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Malmedy Massacre Trial
"It's so long ago now. Even I don't know the truth. If I had ever known it, I have long forgotten it. All I knew is that I took the blame as a good CO should and was punished accordingly." Jochen Peiper, quoted in A Traveler's Guide to the Battle for the German Frontier by Charles Whiting
Lt. Col. Joachim Peiper on the witness stand, June 17, 1946
The Malmedy Massacre proceedings were conducted like a US Army court martial, except that only a two-thirds majority vote by the panel of 8 judges was needed for conviction. Each of the accused was assigned a number because it was hard to keep the names of the 73 men straight. They all wore their field uniforms, which had been stripped of the double lighting bolt SS insignia and all other military emblems and medals.
The proceedings lasted for only two months, during which time both the prosecution and the defense presented their cases. Fearful that they might incriminate themselves on the witness stand, their defense attorney, Lt. Col. Everett, who believed that they were guilty, persuaded most of the SS soldiers not to testify on their own behalf. Col. Joachim Peiper, pictured above, volunteered to take all the blame if his men could go free, but this offer was declined by the court.
The courtroom was in the Dachau complex where the former concentration camp was located. The tall chimney of the Dachau crematorium loomed in the distance, only a quarter of a mile away from where the Jewish "law member" of the court sat under a huge American flag pinned to the wall. It had been only a little more than a year since soldiers in the American Seventh Army had liberated Dachau on April 29, 1945 and had discovered the horror of the gas chamber at Dachau and dead bodies piled up in the morgue of the crematorium building. In June 1945, the former Dachau concentration camp became War Crimes Enclosure No. 1 where the accused German war criminals were held while they awaited trial by the American Military Tribunal.
Col. Peiper listens to closing statement with his arms folded
After only 2 hours and 20 minutes of deliberation by the panel of judges, all 73 of the accused SS soldiers, who were on trial, were convicted. Each of the accused was required to stand before the judges with his defense attorney, Lt. Col. Everett, by his side, as the sentence was read aloud.
Waiting for the Malmedy Massacre verdict outside the courtroom
Forty-two of the accused were sentenced to death by hanging, including Col. Peiper. Peiper made a request through his defense attorney that he and his men be shot by a firing squad, the traditional soldier's execution. His request was denied. General Sepp Dietrich was sentenced to life in prison along with 21 others. The rest of the accused were sentenced to prison terms of 10, 15 or 20 years.
None of the convicted SS soldiers were ever executed and by 1956, all of them had been released from prison. All of the death sentences had been commuted to life in prison. As it turned out, the Malmedy Massacre proceedings at Dachau, which were intended to show the world that the Waffen-SS soldiers were a bunch of heartless killers, became instead a controversial case which dragged on for over ten years and resulted in criticism of the American Occupation, the war crimes military tribunals, the Jewish prosecutors at Dachau and the whole American system of justice.
Before the last man convicted in the Dachau proceedings walked out of Landsberg prison as a free man, the aftermath of the case had involved the US Supreme Court, the International Court at the Hague, the US Congress, Dr. Johann Neuhäusler, a Bishop from Munich, who was a survivor of the Dachau concentration camp, and the government of the new Federal Republic of Germany. All of this was due to the efforts of the defense attorney, Lt. Col. Willis M. Everett.
James J. Weingartner, the author of "A Peculiar Crusade: Willis M. Everett and the Malmedy Massacre," wrote the story of the Dachau proceedings from information provided by Everett's family and gleaned from his letters and diary. According to Weingartner, shortly before the proceedings were to begin, defense attorney Lt. Col. Everett interviewed a few of the 73 accused with the help of an interpreter. Although the accused were being held in solitary confinement and had not had the opportunity to consult with each other, most of them told identical stories of misconduct by their Jewish interrogators.
The accused claimed that they had already had a trial, which was conducted in a room with black curtains, lit only by two candles. The judge was a Lt. Col. who sat at a table draped in black with a white cross on it. After these mock trials in which witnesses testified against the accused, each one was told that he had been sentenced to death, but nevertheless he would have to write out his confession. When all of them refused to write a confession, the prosecution dictated statements which they were forced to sign under threats of violence. There was no question that these mock trials had actually taken place, since the prosecution admitted it during the investigation after the Dachau proceedings ended.
According to Weingartner, Lt. Col. Peiper presented to Everett a summary of allegations of abuse made to him by his soldiers. They claimed that they were beaten by the interrogators and that one of the original 75 accused men, 18-year-old Arvid Freimuth, had hanged himself in his cell after being repeatedly beaten. A statement, supposedly written by Freimuth, although portions of it were not signed by him, was introduced during the proceedings as evidence against the other accused. As in the Nuremberg IMT and the other Dachau proceedings, the accused were charged with conspiracy to commit war crimes, as well as with specific incidents of murder, so Freimuth's statement was relevant to the case, even after he was no longer among the accused himself.
An important part of the defense case was based on the fact that the accused were classified as Prisoners of War when they were forced to sign statements incriminating themselves even before they were charged with a war crime. As POWs, they were under the protection of the Geneva Convention of 1929 which prohibited the kind of coercive treatment that the accused claimed they had been subjected to in order to force them to sign statements of guilt. Article 45 of the Geneva Convention said that Prisoners of War were "subject to the laws, regulations and orders in force in the armies of the detaining powers." That meant that they were entitled to the same Fifth Amendment rights as American soldiers.
After being held in prison for an average of five months, the SS Malmedy veterans were charged as war criminals on April 11, 1946, a little over a month before their case before the American military tribunal was set to begin. By virtue of the charge, they were automatically reduced to the status of "civilian internee" and no longer had the protection of the Geneva Convention.
As quoted by Weingartner, the defense made the following argument at the trial:
"As previously outlined, International Law laid down certain safeguards for treatment of prisoners of war, and any confession or statement extracted in violation thereof is not admissible in a court martial or any subsequent trial under a code set up by Military Government. If a confession from a prisoner of war is born in a surrounding of hope of release or benefit or fear of punishment or injury, inspired by one in authority, it is void in its inception and not admissible in any tribunal of justice.
