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I'm trying to get some followers on my blog, and I would love it if you would check it out! I post a lot of great content featuring graphic design and web design.
Would you mind having a look and reviewing it for me? What can I improve on?
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Hey! You should put this little blurb in the "Introduce Yourself" thread... It might get more attention there! :)
For the record, I think your Blog looks awesome and I wouldn't change a thing! Nice design!
Thanks Rachel, I will do that! Thanks for the support!!! I like your blog as well!
The photography, pictures, art, and everything visual is just gorgeous. You did a great job with the overall visual layout.
I think what you're lacking (and I have this problem too) is a very specific voice that readers can relate too, but even if you have that, it's very hard to get followers so early on. What you need to do is read other blogs similar to yours, comment, follow, and hopefully other people will notice you. My blog is fairly new as well and barely getting anything, but I am slowly accumulating daily page views from having frequented so many bloggers.
Good luck :)
Thanks for the nice comment on my layout! It's hard when I'm the only one looking at it, I start to wonder if others like it too!
I definitely want to better my writing skills. I saw that you're an English major... maybe you can help me out! I suppose with writing more we can both develop our unique voices :) Thanks so much for the advice, I will really try to develop a specific voice!
I've been blogging since January of this year, but have really started to take it seriously the past few months. I've been doing a lot of research today on how to promote my blog and they all say to comment on other people's blogs. So, that's what I've been doing!
I was looking for more websites like that, more of a forum to post my articles, do you know of any?
PS: Your blog is SUPER cute!!!
I agree with Lisa regarding the voice. The more you blog, the easier it will be to find that. Commenting is a great way to get readers. You said you were posting 7 days a week in a post which is great. The more content you have the more likely people will find you and keep reading.
The layout looks great! I wouldn't change a thing about that.
Thanks for the advice! Just last week I've decided upon my blogging schedule, so I've been blogging every day since! It's nice to have a set schedule so I know what I will be writing about, and we all know it's good to be consistent!
Thanks :)
From the people I follow and the books I read, I notice that most people get followings by participating in contests and being recommended by another, seasoned blogger. You've probably seen those html awards. For example the, "Lovely Blog Award," which people give to each other like a chain letter, but it helps with self-promotion. I'm trying to do that right now, but we'll see!
Haha I'm not a good writer at all. As an English major, I read more literature than write. Blogging has been something to write about. I don't know of any websites, but try to look for contests or ask if you can guest blog on another blogger's site, if you think you can give them an individualistic, stylish spin on a theme they're having. It always helps!
Thank you for checking out my blog. The design is a free template. I don't have any skills in graphic design haha! Good luck with everything :)
Yeah, I've notice the blog awards and contests too. I have wondered if I should do a contest as well...give away something cool! Sometimes I think the blog awards are a bit cheesy and I want to come off as a professional... but I bet there are some non-cheesy ones out there!
I really like it. It's clean but still fun, which I think is an excellent nonverbal promotion for your graphic design skills. I just skimmed over the content since I've got about 20 tabs open right now and my ancient laptop is crying for mercy... but I added you to my blog reader. Looks good so far. (And fyi have you ever come across Nubby Twiglet? she's a graphic designer who I've followed for a while. If you need some ideas for how to promote your style and brand, she'd be a great source of inspiration.)
I like the pictures, artwork, etc. The only thing I feel is lacking is more of a voice when it comes to writing. I feel there needs to be a little more writing in your blog.


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In case you were looking for another perspective on this summer's active free agent activity and its bearing on fantasy values, here's Brian McKitish and his view on how things will pan out for the free agents that have joined new teams this summer. He discusses Ben Gordon, Charlie Villanueva, Rasheed Wallace, Hedo Turkoglu, Ron Artest and Trevor Ariza, along with the teammates they will likely affect.
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Turkoglu is at his best when he can act as a playmaker from the forward position, but Jose Calderon is a pass-first point guard, and the Raptors won't need Turk to create as much as he did in Orlando. Turkoglu handed out an average of 4.9 assists last season, a number that's sure to go down as Calderon runs the show.
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Not only is Ron Artest gone, but the Rockets could miss both Yao Ming and Tracy McGrady thanks to injuries for at least the beginning of the season (if not the entire season). Suddenly, the Rockets have become a team with limited offensive options, and Ariza immediately could become a go-to player on the offensive end. And although Ariza is much better suited as a role player, his fantasy owners could be in for a treat in 2009-10. In Houston, he'll see more minutes than ever, which will lead to a corresponding jump in statistics across the board. Expect career highs in every relevant fantasy category, but be careful with his field goal percentage because he'll likely struggle mightily from the floor with the additional attention that he didn't receive as a role player.
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I'm rehabing a jacked up disk in my back and I'm just about ready to get back out on the sport court with a few buddy's.
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Against reruns on CBS, ABC's "Dancing With the Stars" and NBC's "The Voice" scored the biggest audiences Monday nationally and locally.
"Dancing" averaged 13.9 million viewers while "The Voice" attracted 13.3 million, according to updated ratings.
ABC had the most viewers in prime time, but NBC easily won the 18-to-49 age group, thanks to "The Voice."
The prime-time averages in total viewers: ABC with 13.2 million, NBC with 11 million, Fox with 6.8 million, CBS with 4.7 million and The CW with 740,000. ABC had the most viewers at 10 with "Castle" (11.8 million), far ahead of NBC's "Revolution" with 6.4 million. But they tied in drawing young adults. CBS' strongest rerun was "Hawaii Five-O" with 5.4 million.
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"Advertisers in the travel industry need to increase their online footprint in order to keep up with this ever growing audience," wrote the online ad team at Yahoo! Their 2011 data revealed that travel-related searches begin climbing in May and peak in July, suggesting now is the time to optimize online ad accounts for the season. Yahoo! offers these tips
Yahoo! offered some specific tips from its search-ad experts:
- Ensure your keyword coverage: Analysis of travel keywords used by adCenter advertisers reveals that the highest click-through rates (CTR) are found in longer keyword entries that include the destination and an offer (e.g., "Hawaii all inclusive vacation packages"). Even if the destination was not included, terms like "all inclusive vacation" or "last minute vacation" still have strong CTRs.
- Book Insurance for your Ads: Like travel insurance, a robust list of negative keywords will, for example, prevent your ad from being shown for searches related to cruise ship accidents or other such incidents.
