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A booming market emerges: The Freelancer Economy is predicted to be 40% of the American workforce in just five years, and the startups that power them have been funded over $10B – and a whole new class of organizations have emerged to support, empower, and connect freelancers.
The birth of the social media industry resulted in many realizing that the audience gave way to participants. Nearly everyone is now creating, sharing, chatting, rating and ranking alongside the mainstream media. Just as we saw in the social media and blogging industry the rise of organizations to cater to these new influencers, such as BlogHer, Federated Media, Clever Girls, Glam and IZEA to offer events, gifts, sample products, services, and more, we're beginning to see it repeat.
That same metaphor is now repeating in the Collaborative Economy. Individuals, called "micro-entrepreneurs" or "freelancers" or "Makers" or "hosts/drivers/taskrabbits" are now creating their own goods and experiences, alongside Fortune 500 companies. To help standardize the language being used in the Collaborative Economy, these folks are called Providers, who offer rides, homes, goods, and services to Partakers, learn more about the three Ps, on this definitive post.
This brief listing (I'm sure we're leaving out many other players) indicates there's an entire industry being birthed to serve the Providers (hosts, drivers, makers, cooks, couriers, and rabbits). This offers incredible opportunities for connecting to this ecosystem to learn from them, support them, but also to provide new resources, offerings, sponsorships, and more to enable this rising class of workers. If you're working at a very large company, learn more about this space by joining my organization, Crowd Companies.
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Not every piece of content marketing that I'm going to bring to you is going to be a mega-popular viral sensation. Some are going to be the experimental ads that are pushing the limits of content marketing.
The Land Rover and William Boyd partnership is just one such example. The iconic SUV and off-road manufacturer paired up with the famed novelist of post-Ian Fleming James Bond fame to bring you some branded content. Great storytelling is how this content succeeds, read on for a story!
When you think "Land Rover" you probably think one of two things:
Rugged, unstoppable, independence creating off-road vehicles from jolly old England
Rugged, unstoppable, grocery getters for rich moms and footballers from jolly old England
With this content marketing campaign, Land Rover are trying to get you to think more about the former, and less about the latter. Enter William Boyd, with a 17,000 word short story that features an opportunity to drive about in a rugged vehicle...that just happens to be a Land Rover.
The trailer for the campaign sets the story up beautifully:
You don't get dialogue like that in a McDonald's ad!
If you're looking at this and seeing that there are only 60,000-ish views and being underwhelmed, you should be. There was so much potential to take people on a trip through video here, but it was never meant to be a YouTube hit. There was another goal in mind.
Below the video you'll spot a link to https://thevanishinggame.com/. Head over there yourself and the story will unfold as text scrolling up the screen while the narrator from the YouTube video tells you his story.
It also features a changing background with images of the area in England where the story is set. (For some reason my screenshots would not pick this up.)
The is, perhaps, the strongest example of branded storytelling that I have come across. This isn't a 2 minute video that you watch and walk away from. This is involved. It's not viral, it's personal. It's a journey you take...with Land Rover. Their logo is always up in the corner, after all.
As a bit of a writer myself, I see this as an excellent opportunity for writers to get paid, people to get stories for free, and ads to be made. In short, if you're interested in doing an ad like this, my contact information is at the bottom. To get serious, the story told is absolutely engaging. Those in the ad world talk about brand storytelling all the time. It's a concept that involves everything from your logo to your packaging. This, however, is storytelling with a brand.
Did you look closely at the video? It was released 2 months ago. Is this your first time hearing about this? I'd wager that it is. I feel that this ad has staying power and will continue to be a story that is told for a longer lifespan than the most viral of videos. It didn't hit the Internet hard and set it on fire. It's a slow burn.
To demonstrate this, you can still go on Twitter and see people talking about it.
Very nice example of storytelling: The Vanishing Game by William Boyd. https://t.co/Hfv8tRmqTA / @LandRoverUSA
— Zofie (@zofie) January 26, 2015
Decent #Storytelling and narrative depth in times of constant restlessness and fuss. #WellStoried by @LandRover | http://t.co/e7ejKWR9F1
— Jan Götze (@goetze85) January 16, 2015
Can you say that about the big viral hit of November 2014 beyond analysts offering up their opinions? I really doubt that. This may be a content marketing campaign that has serious legs.
The entire campaign was dead in the water when it comes to social buzz. They didn't do much to push a hashtag to use. There's nothing on the website about sharing. Overall, it felt too much like a book that was put online.
