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Please read this policy carefully as it informs you as to how we collect, use and generally look after your personal data when you visit our website (regardless of where you visit it from) and tell you about your privacy rights and how the law protects you.
As used in this document, "We" are The Dixon Group, Inc., a leading innovator and provider in the hose coupling industry, headquartered in Chestertown, Maryland, USA, with subsidiary affiliate offices and distribution centers both inside and outside the USA (collectively referred to in this policy as "Dixon Group") Please click here for our UK/EU office contact information, and please click here for our Australia office contact information.
If you do not agree with our policies and practices, you have the choice not to use our website. By accessing or using this website, you agree to this privacy policy. This policy may change or otherwise be updated from time to time. Your continued use of the website after we make any changes will be deemed to be your acceptance of those changes, so we strongly suggest that you check this policy periodically for updates.
We are the data controller for the purposes of the Data Protection Act 2018, the EU General Data Protection Regulation, and any other applicable data protection legislation from time to time.
If you have any questions about privacy or data protection, please contact us.
As a general principle, we process your personal data where we have a lawful basis to do so, such as where it is necessary in connection with a contract between us (such as a contract to purchase or supply our products or services), where it is necessary in order for us to comply with our legal obligations, where we have a legitimate interest to do so, or where we have your consent (but as a general practice we also consider whether your right to privacy overrides our interest).
Please note that links from our website may take you to external websites that are not covered by this policy. We recommend that you check their privacy policies before submitting any personal information to such sites. We shall not be responsible for the content, function, or information collection policies of these external websites.
What information do we collect about you and how do we collect it?
In general, we collect and use personal information on our website to support our business and relationships with our various partners, distributors, and suppliers, and to interact with our customers and their designated representatives who purchase and use or who express interest in our products and services.
You are not required (by law or by any contract with us) to provide personal information to us via this website. You do not have to be a registered user of our site to view some of the content and features of this website.
However, if you choose to create an account or wish to transact business with us using the website, you may be required to provide us with certain personal information to access certain areas of the site that are restricted to customers or to registered users, and so that we may provide certain of our information, products, and services to you.
Information you provide to us
We may receive personal information from you. For example, if you choose to register with the website or to use the website to interact with us, certain personal information may be required to establish your and/or your company's account or to identify your role within your organization.
Other examples include doing the following:
- Filling out a web form.
- Inquiring about and/or purchasing our products or services.
- Inquiring about supplying us with your products and services.
- Using and browsing our website as a registered user.
- Signing up for our newsletters or marketing communications, whether or not you are a registered user.
- Telephoning, faxing, texting, writing by mail, or emailing us.
- Providing payment or shipping information.
- Inquiring about, or applying for, job opportunities.
- Interacting with our customer service team.
This information may include the following:
- Normal business identification information, such as your full name, job title, employer, and role.
- Contact information, such as your business address, email address, and telephone numbers.
- Additional information relevant to your use of our site and services, such as your marketing preferences, survey responses, and feedback.
- Information about your shipment, including information about the recipient.
- Payment information.
- With respect to job applications, your resumé or CV including details of your education and employment history (and any other information which you may choose to provide to us with your resumé or CV or in connection with your job application).
- Information related to the administration of your account (e.g., passwords, hints, reminders, account recovery information, etc.).
We may collect such information directly from you or in some instances from your company.
Information we collect about you on our website
As you navigate and interact with our website we may collect information using cookies and other automatic data collection technologies to help distinguish you from other users of our website. These can streamline your online experience by, for example, saving you from re-inputting information and also allow us to support and make improvements to our website. For more information about how and why we use cookies and how you may manage them on your device, please take a look through our Cookie Policy described further down this page.
When you visit our website, the information we collect using such automated means may include, for example:
- Which pages you view and which links you follow.
- Your IP address and general location.
- Details of the hardware and software that you are using to access the site.
- If you choose to log in using a third party, we will record your login provider.
- If you choose to link your account to a third-party marketplace to import items for shipment, we will record the details necessary to facilitate that link.
- A device identifier (cookie or IP address) for fraud prevention.
- Details of your visits to our website and the resources that you access, including, but not limited to, traffic data, location data, weblogs, and other communication data.
- Where orders originate from advertising sources, we record the source of each order. This is purely to allow us to assess the effectiveness of these advertisements and is not used for customer profiling of any kind.
The information we collect automatically on the website may be associated with the personal information we collect in other ways (for example, transaction history) or that we receive from third parties.
Our website is not intended for children and we do not knowingly collect data relating to children.
Information we collect or receive about you from other sources
Sometimes you will have given your consent for other websites, services, or third parties to provide information to us, for example, our suppliers and distributors. We also may collect information about you from other sources. This may include the following:
- Publicly available information, from a variety of sources.
- Information you have shared publicly, including on social media (particularly with respect to job applications).
This list is not exhaustive, and, in specific instances, we may collect additional data for the purposes set out in this policy.
How do we use your personal information?
We take privacy and data protection law seriously, so below we have set out how and why we use your information and describe our legal basis for using your information.
Supplying our products and providing our services
It is necessary for us to use personal information about you to enter into and perform the contracts that we make with you (or your business), such as when you become a customer or when you interact with us as a customer or otherwise as a representative of your business. In particular, where our contract is with your business, we have a legitimate interest to use your information in this way. Using your information in this context is necessary so that we can interact appropriately with you, including for example to:
- Provide you with information about your contract with us.
- Provide you with information about any warranty we provide to you.
- Provide you with information about our products and services.
- Fulfill your order and perform our obligations under our contract with you.
- Verify your identity.
- Address any complaints you may have.
- Contact you about any changes that we make to our products or services.
- Administer our website, including troubleshooting problems, analyzing statistics, conducting research and tests, and keeping the site secure.
If you inquire about or apply for, a job vacancy, it is necessary for us to use your personal information as part of the recruitment process, in order to assess your suitability for a particular role.
Telling you about other products or services that we think may be of interest to you
We may use your information to identify and tell you about our products or services that we think may be of interest to you. We do this, for example, where you have informed us that you would like to receive marketing communications.
Whether you choose to receive marketing communications is entirely up to you. Your choice will not affect any products or services that you have purchased from us, nor will it affect any quotes for products or services you buy in the future.
You can update your preferences by using the links in any of our emails to you, or by contacting us.
Telling you about products or services that are similar to ones that you have already bought
If you have already bought a service from us, or you have already obtained a quote from us, we have a legitimate interest to contact you with information about services that are similar.
We may contact you by phone, email, or text message or other common means, and you can choose not to receive these messages at any time. Simply follow the instructions in the message, or get in touch using our website.
Making our business better
We always want to offer the best products, services, and experience that we can. Sometimes this means we may use your information to find ways that we can improve what we do, or how we do it.
In this context, we may use your information where it is necessary so that we can:
- Review and improve our existing products and services and develop new ones.
- Review and improve the performance of our systems, processes, and staff (including training).
- Improve our site to ensure that content is presented in the most effective manner for you and for your computer.
- Measure and understand the effectiveness of advertising we serve to you and others, and to deliver relevant advertising to you.
We have a legitimate interest to use your information in these ways to improve our business and, in some cases, when it may be necessary for us to comply with our legal obligations.
Contacting you
We want to stay in touch with you. Sometimes we may need to use the information that we have about you in order to respond to your questions or let you know about important changes.
We may use your information so that we can:
- Interact and respond to any communications you send us, including where you contact us through our website and any social media posts that you tag us in.
- Let you know about any important changes to our business or policies.
Verifying your identity
We may use your information where it is necessary for us to do so to verify your identity, protect the integrity of our website and services, to meet our legal obligations or to detect and prevent fraud, money-laundering, and other crimes.
Protecting you and others from harm
We may use your information where it is necessary to protect our or your interests, or the interests of others. This may include in the event of criminality such as identity theft, piracy or fraud, or to comply with legal requirements.
Other Described Uses
We may use your information in any other way we describe when you provide the information, or for any other purpose for which you have provided consent.
Change of purpose
We will only use your personal information for the purposes for which we collected it, unless we reasonably consider that we need to use it for another reason and that reason is compatible with the original purpose. If we need to use your personal information for an unrelated purpose, we will notify you and we will explain the legal basis which allows us to do so.
Please note that we may process your personal information without your knowledge or consent, in compliance with the above rules, where this is required or permitted by law.
Who do we share your personal information with?
Sharing your information within our company and group
We share the information that you provide to us with our staff so that we can provide our products and services to you and generally to fulfill the purpose for which you have provided it. We may share the information that you provide to us with other companies within the Dixon Group which may be based in different locations around the world including North America, Europe, Asia, Australia. Whenever we share your personal information with any such third parties, we will have appropriate safeguards in place to protect that information.
Sharing your information with third parties
We may share your data with selected third parties. For example, we may share your information with:
- Our contractors, service providers, suppliers and distributors, and other third parties we use to conduct our business, and related infrastructure, including, for example, third-party services we use to verify and correct postal address and other shipping information.
- Third-party couriers and services for deliveries.
- Payment service providers, for making and receiving payments.
- Contact management systems to send emails, instant messages, social media messages, and SMS messages.
There are certain exceptional circumstances in which we may disclose your information to third parties. This would be where we believe that the disclosure is:
- Required by the law, or in order to comply with judicial proceedings, court orders or legal, government, or regulatory proceedings.
- Necessary to protect the rights and/or safety of our employees, our property, or the public.
- Necessary for the prevention or detection of crime, including exchanging information with other companies or organizations for the purposes of fraud protection and credit risk reduction.
- Proportionate as part of a merger, business or asset sale, or a restructuring, reorganization, dissolution, or as part of a bankruptcy.
- Necessary or appropriate to enforce or apply our terms of use or other agreements, including for payment or collection purposes.
If you are based inside the European Economic Area, transferring your personal information outside of the European Economic Area
In certain circumstances, we may share your personal information with third parties or other members of the Dixon Group who are located outside of the EEA. Whenever we share your personal information with any such third parties, we will ensure that we have appropriate safeguards in place to ensure the protection of that information. For further information about the safeguards that we have in place, please contact us.
How long do we keep your personal information?
Our intention is to only store your personal information for as long as we reasonably need it for the purposes for which it was collected or as may be required by law. For example, where we provide you with a service, we will retain any information you provide to us at least for as long as we continue to provide that service to you and for such periods as we retain information for audit, record keeping, compliance and enforcement purposes. If your information is associated with a product or service warranty, we may retain your information for longer periods so that we may fulfill our warranty obligations.
If you apply for a job vacancy (or otherwise send us your resumé or CV) we will retain your resumé or CV (and any publicly available information, for example from social media) for a period of 1 (one) year following an employment decision. If we are considering you for a particular role, we may retain this information for longer than that period. If we hire you, we will retain your resumé or CV for the length of your employment, plus seven (7) years.
In other circumstances, we will keep your information for as long as is necessary to allow us to achieve the original purpose for which that information was collected.
How do we protect your personal information?
We will take steps reasonably necessary so that your data is treated securely and in accordance with this policy.
We try to ensure that the information you provide to us is transferred securely via the website. Unfortunately, the transmission of information via the internet is not completely secure. Although we will take reasonable steps to protect your personal data, we cannot guarantee the security of your data transmitted to or from our site; any transmission is at your own risk. Once we have received your information, we will apply appropriate procedures and security features to try to prevent unauthorized access.
The information you provide to us may be stored on third party secure servers. Where we have given you (or where you have chosen) a password which enables you to access certain parts of our site, you are responsible for keeping this password – and your account - confidential. We ask you not to share a password or your account information with anyone.
What rights do you have with respect to your personal information?
For information that is subject to the GDPR, individuals have the following rights with respect to their personal information:
You have the right to be informed
We have written this policy to provide you with concise, transparent, intelligible, and easily accessible information about your personal information and our use of it. If you have any questions or require more specific information, please contact us.
You have the right to access your personal data
You have the right to ask us to confirm whether or not we hold any of your personal information. If we do, you may request a copy of your information and be informed of the following:
- Why we have been using your information.
- What categories of information we were using.
- Who we have shared the information with.
- How long we envisage holding your information.
In order to maintain the security of your information, we will have the right to verify your identity before we provide you with a copy of the information we hold.
The first copy of your information that you request from us will be provided free of charge, if you require further copies we may charge an administrative fee to cover our costs. Please contact us if you wish to request access to our data.
You have the right to correct inaccurate or incomplete personal data
Where you have requested a copy of the information we hold about you, you may notice that there are inaccuracies in the records, or that certain parts are incomplete. If this is the case, you can contact us so that we can correct our records.
You have the right to be forgotten
There may be times where it is no longer necessary for us to hold personal information about you. This could be if:
- The information is no longer needed for the original purpose that we collected it for.
- You withdraw your consent for us to use the information (and we have no other legal reason to keep using it).
- You object to us using your information and we have no overriding reason to keep using it.
- We have used your information unlawfully.
- We are subject to a legal requirement to delete your information.
In those situations, you have the right to have your personal data deleted. In certain situations, it may be required that an alternate, replacement contact be designated so that we may continue serving your organization. If you believe one of these situations applies to you, please contact us.
You have the right to have a copy of your data transferred to you or a third party in a compatible format
Also known as data portability, you may request a copy of your personal data for your own purposes. This allows you to move, copy or transfer your personal data more easily from one IT system to another, in a safe and secure way.
If you would like us to transfer a copy of your data to you or another organization in a structured, commonly used and machine-readable format, please contact us. There is no charge for you exercising this right.
You have the right to object to direct marketing
You can tell us at any time that you would prefer that we do not use your information for direct marketing purposes. If you would not like to receive any direct marketing from us, please contact us or use the links provided in any of our marketing communications, and we will stop sending direct marketing immediately.
You have the right to object to us using your information for our own legitimate interests
Sometimes, we use your personal information to achieve goals that will help us as well as you. This includes:
- When we tell you about products or services that are similar to ones that you have already bought.
- When we use your information to help us make our business better.
- When we contact you to interact, communicate, or let you know about the changes we are making.
If you believe that the way we are using your data is not justified due to its impact on you or your rights, you may object. Unless we have a compelling reason to continue, we will stop using your personal data for such purposes.
To exercise your right to object to our use of your data for the purposes above, please contact us.
You have the right to restrict how we use your personal data
You may ask us to stop using your personal data in any way other than simply keeping a copy of it. This right is available where:
- You have informed us that the information we hold about you is inaccurate, and we have not yet been able to verify this.
- You have objected to us using your information for our own legitimate interests and we are in the process of considering your objection.
- We have used your information in an unlawful way, but you do not want us to delete your data.
- We no longer need to use the information, but you need it for a legal claim.
If you believe any of these situations apply, please contact us.
Changes to our Privacy Policy
Any changes we make to our privacy policy in the future will be posted on this page and, where appropriate, notified to you by email. Please check back frequently to see any updates or changes to our privacy policy.
This version was last updated on May 19, 2020, and historic versions can be obtained by contacting us.
If you wish to make a complaint about our collection or use of your personal data, please contact us in the first instance so that we may seek to resolve your complaint.
For information that is subject to the GDPR, you have the right to lodge a complaint with the Information Commissioner's Office (ICO) or the appropriate Data Protection Regulator in your jurisdiction. Please visit the ICO website (or the website of the appropriate Data Protection Regulator in your jurisdiction) if you wish to lodge a complaint with the Data Protection Regulator.
Contact Details
- Within the United States: 1 Dixon Square, Chestertown, Maryland 21620 USA
- Outside the United States: 350 Leach Place, Walton Summit Centre, Bamber Bridge, Preston PR5 8A, Lancashire, England, UK
Email: [email protected]
Supplemental CCPA Privacy Notice for California Residents
This Supplemental CCPA Privacy Notice for California Residents (the "CCPA Notice") applies solely to visitors and users residing in the State of California ("Consumers"). It supplements the Dixon Privacy Policy explained earlier on this page and is provided to comply with the California Consumer Privacy Act of 2018 ("CCPA").
The CCPA includes temporary exemptions regarding certain personal information collected in a business-to-business context ("B2B"). This CCPA Notice is not intended to and does not cover exempted or excluded information, and also does not apply to employment-related personal information collected from California-based employees, job applicants, contractors, or similar individuals.
Information We Collect
Dixon may have collected personal information from California Consumers within the last twelve (12) months in the following categories:
Examples: A real name, alias, postal address, unique personal identifier, online identifier, Internet Protocol address, email address, account name, Social Security number, driver's license number, passport number, or other similar identifiers.
Personal information categories listed in the California Customer Records statute (Cal. Civ. Code § 1798.80(e))
Examples: A name, signature, Social Security number, physical characteristics or description, address, telephone number, passport number, driver's license or state identification card number, insurance policy number, education, employment, employment history, bank account number, credit card number, debit card number, or any other financial information, medical information, or health insurance information. Some personal information included in this category may overlap with other categories.
Protected classification characteristics under California or federal law
Examples: Age (40 years or older), race, color, ancestry, national origin, citizenship, religion or creed, marital status, medical condition, physical or mental disability, sex (including gender, gender identity, gender expression, pregnancy or childbirth, and related medical conditions), sexual orientation, veteran or military status, genetic information (including familial genetic information).
Commercial information
Examples: Records of personal property, products or services purchased, obtained, or considered, or other purchasing or consuming histories or tendencies.
Biometric information
Examples: Genetic, physiological, behavioral, and biological characteristics or activity patterns used to extract a template or other identifier or identifying information, such as fingerprints, faceprints, and voiceprints, iris or retina scans, keystroke, gait, or other physical patterns, and sleep, health, or exercise data.
Internet or other similar network activity
Examples: Browsing history, search history, information on a consumer's interaction with a website, application, or advertisement.
Geolocation data
Examples: Physical location or movements.
Sensory data
Examples: Audio, electronic, visual, thermal, olfactory, or similar information.
Professional or employment-related information
Examples: Current or past job history or performance evaluations.
Non-public education information (per the Family Educational Rights and Privacy Act (20 U.S.C. Section 1232g, 34 C.F.R. Part 99))
Examples: Education records directly related to a student maintained by an educational institution or party acting on its behalf, such as grades, transcripts, class lists, student schedules, student identification codes, student financial information, or student disciplinary records.
Inferences drawn from other personal information
Examples: Profile reflecting a person's preferences, characteristics, psychological trends, predispositions, behavior, attitudes, intelligence, abilities, and aptitudes.
Sources of Personal Information and Purposes of Use
We may obtain personal information in the categories listed above directly from you (for example, from forms you complete or products and services you purchase) or indirectly (for example, from observing your actions on our website). We wish to receive only personal information which relates to you in your business capacity. Dixon does not wish to receive your private (non-business) contact or other personal information.
Personal information is used for our business purposes, such as to operate our business, for supplying and communicating with you about our products and services, to improve our website, to contact and interact with you (e.g., via email and messaging services), to verify your identity, to personalize your experience using the website, to maintain the safety, security, and integrity of our website and business, to protect from harm, to respond to your requests or otherwise fulfill or meet the reason for which you provided the information, for record keeping/accounting and as otherwise required by law, and for other purposes we describe when you provide the information.
Dixon does not wish to receive and does not knowingly collect information about minors under 16 years old.
Sharing of Personal Information
Dixon does not sell or rent your personal information to third parties for consideration. Dixon believes that it does not "sell" personal information as the term is defined in the CCPA.
We do disclose or share personal information for our business purposes, such as with affiliated Dixon companies within The Dixon Group, and with certain third parties (e.g., to supply our products and services, and to process, support and fulfill your orders, and for the other purposes described above). This may include sharing with categories of third parties such as our contractors, service providers, suppliers, distributors and other third parties we use to conduct our business and related infrastructure (e.g., payment service providers, third-party services we use to verify and correct postal address and other shipping information, and contact management systems).
We also may make certain disclosures as required to comply with legal requirements or to prevent harm.
Dixon does not sell personal information of minors under 16 years of age.
Your Rights Under the CCPA
The CCPA provides California Consumers with specific rights and provides temporary exemptions for certain information collected in a business-to-business context ("B2B").
Right of Access and Portability of Data: The CCPA allows you to request certain information about the collection and use of your personal information over the past 12 months. However, because the personal information we collect is B2B personal information, we do not make access and portability rights available for such B2B personal information.
Deletion Rights: The CCPA allows you to request the deletion of personal information collected and retained, subject to certain exceptions provided in the CCPA. However, because the personal information we collect is B2B personal information, we do not make deletion rights available for such B2B personal information.
Opt-Out of Sales: California Consumers have the right to opt-out of the sale of their personal information.
Non-Discrimination: We will not discriminate against you for exercising rights under the CCPA, but your exercise of rights may affect the level and types of offers, services, and products we may offer or provide to you.
To exercise the rights described above, please submit a verifiable consumer request to us by either calling us at 833.976.1849 or emailing us at [email protected].
You may only make a verifiable consumer request for access or data portability twice within a 12-month period, and any disclosures we provide will only cover the 12-month period preceding the verifiable consumer's request. We will do our best to respond to verifiable requests in a timely manner as required by law. Only you, or someone legally authorized to act on your behalf, may make a verifiable consumer request related to your personal information.
Changes to this CCPA Notice
We reserve the right to amend this notice at our discretion and at any time. We note that the implementing regulations for the CCPA have not yet been finalized by the Attorney General of California and that we may update our policy and/or practices based on such final regulations or based on additional guidance when they are available. When we make changes to this notice, we will post the updated notice on the Dixon website and update the notice's date. Your continued use of our website following the posting of changes constitutes your acceptance of such changes.
Last Updated: June 16, 2020
Cookie Policy:
Our website uses cookies to collect certain information about you, your devices, and your browsing actions and patterns. This policy explains how and in what ways we use cookies on our websites. Please read it carefully and ensure that you understand it.
Your acceptance of this policy is deemed to occur when you press the "I Accept" button on our cookie policy popup that appears when you visit our site. You may choose to refuse to accept cookies by activating the appropriate setting on your browser. Please see the 'You decide which cookies we use' section of this policy, below, for information about how to do this.
What are cookies and how do we use them?
A cookie is a small text file that is sent by a website to your browser and stored on your computer or device. Among its uses, cookies allow website operators to accumulate useful information, such as whether a user has visited the site before, and to show more relevant or personalized information when using the site.
We use cookies to help with the functioning and operation of our website, to recognize you and help us provide you with better and more relevant service, to maintain the site's integrity and security, and generally to facilitate the purposes identified in our Privacy Policy. This may include, for example, tracking how people use our website, and collecting information about the devices used when visiting the site. They also allow us to personalize your experience by recording information about your transactions, settings, and preferences during and across your visits.
We may also use certain other technological tools on our website that perform similar or related functions, such as web beacons, tags, and pixels (sometimes also referred to as clear gifs, pixel tags, and single-pixel gifs). For ease of reference, in this Policy we also refer to these technologies using the term "cookies".
Your control over cookies
We strive to provide you with choices regarding the personal information you provide to us. You can change your browser cookie preferences at any time through your browser settings. You may find out more about how to do this using common browsers at the following links:
Internet Explorer and Microsoft Edge
Adobe Flash
Many browsers also provide information about how to manage cookies in their "Help" sections.
Please bear in mind that if you don't allow us to use certain cookies it may limit your use or access to certain parts of our website or result in a loss of some features or functionality which degrades your experience.
What Cookies Does Our Site Use?
We use both persistent cookies (which expire on a specified date) and session cookies (which expire when you close your browser). The cookies used on this website have been categorized based on definitions given in the ICC UK Cookie Guide, as follows:
- Strictly necessary cookies. These are cookies that are required for the operation of our website. They are sometimes referred to as "required cookies".
- Analytical/performance cookies. These cookies allow us to track and analyze the use of the website such as to recognize and count our website's visitors and to see how visitors use and move around our website when they are using it. This helps us to improve the way our website works, for example, by ensuring that users can find what they are looking for easily. For example, we use Google Analytics performance cookies to provide anonymous statistics on how our site is used. Some of our performance cookies may be managed by third parties.
- Functionality cookies. These cookies are used to recognize you when you return to our website. This enables us to personalize our content for you, greet you and remember your login details and/or preferences (for example, your choice of language or region – or your cookies and marketing preferences).
- Targeting cookies. These cookies record your visit to our website, the pages you have visited and the links you have followed. They may be used to display relevant information or adverts to you based on the pages that you visit.
Please note that certain approved third parties (including, for example, providers of web traffic analysis services such as Google Analytics) may also use cookies (alone or in conjunction with other technologies), over which we have no control. If you have any questions about an advertisement or other targeted content, you should contact the responsible provider directly.
The following lists the cookies that may be placed on your computer or device when using our website:
Google Analytics
We use Google Analytics to measure user interactions with our website, record information about the pages that have been seen as well as other interactions with elements within that content.
- These cookies have a duration of up to 2 years.
- Please visit https://support.google.com/analytics/answer/6004245, under the heading "Google Analytics Cookies", to find out more information about how Google uses your personal data.
We use Hubspot to track our website activity and personalize the user journey whilst on our site. Specifically, Hubspot is used to facilitate the collection of contact information on sign-up forms throughout our website.
- These cookies have a duration of up to 1 year.
- To find out more about the types of cookies that Hubspot uses, visit their website by clicking here.
We use Hotjar to track our user's movement and activity on our website.
- These cookies have a duration of up to 1 year.
- To find out more about the two types of cookies that Hotjar uses, you can visit their website by clicking here.
New Relic
We use New Relic to track page load times on our website.
- These cookies expire immediately.
- To find out more about the two types of cookies that New Relic uses, you can visit their website by clicking here.
We use Cloudflare to increase the availability of our website during scheduled maintenance, instances of high-traffic, and outages.
- These cookies expire in 30 days.
- To find out more about the two types of cookies that Cloudflare uses, you can visit their website by clicking here.
We use cookies from Comm100 to help users interact with our sales and technical support representatives. Users can access and communicate with our representatives by clicking on the LiveChat option given on our website.
- These cookies do not expire.
We use Drupal to manage content and user experience on our website.
- These cookies expire immediately.
Changes to this Cookie Policy
We may alter this cookie policy at any time. Any such changes will become binding on you on your first use of our site after the changes have been made. You are therefore advised to check this page from time to time. In the event of any conflict between the current version of this cookie policy and any previous version(s), the provisions current and in effect shall prevail unless it is expressly stated otherwise.
Further Information
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Colo. internment camp marks 'terrible mistake' in WWII
GRANADA, Colo. — About as far away as you can get from anywhere in eastern Colorado sit the remnants of a largely forgotten chapter in American history: an internment camp where thousands of U.S. citizens were detained during World War II.
Their offense? Japanese heritage.
None of the approximately 7,300 Japanese Americans detained at Camp Amache, nearly 200 miles southeast of Denver, were accused on any crime.
Instead, driven by fears of traitors amid its own citizens, the federal government detained about 120,000 Japanese-American men, women and children for the war's duration. Many of the detainees were farmers from California who remained in Colorado after the war's end. Camp Amache was one of 10 detention sites.
Saturday, a handful of former Camp Amache detainees visited the site in an annual pilgrimage that grows smaller as each year passes.
"What they did to us was absolutely unconstitutional," said Robert Fuchigami, who was 12 when he and his family were forced to abandon their California farm. "The country made a terrible, terrible mistake."
Like thousands of others detained at the Granada Relocation Center, Fuchigami went to school, helped grow vegetables and watched as adult Japanese-American men volunteered for the military.
The camp, named after the Native American wife of an early settler of the area, was deliberately placed far from anywhere else. A rail line allowed camp managers to shuttle detainees in via train, many of them stumbling off the cars in the dark as they arrived. The camp was ringed by a barbed wire fence punctuated by guard towers and covered a square mile of dusty, scrubby land a few miles from the historic Santa Fe Trail.
Today, the barracks, dormitories and central buildings are gone, their crumbling concrete foundations marking the outline of what at the time was Colorado's 10th-largest city. For decades, local schoolteachers and children have been sharing the story of Camp Amache, and recently won it recognition as a National Historic Site.
A new guard tower looms over the detention center — "call it a concentration camp," says Fuchigami, now 84 and a Navy veteran and retired university professor — and interpretive plaques explain the site's history.
"When you talk about Colorado, everyone just thinks about skiing," said Ian DeBono, the retired superintendent of the local school district who volunteers with the Amache Preservation Society. "This is part of our history."
DeBono said that when he arrived in the area in the 1970s, some locals still used ethnic slurs to refer to the camp. Those attitudes have changed with education and the help of high school students who run the small interpretive museum, he said. The U.S. government formally apologized to those held in the relocation centers and paid reparations. And a 1982 congressional commission concluded there had never been any "military necessity" for the detention camps.
On Saturday morning, the American flag above a memorial stone fluttered in the stiff breeze as about 250 people made a pilgrimage to the site in honor of Asian-Pacific American Heritage Month. Placing flowers at the base of the gray stone, they bowed silently and paid homage to the people who lived and died at the camp.
The number of actual camp survivors dwindles each year, with only about 15 still alive in the Denver area. Another slightly larger group lives in California.
Fuchigami said this was likely his last visit. He said he's glad to see the newly erected guard tower standing over the site, because it helps visitors understand that the people living at the camp had no choice. When the camp was closed, residents were turned out with almost nothing, with nothing to return to.
"It was the growing pains of a young nation," Fuchigami said as he looked over the camp site one last time. "We make mistakes. The nation made mistakes. The loss of freedom is the worst thing that can happen."

