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Five steps to establish a content-creating company culture
Aug 12th
I've worked with a number of large and small companies to help them develop a culture of content creation and there seems to be a few common themes that enable success. Here are some steps that launch a company toward a vibrant culture of content creation:
1. Use the whole buffalo
The first question many companies ask is, "Where is all of this content going to come from?" They don't realize they may already be sitting on a wealth of resources.
When native American Indians killed a buffalo for food they wasted nothing, using every part of the animal to make clothes, shelter, and weapons. Likewise, we should inventory all of our company content assets and leverage them to the max so that these existing investments are not wasted. Regular sources of superb content may already be coming to you through the form of:
- speeches
- customer presentations
- visits from guests and customers (why not do a video/)
- customer service bulletins
- investor communications
- marketing materials
- PR efforts
- employee newsletters
Try to extract as much value from the content you have by tailoring it to the social web and igniting it across multiple channels. Use your whole buffalo!
2. Start with passionate volunteers
Starting an initiative to create original content can come as a shock to an organization. One idea for success is to start where you are going to have the best chance for success — passionate volunteers.
My friend Jay Baer once said that "if you don't love social media you will suck at social media" … so find the people who already love it. In my mind this may be more important than finding people with writing ability or even marketing experience. Go to where the passion resides.
One company I work with started with five passionate volunteer bloggers and it grew to more than 200 in two years — organically! The enthusiasm spread from the passionate core.
3. Hire short-term help
It's not fair to "pile on" new content management duties when your people already have full-time jobs. When just starting out, think about hiring an outside editor to help you get going. The duties would include:
- Assisting with the content plan and keeping it on track
- Assuring that content goes through the proper internal reviews
- Editing volunteer content and making sure the content is appropriate and relevant
- Coaching company bloggers to help them improve
- Assure that blog comments and questions are being addressed
As your initiative grows, you will reach critical mass where you can consider hiring a full-time internal community manager to handle these tasks. Bring in an experienced resource to help give you your best chance for success.
4. Build-in quick wins
You need to "market your marketing" internally as well as externally. Reward bloggers and highlight their successes. One company maintains a leader board of bloggers who reach certain milestones and then rewards the top contributors with special events and company merchandise.
Build the opportunity for quick wins into your content marketing plan and promote with your internal leaders. Showing off the fun and success of your content team will get others interested in participating. Make it exciting. Build momentum.
5. Bring in some Top Guns
In addition to employee-created content, many companies also feature content from outside industry experts. Typically this is a paid assignment, but some authors are happy to do it for the exposure. This has a couple of strategic advantages:
- Adds instant credibility to your content marketing effort
- Provides third party validation to your company and brand
- Attracts fans of the author to your blog and to your company
- Can jump-start subscriptions and engagement
- Establishes a baseline of high quality "evergreen" content
So there you have it — Five ideas to help establish a "content culture." What ideas would you add? How do you transform a company into a content-creating machine?
Shut up and blog: How to create endless ideas for content!
Jul 23rd
Today I am going to share a subtle but critically important secret to developing an endless supply of fascinating social media content. It's an idea that seems so obvious … but I don't think I have ever seen it discussed before.
I have a backlog of nearly 200 possible blog post ideas. I hardly ever dip into this treasure trove because every week I am coming up with even more ideas that turn into the posts of the day. How do I keep the ideas coming?
It's quite a simple routine, but a discipline you must hone each day — I view my life through the lens of a blog post. I am constantly aware of ideas that interest me and consider how the experiences of my day could be turned into a story.
Perhaps it would be easier to show you instead of trying to describe this process. Here are examples where simply being aware of my environment led me to great blog post ideas.
- I saw a headline on a magazine cover — "Shut Up and Dance." What if I wrote a post called "Shut Up and Blog?" What would that look like? I captured the headline and here we are today.
- Pro Pro Ann Deeter Gallaher was preparing for a speech and sent me an email asking for my opinions on upcoming digital trends. I copied and pasted my answer into WordPress and my email response morphed into "7 Digital Marketing Trends to Embrace Now." (At last count, this little post had received more than 1,800 social shares!)
- My friend Alex Lavidge described an experiment on a Facebook post — For the next 100 days he's going to hand-write notes to people who have impacted him. I loved this idea and saw the potential for quite an interesting guest post. He's agreed to work on it.
- At a basketball game, I saw a confused basketball player score a basket for the opposing team. I thought to myself how awful it is to execute well against the wrong goal and this became "How Do I Develop a Strategy When the Target Keeps Moving?"
- The number one source of post ideas (by far) is simply paying attention to the questions people ask me. If they are curious about a subject, perhaps the readers of {grow} are too. When somebody asks a question my first response is to wonder if it would make a good post.
So you see, my catalog of new post ideas is not coming from any particular gift of personal insight or intellect. It's simply being aware of my environment and developing a nose for news.
Think about it this way. You are being bombarded with millions of sensory stimulations every day. People. Conversations. Images. Events. Surprises. Websites. Stories. Data. Isn't it likely that just one or two of these experiences could become an interesting and relevant story to tell your audience? The key is activating your mind's "blog" setting and not ignoring these daily provocations.
I think anybody can develop this habit. Any time you think to yourself "Wow that is cool (or interesting or disturbing or inspiring)" consider how the emotion you're feeling at that moment can be translated into a blog post. And then write it down somewhere!
Does this make sense to you? What process do you follow to create new content ideas?
Extreme content marketing with Julien Smith
Jul 18th
Click here if you can't view this video interview with Julien Smith.
How do you cut through the content marketing clutter?
"Get drunk — very drunk — come up with the craziest idea you can. Then, write about it. This really works."
Well, at least that's the advice of Julien Smith, one of the brightest and most provocative writers, intellects, and innovators on the social web today. He's perhaps best known as a pioneering podcaster and blogger, the co-author of a couple of books with Chris Brogan (including the seminal Trust Agents), and the mind behind the best-selling book The Flinch.
I've long-admired Julien and on my recent trip to his home town of Montreal I was pleased to be able to have breakfast with this amazing guy. We talked about "pushing content to the edge" and he was gracious enough to hang around for a short video interview where we explored some of the ideas from our conversation, including staying centered when the haters show up and Julien's 10-10-10 rule about handling content risk.
In this short video, Julien also talks about his latest venture, Breather — a rent-as-you-go place to relax and work in large cities. Be sure to check out this interview and let me know what you think about his ideas in the comment section below.
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Unusual writing advice from a person who shouldn't give writing advice
Jul 17th
By Mars Dorian, {grow} Contributing Columnist
I constantly strive to create a more compelling writing style. Not just for show.
We're living in a web age where access to information is omnipresent and soon robots will start cranking out perfect content. Pressure deluxe.