Could anyone, by artifice, conjure up the theory that the Military Government Rules and Ordinances are superior to the solemn agreements of International Law as stated in the Geneva Convention of 1929? Is this court willing to assume the responsibility of admitting these void confessions?....It is not believed that the Court will put itself in the anomalous position of accepting statements into evidence which were elicited from prisoners of war in contravention of the Geneva Convention and therefore a violation of the Rules of Land Warfare on the one hand and then turn squarely around and meet out punishment for other acts which they deem violations of the same laws. To do so would be highly inconsistent and would subject the Court and all American Military Tribunals to just criticism."
Lt. Col. Rosenfeld ruled against a defense motion to drop the charges, based on the above argument, by proclaiming that the Malmedy Massacre accused had never been Prisoners of War because they became war criminals the moment they committed their alleged acts and were thus not entitled to the protection of the Geneva Convention of 1929. On March 10, 1945, an order signed by General Dwight D. Eisenhower had reduced the status of all German POWs to that of "disarmed enemy forces," which meant that they were no longer protected under the rules of the Geneva Convention after the war. Moreover, as the law member of the panel of judges, Lt. Col. Rosenfeld ruled that "to admit a confession of the accused, it need not be shown such confession was voluntarily made...." Contrary to the rules of the American justice system, the German war criminals were presumed guilty and the burden of proof was on them, not the prosecution.
The prosecution case hinged on the accusation that Adolf Hitler himself had given the order that no prisoners were to be taken during the Battle of the Bulge and that General Sepp Dietrich had passed down this order to the commanding officers in his Sixth Panzer Army. This meant that there was a Nazi conspiracy to kill American prisoners of war and thus, all of the accused were guilty because they were participants in a "common plan" to break the rules of the Geneva Convention. Yet General Dietrich's Sixth Panzer Army had taken thousands of other prisoners who were not shot. According to US Army figures, there was a total of 23,554 Americans captured during the Battle of the Bulge.
US Army Major Harold D. McCown testified as a witness for Col. Peiper
Lt. Col. Jochen Peiper was not present during the alleged incident that happened at the crossroads near Malmedy. The specific charge against Peiper was that he had ordered the killing of American POWs in the village of La Gleize. Major Harold D. McCown, battalion commander of the 30th Infantry Division's 119th Regiment of the US Third Army, testified for the defense at the trial.
McCown had been one of Peiper's prisoners at La Gleize; he claimed that he had talked half the night with the charismatic Peiper, who allegedly didn't sleep for 9 straight nights at the beginning of the Battle of the Bulge. McCown had heard the story of Peiper's men shooting prisoners at the crossroads near Malmedy and he asked Peiper about the safety of the Americans at La Gleize. By this time, Peiper's tanks were trapped in the hilltop village of La Gleize and he had set up his HQ in the cellar of the little schoolhouse there. McCown testified that Peiper had given him his word that the American POWs at La Gleize would not be shot, and McCown also testified that he had no knowledge that any prisoners were actually shot there.
Peiper poses for his mug shot at Schwabish Hall prison
The main evidence in the prosecution case was the sworn statements signed by the accused even before they were charged with a war crime, statements which defense attorney Everett claimed were obtained by means of mock trials and beatings in violation of the rules of the Geneva Convention of 1929. The war crimes with which they were charged were likewise violations of the Geneva Convention of 1929, a double standard which didn't seem right to defense attorney, Lt. Col. Willis M. Everett.
Another double standard that bothered Everett was that there had been many incidents in which American soldiers were not put on trial for killing German Prisoners of War, but the defense was not allowed to mention this. Any of the accused men who inadvertently said anything about American soldiers breaking the rules of the Geneva Convention were promptly silenced and these comments were stricken from the record.
General Sepp Dietrich was a colorful character, much like General George S. Patton, who was his equivalent in rank. Patton's Army was accused of several incidents in which German prisoners of war were shot, which he admitted in his autobiography. Patton wrote the following entry in his diary on 4 January 1945:
"The Eleventh Armored is very green and took unnecessary losses to no effect. There were also some unfortunate incidents in the shooting of prisoners. I hope we can conceal this."
In another incident involving the shooting of German and Italian Prisoners of War, an American captain was acquitted on the grounds that he had been following the orders of General Patton, who had discouraged American troops from taking prisoners during the landing of the US Seventh Army in Sicily.
Ironically, an incident in which Americans executed German prisoners happened within half a mile of the Dachau courtroom. On April 29, 1945, the day that the SS surrendered the camp at Dachau, American soldiers of the 45th Thunderbird Division of the US Seventh Army lined up surrendered Waffen-SS soldiers against a wall and machine-gunned them down in the SS Training Camp, next to the concentration camp. This was followed by a second incident, on the same day, which happened at a spot very near the courtroom: the killing of SS guards at the Dachau concentration camp after they came down from their guard tower and surrendered with their hands in the air.
A third execution of German soldiers who had surrendered on April 29th, known as the Webling Incident happened in the village of Webling on the outskirts of of the town of Dachau. American soldiers of the 222nd Regiment of the 42nd Rainbow Division executed soldiers of the German Home Guard after they had surrendered. The Home Guard consisted of young boys and old men who were forced into service in the last desperate days of the war to defend their cities and towns.
After an investigation by the US Army resulted in the court martial of the soldiers involved in these killings, General George S. Patton tore up the papers and tossed them in the wastebasket. Col. Howard A. Buechner, the American medical officer who was there when Waffen-SS soldiers were executed during the liberation of Dachau, wrote in his book The Hour of the Avenger, regarding the court martial of soldiers in the 45th Thunderbird Division:
"Public outrage would certainly have opposed the prosecution of American heroes for eliminating a group of sadists who so richly deserved to die."