- Know what's popular: Yahoo's Search Query Performance Report shows exactly what queries a Bing or Yahoo! Search user entered in relation to a keyword. The report helps you identify additional keywords to bid on and provides a list of potential negative keywords to exclude unwanted traffic.
- Go Mobile: Analysts estimate that the number of U.S. mobile users booking via mobile will nearly double from 2010 to 2012, from 8.7 million to 15.1 million. Duplicate your search campaigns to target mobile devices, and reach these searchers while they are on the road.
- Plan ahead: In a 2011 survey commissioned by the Mark Travel Corp., 19% of respondents booked trips six or more months in advance, compared with 16% in May 2010. That type of traveler has already made summer plans, but are booking their fall and winter trips now.
"The Brand USA" Aims to "Rekindle The Love Affair" With Global Ad Push
"The Brand USA," the new tourism marketing entity responsible for promoting the United States to world visitors, unveiled the USA's first-ever comprehensive marketing campaign today during a press conference at International Pow Wow, the largest U.S. travel trade show held this week in Los Angeles. The campaign showcases the diversity of experiences available in the United States in a fresh and unexpected light, inviting visitors to "Discover this land, like never before."
"Our goal is nothing short of rekindling the world's love affair with the USA – the place, the spirit and the dream," said Brand USA CEO Jim Evans. "We want to spread America's message of welcome around the world and invite travelers to experience the limitless possibilities the United States has to offer. So we asked ourselves, 'how can we best speak to multiple countries, across countless languages and cultures?' We found the answer lay in the only truly universal language—music."
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Rosanne Cash, daughter of American music legend Johnny Cash and Grammy award-winning singer/songwriter, has composed an original song, "Land of Dreams," to serve as the heart of the campaign. Initial advertisements feature Cash playing the song under New York's Brooklyn Bridge, accompanied by musicians from around the world. As part of its marketing efforts, Brand USA will extend invitations to musical artists from around the world to come perform their music in their favorite U.S. cities and towns, profiling their trips and favorite things about the USA online and through social media. A YouTube channel is live already, with just two in-house videos, but visitors will be invited to upload their own.
Brand USA, which created the campaign in partnership with JWT, the organization's agency of record, will employ a fully integrated marketing strategy, using a mix of 60-, 20- and 15-second television spots, as well as digital, billboard and print advertisements and a robust online presence and social media strategy to reach potential visitors. Facebook, Twitter and YouTube pages will showcase country specific promotions and engagements and the newly re-launched website DiscoverAmerica.com will act as visitors' information portal for trip planning. The YouTube channel is live, with just a few videos, including the promo spot
"Other countries around the world have prioritized tourism efforts for years, yet in the 236 years since the United States of America was founded, this country has never had a nationally coordinated effort dedicated to inviting travelers to come visit us," said Stephen J. Cloobeck, Chairman of Brand USA's Board of Directors. "That changes today. This new campaign will tap into an incredibly valuable economic resource – the millions of visitors who want to experience all that our great country has to offer."
The first wave of advertising launches in-market May 1st in the United Kingdom, Japan and Canada, with a budget of $12.3 million for the first three months. A second wave will follow in Brazil and South Korea, with several other markets to follow.
Brand USA was created as a result of the U.S. Travel Promotion Act, federal legislation passed in March 2010 which established a public-private partnership between the travel industry and the U.S. government dedicated to increasing international visitation to the U.S. through marketing and promotional efforts to drive job creation and spur economic growth. According to the U.S. Travel Association, the average overseas visitor to the United States spends $4,000 per trip, and 35 incremental overseas visitors supports one new U.S. job.
International Pow Wow, which is being held at the Los Angeles Convention Center from April 21 through April 24, draws more than 1,000 U.S. travel organizations and 1,200 international and domestic travel buyers from more than 70 countries. Together, these buyers and sellers will negotiate business that will generate an estimated $3.5 billion in future USA travel.
Travel Channel Upfront: Two New Series, Three Pilots
Travel Channel has greenlit three pilots and announces the development of two original travel series to augment the Network's programming slate for 2012.
New pilots include "Barn Finds" (working title), featuring antique car expert Corky Coker, who travels the back roads and small towns of the Deep South searching for priceless, rare American cars and automotive memorabilia; "Kevin Michael Connolly Project" (working title), which follows the author, photographer and self-proclaimed thrill-seeker – who was born without legs – as he travels the globe exploring new adventures; and "Power Trip with Jason Harper" (working title), featuring a travel, car and lifestyle writer who travels the world writing about his adventures from the driver's seat.
The two new series in development explore new destinations and take viewers on a journey, whether it's around the world or around the block. The first series, "Coffee Hunter" (working title), spotlights businessman and adventurer Todd Carmichael as he travels the globe, often in dangerous locations, hunting for the highest-grade coffee in the world. "City Swappers" (working title), follows the adventures of two couples who have swapped homes, cars, friends, favorite restaurants, and culinary tastes in order to experience an alternative to the typical vacation.
"Our programming mission is to continue to provide a myriad of travel perspectives that not only entertain and inspire, but will take viewers beyond the guidebook," said Travel Channel CEO Andy Singer. "We're excited about our new shows in development which feature a group of new talent who each weave their own personal experiences and stories through each show's unique travel lens."
"Barn Finds" (working title) (two half-hour episodes)
Produced by BCII with Travel Channel's Sean McKnight as Executive Producer. This half-hour series follows antique car expert Corky Coker, and his team, on a freewheeling road trip through the back roads and small towns of the Deep South. A man on a mission, Coker is on the hunt for barn finds – automotive diamonds-in-the-rough that have been hidden away or just forgotten for years. When he's on target, Coker is wheeling, dealing, shucking and jiving, all to get the best price on the right car to restore and resell at his shop, Honest Charley Garage. When he's distracted, Coker hits the scenic routes, roadside attractions and down-home restaurants – all the things that make for the kind of journey most of us no longer have time to take.
"Kevin Michael Connolly Project" (working title) (one hour pilot)
Produced by Crazy Legs Production with Travel Channel's David Gerber as Executive Producer. Kevin Michael Connolly is an author, photographer and self-proclaimed thrill seeker who was born without legs – but he's never let that get in his way. Connolly is on a mission to discover all this world has to offer – new cultures, meeting remarkable people and tackling difficult physical challenges. Getting around with only his hands and his skateboard, viewers will experience what makes Connolly an inspiration to us all.
