Customer Spotlight ? CONCERN

Customer Spotlight ? CONCERN

In previous Customer Spotlight videos, we?ve talked to several businesses using email marketing in their daily workflow ? a wine school, an SEO firm, a restaurant.

Today?s spotlight is a bit different. Rather than a typical for-profit business, we wanted to check out how a non-profit used email marketing.

Enter CONCERN, a non-profit foster care agency. Their Willow Grove, PA branch just happens to use AWeber for their email marketing needs, but then again, just how does a non-profit use email marketing (marketing, after all, is usually associated with for-profit companies)?

CONCERNed About Kids

CONCERN helps foster kids and parents with a variety of placement, counseling and residential programs. We sat down with Diane Devlin (CONCERN?s Willow Grove Regional Director) and Rachel Acquaviva (CONCERN?s Willow Grove Office Supervisor) to find out how CONCERN uses email for their day-to-day business needs.

As you just saw, the potential of email marketing is not just limited to a for-profit business. Whether you?re running a charitable organization, an educational institution or a foster care center, email marketing can help you reach out and raise support from people interested in your content.

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Do you have any cool stories that you?d like to share about your business in email? Tell us about it. Who knows, you could be the next one featured as an AWeber Customer Spotlight!

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DIY Coolness: A Hot Tub in the Living Room ... - AOL Real Estate

So, you're pulling up the old, dingy carpet in your living room when -- whoopsies! -- you accidentally damage the floor. What do you do? Well, duh, you patch it up, right? That's not the memo Matthew Cole got.

"I thought, what a lot of wasted area," Cole, 35, recalled of the time in 2003 when he was ripping up the carpet in his Colorado Springs home. "It would be cool to do something with it."

And that's how it all started: a simple carpet replacement job snowballed into an outrageous DIY project -- that ended three months later with a hot tub in the middle of his living room.

As Cole looked at a small hole that was left in the living room floor after he ripped up the carpet, he began to get ideas.

"It escalated pretty quickly," he said. "One of my friends had recently gotten a hot tub, so I thought, why not put a hot tub out there?" (Story continues after the gallery below.)

He enlisted a few friends with expertise in home improvement, and together they cut a hole in the floor big enough for a hot tub. Beneath the floor was a crawl space where they poured a concrete platform for the hot tub to sit on so it wouldn't be dangling from the floor frame (which could tear down the whole floor).

But then there was the issue of the floor itself: Condensation from the hot tub would rot the wood. Solution? Tile the whole floor.

Cole and his friends laid slate tile on the living room floor while continuing to prep the hole for the hot tub. Once the concrete platform was dry, they laid a layer of cinder blocks to achieve the perfect height for the hot tub. Then, it came time to install the hot tub.

"We lowered it down kind of like a coffin," Cole said. "That's when I realized what we were doing."

The reality hit him: Yes, there was a hot tub in his living room. But it was the point of no return. And, hey, since they'd gone that far, why not go even farther?

"The fireplace just didn't go," Cole said. The brick fireplace in front of the new hot tub area stuck out like a sore thumb against the slate tile. So he began to recover it with fake stone. Finally, he removed the glass doors covering the hearth of the fireplace and placed a TV there.

After three months of work, Cole had transformed his living room into a unique party area. And it caused quite the stir among his circle of friends.

"All my married friends thought it was a bad idea, and all my single friends loved it," Cole said.

He had planned to install a high-capacity exhaust fan in the living room along with a humidistat to control the humidity from the hot tub. But, he said, he never needed to.

"The hot tub doesn't generate the kind of steam that people think," he said.

Cole has moved since his 2003 hot tub project, but the crazy home feature has helped him rent out his Colorado Springs pad. He said that his renter loves it and uses it all the time.

"My renter had a party there last year and has funny pics of everyone in the hot tub."

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Source: http://realestate.aol.com/blog/2012/09/26/diy-matthew-cole-hot-tub-in-the-living-room/

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The sorry truth about military drones

From Glenn Greenwald, a must-read:

A vitally important and thoroughly documented new report on the impact of Obama?s drone campaign has just been released by researchers at NYU School of Law and Stanford University Law School. Entitled ?Living Under Drones: Death, Injury and Trauma to Civilians From US Drone Practices in Pakistan?, the report details the terrorizing effects of Obama?s drone assaults as well as the numerous, highly misleading public statements from administration officials about that campaign. The study?s purpose was to conduct an ?independent investigations into whether, and to what extent, drone strikes in Pakistan conformed to international law and caused harm and/or injury to civilians?.

There is much more at the link.? And there is this:

?American progressives cheered loudly when a similar question was posed by Al Gore in a widely celebrated 2006 speech he gave on the Washington mall denouncing the Bush/Cheney assault on civil liberties:

??If the president has the inherent authority to eavesdrop on American citizens without a warrant, imprison American citizens on his own declaration, kidnap and torture, then what can?t he do???

What has always amazed me about that is that, there, Gore was merely decrying Bush?s mere eavesdropping on Americans and his detention of them without judicial review. Yet here Obama is claiming the power to decide who should be killed without a shred of transparency, oversight, or due process ? a power that is being continuously used to kill civilians, including children ? and many of these same progressives now actually cheer for that.

I praise Kevin Drum for his good work on this, but too many others cannot bring themselves to utter much protest or, for that matter, defense, if that is indeed their view.