It could have felt like an interactive, cross-platform, experience that you shared and enjoyed with friends right from the moment you hit the first page of The Vanishing Game. There just wasn't a big enough push, or any direction given, to get that to happen. Here's the last time Land Rover shared it online:
Have you discovered #TheVanishingGame? Visit http://t.co/E3lgG7bxGP for an interactive experience from @LandRoverUSA
— Land Rover (@LandRover) January 2, 2015
Thirteen retweets...thirteen! They seriously need to up their social game if they want to create and effectively use content marketing in this way.
The Vanishing Game succeeded at its title - it vanished, and nowhere near enough people saw this excellent example of content marketing. With a harder social push, a greater YouTube presence, and some more hype, this could have been a really special moment in content marketing. As it stands, it was a very interesting experiment that I hope more brands try out (preferably with me!).
I was involved in a discussion about the upcoming Super Bowl and the pros and cons of newsjacking in a Twitter chat recently when another participant, Diana Wolff, tweeted this:
And she's right, that tweet's been discussed and analysed and referred to ad-nauseum for the past two years. And while there's much to appreciate about the 'Dunk in the Dark' tweet, the real question is 'was it effective?' Did more people buy Oreos as a result of that tweet? Is that even the true measure of real-time marketing success?
Does sixteen thousand re-tweets correlate to positive social ROI?
This is hard to say, and really, only Oreo and their parent company Mondelez International are able to judge the true return on their Super Bowl 2013 efforts. In terms of financial results, the actual financial attribution of that tweet is cloudy, as noted in by Danielle Sacks in her Fast Company piece "Oreos Tags Pop Culture":
Since Oreo embraced culture, the brand's annual sales growth is up from the low double digits to more than 20%. But analysts attribute that to its expansion into emerging markets in Asia. It's very hard to prove that new-media campaigns increase sales. During the Grammys this year, viewers who tweeted #SendMeOreo received a box of limited-edition cookies in new flavors that landed in stores a week later. "In terms of revenue, it was the biggest limited-edition launch that we ever had," says [Janda] Lukin, Oreo's North American chief. But no one at the company can tell me how—or if—"Daily Twist," the Super Bowl tweet, and the Twist, Lick, Dunk app affected cookie sales. Asked specifically about the Super Bowl, Lukin admits, "There isn't a great way for us to directly link it."
Given there were so many campaigns and changes occurring around the same time, it's difficult to directly attribute that tweet to an increase in revenue. But it definitely generated coverage, every media outlet from Forbes to CNet to The Huffington Post praised the genius of the Oreos tweet, which was universally considered to have won the Super Bowl ad blitz – some even questioned whether that one tweet did more for the Oreos brand than the multi-million dollar Oreos commercial that aired during the game.
Definitely the cumulative presence of these campaigns has had a significant and lasting impact, and has helped keep the brand within the awareness of many consumers, so in that sense, 'Dunk in the Dark' was obviously a huge win. Though the correlation is not as straight forward as many might suspect.
Of course, sales alone may not be the true measure of the success of such coverage - it's possible that Oreos saw increased brand perception, became better placed in the market or within certain demographic brackets as a result. This, too, is very difficult to measure, and no doubt the flood of coverage Oreos has received as a result of that tweet (including the piece you're reading right now) has increased their overall brand awareness - but how beneficial has that one tweet been for brand sentiment?
Brand perception can be significantly influenced by a well-placed, real-time message. Arby's, for example, would have seen a major boost amongst a younger, hip audience when they sent this tweet in response to Pharrell Williams wearing a that now infamous hat at the Grammys:
That single tweet brought them significant recognition, and helped them reach an audience they may not have been able to otherwise – their brand perception definitely got a 'cool' boost in the reflection of that tweet. There're regular examples of brands utilising real-time response to benefit positive brand perception – just recently, Australian telecommunications giant Optus posted this to their Facebook account in response to a iPhone error which had caused the alarms of many of their customers phones to go off an hour earlier than set, due to a time zone glitch:
Of course, giving people a free coffee doesn't get them that hour of sleep back, but the extra effort to connect with their customers will have an impact on overall brand perception – it's no doubt better than just ignoring it and doing nothing at all.
So what about 'Dunk in the Dark'? Would that message have improved the perception of Oreos and made customers more aligned the brand? Outside of maybe making a few more people feel like eating some chocolate biscuits, there probably wasn't a significant increase in brand sentiment as a result of that message. It's possible, like Arby's, that they were able to reach a specific audience, through retweets and shares, that they'd otherwise not have hit, but again, how much would that perception reflect in the bottom line?
