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BOMBAY SAPPHIRE Sparks Chain Of Inspiration And Imagination Of Five Canadian Artists
TORONTO, Oct. 4, 2012 /CNW/ - Through a creative collaboration that connected the minds of five artists from five different mediums, BOMBAY SAPPHIRE's Artist2Artist program followed a chain of imagination where each artist's creation was inspired by the one before it. The artistic journey began with the iconic blue bottle and culminated in an innovative Bombay Sapphire cocktail.
"Imagination is at the core of Bombay Sapphire, not only in how it's made and how it looks, but in how it inspires others," said Raj Nagra, global brand ambassador, Bombay Sapphire. "We have a long history of engaging consumers in programs that challenge them to invent, explore and design. Artist2Artist is Bombay Sapphire's newest program that sought to make individuals think differently."
From the iconic blue bottle, Montreal-based visual artist Jody Hargreaves was taken to a place of water, reflection and dreams, inspiring him to paint his best friend like a dream girl. The resulting painting brought the themes of energy and drive to the minds of musical duo Southern Shores, originally from Halifax, and inspired them to compose an original song, Malabar, with an upbeat tempo and dynamic rhythm.
When Scott Cudmore, Toronto filmmaker, heard the song, the rhythm came across to him as "aquatic", leading him leave the urban scene for the Bruce Peninsula to create his short film. With the beauty of nature as the background, the film developed into a hybrid of a portrait and a short biography of Scott himself. The industrial designers from Castor Design were attracted to the dream-like state of the film and that led them to build a unique dream catcher made from electro-luminescent wire. Elan Marks, Toronto mixologist, was struck by the dark and mysterious nature of the dream catcher which, in the end, inspired his Bombay Sapphire cocktail, Devil in a Blue Dress, and brought chain of imagination full circle - from the bottle to the cocktail.Each artist was given just a few days to be inspired, create their piece of art and pass it on to the next artist in the chain. The process and thoughts of all five artists were captured on video and posted for the world to see on Bombay Sapphire's Facebook page. The hope was that the work and imagination of these five artists would in turn ignite the imagination of the viewers. Last night, the five artists gathered with family, friends and fellow artists for the official unveiling of these creations and to celebrate the imagination process.
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The Housing and Economic Recovery Act (HERA) of 2008 was approved by
Congress on July
30, 2008 with regulations for the program issued on September 29, 2009.
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purpose of the program is to assist in the redevelopment of abandoned or
foreclosed homes under the portion of HERA entitled Emergency Assistance
for Redevelopment of Abandoned and
Foreclosed Homes. The program has been titled the Neighborhood
Stabilization Program
(NSP). On the national level, the bill appropriates $3.92 billion for
the program.
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meet identified needs, HUD
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the CDBG Annual
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I don't think that's a good excuse, please use some discernment. Are you saying that because people in the bible tried to rape angels, that it is okay for you to watch movies with prolonged rape scenes? And does " Its nothing new to me" mean you are desensitized to violence and evil? The devil wants us to be unconcerned about it and act like it's no big deal.
Oh yeah, and not to belabor the point, but the sex-obsessed retarded man in the movie that is unwittingly being defended by the good guys, had just murdered a young woman, that's why the evil guys were hunting him down.
The whole movie is about lust, coveting, adultery, rape, murder and revenge. Hardly a worthy "good vs. evil" plot imo. David vs. Goliath is good vs. evil, while horror movies are just evil.
I'm one of the 3 that said yes.
Horror movies aren't my first choice by no means but I have seen my share. I won't watch 'spiritual' / 'demonic' / 'possession' types of movies...I feel your entering into that realm of the spirit and choose to not bring it into my house or head.
Having said that ; one of my favorite movies is SAW. :shock: When it first came out I said there was no way I would ever go see that movie. My wife is a little more daring then me, and she said 'what the heck lets see what the fuss is all about' ? We rented it and we were both amazed. The "horror" theme is misleading. Its not a horror movie...its a suspense movie with an amazing thought provoking plot line. I was leary at first like any "Christian" should/would be , but after I watched it (several times now) I'm left with my mouth open saying...WOW.
And one more point about the movie Staw Dogs, that girl was trying to make that retarded man do that with hr and he didnt want to. Also the one who got raped in a previous scene took her shirt off in front of the window leading all those men on. She was really asking for it showing them all her private area. I like thrillers more then horror movies, most of them these days just are awful.
I know, I remember it. The whole point is that this movie is not good vs. evil, it is just licentious and bad morality all the way through. And real horror movies are much worse. Thrillers are usually a lot different, but we just have to use discernment and ask ourselves, "would Jesus really approve of this movie?"
When people have such a callous disregard towards life, as those 18 onlookers did, it is because they are desensitized. That is why we should not be watching horror movies, regardless of whether or not we think there is a good vs. evil element to them, or whatever reason we may have for watching.
And I'm curious, where did you see that video?
Oh by the way, I had been meaning to say this at the start of our dialog, that I am not coming down on you when I say something, just trying to get you to see another point of view, and maybe help you to realize that we are accountable to the Lord about what we put before our eyes.
Romans 12:2 And be not conformed to this world: but be ye transformed by the renewing of your mind, that ye may prove what is that good, and acceptable, and perfect, will of God.
