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Maria-Christina Nimmerfroh about Online Campaigns

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Alert your Web staff and customer service departments to e-newsletter campaigns well before they launch. Make sure relevant pages remain live for several months after a campaign ends. You need to be able to track the click path, downloading and eventual purchasing activity of visitors referred to your site from online ads (via direct click as well as view through) before you can assess whether a campaign has been successful. Simply counting clicks a few weeks after a campaign runs is a lazy shortcut that will not yield much intelligence or earn you a larger marketing budget.

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Today’s online advertisers and publishers have an opportunity to create online campaigns that fully engage consumers and encourage them to stick around for awhile. This overview from Laredo Group’s VP of Creative & Technical Training Rob Graham will give you a better understanding of the value of online campaign engagement and why you should plan on using engagement tools in your upcoming campaigns.

I never went to school for marketing and advertising but I need some advice, information, anything to explain what I need to know. I’m supposed to be in charge of campaigns, newsletters, advertising…. should I take classes? HELP?!?!

To be more specific. I want to start a media company whose initial focus would be to bring attention to the numerous government technologies I have invested in. Many will change the world. I have invested in 70 different companies so far and want to profile them in either a newsletter or book. I do not know if I can get around things with just a disclaimer, but I have seen many holding companies send out newswires stating their financial interest in the companies profiled. Additionally, should I start a series LLC and put my stock portfolio under one series and the media/PR company under another? What is the legality of trading on swings generated by your own campaign?

STEALING THE DARK

DARK CONSPIRACY INVOLVING ELECTRICAL POWER COMPANIES SURFACES

FOR YEARS THE ELECTRICAL UTILITY COMPANIES HAVE LED THE PUBLIC TO BELIEVE THEY WERE IN BUSINESS TO SUPPLY ELECTRICITY TO THE CONSUMER, A SERVICE FOR WHICH THEY CHARGE A SUBSTANTIAL RATE. THE RECENT ACCIDENTAL ACQUISITION OF SECRET RECORDS FROM A WELL KNOWN POWER COMPANY HAS LED TO A MASSIVE RESEARCH CAMPAIGN WHICH POSITIVELY EXPLODES SEVERAL MYTHS AND EXPOSES THE MASSIVE HOAX WHICH HAS BEEN PERPETRATED UPON THE PUBLIC BY THE POWER COMPANIES.

THE MOST COMMON HOAX PROMOTED THE FALSE CONCEPT THAT LIGHT-BULBS EMITTED LIGHT; IN ACTUALITY, THESE ‘LIGHT’ BULBS ACTUALLY ABSORB DARK WHICH IS THEN TRANSPORTED BACK TO THE POWER GENERATION STATIONS VIA WIRE NETWORKS.

A MORE DESCRIPTIVE NAME HAS NOW BEEN COINED; THE NEW SCIENTIFIC NAME FOR THE DEVICE IS DARKSUCKER. THIS NEWSLETTER INTRODUCES A BRIEF SYNOPSIS OF THE DARKSUCKER THEORY, WHICH PROVES THE EXISTENCE OF DARK AND ESTABLISHES THE FACT THAT DARK HAS GREAT MASS, AND FURTHER, THAT DARK PARTICLE (THE ANTI-PHOTON) IS THE FASTEST KNOWN PARTICLE IN THE UNIVERSE. APPARENTLY, EVEN THE CELEBRATED DR. ALBERT EINSTEIN, DID NOT SUSPECT THE TRUTH.. THAT JUST AS COLD IS THE ABSENCE OF HEAT, LIGHT IS ACTUALLY THE ABSENCE OF DARK… SCIENTISTS HAVE NOW PROVEN, THAT LIGHT DOES NOT REALLY EXIST!

