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DRONE WATCH: Drone Crashes Increasing
Originally Posted: 12/10/2012 - 10:51am | Type: Blog -
An increasing number of drones are crashing at civilian airports. Over the past few years, there have been an increasing number of U.S. drones crashing at civilian airports. ...
DRONE WATCH: The Year of the Drone
Originally Posted: 12/10/2012 - 10:50am | Type: Blog -
Air Force reports 447 drone strikes in Afghanistan this year. Most drone attacks in Pakistan and Yemen are eventually reported. Not so in Afghanistan. Since they are part of an on ...
DRONE WATCH: Deaths in Pakistan
Originally Posted: 12/10/2012 - 10:49am | Type: Blog -
Two senior Al Qaeda leaders killed in drone strikes. One of the remaining Al Qaeda leaders was killed Thursday in a U.S. drone attack in Pakistan. The Associated Press reports ...
David's Sling: Israel, Hezbollah, and the Path to Peace
Originally Posted: 12/10/2012 - 9:33am | Type: Blog -
The connection between God and violence permeates the Bible, with God apparently sanctioning violence against God's enemies. So we rightly ask, "What about all the violence in the Bible?" ...
MAP: Deadly Rampages
Originally Posted: 12/12/2012 - 3:09pm | Type: Magazine Article -
Elaina Ramsey A tragic look at some of the U.S. mass shootings since Columbine. Have guns become an American ...
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James E. Atwood The U.S. should repent of seeing guns as sacred; sane laws would be a start. BACK IN 1990, th ...
DRONE WATCH: Rules for Drones
Originally Posted: 11/26/2012 - 8:54am | Type: Blog -
Administration developing rules for drone strikes. The New York Times reports that before the election, the Obama administration was working to develop rules and procedu ...
On Thanksgiving, Jews and Muslims Volunteer Together Despite Middle East Violence
Originally Posted: 11/21/2012 - 8:15am | Type: Blog -
It's an idea that feels particularly poignant this Thanksgiving: American Jews and Muslims banding together to help the homeless and other needy people. WASHINGTON — It's an idea ...
DRONE WATCH: Awake to Drones
Originally Posted: 11/20/2012 - 3:27pm | Type: Blog -
An Awake to Drones blog has been started by Protest Chaplains of Chicago. An Awake to Drones blog has been started by Protest Chaplains of Chicago to begin a conversation ...
DRONE WATCH: Educating About Drones
Originally Posted: 11/20/2012 - 3:25pm | Type: Blog -
Brian Terrell is spending the time before entering prison for protesting drones in educating about them. Brian Terrell, co-founder of Voices for Creative Nonviolence, will begin a ...
How To Really Support Our Troops
Originally Posted: 11/20/2012 - 11:14am | Type: Blog -
Soldier suicides have reached epidemic numbers. As the AP reports, More soldiers are taking their own lives than are falling in battle. Add on top of that, the many who suffer from PTSD, and who as a result fi ...
Amid Israel-Hamas Violence, Reconciliation Between Palestinian Christians and Messianic Jews Continues
Originally Posted: 11/16/2012 - 4:47pm | Type: Blog -
Christianity Today reports: As violence flares anew between Hamas and Israel, which is preparing for a ground invasion of Gaza in response to Hamas rocket attacks reaching as far as Tel Aviv, CT checked in with Jerusalem-based reconciliat ...
What About Them?
Originally Posted: 11/15/2012 - 3:39pm | Type: Blog -
If I were inclined to give mathematical value to people based on the media coverage I watched on "Fox & Friends" this morning, I would come to this conclusion: 3 Israelis > 15 Palestinians ...
DRONE WATCH: Kill Less and Spy More
Originally Posted: 11/15/2012 - 12:53pm | Type: Blog -
Intelligence agencies should turn from counter-terrorism to intelligence gathering. Noah Shachtman points out in Wired's Danger Room that since 9/11, U.S. intelligence age ...
DRONE WATCH: From Counterinsurgency to Drones
Originally Posted: 11/14/2012 - 2:39pm | Type: Blog -
With David Petraeus' sudden departure, there are growing calls for a real debate on the role of drones. Several weeks ago, the Washington Post reported that the CIA was p ...
BREAKING: Israel Attack Kills Hamas Military Chief
Originally Posted: 11/14/2012 - 10:44am | Type: Blog -
Israeli airstrike kills senior Hamas commander, military operation continues. There are multiple news reports that an Israeli air strike has killed senior Hamas military commander ...
DRONE WATCH: Pakistan Developing Drones
Originally Posted: 11/14/2012 - 10:43am | Type: Blog -
Pakistan is close to manufacturing drones. As it continues to condemn U.S. drone attacks, it appears that Pakistan is close to manufacturing its own drones. The Guardian repor ...
DRONE WATCH: Rice and Albright Question Drones
Originally Posted: 11/13/2012 - 3:26pm | Type: Blog -
Former secretaries of state question drones. Alexis Simendinger at RealClearPolitics reports on an appearance by former secretaries of state Condoleezza Rice and Madeleine Albrigh ...
The Week in Drones
Originally Posted: 11/09/2012 - 1:48pm | Type: Blog -
Drone news of the week. • After the story broke on CNN , the Defense Department announced Thursday that on Nov.1, two Iranian fighter jets fired at a U.S. surveillance dron ...
DRONE WATCH: Changing the Nature of War
Originally Posted: 11/06/2012 - 11:29am | Type: Blog -
Does the rise of non-state terrorism change the nature of war? Tom Roberts in the National Catholic Reporter , writes on questions raised by the rapidly growing use of unpi ...
Permanent Preparations for War
Originally Posted: 11/06/2012 - 11:28am | Type: Blog -
Eisenhower's warning of the spiritual effects of permanent preparations for war. Most of us have read President Dwight Eisenhower's 1961 farewell speech warning of the growin ...
DRONE WATCH: Out of the Shadows
Originally Posted: 11/02/2012 - 9:41am | Type: Blog -
Washington Post editorial urges greater transparency and accountability with drones. In an editorial this morning, the Washington Post sums up the legal and political problems ...
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DRONE WATCH: The Risks of Relying on Drones
Originally Posted: 10/30/2012 - 10:10am | Type: Blog -
The need for a standard on the use of drones. Kurt Volker, U.S. ambassador to NATO from July 2008 to May 2009, wrote in the Washington Post on the risks associated with the in ...
DRONE WATCH: Rare Strike in Northern Yemen Kills Four.
Originally Posted: 10/30/2012 - 10:08am | Type: Blog -
Dronne strike in Yemen near Saudi border kills four. Reuters reports on a rare drone strike in northern Yemen, near the Saudi border. "At least four men suspected of bein ...
The Permanent War
Originally Posted: 10/26/2012 - 2:42pm | Type: Blog -
An in-depth look at U.S. counterterrorism policies, including targeted killings by drones. This week, the Washington Post published a major three-part series, written by three ...
DRONE WATCH: This Week in Drones
Originally Posted: 10/26/2012 - 12:28pm | Type: Blog -
Drones in the news this week. In drone news this week: • The Washington Post reported that Ben Emmerson, U.N. special rapporteur on counterterrorism and human rights, and ...
Family Research Council Shooter Charged with Terrorism
Originally Posted: 10/26/2012 - 9:23am | Type: Blog -
and that Corkins is due in court Friday (Oct. 26) for a status hearing. "The terrorism indictment ...
DRONE WATCH: Drone Attack in Pakistan.