The question of effectiveness comes down to the specific people reached and the actions subsequently taken as a result of that exposure. The numbers themselves - re-tweets, followers and favourites - are not, in themselves, a true measure of success. As noted recently by Gary Vaynerchuck, metrics like follower counts don't necessarily correlate to success – reaching more people definitely increases your opportunities to convert, but getting through to just one person with the right message at the right time can be more successful than reaching 1000.
The discussion of 'Dunk in the Dark' and it's relative success, based on impressions and interactions alone, is the perfect illustration of were traditional broadcast focus collides with new-school targeting and analytics. In the past, the way to win at marketing was to hit as many people as you could, get as many eyeballs as possible looking at your stuff in order to increase the chances of reaching the right few. This is why blast radius is still seen as such a significant measure - but are impressions and reach really reflective of success? As big data becomes more embedded and we learn more about analytics, and how to link specific data points to profitable results, it's likely that bigger won't necessarily be seen as better when we reflect on marketing effectiveness.
Of course, exposure is, and always will be, of significant value, and research has shown that there are links between social interactions and website visits. And far be it for me to make a call on the success of 'Dunk in the Dark' – the only people who can do that are Oreos themselves – although it as interesting that for such a huge, massive, win, they didn't even try to replicate it, noting before the 2014 Super Bowl that they were 'going dark' this time round. No, the purpose of this post is to widen discussion of the metrics and what constitutes marketing success, particularly as brands gear up to wade into the trending currents of Super Bowl 2015.
Effectiveness is relative, it's up to us to correlate the data and show what it means in the wider scheme.
Most people have fond memories of sitting around a campfire with their friends or family, telling stories late into the night. The word "campfire" alone can bring to mind a peaceful outdoor setting, enjoying the warm glow as you relax and listen to the storyteller.
Good stories capture our attention – they stop the world around us for a moment in time. In an era when everyone is competing for attention, telling stories your prospects can identify with can greatly improve your sales lead generation.
The real power of storytelling is that when consumers can relate to the story, they can't help but participate. Taking time to understand each prospect allows you to tailor your brand's story to focus on individual problems and pain points. While B2B buyers must consider the facts when making purchasing decisions, there's also an emotional element that can't be ignored. In fact, a study by CEB found that 71% of buyers who see personal value in a product will make a purchase, and personal value has twice the impact of business value in purchasing decisions.
Here are a few ways to gather your sales prospects around the campfire and tell your story.
Your brand is the setting for each story you will tell. It's important to have thorough knowledge of your brand's history, goals, stakeholders, and overall mission so that you can easily include the specific information each prospect cares about.
Industry knowledge is also important. Knowing how your brand fits into the competitive landscape allows you to explain the unique advantages of working with your company, without needing to deliver a "salesy" pitch.
Prospect motivations can vary greatly, so it's important to understand all the things that make your company, product, or service unique, no matter how trivial it may seem. What can you offer that your competitors can't? How can your product or service help your prospects in a unique way? Being able to effectively communicate this information will make your sales story that much more compelling.
Once you have the basics of your story down, next is creating opportunities to deliver your personalized story to the right people. Start by considering the order in which you should reveal information and in what format.
One of the easiest ways to tell your story is by sharing content that matches your prospects' pain points. When sharing content, use personalized messaging to show sales prospects that you've taken the time to sync your story with their specific scenario. Contributing to discussions in LinkedIn Groups can demonstrate your ability to answer questions your prospects are asking, and sending a well-crafted InMail is a great way to lead with personalized insights your prospects can't help but notice.
Stories need direction and purpose to be effective, which is why most storytellers determine the end of their story first. While the ideal end of your story is a signed contract, it's important to ignore personal goals and focus on creating a happy ending for your sales prospects. With the end-goal in mind, you can work backwards to identify which information your prospects need during each stage of the buying cycle. Working backwards can also prevent you from overwhelming your prospect with irrelevant information at the outset of your relationship.
Finally, pay attention to how prospects are responding to your messaging. Great storytellers are able to change the tone or focus of their story to align with the audience, and paying attention to subtle cues can indicate the details you should highlight and those you should ignore.
The competition for attention is high in the social selling era, and generic messaging is becoming less effective over time. So next time you feel a sales pitch coming on, think back to the campfire and transform your pitch into a story.
