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New York, March 5, 2003—A suspect accused of issuing death threats against Anna Politkovskaya, a correspondent with the Moscow-based twice weekly newspaper Novaya Gazeta, was cleared of the criminal charge against him yesterday. Politkovskaya is well known in Russia for her investigative reports on human rights abuses committed by the Russian military in Chechnya.
The prosecutor's office in the Siberian city of Nizhnevartovsk dropped the criminal charge against Sergei Lapin, a Russian officer nicknamed "Kadet," citing evidence that another individual, who died in 2002, issued the threats and signed Lapin's nickname to them.
The prosecutor's office in the Siberian city of Nizhnevartovsk dropped the criminal charge against Sergei Lapin, a Russian officer nicknamed "Kadet," citing evidence that another individual, who died in 2002, issued the threats and signed Lapin's nickname to them.
Politkovskaya's lawyer Stanislav Markelov plans to appeal the decision. "Of course we will protest this decision," Markelov told CPJ. "It seems very strange that another individual threatened her [Politkovskaya] and signed his [Lapin's] nickname to the letters," he added.
Politkovskaya began receiving the threats via e-mail after Novaya Gazeta published her September 10, 2001, article, titled "The Disappeared People," in which she reported that Lapin committed atrocities against civilians in Chechnya. She specifically cited his role in the disappearance of Zelimkhan Murdalov, a resident of Chechnya's capital, Grozny. The e-mails said that Lapin was coming to Moscow to avenge the article.
In October 2001, security guards were assigned to protect Politkovskaya, and she was instructed by Novaya Gazeta not to leave her home. Novaya Gazeta's senior staff, however, decided that these safety precautions were insufficient, and Politkovskaya fled to Austria. She returned to Moscow in December 2001.
In early 2002 Lapin was arrested in connection to the Murdalov case. However, on May 31, 2002, the Pyatigorsk City Court in southern Russia released him from temporary detention on the grounds that he did not pose a danger to society and could await his trial in his home city of Nizhnevartovsk. According to a letter from the Nizhnevartovsk prosecutor's office published in the September 5, 2002, edition of Novaya Gazeta, Lapin was charged with issuing death threats against Politkovskaya in late July 2002, but remained free.
"Given the pattern of harassment against Anna Politkovskaya and the serious nature of threats against her, we are disappointed by yesterday's decision and remain concerned about our colleague's safety," said Joel Simon, acting director of the Committee to Protect Journalists.
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Stem cells have been in the news for years – both for their biological promise and their political baggage. President Bush banned research on new embryonic stem cell lines eight years ago.
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Eight pit bull terriers have been seized in a sting the SPCA hopes will lead to the third major prosecution for organised dog fighting in the country.
The dogs, ranging from 8 months to 14 years, were seized from a property in Kaingaroa, near Rotorua, on Tuesday.
The SPCA, Rotorua animal control officers and police were involved in the operation, which also netted dog-fighting videos and literature, and equipment used to train dogs for fights.
The equipment included chains, weights, treadmills and "break sticks", used to prise dogs apart when their jaws are locked together.
The owner of the dogs will face charges of keeping, owning and breeding dogs for the purposes of participating in animal fighting ventures, the SPCA said yesterday.
SPCA inspector and prosecutor Jim Boyd, who led the operation, said the 47-year-old owner was one of the top two or three "dog-fighting exponents" in the country.
Mr Boyd said the animals seized included breeding females and pups.
"Some are young dogs obviously destined for the fighting ring."
The oldest dog was a male which had produced several generations of pit bulls known to the SPCA.
The seized dogs could be worth thousands of dollars each, depending on their lineage.
The dogs showed no obvious sign of involvement in fighting, but were unlikely to lead pleasurable lives if they did, said Mr Boyd.
"They can get killed or seriously maimed and have to be put down."
Mr Boyd said 10 dogs registered by the owner had died in the past three or four years.
The country's first successful prosecution for running an organised dog-fighting ring was in Northland in 2003.
Four pit bulls were destroyed after their owners, Melissa Molly Jane Berryman and Johnson Dale Murphy, were sentenced on three charges brought by the Bay of Islands SPCA under the Animal Welfare Act.
They were each ordered to do 200 hours of community service and to pay $1000 in costs. They were also banned from owning or caring for animals for three years.
Mr Boyd said dog-fighting rings were difficult to detect because they operated under great secrecy.
Fights might be held in cowsheds or warehouses on city fringes. In some cases spectators were picked up and taken to locations where they could not see where they were going.
"This is a whole culture of its own."
Mr Boyd said the practice, which gleaned owners profits from bets placed on their dogs, was abhorrent and needed to be stamped out.
"The level of pain, suffering and torment that goes into it for the dogs is not acceptable."
The pit bulls seized on Tuesday were removed by expert dog handlers in the presence of eight police officers.
They are being kept in undisclosed locations to prevent the owner knowing their whereabouts.
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Directly challenging verbal evolutionary models that attempt to explain reproductive behavior without quantitative reference to evolutionary genetics, this book establishes a more solid theoretical foundation for the field. Among the weaknesses the authors find in the existing data is the apparent ubiquity of condition-dependent mating tactics. They identify factors likely to contribute to the evolution of alternative mating strategies--which they argue are more common than generally believed--and illustrate how to measure the strength of selection acting on them. Lastly, they offer predictions on the covariation of mating systems and strategies, consider the underlying developmental biology behind male polyphenism, and propose directions for future research.
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Mary Landrieu: You're damned right I ordered the code red on affordable health-care coverage, and I'd do it again
posted at 5:11 pm on December 5, 2013 by Allahpundit
I'm having some fun with the headline, but honestly, I think her taking ownership of her role in passing O-Care (over and over again) is a smarter play than Mark Pryor's "only Jesus has all the answers" approach. Realistically, if you voted for this Chernobyl, there's nowhere to run from it. Pryor can claim that he was brainwashed by liberals or that the Lord opened his eyes or whatever, but conservatives aren't going to punish him less if he convinces them he was a dupe of the left rather than a knowing participant. Landrieu's making a rational wager here: If Obama can't right the ship before next November, she's finished no matter what she does to try to distance herself from ObamaCare. As is Pryor, of course. If he can right the ship and the law becomes less of a political liability, she'll win the gratitude (and donations) of liberals for having stood by the program through trying times and even, I think, some grudging respect from centrist conservatives for not running from her record in a desperate moment. Either way, there is no spin for what's coming. Her fate is largely out of her hands. Might as well embrace the suck and hope for the best.
That said, there's a lot of suck still to be embraced. Read law prof Nicholas Bagley's post today about how HHS might tweak the "risk corridor" (a.k.a. bailout) regulations of ObamaCare to increase payments to insurers now that Obama's stuck them with the task of un-canceling people's plans. The regs say that the feds need to compensate insurers if they incur excessive costs, but there are many ways to define "costs." The more broadly HHS defines it, the more of your money insurers get. There's no way to know how much that'll be until we know how bad the adverse selection problem caused by the un-canceled plans and the endless website screw-ups is, but Megan McArdle tried a little back-of-the-envelope estimate the other day. Depending upon how many people enroll and what proportion of sick to healthy there is, it could be anywhere from $130 million to $7 billion. I wonder if Congress will appropriate that money or if, true to unconstitutional form, Obama will simply move it from one federal budget envelope to another. Stay tuned.
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On 31 October 2012, the Vice-President of Myanmar, U Nyan Tun, announced plans to implement a permanent residence system for foreign investors, intellectuals, businessmen, and technicians.
Any Evidence-Based Deliberation:
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|Is there any evidence that alternatives to the proposed measure were considered?
|Is there anything in the public record that suggests that empirical evidence informed the comparison across the alternatives available to government?
|Was such evidence identified?
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|Did the official decision-maker in question provide an explanation as to why a chosen measure was favoured over alternatives?
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Chönyi Taylor presents a meditation to familiarize yourself with the triggers that set off addictive behaviors.
The triggers for our addictions are those things or thoughts that set off an automatic reaction in such a way that we find ourselves in our addictive pattern without knowing how we got there.
