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Real Estate Professionals and Property Managers – LifeTopix is for You
Most REALTORS®, Real Estate Agents and Property Managers are road warriors – constantly on the go with ever increasingly busy schedules. Wouldn't it be great if an app could help them find more time in the day? It's possible with the LifeTopix app from LightArrow.
Real estate professionals often use devices such as iPhones and iPads to search for listings, to communicate, and to stay productive. Great news. The availability of useful mobile apps for these professionals is becoming more widespread as mobile devices gain popularity, making their lives easier.
Many LightArrow customers are real estate agents and property managers. Many use the LifeTopix app to manage and consolidate their busy schedules, contacts, service providers, documents, and more into one place. In fact, because such a large number of LightArrow's customers are real estate professionals, LightArrow is planning to implement a solution customized for them using the LightArrow App Engine.
This post focuses on what the LifeTopix app offers real estate professionals today, and how these professionals are using the LifeTopix app to organize and manage their schedules, business information, and more.
What LifeTopix Provides for Real Estate Professionals Today
Real Estate Professionals are using LifeTopix every day to manage the following items (and more):
- Open Houses and other Events – Plan open houses and other events.
- Checklists – Create home selling or buying checklists and share checklists with clients over email.
- Properties – Manage a list of properties with specific details through LifeTopix Assets.
- Calendar – Stay on task and on time.
- Consolidated Appointments and Reminders – Events and reminders from the iOS Calendar and Reminder apps are consolidated into one place.
- Location Services – Plan showings by location.
- Passwords and Private Information – Keep track of usernames, passwords, and secret text such as security and gate codes.
- Document Management – Easily organize and retrieve documents stored in Dropbox, Box, Google Docs, and OneDrive.
- Information Management – Gather information from multiple channels (email, social, web, and more) and make that information actionable.
- Expenses – Keep track of marketing, entertainment, travel, or other expenses.
- Contacts – Keep track of clients (custom statuses, contact logs, custom forms, alerts, and more).
- Service Providers – Keep track of title companies, Escrow companies, lenders, inspectors, general contractors, real estate investors, handymen, etc.
All of these items are naturally connected throughout the app; therefore, it's not necessary to enter items over and over again as in disconnected apps.
Keep reading to see examples of how the LifeTopix app can help real estate professionals in the above areas.
Planning Open Houses and Other Events
Keeping track of details when conducting open houses and other events can be challenging for real estate professionals. With LifeTopix, they can create a LifeTopix Event and invite prospective buyers to the open house via email within the app. The app makes it easy to keep track of responses and communicate with invitees, as shown below.
LifeTopix also makes tracking details for events easy. For example, when an event is created, all information associated with the event can easily be connected with it; making it easy to find the important information.
Keeping Track of To-dos Through Checklists
Keeping track of to-dos, open house checklists, maintenance lists, and other items such as client "must-haves" for a new home is easy with LifeTopix. For example, real estate professionals can keep track of items that they and a seller must complete before an open house event occurs. Real estate professionals can easily create and share checklists. These checklists, shown below, are printable, reusable, sortable, and shareable via email.
Tracking Properties
It's important for busy real estate professionals and property managers to track details for the properties they're buying, selling, or managing. In LifeTopix, real estate professionals keep track of property details through the Home + Assets topic.
Within an asset, real estate professionals can record seller details, purchased cost, current values, manufacturers, models, mapped locations, and context tags. They can also associate tasks, appointments, reminders, notes, checklists, files, bookmarks, expenses, services, audio recordings, photos and videos to the property asset.
With these associations, for example, when an appointment is added to an asset, the details of the property are automatically associated with the appointment (which displays on the calendar). This makes it easy to find all the details of the property in one place.
An example of an asset created for a property in LifeTopix is shown below.
Managing Appointments and Reminders
LightArrow understands that real estate professionals juggle a mountain of appointments and tasks. LifeTopix provides them with versatile calendar views for their iPhone or iPad. It helps real estate professionals manage showings, meetings, projects, to-dos, reminders and more all in one view, saving valuable time.
LifeTopix also includes a printable daily agenda and day, week, month, and year views – configurable to individually show or hide events, such as appointments, tasks, trips, projects, checklists (to-do lists), notes, and items from the iPad or iPhone calendars.
With LifeTopix, the real estate professional can effortlessly switch to and from views and easily search for any data item. Calendar item types, events and items from different calendars are differentiated by colors, as shown below, making it easy to take control of a busy schedule.
Many real estate professionals use a task management app or checklist app, the iOS reminders app, and the iOS calendar. LifeTopix is integrated with the iOS calendar app – resulting in a calendar that unifies all the calendars that the iOS calendar supports (Google calendar, Outlook, etc.). Furthermore, LifeTopix integrates with the iOS Reminders app and it also includes built-in task management and checklists. With LifeTopix, all of this information is combined into one view – giving the real estate professional one-tap access to what's important to him or her today, tomorrow and in the near future. This is all combined into their daily Agenda view, as shown below.
Better Plan the Day with Location Services
With LifeTopix's location-based view of appointments and other items, real estate professionals can better plan their days based on the locations of showings, closings, meetings, and other appointments.
The built-in map automatically picks up the appointments that are on the radar within a radius that they specify. In addition, the real estate professional can pick the types of items that show on the map. For example, they might wish to view appointments, but not contacts. They can easily choose this option through the picker that's made available in the Near Me view. An example of the Near Me view (with the picker open) is shown below.
Remembering Passwords and Private Information
Real estate professionals are required to keep track of multiple passwords for several online sites and private information such as security codes for properties. LifeTopix includes a secure password manager and private information organizer with strong, military-grade 256-bit AES encryption for usernames, passwords and any private notes, photos and audio. This feature helps real estate professionals find this information easily and securely, while on the go.