THE BASIS OF THE DARKSUCKER THEORY IS THAT ELECTRIC LIGHT BULBS **** DARK. TAKE FOR EXAMPLE, THE DARKSUCKERS IN THE ROOM WHERE YOU ARE RIGHT NOW. THERE IS MUCH LESS DARK RIGHT NEXT TO THE DARKSUCKERS THAN THERE IS ELSEWHERE, DEMONSTRATING THEIR LIMITED RANGE. THE LARGER THE DARKSUCKER, THE GREATER ITS CAPACITY TO **** DARK. DARKSUCKERS IN A PARKING LOT OR ON A FOOTBALL FIELD HAVE A MUCH GREATER CAPACITY THAN THE ONES IN USED IN THE HOME, FOR EXAMPLE. IT MIGHT COME AS A SURPRISE TO LEARN THAT DARKSUCKERS ALSO OPERATE ON A CELESTIAL SCALE; WITNESS THE SUN. OUR SUN MAKES USE OF DENSE DARK, ******* IT IN FROM ALL THE PLANETS AND INTERVENING DARK SPACE. NATURALLY, THE SUN IS BETTER ABLE TO **** DARK FROM THE PLANETS WHICH ARE SITUATED CLOSER TO IT, THUS EXPLAINING WHY THOSE PLANETS APPEAR BRIGHTER THAN DO THOSE WHICH ARE FAR DISTANT FROM THE SUN. OCCASIONALLY, THE SUN ACTUALLY OVERSUCKS; UNDER THOSE CONDITIONS, DARK SPOTS APPEAR ON THE SURFACE OF THE SUN. SCIENTISTS HAVE LONG STUDIED THESE ‘SUNSPOTS’ AND ARE ONLY RECENTLY BEGINNING TO REALISE THAT THE DARK SPOTS REPRESENT LEAKS OF HIGH PRESSURE DARK BECAUSE THE SUN HAS OVERSUCKED DARK TO SUCH AN EXTENT, THAT SOME DARK ACTUALLY LEAKS BACK INTO SPACE. THIS LEAKAGE OF HIGH PRESSURE DARK FREQUENTLY, CAUSES PROBLEMS WITH RADIO COMMUNICATIONS HERE ON EARTH DUE TO COLLISIONS BETWEEN THE DARK PARTICLES AS THEY STREAM OUT INTO SPACE AT HIGH VELOCITY VIA THE BLACK ‘HOLES’ IN THE SURFACE OF THE SUN.AS WITH ALL MANMADE DEVICES, DARKSUCKERS HAVE A FINITE LIFETIME CAUSED BY THE FACT THAT THEY ARE NOT 100% EFFICIENT AT TRANSMITTING COLLECTED DARK BACK TO THE POWER COMPANY VIA THE WIRES FROM YOUR HOME, CAUSING DARK TO BUILD UP SLOWLY WITHIN THE DEVICE. ONCE THEY ARE FULL OF ACCUMULATED DARK, THEY CAN NO LONGER ****. THIS CONDITION CAN BE OBSERVED BY LOOKING FOR THE BLACK SPOT ON A FULL DARKSUCKER WHEN IT HAS REACHED MAXIMUM CAPACITY OF UNTRANSMITTED DARK… YOU HAVE SURELY NOTICED THAT DARK COMPLETELY SURROUNDS A FULL DARKSUCKER BECAUSE IT NO LONGER HAS THE CAPACITY TO **** ANY DARK AT ALL.

A CANDLE IS A PRIMITIVE DARKSUCKER. A NEW CANDLE HAS A WHITE WICK. YOU WILL NOTICE THAT AFTER THE FIRST USE THE WICK TURNS BLACK, REPRESENTING ALL THE DARK WHICH HAS BEEN ****** INTO IT. IF YOU HOLD A PENCIL NEXT TO THE WICK OF AN OPERATING CANDLE, THE TIP WILL TURN BLACK BECAUSE IT GOT IN THE WAY OF THE DARK FLOWING INTO THE CANDLE. IT IS OF NO USE TO PLUG A CANDLE INTO AN ELECTRICAL OUTLET; IT CAN ONLY COLLECT DARK. IT HAS NO RANSMISSION CAPABILITIES. UNFORTUNATELY, THESE PRIMITIVE DARKSUCKERS HAVE A VERY LIMITED RANGE AND ARE HAZARDOUS TO OPERATE BECAUSE OF THE INTENSE HEAT PRODUCED.