"Power Trip with Jason Harper" (working title) (one hour pilot)
Produced by Departure Films with Travel Channel's Patrick McManamee as Executive Producer. Jason Harper – travel, automobile and lifestyle journalist, has the best job in the world! He travels the world writing about his adventures from the driver's seat of the world's most interesting vehicles. From burning up Italy's autostrada in a $300,000 Lamborghini, to a midnight Vespa cruise through a medieval Tuscan village with 80 of his newest friends, "Power Trip with Jason Harper" offers a unique and fresh perspective to the people, food, festivals, and cultures of different locales around the world. It's cultural anthropology from the driver's seat. This show offers fun, adventure, excitement and laughs around every turn.
"Coffee Hunter" (working title)
Produced by Nancy Glass Productions with Travel Channel's Bill Howard as Executive Producer. Would you risk your life for the perfect cup of coffee? Todd Carmichael would. As owner of La Colombe Torrefaction – a premium coffee company based in Philadelphia, he travels the globe, sleeping under his car, avoiding warlords and bodily-harm, risking it all to bring back the perfect cup o' joe. His business focuses on the best – coffee so rare it's sought by the world's top chefs and restaurants. Carmichael seeks out the most exotic, fascinating and dangerous places to find the perfect seed in the coffee plant. There's an amazing story behind every cup.
"City Swappers" (working title)
Produced by Stone Circle Films with Travel Channel's Patrick McManamee as Executive Producer. "City Swappers" follows the adventures of two couples that have swapped homes, cars, friends, favorite restaurants and culinary tastes for their vacation. From the moment they arrive in their new home away from home, the traders will be challenged with a list of tips and tasks created for them by each other with one goal – to give the visiting couple a true insider's perspective on the best, the wildest, and the most awe-inspiring facets of their hometown.
"Forbes Life" Relaunch Joins Luxury Race
Forbes Media announced the relaunch of its lifestyle title ForbesLife last November, and has just released its April issue. While for 22 years it was polybagged to 800,000 of Forbes' 900,000 subscribers, it will now be offered on newsstand, and available in replica form for Nooks, Kindles and iPads, providing cross-platform access to what Forbes calles "the best in luxury journalism."
It will have to be, to stand out. As Women's Wear Daily observes, "It's only March and four luxury titles have revealed they will launch (or relaunch) to tell the tales of billionaire bachelors, fine Parisian restaurants and the latest antiaging skin procedures." February saw the launch of Bloomberg Pursuits, aimed at its Bloomberg Terminal clientele with their median household income of $452,000, 90% male. Jason Binn, founder of Niche Mediam, will publish Du Jour magazine in September, targeting readers with a net worth of more than $5 million and an average home value of $1.5 million. And Time has resurrected its Time Style & Design after a three-year hiatus. Advertisers include Harry Winston and Bulgari, and the magazine is delivered to 500,000 affluent subscribers.
ForbesLife and Time Style & Design of course share strong journalistic parentage. Forbes has easy access to the world's luminaries, which is the value proposition of ForbesLife. "With personality-driven covers, the new ForbesLife offers personal connections to the world's tastemakers, with a focus on putting power in the hands of the consumer," said the company in a release. "The magazine was re-imagined for the social world we live in." The April issue boasts a new modern look, photo-driven editorial content, first-person storytelling, and "unprecedented access to the most important people in the world...focused on giving candid glimpses into the biggest names in business, showing how the rich and ambitious really live."
"In integrating ForbesLife with its parent and introducing a dazzling design courtesy of the great Robert Preist and his associate, Grace Lee, we are amplifying our nearly 22-year-old founding mission of celebrating the rewards of success with flair and style," said Robert Forbes, President of ForbesLife. ForbesLife readers represent elite influencers, spending more on travel, apparel and accessories, fine watches and jewelry, consumer electronics, home furnishings, and luxury vehicles than readers of any other business publication.
In the newest issue, Warren Buffett writes about his decision to invest on his own at age twenty five, a choice that ended up netting him over $50 billion dollars. The cover story takes readers inside the home of bachelor billionaire Elon Musk, South African tech-genius responsible for PayPal, Tesla, Space X, and supposedly was the inspiration behind Iron Man. (A dubious claim: the first "Iron Man" comic was released in 1963, Musk born in 1971, but perhaps ForbesLife is talking about the films.) John Paul DeJoria, cofounder of Patrón and Paul Mitchell hair products, takes ForbesLife for a ride on luxurious private train car, The Patrón Tequila Express. Jay Leno gives a tour of his $20 million garage, equipped with the most sought-after vehicles in the world. Also showcased in the issue are the lives of philanthropist Susan Dell and car magnate Charles Royce; a wine tour of Paris by world renowned wine writer Robert Parker Jr.; and a satire by P.J. O'Rourke.
Additional highlights of the new ForbesLife include sections on the best in travel, auctions, charities, high-end sporting events and luxury goods as well as party pictures from exclusive Forbes branded events.
Is now the time to launch a luxury title? Absolutely, observes WWD, which observes that year-to-date, luxury title W is up 63 ad pages (20%), and Departures kicked off 2012 with a 22% rise in revenue and 10% hike in paging during Q1.
Upfront Digital: Bourdain's "Layover" App | ESPN's Digital Basketball Ratings | "Like" Means Pride
- Travel Channel has released the network's first travel guide application, available now on iTunes. The app, entitled the "Travel Channel Layover Guide With Anthony Bourdain," "weeds through the cluttered digital travel space," says the network. The app combines the curated tastes of the network's Emmy-winning host, Anthony Bourdain, with practical tools to help users create their own Bourdain-inspired excursions in one of 10 major cities, including Amsterdam, Hong Kong, London, Los Angeles, New York and Rome, among others. For $1.99, users can customize a trip, from an afternoon pub crawl to a week-long immersion of food, drink and fun.