Managing Documents and other Files Such as Photos
Real estate professionals manage several different types of documents and files including marketing flyers, contracts, photos, and more. LifeTopix works with several cloud services where documents are stored, which allows these professionals to associate documents with items (such as property assets or contacts) in LifeTopix.
There are several advantages to cloud service integration. Real estate professionals can easily organize, find, and view important documents such as photos, contracts, and marketing materials on the go (no laptop required). In the example below, a flyer is associated with a property (asset) in LifeTopix.
Gathering Information from a Variety of Channels
Today, savvy real estate professionals are using various social media channels to gather information and to market their companies and properties. In addition, these professionals receive dozens of email messages every day. Information is also received from a variety of other channels (phone, notes, face-to-face conversations, etc.), which makes keeping up with it all practically impossible.
This is why LightArrow created "Inboxes" (available with the Pro Inbox Pack in-app purchase) in LifeTopix, which is shown below. Each tile in the screenshot represents a different channel such as a Twitter feed, Email feed, Web feed, and Facebook feed (all filtered by chosen keywords and other options); and Quick Inbox entries (ideas generated during conversations, research, etc.).
Using social media requires listening and acting on the information that's gathered. LifeTopix is an excellent app for gathering information through social media and other channels – and communicating with others. For example, with LifeTopix's Pro.Inbox Pack, the real estate professional can gather information from multiple channels, including Twitter, Facebook, the Web, Email, and simply through jotting down ideas and notes (Quick Inbox). LifeTopix makes it easy to communicate with others from messages and posts gathered from multiple channels as demonstrated below.
LifeTopix then goes one step further by allowing real estate professionals to make this information "actionable." For example, Twitter posts can be converted to tasks, projects, appointments, notes, and more – which can be viewed directly on their LifeTopix calendar. View an example below.
Tracking Expenses
Real estate professionals are always looking for better ways to simplify expense tracking. With LifeTopix, real estate professionals can easily track expenses through the Finances topic. With LifeTopix, all the topics are naturally connected so users can add an expense directly to a property (asset) and then view it from the Expenses topic, as well. An example of a group of expenses associated with a property is shown below.
Keeping track of associated receipts can also be a hassle for real estate professional, but LifeTopix makes it easy. Real estate professionals can simply take a photo of the receipt and associate it with the expense.
Managing Contact Information
LifeTopix includes both basic management of contacts, and also offers advanced contact management with the Pro Contacts Pack in-app purchase. This pack adds Customer Relationship Management (CRM) and Contact Management features to enhance the real estate professionals' sales activities. This add-on is a great choice for real estate professionals who want to keep track of leads, clients and business information for people.
This in-app purchase allows real estate professionals to associate tasks, appointments, reminders, notes, files, bookmarks, and expenses with clients and contacts, allowing timely follow-ups and enhanced organization of information.
It also adds a configurable spreadsheet-like view of contacts and CSV import/export, which gives real estate professionals an easy way to add, view, sort, and manage business information for multiple contacts.
In addition, real estate professionals can create call lists for client follow-ups, prospective customers, or simply for cold calling as shown below:
LifeTopix also includes custom forms and fields to hold information specific for their contacts, such as home list prices, home buying requirements, etc. To learn about custom forms and fields, watch the following video:
Automatically Adding Contacts from Email
Real estate professionals have several contacts saved in their phones or Rolodexes, and they receive several email messages daily. While other apps might pull information from multiple email inboxes and automatically add contacts, LifeTopix allows its users to choose which contacts to add directly from email messages. They can add all contacts from a single email message or add a single contact from a selected message. They can sort their contacts by groups and add contacts directly to specified groups (directly from an email message). The image below shows how this is done.
Out-of-the-box, users can manage up to 100 contacts in LifeTopix. If they want to manage more contacts, extra contact packs are available via in-app purchases.
Managing Service Providers
Easily finding contact information for service providers while on the go is especially useful for the real estate professional. LifeTopix includes features for saving details for real estate attorneys, accountants, inspectors, surveyors, lenders, brokers, interior designers, and other service providers, which saves valuable time. In addition, the real estate professional can group providers into categories, rate providers, add online access (username and password) information, add location, and sort providers by rating.
Want to Learn More About LifeTopix?
If you have questions about how LifeTopix can help you succeed and be more productive, you can learn more by visiting http://www.lightarrow.com or the App Store. LifeTopix is a full-featured app at $7.99 US with absolutely no subscription fees. In-app purchases can be utilized to add features as you go.
To learn more about LifeTopix and its pricing, visit the App Store at: https://itunes.apple.com/app/lifetopix-all-in-one-organizer/id399076264?mt=8


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Re: [CT] DISCUSSION - Anonymous vs Cartels
Released on 2012-08-05 20:00 GMT
|2011-10-24 20:54:22
I agree. I haven't seen any defining attributes of Anonymous as a group.
They may not even know the identities of each other. There are several
facebook / twitter Anonymous pages, which seem to be run by different
What about defining Anonymous in terms of the individual? Instead of
saying Anonymous attacking cartels, Individuals acting under the
Anonymous name.... Yes
-But we don't know what information Anonymous' adherents have access to,
and doubt they have such information that provides any sort of
existential threat to the cartels as a whole or their networks.