Originally Posted: 10/24/2012 - 11:44am | Type: Blog -
Drone attack in Pakistan kills five, injures children. DAWN reports a drone attack Wednesday in the North Waziristan region. "At least five people were killed Wednesday w ...
DRONE WATCH: Drone Kills Four In Yemen
Originally Posted: 10/23/2012 - 10:56am | Type: Blog -
Drone strike kills four in Yemen on Sunday. The second drone strike in four days killed four in Yemen. AFP reports Four members of the Al-Qaeda extremist network includ ...
DRONE WATCH: France Sending Drones to Mali Region.
Originally Posted: 10/23/2012 - 10:56am | Type: Blog -
France sending drones to Africa. As Al-Qaeda-linked rebels strengthen their control over northern Mali, France has taken the lead in plans for possible military intervention. In a ...
DRONE WATCH: UK Doubles Number of Drones.
Originally Posted: 10/23/2012 - 10:55am | Type: Blog -
The UK is sending five additional drones to Afghanistan. The U.K. has had five Reaper drones, which it has used for combat and surveillance missions against insurgents in Afghanis ...
George McGovern, 1922-2012
Originally Posted: 10/22/2012 - 2:54pm | Type: Blog -
Former Senator George McGovern died early Sunday morning. Former Senator and presidential candidate George McGovern died early Sunday morning at a hospice in Sioux Falls, S.D. He ...
DRONE WATCH: CIA Wants More Drones.
Originally Posted: 10/19/2012 - 3:18pm | Type: Blog -
The CIA is urging the White House to expand its fleet of drones. The Washington Post reports this morning that the CIA wants more drones . "The CIA is urging the Whit ...
Malala Yousafzai Recovering
Originally Posted: 10/19/2012 - 10:59am | Type: Blog -
Malala Yousafzai, the Pakistani girl shot by Taliban, is recovering in Britain. Malala Yousafzai, the teenage girl who was shot by Taliban gunmen in Pakistan for her activism, is ...
DRONE WATCH: Continuing Controversy Over Drone Shot Down By Israel
Originally Posted: 10/19/2012 - 9:11am | Type: Blog -
Israel shoots down drone flown by Hezbollah. Nearly two weeks ago, Israeli jets shot down a drone that had crossed into its airspace. For several days, there was speculation t ...
DRONE WATCH: Opposition to Drones in Yemen.
Originally Posted: 10/18/2012 - 10:49am | Type: Blog -
Opposition to drone strikes is growing in Yemen. Christopher Swift, adjunct professor of national security studies at Georgetown University, traveled to Yemen this summer to inter ...
DRONE WATCH: Nine Deaths in Yemen.
Originally Posted: 10/18/2012 - 9:50am | Type: Blog -
Nine killed by drone strike in Yemen. A U.S. drone attack early Thursday morning killed nine suspected militants. Reuters reports : "Nine suspected al Qaeda militants ...
Pacifism in the Scariest Place on Earth
Originally Posted: 10/12/2012 - 8:56am | Type: Blog -
While observing the various sites within the DMZ, I thought about how the pacifist Quakers, who founded my school in 1885, would have reacted to such an experience. Recently, I ha ...
DRONE WATCH: The Legal Battle Against Drone Strikes.
Originally Posted: 10/11/2012 - 2:41pm | Type: Blog -
Notre Dame law professor fights against drone strikes. Notre Dame law professor Mary Ellen O'Connell, Professor at the University of Notre Dame Law School, has been fighting ...
DRONE WATCH: Strikes Resume in Pakistan
Originally Posted: 10/11/2012 - 2:30pm | Type: Blog -
Drone strikes resume in Pakistan, more than 20 people killed. Last weekend, the government of Pakistan prevented an anti-drone protest from entering the tribal regions. Led by for ...
Young Pakistani Activist for Girls' Education Shot by Taliban
Originally Posted: 10/09/2012 - 2:19pm | Type: Blog -
14-year old activist shot by Taliban in Pakistan. One thing that characterized Afghanistan under Taliban rule before 2001 was their treatment of women and girls. From a society of ...
BREAKING: Sandusky Sentenced to at Least 30 Years
Originally Posted: 10/09/2012 - 9:33am | Type: Blog -
Former Penn State Football Coach Jerry Sandusky has been sentenced to no fewer than 30 years in prison, and up to 60 years. Former Penn State Football Coach Jerry Sandusky has be ...
A Commitment to Find Common Ground
Originally Posted: 10/08/2012 - 12:44pm | Type: Blog -
Former House Speaker Tip O'Neill and former President Ronald Reagan shared a commitment to find common ground. Thomas P. O'Neill III, son of Thomas "Tip" O'Neill, former Spe ...
DRONE WATCH: This Week in Drones.
Originally Posted: 10/05/2012 - 2:48pm | Type: Blog -
Roundup of drone news from the week. • During the week, reported drone strikes killed 3 in Pakistan on Monday and 5 in Yemen on Thursday. • A group of U.S. activists i ...
Can Any Good Come From Drones?
Originally Posted: 10/05/2012 - 2:39pm | Type: Blog -
As an antidote to all the stories of killing by drone, I've been collecting stories of the good things unpiloted aircraft can potentially do, or are already doing. Many are tasks now being carried out by pilot ...
Seeking the Peace of the City
Originally Posted: 10/10/2012 - 9:02am | Type: Magazine Article -
Julienne Gage Faith communities work to stem the flow of guns to criminals. ON A WARM evening this June, a gr ...
'A Clash of Fanaticisms'
Originally Posted: 10/10/2012 - 9:02am | Type: Magazine Article -
Jim Rice We'll never reach reconciliation between Christians and Muslims until we address root causes—and take on the haters. ...
U.S. Preparing Potential Targets in Libya Attack
Originally Posted: 10/02/2012 - 3:46pm | Type: Blog -
U.S. is preparing for potential action against militants in Libya. The New York Times is reporting this afternoon that secret "target packages" are being prepared by the U ...


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Yeah I saw that story on the news. Having worked at gas stations earlier in my life I know the gas station owners make very little at the pump so they may take advantage of that. In the past all the gas stations profits were in TBA (Tires Batteries and Accessories) Also the money was in the "Back Room" Oil changes, repairs etc. When all that faded a lot of stations closed the back rooms and open quick marts which is now were all the money is made that allows the station to stay in business selling at the pump. So owners may or may not take advantage of that tax decrease. :-)
Phil you made some very nice points and opinions. I respect that in a Man. I totally agree the last 10 to 15 yrs of leadership has been questionable at best. I dont feel many in DC care about the lower 75% of income earners/workers in this country. We are pawns they think will love them no matter.
BP exported super-light crude from Texas! Thank Obama and the Dems because this change in law was by them.
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The Straight Path
A reader blog about Islam with Ruth Nasrullah
"Kill and die"
"carpenter," a frequent commenter on Houstonbelief, recently made the following comment on the "Islam or Culture?" post on Houstonbelief's Young American Muslim blog: Islam in the US is the "PG" version of Islam worldwide. I will kill and die before I will see Sharia law become a reality in the US. I am troubled by […]
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Ramadan: Open thread
It's a little over a week away, and I invite my Muslim readers to share how you are preparing for Ramadan, what your goals, hopes and wishes are for the month, and even mundane things like what you will have for suhoor!