Meditation for Finding Triggers
This meditation focuses on what happened just before you indulged in your addiction so that you can identify the immediate trigger.
External Triggers
Try to build up a vivid awareness of your surroundings at that time. Imagine this past event as a present experience. Where are you? Are there people around or are you alone? What can you see? What smells are there? What taste is in your mouth and what sounds can you hear? Is your body aching, or numb? Are you comfortable or uncomfortable? Any of these things might be an external trigger. View the trigger with equanimity. Stay with your awareness of this for as long as you can.
Internal Triggers
Continue by building up a vivid awareness of what was happening in your mind at that time. Did you have any pain? Were you stressed? Were you winding down? Were you winding up? Had you just had a fight? Were you lonely? Had someone disappointed you or had you disappointed yourself? Was there someone or some people you were trying to impress? Did you feel cheated by life? Were you unable to cope? What else?
Closing the Meditation
Allow yourself to abide in the energy of pure compassionate wisdom. Imagine this energy being absorbed into your body and healing all hurt and pain and sickness. Allow your body to feel relaxed, at ease. Imagine this energy of pure compassionate wisdom being absorbed into every part of your mind, healing all negative emotions and leaving your mind peaceful and calm. Rest in that state as long as you can.
Take pleasure in what you have achieved in this meditation, even if parts of what you remembered were painful. Make a conscious choice to use the energy that comes from this pleasure to continue making positive changes to your life.
Further Work on Finding Triggers
This meditation needs to be repeated often if you want to get a better feeling for the addiction triggers. As you become more aware of the moments before you fall into your addictive pattern, you can more easily change the pattern. As you repeat the meditation, take it back to just before the moment that preceded the addictive behavior, then a fraction earlier than that, then a fraction earlier still, and so on. As you do this, you gain more power to protect yourself from the compulsiveness of an addictive pattern. You can keep uncovering levels of dissatisfaction and pain. Having done that, you can start to find other ways of dealing with dissatisfaction and pain.


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Aug 22, 2012
Construction Corner | Korky Koroluk
Canada is sometimes said to have the best housing stock in the world. We build good houses and the reason they're so good is that we've had stringent building codes for a long time.
The result, boosters say, is that Canadians have become "the best stick builders in the world."
Most of our houses, of course, are built of sticks — 2x4s, chipboard, trim, even cedar shingles on the roof at times.
Having been at it for generations, we've become very good at it.
Which makes me wonder why we are slow in adopting the concept of building with bigger structural members made of wood — members that would allow us to produce tall wooden buildings.
The technology is out there in the form of cross-laminated timber (CLT) beams and panels, and their use is growing in some parts of the world.
In North America, we have one low CLT building nearing completion on the campus of the University of British Columbia, and another low building (for a martial arts studio) in Whitefish, Mont. And that's about it.
In the meantime, an eight-storey CLT office building is almost completed in Austria, and a 10-storey CLT apartment building is under way in Australia.
In England there is the three-year-old Graphite Apartments building (originally called Stadthaus), a nine-storey structure made of prefabricated CLT members bolted together on site.
And Waugh Thistleton, the architectural firm that designed the Graphite, has a four-storey mixed-use building under construction nearby, and an eight-storey apartment building underway within walking distance of the first two.
They, and other architects, are talking about CLT buildings of 10, 15, even 30 storeys — although those very tall buildings would likely be hybrids, with a concrete core.
The spruce timber panels — many of them 15 or more centimetres thick — used in Waugh Thistleton's buildings were prefabricated in Austria, and form the exterior and interior walls, floors and roof.
Even the stairwells and elevator shafts are made from the panels.
CLT beams and panels were developed in Europe about 20 years ago, so it's no surprise that they have been used in many — mostly low — structures.
Building codes in some European nations restrict wooden buildings to four storeys, although that is changing.
"Codes" is the key word. Where codes permit, CLT is becoming popular. And until code-writing organizations fully understand the properties of CLT, they're reluctant to admit it into the codes.
The knock against wood construction is the fear of fire. But, laminated members are, because of their dimensions, difficult to ignite.
A lot of fire testing has been done and that's why European authorities are now comfortable writing CLT into their codes. Many structural engineers are not familiar with CLT, so there is a learning curve for them.
It's not the same building with CLT as it is with timber frame, and loads are distributed differently.
Anthony Thistleton, a partner in Waugh Thistleton, has been quoted as saying that "one of the things we found difficult to get across (is) that timber panel construction is completely different from timber frame."
"It's got more in common with precast concrete construction," he said.
The building on the UBC campus is for the university's bioresearch and demonstration project.
It's a four-storey structure of 1,886 square metres, and is the first North American commercial application of CLT.
As a first CLT building, it will be watched by architects, structural engineers, fire engineers and developers.
Environmental scientists will be watching, too, because building with wood is more friendly to the world around us than building with concrete or steel. Should it gain acceptance and should building codes make it easier to use, building with cross-laminated timber could become another form of "stick building" for Canadians to use.
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The 1998 Shell LiveWIRE Young Entrepreneur of the Year Award (Yorkshire) was won by Jennifer and Victoria Frame and their business Victor J's.
Very often "eureka" moments come at the most unexpected times and in the most unexpected places. For Jennifer Frame, it was the combination of a part-time job in a coffee shop and regular meetings with her sister in the beautiful city of York that sparked her business idea.
Studying at universities in Glasgow and Birmingham meant York was a convenient halfway point for the two sisters to meet, catch up and share a coffee. They fell in love with the city and decided it was the perfect place to launch their business idea.
With Jennifer's experience of working in a coffee shop, and belief that her idea would work, she teamed up with her sister, Victoria, to open the city's first Arts Café, Victor J's in 1997. Ten years later, the business has grown to employ 10 staff with an annual turnover in excess of £350,000.
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I could not believe what I was seeing when I saw this newscast. A swarm of bees, nice and normal looking in every respect, being gathered up by a beekeeper (or perhaps a "bee-haver") and labeled, "probably Africanized". And even if they were Africanized, why does the female beekeeper want to take them back to her beeyard to raise more AHB? Totally irresponsible and incorrect.
Who can blame the media for fear-mongering when we have this type of representation amongst us?


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"Did she turn you in?" Ah Sing asked.
"No!" Then after a moment he said, "They raided the Kwong Wo & Company Store; we were in the back, gambling."
It was pitch-black now. Ah Sing drew a stick through the ashes. The bark caught an ember and he blew at the small flame. He threw on more kindling until the wood crackled. The only light came from the small campfire; its shadows highlighted the heavy ridges of Gold Tooth's overgrown brow.
"When I was a kid I found this bottle with a note inside," Gold Tooth continued. "It'd washed up from Taiwan," he said. "Funny thing is, I don't remember what the letter said. It was a wide, fat bottle, like a medicine bottle. It was dull, scratched up by the rocks. I remember grabbing it and trying to open it while the older boys were gambling by the fishboats, and then it started to rain and I ran under an overturned dory. I tried to untwist the lid but it was rusted closed. Then I tried to get it off with a broken clam. I ended up smashing the neck off. I remember the bottle, but not the message. Strange, huh?"
Ah Sing drew his knees up to his chest. "Memory is a funny thing."
"I wonder what it said. Was it a love letter from some guy? Who knows? I don't remember."
Ah Sing didn't answer.
"I remember lots of other things. Swimming in the Zhu Jiang River. Ducks and geese. I ate lily roots. I loved water chestnuts and dates. Have you been to the hills of Guangxi? Limestone towers. I would visit my uncle and play in the fish ponds."
Gold Tooth turned on his side, away from Ah Sing, and curled up in the fetal position. Ah Sing's mother had turned on her side and died facing the wall. She had first lain in bed talking about her childhood, but when the sun rose, she had turned inward and fallen silent.
"In Canton the laundry waved like flags. We threw cats into the fetid canals. I had no parents. Stole food from the seething mass living on boats along the waterfront. Ran through the alleys making cutthroat signs at people and they feared me. I grew up to be a Tong, never did any grunt work. Laundry, houseboy, gardener. Never did any of that. I'm in extortion."
