text: INTRODUCTIONSri Bhuvanendra Pre-University College, Karkala, which is birfurcated from Sri Bhuvanendra College during the year 2001-2002, offers 2 years Pre-University Course in Science, Arts and Commerce. The management of the College is vested in Sri Bhuvanendra College Trust, a registered body and nominated by the Academy of General Education, Manipal.AIMS AND OBJECTIVESThe College always strives to achieve its cherished goal: "To import sound education and develop in the students good manners, habits and tastes, to inculcate in them a high sense of duty and discipline; and above all, to prepare young men and women with a sense of idealism and modern out-look for living a useful life to meet the challenges of the times"IDEAL CENTRE FOR PRE-UNIVERSITY EDUCATIONSituated in one of the most beautiful out-skirts of Karkala about a K.M. from the town, the College has an atmosphere quite congenial for studies and inviting for a worthy living away from the buzz of the town. The picturesque natural surroundings pulsating with the dynamic and positive spirit of an ashram of the days that have gone by, make this place an ideal centre for education.EDUCATIONAL FACILITIESThe College has excellent educational facilities. It is housed in a magnificent buildings and is provided with a good library and well equipped laboratories. There are hostels both for men as well as women which ensure peaceful environment for undisturbed study and healthy living. Special efforts are made to supplement the classroom study through co-curricular programmes which include the NSS, the NCC, Sports and Games, Yoga, Music, Yakshagana, Drawing & Painting, Photography, Human Resource Development Cell, the association activities etc. These are brought into line with the special purpose which we profess to serve-to produce men and women, with an all round development of a balanced personality (intellectual, physical and moral) dedicated to the service of the nation.ACADEMIC EXCELLENCEThe Good results that the College has secured in the II PU Board examinations throughout and the innumerable ranks which it has in cessantly bagged, brings the College a permanent inscription in the academic map of the State. The heavy rush for admission to this College every year, reflects in ample measure the high reputation that this college enjoys in the academic world and the confidence it has created in the minds of students and parents.DEVOTED TEACHING STAFFThe College has an experienced and qualified staff, a band of men and women, endowed with the finest qualities of head and heart. They are well aware of their duties and responsibilities towards the students entrusted to their care. They are a devoted team. The College provides ample scope to the students to cultivate better intellectual and spiritual values under more intimate and cordial relationship with the teaching staff.STUDENT SERVICESApart from the Hostels, the College provides various student service like cafeteria, mid-day meal centre, cycle stand, open air theatre, auditorium, gymnasium, spacious play grounds, firing range, etc. The Book Bank of the College lends books to the students on long-term basis. Liberal fee concessions and scholarships are also offered to the poor and deserving students through private and government agencies. Poor but sincere students are provided midday meals.INNOVATIONS IN TEACHING AND GUIDANCEThe College has always been trying to improve the quality of education through experimentation and innovations. The classroom work is supplemented by library reading and seminars. A continuous assessment of the students is made through regular home assignments, class tests and terminal examination. The students in each class are entrusted to the care of an Academic Advisor who guides them by formulating the educational programs throughout the year. A Cumulative Record in respect of every student is maintained which forms a dependable record of the student's progress, conduct and attendance. The students' Council comprising of the representatives from all classes forms a useful consultative body to seek the views of the students on matters that concern their studies and well-being.HIGH STANDARDS AND HEALTHY TRADITIONSThe college has maintained the highest educational standards. It is evident not only in the physical facilities provided to the staff and students for work and study but their willingness to improve the quality of the performance by hard and sustained efforts. Selective admission, encouragement for independent study among students, effective tutorial system, and continuous evaluation are some of the practical measures that are adopted in this College for improving the quality of education. The College has grown into a worthy institution dedicated to the task of spreading university education and has built fine traditions of hard work and discipline. It is no wonder that the College is acknowledged as one of the best Colleges in the country.COURSES OF STUDYThe College offers Two years' Pre-University Course in English Medium with the following combinations.


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Posts: 13858 I haven't heard this word for a long time. Wow and BYB used it a year ago, but it was not defined. For discussion see:
#106393 - 06/24/03 11:47 PM Re: kibosh
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Loc: Oregon, USA My husband uses kibosh frequently, but pronounces it KYE-bosh. (He grew up in Pennsylvania and New York states).
I grew up in California and have always heard it pronounced kah-BOSH. To squelch or put a curse on something?
Unexpected thundershowers put the kibosh on our plans to swim the lake.
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Loc: UK I've always heard it as 'kyebosh'. Dr Bill's link to Quinion has some interesting history and speculation. Apparently the word was first used here in London and appears in a work by Dickens.
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Loc: this too shall pass M-W puts the kibosh on both the Yiddish and Irish notions of derivation here: http://www.m-w.com/cgi-bin/mwwod.pl
#106396 - 07/13/05 09:40 PM Re: kibosh
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Loc: Vermont did someone put the kibosh on posting down here?
I've always said KYE-bosh, too..._________________________
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#106397 - 07/16/05 05:38 PM Re: kibosh
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At least the air's cleaner with no obvious iggrification ~ there's no-one putting the kibosh on every thread in sight!
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Loc: Vermont > At least the air's cleaner with no obvious iggrification
'twas my very thought...
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#106400 - 07/22/05 11:56 AM Re: kibosh
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Loc: Ohio Yeah, kinda nice down here below the fold...
I've heard both kah-BOSH and KYE-bosh. Grew up and still live in Ohio._________________________
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Loc: Worcester, MA New York City here, as least formative-years-wise. (Upper Bronx, at that.) Definitely KYE-bosh.
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Created on 29 January 1856 to recognise acts of extreme bravery carried out under direct enemy fire, the Victoria Cross (VC) was the first medal for bravery that could be earned by anyone in the Army or the Navy. Since its creation, over 1300 people have been awarded the VC.
