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Blanton was smart to seek assistance when she found out her landlord’s house had gone into foreclosure, but observers say many renters aren’t aware of the rights they maintain in such situations.
Often, the first they hear of a foreclosure is when they receive a notice that the house is going to be sold in a sheriff’s sale.
Even after a sheriff’s sale, tenants typically would have at least six months — the period when mortgage holders can redeem their properties — before being legally forced out of the house. During that time, even if the bank has bought the house back, homeowners still have the right, if they can, to catch up on payments, Vraa says.
Because such situations were a relative rarity, before he could give advice, Vraa says, he used to have to look up in a legal manual the rules regarding tenants falling victim to landlord foreclosures. In 2005, for example, HOME Line took 51 calls on foreclosure issues. A year later, there were 86. Then, from Jan. 1, 2007, through March 31, 2008, the number of calls mushroomed to 750. As of June, the number was on pace to hit 1,100 this year alone.
With foreclosures still on the rise, state legislators passed several measures last session aimed at fortifying tenants’ rights. Rep. Joe Mullery, DFL-Minneapolis, had commissioned five working groups to review issues surrounding foreclosure. One of them was a tenant group that proposed a series of bills that will improve the instructions and information tenants will receive when their landlords go into foreclosure. The new laws also provide the option of paying utilities so they can stay in their current rental properties as long as they are entitled.
Ron Ellwood, a staff attorney with the Legal Services Advocacy Project, says Mullery deserves credit for pulling together bipartisan support for the measures, which passed with virtually no opposition.
Those measures go into effect Aug. 1. The legislation passed too late to help Blanton, but things are looking somewhat better for her.
Despite her travails, she stayed positive for her family with support from friends at the Inner City Church of Minneapolis. She never thought she’d be homeless but also figures things could have gotten worse. One setback: Her boss had been holding her job open but eventually had to fill it, so she’s now back in the job market.
But she recently found a rental house in Northeast Minneapolis and moved in earlier this month. Now, she and the children are sleeping on air mattresses, but several community organizations are helping the family get furniture and furnishings to replace her former possessions.
Andrew Tellijohn is a Minneapolis-based freelance writer who primarily covers business-related topics.
All NATO leaders will meet together at a crucial July 8th-9thSummit meeting in Warsaw, to agree regarding what to do to Russia, about which U.S. General Philip Breedlove, then the Supreme Commander of NATO, said earlier this year “Russia has chosen to be an adversary and poses a long-term existential threat to the United States and to our European allies and partners.” The main purpose of this meeting will be to achieve unity on the Russian problem. It will be difficult to do. The 28 member nations are not, and have not been, unified on the matter. The U.S. is seeking a more aggressive stand.
Instead of the U.S. government’s and press’s “Duck and cover!” and build-your-bombshelters campaigns in 1962, the people who are terrified this time around are actually the Russians; but, would you know about this widespread fear in Russia, from the ‘reporting’ in the U.S. ’news’ media? It’s not being reported. And it won’t be the topic at NATO, because NATO is the alliance against Russia, not against America.
The international aristocracy, which own more than half of the world’s wealth, own especially the newsmedia, and so the facts that they’re the most inclined to hide from their public (besides how untrustworthy they are), are the facts that are the most important to hide by the international corporations (including corporations such as Lockheed Martin), which also are owned by them, and which advertise the most in the newsmedia. Thus, foreign affairs is the topic that receives the most-distorted, the most propagandistic, ‘news’ coverage of all, in fake ‘democracies’ such as today’s U.S.
America’s hyper-aggressive foreign policy is not actually designed to protect the American public (such as the ‘Defense’ Department and its millions of military contractors say), but to further enrich America’s billionaires, by conquering the world’s most-resource-rich nation, Russia(starting by ousting foreign leaders who are friendly toward Russia, such as Saddam Hussein, Muammar Gaddaffi, Viktor Yanukovych, and Bashar al-Assad), as a consequence of which ‘domino-war’ against Russia, the only international poll that was ever done on the question of “Which country do you think is the greatest threat to peace in the world today?” produced the remarkable and little-publicized finding, that overwhelmingly the nation which is considered worldwide to be the most dangerous of all, is the United States.