THERE ARE ALSO PORTABLE DARKSUCKERS, CALLED FLASHLIGHTS. THE BULBS IN THESE DEVICES COLLECT DARK WHICH IS PASSED TO A DARK STORAGE UNIT CALLED A BATTERY. WHEN THE DARK STORAGE UNIT IS FULL, IT MUST BE EITHER EMPTIED (A PROCESS CALLED ‘RECHARGING’) OR REPLACED BEFORE THE PORTABLE DARKSUCKER CAN CONTINUE TO OPERATE. IF YOU BREAK OPEN A BATTERY, YOU WILL FIND DENSE BLACK DARK INSIDE, EVIDENCE THAT IT IS ACTUALLY A COMPACT DARK STORAGE UNIT. THE DARKSUCKERS ON YOUR AUTOMOBILE ARE HIGH CAPACITY UNITS WITH GREAT RANGE, THUS THEY REQUIRE MUCH LARGER DARK STORAGE UNITS MOUNTED UNDER THE HOOD OF THE VEHICLE. SINCE THERE IS FAR MORE DARK AVAILABLE IN THE WINTER SEASON, AUTOMOBILE DARK STORAGE UNITS REACH CAPACITY MORE FREQUENTLY THAN THEY DO IN THE SUMMER, REQUIRING ‘RECHARGING’, OR IN SEVERE CASES, TOTAL REPLACEMENT.

DARK HAS GREAT MASS. WHEN DARK IS DRAWN INTO A DARKSUCKER, FRICTION CAUSED BY THE SPEED AND MASS OF THE DARK PARTICLES (CALLED ANTI-PHOTONS) ACTUALLY GENERATES SUBSTANTIAL HEAT, THUS IT IS UNWISE TO TOUCH AN OPERATING DARK SUCKER. CANDLES REPRESENT A SPECIAL PROBLEM, AS THE DARK MUST TRAVEL INTO A SOLID WICK INSTEAD OF THROUGH CLEAR GLASS. THIS GENERATES A GREAT AMOUNT OF HEAT, MAKING IT VERY DANGEROUS TO TOUCH AN OPERATING CANDLE. BECAUSE DARK HAS SUCH GREAT MASS, IT IS VERY HEAVY. IF YOU SWIM JUST BELOW THE SURFACE OF A LAKE, YOU SEE A LOT OF ‘LIGHT’ (ABSENCE OF DARK, TO BE MORE PRECISE). AS YOU GO DEEPER AND DEEPER BENEATH THE SURFACE, YOU WILL NOTICE THAT IT GETS DARKER AND DARKER. WHEN YOU REACH A DEPTH OF APPROXIMATELY FIFTY FEET, YOU ARE IN TOTAL DARKNESS. THIS IS BECAUSE THE HEAVIER DARK SINKS TO THE BOTTOM OF THE LAKE, MAKING IT APPEAR ‘LIGHTER’ NEAR THE SURFACE.THE POWER COMPANIES HAVE LEARNED TO USE THE DARK WHICH HAS SETTLED TO THE BOTTOM OF LAKES AND RIVERS BY PUSHING IT THROUGH TURBINES, WHICH GENERATES THE ELECTRICITY USED TO PUMP THE DARK TOWARD THE OCEAN WHERE IT MAY BE SAFELY STORED FOR THEIR DEVIOUS PURPOSES. PRIOR TO THE DEVELOPMENT OF TURBINES, IT WAS MUCH MORE DIFFICULT TO GET THE DARK FROM THE RIVERS AND LAKES TO THE OCEAN. THE INDIANS RECOGNISED THIS PROBLEM, AND DEVELOPED MEANS TO ASSIST THE FLOW OF DARK ON IT’S LONG JOURNEY TO THE OCEAN. WHEN ON A RIVER IN A CANOE TRAVELLING IN THE SAME DIRECTION AS THE FLOW OF DARK, THEY PADDLED SLOWLY, SO AS NOT TO IMPEDE THE FLOW OF DARK; BUT WHEN THEY TRAVELLED AGAINST THE FLOW OF DARK, THEY PADDLED VIGOROUSLY TO HELP PROPEL THE DARK ALONG ITS WAY.

