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Data, The Ecommerce Kingmaker – From Customer Acquisition To Customer Loyalty
14 Dec'15 10 min read
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There is only one boss – the customer. And he can fire everybody in the company, from the chairman on down, simply by spending his money somewhere else. — Sam Walton
Today, customers can make or break any ecommerce giant, deciding the fate of every ecommerce venture. A smooth-sailing customer journey from acquisition and on-boarding through retention, up-selling, and cross-selling up to customer loyalty is every ecommerce business's dream come true. However, amidst intense competition, this journey is an adventure, even at its best moments.
Multiple studies and observations confirm that return customers bring in much more revenue than the first-time shoppers and that the quality per purchase is as relevant as the frequency of purchase. According to a study by SumAll, repeat customer sales account for 25–40% of the total sales from the best customers and that, after making a second purchase, the likelihood of a third purchase increases to 45%, and so on. RJMetrics reports that your best customers, your heroes, spend up to thirty times more than the average customer does. Hence, the current focus is on determining the customers' lifetime value and building a long-term relationship with them, taking them from one stage of the customer lifecycle to the other, building trust at every stage, and showering personalized attention on them.
How is customer lifecycle management (CLM) in an ecommerce business unique?
What is the X factor that is scaling up CLM solutions beyond imagination for the online world? The buzzword is "big data"- and its infinite applications in the ecommerce business, right from directing web traffic, controlling site design, and personalized customer engagement to providing cognitive and predictive intelligence to ecommerce business owners. Data is indeed the largest asset of any eCommerce business. However, the challenge is in streamlining millions of data points, harnessing structured and unstructured data to generate value for the business, and achieving customer engagement at every stage of the lifecycle.
Let's see if we can simplify our understanding of how data-driven solutions add value to CLM at each stage (acquisition, on-boarding, retention, and loyalty) of an ecommerce business.
Goal: To engage with the customer to create awareness and garner interest in your business; this is the first stage of trust – reaching out and connecting with your prospects
Customer touch point examples: Content marketing to create awareness about the product through articles, sites and blogs, social media interaction, SEO marketing, videos, email marketing, telemarketing, affiliate programs, behavioral targeting of audience with online ads, and so on; this list is long with many interesting approaches
Buzzword: Viral marketing – especially if your product or site has scope with this approach
Example: Dollar Shave Club is a perfect example of viral marketing through video, which grabbed many million eyeballs and rocketed its market value sky high. Its $1-a-month subscription package and the offbeat video gave it the immense thrust that any dream launch cannot even think of. Within a couple of days of the video going online, the site had more than 10,000 signups!
Related Article: Forget Brand Loyalty: New Ways to Capture the Repeat Customer
How can data help at this stage?
Structured and unstructured data from this stage can be tweaked to obtain a wealth of patterns: successful campaigns, A/B testing responses, keywords popular with the target audience, click rate, site traffic, time spent on site, action taken after being exposed to a marketing campaign, and many other data points. The data can be segmented further to determine
the most active percentage of your target audience
whether any demographic, geographic, or other pattern can be derived from the response
site functionality – what works and what does not
campaign effectiveness
Data gathered from this stage can help create further customized approaches for specific segments within your target audience as the data you have collected reveals definite patterns.
Goal: To create a mesmerizing initial experience for customers, making them comfortable and encouraging them subliminally to make their first purchase
Customer touch point examples: personalized emails, special discount offers (e.g., free shipping, early bird offers, time-bound offers, special coupons, etc.), customized landing pages encouraging customer engagement, customer interaction points within the site (e.g., providing reviews and comments), prompt response channels for queries and feedback, remarketing approaches, and options of obtaining detailed customer information (e.g., prompting the customer to create an account on the site)
Buzzwords: Value creation, customer behavior analysis, rolling out the red carpet
Example: Birchbox is a great success story in this category. It offers regular home deliveries of grooming samples that match the customers' choice – as indicated in their profile – at a minimal subscription rate. This happens the moment they subscribe on the site. They then seek the customer's feedback and route it back to the clients. The customers can combine their personal experience from using the samples with reviews from other users before deciding to buy the product. The first-time experience on this site is remarkable, with great design, clear segments of information, and fantastic customer engagement. It's not surprising that Birchbox has become one of the leading beauty and grooming retailers within 5 years.
Data from this stage is valuable in determining conversion rates – an important metric to measure online success.
Both quantitative and qualitative data (e.g., frequency of visit, click pattern during visit, common search parameters used, common pages visited, discussions on social media about the site, social interaction within the site, etc.) can be segmented to assess the level of personalized interaction that would have to be planned with the customer.
Data patterns from this stage can also be used to assess the customer's initial impression of site's design and also provides an opportunity to optimize the site as required: easy navigation, page loading time, transparency of information (e.g., contact details, privacy policy information, product delivery details, shipping information), live chat options, aesthetic design, ease of product discovery, product page organization, and other essential site elements.
This data is also valuable in assessing the effectiveness of your call-to-action buttons, offers and discounts, how-to guides, FAQs, and packages.
Retention & Loyalty
Goal: This stage requires the longest and deepest level of client engagement, with extensive scope for personalization. Adobe's Digital Index Report shows that 41% of online revenue of an ecommerce business usually comes from repeat and returning purchasers. With truckloads of data available at this stage of customer lifecycle, just figure out the extensive options you have to scale up in this area.
There are three goals at this stage:
Identifying your repeat customers, determining their frequency and value of purchase, and adopting personalized means of retaining them, with a special focus on your "hero customers"
Minimizing churn: it is easier to prevent customers from churning than focusing energy on winning them back or gaining new customers
Encouraging customer referrals, an often-ignored but powerful tool
Customer touch point examples: This stage has a million customer touch points and infinite data points. To cite a few examples:
Intuitive product discovery and search using previous search history patterns are common ecommerce site features, but ecommerce businesses are fine-tuning their product discoverability and taxonomy, as well as experimenting with concepts of making themes and topics discoverable through broad information search queries from who are "not sure what they're looking for".
Personalized post-purchase customer engagement provides an element of surprise to the customer and opens up opportunities for subtle up-selling.
We live in an era of flash sales, festive discounts, and limited-window sales, especially with the festive season round the corner. Such bonuses are a sure way of retaining your customers, but ensure that you provide sticky deals that bring these customers back even without the bonus. For example, Snapdeal, like many other retail ecommerce sites, is hosting a killer discount sale this month. They indicate that a huge percentage of the new customers they gain during this period join Snapdeal's long-term customer base.
Site optimization based on behavior history andresponse from previous customers who liked or disliked any feature provides customized variance that is tailor-made to their requirements.
Referral marketing is definitely one of the most preferred approaches to expand your ecommerce business. Everyone loves a recommendation – the opinion of a trusted person!
Many ecommerce businesses work on creating customer communities that make a difference by championing a social cause or focusing on general well-being. TOMS shoes is a great example – their tagline says "each pair of shoes you purchase = a pair of shoes for a child in need". The social impact of this program has been tremendous.