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Today's date may take a little planning, but it will be oh, so worth it! We're planning to try this one while we're in the mountains. 🙂
Fall Date #7
Purchase or borrow an inflatable mattress if you can. Get a set of sheets, blankets, whatever you need to stay comfortable while outside. Set up your "bed" in a flat spot with a great view of the night sky.
Crawl into your warm spot and cuddle with each other while gazing heavenward.
Use this time to watch for a shooting star. When you finally see one, pray together to God asking for His help with all you're facing. Make this an intimate moment to connect together as you consider God's glorious majesty. For fun study up on some of the constellations and see if you can find the major ones.
Make sure you leave your phones in the house. No need to be distracted from this date night which is sure to give you a new perspective on whatever you may be facing.
Things to consider while stargazing:
- God knows every star by name.
- The limitlessness of space. God oversees it all, yet He knows you by name.
- The difference between the light and the dark. God's Truth dispels the darkness.
- How far reaching "forever" is. Space goes on for eternity. And God is greater than the stars and space you're considering.
When I look at your heavens, the work of your fingers,
the moon and the stars, which you have set in place,
what is man that you are mindful of him,
and the son of man that you care for him?
(Psalm 8:3-4 ESV)
This is post #7 in the CMBA 1/2 Marathon Blogging Challenge
to post for 13 days in October.


