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- 1 cup crème fraîche or sour cream
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- 1 teaspoon finely grated lemon peel, divided
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- 1 tablespoon plus 2 teaspoons olive oil plus additional for brushing
- 2 tablespoons chopped shallot
- 6 6-oz salmon fillets
- 1 1/2 cups (lightly packed) watercress leaves and small sprigs
- 1/4 cup small fresh dill sprigs
- 1/4 cup fresh tarragon leaves
- Fleur de sel*
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Whisk honey, 1 tablespoon olive oil, shallot, 2 tablespoons lemon juice, and remaining 1/2 teaspoon lemon peel in 11x7x2-inch glass baking dish. Add salmon fillets and turn to coat. Cover and chill at least 15 minutes and up to 1 hour, turning salmon fillets occasionally.
Position rack in top third of oven and preheat to 400°F. Line large baking sheet with foil and brush with olive oil. Transfer salmon fillets, with some marinade still clinging, to rimmed baking sheet. Roast until salmon is just opaque in center, about 14 minutes.
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Our Deadcast guest this week is Matt Vasgersian, anchor for MLB TV, FOX play-by-play announcer, and fan of the site. And, untethered by network restrictions, Matt had some pretty cool shit to say.
On the night Rick Sutcliffe showed up shitfaced in the booth during a Padres broadcast: "There were people out there who thought we set Rick up… and that really pissed me off."
Defending Erin Andrews from the scorn she gets from some of her peers: "That's what the role is. It's a puffy, fluffy role… It's what the role was kinda supposed to be."
On other, more egotistical broadcasters: "My father didn't work in the business. Nothing was handed to me."
On downtown St. Louis, a town he otherwise enjoys visiting despite recent dustups with the natives: "I hate downtown St. Louis… build a friggin' convenience store." (Yeah, fuckos! There is nowhere to get a fucking Corn Nut in that shithole.)
There's way more. Vasgersian talks about his days at the XFL, his brief stint as a child actor, why Whitlock's "absolution" for his Donovan McNabb gaffe annoyed him, the right way to show hot chicks on camera, and shitloads of other good stuff.
I know the Deadcast, up to this point, has been a work in progress. But I think, this time, we've got a solidly entertaining product for you from start to finish, in no small part because Vasgersian makes for such enthusiastic, excellent company. My thanks to him for coming on and letting it all hang out.
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HOUSTON – On Wednesday, Brian Ching received some of the worst news of his professional career: He would not be selected to represent the US National Team at the World Cup.
Like the consummate professional he has always been, an obviously emotional Ching put on a brave face, stepped in front of TV cameras and answered media questions regarding his surprise omission from the squad.
"I am extremely disappointed, as I worked very hard to put myself into a good position and that's all I could have done," said the Houston Dynamo forward. "I am extremely proud of the way that I played and the effort I gave over four years and my contributions to the team."
Ching said he was in shock when he got the news and that it didn't sink in until he had a chat with Houston head coach Dominic Kinnear, who narrowly missed the World Cup himself in 1994.
"When he talked about how he went through a similar thing," said Ching, "it all kind of caught up with me."
"I just know the disappointment he went through," explained Kinnear, who knws better than most what missing out on the World Cup feels like. "I felt bad [for Ching] because I think everyone in the locker room thinks he merited a spot based on what he has done in the past. We're all disappointed for him.
"Obviously, I am biased because I see Brian every day," continued Kinnear. "I have a lot of respect for coach [Bob] Bradley and what he's done with the National Team, [but] I thought [Ching] could have been on that roster and I was surprised when I saw the list come out."
Ching was given the option to stay at home instead of attending practice, but for the Dynamo forward, the decision to be with his teammates and get back on the field was an easy one.
"To sit at home with this weighing on my mind would have been difficult, so the best thing for me to do was to come in and have a good time with the guys," said Ching. "It is definitely the best medicine.
"The guys didn't know how to approach me at first, but once we got that out of the way, it was business as usual. Being around the guys today really helped lift my spirits," added Ching, who can't wait to get back on the field for Houston.
"In a couple of week's time, I'll be OK. I wish the [National Team] well. I wish I could be there with them, but I wish them all the best."
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Massachusetts Attorney General Martha Coakley says she's focused on her job as the state's top law enforcement officer, yet declined to rule out a future run for governor or U.S. Senate.
Coakley told reporters Thursday she feels very lucky to be attorney general even as speculation swirls about other political contests, including the 2014 governor's race or a another special Senate election if Sen. John Kerry is appointed to an Obama cabinet post.
Coakley, a Democrat, said right now she's thinking about her next two years in office and potentially running for attorney general again.
But Coakley, who lost a 2010 special election to Republican Sen. Scott Brown, also said every race is different and if Kerry's seat opens up she'll decide whether to rule out a campaign then.
"Races are expensive. They're tough. They're hard. If I do get in a race, I'm going to do so with a 150 percent, but that's a personal decision that I will make," Coakley said.
Pressed later by reporters about her loss to Brown in 2010 and whether that might play into a future decision to enter another Senate special election, Coakley said every political race is different.
"The dynamic is different, the time is different and if that time comes and there is a seat, I'll rule it out or not," Coakley said. "But right now I'm not really focused on that at all."
If there is another special Senate election, Coakley could again be facing off against Brown.
That could be a daunting challenge. Despite his loss to Democratic Sen.-elect Elizabeth Warren in November, Brown remains popular in Massachusetts. He also ran a strong campaign, still has a political organization, and showed an ability to raise tens of millions in campaign donations.
And despite her loss in 2010, Coakley is also seen by many Democrats as one of their stronger political candidates.
She's won several statewide races, also has a political organization, and won credit for her ability to put the high profile 2010 loss behind her and launch a successful re-election campaign the same year.
"We lost. We admitted we made mistakes during it, but I got right back to work, because that's what I do," she said.
Coakley isn't the only Massachusetts Democrat who may be eyeing a run for higher office. Lt. Gov. Timothy Murray has said he would like to be governor. Treasurer Steven Grossman is also considered a likely candidate for the corner office.
Coakley made her comments at a meeting of the Massachusetts Newspaper Publishers Association on Thursday.
Although she downplayed interest in either office, Coakley spent part of her address to the group lamenting political paralysis in Washington and calling on elected officials from both parties to set aside their feuding until the next election cycle.
"We have a dysfunctional political system that is an obstacle to good governance," Coakley said. "Unless we are willing — elected leaders and others — to come together and change that system, to fix that system, we're never going to solve the huge problems."
Coakley also touted her ability to work across the political divide, saying she routinely collaborates with officials "regardless of whether they have a "D'' or "R'' after their name."
Coakley also used the address to push back against critics who have suggested she's been overzealous in some recent public corruption cases, including the decision to charge former state Treasure Timothy Cahill, whose trial is ongoing.
Although she didn't mention Cahill by name, Coakley defended her decision to bring such cases, saying otherwise there would be no accountability among public officials.
"For a long time we've heard ... that this state has a culture of corruption," she said. "It's ironic to me that when we started investigating and bringing some cases, I also heard from people who said well, what's wrong with that, everybody's doing it. It certainly doesn't make it OK."


