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Gloucester Daily Times
---- — Local and state housing officials are critical of what they say will be a crippling loss of local control under a sweeping proposal by Gov. Deval Patrick to consolidate the state's public system for low-income and senior housing.
The governor last week filed a bill that would abolish all 240 local housing authorities and boards — such as the Gloucester, Manchester, Rockport and Essex housing authorities — and instead create six regional ones in an attempt to get a better handle on a system that oversees approximately 80,000 units statewide.
"This bill will simplify and professionalize our public housing system," Patrick said in a statement, "improving transparency and accountability."
The administration has also been trying to improve the management of local housing authorities, instituting reforms such as withholding money from housing authorities that have units vacant for more than 60 days, and setting a $160,000 cap on executive directors' compensation. That comes after reports that former Chelsea Housing Authority Director Michael McLaughlin managed to hide his $360,000 compensation from oversight and did little work among other alleged abuses.
If the governor's bill passes, six regional housing authorities would "take over ownership and fiscal and operational management of all public housing in the commonwealth," according to a statement from Patrick's office. The new system would start in July 2014.
Regional housing authorities would have "one executive director, a governing board, central and regional management staff, and local site managers."
Those working for local housing authorities now would have the opportunity to join the new regional ones. Local communities would retain control over land use and decisions on major redevelopments. Cities and towns would also provide input to RHAs' annual plans.
But the Massachusetts chapter of the National Association of Housing and Redevelopment Officials, a membership association of local housing authorities, community development agencies, and housing and redevelopment officials, issued a statement rejecting Patrick's proposal — and offering to file a bill of "sweeping" reforms to improve cost efficiency "without sacrificing the longstanding tradition of local control and decision-making."
"Each community is different," said Susan Bonner, chairwoman of the Nahant Housing Authority, in the same prepared statement. "Nahant is different from Lynn; Lynn is different from Marblehead and Swampscott. We're not going to be well-served by someone who is somewhere else."
"This is really creating an impenetrable bureaucracy that I can't see handle Gloucester's very unique needs," said David Houlden, who serves as executive director of the Gloucester Housing Authority. "This would seem to create six super agencies, and that's not the answer."
The GHA oversees more than 1,300 housing units in all — 600 in 11 public housing properties, including the 160-unit Riverdale Park on Veterans Way and Patriot Circle, 97 units in McPherson Park, 81 in Sheedy Park and 50 in Lincoln Park, among other sites. There are also 700 units under the GHA's rental assistance, and another 25 facilitated home ownership units.
In all, the Gloucester system serves some 4,500 residents — and Houlden said he can't imagine them getting the same level of service from a larger, regionalized agency.
"We're an island community," Houlden said. "We have challenges that other cities and towns do not face — in terms of transportation and otherwise."
He noted that a majority of people in Gloucester Housing Authority properties are elderly, many have disabilities, many do not have licenses or cars.
"We've been able to address local issues locally, and we've put together some programs aimed at our local needs," Houlden said, "and I can't imagine those programs continuing and operating effectively under some much larger regional agency that's not here."
Houlden and Gloucester are hardly alone.
The governor's proposal has already drawn questions from state Senate Minority Leader Bruce Tarr, R-Gloucester.
"I appreciate Governor Patrick's decision to address the issue of public housing reform in light of some of the egregious cases that have been reported..," Tarr said in a prepared statement. "Clearly, stronger safeguards are needed to protect taxpayer dollars, and to ensure that those dollars are used efficiently and effectively to rehabilitate and maintain our deteriorating public housing infrastructure.
"A significant question remains, however, as to whether replacing our current system of local housing authorities with larger, centralized bureaucracies represents the best approach to achieving increased efficiencies and needed accountability," Tarr said. "Recent systemic failures involving the Sex Offender Registry Board, the state drug evidence testing lab and the oversight of compounding pharmacies prove that large bureaucracies do not guarantee effectiveness, efficiency or safety."
Cindy Dunn, the executive director of the Danvers Housing Authority, said she's concerned the consolidation "will lose the local flavor." By local flavor, Dunn is referring to the creation of a number of affordable and elderly housing projects in town that were made possible by the Danvers Housing Authority as well.
For instance, in May, Town Meeting voted to subdivide the land of the former Danversport School, itself a Housing Authority affordable-housing complex, so Habitat for Humanity could build a duplex condo on Mill Street.
"I don't think a regional housing authority could establish those relationships," Dunn said.
"I just don't think a regionally run housing authority is going to fix any problems," added Carla King, chairwoman of the Danvers Housing Authority. "When you have a board that is from the town, knows the town, loves the town, they are going to make sure the properties are run well."
Houlden said he could understand a move toward some consolidation, and noted that most states have larger individual housing agencies for big cities, with county-run regional programs for smaller towns.
"That wouldn't work in Massachusetts (which no longer had a structured county government)," he noted, "but can we regionalize some aspects of our services? Of course." A centralized registry for housing would be a positive step forward, he said.
"But if they're just going to treat all of this simply as a property management program — and that's about all that six super agencies could do, it's going to fail miserably," he said. "What we do is much more than that."
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Migration: New & Selected Poems
Copper Canyon Press, 2005 - Poetry - 545 pages
The definitive volume from "one of America's greatest living poets."—The Washington Post Book World
A powerful case can be made for declaring W.S. Merwin the most influential American poet of the last half-century. Migration: New & Selected Poems is that case.
As an undergraduate at Princeton, Merwin was advised by John Berryman to "get down on your knees and pray to the muse every day." Over the last 50 years, Merwin's muse led him beyond the traditional verse of his early years to revolutionary open forms that engaged a vast array of influences and possibilities. As Adrienne Rich wrote of W.S. Merwin's work, "I would be shamelessly jealous of this poetry, if I didn't take so much from it into my own life."
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Migration is the distillation of a profound body of work. Drawing the best poems from his acclaimed 17 books, and including a selection of new poems, Migration is the definitive Merwin volume. It embodies his evolving poetic style, commitment to bearing witness, and artistic and political nerve. There is nothing quite like this in American poetry.
Poet and translator W.S. Merwin has received nearly every major literary accolade, including the Pulitzer Prize, Tanning Prize and Bollingen Prize. He has long been committed to artistic, political and environmental causes in both word and deed; when presented with the Pulitzer Prize, he donated the prize money to artists and the draft resistance. He currently lives in Hawaii, where he cultivates endangered palm trees.
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Miranda Cosgrove Swims with Dolphins for Oceana
This Labor Day weekend, as Americans everywhere closed out the summer with barbeques and trips to the beach, Miranda Cosgrove had a different plan. She decided to save dolphins.