This is a problem with the threat assessment. Technically, anything
cartel related (emails, online transactions, Mexican LEA information,
etc.) would be available to a hacker, but we don't know if they have had
access to this information, or if the hackers interested in harming
cartels are capable. It's not even confirmed hackers have revealing
information on cartel supporters which the video claims. Yes, it's not
exactly a 'threat assessment'. just say we don't know. And we can say
we doubt they have it because they haven't shown much capabilities to
get at insider/confidential/classified information, rather mostly DDOS
attacks. However, there are people that have demonstrated such
capabilities, and its possible they also joined an 'anonymous'
campaign--like whoever got the recent personal data out of the Sony
On 10/24/11 1:11 PM, Sean Noonan wrote:
Somehow we have to stop referring to 'anonymous' as a monolith. They
are a bunch of different people that essentially get together in an
online-form of a mob to carry out some action. I'm not sure how to do
this in writing consistently. But let's start with shit like 'people
joining Anonymous chatrooms and claiming to be part of the movement'
or something like that.
Comments in green below. This is coming together nicely.
On 10/24/11 11:19 AM, Tristan Reed wrote:
do they specify whether or not these are all in Mexico? Are some of
these in the US?
What is the significance of singling out taxi drivers?.
I will have to relisten to video to see if they specifically mention
whether all examples were in Mexico. The Taxi drivers are
significant because they were specifically mentioned as one of the
targets in revealing cartel connections. It also demonstrates a lack
of understanding of who they are attacking. A taxi driver in
Acapulco is expendable to cartels, but may also be cooperating with
cartels out of coercion.
Anonymous does not pose a direct physical security threat to Mexican
cartels. mmmm... i mean, they're not going hold a gun to the head
of el chapo, but there is something to be said for the using
publication as a tool to force government action. If you reveal
actionable intelligence, the government will use it against the
cartels. That's a physical threat, if one step removed. Agreed,
but I want to specify that Anonymous can not directly effect
physical security. Any impact to the cartel in revealing information
will be from actions of rival cartels or the GoM. They may release
information on a given politician being linked to the cartels, but
it's not a guarantee that the politician will feel an impact (Just
because Anonymous says there is a link, doesn't make it true). It
would be up to others to take action. I think the way you have it
worded in the above sentence is good. Follow with a sentence
explaining the rest of it, because readers will have the same
question Karen did. Something like 'Rather, the threat to cartels
would come in what information anonymous could expose that is useful
to their enemies'
Anonymous has demonstrated it's ability to reveal illicit online
activity (child pornography rings) and the cartels are known to
conduct significant logistics and business online. We don't know how
much, but we do know they will have some points of operational
vulnerability I have heard of cartels doing business online, but
don't have specific examples which could be used in assessing their
vulnerability online.
by "no consequences" what exactly do you mean? They can be fired,
arrested or murdered, and that happens all the time. Point taken, I
should say, there is not a guarantee of consequences for calling out
politicians as colluding.
On 10/24/11 9:46 AM, Karen Hooper wrote:
Karen Hooper
Latin America Analyst
o: 512.744.4300 ext. 4103
c: 512.750.7234
On 10/24/11 9:32 AM, Tristan Reed wrote:
Reposting this with a new shorter focus. Instead of discussing
possible cartel responses, the focus is on what type of threat
Anonymous can pose to cartels. The video released by people using
the banner of Anonymous, threatens revealing personal information
on cartels as well as states a member had been kidnapped. I could
not find any sources outside of Anonymous' claims of the
individual being kidnapped. According to their facebook sites
(Anonymous Mexico and Anonymous Veracruz) it sounds like it may be
an individual posting flyers ['critical of cartels'?] in Veracruz
as part of the Operation Paperstorm protest, although that is
speculation. [this is good and will be enough information to go
with, though you'll need a quick explanation of what 'operation
paperstorm' is. Adding something in the explaining the flyers
will work]
Link: themeData
Anonymous, a decentralized hacker collective famous for
distributed denial-of-service (DDOS) attacks on government and
corporate websites, lashed out at drug cartels via the Internet
with a statements denouncing Mexico's criminal cartels, including
a video depicting a masked individual addressing Mexican drug
cartels on October 10? With the most recent video release,
Anonymous makes bold threats towards the criminal cartels in
Mexico. Threats such as releasing identities of taxi drivers,
police, politicians, and journalists who collude with criminal
cartels do they specify whether or not these are all in Mexico?
Are some of these in the US?
What is the significance of singling out taxi drivers?. The
hacker group demanded Los Zetas release a fellow kidnapped member
otherwise face consequences. In the Anonymous' video, this coming
November 5th was mentioned as a day cartels could expect
Anonymous' reaction if their demands of releasing a kidnapped
member are not met. The potential of conflict between Mexico's
criminal cartels and hackers, presents a unique threat towards
TCOs [If TCO= transnational criminal organization, it's not really
unique. Many such organizations do their crimes online, and have
been hacked in response--like the nigerian princess scams. I think
you should just say it's a unique threat to DTOs] . We know of
cartels lashing out at online bloggers, but I haven't seen any
reporting on cartels dealing with any headaches from hackers
What Anonymous brings to the table in a conflict
o Anonymous would not pose a direct physical security
threat to Mexican cartels. mmmm... i mean, they're not going hold
a gun to the head of el chapo, but there is something to be said
for the using publication as a tool to force government action. If
you reveal actionable intelligence, the government will use it
against the cartels. That's a physical threat, if one step
o Anonymous' power base is the ability to exploit online
o Anonymous hackers do not have to be in Mexico to lash
out at cartels
While not certain, there is a potential for Anonymous to pose a
threat, if it had access to certain types of information:
-The threat is in the information they can expose that may
be of use to any cartel enemies. That could be to the government or
other cartels or even local citizens (the last one may be a stretch,
but i could imagine someone discrediting cartel members in the eyes of
the public).