SCIENTISTS ARE WORKING FEVERISHLY TO DEVELOP EXOTIC NEW INSTUMENTATION WITH WHICH TO MEASURE THE ACTUAL SPEED AND ENERGY LEVEL OF DARK. WHILE SUCH INSTUMENTATION IS BEYOND THE CAPABILITIES OF THE AVERAGE LAYMAN, YOU CAN ACTUALLY PERFORM A TEST TO DEMONSTRATE THE UNBELIEVABLE SPEED OF DARK, RIGHT IN YOUR OWN HOME. ALL THAT IS REQUIRED FOR THE SIMPLE TEST IS A CLOSED DESK DRAWER SITUATED IN A BRIGHT ROOM. YOU KNOW FROM PAST EXPERIENCE THAT THE TIGHTLY SHUT DRAWER IS FULL OF DARK. NOW, PLACE YOUR HAND FIRMLY ON THE DRAWER’S HANDLE. QUICKLY YANK THE DRAWER OPEN.. THE DARK IMMEDIATELY DISAPPEARS, DEMONSTRATING THE BLINDING SPEED WITH WHICH THE DARK TRAVELS TO THE NEAREST DARKSUCKER!

THE SECRETS OF DARK ARE AT PRESENT KNOWN ONLY TO THE POWER COMPANIES. DARK MUST BE VERY VALUABLE, SINCE THEY GO TO SUCH LENGTHS TO COLLECT IT IN VAST QUANTITIES. BY SOME WELL HIDDEN METHOD, MORE MODERN POWER ‘GENERATION’ FACILITIES HAVE DEVISED METHODS TO HIDE THEIR COLLECTION OF DARK. THE OLDER FACILITIES, HOWEVER, USUALLY HAVE GARGANTUAN PILES OF SOLIDIFIED DARK IN HUGE FENCED IN AREAS. VISITORS TO THESE FACILITIES ARE TOLD THAT THE HUGE BLACK PILES OF MATERIAL ARE SUPPLIES OF COAL, BUT SUCH IS NOT THE CASE.

THE POWER COMPANIES HAVE USED SECRET ACRONYMS TO DISGUISE THEIR
ACTIVITIES: “D.C.” STANDS FOR “DARK CONSPIRACY”, WHILE “A.C.” IS SUSPECTED
TO REPRESENT THE “ALTERNATE CONSPIRACY” WHICH WILL MOST LIKELY BE USED EXCLUSIVELY ONCE THE SECRETS OF D.C. ARE TOTALLY UNDERSTOOD. D.C. IS RAPIDLY YIELDING IT’S SECRETS TO THE PROBING EYES AND INSTRUMENTS OF HONEST CIENTISTS AROUND THE WORLD. THE U.S. ATTORNEY GENERAL IS CONSIDERING ACTION TO BE TAKEN AGAINST THE POWER COMPANIES FOR THE THEFT AND STOCKPILING OF DARK FROM ‘CONSUMERS’.

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March 25, 2007

Vol 2 Issue 6

The Other White Meat

When President Bush asked for an additional 22,000 troops to compliment the forces in Iraq so we can hopefully end the conflict and put this war to bed, Congress obliged. However, now that the President is asking for $92 billion in emergency spending because the previous funds will run out next month, Congress in its irresponsible wisdom has delivered a car without a gas tank. In real terms, you can’t drive a car without gas and you can’t fight a war without the tools needed to get the job done, especially if you are pulling a trailer full of pork.

To be perfectly blunt, most of the Democrats are against the war. It does not take a brain surgeon to realize that fact. So why waste the taxpayer?s time and money to push through a useless bill that everyone knows will be vetoed anyway. Okay all of you folks who are sitting on the left side of the aisle we heard you, we got your message. We are not as stupid as you believe we are. There are people out there that want to cut off our heads. So stop playing games and get the job done right. Get back to work and do the job you were elected to do; that is to uphold the constitution and protect the people of the United States.