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Created on 24 September 1940, the George Cross (GC) recognises acts of extreme bravery carried out in peacetime when facing the perils of ordinary life, and in wartime away from the heat of battle. Since its creation, more than 400 people have been awarded the GC.
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Summa Western Reserve Hospital and Trinity United Church of Christ celebrated Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.'s enduring legacy with a special presentation on Monday, January 16. The event featured a reading of an excerpt from Dr. King's "I Have a Dream" speech by Summa Western Reserve Hospital Director of Materials Management, Jackson Shatraw, singing by Akron City Hospital Volunteer Coordinator, Siomara Marquetti and a keynote address by Rev. Carl P. Wallace of Trinity United Church of Christ in Akron.
"We are very proud to share this event with our employees and the community on this inspiring day of remembrance," says Robert DeJournett, Director, Community Relations & Diversity at Summa Western Reserve Hospital. Our partnership with Trinity truly exemplifies Dr. King's dream of harmony among diverse groups and organizations in our community and we are honored to help impart this enduring mission."
Rev. Carl P. Wallace addressed guests to discuss how Dr. Martin Luther King's teachings have come to fruition in today's society and continue to carry over from generation to generation. Summa Western Reserve and Trinity have begun to collaborate to foster this and other events to further unify the community and promote healthier minds, bodies and spirits.
"One of the innumerable legacies of Dr. King lives on in his addressing the most segregated time in United States history," says Rev. Wallace. "Trinity United Church of Christ is the embodiment of Dr. King's legacy. For the hospital to afford us the opportunity to share this story through our community partnership is a blessing."
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The wonderful energy of your fun-filled, romantic weekend will carry over into the start of the week, bringing positive feedback and good times for your work and personal life. You deserve this happiness, so savor it. Mid-week, things might start to feel routine, so to perk things up, why not check out a Pilates class or try that new Brazilian restaurant? As the week comes to a close, one of your closest relationships will grow more intense. You'll find yourself talking about passionate issues, possibly even your thoughts on marriage. They really want to know what you think, so voice your true feelings about everything and don't worry -- they won't think anything but good thoughts.
A family member will be in and out of your thoughts all week -- perhaps a phone call is in order to clear things up? Ignore unwanted advice from coworkers this week, especially if it's financially-related. Feel good about making your own decisions. You'll have a lot of romance toward the end of the week ... enjoy some quality one-on-one time with someone who is your partner in every sense. Share your feelings -- and find out how they really feel about you. They may finally tell you.
This week starts off well -- expect lots of positive encounters with friends and coworkers alike. You'll have many dates, dinners and appointments to schedule -- the earlier you nail down the details, the better. Keep yourself busy at work as the week continues -- it will take your mind off troubles at home. Go slowly on new projects, and ask around to see who wants to lend you a hand. You may get a lot of offers. By the end of the week, you may be indecisive about some legal documents. Hold off signing until you are sure about the details.
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Pay rises, bonuses off table: Hay
PUBLISHED: 10 Jul 2013 00:06:05 | UPDATED: 10 Jul 2013 09:48:36PUBLISHED: 10 Jul 2013 PRINT EDITION: 10 Jul 2013The gap in pay rises between the resources sector and the rest of the market is now starting to narrow.
Rachel Nickless
Australian staff should rein in their expectations about salary increases and bonuses for the next year, according to an annual salary report released by global management consulting firm Hay Group on Wednesday.
Australian wage rises are set to grow by an average of 3.5 per cent across all industries in 2013, the slowest rate seen since the global financial crisis, according to the Australian Salary Movement Index Report.
Based on surveys of 440 organisations and 282,000 jobs for the 12 months to March 2013, the report finds actual bonus payout rates have been below employers' set targets across all employee groups – a trend that has been steady for some time.
"Perhaps the most telling sign that the boom times have ended is that the gap in pay increases between the resources sector and the rest of the market, after rapidly widening for a number of years, is now starting to narrow," write Hay Group senior consultants Steven Paola and Trevor Warden.
They found that just 12 months ago, the forecasted pay increase for the resources sector was 6.25 per cent, but now the sector is expected to experience wage rises of 4.3 per cent in the coming year.
The authors note that business confidence has slipped to negative figures, with major household brands struggling to stay profitable, some high-profile closures – most recently at Ford – and project investments in the mining sector contracting by around $150 billion. The report states "pay trends across all major industries and all job levels reflects this volatility".
Australian wage increases to fixed pay have been fairly steady for the 12 months to March, with the resources sector experiencing rises of 4.8 per cent, an average rise of 4.3 per cent for the industrial and service sector, and a rise of 3.6 per cent in the financial industry, the report finds.
Other sources are also pointing to a cooling in the employment market. The ANZ Bank's count of job advertisements fell 1.8 per cent last month, down for the fourth consecutive month.
News not all bad for employees
But the Hay report shows it is not all bad news for Australian staff. Australian wages have grown faster than those in the UK (1.7 per cent), the US (1.5 per cent) and New Zealand in the 12 months to March 2013, and are predicted to remain relatively strong. Australian wages are also well above the inflation rate (2.5 per cent).
The report also finds that in the 12 months to March, the "hot" sectors were mining, which commands a pay premium in total rewards compared to the average of 28.5 per cent; oil and gas (18.5 per cent); construction (13.8 per cent); industrial metal (10.4 per cent); and banks (6.5 per cent).
Education was the weakest sector (-11.3 per cent), followed by the public sector (-10.2 per cent) and the not-for-profit sector (-9.6 per cent).
Perth workers are the highest-paid, with a pay premium of 6.8 per cent above the national average (up from 1.3 per cent the previous year).
By contrast, Sydney workers earn the national average salary, while Brisbane workers earn around 0.4 per cent less than the national average. Melbourne workers earn salaries 3.1 per cent lower than the market average, followed by Adelaide (-3.2 per cent) and Hobart (-6 per cent).
Mr Warden told The Australian Financial Review that he had not heard of any employers planning to announce pay freezes in the next 12 months, but they needed to think more laterally about attracting and retaining staff than they had done in boom times. This was already a trend in the UK and the US, he said.