Taking advantage of her break from school at the University of Southern California, where she studies film, Miranda flew to Bimini Bahamas with Oceana to film a forthcoming Public Service Announcement about the need to protect dolphins. Accompanied by her mom, Miranda landed in South Bimini amidst a rain storm and braved the elements as she drove to Bimini Sands Resort in a golf cart—the main mode of transportation on this tiny island.
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Victory! Offshore Oil Drilling Stopped in Belize
Yesterday, Belize's Supreme Court declared offshore drilling contracts issued by the Government of Belize (in 2004 and 2007) null and void, providing a dramatic and potentially definitive setback to The Government of Belize and the petroleum prospecting companies issued the contracts.
The ruling, handed down by Justice Oswell Legall, was in response to a case brought by Oceana, COLA, and the Belize Coalition to Save Our Natural Heritage. It effectively ends the Belizean government's immediate effort to allow offshore oil drilling in the Meso American Reef, the second largest barrier reef in the world.
Audrey Matura-Shepherd Vice President of Oceana in Belize lauded the court's decision:
"This is a great day for the people and country of Belize and its democratic process and it shows that we, as ordinary citizens, need not sit back and only complain about all the wrong decisions our Government makes, but that we can use the Judiciary system to settle them."
The court overturned the contracts after determining that the government failed to assess the environmental impact on Belize's ocean, as required by law, prior to issuing the contracts. The court also found that contracts were made to companies that did not demonstrate a proven ability to contribute the necessary funds, assets, machinery, equipment, tools and technical expertise to drill safely.
Oceana has campaigned against offshore drilling in Belize for more than two years. In 2011, after collecting the 20,000+ signatures required to trigger a national referendum that would allow the public to vote on whether or not to allow offshore oil drilling in Belize's reef, the Government disqualified over 8,000 of these signatures effectively on the basis of poor penmanship - stopping the possibility of a vote. Oceana answered by quickly organizing the nation's first ever "People's Referendum" on February 29, 2012 in which 29,235 people (Belize's entire population is approximately 350,000) came from all over the country to cast their votes.
In this historic vote, 96 percent of voters voted against offshore exploration and drilling.
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COP16 Wrap-up: Acidification Gains Visibility
The climate change negotiations in Cancun, Mexico have drawn to a close, and another year of trying to figure out what to do about climate change has come and gone.
On the bright side, ocean acidification seemed more prevalent than in past years, which is a great triumph for the oceans. Oceana has been working to incorporate ocean acidification into the UNFCCC process, and to gain wider acknowledgement of this consequence of carbon dioxide emissions. This year ocean acidification seemed to be more easily recognized and understood, which is a step in the right direction. Much work remains to be done.
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Ocean Acidification: The Untold Stories
As the first week of the sixteenth meeting of the UN climate negotiations in Cancun, Mexico (COP 16) draws to a close, Oceana is releasing a new report on climate change's evil twin: ocean acidification.
Ocean Acidification: The Untold Stories details new findings for many different species of marine life that will be affected by a more acidic ocean. Coral reef ecosystems will be some of the first casualties of an acidified ocean; impacts to these beautiful and important habitats could have huge consequences for a quarter of the entire biological diversity of the oceans that depend on coral reefs for food and shelter.
Marine life ranging from the smallest plankton to the largest whale may be affected by ocean acidification. Shellfish such as sea urchins, lobsters, sea stars and brittle stars are some prime examples of creatures that could be affected. More acidic oceans are expected to lead to a shortage of carbonate, a key building block that these animals need to build their shells and skeletons.
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Victory! Drilling Halted in Eastern Gulf, Atlantic and Pacific Coasts
In a huge victory for the oceans and Oceana, this afternoon Interior Secretary Ken Salazar announced that in the new five-year drilling plan, no new offshore drilling would be allowed in the Eastern Gulf of Mexico or off the Atlantic and Pacific coasts. The Eastern Gulf of Mexico will be protected from offshore oil and gas exploration for the next seven years.
These areas were being considered for oil and gas development, and the Administration had previously indicated support for exploration in the Atlantic Ocean, as well as in the Eastern Gulf, though Congressional action would be needed in that area. They also announced the start of a new process to reconsider drilling in the Arctic's Beaufort Sea. This is a step in the right direction, but there is still more on the table and more that must be done to protect the Arctic Ocean.
Oceana has been working for many years to ban offshore drilling, and this victory provides an important step in the right direction towards protecting our oceans from the dangers of offshore drilling, and moving towards cleaner and safer alternative sources of energy.
Belize's Reef Fails Health Class
Last week in Belize, reef scientists, conservationists and managers gathered at the Belize Reef Summit to discuss the impacts of increasing ocean temperatures and ocean acidification.
Belize is home to the second largest barrier reef in the world. The 2010 Belize Reef Report Card, which was released at the meeting, reveals that 60% of this protected reef is in poor to critical condition with only 8% considered in good condition. This staggering statistic is unfortunately the case for many coral reefs worldwide.
On the final day of the summit, hundreds of Belizeans and international supporters gathered on an island on the Barrier Reef off of Belize City to create a living work of art to raise awareness about the effect of climate change on the oceans. This striking photograph was a call for world leaders to take strong action against climate change and ocean acidification at COP 16, the UN Climate Talks in Cancun that begin November 29th.
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New Oceana Report: Shipping Solutions
We've told you this before, but in case you need a reminder: If global shipping were a country, it would be the sixth largest producer of greenhouse gas emissions. Only the United States, China, Russia, India and Japan emit more carbon dioxide than the world's shipping fleet. Nevertheless, this country-sized amount of carbon dioxide remains unregulated.
Like all modes of transportation that use fossil fuels, ships produce carbon dioxide emissions that significantly contribute to global climate change and ocean acidification. Besides carbon dioxide, ships also release a handful of other pollutants that contribute to environmental degradation. More than three percent of global carbon dioxide emissions can be attributed to ocean-going ships, a number that can be greatly reduced if emission regulations were set.
Oceana recently released a new report called Shipping Solutions - just in time for the Sustainable Shipping meeting in October. At the meeting, Oceana's senior campaign director Jackie Savitz spoke to a room full of shipping industry executives to call for increased shipping emission regulations, and present the many different ways these reductions can be achieved.
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I write about white-collar crime, with a focus on Ponzi schemes.