If we humans want to compete, we must establish an entrancing voice that bonds people to our writing. Like magnets on steroids. Let me tell you how.
Over the last few years, I have amassed myriad techniques that improve my writing ability, primarily because English is my second language and I need to hustle triple hard.
And it worked. I'm rid of my horrendous writing (English teacher: "Mars, you make too many mistakes. Your sentence structure is more twisted than curled spaghetti. I hope your career will never involve writing in English." Oops.)
And I've turned my mess of words into something that people enjoy reading … and even pay for.
So you might not think I am the best person to give you writing advice. But whether you're a native speaker or not, the following tips will help you create an unusual writing style that makes your content sparkle more than a diamond in the sky. Blinky dee blink.
Let's start with …
You x 3.
A popular post I wrote a century ago in the internet age (offline age: approx. two years) described a basic concept of amplifying your personal foibles and traits. Vamp up da volume. Crank up ze character. Times three.
Become a writing caricature for maximum attention effect.
Channel your favorite writer.
This is an effective technique I used to learn Japanese.
Pick your favorite writer, learn as much about him/her and pretend you're him/her before you create your content.
One of my current favorite authors is Chuck Palahniuk, who achieved world stardom through his debut novel Fight Club. I read the book 5+ times and channel his voice whenever I can. The goal is not to copy … but let their style influence yours and stream through to your readers.
Create your own dictionary.
My dictionary is called the Mars Dorian Primer, and it's an alphabetical list made with Scrivener, where I collect my word creations and unique expressions. I have the tab open 24/7, and whenever I come up with a new Dorian-worthy term, I type it in for for future reference. This allows me to create a Mars style vocabulary which I can incorporate into my writing. Half of the unusual expressions you see in this post were zipped over from my primer.
Read content that pushes your comfort zone.
You create what you consume. The more original the input, the more original the output.
Half of what I read is beyond my initial interest. I may have to push myself to maintain attention, but I want to absorb a different view. Recent examples:
- A book on how to spot psychopaths ("The Psychopath Test")
- The Bible
- A Young Adult novel about a meth addicted teenager girl and her alter ego, "the monster"
- Lyrics from artists I never listen to like Macklemore and Lana Del Rey
Why do I force myself to do this? Am I just a masochistic reader? Nah, not really. I'm just practical. If I only read what I liked, I'd end up with a stack of Japanese comics and self-help books. Boo-ring. Variety is the spice of style.
Make unusual connections.
Zzzzz. And your sentence is lame as lime. No cookies for you!
When you want to fire up your prose with visual devices, aim for unique metaphors and similes. Stereotypes like white as snow are out! Unless you're Snow White. Then you get a waiver.
Feel free to use your self-made dictionary to include unique connections. Here are some of mine:
Shiny as a crystal in the sky. As clean as white magic (white magic in the RPG world represents healing and protection). Enough passion to melt the moon.
Find unique visual descriptions that A) stand out and B) still remain somewhat clear.
As evil as a fish in Vegemite is unique, but what the heck does it mean? You may not even know Vegemite.
And last but not least:
Break the language when you want people to pay 100% attention.
I do this all the time. I call it my anti-scanner measure or auto-break.
Since a lot of people scan and eye fly over content, they miss most of what you want to say. If you want their full attention, you can break their flow but including unusual phrases, words and mistakes. I may use a germanized sentence, e.g. using 'ze' instead of 'the' or write error-filled phrases like this" "WHAT ZE HELL ARE YOU SIMPLIFYING THINGS MaRs YOU SAUERKrAUt SUCKING GERMAN?"
It's not a gimmick when it works. And it does work, based on Twitter mentions and messages I get about my style. People stop and pay attention.
Some of the methods above may seem unsettling. But if you want results that no one's achieving, you must do things no one else is doing.
I challenge you to re-think your writing approach if you want to craft compelling content. Never go auto-pilot. In a world of too much samey-samey, a uniquely crafted content style will stand out like a naked guy with a feather on his face.
Remember, style matters. Find that advantage. Treat your writing as a never ending artwork in progress.
Are you?
Mars Dorian describes himself as a creative marketeer with a moon-melting passion for human potential and technology. You can follow his adventures at www.marsdorian.com/
Original illustrations by the author.
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Latest Antennae Galaxies Stories
Using a battery of observatories that included the ALMA and the Hubble Space Telescope, astronomers have obtained the best view to date of a collision between two galaxies that took place when the universe was just a fraction of its current age.
Typically filled with only the oldest stars, which are relatively low in mass and appear red, giant elliptical galaxies have long baffled astronomers. These galaxies are mysteriously shut down with respect to star-forming activity
ESA's Herschel infrared space observatory has detected raging winds of molecular gas streaming away from galaxies.
New research on the Antennae Galaxies using the Advanced Camera for Surveys onboard the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope shows that this benchmark pair of interacting galaxies is in fact much closer than previously thought - 45 million light-years instead of 65 million light-years.
A new Hubble image of the Antennae galaxies is the sharpest yet of this merging pair of galaxies. As the two galaxies smash together, thousand of millions of stars are born, mostly in groups and clusters of stars.
Staring into the crowded, dusty core of two merging galaxies, NASA's Hubble Space Telescope has uncovered a region where star formation has gone wild. The interacting galaxies appear as a single, odd-looking galaxy called Arp 220.
Data from ISO, the infrared observatory of the European Space Agency (ESA), have provided the first direct evidence that shock waves generated by galaxy collisions excite the gas from which new stars will form. The result also provides important clues on how the birth of the first stars was triggered and speeded up in the early Universe.
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Two recent National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) decisions Hyundai America Shipping Agency, Inc., 357 N.L.R.B. No. 80 (2011) and Banner Health System, 358 N.L.R.B. No. 93 (2012) have altered the balance between an employer's understandable interest in confidential internal disciplinary investigations and an employee's right to discuss internal investigations with coworkers as provided by Section 7 of the National Labor Relations Act (NLRA). These cases reflect a shift from previous NLRB decisions that recognized the value of confidentiality pending employer investigations. The earlier decisions allowed employers to instruct employees not to discuss ongoing investigations where there was a business justification to maintain confidentiality of the investigative process. The more recent cases make clear that an employer's "generalized concern with protecting the integrity of its investigations is insufficient to outweigh employees' Section 7 rights." Banner Health System, 358 N.L.R.B., at * 7. Instead, employers who seek to lawfully instruct employees not to speak about an ongoing disciplinary investigation must first determine whether "witnesses need[ ] protection, evidence [is] in danger of being destroyed, testimony [is] in danger of being fabricated, or there [is] a need to a prevent a cover up." Id. at *8.