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Several years ago, my daughter was having a sleepover party for her birthday. She had the whole evening planned. Pizza, board games, cake, a game of Twister, and a movie.
Not just any movie, but, a classic: The Naughty Nineties, starring my personal favorite duo, Abbott and Costello. Who can forget the baseball routine, "Who's on first?" This iconic comedy bit debuted in their 1945 film, "The Naughty Nineties." Here's a clip:
So, my daughter's plan was to screen the movie. She couldn't wait to introduce her friends to this comedic duo, who had given us hours and hours of laughs and guffaws. But, no sooner did the opening credits start rolling, when one of her friends said this:
"Black and white!?? This movie better be so good I forget it's in black and white."
And with that, my daughter's excitement in sharing with her friends something she found thoroughly enjoyable was unceremoniously deflated, like a pin, pricked into a prized balloon.
Which makes me wonder, have black and white films become a relic of the past? Today's kids, accustomed to movies in color being the norm, not to mention 3D, and out-of-this-world special effects and graphics, seem to have little tolerance for the cinematic gems of the past. Or what I call, the golden age of the silver screen.
Yet, there's so much these films still have to offer. Granted, they may look dated, but many of the story lines still resonate. Why else would today's Hollywood moguls pore through the vaults of MGM, Paramount, and United Artists in search of movies to remake?
Films like, The Shop Around the Corner, 1940, which was remade into You've Got Mail, 1998; The Big Clock, 1948, became No Way Out, 1987; The Mummy, 1932 and 1999; The Day the Earth Stood Still, 1951 and 2008; King Kong, 1933 and 2005; Cape Fear, 1962 and 1991; and Father of the Bride, 1950 and 1991. And, that's just naming a few. In fact, plans are underway for a remake of one of my favorites, The Thin Man, which will star Johnny Depp. Yet, when all is said and done, there's nothing like the original.
Black and white dramas have timeless morals, and the comedies, wit and snappy banter that inevitably leads to a happy ending. The horror films are all the more exciting because they leave much to the imagination, and the singing and dancing are pure delight. It's not for naught that the American Film Institute's Top 100 films feature black and white movies in the top two spots: Citizen Kane and Casablanca.
If black and white cinema is a dying art (and thank heavens for The Artist for its attempt to revive it), then it's up to us to take a second look at the legacy these classics leave us, and share them with the youth in our lives.
So, the next time you have movie night with your family, consider staying home and watching a black and white film. Trust me, you watch them long enough and, frankly, you do end up forgetting they're in black and white. My kids started watching these films at a young age, and, as a result, black and white is second nature to them.
I have gathered a list of some of my favorites. They are in no particular order, and represent a smattering of the films my kids were raised on. Quite a few of these are Cary Grant films. (Hint: Look for the "CG.")
To Kill a Mockingbird
A Patch of Blue
All About Eve (Bette Davis at her best!)
Mr. Lucky (CG as a bad guy with a heart)
The Miracle Worker
Film Noir:
The Big Clock
The Postman Always Rings Twice
Double Indemnity
The Lost Weekend
Alfred Hitchcock (He's in a genre all by himself!):
Suspicion (CG)
Notorious (CG)
Shadow of a Doubt
Mystery & Crime:
The Thin Man (see the entire series before you see the Johnny Depp version)
The Roaring Twenties
The Spiral Staircase
Angels with Dirty Faces
White Heat
Some Like it Hot (gangsters and comedy)
Duck Soup
Here Comes Mr. Jordan (remade into Heaven Can Wait, starring Warren Beatty)
His Girl Friday (CG)
The Awful Truth (CG)
Mr. Blandings Builds His Dream House (CG)
The Time of their Lives
Arsenic and Old Lace (CG)
Cheaper by the Dozen
I Was a Male War Bride (you guessed it, CG)
Father of the Bride
Bringing Up Baby (CG)
So, are there any black and white films you recommend? Please add your favorites to the comment section below.