An hour or so later, Gold Tooth started to cry, softly, under his breath. He mumbled something inaudible.
"Will you send my bones back to China?"
Ah Sing sat up.
"You know the worst thing about it?"
"I never knew her real name."
"First it was the cotton balls, I couldn't feel them. Then I couldn't feel the suit against my skin. This is my best suit. My best suit."
"I called her Zao," he said. He started sobbing.
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Ah Sing dozed in the forest to the sound of Gold Tooth's laboured breathing. The stretches between his exhalations grew longer, as if each breath was becoming too precious to release. Another and another. He clutched the life within him and refused to unleash it, greedily holding the air for ten seconds at a time, fifteen, twenty.
Ah Sing dreamed a man with a roomful of rice was trying to make him swallow it all, and awoke choking. Gold Tooth's eyes appeared fixed on an immature bald eagle circling overhead, and in the dawn light he almost looked alive. Ah Sing rubbed his clawed hands vigorously over his own cheeks. He closed Gold Tooth's eyelids and touched the man's chest. He felt along the body, found the Swiss pocket watch and slipped it into his own pocket. An object valuable enough to buy passage off the island, maybe even to pay the deportation costs back to China. Ah Sing couldn't see clearly and stumbled toward the ocean, moving branches away from his face through the brush.
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If you are not sure who is at your door Do Not Open It. Apparently that is quite a difficult concept for a vast majority of people to grasp.
If you did not call the police and have no reason to expect the police at your door, how hard is it to look outside for a marked patrol vehicle outside. How hard is it to call 911 for verification that the police are really at your door.
There is nothing so important, if it is the real police at your door for an "unannounced visit", to stand there and wait for you to verify who they are via your local dispatcher if you are unsure.
There is no way most people are ever going to think this way, so, these stories will never end completely. We will continue to read of these incidents and the public at large will keep saying... "what do we do?"


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POEM is part of marketing's new vocab, but there's two things that surprise me.
- Consumers don't differentiate media types
- Many marketing folk don't know the term POEM
There's sure been a lot of coverage on POEM, but that just proof and testament to our times.
- Coverage <> Knowledge.
- Seeing <> Prioirity <> Absorbtion
- Exposure <> Adoption.
To shortcut that process I'm sharing a list of 70+ blogs that took the time and effort to explain POEM using a unique infographic. For now I've added no commentary.
New research by Forrester indicates that email and search dominate the online space in driving online sales. Social media, drives less than 1% of online sales.
As we are a company that works with brands, agencies, and publishers, the Paid, Owned, Earned digital media strategy has been discussed in depth and at length not only in past blogs, but also internally and externally with our customers.
If you've been privy to the digital world you may have heard these buzzwords passed around, but what is the difference between 'earned', 'owned' and 'paid' media and what does it mean for your digital strategy? Think of earned, owned and paid media like a tripod.
For the first post of 2014, we're going to ring in the New Year with a fresher way to think about your online marketing efforts.
Owned and earned media are hard to measure ROI, especially when it comes to hard, cold cash. But it's imperative we do so in order to be seen as an investment.
The first webpages were digital billboards for businesses. They were one way conversations; talking to a world-wide-web of strangers. Web 2.0 has changed everything of course but how exactly are these advances converging to help businesses deliver a rich and engaging presence online? Even more important, how can businesses effectively harness this phenomenon?
The rough guide to marketing success used to be that you got what you paid for. No longer. While traditional "paid" media-such as television and radio commercials, print advertisements, and roadside billboards-still play a major role, companies today can exploit many alternative forms of media.
Gone are the days where we had three teams in their own silos: advertising, public relations and marketing. We must start integrating paid, earned and owned media. Because it is true what they say... three heads are better than one. Geoff Livingston wrote a guest blog post on Waxing UnLyrical about understanding paid, owned and earned media.
Do you know the difference between paid, owned and earned media? Paid media is purchased (shocking, right?) and includes print, web and broadcast advertising. Facebook ads, display ads and PPC advertising fit into this category, along with television commercials and billboard ads. Paid media gets your message out to a sizeable audience in a timely manner.
The terms "earned, owned and paid (aka bought) media" have become very popular in the interactive marketing space today. In fact, taken together they can be applied as a simple way for interactive marketers to categorize and ultimately prioritize all of the media options they have today.
With the rise in importance of social media and online PR, we're seeing more companies change their method of budgeting, reporting and investing in media to reflect the types of sites where audiences spend their time online. The trend is towards a review of investments in the 3 main media buckets of earned, shared and paid which each give opportunities to influence customers.
Paid Owned Earned [POE] is the new craze among large companies whose communication, advertising and/or digital marketing are handled by big communication agencies. Both have now recognized the critical role played by Social Media. They want to start leveraging the "social" trend and follow those who practice inbound marketing, content marketing, social media marketing or any other flavour or 2.0 marketing.
This post was originally published on Smart Insights on 24th April 2012 . I cross-post it here with all the links and tags for your reading pleasure! Setting up and running a small business is both daunting and exciting in equal measure.
There are many discussions around which media to use for which campaign, how to mix them, integrate them, what should be the weight of digital media.... The trend is definitively around the ... CEO, F5DIGITAL Consulting.15 years of client experience.Fanatical creator of innovative multi-channel consumer engagement programmes.
"Content marketing" is a perhaps the fastest-growing marketing tactic being used today. While it's definitely become mainstream, there are lots of issues around how to create it, how to manage it...even how to think about it.
I was recently interviewed by Innovate 1st for an upcoming edition of Innovate eZine's "Conversations on the Cutting Edge" series. Following are excerpts from the interview, which was conducted by Doug Berger, Managing Director, The INNOVATE Company. To read the full interview series, start with my earlier blog post: "Challenges in Advertising & Media Effectiveness."
Life used to be so easy. There was Paid Media = Advertising. There was Earned Media = Public Relations. And there were the legacy media gatekeepers: Newspapers, Radio and Television. That's how the world appeared to communications pros way back in the 1980s. One employed earned media and/or paid media to deal with or get...
From the perspective of a marketer or PR person, there are three basic types of media: paid, earned and owned. Paid media is simply exposure for which an organization pays. Advertising, search engine ads, and promoted Tweets are all examples of paid media. Owned media is that content your organization produces.
Before getting into the specifics of a converged media content strategy, it's important to first get a better understanding of the meaning of paid, earned and owned media. Paid media is often considered to be "traditional advertising" and includes banner ads, paid search marketing, sponsorships and content syndication.
The advent of social media has changed the way businesses talk to their customers. In fact, 93% of marketers use social media for business (WordPress Hosting SEO). Are you using Facebook? Have you seen a change in the way your posts are available to your followers?
The dynamics of paid, earned, owned (PEO) media have changed. Can you confidently say you know the distinctions of each media and that your ad dollars are working? Digital brand-building can be confusing. Each of the PEO elements work together to create an extremely effective marketing plan that goes beyond individual campaigns and standard ad units to build lasting connections with consumers.
By Kevin Dugan, Social Marketing Director At a recent industry conference, I discussed integrating paid, owned, earned and, as a result, social media. Classifying media types by silos, buckets or Venn diagrams is no longer possible. Even refers to this classification as "whatever it is that we're defining as media these days."
"Half the money I spend on advertising is wasted and the trouble is I don't know which half." Building your Attributi...
One of the most important digital trends in recent years for marketers has been the multi-channel marketing approach to widening audience reach, but also by being consistently more targeted in the investment. The recent buzzword/concept of: "Paid, Owned, Earned media" summarises quite nicely the landscape of attracting visitors to your website / branded channels.
With the rise in importance of social media and online PR, we're seeing more companies change their method of budgeting, reporting and investing in media to reflect the types of sites where audiences spend their time online. The trend is towards a review of investments in the 3 main media buckets of earned, shared and paid which each give opportunities to influence customers.
A "media" model composed of paid, owned and earned efforts is nothing new-however it's useful to think about this landscape in tandem with the different ways we interact and engage which are enabled through technology.