Tacking on all sorts of useless amendments is totally counterproductive. You were elected to represent the people not try to bribe your colleagues with all sorts of goodies so they will vote in your favor. Let us examine what bribes they have tried to use.

The President asked for an additional $92 billion in emergency spending. He wanted $72 billion to fund the war and $20 billion in additional Hurricane Katrina relief. Knowing that placing a timetable on the bill by itself wouldn’t allow it to fly so they tacked on all kinds of pork. Some of these amendments are so ridiculous that they would insult the intelligence of a two-year-old child.

They added over $24 billion that has me scratching my head. Here are just a few amendments they added on:

$4 billion in additional nationwide agricultural disaster assistance. The USDA did not request the funds. Even though farm income in 2005 was in excess of $72 billion, a record high, they added an additional $4 billion, which would not be used in areas that were affected by Hurricane Katrina. Sounds like another rainy day fund, only rain is not in the forecast.

$700 million to reroute a railroad line so it can make room for a private development of additional casinos along the Gulf Coast. That line is now fully functional after it was repaired at a cost of $300 million after being damaged by Hurricane Katrina. CSX is not excited about moving their tracks they rebuilt it as fast as possible to meet their customers needs because it was a critical artery. There is nothing wrong with the existing line. Don’t bet on this one.

$594 million in additional highway funding. This is in addition to the $286 billion that was passed last year. Only this money has nothing to do with Katrina or Iraq. It would be used for the emergency relief highway backlog across the country. The only project specifically mentioned in the committee’s report is the Kuhio Highway in Hawaii, which is, located over 4,000 miles away from the Gulf Coast. Sounds like another bridge to nowhere.

$21 million is the amount President Bush originally wanted to restore fishery resources in the Gulf region as assistance to the seafood industry that was hard hit by Katrina. The House eliminated this portion of the bill. However, the Senate reinstated it and raised the stakes to over $1.1 billion. This is well beyond the already millions that were spent to repair and replace damaged boats and docks. Smells a little fishy to me.

You are going to love this one! $3.8 billion to prepare for a potential bird flu epidemic like the last one. You know the last one that is the one where we have 500-million vaccines ready to go. The current vaccine is not scheduled to expire for at least two- years. So now, they want us to throw it all away and start over. Sounds like a bird brained idea to me.

$74 million for the peanut farmers to store their crops. There is a peanut quota in the U.S. This holds down the supply and increases the price. So now, they want to hand the peanut farmers our hard- earned tax dollars to buy them storage units. I wonder if they will be located in Plains, Georgia. This sounds like a nutty idea.

$400 million to help the timber industry in Oregon. This industry was originally hurt when Congress shut down harvesting the Northern timberlands to protect the Spotted Owl from being displaced. However, they have no problem displacing you and me through eminent domain if they needed our houses for a municipal parking lot. By the way, the Northern Spotted Owl originated in Mexico, they are probably here illegally.

$400 million for the low-income energy assistance program. The Democrats have been blocking our efforts to drill our own oil resources. They also don’t want us to increase nuclear power. So what are they going to do with the $400 million? Send me low energy light bulbs.

Here is the real problem. According to the Secretary of Defense, Robert Gates the funding of the war runs out on April 15, 2007. If Congress does not act immediately, on April 15 there will be no funds available to protect our sons, daughters, brothers, sisters and friends who are fighting to keep America safe. Congress will be on Spring Break when that happens. They will be romping on the sands of Palm Beach and Santa Monica while our troops are romping on the sands of Baghdad. They will be sipping champagne and Rum Punch while our troops will be wondering where their next meal is coming from because the funds ran out.

This is not the first time pork was added to an emergency spending bill. During the last go around, they tacked on a $1 million price tag for a telescope to be used to discover intelligent life in outer space. Let’s start by looking for intelligent life in Washington, DC. And, that is my opinion.

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How many people from the left will see the irony of samrt?