This was an open-ended question, and the 67,806 global respondents who answered it, named many different countries as being the “greatest threat,” but the clear #1 there was the U.S., named by 24%; #2 was Pakistan, named by 8%; #3 was China, named by 6% — and the nation that U.S. President Barack Obama identifies as being the world’s most dangerous country, Russia, was #12 on that list, with only 2% of global respondents naming it. Is this because the foreign press are underplaying how aggressive Russia is? Or is it instead because the U.S. press are overplaying how peaceful the U.S. is, and arealso overplaying how aggressive Russia is?
Back in early 1990, when the last President of the Soviet Union and the first President of the post-Soviet independent nation of Russia, Mikhail Gorbachev, was negotiating, with the representatives of U.S. President George Herbert Walker Bush, the terms for the USSR and its military alliance of the Warsaw Pact to come to an end (the supposed end of the Cold War, which ended only on Russia’s side, but actually continued on and has now become a hot war against Russia on the U.S. side), Gorbachev was assured that NATO would not move “one inch to the east”, and so Gorbachev thought that the U.S. was satisfied that communism and the Warsaw Pact would be terminating, and that the U.S. would therefore henceforth cease its “Cold War” against the now-rump, remaining, post-Soviet nation, Russia, and there would really be peace between the two countries, at last. That’s why Gorbachev agreed to do it — to end the Cold War. But as soon as he committed himself, Bush told his people not to follow through on the promise that they all had just made on Bush’s behalf. Bringing his agents together privately at Camp David on 24-25 February 1990, Bush told his people, “To hell with that! We prevailed, they didn’t.” They followed through on that instruction from him, even though it made liars of them all.
And, Bush’s successor Bill Clinton followed through likewise on that double-cross of Gorbachev, by ending Clinton’s own Presidency with admitting Czech Republic, Hungary, and Poland, into NATO, in 1999 (at around the same time as he was ending FDR’s AFDC protections of poor children, and FDR’s Glass-Steagall protections of the public taxpayers so they wouldn’t be charged to reimburse Wall Street gambling-losses in the event of an economic crash (such as did occur in 2008) — Clinton became the anti-FDR ‘Democratic’ President). But that NATO act of Clinton didn’t cross Russia’s nuclear red line, it only caused then-Russian President Boris Yeltsin’s military to draft a policy saying that if the Baltic republics — Estonia, Latvia, and Lithuania, right on Russia’s border and under ten minutes missile-striking time away from Moscow — were ever to become admitted into NATO, Russia should launch its missiles (not wait for the U.S. to do so first, from so nearby, which would eliminate Russia’s missiles faster than Russia’s missiles could even be launched at all).
On 29 March 2004, U.S. President George W. Bush crossed the Russian military’s nuclear red line, by admitting into NATO: Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania, Bulgaria, Romania, Slovakia, and Slovenia. Bush the son was at that time crossing Russia’s red line — and then some.
According to the high-ranking General Staff officer, the preliminary outlines of the defense doctrine formulated by General Grachev’s department have been cautiously approved by the minister himself and his first deputy and constitute the military’s response to the lack of any consistent policy by the Foreign Ministry and presidential structures on questions of military security. According to some of Grachev’s statements following his talks with Yeltsin in Sochi, the army is ready to begin erecting a nuclear shield over the besieged fortress, which is how it sees Russia. … The authors of the draft by no means lack allies in the Duma and within the Kremlin Walls.
However, Vladimir Putin was now the Russian President who needed to make the final decision as to whether to launch World War III. He decided not to. That’s why we’re all here today, even reading this. But NATO says that Russia is the problem.