Gigaom's 2014 report summarizes the digital marketing programs that are effective at the retention stage:
Buzzword: Data segmentation and personalized marketing, customer review analysis, building a customer community, customer referral programs, customer community engagement
Example: Gilt uses a well-worded referral program right on its landing page, encouraging customers to introduce their "shopping buddies" to Gilt and enjoy $25 credit for every referred person who joins and purchases from the site. This site has other amazing features: the greater your interaction in the site, the more rewards you gain.
The data at this stage can get unmanageable if not segmented with care. The priority order of focus areas have to be chosen with care before proceeding with personalization of data.
The data can be used to categorize customers into pockets; for example
Customers who are at the risk of becoming inactive – based on purchase pattern
Inactive customers
Active customers, who visit your site and display a healthy level of engagement
Hero customers, your key customers in terms of value per spend, number of visits, and frequency of purchase. This is the focus group where personalization should be at its best.
Negative experience customers, who have been active but have provided a negative feedback and are running the risk of leaving because of the experience – your next focus
Cart abandoning customers, who decide to drop out of a purchase in the last moment – this group can have lasting implications on your business.
Statistics provide common reasons for this decision:
At every stage of a customer's lifecycle within an ecommerce business, data (both qualitative and quantitative) provide us with insights – answers to what, why, how, and when. All these data points can be segmented in a customized manner to achieve relevant data portions. These segmented data can then be analyzed and used for creating personalized customer engagement, optimizing site design, achieving transparent delivery and support logistics, and delivering intuitive and predictive marketing solutions for the ecommerce business. Data is definitely the kingmaker of the ecommerce world.
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Bill Ayers is now an education professor at the University of Illinois at Chicago. His wife, Bernardine Dohrn, teaches at Northwestern University.
Obama & '60s Bomber: A Look Into Crossed Paths
By SCOTT SHANE
CHICAGO — At a tumultuous meeting of anti-Vietnam War militants at the Chicago Coliseum in 1969, Bill Ayers helped found the radical Weathermen, launching a campaign of bombings that would target the Pentagon and United States Capitol.
Twenty-six years later, at a lunchtime meeting about school reform in a Chicago skyscraper, Barack Obama met Mr. Ayers, by then an education professor. Their paths have crossed sporadically since then, at a coffee Mr. Ayers hosted for Mr. Obama's first run for office, on the schools project and a charitable board, and in casual encounters as Hyde Park neighbors.
Their relationship has become a touchstone for opponents of Mr. Obama, the Democratic senator, in his bid for the presidency. Video clips on YouTube, including a new advertisement that was broadcast on Friday, juxtapose Mr. Obama's face with the young Mr. Ayers or grainy shots of the bombings.
In a televised interview last spring, Senator John McCain, Mr. Obama's Republican rival, asked, "How can you countenance someone who was engaged in bombings that could have or did kill innocent people?"
More recently, conservative critics who accuse Mr. Obama of a stealth radical agenda have asserted that he has misleadingly minimized his relationship with Mr. Ayers, whom the candidate has dismissed as "a guy who lives in my neighborhood" and "somebody who worked on education issues in Chicago that I know."
A review of records of the schools project and interviews with a dozen people who know both men, suggest that Mr. Obama, 47, has played down his contacts with Mr. Ayers, 63. But the two men do not appear to have been close. Nor has Mr. Obama ever expressed sympathy for the radical views and actions of Mr. Ayers, whom he has called "somebody who engaged in detestable acts 40 years ago, when I was 8."
Obama campaign aides said the Ayers relationship had been greatly exaggerated by opponents to smear the candidate.
"The suggestion that Ayers was a political adviser to Obama or someone who shaped his political views is patently false," said Ben LaBolt, a campaign spokesman. Mr. LaBolt said the men first met in 1995 through the education project, the Chicago Annenberg Challenge, and have encountered each other occasionally in public life or in the neighborhood. He said they have not spoken by phone or exchanged e-mail messages since Mr. Obama began serving in the United States Senate in January 2005 and last met more than a year ago when they bumped into each other on the street in Hyde Park.
In the stark presentation of a 30-second advertisement or a television clip, Mr. Obama's connections with a man who once bombed buildings and who is unapologetic about it may seem puzzling. But in Chicago, Mr. Ayers has largely been rehabilitated.
Federal riot and bombing conspiracy charges against him were dropped in 1974 because of illegal wiretaps and other prosecutorial misconduct, and he was welcomed back after years in hiding by his large and prominent family. His father, Thomas G. Ayers, had served as chief executive of Commonwealth Edison, the local power company.
Since earning a doctorate in education at Columbia in 1987, Mr. Ayers has been a professor of education at the University of Illinois at Chicago, the author or editor of 15 books, and an advocate of school reform.
"He's done a lot of good in this city and nationally," Mayor Richard M. Daley said in an interview this week, explaining that he has long consulted Mr. Ayers on school issues. Mr. Daley, whose father was Chicago's mayor during the street violence accompanying the 1968 Democratic National Convention and the so-called Days of Rage the following year, said he saw the bombings of that time in the context of a polarized and turbulent era.
"This is 2008," Mr. Daley said. "People make mistakes. You judge a person by his whole life."
That attitude is widely shared in Chicago, but it is not universal. Steve Chapman, a columnist for The Chicago Tribune, defended Mr. Obama's relationship with the Rev. Jeremiah A. Wright Jr., his longtime pastor, whose black liberation theology and "God damn America" sermon became notorious last spring. But he denounced Mr. Obama for associating with Mr. Ayers, whom he said the University of Illinois should never have hired.
"I don't think there's a statute of limitations on terrorist bombings," Mr. Chapman said in an interview, speaking not of the law but of political and moral implications.
"If you're in public life, you ought to say, 'I don't want to be associated with this guy,' " Mr. Chapman said. "If John McCain had a long association with a guy who'd bombed abortion clinics, I don't think people would say, 'That's ancient history.' "
Mr. Ayers and his wife, Bernardine Dohrn, a clinical associate professor at Northwestern University Law School who was also a Weather Underground founder, did not respond to multiple requests for comment.
The Schools Project
The Ayers-Obama connection first came to public attention last spring, when both Senator Hilary Rodham Clinton, Mr. Obama's Democratic primary rival, and Mr. McCain brought it up. It became the subject of a television advertisement in August by the anti-Obama American Issues Project and drew new attention recently on The Wall Street Journal's op-ed page and elsewhere as the archives of the Chicago Annenberg Challenge at the University of Illinois were opened to researchers.
That project was part of a national school reform effort financed with $500 million from Walter H. Annenberg, the billionaire publisher and philanthropist and President Richard M. Nixon's ambassador to the United Kingdom. Many cities applied for the Annenberg money, and Mr. Ayers joined two other local education activists to lead a broad, citywide effort that won nearly $50 million for Chicago.