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Okay, so here we go with the Simon Pegg/Edgar Wright film that started off the whole shebang. Shaun of the Dead, that classic film that everyone and their mother owns (well my mom likes it in any case) truly is a spectacular romantic spoof about zombies. Let's see if I can remember back to the first time I watched it…
Back when I first laid eyes on this film, I'm pretty sure I had no idea who Simon Pegg was. I hadn't seen Spaced (not until much later) and I was woefully unaware of what hilarious
antics lay before me in this film. Leave it to the British to be so damn clever that they turn a zombie movie into one of the funniest films of the last 10 years (soon to be followed by Hot Fuzz). The first in what hopes to be a trilogy entitled "The Three Flavours Cornetto Trilogy" (every film so far has featured a Cornetto), I laughed hysterically (or at least I think I did back in 2004) to Shaun of the Dead.
Fantastic plot ensuing. Shaun (Simon Pegg) has an average life with a girlfriend, Liz (Kate Ashfield) who expects a bit more from their relationship. Ed (Nick Frost) lives in a shared flat with Shaun and their dickish roommate Pete (Peter Serafinowicz), and every night ends at the Winchester pub. After Shaun was supposed to finally arrange a nice night out, he messes up after a scrambled day at work, and Liz breaks it off with him. Planning on doing anything to get her back, Shaun and Ed wake up the next day to a zombie apocalypse. Guess things'll be a bit more complicated than planned.
Let's start with the filming. This movie, which, in my adolescence I thought was directed by Simon Pegg, was creatively done by Edgar Wright. With the combined writing and direction powers of
Wright/Pegg, there's nothing they couldn't do. This movie uses interesting and dramatic quick cuts, ominously toned music at ironic parts, and comedic timing within the camera angles and cuts. It does mean a lot for a camera's direction and cinematography to dictate the pacing and comedy of a film. This one has that. You'll see the same thing in Hot Fuzz (a more action-y edge) and Edgar Wright's Scott Pilgrim vs The World (a review I did a while ago).
The cast is also full of a bunch of wonderful British actors. Of course there's the Simon Pegg/ Nick Frost bromance/friendship duo. It's the only couple in Hollywood that I would consciously ship together despite just being two men who are friends. You have Dylan Moran, star of Black Books and the recently reviewed A Film With Me in It. This Irish actor plays the dick and four eyes, David. But he's a lot more than that and shows up in other Simon Pegg vehicles. I give this guy his props, he's damn funny. There's Lucy Davis who plays the slightly slow failed actress, Dianne. Most British comedy fans will know of her from the UK's Office as Dawn, one of my favorites (I currently worship Ricky Gervais). There's Bill Nighy, POTC's Davy Jones and Underworld's head vamp and one of my mom's favorite British actors. A cameo is made by Rafe Spall, son of Timothy Spall as Noel, one of Shaun's co-workers at the tech shop. He's slimmed down a bit for other roles and most recently
appeared in Prometheus (you gotta check him out, he's going places).
This movie's just a great watch and gets better every time you watch it with inside jokes and new groups of friends tuning in. (At least in my experience.) There's nothing wrong with it, and it delivers on the horror fan and comedy fan that both dwell within me. If you're any sort of a geek and love sci-fi/video games/movies/fantasy, this movie is for you. It's a cricket bat to the head and worth all the injuries. 9.3 out of 10.