On Friday, August 17, 2012, the Securities and Exchange Commission ("SEC") filed an emergency action in a North Carolina federal court, alleging that ZeekRewards and its founder, Paul R. Burks, were involved in one of
the largest Ponzi schemes in history. The move came as many began to question the legality of the operation and whether its promised 1.5% daily returns were simply 'too good to be true.' These fears were confirmed on Friday, with the unavailability of Zeek's website and the closure of its Lexington, N.C. headquarters serving as an ominous sign leading up to the SEC's announcement Friday evening that it had halted the scheme as it teetered on the "verge of collapse". The sheer number of victims, which authorities estimate tops 1 million, likely earns Zeek the infamous distinction as the largest Ponzi scheme in history by the number of investors, and will add a layer of complexity never seen before in trying to unravel the scheme and distribute funds to investors. For sake of comparison,the number of investors in Bernard Madoff's $65 billion Ponzi scheme, the largest in history by investor losses, was "only" in the thousands.
According to authorities, Zeek consisted of two related operations, Zeek Rewards and Zeekler. Zeekler was an international penny auction website that offered users the ability to win merchandise by placing one-cent "bids". Zeek Rewards was the investment arm of the operation, offering users the ability to share in up to 50% of daily "profits" by completing a daily set of tasks that included soliciting new customers and selling or giving away "bids" to new users. At the end of the day, users were paid "Profit Points" usually totaling 1.5% of their investment, and were given the choice either to receive their "profits" in cash or rollover the points to compound future returns. Many chose to re-invest, and due to the compounding nature of the Profit Points and the steady stream of new customers, authorities allege that the number of outstanding Profit Points was nearly 3 billion at the time the scheme was halted. The scheme depended on investors choosing to reinvest their profits, for according to the SEC, Zeek would have been insolvent in a matter of weeks, if not days, had investors chosen to receive their profits in cash.
No doubt in efforts to avoid the scrutiny of federal and state authorities, Zeek made it mandatory for new users to acknowledge that they "are NOT purchasing stock or any other form of 'investment' or equity" before becoming a member. While Zeek dubbed the operation as an "e-commerce subscription", the SEC disagreed, charging that, in reality, the company was engaging in the fraudulent offering of unregistered securities.
In its announcement, the SEC also stated that Paul Burks, Zeek's founder, was cooperating with authorities and had agreed to pay a $4 million civil penalty and relinquish all interests and assets in the company – all without admitting or denying any culpability. Burks cooperation should be seen as a positive sign for investors, as his knowledge of the scheme will significantly help authorities unravel the operation and account for all assets. According to the SEC, Zeek has paid over $375 million to investors to date, and currently holds approximately $225 million in investor funds in financial institutions all over the world. These funds were frozen in an emergency asset freeze granted by the North Carolina federal court, meaning that they cannot be dissipated or misappropriated during the course of the investigation.
Zeek and its affiliates have attracted scrutiny in recent weeks as investors increasingly began to doubt the operation's legitimacy. According to David Dalrymple, President of the Winston Salem Better Business Bureau ("BBB"), the BBB had been receiving complaints for some time, and within the last 30 days alone had received 30,000 inquiries about Zeek. Said Dalrymple, "In twelve years as the President here, I cannot compare that to any level of inquiry for any other business. Ever." Dalrymple stated that the BBB's analysis of Zeek had raised many red flags, and that it immediately notified criminal authorities.
While investor losses pale in comparison to those experienced by Madoff or Stanford investors, the sheer number of Zeek investors is on a magnitude that has never been dealt with before in a receivership or bankruptcy context. To illustrate, assuming Zeek had one million investors, a simple 1-page summary for each investor summarizing contributions and withdrawals, stacked together, would be 101.3 meters high, or roughly 300 feet. The staggering number of victims suggests that investigation of the fraud and establishment of a distribution process will likely be a drawn-out process involving hundreds, if not thousands, of people.
Going forward, the first step will be the appointment of a receiver by the North Carolina federal court. In an Order filed late Friday, United States District Judge Graham Mullen appointed Kenneth Bell as the temporary receiver, empowering him to take control of Zeek's assets and begin an investigation. Mr. Bell is a Partner at the Charlotte office of McGuireWoods, where his practice includes white collar crime. It is likely that Bell took control of Zeek's offices yesterday immediately after the Order was signed. In the Order, Judge Mullen also ordered Burks to provide a list of all assets, employees, and creditors of Zeek to the Receiver within 10 days, and a full accounting of assets, bank accounts, and other property within 30 days.
For now, the North Carolina Attorney General has established a hotline for concerned investors at (919) 716-6046.
(08/20) EDIT – Forbes has confirmed that Burks is being represented by Noell Tin of Tin Fulton Walker & Owen, a Charlotte, NC law firm.
(08/21) EDIT – The Receiver has announced the establishment of a Receivership website at www.zeekrewardsreceivership.com. Victims wishing to communicate with the Receiver should email firstname.lastname@example.com.
The SEC's announcement is here.
The SEC's complaint is here.
The Court's Order Appointing Receiver is here.
Another SEC miss that will cost investors that can't afford to lose it. Zeek illegally solicited over 1 million "investors" for over a year and a half according to the SEC filing.
$3 billion in profit points is a huge loss for low to mid income investors and might have more wide reaching impact than is being reported. Considering Zeek only had $225M in cash – there is going to be a huge shortfall.
Where was the SEC and why shouldn't they be liable for being asleep at the wheel once again?!?
3 billion VIP points that have been accumulated. thats not money just numbers. VIP points in this funtioned like shares of stock, the more you have the more you get paid.
