and up around one last bushy corner to where two huge cairns lead the way abruptly into a talus field. More cairns lead across the talus and to a long, snow-filled gully approach leading directly towards Pyramid Peak high, center-left. Here I could now see three people heading up the steep slope to the right of the gully along a long green section. I found the best passage was to walk directly up the snowy gully and I could clearly see where others had done the same. Before too long the three people up high to my right had advanced to the ridge and were now proceeding left and towards the Pyramid Peak summit. I, in turn headed much further up and found the vast, heavily talused, bowl know as the "amphitheater". I could now see two separate groups making their way up the very steep, scree slope on the left side to a high notch well above. This was where I would be going.
Warm temperatures had set near records the past two days and today was no exception. Being in the shadows certainly helped keep things cooler as I followed cairns across the amphitheater with it's huge rocks and boulders making my way to the start of the 1000' scree ascent. I saw one couple nearing the top with what looked to be a white dog leading them up the trail, the first group had apparently already cleared the notch and were on there way along the ridge to the right. Climbing this scree slope was not a pleasant task; a steep, narrow, dirty/scree and rock passage that climbs quickly without many switchbacks and simply goes straight up the mountainside and above tree line and I knew that coming back down would be every bit as difficult as this ascent was now. I paused often but briefly to catch my breath and made a slow but steady advance along this well-traveled trail. Bearing too far to the right I found myself a bit off course as I neared the top and ended up on a goat trail of sorts and found it easier to simply scramble on all fours up over the rocks and gain the trail to the right of the ridge. Soon I began to follow some cairns leading through a rocky section and over to the left side of the ridge where more cairns along a steep ledge lead the way and here the first direct sunlight of the day shown very bright.
Route finding has never been my forte and I was becoming a bit confused as to which way the cairns were taking me, but I continued my advance and soon met two young guys coming back from the summit. These two stated that the cairns were good and if I felt I was off the trail I probably was which I found to be somewhat peculiar. However, once we parted I continued to follow the cairns as best I could and felt that I was a least heading in the correct direction and gaining elevation as I went. I wasn't getting any warm, fussy feelings looking at my 14er.com printout as I really wasn't discerning any of the landmarks being described but looking up ahead and higher I could hear and see the couple I'd seen earlier advancing towards the summit.
Pausing to apply some sun lotion and lip balm I was soon overtaken by a young guy making a rapid advance and seemed to know exactly where he was going so I felt a bit better about where I was at on this mountain. I followed his lead for a while but couldn't keep up and lost sight of him and continued my plodding along from this cairn to the next until I came to a dead end. Looking around I could now see the young guy above nearing the summit and could hear the voices of others as well; so close to the summit yet not seeing the way was a bit confounding but I finally decided to backtrack a bit as Roach's book described and soon found a cairn leading off to the right a bit and followed more cairns up and around and whalaa!! onto the final approach to the summit proper. One last gradual climb across a short ridge and finally onto the summit at 9:42AM..........I'd made it!
As I'd read before; I too found this summit to be very rewarding as the views are breath-taking in every direction with at least 10 immediately recognizable 14'ers in view. I removed my pack and started taking photos right away as the day was perfect without a cloud to be seen in all directions.
The two persons I had seen earlier were on the summit (a guy and a gal) as well as the young guy who had passed me (Gabe) and soon three other guys reached the summit from the other side. These were the three persons I'd seen much earlier heading up the right side of the snow gully. Before long a lone mountain goat also reached the summit from the same way as the three guys; he moseyed-on up and across the summit just a few feet away from us all and we all took photos as this goat had been with the three guys all the way from the ridge on up……..funny goat.
Turns-out the supposed "white dog" I'd seen the one group following up the scree slope was indeed a goat as well……….duh!! Good thing this peak has a large summit as there was plenty of room for all creatures great and small……..nice.
Two of the three guys had ropes and harnesses and the one was free-climbing. We all enjoyed some small-talk and photo opportunities
and soon the guy and gal departed and Gabe as well down the way we had come. Upon further conversation, two of the guys were guides with their client and were heading down the way I had come to complete their tour-de-Pyramid. I asked the one guide if I could follow them down since my route finding sucked and they knew this mountain so very well………..No problem, cool! So after a few more minutes, donning my helmet, taking-in some food/drink, two aspirin and signing the summit registry we all departed with the lone goat a bit further ahead seeming to be keeping his eye on these three guys……..funny goat.