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The approach of Ramadan
The holy month of Ramadan is two and a half weeks away, and I will be keeping my traditional Straight Path Ramadan diary – this will be the fourth since I began blogging here. I'm hoping to have a better experience than last year, when I hardly felt spiritual and mostly felt hungry and tired. […]
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Uncovering the unveiled truth about the veiled threat behind the veil and other puns
Hat-tip (I mean niqab-tip!) to jezebel.com for this great compilation of the endless veil puns used in headlines around the world (originally found via Muslimah Media Watch)! I threw in the requisite "alluring niqabi" stock photo just to be in the spirit of things.
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A shadow among others: The niqab in Europe
Yesterday I was at the post office and saw an acquaintance of mine. I have met her a few times and while we haven't had particularly lengthy conversations, I know who she is and she knows me. We exchanged pleasantries and she left. She wears the niqab but I recognized her. I didn't have to […]
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Unfortunately I don't have time to write a full post on this, but thought it was provocative enough to invite discussion. The story, summarized: The American Society for Muslim Advancement, in partnership with the Cordoba Initiative, is planning to build a mosque a few blocks from "Ground Zero," the site of the former World Trade […]
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NOI: American as apple pie
A few weeks ago I noticed that Houstonbelief had a new blog, The Upper Situation Room, written by Jesse Muhammad, an adherent of the Nation of Islam. I was delighted. Certainly there were reasons to expect me not to be – perhaps foremost that aspects of the Nation's beliefs are at odds with orthodox Islam, […]
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Severe black hijab
I stumbled across it a couple years after the fact, but was surprised to see that mention was made on the Jihad Watch web site of a 2008 post I wrote on the FLDS sect, which at the time was making news when the state removed the FLDS children from their homes. A commenter on […]
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Obummercare: The Tin Can Plan
The Tin Can Plan
Watching the hoards of gimpy grandparents schlepping to Fiore Fields in California to see our little ballers pitch, slide and scratch, I realized I have a responsibility to report more than just the joys of Little League.
First, a little setup before the pitch.… Read full post »
Bonus Baby: The Old Broad Gets Birth Control
My hormones come in a bottle.
Not always. In the days of Copernicus, my hormones were original equipment and only came to life when roused by martinis, a pound of chocolate or Benito Mussolini. Kind of like my '56 TV which… Read full post »
A Letter to Mom
Dear Mom,
I miss you and your roadside potatoes.
Though you slipped the surly bonds of suburbia 28 years ago, your frothy memory remains front and center. If you were here, you'd tell me to worry about other things, like my messy closets, but I can't.… Read full post »
Frat House Chili
When Dad gimped out of Walter Reed Hospital in 1945, he knew he'd rather make a living playing stride piano than return to engineering school in the tundra. He also knew that his stern Swedish mother didn't raise her son to hang out i… Read full post »
When I kick the bucket, my kids will ask two questions: 1) how much cash is left in the mattress for them and 2) who's going to make artichoke soup when the old broad is pushing up geraniums?
&n… Read full post »
My feet are firmly planted in midair. Unresponsive to a desk, my continuous flight of fancy is fueled by Ravel waltzes and chocolate. When inspiration drags me from ennui to the easel, this is the view from my corner of the world.
When I need a n… Read full post »
Making Pasta, Corzetti and Joy: "The Chew" Review
"The melody's in the right hand, not the left!"
I was practicing, or as my mother would say, "annihilating," a Mozart sonata before school, before breakfast, and before I was capable of anything other than brushing my teeth. With the… Read full post »
For those of you hosting Easter Brunch or any brunch for that matter, here's a dish that will make you more loved than the damn bunny or the peeps. Cheers!
My mother was kicked out of college after having an affair with a married professor and sent to… Read full post »
Ye Ode to Vodka - Boozy Tuesday
Oh little town of Belvedere
How valuable thou art!
Your juice from ripe potatoes
Warms the heart of this old fart.
Mixed with tonic, ice and lemons
Feigns a camphor, oh so bright
With help from thee I do believe
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Mom used a vodka bottle to roll out pie crust. When frustrated, she heaved the gloop against the wall, banked it into the trash and called Svens Danish Bakery. She taught me everything I know. And…I learned how to use four letter words, not how to… Read full post »
Carnitas for Dummies
My hormones might come in a bottle but I've found that I can still learn new tricks.
When it comes to entertaining, two challenges torment me: what can I make that everyone will enjoy and how much can I prepare in advance?
To my utter… Read full post »
The Plumper's Apple Pie
I live in the plumper and I love apple pie. It's dad's fault. Nothing delighted him more than the sight of two things: Nana's perfect pomme de pie or my mother in a slinky black dress, both carefully archived in our home movies.
With… Read full post »
Turkey Pot Pie: Beyond Beige
Things were pretty basic at Camino de Chaos on Thanksgiving. My guests brought their limited palates, expressing gratitude for the simple fact that on this sacred day, a plate can be filled to capacity with absolutely nothing green.
It was the annual feast of the fussy. A celebration… Read full post »
Epiphany Chili
I've changed costumes more than RuPaul. By the time my hormones arrived in a bottle and the last train to Clarksville long left the station, I've written more game plans than Vince Lombardi. Just when I thought I had all the answers, they flipped the questions. Such is… Read full post »
The Bathing Suit Buy: Would you Like Dots With That?
I haven't purchased a bathing suit for 17 years. Buying one ranks right up there with the joy of root canals, mammograms and cleaning Thanksgiving turkey grit off the bottom of your oven.
You smell what I'm cookin', I know you do.
Nothing is as much… Read full post »
In 1876, a fellow named Carl Conrad from a little hamlet in Bavaria developed the pasteurization of beer. That is, he figured out how to put beer in bottles. Terribly clever for his time.
Because he was my great-great grandfather, his patent hangs in my kitchen next… Read full post »
A Strong Back and a Weak Mind
A Strong Back and a Weak Mind
It's Father's Day in just a few weeks. Although my Dad has been in that great piano bar in the sky for almost 30 years, keeping time with his left foot while playing "Someone to Watch Over Me," I'm the lucky one… Read full post »
Blue Danube Bean Soup
Blue Danube Bean Soup
The square corners of his handkerchiefs stood at allegiance from a bucket of starch. A man of propriety who "bowed" in respect, my father's noble and elegant dignity matched his crisp attire.
Yet his greatest personal… Read full post »
The Oh-So-Merry Margarita
If getting juiced was good enough for Sammy Sosa and Mark McGuire, just think about what the essence of carrot-raisin-beet-rutabaga-dirt clod could do for this old broad who is getting closer to the last tango?
On a slow Sunday morning when… Read full post »
I'm the result of too many Mai Tais and Nat King Cole. Or so I heard. My kooky, irreverent mother who danced the Times step on our linoleum floor and pounded out Chopin etudes more easily than round steak would casually tell her friends about the conditions surrounding my concepti… Read full post »


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Jeremy Hunt's special adviser, Adam Smith, has just resigned. Here's his resignation statement, in full: While it was part of my role to keep News Corporation informed throughout the BskyB bid process, the content and extent of my contact was done without authorisation from the Secretary of State. I do not recognise all of what [...]
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What an unedifying day this is shaping up to be. Adam Smith, the hapless adviser to Jeremy Hunt (who looks increasingly like a badger caught in the headlights) has just announced his departure. This presumably means that his former ... Read Post
There's been a resignation this morning, but it is not Jeremy Hunt's. Instead, it's his special adviser Adam Smith. Smith's departure before Hunt's Commons statement at 12:30 is designed to put a firebreak around the Secretary of St... Read Post
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Biden: I was against the ad before I was for it!
Jake Turcotte
Joe Biden is never boring...
When interviewed by CBS anchor Katie Couric yesterday, Biden condemned a recent Obama ad that poked fun at John McCain's "inability" to use a computer.