Jeremiah Owyang's keynote presentation to 2000 marketers in SF on how marketers must adopt Converged Media (Paid+Owned+Earned)
Many of you may be familiar with the Paid, Owned and Earned model of media. The concept is that Paid Media is traditional and digital advertising, the Owned Media is your owned assets (websites, Facebook Page, etc), and Earned Media is the digital word-of-mouth you received (Facebook posts, Tweets by someone other than the brand, blog posts that weren't sponsored, etc).
The headline reporting a new study from Nielsen caught my eye recently. It said that 92% of consumers trust 'earned media' the most. There's some interesting data in the report, especially the connection between relevance and trust, but I find the 'earned media' description misleading. Earned media used to mean editorial in 'the media' (i.e.
'Rented' media as part of the Paid, Earned, Owned mix - AdamVincenzini[dot]com - an Australian content marketing and ...
Like many other marketers I have spent a lot of time thinking about the Paid, Earned and Owned media model. It has always been the easiest way for me to explain to colleagues and clients how social media fits within the broader scheme of things.
Advertising & Marketing in any medium is a process, not a project. "Project Shops" only give you part of the picture. An agency should be able to help you leverage a combination of owned, paid and earned media to maximize brand engagement. Make sure they can generate great campaigns and good content that keeps people [...]
Het medialandschap om te communiceren met je doelgroep is anno 2012 te verdelen in drie vormen: earned, owned en paid media. Binnen deze drie vormen dien je je totale middelenmix en budgettering af te stemmen.
You may have heard the terms "paid, owned, earned media" bandied about recently and been curious. You want to know more-understanding where and how your communications appear is as critical for those committed to social change as it is for major brand managers.
Three separate worlds: Paid media such as advertising and sponsorships. Earned media such as Facebook likes, Twitter tweets, search engine rankings, and every other review and comment that other people make about you. Owned media such as your web site, microsites, landing pages, mobile apps, your brand's Facebook page, your YouTube channel, and so on.
The Converged Media Imperative: How Brands Must CombinePaid, Owned, and Earned Media By Rebecca Lieb & Jeremiah Owyang With Jessica Groopman & Chris Silva Includes input from 34 ecosystem contributors. Consumers rarely pause to note provenance. Media are a veritable blur. The primary quest is for information, entertainment, or shopping.
I've found the annual SoDA (Society of Digital Agencies) Digital Marketing Outlook report to deliver groundbreaking insight (my blog post on their 2010 report here), so I was excited to take a peek at the 2012 version when it arrived in my inbox today.
5/02/13 kmjan Die digitale Revolution vollzieht sich in Schüben. Entwicklung und Diskussion zum Social Web wurden in den letzten fünf Jahren von zweien solcher Schübe bestimmt, die sich beide geradezu rasant vollzogen: zunächst die Verbreitung der Plattformen und Dienste, die wir als Social Media bezeichnen, etwas später dann die des mobilen Internet.
Converged media, a relatively new term which, if not coined outright by him was at least popularized by Altimeter's Jeremiah Owyang (see his 2012 report), describes the integration of content and brand message across the three channels marketing has involvement in: owned media (corporate), earned media (typically social), and paid media (advertising).
Few marketers today have the luxury of being about to combine all forms of media under one umbrella. It takes a certain size company to be able to take one individual and let them control all forms of media.
Blurring The Lines Between Paid, Owned, and Earned Media - 2013 Is All About Integration - 3GEngagement
Before we get into the blurring and integration portion of this post lets first define exactly what paid, owned and earned media is. Paid Media Paid media or bought media is when a dealership pays to leverage a channel. Examples Pro's Paid media is immediate.
For the diligent members of the marketing and PR workforce, the digital era has caused the lines between their formerly distinct roles to blur. On Wednesday, March 6, PR Newswire CEO Ninan Chacko spoke before Beijing members of the American Chamber of Commerce as part of the organization's Marketing, Advertising and Public Relations Forum (MAP) to try and elucidate the changes within and challenges posed to two industries that increasingly overlap.
Market communication is typically done through traditional channels like print, tv, and websites. These channels are often referred to as Paid media (e.g. print, outdoor, tv) and Owned media (e.g. shops, publications, websites, apps). But with the increasing saturation and use of social media, the uncontrollable communication that goes on in these channels (blogs, Facebook, [...]
In discussions about new media, you will often hear the division of media opportunities as Paid, Owned, and Earned media (P.O.E.M.).
I recently explored paid, earned, owned and shared media in this "Soup and Glue" post. As a consequence I've been asking what's next? Can shared media be redefined or does it need to be replaced or supplemented? I'm sure I'll return to that question in subsequent posts.
Presentation by PR Newswire Global Director of Emerging Media, Michael Pranikoff, given at the Public Relations Society of America 2012 International Conferenc...
Today, brands that want to attain the highest level of exposure and buzz in the market must approach digital marketing channels in an integrated way i.e. converged method which is the merging of paid, owned and earned media.
When it comes to social media, any promotion of your content can be good. One of the basic concepts of classic advertising is that brand awareness (e.g., hearing a brand's name over and over) can help customers keep you top of mind the next time they need a specific product or service that you offer.
This is the first post in a new series I'm writing entitled 'Advertising is Alive and Well' in my previous post I introduced the series and explained why I'm still a fan of advertising despite the emergence of more cost-effective marketing methods.
If you are a brand then there's some new vocabulary you need to understand to navigate Social Media - Paid, Owned & Earned Media Traditionally brands used two main types of media for marketing: Paid Media and Earned Media. Paid Media was the remit of the marketing manager, advertising agencies and media buyers.
In this competitive world of online marketing, the demand for social media and PR is growing high in this day and age. Many online marketers and business owners have been mulling on different strategies to unlock the types of media influencing the prospects or audience to spend their time on.
According to a study conducted by Altimeter Group 's Jeremiah Owyang & Rebecca Lieb , the average person is exposed to some 3000 marketing messages per day originating from traditional media, social media, advertising or a combination of all three. Today's challenge for brands is to cut through this media clutter to deliver the right message to the right people.
How iQ Works
A look into the content strategy and infrastructure that powers iQ by Intel.
I recently presented at SMX Stockholm on a panel titled "Content marketing, hype or hope?" - and I think that's a great question. Personally I think it can
The terms paid, owned and earned media have gained some importance lately. With the world economy in a recessionary state, brand managers and chief marketing officers are forced to deal with reduced marketing budgets. Consumer decision making process has undergone a transformation, leading to an increased focus on owned and earned media.
Owned media is any media your business generates on any platform you control (web site, blog, social channel) including a social platform like Facebook. Owned media has two primary ROI measurements: engagement: the "likes" "comments" and/or "shares" via organic status updates and conversion metrics, tied to specific revenue or desired activities.
How can brands successfully connect with and continue to highlight relevant content for their audiences? One way is to not abandon a traditional communications approach and weight all of your efforts on social media platforms that are continually changing. It is important to maintain a balanced mix.
Rebecca Lieb
What's the ROI of a 'like' on Facebook? For too many marketers, getting fans or 'likes' on Facebook is a goal unto itself. It's about as legitimate a goal as measuring how many 'hits' a website got circa 1998.
Why are lonely brands buying fans and followers? Is it the CEOs, that need to brag about their big fan base at the golf course? Is it midlife CMOs that need to hit and run for some one-night stands? Or is it the Media agencies that think that all in life can be bought?
13133 Social media is about building an audience and getting followers. Find out 5 techniques used to encourage sharing and getting noticed... The paradox of marketing has shifted. With 86% of consumers admitting trust issues with paid media, it's no secret that ads don't sell like they used to.
video email is effective and cost efficient way to push your message Lines Blur between Paid, Owned, and Earned Media
Converged media is a term many local marketers might have heard of but may not be familiar with in terms of digital media environments. Essentially, converged media is the area of overlap between any two of three media types: paid, owned, and earned.