In March 1995, Mr. Obama became chairman of the six-member board that oversaw the distribution of grants in Chicago. Some bloggers have recently speculated that Mr. Ayers had engineered that post for him.
In fact, according to several people involved, Mr. Ayers played no role in Mr. Obama's appointment. Instead, it was suggested by Deborah Leff, then president of the Joyce Foundation, a Chicago-based group whose board Mr. Obama, a young lawyer, had joined the previous year. At a lunch with two other foundation heads, Patricia A. Graham of the Spencer Foundation and Adele Simmons of the MacArthur Foundation, Ms. Leff suggested that Mr. Obama would make a good board chairman, she said in an interview. Mr. Ayers was not present and had not suggested Mr. Obama, she said.
Ms. Graham said she invited Mr. Obama to dinner at an Italian restaurant in Chicago and was impressed.
"At the end of the dinner I said, 'I really want you to be chairman.' He said, 'I'll do it if you'll be vice chairman,' " Ms. Graham recalled, and she agreed.
Archives of the Chicago Annenberg project, which funneled the money to networks of schools from 1995 to 2000, show both men attended six board meetings early in the project — Mr. Obama as chairman, Mr. Ayers to brief members on school issues.
It was later in 1995 that Mr. Ayers and Ms. Dohrn hosted the gathering, in their town house three blocks from Mr. Obama's home, at which State Senator Alice J. Palmer, who planned to run for Congress, introduced Mr. Obama to a few Democratic friends as her chosen successor. That was one of several such neighborhood events as Mr. Obama prepared to run, said A. J. Wolf, the 84-year-old emeritus rabbi of KAM Isaiah Israel Synagogue, across the street from Mr. Obama's current house.
"If you ask my wife, we had the first coffee for Barack," Rabbi Wolf said. He said he had known Mr. Ayers for decades but added, "Bill's mad at me because I told a reporter he's a toothless ex-radical."
"It was kind of a nasty shot," Mr. Wolf said. "But it's true. For God's sake, he's a professor."
Other Connections
In 1997, after Mr. Obama took office, the new state senator was asked what he was reading by The Chicago Tribune. He praised a book by Mr. Ayers, "A Kind and Just Parent: The Children of Juvenile Court," which Mr. Obama called "a searing and timely account of the juvenile court system." In 2001, Mr. Ayers donated $200 to Mr. Obama's re-election campaign.
In addition, from 2000 to 2002, the two men also overlapped on the seven-member board of the Woods Fund, a Chicago charity that had supported Mr. Obama's first work as a community organizer in the 1980s. Officials there said the board met about a dozen times during those three years but declined to make public the minutes, saying they wanted members to be candid in assessing people and organizations applying for grants.
A board member at the time, R. Eden Martin, a corporate lawyer and president of the Commercial Club of Chicago, described both men as conscientious in examining proposed community projects but could recall nothing remarkable about their dealings with each other. "You had people who were liberal and some who were pretty conservative, but we usually reached a consensus," Mr. Martin said of the panel.
Since 2002, there is little public evidence of their relationship.
If by then the ambitious politician was trying to keep his distance, it would not be a surprise. In an article that by chance was published on Sept. 11, 2001, The New York Times wrote about Mr. Ayers and his just-published memoir, "Fugitive Days," opening with a quotation from the author: "I don't regret setting bombs. I feel we didn't do enough."
Three days after the Qaeda attacks, Mr. Ayers wrote a reply posted on his Web site to clarify his quoted remarks, saying the meaning had been distorted.
"My memoir is from start to finish a condemnation of terrorism, of the indiscriminate murder of human beings, whether driven by fanaticism or official policy," he wrote. But he added that the Weathermen had "showed remarkable restraint" given the nature of the American bombing campaign in Vietnam that they were trying to stop.
Most of the bombs the Weathermen were blamed for had been placed to do only property damage, a fact Mr. Ayers emphasizes in his memoir. But a 1970 pipe bomb in San Francisco attributed to the group killed one police officer and severely hurt another. An accidental 1970 explosion in a Greenwich Village town house basement killed three radicals; survivors later said they had been making nail bombs to detonate at a military dance at Fort Dix in New Jersey. And in 1981, in an armed robbery of a Brinks armored truck in Nanuet, N.Y., that involved Weather Underground members including Kathy Boudin and David Gilbert, two police officers and a Brinks guard were killed.
In his memoir, Mr. Ayers was evasive as to which bombings he had a hand in, writing that "some details cannot be told." By the time of the Brinks robbery, he and Ms. Dohrn had emerged from underground to raise their two children, then Chesa Boudin, whose parents were imprisoned for their role in the heist.
Little Influence Seen
Mr. Obama's friends said that history was utterly irrelevant to judging the candidate, because Mr. Ayers was never a significant influence on him. Even some conservatives who know Mr. Obama said that if he was drawn to Ayers-style radicalism, he hid it well.
"I saw no evidence of a radical streak, either overt or covert, when we were together at Harvard Law School," said Bradford A. Berenson, who worked on the Harvard Law Review with Mr. Obama and who served as associate White House counsel under President Bush. Mr. Berenson, who is backing Mr. McCain, described his fellow student as "a pragmatic liberal" whose moderation frustrated others at the law review whose views were much farther to the left.
Some 15 years later, left-leaning backers of Mr. Obama have the same complaint. "We're fully for Obama, but we disagree with some of his stands," said Tom Hayden, the 1960s activist and former California legislator, who helped organize Progressives for Obama. His group opposes the candidate's call for sending more troops to Afghanistan, for instance, "because we think it's a quagmire just like Iraq," he said. "A lot of our work is trying to win over progressives who think Obama is too conservative."
Mr. Hayden, 68, said he has known Mr. Ayers for 45 years and was on the other side of the split in the radical antiwar movement that led Mr. Ayers and others to form the Weathermen. But Mr. Hayden said he saw attempts to link Mr. Obama with bombings and radicalism as "typical campaign shenanigans."
"If Barack Obama says he's willing to talk to foreign leaders without preconditions," Mr. Hayden said, "I can imagine he'd be willing to talk to Bill Ayers about schools. But I think that's about as far as their relationship goes."
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As you begin taking more superior level courses, you may be distraught to find that your scores depend on a single assigned task- a major research paper. Without a doubt, composing a long essay is a great challenge for most of us. There are some students who can easily produce an A+ work and there are some who find it tough to even get started, but, if you follow some simple secret to composing an exceptional research paper, you are sure to impress your teacher, obtain high marks and be free from stress.
Know what your professor wants you to work on.
Prior doing anything else, ensure that you clearly understand what your professor expects from you. Review the assigned task and highlight action words such as classify, argue, define, compare, evaluate, analyze and describe. All through the writing process, remember those terms so you are always aware of your homework.
Start planning the paper as soon as you receive the assigned task.
After doing so, start defining an excellent subject matter. This may be a tedious task and may be time-consuming; however, if you do it properly at the start, you will save yourself some stress as you get further into the task.
Start the research work ahead of time.