"Money needs to be right, but then it gets taken off the table," he said, adding that staff needed opportunities to be challenged and innovative and to have confidence in their leaders.
The Australian Financial Review


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Why go to Venice, when you can go to Birmingham
Ian Belcher's fiancée fancied a weekend of canals, culture and Chianti. So, naturally, they headed up the M6…
It wasn't a threat. More a wistful longing. A gentle reminder that our engagement shouldn't be the end of the wine and roses. 'The Seychelles would be nice,' sighed my fiancée Becca, setting the bar at an imaginative height. 'Or Istanbul. I'd love to hear the cries of the imam caressing the Bosphorus. Or even Venice. Yes. Venice. What about La Serenissima?' What indeed? I'm all for romance. Whose heart doesn't melt at gracefully ageing palazzi, astonishingly grand squares and canals softened by winter mist.
But I also appreciate the appeal of the staycation; of a trip without airport security, budget flights and grim exchange rates. I understand the finest things in life are often right there on our doorstep.
'I've got it,' I announced, partly in triumph, partly in hope. 'Let's try… Birmingham.'
'Birmingham? Birmingham near Wolverhampton?'
'Spot on,' I was surfing the waves of disbelief.
'Grab your Gucci shades and La Perla lingerie. We're off to Brum.'
My choice wasn't entirely random. Britain's second city has definite echoes of Italy's dreamy tourist honeypot. As any pub-quiz bore knows, its 35 miles of canal are seven more than Venice. It also has gondolas. Or it did have. Eight years ago, the owner of the Don Salvo Restaurant bought a beauty from Venetian boat builder, Gianfranco Vianella Crea. Powered by Ricardo, or rather retired sales manager Richard Bailey, I navigated the serene waters of the romantically named Birmingham New Mainline Canal. It was rather lovely, although listening to multiple renditions of 'Just One Cornetto', courtesy of builders with hard hats and Brummie twangs, was more endurance test than Renaissance thrill.
Sadly Don Salvo's restaurant and his gondola are long gone. So instead of the gentle Ricardo, or a macho Venetian with a hooped top and unfeasibly long pole, Becca and I find ourselves listening to the crisply knowledgeable Gill Smith, who offers dining cruises and narrowboat holidays on the canals of Central England. Today she's steering us past Birmingham's locks, basins and bridges. As with La Serenissima, the waterways hark back to a more glorious role as the arteries feeding the heart of the Industrial Revolution. They're now spearheading Birmingham's regeneration – if Venice was a city-state, Brum was a city in a state – and are drizzled with pubs, cafes and visitor landmarks.
Old nuzzles new. After the cutesy Canalside Café – an 18th-century tollhouse – we pass under the sturdy Broad Street Tunnel. To our left, above the Handmade Burger Company, Brindleyplace's sparkly offices and restaurants loom like vast ducal palazzi, topped off with a very modern Italianate tower.
Floating on, the International Convention Centre and its Symphony Hall, a state-of-the-art venue any Italian city would kill for, and National Sealife Centre – the nearest Birmingham gets to Venice's Lido – are punctuated by the old brewmaster's gaff , Malt House Pub, and a Victorian signpost: 'Wolverhampton 3 locks, Worcester 58 locks.'
It doesn't, even with eyes closed and optimism fully engaged, hold a tealight, let alone a candle to the Renaissance and Baroque feast of the Grand Canal. And you're more likely to see empty beer bottles than Tintorettos. But there's a gritty beauty to our industrial past, an epic solidity to the disused brick stables for the horses that once towed barges through the morning mist, and to the white and black iron bridges stamped Horseley Ironworks, Staffordshire 1827.
If canals stir the heart, they also boost the appetite. In Venice that means bacari, the cosy bars serving wine and cicheti bar snacks. Our upmarket equivalent is Selfridges' Moët Bar, where several customers sport the suspicious sheen of footballers' wives. It's fast, convivial and has sensational homemade mushroom soup, followed by spinach, chickpea and avocado salad, washed down by Chianti. Magnifico. Truly magnifico.
The store, however, is about more than food and shopping. Far more. Next to its Italian rival, Birmingham has little iconic architecture. But in Selfridges – designed by the visionary Jan Kaplicky – it has a radical, startlingly contemporary masterpiece. The vast globular blue mass, sprinkled with 15,000 reflective discs, rears above the urban clutter like a super-sized bug's eye, morphing and shifting in the changing light.
We stare. And stare. It's mesmerising. Yet Becca's clearly not convinced of the city's romantic charms.
'Gosh, the wind's savage today,' suggests a heart freezing, not melting. I need help from the heavens. Venice's ace in a generously endowed pack, is the Basilica de San Marco, dominating the piazza that Napoleon dubbed the 'drawing room of Europe'. Brum's answer? St Philip's Cathedral, surrounded by a square with a nice bit of Victoriana.
The British cathedral may lack the gold domes, 4,000sq metres of mosaics and looted treasures from Constantinople, but it's still a Baroque gem, laced with marble columns, decorative parapet urns and a striking bell tower. It reeks of Midlands' modesty, not Italian flamboyance – the first Bishop of Birmingham chose an existing church over a grand design, channeling the savings into his industrial flock.
We enter its galleried interior to find a lunchbreak crowd listening to Canon Nigel Hand discuss Psalm 136. There's none of St Mark's smells, bells and hypnotic chanting, but it's still marvellously serene. The crowning glories are the east and west stained-glass windows by local boy, Sir Edward Burne-Jones, all blood reds, rich pinks and exquisite skin tones. Becca seems utterly entranced. At last, La Brumissima is working its magic.
Keen to drive home the potential of the city's artistic heritage, we stroll to the nearby Museum and Art Gallery. I immediately do a double-take. To one side, linking the sturdy colonnaded façade to its 1911 extension is Birmingham's reply to Venice's Bridge of Sighs. Yes, it's a tad lumpen, lacking the original's delicate glass windows – a Bridge of Groans perhaps – but the influence is obvious. It continues inside. The museum has at least nine paintings of La Serenissima, including Francesco Guardi's breathtaking Santa Maria della Salute and the Dogana.
