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The Caribbean Visual Palette
Patricia Mohammed
This is an advance summary of a forthcoming article in the Oxford Research Encyclopedia of Latin American History. Please check back later for the full article.
The Caribbean is generally considered the islands and territories bounded on one or more shores by the Caribbean Sea, containing an archipelagic stretch of islands, from the Straits of Florida in the United States to the tip of the South American continent, and including the mainland territories of Belize, Suriname, and Guyana. A Caribbean palette incorporates a taste, a way of looking, a value system of what is considered beautiful, representative, or pleasing; an aesthetic sensibility, and feel, for these territories, not just the ways in which art and artistic representation lay down color and texture. It includes expectations that the viewer, whether internal or external to the region, has come to associate with Caribbean peoples. The term "visual palette" also refers to the range of colors and artistic expressions that are connected to the region as a result of its geography and climate, its tropical flora and fauna, the mixing of its ethnic and racial groups, and their religious practices. These elements have accumulated to a range of iconographic symbols derived from festivals, producing values, customs, and variations of shade, shape, and sound that, over time, have morphed into a Caribbean aesthetic, which, like all living cultures, continues to evolve each day.
The historical process by which culture has been created in this region—European colonial settlement of relatively unpopulated lands, displacing the indigenous groups from the 15th century onwards to the present—has affected the way in which the Caribbean has been represented over time. Post-colonial relations of dominance, among and between racialized groups in the different Caribbean territories, have signaled ideas that have demographic appeal. At the same time, there is no unified or shared acceptance of taste or formal values of what is fully representative of the Caribbean visual standpoint, either within societies or between and among them. In an area that contains Anglophone, Hispanophone, Francophone, and Dutch Antillean languages, as well as countless dialects, there are barriers to communication that make for inhibited fluidities or sharing. Nonetheless, due to commonalities of history and topography, there has evolved a uniqueness, perhaps, of color or subject matter that resonates with the Caribbean visual experience. This article examines some selected elements of the different aesthetics produced within this region and explores how these have emerged to create a sensibility that is understood loosely as Caribbean.
Central America's Caribbean Coast: Politics and Ethnicity
Robert Sierakowski
From the period of imperial conquest and competition, the Caribbean coast of Central America has served as an interstitial space: between British and Spanish rule; between foreign corporate control and national inclusion; mestizo, black, and indigenous. Running from Guatemala in the north through Honduras, Nicaragua, Costa Rica, and Panama in the south, "la Costa" has functioned as a contested terrain imbued with economic import, ethnic difference, and symbolic power. The coastal zones were transformed in the 20th century through the construction of railroads and later highways, large-scale foreign immigration, the spread of states' bureaucratic agents, and internal migrants, as well as transnational projects such as the Panama Canal and the United Fruit Company's integrated banana plantation empire.
The coastal region's inaccessible terrain, large communities of lowland indigenous people, and vast numbers of Afro-Caribbean migrants from islands such as Jamaica markedly differentiated these lowlands from the wider Central American republics. From indigenous groups such as the Rama, Mayangna-Sumu, Kuna, Guaymí, and Bribri, to the Afro-indigenous Garifuna and Miskitu, and the English-speaking black Creoles and Afro-Antilleans, the region has enjoyed great ethnic diversity compared to the nominally mestizo republics of which it has formed part. Finally, ladino (non-indigenous) or mestizo (mixed-race) campesino migrants from the Pacific or Central regions of the isthmus arrived in large numbers throughout the 20th century. Racism, ethnic exclusion, and marginalization were often the response of national states toward these coastal populations. In some contexts, tensions between and among ethnic groups over land and natural resources, as well as between national states and local autonomy, flared into violent conflict. Elsewhere in Central America, the Caribbean coast's position in national political development permitted a gradual meshing of national and regional cultures during the second half of the 20th century.