I feel awful about this. I was a "Zeek Affiliate" or better now an investor and knew several other investors involved in this. All I can say is this thing was one well dressed up ponzi and fooled a million. I looked at the numbers and said this is amazing or this is incredible where I should of said this is impossible. So many high level reputable people from other mlm companies were invested that I knew personaly from being involved in a previous mlm. They had the big names "Kieth Laggos" "Kevin Grimes" "Greg Caldwell" the list goes on. The worst thing about this is not the money being lost in my opinion, (though others invested alot more and have suffered greivously) it is all the hope and just the heart break of it. I'm 18 years old and I count myself lucky to have learned this lesson early on in life. I personaly believe this was set up from the start to be a scam although I don't believe it was a ponzi to start with. I think it started with the penny auctions paying affiliates to an extent in the begining and as investor numbers skyrocketed it evolved into a ponzi scheme. I truly think this was planned to happen, I think they took advantage of this economy and peoples desperatness to get a decent roi, and i think Paul Burks and Dawn Wright Olivares need to pay dearly for this. In my opinion they are CRIMINALS. SHISTERS, AND SOME PRETTY DAGGONE GOOD CONARTISTS. 3 BILLION bids bought and just 0.25% used in the auctions. I know penny auctions are making alot of money now (and i also feel the took advantage of that fact aswell to suade people). To support a large number of affiliates who had around 500000 VIP points and where making 8000 daily of the Retail Profit Pool??? (which is actually more than 1.5% return) is absolutly unreal and frankly impossible. Lets say only 10000 investors out of 1000000 were at the 500000 point. What is 8000 x 10000? (80000000) or EIGHTY MILLION DOLLARS. If they all just decided to take out 30% a day it would be 24000000 or TWENTY FOUR MILLION A DAY. Now lets see how much it would be in one week if every day they drew 30% and drew weekly. Whats twenty four million times 7? I don't care how many drops you have. I'm no genius but i don't think that any penny auction on earth could support that. How did we fall for this? I can't believe that I or my family members would do this. I am actually glad that the SEC shut this thing down when they did. And it sickens me that people that were profiting off of this thing want to keep it going after so many people go hurt. It's a classic example of people being blinded by greed and hope and dreams. Hardly any effort was involved in making money. Nothing in life comes withouth hard work. I personaly have only seen 750 come out of a 5000 dollar investment made by a family member. I am truly sorry for everyone who has fallen into this crap.
I am interested in finding out if investors are going to get their money back or at least part of it.
I recruited people from foreign countries whom I manage their accounts, in other words I represent them.
Will they get their money back as well?
Signed up, sent money, received one day, gone the next! Nothing ventured, nothing gained! So much lost. Whose to blame. I might just go and look in that mirror!
I feel really bad for all the zeek rewards members. I've just joined Zeek Rewards for less than a week and it got shut down already. Before I joined, I had plan "B". I've decided to join a new business only call Ultimate Power Profit, or Paradigm shift. This is similar to Zeek but better. Let me know if you are interested at email@example.com
Ultimate Power Profits
I feel really bad for all the zeek rewards members. I've just joined Zeek Rewards for less than a week and it got shut down already. Before I joined, I had plan "B". I've decided to join a new business only call Ultimate Power Profit, or Paradigm shift. This is similar to Zeek but better. Let me know if you are interested at firstname.lastname@example.com
www.UltimatePower Profits.com
I feel really bad for all the zeek rewards members. I've just joined Zeek Rewards for less than a week and it got shut down already. Before I joined, I had plan "B". I've decided to join a new business only call Ultimate Power Profit, or Paradigm shift. This is similar to Zeek but better. Let me know if you are interested at email@example.com
Very shocking,…..I spent many hours by email and by phone advising others against this in Australia,…..I warned everyone I knew that was approached by this "opportunity",.. not to get involved in this,……no one listened,……no one,….they all jumped in ,..some of them with thousands of dollars,..a couple even jumped in knowing it may be a ponzi scheme,..they just wanted to be first in and get their share before it might collapse,…shocking,….. I actually have a legitimate Marine Investment Fund business based in Australia which required and still requires more investment partners,.. and some that had the choice between the two, over the last 6-8 months or so……chose the Zeek Ponzi Scheme,..my Marine Venture Fund is still ticking along with marine assets,..and God will provide as required,as its not a "Ponzi get rich quick scheme".


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Republicans Push Bills Inching Government Closer to Shutdown
House Republicans won't blink on government funding bill.
The House of Representatives marched closer over the weekend in the direction of a government shutdown.
It would be the first time in 17 years that the government was forced to turn out the lights because of congressional inaction.
[READ: John Boehner's Tough Choice]
Saturday, Republicans in the House pushed for legislation that would delay Obamacare for a year and permanently repeal the medical device tax, signaling the fight to stop the Affordable Care Act through a temporary funding bill is not over.
"I think [Democrats] will have to listen to us on this," Rep. Michele Bachmann, R-Minn., said Saturday after the announcement.
[READ: Republicans Risk Shutdown on Obamacare]
The House's latest list of demands comes after the Senate voted Friday for a simple continuing resolution, a no-frills funding bill that would have kept the government running through Nov. 15.
This is the second time in two weeks that House Republicans have tried to use required legislation to fund the government to effectively block the October 1 implementation of the key provisions of the Affordable Care Act. Last Friday, the House sent the Senate a bill that would have only funded the government if the Senate agreed to permanently defund the president's signature legislative achievement.
Many conservative Republicans were elated House Speaker John Boehner was going to continue fighting against health care, even as the threat of a government shutdown draws near.
"The complete defunding of Obamacare forever, that was a hail Mary on the first down," says Rep. Blake Farenthold, R-Texas. "This is second down and we are going to do a running play, get a first down and move forward."
[READ: Republican Leaders and Americans Look to Reforms on the Debt Ceiling]
The sponsor of the amendment that would push the bill back to the Senate, Rep. Tom Graves, R-Ga., said he had never seen his GOP caucus more united. During the meeting Saturday morning where House leaders announced the plan, Graves said members cheered and congratulated one another. One member, Rep. John Culberson, R-Texas, shouted "Like 9/11, let's roll."
Saturday, while Republicans inched closer to a shutdown, president Barack Obama played golf.
"He has been pretty removed," Graves said of the president. "He hurls verbal attacks from a distance it seems. He is not a dictator. He cannot tell us what we are to do. There is a legislative process and it will play out."
The White House as well as Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid, D-Nev., have already said any House legislation that seeks to defund, delay or remove any provision of Obamacare does not stand a chance in the Democratic-controlled Senate.
"Today's vote by House Republicans is pointless," Reid said in a released statement. "As I have said repeatedly, the Senate will reject any Republican attempt to force changes to the Affordable Care Act through a mandatory government funding bill or the debt ceiling."
That warning led some Republicans to be more uncomfortable with House leadership's tactics.
"This is late. I am still hopeful that we will be able to get to a point where the government will not shut down, and we will be able to resolve this," says Rep. Charlie Dent, R-Pa. "I don't like placing my fate or the country's fate in the hands of the U.S. Senate. "
Various recent polls have indicated voters will blame both parties if the government shuts down but that Republicans would come out worse.
Dent said that if the Senate sent a clean funding bill back to the House, he would vote for it.
Democrats in the House, meanwhile, were visibly frustrated, taking to the floor to admonish their GOP colleagues for inching closer to a shutdown, which will take effect Oct. 1 if the Senate and House don't negotiate a compromise.