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Author Notes: I love savory bread puddings. Here, the carrots' sweetness is deepened by roasting them right along with the baking bacon. This is on the tender end of the bread pudding scale thanks to the croissants, which lend it an almost silken texture. Proportions are simple, so it is easy to increase or decrease the quantity: 1/2 croissant per person; 2 carrots, 1 slice of bacon, 1 egg per person; 3 times as many ounces of cream as number of eggs. Makes a heavenly side dish or perfect lunch served with a salad dressed with a good tart vinaigrette as the yang to the pudding's sweet-ish tones. – boulangere —boulangere
Food52 Review: This recipe is pure heaven! I love the roasted sweetness of the carrots with the saltiness of the bacon. Then in come the flavors of garlic, onion and fresh marjoram that give a very satisfying depth. Boulangere is so right when she describes the texture as silken. With the eggs, croissants, and cream, this is completely satisfying and sure to disappear when served with any meal. – ashley_samuel_pierson —ashleychasesdinner
Serves: 4
carrots, 6 if they're large
slices really good thick-cut bacon, or more if you're so inclined
small onion, fine dice
cloves garlic, minced
teaspoons fresh marjoram leaves, chopped
stale croissants
ounces cream
Sea or kosher salt and pepper to taste
Soft butter for ramekins
- Preheat oven to 350 degrees.
- Peel carrots and cut on a pretty diagonal into 1/4″ thick rounds. Blanch in boiling water for 5 minutes. Drain, but do not cool in icy water. Spread out on a half sheet pan lined with parchment. Leave room for the bacon, and lay out strips at one end of the carrots. Bake until bacon is nicely crisp and carrots begin to caramelize. Miraculously, both happen at the same time in about 15 minutes. Remove from oven and cool at room temperature. When bacon is cool enough to handle, roughly chop into 1/2″ pieces. Roll the carrots around in the bacon drippings. Reduce oven heat to 325 degrees.
- While carrots and bacon are baking, melt butter in a skillet and sauté onions with a pinch of salt and the marjoram leaves until onions just begin to brown. Add garlic and sauté until fragrant. Remove from heat and allow to cool at room temperature.
- When carrots, bacon, and the onion mixture have lost most of their heat, break eggs into a large mixing bowl. Whisk to break yolks. Add cream, salt, and pepper and whisk to blend. Split croissants in half through the middle, then cut into 1″ cubes. Fold into cream mixture. Add onions, carrots, and bacon and fold together. The croissants are so tender that the mixture only needs to sit for about 15 minutes for them to soak up some of the lovely eggs and cream. They'll take on a beautiful, silky consistency when the custard is baked.
- Fill a 2 quart saucepan halfway with hot water and bring to a boil.
- Run a pastry brush over soft butter and brush the insides of 4 8 ounce ramekins. Fill ramekins to within 1/2″ of tops. Set ramekins in a large baking pan.
- Set baking pan in oven with the front edge hanging off the rack an inch or so. Carefully pour in boiling water to come halfway up the sides of the ramekins. Nudge baking pan the rest of the way into the oven. Bake until bread puddings are puffed, golden brown, and tops are springy to the touch, 30-35 minutes. Carefully remove baking pan from the oven and lift puddings from the hot water. I use a canning jar lifter for this. Serve immediately, of course!
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Critical studies of humanitarian discourses involve the study of the arguments, claims, and evidence that are used to justify intervention or non-intervention in key local, regional, national, or international contexts. These discourses can take the form of arguing over whether we should practice isolationism and not intervene in the sovereign affairs of other countries, or they can take the form of deliberations over the transcend needs of populations that cope with myriad disasters. In some cases these discourses are produced by foreigners who believe that the less fortunate need to be rescued from their misery, while at other times humanitarian discourses can be used in discussions about the human rights of the disempowered. Nongovernmental organizations (NGOs), nation-states, celebrities, medical communications, and militaries are just a few of the rhetors that produce all of these humanitarian discourses.
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As Friday's Facebook frenzy approached, the clamor for shares of the IPO was so great that it guaranteed one outcome and almost guaranteed another: that Facebook's founders would be even richer than they thought and that "investors" would wind up with mediocre results.
On Wednesday, Facebook expanded by 25% the number of shares it was offering the public, adding enormously to the wealth of Facebook founders who got in on the ground floor, but diluting the value of shares bought by retail investors. While ordinary folk were buying, Mark Zuckerberg, together with the other founders of the social networking site, were selling, adding many billions to their already sizable net worth. Facebook closed its first day of trading on Friday, up only 23 cents, at $38.23.
It is worthwhile at market-history making events like the Facebook IPO to pause and consider how easy it is even for financial professionals to fall into the trap that the investment industry lays for those with money to spare and perhaps a bit more greed.
The hype, excitement and hoopla swirling around Facebook is part of the plague of short-termism that dominates Wall Street, CNBC financial broadcasts and the overall excessive focus on immediate gratification and the quick buck. Facebook and social media more generally are a societal phenomenon, so the public smells money. But every market transaction has both a buyer and a seller, and the long run-up of hype has blinded people to the fact that it is the sellers who stand to make the big money out of this, or most any IPO.
Investing, in contrast to speculation, is all about the long term, and while that is hard to assess with any company, a business's long-term prospects are nowhere more difficult to understand than in the case of a one that has no history as a public company.
True investing, as opposed to speculation, is long term because it inherently must be. That is because commercial enterprises are innately risky. In a few years, people may regard Facebook in the same way as they do AOL: an antiquated model that could not defend its early command of an emerging new field that was attracting a myriad of aggressive new entrants. In other words, an investor can lose everything in a stock, and most particularly a hot stock in a hot and therefore competitive market segment.
True investors would be wise to maintain a segment of their wealth in assets like land that cannot lose all its value; in a diversified pool of risky assets like stocks that offer a high potential for return; and in ready cash that can be used for emergencies (such as home repair) or opportunities (such as a business venture with long-term prospects). Facebook may or may not be a good long-term investment, but that will be easier to assess only after Wall Street has separated a large number of fools from their money.


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Elfstrand Affirms Manhood with 10 Passions of a Man's Soul
- Shawn McEvoy Faith Editor
- 2007 27 Jul
If you're a Christian talk radio listener in the greater Chicago area, chances are you already know about Mark Elfstrand. Soon, men across the rest of America will be familiar with Elfstrand and his heart for a rediscovery of manhood thanks to his new book 10 Passions of a Man's Soul (Moody Press, 2006). Building upon the insights and expertise of recognized Christian leaders, Elfstrand jumps right into the issues that really drive a man.
Earlier this month at the International Christian Retail Show in Atlanta, Mark took time out of his busy schedule to squeeze in a discussion about the book between his remote radio broadcast and an interview with Indianapolis Colts head coach Tony Dungy.
Mark, your book has been called, "A tool for men to check themselves for hidden danger zones." Can you elaborate on that? How so?