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Law and Crucible by Ioana Visan - Book Blitz + Giveaway
Law and Crucible Saga 1 & 2 & 3 by Ioana Visan
Release Day Blitz Date: December 15
Series: Law and Crucible Saga
Titles: No Port to Land, Point of Origin, Bonds of Steel
Author: Ioana Visan
Release Date: December 15, 2015
Genre: Science Fiction, Space Opera
Length: Novella, short story
No Port to Land
Nia is one of the few souls left aboard a drifting tomb known as The Pacific. The spaceship carries a deadly plague, and by the time they receive a distress call from an approaching shuttle, they are all close to losing hope they might ever escape alive. When the will of the shuttle crew and that of the survivors on The Pacific clash, Nia has to pick a side to save what she holds most dear.
Goodreads: https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/27400618-no-port-to-land
Amazon: http://www.amazon.com/dp/B017DT8LJM
Point of Origin
Suffering from neural degeneration, Thea is fading away in an asylum with no hope of ever leaving it.
When Captain Law offers her an opportunity to board his ship in return for her help, the astrophysicist is faced with having to learn to trust them or end up in another asylum with slim chance for recovery. And then her secret will be lost.
With a contract that they are desperate to obtain and a rogue asteroid in enemy territory, Captain Law and his crew must keep Thea free from harm, but a missing crew member and a band of misfits thwart their efforts and send them on a mission no one was prepared for.
Can Thea and Captain Law learn to work together for one goal or will long-held secrets and mistrust shake their resolve and destroy their efforts?
Goodreads: https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/27400633-point-of-origin
Amazon: http://www.amazon.com/dp/B017ERF84E
Bonds of Steel
On a routine trip across the asteroid field, the robot, Del, and unregistered AI, Vee, meet trouble. With Captain Law and his crew having been put into stasis, their only chance of survival will mean placing themselves at the mercy of what few resources they have. Without a human to assist them, Del and Vee will be vulnerable and so too will the ship and all the lives on board.
Despite their best efforts to avoid unwanted visitors, another ship is en route. Their arrival does not guarantee the safety of those on board, and may ultimately lead to their demise.
With his position on the ship on the line, can Del stave off an attack or are their deaths inevitable?
Goodreads: https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/27400651-bonds-of-steel
Amazon: http://www.amazon.com/dp/B017ERSKTO
Price: $0.99 each
Free with Kindle Unlimited
About the Author:
Award-winning writer Ioana Visan has always dreamed about reaching the stars, but since she can't, she writes about it.
After fighting the apocalypse aftermath in Human Instincts, she played with shapeshifters in Blue Moon Café Series: Where Shifters Meet for Drinks, she dealt with vampires in The Impaler Legacy series, she designed prosthetics in Broken People, and she helped wingless fairies in The Weight of a Wing before tackling a space opera saga.
Aside from publishing short stories in various Romanian magazines and anthologies, she published a Romanian short story collection, Efectul de nautil, and the Romanian edition of Human Instincts.
She received the Encouragement Award from The European Science Fiction Society at Eurocon 2013.
Social Links:
Website: http://www.ioanavisan.tk
Blog: http://weirdvision2001.blogspot.com
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/AuthorIoanaVisan
Twitter: https://twitter.com/weirdvision
Amazon: http://amazon.com/author/ioanavisan
Goodreads: http://www.goodreads.com/ioanavisan
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Steve Gillmor had the founders of FriendFeed on the Gillmor Gang yesterday. Lots of interesting info about what they are thinking about.
Also yesterday Jeremiah Owyang also visited FriendFeed's offices and came away with an interesting post about MicroMemes.
We're talking about the Gillmor Gang and whether or not you think Steve Gillmor is a rude host here on FriendFeed. Listen in at minute 50 where Marc Canter gets after him for trying to tell FriendFeed what to do.


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Today we're conducting the first part of an interview with Maddie Dawson, author of the novel The Stuff That Never Happened. Kimberly Caldwell (KC) asks the questions in this stage of the interview.
1. KC: The Stuff That Never Happened is about a woman who weighs the allure of an old lover against the solid dependability of a marriage she seems to be outgrowing. Where did the idea for the novel come from? Is it autobiographical?
MD: I suppose in some senses, all novels have autobiographical elements in them. Authors are always using their own experiences as springboards for the torture we put our characters through. That being said, nothing specifically about Annabelle's situation is anything like my life. But I was once in love with a man who, while not precisely married, had little children and a complicated life with the mother of those children… and we had a crazy, up and down relationship for a long time, with lots of drama and thrills and chills until the day we finally broke up for good. And then one day, fifteen years later, I got on a train and there he was, in a nearly empty train car, and we had a two-hour ride together. It seemed almost pre-designed by a kindly universe to give us a chance to look at what had been, to compare our lives – and to reflect about what it had all meant.
Frankly, it didn't mean very much. (Real life can be so boring sometimes.) He was as impossible as I remembered, vague and noncommittal, and just as infuriating to talk to as he ever was. We parted, both of us grateful, I think, that things hadn't worked out for us way back when. Still, it got me doing that thing I've been doing my whole life: thinking how much more interesting things might be if life was a novel. After that, it seemed everywhere I looked everybody had a what-if person tucked away, someone to think about when real life seemed unsatisfying.
And so the character of Annabelle was born, a woman who married too young to Grant, a man she barely knew, and who then fell in love with someone else during the first year of her marriage. After a time apart, Annabelle and Grant manage to reunite and go on to have a happy life together, raising children and creating a stable life and community in his home town in New Hampshire. They make a pact never to speak about Annabelle's betrayal again, to pretend it just never happened so that they can go on.
What I was mostly interested in exploring in this novel was what came next for Annabelle and Grant: the stuff that came after the kids leave home, after their family responsibilities are over. It's then that the cracks in their marriage really become apparent. Grant realizes the sacrifice he'd made in his career to stay married to Annabelle and feels compelled to catch up; Annabelle realizes that she's stifled in a life that no longer seems to need her, and she senses Grant's long, leftover anger.
But what is one to do? Are we just supposed to settle for living with past memories, or do we still have a life ahead of us to create? After twenty-eight years together, is it even possible to start over? To me, that's when the story really begins: with Annabelle's realization that she doesn't know anymore what she owes herself and what she owes Grant and her children; what she will lose by remaining unhappy in her marriage, or by venturing out into the unknown, or traveling back to the past.
2. KC: How did you decide how to present the story? When you began did you know what Annabelle's decision would be?
MD: Ha! What an interesting question! As it happens, I didn't know what Annabelle's decision would be. Sometimes I thought she would stay with her husband, but there were times I was sure that her old lover had been the right one for her. For a while, when I was writing, I thought maybe she'd end up with neither of them – a woman alone making her way through the world. I just kept writing, sure that one answer would emerge. And as happens in novels – unlike real life – things finally seemed to settle themselves clearly in one direction over the other. I've heard from lots of readers who have said they were so relieved at the way it turned out, but I have one dear friend who says she still wishes Annabelle had made the other decision.
As for the presentation of the story, I wrote it in two periods: the past, 1978-80, when Annabelle and Grant first met as students at the University of California at Santa Barbara (UCSB) and impulsively married and moved to New York, and then in the present, 2005, when their lives are settled in New Hampshire and their children have left home. I wanted to tell it this way because both time periods were equally compelling to me. I didn't want to simply tell the 1970s stuff in flashback, but to let the events unfold as part of the main story.
3. KC: What makes novels about other people's relationships compelling?
MD: I think we're all hungry for details of other people's stories. And, let's face it, romantic relationships carry an extra wallop of mystery to them. How many times do you look at couples you know and think, "What in the world can they possibly see in each other?" Perhaps we're trying to answer that mystery at the heart of ourselves: why am I with this particular person? Will we be able to last? Do we have it better or worse than other people?
In novels, I think, relationships make sense. They have reason and nuance, and we can peek in other people's insides and compare them to our own. I love riding around in someone else's head for a while. It helps me to understand myself much better.
To be continued… (In the concluding section of this interview, we have four additional questions for Maddie to answer.)