According to World War II historian, Stephen E. Ambrose, the author of the best-selling book, "Citizen Soldiers," General Maxwell Taylor instructed the men of the 101st Airborne Division to take no prisoners during the Normandy invasion, which they participated in after parachuting into France. Ambrose was a consultant for the HBO TV series called "Band of Brothers," which showed soldiers of the 101st Airborne shooting German Prisoners of War. American audiences cheered when German POWs were gunned down by American soldiers in the Spielberg movie "Saving Private Ryan."
After the war, the Germans attempted to bring a list of 369 murder cases, involving US Army soldiers killing German POWs and wounded men, before a German court, but the cases were thrown out. The list of these 369 killings was published in a German newspaper.
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Apple released a bumper case with the iPhone 4 and 4S but for whatever reasons have not released any official cases with the iPhone 5. If you are looking for minimal protection from scratching your anodized aluminum band then this is the case for you. At $9.99, you really cannot go wrong. The design is super slim and keeps your phone looking nearly naked. Photos and video review below.


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Welcome to our crop top style of scalemaille tops. This piece is designed in black with a signature green arrow crossing the piece.
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From Tamar Braxton's phenomenal "Love and War" to John Legend's romantic "Love in the Future," 2013 was a year of R&B career comebacks. We were introduced to some of the industry's freshest up and coming talents such as K. Michelle, Sevyn Streeter and August Alsina.
Overall, 2013 served as a great year for R&B in both mainstream and independent industries. Now as a new year begins, we can not wait to hear what new music awaits our ears.
So far, 2014 looks to be another year of great R&B comebacks as some of our classic faves have announced new projects as well.
Here are some of the albums we are anticipating to hear and love in 2014.
T-Pain broke out of his musical hiatus in 2013. He returned on the music scene with his B.o.B assisted club banger "Up Down" the sexy "She Said" record and a fresh new cut.
Pain has taken over the R&B and Hip-Hop industry since his 2005 breakout hit "I'm Sprung"- which is when we first heard his creative auto-tune infusions. Since then, he has never disappointed, giving us unique productions, collaborations and hit songs.
In an October 2013 interview, the "rapper turned singer" told VIBE that his new album "Stoicville: The Phoenix," represents his "happy place."
"Everybody needs that one place where they can go," Pain told VIBE. "I think they can relate because it's so free in Stoicville. You can do whatever you want to do and this is what I want to do, this is the music that I want to do. It's not the label, it's not my management, it's not my friends, this is me. A lot of people are saying this is the best music I've made in years."


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How about becoming Santa for the underprivileged this festive season? Indian footwear designer Swati Mehrotra is urging people to donate old shoes, clothes and other essentials to distribute these among the needy on the Christmas eve.
Mehrotra, who designs under the brand Swati Modo, has joined hands with Nikhil and Upasna Chugh of London Market Property, Sandeep Marwah and designer Pooja Motwani for the initiative.
"All these things will go to kids and people on the streets. The idea is to be a Santa to as many people as we can and to give away things which are useful," Mehrotra told IANS.
So far, she has been able to collect around 100 pairs of old shoes and of course, "the need is much more than that".
"The more, the merrier," she said, in the hope that a lot of people from the Indian fashion world will come forward to support the cause.
Mehrotra said kids from Marwah's free education institute, Apna School, will work as volunteers for the initiative, while some students from National Institute of Fashion Technology (NIFT) have expressed support to it too.
"The kids will help us in refurbishing and putting together all the items, and later, some of them will be dressed as elves to go along with a Santa to distribute the items," she said.
The journey across the capital will begin Dec 24 morning from south Delhi, and they plan to cover areas around central Delhi as well.
Those who want to be a part of the noble cause, can drop in their packets at Mehrotra's outlet in the capital's Defence Colony.


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After a long day at work I'm sure like many of you around the country there is nothing more relaxing than coming home to some "me" time. This month my me time has been spent indulging in the fashion notes of Magpie Magazine. To my delight and the joy of anyone who loves a bit of casual style in their down time, DENIM is back on trend and back with a bang with celebrities and designers flaunting the trend in jackets, dresses, shorts and jumpsuits this season. Find my best of denim collection below to get the trend this Autumn/ Winter. Happy shopping!
Alesha Dark Wash Embroidered High Waisted Skinny Jeans- here
Blue Denim Belted Shirt Dress- here
Ripped Button Through Denim Dress- here
Button Through Denim Skirt Rise Indigo- here
BDG Boyfriend Denim Trucker Jacket- here
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6 September 2016
The latest Institute for Supply Management (ISM) Services release will no doubt push down the market implied probability of a September Fed hike. This could in turn mean they won't hike, wanting to avoid shocking the market.
On the ISM itself, the decline was driven by fewer firms reporting stronger activity and an increase in firms seeing business conditions as unchanged. The number of firms reporting lower activity rose only a little, and this series would have to move up a lot for us to become concerned that the US economy was in a clear slowdown.
With the latest business surveys for the UK surprising to the upside and vice versa for the US, sterling has moved up against the dollar. Looking further out we see three potential factors which will drive sterling back down – further policy easing by the Bank of England (they will not want to see sterling too strong), a reminder of the UK's large current account deficit (due at the end of this month), and ongoing Brexit uncertainty. The story that the immediate economic impact of the referendum was not as bad as initially feared, will, I believe soon be well reflected in the price.
The value of investments and the income from them is not guaranteed and may go down as well as up and investors may not get back the amount originally invested. The views expressed are the author's own and do not constitute investment advice.
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Don't Skip the Credits
I rummaged through stacks of DVD movies, still boxed away a year after moving into our home. My youngest son wanted to watch Avatar. I had initially requested the recent Netflix arrival of The Artist (to which you can imagine a 12 year-old boy's disinterested response). A part of me wanted to watch neither, so I continued my search for something we hadn't experienced in a while. Continue reading "Don't Skip the Credits"


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Social Activist Finds Rajma Chawal linked to Autism
After claiming that Autism is caused by Vaccination , Social activist Bharmputri K , working with a leading national NGO , has claimed that the delicacy Rajma Chawal is also linked to Austism in children. She claims to have data to back her findings.