Well, every one of the 10 passions can be a danger zone for a man, and let's just start with the first one, which is purpose. I just noticed an article that came out on one of the religious websites over the last few days talking about the importance of a man having purpose, or the risk he gets to the end of his life and [experiences] the feeling of emptiness. Well that's not a good feeling to have for a man! So, when you think about the idea of "purpose," the danger zone is that it never enters the man's mind that that's even an issue.
A man of adventure – what happens when he loses sight of adventure? His life becomes boring, and drab. He loses the beauty of what God has created for him. And a man can become depressed about that as he goes along.
So that can be a danger zone. So, really I think all 10 at some point can become danger zones. That's why the book is a guide through manhood of what to watch out for.
Speak to this identity issue of manhood. What is it? And what struggles do we have with identity in today's culture?
Yeah, this is perhaps the biggest thing, the biggest piece, the reason why I got involved in this at all. And it really started a few years ago (I tell a little bit of that story in the book). A friend of mine from Dallas-Fort Worth came up and did a men's retreat for us, a men's weekend. And he had written a book called Things Only Men Know. Most women think it's a short book [laughs], but it's really not, it's got a lot of pages in it.
And so he came up and did the retreat, and at the last session I was gone that night; I had another commitment that I had to attend. So the next day we had lunch and I said, "What happened last night?" And he said, "Well, I did something, Mark, I've done a few other times, I said to the men, 'There are men in this room who've never felt embraced by manhood.'" And these are not guys in their teens or twenties. These are men all over 30, all of them, and several of them over 40 and 50.
So he says this to them, and I go, "Oh, my goodness." I'm embarrassed, you know. "What happened?"
He said, "Well, Mark, again I've done this in several other places, and I got the same results with your men as I did when I've done this before."
So I'm on the edge of my chair. I said, "What happened?"
And he says, "Half the men in the room stood."
I have sales and marketing as my background. You don't have to be a Marketing major to figure this out. But if he's getting about that same response [at every venue], this is a significant issue. In fact, it is the significant issue.
So, why do we have this kind of a problem in our culture, that guys who come through the ages of 21… 23… 25 never grasp that they belong in the fraternity of men? I think part of the reason, that's been identified by Dr. Robert Lewis, is that we don't have ceremonies. In the Jewish tradition you'll find a ceremony, a Bar-Mitzvah for a young man, and he's essentially embraced by other men. And as Dr. Lewis has said, only a man can affirm another man's manhood. Not a mother, but a man!
And so we've come to a culture where fathers have disappeared out of the household to a large degree. And they go to work – my dad did, he worked outside the home every day, so when I got to see him when he came home, if he had time, maybe we'd do some things together. And then we have a lot of single-parent homes right now with moms raising boys, and there is no father present. You start compiling all that data and you can kind of see why, without those ceremonies, without those benchmarks, without that affirmation, we have a significant problem of men not feeling like men.
I would agree with you there. Even as someone who had a great relationship with his dad, something really resonated with me that was recently written by John Eldredge, who I know has given some insights to your book. One thing in John's latest book that struck a chord with me was his story about how ill-prepared he felt to even fix his sprinkler system, how feeling like you were absent from school that day stems from how these ceremonies just aren't there to help a man feel connected. You're talking about being embraced by men, and being able to know that you have been affirmed… what sorts of rites of passage do you talk about in 10 Passions?
There are a few ways that men can actually get this kind of affirmation that we're talking about. One of them is for young guys to get involved in something like Boy Scouts, or a scouting program, where you're taught things about men, and other men are leading you. And you notice there again that there are benchmarks that you can move through.
There are church groups like Awana, where fathers get involved with boys. Even for single moms this is a very important thing. Single moms will ask you: "What do I do about this?" So, there are places you can go. Small groups are a natural way for guys to deal with this subject. It's just not something that you would see generally come up in a small group. That's part of the reason for writing a book like this, is to say, "Can we get the discussion on the table?"
So, for example, with a small group of guys you're meeting with - four or five - bring up the subject, just start by bringing up the subject. A friend of mine is using [10 Passions] as a discussion book in his small group. That's what he's chosen to do. But let's bring up the discussion: "How many of you in here, in our small group – let's just talk about this – where did you sense that you were dealing with the issues of manhood?"
I have a very good friend who was a bank president who had me [get] involved with his men's group, come down and kind of spend some time there. And I went through this, and I told the very same stories. And at the end of the evening (and he's probably around 60 years old – anything you'd notice about him, he's totally a manly guy) he just starts to tear up. And he said, "I've never felt affirmed in my life as a man. Ever." And so there again, is it too late? No! It's not too late. That's what those guys were doing at that retreat we had – they were standing up. In other words, there needs to be those mechanisms. It sounds awkward, it sounds like something we shouldn't have to do, but for guys who have been struggling with this, now is a very important time to do it. So there's a number of ways that you can actually engage in [ceremony].
Now, whenever we're talking about "passions," that's something where balance is going to be an important factor. Can you speak to, for example, balancing a man's passion for wealth; what does that look like?
Okay, well, you take a look at the extremes of what a man could do with money. He could be very miserly over on one side, or he could be very extravagant in his spending on the other side. Well the miser sort of looks at it probably like it's his own. And the man who's extravagant probably has lost the [correct] sense as well, he's thinking that it's his own. The man of faith should start out with one basic principle in motion, and that is that it's not mine. That's the hardest single financial principle, I think, for any man to adopt – that it all belongs to God. Well now if you start from that point – let's just make that the center point – on one side you don't want to be extravagant to the point of wasting God's resources, because they're not yours, they're God's. On the other hand (that's why you want to stay balanced), if you go too far into the miserly side, you're probably not investing in the kinds of things that God would invest in with His heart.
So the idea of balance is to say, "Do I have a benchmark to look at my life?" So in each chapter I try to put components together that explain this, and to take a look at the balance issues.
I have one more question for you – something that really intrigued me from your introduction. You say that you "field tested" the material in your book. Can you talk about that process, and how it went?
Yeah, this was on the heels of the men's retreat I told you about. So kind of a Step Two was realizing that this was a significant issue, and I'd read some previous books on this too, so I sort of knew where we were going. I ran across this material by Robert Lewis that he teaches, and actually he's got a 3-year curriculum, that has to do with the masculine soul. It's called The Quest for Authentic Manhood. Once we brought his curriculum into our men's group, I flew down to Little Rock, met with Robert Lewis, and there were 1,000 guys on a Wednesday morning at 6:00 meeting in his church. A thousand men in Little Rock. And they're out there for like a 24-week series on this quest for authentic manhood, and this is the third time he's done it down there. I'm like blown away from this, and so I brought our pastor with me, and we went down there, and when we came back up he said, "Now what's next?" And I said, "Well… what are you…" And he says, "I'm willing to do this."
So we did the same thing Robert Lewis did; we simply announced in our church that we were going to be starting to teach this curriculum the following Wednesday. That's all we did. And we had 150 guys show up, versus 30 that we were getting on a Saturday morning. And this is at 6:00 a.m. in the Naperville area outside of Chicago on a Wednesday morning. And then we repeated it on Saturday for the guys that couldn't come, and we had about 35-40 guys. Our men's ministry went from about 30 guys to 190 guys.