In a recent article on this site, we discussed the value of personalization for marketers in website and email marketing design. The article focused on research that show how much consumers like personalization and some of the ways it could be implemented. A new study from IBM investigates this topic further. The IBM study shows the value of personalization, and more importantly, how to get consumers to give marketers the data they need to make personalization work.
The IBM study found that nearly half of US consumers want personalization in their online experience and many want it from in-store retailers as well. The study found that 48 percent of US consumers want on-demand, personalized promotions while shopping online, while 44 percent want the same in the store. The researchers felt that retailers hadn't fully met the challenge of creating the experience consumers want. According to IBM, though 43 percent of those surveyed said they prefer to shop online, only 29 percent reported making their most recent purchase online.
"With consumers switching seamlessly from online to the store it might appear that retailers have finally struck the right balance, but IBM's study identifies a significant gap between what shoppers want from retailers and what they are getting today," said Sarah Diamond, General Manager, IBM Global Business Services in a press release. "Retailers may not be doing enough to meet consumer expectations shaped by digital experiences outside of retail — from location-based services to preference-based apps. The good news is that this gap also indicates the potential of growth for retailers who can meet those consumer expectations."
Knowing that consumers like personalization is helpful, but the greater challenge is getting them to give up their information. Many consumers are extremely wary of giving their information to companies. Giving your email to the wrong entity can lead to large amounts of spam messages and security risks. Even before the internet, putting one's name and address on a list could lead to piles of unwanted mail. Marketers must be willing to overcome these consumer fears in order to make personalization work. It may take some effort, but it will lead to more loyal customers.
The study found that one way online and in-store retailers can get customers to give out data is to offer text messages with personalized offers. IBM reported that the majority(54%) of US consumers see potential benefits in sharing their mobile information to receive texts from retailers. Not only do they see the value, many (42%) are willing to give their phone numbers to retailers to get these benefits.
Remember, there are laws regulating how business can use text messages. The retailer must have permission amongst other things. Read this article read about the most recent changes to the Telephone Consumer Protection Act.
Marketers must also keep in mind that just because technology makes something possible, doesn't mean that consumers will like it. Mobile devices have the potential to provide marketers with a lot of useful information that can be used for personalization, but doing that makes many customers concerned. The researchers at IBM noted that though 42 percent of US consumers see the potential benefits in sharing their locations with retailers via GPS only 28 percent are willing to do so.
Consumers may not want to share their GPS location directly with retailers, it's still possible to use location-based marketing. Most mobile apps and ad networks offer ad targeting based on location, marketers just wouldn't be able to use them to provide personalized specials to a particular user's device. All the same, being shown a generic ad for a retailer near their location is good enough for most people.
Besides the information about personalization and data, the IBM study had other findings that are useful for marketers. For example, the study noted that 60 percent of shoppers said it's important to be able to find out if an item is in stock before going to the store.
Marketers can read the entire study from IBM on their website. And read this article for more information on how marketers can merge their online and in-store experience.


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- Steve Finnell said...
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- October 21, 2010 at 4:54 AM
- Leptir said...
Thanks for information! I look forward to read your Montessori posts in the future :-)
Take care! - October 24, 2010 at 9:24 AM
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- December 9, 2010 at 10:07 PM
- Cassie said...
I am so excited to find your blog. I just came over from ohdeardrea! I absolutely love the Montessori mindset so I am psyched to find a blog that can keep me up to date on it!
Excited to start following ya!
And congrats on that sweet little baby! - December 9, 2010 at 10:07 PM
I love Montessori but I'm a new mom and I was wondering how to incorporate it with everyday life w my infant. I would greatly appreciate it if you made a post about that too ;)
- August 14, 2011 at 10:21 PM
- melissa said...
Thanks for your comment, Kim! Have you seen my mama blog, The New Mommy Files? You might find some value in the posts in my Montessori category over there, as I show and discuss how I apply Montessori principles to life with my now eighteen month old. :) Hope that helps!
- August 15, 2011 at 7:10 AM
- Me said...
For one, I'll tell you how people are (probably) finding their way here: http://www.blogs.com/topten/10-popular-montessori-living-blogs/
Secondly, I have a question. I am a homeschooler with children 7, 4, and 1, and trying to apply the Montessori method. I've read some books that help me with my toddler and I try to apply Montessori principles with my older kids as well, but I am in need of some curriculum, books, etc, that will tell me how to use the Montessori method with my older kids. What would you suggest? I am not at a time in my life to pursue official Montessori training, but I need as much knowledge as I can get. If you could email me and let me know, I'd appreciate it. Thanks. - August 24, 2011 at 6:15 AM
Hello! I am Catalina and I am very passionate about the Montessori method. Unfortunatelly I have never had to take care of any child, so, i don't know how to answer to the question: do you like to work with children? All i know is that i love this method and the idea of contributing to a great development for children incites me a lot. I was just wondering though if I was the right person to become a Montessori Teacher (3-6). Would you (could you) formulate a few questions for me to answer maybe as a guide to discover if I am meant to do a job like this? Thank you!