o It is unknown if Anonymous's claims tocut possess
identifiable information on cartel members
o It is unknown what information Anonymous could acquire
on cartels [cut this part here, and make the point at the end of
this section/paragraph]
o Bank accounts, any online transactions or
communications, identifiable information on cartels members have
to be considered in the realm of possibilities for
o Anonymous has demonstrated it's ability to reveal
illicit online activity (child pornography rings) and the cartels
are known to conduct significant logistics and business online. We
don't know how much, but we do know they will have some points of
operational vulnerability
-They claim to have information on those that collude with cartels
(use the stuff you have above]. Releasing such information could hurt
cartels' support networks, but most of these people are also easily
-But we don't know what information Anonymous' adherents
have access to, and doubt they have such information that provides any
sort of existential threat to the cartels as a whole or their
Most Anonymous hackers are likely far removed from the
ultra-violent world of drug trafficking in Mexico, but it's quite
possible that some of its members in this campaign are in Mexico
and opposed to the violence [or something like that. my limited
understanding is there are still activist crusader-types in
Mexico, yeah? it seems very possible those with a bit of time or
computer skills could have joined up with anonymous] . As a
result, their understanding of cartel activities may be limited.
Anonymous members in other countries may act with confidence when
sitting in front of a computer, but this may blind them to any
possible retribution. They may not even know the impact of any
online assault of cartels. [the part below and above is written
rather normatively. We need to take that out. just state the
o Revealing information on taxi drivers and journalists
will cost lives. Anonymous may not understand some of these
individuals are forced to collude with cartels. Taxi
drivers are often victims of extortion or coerced to act as
halcones. Revealing the identity of these individuals will not
have a significant impact on cartel operations.
Politicans have been accused of working with cartels (Guerrero &
Veracruz' governor) before, however there has yet to be any
consequences from this. by "no consequences" what exactly do you
mean? They can be fired, arrested or murdered, and that happens
all the time.
o Anonymous hackers may not understand the extent cartels
are willing to go protect their operations.
o Any hackers in Mexico are at risk.
o Cartels have reached out to the computer science
community before, coercing computer science majors into working
for them.
o This provides the cartels with the possibility of
discovering hackers within Mexico.
need to mention that if Anonymous goes the route of simply
publishing tactical details of cartel activities, they'll be in
the same camp as the bloggers [yes, i think it needs to be clear
that their damage will be similar to what bloggers or wikileaks
can do--limited. But maybe more a danger to themselves, since
they are no longer challenging governments, but criminal
On 10/17/11 10:19 AM, Marc Lanthemann wrote:
Oh man we are threading new ground here - I like the idea but
there are several issues to address and fix here.
These are the bullets of my main analytical concern with the
o we don't know who got kidnapped or why. that's fine
but we can't gloss over that fact
o "hackers" is a blanket term - there's a difference
between stealing bank records from government computers and
overloading www.loszetas.com main page.
o There's no thought out process of what sort of
information could anon have on the cartels. What kind of info is
kept online and accessible to potential attacks? You seem to be
talking about identities, whose? If anything it's dirty cops,
politicians and businessmen who need to worry about what anon is
going to be saying. Think about why the bloggers and media were
killed in previous instances. Was it because they revealed
operational details, because they acted as informants, because
they exposed links with officials or because they somehow
sullied the cartel's reputation? In short, what kind of
information is damaging to the cartels themselves?
o Once you identify this info - think about if anon can
realistically access it and disseminate it so it causes a
measure of damage. Anon doesn't have any intelligence capacity
except for the technical ability by a very small number of its
members to infiltrate certain networks and databases and steal
information. Now what kind of information would a cartel keep on
a network that is connected to the internet (aka no intranet)?
Where else could information be found? Government databases?
Once we know what kind of information is accessible, we can also
know more about the consequences of dissemination.
o What's the IT capacity of a cartel? Sufficient to
trace back attacks? If it's not, there risks to be a lot of
killings done by people who may not understand the difference
between an anon hacker and a blogger.
On 10/17/11 9:47 AM, Colby Martin wrote:
wanted to forward Karen's thoughts to analyst
-------- Original Message --------
Subject: Re: [CT] DISCUSSION - Anonymous vs Cartels
Date: Mon, 17 Oct 2011 09:28:18 -0500
From: Karen Hooper
Reply-To: CT AOR
To: CT AOR
you've got some of the issues here, but this is going to need
a lot more work
You need to lay out:
a) What exactly is going on with Anonymous, your trigger
section is unclear
b) what our assessment of the online cartel presence is, and
therefore their vulnerabilities and capabilities
c) How capable is Anonymous of breaching high security
d) how far the cartels would be willing to travel to kill
anyone who breaches their systems or exposes their connections
I also just want to point out that we have reasonable reliable
insight that Sinaloa at the very least has some significant
levels of sophistication in their online presence, to include
the use of cyber currencies and significant IT capacity. There
is no reason to assume that Los Zetas don't also conduct
business online, in a protected fashion.
Karen Hooper
Latin America Analyst
o: 512.744.4300 ext. 4103
c: 512.750.7234
On 10/17/11 8:46 AM, Renato Whitaker wrote:
On 10/17/11 8:25 AM, Tristan Reed wrote:
Link: themeData
Recently, Mexican cartels have faced a new enemy, hackers.
Anonymous, a well-publicized hacker group famous for...?,
lashed out at drug cartels via the Internet with a statements
denouncing Mexico's criminal cartels, including a video
released depicting...? a person talking? a voice? words on a
screen? exactly when?. With the most recent video release,
Anonymous makes bold threats towards the criminal cartels.
Threats such as releasing identities of Mexican? American?
taxi drivers, police, politicians, and journalists who collude
with criminal cartels. The hacker group demanded Los Zetas
release a fellow kidnapped member otherwise face consequences.