Conflicts between Caribbean Basin Dictators and Democracies, 1944–1959
Aaron Coy Moulton
Between 1944 and 1959, conflicts with anti-dictatorial exiles and democratic leaders against dictatorial regimes and dissident exiles shaped inter-American relations in the Caribbean Basin. At the end of World War II, anti-dictatorial exiles networked with students, laborers, journalists, and politicians in denouncing the Dominican Republic's Rafael Trujillo, Nicaragua's Anastasio Somoza, and Honduras's Tiburcio Carías. Opponents of and dissident exiles from the 1944 Guatemalan Revolution and Venezuela's Trienio Adeco (Adeco Triennium) under Rómulo Betancourt likewise turned to dictatorial regimes for aid. By 1947, a loose coalition of anti-dictatorial exiles with the help of Cuba, Guatemala, and Venezuela's democratic leaders formed what would become known as the Caribbean Legion and organized the abortive Cayo Confites expedition against Trujillo. Seeking regional stability, U.S. officials intervened against this expedition and Caribbean Basin dictators and dissident exiles' attempts to air-bomb Guatemala City and Caracas.
Caribbean Basin leaders and exiles focused upon these inter-American conflicts, rather than the international Cold War. José Figueres's rise to power in Costa Rica provided a pivotal ally to democratic leaders and anti-dictatorial exiles, and Caribbean Basin dictators began working with the Venezuelan military regime after the 1948 military coup. In 1949, Trujillo's regime coordinated a counter-intelligence operation that destroyed the Caribbean Legion's expedition at Luperón and brought greater attention to the region.
By the early 1950s, dictatorial regimes operated as a counter-revolutionary network sharing intelligence, aiding dissident exiles, supporting Fulgencio Batista's 1952 coup in Cuba, and lobbying U.S. officials against Jacobo Arbenz in Guatemala and Figueres in Costa Rica. The Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) utilized these dictators and exiles during Operations PBFORTUNE and PBSUCCESS to overthrow the Guatemalan government in 1954, but U.S. officials intervened when the counter-revolutionary network invaded Costa Rica in 1955.
From 1955 onward, anti-dictatorial exiles from Cuba, the Dominican Republic, Guatemala, Nicaragua, and Venezuela continued organizing expeditions against Caribbean Basin dictatorships, and multiple groups conspired against Batista's regime. Among Cuban exiles, Fidel Castro rose to prominence and received important resources and alliances through anti-dictatorial exiles. Dictators shared intelligence and gave aid to Batista, yet Caribbean Legion veterans, Cuban exiles, Betancourt, Figueres, and others helped Castro undermine Batista. In 1959, Castro supported anti-dictatorial expeditions, most notably those against Trujillo and Luis Somoza. However, Castro disagreed with many former exiles and Betancourt and Figueres's policies, so the resulting tension separated Castro from democratic leaders and divided the region among dictatorial regimes, democratic governments, and Castro.
Cuba's Second Golden Age of Popular Music, 1989–2005
Anita Casavantes Bradford and Raúl Fernandez
The years between 1989 and 2005 were a period of exceptional musical productivity and creativity, a "second golden age" of Cuban popular music—the first golden age referring to the 1950s explosion of the mambo and the cha-cha-chá. During this more recent golden age multiple and diverse forms of musical expression gained traction, and island artists enjoyed a dramatic increase in international visibility. The exciting new sounds of timba and Latin jazz, the Buena Vista Social Club–styled reinvention of the son cubano, and the reemergence of música guajira during the 1990s all reflected the dynamic tensions between tradition and innovation, the local and global, and between an imaginary "authentic" and the much denigrated "commercial" that have long animated the island's extraordinary musical culture. Despite the seeming newness and singularity of much of the music produced during this period, this second golden age was in fact characterized as much by cross-genre collaboration and continuities with earlier trends in Cuban music and musical culture as by the impact on musical production of unprecedented circumstances of economic deprivation of those years known as the Special Period. A closer look at this second golden age of popular music reveals a cosmopolitan Cuban musical landscape in which styles from different periods coexisted with ease and remained relevant, both as distinct sounds and in dialogue with one another, bringing together a dynamic community of musicians of all levels and styles, old and young, on and off the island. Dynamically poised between the forces of tradition and innovation, and beloved by both local and global audiences, the artists who rose to prominence or were rediscovered during these years each spoke, in their own unique ways, to the innovation, the cross genre collaborations, and above all to the profound historical continuities that have long animated the island's extraordinary musical culture.