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Jaff Dacker and Matt Clark each hit a solo homer during a three-run seventh inning to lead the San Diego Padres to a 6-3 win over Los Angeles in front of 9,562 fans - the Angels' first home sellout of the spring. Angels slugger Albert Pujols gave many of the fans their money's worth with two hits in two at-bats with a sacrifice fly and an RBI. He narrowly missed a homer to left-center field in the sixth and settled for a double. Padres left-hander Clayton Richard made his first appearance on the mound since last July 4 and allowed two hits and a run in two innings.
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The Karnataka Science and Technology Academy has invited applications for scholarship from science students.
Undergraduate students who have passed their second year PUC with 70 per cent marks and obtained admission for B.Sc. and students who have passed B.Sc. with 75 per cent marks and received admission to PG courses in Botany, Zoology, Chemistry, Physics and Mathematics can apply. Those selected will receive scholarships of Rs. 7,500 (UG) and Rs. 12,500 (PG) annually.
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Young and outspoken actress Sonam Kapoor finds nothing wrong in signing a film contract with a no-pregnancy clause.
"It makes sense...it's professional," Sonam said here when asked of her views on a no-pregnancy clause for actresses in Hindi filmdom.
"I don't think there's anything wrong in that. It's professional. I think it's normal," she added.
Daughter of veteran actor Anil Kapoor, Sonam is 28 years old and an eligible bachelorette of the Hindi film industry.
The discussion on whether a no-pregnancy clause be included in an actress's contract started when rumours of Vidya Balan's pregnancy surfaced. Vidya had denied the reports about her pregnancy.
Even Shilpa Shetty had recently shared her opinion on the clause, saying that as long as a project is not delayed, it is okay to have a no-pregnancy clause for actresses.
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i really think Sonam so should look at how we operate on the other side of the ocean.
It's against the law not to hire someone because she could become pregnanat. companies are fined and dragged through the mud. I love how she is vocal, but she should do research before statements like this.
She's still quite immature!
I have heard about hollywood actresses who had given nude sex scenes while they were fully pregnant and through camera, they would take the pregnancy belly out, then everything is all good, i don't think anybody should have the right to put conditions on a women's body.
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Should Dads Kiss Their Daughters on the Lips?
When my girl was little, she enjoyed my parental displays of affection. She would giggle with delight when I smothered her with kisses all over her head, her hands, her tummy and her little lips. Like many families do, we said hello, goodbye, good morning and goodnight with kisses. But unlike some, our kisses were often applied directly to the lips.
I think giving a child a peck on the mouth is a perfectly natural way to express love. But based on a letter received by advice columnist Margot Howard, not everyone agrees. An anonymous woman, who signed her letter "Want My Husband's Lips for Myself," finds her husband's habit of kissing his 5-year-old daughter on the mouth to be "a sexual gesture and very inappropriate."
It is worth noting that the letter-writer is not the biological parent of the daughter being kissed. She's a stepmother and it seems to me that she's threatened by the affection her new husband feels for his daughter. Or is the problem one of gender? Is a dad kissing his daughter on the lips perceived differently than a mother doing the same thing?
I never gave parents kissing children on the lips much thought until I saw Barack Obama doing it with his daughters during the 2008 presidential campaign. The gesture caught my attention for two reasons. First, I realized that I don't see many dads expressing affection in this way and I thought it was sweet. Also, I couldn't believe that at the ages of 10 and 7, Sasha and Malia were letting him kiss them in public.
Somewhere around the age of five, my own girl began turning her cheek when I leaned in for a smack. This was her way of saying she no longer wanted to be kissed on the lips and I respected that. These days, I am lucky to be offered the top of her head when I try to kiss her.
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Welcome to the Engine Research Center
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"The engine is the ideal teaching tool – it features all of the elements of engineering: materials, fluids, thermodynamics, lubrication, chemistry, electronics, etc. The only thing missing is nuclear reaction."
The Engine Research Center (ERC) is world-leading research and educational institution dedicated to investigating the fundamental thermo-physical processes that control combustion performance and the pollutant emissions formed during combustion in internal combustion engines. The problems are approached with a unique combination of modeling and experimental capabilities. This work is supported by fundamental studies of fluid mechanics, heat transfer, combustion, sprays, emissions, laser diagnostics and after-treatment systems.
Research in the ERC spans from small spark-ignition engines to heavy-duty diesel engines, and a major focus is on low-temperature modes of combustion.
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ERC T-25 get-together at 2015 SAE Congress
This year we will be holding the T-25/ERC get-together on TUESDAY morning, April 21st starting at 8:00AM in the basement food court at the Renaissance Center in Detroit. We would be most pleased to see you again and to re-establish old ties.
For those attending the SAE Congress, the schedule of presentation of ERC papers can be viewed here.
2014 SAE John Johnson Award
The 2014 SAE John Johnson (ERC - PhDME '64) Award for Outstanding Research in Diesel Engines has been awarded for SAE paper 2014-01-1256 (doi:10.4271/2014-01-1256) "A CFD Study of Post Injection Influences on Soot Formation and Oxidation under Diesel-Like Operating Conditions," by Randy Hessel and Rolf Reitz (Univ. of Wisconsin), Mark Musculus (Sandia National Labs.), Jacqueline O'Connor (Pennsylvania State Univ.) and Daniel Flowers (Lawrence Livermore National Lab.) The prime conclusion from the paper regarding the in-cylinder mechanism of soot reduction by post injections is that the simulations predict that short post injections increase the rate of fuel burning, thereby reducing the soot precursor species (vapor fuel) concentration, leading to lower soot formation.
Alum receives SAE 2014 Outstanding Young Engineer award
Chad Koci (BSME '06, MSME '08) received the 2014 SAE International/AEM Outstanding Young Engineer Award.. The award recognizes an outstanding young engineer in the off-highway or powerplant industry. Established in 1996, the award was proposed by senior engineering executives and is administered under the auspices of the SAE Engineering Meetings Board in cooperation with AEM.
Courses: Valvetrain Workshop, Diesel Engine Performance and Fundamentals of Engine System Controls
In partnership with the Department of Engineering Professional Development, ERC is offering courses in Valvetrain Workshop (May 12-14), Diesel Engine Performance (June 8-9) and Fundamentals of Engine System Controls (June 10-12).
ERC Symposium: 2025 Emissions and Fuel Economy
ERC is proud to announce the latest entry in its biennial symposium series, to be held on June 3-4th, 2015, on topics of 2025 Emissions and Fuel Economy.