"There is the kind of resignation you have when you are watching a slow moving train wreck in process," says Rep. Adam Schiff, R-Calif. "We are watching the House GOP conference with surprising complacency head towards another shock to the economy."
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We are writing to endorse Mark Avery for Peninsula Township Trustee. Mark is a very level-headed, honest and fair individual. He has lived on the Peninsula for 23 years and understands the issues that face our community. Peninsula Township needs strong people like Mark Avery to guide us into the future. Please join us and vote for Mark Avery for Peninsula Township Trustee.
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Peggy Haines is a consummate professional.
She and her staff have brought the Register of Deeds office and the County libers into the new millennium.
Under Peggy's dedicated leadership, she and her staff have made giant strides in updating records, making records available to the public and assisting professionals who are dependent on prompt and accurate information.
Peggy's accomplishments are numerous, her work ethic is unquestionable and she is an asset to Grand Traverse County. Peggy Haines deserves your vote Aug. 7.
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I would like to encourage you to ask your doctor to check your Vitamin D level...if you have not already done so. Low Vitamin D can cause some of us FMers additional pain and it can also affect other illnesses as well.
I hope you have checked the info under *tips* and *resources* as you will find some good *tools* that perhaps might help you cope better.
Have you tried using heating pads? Are you getting enough sleep? Are you trying to keep yourself on some sort of schedule? Are you pacing what you have to do each day? These are some things which you need to try. Perhaps you need to start a journal and keep up with what is going on with you. This is a good way to see what is causing more/less pain.
Stress is very hard on us FMers...so you must try to lower your stress...sorry that your DH (dear husband) does not understand your pain. I hope you will try to educate and share your thoughts with him. It is really hard for us FMers to understand and so much harder for those who do not feel what we are going through.
The doctors do not understand and family and friends just do not have any idea how much the wrath of the dragon can affect us each and every day.
It is important for you to allow yourself to rest. It is also important for you to get enough sleep at night. Perhaps you can take a hot shower at night using lavender bath salts so that your body can relax, do this right before bedtime.
Have you tried taking any vitamins and supplements?
Things will get better for you. Stay positive and figure out just what your body needs. Remember that we are all different and what works for one may or may not work for you. Hand in there though and now that this too will pass.
Take care and good luck.
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this is so invisible ppl dont get it. sorry your husband doesnt believe. i have been in denial cuz i dont believe it myself
you need to live for your kids and future grand babies. have been given the lyrica and vicdin as well. chin up get some fresh aair. be gentle on yourself. u are loved sweetie and r important
There are stronger pain meds and other combinations to try.
For instance, I take a very low dose of methadone (can be a dangerous drug if exceed your doseage) and baclofen, a muscle relaxant. Works for me.
Check out FNETNEWS and subscribe if you have to; they have a great medication issue or phone then ask them which issue deals with the combinations of drugs for pain.
You can feel life is worth living if you get adequate pain relief. I hope your husband will support you more. Sometimes that is the worst thing about fibro. My husband (ex) sneered, "you have to take a pain pill to have sex". So what? Diabetic take oral medication. People with pain take medication---no difference. It's an illness.
The new drugs like lyrica and savella have been massively hyped by pharma. Don't overlook opioids (narcotics). They have been used for thousands of years for pain. No stigma. You deserve relief.
How did you do on the free samples? Was there a real improvement? Were you on the drug during a flare, and if so how did the flare compare with others when you were not on that medication?
I ask this because the drug manufacturers can claim more than they deliver. As an example, back when FM was first officially recognized, the touted treatment was a combination of Elavil and Flexeril. If you went into the original research, the abstracts sounded promising. However, if you read the whole study, you found that the combo was 16% better than previous treatments. Now 16% better is more than 0% better, but it's not some wonder cure. My father in law used to say that figures don't lie, but liars do figure.
If a trial medication actually helped you, go for it. Call and write your insurance company to get a review of your case.
Call the manufacturer and see if you can get free or reduced cost meds.
Be on the lookout for side effects. Would you believe all the antidepressants make it hard for me to begin urination? Painfull! And over the years, I've tried them all. Believe me, going to the ER to get catheterized so your bladder can empty is no fun at all.
You will find treatment plans that work for you. It may take some time. It may only work for a while and then not work any more. Until we know the complete mechanism of FM, it's a do it yourself world. But, it does get better. One of the ways it will get better is that you will know you and only you are in ultimate control of your care. This is not an invitation to use medications in ways not prescribed for you. It is the realization that only you are in the position to know what starts your flares. Only you can set up a cupbord and freezer of easy meals to serve your family on bad days. Only you can decide on a level of clean you can accomplish and live with for your home. Only you can establish age appropriate chores for your kids to help with. They need the responsibility. You need the help. And it's one of the ways you can gain control of your FM and your live.
I can honestly say that I know how you feel. I was diagnosed with fibro. about 10 years ago and it is still very frustrating to deal with. I can tell you that if you know the Lyrica worked for you then tell that pain management Dr. that the Lyrica and vicodin combo. is what worked before and you want to try that first before anything else. If your insurance co. denies to pay for the Lyrica, the office just needs to keep resubmitting it until they agree to cover it. I am an RN and I deal with insurance companies on a daily basis. Lyrica is still "new" and the insurance companies want your Dr. to try an older, less expensive med. first and if that fails they will cover the Lyrica. Sometimes it even helps if you call them for authorization yourself. You will find something that works for you, and once you find it DO NOT let anyone talk you into changing it. I also know this from first hand experience. I have had many ups and downs with this weird, crazy, unpredictable illness and when I go to bed at night, it is anyone's guess how I will feel when I wake up in the morning. I am currently experiencing a flare up that is going on its 3rd week. In my ten years of having this, I have never, ever been this miserable, or in this much pain from a flare up before and I am having a very hard time dealing with it. This is just how unpredictable fibro. can be and it is different for everyone. I am sorry that your husband does not understand yet. It is very important that he becomes familiar with your illness, or at least tries to become familiar with it. My husband at first didnt understand and I took him with me to some of my Dr. appointments so she could explain it to him. He is very supportive when I cant get out of bed for days at a time. It is hard for them to think of you as sick when you look healthy on the outside though. He may just need time. I am new to this community as well and so far I have learned many useful tips to help me during this flare up of mine. It is very depressing to be in pain all the time, but dont give up.
your response was encouraging to me too! It really is helpful to hear about how others deal with their FM symptoms. I know that everyone is different, but just your advice on keeping easy meals available and having the kids help out. I hate having to take pain meds. I feel like right now I am always popping a pill to feel better, but it just makes sense to do it if that is what really helps you.