Bhramputri says that she was very worried on seeing the rising cases of autism in the country and even though she does not have a medical degree(she is an arts major) she decided to find the root cause of this epidemic .
Equipped with donation raised by her NGO to fight autism, she went on an all India tour and visited numerous Autistic Children . She interviewed them and their parents to identify the patterns and commonalities . When she asked the parents of autistic children to name the child's favorite food dish , most people could not pin point a single one, but when she prodded that "was it Rajma Chawal ?" almost all people said YES.
Bharmputri said that the results could not have been more clearer, Eating Rajma Chawal clearly is causing autism among children. She claims that the government probably knew about this but was hiding it for the fear of offending the rajma chawal corporations and farming unions .
She plans to start an agitation to ban Rajma chawal being served anywhere in the country . A protest is being organized at Charminar on 15th august by her NGO where she will also be holding a Book signing event for her newly released book (MRP 200 only) on autism and rajma chawal .


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The Call to Worship
The corporate worship gathering is a vital part of the weekly rhythm within the body of Christ. From prayer to preaching to lifting our voices in song, we as worship leaders and service leaders must be intentional with our planning in order that our services help point our people's affections toward God in worship.
One of the best ways to help center our people is through a weekly call to worship. While many of us have heard this term and know its importance, we may not have a full understanding of its need in our services. I have personally seen how quickly a congregation can just "go through the motions" of corporate worship when the leaders aren't intentional in setting the aim and purpose for the worship gathering.
Think of the people that you shepherd on a weekly basis for a moment. Many of them work full-time jobs throughout the week. Many of them have families and some of them have just dropped off crazy screaming kids in the children's area. Many of them are struggling with sin. Many of them are broken. Many of them may be in a desert season. With all the burdens of life, they may have a hard time switching gears to get into the right mindset to worship in spirit and truth.
In a day and age where so many distractions are fighting for our attention, one of the best ways we can help center our people's hearts is through a specific and pointed call to worship. It urges people to turn from worldly distractions and set their minds, hearts, and attention on the glory of God.
God's Call to Us
In his book called Christ-Centered Worship, Bryan Chappell shows that the call to worship actually begins with God's calling us to worship Him. The Greek word Ekklesia is used in the New Testament and commonly refers to "a called out assembly or congregation." In this, the church consists of people who are called out by God into the perfect salvation He offers through the atoning work of Christ. We are a "chosen race, a royal priesthood, a people for His own possession" (1 Peter 2:5) that God has purchased, redeemed, and secured.
Before we can call God's people to worship we have to arrive at the understanding that it is initially God Himself who has called us to worship. Only through this invitation are we able to respond as His people and "proclaim the excellencies of Him who has called us out of darkness into His marvelous light" (1 Peter 2:9). Through this realization, when we worship, we are doing what God has ultimately called us to do as His people.
Leading Our People in Response
After being reminded of God's call to us, a call to worship sets the tone and helps posture people's hearts to respond to Him. To be clear, the call to worship isn't a mini-sermon nor is it a random use of words to get people excited. It's a well-thought-out exhortation that is pulled from and rooted in Scripture and helps to center people's hearts on worshipping Christ alone.
"Make a joyful noise to the Lord, all the earth!
Serve the Lord with gladness!
Come into his presence with singing!" (Psalm 100:1-2)
Scriptures such as Psalm 100 are great passages to read out loud to help call our people to turn from worldly distractions and worship God. A few others I recommend include Psalm 105:1-3, Colossians 1:15-20, 1 Peter 1:3-5, and Psalm 134:1-2.
Here are two examples of a call to worship at the beginning of a worship service:
1. This morning as we worship let us look to Jesus and be reminded of his goodness and grace. As we begin our service we're going to read a passage out of Colossians 1 that encourages us to see Christ for who he is, the holy and righteous King of Kings. Read Colossians 1:15-20.
2. Scripture says we are to bless the Lord at all times. As his bride we have the unique opportunity to praise his name together and make much of him. Let's read Psalm 34:1-3, as we are reminded and encouraged to magnify the Lord together in this place today.
When we deliver a call to worship in our services we are simply reminding people of who God is and helping them to see Jesus as worthy of all praise and affection. Our congregations don't simply need an opening fast song, a cool video, or an emotional exhortation to help them to worship. They need the inspired Word of God prompting their hearts to properly respond to the Savior who has called them by grace to worship his name. Being intentional by using a weekly call to worship not only serves to shepherd God's people well, but also helps to turn people's hearts and affections away from distractions and towards the glory of Christ.
Jarryd Foreman (@JarrydForeman) is a worship leader and pastor who has been leading worship for over nine years. His current position as a Worship Resident at the Austin Stone Community Church in Austin, TX, has given him the tremendous platform to declare the saving message of the Gospel through song.


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If your small business is utilizing a call center, you know how valuable of a tool it can be. Call center representatives are often trained in a variety of other skills, including scheduling, marketing, lead generation, and website support.
But, if youre not using them properly youre missing out on all the benefits. As a B2B business, utilizing every customer support measure you have is key to making the best impression. For example, using your agents to fulfill a number of roles within your company can save you time and money while generating new sales and better buyer support. So, from online options to custom call center software, keep reading for more call center secrets for your business.
Keep it Real
Businesses, regardless of their size, want to feel like theyre important, and a great way to do that is by having a conversation; ditching the script. A rigid conversation can hinder your call center representatives from giving your customers the very best service and creating a personal, long-term relationship.
You want your representatives to be brand advocates for your company, and the best way to do that is to give them the opportunity to use their own knowledge and intuition to your advantage.
- Train them first: Your call center employees should be trained on a loose script to make them familiar with the companys process, guidelines, and method of approaching new, returning, and dissatisfied customers. Once theyve internalized the process, they can slowly go off-script and manage calls with confidence and candor.
- Establish guidelines: Make sure your employees know how your business prefers they handle certain situations. Keep guidelines on hand with important information and responses that they can refer to if they get stuck in an unfamiliar or difficult situation
Go Online
Call center representatives can be available for your company in many ways and at any time. They can offer support for your online business not only on the phone, but also through live chat directly routed from your website.