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ERC Award Recipients at the 2015 SAE World Congress
January 2015
The 2015 SAE World Congress awards ceremony will include an Engine Research Center technical paper award. Derek Splitter, who completed his PhD degree in 2012 and currently works at Oakridge National Laboratory, is this year's winner of the 2014 SAE Myers Award for Outstanding Student Paper. The paper that he is cited for was SAE Int. J. Engines 7(2):2014, doi:10.4271/2014-01-1325, " Improving the understanding of Intake and Charge effects for increasing RCCI engine efficiency." This award is given annually for the best technical paper presented by a student. The paper must be based on work done by the lead author(s) while a student. The award recognizes ERC founder Phil Myers and his wife Jean for their lifelong devotion to students and SAE. Derek's co-authors on the papers include Martin Wissink, Dan DelVescovo, and Rolf Reitz of the University of Wisconsin – Madison


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Review: I've eaten at La Mano Verde (LMV) at least 15 times, so of course I love LMV's food. However I have a major complaint: their really bad (!) service! LMV always points out how they are all about haute cuisine (which their food is), but that also should say something about a certain level of service (and theirs isn't). This time around it took two hours for our main dishes to get to the table, and when we complained about all our plates and dishes being cold (they were NOT raw food), the owner just said that it can't be. Great, so five people can't tell if their dishes are cold or not. Really?! And what really disturbs me is that the owner always has his thumb in the dishes he brings to the tables. Gross! Once he even collected a drop from the wine bottle neck at our table with his (unwashed) finger and slurp it up right in front of us (I was lucky that I don't drink wine). Not only that this is not haute cusine-style, it really is gross. We also always had too look after the waiter to serve us, instead of him looking out for us. Since I love LMV's food I will keep going to eat there, but their service is so terrible that I have to warn everybody to not expect a service that comes anything close to what haute cuisine is all about. I just wish LMV would realize how they really need to improve their terrible, terrible service.
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When Les Paul & Friends: American Made World Played dropped in 2005, it made history. Produced by Bob Cutarella and Fran Cathcart, it brought Eric Clapton, Buddy Guy, Sam Cooke, Steve Miller, and many others into the studio to play with guitar pioneer Les Paul. That recording earned two Grammys in 2006.
There was big news over the weekend! Nearing the end of their massive US tour, the Disco Biscuits rumbled through two sold out shows last Friday and Saturday night, at the Ogden Theater in Denver, and it won't be long before the Biscuits are back again. The big news was the announcement of a headlining show at the most spectacular venue in the country – Red Rocks Amphitheater in Morrison, CO. For die-hard Dis
With the famous Vermont jam quartet making their triumphant return to the road this year, one can only wonder what kind of energy and style they will bring to those live performances. Phish has always been open to reinventing themselves throughout the years, and they very well may invoke something fresh this time around.
He's been known to show a mandolin and viola who is boss, while still keeping his humble frontman persona intact. A modest yet instrumentally explosive enigma, Drew Emmitt captures the attention of the audience as if they were a herd of famished field mice lured in by a hefty corncake crumb.
Just looking at them, the five members making up the current line up of 1970's band Head East may look like a bunch of older guys with long hair and guitars. Get them plugged in and playing though, and they give a performance just as impressive and rocking as ever before.
It may have been a weeknight, but I saw that as no reason to stay in. Anytime of any day or night is a good time for rock and roll, but last Thursday was a particularly noteworthy occasion. One of the most exciting guitarists around was in town at the Fox Theatre, and I wasn't about to miss him. I'm talking about Luther Dickinson, shredder-extraordinaire of the North Mississippi Allstars, and more recently, of a little side project that Chris
An historic transition is underway in the music industry. The digital age is causing the rapidly occurring obsolescence of solid-state media – records, CDs, and the like – right before our eyes. It's sink or swim time for the recording industry and artists alike: either get on board and innovate your marketing for the 21st century, or cling to a dying system and go down with the ship. Fortunately for the music-loving public, intelligent artists are choosing to swim, often leaving their record labels behind in favor of more consumer-driven approaches, despite the fact that the Recording I
After a month of 25 and 35 below temperatures, North Dakota was treated to a tropical warm up of monstrous musical proportions. Last weekend, the Hub Entertainment Complex hosted an all day indoor festival on two stages: The intimate Cadillac Ranch stage and the bigger, more open Venue stage.
They started in a Jamaican town originally established to house refugees of an earthquake. Today they are the most influential reggae act of the 21st century, responsible for shaking up the scene with their conscious-raising sound.
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Orange Pinwheels
|Frozen puff pastry
|17 1⁄4 Ounce (3/4 Package, Thawed)
|Ground almonds
|25 Gram (1/4 Cup)
|Orange jelly/Marmalade
|1 Tablespoon
|Orange liqueur
|1 Teaspoon
|Egg yolk
|1 , beaten
|Hot water
|1 Tablespoon
On a floured surface, roll out puff pastry dough to a 15-inch (37.5-cm) square.
Divide into sixteen 3-1/2-inch (8.5-cm) squares, leaving 2 strips of dough for later use.
Cut diagonally in from the corners of each square towards the center, leaving dough joined in the center to hold filling.
To make filling, combine almonds, orange jelly or marmalade and orange-flavored liqueur in a small bowl.
Place a little filling in the center of each square.
Fold points of 4 cut corners to the center to make pinwheels.
Press down firmly and brush with egg yolk.
Cut out 16 small rounds from remaining dough and place in the center of each pinwheel.
Brush with egg yolk.
Sprinkle a baking sheet with cold water.
Place pinwheels on dampened baking sheet.
Refrigerate 15 minutes.
Preheat oven to 425°F (220°C).
Bake pinwheels 10 to 12 minutes or until puffed and golden.
Transfer to a rack.
To make frosting, blend powdered sugar and water in a small bowl.
Spoon frosting over pinwheels while they are still warm.
Sprinkle with chopped pistachios before frosting sets.


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Saviours And Survivors: Darfur, Politics And The War On Terror
|Mahmood Mamdani (ed.)
Published by: Human Sciences Research Council Press, 2009
Reviewed by Karanja Mbugua, Senior Analyst with ACCORD's Peacemaking Unit
In the African Journal on Conflict Resolution Volume 9 No. 1, 2009
The conflict in Darfur, Sudan, has attracted a tremendous amount of attention in the last six years. Scholars, humanitarian organisations and investigative commissions and panels sponsored by the African Union and the United Nations have produced a large amount of information and analyses regarding the context, actors, causes and consequences, underlying goals and interests, and other dynamics that have been driving the conflict. These analyses, which reflect the different views and interests of the various groups in Sudan and in the West, are human rights, political science or anthropological narratives of Darfur in particular, and Sudan in general.