When we are born again we become new creatures. However the 'old flesh' nature still likes to reassert itself...Paul said that he 'dies daily' ...how does one 'die daily' and ensure the old flesh nature remains buried in the waters of baptism? By starving it to death. Don't feed it. Feed the new man through prayer and Bible study and wholesome music and good company. Horror movies is a gross food straight from hell and is designed by Satan to debase man and insult his Creator.
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Vancouver school fire displaces 500 students
Vancouver school officials have to find space for 500 students who have been displaced by the fire that destroyed Crestline Elementary School.
The Associated Press
Crestline Elementary School is a total loss after a three-alarm fire burned through the building early Sunday, displacing 500 students.
Evergreen School District officials hope to have them back in class Thursday at six or seven other schools that have spare room, spokesman Carol Fenstermacher said. Officials are working Monday on arrangements and transportation plans.
Crestline students were told to stay home and wait. Counseling and meals for needy students are available at East Vancouver Community Church, Fenstermacher said.
There's no dollar estimate of the loss, but Fenstermacher expected it would be in the millions.
Parts of the building where the roof collapsed were still smoldering Monday morning, Vancouver Fire Department Capt. Scott Willis said.
The school appears to be a total loss and likely will have to be torn down, he said.
The fire may have spread through the attic before it was noticed and reported at 3:17 a.m., Willis said. The 40-year-old building had sprinklers in the rooms, but not the attic.
Because the fire occurred in the early morning hours of a weekend when no one was present, it's being treated as suspicious, Willis said.
One firefighter was treated at a hospital for an undisclosed injury, said another fire department spokesman, Kevin Stromberg.
Investigators will interview witnesses and look into a report that someone was shooting off fireworks at the school on Saturday night.
Third-grade teacher Audrey Christina, who lives just three houses from the school, heard the fireworks.
"Between 8 and 9, I'm sitting at my computer and heard what I thought were gunshots," she told The Columbian. "I walked to the end of my street and realized it was fireworks. I couldn't identify the kids; it looked like there were three or four. I just turned around and walked home."
The fire was believed be the first catastrophic loss of a school in Evergreen Public Schools' 67-year history, The Columbian reported (http://bit.ly/YxrJWW).
The loss puts a strain on the district, which has no vacant buildings and schools already full of 27,000 students, Fenstermacher said. The district has 20 other elementary schools.
Crestline had 498 students in kindergarten through fifth grade, and 50 staff members. It opened in 1973 in the Fircrest neighborhood. About 70 percent of Crestline students receive free or reduced-price breakfast and lunch, Fenstermacher said.
Superintendent John Deeder and other school officials have been meeting and planning how to conduct classes for the rest of the year, she said.
Hundreds of Crestline students, parents and teachers cried and hugged Sunday as they watched from a sidewalk.
"It's really sad," said Michele Allen, 51. "I was here the first day the school opened. I was in the fifth grade, me and my brother, Michael Kunze. I had three kids who went to school here."
Rebecca Combs hugged her 10-year-old daughter, Chloe, a fifth-grader.
Combs said her daughter is in her last year at the school and is on the school council and safety patrol.
"My daughter's kindergarten teacher was my brother's kindergarten teacher and my Girl Scout leader," Combs said. "I'm really sad and upset."
Information from: The Columbian, http://www.columbian.com
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How Do You Eat a Box of Chocolates?
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lilpoofkin 6 years
The only one that I usually eat is the roman nougat. Chewy goodness. The rest are just for fluff.
chiefdishwasher 6 years
One after another.
celebrity_soup 6 years
look at the chocolate guide!
chiefdishwasher 6 years
Party, I bet your mom taught you how to pick chocalates.
atlbartender 6 years
I use the guide and give all the ones I do not like to my husband then I start from my least favorite and save the best for last.
susanec 6 years
We go to the shop and pick them out. Always the rum balls and things with hazelnut filling. One of these days we'll get caramel...
rickimc 6 years
Since I am allergic to peanuts, first I check the ingredients to see if I can even have the chocolates. If I can, I check the guide and start with the one I like least saving the one I like best for last (eat one piece a day).
GrapeBubbleGum 6 years
I look at the guide, but instead of starting with one I know I'll like, I start with my least favorite and save my favorites for last.
silly_pickle 6 years
I go for the guide, then cut it open to double check. I have a peanut allergy, I'm paranoid!
sophia_HL 6 years
I look at the guide and check for coconut ... YUM!!
ilanac13 6 years
if it doesn't have a map - then i won't eat it. i'm one of those people who's scared of the unknown
jennjennnbubba 6 years
Im with you party, I rarely use the guide b/c most the time I don't even have a guide. I just pick at random and hope its yummy
partysugar 6 years
Sometimes there isn't a guide. So in those cases I just blindly choose and I hope its a good one.
Marci 6 years
Juju, I wonder if we're related because I have a sister-in-law who does the same thing with a box of candy. I do a combination of things with a box of candy. First I peruse the box and try to find the chocolate covered coconut before anyone else does. Then I scope out the marshmallow ones, and I'm very successful with finding these two favorites. After that mission is accomplished, then I check the guide and/or sit with my fiance and check out each piece he takes a bite of. If it's something I like, then I take it from him. :D
arcticpuppet 6 years
godiva guides are always so thorough. I am in love with their truffles!!!