Customers making big business decisions are more likely to make a purchase from a website with live chat available. Thus, to increase your sales effectiveness, be sure to consider incorporating your call center representatives into your website support team.
- Live chat can extend your business hours beyond the limits of the eight-hour workday. Offering live chat even a few hours beyond your business hours can be beneficial. Get the full benefit of your website support by extending chat availability to 24-hours.
- Live chat is also a helpful option for customers in different time zones and overseas, as well as for customers who are hearing impaired or are hesitant to take the step to call your business phone.
Get More Sales
Shore up your sales team by training your call center reps to generate leads as theyre taking calls. This takes the burden off of your sales team while keeping the same number of leads.
- Allow your reps to have access to the information on your social media page through the call center software so that they can find and qualify leads through the social platform.
- Ask your reps to upsell current customers and bring in new customers, sending new leads to the sales team or even finishing the sales themselves.
Call center representatives can help your growing business generate more leads, handle loyal customers and much more. Take advantage of the many skills your reps have and put them to work in creative ways to benefit your business.
Megan Webb-Morgan is a web content writer for ResourceNation.com. She writes about small business, focusing on topics such as call center software and small business loans.


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Just put up my first post at my new Cynthia Hughes Literary Consulting blog. Check it out!
Hint: I'm heading to Houston on March 3 for another publishing workshop!
There's a first time for everything, and I'll find it!
Just put up my first post at my new Cynthia Hughes Literary Consulting blog. Check it out!
Hint: I'm heading to Houston on March 3 for another publishing workshop!
I just finished my first sock. The tricky bit was learning how to maneuver with double-pointed needles and not drop those teensy-weensy stitches. Next up — sock number two!
Time for ear candy!!! Here are the songs I've been listening to over and over this year.
And of course I keep listening to "Midnight Train to Georgia" for karaoke purposes — one of these days…
Okay, it's time to get back to the Fab Firsts blog and ramp this up again. The little martinet in me is harping at me to write a huge post recapping everything that's happened since June. But that's too much. So in an effort to fake my way back into it, I have a cunning plan: I'll start writing about my favorite things from 2011!
But first, a quick first: In August, I switched jobs. I'm now the Special Events Manager for Planned Parenthood of the Texas Capital Region in Austin. What's so firsty about that, you might ask? Well, this is the first job in my adult life that isn't focused on writing or editing! So far, so good — my first big event was our annual Choice for Generations Dinner with author Anna Quindlen in November. In this crazy year as far as funding goes (the State of Texas cut $474,000 in federal funding for us), the event ended up being the most successful ever, largely because of the amazing fundraising team and event chairs.
Another HUGE first for me is that I have a literary agent for my super-secret humor book project. That's all I want to say about it for now, other than I'm so excited about the possibilities!
Oh, and I did I mention that those rascally Cavalieristas Consuelo and Violet now have their own blog and Facebook page? Check it out! (On Facebook, search for "Cavalieristas" — they'd LOVE to get a few more wags, er, likes!
Favorites will start up this weekend!
Okay, my writerly friends! The Writers' League of Texas Agents Conference is just around the corner, and we have a special online-only promotion going: If you register for the Conference from today through Sunday, you can SAVE 20% on your registration!
If you've been dreaming about writing a book, now's your chance. Not only do we have some fabulous agents (Joe Veltre, Rebecca Oliver, Susan Schulman, Laura Rennert, and more!) and editors, but we also have industry expert Jane Friedman serving as our keynote speaker — and she'll even do some on-the-spot query letter critiques as well as presenting "Is the Book Dead? WHO CARES!" We'll have the latest info on where publishing is going and why it's a great time to be an author.
New this year is the First and Last Pitch sessions, in which panels of agents will give fast feedback to anonymous pitches.(For a preview of the schedule, click here.)
We have a lot of great information posted on the WLT's Scribe blog (such as a Q&A with Penguin editor Beena Kamlani), and we'll be Tweeting all about it at #WLTCon.
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This one speaks for itself, my literary lambs. And I would have MUCH preferred to post a link to the Dallas Morning News, but that story is snagged in subscription-only land. Thus, I revert to The Oregonian:
Faye Kesey, the widow of Oregon author Ken Kesey, married another well-known writer, Larry McMurtry, in McMurtry's hometown of Archer City, Texas, on April 29, the day of the royal wedding. Faye Kesey is 76. McMurtry, the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of "Lonesome Dove" and many other novels, is 74.
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My rating: ❤❤❤❤❤ of 5!
I was lucky enough to BETA and ARC read this book and voluntarily decided to leave my honest review. If you follow my blog you'll know that BETA reading for L.J. Swallow was a great experience and if you want, you can read more about it here
This book is scheduled to release on the 21st of June 2018, so only 1 more day to wait.
This is the first book in Lisa's new Reverse Harem series called "the Demon's Covenant". This series is a spin-off of The Four Horsemen. Even though, there is a few references and character overlap its not necessary to have read TFH, in order to read this series.
I helped the Four Horsemen save the world, but I can't save my own life. I'm Syv. I like to collect sharp weapons, and my favourite activity is liberating magical items. My best friend is an immortal fae, and I love dogs. I'm not enthusiastic about end of the world scenarios. Okay, I'm a half-demon thief with an attitude that brings me more enemies than friends. But the fae part is true.
Held by Magic is such a great start to this series.
The first time we meet Syv is in TFH, where she pops up every now and then, to help them stop the apocalypse. Through the books, she strikes up a friendship with Vee, which helps give her a proper role. However, nothing could have prepared me for how brilliant Syv is as main character in her own series. Seriously, I love this sassy half demon chick.
Syv's story starts with something that looks a lot like a double cross. She's on a job, trying to get her thieving hands on a box, when she's attacked by guards and rescued by strangers. If it wasn't because she during the fighting gets marked for death, it might have turned out to be an alright day. Since Syv now carries the death mark, she has to weigh her options and ends up going with the strangers that just saved her backside.