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alaskan cruise, Celebrity Infinity, Glacier Bay, Hubbard glacier, Icy Straight, Junea, Ketchikan
I feel like an expert having just gotten back from an Alaskan and I want to share what I learned and help others avoid possible mistakes in planning their dream vacation. And an Alaskan cruise has the potential to be the best vacation you've taken!
Selecting Your Cruise Line and Itinerary
For us we wanted to leave and return to Vancouver and be on a ship that had more than 4 stars as a rating. That lead us to Celebrity and their ship the Infinity. We picked a cruise that went to Icy Strait, Hubbard Glacier, Juneau and Ketchikan with 2 full days at sea. I book through Vacations To Go – they never disappoint me with their knowledge and prices. My guy Johnston was fantastic so let me know if you want his details.
Veranda or No Veranda? Concierge Class or Regular?
It can be very overwhelming when trying to decide what type of room to book especially when the prices can start to get pretty steep. One thing that is a must for this cruise is a Veranda room – do not miss out on sitting on your veranda with a glass of wine looking at a humpback whale forage for herring with mountains as the backdrop. We went with the concierge class and were treated to upgraded sheets and pillows, priority getting off at ports, a bottle of bubbly in our room when we arrived and a concierge if we needed one.
How do I plan for Shore Excursions?
I learned an important lesson (or a few with this cruise). First, not all excursions are offered through the cruise line. There are hundreds but you might find something you want to do that is through a non-affiliated company so do your research. I found a kayaking trip I wanted to do two days before we left. Sadly for me I didn't book it right away and that is lesson two. If there is something you really want to do, don't delay. Some of these tours can only accommodate a half dozen people per outing and most days there were three ships in port. Next lesson is a bit contradictory to lesson one. You don't have to book everything on the first day. I booked before getting on the ship then went to an advance session for Concierge Class travellers (another perk) that gave me a sneak peak and ran down to book before the mob. Unfortunately I didn't pay attention to the deadlines and when we thought we might want to cancel we couldn't get a refund. (It all worked out in the end though!)
Budget for More Spending On Board
We were lucky enough to get two bonus items on our package and we selected the booze package and gratuities with a $50 onboard credit. Well, we still managed to spend quite a bit with our excursions, a trip to the spa, onboard shopping, an upgrade to the classic beverage package and a bottle of Evian in our room (another learning there, get the water at the bar since the one in your room is not on your package!)
I'd love to hear your tips for cruising since I plan to do it again and if you have questions for me I'd be happy to help, if I can! More on my trip in the coming days and weeks.


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There have been so many false starts to this post. Nearly a year and a half of them, in fact. I have not been sure how to say… that I don't know what to say? Or that I do know, or at least have, so many things to say, but I am not sure which are the ones that need to be heard instead of just said, and which are the ones better reserved for other people's platforms, and which are the ones that are something more than mourning or thanking or crying out at a country and a culture that my passport says I still belong to but that the city I wake up in says I am no longer directly a part of.
There are blogs – or novels, short stories, poem collections, opuses even – that we write because we need them. They are stepping stones and mirrors. They are amplifiers and training wheels. They are rants, and lullabies. They are lines on a wall, etched proof in a door frame that we are, hopefully, growing up.
Quill Aquiver was a blog I started while certainly down in the well of still finding myself. That process has by no means been completed, but the woman I am, writing this post now, is a vastly different shape from the woman who made that first post so many years ago. What her life looks like, what the entire world looks like, is so different.
What I need to write now, is different.
I would not call this leaving, but developing. I was a chasing creature back when I first started this blog and, having since found a fair amount more footing, the present motion of me is not so much a sprint as it is a climb. It's still a screaming slog of passion and persistence, sure, but the muscles I've got these days are more for pulling myself up than they are for running away.
It doesn't mean I don't still wander. While I've tried to quell escape, explore is always there, at the core of me.
I'm telling stories about it, too.
For everyone who's read along these many years of Quill Aquiver – thank you. Deeply. You have been so much better than a void. If you'd like to keep pacing along with me, I may hop back here from time to time, but I will be launching most of my spare literary efforts into a new blog that I intend to be a mix of professional chat, vagabonding stories, and cultural reflection. There will be an appreciable number of photos of Scotland and her mountains. Probably a lot of cows. Hopefully a dog or two. Maybe a cat. Occasionally.
No longer an author held in suspension, I now write as The Nomad Vet.
So, all you readers, again – thank you.
Now, let's go.


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Romeo, doff thy name!
Above: Valter Fissore of Elvio Cogno (Novello) single-handedly delivered the Nascetta grape from oblivion after he tasted a wine made using this once highly praised grape in 1991. The wine had been bottled in 1986.
It's regrettable that when I tasted the Nascetta grape for the first time last year, it was served to me ice cold and was described as a "light-bodied white wine."
While in Piedmont in March of this year, I happily learned that Nascetta is actually a noble white grape variety that can produce long-lived, structured wines. And I had the great fortune to taste Valter Fissore's excellent 2001 bottling — a nearly decade-old expression of this grape. In my notes, I wrote "rosemary, sage, petrol," and was blown away by the structure of the wine, its lively acidity, and most of all its gorgeous, unctuous mouthfeel.
Yesterday, in a wonderful post on drinking the last extant bottling of a vintage, Cory nudged me to fulfill a promise to explore the origins of the name. And so here it is.
First of all, a little history.
The name Nascetta was coined by 19th-century Piedmontese enologist Giovanni Gagna (left, 1833-1881), who believed erroneously that the grape was related to the Sardinian grape Nasco (from the Sardinian nuscu, from the Latin muscus, meaning moss). Remember: for the better part of the 18th and 19th centuries, Sardinia, Nice, Savoy, and Piedmont were ruled by the House of Savoy (the Kingdom of Sardinia), with its court in Turin and so commerce between Sardinia and Piedmont was fluid during that period.
In 1877, Count Giovanni di Rovasenda listed the grape using its dialectal name, Anascetta, in his landmark Saggio di una ampelografia universale (Essay on Universal Ampelography). The fact that he uses the dialectal inflection of Gagna's name for the grape is an indication of how popular the grape was in Piedmont at that time, when it was commonly blended with Favorita (Vermentino) and Moscato. (In Piedmontese dialect, an initial a is added to certain words to compensate for syncopated, i.e., lost vowels; in this case, the acquisition of the initial a would appear hypercorrective, a phenomenon not uncommon in the morphology of Piedmontese.)
Here's where it gets a little complicated.
Above: The confusion regarding the name of this grape was created in part by Valter's frustration with labeling requirements. In 2001, he bottled the wine as a non-vintage vino da tavola (table wine) because the grape was not yet authorized for the Langhe Bianco DOC appellation.
Let's start with some chronology:
1991 – Valter tastes a bottling of 1986 by farmer Francesco Marengo (Novello).
1994 – Valter produces 800 bottles from his own planting of the grape, labeled as Nas-cetta; following this vintage, Valter is forced to stop labeling the wine as Nas-cetta after he is fined for listing an unauthorized grape variety name on the label.
2000 – Nascetta (the grape) is added to the catalog of authorized grape varieties for Langhe.
2004 – Valter bottles the wine as Langhe Bianco DOC but cannot list the grape variety on the label; he labels the wine "Anas-cëtta" using a "fantasy" name because the grape is not authorized for the Langhe Bianco DOC labeling (it's authorized for the blend but not the label).
2010 – After Valter's successful lobbying, the 2010 vintage will be first labeled as Langhe Nascetta [sic] DOC.
Above: Valter's Nascetta is an excellent value for a structured, age-worthy white. Be sure to serve it at cellar or room temperature.
When I asked Valter directly about his use of diacritics (in this case the umlaut and the hyphen), he told me flatly that he introduced them in the labeling for purely proprietary reasons. The mutation of the grape names Nascetta and Anascetta was inspired by his frustration with labeling requirements. The good news is that the confusion has been resolved and this noble white grape will be labeled as "Langhe Nascetta DOC" beginning with the 2010 vintage.
While in Piedmont in March, I also tasted another excellent bottling of Nascetta by Rivetto.
Be sure to read Cory's post on the last bottle of 2001 and Whitney's post, too.
… O, be some other name!
What's in a name? that which we call a rose
By any other name would smell as sweet;
So Romeo would, were he not Romeo call'd,
Retain that dear perfection which he owes
Without that title. Romeo, doff thy name,
And for that name which is no part of thee
Take all myself.