“We have turned out the lights in the studio,” NBC’s Bob Costas told viewers of Sunday’s Dallas Cowboys-Philadelphia Eagles game, “to kick off a week that will include more than 150 hours of programming designed to raise awareness about environmental issues.” Discerning viewers with eyes keen enough to pierce the sanctimonious glare of Costas’s candlelit silhouette may have noticed that the stadium’s klieg lights still shone brightly.

On a typical game day, a large football stadium burns about 65,000 kilowatt hours of electricity and 35,000 cubic feet of natural gas. The cars driving to the game spew about 200 metric tons of CO2 (and that assumes nobody’s driving SUVs or RVs, which is like assuming tailgaters are eating only sushi). There’s also the electricity used to broadcast the game and to watch it. But thank goodness Costas turned off the studio lights for a minute or two.

NBC’s “Green Week” continued apace (well after this writing). Morbidly obese contestants on The Biggest Loser lugged piles of recyclable cans up ramps and into enormous collection bins. Of course, the cans were delivered to the stunt by diesel truck. So a lot of energy — and sweat! — that could have been used toward fermenting homebrew tofu, or whatever energy is supposed to be used for, was wasted on viewer schadenfreude. The winners of the challenge each received a hybrid SUV. Alas, one of the winners didn’t own a car to begin with, so the net result was one more car on the road and a little more CO2 in the air.

On Days of Our Lives, a fictional couple had a fictionally “green” wedding.

The cast of The Today Show burned massive amounts of jet fuel sending its hosts to the corners of the globe, leaving a “carbon footprint” larger than those left near the recycle bin on The Biggest Loser.

I could go on, but you’ve seen the tyranny of Green even if you’ve never turned on NBC. Green is everywhere. Every magazine feels compelled to sell some sliced tree-meat in a special “green issue,” but they feel so guilty about it, they ditch their glossy paper for pulp that gives it the feel of a hemp-commune newsletter that doubles as sustainable toilet paper. Food magazines have replaced “delicious” with “sustainable” as the highest praise. “Green is the new black” according to fashion writers who at least think certain cliches never go out of style.

Now, the predictable response to my caterwauling is that I just don’t get it. Of course, Bob Costas’s Dickensian studio lighting is just so much symbolism. But, they respond, NBC is “raising consciousness” and promoting “awareness.” We’ve heard this tone before, perhaps starting in high school, when we were told, “If we all work together, we can make this the best yearbook ever!”

And that’s why, on top of all the other reasons, Green Week — and the Green Millennium it hopes to usher in — is so annoying. It plays us all for suckers. First of all, you have enormously rich people at fantastically wealthy corporations seeking grace on the cheap with a few symbolic gestures that come at absolutely no cost, and often considerable profit.

You do know that the parent company of NBC is General Electric, right? You do know that for GE, green is first and foremost the color of money, right? As Tim Carney explains in vivid detail in his wonderful book, The Big Ripoff, GE’s “ecomagination” campaign is simultaneously a way to brand itself as a “progressive” company and a means of shaking the money tree — the most sustainable planting of them all — growing in Congress’ backyard.

When the global company launched the ecomagination campaign, guess where it held the launch party? Its D.C. lobbying office, of course.

While sipping from wine made at a solar-powered winery, the head of GE, Jeffrey Immelt, proclaimed, “Industry cannot solve the problems of the world alone. We need to work in concert with government.” Translation: The King Kong of the corporate world needs tax breaks, subsidies and favorable regulations in order to make green technology profitable. Indeed, GE has nearly cornered the market on the solar panels necessary to implement Kyoto-style reforms. Global warming hysteria is good for its bottom line.

Liberals and environmentalists love to whine about special breaks for corporations, and they work themselves into paroxysms of paranoia about how big corporations propagandize against action on climate change. The reality is exactly the opposite. GE, DuPont, British Petroleum, and countless other big corporations routinely propagandize in the other direction, largely to win governmental support they don’t need. But so long as environmentalists approve of the message, they’ve got no problem whatsoever with the messengers.

For GE and Bob Costas alike, Kermit the Frog was a liar; it is easy being green.
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