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Month: January 2013
Knicks Outgun the Hawks to Bring Their Win Streak to 1 In a Row
- I figured since the Knicks expended almost no energy last night they'd have plenty for the Hawks game and come out on fire.
- Felton and Shumpert did come out on fire, scoring the Knicks first 10 or so points before Melo and Smith decided to continue last nights futility by jacking up terrible shots and missing most of them. Melo also started the game in the mode (which we've seen way too often) where he stops and has a lengthy conversation with the ref as to why he didn't get a foul call while the opposing team keeps playing and gets an open layup. Fortunately that only lasted for the 1st quarter and they both got hot the rest of the game.
- Melo shot 9-12 from 3-point range, tying the franchise record for 3's (Starks, Sprewell, Sprewell again and yes Toney Douglas) before the Hawks finally caught on in the 4th and refused to let him even take a 3.
- We got on Kurt Thomas case for being a -8 in 2 minutes the other day, well he was +8 in 4 minutes tonight so we've come full circle.
- Ronnie Brewer doubled his minutes total from last game, going from 2.5 seconds to 4.9 seconds tonight. The opposing team was scoreless during Brewers time on the court yet again.
- Fast point guards must salivate when they see the Knicks come up on their schedule. I can't remember the last time a quick point guard, or even a moderately quick one didn't tear the Knicks a new one.
- Speaking of which, @imadoggarcia and I have been trying to guess which opposing player will have their best game of the season against the Knicks, a.k.a. the Knick Effect. He chose Teague (a fast point guard) and I chose Stevenson (a random bench guy who hasn't done much all season, a perfect candidate). Teague scored 27, his second highest scoring game of the season and Stevenson had 15, tying his highest game of the season.
- Amare had 18 and 8 and once again didn't look terrible on defense. If this keeps up this raises the bar for what the Knicks can do this season.
- Kidd left after 5 minutes to nurse a sore back in the locker room and Chandler was in obvious discomfort in the 4th with a tweaked neck. I can't express how much I hope both of these are very minor injures as it would be heartbreaking to get this close to a full roster only to have 2 guys go down almost immediately.
- Tough ending for Josh Smith. Last 4 plays were a backcourt violation, a turnover, a foul on Amare (which wasn't a foul at all but made up for the completely ridiculous technical on Anthony that almost decided the game) and a missed wide open 3 that would have won the game. Not very smoove.
Knicks vs Hawks – 1-27-13 – Game Thread
Lets hope this game erases last nights game from our memories. Comment below as the game goes on.
Knicks Roster Mid-Season Grades
In Episode 170 Marc and Jay gave their mid-season grades for the Knicks roster. Here are the results:
Jay's Picks
Carmelo Anthony – A
Ronnie Brewer – C-
Marcus Camby - F
Tyson Chandler – B
Chris Copeland – B+
Raymond Felton – A-
Jason Kidd – A+
Steve Novak – D
Pablo Prigioni – C+
Iman Shumpert – B+
J.R. Smith – B+
Amare Stoudemire – C+
Kurt Thomas – C-
Rasheed Wallace – B+
James White – C+
Mike Woodson – B
Marc's Pics
Carmelo Anthony – A-
Ronnie Brewer – C+
Marcus Camby – D
Tyson Chandler – B+
Chris Copeland – B+
Raymond Felton – B+
Jason Kidd – A
Steve Novak – C+
Pablo Prigioni – A-
Iman Shumpert – B
J.R. Smith – B+
Amare Stoudemire – C+
Kurt Thomas – B
Rasheed Wallace – B
James White – D
Mike Woodson – C+
Episode 170: Knicks Roster Midseason Grades
Marc and Jay talk about the Boston and Philly games and then give their mid-season grades for every player on the Knicks roster. Download Episode 170
The Knicks Prove Their Lack of Desire for the #1 Seed
- The lack of effort in this game by everyone not named Amare was disgusting.
- JR Smith final line, 0-8, 0 points, 4 turnovers, +/- of minus 16. Thanks for putting to rest the debate of whether you should have made the all-star team.