When a student is taking several courses, he or she will be tempted to withhold getting started on a long-range assigned task so that he or she can handle more immediate challenges. Take note that your chances of succeeding in this task hinge, however, on your time management and discipline.
Be advised that as soon as you have defined your assignment, search online or head to the library for relevant materials. Always take advantage of resources which are ready for use. In line with this, you may ask a librarian to assist you as you look for the appropriate resource materials for your assignment.
Never ever put off the writing process.
Remember that when working on valuable piece, it is not a smart move to compile your research for several weeks or even months and afterwards plan to work on the piece one week prior its deadline. This scheme may work for you, but, honestly this is too risky. It is advised to work in the analysis process often to go over and assess what you have already collected.
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Real money online casinos for US players are thriving, varied, very entertaining and (due to banking restrictions) are based offshore.
The rest of this page expands on this statement. First below I explain my 'golden rule' when it comes to choosing the best sites. After that you will find information on getting money in and out quickly and easily. Next the different software houses which license games to US casinos are expanded on before (for those interested) I expand on the legal situation at the end of the page.
Choose a site with a long track record and great service, and not the new ones with the highest 'headline' bonus deals.
Sites like Bovada and BetOnline each have 10 years of experience. They have a track record of paying out quickly (well, as quickly as is possible for US casinos these days), and have an experienced team behind the scenes. Both of these sites offer great bonuses and (here is the important part)… they look after their regular players extremely well.
Compare that with the brand new Aladdin's Golden Vegas 777 Super Casino (made up name) with its 'impressive' $5000 welcome bonus and no certainty that you'll ever see your money again.
This advice is so simple, I have no idea why everyone does not use it!
Here are my recommendations for 2019, along with a link to the detailed review for each.
Depending on your age, you might have known this under the old 'Bodog' brand. Bovada is still part of that family, and has been welcoming US players for more than 10 years. They are owned by the Morris Mohawk tribe in the Kahnawake territory within Canada.
You will not find a better track record in service and payments anywhere else in the US casino space, period.
There are two key reasons to choose Bovada. First is the big selection of games. This casino combines games from RealTime Gaming, BetSoft and Rival Gaming – three of the best software houses licensing titles to US casinos. This makes for a huge selection of slots, table games and many novelty games too. Many of these are mobile compatible.
Second, Bovada really know how to look after their regulars. I do not know of any other casino which offers a list of ongoing promotions and deals as varied as those at Bovada. Their welcome bonus is very good too. You can see the latest offers and try out the games before you deposit at www.bovada.lv.
BetOnline are my second choice, this is another outfit with more than 10 years of experience – and another which started off in the betting space before expanding into casinos and poker later. BetOnline is based in Panama, and has a great track record for prompt withdrawals and easy deposits.
Reasons to choose BetOnline include their live dealer casino (streamed real time games which you can bet on virtually), and selection of virtual games combined from several different software houses. What I really like about this outfit is that they cross promote all of their gambling types. This means you'll pick up plenty of special deals (including free ones) for casino, sports, poker and more. For the tech-minded out there, BetOnline also accept BitCoin deposits in addition to the usual methods.
Really, there is no reason to choose a brand new 'unknown' casino when you have candidates with trusted track records which are as good as these.
I have covered this topic in a lot of detail in this article, so this will just be a quick summary.
Credit Cards: Yeah, I know, I said banks would not do this type of transaction… stay with me here. What you are doing is making an international purchase, this will work the majority of the time with no hitch at all. Visa is the most commonly accepted card, with MasterCard also working well – AMEX is accepted sometimes too.
Since credit cards are the quickest and easiest method, the rest of this list is really 'what to do when your credit card gets declined'.
Pre-Paid Credit Cards: The brands like Green Dot that you buy at gas stations work, make sure you check with your casino first – as some brands work better than others and this changes over time.
Money Transfer Services: Western Union and MoneyGram are examples of money transfer services, they wire cash for you around the world. They will not transact directly with casinos, though a reliable method is to wire to an individual who collects on the casinos behalf. This sounds shady, though it is one of the most reliable methods around.
BitCoin: Where accepted this is very safe and reliable. You will need to set up a BitCoin wallet, then fund it from your bank – once this is completed you can use your wallet to make deposits at casinos.
Occasionally you will find other methods available, these might include wires (great for larger amounts), vouchers / pre-paid phone card type setups or player-to-player transfers. This area is constantly improving. Make sure that you keep an eye on the payment methods main page for the latest news and info.
I recommend you look into this area before you make a deposit. Some of the smaller casinos have high charges (think $30 to $50) to process withdrawals. This is not significant if you are withdrawing $10k. if you are trying to take $100 out, this is effectively trapping your bankroll online.
Aside from at least one free withdrawal each month, I recommend that you check for minimum amounts. Again some casinos say $100 minimum, or even more for some methods. Not good for smaller stakes players.
The main way of getting money out is via a good old fashioned paper check.
This will be posted or couriered to you, and your bank will take it no problem. In a world of instant transactions this can seem slow. What you need to keep in mind is that it is very reliable.
Alternatives are the money transfer services (fees will apply), wires (rarely and for larger amounts) and sometimes BitCoin. You will not be able to withdraw back to your credit card or pre-paid card.
Casino operators very rarely create their own games. I can only think of 2 that do this, and these are the regulated global giants Party Casino and 888 Casino – neither of which are available to US players.
Instead, games are created by specialist companies – and then licensed to the casino operators.
This adds another angle to our discussion of US casinos.
Many of the world's biggest software / games creators are regulated and licensed in Europe. This means that they are unable to license their games to the casinos accepting US players.
Fortunately, there are some great games available through software houses which allow US play (or simply say that deciding who plays is up to the operator). If you are choosing a US online casino, you will often find they have RTG (RealTime Gaming) software only. I recommend that you go a bit further and find operators where you have more than one choice.
RealTime Gaming: Solid and reliable platform. Though the majority of their games are slots, the highlights of this software is really the table games. This includes craps, blackjack, roulette and more. Slots include the flagship 'reel series' games, as well as the biggest progressive jackpots for US players.
BetSoft: This would be my pick for the most innovative software. Their specialism is slots and the effects / graphics are amazing 3D creations. These games work great on mobile phones tool. If you have not yet seen these slots, then add it to your 'must see' list now!
Rival Gaming: Another slots specialist with a big back catalog. The flagship games are known as iSlots and have progressive bonuses and storylines which save your progress. Many of the 5 reel video slots are also excellent. Also offer table / video poker and novelty games.
There are more, Vegas Technology offer live dealer casino games, WMS again has a selection covering both slots and table games.
The table below shows the best casinos with the best choice of software (you can try many of the games for free).
This part is for people confused about the legal situation with casinos in the US.
The act which many people attribute to casinos being illegal at the Federal level is the UIGEA of 2006. This stands for the Unlawful Internet Gambling Enforcement Act.
The key thing you need to know about this act is that it does not apply to players at all.