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Coast to Coast: The FWBL Tryouts
"El Duque" Orlando Hernandez (center) watches the Florida Winter Baseball League tryouts Saturday at Historic Sanford Memorial Stadium in Sanford, Florida.
The Florida Winter Baseball League held its second of two tryouts on Saturday. The first was two weeks ago in Miami. Demand was so high, a second tryout was scheduled.
The FWBL is an attempt to create a viable professional winter league here in the United States so players won't have to go to the Dominican Republic, Puerto Rico or Venezuela. The season begins October 30 and has a 60-game schedule.
League officials tell me they have verbal commitments from 13 of the 30 Major League Baseball organizations to provide players, mostly from the lower minor league levels. The league itself is independent of MLB, so right now it's scouting and signing players from the independent leagues, or those who have been released.
Space Coast Surge general manager Sean Boudreaux (left) and Global Scouting Bureau president James Gamble evaluate players during Saturday's workout.
Some players have been signed without a tryout, based on past performance or scouting reports. The FWBL has partnered with the Global Scouting Bureau, an independent outfit out of Louisiana, to find and sign players.
Although they've been reluctant to tell me who are the investors behind the league, some prominent baseball names have publicly associated themselves with the effort. Ken Griffey Sr. is the league commissioner, and it's been made very clear to me he's more than a figurehead. Former Cincinnati Reds slugger George Foster will manage the Lake County team. And former major league star pitcher "El Duque" Orlando Hernandez is apparently one of the investors.
Hernandez was quite actively involved in Saturday's tryouts. He was all over the field injecting his opinion into how things should be run, offering advice to the tryout players, and acting as a mentor for the Latin players.
I haven't seen any former Angels minor leaguers yet, although I was told two former players are possible signees.
As for the stadium used for the tryout, it sounded awfully familiar. A visit to the stadium's web site reminded me that Sanford is the home town of popular former Angels infielder David Eckstein.
Saturday's tryout was supposed to be limited to 100 players, but about another 20 walked up. They had to wait until everyone who pre-registered showed (or didn't show), and then they were allowed to sign up. Some guys showed up by prior arrangement. A couple Latin players were referred by Hernandez.
Everyone was fed at lunch time with cheese pizza from a local pizzeria while the scouts made the first round of cuts. An afternoon game was played, nine innings, with 18 pitchers given one inning each. No one scored, as base runners weren't allowed past third base, and the batting cage was kept in place so the scouts could stand behind it and watch. (The cage was a major buzz killer for photography …)
I'd guess that about a half-dozen players were offered contracts at day's end. The scouts made it clear that others might be offered contracts later, or might be on a depth list if a player is needed later in the season. I saw a couple pitchers I thought had decent enough stuff, although few came close to, say, Tom Kotchman's Rookie-A Orem Owlz talent.
If you're thinking these guys sound like the bottom of the barrel … you're right. But every once in a while, the independent leagues help to resurrect a player's career. It's more common for major league organizations to reach into the independent leagues to acquire players to fill out rosters, especially at the Double-A and Triple-A level, to surround top prospects with experienced players.
If nothing else, I would expect this league to help place some players with major league organizations for the next minor league spring training. After that, their talent will take them as far as it can.
Players stretch at the beginning of Saturday's workout.
Click Here to watch an interview with Jake Leonhardt, an independent player who signed at Saturday's workout. Windows Media Player and a broadband (cable modem, DSL) Internet connection are required. A Houston native, Leonhardt formerly pitched in the Astros system and travelled here from Texas to qualify for the league.


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Since the AKP came to power in 2002, it has been increasingly fashionable to declare that Kemalism – Turkey's dominant political ideology since the founding of the republic in 1923 – is on life support. Successive governments have paid lip service to Kemalism, particularly since the military has always viewed itself as the ultimate guardian of Kemalist principles and crossing Kemalist red lines has been the best way to precipitate a military coup, but the AKP is viewed as hollowing out Kemalism through its electoral dominance. Most people immediately associate Kemalism with secularism and Westernization, and whether it be the AKP's battle to make wearing a headscarf acceptable in universities or the controversial decision to allow middle schoolers to attend imam hatip religious schools, the government certainly does not appear to feel that Kemalism should constrain its policies.
It is not just the AKP, however, that has embraced this trend. The opposition CHP, which was essentially created to translate the precepts of Kemalism into tangible policies, has also seemed to go through a post-Kemalist phase. In July, CHP leader Kemal Kılıçdaroğlu defended charges that his party has moved away from Kemalism by declaring that Kemalism is a dynamic ideology and that he rejects a "traditional" interpretation of Kemalism. Kılıçdaroğlu's elevation to CHP leader was widely viewed as heralding a new direction for the party, which has been out of power for decades, and part of this new direction was a greater focus on social liberalism and less of a focus on traditional Kemalist principles.
Kemalism, however, was always about much more than secularism, and the CHP's current line of attack against the government demonstrates that Kemalist principles still carry some weight. Kemalism has six arrows, and the two that bear on recent events are republicanism and populism. Republicanism meant popular sovereignty, freedom, and legal equality, and stood in stark opposition to the Ottoman sultanate and caliphate. While Atatürk's idea of republicanism was based on the French model, the pre-democratic reality of Turkish republicanism was a paternalistic dictatorship containing aspects of liberal rule. Republicanism in the Kemalist sense meant sovereignty of the people as the basis of the state rather than sovereignty of the sultan, and the idea that the state existed to further the advancement of its citizens rather than the glory of a royal dynasty. Connected to this was the idea of populism, which was the notion that the Turkish people should be mobilized in the name of social progress and modernity, but also encapsulated a sense of solidarity among disparate societal or professional groups. Unity was essential in Atatürk's mind to building a modern state, and he believed that only through popular unity and solidarity had Turkey achieved its independence. Populism was operationalized in a way that would ensure unity among different groups and eliminate class conflict by enacting socioeconomic and educational reforms meant to achieve equality and social mobility. This tied into republicanism, since equality and unity required the rejection of the Ottoman sultanate as it privileged a ruling class above the people. It was also a response to Marxism and the concept of revolutionary class struggle, and was meant to forestall any such possibility in Turkey. Throughout the 1930s, populism was used to push off dealing with potentially disruptive social issues by repeating that there were no class or social fissures in Turkey, and among the six principles of Kemalism this was the one that gained the most widespread acceptance prior to WWII.
During the parliamentary debate yesterday over the next budget, the Kılıçdaroğlu accused Prime Minister Erdoğan of running roughshod over republican principles by trying to circumvent the Grand National Assembly's role in budget planning. Kılıçdaroğlu claimed that Erdoğan and the AKP are trying to elevate themselves above the republic, which Erdoğan vehemently denied and said that making comparisons between Turkey's economic performance under the AKP and Turkey's economic performance in decades prior is intended only to demonstrate how the AKP has improved Turkey. This seems like a strange argument to be having, as there shouldn't be a question as to whether the current government is part and parcel of the republic or not, yet it can be understood in the context of Kemalism and whether or not the AKP is adhering to its tenets. Republicanism was meant to forestall exactly the charge that Kılıçdaroğlu is hurling at the government, of placing its own glory above the good of the people and the state, and the fact that it appears to have hit a nerve with Erdoğan demonstrates just how ingrained Kemalism really is. The CHP is attempting to tar the AKP with only looking out for its own interests, and Erdoğan's response has been that the AKP's success is actually Turkey's success and the republic's success, which feeds directly into the Kemalist republican ideal. Similarly, the debate involves populism as well, since the idea of popular solidarity and unity is violated by the AKP's claiming economic success as uniquely its own.
In a world in which Kemalism was defunct, none of this would really matter; in fact, it would be perfectly natural for a party to crow about its economic success and use it as a tool with which to hammer its opponents. The fact that Erdoğan felt the need yesterday to reiterate his commitment to the republic and that Kılıçdaroğlu was nakedly appealing to two of the six tenets of Kemalism in order to score political points demonstrates that for all of the talk about post-Kemalist Turkey, shaking off decades of Kemalist ideological hegemony is easier said than done. As much as the AKP may want to water down the secularist component of Kemalism, the rest of it is still very much intact.