Romney said this after having heard from Wolf Blitzer on CNN, that Obama had just then privately told Putin’s agent Dmitry Medvedev, “This is my last election. After my election I have more flexibility.” Obama told Putin (via Medvedev) this in the context of Putin’s objections against the continued expansions of NATO, and against the threat, by several recent U.S. Presidents, to position in those NATO nations a U.S. missile system that would be able to neutralize or eliminate Russia’s ability to strike back against a blitz nuclear attack from the U.S.: it’s called the anti ballistic missile or ballistic missile defense (ABM or BMD) system. Obama was privately telling Putin: Don’t worry, we’re not trying to conquer Russia.
Obama fooled everyone (not only his voters). Actually, at that very moment, Obama was already well into his plan to remove from power the Russia-allied leader of Syria, Bashar al-Assad, and was very soon to organize, starting by no later than 1 March 2013 in the U.S. Embassy in Ukraine, the overthrow of Ukraine’s President Viktor Yanukovych — whose country has the longest border with Russia of any European country (and which country has been called by Brzezinski the most important steppingstone to defeating Russia).
And then, when Obama carried out his Ukrainian coup in February 2014 (almost a year after his starting to organize the coup in the U.S. Embassy there), Putin responded to that by allowing the people of Crimea — who had voted nearly 80% for the man Obama had just overthrown — to re-enter as being part of Russia, of which Crimea had been a part until the Soviet dictator in 1954 transferred Crimea from Russia to Ukraine.
For Putin’s doing this, Obama slapped economic sanctions against Russia, and then sicced the NATO dogs against Russia, by quadrupling U.S. weapons and soldiers on Russia’s borders, in Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania, Poland, and Romania, and by starting the installation of the “Aegis Ashore” ABM/BMD system, which Putin had warned Obama not to install.
Now, after the coup in Ukraine, the approval-rating of the post-coup President is even lower than the approval-rating of the pre-coup one was (and even lower than that if the separatist regions, Crimea and Donbass — both of which had voted heavily for the President whom Obama overthrew — had been included in the polling: those regions would have given Obama’s Ukrainian government a near-0% approval-rating).
The global poll that had asked people “Which country do you think is the greatest threat to peace in the world today?” and that found 24% of people worldwide were saying the U.S. was, had been taken only months before the coup in Ukraine; and, in Ukraine, 33% said “U.S.” and only 5% said “Russia.” The massive bloodshed there after Obama’s coupcan only be confirming Ukrainians’ opinion. But America’s ‘news’ media blame it on Russia.
And that’s the Russian problem, which NATO will be meeting to resolve.
Helping clients become HIPAA compliant can be a daunting process. Many MSPs struggle with finding the time and resources needed to get started. However, the opportunity to win more clients and revenue cannot be ignored, especially if a significant portion of your client base operates in the healthcare vertical. More importantly, you're legally required to provide this layer of security if you serve these clients.
Currently, as defined by the US Department of Health and Human Services, the HIPAA Breach Notification Rule “requires covered entities and business associates to provide notification following a breach of unsecured protected health information.” Now that business associates are also held accountable, MSPs are required to be HIPAA compliant to minimize risk in case of a security breach.
So where do you get started? Lucky for us, one of our partners, Jay Ryerse, VP of Business Development at Digitel Corporation, walked us through his journey to becoming an expert in offering HIPAA compliance in a recent webinar, How to Use the HIPAA Assessment Tool to Increase Revenue. We'll be exploring some key takeaways from his presentation.
Whisper it quietly but General Electric Company just found $1.8 billion for investors. Essentially, the company now expects cost synergies from the intended integration of Alstom to produce $3 billion in annual cost savings by the fifth year, up from a previous target of $1.2 billion. With CEO Jeff Immelt outlining the details at the Electrical Products Group conference at the end of May, I thought it would be a good time to look at what he said, and why the news is so important for GE investors.
Back to basicsAt the time that Immelt announced the offer for Alstom's energy assets, it was tempting to dismiss the deal as unimaginative. Buying a slowly growing rival and consolidating a core industry isn't the sexiest of corporate maneuvers. On the other hand it's, arguably, exactly what General Electric investors need to see right now. In a sense, the Alstom marks is the cornerstone of the plans to divest noncore assets and shift the company toward an industrial focus.