- ESPN is claiming its most-watched men's college basketball season, both on cable and online. Throughout the regular season, college basketball content across ESPN.com, the ESPN mobile Web and ScoreCenter delivered 1.6 billion total minutes and 283 million visits, up 16 percent and 5 percent respectively compared to the previous season. Additionally, college basketball regular season games on ESPN3 and WatchESPN across computers, smartphones and tablets logged 455.9 million minutes, up 56 percent compared to ESPN3 on computers the previous season. During the season, it logged its most watched college basketball game ever on February 8 with 4.4 million minutes generated across computers, smartphones and tablets for the March 3 Duke vs. North Carolina game.
- It seems that Facebook "F" or Twitter "T" makes us feel watched, and influences our online shopping. So found researchers from the University of Miami School of Business; Empirica Research; and Stylecaster Media Group, as described in BizReports. The researchers found that buyers who felt proud to be associated with a brand were 25% more likely to make the purchase with the icons present; the subtle message is "Look at me! I'm buying luxury goods!" or eco-friendly goods, and so forth. Conversely, shoppers are 25% less likely to make a purchase they deem embarrassing (perhaps cheap goods, "marital aids" or medications at an online pharmacy) with the icons present. The shoppers presume less privacy.
- The U.S. Justice Department plans to sue Apple and five of the biggest U.S. publishers in an antitrust suit, reports the Wall Street Journal in an exclusive. The Department charges those publishers with colluding to raise the price of electronic books, according to people familiar with the matter. The defendants include Simon & Schuster, Hachette Book Group, Pearson PLC's Penguin Group, and HarperCollins Publishers. Several of the parties have held talks to settle the case and head off a court battle. The WSJ speculates that the result of this case will be less electronic books.
- AllTwitter, the "Unofficial Twitter Resource" run by MediaBistro, has released a compelling infographic on the influence of social media in the beauty industry. Consumers spend an estimated $59 billion on beauty products annually, and engage with or shop for the brands through Facebook and Twitter. The Sephora brand (both cosmetics and its retail stores) has, for example, more than 2.7 million Facebook followers, and lead the cosmetics industry in Twitter fans and followers. No speculation as to just how much the social media presence drives sales.
comScore Ranks Top 50 U.S. Web Properties: Seasonal Boosts for Travel, Career, Taxes
Digital measurement thinktank comScore, Inc. has released its monthly analysis of U.S. web activity at the top online properties for January 2012, based on data from the comScore Media Metrix service. Tax sites (including IRS.GOV), travel sites like Kayak.com and educational sites all saw strong gains.
"In January, the average U.S. Internet user spent a record 36 hours online, reflecting the growing importance of digital media to Americans' daily lives," said Jeff Hackett, executive vice president of comScore. "Among the biggest category gainers in this heavy month of Internet usage were Travel and Career sites, which posted double-digit gains, and of course Tax sites as the non-procrastinators among us decided to get an early jump on getting their refunds."
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Several Travel subcategories were among the top-gainers in January, including Transaction sites which grew 28% to 3.7 million visitors. TravelPN.com led the category with 798,000 visitors (up 11%), followed by Viator.com with 642,000 (up 9%), WWTE.com with 442,000 (up 86%) and OneTime.com with 278,000 (up 48%).
Car Rental sites jumped 22% to 6.2 million visitors during the month, led by Enterprise Rent-A-Car Company with 3.2 million visitors (up 14%). Avis Budget Group ranked second with nearly 2 million visitors (up 19%), followed by Hertz with 1.3 million (up 21%), CarRentals.com with 793,000 (up 30%) and Dollar Thrifty Automotive Group, Inc. with 790,000 (up 27%).
Hotels/Resorts also ranked among the fastest-growing Travel sites. The category attracted 33.2 million visitors in January, representing an 18-percent increase. Marriott secured the #1 position in the category with 5.1 million visitors (up 30%), followed by Disney Parks & Travel with 4.8 million (up 36%), Hilton Hotels with 4.6 million (up 25%) and Expedia Hotels with 3.3 million.
Career and Education
As the new year began, Americans turned their focus to career services and education. Traffic to Job Search sites grew 27% in January to 24.2 million visitors. Indeed.com Job Search ranked as the category leader with 13.7 million visitors (up 33%), followed by CareerBuilder.com Job Search with 9.8 million (up 27%), Monster.com Job Search with 5 million (up 28%) and SimplyHired.com with 3.5 million (up 42%).
Training and Education sites also gained traction, with a sizeable increase of 23% to 14.7 million visitors. LiveCareer.com topped the list with 1.2 million visitors (up 58%), followed by AesopOnline.com with 940,000 (up 44%), FastWeb.com with 736,000 (up 30%) and Learn4Good.com with 599,000.
Tax Sites Spike as Season Begins
Visitation to Tax sites swelled in January as millions decided to get a jump on filing and hopefully getting a refund check from Uncle Sam. More than 30.7 million Americans visited a Tax site in January, up 359% to rank as the fastest growing category.
Top 50 Properties
Google Sites ranked as the #1 property in January with 187.4 million visitors, followed by Microsoft Sites with 179.2 million and Yahoo! Sites with 177.2 million. LinkedIn.com jumped 8 positions to rank #29 with 36.8 million visitors, while Everyday Health, which helped many fulfill their New Year's resolutions to be healthier, leapt 10 positions to #38.
Top 50 Ad Focus Ranking
Google Ad Network led the January Ad Focus ranking with a reach of 92.9% of Americans online, followed by AOL Advertising (85%), Yahoo! Network Plus (84.8%), ShareThis (82.4%) and AT&T AdWorks (82.3%).
Travel, Weddings & Guns Top Bimonthly Ad Gainers in 2011
Travel bimonthly Departures gained 43% in ad pages in 2011, year-over-year (YOY) and rival title Afar gained 110%. That according to minOnline, which has just released iits 2011 boxscore report of bimonthlies. "No matter what is going on with the economy, people are still getting married and traveling," said minOnline.
Of 22 magazines, Departures led in page difference, gaining 230 pages. Afar was second with 146. Rounding out the top six were Martha Stewart Weddings, Handguns, Weight Watchers and Bridal Guide.
Disposable income drove ad sales at Departures, which is published by American Express. Editor in Chief Richard Story attributed the growth, in part, to "the strength of the luxury economic resurgence." Departures attracted new advertisers lilke Barneys, Christian Dior and Versace in 2011.
Content drove gains at Martha Stewart Weddings, said Publisher Amy Wilkins, who credited editor-in-chief Elizabeth Graves and editorial director Darcy Miller. The book plans its first-ever special issue devoted to real weddings in 2012, versus the usually staged pictorials.