There may also be times when you suddenly need more meds--lots more. That's normal for fibro too. However, that new normal may not last forever, and you may morph into a much calmer, gentler FM with fewer meds needed.
I've had several surgeries over the years. Some of them were probably unnecessary and FM related. All of them were shocks to the body. All of them were followed by major flares. But the flares went away, the fibro got more managable, and life got better.
There will be better days. Enjoy them. Treasure them. Use them to do the things you really want to do--not the things you think you should be doing. Ten years from now, you won't remember those cobwebs you vacuumed up, but you will remember the day you spent playing with your kids. Hoard your energy; save it for the things that matter.
Towards better days,
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Oxfam has been carrying out an emergency response to help thousands of families displaced by conflict in Pakistan's north and west. These are the voices of some of those affected by the conflict.
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Reuters reports that the European Union has ended one of the world''s longest-running trade battles by agreeing to cut import tariffs on bananas from Latin America grown by U.S. corporations like Dole Food Co., Fresh Del Monte Produce Inc. and Chiquita Brands International Inc. The settlement means less-expensive bananas for Europeans, more profit for U.S. fruit companies and lower revenue for some former EU colonies. It ends a 16-year-old trade dispute over access to the EU''s $6.7 billion banana market, the world''s largest. Since 1993, when it set up its tariff-free zone, the EU has offered the best import rates to 12 former colonies, places like Cameroon, Ivory Coast and Belize. The deal upset governments in countries such as Colombia, Costa Rica and Guatemala, where U.S. companies run industrial fruit plantations. Five Latin American countries, backed by the U.S., filed their first formal trade complaint at the World Trade Organization in 1993. As the dispute escalated, other countries joined the battle against the EU tariffs. Finally, this year, the four groups involved found common ground in a separate deal. In the deal, the EU will reduce tariffs on bananas from Latin American countries to €114 ($167) a ton in 2017 from €176, in return for Latin American countries dropping their WTO case. The EU''s former colonies will continue to receive virtually tariff-free access for its EU banana shipments, and will get a one-time cash payment of €200 million.


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Becky has spent her entire career cooking and baking, which are also her favorite hobbies outside of work. For her, time spent in the kitchen not only relieves stress, but is lots of fun as well. Becky's love for baking began as a child, standing on a chair next her mom, adding ingredients and mixing up dough.
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These breakfast treats have the flavor and texture of cake doughnuts but are as easy to make as muffins. Top them with Land O Lakes® Butter with Canola Oil.
Heat oven to 375°F. Grease 12-cup muffin pan; set aside.
Combine milk, 1/3 cup melted butter and egg in bowl. Set aside.
Combine flour, 3/4 cup sugar, baking powder, salt and nutmeg in bowl. Add egg mixture; stir just until combined.
Spoon batter into prepared pan. Bake 15-20 minutes or until toothpick inserted comes out clean.
Place 1/3 cup melted butter in bowl. Combine 1/2 cup sugar and cinnamon in another bowl. Remove muffins from pan; let stand 2 minutes on cooling rack.
Dip tops of warm muffins into melted butter, then into cinnamon sugar mixture.
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Calories: 250
Fat: 10g
Cholesterol: 45mg
Sodium: 250mg
Carbohydrates: 37g
Dietary Fiber: <1g
Protein: 3g
Made them....Loved them....very easy recipe.....I made a few adjustments....1. I added almond extract to the mix and sliced almonds on top...2. I poured the butter over the puff in the pan while hot then toss them in the cinnamon and sugar....it just makes a good puff better..
Made these just as directed, with a minor addition of pumpkin pie spice and omitted nutmug as it is in the pie spice mix. My husband rarely eats muffins, but he ate more than I did.Will definitely make these again.
These were very good, but I don't think they taste exactly like a doughnut. They remind me more of the cake-like muffins from the grocery store. Like other reviewers I added a tsp. of vanilla, but I also omitted the nutmeg because I don't like nutmeg. To cut back on butter, I sprayed the warm muffins with butter and then dipped them in half the amount of sugar and cinnamon called for and still had a little left over. Also, I baked mine at 350 degrees for 19 minutes since I think 375 is often too high for baked goods. They do look like the picture and I would make them again!
I mae these this morning for my hubby and the shop guys, and they were a hit I will make these again for sure I have to agree with the snickedoodle comment taste just like them
These are excellent! I made this recipe using the ingredients/amounts as listed and they were delicious - like a Snickerdoodles Doughnut! I had whole nutmeg on hand so used "fresh ground", and used a non-stick mini-muffin pan to produce a batch of 22 "two-bite wonders". (a cookie dough scoop worked perfectly - mine needed 12 min. @ 375). I am sharing this recipe with family & friends and this one goes in my "keeper" file. :)
My kids loved this! I added the suggested additional 1/4 tsp. of nutmeg and added the vanilla. I baked the muffins in the mini cupcake tin. I also used less butter and sugar to dip the muffins in. Very good! definitely a keeper!
My husband and I loved these and the recipe was easy to follow. Also Land of Lakes butter with canola oil is what I use all the time.
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You won't believe how much they taste like a cake donut and how simply delicious they are....try to eat just one....you can't...they are that tasty. I took the suggestion of another review and added the extra 1/4 teas of nutmeg because my family likes nutmeg and also added the teas. of vanilla. These are definitely a KEEPER!!!! And so easy to make and you would most likely have everything on hand to make them. Don't hestiate to try this recipe. You won't be sorry!!!!!!!!!!
This is an AMAZING recipe! I love it! The muffins disappeared almost as soon as they came out of the oven. My family loves these "donuts". They are as close to donuts as you'll ever get when making them in the oven. I will definitely be making them again. I made most of these muffins in a small muffin pan which made them the perfect size to bite. I cooked them for about 6-7 min for the mini muffin pan. I used Crisco to grease the pans and they slipped right out. Definitely recommend this recipe!
This is easy and the taste is very much like a cinnamon cake donut. These muffins are great warmed with a cup of coffee,tea or hot chocolate. My neighbors all want the recipe.
Make a double batch of this and made exactly two dozen. I took them to work for a breakfast party and they were a hit! If you closed your eyes and took a bite, you would think it was a doughnut! I will def. be making these again.
I followed the recipe to the "t" and found that the flavor was good, but they were too dense for me; wish they had been fluffier.
Taste just like a doughnut. Followed recipe exactly. Used a nonstick muffin pan and they came out with ease.