Nearby there's proof that Venetian master Canaletto travelled to the Midlands – his extraordinary draughtsmanship of Warwick Castle. And the magnificent industrial gallery explains the influence of Venice's 16th-century glassmakers on British craftsmen, displaying vases by Union Works of Birmingham and Richardsons of Stourbridge.
But the gallery's trump romantic card is its world-renowned Pre-Raphaelite collection. Not familiar with the Brotherhood? The name suggests a bunch of hedonists, partial to the odd romp with Venetian courtesans, but in reality they were a gaggle of English painters, poets and critics determined to return to the detailed, vivid, complex art before Raphael. Cue walls of languid women with lustrous hair, strong faces – think Nicole Kidman in The Hours – and hints of goddess, rife with precisely rendered flowers and dresses. They set a suitably dreamy, exotic tone. But we're not finished with the museum yet.
Its Edwardian tearooms with their ornate tiling, intricate friezes and huge conservatory roof are Brum's reply to the cafes around St Mark's Square. Today, with just three customers, they're no match for mirrored, stuccoed, frescoed Caffè Florian with its resident orchestra and past clientele including Goethe, Byron and Rousseau. Then again, the tearooms don't charge ten quid for a hot chocolate. After a stonking antipasto and fritto misto at Carluccio's – right on the canal – Birmingham throws another hot coal on the fires of amour.
The Art Deco Electric is Britain's oldest working cinema, dating back to 1909 and now offers squidgy sofas and text service drinks. Our movie choice is tricky. Neither a stuttering monarch nor a hiker who amputates his own arm are classic romcoms. George VI wins and Colin Firth, I'm reliably informed, is a walking cinematic aphrodisiac.
At this point in Venice we'd retire to Giudecca Island in our mahogany Riva launch and gaze across the moonlit lagoon from the Hotel Cipriani. Brum is a tad less showy. Still, we arrive at BEST WESTERN PREMIER Moor Hall Hotel & Spa in Sutton Coldfield, a wood-panelled Edwardian pile built by a scion of the Ansells' brewing dynasty, in my Fiat 500 – at least it's Italian – and, after a solid night's kip, wake to panoramic views of the wooded golf course.
Next day, Birmingham's romantic flow continues with custard. Or at least the Custard Factory. The old Bird's plant is now at the heart of a dynamic 15-acre city-centre site of workshops and towering railway arches teeming with arty types, creatives and live musicians, alongside indy retailers and budding entrepreneurs. The latest building to be tarted up, Zellig – all light, bright and white – exhibits a doppelganger for the ubiquitous cherubs in Venice's Renaissance frescoes. The sculpture, the portliest of seven male nudes suspended in midair, is modelled on a naked Clive Dunn from Dad's Army. Take that, Pietro Lombardo.
It's not the only similarity between the cities, stresses Custard Factory marketing manager, David Peebles. Both need to hark back to past glories. Venice for the tourist euro and Birmingham – through small business hubs such as Zellig – to its days as the 'City of a 1,000 Trades'.
One has never gone away. The Jewellery Quarter –the equivalent of Murano glassworks – might be past its peak but still employs 2,000 people. They produce and sell 40 per cent of the country's handmade jewellery in an area of 200 listed buildings spanning three centuries, peppered with restaurants, pubs and cafes. We amble past the old (Thomas Fattorini,1827) and the new (Diamond Heaven), bathing in the warm light of history before ending at the Museum of the Jewellery Quarter, where the workshops of Smith and Pepper have been pickled in aspic, tools still on benches, since the company closed its doors in 1981.
'It's one of the most romantic parts of Birmingham,' says guide, Clive Heeley, who has worked in the trade since 1976. 'Not only because people come for engagement rings, but because of the sense of community. It's changing but there used to be a fantastic camaraderie. Everybody trusted everybody.' It's an idyllic past I'm happy to exploit to underline Brum's credentials as a city of love. I take Becca to Vittoria Street where we gaze at a magnificently solid building with a cool brick and glass extension. 'The School of Jewellery,' I explain. 'My grandmother was a student in the 1920s. Grandpa collected her here every day when they were courting.' Becca's eyes look suspiciously watery – as do mine – and for once it's nothing to do with the cold.
In Venice, we'd toast their memory with an overpriced Bellini at Harry's Bar. Not today. Instead we head to the Old Joint Stock, overlooking the cathedral, a strikingly beautiful pub, hewn from a Grade II listed banking hall dating back to 1864.
'Can you do a Bellini?' I ask the waitress, Sarah Corcoran.
'Nah. What's that. A cocktail?'
'Prosecco and peach juice.'
'Ooof, two of my favourites. Sorry. You prefer a pint?'
So no Bellinis for us, then. But instead we had pints and homemade pies. Pies of the type that Venice can only dream about. As Becca tucks into organic pork, Honeydew beer and caramelised pear with the vigour of Casanova in a convent, I contemplate our honeymoon. La Serenissima or Brum? I couldn't. Could I?


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Officially licensed by DC Comics and fabricated by Fiberglass Freaks, this ultra-swank car is actually road ready. You can drive it. On roads. Where cars drive. And there are more than one of them.
I need a moment to process this.
Not only can you drive it to your various heroic destinations, but it also features a wide array of episode-specific accessories and ridiculous, impractical, awesome features. Bat-spinners on the wheels? Detect-a-scope radar?
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With every brand on the planet trying to "engage" with people online, it's quite difficult these days to sort the wheat from the chaff. Thankfully some campaigns have been so outstanding that they have set a benchmark for others to follow.
Whether it's using Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn, YouTube or 'blogger outreach', a new body of work is emerging that, as well as being based on outstanding creative ideas, makes the most of the media at its disposal.