Market shifts helped Handguns to its 52% page gain. Publisher Chris Agnes noted a strong market environment "spurred by steady growth in self-defense handgun sales." The FBI fielded about 16.5 million background checks from firearms sellers in 2011, up 15%, according to a Reuters story.
The bimonthly list is in step with industry-wide figures for 2011. Luxury apparel monthlies and bimonthlies gained 11% in ad pages in 2011, while luxury monthlies Architectural Digest gained 9.1%, and Power & MotorYacht climbed 24.9%.
Report: CPG has Highest Category Spending for Online Video Ads
The CPG category remains the top online video ad spender in Q1 2011 at 28%, according to the "Q1 2011 Video Advertising Metrics Report," from YuMe. Share of spend by second-ranked telecom advertisers increased significantly from an average of 6% in 2010 to 11% in Q1 2011.
In terms of formats, the report found that pre-roll continues to be the most utilized format, representing 92.4% of YuMe's volume in Q1, and mobile video ad impressions made up nearly 2% of impressions served.
In measuring video completion rates, the report found that for Q1, the male audience has a higher video completion rate at 79% vs. 65% for females. Comparatively, for 2010, the female audience had a higher video completion rate at 74% versus 67% for males.
AT&T Launches In-App Mobile Local Ads | TripAdvisor Acquires Where I've Been
AT&T Interactive has launched in-app ads on its mobile local ad network, an extension of the company's YP Local Ad Network. Earlier this year, AT&T Interactive piloted in-app advertising on its mobile local ad network and it said that it generated over 750 million local ad impressions in three months.
In the ongoing state-by-state battle over tax collection on affiliate website sales, Amazon warned thousands of affiliates their revenue streams would be shut off if a tax bill would be signed into law. Governor Jerry Brown then signed the bill, signifying tough times ahead for many online business owners, according to The Highland Marketing Group.
TripAdvisor has acquired Where I've Been, LLC, a travel website and social platform with an interactive world map that lets users share where they've been, lived, and want to go. Its Facebook application has been accessed by 10 million people in order to create color coded travel maps, "pinning off" close to half a billion places, the companies said. Terms of the deal were not disclosed.
LivingSocial Instant Deals will launch $1 lunch deals from more than 100 local merchants in San Francisco on July 13. Once the lunch day is done, the Instant Deals will continue in the city, the company said.
GroupM, WPP Launch Xaxis Audience Buying Resource | 3GTV Pilot Goes In-Store with Top CPG Brands
GroupM announced the launch of Xaxis, a global audience buying company that combines the demand-side data and technology resources of WPP, and the trading leverage of the GroupM agencies into a single resource. The solution aims to offer advertisers the ability to target specific audiences directly, independent of website, app or media platform, using a database of audience profiles. In forming Xaxis, WPP brings together a portfolio of audience-buying capabilities including B3, targ.ad, GoldNetwork, GroupM DSP and the GroupM Marketplace. In 2010, the businesses that have combined to form Xaxis executed approximately 4,000 campaigns for more than 400 GroupM clients.
LivingSocial Families has launched in six new locations: Metrowest Boston, Mass., Waco, Texas, Des Moines, Iowa, Huntsville, Ala., Cardiff, United Kingdom, and Paris, France. With the addition of these sites, LivingSocial Families has extended its reach to 135 markets worldwide, and its members are getting discounts of at least 50% off on local experience, according to the company.
- The Ritz-Carlton has launched World Concierge on Foursquare -- a first for a luxury hotel brand to extend exclusive services to a mobile public audience, according to their statement. Tips will be populated regularly by concierges from Ritz-Carlton hotels around the world. Foursquare users are able to find local information by visiting the profile of The Ritz-Carlton or by checking in to locations of interest.
Automated Media Services (AMS) has launched its new media platform, 3GTV Networks, into nine Bloom grocery stores in the Washington D.C., area. The AMS pilot program is the first test of its media platform which allows brands the ability to communicate in the retail store. Some leading household CPG's, including PepsiCo, Kraft Foods, Nestle Purina, have signed on for the pilot, the company reports. The platform has an in-store digital communications backbone that allows for digital messaging at the shelf-edge, two-way communications, shopper tracking and measurement tools, and other activities in development.
Specialty display solutions, Planar Systems, has partnered with NBA franchise, the Portland Trail Blazers, in the installation of the Planar Clarity Matrix LCD Video Wall System to boost fan engagment, brand loyalty and sales of season tickets at the Rose Garden Arena. The 132-square-foot Clarity Matrix LCD video wall features information about exclusive events with players and alumni, highlights season ticket holder discounts, and provides high-resolution videos and images from Trail Blazers games. The nearby 30-square-foot Clarity Matrix Wall of Fame depicts life-sized images of players, writes Digital Signage Expo.


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February is National Condom Month and, according to Lyyti Dudczyk, program manager of STD/HIV services at the Will County Health Department in Illinois, a good time to address the issue that teens and young adults between the ages of 14 and 25 are the fastest growing demographic for contracting sexually transmitted diseases in the United States. CDC statistics show that while teenage pregnancy remains problematic, it has been steadily declining throughout the past decade; STD diagnoses among this age group, however, continue to rise. During 2011, individuals aged 15 to 24 made up 73 percent of all gonorrhea cases and 75 percent of chlamydia cases in Will County.
Chlamydia, gonorrhea, syphilis, and HIV are reportable diseases in Illinois, but other STDs, such as herpes and human papillomavirus, are common and can be prevented through practicing safe sex. Chlamydia and gonorrhea are treatable infections, explains Dudczyk, but if left untreated could lead to complications, especially for women. The program manager goes on to stress the importance of treating the sexual partners of patients diagnosed with an STD. In the state of Illinois, expedited partner therapy allows a qualified healthcare provider to write prescriptions for a patient's partner(s) when the patient is diagnosed with chlamydia or gonorrhea, without the partner actually having to see the physician.
Charlie Palmer, a prevention specialist at Regional Care Association, stresses the importance of testing, since HIV and many other STDs can be asymptomatic. The nonprofit provides services to HIV-positive individuals and educates the public on HIV awareness and prevention programs in the community. Palmer also explains that while testing is important, lessening risk through condom use and abstinence lessens the risk of exposure. The following locations offer testing as well as free condoms and other safe sex supplies: Will County Health Department Community Health Center, Regional Care Association (HIV testing only), Aunt Martha's Health Centers, and Planned Parenthood.