UrbanBohemian 6 years
If there's a guide, I'll peruse that. But I like taking a cue from Forrest Gump and.....well you know the quote :-)
amber_castaldo 6 years
I am a chocolate fan. I tend to just eat blindly. it helps me to take small bites and savor the flavor.
juju4 6 years
Anything that is in a box of chocolates is good enough for me. :-) My sister in law will bite half of a chocolate and put it back in the box....and it drives me insane! IMO, if you bite into it, just finish it. It's a fricking chocolate!
tkoblondee 6 years
The Guide!!!
Merlin713 6 years
I go to the guide first. After a while I don't look at it, and I randomly try them. If I don't like what I bite into, I give it to my boyfriend. He'll eat anything.
ElizabethRae 6 years
I hate it when there is no guide!!! I end up biting into nasty raspberry fillings and stuff (though I usually inspect pretty closely before I bite). I'm with the gals who go for the caramel first!
dootsie 6 years
I only get boxes of chocolate with stuff I know I like in them, so I don't mind going blind. It's a nice surprise every time. If I happen to get a box from someone who doesn't know how picky I am, I'm still apt to just eat whatever I pick up, though I might make a face at first if I get the pink cream!
StarbucksAddict9 6 years
I go for the guide if it has one and then I still check it before I eat it. I have too many food allergies to be biting into a surprise!
Phasekitty 6 years
Let me add one to this poll: I blindly pick one and push the bottom in to see if it's something I'll like! If not, I give it to my boyfriend! :-P Maybe I get ghetto chocolate boxes, but those guides don't always come with it!
Linda-McP 6 years
Look at the guide and go for the dark chocolate ones first.
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Most of the organisations are implementing cyberoam –unified threat management system now-a-days…. Cyberoam is used to make filtrations to the sites being browsed by the users i.e. unwanted sites are being blocked (Eg: facebook, orkut etc) (I know its a real pain you know where.. :-/)
Let see the details of cyberoam before cracking cyberoam…
Cyberoam is Identity-based unified threat management appliances, offer comprehensive threat protection with firewall-VPN, anti-virus, anti-spam, intrusion prevention system, content filtering in addition to bandwidth management and multiple link load balancing and gateway failover… Basically its a hardware based corporate FIREWALL.. Its probably the most effective firewall in the corporate sector, but that does not mean it can't be bypassed (fooled)…. :)
For every action there is an equal and opposite reaction…
Similar if cyberoam is blocking something there should be an way to unblock it. Nothing is impossible in the world of programming…. The difficult part of cyberoam it is the system comprising of both hardware and software….
It DOES NOT block individual filetypes, what it does is to block fileservers that are known to peddle software not proper for the target individuals…. Which means even Torrents are mostly blocked….. Not good….. The list of blocked servers are constantly updated by the company so you need to be on the constant lookout for newer ways to fool the firewall…..
There are a few ways to fool the firewall….
1. Go for the data transfer method known as tunneling. By tunneling the download data through an allowed fileserver you could fool the system in thinking that you are downloading some good data (say Anti-Virus updates). In order to do this you will need to know some network programming….
2. Another way would be to use a PROXY software. The best free PROXY softwares that work in the Cyberoam network are
a. Vidalia (Tor) : This used to work wonderfully but I'm not sure wheather this still works. I think its worth a try. You can find it at http://www.torproject.org/
b. Ultrasurf : This one is an awesome Proxy. It can easily bypass the Cyberoam firewall but the connection needs to be good otherwise it keeps disconnecting. Always look for an updated edition at the site http://www.ultrareach.com/
3. Another cool way to fool the system is to use a VPN software like HAMACHI. …Find someone who would be willing to share a network connection with you, then connect through Hamachi and use the Net uninterrupted….. You could even setup a server at you own home and connect to your own computer…. Institutes normally require VPN services so they NEVER block VPN ports…
One more way is little complicated and requires two different software's and manual configurations…But ultimately at the end you get the freedom!! Freedom to be unmonitored!!!!
Step 1 : Download Free Port Scanner Software.
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The @JoeBiden account is managed by staff of the Democratic Party and was used in 2012.
Bay of tweets
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The project let Cubans speak freely, an official says.
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He's no fan of the reported program by the U.S. government to form an underground social network.
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The project sought to evade the country's stranglehold on the Internet.
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Paul tweets Obama-Pope joke
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Red Sox tease Obama gift in tweet
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A randomised trial of honey barrier cream versus zinc oxide ointment.
Summary of "A randomised trial of honey barrier cream versus zinc oxide ointment."
In this single-blind multicentre, intervention study, 31 patients with symmetrical intertrigo in large skin folds were included to study the clinical effect of two topical treatments, i.e. standard therapy with zinc oxide ointment versus honey barrier cream. Patients were treated twice daily for 21 days, and the severity of intertrigo was scored in an observation period of 21 days. Patients were used as their own controls by treating symmetrical skin folds, on the left and right side.
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I have yet to see a immigrant who just sits on his ass and collects government money. Immigrants do all the shit jobs I refuse to do, aka security, taxi's and farming. They have some of the highest worth ethics ive seen from anyone. Dont confuse second generation immigrants. Those fuckers get lazy.
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NORTH KINGSTOWN – When visitors pour into the Quonset Air Museum this weekend they will see everything from a small balsa wood model of the Wright Brothers' plane in a showcase to the giant TBM-3 Avenger – the same type of aircraft George H.W. Bush bailed out of as it crashed into the sea during World War II.