Increased the nutmeg by 1/4 stp and added 1 tsp. of vanilla. Used cupcake papers for ease in baking and cleanup. Spooned melted butter over tops and sprinkled cin/sugar over muffin. This recipe doubled with ease.
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Memorial services for Christopher Wayne Russell, 24, of Palestine, will be 2 p.m. Saturday at Bailey & Foster Chapel with Travis Yackel officiating. Arrangements are under the direction of Bailey & Foster, Palestine.
Mr. Russell died Oct. 20.
He was born Dec. 23, 1987 to Royce and Loreen Sivertson Russell in Palestine. He was a truck driver for Swift Trucking.
Mr. Russell is survived by his parents, Royce and Loreen Russell of Palestine; grandmothers, Mary Russell of Pasadena and Shelia Sivertson of Rockwall; sisters, Tonya Russell of Corsicana and Sharleen Murray of Frankston; brother, Floyd Tony Russell of Rockwall; nieces and nephews, Shawn Russell, Krystal Murray and Scott Murray; and numerous aunts and uncles.
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Mel's Diner: Pat Mitchell
September 20, 2007 4:58 PM
Who: Pat Mitchell, president-CEO, the Paley Center for Media
Where: Cafe 440, Beverly Hills
When: Thursday, Sept. 6, lunch
Dined On: I knew Pat Mitchell and I were going to see eye-to-eye as soon as we started talking at Cafe 440.
"Food enhances a community experience," she said as she walked me through her best bets on the menu.
You could say Mel's Diner agrees with that.
The small patio dining area is adjacent to the Frederick Fekkai Salon, about a block down an alley from the Paley Media Center in Beverly Hills. Pat, who lives in New York, usually dines at this spa-tastic spot when she comes to L.A. That's at least once a month.
Pat made the "community" comment to explain why she's been talking to this restaurant about setting up a cafe at the media center, formerly known as the Museum of Television & Radio. The Paley doesn't have a kitchen, but it still could offer coffee drinks and pre-made breakfast and lunch fare such as bagels, salads and wraps. They'd just need some sort of mobile cart like you see at lots of museums.
The idea is to encourage people to meet for a bite at the center, where they could access its collection of audio and video material over a secure data connection. Establishing that digital access is part of a bigger push for both of the center's locations, in New York and L.A.
"We have these beautiful buildings," Pat said. "We hope to give people a reason to visit them even if they're not coming for a specific show or program. Maybe people are having lunch and say to each other, 'Remember that 'Bob Newhart' scene?' And then be able to pull it up on a screen right there."
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Really, could there be a more appropriate place for a future Mel's Diner than the Media Center itself, where we can view just about anything we're talking about?
"Newhart" was top of mind for Pat. She was in town partly to attend the Paley's special "The Bob Newhart Show" cast reunion event, co-hosted by TVLand. The program, which kicked off the Paley's fall 2007 events schedule, was held the night before our lunch.
Pat started out talking to Starbucks about her cafe notion, but the coffee mega-chain already has a Beverly Hills location close by.
That is just as well. Cafe 440-level food would be well worth a trip to the Paley for the meal alone. Pat and I both had Frederic's Favorite salad. She asked for hers with chicken; I ordered mine with tuna. It's chopped and chockfull of some of my faves as well: broccoli, mozzarella, garbanzo beans and red cabbage.
The Dish: In addition to attending the "Newhart" event, Pat was in town for the Los Angeles board of governors meetings; she always tries to meet with Paley trustees and other media executives in the area as well.
She's also always fundraising for the many plans she has for the Paley. The center launched a campaign earlier this year and is on its way to achieving its goal of raising $20 million by the end of 2007.
At this point about 2,000 hours of the center's TV programs have been digitized (along with more than 1,500 radio hours). Some 10,000 hours are earmarked as priorities, and the center will do the whole 150,000 eventually, Pat said.
Processing the content would enable the center to make the library searchable and viewable to visitors using kiosks in the Paley locations in New York and L.A. Pat said she was just chatting with "Law & Order" creator Dick Wolf about her plans on the very morning of our lunch.
"I told him, 'Wouldn't it be great if someone comes in, wants to see all about you, and they can just plug in your name and bring up everything we have related to your career?'" she said. "He loved it."
As I continue to refer to the former MT&R as the Paley, I realize it is coming more naturally than I expected when the organization changed its name this summer.
Pat said she had been thinking about a name change ever since she came on board in March 2006.
The switch took longer to execute than she thought it might, partly because of the difficulty of finding the right moniker. (The org's name was changed once before, from the Museum of Broadcasting.)
Changing "TV & Radio" to "Media" was an easy sell to the group there, who worked with consultants Landor on the switch.
And "Museum" never quite fit, she said.
"We have a collection, but people who came in, particularly in New York, expected things on the walls and Archie Bunker's chair," she said.
"Center" seemed closest to "community," and to how she sees the org.
The folks at Landor said institutions become familiar by associating them with people's names. Think the Guggenheim, the Kennedy Center, the Getty. Landor suggested "Paley," for the Center's late founder William S. Paley.
Although a lot of the Center's members who were polled didn't know who he was, they liked that he was a real person. In addition, Paley was a visionary whose diverse media career represented the spirit of the center and where it was going, Pat said.
Pat's career has been expansive as well. In addition to heading PBS prior to joining the Paley, she has worked for three broadcast networks and several cable channels, serving as reporter, news anchor, talk-show host, producer and executive, among other things.
"People look at my career, and often think I must have been so ambitious and known what I wanted to do," she said. "Really, the thing that always guided me is what interested me."
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Every golf team in the Niagara Frontier League will close its regular season today at the NFL championship match at 9 a.m. at Willowbrook Country Club in Lockport.
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With the help of Pinterest and other consumer-oriented companies, content curation – the process of finding, organizing and sharing online content – has gone mainstream. More and more people are looking to content curation to help them navigate today's chaotic online world. But it's not only consumers that are benefitting.
Curata's 2012 Content Curation Adoption Survey of more than 400 marketers found that the vast majority are utilizing content curation as a key component of their content marketing strategy. In fact, 95 percent of respondents said they have curated content in the past six months – though some did so unknowingly, as they were not familiar with the term. Why all this buzz around content curation? What is driving the adoption of the practice?
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Of the marketers who took our survey, 56 percent reported finding quality content was their greatest content marketing challenge. The explosion of information on the Web has led to an overwhelming amount of content, making it more challenging to locate the best and most relevant. Curated sites are a solution to that problem, providing a one-stop destination that sifts through the sea of mediocre content to find the most timely and relevant information on a certain topic. Those sites that do a good job at regularly providing beneficial content are the most successful. As content marketing becomes increasingly central to the overall strategy, marketers look to content curation as a way to help cut through the clutter and provide their prospects with the valuable information for which they are looking.