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At this point we all know Facebook is the quintessential vehicle for garnering the three main forms of media on this platform: Owned, Paid, and Earn. After reading you will understand these tools and how important they are to your Facebook strategy. Hopefully, this information will enhance your marketing objectives and help maximize the [...]
It is challenging to have the skills to be able to manage all areas of your company's online marketing. As an agency we understand the importance of integrating into our clients marketing teams, to be able to provide a seamless approach to our clients digital marketing presence. Overview: Advertising and media are converging.
Social media can feel overwhelming sometimes. Faced with so many social networks and tools, it can be difficult to decide how best to use our limited resources. Should I be on LinkedIn, Twitter or Facebook? If I have limited time, what should I be doing and where should I be doing it?
When I was a kid, there was one kind of milk you could buy: the white kind. But now you choose from whole, skim, 1%, 2%, organic, and chocolate. Media is a lot like that. You used to spend money for one thing: exposing customers to marketing messages.
Nimal Gunewardena - Bates (Sri Lanka) CEO's Blog " Blog Archive " Optimizing Paid, Owned and Earned Media
The region's influential media magazine Campaign Asia-Pacific recently released a noteworthy report in collaboration with ZenithOptimedia that provided an update on how marketers in the Region were traversing the new media landscape and provided a number of useful insights into the issues marketers continue to grapple with in using marketing communications and the integration of new media into the communications mix.
I've been having more and more conversations about the quickly evolving role of media in the marketing landscape. Specifically, the role of, and relationship between, "paid", "owned" and "earned" media. Not just in the digital realm, but also across every medium, channel and context that people are encountering it.
If you have read my postings, even a couple, you are likely to know that I have really been pushing for integrated marketing. I talked about the need for a strategic balance of traditional marketing with new media. One area of great significance is the balance and planning of owned media, earned media, and paid...
Are you forward looking when it comes to marketing, trying out novel techniques? Or does it scare you and your business? Where do you rate yourself (your brand / your company) on the continuum below... with the dinosaurs, stuck in the past? Or with the bold ones, going all out on new marketing?
June 11, 2013 Editor's note: a version of this post originally appeared on ChamberofCommerce.com in January 2013. With more and more purchases, for business-to-business (b2b) and high-value consumer goods, now starting with online research, it's imperative to make your business ubiquitous when potential buyers are searching for what you sell.
Interesting new research from Yahoo! and BBDO illustrates the Paid Owned Earned 'Love Story', explaining that Paid Owned Earned is akin to a flourishing romance! "What's Your Story?" asked more than 1,000 consumers and marketing pros how they felt about brands and they way brands interact with them.
Over the past decade we've seen momentous changes in the media landscape with the emergence of the (social) media of the masses that have become increasingly intertwined with traditional mass media although the latter have had to deal with convergence from their old platforms to the Internet.
A truly great interactive campaign is sort of like an engine. Each component acts as a cylinder, working to drive things forward. Like an engine, a campaign may still function without one cylinder or another, but it performs best when each of the cylinders is working and has full compression.
The majority of businesses (big or small) have created some type of digital marketing strategy. In the digital marketing world, there exist three types of media: earned, owned, and paid. It's crucial to understand how each type of media relates to your digital marketing strategy as all three elements collaborate and contribute to a comprehensive digital marketing strategy.
Businesses need to re-think, at every level, the way they do business in today's transparent and connected world. Consumers are only a Tweet away from complaining about poor banking services or take a photo of expired dairy milk on the super market.
My next step in a subsequent post is to publish our own POEM infographic along with commentary.
It takes a lot of repeated exposure for people to absorb and prioritize any concept, tool or platform.
POEM is no different.
I've heard people say it needs between 10 and 20 positive experience and touches to get a new customer to purchases. My guess is that number is low. Not all experiences are positive or are recalled.
POEM helps you create more exposure in less time, which saves you audience from leaking between exposures, but that's a secondary point.
POEM is essential because it's a simple holistic model that explains how all the big parts work together. POEM explains that you have choice. POEM lets you decide how to invest your marketing budget to best grow your brand for the long term.
The more you expect, the harder it is to make and impact and to be seen, heard and most importantly, understood.
You make choices to decide on how your prioritize and so do your customers and prospects.
We all have too much choice, so we need to make it easy.
To that end I'm sharing a curated list of POEM models and posts.
More people need to see this for the 1st time and millions of marketing folk need to be nudged along the adoption cycle. It's personal choice to invest in POEM to understand why it matters and then to explore how that can change your decisions on an ongoing basis.
Vote for the ones you like.
Have I missed any great posts or models?
I'm sure I have. This is a topic near and dear to the hearts of many marketing experts.
You need to join the debate and write your own post.
Feel free to add it to the list and embed the list on your blog.
The list above is also available as a slidedeck, just with a little less detail. It was much easier to curate the list. I simply grabbed the URLS, titles and images to make the deck.
If you follow the blog, you will know I talk about Hybrid Media. This is yet another example (slides as lists / lists as slides)
When I drill into POEM in my next post you'll learn more about why Hybrid Media is so important.


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Marie Callender makes several of my favorite ready-to-eat foods. When I found out that the company had expanded their repertoire into breakfast sandwiches, I was eager to try them. Of course, being a researcher, I went online and looked at the reviews. They were a mixed bag. Some people loved the sandwiches, while others thought that they were not good at all. I had to see for myself.
We bought and prepared the Flaky Croissant, Sausage, Egg, and Monterey Jack and the Cheddar Biscuit with Sausage, Egg and Cheddar. I evaluated them for ease of use, taste, and nutrition.
Ease of use: In less than two minutes you can have a tasty, hot breakfast sandwich. Each sandwich is separately boxed in a special carton that crisps the bread as it cooks. There are complete cooking instructions provided. Follow them. You need to make sure that you adjust for your microwaves power. If you leave the sandwich in the carton for several minutes afterward, you can expect the bread to continue cooking.
Taste: Both the croissant and the biscuit were more than I had hoped for. The outsides were crisp, the insides flaky, and they tasted good. The ratio of filling to ingredients was perfect for me. The egg, cheese, and sausage were tasty. The sandwiches seemed small, but they were flavorful and satisfying.
Nutrition: The nutritional information showed that these are highly processed foods. There is a long list of ingredients with foods that you would not ordinarily find in a home kitchen. Each sandwich has more than 20 grams of fat. The croissant sandwich has 22 grams of carb, while the biscuit has 27 grams of carb. Thats not bad for a sandwich!
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Both sandwiches were easy to prepare. You need to know your microwave and what it is capable of to make sure that the sandwich is cooked appropriately. No need to make the biscuit into a hockey puck, deliver a crunchy croissant, or have the middle of the sandwich be cool.
The sandwiches had a pleasant eggy taste with enough cheese to moisten and flavor the sandwich. If you like a ton of cheese, you can always add more. The sausage was juicy and flavorful.
The sandwiches weigh in at about four ounces. The sausage biscuit sandwich has 390 calories, while the sausage croissant sandwich has 370 calories. Both are high fat foods. Each of the sandwiches has less than 30 grams of carbs, which is good for a sandwich with a biscuit or croissant base.
At our store, the sandwiches cost about five dollars for four sandwiches. That compares favorably with a breakfast sandwich from a fast food restaurant, as does the flavor that each sandwich delivers. I recommend the Marie Callender Flaky Croissant, Sausage, Egg, and Monterey Jack and the Cheddar Biscuit with Sausage, Egg and Cheddar. I will buy them again for my household.
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Until 1990, the museum's directors were all former prisoners. Cywinski is just 37. His office is on the first floor of a former SS administration building directly across from a former gas chamber and crematorium. He tells me that Auschwitz is about to slip into history. The last survivors will soon die, and with them the living links to what happened here. Preserving the site becomes increasingly important, Cywinski believes: younger generations raised on TV and movie special effects need to see and touch the real thing.