Although it's open year round, this tribute to the history and genius of aircraft design receives its biggest audience – upwards of 1,000 – during the Quonset Air Show. This year's event, celebrating the centennial of Naval aviation, starts at 10 a.m. Saturday and Sunday.
While the air show will feature such exciting elements as performances by the U.S. Navy Blue Angels precision flying squad, the Red Bull Aerobatic Helicopter, the Black Daggers Jump Team, several stunt pilots and demonstrations of several military aircraft, the Quonset Air Museum is a treasure trove of unexpected delights.
There are the actual F-14 Tomcat famously "piloted" in the movie "Top Gun" and the Grumman A-16 Intruder, both still owned by the Navy and flown into Quonset for display. The museum has a total of 18 aircraft, a Nike-Hercules missile used for air defense during the Cold War, a Chinese Silkworm missile, an Australian self-propelled gun resembling a tank, a radar display and a variety of engines, parts and exhibits.
Tour guide Mike Pignataro, a veteran of Navy submarine service and an Army helicopter pilot with the 1st Cavalry in the Vietnam War, is vice president of the museum and a member of its board. His personal history is emblematic of how wartime skills translate to peacetime and – sometimes eerily – back to enemy attack.
"I moved here five years ago," he says. "I had flown for the New York Port Authority and was there for 9-11. My job was to fly over with body bags and airpacks. There were no bodies. When I left, on April 30, 2004, I was still flying 12 hours days, six days a week. I flew in the Secret Service, FBI."
The next day Pignataro started as a captain for Prudential Insurance. As he takes visitors around the museum hangar and outdoor space, he offers keen insight into the kinds of assignments the various aircraft carried out.
The TBM-3 Avenger, he explains, was a torpedo bomber, "one of the biggest to fly off a carrier"; the Sea King anti-submarine helicopter is "the Navy version of the President's helicopter"; the Curtis Wright XF15C-1 plane is "one of a kind. Only three were made."
Veterans who nostalgically recall the heyday of the Quonset Naval Air Station can inspect the Grumman C1-A Trader. When the base was closing, Pignataro says, "It was the last aircraft to take off from Quonset, flown by the [air station] commander."
Visitors, who get in free during the air show, will especially want to see the Sikorsky Black Hawk chopper, the same model – outfitted with cutting edge intelligence-gathering and maneuverability equipment – used by the Navy SEALS when they landed inside Osama bin Laden's compound.
One of the charms of the museum is the fact that teams of volunteers have made restoring the planes, most obtained from military surplus, a labor of love.
The self-propelled field gun, for instance, was done by a husband and wife team. A father-son duo, Rick and Nick LaPierre, of Tiverton, refurbished a Douglas A-4 and a MIG 17; now they've started work on a McDonnell F-4 Phantom. The Sea King helicopter was painted by a 20-year-old and his girlfriend.
Pignataro says the museum's fortunes have been turned around thanks to the leadership of its president Dave Payne, a businessman, who has "brought it from deep red [financially] to the black. He has done a phenomenal job."
Supported by memberships, admission fees and a few small grants, the museum has put on a new $100,000 roof and a back room has been outfitted as a "ready room" on a World War II B-17. "We have a lot of birthday parties there," says Pignataro. "The kids love it."
Among the most mysterious of the museum's artifacts are the remnants of a downed Hellcat, part of a Night Air Combat Training Unit that had flown out of Charlestown on April 3, 1945. The engine seized above Nantucket Sound, never making it to a small Navy auxiliary landing field. The aircraft sank in one minute; the pilot was spotted several times but never rescued.
The plane's wreckage, rusted and covered with seaweed and other debris, was recovered by the Quonset Air Museum in the spring of 1994. It is on display at the back of the hangar where volunteers have been working to rebuild and restore it.
Pignataro says museum stalwarts have been preparing the aircraft for the weekend's big surge. "A tractor pulls them out and we wash and dust them. They all weigh 12,000 pounds-plus; the F-14 is 35,000 pounds empty."
Visitors will be able to sit in the cockpits and pose for photographs with the museum's aircraft. There is no admission charge during the air show; normally the fee is $7 for adults, $6 for seniors and $3 for children 12 and under.
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During a sermon recorded in the Book of Mormon, King Benjamin said, "And behold, I tell you these things that ye may learn wisdom; that ye may learn that when ye are in the service of your fellow beings ye are only in the service of your God" (Mosiah 2:17). Service is emphasized in the Church from the time we are children. The priesthood is given to men to use in the service of others. One of the primary purposes of the women's organization of the Church, the Relief Society, is to provide opportunities to serve others. The Church participates in humanitarian service projects throughout the world. Missionaries volunteer on their own time and at their own expense, all to serve others. Service benefits both the receiver and the giver. It helps develop unselfish and Christlike attitudes toward our fellow beings.


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Lewis Hamilton suffered the wrath of the Formula One stewards once again on Friday when he was handeda three-place penalty on the starting grid for the inaugural Indian Grand Prix after ignoring yellow warning flags in firstpractice.The McLaren driver had set the fastest lap, in the final seconds, in the first ever session run at the Buddh International circuit.
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Despite a fluttering front wing, Massa's time of 25.706 proved good enough for top spot and was 0.088 seconds better than the fastest time of world champion Sebastian Vettel.Local lad Narain Karthikeyan finished bottom of the pile, with seven-time world champion Michael Schumacher way down in 21st.