Dominican Baseball and Latin American Pluralism, 1969–1974
April Yoder
Record-setting Dominican attendance at the championship game of the 1969 Amateur Baseball World Series attested to the local and international stakes in the competition between the United States and Cuba. Both teams reached the final game of the round-robin tournament, having defeated all nine of the opposing teams representing nations and government systems as varied as Nicaragua's rightest dictatorship, the Dutch Antilles' constitutional commonwealth, and Venezuela's guerrilla-threatened democracy. Dominican sportswriters described the game as a competition between two opposing government systems and two conflicting sporting systems: the decentralized, largely privatized U.S. system that used amateur ball as a stepping stone to professionalism and the Cuban system that developed state amateurs who educated themselves, worked, and played ball in the service of the nation. The meeting between the U.S. and Cuban teams in the Dominican Republic suggested that the systems might coexist at a time when the Dominican government headed by President Joaquín Balaguer began to experiment with new models for political and economic development. Balaguer used the domestic openness and conciliatory attitude toward Cuba to legitimate controversial economic policies and submerge political discontent through national projects around international events like the Amateur World Series in 1969 and the XII Central American and Caribbean Games in 1974. With the international stage provided by the sporting events, Balaguer offered his Third Way as a model for Latin America. This local pluralism, though brief and perhaps disingenuous, allowed Balaguer to project himself and the Dominican Republic as leaders in a movement for Latin America solidarity built on pluralism and respect for sovereignty.
The Dominican Colmado from Santo Domingo to New York
Christian Krohn-Hansen
The colmado, or the small village or street-corner store, is a Dominican institution. It is typically a general store for basic foodstuffs, cleaning products, toiletries, soft drinks, beer, and rum. When Dominicans from the early 1960s onward started migrating to New York City in large numbers, they took with them a version of the colmado. On the way, they altered the original colmado. The result became the "Dominican" bodega or corner grocer's in New York City, a new type but nevertheless not so unlike the colmado on the island. This essay explores the making and remaking of Dominican colmados and bodegas. The goal is twofold: firstly, to provide some answers to the questions "How have these businesses been created and run?" and "What are their most important and most striking characteristics?" and, secondly, to demonstrate that the Dominican colmado can be good to think with—more specifically, the hope is to show that the problematic of "the Dominican colmado / the Dominican bodega" offers a window for tracing and understanding in which ways the Dominican social formation has changed since the mid-20th century, that is, since the last years of the Trujillo regime. The patterns of the colmados and bodegas have mirrored broader historical transformations. But these businesses have also helped give the latter processes their form. Businesses and social configurations have been two sides of the same historical process.
Early Modern Afro-Caribbean Healers
Pablo F. Gómez
In the early modern Spanish Caribbean, ritual practitioners of African descent were essential providers of health care for Caribbean people of all origins. Arriving from West and West Central Africa, Europe, and other Caribbean and New World locales, black healers were some of the most important shapers of practices related to the human body in the region. They openly performed bodily rituals of African, European, and Native American inspiration. Theirs is not a history uniquely defined by resistance or attempts at cultural survival, but rather by the creation of political and social capital through healing practices. Such a project was only possible through their exploration of and engagement with early modern Caribbean human and natural landscapes.