Revolution asked current and former executives of the leading social media owners – Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn and YouTube – to nominate the best campaigns ever run on their networks (they wanted to remain anonymous).
We also took reader nominations for the most innovative blogger outreach campaign. The work is diverse, ranging from car brand Volkswagen to fashion's Forever 21, from the Metropolitan Police to Old Spice.
There may be some better campaigns out there and, one would hope, at least being worked on, but the five campaigns featured here have set the standard for others to aspire to.
As technology develops, it's up to brands to push the boundaries more than ever before to reach the right audience and position themselves as pioneers. The following campaigns are from brands that more than fulfil this criterion.
Campaign: LinkedUit
Brand: Volkswagen
Agency: Achtung
Social network: LinkedIn
While LinkedIn has proven that it is effective for recruiting the right people, and for certain B2B campaigns, it's not known as a particularly creative advertising platform. This makes Volkswagen's 'LinkedUit' campaign for its Passat model all the more ingenious, going, as it did, where no brand had gone before.
The "media first" part of it was impressive enough. In launching LinkedUit, Volkswagen became the first brand to make use of the site's API.
The idea was based on "being LinkedUit, or LinkedOut". The campaign challenged members of the business site to battle against each other, Top Trumps-style, to see who had the stronger profile.
Criteria, such as education, experience, number of connections, strength of recommendations and the extent of a profile's completion, contributed to an overall score. Victors earned the chance to win a Passat, a model aimed largely at business people.
Overall, this campaign used LinkedIn in ways no other brand has done so before or since, and achieved impressive participation levels in the target market of The Netherlands.
Automotive brands have often pioneered new digital formats, and Volkswagen used the LinkedIn API not just to engage with a business audience, but also to position the marque as innovative in a particularly crowded category.
Brand: Forever 21
Agency: n/a
Social network: Blogger outreach
When US fashion brand Forever 21 launched its second UK store in London's Oxford Street in the summer, it signed up fashion blogger, model and DJ Bip Ling to promote its products as well as being the new face of the business.
Her youth, quirky fashion sense and roots (her parents are fashion illustrators) are the perfect fit for the fashion retailer.
Adopting the blogger outreach model – using influential online commentators to reach out to target consumers – has reaped dividends for the fashion brand, which is aimed at teenagers and young adults. Ling's blog has not only helped to increase sales, but has also gathered a loyal following of young followers of fashion who are willing to trust her views and, potentially, purchase the products she recommends.
With this influential blog and more than five million Facebook fans, it's not surprising that Forever 21′s marketing director, Linda Chang, hails social media as the brand's most effective marketing tool. This use of blogger outreach demonstrates just how well a brand can connect with its target audience.
Campaign: Whopper sacrifice
Brand: Burger King
Agency: Crispin Porter + Bogusky
Social network: Facebook
It's no surprise that Burger King and Crispin Porter + Bogusky devised the best marketing campaign to grace Facebook. The same team that brought us 'Subservient Chicken' and other digital hits moved up a gear with "Whopper sacrifice".
The idea was crude and controversial – sacrifice (or "unfriend") 10 of your Facebook friends and receive a free Whopper. Faced with the choice of food versus friends, more than 50,000 consumers ditched their pals for a burger within one week of the campaign going live.
Unfortunately for anyone who didn't claim a free burger in the first week, they would be deprived forever more as Facebook, citing breaches in the site's terms and conditions, pulled the campaign.
Tapping into Facebook's API can be a dangerous business, and the social network ruled that showing the names of "sacrificed" friends in the user's timeline was against its terms of usage.
By then, of course, Burger King had achieved a significant following on Facebook, widespread global press coverage and an increase in footfall. Like most campaigns that push the boundaries, Burger King's benefitted from the ban, with fans of the fast-food chain swiftly criticising Facebook for banning Whopper sacrifice.
Campaign: Smell like a man, man
Brand: Old Spice
Agency: Wieden+Kennedy, Portland
Social network: Twitter
When Iain Tait, one of the founders of award-winning digital agency Poke, left the UK to go Stateside, Britain's digital scene was worse for it. Little did the industry know, however, that Tait would soon be pedalling Isaiah Mustafa, the frontman of one of the best digital ad campaigns of all time, to a UK audience.
Tait and colleagues at Wieden+Kennedy Portland came up with "Old Spice guy", a confident, camera-facing hero telling women what their men can smell like if they buy the brand's body wash.
The campaign, through online video and TV, attracted widespread attention, but the really clever move was to reply directly to Twitter users who mentioned the campaign with a personalised video. The agency created 120 video responses in 24 hours, making the campaign even more viral than before.
Old Spice created videos for hundreds of Twitter users, including high-profile ones such as Twitter founder Biz Stone and blogger Perez Hilton, meaning the reach of the campaign escalated rapidly.
Twitter went wild, Mustafa's profile went sky high and Old Spice sold more body wash as a result. It has since won at Cannes, as well as setting the benchmark for Twitter campaigns. A smart use of YouTube and other video sites was in evidence, but it was the adroit use of Twitter that made this campaign stratospheric.
Campaign: Choose a different ending
Brand: COI/Met Police
Agency: AMV/BBDO
Social network: YouTube
The Metropolitan Police wanted to discourage London's teenagers from carrying knives. Instead of the normal print and broadcast messages, the Met and ad agency AMV/BBDO took an altogether different route, creating a series of interactive videos titled 'Choose a Different Ending'.
Shot in the first person, the opening video features a teenager leaving his flat, with the options being to take a knife or not. As the story develops, consumers are offered a choice of 21 films and ten different endings.
Paid-for banner ads backed up the YouTube campaign, which generated debate about youth crime and preventative initiatives.
The video ads achieved a 2.1% click-through rate and the agency says that if it had chosen TV as a medium, it would have taken six times the campaign budget to reach the same number of people (an impressive 78% of the target audience).