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Technicals suggest the S&P 500 could end the year as high as 1,550, after which the U.S. will go over the "fiscal cliff," S&P Capital Chief Equity Strategist Sam Stovall said Wednesday at CNBC.
On "Fast Money," he said that his year-end target for the S&P was 1,450 but added that his firm's chief technician saw signs that it could close out 2012 around the 1,500 to 1,550 level.
"The feeling is, basically, that maybe we continue with this digestion of the 15 percent advance we saw off the June 1 bottom," he said. "We look to come down maybe 5 to 6½ percent, and then once we get the uncertainty of the election lifted, if we do start to hear about some movement in the lame duck toward resolving or at least delaying the sequestration, etc., we could end up with a nice Santa Claus rally."
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As for the "fiscal cliff," which would see expiration of the Bush tax cuts and trigger automatic federal spending cuts, Stovall thought that it deadline could come and go, with a resolution coming after the fact.
"I think that we go back into recession if we end up getting dashed on the rocks and we are within this 'fiscal cliff' environment for all of 2013," he said.
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"I think there's a very good possibility that we do end up falling off the cliff on Dec. 31, but we end up seeing some resolution in the first quarter that then gets backdated to the end of the year. I don't think that really saves the stock market. I think, in that case, we do through a deeper pullback into correction mode, but there is a possibility, like in 2010, after the midterm elections, that Congress actually wakes up, starts thinking logically again and does something positive."
Stovall offered a way to play the "fiscal cliff."
"Two areas that I would suggest: there's an old saying that when the going gets tough, the tough go eating, smoking and drinking. And if they overdo it, go to the doctor – so your traditional consumer staples, health care," he said.
He also recommended the S&P Low Volatility Index — "nice dividend yield so you're in the market, but you are riding the merry-go-round rather than the rollercoaster," he added.
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Warm chocolate chip cookies greet every guest at this Hilton-owned hotel, a friendly touch that fits in with the hotel's business-casual attitude. Another way Doubletree helps its guests relax is the Sweet Dreams bed, which features a pillow-top mattress, high thread-count linens, down comforters and lots of jumbo pillows. Amenities also include high-speed Internet access, in-room coffeemaker and complimentary newspaper; properties also typically feature a swimming pool, a fitness center and a range of meeting facilities.
Great for the price! – This was a perfectly placed hotel, for what I was in town for. Close to restaurants, no matter what your taste buds are in the mood for. The food in the restaurant at the hotel was also wonderful. The staff was very friendly; even the suits walking around made sure we were happy with our stay. Of course the cookies at checkin were delicious. The renovations that have happened in the past couple of months are doing wonders for the hotels comfortness. I stayed on one of the top level floors where I felt like I should be paying more for a room. Thanks DoubleTree Park Place for the very satisfying stay.
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4-star family-friendly hotel in Edinburgh (Murrayfield) near Edinburgh Zoo
With a stay at Holiday Inn Edinburgh in Edinburgh (Murrayfield), you'll be minutes from Edinburgh Zoo and Spire Murrayfield Hospital.
This 4-star hotel is close to Murrayfield Stadium and Edinburgh International Conference Centre.
Make yourself at home in one of the 303 air-conditioned rooms featuring LCD televisions. Satellite programming and video-game consoles are provided for your entertainment, with wired and wireless Internet access available for a surcharge. Bathrooms have shower/tub combinations and hair dryers. Conveniences include phones, as well as desks and coffee/tea makers.
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Enjoy a meal at one of the hotel's dining establishments, which include 2 restaurants and a coffee shop/café. From your room, you can also access 24-hour room service. Quench your thirst with your favorite drink at a bar/lounge. Full breakfasts are available daily for a fee.
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In addition to an indoor pool, Holiday Inn Edinburgh provides a health club, a spa tub, and a sauna. Dining is available at one of the hotel's 2 restaurants and guests can grab coffee at the coffee shop/café. A bar/lounge is on site where guests can unwind with a drink. High-speed wired and wireless Internet access is available for a surcharge.
This 4-star property offers access to a business center, secretarial services, and audiovisual equipment. Event facilities include a meeting/conference room, exhibit space, and banquet facilities. This family-friendly hotel also offers multilingual staff, complimentary newspapers in the lobby, and laundry facilities. Complimentary parking is available on site.
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- Total number of rooms - 303
- Safe-deposit box at front desk
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- Swimming pool - indoor
- Number of floors - 5
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Full breakfasts are available for a surcharge and are served each morning.
Traders Restaurant - This restaurant serves breakfast, lunch, and dinner. A children's menu is available.
Sampans Restaurant - This theme restaurant serves dinner only. A children's menu is available. Open daily
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Tom Hanks Is Most Trusted American, Obama Far Behind
Actors top Reader's Digest list of most trusted persons.
Talk about celebrity culture. The most trusted person in America is – Tom Hanks!
This is the headline-grabbing conclusion of a Reader's Digest poll that also finds President Obama, supposedly one of the country's most charismatic figures, far behind many Hollywood celebrities and athletes at No. 65.
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Reader's Digest is getting lots of attention for its survey, conducted in conjunction with The Wagner Group, a research firm. The magazine says 1,000 Americans were questioned, and the goal was to discover "which individuals and the ideals they represent have earned our confidence." Details of the survey's methodology, however, are sketchy.
The editors of Reader's Digest place an "inspiring" quote alongside the name of each person listed among its 100 most trusted. President Obama's quote is, "A change is brought about because ordinary people do extraordinary things."
Hanks, the "most trusted" person in the survey, often plays likable characters from different walks of life. Among his films were "Big," "Cast Away," "Apollo 13," and "Saving Private Ryan." He won Academy Awards for "Philadelphia" and "Forrest Gump."
Hanks addresses the pressing question of why he tops the list, and he seems comfortable with the outcome. "But look," he says, "I was born in 1956, the peak year for births in U.S. history. I think I'm very representative of many of the thought processes my generation have [sic] been through and, by and large, people of my age have had their imprint planted on the consciousness of western society for a long time."