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6 Reasons 'Upgrading' Your Engagement Ring Is Bad for Your Marriage
6 Reasons 'Upgrading' Your Engagement Ring Is Bad for Your Marriage
For many people who marry young, the engagement ring of their dreams is far, far out of their reach. I know when my husband and I married, I had dreams of multiple carats, but my graduate student husband had more affordable plans. We got the ring he could afford at the time, which is a lovely three-stone ring, a carat in the middle and a quarter carat on each side. I love it.
But now that we have been married 10 years, I am aware of the fact that what he could afford NOW would be much more grand. And when I hang out with local women, sometimes I am aware that their diamonds are just a bit more BLING than my pretty, subtle ring. But you know what? I wouldn't change it for anything.
Of course, I may be alone in that thinking. A lot of women think it's perfectly normal to upgrade or otherwise enhance or change up their wedding set. I don't judge it. Exactly. But I do wonder why. Here are 6 reasons to keep the ring you got at your wedding:
- It will keep you young: There isn't a time I look down at my finger and DON'T feel the same giddy 24-year-old excitement I felt the day he put that ring on my finger. My hands might be older now, but that eternal youth remains.
- He picked it: To me, there is just something wildly romantic about a man picking a ring for me himself. Regardless of whether it would be the ring I would choose myself, it's the ring HE chose and is, therefore, very romantic.
- More important things to spend money on: I don't know about you, but I would feel a little silly spending $25K on a diamond ring right now. We may be able to swing it (maybe), but I would feel terribly guilty and like that money would do better in my kid's college funds.
- Family heirlooms: The ring I pass on to my daughter needs to be the one her father gave me. Sure, I could buy myself a fancier one, but it wouldn't have the same meaning and story attached as the one he handed to me on the day he proposed.
- I love it: OK, OK, I admit that I do love my ring. If it were teensy tiny, I may feel differently, or if it was too crazy big and embarrassed me, I might not wear it, but I do think it's a good size and I love looking at it.
- It brings it all back: Sometimes I take off my wedding band and just look at the ring I wore for a year before we married while we still had youth and excitement on our side. Not sure I would feel that way about a different ring.
Would you ever "upgrade" your ring?
I decided that I wanted to get a slightly bigger ring. We went out and picked out a new engagement ring and band. I got it and wore it for a couple of weeks and then I decided that I really did love my first ring. It had sentimental value to me so we returned the set I got and I've been wearing my original ring. I don't want a new ring, the one I have is mine and I love it.
No I wouldnt upgrade it. I think it is perfect and beautiful and most important meaningful and sentimental. It's irreplaceable to me and he put his own love and thought and energy into choosing it for me as I did when I bought his ring.
No I wouldn't. The ring DH got for me is pretty small...he was only 19 when he proposed so he couldn't really afford a whole lot. But I love it and it means so much to me.
He did actually buy me an anniversary ring that matched my wedding band a few years back. I wear that with my wedding ring and I wear my engagement ring on the right hand. I never go a day without wearing it.
Though the ring was too big when he gave it to me and I didn't want to give it back to be resized. Now 10 years later it still needs to be risized lol I don't like parting with it.
OMG I thought I was the only one that did that lol. Sometimes when I take my rings off. I will just put my engagement ring on and admire the simple elegance and remember the early years.
My rings aren't big and flashy. They're showing the wear and tear of being worn every day for a very long time and that makes them all the more special to me.
I lost my ring and we went and bought a new set...every time I looked at it I saw the price tag and the fact that I helped pick it out.
I took it back. I just have a cheap ring now in hopes that someday I will find that ring that that 17 yr old boy bought!
We are upgrading to a 10k ring. My original ring was ruined so I unable to give it to my daughter. I did love it but hubby always wanted to upgrade it. Now that it's gone I might as well let him.
I would have felt silly spending the money if it wasn't in the budget but we have been saving for it since vday (in a separate account) so when our anniversary comes in July we wont feel bad using the extra funds for that.
The first one was special bc of the time in our life, that he wanted it for me and it meant all the future plans we had as young kids. The new one will be special for the same reasons and it will also remind us what we have accomplished. I helped pick the first one and hubby actually picked the second on his own... That means a lot too.


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High School Leagues
High School Summer Lacrosse at Hart Park - Boy's
High School Summer League at Hart Park in Wauwatosa.
This is open to rising high school players of all levels and skill. Players can register individually or as a team. Full registration is needed for each player.
The Draft of all unsigned players will be conducted on June 8th and posted that day. Considerations will be made for carpools, position, age and experience. Register early!
All games will be refereed by certified officials. Players will receive a Hot4Lax reversible tank top.
Coaches will include college players, coaches and high school coaches. .
Hart Park Stadium Field
7200 W. State Street
Wauwatosa, WI 53213
Boy's High school - Tuesday, June 16th to July 28th
Time: 6:00-8:00 pm.
Early bird registration through June 9th - $115
Regular registration through June 16th - $125
On site registration - $140
Nightly drop in - $25
Team Registration of up to 20 players - $1,850
replacement jersey - $20
Register online through the Registration tab.
WI Act 172 - Concussion Information
On April 2, 2012 the Wisconsin Legislature passed Act 172, a law requiring that all athletes, parents, and coaches participating in youth or High School athletic activity acknowledge by signature that they have been informed about the effects and symptoms of concussion before participating in the sport.


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Ohio Wesleyan University freshman Cay Johnson, of Hilliard, writes a letter to herself, part of several orientation activities designed to acclimate and encourage the new OWU students. "I hope you studied hard because you deserve to be here," she wrote in the letter that will be mailed to her at the end of her first semester. Johnson said she added $10 to her letter to ensure she had some money left at the end of the semester.
Orientation leader Hannah Simpson, a junior at Ohio Wesleyan University, helps freshmen Kim Liang, of Palo Alto, California, and Kenya Dumetz II, of San Francisco, with activities during the last day of New Student Orientation Saturday. Orientation leaders help new students learn their way around campus and town and understand dorm and college life.
When new students move to Ohio Wesleyan University's dorms, they are assisted by orientation leaders – older students who can help the freshman learn the ropes at the school. Students began orientation Thursday and wrapped up their final organized orientation activities Saturday. OWU has a total enrollment around 1,850 students from 42 states and 37 counties. About 53 percent of OWU students are Ohio residents and 25 percent are international and U.S. multicultural students.


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This is a delicious non alcoholic summer drink.
½ peeled cucumber cut into 1 inch slices
2 peeled limes cut in half
3 sprigs of mint
8 ounces of coconut water
½ cup of ice
pinch of salt (optional)
1/4 cup stevia
1 teaspoon xylitol or honey to cover stevia taste
Blend all ingredients until it is smoothie consistency. Makes 2 servings.