The potential of conflict between Mexico's criminal cartels
and hackers, presents an unprecedented war front for the
cartels. The vastly different operations of Anonymous and Los
Zetas leave a conflict both Anonymous and the cartels have
little experience in handling. i believe that Anonymous has no
experience with the cartels. I do not believe for a second
that the cartels have no experience with hackers.
In the Anonymous' video, this coming November 5th was
mentioned as a day cartels could expect Anonymous' reaction if
their demands of releasing a kidnapped member this should be
mentioned right up front. Cartels have a member, Anonymous is
threatening to hit back. Provide enough details so we
understand who this guy is and why/how he was abducted. are
not met. If Anonymous' claims of possessing revealing
information on cartel members and operations are true, cartels
will likely respond with violence against individuals revealed
as opposing cartel members huh? you mean Anonymous members?.
It also is likely that public disclosure of GOM officials who
collude with DTOs will force the GOM to take action, giving
the Anonymous threat complexity i don't understand what this
means. You mean the GOM will threaten Anonymous?. How
effectively any cartel will be able to retaliate against
Anonymous remains unanswered . However, cartels will continue
their threats against any individual using online media WC....
you mean tools? or weapons? We're not talking about bloggers
here. against the cartels.
The Battle Space
Anonymous's and the cartels activities exist in two separate
realities from each other. Anonymous operates solely in sphere
of the computer networks. Anonymous does not experience
geographical boundaries. All personalities within Anonymous,
exist solely in cyber space. (That is not entirely true. They
are physical people tho live in the real world. They have
names and addresses - although most of them are likely outside
of MX.) Anonymous' power base consists of their technical
capabilities in hacking. Any information connected to the
Internet is vulnerable to exploits by hackers. (Identifying
the pc's of individual cartel members in the midst of Mexico's
population could be quite difficult. Remember that most of
what Anonymous has done are DDOS attacks. Sucks if you are
Mastercard or a big company with a website that brings in
revenue, but it does not really matter if you don't run
operations on the web. Los Z don't make much money via
e-commerce. They are also far less dependent on the web than
the jihadists.)
Anonymous is known for its hacking endevours, but it's power
base consists of the perceived anonymity that its members
believe themselves to have, real or otherwise, by operating
through the internet. This gives an opening for people
disgruntled by anything and everything to practice general
dickery. As the popular meme goes, anonymity + audience =
troll. Only a fraction of the large web of people who identify
themselves as "anonymous" have any sort of serious IT
The largest threat towards a hacker's existence so far has
been from targeted arrests by Law Enforcement Agencies.
The criminal cartels in Mexico operate on the streets in US
and Mexican cities. They are run as a business, always looking
to maximize profits and expand. But they are bricks and mortar
commerce. Yes..... but they use the internet to launder money
and issue commands. We know that Sinaloa does that from
insight. There is no reason to assume that Los Zetas don't
have a similar capacity. Their power base is built by large
amounts of revenue and escalating brutal violence. Cartels
like Los Zetas, are experienced in facing different types of
threats. Cartels are always suffering at the hands of cartel
on cartel violence. While battling each other, cartels still
face arrests by Law Enforcement Agencies. As cartels wish to
avoid any hindrance in the flow of drugs and money, cartels
have targeted media outlets. Murdering journalists and online
bloggers in order to cover details of their operations. ok...
but that's kind of a red herrng for this discussion. You need
to focus on the possible vulnerabilities of the cartels. Don't
just assume they have no cyber presence.
Anonymous' Weapons
Whatever impact will be felt due to Anonymous' actions against
criminal cartels has yet to be seen. Anonymous' only ability
to combat cartels lay in information operations, mainly
disseminating sensitive information on cartels and propagating
anti-cartel statements via social media and defaced websites
in Mexico you mean so far and that we know of?. As Anonymous
admitted in their video to cartels, they cannot fight with
guns. The significance of a targeted information operations
campaign by technically elite individuals can not be
overlooked should not be underestimated. Cartels view main
stream media outlets and social media blogs as such a threat
to their operations, that they have continued to target
journalists and bloggers. Last month, a message signed by Los
Zetas was placed with a dead female body more relevantly, on
the body of a blogger. The message threatened any users who
denounce cartels on blogging websites. getting repetitive
here, and it's not really addressing the subheading
As stated earlier, any information connected to the internet
risks disclosure by Anonymous. There is ample reason to
suggest Anonymous is capable of possessing information they
threaten to release. By releasing identities of individuals
cooperating with Mexican cartels, Anonymous threatens the life
of those individuals. Anonymous's ability to disseminate
sensitive information is limited by what is available via the
Internet. Government computers connected to the Internet
should always be considered a possibility of an attack.
However, as with the compartmentalized nature of the US
governments computer networks, information available to
Mexico's intelligence collection may not be easy to acquire.
what are you trying to say here? This isn't clear at all
Cartel's Defense
A counter response to the video? by the cartels
has yet to see fruition. However, Anonymous' claims of a
kidnapped member by Los Zetas suggest Los Zetas have begun
addressing the threat posed by hackers so... how has there not
been a counter response? also this undermines your statements
above about how Anonymous is soley internet based, and
underlines the vulnerabilities of associated members. How did
they find teh Anonymous member? The answer to that could very
well give you some indication to the technical ability of the
cartels . As Anonymous exists in abstract reality of the world
wide web , the cartels will face a number of challenges which
rarely are posed for them Again, how do you know? The USG has
whole agencies dedicated to fucking shit up in cyberspace. You
can assume (and we have good intel indicating that) they are
working on disrupting the cartels.. Hackers threatening
cartels, can operate in any region of the world. Personal
information including locations is only available if a hacker
chooses to divulge it or if the subject of the attack is savvy
enough to figure it out. Hackers don't only work for
Anonymous. Cartels are only capable of dealing with their
online enemy, if they can physically reach out to them. Or
start employing hackers of their own under their payroll?