It turns out that the heroes are everything but! In TFH Chaos opened some portals and let many different beings through, and now TFH horsemen are hunting down those that escaped. However, as with every other race, not all of them are bad. In fact, three of them just saved Syv, and promises to do what they can to help rid them of the mark, if she in return help them hunt down more boxes.
Trusting and working with others is definitely not something that comes easy for Syv, as she only has 2 friends. And even using the term friend is a bit farfetched. I guess the more accurate way to describe it, would be people she kind of almost trust, and can stand most of the times. Who's those two? Well, as beforementioned one of them is Vee, the other is the immortal Fae Collector. Not to forget her love for the demonic dog, Spot.
But now, thanks to a cross double cross situation, Syv has no choice but to but her trust in Cillian, Morgan and Dex. This group of anti heroes has a lot standing against them, so much in fact, that it almost looks like another end of the world deal. On top of that, as a lone wolf Syv isn't sure how to deal with the fact that she's attracted to these guys.
I really loved every page of this book and even though it's a spin off, it's unique, exciting and most importantly, new.
I really liked how Lisa managed to bring some of TFH into the book, while not letting them take over. Personally, I was a bit worried about this part because as a TFH fan I expected them to make an appearance, but I didn't want them to take the spotlight from Syv. And I'm happy to say that Lisa balanced this perfectly! TFH does make an appearance (or some of them does), but it is is done in such a great way, that it's clear who's the leading lady of this series.
The characters, OMG the characters! Lisa is a champion of creating them and guiding them through everything she throws at them. What I didn't expect was, to see some character development already in the first instalment, of this new series. But I should have known that Lisa would surprise me.
I really can't recommend this book enough, and if I could I would give it 100's of hearts.
How about you, is this something you would enjoy to read? Comment and let me know.
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It is party time in Pyongyang. Tuesday marks the 102nd anniversary of the birth of North Korea's founding father, Kim Il Sung. It is one of the most important days of the year, so much so that, in 1997, the country replaced the Gregorian calendar with one that begins with the Great Sun's birth, on April 15, 1912. And though the festivities tend to follow a familiar script — parades, florid speeches, a flower festival — the holiday usually holds some clues as to what is going on inside the Democratic People's Republic of Korea, as it is officially called.
The annual Day of the Sun celebrations are typically used to champion the Kim family and its "military first" message. In 2012, Kim Jong Un marked the occasion with a (failed) rocket launch and a military parade. Last year's anniversary capped months of warmongering rhetoric. Since then, North Korea's defiant stance seemed to soften slightly, then harden once again: after a successful round of family reunions in February, North Korea spent the past month expressing, in wildly sexist terms, its displeasure with South Korean President Park Geun-hye, firing shells near a disputed maritime border, then promising a "new kind" of nuclear test.
This year, dictator Kim Jong Un skipped the military parade and the crowds that come with it. State media reported he paid a midnight visit to the capital's Kumsusan Palace of the Sun, the mausoleum where his grandfather's embalmed body rests. In an address to mark the holiday, the country's nominal head of state, Kim Yong Nam, urged loyalty. "Being loyal to Comrade Kim Jong Un's leadership is the decisive guarantee to carry forward with the Great Comrade Kim Il Sung and Kim Jong Il's thoughts and accomplishments," he said, according to state media.
For Kim Jong Un, Day of the Sun events are part of a broader effort to tie his life and leadership to that of his grandfather, birthday boy Kim Il Sung. It is difficult to overstate Kim the First's influence: in North Korea, he is worshipped like a god. His words are parsed, his portrait revered. As Korea scholar Andrei Lankov details in his book North of the DMZ, the Great Leader is everywhere, including primary-school math texts: "The Great Leader–Father Kim Il Sung was, as a child, once given nine apples. He gave three to his grandfather, two to his grandmother, one to his father and one to his mother," reads a sample prompt. "How many apples did he give away and how many did he keep for himself?"
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North Koreans are taught that he was an exceptional warrior who, while camping at the base of Mount Paektu with a small group of comrades, crushed the Japanese colonialists. He then went on to repel the imperialist Americans during the 1950–53 Korean War. According to official history, his heir, Kim Jong Il, was born at the base of the same scared mountain, and he inherited his father's otherworldly prowess. The message, says Yang Moo-jin, a professor at Seoul's University of North Korean Studies, is that "the Paektu bloodline is the only bloodline entitled to lead the country and to carry on the revolution."
What's interesting is that Kim Jong Un seems to be channeling his grandfather more than his dad. This makes sense. Many older North Koreans look back fondly on the Kim Il Sung era, a time of relative prosperity before the collapse of the Soviet Union and the famine of the 1990s. Even critics find it tough to speak ill of the Great Sun. "If you ask defectors [to South Korea] if they still revere Kim Il Sung, the absolute majority, maybe 90%, still say yes," says Cheong Seong-chang, a senior fellow at the Sejong Institute in Seoul.
Kim Jong Un both acts and looks like his granddad. Unlike Kim Jong Il, who was somewhat reclusive, Kim Jong Un has cultivated a more approachable, Kim Il Sung–esque image. Photographs from his official tours show people touching his arms, even embracing the young despot — acts that would have been unthinkable during his father's time, according to Park Hyeong-jung, a senior research fellow at the Korea Institute for Unification, a Seoul-based think tank. "The whole image, from the style of haircut to the amount of fat on his face, was calculated," says Park. "I suspect he gained weight to look like his grandfather, that he spent many hours trying to act like him."
Acting like grandpa also means keeping the country on the lookout for would-be aggressors and perpetually bracing for war. Although the morning of April 15 came and went without incident, many North Korea watchers wonder if there will soon be another symbolic show of force, perhaps to protest ongoing U.S.–South Korea military exercises. As to what, when and where — well, the Kim men like to keep us guessing.