Sanctions and strays Sauber's Mexican Sergio Perez was also handed a similar sanction after stewards ruled he had committed the same offence of ignoring double waved yellow flags at turn 16 while a car was being recovered by marshals in close proximity to the track. The sanction ended Hamilton's hopes of a second successive pole position on Saturday after qualifying fastest in the last race in South Korea.
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Engagement is a word of universal significance for those of us seeking to attract guests, whether a zoo, a museum or a theme park. At Conner Prairie, an outdoor immersion history museum near Indianapolis, we have long been searching for ways to make this often elusive engagement idea—where guests connect with our experiences in a deep, meaningful and enjoyable way—a living, daily reality. Visitor research has played a catalytic role in our efforts to transform the guest experience.
Beginning in 2000, Conner Prairie embarked on a series of in-depth, anthropological learning research studies to discover how much guests were actually learning, and how they were learning, when they visited the museum. We recorded guest visits with either audio alone or audio and video, transcribed the research data, and analyzed those transcriptions for learning indicators and clues to how guests and interpreters interacted. At the same time, we began to systematically collect and distribute to staff other guest feedback, including comment cards, post-visit interviews and surveys. This initial research served as a resource for staff across the institution, but was particularly applicable to the work of the Museum Programs Division.
The studies demonstrated one stark finding: that the museum's daily program of living history interpretation was not reaching its potential. To be certain, we had received positive comments from people who enjoyed their visit. However, the research gave us all manner of signs that we were not facilitating guest experiences with the past in a way that maximized learning. Guests were not having consistently high-quality experiences in Conner Prairie's historic areas. Those reviewing the research plainly saw that we needed to dramatically change the way we were delivering experiences on a daily basis. Adding to our sense of urgency in pursuing change was the now widely-reported fact that living history museums across the country were seeing significant on-going declines in their attendance. In mid-2002, managers and senior administrators at Conner Prairie determined that they would take action on this research.
We faced sizable challenges in redesigning how we delivered experiences and retraining staff to see their work in fundamentally different ways. We borrowed any good ideas we could find, whether they were from theme parks, science museums or retail clothing operations. We developed new training programs. We restructured how we deployed staff on a daily basis. We engaged in a far-ranging institutional conversation about what it meant to put guests in the center. In the end, we created the approach to delivering great guest experiences we call Opening Doors.
We knew that change of this magnitude was not possible merely by issuing a directive from management. Instead, it would require a change of culture within the institution. This cultural change related particularly to the Museum Programs Division, which was responsible for all aspects of delivering learning experiences for guests. We tasked a small team of management staff and front-line interpreters to determine what changes to make to interpretive philosophy, front-line staff training and management structure. Over the course of nearly one year, this team studied guest feedback, engaged in new thinking about how to provide the highest quality guest experience, and crafted a change in direction for the Programs Division, and indeed the museum as a whole. We adopted as our target the following vision, "Conner Prairie will set a new standard for living history interpretation. We will do this by establishing engagement as an essential component of good interpretation."
The result was the Opening Doors Visitor Engagement Initiative. This title communicated to the rest of the staff at Conner Prairie that we, as interpreters, would take the lead in opening doors to the past for our guests. We were to be ambassadors to the past and facilitators of learning experiences, and not simply live versions of bloated text panels that forced guests to learn by passive listening. We were to be active engagers and not simply stage actors. We were to adapt to how different guests learned and what they were interested in, not simply recite the same rote information in the same way to everyone who came by. This method of interpreting the past was a much different way of approaching things for the vast majority of our interpretive staff. While none of them found it entirely foreign, these expectations stood in contrast to the approach we had been taking for our thirty years of accumulated institutional experience of living history interpretation. And compared with the approach of most other living history museums, ours is a categorically different perspective on planning, administering, overseeing and delivering learning experiences for guests.
The new emphasis on serving our visitors soon began to influence the museum's culture. Staff started to realize that the reason we exist is because people choose to spend their time and money with us. The concept that visitor's needs should come first became inculcated into Conner Prairie's culture. Shortly after Opening Doors started, we began referring to the visiting public as our "guests" instead of "visitors." This change, though seemingly cosmetic, helped to solidify the idea that we should be looking to provide a comfortable and enjoyable experience to the people who choose to spend their time and money at our museum.
Conner Prairie's previous mission statement read, "Conner Prairie, an Earlham museum, will serve as a local, regional, and national center for research and education about the lives, times, attitudes and values of early 19th-century settlers in the Old Northwest Territory, based on the Indiana experience. In its efforts to serve its various constituencies, Conner Prairie will seek to provide an overall experience of quality, presented in an entertaining manner." This statement is weighted toward content and educational goals. The new mission statement, "Conner Prairie inspires curiosity and fosters learning about Indiana's past by providing engaging, individualized, and unique experiences," is clearly influenced by the Opening Doors exhortation to focus on guest needs. Effective non-profits must have a clear mission, and this change helped to focus our efforts toward providing exceptional experiences to our guests.