So with that kind of now the benchmark for where we were going, after two years of Robert Lewis's curriculum I said, "We're about ready to do our own." And it was at that point I was asked, you know, where do you want to go with this? I said, "I've been working on this thing called 'Passions of Manhood.'" And that's what we did. I taught a 10-week series on The 10 Passions of a Man's Soul, and got a wonderful response, and Moody Publishers then decided to make it a book.
Mark Elfstrand is the Executive Producer and host of the Morning Program on WMBI-FM in Chicago – the flagship station of the Moody Broadcasting Network. His background in sales, marketing and radio programming spans more than 30 years. He is also on the organizing committee for the Chicago Executive Forum, which supports senior level executives in discussions of faith. Mark and his wife Rhonda live in Plainfield, Illinois. They have three married children.


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Nita Thomas Jackson, 77, of Chesterfield, went to be with the Lord on Friday, June 17, 2011.
Born in Richmond, she was preceded in death by her father, Claude A. Thomas; husband, John Kenneth Jackson Sr.; son, John Kenneth "Kenny" Jackson Jr., and grandson, John Kenneth Jackson III.
She is survived by her mother, Goldie L. Thomas; four daughters, Teresa Hamlett (Herbert Wayne), Deborah Siddons (Scott), Darlene Duty (Greg), Beth Jones; nine grandchildren, Toni Jackson, James Keith Jackson, Joseph K. Jackson, Christina Hamlett, Gary Hamlett (Lizzie Gossard), Bradley Siddons (Sarah Meunier), Sarah Siddons (Chad Lowe), Christopher Siddons, and Lacy Duty (Justin Golding); granddaughter-in-law, Rena Jackson; great-grandson, Bryan Siddons; two sisters, Claudia Henderson, Patricia Morris (Garland); and numerous nieces and nephews.
The family received friends from 5-8 p.m., Monday, June 20, 2011, at Morrissett Funeral Home, 6500 Iron Bridge Rd. (Rt. 10), Richmond, where funeral services were held at 2 p.m., Tuesday. Interment followed in Dale Memorial Park, 10201 Newbys Bridge Rd., Chesterfield.
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Whodunnit? 4 Suspects in CRM Murder Mystery
May 1, 2014 11:16 AM PT
Although it's often mistakenly viewed as a technology, CRM is really a discipline -- and it's not a solo discipline, like a martial art or meditation. It's a team discipline, one in which every customer-facing employee can make a contribution.
Whether those contributions are positive or negative depends on the teammates. In most cases where CRM is decreed to have "failed," the cause isn't the technology -- it's usually the failure of someone within the company important to the CRM process to commit to the concept.
The classic failure is from the top, at the start: A key C-level executive charged with overseeing the selection and deployment of CRM software doesn't commit to it, leading to a lack of resources for a proper rollout and an attitude that use of the software is optional, splitting sales and marketing personnel into two camps: people who work with CRM and people who work in spite of CRM.
That's a predictable and sadly common source of CRM problems, but there are others within organizations who can ruin CRM -- sometimes, without realizing they're doing it.
Let's meet our suspects, shall we?
1. Sales Executives
Many times, CRM is brought in as a response to perceived problems in the sales process. There are times when a sales vice president or regional manager agrees to the idea of CRM as a response to a rough patch -- but unless these executives really buy into CRM, it's very likely that they won't fully utilize it and instead will revert to old behaviors.
Then, even if the sales team is using the application religiously, the data CRM exposes that could be used to improve sales strategy goes unheeded. Once sales people realize their use of CRM has no effect beyond their desks, adoption will suffer. If the pattern continues, the CRM application can become a scapegoat when sales performance continues to languish.
2. Support Staff
They're busy, busy, busy -- and they're a key part of your loyalty efforts. Just ask them! However, when people in support decide that in order to get their jobs done, they can treat entering information into CRM as optional, it sows the seeds of disaster.
Their firsthand intelligence about customers is critical -- it can stop a sales person from calling to upsell a customer who's just had a frustrating service experience, and in the same way it can signal sales when a customer may be a great opportunity for an upsell.
Omitting details from the customer record, intentionally or otherwise, can sow the seeds of dissatisfaction with CRM -- and that can be contagious if not caught early enough.
3. Marketing Team
You really want to throw sales a curveball? Make contact with a potential customer, then fail to put that information in the customer record so that when salespeople call they have no knowledge of any relationship you've started to build.
The salesperson approaches the target as a cold call -- but the prospect expects some degree of familiarity. It makes the salesperson seem out of the loop -- and can damage the trust the potential customer has in your company.
After all, if sales and marketing aren't talking to each other, then how likely is it that the lines of communication with the customer will be open and operational?
4. Sales People
The classic stooges for adoption failure, sales people bring it on themselves in many instances. It usually starts with a failure of leadership, and a failure to articulate how CRM can help each sales person make more money.
The successes of CRM users should be broadcast to the entire sales team to get them committed to adoption. Again, this is a team effort. Operating in secret -- hiding deals, sandbagging until next quarter, misreporting on the funnel -- not only is bad behavior, but also can make sales managers' forecasting tasks next to impossible.
The sales manager who decides CRM can't help with as elemental a task as forecasting may assume the CRM application is a bust.
All About Leadership
How do you keep these usual suspects from sabotaging your CRM efforts? The answer is leadership. First, your leaders in sales, support and marketing must be on board not just with CRM technology, but with the ideas that underpin CRM.
Next, they need to be able to articulate why every customer-facing member of the team needs to use CRM and record every important detail of customer relationships.
Finally, they need to incent their team members to use CRM religiously. Incentives work for salespeople -- so why not incent other good behavior that helps you sell more?


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Golden Globes Presenters: Kerry Washington, Amanda Seyfried, and More!
The countdown is on! The 70th Annual Golden Globes are this Sunday, January 13, and the list of stars slated to grace the stage as award presenters is starting to roll out. So far, the Hollywood Foreign Press Association announced a lineup that includes Scandal star Kerry Washington, InStyle cover girl Amanda Seyfried, Jennifer Lopez, Jeremy Renner, The Expendables star Jason Statham, Castle actor Nathan Fillion, and Saturday Night Live alums Kristen Wiig and Will Ferrell. Combined with the dry hysterics of hosts Tina Fey and Amy Poehler, it should be one big party and a lot of fun to watch. Tune in to NBC on Sunday, January 13th at 8/7c to see all the action, and follow with the editors of InStyle.com for all the up-to-the-minute fashion news for the night!
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According to Politico, the Obama administration's announcing a new national auto standards policy for 2016. The plan supposedly marries U.S. fuel economy and emissions standards to California polices and be supported by automakers and policymakers.
Details of the plan are still vague, but it looks as though it will standardize both tailpipe-emissions and CAFE mileage standards so carmakers won't have to worry about meeting numerous and sometimes conflicting goals. We're being told auto executives from around the world plan to fly their private jets to Washington for the purposes of gathering 'round Obama and singing Kumbaya.