text: This luxurious and expansive Gulf-front home on 1.84 acres offers more than 12,000 square feet featuring seven bedrooms, seven full bathrooms, and two half baths, each bedroom has ensuite baths, walk-in closets and walk-in showers, whirlpool tub, double sinks, and morning kitchens. The great room and large breakfast nook provide breathtaking Gulf views, with gulf-front gorgeous pool and spa. Enjoy a gourmet chef's kitchen with wine cooler, dumbwaiter, elevator, master suite with his and her baths plus morning kitchen and office, walk-in closets, state-of-the-art surround sound theater, integrated audio visual system, arcade game area and outdoor kitchen with JennAir gas grill. This home was the Aurora Award Recipient in 2010 for Innovative Design. This gorgeous home was designed and built by Lucia Designs located in Winter Park, FL.


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Survey: Shaken by Salt, Consumers Go Back to Basics With Truly Natural, Fresh Foods
LIVINGSTON, Calif., June 3 /PRNewswire/ — The nation's attention to salt shows no signs of letting up. Leading health organizations like the Institute of Medicine are calling on the FDA to set formal sodium standards. The FDA has outlined a plan for proposed regulation and some food producers have already pledged to reduce sodium content. But consumers are impatient for action.
A new survey released today by West Coast poultry producer Foster Farms, reveals that consumers are paying more attention to sodium than ever, believe sodium levels should never have been as high in the first place, and are taking action to ensure the foods they depend on for healthy meals aren't loaded with salt. Today marks the expansion of Foster Farms' "Say No to Plumping" consumer awareness campaign dedicated to emphasizing the family-owned company's longtime commitment to never "plumping" its fresh, raw chicken with added sodium, saltwater or preservatives.
To gauge current consumer mindsets about salt, Foster Farms commissioned an NSON Opinion Strategy survey of 1,000 West Coast consumers in April. The survey found that the majority of consumers are highly aware of sodium intake and are increasingly skeptical of "natural" and "healthy" labels. Consumers overwhelmingly prefer fresh, minimally processed foods for a healthy diet. The survey also found that consumers are now highly aware of added sodium in supposedly healthy foods like "plumped" chicken.
- 77% of consumers polled watch sodium intake at least some of the time, with 62% watching intake all or most of the time now, compared to 53% last year.
- 70% believe that even food labeled "natural" or "healthy" can be harmful to health. Just 4% of consumers consider foods labeled "natural" to be the healthiest choice.
- While 55% of consumers believe that foods low in sodium can be considered healthy, the vast majority of consumers (90%) ultimately trust fresh, minimally processed foods as truly healthy and natural.
- 70% say it is unnecessary for companies to engineer lower salt alternatives like "designer" salt and that companies should have kept sodium naturally low in the first place.
- 62% are concerned by what they read on food labels. 30% feel "overwhelmed." One third of consumers feel that shopping for healthy foods has become too complicated. These consumers don't know "who or what to trust" and feel that the "rules" of what constitutes healthy food are always changing.
- The majority of consumers (56%) feel that labels are only somewhat accurate (and therefore less reliable).
- 70% of consumers are now aware that some fresh, raw, unseasoned chicken labeled 'natural' at the grocery store may have been injected or plumped with up to 15% or $1.50 worth of saltwater. This compared to 37% percent last year. 86% say they don't think fresh chicken plumped with saltwater should be allowed to be labeled "natural."
Today, with the majority of consumers now aware of and concerned about "plumping" – or the practice of some chicken companies injecting fresh chicken with saltwater and labeling it "natural,"- Foster Farms launches the second phase of its "Say No to Plumping" (www.saynotoplumping.com) consumer education campaign to help consumers identify and avoid higher sodium, fresh chicken products while promoting label integrity in the quest for healthy foods.
"We launched 'Say No to Plumping' last year to make consumers more aware of hidden sodium in fresh foods, specifically fresh, raw chicken," said Ira Brill, Director of Communications for Foster Farms. "This survey affirms not only that we succeeded in raising awareness, but that consumers care enough to take action. More than 50,000 consumers have already signed a petition urging the USDA to stop allowing 'plumped' chicken to be labeled 'natural.' It's a sign that there is a growing consumer movement to reclaim 'natural' and choose simple, fresh foods that they don't have to decode."
"This year, we want to inspire consumers to spread the word further, take action against misleading labeling, and help their family and friends know what to look for in healthy foods," continues Brill. "Fresh chicken is a staple for many families' healthy diets and consumers should be able to trust that they are getting the nutritious ingredient they expect, not a salt-laden imitation."
Foster Farms' "Say No to Plumping" program includes the return of the infamous Foster Imposters in the company's popular Shady Surgeon and Supermarket advertisements on television (available online at www.fosterfarms.com), refreshed content on its website, www.saynotoplumping.com, and upcoming promotions on Facebook (www.Facebook.com/SayNotoPlumping). The campaign will be brought to life at consumer events and festivals throughout the West Coast all summer long. Supporters of "Say No to Plumping" are encouraged to take action by signing a petition to the USDA prohibiting the labeling of "plumped" chicken as "natural" on the campaign's interactive website (www.saynotoplumping.com/petition.) The Foster Farms website, www.fosterfarms.com, features low-sodium recipes, as well as shopping and eating tips from the company's nutritionist.
"Consumers are fed up with having to over-think food," said Nancy Bennett, MS, RD, CDE, Foster Farms' nutritionist. "An easy solution is to stick to foods that you know are good choices: 70% of our sodium intake actually comes from processed foods. So to really reduce salt in your diet, aim to eat most of your foods in their purest, simplest form. For chicken, that means sticking to fresh, raw chicken with less than 75 mg of sodium per serving."
Label comparisons of fresh chicken reveal that one four-ounce serving of plumped chicken could contain as much as 440 mg of sodium, over 500% more than truly natural chicken(1). Based on the Center for Disease Control's dietary guidelines of 1500 mg per day or less(2) of sodium, eating just one, unseasoned serving of some brands' poultry could add up to nearly a third of the recommended daily intake. From an economic standpoint, it also means that a family of four could spend more than $150 annually on saltwater alone(3).
About Say No to Plumping
Foster Farms' launched Say No to Plumping in 2009 to promote the brand's longtime commitment to truly natural fresh chicken. Unlike its competitors, since its 1939 founding, Foster Farms has never injected its fresh chicken labeled 100% Natural with sodium, saltwater or any other preservative. For more information, visit www.saynotoplumping.com.