In order to demonstrate the positive trends in the deal, I've outlined the adjustments to company guidance in the following table. The deal was initially announced on April 30,2014, and is planned to close in 2015, which would make 2020 the fifth year of the deal. To put the EPS figures in context, analysts are currently forecasting around $1.29 in EPS for 2015 -- so the positive impact predicted for 2018 (where the cost savings will be close to the full run rate) is significant.
Indeed, as outlined in a previous article, the stock is interesting precisely because a large part of its earnings are going to be driven by execution in the next few years. In my view, the kind of "blocking and tackling" execution implied in updated guidance on cost synergies is precisely what the company needs to be doing for investors.
Where the synergies are coming fromA detailed breakout of where the increase is likely to come from also reveals some positive news for investors.
Moreover, Immelt had some soothing words for those worried about the execution risk in the deal. It's part of the near-term risk that credit rating agency Moody's highlighted recently,but listening to Immelt would have assuaged some concerns.
In summary, he described the execution risk as being "relatively small."
The takeawayAll told, the extra cost synergies found are further evidence that the company is right to focus on its core industrial activities. The Alstom energy deal now looks an even better value -- provided the deal gets regulatory approval.
Immelt's commentary on the execution risk is well received, because any dissipation of risk is likely to lead to rerating of the stock in future years. Now all the company has to do is execute. The good news is it appears to be on the right track with Alstom.
The article How General Electric Company Just Found $1.8 Billion originally appeared on Fool.com.
Thousands of people are expected to flock to Aldeburgh on Saturday as the resort stages one of its most popular events, returning after a two-year absence.
Music by the Sea, which was held from 2012 on the resort’s seafront, was replaced by Thorpefest, a ticketed festival at Thorpeness Country Club, after organisers said it was “time for a change, a new adventure”.
On Saturday it returns home – being staged not on the seafront but on King’s Field, and including not only music but food and drink stalls, and a children’s funfair.
While the event is free to enter, it will be fundraising for charity with this year’s chosen good causes being Inspire Suffolk, which helps young people overcome challenges and enjoy a positive future in employment or further training through personal development programmes and activities, and Aldeburgh Hospital League of Friends, raising money for a sensory garden.
Gates open at 3pm with entertainment starting at 4pm – the evening ends with a fireworks finale.
The line-up includes tribute band ELO Encounter, popular Suffolk band Albion Mills playing their repertoire of 60s and 70s classic rock and pop, Everly Everly, Suffolk-based JS & The Lockerbillies, the Phil Jackson Rock ‘n’ Roll Band, Words and Music, and tributes to Tina Turner and Paloma Faith.
Organiser Peter Osborne, managing director, Coastal Operations, for the TA Hotel Collection, said the festival had been greatly missed by locals and people from further afield over the past two years and everyone was very excited to see it return.
He said: “The festival has been made even greater with local businesses right behind the event, so it can be made a free concert to raise as much as we can for local charities from the spectators.
“The switch [from the seafront] was really to allow us to control the area in terms of people attending the event, it also feels right in the King’s Field as it’s more of a local event.
On-line free download tickets have sold out but there will be a limited number available at the gate – however, organisers are warning that the field is expected to reach capacity.
OCZ's new Vertex 460 replaces the 450 model we reviewed back in May. The capacity sizes are the same: 120GB, 240GB, and 480GB. OCZ used the same M10 version of the Barefoot 3, but the flash is now from Toshiba, a move we applaud. Toshiba's 19nm MLC flash uses 64Gb dies and is considerably faster than IMFT's 20nm with 128Gb dies in lower capacity SSDs. OCZ claims sequential read performance for the 120GB model at 530 MB/s. The sequential write performance is 420 MB/s, and 4K IOPS comes to 80K read and 90K write.
OCZ put together a nice slide showing the feature list for the Vertex 460. Some of this we'll cover in the next slide. OCZ again used the alloy case for Vertex 460, so the drive has a 7mm z-height. Internally, the drive has 256-bit AES encryption but does lack eDrive and TCG Opal support.