But the effort to preserve the site is not without its critics. One is Robert Jan van Pelt, a cultural historian in the school of architecture at the University of Waterloo in Ontario, Canada, and the leading expert on the construction of Auschwitz. He supports the preservation of the Auschwitz main camp, although he acknowledges it is a "kind of theme park, cleaned up for tourists." In any event, it's a fully equipped museum, complete with exhibits and conservation facilities, where most of the original buildings still stand. But van Pelt views the Birkenau site in a different light. For one thing, 80 to 90 percent of the original structures are gone or in a state of ruin. Most important, it's where most of the killings took place, so it is a core site of the Holocaust itself. He says letting Birkenau disintegrate completely would be a more fitting memorial than constantly repairing the scant remains. Birkenau is "the ultimate nihilistic place. A million people literally disappeared. Shouldn't we confront people with the nothingness of the place? Seal it up. Don't give people a sense that they can imitate the experience and walk in the steps of the people who were there."
Realistically, the Polish government and the proponents of preserving Auschwitz are not about to abandon the place, but at times during my visit I had some appreciation for van Pelt's perspective. I arrived on the September day the camp counted its millionth visitor of the year. Cellphone-wielding visitors snapped pictures of the sign at the main gate, Arbeit Macht Frei (Work Will Set You Free). Tour group members wearing headphones stood shoulder to shoulder with their guides speaking into wireless microphones.
At the Birkenau camp, a five-minute shuttle-bus ride from the Auschwitz visitor center, the scene was so peaceful it was almost impossible to imagine the sea of stinking mud that survivors describe. The vast expanse was covered in neatly mowed grass. Flocks of Israeli teenagers in matching white-and-blue hoodies wandered from ruin to ruin. As I stood at the stairs leading down into the ruined gas chambers, a dozen Brits posed for a group picture on the steps of a memorial just a few yards away.
Mindful that no mere visit can convey what the concentration camp was like when the Nazis ran it, I met with survivors. The week before I arrived in Krakow, I had called Jozef Stos, 89, to ask if he would discuss his years in captivity. "If I'm still alive then, sure—it's my civic responsibility," he said with a laugh. "But I'm pretty darn old, you know."
Early one morning I met Stos, a retired architect, at his small first-floor apartment on the outskirts of Krakow. We sat in his small, dark dining room, a plate of jam-filled ginger cookies on the starched white tablecloth between us. He said he grew up in Tarnow, Poland, about 50 miles from Krakow. He remembers the day the Nazis shipped him off to Auschwitz: June 13, 1940. It had been almost a year since Germany invaded Poland and launched its campaign to destroy the nation. Following instructions issued by SS chief Reinhard Heydrich—"the leading strata of the population should be rendered harmless"—the SS killed some 20,000 Poles, mainly priests, politicians and academics, in September and October 1939. Stos was an 18-year-old Boy Scout and a member of a Catholic youth organization. Germans put him and 727 other Poles, mostly university and trade-school students, in first-class train cars and told them they were going to work on German farms.
The train wasn't headed to Germany. Stos was on the first transport of Polish prisoners to Auschwitz. There to greet them were 30 hardened German convicts, brought by the SS from a prison near Berlin. Guards confiscated Stos' belongings and issued him a number. Sixty-nine years later, he slid a business card across the dining room table as his daughter brought us cups of tea. It read "Jozef Stos, former Auschwitz Concentration Camp Prisoner No. 752." "I was there on the first day," he said. "They had me for five years and five days."
The camp Stos first saw, some 20 brick buildings, was a run-down former Polish artillery barrack the Nazis had taken over a few months before. Many Poles followed Stos to Auschwitz; few were as lucky. In its original incarnation as a concentration camp, Auschwitz was designed to work inmates to death. At first, most of the labor helped expand the camp itself; other work, such as gravel mining and farming, earned money for the SS. The Nazis even had a term for it, Vernichtung durch Arbeit ("Destruction through work"). The notorious SS camp supervisor Karl Fritzsch greeted new arrivals with a speech: "You have arrived here not at a sanatorium, but at a German concentration camp, from which the only exit is through the chimney of its crematorium."
Prisoners were crammed into the crumbling barracks and provided only a few hundred calories a day. Most died of starvation, exhaustion and diseases such as typhus and dysentery. Beatings, torture and executions were commonplace. Camp doctors conducted experiments—usually fatal—on prisoners, looking for ways to sterilize women with radiation or toxic chemicals, and studying the effects of extreme cold or starvation on the human body. In the first few years of the camp, 80 percent of new inmates died within two months.
Stos said he survived by making himself useful. Prisoners had a better chance of staying alive if they worked under a roof—in a kitchen or an administration building—or had a skill, such as training in medicine or engineering, that made them hard to replace. "The hunger was hellish, and if you could work you could get something to eat," Stos said. Having grown up in the countryside, he could do a little bit of everything, from pouring concrete to cutting grass. I pressed him for details of his time in the camp, but he spoke only of the work. "I had eight different professions at Auschwitz," he said. "I knew how to take care of myself. I avoided the worst of it."


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Problem 8. Missing: Page Thirteen
"One more! just one more well paying affair, and I promise to stop; really and truly to
"But, Puss, why one more? You have earned the amount you set for yourself,--or very
nearly,--and though my help is not great, in three months I can add enough--"
"No, you cannot, Arthur. You are doing well; I appreciate it; in fact, I am just delighted to
have you work for me in the way you do, but you cannot, in your present position, make
enough in three months, or in six, to meet the situation as I see it. Enough does not satisfy
me. The measure must be full, heaped up, and running over. Possible failure following
promise must be provided for. Never must I feel myself called upon to do this kind of
thing again. Besides, I have never got over the Zabriskie tragedy. It haunts me
continually. Something new may help to put it out of my head. I feel guilty. I was
"No, Puss. I will not have it that you were responsible. Some such end was bound to
follow a complication like that. Sooner or later he would have been driven to shoot
"But not her."
"No, not her. But do you think she would have given those few minutes of perfect
understanding with her blind husband for a few years more of miserable life?"
Violet made no answer; she was too absorbed in her surprise. Was this Arthur? Had a few
weeks' work and a close connection with the really serious things of life made this change
in him? Her face beamed at the thought, which seeing, but not understanding what
underlay this evidence of joy, he bent and kissed her, saying with some of his old
"Forget it, Violet; only don't let any one or anything lead you to interest yourself in
another affair of the kind. If you do, I shall have to consult a certain friend of yours as to
the best way of stopping this folly. I mention no names. Oh! you need not look so
frightened. Only behave; that's all."
"He's right," she acknowledged to herself, as he sauntered away; "altogether right."
Yet because she wanted the extra money--
The scene invited alarm,--that is, for so young a girl as Violet, surveying it from an
automobile some time after the stroke of midnight. An unknown house at the end of a
heavily shaded walk, in the open doorway of which could be seen the silhouette of a
woman's form leaning eagerly forward with arms outstretched in an appeal for help! It


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Relieving The Burden Of Childcare
Tens of thousands of low-income families throughout the city are eligible for a tax credit of up to $1,700 for childcare expenses.
Since daycare expenses are a burden, the mayor's poverty commission proposed the tax credit to cover childcare, allowing low-income parents to work full-time.
The $42 million in credit is covered by the Mayor's Innovation Fund, which is funded through federal, state and city revenue.
Governor Spitzer recently legalized the measure, which assists families with children under age four, making up to $30,000 annually.
"Low-income families juggling dollars for daycare now have a benefit without sacrificing employment and quality care for their child," State Senator Malcolm Smith said in a press release. "If childcare is unavailable to families due to exuberant fees, alternative arrangements tend to be made with unreliable and unlicensed sources."


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4 Short Celebrity Haircuts for Spring 2013
More and more women are opting for cropped tresses and if you've been playing with the idea of experimenting with short haircuts for spring 2013, check out the celebrity photos below for some fabulous inspiration. Spring hair cuts are a great way to reinvent yourself and put life back into your look for next season. Between Karlie Kloss, Ali Larter and Emma Stone, one of these blunt cuts just might be the perfect hairstyle for you!
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A winner was selected from 17 designs submitted by 11 freelance designers.