What it does apply to is banking and financial companies. They are prohibited from facilitating transactions involving gambling. This forced out the big companies whose business relied on the banking systems (either in the US or abroad)… and left the remaining casinos to move offshore to places where governments allow, license and regulate gambling.
Players are not even mentioned in this act. No player has ever been prosecuted for depositing and enjoying real money casino games under the UIGEA, and none ever will… some state laws prohibit play directly, though once again nobody has ever been arrested for this – ever!
So, next time someone tells you that gambling from the US is illegal under federal law, just ask them which act they are talking about that covers you as a player.
They won't be able to answer, as there is none!
As a final aside, Antigua – one of the Caribbean nations which regulate casino sites – has filed a dispute with the World Trade Organization against the US, claiming that the US is infringing its rights by trying to block transactions to legal gambling sites. Their chances of winning are small, though respect to them for trying.
If I had to pick just one US casino in 2019? That would be easy, Bovada has a better slots selection (3 software houses), RTG table games and the best player promos you will find anywhere online. Check them out at www.bovada.lv now!


Falls in the hospital are another major problem, leading to serious injuries, longer hospital stays and significant costs. Trying to navigate the unfamiliar space of a hospital room, often while disoriented by pain and medications, makes many patients susceptible to falling. A number of design factors contribute: poorly lit areas, slippery floors, toilets that are too high or too low. How quickly staff members can reach patients also makes a difference. For example, decentralized nursing stations that are closer to patient rooms and allow nurses direct lines of sight to beds can reduce the risk of falls and injuries.
There's also much we can do to improve the patient experience, which, of course, is inextricably linked to how well patients rest and recover. Privacy remains a challenge in hospitals, despite laws like the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act, a federal law known as Hipaa meant to protect patient privacy. As doctors, we're taught not to talk about patients in elevators, yet we routinely discuss their sexual or drug history in rooms while a stranger on the other side of a curtain can hear every word. Research has found that almost all physicians breach confidentiality in this way, and that patients in curtained spaces are more likely to withhold parts of their medical history or refuse parts of the physical exam.
And then there's the problem of noise. The average noise level in hospitals far exceeds guideline-based recommendations, making it hard for patients to sleep. Reducing exposure to noise — through earplugs, sound-absorbing acoustic panels, quieter staff conversations, and fewer unnecessary alarms — can improve the quality of patients' sleep.
Some of the most interesting research on the way hospitals are built examines the role of nature to promote healing. Research pioneered by Roger Ulrich, now a professor of architecture at the Center for Healthcare Building Research at Chalmers University of Technology in Sweden, suggests that when it comes to recovering from illness, the more nature the better. But too often patients and physicians find themselves cooped up in dim rooms and sterile hallways with little access to natural light or views of nature: too much concrete, not enough jungle.
Dr. Ulrich's early work explored how patients recovered after gallbladder surgery based on whether they were assigned to a room with a window that had a view of nature or of a brick wall. The study, now one of the most widely cited in the hospital design literature, found that patients looking out at trees had shorter hospital stays and took fewer pain medications than those viewing a brick wall.
Similar research has found that patients with bipolar disorder who are randomly assigned to brighter, east-facing rooms with morning sunlight had hospital stays nearly four days shorter than those with west-facing rooms. Even just images of nature may be beneficial. One study found that psychiatric patients tend to require far fewer medications for anxiety and agitation when photos of landscapes hang on hospital walls compared to walls adorned with abstract art or left bare. And people watching videos of nature seem to have higher tolerance for pain, more positive emotions, and lower heart rates and blood pressure.
Research supports an urgent need to change the way we build, maintain and work in hospitals, and many facilities could do more to promote rest and healing while preventing stress and infection. It's clear that evidence-based medical care will require evidence-based hospital design.
Dhruv Khullar, M.D., M.P.P. (@DhruvKhullar), is a resident physician at Massachusetts General Hospital and Harvard Medical School.


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Leading accountants and business advisors French Duncan LLP have so far helped hundreds of firms navigate their way through the Coronavirus period. The firm has already submitted client claims that total over £2.5 million in furlough payments, nearly £5 million in Coronavirus Business Interruption Loans and almost £4 million in other grants & tax credit submissions.
Since Coronavirus first threatened to interrupt businesses, the firm has been proactive in speaking with clients, and providing advice and support through its online 'Help for All hub'. This has seen web traffic go up to over ten times the normal level, and an unprecedented demand for not just information but useful and practical guidance on how businesses can best navigate these difficult times.
Applications have been made by the firm at all levels from a few thousand pounds of furlough payments to seven figure loans, and from multiple sectors including hotels, hospitality and retail, but also construction, manufacturing and technology.
Many different departments have been involved in providing this assistance. The Payroll and HR consultancy teams have provided template documentation and submitted furlough payment claims for over 150 companies. The Corporate Advisory and Entrepreneurial Services teams have been handling Loan application and undertaking Grant Certifications, whilst the Corporate Tax team have submitted over £1 million of R&D Tax Credit claims alone.
Graeme Finnie, Managing Partner at French Duncan LLP, commented: "The past two months of national emergency have hit businesses incredibly hard, including our own. But at French Duncan we realised early on that the expertise across our business meant we were in a position to help companies navigate this as best they can.
We have already helped firms access millions of pounds of new funding, and we expect that to continue to rise significantly in the weeks and months ahead. Our staff have been amazing throughout, often being called upon to work in different departments or do tasks they aren't used to. It's been a real team effort and myself and a few of my partners were even doing payroll calculations for furlough claims last week. That certainly surprised a few people, as most people I work with don't think I actually ever do any real work!, That said, doing a few days of furlough claims pales when compared to the sterling work that the NHS and other frontline staff are doing."