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A Gross Unfairness: The Workings of the Straight State
A report issued in 2006 by two nongovernmental organizations, Human Rights Watch and Immigration Equality, describes the written response made in 1975 by the Immigration and Naturalization Service to an American citizen's petition to sponsor a foreign same-sex partner for legal residency in the United States. The INS denied the petition for the following reason: "You have failed to establish that a bona fide marital relationship can exist between two faggots." Except perhaps in the explicitness of language, federal policy toward same-sex binational couples has changed little since then. On June 3 of this year, Congress held its first-ever hearing on the plight of such couples and brought attention to the Uniting American Families Act (UAFA), sponsored in the Senate by Patrick Leahy and in the House by Jerrold Nadler (and subsequently folded into a larger immigration reform bill). Introduced repeatedly in various forms since 2000, the legislation would add the United States to the ranks of sixteen other countries--including Australia, Brazil, Britain, Canada, Israel and South Africa--that draw no distinction between gay and straight binational couples for immigration purposes. In the words of a supportive Washington Post editorial, passage of UAFA would "right a gross unfairness."
The restriction on the immigration rights of same-sex noncitizen partners is relatively obscure, but the harm done to those it affects is no less than that caused by the widely debated federal laws and policies that render gay people second-class citizens, like the Defense of Marriage Act and the military's disastrous "don't ask, don't tell" policy. And the scope of the injury is not small. According to the report by Human Rights Watch and Immigration Equality, census data suggest that more than 35,000 binational same-sex couples live in the United States. No one knows how many others live separated by national borders or have emigrated elsewhere in order to remain together. The existence of such an immigration policy, and the uphill battle to eliminate it, demonstrate just how solidly a formal preference for heterosexuality is built into the legal architecture of the state.
It is not really news that inhabitants of the United States are governed by what historian Margot Canaday calls, in the title of her excellent book, a "straight state." For some time now, scholars of sexuality (following in the footsteps of those who have studied and challenged the race and gender hierarchies embedded in state policies and actions) have professed the analytical goal of what historian Lisa Duggan, writing in 1994, called "queering the state." These scholars have argued that the supposed naturalness of the heterosexual couple, and the unnaturalness of alternatives, is presumed and reinforced in the ordinary workings of government. Canaday's substantial contribution is to trace, in gripping and at times horrifying detail, exactly how the United States came to operate in this fashion over the course of much of the twentieth century. The Straight State provides a compelling history of the designation of "the homosexual as the anticitizen."
Through a sustained focus on three specific and consequential areas of bureaucratic rule--immigration, the military and welfare, each the topic of two chapters in the book--Canaday demonstrates how anticitizenship has been established and enforced as government officials, courts and politicians have struggled to make sense of sexual nonconformity. Although her scholarship emphasizes the first three-quarters of the twentieth century, it could not be more timely in its lessons. Only by accurately mapping the sedimentation of exclusion in policies and decrees laid down by bureaucrats over time, Canaday insists, can we continue, step by necessary step, to dismantle the formal barriers to full citizenship--a process that, she notes, really began succeeding only in 1990 with the lifting of a uniform federal ban on homosexual immigrants to the United States.
The Straight State is a captivating, engagingly written work of social, political, legal and sexual history, and the fruit of an extraordinary attention to archival documents. As a sociologist, I confess with only slight embarrassment that I have on more than a few occasions skimmed over the minutiae of historians' accounts in order to get more quickly to the big-picture analysis and bottom-line conclusions. I felt no such impatience here, in part because the fine points of the story are endlessly fascinating and sometimes heartbreaking, and in part because Canaday is so skillful (despite this being her first book) at illuminating the big picture with every close-up. The trail cut by The Straight State traverses a swath of eras and institutions. One story Canaday tells about the Depression concerns the Federal Transient Program, whose administrators sought to house the men displaced by economic misfortune in encampments but ran up against the widespread perception that such camps were breeding grounds for "unnatural" sex. (An article in this magazine in 1934 commented on the perceived gap between the workings of the camps and the dictates of good citizenship: "It is hard to see how it is possible to prepare people for normal living by adjusting them to the abnormal...life in a congregate camp.") Another story revolves around the GI Bill of 1944, an enormous welfare program that, by 1948, represented 15 percent of the federal budget, with veterans making up half the student body at colleges and universities. Canaday explains that this was "the first federal policy to directly exclude persons identified as homosexual from the benefits of the welfare state."
For Canaday, "the state" is no abstraction. Taking a fine-grained approach, she insists that the state is "what officials do," whether it's worrying about what transient men get up to when the lights go out or deciding which men and women who served in World War II should be issued the "blue discharges" that made them ineligible for benefits. (There were about 9,000 cases of the latter.) In particular, it seems, what officials did was develop elaborate screening mechanisms to police the boundaries of belonging. Early twentieth-century immigration inspectors were warned to watch for what were described as "striking particularities in dress, talkativeness, witticism, facetiousness...flightiness...unnatural actions, mannerisms, and other eccentricities" that might serve as the telltale signs of sexual perversion to be excluded at the port of entry. (The all-too-common "hidden sexual complexes among Hebrews" merited special vigilance, according to the Marine Hospital Service doctors who lent their expert gaze to the task; they also pointed to the "beardless face [and] the high pitched feminine voice" that were so often found among Italian men.) Around the same time, examiners of military recruits were instructed to screen out those males who "present the general body conformation of the opposite sex, with sloping narrow shoulders, broad hips, excessive pectoral and pubic adipose deposits, with lack of masculine [hair] and muscular markings." Especially in these early years of state attention, the array of suspect perversions was diverse and diffuse, but the markers of excludability were written on the skin for the trained observer to detect at a glance. As the bureaucracy grew and officials adopted more varied and sophisticated tools for what anthropologist James Scott has called "seeing like a state," officials strove to recognize forms of abnormality unbecoming to citizens that only gradually came into focus as what are now taken to be gay and lesbian practices and identities.


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CSA 2010 to bring increase in driver pay?