About Foster Farms
Since 1939, West Coast families have depended on Foster Farms for premium quality chicken and turkey products. Family-owned and operated, the company continues its legacy of excellence and commitment to quality established by its founders, Max and Verda Foster. Foster Farms specializes in fresh, all natural chicken and turkey products free of preservatives, additives or injected sodium enhancers. Based in California's Central Valley, with ranches also in the Pacific Northwest, the company's fresh chicken and turkey are produced in or near each region served. Foster Farms also produces delicious pre-marinated, ready-to-cook and fully cooked products that meet the quality and convenience needs of today's home cooks, retailers, warehouse clubs and foodservice customers. The company's commitment to excellence, honesty, quality, service, and people is a source of great pride, and, a longtime family tradition.
(1) Foster Farms all-natural chicken breasts contain 67 mg of sodium per serving.
(2) "Application of Lower Sodium Intake Recommendations to Adults — United States, 1999–2006." Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report. 27 March 2009.
(3) Average chicken consumption of 86 lbs/capita per year (USDA), average price for chicken breast at $3.33/lb (USDA) and up to 15% saltwater content by weight (Truthful Labeling Coalition).
SOURCE Foster Farms


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|One exhausted Pup
Saturday, September 24, 2011
So Proud of Jasper
Last year at Poodles in the Park, Jasper won the naughtiest poodle. This year he moved that tail and won the Waggiest Tail.
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Oh, how cute to boot is that...what fun...we should do that in our town.ReplyDelete
Cheers Nic
Well done, he looks very pleased with him selfReplyDelete
love his bed
Congratulations Jasper! Let me shake your paw! Keep that tail waggin' Hugs, Sandy. :)ReplyDelete
Yay for waggy tails! Congratulations Jasper.ReplyDelete
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Critical Review by Denis Donoghue
SOURCE: "Poetic Anger," in The New York Times Book Review, April 21, 1996, pp. 32-3.
In the review below, Donoghue faults the themes and tone of Dark Fields of the Republic, claiming that "each of the poems is interesting mainly because [Rich wrote it."]
Adrienne Rich publishes a new volume of her poetry every three or four years and, less frequently, books of prose on major concerns, especially themes ad feminam. Her readers treasure these books, I imagine, as a series of journals or notebooks, leaflets—evidence of Ms. Rich's desiring, thinking and feeling, her distinctive ways of being alive. As she wrote in The Dream of a Common Language, "The story of our lives becomes our lives."
It hardly matters, then, except to the history of American poetry, that few of her new poems achieve the autonomy of a work of art, floating free of their autobiographical contexts. Each of the poems is interesting mainly because she wrote it: the words return to their speaker and document her public life. I find her new poems hard to memorize; they slip in and out of my mind as many of her earlier poems don't, the poems that generations of readers continue to recite for pleasure and companionship. My short list of those includes "Ideal Landscape," "The Middle-Aged," "Holiday," "Necessities of Life," "In the Woods," "The Roofwalker," "Face to Face," "Like This Together," "Open-Air Museum," "Two Songs," "The Demon Lover," "Night Watch" and "After Dark."
Ms. Rich's first book was A Change of World (1951). In his foreword to it, W. H. Auden said that "poems are analogous to persons" and that "the poems a reader will encounter in this book are neatly and modestly dressed, speak quietly but do not mumble, respect their elders but are not cowed by them, and do not tell fibs." Since then, Ms. Rich has exercised her will to change. The poems in Dark Fields of the Republic are not notable for modesty of dress, they never mumble but they do not always speak quietly, they repudiate their elders as if on principle, and if they do not tell fibs they sometimes say things that are not true.
It is not true, for instance, as Ms. Rich says in "Food Packages: 1947," that "Europe is trying / to revive / with the Jews somewhere else." That is not what Europe was trying to do in 1947. It is not true—or at least not adequate to a complex truth—that there was a moment in American public life
when the name of compassion
was changed to the name of guilt
when to feel with a human stranger
was declared obsolete.
Declared by whom? I wish the poet would name names instead of resorting to the diffuse incrimination of the passive voice. Nor is it true of "our country" that it has "its own ways of making people disappear." Ms. Rich well knows that "disappear" is an emphatic word in the vocabulary of state-enforced murder, and not only in Latin America. "Our country" is not justly to be compared with China, the Soviet Union, Chile, South Africa, Guatemala, Bosnia or any other state that has effected the disappearance of millions. But perhaps a poet is not on oath when she is angry, as Ms. Rich regularly is.
Over the course of many books, she has been turning her life into poetry, her poetry back into her life. She has written of herself as child, daughter, wife—the woe that is in marriage, "this sin / of wedlock"—and mother. "Mother I no more am, / but woman, and nightmare."
She has interrogated the values of home, homelessness, homesickness and shelter. She has also written of the body in pain, of living in a bad world ("a land-mass / puffed up with bad faith and fatigue") and of sundry fears oppressive in "turbid America." In many poems and essays, too. Ms. Rich has been reflecting on her most insistent theme, "the naked and unabashed failure of patriarchal politics and patriarchal civilization." Writing of these difficult ordinary matters, she has become a heroine to many, a representative woman—feminist, socialist, lesbian. Readers who do not share these avocations and commitments still like to have them articulated: it is a matter of conscience. Ms. Rich's poems in Necessities of Life (1968), Leaflets (1969) and Diving Into the Wreck (1973) keep us alert to feelings we may no longer otherwise hold. Her more recent books are not as pointed as those, though each of them has fine poems. As a poet, Ms. Rich has had difficulty coping with the fact that it is no longer 1968 or 1974: the exacerbations are different now and not quite answerable to the rhetorical means she devised for those gone occasions. The dark fields of the republic—F. Scott Fitzgerald's phrase in The Great Gatsby—are sufficient grounds of dismay, but not of anger immediate enough to hurt Ms. Rich into her most telling poetry. As in previous books, she is determined to be glum, but the engaged poems of the new book haven't found enough to be engaged by; they are abstracted from detail no longer there in the old way. Ms. Rich says of the new sequence "Then or Now" that "the poems owe much … to the continuing pressure of events," but she hasn't made us see the events or feel their pressure.
It is not surprising that the themes of the new book have not impelled Ms. Rich to mine all the resources of the language. She has long chosen to speak directly and simply, though she knows that "obscurity has its tale to tell." She has put her language on a thin diet, as if she associated the plenitude of her old music with triviality and corruption. I can't reconcile myself to the loss, and I read aloud "The Loser" to remind myself of poetic pleasures Ms. Rich has now largely disavowed. In this poem from Snapshots of a Daughter-in-Law (1963), a man speaks of the woman he once loved:
Your wedding made my eyes ache; soon
the world would be worse off for one
more golden apple dropped to ground
without the least protesting sound,
and you would windfall lie, and we
forget your shimmer on the tree.
"Windfall lie" may echo the "leafmeal lie" of Gerard Manley Hopkins's "Spring and Fall." But that is not a flaw, the stanza moves to its own rhythm. In another early poem, "Continuum," Ms. Rich speaks of someone
whose voice
I may never hear, but go on hoping
to hear, tonight, tomorrow, someday,
as I go on hoping to feel
tears of mercy in the of course impersonal rain.