Sandra Bullock, another actor, is No. 2. She says, "I've made mistakes, and I know why I made them but I made that choice. Nobody's ever made a choice for me."
Denzel Washington, still another actor, is No. 3. "At the end of the day, it's not about what you have or even what you've accomplished. It's about what you've done with those accomplishments. It's about who you've lifted up, who you've made better. It's about what you've given back."
Meryl Streep, yes, another actor, is the fourth most trusted person. She says, "I have always regarded myself as the pillar of my life."
In the fifth spot is poet and Professor Maya Angelou, who says, "A bird doesn't sing because it has an answer, it sings because it has a song."
Rounding out the top 10 are movie director Steven Spielberg, Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates, "Jeopardy" host Alex Trebek, Melinda Gates, co-chair of the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, and actor Julia Roberts.
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Oh I follow your blog but I didn't even know you did half of this stuff Justine! LOVE vintage patterns.
Love the feminine 40s dresses, Justine, especially the one where your daughter has her hair in rollers. I can remember wearing dresses of a similar style in the late 50s/early 60s, made by my aunty who was a dressmaker and we used to go to bed with rollers in our hair (probably in the 60s). How on earth we ever slept in them, I'll never know… LOL!!!
just came over here from your PR&P post and you sure can tell that you are having fun sewing with your fabulous vintage sewing pattern collection.
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I love all of these!!! I know my 5 1/2 year old granddaughter would love that 1956 dress pattern. I do!
I love vintage patterns..both for me and for the kids.. I really like the last house dress pattern, made from the table cloth..so cute.
Thanks for sharing..Enjoyed looking at them.
Wonderful! They look so great.
Oh man! Your littlest in the twenties dress is utterly adorable.
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FootballA sportswriter and longtime fan won't be tuning in anymore. The reasoning behind his decision is a must-read for anyone who loves the game.
I was in town visiting a former NFL lineman. Call him Max. The hotel restaurant was closed, so we ate at the bar.
During his time in football, Max was hit in the head. A lot. He has since endured nine brain surgeries. He has serious trouble remembering things, as the main character in the movie Memento did. Max and I were both carrying notepads, but for different reasons.
There was a game on. Saints-Cardinals. The first contest of the NFL preseason. Max had his back to the television. Once upon a time, he was an avid hunter. He owned a successful business. Today, he's unemployed. Pretty much broke. Lives in a trailer outside his brother's house. He probably shouldn't drive, probably shouldn't own guns. He gets angry. Has a hard time sleeping. Misses his family. His estranged wife and children are afraid of him.
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On the television behind the bar, a Cardinals receiver caught a pass. A Saints defender dutifully drilled him, slamming the receiver's helmet into the turf. The guys at the bar cheered. I was drawn to the replay, slow-motion and high-definition, the whiplash bounce of the receiver's skull. I wondered how much of the play the receiver would even remember.
Max turned his head. "Look at that hit," he said. "In the old days, I would have gone, 'Oh, man, great hit.' Now I see it differently. I can't watch this."
Neither can I.
This is going to sound strange coming from a sportswriter for a sports website. But this season, for the first time I can remember, I'm not watching football. Slowly, over time, I've found myself worrying more and enjoying football less. I've come to feel that seeing people ruin themselves for entertainment's sake isn't just sordid. It's ghoulish.
Everyone knows that football physically destroys its participants from the outside in-breaking bones, smashing shoulders, shredding ligaments. It's just that no one really cares. A football player goes down, writhing in pain. A trainer jogs in from the sideline. Cut to commercial. The end. The entire scene is routine and mundane.
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Brain damage destroys lives from the inside out-not only what people can do but also who they are. For much of the past two years, I've been reporting and writing on football's concussion crisis, which is less a crisis than an everyday state of affairs and hardly limited to concussions. (Big hits, little hits: They're all unavoidable, and they all add up.) I've met parents mourning the death of their teenage son; former players who get lost driving around their own neighborhoods; scientists describing in microscopic detail how proud, intelligent men become hollow, half-mad husks. I've learned that the NFL can be callous, and fans even more so, and that for many people, ignorance is bliss, even when it involves the health of their own children.
I can't watch football because of Linda Sánchez, a California congresswoman and member of the House Judiciary Committee. During a 2009 Capitol Hill hearing on concussions in football, with NFL commissioner Roger Goodell slouching meekly in his seat, she likened the league to the tobacco industry.
For decades, Big Tobacco said cigarettes were harmless, backing up that claim with junk science and bogus expertise, working very hard to discredit scientific evidence to the contrary. The league seems to have used the same playbook, Sánchez said.
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In 2003, the head of the league's brain-trauma committee, former New York Jets team doctor Elliot Pellman, a rheumatologist, dismissed a study linking multiple concussions with depression among former players. The committee published a paper claiming that concussions were not "serious injuries" and that there was "no evidence" that concussions produced "permanent or cumulative" damage. Independent scientists strongly disagreed, finding fault with the methodology and conclusions.
When forensic pathologist Bennet Omalu, MD, dissected Hall of Fame lineman Mike Webster's brain and subsequently published a groundbreaking article in the academic journal Neurosurgery concluding that football-related head trauma causes chronic traumatic encephalopathy (CTE), a mind-ravaging disease associated with repetitive head trauma, Pellman and two other committee members wrote a letter to the journal to invalidate his research. In fact, it wasn't until 2010 that the NFL started warning players about a link between concussions and long-term brain damage.
Football hits pull the brain like Silly Putty, stretching and shearing nerve cells.
That was three years after former league concussion-committee cochair Ira Casson told Bernard Goldberg of HBO's Real Sports that there was no evidence that multiple head injuries increased the risk of depression, dementia, or early-onset Alzheimer's.
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Currently, more than 3,500 former players and surviving family members are suing the NFL, essentially attempting to hold the league liable. I have no idea if the plaintiffs will win. I know they have a moral case. I also know that the various lawsuits-and anyone who cares about football should read a few-make it awfully hard for me to feel good about the sport. It's also hard to feel good about all the rationalizations that go into being an informed, socially aware football fan:
• Those money-grubbing, ambulance-chasing ex-players knew what they were getting into. Now they're complaining? Tough luck. Why can't they just leave football alone?
• OK, fine. They didn't know. Today's players do. And they're fine with the risk. Who am I to feel differently?