The news over at the San Francisco Chronicle yesterday included a release from editors at J.J. Keller, emphasizing the reach of CSA 2010 beyond just for-hire truck carriers. "When the term 'motor carrier' is used," ...
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The main trading deadline has come and gone for Major League Baseball, and with it comes some alterations in the makeup of certain teams' bullpens. In both cases where a closer changed hands, the acquiring team is likely to use its new impact arm not in a closing role, but as a setup man. We'll look at the effect trades have had on all bullpens involved, as well as other closer-altering trades that could happen in August, in this week's Bottom of the 9th.
First, Francisco Rodriguez was dealt to the Orioles to strengthen the bullpen behind Jim Johnson. Since we discussed this last week, we'll only point out that it's indeed been Jim Henderson who has slid back into the closing role in Milwaukee. Henderson has picked up four saves post-trade, including both saves in Tuesday's doubleheader. John Axford has struggled mightily over the past week, so it's possible he could clear waivers with his $5 million salary and three years of arbitration looming. It's also possible a team still looking for bullpen help could look past his recent struggles and see a guy with a strikeout rate over 9.0 K/9 who had looked great from mid-May through this recent poor stretch at the end of July.
More recently, Jose Veras was shipped to the Tigers, where he'll begin his career with his new team as a setup man behind Joaquin Benoit, who has been fantastic this season. Veras loses most of his fantasy value with the loss of potential saves, but with how effective he's been this season, he could certainly still help ratios and strikeouts in leagues that don't feature holds as a category. In Houston, a committee is expected to be used at closer, with Jose Ciserno having the best chance to take hold of the ninth inning moving forward.
Keep an eye on Chia-Jen Lo, who made his major-league debut Wednesday by pitching a scoreless eighth inning in front of Cisnero, albeit in a 11-0 blowout. Lo owns a 2.11 ERA, 1.08 WHIP and 142:53 K:BB ratio over 128 minor-league innings. His fastball stayed in the 94-96 mph range in his debut, and while he gave up two hits, one was on an infield single that Lo himself deflected. With all the other options in the Houston bullpen proving unpalatable, it wouldn't be surprising to see this rookie quickly emerge as a manager favorite.
One trade that didn't happen was Cubs closer Kevin Gregg being shipped away to a team looking to fortify its bullpen. This can largely be attributed to how poorly he's performed in recent weeks after a quality start to the season. It seems likely he'll clear waivers in August, so secondary Cubs options like Pedro Strop and James Russell aren't necessarily shut out from earning regular saves if a contender decides Gregg represents an upgrade in the middle or late innings despite his recent poor stretch. If you're a Gregg owner, you should be playing up the fact that he didn't get dealt in July as reason enough for a saves-needy team to trade you an upgrade somewhere else.
Other trade notes: Joe Nathan, who was surprisingly floated as being on the trading block last weekend, remains a Ranger, so Joakim Soria can be removed from serious saves consideration in fantasy leagues. Boston didn't add any serious threats to Koji Uehara in the ninth inning, and he can safely be considered a top-10 closer moving forward. The Marlins held fast to their plan not to trade their relievers, so Steve Cishek remains a safe closer in fantasy leagues. And the Phillies unsurprisingly didn't find a deal they liked involving Jonathan Papelbon.
In non-trade news, Ernesto Frieri has hit a rocky patch that has Angels manager Mike Scioscia contemplating a move to a closer-by-committee. Frieri's ERA has jumped from from 2.76 to 4.20 over his last four appearances, which included two losses and two blown saves. His extreme flyball tendencies always make him a HR risk, and indeed he's given up three homers over this recent poor stretch. However, I think now is the perfect time to buy Frieri in fantasy trades for three reasons. First, his trade value is obviously lower than it has been all season, and teams may be able to acquire him for cents on the dollar. Second, he still owns an elite strikeout rate (13.2 K/9) that makes his walk rate and home run rate easier to stomach.
But most of all, none of the other relievers in the Angels bullpen are exactly giving Scioscia any reason to have faith in them as a closer. Here are the July ERAs for the three main alternatives to Frieri: 6.04 ERA in 13.1 IP (Dane De La Rosa), 5.40 ERA in 10.0 IP (Michael Kohn) and 4.50 ERA in 8.0 IP along with 14 hits (Kevin Jepsen). If Frieri is used in low-leverage situations, I imagine it won't be for very long, as none of those three guys appear to be on the cusp of running away with the closer job. Put some trade feelers out to see if you can acquire Frieri on the cheap. I'd certainly take him over Kevin Gregg moving forward, even though on the surface Gregg appears to be locked into a closing role while Frieri looks like he's lost his ninth-inning job.
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Lloyd William Brown, 86, of West Des Moines died Oct. 20, 2012, at Kavanagh House in Des Moines. Funeral services will be 6 p.m. today, Oct. 23, at Hamilton's Funeral Home, 3601 Westown Parkway, West Des Moines. Visitation will be 4 to 6 p.m. today at the funeral home. Cremains will be interred in Carroll at a later date. Memorials may be directed to the family.
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Each year the Wyoming State 4-H Foundation hosts fundraisers to benefit the 4-H Program. Funds raised at these events are used to support educational programming, travel opportunities for youth, and scholarships. In addition to registering for the event, there are also opportunities for varying levels of sponsorship. Join us for a fun event and to support the youth of Wyoming 4-H!
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Isotope Nominations: One Week Left!
- Posted by Johanna on March 9, 2007 at 6:18 pm
- Category: Minicomics
As James Sime reminds us, submissions for the 2007 Isotope Award for Excellence in Mini-Comics are due in one week. I'm a judge, and I want to see your work, so send it in!
6 Responses to "Isotope Nominations: One Week Left!"
- Tim O'Shea Says:
March 10, 2007 at 11:25 AMWould it be a hassle (or just not appropriate) to maybe do a post, once the actual nominations are announced, of folks/works you really wish you could have nominated?