Stranger things have happened, Why not a Zetas 2.0?
Cartels have been known to coerce the services of
Mexican citizens with a technical background. Recruiting the
help of computer science majors through personal threats has
been reported in the past where? What cartels? reported
where?. Since cartels operate in the world of urban violence
and drug trafficking, they will likely need the assistance of
technical experts to help combat any threat by computer
hackers. While identifying bloggers inside of Mexico has been
demonstrated, it is unlikely cartels are capable of
identifying any hackers operating outside of Mexico. Even law
enforcement agencies such as the FBi, with far more technical
experience and resources than cartels, struggle to find
hackers through investigations. A) How do you know they are
not in Mexico? (Who was the guy they kidnapped???) B) I'm
goign to assume that not all hackers are equally difficult to
track down
In order to compete with an online foe, cartels
will likely continue counter tactics they are most familiar
with, brute force. Cartels are still capable of their HUMINT
operations within Mexico "still"? why would we assume they
wouldn't be?. Individuals with alleged connections to hacker
communities will likely be targeted and interrogated by cartel
members. Narco banners and public display of violence will
likely continue to be used to scare online media into
submission i'm not really seeing the online
media-international hacking group connection here. The cruel
manners in which cartels inflict harm, is something computer
hackers have unlikely encountered before in their life.
Whether the fear of cartel violence softens the confidence of
Anonymous will remain to be seen until cartels are able to
seek out and capture members of the hacker group.. Or the
Narcos could call the collective bluff and simply go on and
shrug off any inconvenience that Anon can inflict.
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Never thought I'd see the MPAA and RIAA do something like this.
Of course I don't mean the MSM. Like they care about this stuff. I meant here on techdirt. Then again, I am rather new here, so if this bill has been covered before, forgive my ignorance.
If this bill is such a bad thing to worry about, why wasn't it reported on until now? I looked at the links in this article and it passed committee last December. And unlike SOPA, I'm not liking the chances of stopping this one.
You know, I hear this brought up every time something like this happens. But until it does happen, I'm not holding my breath. It is one thing to say you are getting started on a alternate DNS system and another to actually do it.
My issue with it is that he isn't giving any info or any documents that one can see and make their own judgment on. This issue doesn't seem to be as black and white as he is letting on.


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Will we ever see the Giants coming?
The team Brian Sabean and Bruce Bochy put together since saying goodbye to Barry Bonds is the only National League team to win the World Series twice within three seasons since the Big Red Machine, yet the Giants somehow seem cuddly, not menacing. They appear beatable right up to the time they get the 27th out and storm the mound.
The hitters who face Matt Cain, Madison Bumgarner, Tim Lincecum and Ryan Vogelsong will tell you there was nothing fluky about how the Giants throttled the Tigers last October and the Rangers in 2010. But Clayton Kershaw and the big-spending Dodgers will be the talk of Arizona, not the Giants.
If Don...


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As you all know, it's been a while since I had a real post go up... 'real' meaning something other than relaying content that's over on The Everygirl. First off, thank you so much for your support and patience. I feel so incredibly lucky to have so much love from my readers. As I mentioned, my and my family's health is fine, and I apologize for worrying all of you. That being said, rather large changes have happened in my life lately, and I'm trying my best to adjust.
As such, I am throwing myself into finishing off this apartment. Too many "maybe this" and "maybe that's" have been thrown around, and I'm ready to make this place my own with the official tour debuting on The Everygirl in February. Finishing touches starting with my home office. One night recently when I was feeling particularly down, I grabbed my hammer and a set of nails, turned on Mumford, and went to town rebuilding my inspiring gallery wall in the office. What's been a blank wall since moving in became this in a matter of minutes...
Ahhh (sigh of relief). There she is. Not super impressive, I admit. But it feels like home. Naturally, I needed to concoct a plan to spruce this up.
The plan:
- have my thrift store mid-century chair professionally reupholstered (possibly w/ some tufting?) in this amazing fuschia velvet fabric from FabricMart on Etsy.
- add more art and make it super colorful - remove the darker pieces. I'm thinking of using some of my favorite images from The Everygirl features throughout the past year - particularly these gorgeous shots of Jihan Zencirli (Geronimo Balloons) taken by artist and photographer Kimberly Genevieve.
- clean. that box has been there with miscellaneous office stuff since moving in august
- paint that shit. the wall, that is. but what color...?
Teal? White? Pink?
...no brainer, really. Pink it is. I love love Middleton Pink by Farrow and Ball but might have to find a more affordable alternative.
Also adding this amazing and reasonably priced black and pink rug from Lulu and Georgia. Keeping the pink geometric rug I already have from RugsUSA. This is gonna be good. Real good.
Note that is not actually the desk I work on - hence the birdcage. My desk is near the window to the left in the photo. This is an old, beat-up parsons desk that is acting as more of a console table and storage.
Excuse my horrendous photoshopping. You get the idea.
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Three years ago when Gosselin was 61, his doctor at SAS, where he works as a computer programmer, told him he was overweight and pre-diabetic. The condition, marked by elevated levels of sugar in the blood, afflicts tens of millions of adults in the U.S., including an estimated 376,000 in North Carolina.
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Researchers in North Carolina and elsewhere hope that earlier detection of type 2 diabetes could save lives and money. In North Carolina alone, the disease leads to 8,400 deaths a year and $5.3 billion in medical expenses. Especially at the stage of Gosselin's high blood sugar, diet and exercise can restore health.
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Harold E. Hockey, 77, of Pontiac, died at 1:33 a.m. Saturday, Dec. 22, 2012, at St. Joseph's Medical Center in Bloomington.
Cremation rites will be accorded.