Here we see the current OCZ 2.5-inch product line up. The Vector 150 recently replaced the original Vector, uses the Barefoot 3 M00 controller, and pairs it with Toshiba 19nm Toggle MLC rated for 50GB per day of data writes to the flash. Vertex 450 and Vertex 460 both use the slower clocked Barefoot 3 M10 controller. The difference between these two drives is the new 460 uses parent company Toshiba's 19nm MLC and the 450 used IMFT 20nm flash. The new 460 model has higher performance specs sprinkled here and there.
The Vertex 460 is very close to the Vector 150 performance wise, but the warranty drops to three years for the 460, and the endurance rating is only 20GB per day.
OCZ checked all of the right boxes for performance, and now we get to look at the price. OCZ's MSRP of $99.99 is the current price at Newegg for the 120GB model. That price is $10 more than Samsung's 840 EVO bare drive price but $24.99 less than the EVO 120GB with a desktop accessory package. OCZ includes a key for Acronis, so you can copy the data from your existing drive to the Vertex 460, a desktop adapter bracket, screws for mounting the drive, and a sticker for your PC.
PRICING: You can find the 120GB Vertex 460 for sale below. The prices listed are valid at the time of writing, but can change at any time. Click the link to see the very latest pricing for the best deal.
United States: The 120GB Vertex 460 retails for $99.99 at Amazon.
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Congresswoman Kaptur said she doesn’t sense a majority of her colleagues in Congress are ready to start impeachment proceedings.
The Toledo made truck version of the Jeep Wrangler is finally on sale and the first vehicle delivered to Yark on Saturday was sold within three hours.
The Art Loop is held every third Thursday through December.
.Hundreds went to the inaugural EcoFest Toledo at Handmade Toledo Saturday to learn how to make our planet greener and people healthier.
Just months ahead of Tesla's Model 3 launch, the focus will undoubtedly turn toward the highly anticipated electric car's arrival.
For Tesla's (NASDAQ:TSLA) first quarter, one of the electric-car company's most closely watched metrics has already been released: Tesla delivered just over 25,000 vehicles during the quarter, up 69% year over year. But there's still plenty investors would like to know when Tesla reports quarterly results on Wednesday, May 3.
You can bet investors will be watching the quarter closely. Tesla stock has been on a tear recently, surging more than 50% in the past six months to new all-time highs as investors begin to give more weight to the company's upcoming launch of its first lower-priced, mass-market vehicle: Model 3.
Ahead of Tesla's first-quarter earnings release, here are three areas for investors to watch.
One of the hottest topics going into Tesla's first-quarter earnings release is undoubtedly anything management says about Model 3. With the comapny planning to launch the vehicle in July, investors should look to see if management provides updates on what to expect from the vehicle itself, as well as from Tesla's production plans for the vehicle.
The Model 3 is critical to Tesla's plans to grow its business. Management expects the Model 3's lower price compared to its current vehicles to help Tesla increase its annualized production from a rate of about 100,000 units today to 500,000 units next year. Further, Tesla has said it expects the Model 3 program to see "limited vehicle production in July and to steadily ramp production to exceed 5,000 vehicles per week at some point in the fourth quarter and 10,000 vehicles per week at some point in 2018."
Of course, Tesla's Model 3 expansion won't be cheap. This is why investors should check in on the company's capital expenditures for the quarter, as well as any guidance management provides for the rest of the year.
Thanks to the capital-intensive nature of building vehicles, management said in its fourth-quarter shareholder letter that it expected capital expenditures to skyrocket during the first half of 2017. Management forecasted capital expenditures of $2 billion to $2.5 billion during this period, a big jump from Tesla's $1.3 billion in capital expenditures during the entire year of 2016.
Another interesting area to watch will be any commentary on demand for Tesla's vehicles.
While Model X deliveries are still rising sharply each quarter, Model S deliveries peaked in the fourth quarter of 2015. Will recent price reductions to the starting prices of Model S help the sedan's sales move higher again? Further, while deliveries for Model X have continued to grow each quarter, are orders for SUV still increasing?