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Dear Editor;
Notwithstanding the impassioned arguments, heard in recent days, that Bronx Borough President Fernando Fernando Ferrer is too close to Rev. Al Sharpton to be supported in his mayoral campaign, I don't recall hearing anything divisive from Ferrer when he spoke a few weeks ago to the Rockaway Chamber of Commerce.
Indeed, I recall hearing Mr. Ferrer say that Rockaway should be a destination, not a neglected part of the city.
The attacks on Mr. Ferrer have not registered with me. How worse would a Ferrer administration be to me, after the campaign orchestrated by City Hall to get new owners at Dayton Seaside? If people are put off by Mr. Ferrer's suggestion that we have two New Yorks, today, and something should be done about the "other" New York, my Dayton Seaside ordeal is ample proof to me that I am part of the other New York; the New York that is excluded from the halls of government. The truth is that the two New Yorkers are a function of insider politics, not race of ethnicity.
There will remain two New Yorks so long as leaders serve personal ambition, not the common good, and of course, also their political buddies, keeping the rest of us shut off from the political process.
To those who would say that Ferrer administration would harm the city's economy, I would note that the insider politics presently practiced is not exactly an equal economic opportunity society. Certainly Rev. Al Sharpton himself, could not have caused my personal economic status more harm that the City Hall insiders who employed raw political power, not fair procedure, against me and my family at Dayton Seaside.
And consider the irony. So many of the leaders of the war on Dayton Seaside, in City Hall and in Queens, have now reached the end of their political careers. I think someone above was watching Dayton Seaside.


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The outbursts for democracy have finally impacted the Israel government which has begun to recognize their head in the sand approach will simply not work in the modern world. The government of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is considering a new offer to Palestinian leaders which would create a Palestinian state with "temporary borders" in order to gain acceptance there are now two nations in the region of what used to be called, Palestine. A spokesperson for Netanyahu said: "the Palestinians aren't ready to reach a final-status agreement to end the conflict in light of the instability of the region." He went on to say, "we don't want to evade a final status agreement, but an interim agreement is a way to get there."
Former Defense Minister Shaul Motz is proposing the new Palestinian state would initially control 60% of the West Bank with the promise from Israel the border would eventually adjusted to reflect a close approximation to the 1967 border. This is an important move forward!


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MIDDLETOWN -- Local, state and U.S. dignitaries visited the North End Farmers Market Friday to learn about the North End Action Team's "Kid's Market," where city children receive funds to buy fruits, vegetables and other healthy foods at the market.
U.S. Rep. Rosa DeLauro, D-New Haven, state Reps. Matthew Lesser, D-Middletown, and Joe Serra, D-Middletown, state Sen. Paul Doyle, D-Wethersfield, and Mayor Dan Drew came out to the market Friday.
NEAT also offers nutritional and consumer education for the children, as well as cooking classes for parents.
Izzi Greenberg, executive director of NEAT, said the program is set up so the "kids are in control."
"Our staff had to get pushy with some of the parents. We had to explain it's the kid's money," Greenberg explained.
City children who participate in the Community Renewal Team's free or reduced lunch program at the Salvation Army building next door to the farmers market receive $7 weekly to spend as they wish at the market.
And that money -- provided by funding from the City of Middletown Health Partnership Grant, a city block grant and a grant from the Wholesome Wave Foundation out of Bridgeport -- comes with lessons on nutrition, agriculture, and consumer education for the kids and cooking classes for the parents.
Adin Vaewsorn, a Wesleyan student and intern at NEAT, is charged with the education components of the program.
Vaewsorn also volunteered previously to install garden boxes at Macdonough School and is currently working on installing a community garden on Ferry Street.
Macdonough Elementary School is also a partner of the program.
NEAT also sponsors a Double Dollars Program, where those on government assistance can bring their vouchers to the NEAT table at the market and receive voucher from NEAT that work the same as cash -- up to $60 per month.
Greenberg explained the programs at an informal meeting at� organization's offices following a brief tour of the market.
A number of children participating in the Kid's Market joined the delegation.
DeLauro asked each child what they bought. Briana Boirie, 12, told DeLauro she bought berries.
"Why did you buy fruit?" DeLauro asked.
"In case I'm thirsty," Boirie replied. "I make juice."
DeLauro applauded the idea.
"Fruit juice costs $3.50 and a bottle of soda costs $.79. Which are you going to buy if you're on a budget? Sugary drinks are a big contributor to obesity. This allows you to make healthy choices," she said.
Drew pointed out that eating healthy is less expensive in the long run when health care costs are factored in.
"Healthy choices save money... Eating refined or processed food causes health rates to go down," he said.
Doyle asked Greenberg about the vendor's experiences.
"The� farmers are very happy. They're busy. Two years ago, they were telling me they don't make as much as other farmers markets, but they kept coming back because they liked the atmosphere. Back then, about $45,000 was spent at the market (over the summer). Last year, over $100,000 was spent. It's now one of the most lucrative for some of them," she said.
Lesser asked how the community gardens fit into the program.
Greenberg said the children go on regular field trips to the garden, so they can see the agriculture process from planting to harvesting.
"They learn how that zucchini gets to the store shelves," Greenberg said.
The North End Farmers Market is held each Friday between July and October, from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. at the corner of Main and Liberty streets.
For more information on NEAT's programs or the farmers market in general, visit www.northendfarmersmarket.org.


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Jimmy Westlake
Jimmy Westlake's Celestial News column appears monthly in the Steamboat Today.
Find more columns by Westlake here.
Warm June evenings are perfect for stargazing, and the upcoming month offers plenty of celestial events to keep you busy looking up. Whether you are camping out under the stars or viewing from your back porch, you won't want to miss any of the action.
June opens with the red planet Mars rapidly closing in on Leo's brightest star, Regulus. The two are closest together on the evening of June 6, when they shine less than 1 degree apart.
You barely will be able to fit your finger at arm's length between the two. Start watching several nights before June 6 to appreciate Mars' orbital motion relative to the background stars.
The color contrast between ruddy Mars and icy-blue Regulus should be striking. Although they look close together, it is merely a line-of-sight illusion — Regulus is 78 light-years away while Mars is only 12 light-minutes away. Look for the pair between 9:30 and 10 p.m. high in the western sky, not far from the dazzling planet Venus.
And speaking of Venus, on June 19 the Evening Star has a close encounter of its own with the naked-eye star cluster called the Beehive.
Bright moonlight will hamper the view, so use binoculars to enhance the twinkling stars in the Beehive, less than 1 degree to the left of Venus at 10 p.m. low in the western sky. In the case of cloudy weather, Venus will appear close to the Beehive for a couple of days on either side of June 19.
When the full Hay Moon rises at sunset June 25, it will just look like any other gorgeous full moon, but beginning at 4:17 a.m. the next morning, the northern half of the moon will pass into the Earth's dark shadow, creating a partial eclipse of the moon.
The dark "bite" out of the lunar "cookie" will be greatest at 5:39 a.m., just as the moon sets in the southwest and the sun breaks the horizon in the northeast.
From Colorado, most of this eclipse will be seen during morning twilight. It isn't every day that you get to see an eclipsed moon in a colorful predawn sky.
This one is just a warmup for the spectacular total eclipse of the moon that we will be treated to this coming December.
The world is waiting to see just how bright newly discovered comet McNaught will become in late June. Comets are notoriously unpredictable in how bright they will appear to us as they round the sun and begin to boil away and grow their tails.
I'm going to go out on a limb and predict that Australian comet-hunter Rob McNaught's recent discovery, Comet McNaught 2009 R1, will put on a nice show for us after sunset June 20 and again the next morning before sunrise June 21. The comet could be faintly visible with the unaided eye as it passes less than 2 degrees from the very bright star Capella in the constellation Auriga. Binoculars will enhance the view considerably.
Look very low in the northwest after sunset on June 20 for the bright star Capella and then low in the northeast between 3 and 4 a.m. June 21.
Comet McNaught will appear very close to Capella. If I am right, this could be an unforgettable view and our best chance to see a naked-eye comet this year.