Because if this works, Obama will succeed where no president has before — do exactly what every auto exec's asked for from administrations for decades while simultaneously making them all his bitch. [Politico]
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Audio highlights from this afternoon's Medicaid expansion argument
The audio file below contains highlights from today's arguments relating to the Medicaid expansion. Features include a lot more mirth than a typical Supreme Court argument, as well as a summation of the entire case by the Solicitor General.
Recommended Citation: Tejinder Singh, Audio highlights from this afternoon's Medicaid expansion argument, SCOTUSblog (Mar. 28, 2012, 6:35 PM), https://www.scotusblog.com/2012/03/audio-highlights-from-this-afternoon%e2%80%99s-medicaid-expansion-argument/


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One of the most valuable skills a person can learn is the life-saving technique known as CPR. In the case of a person having a heart attack, whether that person lives or dies may hinge on whether anyone nearby knows how to perform CPR.The Daily Press came up with a plan here that other area businesses may want to incorporate into their inner workings. Over many months, Daily Press Publisher Dan McDonald was in the process of updating and improving our emergency plan. In addition to fire safety and other typical safety concerns, he came up with the idea of offering CPR training to every employee who wanted to take part.The response was wonderful. Training took place earlier this year during business hours. Today, employees in every department of the Daily Press are certified to perform CPR. In addition, a list of employees who have been trained is kept on hand in case help is needed in an emergency.Training sessions took a half day and Daily Press employees split up into three sessions. In our opinion, this was some of the best time ever spent by our employees. If just one person is helped, at work or elsewhere, the training will be worth it.We would encourage any area business or agency to offer the same training to their employees. Hopefully, it is a skill that will never have to be used, but it pays to be prepared in case the worst happens. Tragically, sometimes the worst does happen.Take a look at these sobering statistics from the American Heart Association- Sudden cardiac arrest is a leading cause of death in the United States, with nearly 400,000 out-of-hospital cardiac arrests occurring annually.- 70 percent of Americans may feel helpless to act during a cardiac emergency because they either do not know how to administer CPR or their training has significantly lapsed.- Failure to act in a cardiac emergency can lead to unnecessary deaths. Effective bystander CPR provided immediately after sudden cardiac arrest can double or triple a victim's chance of survival, but only 32 percent of cardiac arrest victims get CPR from a bystander.- Sadly, less than 8 percent of people who suffer cardiac arrest outside the hospital survive.


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Google's billion dollar deal for Waze was a win, with Apple and Facebook left behind, but the excitement at Google's Santa Clara headquarters will be put on hold while the Federal Trade Commission takes a good, long look at the deal. The New York Post reported the FTC would be scrutinizing the Waze deal, despite the fact that the deal closed on June 11, and Bloomberg and the Wall Street Journal confirmed the news with Google.
The California tech giant won't be able to integrate any of the crowd-sourcing technology that made Waze the toast of the map app world until regulators have determined everything is on the up-and-up. Waze quickly became the toast of the tech world before Google scooped it up, garnering attention from Apple and Facebook, too. And it's because of this wide-spread interest among tech titans that the FTC will be looking at closely, as the Journal explains:
The FTC would have to determine whether Waze would have become a head-to-head competitor with Google, whose Google Maps software is the dominant digital mapping and navigation service around the world, or whether there is any evidence, such as emails, that showed Google wanted to acquire the company only to keep it from rivals.
Before the purchase, Waze was seen as the first competitor who stood a chance of potentially taking down Google Maps as the go-to map app. When Google did finally pay slightly north of $1 billion for the app, some questioned why the FTC wasn't getting involved. Google was buying a direct competitor, after all. Quartz's Christopher Mims figured it was just the Silicon Valley way that was allowing them to get away with it: "Absolutely blows my mind that the FTC thinks it's OK for Google to acquire Waze. But whatever, competition, feh." The Post and the Journal say Google didn't need to submit the deal for FTC review because Waze made less than $70 million in American revenue. But the commission exercised their right to look at the deal regardless, so Google users will have to wait for that sweet, sweet crowd-sourced traffic info. Sorry, people who live in LA. You'll have to guess whether you should turn onto La Brea or Fairfax.
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Women Who Earn More Than Men – And The Men Who Resent Them!
For Whitney Hess, a 25-year-old software designer in Manhattan, the tension that ultimately ended her recent relationships was all right there, in the digits on her pay stub.
The awkwardness started with nights out. She would want to try the latest downtown bistro, but her boyfriends, who worked in creative jobs that paid less than hers, preferred diners.
They would say, "Wow, you're so sophisticated," she recalled. A first look at her apartment, a smartly appointed studio in a full-service building in TriBeCa, would only reinforce the impression. "They wouldn't want me to see their apartments," she said, because they lived in cramped surroundings in distant quadrants of Brooklyn or the Bronx.
One of them, she said, finally just came out and said it. "Look," Ms. Hess recalled him saying, "it makes me really uncomfortable that you make more money than me. I'm going to put that out on the table and try to get over it."
But he never got over it, she said.
"The sad thing is that I really liked the guy," she said. "If that hadn't been an issue with him, we'd probably still be dating."
Ms. Hess's quandary is becoming more common for many young women. For the first time, women in their 20s who work full time in several American cities – New York, Chicago, Boston and Minneapolis – are earning higher wages than men in the same age range, according to a recent analysis of 2005 census data by Andrew Beveridge, a sociology professor at Queens College in New York.
For instance, the median income of women age 21 to 30 in New York who are employed full time was 17 percent higher than that of comparable men.
Professor Beveridge said the gap is largely driven by a gulf in education: 53 percent of women employed full time in their 20s were college graduates, compared with 38 percent of men. Women are also more likely to have graduate degrees. "They have more of everything," Professor Beveridge said.
The shift is playing out in new, unanticipated ways on the dating front. Women are encountering forms of hostility they weren't prepared to meet, and are trying to figure out how to balance pride in their accomplishments against their perceived need to bolster the egos of the men they date.
A lot of young women "are of two minds," said Stephanie Coontz, director of research at the Council on Contemporary Families, a research organization. "On one hand, they're proud of their achievements, and they think they want a man who shares house chores and child care. But on the other hand they're scared by their own achievement, and they're a little nervous having a man who won't be the main breadwinner. These are old tapes running in their head: 'This is how you get a man.' "
YOUNG affluent women say they are learning to advertise their good fortune in a manner very different from their male counterparts. For men, it is accepted, even desirable, to flaunt their high status. Not so for many women.
"Very, very early in a date," said Anna Rosenmann, 28, who founded a company called Eco Consulting LA, in Los Angeles, and earns up to $150,000 a year, "a man will drop comments on how much his sales team had made for the year, which meant his bonus was blah, blah, blah."
But, she said, "that's not how we were raised."
Instead, she said, she starts out dates being discreet. "I don't talk about myself," she said. "When people ask me, I'm going to be very honest. But I definitely don't say, 'My name's Anna, I'm 28 and I own a business.' "
Ms. Rosenmann said that dating considerably older men helps her avoid innuendos from younger men who feel threatened by her professional success. She said that when she has gone out at night with men her own age and has to turn in early to be fresh for work, they have commented , "Oh, Anna's an adult, she has a real job."