French Duncan is a long established, award winning, top 10 Scottish independent firm of chartered accountants and business advisors, headquartered in Scotland and working with clients throughout the UK as well as internationally. The firm have five offices with 14 partners and well over 200 staff offering a wide range of services giving an experienced and independent view to help our clients achieve their goals. www.frenchduncan.co.uk
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5 Questions With Rob Corddry Of Ballers, Children's Hospital
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"You're no one until you have enemies" is the tagline for Season 2 of HBO's Ballers, which debuts Sunday. And this time, Dwayne "The Rock" Johnson's Spencer Strasmore and Rob Corddry's Joe Krutel have a big one to deal with in the form of Andre, played by veteran actor Andy Garcia. "He plays the biggest sports financial manager in Miami," explains Corddry. "Spencer has a personal beef with him and wants to take him down. That's basically the arc of the whole season. [But] I always had an admiration for this guy, no matter how sleazy he is. It becomes […]
Fourth and final season of "The Boondocks" coming to Adult Swim
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Still enjoying re-airs of The Boondocks on Saturday nights, I had been wondering if the animated series was still in production, and according to a release today from Adult Swim, it is. The fourth and final season of The Boondocks will begin April 21 at 10:30pm ET/PT. However, this season is going to be produced without the involvement of Aaron McGruder — who created the series and the original comic strip on which it is based. According to the release, a mutually agreeable production schedule could not be determined. I hope McGruder's lack of involvement does not diminish what has […]
Fall 2013 New Shows: Comedy
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Fall 2013 New Shows: Comedy — A preview of the new comedy TV series coming in the fall 2013 season. ALSO SEE: Fall 2013 New Shows: Drama Fall 2013 New Shows: Lifestyle Fall 2013 New Shows: Reality Fall 2013 New Shows: Movies (All times Eastern/Pacific) The Michael J. Fox Show NBC Premieres: Sept. 26 at 9pm Airs: Thursdays at 9:30pm Who's In It? Michael J. Fox, Wendell Pierce, Katie Finneran, Jack Gore, Betsy Brandt What's It All About? Michael J. Fox returns to television, and to NBC, with back-to-back episodes tonight of his new comedy somewhat modeled on his own life. […]
Cartoon Network brings "Black Dynamite" animated series to Adult Swim
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Cartoon Network's late-night Adult Swim block goes into lulls where it seems to bide its time between cool new 'toons, over-hyped one-season wonders and new seasons of its stately franchises (still waiting on Season 5 of One of the Best Things on TV, The Venture Brothers), often filling the gap with live-action Dadaist crap by some guy who knows the Tim & Eric Awesome Show yayhoos. I'm not sure what category Black Dynamite, the animated adaptation of Scott Sanders, Michael Jai White and Byron Minns' over-the-top 2009 blaxploitation-spoofing feature film, will fit into just yet — other than it is […]
"Hey, Apple!" The Annoying Orange is coming to Cartoon Network
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What started out as just another web video for Dane Boedigheimer back in 2009 has built him a mini-empire, which will soon include a half-hour series on Cartoon Network. The Annoying Orange, which debuts at 8:30pm June 11, will showcase the verbose fruit who delights in tormenting his fellow foodstuffs with his intrusive high-pitched greetings like "Hey! Hey, Apple!" It's all profoundly silly, and Boedigheimer — better known by his online handle Daneboe — knows it. Expanding the quickie shorts into episodes that will consist of two 11-minute segments has been a surprisingly smooth process so far, he says. It […]
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Seth Green And "Robot Chicken" Are Rollin'
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By Jeff Pfeiffer For some reason, Adult Swim and Robot Chicken co-creator Seth Green have decided to celebrate the release of Robot Chicken: Star Wars Episode II on DVD with a nine-city roller-skating tour. Seems natural.
Adult Swim To Air British "Office"
April 29, 2009 Stacey Harrison Comments Off on Adult Swim To Air British "Office"
Adult Swim today announced it has acquired the legendary hit BBC comedy, The Office, from BBC Worldwide. Both seasons of the two-time Golden Globe Award-winning series will begin airing on Adult Swim this summer. Adult Swim will also air The Office Christmas special. Created, written and directed by Ricky Gervais and Stephen Merchant, The Office is about the day-to-day lives of office employees in the Slough, Berkshire branch of the fictitious Wernham Hogg Paper Company. The main character in the series, David Brent, as played by Gervais, is now firmly established as one of the great creations of comedy — […]
Droided Up: Seth Green And Matt Senreich Get Geeked About "Robot Chicken: Star Wars Episode II"
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Posted by Ryan "I still can't believe any of this is happening in my real life," says Seth Green. "I am so amazed that we're getting to do this. I just don't want anybody to wake me up." For Star Wars fanatics Green and Robot Chicken co-creator Matt Senreich, doing a Star Wars-themed episode of their stop-motion animated comedy was, to quote Luke Skywalker, "like something out of a dream." So getting a sequel greenlighted must've felt like a Jedi mind trick. But it's no Bantha poodoo: Adult Swim presents Robot Chicken: Star Wars Episode II on Nov. 16 at […]


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Fontainebleau Resorts, LLC, is a resort-hotel company started by South Florida real estate developers Turnberry Associates and the Plant family in 2005 after their purchase of the famous Fontainebleau Hotel in Miami Beach, Florida. The two families each hold a 50% stake in the company. The company is based in Enterprise, Nevada.
The company is headed by Turnberry Principal, Jeffrey Soffer, PLANTworldwide owner Brett Plant, and former Mandalay Resort Group President, Glenn Schaeffer. The company currently has several ongoing hotel and condominium development projects in Miami Beach and Las Vegas, with several more on the way, and Schaeffer has suggested that Fontainebleau will go public in order to raise money for their multibillion-dollar development plans.
On April 17, 2007, Publishing and Broadcasting Limited (now Crown Limited) announced that it had entered into an agreement to acquire 19.6% of Fontainebleau Resorts for US$250 million.
Schaeffer left Fontainebleau Resorts without comment in May 2009. Schaeffer was primarily responsible for securing more than US$3 billion in loans for the Fontainebleau Resort Las Vegas project.
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Tracy Eggleston concentrates her practice on complex insurance matters and commercial litigation.
Tracy has extensive experience in various insurance coverage matters, including first-party property, comprehensive general liability, maritime, bad faith, and life, health, disability and ERISA claims. In addition, she has substantial experience defending construction defect claims and product liability matters, as well as litigating the coverage issues arising from those claims. She has successfully represented various carriers both at the trial court level and on appeal.
Tracy earned her Bachelor of Arts from Furman University in 1979, where she graduated with high honors. She earned her law degree from the University of South Carolina in 1982.
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Finding Bad Faith in Kentucky Requires Evidence of Outrageous Conduct By Insurer [Global Insurance Alert]
In its recent decision in Powell v. Cherokee Insurance Company, Case No.: 5:09-CV-00205, the U.S. District Court for the Western District of Kentucky reaffirmed that in a third-party bad faith lawsuit alleging failure to timely settle a personal injury claim, the third-party claimant must produce evidence of conduct by the insurer that is outrageous, because of the defendant's evil motive or his reckless indifference to [her] rights in order to establish a bad faith claim under the Kentucky Unfair Claims Settlement Practices Act (UCSPA).
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Insurance Coverage Observer [Winter 2008]
In this issue, we consider a number of emerging issues and also identify key developments in coverage in 2007. We summarize new court decisions dealing with toxic torts, environmental coverage, insolvency and regulatory issues, and construction defect. We feature a key construction defect coverage case in Illinois with important implications. We address global warming in the context of directors with officers liability coverage. Finally, we discuss the emerging areas of fax blast and food contamination, and the impact of the reauthorization of TRIA.
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The Yakama Nation calls upon the state and federal governments to clean up polluted sections of the Columbia River that are contaminating fish.
The call for action followed the September 23, 2013, release of fish consumption advisories by the Oregon Health Authority and Washington Department of Health. The advisories confirm what the Yakama Nation has known for decades. The federal and state governments can no long ignore the need for greater natural resource protections and broader cleanup of sites impacting the Columbia River.