Going back down was rather interesting as I observed the one guide "tied-off" with the client and the other guide free-climbing as I was. The reason I didn't recognize some of the 14er.com print-out on the way up was because I hadn't ever reached the "green rock" section and totally went a different way as had others.
We progressed down much the way I had come up and moved very deliberately through a few sections and the free-climbing guide took my photo (upon my request) crossing the steep ledge area.
I didn't want to get too chummy with the guides and client as I'm sure the client was paying good money for such services and here I was "mooching-along" with them. Anyway……they are Aspen Expeditions and are great people to be with; there I dropped their name as I know them to be professional, pleasant/courteous and genuine with their abilities towards their clients and the mountain itself. It took about an hour to reach the top of the rather "goaty" (several more along the way, big & small) ridge above the scree slope and here we parted company and I'm very glad to have made their acquaintances.
Here I stopped to get into short cloths and apply a good lather of sun screen as the day was very warm and the sun really hot. Back down the scree slope seemed to me to be the hardest part of this whole day although going back down after reaching a summit is most definitely my preference. Skidding, slipping, stumbling along was an unpleasant grind and getting down to the amphitheatre was a welcome relief……..Thank God!
Crossing back over the talus and to the snow gully went quickly and I could see where the three guys had again hiked right on the snow as did I; this too went fairly quickly and I was soon onto the cairned talus field
and back through the huge cairns and on the CFI trail. Weather remained ideal as I paused briefly to take a shot of Maroon Lake
and then back down into the forest and back onto the trail to Maroon Lake uneventfully. Crowds of people where now on this trail and negotiating through the congestion seemed to be the only drawback as I soon reached Maroon Lake and turned for one last photo of the signature Maroon Bells set in the brilliance of this spectacular day.
Back along the lake and across the parking lots and to the car at 2:40PM sharp. I was tired and my feet a bit sore but otherwise I felt great and gifted to have started my trek later than planned and thus meeting some dynamite people along the way this fine day. My 50th 14'er………..sweet!
Tomorrow trout & whitefish fly-fishing on the Crystal River…………. especially excellent!


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San Diego, CA (Sports Network) - Felix Hernandez had hit a little rough patch, but Petco Park proved to be proper place for him to remedy his recent struggles on the mound.
Hernandez tossed eight solid innings and the Seattle Mariners totaled five home runs, including the first two of Nick Franklin's career, in a 7-1 victory over the San Diego Padres.
The Seattle right-hander had surrendered 10 earned runs while losing his last two starts. On Thursday afternoon, Hernandez (6-4) held the Padres to three singles, two of which came in the fourth inning when the home team scratched out its lone run.


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The attached is an egg like stone the size of a tennis ball, it is hollow with this small hole. Any ideas?
Many thanks
This looks to be a hollow flint.
Flints often contain cavities, and in some of the cases when the overall shape is round or oval, it is due to it being centred on a fossil sponge, which 'rots' away.
You'll find more on that in Luanne's flints document
- http://www.nhm.ac.uk/natureplus/servlet/JiveServlet/download/2018-4495-11832-4283/Luanne%2BFlint%2Bcompressed.doc
(search for 'Sponges in flint' in that document)
Many thanks, will add it to the rest of the fossil collection.
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Man Killed In Hutchinson Police Shooting
KSAL Staff - June 23, 2015 8:03 am
A 19-year-old man has been sentenced to probation for growing psychedelic mushrooms at a Hutchinson business.
A 22-year-old man was killed in an officer involved shooting in Hutchinson early Tuesday morning.
According to Hutchinson Police, at about 12:53am officers were dispatched to 811 N. Van Buren regarding a "trouble with subject" call. The reporting party claimed that the subject confessed to committing a murder and had been armed with a knife.
As officers responded, they were confronted with an irate subject in the residence along with three small children. The subject made threats of harm against the officers. The subject began breaking windows out of the residence from inside.
The officers became concerned for the welfare of the children and as they removed the children from the residence, the subject threw objects at the officers including a knife. Officers fired shots from their patrol rifles, hitting and killing the suspect.
The man is identified as 22-year-old Jonathan Wilson.
An investigation into this officer involved shooting is being led by the Kansas Bureau of Investigation.