"I thought that was terrible by the way," he said. "If I'd have had anything to do with it, we never would have done it."
Rapid response
The ever-helpful McCain communications team -- rivaled only by the always-helpful Obama communications team -- seized on the remarks, sending out emails making sure the press corps was aware of the Biden-Couric exchange. As a bonus, they included a statement from a McCain spokesman complete with another dig at the New York Times (which appeared to be the talking point of the day).
"While the New York Times and other media outlets were silent in the face of Barack Obama's shameless and dishonorable attack on John McCain, even Obama's own running mate has now condemned the ad as 'terrible,' admitting he never would have approved it," spokesman Brian Rogers said. "Barack Obama has brought the sleazy gutter politics of Chicago to our national stage, exposing his call for a 'new politics' as a lie and embarrassing even his own running-mate with the low road campaign he's running."


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Does Content Marketing Really Have a Confidence Problem?
Sep 17th
By Eric Wittlake, {grow} Contributing Columnist
You've seen the CMI content marketing research stat: only 42% of B2B marketers believe they are effective at content marketing.
Often, it is paired with a statistic like 93% of all B2B marketers use content marketing or 73% are producing more content than they did a year ago.
What's going on here? Low confidence in success. High commitment to spending more. Are content marketers recklessly rushing deeper into content marketing?
But are they really? What should we really think of this "42% of marketers believe they are effective at content marketing" statistic? Let's put this statistic back in its proper context.
1. Very few lack faith in content marketing
Do marketers really believe their content marketing is ineffective? According to the same CMI study, only 16% of B2B marketers believe their content marketing is not effective! Let's put this another way: content marketers are more than 2.5 times more likely to believe they are effective than ineffective. In a category developing and changing this rapidly, that's an impressive ratio.
While 16% believe they are ineffective at content marketing, 25% of them are not increasing the amount of content they produce and 33% are not increasing their budgets. In contrast to the way the CMI study has been spun by many others, content marketers are not recklessly rushing ahead. Many are actually holding back.
2. 42% actually isn't low!
How confident should we really expect marketers to be in content marketing? Content marketing in its current form is still a young and quickly changing discipline. To put it into context, what do marketers think of other channels or activities?
- Only 37% of marketers believe their Facebook advertising is effective. (Source)
- According to Adobe, only 29% of marketers have confidence in their own measurement of digital marketing. (Source)
- 33% of marketers believe online banners don't work, compared to just 16% percent that believe their content marketing isn't effective. (Source)
This isn't just an issue in marketing. In a survey of 1,000 IT professionals by Cisco, 77% believed their current security policies needed improvement and updating. That is 77% who likely would say the policy isn't effective today and needs to be changed.
Versus other measures of confidence in newer marketing channels, 42% looks high, not low!
The pace of change alone should give many marketers pause when asked if they are effective content marketers: are you still effective in the face of shifting competition for attention and changing audience preferences? Have you mastered the new channels and communication formats your audience has shifted to, like Instagram, SnapChat or WeChat?
Despite this shifting landscape, 42% of B2B marketers are confident they are still effective and only 16% believe they are or have become ineffective!
3. Content measurement is imperfect
Content often meets multiple objectives. You may measure leads and traffic. However, content may also be improving customer service, brand perception and understanding of your offerings. Many of the potential benefits are generally not measured. When we only measure some of the benefits but all of the costs, we will question effectiveness. We will tend to undervalue our efforts. And yet, 42% are still confident in their effectiveness.
No, content marketing does not have a confidence problem.
What you can do
If you write or speak about content marketing, stop mis-using this 42% statistic and give your fellow marketers the credit they deserve. And if you aren't 100% confident that your content marketing is effective, take heart. It isn't unusual and it doesn't mean you somehow missed the memo detailing content marketing's silver bullet.
Eric Wittlake spends his days working with B2B marketers and (occasionally) shares his marketing views on his personal blog, B2B Digital Marketing. You can find him on Twitter (@wittlake) when he isn't working with B2B marketers.
Kernels of truth on social media marketing
Jan 13th
If I leave a conference with a few "kernels of truth" I can gnaw on and think about, I consider the time well-spent. Here are a few nuggets I picked up at the Social Fresh conference held in Nashville this week.
"Movements make their audience feel like rockstars."
To me, the highlight of the conference was a talk by Geno Church. Geno, of Brains on Fire, is an engaging speaker and discussed the distinction between marketing plans and a cultural movement. The most amazing case study of the day was work he had done for Fiskars Scissors (I guess you could call it cutting-edge). By enlisting scrap-book enthusiasts (The Fiska-teers) to contribute as bloggers, they created an army of passionate Fiskar users. If you can make scissors exciting, this guy can market about anything!
"People fill information voids with rumors. Your strategy is simple. Don't allow information voids."
Another super-bright guy I met was Dan Zarrella. Dan spends his time poring over Twitter statistics to determine the secret sauce that makes something go viral. He applied evolutionary theory, mathematical principles and psychology to his study. A few Twitter items that people pay attention to:
- Warnings
- "Social proof" as evidenced by large numbers of tweets
- Bigger, bolder, louder statements
- Tweets with "you"
- Tweets that are personalized
- Tweets that occur later in the week
"The biggest failure in social media marketing is not doing anything."
Paula Berg, who just left her job with Southwest Airlines told some riveting stories about the social web and crisis communications. Remember when the USAir flight went down in the Hudson and the first news and photos came through Twitter. USAir did not have a Twitter account … but started one that day! She also talked about the trust-selling strategy on Twitter, noting that the airline had been on Twitter since 2007 but did not attempt to make a sale through the channel until 2009. When they did, they set a single-day sales record — only using the social web!
Paula also provided an entertaining case study about a rap-singing flight attendant that became a national phenomenon.
"If you don't think it's about BUSINESS your gonna be out of a job!"
This was a refreshing and encouraging statement from Jason Falls, an admitted recovering social media purist. He has distanced himself from the "it's all about community crowd" and in fact playfully made fun of them. Nice to see capitalism creep into the social conversation.
Illustration: Christian Science Monitor
Wireless data indicate recession surprises
Dec 15th
U.S. wireless revenue is up 7.6 percent for the year led by data messaging. It isn't news that the wireless industry has been growing or that data has been off-setting a slowdown in voice. What is striking is that data's contribution to growth has been accelerating through the recession, while the voice slowdown has been steepening.
This has surprised some analysts who expected people to tighten their budgets on "discretionary" data services such as text messaging while holding on to a core service such as phone voice services. But the opposite has happened. What's going on here?
- Rapid technological advancements (better devices, applicatiions and networks) are powerful drivers of growth. Growth would be even stronger without the recession.
- To some degree, data messaging is substituting for voice services.
- Voice markets are maturing.
- Alternatives like Skype has some impact on voice
- Price competition has been severe for voice while high-end data services are still commanding a premium price.
By the way this is a U.S. trend only. Data show messaging growth much slower in Europe, Latin America and developing countries, while voice is still growing in places such as Asia, Latin America and Eastern Europe.
If you make the leap (and I think you can) that trends in wireless data growth would also correspond to growth in social media usage, this is how the world stacks up, by approximate two-year data usage growth trends:
- Asia-Pacific 10.2%
- Latin America 8.2%
- Emerging Europe 8.7%
- Emerging Asia 7.9%
- Developed Europe 5.1%
Why is Europe lagging so significantly in wireless data usage? Wouldn't you think the same trends would apply? Any opinions?