Data sources: Tesla's quarterly SEC filings and vehicle delivery updates. Chart by author.
Tesla typically shares updates on the trajectory of orders for its Model S and X in its quarterly updates. So, investors can look to this figure to get some insight into how demand for the two vehicles is panning out ahead of Model 3's launch.
As far as getting an update on demand for Model 3, investors shouldn't count on it. Ever since Tesla generated about 400,000 deposit-backed reservations for the vehicle within about a month and a half of its unveiling, Tesla hasn't provided investors with a new figure.
Tesla will release its first-quarter results after market close on Wednesday. In addition, the company will also host a live conference call to discuss the quarter at 2:30 p.m. PDT. Stay tuned at The Motley Fool for analysis of Tesla's first quarter after the update is posted.
J. Cole performs onstage during The Meadows Music & Arts Festival on Oct. 1, 2016 in New York City.
On a chill and overcast day that signaled that fall has finally descended on New York City, the promised rain never arrived, leaving the first day of the inaugural Meadows Festival at the parking lot at Citi Field in Queens a thankfully dry affair.
And while The Weeknd announced late on Friday afternoon (Sept. 30) that he, in fact, would not be performing at the event -- after dropping out, then returning, only to drop out of Saturday's lineup again -- there was plenty more to take in on this first day of October.
From opening sets by a handful of Queens-bred artists -- appropriate for the four-stage festival -- to a closing performance by J. Cole, a proud St. John's alum, here are some of the biggest highlights from day one at New York City's Meadows Festival.
1:30 p.m.: Day 1 was off to a somewhat slow and dreary start, though the threat of rain never became more than that as the dark and foggy skies didn’t allow any drops to fall. As opening acts took to their respective stages, the largest crowd of all was already gathered by the Kanye merchandise tent -- yes, that’s right, Kanye had his own tent, complete with five lines to help keep the large crowd of people moving along (somewhat) quickly in case they planned on actually seeing any acts.
2:00 p.m.: “The next song is for us because we party in the daytime,” Lolawolf told the modestly-sized crowd of early arrivers before diving into “Every F---in Day” off her 2015 EP of the same name. She continued to impressively tackle the task of rousing up fans as she ran through favorite tracks with a smile on her face the whole time, despite the cold weather and somewhat early set time.
2:05 p.m.: "Where the honey buns at?" said Queens collective World's Fair, as the collection of a half-dozen MCs started to throw honey buns and blow pops -- hood snacks, as they called them -- into the crowd. Remy Banks stepped forward to perform some new material, prowling the stage purposefully, and the crew ended their set with the appropriate middle finger of "B.O.T.P." Irreverent party music at its finest.
2:45 p.m.: Despite the fact that the rain held off, it had rained plenty the day before, and someone brought dozens of rubber duckies to the lot, floating them in the puddles that dotted the festival grounds. Another Queens MC, Dreamville's Bas, celebrated on stage with his remix of "We Made It."
3:00 p.m.: Frightened Rabbit were all too aware of the relief they provided from the otherwise electronic and hip-hop heavy lineup, as frontman Scott Hutchison welcomed the crowd to the “old man guitar portion of the festival.” While those passing by were enticed by the indie rock radiating from the stage, Hutchinson’s humor helped win them over. As for his best joke, he suggested all the other bands on the lineup split The Weeknd’s booking fee: “We can all go out for ice cream after,” he said with a laugh.
3:10 p.m.: Drinking a Bud Light and smoking a cigarette, Post Malone hits the main stage to the sounds of "White Iverson," much to the delight of the young crowd who had mobbed to see him. But he stopped short before the song really took off. "Rest in peace to ASAP Yams, Bankroll Fresh, David Bowie, Dale Earnhardt," he said, before launching into his similarly-atmospheric "Too Young." In a diverse set, he ran through his cover of Fleetwood Mac's "Dreams," his remix of 50 Cent's "Window Shopper" and one of his latest singles "Go Flex," showing that his catalog has grown much more diverse since breaking out onto the scene with his woozy ode to Allen Iverson, which inevitably brought the set to a close.