- Johanna Says:
March 10, 2007 at 12:13 PMGood suggestion, Tim, but that'll depend a great deal on what the submissions turn out to be.
- Max Says:
March 12, 2007 at 2:23 PMI sent copies of Quick Step through overnight mail this afternoon…
- Jonathan Baylis Says:
March 12, 2007 at 11:41 PMHey Johanna,
You were nice enough to review my Germany travel story about a year ago. I put together ALL my auto-bio stories into one mini-comic and sent them off today for submission for the Isotope awards.
I hope you like them!
Take care,
Jonathan - Keith Curtis Says:
March 13, 2007 at 4:16 PMHello Johanna-
Just wanted to introduce myself as a contestant in the Isotope contest. My fumetti comic (Crater on the Moon) is Jason and the Argonauts in space.
Hope you enjoy!
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March 13, 2007 at 6:45 PMOh, I can't wait to see these great-sounding minicomics!


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Oxford and Cambridge firefighters in boat race clash
Oxford and Cambridge firefighters are training for a charity rowing match ahead of the University Boat Race.
Firefighter Darren Taylor organised the challenge as part of his build-up for a Pacific Ocean row in June.
The two crews are due to take to the water on Sunday afternoon at Christ Church Meadow in Oxford, before the university event in London.
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And you have. So while this is not actually about you, you were part of my inspiration.
There's people on all sides
They blur and drone past
The spin, they fade and fall away
I'm alone in my head
The perfectly printed letters
You think they're telling the truth
But they're just hiding the childish scrawl
Masking the child within
The crawl into your heart
And carve out everything inside
They'll wrap you in an innocent sorry
And pretend that makes it all ok
For the first time you see them for what they are
But it's too late now
They've left their mark, they've left their scar
Childish words on my heart


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Versions of Reality Quotes in The Girl Who Kicked the Hornet's Nest
How we cite our quotes: Citations follow this format: (Chapter.Paragraph)
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He knew that something was not right in Niedermann's head, that he saw visions – ghosts even. More than once Zalachenko had to intervene when Niedermann began acting irrationally or lay curled up in terror. (4.165)
This is a glimpse inside the mind of Zalachenko. The section at the end of the novel where we see in Niedermann's head suggests that Zalachenko is much to blame for his son's terrors and visions.
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"She's strange, no doubt about it, and she has big problems and is under stress. But she's calm and matter-of-fact and seems to be able to cope with her situation." (9.211)
Dr. Jonasson looks to another doctor to confirm that Salander doesn't seem psychotic or otherwise mentally ill.
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That she was locked up had turned out to be a blessing. (17.151)
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Cellphone shopping? Check out your local Blockbuster video rental store. Really.
Posted By Andy Vuong On December 5, 2012 @ 1:32 pm In Dish Network,General | 2 Comments
Blockbuster [2] owner Dish Network [3], looking to jump into the wireless business [4], has started selling smartphones on the movie rental chain's website [5].
The Douglas County-based company will reportedly also begin reselling phones [6] at Blockbuster's brick-and-mortar stores, though no time frame has been disclosed.
Citing unnamed sources, Bloomberg News says Dish will make the move "as a test" for its planned foray into wireless, hoping to "learn the ropes of selling phones to consumers."
Clearly, the company isn't expecting the venture to return much revenue, if at all, as reselling smartphones is a crowded field with Best Buy, Car Toys, Walmart and other retailers also in the game. And Blockbuster video stores aren't exactly high-traffic retail outlets [7] these days.
If anything, this is another sign that Dish chairman Charlie Ergen is serious about launching a wireless business. Despite his public relations onslaught this year [8], there are still some who question his plans.
Selling smartphones at Blockbuster stores will make sense when, or if, Dish starts offering its own wireless service and profits are to be had from locking consumers into two-year contracts and bundles with its satellite-TV service. It wouldn't make sense for Blockbuster to train its employees about smartphones if Dish doesn't enter the mobile broadband business and instead unloads its treasure chest of wireless spectrum for a healthy profit, as some analysts speculate [9]. Dish still needs approval from the FCC to launch a wireless network.
On the other hand, Blockbuster also recently launched an iPad magazine [10], so Dish may be hoping to reinvigorate the brand that it acquired out of bankruptcy last year for $320 million.
Dish spokesman John Hall declined comment Wednesday.
A quick check of Blockbuster's online store shows that Dish is selling smartphones at a discount to the wireless carriers' sites but at a premium to deals offered elsewhere, including at Best Buy and Amazon.
For example, the 16 GB Samsung Galaxy S3 is priced at $150 for new Verizon subscribers with a two-year contract on the Blockbuster site, while Amazon offers the same phone for $80. Verizon sells the S3 for $200.
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[1] Image: http://blogs.denverpost.com/techknowbytes/2012/12/05/cellphone-shopping-local-blockbuster-video-store/7274/dishmobile/
[2] Blockbuster: http://blogs.denverpost.com/tech/tag/blockbuster/
[3] Dish Network: http://blogs.denverpost.com/tech/tag/dish-network/
[4] jump into the wireless business: http://www.denverpost.com/ci_20420637
[5] movie rental chain's website: http://mobilestore.blockbuster.com
[6] reportedly also begin reselling phones: http://www.denverpost.com/breakingnews/ci_22129426/dishs-blockbuster-said-begin-selling-phones-retail-stores
[7] aren't exactly high-traffic retail outlets: http://money.msn.com/top-stocks/post.aspx?post=e4ad0423-bd75-4a2c-a689-2837c7ae6729
[8] public relations onslaught this year: http://www.denverpost.com/business/ci_21341018/charlie-ergen-envisions-better-phone-service-targeted-commercials
[9] analysts speculate: http://blogs.denverpost.com/techknowbytes/2011/12/19/dish-network-valuable-spectrum-but-too-many-questions/2347/
[10] launched an iPad magazine: http://www.tuaw.com/2012/11/19/blockbuster-video-launches-an-ipad-magazine/
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