So as not to flaunt her own salary, Lori Weiss, a 29-year-old lawyer in Manhattan, has found herself clipping price tags off expensive clothes she buys on shopping binges, or hiding shopping bags in the closet just so men she was dating would not see them lying around and feel threatened by her spending power.
"A lot of guys don't want to admit they have a problem with it," she said, referring to income disparity. "They don't want to be 'that guy.' But I think it's ingrained."
She said one boyfriend "wasn't too comfortable with me paying for things" on dates, so to make him feel better, she would surrender to his wishes. The two would just "stay home and cook, or just get something cheap," she said. "We'd skip a movie."
Women said the income disparity becomes obvious in all facets of dating: where you live, what you like to do for fun and how you travel. It often comes down to minimizing who they are – successful, focused women – with their dates, who may be lagging a bit behind.
Although these women often say it is men who have issues around their higher salaries, sometimes it is the women themselves who are uncomfortable with the role reversal.
Hilary Rowland, 28, bought her first condominium when she was 18, using money she had earned from an online business started when she was 15. Last spring, Ms. Rowland, who lives in New York, started dating a 34-year-old musician.
"I usually always fly business or first," she said in an e-mail message. "The one trip where he paid for the flight – we stayed at a friend's place – he didn't tell me the details, then flew us economy on a 6 a.m. flight with a two-hour stop-over, from Salt Lake City, to save money. I would have rather paid myself and flew business at a regular hour."
"When we broke up," she added, "he was upset that I gave my 'ex' more gifts than I gave him. Meanwhile, the only gift I'd gotten from him was a small notepad."
Ms. Rowland, like some other women interviewed, said that she has come to the conclusion that it would be easier to date someone in the same economic bracket.
"I love traveling, going to the opera and good restaurants," she said. "It doesn't have to be Per Se, but good food is important in my life. It's sometimes hard to maintain the lifestyle I'm used to when I'm in a relationship with a guy who makes less than me, since I don't want to be paying for the guy I'm with all the time."
The discomfort over who pays for what seems to be not really about money, plain and simple. Instead, it is suggestive of the complex psychology of what many of these women expect from their dates (for him to be a traditional breadwinner) and what they think they should expect (Oh, I just want him to be a nice guy).
On a first date at a lounge in Hell's Kitchen, Thrupthi Reddy, 28, a brand strategist in Manhattan, watched her date down several cocktails to her one, then not even flinch when she handed the waitress her credit card. Initially miffed, she recognized her own contradictions.
"You wonder if you're being a hypocrite," she recalled, "because all date long I'm telling him how independent I was, and how annoying it was that men wouldn't date strong independent women." (The relationship ended after six months.)
Michael R. Cunningham, a psychologist who teaches in the communication department at the University of Louisville, conducted a survey of college women to see if, upon graduation, they would prefer to settle down with a high school teacher who has short workdays, summers off and spare energy to help raise children, or with a surgeon who earns eight times as much but works brutal hours. Three-quarters of the women said they would choose the teacher.
The point, Professor Cunningham said, was that young professionally oriented women have no problem dating down if the man is secure, motivated in his own field and emotionally supportive.
At least, that's what their responses are in surveys. Talk about the subject with women a bit older – those who have been out of college long enough to be more hardened – and what you hear is ambivalence, if not downright hostility, about the income disparity.
Jade Wannell, 25, a producer at a Chicago ad agency who lives in a high-rise apartment building, started dating a 29-year-old administrator at a trucking company last year. "He was really sweet," she said. But "he didn't work many hours and ended up hanging out at home a lot. I was bored and didn't feel challenged. He would finish work at 3 and want to go to the bar. The college way of life is still in them at that age. All they want to do is drink with the boys on Saturday. I was like 'Let's go to an art gallery' and all he wanted to do was go to the bars."
TO her, his lack of income masked a greater problem: a lack of drive.
"I have to say that I didn't like his career, I didn't think he had the goals of someone I would eventually like to be with or have respect for," she said, adding, "It wasn't the job, it was the passion."
Unyi Agba, 27, an advertising executive with a small firm in Boston, almost always dates professional men, but when she goes out with someone earning less money, there is tension. "This is a topic that's traveled in my own female circles a lot in the last year," she said. Across a restaurant table with a man who earns less, "it's never explicitly said, but there are nuances," she said. "Things are said like, 'Boy I'm going to be really broke after this dinner.' "
And her response?
Okay, guys, what are YOUR thoughts on this thorny issue?


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Origin : Maori,
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Additional information Mikaere:
Maori form of MICHAEL
Definition funny of Mikaere:
Mikaere (Derived from the New Zealand/Maori translation of Michael ) A very cool guy who makes everyone laugh. Once you meet him, you will want to be his friend right away. He is super cute and very good-looking. He has amazing taste in music, clothes, food, everything. Every girl secretly wishes that he could be her boyfriend...mainly because he is kind and caring...mainly because everyone knows that he likes commitment...mainly because he is sweet and knows how to treat a girl...mainly because however strange and wierd he may be, he's perfect. In his own little way, he is perfect. In short, Mikaere is amazing.
Mikaere is an amazing listener, and he's always there for me


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Fond du Lac professor helps study Marine suicides
Researchers will interview relatives, friends
FOND DU LAC, Wis. — A Fond du Lac professor will help study the rising suicide rate among U.S. Marines.
Janet McCord is an associate professor of thanatology in Marian University's School of Nursing and Health Professions. She has been trained by the American Association of Suicidology to study the psychological aspect of suicide.
The Journal Sentinel reported the researchers will interview relatives and friends of active-duty Marines who died by suicide between 2010 and 2012. Last year 48 active duty Marines died by suicide, including six suspected suicides that have yet to be confirmed.
Other branches of the military have also experienced a recent increase in suicides. The Army Study to Assess Risk and Resilience in Servicemembers is collecting information on Army suicides.


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Ok, all I have to do in missouri is....
1. give the school a withdraw letter.. (got a sample, so I already made one)
2. Prepare a daily log that demonstrates 1000 hours (600 of those in the core subjects)
3. Keep the log with a small portfolio of tests and sample work... in case we ever get evaluated/audited...
(however, from what most are saying around here (Kansas city area)... almost no one ever gets audited without some one complaining about their kids being truant and such.)
and that's it... I just keep the portfolio and logs and don't actually have to apply for anything or name my non-profit home school, or anything... just keep the info for a "just in case" scenario...
if that's all true, and some one please verify, then I'm sooo thankful for missouri and love this state!
Thanks... please confirm, so I'm comfy with my direction.
Seriously... Missouri?
Find or post information on the legal aspects of homeschooling in your state.
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Well, according to HSLDA, yup, that's the law.
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Yes, and I was just looking at DESE's law too. Honestly, if you dont' go around trash talking the school and it's obvious that you're a responsible parent, you shouldn't have a problem. The school used to refer people to me sometimes and I could always tell who was going to be responsible (the ones who weren't mad at the school!) so the school would leave them alone if I put in a good word for them. Once they did call DFS on a family though, b/c it was a single father raising his kids, but he'd asked me all kinds of questions about microscopes and testing and how do you know they're learning, so DFS and the school left them alone and last I heard, when the kids went back to school they were very much ahead. I just don't think DESE wants the hassle any more than we do, and it's pretty obvious to everyone when people aren't doing what they're supposed to do.