Opening Doors also brought about a change to our training structure. Staff training prior to the initiative was very heavily weighted to content sessions. Opening Doors inaugurated a system that used three primary categories: operations, content and communication skills. Each interpreter's training requirement for the year was then split evenly across these three categories. This balanced approach helped interpreters focus on aspects of the guest experience that diverged from solely the minutiae of life in the nineteenth century. In addition to this change, the program gave a boost to daily training and evaluation with the implementation of a manager-for-the-day, entitled Engagement Person in Charge. This person evaluated how well interpreters fulfilled the goals of Opening Doors and assisted them in working to improve their communication skills.
Then we examined our work to see if it met the ultimate test—our guests. And respond they did. Subsequent learning research has shown an impressive increase in both guest learning and satisfaction. Once staff began to hear from guests the impact of their experience at the museum, the significance of Opening Doors became even greater. Our greatest asset throughout the process was the encouraging words of our constituents and other museum professionals.
In a 2005 email to Conner Prairie staff, one guest noted, "We were so impressed at how much it had changed for the better since we last visited when our daughter was little. What impressed us most was how much there was for us to do! The last time we only watched everyone work but this time we were allowed to participate in everything. We spent most of the time in the Lenape village and the Farmhouse. We got to do everything."
Following his visit, Roy Underhill, an expert in the field of interpretation (he has been affiliated with Colonial Williamsburg for many years) and the star of the PBS show The Woodwright's Shop noted, "I've watched the Opening Doors program make a profound change to the learning environment at Conner Prairie. It's rare in that it is a program that grew from actually listening to the visitors and acting on the research. Opening Doors honors the intelligence of the visitors and gives them engaging and meaningful work to do in the learning experience. It has created a new model for living history interpretation at a time when it's desperately needed. Conner Prairie's willingness to follow the visitor's needs has made them the new leaders in living history."
Along the way, we developed a training resource to help other free-choice learning organizations like zoos, history museums and science centers better engage their guests through staff interaction. We call it Opening Doors to Great Guest Experiences. It includes a 90-minute DVD and an interactive CD-ROM with nearly three dozen training exercises. Initial feedback about the usefulness of this resource from the field has been encouraging.
In the process of really listening to what our guests were saying, we created a new path for the museum. But we know we can't rest on our laurels. In the dynamic universe of changing guest expectations, Conner Prairie is embarking on a strategic planning process that takes into account the guest voice and the lessons that we learned from Opening Doors. Through this effort we will continue to look for ways to listen to our guests, to improve our products, and to deliver great guest experiences.
Bubp, Ken and Dave Allison. "Opening Doors to Great Guest Experiences." AASLH History News, Spring 2007, p. 20-23.
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I've been doing a lot of procrastinating lately, at least with school. A big part of it is that we always seem to have multiple projects going on in my English course…everything else I can stay up to speed on without much trouble pacing. Really need to work on it while there's still time in the semester. Ugh.
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I haven't had any choice about procrastinating lately, as if I don't get started on homework right away I have to sacrifice sleep for it, because I'm short on time.
This is a very motivating thing. Sleep is sort of sacred to me, so if I have to stay up past 10:15 it had better be damn important or it's just not happening.
It's getting easier and easier to buckle down, too. It helps to have a sort of routine that allows you to get things done, making work automatic, almost. For me, it's get home, exercise, practice music, eat dinner/read/clean a little, homework. I still can't just sit down right after school and do schoolwork, my brain is too tired, but I feel like my routine has eliminated all of the goofing off and wasting time to avoid work, so I may be ready to mark this as done soon.
School started up again two days ago, and although I haven't gotten any serious homework yet, I've been making an effort to get a jump on some of my harder classes in order to make the start of the year easier on myself. For example, I read (well, speed-read) the first chapter and a half for APUSH, so the weekend's vocabulary assignment is going to be a breeze. Then, some time this weekend I need to review verb conjugation for Spanish, because I swear I forgot everything over the summer.
The true test of this goal is going to be my Chemistry class, because in my school the honors Chemistry classes follow an independent study sort of pace…it's apparently really easy to get distracted and fall behind, but my plan is to spend my class time on labs/tests and do the reading outside of class unless I can manage to get ahead.
I've been really good about this goal lately, but mainly because I don't really have all that much I have to do, because I'm on summer vacation. I took a summer school class, so that was a big step towards not procrastinating in the long term. (Doing something I didn't really want to so I could do something I did later.) Also, I've been working on my goals a little bit every day, but I'm not always great about getting it done *right away, although it always gets done.
For fall, I decided to let myself have a bit of a clearer schedule. Sometimes, when I'm really busy, I'll procrastinate because I feel like I'm too worn out. (For example, get up at 5:30, do school and extracurricular stuff until 6 or 7, and then be too tired to be responsible about the 1-2 hours of homework left.) This way, I'll only have 4-5 hours a week of non-school rehearsals/lessons, and I'll be able to get schoolwork done without having a ton of stress.
I've got finals tomorrow, Tuesday, and Wednesday, and I was thinking about studying really hard. Then I remembered that the way our grades are weighted (80% classwork, 20% final) I'd have to get a C on my final to drag even my lowest grade below an A. (I have a 93% in Spanish, currently.)
The motivation gods have not been acknowledging my prayers. But, with my last 30 minutes before bed, I will force myself to think about the essay portion I know is going to be on there. Childhood story with mixed use of preterite and imperfect tenses, you will be lukewarmly attacked!
Forced myself to stay off the internet for a few days. I actually studied and worked toward some of my musical goals. I got halfway through a 300 page novel. And my bedroom? Messy, but cleaner than usual.