A graveside service with full military honors will be held at 1 p.m. Friday at Memorial Park Cemetery, rural Pontiac. Pastor Brian Bill will officiate.
Duffy-Baier-Snedecor Funeral Home, Pontiac, has charge of arrangements.
He was born Jan. 19, 1935, in Adams Center, N.Y., the son of Harold and June (Oaltman) Hockey. He married Sandra K. Studebaker on Feb. 15, 1959, in Pontiac. She survives.
Also surviving are one son, Douglas E. Hockey of Pontiac; one daughter, Lynda Sue (Brad) Grieff of Odell; and two grandchildren, Kelly (Bryan) Harris of Pontiac and Jill Grieff of Odell.
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- Co-op techniques like grab, and hold enemy.
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Eric Seidenberger made his first cotton crop back in 1994 and when he went to see his banker to settle up after harvest, the loan officer looked at Eric's cotton check and asked: "Is this all there is?"
Eric assured him that it was, indeed, the total income from his cotton crop.
The banker took another look at the check and another look at Eric and asked: "Have you thought about trying something else?"
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Seidenberger started small, leasing land where he could, and for the first few crops using some of his father's tractors and equipment.
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Without help from family, many young farmers today have little chance of getting started, he says. "And it's twice as expensive now as it was when I started."
Seidenberger is farming 2,950 acres — 2,150 in cotton, the rest in wheat, and also grazes Angus cattle on 3,000 acres of pasture. He irrigates 1,225 acres, 1,000 with subsurface drip, has a 125-acre pivot, and furrow waters 100 acres. He plans to put in another 100 acres of drip for the 2011 season.
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He installed his first drip irrigation in 2003, a 45-acre block. He says drip offers three distinct advantages:
"I get high yields from my drip irrigated cotton," he says, noting that yield consistency with drip is a huge advantage. His yield goal for dryland production is one bale per acre; he hopes to get 2.5 bales per acre with pivot and furrow irrigation; and aims for 3 to 4 bales on drip fields. He's made 2,000 pounds on some fields and qualified for the FiberMax one-ton club four years in a row. He's on the bubble for 2010.
"I average 95 percent efficiency with drip, compared to furrow water, which has about 50 percent efficiency," he says.
Water use efficiency is a huge advantage with subsurface drip, he says. "Water is always an issue for West Texas farmers. We're supplying supplemental water and our water table is dropping some every year. We were getting to the point with furrow irrigation that we couldn't get water all the way to the end of the rows."
After he put in the first 45-acre system, he added 450 more acres the following year. "We still were not seeing the labor benefit with that little bit — we still needed labor for the furrow systems."
The main advantage of drip, Seidenberger says, is labor savings. "We were moving pipe all day long for furrow irrigation. We're also using less tillage on drip irrigated fields; we aren't cultivating four or five times in the summer, as we do with furrow irrigation. We spray Roundup early and cultivate once."
With almost all his cotton now drip irrigated, the labor toll is much less. "We get everything done — until harvest — with just two full-time laborers."
Multiple cultivations was once a labor-intensive routine, and less tillage also saves labor, Seidenberger says. "We would cultivatein furrowsfor the water and cultivate six or seven times during the summer. With drip, we're down to one cultivation. On furrow irrigation, we still cultivate three or four times."
The next 100 acres of drip will go on pivot irrigated fields, Seidenberger says. "We'll maintain some furrow-irrigation in bottom land that's prone to wash with heavy rains. Some acreage we have to leave out of drip because of potential erosion. We've addedterraces and grassed waterways."
Bottom land and rolling fields are prone to erosion, "So, we need waterways and terraces on 90 percent of our bottom land. We've grassed most of our waterways."
One pivot field has a 19-foot drop from one end to the other, and "We have to maintain erosion control in that field. Before we built waterways, we got a six-inch rain one night that washed out 90 percent of our beds. The field was totally flat. I knew I needed waterways; they've made a ton of difference."
Terraces direct water to one central waterway and into a nearby creek. "Conservation just makes good sense," he says. "We have a lot of rolling land in the Garden City area and it needs erosion control."
Seidenberger has adopted other technology to improve efficiency. Transgenic seed play an important role in his production. He plants Phytogen 375 WRF and 440W and FiberMax 9160, 9170 and 1740, all BGII varieties.
"I also plant a test plot for Delta and Pine Land. I've done that for 15 years. And I switch varieties every year or two — varieties change fast as they develop new technology."
Technology also helps maintain an efficient fertility program, Seidenberger says. "Fertility is especially important in drip irrigation. We knife in 200 pounds of 10-34-0-5 to get phosphorus in before planting."
On dryland, moisture may dictate fertility. "If we have moisture we try to knife in a high nitrogen blend — that's all it will get."
Same fertility as drip acreage
Furrow and pivot systems get the same pre-plant fertility as drip, but furrow-irrigated fields don't get in-season nitrogen applications. "We inject nitrogen through the pivot and drip systems. We've used pretty much the same thing for the past six years, but we're looking at soil samples, accompanied by petiole testing to determine how much to inject. We want to see if we can save a little on fertilizer."
He's also considering variable rate application technology to further refine his fertility program. "I'm working with Helena to knife in fertilizer, using a Veris Rig as a base for pre-plant fertility. I want to do more with variable rate application; I'm just getting started."
He uses some aerial imagery to improve efficiency of plant growth regulatorsand harvest aids with variable rate aerial applications. "Then we'll add yield monitors and field maps to identify soils that need more fertilizer."
Seidenberger uses global positioning technology to install drip irrigation systems, too. "All my drip tape except the first 45 acres was installedwith the RTK system. We still use that system when we work that field, but we have to adjust for it."
He uses ECO Drip for subsurface drip irrigation materials and Netafim tape and filters.