- Ed Malloy was the ref tonight, but he had no effect on the Knicks, this was all on them.
- Jrue Holiday had a career high. Knickeffect.
- Amare Stoudemire had 20 points on 8-13 shooting and some nice defensive plays. Too bad it was wasted on this shit show of a game.
- Philly starters outscored Knicks starters 89-40.
- This had better be a continuity issue that will resolve itself soon or else the Knicks have big problems as this is the healthiest they have been all year.
- What happened to the defense from the 1st month of the season? Wasn't Shumpert coming back supposed to make the Knicks even more potent on defense?
- Ronnie Brewer looked great the 2.5 seconds he played tonight.
Knicks vs 76ers – 1-26-13 – Game Thread
Felton is back! This is as close to a full roster as the Knicks have been all season and might be for the rest of the season. Should be interesting to see how they look. Comment below as the game goes on.


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NEW YORK — Put Salman Rushdie, Martin Amis and Ian McEwan on a stage and expect a night of high art and school boy humor, of reading, writing and Christopher Hitchens.
And hysterical sex.
The three literary stars, all in their 60s and friends for more than half their lives, appeared together recently at the 92nd Street Y on Manhattan's Upper East Side. Amis and McEwan were there to read from their latest novels, both now out in paperback. Rushdie handled the introductions and the question and answer period that followed the readings.
They dressed for style and for leisure and exchanged compliments, curse words and winks to the past. Rushdie mentioned an old game they liked to play, taking titles with the word "love" in them and substituting "hysterical sex," as in "Hysterical Sex Is a Many-Splendored Thing" or "Stop! In the Name of Hysterical Sex."
Rushdie also made jokes about the Booker Prize (Rushdie and McEwan have won it; Amis has not) and about Amis' legacy as one of Britain's great angry young men, "ruining and disturbing" his country's fiction, as the old guard used to complain.
Amis read from a few sections of "Lionel Asbo," his dystopian take on 21st-century Britain, and McEwan followed with a long passage from "Sweet Tooth," a spy novel and literary excursion. The audience questions, submitted on index cards, ranged from writerly matters such as the role of unreliable narrators in fiction (the distinguished gentlemen were all for unreliable narrators) to an incident back in the day when McEwan supposedly met a woman and immediately, crudely propositioned her.
His encounter was "not successful," McEwan said, and he "never tried that again."
At the start, Rushdie had referred to a "missing fourth person," their departed friend Hitchens, who died of cancer in 2011. During the question-and-answer session, Rushdie noted that several cards filled out by audience members asked about the indomitable essayist and commentator and how the writers thought he would be remembered.
Amis observed that while Hitchens was known for his political commentary, he believed that Hitchens would endure as a "literary phenomenon," if only because Hitchens' politics were so "eccentric." (Hitchens was the rare author to have admiring words for both Karl Marx and the Iraq War). McEwan called Hitchens a "fantastic speaker" and "amazing in the art of conversation," and remembered how he spent his dying hours determined to complete a 3,000-word essay on the author G.K. Chesterton.
Last question: Given the chance, which of their books would the writers like to change?
Amis said he wouldn't have minded another week to work on the novel "Time's Arrow," but otherwise disparaged the idea of revising old work.
McEwan confessed that his first published book, the 1975 story collection "First Love, Last Rites," suffered from a love affair with commas. The author has been influenced, much too influenced, by the novels of Samuel Beckett and had fallen for the idea of using commas instead of periods to end sentences.
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Serves 4
- 4 medium beets, trimmed
- 3 tablespoons olive oil
- 2 tablespoons Sherry wine vinegar or balsamic vinegar
- 1 1/2 tablespoons walnut oil or olive oil
- 8 cups mixed baby greens
- 2 blood oranges, peel and white pith removed, oranges thinly sliced
- 1/2 cup finely chopped red onion
- 1/4 cup walnuts, toasted, chopped
Preheat oven to 450°F. Wrap beets in foil, enclosing completely. Roast beets until tender when pierced with skewer, about 1 hour 15 minutes. Cool beets. Peel beets and cut into 1/2-inch pieces.