So I dunno how I ended up online today. But I think maybe I should just walk away and study for my Spanish final. (Really, I definitely should. But procrastination is so much fun!)
So, tomorrow is the due date for a rather large research paper. Apparently, when the paper was assigned I felt like being a complete troll, so I changed the due date on all of my information to today, and wrote it in block letters on my calender.
And I totally forgot I did it. I honestly thought that today was the due date, so last night when I got home from a social outing, I went to town finishing up the final revisions on the paper, and got to bed by 11. When I showed up to class everyone was like "Wow, you're really disciplined for getting done a day early" and I was like "WHAAAAAAAT??"
I guess it worked, because I got the chance to fix all of my exhaustion-induced typos and formatting errors. Clean copy, being turned in tomorrow. I'm not sure that I could pull it off again, I guess the key is forgetting that you've done it, and I'm just too proud of myself now to do that. It was pretty crazy though. xD
I've completed 10 items off of the list I made for myself. For the next 3 days of break I have 23 items, some in various stages of completion. I don't expect to finish all of it, since it was basically everything I could think of that I should do, but I'll probably get done with half of it. I could do 8 items a day, or less if I did some more tonight…:p
My natural inclination is to try to be productive over school breaks, and so I've created a 30+ item to-do list for my break. It includes things I need to do for school that could be put off but shouldn't, things for my goals, and little household chores. I'm just going to pick things off the list based on what I feel like doing that day and hope I make a dent in it over break. :)
Did a really super job of ignoring this goal and put off two essays until the night before. Fortunately, both were mostly done so I didn't have to stay up all night or anything, but my poor planning means they weren't my best.
Lesson Learned. Maybe.
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I gained 50 pounds during pregnancy. Though I looked healthy while pregnant, now I am left with the soft folds of fat that remain. I still look five months pregnant and my baby is almost one month old! My husband is very anxious to resume some sort of sex life since I wasn't too interested in the last trimester. I hate my new body and the last thing I want to think about is sex (and him seeing me naked!). I am worried that I will stay fat forever and never feel sexual again.Question:
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On this day in 2003, The Rolling Stones were slated to perform in China and, like certain big tech companies, were keen to oblige the nation's government in order to take advantage of the lucrative marketplace. The event came as China seemed ready to fully embrace Western popular music performers; since Wham! broke the barrier in the mid '80s, the country has allowed performers from Sonic Youth and Linkin Park to Public Enemy, Nine Inch Nails and Ill Divo the chance to come play for their Chinese fans without much fuss. That was until the "Bjork incident," when the Icelandic singer performed in Shanghai in March of 2008 and attempted to lead the crowd in a chant of "Tibet! Tibet!," according to reports in Rolling Stone. That led to even more vetting before artists are allowed to play the country.
But even in the salad years of westerners performing in China, the country had tight restrictions and guidelines. While even Ed Sullivan allowed the Stones to perform "Let's Spend The Night Together" with altered lyrics ("Let's spend some time together"), the Chinese government wasn't so permissive, reportedly demanding set-list approval before the show could go on. The band was told they could not play four of their biggest hits due to apparently salacious lyrical content — "Best of Burden," Brown Sugar," "Honky Tonk Women" and the aforementioned "Spend the Night."
Those shows ultimately ended up canceled due to an issue in China of a bit more importance — the SARS outbreak — but the band did return in 2006 and played by the rules, leaving those classics out of their sets.
So here's a chance to not take your country's freedoms for granted. Watch this old clip of "Let's Send the Night Together" from a 1967 episode of Top of the Pops and sing along as loud as you can.
Click on for Born This Day featuring Liza Minnelli, Al Jarreau, James Taylor and Blur's Graham Coxon.
Last night, the music of Cincinnati — past, present and future — was on glorious display at Covington's Madison Theater. Yes, we realize it's a little weird to have the Cincinnati Entertainment Awards (which celebrated its 13th birthday last night) in Kentucky. But the Madison provided a more casual "Rock & Roll" atmosphere than past years' events, so, just as airport developers did in the '40s, we've decided to claim Covington as Cincinnati, at least for one night.
The "bar" ambiance (and lack of a smoking ban in Kentucky) kept everyone off the sidewalks and in the venue, though we're certain many woke up this morning with the old "my clothes and hair smell like smoke" complaints. Fear not: Official CEA2010 gasmasks and Hazmat suits are being produced as you read this.
As CityBeat's Assistant Music Editor for the past three months, I'm the person behind most of the music listings—those microscopic items printed in the middle of the newspaper every week. With the assistance of Real Actual Music Editor Mike Breen and a crazy little interface called Zipscene, I make them appear there and on the Web site.
Over the past decade-plus, Cincinnatian Eric Diedrichs has continually made splashes on the local music scene with the Pop/Rock band The Simpletons and his Cari Clara project (a mostly solo venture in the studio, but also a live band). A few years back, Diedrichs moved to Lexington, Ky., but Cari Clara continued, the live version of which (though largely on hiatus the past year or so) still featuring mostly Cincinnati area musicians — Eric's brother Mark Diedrichs, Greg Tudor, Jason Arbenz (also of Goose), Josh Hagen and 500 Miles to Memphis frontman Ryan Malott.