*Illustration: Bank of America Securities-Merrill Lynch Global Wireless Matrix database
A futurist's view of the "next big thing" in social media
Dec 13th
Venessa Miemis' Twitter bio describes her as a "Metacog, futurist and thought architect tracking emerging media and technology trends & impacts." Now THAT got my attention.
Currently pursuing a masters degree in New Media Studies at the New School in NYC, she has been passionately thinking and writing about the future for seven years. Venessa kindly agreed to an interview and I found her views on the connections between social media and education, politics, global community and our future to be one of the most thought-provoking posts I've featured here on {grow}. I think you'll agree:
What is a futurist and how do I get a job like that?
A futurist's role is to help people anticipate, plan for, and adapt to change. This means tracking emerging trends and seeing how they fit into the big picture and envisioning different scenarios for what might come next. You could call this "developing foresight." It's a skill set that's in pretty high demand these days. Things are changing rapidly and everyone is looking for ways to stay ahead of the curve.
At the professional level, futurists are hired by organizations to help them understand the forces and trends shaping their industries, and anticipate the changing needs and desires of their customers in order to stay competitive. At the individual level, each of us constantly thinks about our own goals and dreams and develops strategies that will help us accomplish them … so in some sense, we're all futurists. I do think we're in a very transformative period in history, and we all need to hone our "futures thinking" skills in order to actively participate in the process of shaping our collective future, instead of just being a passive bystander.
You first connected with me after seeing my blog post on the future of social media. Please answer this multiple choice question: As a futurist, I thought Mark Schaefer's social media forecast was a) entirely accurate; b) uncanny and without error; or c) the subject of my college thesis.
Ha, well I think you hit on some great themes. I wrote a post recently, 3 Key Trends Shaping the Web and Society, that looks at some megatrends that are driving today's developments. The one that's influencing many of the social media trends on your list has to do with the increase in complexity around us.
Historically, as complexity increases, we develop better methods for making sense of it. A big challenge we're facing right now is figuring out how to deal with information overload, and how to separate quality content from noise. We're trying to solve the problem through quantification. As you mentioned, we're going to continue to see information about ourselves, our habits, our sentiments, and our social connections become much more clearly measured and defined.
This could potentially be an amazing thing. If we know more about each other, we may be able to begin collaborating on an enormous scale to solve some of the world's serious problems. At the same time, as you also mentioned, if we're not actively involved in demanding our civil liberties and digital rights, we may face some scary situations regarding privacy, power and control. Thankfully, there are organizations like the Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) and the Peer to Peer Foundation that are dedicated to protecting our rights and values as we transition into a networked society.
One area on your list I disagree with is the notion that the digital divide will continue to grow and eventually become permanent. I think it will be just the opposite. There's a concept called "leapfrogging," which describes how areas with poorly-developed technological or economic bases will skip over the intermediary steps and transition directly into adopting modern systems. For instance, you're not going to see cables laid all over rural Africa so people can have internet access, you're going to see an explosive growth of internet-connected mobile phone adoption. As the technologies get better and cheaper, we're going to see portable devices and interfaces become more seamlessly integrated into our lives, and it will be a game changer.
What are the social media trends you're most concerned about? Most optimistic about?
This passed through my twitterstream the other day: "Understanding how networks work is one of the most important literacies of the 21st century – Howard Rheingold." I think that complements what I've been saying nicely.
While some people haven't even entered the social media space yet, the rest of us are chomping at the bit and asking what's next. We're still very much in the Wild West of the real-time web. Just look at Twitter. There seems to be a new app released every day that's trying to measure something – ROI, influence, impact, and so on. There are no established rules of conduct or best practices, and people are still arguing about whether it's more important to have lots of followers or to be on lots of lists. Everyone's trying to figure out how to capitalize on the space.
I understand that business is about monetization, but I think there's something going on here that's much bigger than people realize. It doesn't fit into our traditional business models at all, because we've never had the opportunity before to leverage social networks at this scale. That's the next big social media trend: understanding how to leverage networks. We're all here, we're all connected – now what do we do?
I've been thinking quite a bit about the effects of social media in the workplace and the next generation of workers who grew up communicating with their thumbs. What should we know about this group?
I'm actually rather concerned about this group. I try to pay attention to what's going on in many different fields to get a sense of the big picture, and the lack of "new media literacy" in young people is alarming. You think it's hard getting organizations to embrace social media — try looking at the educational system. It wasn't designed for this. Forward-looking teachers see the necessity of bringing social technologies into the classroom to enhance the learning experience and prepare students for 21st century life, but it's not happening fast enough.
Many young people are not being taught how to benefit from the power of the web as a tool for building a network and for learning. I mean, anyone who uses Twitter or belongs to an online community of some sort has seen that sharing information and learning from one another is not only fun and rewarding, it's addictive. Kids need to be shown how to navigate that world too.
I think the social web is enabling an informal learning process to take place that in some ways challenges the validity of our educational institutions. It might be a bit extreme to tell schools to "'innovate or die," but they need to get with the program already. America is already falling behind in so many areas as geopolitical power shifts to other nations. We can't afford to sit by and idly watch today's youth go through a system that leaves them appallingly unprepared to compete in a global marketplace.
If the {grow} community wanted to learn more about the work of futurists and their study of social media, can you recommend a few resources?
The World Future Society , the World Futures Studies Federation and the Association for Professional Futurists (APF) websites are good places to start for an overview. Ross Dawson and Gerd Leonhard focus a lot on the future of media on their blogs. John Hagel and John Seely Brown both provide great insights into innovation and strategy from a business perspective. I'd also definitely recommend checking out the blogroll on KedgeForward, a blog by professional futurists Frank Spencer and Michael Morrell. It's an excellent resource for future-focused exploring.
There are also several programs in the country to pursue higher education in Futures Studies. The University of Houston offers a Master of Technology in Futures Studies as well as a Certificate in Strategic Foresight. Regent University offers a Master of Arts in Strategic Foresight, which is directed by Dr. Jay Gary. And for those aching to leave the mainland, the Hawai'i Research Center for Futures Studies offer both an MA and a PhD in Alternative Futures through its Department of Political Science. For a complete listing of Futures programs around the globe, visit this page on the Acceleration Studies Foundation website.
I've left the most important for last. As a futurist, please tell me who you like for the Super Bowl.
My crystal ball has suddenly become very hazy…
Would love to have the {grow} community comment and pose other questions to Venessa!
Follow Venessa at @VenessaMiemis Her insightful blog can be found at: http://emergentbydesign.com/


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Sepins (04/05/2013) [-]
I'm guessing that if you win you get double your money? So if you bet 5 dollars, you win 5 dollars, not 10. So you'd have to bet 50k to win another 50k. Wording seems fine to me if that's the case.
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kbaconmaster (04/05/2013) [-]
You win over $50,000HK though if you bet 50,000HK, yet it says WIN $50,000 HK. If you are to bet (I dont remember exactly which amount you win exactly $50,000 HK) you dont get the achievement, I think you end up winning $100,000HK when you bet with $50,000 HK and that's how you got the achievement. I think it works the way you said it, I just didn't understand it when I first saw it.
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kbaconmaster (04/06/2013) [-]
Yep me too.
But one would also think you would get it for winning exactly $50,000 HK too
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On teenagers, sleep and the worry they don't get enough
When my son was a baby, I'd sometimes check on him when he was sleeping, just to reassure myself he was still breathing. Now that he's a teenager, I sometimes find myself inclined to do the same. Because on weekends when no athletic commitments fill his mornings, he can sleep and sleep and sleep.