Whisk olive oil, Sherry wine vinegar and walnut oil in small bowl to blend. Season to taste with salt and pepper. Place mixed baby greens in large bowl. Arrange blood orange slices, finely chopped red onion and beets atop. Drizzle dressing over salad. Sprinkle with toasted walnuts and serve.
my notes
- Calories214
- Carbohydrates14 g (5%)
- Fat17 g (26%)
- Protein3 g (5%)
- Saturated Fat2 g (10%)
- Sodium60 mg (2%)
- Polyunsaturated Fat3 g
- Fiber4 g (14%)
- Monounsaturated Fat11 g
- Cholesterol0
recipe at a glance
type: Salad
main ingredients: Beet, Orange, Citrus, Fruit, Leafy Green
dietary considerations: Vegetarian
holiday/celebration: Spring


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NASA's retiring Chief Information Officer Linda Cureton told FCW her last day will be April 3, after which she said the space agency's associate deputy administrator, Richard Keegan, will step in as acting CIO.
Cureton said that NASA doesn't plan to name her permanent successor for several weeks, although she plans to make her future plans public following her final day in government. When Cureton announced her retirement in February, she penciled in April 1 as her final day. She did not specify a reason for the two-day extension.
Keegan is an experienced federal executive, having begun his federal service in 1980, and worked at the Department of Energy and NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center before coming to NASA headquarters in 2002.
Keegan was appointed as NASA's associate deputy administrator in December 2010 after serving as deputy associate administrator of the agency's Mission Support Directorate and previously heading NASA's Office of Program and Institutional Integration for four years.
Cureton's legacy of innovation, strategic thinking and social media savvy will likely not be easily replaced, although several names have already been raised as possible successors.
Gary Cox, NASA's deputy CIO for IT reform, was expected to shoulder several of Cureton's duties, many of which were focused on IT reform. Deborah Diaz, NASA's deputy CIO, and Valarie Burks, deputy CIO for IT security, round out a potential list of internal candidates, though at least one industry insider told FCW that Mike Bolger, acting deputy director of NASA's John F. Kennedy Space Center, and Larry Sweet, IT director and CIO at the Johnson Space Center, could be potential candidates for the job, too.
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I have mainly a few shrubs and climber type roses-illusion, new dawn, dortmund, distant drums and a few others.
Since I don't have long stems like I see in most exhibits would a palette work for me? How do the palettes keep the roses? Sorry, I'm totally ignorant about all this open to any and all advice. |
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You have to know the rules for the pallet, and the rose show schedule will tell you what is allowed. If they allow large-flowering climbers (LCl) or shrubs (S) in the class, then it would be fine. If not, then you cannot enter these roses into the pallet class. Each show is different, so you have to have the show schedule for that specific show. The pallets have a small flower tube underneath each opening which holds water. How old is your DD? I have pretty long stems on mine, enough to exhibit in the regular Shrub class. |
you might try picture frame also if you have only short stems. I think I may try a picture frame entry at the next show I enter. Sometimes I have beautiful blooms but the stems don't seem long enough. |
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quote:Is God a bandwagoner?
quote:Funny Peyton Manning Joke... If God's really a Saints fan then he better wake his lazy arse up and do something about our 2 playoff wins in 44 years
quote:I remember reading something about God making the Israelites wander in the wilderness for 40 years before reaching the promised land. I bet that is what is going on here.


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"The bigger concern is not growing fast enough," says Kevin Wale, president of GM China, which recently announced plans to double sales to five million vehicles by 2016. "If you overreach in one year, then the next you catch up," Wale adds.
But it's not all blue skies. Some worry that down the line, the Chinese government could decide that its domestic industry has gained all it needs from the multinationals (who are required to partner with local automakers) and summarily kick them out. Already, there's pressure to create China-exclusive brands, something GM has done with its new Baojun ("treasured horse") marque and Volkswagen is rumored to be doing with a new line called Kaili.
The United States and other more established markets are no less risky places to expand. With overall volume more or less stagnant, picking up sales here requires stealing market share from equally motivated competitors. Surging brands like Hyundai and Subaru have done it the right way, but many companies have resorted to incentives and entered too many new segments. In the end, there will be losers.
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The Bible is the most quoted book in the western world, and likely the most misunderstood. It is often thought to be little more than religious mythology, or a collection of moral and ethical guidelines, or a series of quaint but irrelevant legends.
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I have a drawing with several symbols that serve as a caption.
For example in the upper right corner of the drawing, I show some special symbols with a description of them or some line types with their respective explanation.
Unfortunately, these symbols appear in the datamanger, since I added them via die tool palette and they are PID symbols.
I tried to add the caption to the *.dwt (drawing template), but you cannot add pid symbols there. (I produce a crash everythime I try...)
Is there an easy work around, to not show certain objects in the datamanager?
In a way, I would like to make some objects "stupid"
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I also tried with "flatten", but my colors will be lost if I use this command.