Rather than addressing the contamination, the Tribes and people in the region are once again being told to reduce our reliance on the Columbia River's fish. This is unacceptable. The focus should not be 'Do not eat'—it should be 'Clean up' the Columbia River.


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Rick Webb Family – In Conversation
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Staff writer Andrew Stephens got to talk with Rick Webb of the celebrated mixed group Rick Webb Family about their ministry and where they are heading today!
Andrew Stephens: Many readers are experiencing the Rick Webb Family for the first time. Take some time to tell us about the family.
Rick Webb: Andrew, our music ministry began back in the 1970s. Phyllis and I began singing with the ReGeneration Vocal Group out of Nashville for five years after we were married and a short time singing at Walt Disney World. We returned to North Carolina and began with the Day of Discovery Television program for 10 years after which we began the Rick Webb Trio in the late 1990s. Our oldest son Parker and youngest daughter Hannah joined us in 2009 when we changed the name to the Rick Webb Family.
AS: My introduction to the Rick Webb Family was actually the Rick Webb Trio. How has the ministry experience changed since Parker & Hannah joined full-time in the music ministry?
RW: We have seen a tremendous surge in our music ministry since Parker and Hannah joined us. We believe that in addition to our music ,the statement of a family standing in ministry together day after day is a testimony of God's grace, especially in this day when the family unit is being torn apart, and yes even within our church family Satan is doing his best to try to destroy the family units.
AS: I had the privilege to catch your appearance at the National Quartet Convention in September 2016. In addition to this event, what are some events in which the Rick Webb Family has ministered or performed?
RW: It is always an honor for our family to represent Christ in any venue or with any church or organization who will allow us the privilege to make Christ known! Our ministry is that of encouragement to the church and then we also have been afforded many opportunities to sing in secular events. The concert promoter knows up front that we will not compromise our testimony for Christ which allows us to share Christ with a lot of unsaved folks who attend the events.
AS: Recently, Paul Heil played your new single, "Jesus Speaking Peace" on "The Gospel Greats" program. How does the Rick Webb Family choose songs for projects or radio release?
RW: Song Garden Music Group is releasing our new project Stand Amazed in April. "Jesus Speaking Peace" is the first single from our new work. As we listen to hundreds of tunes for that special lineup of 10 for the project: first, does the song minister to us lyrically and musically? Because we crossover into churches and venues who are more inspirational in style, we consider our opportunities keeping in mind that not all our listeners are familiar with Southern Gospel. Therefore, we lean a little more toward inspirational with some of our music.
AS: Your family has a variety of songs in your repertoire. What are some of your favorite tunes to sing in concert?
RW: All four of us have somewhat different tastes in musical styles, however we all agree on the old hymns such as "Satisfied," "Unclouded Day," and "Sweet Beulah Land" as well as songs of worship "In Christ Alone" and Patriotic songs like "God Bless America" are very important to us. A song that has received quite a bit of attention on radio is entitled "Every Knee Shall Bow," written by David Staton, is also a favorite.
AS:Who are some of your musical mentors (as a family and/or individuals)?
RW: It is difficult to single out just a few mentors. We all are partial to family groups in gospel music and of course those who know Hannah's style, she loves Allison Krauss, and Parker loves some of the more contemporary artists. We all appreciate artists who sincerely have a heart for the Lord, whether they be secular or sacred.
AS: What do you attribute to the "key" to the Rick Webb Family's ministry experience?
RW: Very simply, the key to any ministry that if afforded opportunities to share MUST be lead and ordained by God. If HE was not leading, guiding and directing our every move, we would have not reason to be on the road. We are SO blessed to do what we strongly believe God has called us to do. The road of life is never easy, just worth it!
AS: As Southern Gospel Music continues to change, where do you see the Rick Webb Family involved in the future?
RW: It is our prayer that the Lord will give us many more years of music ministry together however we are totally open to what the Lord has for each of us. Parker and Hannah will sometimes schedule events on their own and then Phyllis and Hannah have begun a Mother/Daughter speaking/singing ministry to ladies groups throughout the country. The styles of music may change slightly, however, we never want to do anything that will water down the gospel, either musically or lyrically. A friend of ours once said that he saw a commercial on TV that simply said "We have decided to improved the packaging because it is impossible to improve the product!"
AS: Earlier, I mentioned the new radio single, "Jesus Speaking Peace." How soon can we plan to download the single or purchase a new album?
RW: Our new project on the Song Garden label will be released the middle of April in CD form however it will be available on iTunes earlier. A date has not been set, however we will notify the public of the release very soon. Our dear friend and musical producer/musician extraordinaire, Mr. Jason Webb is the musical producer/arranger of this new project. This new recording truly exemplifies the heart, soul and musical sound of the Rick Webb Family!
AS: I've noticed the Rick Webb Family has performed in a variety of concert settings. What are some challenges you've seen while transitioning from one setting to another?
RW: We have found that each church and organization venue, regardless of the size of the congregation or denomination preferences, require us to change our normal program just a bit. No two concert settings are the same, some similar but never the same. We pray for the Lord to give us what we need each time we step onto the platform. We seek the presence of the Holy Spirit first off and His leading in our songs and the continuity will flow. One of the most recent challenges we have faced was when we were scheduled to sing for a secular corporate dinner/concert meeting in a country club ballroom. We, of course, sang our standard program and prayed all the way through that the Lord was perhaps planting some seeds in the hearts of most of those folks who certainly needed His love and forgiveness. As our coach pulled away from the venue that evening and our spirits were a bit low wondering why we were sent there, we all were soon reminded that that we did exactly what we felt the Lord wanted us to do in the program and the results were all up to Him! Whether they appreciated our musical style or not, the Word of God never returns void!
AS: How can fans contact the Rick Webb Family?
RW: Please contact us via our web site, on Facebook or Twitter. Our website can be found at www.RickWebbFamily.com. Or you may want to call us directly for product or scheduling. For Scheduling contact: Parker Webb and Associates 336-601-7902. For product or general information contact our office: 336-668-0193
Andrew Stephens
Reviewer/Contributing Writer
Andrew hails from Anderson, SC and has lived here all 25 years of his life. As a child, he attended concerts in the area and instantly became hooked on the concept of Southern Gospel music. His music collection has expanded to over 1,000 artist recordings as well as several compilations (including record label & radio promotions comps). For a couple of years or so, Andrew hosted a blog, "Southern Gospel Review", and did articles ranging from specialty (Hits of the Past), album reviews (CD, DVD, & Vinyl), and other interesting tidbits (recording oddities, etc.).
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A Chicoan in Paris
Prolific Chico writer and photographer Doug Keister went to Paris--to study its cemeteries. He got an Eiffel! (Gustave Eiffel is buried in the Levallois-Perret Cemetery, a towering figure indeed--whose mausoleum is "out of alignment with the other tombs in the cemetery" so Gustave could face his masterpiece.)