• Football is culturally irreplaceable. It teaches important values, like teamwork and self-sacrifice. It gives young men an outlet for aggression.
• You can suffer a concussion driving a car. Or riding a bike. Life is risky. Football is risky. Sure, we should minimize the risk. But doing so is enough to keep on enjoying the sport, right?
But here's the thing about football, the thing that separates it from everything else, that makes the sport exciting, the thing that's so hard for me to reconcile: The hits aren't accidents. They're pretty much the point.
I can't watch football because of Ann McKee, MD, a neuropathologist and codirector of the Boston University Center for the Study of Traumatic Encephalopathy, who studies the brains of deceased football players. We met in the morgue. McKee held a white plastic bin that contained a human brain, immersed in preservative fluid, yellow-green and translucent. It looked pickled.
"This is from a 29-year-old individual," she said. "There's been a shrinkage of the brain."
Another bin. "This is from a retired NFL player. It shows atrophy. Shrinkage of the cortex. Shrinkage of the deep cortex."
Another bin. Another former pro. "Very small temporal lobes. This looks like CTE. Wow. Pretty amazing. I think this will be a good case."
McKee was speaking as a research scientist. As a football fan-as the kid sister of two brothers who played the sport-she knows the larger truth. There are no good cases. Football hits pull the brain like Silly Putty, stretching and shearing nerve cells. Some hits cause concussions. Some do not. The damage accumulates, regardless: Boston University researchers estimate that the average high school lineman takes 1,000 to 1,500 hits to the head each season, some at forces equivalent to or greater than a 25-mile-an-hour car crash.
The result can be found in the white plastic bins. Or in these tragedies: Former Philadelphia Eagles safety Andre Waters, dead at 44 from shooting himself. Former University of Pennsylvania football captain Owen Thomas, dead at 21 from hanging himself. Former NFL safety Dave Duerson, dead at 50 from shooting himself, purposely in the chest, so that his brain could come here.
"You look at these brains, and it's like, 'It wasn't really him. It was the disease,'" says McKee.
The Boston University Center for the Study of Traumatic Encephalopathy has released test results for the brains of 20 deceased football players. Nineteen showed evidence of CTE. McKee has many more brains to examine, and hundreds more are pledged by athletes who are still alive.
These are the words McKee uses to describe the clinical symptoms of CTE: Impulsivity. Disinhibition. Volatility. Problems with depression and emotional control. And this is how Mike Webster, later diagnosed with the disease, spent his final months: living in his truck, squeezing Super Glue on his rotting teeth, shooting himself with a Taser gun to sleep, and sniffing ammonia to stay awake.
I can't watch football because of Gil and Michelle Trenum. Two years ago, their son Austin suffered a concussion during a high school game. An alert trainer pulled him off the field. ER doctors checked him out. He went home. He seemed OK. A day and a half later, he hanged himself.
There was no suicide note. Austin was a happy, healthy kid. A good student. Popular and well liked, the type of guy you hope your daughter dates.
The Boston center physicians examined his brain. They didn't find CTE, but they did find a multifocal axonal injury, damage to fibers that connect nerve cells. Doctors strongly suspect the injury led to Austin's sudden, inexplicable decision. Gil and Michelle have since become advocates for concussion safety. Grieving parents seek them out, anguished calls and e-mails from people they've never met. The Trenums are the bravest people I know. Still, they hurt. They live with a hole. It will never be filled.
"Even when we have a good day, we still know he's gone," Michelle says. "We can be happy. We can laugh with our friends. But we still know."
Boys and young men-whose brains are still developing-are more vulnerable to football-induced head trauma. Last year, the NFL placed certified athletic trainers in press boxes to watch for concussions, while NFL Players' Association executive committee member Scott Fujita called for sideline deployment of independent neurologists. Can high schools or Pop Warner leagues afford the same safeguards? According to the National Athletic Trainers' Association, only 42 percent of high schools in 2010 even had access to a certified athletic trainer educated in concussion care.
Robert Cantu, MD, a leading sports concussion expert, says in a new book that children under 14 years of age shouldn't play collision sports under current rules, an argument he suspects will "tick some people off." However, I wonder if Cantu goes far enough. College football is a multibillion-dollar, taxpayer-subsidized business. That's a lot of public investment in head trauma.
Football's popularity seems to grow every year. How long will that last? My colleague Will Leitch recently asked in New York magazine if following football was morally wrong. "There are no big TV contracts or player salaries without fans tuning in. We're all part of the problem," he wrote.
Are we? Am I? I know only this: There's definitely a problem, an ugly one, and I've seen too much of it to keep watching.
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ALPENA - Pastor Scott Meier of Resurrection Lutheran Church led over 60 community members and students in celebration of the National Day of Prayer on Thursday on the front lawn of city hall. This was the 17th year the event has been celebrated at city hall. People from all around Alpena gathered to participate in prayers for our community and our nation, based on this year's theme: "Pray for America."
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Community members gather on the lawn of Alpena City Hall on Thursday to take part in the 62nd annual National Day of Prayer, which was first established by Congress in 1952 and the proclamation was then signed by President Harry Truman. This year's theme, "Pray for America," is based on the Bible verse Matthew 12:21 which reads "in His name the nations will put their hope." For more photos from this event, go to cu.thealpenanews.com.
Mayor Matt Waligora read the proclamation as written by President Barack Obama, citing the first Thursday in May as the designated day to celebrate the National Day of Prayer, followed by children from All Saints Catholic School leading the Pledge of Allegiance, then singing "How Great is our God," to the delight of the crowd. Students actively joined in praying for the nation with the other members of the community throughout the entire event.
Additional prayers by community members covered many areas of service such as Marsha Hoppe praying for families, youth and children, and Fire Chief Bill Forbush, praying to protect the fire department, paramedics, and emergency personnel in their day-to-day activities. Chief Assistant Prosecutor Russ Rhynard said he wanted to remind people of their junior high and high school civics and government classes by praying for the roots of government.
"I'm here today to pray for you and me, because if you remember, we are a government of the people, by the people, and for the people," Rhynard said. "There are signs that tell us that we may be in trouble, but many of us choose to live our lives and forget that we are the foundation of government."
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British and Irish Lions head coach Warren Gatland has sprung one of the great surprises in the tourists' history by dropping Brian O'Driscoll for Saturday's series decider against Australia.
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