Horror story: I had a cousin who was getting a divorce from his wife and when he went over to her house one day, he found out that the entire HS curriculum was TV and listening to the entire Rush Limbaugh radio program. That wasn't MO though.
Horror story: I had a cousin who was getting a divorce from his wife and when he went over to her house one day, he found out that the entire HS curriculum was TV and listening to the entire Rush Limbaugh radio program. That wasn't MO though.
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Honors students are challenged to develop their potential by:
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As an Edmonds Community College Honors Student you will:
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CHAPPAQUIDDICK — The house was denounced even before it was built: an 8,300-square-foot mansion with seven bathrooms and a bowling alley in the basement, rising on a fragile cliff above the ocean. To many island residents it was a violation, eternally defiling their beloved rural landscape.
Or maybe not so eternally.
Six years after Washington, D.C., private equity firm partner Richard Schifter and his wife, Jennifer, finished building their summer retreat, the cliff where it sits is crumbling into the sea at a rate sometimes surpassing a foot a day. Erosion of the bluff, on Wasque Point at the southern tip of Chappaquiddick, accelerated after April 2007, when a fierce nor'easter punched a hole through the barrier beach at nearby Norton Point, changing how the ocean moves around the island.
Now that the distance between their swimming pool and the edge of the bluff has dwindled from 220 feet to a mere 40, the Schifters have launched an urgent quest to save their property by moving it — all of it, including the gray-shingled, 1,200-ton main house and surrounding guest house, pool and terrace, garage and landscaping — back from the cliff. The gambit, which locals guess will cost millions, has become a closely watched saga on Martha's Vineyard, drawing scrutiny from neighbors and local officials.
Coming in the midst of national debate about the sustainability of coastal communities, in the wake of Hurricane Sandy and a series of ferocious winter storms, the dilemma faced by one family in a quiet corner of the Vineyard has forced islanders to confront hard questions: about the force of nature and the changing climate, the limits of human resistance, and the shape their evolving island will take in the future.
Undercurrents of amazement run through the debate — at the stunning speed of the erosion underway, which has dissolved about 200 feet of land in the past year, and at the audacity of the gamble being waged. If the Schifters and their engineers have miscalculated, and the ocean continues to eat away their land at the same pace, their plan to move the house back 275 feet will not be enough to save it for long.
"It is a question, if spending all this money to move the house, when it might only be safe for a year or two, is something reasonable to allow," Edward Vincent Jr., chairman of the Edgartown Conservation Commission, said at a meeting last month, before the board voted unanimously to authorize the relocation. "We've seen tremendous erosion the last 50, 60 years, and whether that point will be there in another 10 years, I don't know."
Erosion is not new to the Vineyard, or to Chappaquiddick, the 6-square-mile island east of Edgartown, reached by a tiny ferry, where fewer than 200 people live year-round.
For centuries, residents and scientists have documented changes in the size and shape of the island, including periods of dramatic transformation as well as less dynamic intervals. Surveys dating to the 1700s show previous breaches in the Norton Point barrier beach, breaks which eventually closed as the shifting ocean currents slowly restored sand deposits.
If the general pattern is familiar, though, the situation now unfolding at Wasque (pronounced "way-skwee") Point has generated sharply differing opinions — on how soon the breach might close, slowing the erosion; on the role of climate change and rising sea levels in what is happening; and on how much leeway should be granted to homeowners who build in an environment known to be in flux.
Some observers call the recent pace of erosion unprecedented and unforeseeable. Hundreds of feet of sandy beach have vanished since the 2007 breach, in addition to the more recent collapse of the bluff itself. Others say the rapid changes are not so surprising, and that the Schifters' plight might have been avoided if those who built the house had minded the lessons of history.
"The biggest lesson in all of this is to take advantage of all the information available," said David Foster, a Harvard ecologist and Vineyard homeowner who has studied landscape dynamics on the island. "In this case, that leads to a good understanding of how Martha's Vineyard is shrinking, eroding away, more rapidly at its southern end . . . We can use that kind of information in planning decisions, and in an era of global change, we need to do more of that."
As climate change causes glaciers to melt and warming oceans to expand, Massachusetts is particularly vulnerable. Sea levels here are rising three to four times faster than the global average, according to a 2012 US Geological Survey report. That means when storms hit — even low-intensity storms — flooding and erosion could be intensified.
Some Vineyard towns have started to make tough decisions. In Chilmark earlier this year, officials denied a request to move a modest summer house teetering on the edge of an eroding cliff, saying the structure's relocation would simply be postponing the inevitable. The house, above Stonewall Beach, was ordered torn down instead.
'We hope that with 250 feet, it will be more than sufficient. But there's no certainty when you're dealing with something like this.'
In an interview, Richard Schifter said his quandary offered no easy solution.
"In the absence of action, we would end up with a house on the beach, which nobody wants," he said. "So do you demolish the house or do you move it? The decision makers have supported the idea that we move the house instead of demolishing it."
The Schifters are not the only property owners in trouble on Wasque Point, though their predicament — and aggressive, expensive response to it — has attracted the most attention. A smaller, 30-year-old house nearby, owned by a Lexington couple, is also threatened by the fast- advancing ocean.
The homeowner, Jerry Wacks, expressed sadness at the Schifters' plight and said he has been troubled by the "downright mean" tone taken by some critics.
"No one knows what it's like to be in this predicament until you're in it," he said. "At the time all these houses were built, there was nothing illegal or wrong about it. We were almost a quarter-mile back when we built, and no one even imagined anything like this could happen . . . It's easy to second-guess, but at the time, looking at it, it looked like a long way away."
He did not respond when asked what he plans to do about the threat to his own house.
Edgartown officials say it would be difficult to deny the Schifters the right to move their house, regardless of how fruitless the effort might turn out to be. "It's Mr. Schifter's money," said Vincent, the Conservation Commission chairman.
Still, some islanders have criticized the commission for its decision, saying members' first responsibility is to protect the fragile bluff from damage. They fear massive digging at the site could permanently scar it or leave it even more vulnerable to erosion — with no guarantee that the upheaval will save the house.
Addressing concerns that the cliff might keep receding to the house's new location, Peter Rosen, a coastal geologist hired by the Schifters to assess the erosion, called the past winter "a very, very rare circumstance of storm after storm" and predicted the rate of erosion will slow to a more normal six to nine feet per year.
But even Richard Schifter acknowledged the risk that it might not.
"It's being moved as far as it can be, given the property lines," he said. "I could understand the concern if we were moving it only 10 feet. . . . We hope that with 250 feet, it will be more than sufficient. But there's no certainty when you're dealing with something like this."
Increasingly, local officials are dealing with the uncertainties. Elsewhere on the Vineyard, in Aquinnah, the iconic Gay Head lighthouse is also threatened by erosion and in urgent need of relocation. More than half the permit requests now before Edgartown's Conservation Commission are from residents hoping to address the effects of erosion, said Vincent, the chairman.