— With reporting by Stephen Kim / Seoul


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Heroin is an illegal substance that is created from morphine. Morphine is extracted from the poppy flower, where it occurs naturally. Heroin abuse has been increasing steadily over the past decade. Between the years of 2002 and 2012, the number of people who met criteria for being addicted to heroin doubled. Since then, it has been steadily increasing. We are seeing an ever-increasing number of heroin overdoses resulting in death. It is believed that this is because a purer form of heroin has surfaced that is stronger than that previously available. Not realizing the strength of it, more young adults are taking the same amount, and this is resulting in overdosing. The age group that has been showing increased abuse is that of 18-25 year-olds. The highly addictive nature of heroin and the fact that many users inject it directly into a vein makes it one of the most dangerous drugs today.
Dangers of Heroin Addiction
In addition to the physical and psychological addiction caused by heroin abuse, there are other dangers that can present themselves. These are things that are related to the abuse and addiction rather than the actual drug. By the time you seek treatment for heroin addiction, you have put yourself at risk of:
- Permanent damage to your nose tissue and ability to smell from snorting
- Collapsed veins from repeated injections
- Exposure to HIV/AIDS from the sharing of needles
- Destroyed work and personal relationships
- Financial issues and difficulties with employment
- Developing Hepatitis C2 from the sharing of needles
Long-Term Side Effects
The psychological effects of a heroin addiction include depression and mood changes. It is the physical toll heroin takes on your body that is even more devastating. The physical effects of long-term heroin abuse are many. You lose your appetite and experience chronic depression. Your heart starts breaking down as more and more veins collapse and your lungs find it difficult to function properly. You may find that pustules form on your face and your teeth begin to fall out. Your immune system finds it impossible to function correctly and you end up catching everything that goes around. Partial paralysis may eventually set in. Eventually, your body starts to shut down and you may fall into a coma. Death eventually results. Before this happens, you or a loved one may reach out to a heroin rehab center.
Going Through Heroin Withdrawal
Heroin addiction treatment begins with getting the drug out of your system. It is said that withdrawal from heroin can't kill you. Technically, it is one of the easier withdrawals physically. Although it has been said that withdrawing feels like the worst case of flu you have ever been through, complete with fever, chills, nausea, and diarrhea. Withdrawal symptoms often also include restless legs that jerk without notice. You may feel like you are physically dying with the intensity of the physical symptoms, but they aren't as dangerous as many other drug withdrawals.
Yet, heroin withdrawal, especially among those who choose to try and withdraw alone rather than with the help of a heroin rehab center, has been the factor in many deaths. How does this come about? The psychological part of heroin addiction is very strong, stronger than with many other drugs. The craving for heroin is so strong during withdrawal that many individuals give in and get high. Others, are so distraught emotionally, wanting to quit yet wanting the drug and adding this to the physical symptoms, it becomes too much emotionally. Depression is often intense when going through withdrawal and so are suicidal thoughts. It is this psychological addiction that often requires the use of other medication to detox. It is gentler on the system than going cold turkey.
Using Drugs for Detox
Heroin treatment centers vary in how they help you go through detox. It has been shown that using some form of replacement drug that is monitored and then slowly decreased and stopped, often results in a better chance of people continuing in heroin rehab and getting and staying clean. There are two popular approaches to this type of intervention.
- Opioid agonists are drugs that mimic the effects of heroin. These drugs are given in place of the heroin and then slowly decreased. The theory is to slowly get your body less dependent upon the heroin.
- Opioid antagonists completely block the sensation that heroin causes. It blocks the pain/pleasure center of the brain. The theory behind this treatment is that if you gain no pleasure from the drug, you will eventually stop wanting it.
- A combination of the two is sometimes used. This allows you to go through an easier physical withdrawal, while at the same time continuously reducing the pleasure the drug creates.
Further Treatment for Heroin Addiction
Once you or your loved one has gotten through the physical detox, the heroin rehab program begins to concentrate on the strong psychological part of the addiction. If heroin use has been minimal and over a short time, your doctor may suggest outpatient treatment for this part. The longer you have been using heroin, and the higher the dosage, the chances for healing are often better increased with an initial period as an inpatient. This helps you have the chance to learn how to handle the cravings and live your life drug-free. To a clean heroin addict, this is sometimes like learning a whole new culture. Heroin treatment centers make it possible to avoid "culture shock" by gradually exposing you to the world you will be returning to eventually.
Looking to the Future
A life free of heroin addiction will find you healthier, both physically and emotionally. You will once again have a chance to face the world with pride in yourself and dreams for the future, dreams that are now possible. It won't always be easy, but you don't have to face it alone. You will find it well worth the effort.


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However, there are many different services out there, all of which offer various rewards, distribute certain types of surveys and come with different types of rewards programs. While there's so much to choose from, picking out the most beneficial survey program can take a little bit of tact. Here are a few examples of online survey best practices and why Opinion Outpost may be your best bet for making money online.
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Many online survey sites offer participants rewards in the form of redeemable points. These points can be turned in for cash, gift cards, Bitcoin or other rewards programs. However, most organizations will not let you redeem the points until you collect a certain amount. This can mean completing tens of surveys before getting paid, which makes earning money quickly a rare option. Luckily, there are a few programs with particularly low payout thresholds that give survey-takers the freedom to redeem their points for cash or rewards much earlier.
Opinion Outpost is one of the online survey sites with a comfortably low payout threshold. This allows participants to redeem money or rewards as soon as they've completed roughly $5 worth of surveys. Whereas other sites may leave you on the hook for longer, Opinion Outpost allows users to collect their earnings frequently and without hassle.
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I've always changed my avatar by going to the user cp, but I can't find it anymore? Has something changed??
avatars???? this forum has never had avatars. You're crazy
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User CP > Edit Avatar
It's still there dude.
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not on mine...I have edit sig, edit email, edit profile, and edit options. edit avatar is gone!
I too noticed this.
Wanted to upload Argo's little doodle as my av, you get to the edit av screen, but are unable to upload a new image or update a new url - the fields are missing.
weird, seems to be there for me
check out the FK photo forum
I thought it was an issue with the skin I was using, so I changed to the traditional yellow & blue, didnt want to show up.