Jimmy Westlake teaches astronomy and physics at Colorado Mountain College's Alpine Campus. He is an avid astronomer whose photographs and articles have been published all around the world. Check out Jimmy's astrophotography website at www.jwestlake.com.


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Bridge Construction Shutters Famous Skate Area
"[F]or generations of skateboarders, and an increasing number of BMX bikers, the place carries an iconic name and a sacred meaning. It is the Brooklyn Banks. It is the place to go, to be, and to be seen.
'It's the best skate park in the world,' the professional skateboarder Mike Vallely said near the end of a popular YouTube video posted earlier this year to pay homage to the threatened Brooklyn Banks, 'because it wasn't supposed to be a skate park.'"
But an upcoming four-year renovation project at the Brooklyn Bridge will shutter the area, replacing it with a staging zone for construction equipment.


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(CNSNews.com) - Former Republican Sen. Fred Thompson has not announced he is running for president - yet. Nonetheless, media scrutiny of his record as a lawyer and lobbyist shows he is being treated like a candidate and, as such, as a target for his political opponents.
A July 6 report in The Los Angeles Times, for instance, included allegations from pro-abortion lobbyists that Thompson lobbied President George H.W. Bush's White House on their behalf in 1991. Thompson has denied the charge.
"I've experienced another gambit of those schooled in the creative use of law and politics: dredging up clients - or another lawyer's clients - that I may have represented or consulted with, and then using the media to get me into a public debate as to what I may have do for them or said to them 15 or 20 years ago," Thompson wrote on his website Thursday.
Besides Thompson, former White House Chief of Staff John Sununu-who the abortion group National Family Planning and Reproductive Rights Association alleges Thompson met with 16 years ago-denies ever meeting with Thompson on lobbying matters.
The L.A. Times's story cited no billing records for Thompson but referenced minutes from a meeting of the abortion group, which claimed Thompson had been hired to lobby for them.
Key accusers against Thompson in the story were Judith DeSarno, director of the pro-abortion group, and former Democratic Rep. Michael Barnes of Maryland. The firm that Thompson worked for when he allegedly did the lobbying - Arent Fox Kintner Plotkin & Kahn - is historically a Democratic law firm.
(Since the L.A. Times published its story, the paper has altered at least one dubious comment by DeSarno-in the website posting of the story-without issuing a correction or explanation.)
This year, Arent Fox attorneys donated $12,500 to New York Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton's presidential campaign, more than a quarter of all the political donations made by employees of the firm. Members of the firm also made donations to other presidential candidates, of both parties, that totaled, $8,700, while donating the rest to various political committees.
Arent Fox spokeswoman Denise DeLorey did not answer whether billing records existed and said the firm had no comment on the matter.
At a time when Thompson is tied with Clinton in a recent poll, it's not out of the question that such attacks on Thompson's record are coming from the Democratic Party, said Larry Sabato, political science professor at the University of Virginia.
"There's no question that many Democrats fear Fred Thompson since they can see how his Reaganesque image and Hollywood celebrity could prove a potent combination in fall 2008, especially against a Democratic nominee with the weaknesses of Hillary Clinton," Sabato told Cybercast News Service. "Maybe they are wrong, or maybe they are right. But they can't let Thompson get too much of a head of steam."
"Ideally, Democrats would like to see the three remaining strongest GOP candidates, Giuliani, Thompson, and Romney, battle it out in a bitter contest that drags on for a while next winter. I would expect them to leak negative information as it becomes available on Rudy and Romney, too," said Sabato. "The Republicans will do the very same thing to the Democrats."
On his website, www.imwithfred.com, Thompson -- perhaps taking preemptive action against further scrutiny of his lobbying record -- asserted that attorneys shouldn't be automatically associated with their clients. He referenced the law practice of former presidents, such as John Adams, who represented the British soldiers from the Boston Massacre.
"Like Adams, the views of attorney Abe Lincoln would have been a little hard to discern from looking at the positions he took as a lawyer," said Thompson. "He represented the big railroad companies and on other occasions represented farmers and small landowners against railroads."
However, Thompson's past record as a lobbyist can't be entirely discounted as long as he's a candidate for public office, said Nathan L. Gonzales, political editor of The Rothenberg Political Report.
"Will past clients matter? It will depend on what issues he did or didn't represent," Gonzales told Cybercast News Service. "If he did lobby for a pro-choice group, it depends on how important that issue is to voters, and depends on where Thompson is relative to other top tier candidates."
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Still can't ride
Mileage: 1.1
March mileage: 1.1
Temperature upon departure: 11
I tried. I tried.
The bike box was covered in several inches of snow by the time I finally dragged it into the house and sliced it open. I went to work restoring Snaux bike from a duct-tape-covered mass of aluminum and cables to something that might move forward again. But I had to make sure.
Juneau was in the midst of a "blizzard warning," but it seemed pretty tame ... about nine inches of new snow and only light powder falling at the time. Most of the streets weren't yet plowed, so I couldn't just coast and spin easy for a while. I had to set right into the crank, and the knee pain came instantly. I winced through it for a about a half mile, thinking that my knee was probably just stiff and needed to loosen up. But it just became worse. Eventually, my leg started involuntarily jumping off the pedals. If I had pedal cages, I probably would have just let it dangle there. But I needed the leg's dead weight just to keep the crank turning, and the angle of the up-stroke of was too much. I got off the bike and pushed it home.
As I was carrying my bike down the stairs, it somehow slipped out of my hands, bounced a few times and dropped into the yard. I'm not really sure what happened then. I lost it, a little bit. I plopped down beside it and had my own private temper tantrum, right there in the snow, swiping up clouds of cheek-stinging powder and everything. After that humiliating little pity party subsided, I propped up the bike and got out my camera to document the meltdown. I'm not sure why I did that, either. I'm still really embarrassed about it. Why am I writing about it? But it seems important to remember the low points. And today was definitely a low point.
I can't say why I became so consumed with frustration. I'm not exactly suffering, and there are people out there - like Lynda, who broke her collarbone in a mountain bike race on Feb. 17 - who obviously have it so much worse. But I guess that, as with any injury, there is always a lingering thought that "this knee is never going to work again." It's easy to push the thought in the back of my mind when I have an inexplicable little injury with no known origin and no real reason to exist. I can even tell myself that it's all in my head. But when that thought of permanent disability comes raring back ... no amount of denial can hold it off. And there I am, sitting in the snow, clenching my mittens so tight that my fingers hurt and thinking, "It's not supposed to happen like this. Not here. Not now."
I know. So much melodrama. I'm usually even-tempered, but every once in a while I revert back to the maturity of a 16-year-old. It's a good emotional release. I'll be OK. I promise. I even went a short snowshoe hike after that. With all of the new, deep snow, I really worked my calves without putting much pressure on my knee.
I have an appointment at a sports medicine clinic on Tuesday. I look forward to finding out that it really is nothing, that it's all in my head, and that I'm just acting like a toddler.


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Yet another amp - simple inverted with 10x gain, mosfet output stage
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Hi all.
I was in the mood for modifying an old amp i made ~10 years ago.
Change R9 to set idle current - 500R -> 0.5amp.
It does not need any compensation.
It is stable into capacitive load.
The openloop gain is not that high, but the harmonics fall nicely of.
CLG is 20dB
OLG is 82dB
And the amp will be able to compete with an gainclone amp regarding size.
Bandwidth is >350KHz.
Lovely amp except for very low Zin - not many preamps can deal with 1k...
You can drive it from a jfet buffer like in this paper:
Or you can choose a good cheap opamp like: LME49721M to drive. Both types have no problem with the 1K Zin.
..or from a DAC.
Yes precisely. And use the DAC's internal volume control.
The feedback network the needs to be changed. But basicly the Resistor R11 should be shorted and R10 need to be changed to match the output to 0dB from the DAC currentsource.
I would not go higher than +/-25V on the rails.
And if we choose an OpAmp as buffer we might as well use the LM3886 or OPA549 as amp.
So, stop offering bad solutions and change the amp so that Zin=10k or more (without added complexity) :D
SE can drive it.
I'm just kiddin' you, relax... ;)
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