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blocking those objects (sline as well) will also exclude them from the data manager. But u'll have problem editing the block later because editing P&ID objects in block editor is not supported.
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Welcome to Silver Queen Farm!
We will be closed until May. Thank you for another great year!
Wedding clients- we book all year for events! Give us a call or send us an email with any questions. Head over to our blog page or our Facebook page to get the latest updates on what's happening at Silver Queen Farm, and to see what's in season.
We are a small, family-owned farm in Trumansburg, NY. We strive to offer a variety of quality fruits and vegetables that are grown in a sustainable way. Whether you are looking for a quick stop at a farm stand or an afternoon of family fun, we have it all.
We sell our produce at local farmers' markets as well as area restaurants such as Hazelnut Kitchen, Northstar and Falls Tavern. We also have a CSA that you can learn more about here. If you're new to picking your own produce, or new to farms in general, click here learn what to wear, bring, expect, etc. And if you don't exactly know your way to Trumansburg you can find a map and directions here.
If you'd like to check out what time of year your favorite fruits and veggies are available, head on over to the Produce page to see a calendar of growing seasons.
We are now renting out our big, beautiful barn for weddings, birthdays, parties, and any other events you can think of, so check out our pricing on The Barn page.
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Griffin named finalist in two national book contests
Date: June 2, 2009
by: Robin Hartill | Community Editor
No mystery about it: Key residents already knew that Longboat author H. Terrell Griffin's mystery novels are winners. Now, it seems, the rest of the country is taking note.
On May 18, Griffin's third and most recent novel, "Blood Island," was named an award-winning finalist in the mystery-suspense category of the 2009 Indie Excellence Awards, a competition judged by a panel of publishing experts highlighting top independently published works.
Then, at the Independent Book Publisher Association's Benjamin Franklin Awards May 29, "Blood Island" was one of three finalists in the mystery/suspense category.
Griffin was surprised when he learned about the awards.
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But now, the pressure is on: His latest novel, "Wyatt's Revenge," will be released Nov. 16 by Oceanview Publishing.
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A great Christmas greeting For Kids or Those with a sweet Tooth ,
The text Merry Christmas is created with Cookies ,candy cane, Gingerbread man , and Christmas cup cakes to go with it . Done in Illustrator and Used my photos ( Of Cookies) to complete the effect of cookies in Photoshop.
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Hon, did you mean "sweets" not "sweats"? Very different things, one much tastier ;)
oopps Ha ! Thanks ( i have not checked it out after uploading , Yeh ! you bet much tastier
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Thanks Bonita for your lovely comment, The cupcakes were made by my friend and myself, she took the photograph and then just got the idea to cut it off in Photoshop, The wordings i just used the cookie textures that too from a photograph before it could be molded and baked ,( fund raising for School) ,Its all yours ENJOY Ha ! or come over !
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Love this image, so cute and clever!!!
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Tasty morsels on that lovely card Aldona, mealtime for me. .. Shirley
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If you've ever taken a moment to glance around a crowded subway or waiting room, chances are, there will be at least a handful of folks sporting the latest version of a Nook or Kindle. So what does fate hold for all of the books we've retired? Just ask the Montreal-based artist Guy Laramee, who created an entirely new way to enjoy old books by literally carving the pages into mind-blowing masterpieces, with an incredible attention to detail. Check out these formerly obsolete texts after they've been granted a second chance:
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Tejano star Selena's death hasn't stopped label executives from releasing material or fans from snapping it up. According to the EMI Latin label, 1996's Siempre Selena features the last of her previously unreleased songs, "Siempre Hace Frio." The lavish, three-disc Anthology, however, is a must-have for its glimpses of Selena honing her vocal skills and sharpening her talent. Divided under the headers "Pop/English," "Mariachi," and "Cumbia," the set showcases hard-to-find early material and hits, including a club remix of the Diane Warren-penned "I'm Getting Used to You" and a disco-flavored take on "La Bamba." The liner notes offer background information on every song, and these discs also underscore the talents of Selena's brother, A.B. Quintanilla III. He gives many of the older tracks ("Dame Tu Amo," "Salta la Ranita") fresh arrangements that match the energy of Selena's more recent material. --Joey Guerra
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Overview - Job 10 | |
1 | Job, taking liberty of complaint, expostulates with God about his afflictions. |
18 | He complains of life, and craves a little ease before death. |
Job 10:9 (King James Version)
Remember, I beseech thee, that thou hast made me as the clay; and wilt thou bring me into dust again?