On foreign policy, here are some related points (too polemic for my tastes but still some good points) and no I am not trying to suggest Romney would be superior on these issues nor am I endorsing any other candidate.

Source: http://marginalrevolution.com/marginalrevolution/2012/09/the-sorry-truth-about-military-drones.html

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Poet Helena Mesa to read from debut collection at APSU on October ...

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Clarksville, TN ? In the spring of 2006, Austin Peay State University?s literary journal, Zone 3, published the poem, ?Sway This Night,? by Pittsburgh native Helena Mesa. That work is now part of Mesa?s acclaimed new collection, ?Horse Dance Underwater,? which former Maryland Poet Laureate Michael Collier called a ?virtuosic first book? that leaves readers ?breathless, exhilarated and transformed.?

At 4:00pm on October 11th, Mesa will deliver a reading of her work at the APSU Honors Commons as part of the University?s Fall Visiting Writer?s Series. A book signing will follow the event, which is free and open to the public.

Mesa, the daughter of Cuban parents, grew up in Pittsburgh but later earned her Master of Fine Arts degree from the University of Maryland. She received her Ph.D. from the University of Houston, and her poems have appeared in major literary journals, such as Third Coast, Indiana Review, Barrow Street and Poet Lore.

?Mesa?s poems are artfully suspended between lyric and narrative, between humans and animals, between Latin America and the U.S., between desire and the difficult of its fulfillment,? Guggenheim fellow and National Book Award-winning poet Mark Doty said. ??Horse Dance Underwater? is an inventive, musical and powerful debut.?

For more information on this event, contact Susan Wallace, Zone 3 editor, at

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Qatar calls for Arab-led military intervention in Syria ? RT

United Nations General Assembly at U.N. headquarters in New York (Reuters/Mike Segar)

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The ongoing violence in Syria is the main issue at the 67th UN General Assembly. Despite calls by the UN chief to end the violence, Qatar urged an Arab-led military intervention in the country and Western leaders pledged support for rebel groups.

?The Security Council failed to reach an effective position. In view of this, I think that it is better for the Arab countries themselves to interfere,? said Sheik Hamad bin Khalifa al-Thani, the Emir of Qatar. Al-Thani urged neighboring nations to act ?out of their national, humanitarian, political and military duties? and bring an end to the violence in Syria.

Earlier, Qatari Prime Minister Sheikh Hamad bin Jassem al-Thani said in an interview with CNN that a no-fly zone over Syria is needed as a ?Plan B.?

Western leaders have taken a uniformly hard line on what they see as the need to oust Syrian president Bashar al-Assad. French President Francois Hollande called on the UN to immediately provide protection for Syrian opposition groups and rebel-held territories.

?I know one thing is certain: The Syrian regime will never again take its place in the council of nations,? Hollande said. ?Without any delay, I call upon the United Nations to provide immediately to the Syrian people all the support it asks of us and to protect liberated zones.?

?How many more deaths will we wait for before we act? How can we let the paralysis of the United Nations continue?? he said, likely alluding to three instances where Russia and China vetoed UN Security Council resolutions on Syria they deemed biased.

In August, France began channeling aid to Syria?s rebel-held regions. While Hollande called for Western and Arab countries to intervene in Syria, he also criticized Iran for doing just that: "It is clear that we have all the proof we need that Iran is intervening by human and material means in Syria, and this is unacceptable."

Hollande also reiterated his promise to recognize a ?provisional Syrian government,? a step that could lead to direct military support for the Syrian rebels.

US President Barack Obama leveled further harsh criticism against Assad: "As we meet here, we again declare that the regime of Bashar al-Assad must come to an end so that the suffering of the Syrian people can stop and a new dawn can begin.?

The US and its allies frequently call for sanctions and regime change in Syria. Other countries, like Russia and China, favor diplomacy.

UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon took a balanced stance, arguing in his opening statement that the international community must ?stop the violence and flows of arms to both sides, and set in motion a Syrian-led transition as soon as possible.?

UN and Arab League envoy to Syria Lakhdar Brahimi expressed interest in ?maintaining active contacts? with Moscow, Russia's Deputy Foreign Minister said after FM Sergey Lavrov held a bilateral meeting with Brahimi on the sidelines of the General Assembly. Russia invited Brahimi to Moscow in the coming months in the hopes of crafting a plan to resolve the Syria crisis.

Source: http://rt.com/news/un-general-assembly-syria-982/

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'Cloud Atlas' Gets Even Huger With IMAX Release, New TV Spot

It's been interesting to watch the premise for "Cloud Atlas" be trimmed down into shorter and shorter teasers ever since the movie's epic six-minute-long trailer debuted back in July. The first TV spot for the movie has now arrived, and it does just as effective a job getting us excited for the movie in 30 [...]

Source: http://moviesblog.mtv.com/2012/09/24/cloud-atlas-imax-tv-spot/

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Janet Napolitano to tour Morrelly Homeland Security Center | Long ...

by John Callegari
Published: September 24, 2012
Tags: Department of Homeland Security, homeland security, Janet Napolitano, LIFT, Long Island, Morrelly Center

Napolitano will be given demonstrations of how the businesses housed in the Homeland Security Center collaborate in emergency management situations.

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