Vincent, whose family has lived on the Vineyard for more than three centuries, said changing attitudes are part of the equation.
"Very few old-timers would build anything that close to the ocean," he said.
On Chappaquiddick, known locally as "Chappy," the prevailing ethos was long steeped in old-fashioned Yankee restraint. Houses here tended to be modest and hard to see, tucked in among dirt roads and acres of wild scrub oaks.
Residents, who gather twice a month for potluck suppers at the shingled community center, are fiercely protective of the island's rural character; some have even pitched in to buy houses on the island for the purpose of demolishing them, creating more open space and unobstructed views.
Roger Becker, president of the Chappaquiddick Island Association, said he has heard some support for the Schifters, "people saying, if it was my house, I hope they would let me move it."
But many others are simply incredulous.
"The word I hear is 'crazy'," said Becker, a longtime island resident who objected to the size of the Schifters' house when it was built, and was motivated by its construction to run for the Planning Board, where he served five years.
The project has raised concerns about traffic on the quiet island — hundreds of truck trips will be required to ferry in heavy equipment and carry out debris — and the environmental impact on Wasque Point.
Crews moving the house will dig a giant trench around the foundation — 450 feet long, 20 feet deep, and within 30 feet of the cliff's edge — so that the entire basement (bowling alley and movie theater included) can be lifted on steel beams and rolled on dollies with the house to its new location.
The New York company handling the move has previously relocated numerous lighthouses (including, in 2007, a Nantucket lighthouse threatened by erosion), a Minneapolis theater, and a Newark airport terminal that weighed more than 7,000 tons, according to its website.
The scale of the four-month Chappaquiddick project has attracted the attention of the Vineyard's Wampanoag tribe, which wants to protect any tribal artifacts potentially in the house's path, as well as the Trustees of Reservations, the nonprofit conservation group that owns the pristine beachfront preserve next to the Schifters. Recent erosion has swallowed much of the 200-acre property, including a parking lot, stairs and boardwalks; the wide expanse of white sand beach, open to the public, has narrowed to a strip beneath the cliffs.
Despite the local concerns, Schifter said his family has felt buoyed by waves of support.
"I recognize there are some people who may feel we deserve it, for building on property that turned out to be more fragile than we envisioned," he said. "But we have gotten a lot of offers of help and expressions of sympathy, and my sense is that the overwhelming majority of people are supportive of our effort to save the house."
On a windy day late last month, the rumble of heavy equipment on his land drowned out the waves crashing just below. A yellow excavator perched on the edge of the bluff dumped clawfuls of soft yellow sand over the edge, to a ridge lower down where three workmen shoveled it into massive sandbags. The log-shaped bags, made of coconut fiber, were piled like beached whales at the water's edge, a time-buying bulwark that has slowed the Atlantic's advance.
Becker and others who live nearby walk the point daily to monitor the changes, mesmerized by the spectacle of transformation — and the suspense of an uncertain ending.
He says he could not have fully grasped the raw power of the forces reshaping the island, their jaw-dropping efficiency, without witnessing the recent changes.
"To see the water scouring the cliff like a machine, and 50-year-old trees dropping into the ocean, is an astonishing thing," Becker said. "I wouldn't have guessed it, but now that I've seen what it does, I see there could be nothing that would stop it."Beth Daley of the Globe staff contributed to this report. Jenna Russell can be reached at email@example.com.


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Doro, a phone manufacturer that tailors its products to seniors, told me recently that designing a senior device isn't as easy as it looks. In addition to a strong call performance, the handset also has to be user-friendly both in its physical design and user interface.
But if its newest feature phone, the Doro PhoneEasy 618, is any indication, Doro is doing a great job at providing simple and comfortable devices for seniors.
Not only is PhoneEasy 618 equipped with many of the basics you'd expect from any phone, but it also has a handful of useful tools that allow you or your loved one access to important information and emergency services. Priced at $60, the device will be available online on December 10 and at select retail stores on January 2013.
A lot of thought goes into designing senior phones, and the Doro PhoneEasy 618 shines at being comfortable and easy to use. Its plastic build makes it light (4.05 ounces), without it feeling too fragile.
When closed, the device measures 4.02 inches tall and 2.09 inches wide. At nearly an inch thick (0.91 inch, to be exact), it will be a snug fit inside small front jean pockets. But its compact clamshell body will stow away easily in purses and back pockets.
On the left there are a Micro-USB port and a 2.5mm headset jack. To the right is a rubber volume rocker, with plus and minus icons to easily distinguish which button increases or decreases volume. At the bottom are two prongs for docking an optional charging cradle.
On the front of the handset is a 3.2-megapixel camera. To the right of the lens are a camera flash (that doubles as a flashlight) and an LED notification light. This flashes either red (when it's charging or when the battery is low) or green (whenever you get a new message or miss a call). There's also an external display that shows information like the time or the number of an incoming call.
The back houses a large emergency call button that you can program to call one number after you click it three times quickly. To the right is an audio speaker. The back plate is coated with a rubbery material, which provides a bit more resistance toward slick surfaces. To remove the plate, press on it and slide downward. Once off, you can access the phone's 900mAh battery, SIM card, and MicroSD card slot.
The closing mechanism for the PhoneEasy 618 is snappy and sturdy. It takes more than a light flick to whip it open or shut it closed. Once opened, you can see the 2.375-inch screen. Oddly, there's a thin black bezel around the display that thickens at the bottom. Because it's just blank space (and the Doro logo at the bottom), it would've been better to extend the entire scope of the screen to these edges. Above the display is an ear speaker.
All the buttons, including the alphanumeric keypad, are generously sized and have a grippy rubber texture. However, they're flush with the surface of the device, which makes them difficult to press sometimes. Above the number keys are four buttons for your top three contacts and text messaging. Above that row are the call and end-call buttons, with two navigational arrows nestled between. Three more buttons are above that for the left selection, camera, and right selection.
On all the buttons, you need to press the very center of the keys to get them to register. This isn't a problem since most of the keys can be covered by your whole finger -- except the call and end-call buttons. These two are the largest keys, and there were times when I'd press just a part of these keys and they wouldn't do anything. Only when I moved my finger to the very center did they work. Though it's not much of a bother, it's something to keep in mind.
A better look at the Doro PhoneEasy 618 (pictures)See all photos
Software features and OS
The handset includes 12 features in its menu, but instead of showing all or a group of items in one screen, you'll need to scroll through each option individually. The phone book holds up to 300 contacts. Each contact can have multiple numbers for mobile, work, and home, and you can assign gallery photos to them.
Other menu features include messages, a call log, a camera (more on that later), a photo gallery or image viewer, an alarm (which can only save one alarm time), and an organizer where you can access a calendar or a daily reminder feature that alerts you for important tasks. In addition there's a calculator, an FM radio, a flashlight, and an icon called ICE for in cases of emergency. Here you can store pertinent medical details like your birthdate, height, weight, insurance info, important contacts, your doctor's number, any listed conditions, allergies, medications, or vaccinations, and your blood type.