He relies on GPS for more than just installing drip tape. "If the RTK goes down while I'm planting a drip-irrigated field, I shut down. We have to be exactly on the row when we pick six rows at a time. It also helps to water precisely when you are right on the tapes."
Some of Seidenberger's tape is spaced 80 inches between rows and some is on 40-inch spacing under the row.
"If I were doing it all over, I'd put it all 40 inches under the row. That spacing takes about half as much water and gets moisture to the top easier. I could farm flat with the narrow spaces. But the 40-inch tape spacing is quite a bit more expensive to install because there is more drip tape in the fields."
Pre-watering to plant on 40-inch spacings takes as little as 4 inches of water, Seidenberger says. With 80-inch spaces, he may need 10 inches of pre-watering in a dry year to get the beds wet on both sides of the tape.
Most of his wells supply from 2 to 3 gallons per minute per acre. "Three gallons provides 15/100 inch per day for the crop. During peak moisture demand — blooming — cotton uses 3/10 inch a day. So during blooming, we are only giving the plant half of the water itneeds every day. We just hope we keep enough moisture in the soil profile to get us through or get a rain."
He says 5 to 6 gallons per minute per acre is "ideal for drip irrigation to provide cotton all the water it needs through the season. We're always behind — sometimes rain catches us up, but in-season we run the system all the time to stay where we need to be. Some farmers are using 1.5 to 2 gallons per minute per acre and still making good yields."
His 2010 crop was a little off from 2009, Seidenberger says; it was hurt by a too-wet June and earlyJuly and a too-dry August. Still, with a combination of good yields and excellent price, he expects a good cotton year. And he'll soon be busy getting ready to make his next crop.
Gives back to industry
Busy as he is, Seidenberger still manages to give back to his industry, his family and his community. He serves on the Cotton Incorporated board, the Texas Pest Management Association, the Lions Club, and the St. Lawrence Cotton Growers. He's a volunteer fireman and a Little League baseball and football coach. He has served on the St. Lawrence Catholic Church Parish Council and FSA County Committee.
He's devoted to his family, wife Christy (a school nurse), sons Reed, 8, and Owen, 6, and daughter Lacy, 2.
He says he's never thought about doing anything other than farming — the long-ago banker's advice notwithstanding. "While I was in school at Angelo State, I missed the farm; I found out pretty quickly what I wanted to do."
He studied ag business in college, but says farming "is in my blood."
It must be: He is the fifth generation — on both his father's and his mother's (Ellen) side — to farm. His mother's Runnels County family farm was recently awarded the State of TexasHeritage Award for having been in the family for 100 years. "It's still owned and operated by my mother's family," he says.
Farming is a heritage of which Eric Seidenberger is proud. He's also proud that he's been able to carry on that tradition and that he's learned a lot about farming in16 years on his own — such as conserving soil and water make environmental and economic sense; technology pays dividends; and family is what matters most.
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Things to Do in Akaroa
Akaroa is full of scenic and wildlife experiences that are unique to this area of the world; making it the perfect destination for people of all ages.
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Banks Peninsula on the East Coast of New Zealand's South Island is home to some of the most spectacular scenery in the world. Nestled in this peninsula is Akaroa which hosts a number of attractions and activities that take advantage of this uniquely beautiful part of the world.
Akaroa Harbour Cruises
Black Cat's Harbour Cruises are a great way to take in the area as well as get up close to some of the wildlife that calls Akaroa home. This includes Hector's dolphins, which can only be found in New Zealand and are some of the rarest dolphins in the world. Whales, seals, penguins and a variety of seabirds can also be seen in the area. Tours also provide the chance for visitors to see the area's volcanic cliffs which make for some spectacular scenery as well as being an interesting source of history in the area.
Banks Peninsula Walk
Whether you are an experienced hiker or just looking for a great experience, the Banks Peninsula track is a great way to explore the area and get to the best views of the Peninsula. Starting and finishing in Akaroa, trampers can choose to do the walks over two or four days and stay in huts along the way. Walking the Banks Peninsula track the perfect way to experience some of the area's more remote scenery including volcanic coastline, native bush, beaches and waterfalls.
Kayak Hire
Hiring a water vessel is unique way to explore Akaroa Harbour and they are the perfect choice for those looking to have a bit of unscheduled fun. Kayaks, canoes, paddle boats, row boats and water bikes can be rented out for a relaxing day on the water.
Swimming with Dolphins
One of the most amazing experiences on offer in Akaroa is the chance to swim with the area's resident dolphins. Hector's Dolphins are among the world's friendliest and are happy to come up and play with swimmers on the tours. Getting this close to these spectacular marine animals is an unforgettable experience.
Cooking School
A uniquely Akaroa experience on offer is the area's cooking school. Akaroa Cooking School offers private classes or is even available to hire out for events. This is a great option if you are in a group of people that you are looking for something to do. Classes with the Cooking School are entertaining and give you the chance to pick up a few delicious cooking tips at the same time.
On top of the wildlife attractions of Akaroa, the area also has options for relaxation and pampering in a spa for the day. Akaroa Body Care or The Shunyata Retreat have pampering covered with everything from day spas to retreats. These are both great spots for a bit of rejuvenation to go with the sightseeing.
Eat and Drink
As well as the area's great scenic and wildlife attractions, Akaroa has a number of cafés and restaurants which provide a relaxed atmosphere combined with delicious food and wine. Each place offers something different to the next and all are a fantastic way of winding down and relaxing.
Visit the Black Cat Cruises website to find out more about the history of Akaroa!
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Cruise around an extinct volcanic crater, see the world's smallest dolphins, penguins and seals all in stunning scenery. Cruises are narrated by your skipper. Operated by award winning Black Cat.


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