Not really too bothered though.
I'm not torn about it...just hoping I'm not crazy.
whats this avatar you speak off????
yep can see it in traditional yellow and blue here too...
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Can't see it. I'm using the yellow as well. Not the first time this new board version is buggin' me.
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Here's what I see:
the link will be http://board.flashkit.com/board/prof...?do=editavatar
I only have the first four options. If I click your avatar link, than I can delete my avatar, but not set a new one. Looks like I lost the avatar privileges during the update.
Ok.... now that's strange. Subby, for you I could see that since you used to be a mod and still have an 100 pixel avatar, that's a possible problem.
But for the original poster, no clue. I'm going to move this to the Feedback area so the Admins will see this... ok?
Good luck with it all... strange indeed.
I still have my old av...but can't change it
If need be, I can change it for you. Just link me to your avatar and I can change it for you in the meantime.
Thanks...it's not necessary. I've noticed a few changes on the site, so I assumed FK's going through a few changes and some bugs.
It should be straightened out hopefully soon.
While I do have the edit avatar link, I still dont see avatars at all nor do I have the quick post field at the bottom of a thread.
JP... any suggestions on this? Clearing cache didnt help, trying another computer didnt help, even logging in through a different ISP did nothing.
I do notice that these sort of issues seem to just go away in time, say two weeks to a month.
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Hi guys,
I went into my CP today to see if I had the option to change my avatar, and now everything is all crazy... My cookie keeps being reset or something, because I have to log in every time I enter the forums, even though I click the remember me button. Also, I was using the Jambletan skin, and it keeps resetting itself back to fk yellow everytime I click on a thread. And... I don't have the option to change my avatar just like everyone else in this thread, so I jacked my stuff up for nothing it would seem.
Any idears?
Sigs R4 Suckers! Wait... I mean.... nevermind...
It's kind of a shot in the dark, but have you guys tried logging out, dumping your FK cookies, then logging back in?
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Shoprite Group as an employer Shoprite Group is more than just a group that provides food and household items.
By providing these food and household items in a first-world shopping environment, at the Group's lowest possible prices, we are also contributing to the nurturing of stable economies and the social upliftment of people in all our countries.
And when it comes to our people, the Group is looking for people who also demand more.
People with intelligence, energy, loyalty and fearless natures who refuse to settle for the status quo.
People who want more for themselves, their family, their community and their country.
We expect more from our people, but with our size, economic power, can-do attitude, dedication to sustainability, and of course our outstanding Learning and Development curricula we also have what it takes to give you more, so you can do more, and be more.
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Sony know that counterfeit versions of its PS3 Wireless controller exist, and they really don't want you to use them.
While purchasing a counterfeit controller may save you a bit of cash, Sony has a very good reason why it's not a good idea. Here's the official statement on the matter:
SCEA advises consumers to be cautious when buying PlayStation 3 Wireless Controllers from uncertain sources as the quality, reliability and safety of counterfeit products is uncertain, and in some cases, may be dangerous. It is possible that some counterfeit product may ignite or explode, resulting in injury or damage to the user, your PlayStation 3 computer entertainment system, or other property.
The explosion threat comes from the battery every PS3 controller must contain. If it's not an official product you have no idea where the battery came from or how it was manufactured. The quality is therefore suspect, and as we have seen in the past, batteries can heat up quickly and cause serious damage.
Counterfeit controllers are meant to look identical, so it could actually be hard to tell them apart. Stick to buying from reputable retailers and you shouldn't have a problem.
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Those who have followed me on InfoWorld and elsewhere know that I'm a big fan of application virtualization. The idea of bottling-up all of the messy deposits from a typical Windows application installation into an easy-to-deploy, self-contained package has always seemed like a good idea to me. And during my extensive testing of various "appvirt" solutions, I've developed some strong opinions about which approaches work best for various deployment scenarios.
For example, in a tightly-managed, generally homogenous Windows environment – with Active Directory at the core of every network – Microsoft's own App-V solution has often seemed like the best option. However, in less locked-down environments, where portability and flexibility are the primary concerns, stand-alone (i.e. no client agent required) solutions, like VMware ThinApp or XenoCode, have always been at the top of my recommendation list.
I summarized my findings in a white paper that I published through the exo.blog in early 2009. This report, the development of which was funded by VMware, shows how tricky it can be to determine which virtualization platforms provide the best performance across a range of use cases. You can grab a copy of the white paper here.
Now, with the release of App-V 4.6, Microsoft has raised the bar a bit for its competitors. For starters, the new version allows you to sequence (i.e. capture the output from and virtualize the installation of) 64-bit Windows applications. This is significant in that Microsoft's upcoming Office 2010 will be available in a 64-bit format, and App-V using shops will no doubt want to be able to virtualize it as they do the 32-bit version of Office 2007 now. However, the more important new feature is the capability to deploy virtualized applications to clients running the 64-bit versions of Vista and Windows 7.
Previous versions of App-V were incompatible with 64-bit Windows due to their lack of an x64-compatible kernel mode agent. This is one of the reasons why I've traditionally recommended VMware ThinApp for customers with a significant installed base of 64-bit clients. However, while ThinApp-encoded applications will indeed run on 64-bit windows, the virtualization engine itself is 32-bit only. You can't encode a 64-bit application with ThinApp, and 32-bit encoded applications are treated like any other Win32 application running atop the WOW (Win32 on Win64) compatibility layer.
With both native 64-bit application support and the capability to be deployed on 64-bit Windows editions, App-V has pulled ahead of the competition and established Microsoft as the technology leader for this category. I'll be revisiting my original test results in the coming days as I see what, if any, improvements Microsoft has made in the performance and overall runtime footprint of their solution. Stay tuned.
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We talk about her life as a survivor of abuse in therapy, living with Dissociative Identity Disorder, and her book. It's a show you don't want to miss, and be sure to head over to MendingTheShatteredMirror.com for more information on Analie.
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