Some 85 percent of the survey group said that establishing thought leadership was their main content curation objective. Customers want a brand to engage with them prior to the point of sale. By providing quality content, both original as well as from competitors and industry luminaries, brands can position themselves as thought leaders in their space as well as go-to resources for prospects. Once this trust is established, prospects are more likely to become customers when they are prepared to buy.
Social media platforms such as Facebook and Twitter are creating a way to get on-demand news. Several of the latest big news stories – like the U.S. presidential candidate announcements and Osama Bin Laden's death – broke first on Twitter. People increasingly are relying on social media as a resource for the most timely and relevant information. Social media tools have become more popular in helping marketers identify the right sources and find relevant content. Some 79% of the marketers surveyed cited social media as the preferred service for finding content to share.
Once consumer find content manually or through a technology solution, many marketers then curate it on their sites, adding their unique perspective. Social media has also become a means of sharing content online, proving to be one of the effective channels for marketers to push out relevant content to their prospects. Through content curation, marketers can quickly and more easily get their content out in the social sphere and keep their prospects aware of industry information.
All major brands today are online – providing their prospects with information, customer service and even e-commerce offerings. What this means for marketers is that being "searchable" and having a "sticky site" are more important than ever. A key to having a site easily accessible to those who are interested in the specific product or service is search engine optimization. Content is the sure-shot way to win the battle for first page results on Google. Quite simply, providing fresh and relevant content in an organized way, improves SEO for the site it lives on – which is likely why 65 percent of respondents we surveyed cited boosting SEO as one of their main content curation objectives.
Companies like American Express and Whole Foods are pioneering the role brands now have in providing honest, unbiased content to their customers. Our survey suggests that today, having content online is a must-have for brands. 95 percent of those we surveyed said that they are engaging with their prospects through content online – providing customer support and best practices via their website, e-mail newsletter or social media platform. As the online world continues to grow and likely become more chaotic and overwhelming, technologies and strategies for organization and sharing the best, most relevant content will be impossible to ignore.
I would agree that content creation has a place in thought leadership but it is disturbing that one of the key findings of this research is that 85% of people thought that content curation establishes thought leadership.
It's disturbing because I have yet to find one recognised thought leader who has got there through curation alone. If Curata or anyone else can give me an example to the contrary I am very happy to change my views.
Those people who are perceived as thought leaders who may have curated content (Dan Pink and Malcolm Gladwell come to mind) have added significant insights of their own – new, unique insights that have challenged people's paradigms.
Indeed content curation can play a pivotal role in helping someone or a company arrive at a thought leadership position. It can also play an important role in helping assimilate content that supports that thought leadership position. But thought leadership by its very nature means providing new insights.
Unfortunately content curation on its own doesn't fall into that bucket.
While I agree that thought leadership has to be established through the creation of original content, my concern is that the overwhelming flood of content makes it difficult for aspiring thought leaders to get the attention their content may deserve. That's where curation can play a vital role.
I agree Paul!
These are interesting findings, Mr Deshpande, but I have to take exception with one of the points you make. Content curation is, indeed, a very valuable service and a good precursor to developing thought leadership, but it shouldn't be confused with thought leadership. It can be a precursor when it causes you to explore and deliberate on what others are saying in your space — then provokes you to discover and offer valuable ideas and perspectives that are missing . But sharing existing material (much of which you may not have come up with yourself) does not make for a thought leader. This, at least as far as I've read, indicates someone who is framing a whole new conversation within their business or industry, or reframing it to include perspectives that others haven't thought about.
This finding doesn't surprise me, though, given that "thought leadership" is such a hot ticket these days and, like "social media expert,"and "innovator," everyone seems to want to be in on it! Plus, much would depend on how you had worded the item that linked content curation to thought leadership.
In my view (and offering an academic analogy), comparing a content curator to a thought leader is like comparing a journal article that collects and synthesizes others' research to a paper that conducts original research. Both are valuable, but not synonymous. Content curation gathers material thought up by someone else, thought leadership involves engaging in much deeper, new thinking.
I actually think we are on the same page and do not in fact disagree.
The article says the following about the relationship between thought leadership and content curation:
"Some 85 percent of the survey group said that establishing thought leadership was their main content curation objective."
Basically, a large percentage of curators are curating content in hopes of becoming a thought leader. This does not, however, imply that content curation and thought leadership are one and the same.
Content curation helps provide a platform upon which individuals can establish themselves as thought leaders, but does not guarantee it. By bringing together relevant content and become a go-to resource, they attract the attention of others, but to really become a thought leader they need to add unique value and perspective beyond just directing their audience to third-party content.
I would argue that thought leadership requires an audience, which content curation may provide. But an audience alone garnered through content curation or other means does not you are a thought leader.
Will content curation last as an authority building and "thought leadership" strategy? Only time will tell.
I remember when article directories and sites such as eHow dominated Page One but Google's Panda update changed that paradigm almost overnight.
However, it is clear that these days well crafted sites with hi volumes of focused content are now in favor with the search engines so content creation and content curation are more important than ever.
Amex's OPEN Forum is probably the best I've seen as far as companies taking advantage of content curation. I think the future of search will be these types of content curators who can direct us to the real valuable content and saving us from wading through erroneous search results. One platform I've found that is really great for content curation is Springpad. It's kind of like a hybrid between Evernote and Pinterest. I give some pointers about how to use it for content curation here: http://www.business2community.com/social-media/springpad-the-most-powerful-content-curation-tool-youre-not-using-0321129
Some great stats in here Eric, thanks for sharing. For any Content Curator the most important thing is to add value or insight for your own audience. Whilst curating content is a starting point, it's important to understand your own audience's needs, which will then help when establishing yourself as a thought-leader. Great article.


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Ever since anyone can remember it's been said that if men were to experience labor, the world would be less populated. But it is hard to explain labor, so nobody really knew. Well, a hospital in the Netherlands came up with a unique way to simulate labor and two healthy Dutch men were brave enough to give it a try — see the accompanying Youtube video with English sub-text.
Electrodes were attached to the relevant muscles and "contractions," increasing in intensity, were applied, simulating the birth experience.
At the end of the experiment, which was done humanely with midwives present at all times, it seems there probably is some truth to that saying. One of the men opted to stop before the two-hour labor simulation was complete. He questioned whether he ever wanted to get his wife pregnant and put her through that.
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