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Preparers tell IASB: Disclosure requirements too extensive
Financial statement preparers' concerns about disclosure overload came through loud and clear in a survey recently conducted by the International Accounting Standards Board (IASB).
Most preparers participating in the survey said the primary problem with the way financial information is disclosed is that disclosure requirements are too extensive, and more needs to be done to exclude immaterial information.
The IASB released results of the survey ahead of a public forum discussion it has scheduled for Monday on disclosures in financial reporting. The forum will be held in London, and will be available by webcast at the IASB's site.
Respondents from Africa, Asia, Europe and North America participated in the survey. About half of the respondents were preparers, and about one in five was a financial statement user.
More than 80% said improvements could be made to the way financial information is disclosed. Half of those respondents said improvements are needed across all parts of the annual report, not just the financial statements.
Many financial statement users said preparers could do more to improve the communication of relevant information in financial statements instead of leaving users to sift through large amounts of data.
A variety of views on the causes of disclosure overload were identified. Some respondents said accounting standards could be improved. Others said preparers, auditors and regulators are approaching financial reporting as a compliance exercise rather than as a means of communication.
IASB Chairman Hans Hoogervorst said in a statement that the survey "indicated a need for standard-setters, auditors, preparers, regulators and investors to work together in order to deliver much-needed improvements to all disclosures, not just those contained within the financial statements."
In a financial reporting world grappling with increased complexity, the IASB is not the only standard-setter trying to come up with solutions for disclosure overload. In the US, the Financial Accounting Standards Board (FASB) also is in the midst of a project designed to streamline disclosures in the footnotes to financial statements.
The comment period on FASB's Invitation to Comment ended in November. A comment letter from CFO G. Scott Spendlove of Texas-based petroleum refining company Tesoro illustrated the scope of the disclosure problem. Spendlove's letter said the number of pages in Tesoro's Form 10-K statement grew 36% from 2005 to 2011.
—Ken Tysiac (email@example.com) is a CGMA Magazine senior editor.


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While poking around my Google settings yesterday looking at advertising, I stumbled on a new link titled "Account Activity".
This was new to me and caught my immediate attention.
I do enjoy a good walk through data and statistics.
The report, when you request it, generates information from the past month and sends you an email when it's ready for viewing. Major categories in the report include:
- Account sign-ins (see above)
- Authentication Changes
- Gmail
- Google Calendar
- Location History
- Web History
- YouTube
Resting your mouse over the quick summaries reveals even more details.
So, here's the rest of the story with respect to Platforms.
A couple of immediate uses come to mind other than just pure fascination about the connections made (and how much time spent online…)
- If you suspect that you've been hacked, check out the locations of your logins. The United States reference for me would have come from my recent trip to the CSTA Conference;
- Encourage students to check their own activity. If there was any doubt that being online is an anonymous activity, this would immediately disprove that notion.
Fascinating stuff. Check out your own by logging into your Google account and visiting this link. https://www.google.com/settings/activity/ and clicking on the activity link.
Related articles
- What About Them Ads? (dougpete.wordpress.com)
- Monitoring Your Google Account Login History Can Help Keep Your Account Secure (technorms.com)
- 25 Ways to Use Google (That You've Never Heard Of) (rasmussen.edu)


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Wahlberg hopes Jennifer Esposito is 'doing good'
NEW YORK (AP) — Donnie Wahlberg hopes his "Blue Bloods" co-star Jennifer Esposito is OK, but has no idea when, or if, she's returning to the show.
CBS suspended the actress from the police drama, claiming she can't fulfill the full-time demands of the show. Esposito fired back over Twitter accusing the network of "absolutely shameful behavior."
For the time being, her role as Wahlberg's partner is being rotated by new characters played by Megan Ketch and Megan Goode.
When asked about the change, the actor deflected the question.
"Danny Reagan gets around. He likes girls a lot."
Wahlberg made the comments on the red carpet of the International Emmy Awards.
He said of Esposito: "She's a friend and I hope she's doing good. I love working with her, so we'll see what happens."


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Last week, Netflix CEO Reed Hastings spoke vaguely of wanting Netflix to be part of your cable package. Now Reuters cites unnamed sources saying Hastings might actually be negotiating that deal under our noses.
Apple's Vision Pro Seems Powerful, But Who Is It For? | Future Tech
Netflix joining forces with the very cable companies is a weird notion, but ultimately makes sense. Studios, networks, and even the cable companies have proven very hostile towards supplying consumers, and even the streaming video services, with a wide selection of on-demand content. And if they're going to lose directly as a result of a lack of good movies, they might as well make it back through the cable companies as an added-value type of service. [Reuters via Techmeme]


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"The Hara is located at the navel, about two inches inwards from the skin. It is the gateway into the etheric envelope surrounding the planet. The Hara is the center of the etheric or chi body, it is a ball of energy that directly connects to the earth. It is about an inch in diameter and is the gateway into the ocean of chi. Around the Hara and with it as the center there is an envelope of energy called the 'tan tien' or Dantien. This tan tien or dantien is a ball of etheric energy about the size of a soccer ball. It is filled from the Hara and is often called 'the cauldron' in Taoist alchemical texts. This ball of energy interacts with all the organs and especially the intestines as it is where food is turned into energy. Energy is taken from the food and mixed in the tan tien or cauldron before being distributed throughout the body. Having the Hara open and a 'full' tan tien or dantien is vital for real health and vitality. Unfortunately most people have many Samskaras and energetic blockages in this area and the 'fullness' that should be felt in the tan tien is absent. This is the main cause of many addictions especially to food. Constantly eating and overeating are an attempt to feel full despite a blocked Hara and empty tan tien."
~Lisa Renee
The Hara Center is located at the navel, about two inches inwards from the skin. It is the gateway into the etheric envelope surrounding the planet. The Hara Center is the center of the etheric body where the Monad seats itself. It is about an inch in diameter and is the gateway into the ocean of life force or chi. Around the Hara Center and with it as the center there is an envelope of energy called the 'tan tien' or Dantien. This tan tien or dantien is a ball of etheric energy about the size of a soccer ball. It is filled from the Hara Line. [1]
Rebuilding Pranic Tube in Hara Line
For those of us on the ascension pathway we are undergoing shifts in the architecture of our Violet Ray flame, crown chakra and our pranic tube. The prana tube runs the movement of our breath in the same direction with the central vertical channel of which our chakra cones attach at their center. Our chakras are very much designed like circular flower petals with seed crystals in its center. The crystal seed of our chakra flower is attached to the central vertical channel and the "prana", the breath of life, runs in circular patterns throughout our vertical channel and our chakras when we are healthy and in energetic balance. When we focus on our breath through meditation we can redirect the life force in the prana tube to circulate in the central channel and vitalize these energy centers. One of the most effective ways to balance the breath through both the right and left channels of the brain center, sinus, and nasal passages is through "pranayama"alternate nostril breathing. [2]
Clear Blockages
Moving blockages from the lower energy centers and emphasis on clearing the astral body and its centers generally can bring significant relief. Focus your mind upon the natural movement of the kundalini, which starts in the back tailbone ( male principle), moves up the spine, past the neck, stops at the top lip and changes polarity moving down the front of the body ( female principle) from the top lip to the tailbone. This circular movement of energy is the "microcosmic orbit", of which all life force moves in our central column or hara line. By focusing your mind gently in meditation on its natural circular movement , intend to move and clear blockages as you strengthen the inner pathway of the life force flow. [3]
Microcosmic Orbit
Practicing the Microcosmic Orbit Scanning procedure starts with breathing and focusing on the Tailbone, slowly running up the back of the spine and down the front channel, while looking for or sensing energetic weakness. When energetic weakness is found, intend to correct weakness and use mental focus to say, "Correct nadial control panel" or "correct nadial complex". The Microcosmic orbit is the circular energetic flow moving up the spine which completes a moving circuit at the perineum. Because the spine and spinal nerves, CNS are the main control factor of every function in the body, this exercise is suggested to strengthen the energy moving in the center channel. Practice scanning for energetic weaknesses and focusing upon the main central channel, following the micro cosmic orbit path on the main energy channels, to complete and strengthen the internal energy circuit, place the tip of the tongue on the upper palate while continuing to focus on strengthening the circular movement in the main channel. [4]
- May 2007 Newsletter
- Spiritual Sun behind the Sun
- Shadow Body Fragments
- Hara Center
See Also:
Microcosmic Orbit Scanning
Term found in HGS Manual: Page 24/66
~via Ascension Glossary