Last summer, Diedrichs digitally released his fourth effort for Deep Elm Records, the elegant, evocative 10-track album, Midnight March. This Friday, Diedrichs returns to Cincinnati to celebrate the album's physical release at Northside Tavern. The free local appearance will feature the full Cari Clara band, plus Cincinnati's Ohio Knife and Dayton's Motel Beds as openers.
Diedrichs recorded and produced the expansive and engrossing Midnight March in his home studio in Lexington and the crisp sound welcomes the listener to come inside and get lost in the unique textures and tide-like tempos and structures. Though a lot of "one-man show" albums lack a certain warmth and cohesiveness, Cari Clara is the rare all-solo effort that sounds and feels like a large, full band. But the music is rarely grounded, instead relying on a magical, ethereal aura upon which the songs hover.
Diedrichs has skills to spare — he's an amazing vocalist, brilliantly able to translate emotion into words, melody and voice, and his top-notch musicianship (on guitar, bass, piano and a variety of programming and other instrumentation) is apparent on first listen. But as Cari Clara grows and evolves, the way Diedrichs constructs and conducts the varying sounds and layers has become dazzling, adding an extra level of enchantment to his always stellar songwriting prowess.
Midnight March is best listened to in full (once you start, you'll have a hard time stopping anyway), a victory for the dwindling art of making a cohesive album and not just slapping together a collection of songs. Diedrichs says the album is something of a "coming of age" story, saying it's "an emotional exploration of my own journey from childhood to adult." That thematic thread is something everyone can relate to and Diedrichs' lyrics have never been better.
From the shiver-sending ambiance of "When You Knew It" and orchestral, acoustic guitar-driven "Homage to Excess" to the slinky verses and charged, towering choruses of "Battle Hymn" and the Radiohead-meets-Postal Service slowburn of "Safe," Midnight March is loaded with musical drama, with practically each song building from a hypnotic hush to exhilarating crescendo. With deft arrangements and orchestration, provocative lyrics and brain-burrowing melodies, Diedrichs has made the recording of his career. And, in many ways, it feels like he's just getting started.
Deidrichs has the talent to become a career artist; hopefully Midnight March reaches the wider audience Cari Clara deserves so he is able to do just that.
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This morning I was in the car listening to the radio, growing restless with NPR's downer economic news. I decided to check in on the Pop music world and surfed between a couple of Top 40 stations. I stopped on "Love Lockdown," the new single from Kanye West.
It's a pretty interesting and unique track, with some great beats and killer melodies. But the most noticeable aspect of the recording is the sound of Kanye's voice. And that sound is anything but unique in today's mainstream music.
Riverbend made two concert announcements today that will have some music fans jubilant and others heartbroken. The good news — popular Indie Pop band Death Cab for Cutie will kick off their fall tour for the new album, Codes and Keys, here in Cincinnati at PNC Pavilion on Sept. 30. On the opposite of the spectrum, after some sketchy behavior during a Texas concert this weekend, Kings of Leon has decided to cancel the remainder of the band's summer tour, including the Aug. 24 stop at Riverbend with openers Band of Horses.
Younger local musicians and the music fans who love them might find it hard to fathom, but once upon a time, Cincinnati's corporate Rock radio juggernaut WEBN was one of local music's biggest allies, a wild, wooly and eclectic FM outlet as open-ended and freeform as any internet radio station or podcast. In the '70s and '80s, before inflexible, homogenized playlists made it impossible for even major label Cincy bands like The Afghan Whigs to get spins, the annual WEBN Album Project compilations gave major exposure to local and regional artists. Saturday at the Madison Theater, the WEBN Album Project Reunion Show flashes back to that era. In this week's CityBeat, Brian Baker caught up with one of Cincinnati's most popular bands ever (and an early Album Project participant), The Raisins, whose seminal lineup is reuniting for Saturday's event, joining several other AP alumni. Brian also caught up with some of the other participating musicians to discuss the Album Project's legacy. Below are their thoughts, as well as some vintage video clips from the era.
Walk the Moon was one of my personal highlights from the recent MidPoint Music Festival, where the band played a high-energy set wonderfully showcasing its dance-friendly beats, New Wave jubilance and Art Pop creativity. As solid as the foursome is live, I was still a bit stunned by how advanced, imaginative and proficient Walk the Moon comes across on its enchanting debut album, i want! i want!, which is to be released Saturday in conjunction with a multimedia event at The Mockbee.
The nominees for the 15th annual Cincinnati Entertainment Awards music program have been announced and you can vote for your favorites right now. Just click here, make your selection and then make plans to join us on Nov. 20 at the Madison Theater in Covington, where the CEAs will be doled out during what is sure to be another spectacular awards ceremony. Good luck to all the nominees! The full list of this year's nominations is below.
For a band with three properly released, critically acclaimed albums, a lot has come to be expected of TV on the Radio. They are on a major label, Interscope, for which they have now released two full-length albums. They recreate their entire discography live, reimagining the layered songscapes they are known for on record into thrilling burners and mid-tempo dread. And they have amassed a following, particularly in the Indie scene, that rivals any of their contemporaries, evidenced by the No. 12 Billboard debut of their new album Dear Science. The crowd truly entered Bogart's with a sense that this was a band on the verge of truly cracking it REALLY big, which is not necessarily the territory a group of art-rockers naturally inhabits. I guess they just aren't ready for the big stage yet, at least not in the live setting.


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