And as the time slides toward noon – and the rest of the house is busy and even looking to lunch – I find myself thinking, is he really still sleeping? Really?
He is. Which isn't all that odd, I know, because I remember a capacity for such sleep.
But it worries me, given all the news about teenagers and sleep, and how so many researchers have concluded that most American teens don't get enough.
And "binge sleeping" – that is sleeping for hours and hours on weekends – isn't a good fix, notes this piece on teenagers and sleep from Frontline http://to.pbs.org/1ahg6vg. That's because sleeping until noon when most days you must be up at 6:15 a.m. for school just confuses your body.
Most teenagers need about nine hours of sleep a night and without it can see their moods and schoolwork suffer, research has found.
In fact, a study out in November tracked students and found that going to bed too late on school nights (so not getting that nine hours) led to "worse educational outcomes and emotional distress six to eight years later."
Some communities have pushed for later school start times, citing such research and others that shows such a schedule would mesh better with teens' natural sleep patterns. There is even a national petition on the issue.
But such an effort was a complete flop in Orange County, Fla., when it was tried back in 2008.
In our house, we do our best to follow the expert advice on teens and sleep – pushing for an early-as-possible bedtime and making sure phone and electronic devices are out of his room, so he's not tempted to stay up and text or play.
But sometimes, between homework and athletics and eking out a little time for dinner and a shower, he just doesn't make it to bed as early as we'd like.
And then sometimes, on the next weekend, he sleeps on and on, and I find myself peeking in his room just to make sure, you know, that he's still breathing.
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Drake's Sick of Being Pigeonholed as That Sad Guy
"I'm a happy person," 'Nothing Was the Same' rapper says in hour-long Q Radio interview
Within weeks of Kanye West's extended sit-down with BBC Radio 1 DJ Zane Lowe, Drake has visited Canada's Q Radio for an hour-long interview with broadcaster Jian Ghomenshi (formerly of Canadian indie-pop satirists Moxy Früvous). It's a broad-ranging chat, and it's often deadly dull; "I'm not enough of a loose cannon," the Nothing Was the Same rapper-singer acknowledges. Still, one early highlight comes when Drake is asked to address a discrepancy between the melancholy of his instrumentals and the artist's description of the album as being celebratory.
"There's a victorious sentiment behind it. The most important thing to understand about this record is the sentiment," Drake says. "I'm 26, working as hard as I possibly can with my friends that I grew up with, making my family happy." And then the words start flowing: "I'm so sick of people saying that I'm lonely and emotional, and associating me with this longing for a woman, or" — Ghomenshi interjects, "The sad guy." — "Yeah, I hate that, man. It bothers me so much. I do make music that makes you feel something. But I'm actually not that guy in real life. I'm very happy. I'm not content by any means, I mean, I want to keep working, but I'm a happy person. I'm very excited. My life is constantly exciting. It's not some sad, depressing story."
So there you have it: Drake, not sad. He adds that as far as the soundscapes, "I make my music strictly for the purpose of driving at nighttime." For happy, exciting nighttime drives, no doubt. Catch him on his upcoming "Would You Like a Tour?" tour, where Future may still be joining him. And imagine children reading Drake's quotes — he doesn't seem to curse much here, so the results won't be as funny as Jimmy Kimmel's Kanye-baiting sketch, but it still helps liven up the proceedings a bit. Drake also says he prefers to express himself through music rather than interviews or social media, so listening to his records might be another excellent alternative.


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DOVER — Dropping temperatures last week spurred many to think about heating their homes during the upcoming winter season, but it's unlikely customers or local oil and propane distributors will see any price relief this season.Heating oil prices are holding steady from last year at more than $3 per gallon. Prices in the Seacoast area currently range from around $3.299 to $3.499, and D.F. Richard Energy CEO Rick Card said these haven't changed much in the past few years."They won't fluctuate that much, which has been the history for the past three years," he said. "We hope that they're going down; we don't have too much control."Card said the fall season meant his company was getting more calls. "Once Labor Day happens, everyone has to deal with what's coming," he said. "We had chilly mornings, so there's been a few more service calls and filling up tanks."Card said his company has been busy doing service calls year-round, and he anticipated an even busier season going into winter. "We've been very busy year-round," he said. "We'll be busier than last year for sure."
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"It can be expensive to covert a system from oil to propane or natural gas," he said.The cost of propane is around $3.2 per gallon, making it only slightly less expensive than oil. A house using 1,050 gallons of propane averages $2,870 in annual heating costs; however, newer propane heating systems are often more efficient. Therein lies the savings. "(Customers) are taking out old inefficient oil heating equipment and putting in new efficient propane heating equipment," Chagnon said.He estimated that with updated systems, customers generally save 20 percent on their bill, and can sometimes see up to 30 percent savings."Because new propane equipment is so efficient, they're taking a $3,000 bill and making in $2,200," he said. The Propane Gas Association of New England could not be reached for comment and the Oil Heat Council of New Hampshire declined to comment for this story.


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You are forgetting one thing... Augustin was Brown's PG last year. Brown has just intimidated Augustin, and he needs a new address.
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You are forgetting one thing... Augustin was Brown's PG last year. Brown has just intimidated Augustin, and he needs a new address.
Is Augustin the PG you want leading this team going forward? Can he be the starter on a contending team? My answer to this is no, which makes the Henderson for Rush swap even less interesting.
You want to label Rush inconsistent? Go look at Augustin's game log. He's been on my fantasy team and he drives me nuts.
And if you say Larry Brown is the reason for Augustin's inconsistency, I could say O'Brien is the reason for Rush's (at least on offense, because his defense is there every night).
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As for Henderson, having seen them both play quite a bit of a bit, I don't think he has a higher upside than Rush. Henderson looks rigid in his offensive game and doesn't have much range on his jumper. There's a certain smoothness in Rush's offensive game that can't be ignored.
I think Augustin and Henderson trump Rush in terms of realizable potential. Rush offers more than both of them (paired together) in the present tense.
Augustin brings poor defence + poor rebound + poor game management but excellent ball-handling + good scoring + decent shooting (but he's struggling with his shot this season). He may even become Tony Parker, but I think it's more likely he peaks as TJ Ford.
Henderson is limited offensively due to poor shooting + poor off-hand. If he improves on both those things it's anyone's guess. He may very well peak as Dahntay Jones. Defensively he has more potential than Rush - Rush is an above average wing defender; Henderson is quicker and can become a top-notch defender at every back-court position.
Rush is the safer choice. It depends on how much risk you're willing to take and what assets you value more. Personally as I think there's a good chance that Augustin and Henderson plateau as backups at their positions, I'd be risk adverse.
One thing is for sure, O'Brien would hate this trade.
The only player of those three that can possibly be really good is Rush. It's really about his ceiling more than anything.
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Augustin, I believe, was considered a coach's dream to work with. If Brown would trade him, it would be because he simply is nothing but a backup...at best.
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I think is a bad decision, Rush is way better than those players, I think that AJ has a better starter potential than Augustin and Henderson is a project who could either be good or a bust.
The Pacers are also going to have a lot of choices to pick in the second round PG's, SG's, SG's, PF's, C's this draft is really deep, there is going to be more than one steal of the draft next year.
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Do not trade Rush until a new coach with a sound system of basketball and personnel management who teaches fundmentals and generates spacing on the court through ball and player movement as opposed to shooting threes.
If Brandon doesn't shine after a re-adjustment period, then move him. Otherwise, he could be key to our long term future, especially as a player that is apparently well liked by his teammates.