Ms. Rich is mindful of a degree of the pathetic fallacy in "tears of mercy," but mindful also of the due claim of that hope: she respects the feeling just as much as her vigilance in guarding against its presumption.
I have quoted these passages to indicate the sacrifice Ms. Rich has made in securing the thin lines of her recent poetry. She has elected to do without copiousness, ambiguity, historical weight and density, "the old masters, the old sources," humor, wit, the play of word upon word. "We are our words, and black and bruised and blue." she wrote in "The Demon Lover." But in Dark Fields of the Republic it is hard to feel that the words are black and bruised and blue when they appear for the most part self-protected, insured against catastrophe as against joy:
I was telling you a story about love
how even in war it goes on speaking its own language
Yes you said but the larynx is bloodied
the knife was well-aimed into the throat
Well I said love is hated it has no price
No you said you are talking about feelings
Have you ever felt nothing? that is what war is now
Then a shadow skimmed your face
Go on talking in a normal voice you murmured
Nothing is listening.
One of the attractions of Ms. Rich's poems has been the sense that they are conversations from which you and I are not excluded; but I wouldn't want to take part in this one. The fluency of the poem is gained by making its words weightless: war and love are not experiences burdened with particular fear, actual pain; they are notions between which the speakers glide. I don't believe in the knife, the larynx or the throat: they, too, are mere notions. Nor do I believe the fib that war has become nothing. It is not nothing to those who suffer it, or return home, homeless, destroyed by it.
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Election years are always rich with possibilities for editorial cartoonists: They've got a new lineup of faces, mannerisms and quirks to parody in the least flattering way possible.
Newt Gingrich often came off looking like a scheming hobbit, Mitt Romney like a sickly Ward Cleaver. Barack Obama's lips and ears seemed to grow in contrast to past years, as cartoonists became more comfortable with the landmine-rich challenge of portraying a black president without crossing certain lines. They crossed them anyway.
But there was plenty of other fodder, some of it tragic, from Newtown to Superstorm Sandy to Penn State. The best of the nation's cartoonists were able to segue from satire and well-deserved mockery to heartfelt pain and shared grief as the circumstances demanded.
One basic truth about political cartoons remained intact: Cartoons that lampooned the idiocy of people or institutions on the other side of the ideological fence were always funny, and cartoons lampooning things dear to the observer's heart were not. Some of the most outraged readers we encountered were people offended by political cartoons. That speaks to the strength and limitations of this unique medium: Boiling down oftentimes-complicated subjects to a single panel with a single caption requires a deft touch -- or an unnecessarily brutal haymaker, depending on one's point of view.
Newspaper political cartoons have been around since before this country's founding. At left are some of the best from 2012.


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Plans to apply for accreditation by end of 2013
The Government Hospital (GH), Tirupattur, has initiated the process for obtaining accreditation from the National Accreditation Board for Hospitals and Healthcare Providers (NABH).
A. Kennedy, project coordinator of Tamil Nadu Health Systems Project (TNHSP), Vellore, told The Hindu that the State government had selected the Tirupattur hospital for NABH accreditation. "There are standards to be fulfilled for the accreditation and we are in the process of preparing the hospitals," he said.
In order to obtain NABH accreditation, hospitals should fulfil 102 standards and 636 objective elements, he said, adding, "Infrastructure has to be developed. For this, we had sent a proposal for a building and a sum of Rs. 4.4 crore has been allocated. We have also started training programmes for doctors and nurses of the Tirupattur Government Hospital."
In NABH standards, there are 10 chapters, of which five are patient-centred concentrating on benefitting patients. The remaining are on management processes to improve the hospital. Doctors and nurses are being trained chapter-wise, he explained.
The hospital administration on Tuesday informed the team from World Bank that the process for getting NABH accreditation had commenced in January this year. Various committees had been formed and gaps identified. Some of the gaps were absence of separate medical records department and lack of modern kitchen at the hospital.
The World Bank team led by expert adviser Sundararajan asked the hospital administration on the estimated timeline to complete the process for NABH accreditation. The doctors said that they were planning to apply for the accreditation by the end of 2013.
Skill development training to healthcare providers was also being carried out at the hospital. Quality of services was being ensured by way of quality care indicators, the authorities added.
A senior doctor of the Tirupattur Government Hospital said NABH accreditation would ensure standardisation of the hospital. "Quality of healthcare facilities and services need to be improved to meet the parameters laid down for obtaining NABH accreditation. The standard of medical and paramedical staff, laboratory, wards and all other facilities should go up," he said.


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Swimsuit season is nearly here. Are you ready for the beach? There are loads of beaches in the national parks -- even a few "clothing optional" ones for people who don't like tan lines. This week's quiz will assess your knowledge of all kinds of beaches in the national parks. Answers are at the end. No peeking.
Bridges are among the most favored of all human structures. They serve us well, make a bold visual statement, and open the door to a storehouse of memories and relationships. Who doesn't admire the elegantly clean lines of suspension bridges? Who can look at a covered bridge without thinking of a halcyon time when life was simpler and slower and friendlier?
Like the other publications in the Journals Unlimited "Write it Down" series, Let's Go See All 50! is rooted in this simple philosophy: "Life is an adventure. It is not the destination we reach that's the most rewarding. It's the journey along the way. So write it down!
Folks had fun with the little quiz we published last week, so we've decided to publish a national park system quiz every week. Most will be themed. The first one was about centers, and several people reported excellent scores. Let's see how you do with this one about straddlers.
Nevada Barr's 14th park-based mystery novel, Winter Study, is a New York Times Best Seller. You've already read it, so now you're wondering what Super Ranger Anna Pigeon will be doing in #15. Traveler knows all, and reveals it here for the first time anywhere.
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i know there already are other questions like this, but i could't find anything useful. And it's becoming such a painful issue..
I was trying to install ObjectAid on Eclipse 3.5.1.
So, lets google, http://www.objectaid.com shows up. i added it to the repository list, then checked ObjectAid UML Explorer. It says:
Cannot complete the install because one or more required items could not be found.
Software being installed: ObjectAid Class Diagram 0.9.86 (com.objectaid.uml.feature.group 0.9.86)
Missing requirement: ObjectAid Class Diagram 0.9.86 (com.objectaid.uml.feature.group 0.9.86) requires 'org.eclipse.draw2d 0.0.0'
I've had a look into /opt/eclipse/plugins and i've found org.eclipse.draw2d_3.5.2.v20091126-1908, but i coudnt figure out how to install it.
The operating system is Ubuntu.
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