The result of Keister's study, aided by a number of dedicated taphophiles ("lovers of cemeteries"), is rather, shall we say, monumental. "Stories In Stone Paris: A Field Guide To Paris Cemeteries and Their Residents" ($24.99 in hardcover from Gibbs Smith, Publisher) includes hundreds of color photographs detailing cemetery symbolism, architecture, and cemeteries themselves.
Though designed as a guidebook (including GPS coordinates) for those touring the monuments, Keister's eye for detail and the telling tale will keep armchair travelers engrossed as well. Tidbits abound. "A word," he writes, "about the permanence of burial in Paris--Americans are often shocked to find that, unlike in America, where burial is permanent, burial in much of Europe is often a temporary affair." In fact, "many graves are essentially rented for various periods of time."
Jim Morrison's grave in Père-Lachaise (he the "lead singer for the late 1960s/early 1970s rock group the Doors" who "visited Paris in March 1971 and never left") was almost given to someone else in 2001 after the rental period expired but, fortunately for fans, he's still there.
Marcel Proust is there as well, but Napoléon is in Les Invalides ("a rambling complex of buildings relating to France's military history"), born "in Corsica, the second of eight children of noble Genoese parents." Asked if he could conquer Europe, he was said to have said, Corsican! (Well, not really, but I couldn't resist.)
From dogged puns to a true dog cemetery: "The Paris Dog Cemetery, which bills itself as the world's oldest public pet cemetery," was established in 1899. Know who's there? Rin Tin Tin. Rinty died in 1932 but helped popularize "the German shepherd breed in the United States."
Then there's Saint-Denis, where lies Marie-Antoinette, who didn't quite say "let them eat cake." The word was actually "brioche," "a type of egg and butter bread," still unkind words to starving citizens. Only, "there is no evidence whatsoever that Marie-Antoinette ever uttered those now infamous words."
See? Keister leaves no stoned unturned.
Posted by Dan Barnett at 9:00 PM
Labels: bibliofile, guidebook, travel
Eve Ensler coming Thursday to Chico State University
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COMEDY STORE. MARCH 9TH @ 10PM.
I will be performing in this years' March Madness tournament @ The Comedy Store on Sunset. March 9th@ 10pm.
DELIGHTFUL IDIOT NEW SHOW!! UCB. APRIL 11TH @ 6:30!
My sketch group, Delightful Idiot (myself & Matt Reid), will be doing a new show @ UCB on April 11th @ 6:30!! More details to follow!


Every year, 3 billion pounds of potatoes are thrown away instead of eaten. That's enough potatoes for 6 billion people — almost six times the population of China — to get a serving of mashed potatoes.
Scientists at the J.R. Simplot Company are on a quest to change that. They're using a cutting-edge plant breeding method to develop a new potato that is less likely to brown, helping to ensure that it ends up on people's plates instead of in landfills.
"We're really excited about the possibility of reducing food waste," Simplot's Doug Cole said.
Americans throw away roughly 150,000 tons of food each day, according to a 2018 report from the U.S. Department of Agriculture. Fruits and vegetables account for roughly 40 percent of food thrown away.
Food waste has serious consequences — for people and for the planet. The U.N. Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) estimates that worldwide, the amount of food wasted is enough to feed 2 billion people — more than double the number of people struggling with hunger. And food waste contributes to climate change, causing about seven percent of all greenhouse gas emissions.
"Every pound of food saved from loss or waste will create economic, health and environmental gains," Alessandro Demai, the CEO of EAT, a Norway-based non-profit, said in an interview with the Inter Press Service.
The potato Simplot is breeding aims to eliminate waste coming from homes and consumer-facing businesses, such as restaurants and grocery stores. A study from ReFed, a food waste research organization, found that the bulk of waste – more than 80 percent – comes from these sources.
Home cooks often throw away potatoes if they're bruised and browned, and those same potatoes don't sell at the grocery store, even though they're still perfectly safe to eat. And restaurants that prep potatoes — slicing and dicing them before the dinner rush — throw out browned potatoes at the end of the night.
Simplot is using gene editing, a new breeding technique that lets scientists make small changes to the plant's DNA to develop a potato variety that doesn't bruise or brown easily. The characteristic should make it more appealing to consumers, helping to reduce the number of potatoes that are thrown away.
Researchers are exploring using a similar approach to help reduce browning and bruising in avocados, and have already used it to produce non-browning mushrooms.


In late June, our globally famous Sawdust Art Pageant opens its enormous wooden doors (simply passing its 50th native Laguna Beach artists, while Laguna Art-A-Truthful opens just a half block down from Sawdust, and that includes one hundred twenty five international and domestic artists who've been juried into the show (it's been happening since 1948). Your purchasing the artisans' lovingly handcrafted works means an awesome deal to these small enterprise people who create and contribute to the world's magnificence and to us, the organizers of art events. Combine these rankings with Albuquerque's standing as a high-ten artwork destination, and it is no wonder these bustling markets have lured 1000's of consumers, avid collectors, and a continually evolving lineup of chopping-edge inventive talent! Primary Avenue in downtown Waynesville is remodeled into an art & craft market for this one-day occasion; broadly known as one of the finest juried artwork shows within the area. The Celebration of Fine Artwork encompasses 40,000 sq. feet of art, surrounded by an acre of landscaped sculptured gardens.
One-minute Summary: Subsequent to the Sawdust Pageant and across the street from The Competition of Arts, the Artwork-A-Truthful completes the triumvirate circle of nice artwork in Laguna Canyon each summer season. A novel mixture of performance and visual artwork, the annual Montmartre Chalk Art Competition in Chickasha pits members in a race towards the clock to create artistic endeavors using only chalk. Should you like what you see, come again in August, when the Breckenridge Worldwide Fest of Arts brings another spherical of multi-disciplinary interactive artwork to the mountainside. In case you're interested by attending multiple of those art festivals, be sure to learn the information on the backside of this post on the Passport to the Arts.
The Festival has been honored with the coveted Worldwide Festivals & Events Association (IFEA) Grand Pinnacle Award for nine consecutive years. Two of Tulsa's prime arts festivals come to life within the peak of springtime's glory, welcoming hundreds of native and regional artists to Tulsa and ushering in the pleasure of family-pleasant activities for all.
Art videos are projected on the white houses as a form of 'video graffiti', while brief movies are proven in the city's open-air cinema, set in a botanical garden. There are also docent-led sculpture tours and free admission to the Scottsdale Museum of Modern Artwork. BreckCreate's innovative early-summer time multimedia fest WAVE, which debuted final yr, sets a brand new intellectual commonplace by bringing world-class art installations to the streets of Breckenridge, greatest identified today as a ski city. Dwell bands on two separate levels will fill the park with music throughout both days, while the Firehouse Artwork Middle college will present demonstrations of creative strategies for competition-goers. This free, family-friendly pageant in Hot Springs features nice previous-time and bluegrass music, ballads, clogging and sq. dance, and a silent auction and raffle of regional artwork work, local crafts, trip packages and extra.