I'm not sure how I feel about this trade. I liked the proposal better when Ford was involved, b/c it got rid of his salary a year early while getting back talent and also opening up more minutes for Price
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This is David West, he is the Honey Badger, West just doesn't give a *****....he's pretty bad *ss cuz he has no regard for any other Player or Team whatsoever.
I think DJ is a nice PG but the league is full of nice PG's. I want a difference maker at the 1 & I don't think DJ is.
I think Rush can be a difference maker on the defensive side of the court once some chnages are made on the bench.
I voted no. I agree with most DJ is NOT the answer at point guard Felton would be better, but I don't think he is a long term answer either. Henderson who knows. What does he do better than Rush.
If Rush performs this way under a new coach, his only value would be that he doesn't cost much and can walk at the end of his rook contract.
I say get rid of him while you can still blame the coach for Rush playing like Casper the Friendly Ghost. Bye, Rush! Thought you were better than this but you blew it.
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Jay Penrith commented on the post, Sponsor watch: 2014 Singapore Grand Prix 5 months, 1 week ago
@plushpile I have seen others too mate
Nick replied to the topic Is qualifying becoming pointless? in the forum Formula One 8 months ago
@plushpile I must mind my phrasing, I meant I'd rather see a FR3.5 DRS system, where every driver has a limited amount of usage.
keithcollantine started the topic How do the new engines sound at the track? in the forum Formula One 9 months ago
I'm looking to get some feedback on the sound of the new engines from fans who've seen this year's cars in action for a forthcoming feature.
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timi commented on the post, Sutil stopped eating for two days to save weight 10 months ago
@plushpile The driver seat thing is hilarious. However, @fluxsource is on to something with removing tyre weight from the equation. I would say that's the best way to go with the whole thing
timi commented on the post, Sutil stopped eating for two days to save weight 10 months ago
@plushpile I completely disagree. It's Sutil's/Sauber's prerogative. The only problem I see here is that the weight has come down and he's used to the olden days. Sure, it sucks for him, but overall? Meh, I think […]
JCost commented on the post, Da Costa in Buemi's Red Bull reserve role for China 1 year, 10 months ago
I'd go wild :)
Fer no.65 commented on the post, Is 3D or Ultra HD the future of F1 broadcasting? 2 years ago
@plushpile exactly.
I've been very critical of the way F1 misses the internet completely. Their live timing is probably the single thing they offer and you want. The rest is really really bad. The video player […]
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V8 Supercars often try convoluted Quali systems, often so as to involve a second driver.
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@plushpile we've got a winner!
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Since @plushpile hasn't posted a question, should @toro-stevo (because he was the first to answer) get the next one?
irishf1 replied to the forum topic F1 Fanatic Rolling Trivia Quiz in the group F1 2 years, 4 months ago
@brazil2007 Thank you for pointing out my mistake! :P @plushpile gets the next question!
Nicholas Sunderland replied to the forum topic F1 Fanatic Rolling Trivia Quiz in the group F1 2 years, 4 months ago
Wait! @plushpile git it half an hour before @toro-stevo ! Check the previous page!
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Do Children Bring Happiness
I'm sure that none of us are surprised by the results - having kids is harder (aka more miserable LOL!) when they are younger, or teenagers, or if you have less of a support system or are strapped for cash. Pretty common sense, but still opens the conversation, in YOUR experience, do children provide more happiness or misery? Be honest! LOLEvolutionary psychologists tell us that wanting offspring is hardwired, but for most of us, the decision to have a child is intensely personal?and has become all the more daunting in recent years thanks to several high-profile research studies that have suggested that parents are miserable and stretched to the limit.
Along with a team of social psychologists, Katie Nelson and I decided to take a closer look at the relationship between parenting and well-being. Contrary to recent media messages, the findings turned out to be rather mixed. Some studies using large-scale nationally representative datasets find that parents are happier and more satisfied than their childless peers, some studies find no difference, and some studies find the reverse. The more we scrutinized the literature, the more convinced we became that the question of whether parents are happier than nonparents is not a very meaningful one. Rather, it depends on the parent?and the child.
Our analysis revealed that certain types of parents (e.g., young parents and parents with small children) are particularly unhappy, while other types (e.g., fathers, married parents, and empty nesters) report especially high life satisfaction, happiness, or meaning. In other words, whether or not children go hand in hand with happiness depends on many factors, including our age, marital status, income and social support, as well as whether our children live with us and have difficult temperaments. Whether we ourselves were securely attached to our own parents is even a factor.
For example, in our own research with a large sample of U.S. adults, my team found that, compared to older parents, parents ages 17 to 25 were less satisfied with their lives than their peers without kids. However, all types of parents reported having more meaning in life than did their childless counterparts, suggesting that the rewards of parenting may be more ineffable than the daily highs (or lows).
Some might argue that parents are deluding themselves: Having sacrificed time, money, and selfhood to parenting, they persuade themselves that, of course, their children make them happy. To rule out this explanation, we decided to unobtrusively measure parents? actual day-to-day experiences of parenting. Parents randomly beeped throughout the day reported more positive emotions than nonparents, and parents reported more positive emotions and meaning when they weretaking care of their children than when they were doing other activities, like working or eating.
My four children range from 3 months to 14 years, so I can attest firsthand to the truism that kids are the source of our greatest joy and our greatest sorrow. Children give our lives purpose, infuse fun and pride into our lives, and enrich our identities. At the same time, they are also vectors for worry, anger, and disappointment; they deprive us of energy and sleep; and they strain our finances and our marriages. Not surprisingly, research suggests that the downsides of parenting are more evident when kids are very young or teenagers, and when we lack the resources (monetary, social, developmental) to manage them. Keep these findings in mind when deciding to have a child, and consider that 94% of parents say that it is still worth it, despite the costs.
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This made me laugh a little because I was unhappy last night. Reid is teething, I think, or else he's going through the four month sleep regression, or maybe he's just lost his mind. I'm sure I don't have to elaborate in this crowd. Also, sometimes T drives me nuts. There are days when I have to ask him over and over again to do something because he'll be in the middle of doing it (let's say, getting dressed) and then get distracted (decides to play guitar instead). Repeat, repeat, repeat. Also, there are days when I wish everyone would just stop touching me.
Having said all of that, I also agree with the article that the highs of child rearing are higher than my pre-child life. There are moments of pure happiness, moments of such pride, moments that make your eyes tear up with the sheer love and beauty of it all. I also think that having a family has given me a whole new reason to love my husband. Some of the moments when I love him the most fiercely are the moments when I see and understand what an amazing dad he is. Watching him loving our children adds a layer to our relationship that makes my heart almost hurt with happiness and love. So there is all that too.
Mostly, I can't imagine what else I would be doing with my time if I didn't have these terrible wonderful gorgeous awful little people demanding all of my attention and energy and making me crazy with love and frustration and happiness and pride and annoyance. Like, I have no idea what I did with all of that time and energy and money that I wasn't spending on them in my twenties, and I have no idea what I would do with myself if I didn't have them now. That would be just awful. So on the balance, I'm voting "happiness" with a bonus of "what else do I have to do anyway?" LOL
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My children give me great happiness. There are times when it is sad, like right now when my 3 year old is burning up with a 101.2 fever and I do not know what is wrong or how to fix it, but even in those times there is joy in holding her in my arms (The rare moments when she wants to cuddle are precious). There are times when I enjoy a break from my children, but overall, my children give me happiness.