3:30 p.m.: Either a handful of attendees were soon to be disappointed or they were nothing more than loyal fans, but a whole bunch of XO merchandise -- The Weeknd-founded record label -- was spotted throughout the day. Even though The Weeknd had rescheduled and then canceled his set altogether after downgrading from his headlining slot to an earlier set time, some fans remained out of the loop or kind.
3:45 p.m.: Unlike Frightened Rabbit’s set that included some comedic banter, Yeasayer didn’t talk much in between their densely layered songs -- quite possibly because they were stuck in a world of their creation. The funky production and intricacy of their tracks, strengthened by their three-part harmonies, resulted in a set that didn’t disappoint. Though they released a new album back in April, a handful of fan favorites -- such as set opener “Madder Red” and “Ambling Alp” -- found their way into the set list as well.
5:30 p.m.: Following a lengthy instrumental introduction and a warm welcome as the son of the “legendary Bob Marley,” Damian “Jr. Gong” Marley appeared on stage with his trusty Rastafarian flag waving companion. The theme of Rastafarian and Jamaican pride ran strong throughout the fiery set, as literal flames flickered on the screen behind Marley. He proceeded to tell a story of how he once told Bruno Mars to smoke some marijuana so that he could relax, and then dove into “War/No More Trouble” followed by “Could You Be Loved,” a tribute to his late father.
Ah, the Internet. It's such a vast, strange place, where people can be both completely anonymous and completely stalked. Anonymous in the sense that you can hop on to any message board or comments section as KittenLover1234, bash every person in site, and none the wiser. Stalked in the sense that, well, Google exists.
The line is getting blurred, though. Thanks to the the new service "This is going to be awkward," you can now do the one thing you couldn't anonymously do before -- send email. It's true, I tried it (to myself to see how it worked). All you have to do is go to their website, pick a topic (Warm and Fuzzy Feelings; Job Security; You're the Better Half; I Have So Many Feelings About You; Life's a Bummer), choose a message, and fire away. Kind of hilarious. Kind of cool. Kind of totally going to make us more passive aggressive as a whole.
See, some of the messages are cute on TIGTBA. You can send things like "I think you're breathtaking," or "You'd be awful nice to come home to." Some are spectacularly naughty, like, "Congratulations! You've made a deposit in my spank bank!" And some are ... not so nice, like, "Get it together! People have been fired for less egregious behavior!"
Although the site is meant to be sort of funny and tongue-in-cheek (and it is!), it could get, well, super awkward if you really don't know who sent it to you. Getting a weird email from someone -- then finding out it's a friend -- is one thing. Never knowing? Yikes! That's another.
It's actually kind of throw-back, if you think about it. It harkens back to the pre-Facebook/Google days of anonymous notes on cars and in lockers. But with those types of things, there was always the threat of getting caught. All it took was some comparing of handwriting or one chatty Patty Bergman, and the gig was up. The anonymous email, though? That opens up a whole new can of devious behavior. Thankfully, all the messages are pre-written, though, and none of them are threatening. I'd imagine they'd get in trouble for that.
TIBTBA is hilarious and innovative, no doubt. But is it just going to be another excuse for people to hide behind their computers? Say all the mean and inappropriate they want without having to own up to any of it? I'm kinda thinking yes. I like the nice ones, though. I mean, who wouldn't want to open an email that reads, "You smell like roses and sunshine and little baby kittens. Gosh, I like you!"?
What do you think of anonymous email?
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A visit to a subarctic region for polar bear sighting was in my bucket list. But I never thought it would come true and so soon. So when the opportunity came knocking on the door, I was quick to respond.
My growing ties with Canada this year took me to Churchill in northern Manitoba on the west shore of Hudson Bay. Churchill is known as the polar bear capital of the world.
It was a long 14 hour flight from New Delhi to Toronto and then after a brief layover I flew down to Winnipeg, the capital of Manitoba. The next morning a two hour early morning flight in a small chartered aircraft Travel Manitoba took us to Churchill.