I think there's a happiness gap between younger parents and older parents. IME it seems a lot of the younger parents (age 25 or less when their first baby was born) don't really know what they're getting into, kwim? They do seem to expect their kids to make them happy, keep their partners from straying, turn the world into sunshine & rainbows, and they are genuinely shocked at the amount of time-suck and hard work that comes along with kids. The older parents (age 35 or more when their first child was born) generally seem more to know what to *really* expect and generally seem more confident in taking it on 110%, seeing the glass half full (I didn't see it as sitting up half the night with a colicky baby; it was many quiet hours to stare at her beautiful face & inspect the wrinkles on her toes) and/or being more open to doing things that work rather than what we think we're supposed to do (I slept in the papasan chair with her on my chest, colic stopped, I got sleep, everyone happy). Also IME the younger parents tend to have a much higher divorce or breakup rate (over 100% because some of them have multiple breakups with their co-parents, I only know one couple who is still together who had their kids young) than the parents who are older when they have their kids (0%) which certainly affects personal happiness and family stability. Or maybe I just know a bunch of young parents who are lazy whiny slackers in bad relationships, LOL.
I love seeing the world through new eyes. I love how much more I *feel* things since they were born. I love how much more energy I have. Yes, they do exhaust me sometimes, but more often than that, they rev me up with their own limitless energy. They do make me happy most of the time, but my happiness is not their problem, it's totally up to me. Even when they completely tick me off, I usually choose to try to find happiness in the moment because I simply don't like feeling negative about anything, but especially not about my kids. I chose to have them, and I chose to wait a long time to have them to make sure that I had the resources, the support network, and the emotional maturity to be a good parent to them and give us all a better chance at happiness. Because their happiness *is* my job and I didn't think I was equipped to do it earlier in my life.
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Haha Stacey, maybe my feelings about parenthood are more complex than just happy or just miserable because I fall in between your two parenting age groups (married at 25, had our first baby at 27.)
I totally agree that my happiness is not their responsibility and that their happiness is my responsibility. Well put!
-Alissa, mom to Tristan (5) and Reid (the baby!)
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happiness means so many things. Just because they cause situational stress doesn't mean they don't bring joy to your life overall.
I read that piece and what i got out of it is "stressfull things can make you feel unhappy in the moment"
FTR, i started my family young...it was a great choice for us, i'm happy with it and don't regret doing it that way. Doesn't mean that on any given day you haven't found me frustrated or just plain unhappy.
Yes Kim, that's kind of what I got too. I'm always surprised when people seem to imply that their kids never really make them feel unhappy. Maybe it's the way I'm wired, but I don't have it in me to be joyous and appreciative in the moment when I'm up for the 4th time in the middle of the night with a crying baby that just. will not. sleep. Which is not to say that my over arching experience isn't one of love and happiness and joy, but that indivdual moments can still suck pretty big.
-Alissa, mom to Tristan (5) and Reid (the baby!)
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Yeah, none of this is news to me, I don't quite get it as a topic for an article!
Mine are 9 and almost 6. For us, the hardest phase was the baby/toddler phase, because of the sheer exhaustion. You love them, they're so cute, you delight in every new thing they do, but you don't get enough sleep and when you're awake with them you have to be vigilant at all times to keep them out of physical danger, make sure they're eating/pooping/sleeping etc. While that was cute & all, it was more exhausting.
Now it's different, and I get a whole new kind of joy from them, from talking to them, seeing them do things on their own, and I love that they're still young enough to snuggle and cuddle and be so open with their love, their questions, and their opinions.
I'm sure when adolescence hits I'll be singing a different tune.
But yeah...all in all it's both. They give meaning to life, they remind me of what's important, they give me joy. They frustrate me, they make me miss going to the movies & having "what should I do today?" days, they exhaust me too.
I love the time I spend with them and I love getting time on my own or just with my husband or just with my friends.
They teach me to milk the joy out of what I can, and to have perspective when things are tough.
I don't even find things specific to parents' ages...I see quite the range and no real consistency to it. I'm an older parent and that's just how my life went, and I can see advantages and disadvantages.
To the question....a lot more happiness than misery. A lot more. But occasionally....misery.
I had my children young, and I know many happy people that had children young. I only know a few people who have divorced. All of my friends are still together with their first husband/wife going on 10 years or more. Many/most of them had children young.
I do not think how old you are when you start your family is related to how happy/unhappy you are.


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"Christina, it is me." God speaks out. I open my eyes, seeing a bright light shine through my window.
"God, what are you doing here?" I ask yawning.
"I've come with a message about Lucifer." He says. My eyes widen and fear builds up my throat.
"Is everything ok with him?" I ask, worry evident in my voice.
"He is fine but I wanted to let you know that you are meant to help him with fulfilling his destiny in the future, but at a cost of what he has now; his love for me." God replies back.
"Ok… so what should I do right now?"
"Work for both Apollo and Lucifer and serve me as an Angel. But in truth I'll give you the title as first born Fallen Angel." He says quietly. The light starts to dimmer around him.
"God, wait! What's going to happen between me and Lucifer?"I shout out.
"You'll know in due time dear child, you'll know." He says. The light fades into the darkness before everything goes black.
My eyes open up and it's the morning. I sit up almost immediately and look at the clock.
'Why did I have such a dream about Lucifer?'
I walk down the stairs and into the kitchen. Risan was cooking up a storm inside.
"Jingle bells
Smells like death
Calling all the damned!
Oh what fun it is to mourn and find out who died today!"
"Someone's in a good mood" I say, looking to make sure there's enough space in between us.
"Oh yes! I'm in such a good mood! You just got a job to work as an Arch Angel!" He says as my eyes widen in shock.
"Huh?" I ask, my mind quietly trying to figure out if that dream really was a dream.
"Yes sweetheart, God said you're going to start to work for Lucifer and Apollo starting next month." He explains. I look out the window and see kids playing on the street. Lucifer…
"You know, it's so sad. You and Lucifer should have kept in contact when he left for Heaven. But oh no! Your stubborn attitude towards him leaving just made it so much easier!" He shouts out in frustration. I sigh, irritated by his words.
"He lied to me about leaving; he said it was for the summer! I told you I don't want to talk to him again. Stop bringing it up" I snap. Risan shakes his head and continues cooking without another word on the subject.
"Are you hungry? I'm making your favourite!" he says squealing like a girl. I roll my eyes at his sudden mood swing.
"It's your favourite! I can't stand it when you make scythe and skull shaped pancakes." I whine. He smiles and chuckles low.
"Well too bad! You're eating it." He says, dismissing my complaint.
He Hands over the very annoying pancakes with a dollop peach syrup. I start eating quickly so I don't have to notice them at all.
"So, when do you plan on working as a Reaper again, Mr Starving Artist?" I ask. He drinks orange juice like they're shots of vodka in a drinking game before answering my question.
"I'm not sure Miss. I'm going to ignore your future husband-" I cut him off before he can make any more damage. Now I'm really pissed off.
"Akashore isn't my future husband! He's just a friend." I say harshly. He just laughs and rolls his eyes.
"Whatever you say, missy" He replies back before getting up to wash our plates.
"You shouldn't be in denial you know." Risan lectures, his voice like he knows all.
"And you shouldn't be butting into people's problems." I tell him back. I stand up to leave but at the doorway I stand still.
"I'm pretending to be a guy so Lucifer won't see me as Christina." I say matter-of-factly then exit the room. I hear Risan sigh in frustration behind me. I won't let Lucifer hurt me again. Not like before.
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