Espiritismo and Urban Planning in Cuba: Envisioning Regeneration in Havana and Oriente after 1898
Reinaldo L. Román
Espiritismo refers to the practice of communicating with the spirits of the dead by means of especially disposed and trained persons known as mediums. Linked in origin to the Spiritualist movement that swept through the United States and Europe after 1848, espiritistas in Cuba drew primarily from French and Spanish sources, especially the writings of French systematizer Allan Kardec (1804–1869). Following Kardec, espiritistas asserted that spirits survived death, progressing over numerous incarnations until they attained perfect knowledge and morality. Kardec, who described his pursuits as an experimental science rather than as a faith, was less influential among Anglo-American spiritualists. Among other differences, spiritualists questioned Kardec's notion of reincarnation, the key to what he called the "law of [spiritual] progress."
In Cuba, a Spanish colony until 1898, espiritismo grew in popularity in the last third of the 19th century, a period of wrenching anti-colonial and anti-slavery struggles that led separatists to denounce the Catholic Church for its support of Spanish colonialism. Communications with spirits persuaded non-conformists, mostly literate town and city residents of the middling classes, that a new age of technological and moral progress was dawning. In Havana, Santiago de Cuba, Barcelona, and Madrid, espiritistas challenged the Church for its refusal to recognize evidence derived from spirit communications. Practitioners maintained that knowledge acquired from superior spirits could renew Christianity, heal the sick, and open up new vistas of the cosmos. Generally associated with liberalism, espiritistas contested the doctrinal authority of the Church and its public functions. Persuaded of the essential equality of all spirits, espiritistas advocated civil marriage, lay schools, hospitals, cemeteries, the end of capital punishment, the abolition of slavery, and reforms favoring individual freedoms for men and women. Fearful that espiritismo could fuel anti-colonial dissent, Spanish officials in Cuba sought to limit the circulation of espiritista texts. Clerics condemned the practice in vehement terms.
The Ten Year's War (1868–1878) marked a turning point in the development of espiritismo. Following the decade-long nationalist insurgency, espiritista groups multiplied. Espiritismo gained adherents among campesinos and people of color, including those in eastern Cuba, where the separatist movement had its most ardent supporters. Although espiritistas were not all revolutionaries, practitioners were well represented in the multi-racial army that waged the War of Independence (1895–1898) with the aim of establishing a sovereign and racially egalitarian republic. The 1890s and early 1900s also witnessed the rise of ritually and nominally distinct forms of espiritismo. In eastern Cuba, a communal healing practice known as espiritismo de cordón became popular. Practitioners of Afro-Cuban religions, including Regla de Ocha (Santería) and Palo, incorporated espiritista practices of medium communication. Espiritismo cruzado, a practice inspired by African and espiritista sources, also gained adherents across the island.
In 1898, when the United States intervened in Cuba, bringing thirty years of recurrent warfare to an abrupt end, much of the island was in ruins. The Cuban insurgent army had destroyed plantations to deprive Spain of revenue. Spain, for its part, had pursued a policy of reconcentración (1896–1897). These were measures aimed at denying separatists the support of rural Cubans. Hundreds of thousands of campesinos were forced to relocate to garrisoned camps established in cities and towns under Spanish control. As Spanish officers had anticipated, reconcentrados and refugees overwhelmed the fragile urban infrastructure. The results were widespread hunger, epidemics, and the deaths of a 150,000 to 170,000 people, according to a recent estimate by historian Guadalupe García.
When the United States installed a military government in Cuba in 1898, the reconstruction of war-ravaged cities, restoration of agriculture, and resettlement of the displaced population were among its most pressing priorities. Havana's urban periphery alone counted 242,055 indigent residents in 1899. Espiritistas responded to the neocolonial government's urban planning with designs of their own. After witnessing the expansion of El Vedado, a Havana suburb lauded for embodying the virtues of the nascent order, an otherwise unknown espiritista named Antonio Ojeda y Cabral launched a quixotic campaign. In a free pamphlet, Ojeda proposed a blueprint for the construction of a new kind of city, one purpose-built to promote material and spiritual regeneration of society. Painstakingly articulated as the vision was, El que entienda, recoja: A que os libertéis vosotros sois llamados (1908) was remarkable for its silence on matters of race, a fault line that cut across politics and urban planning alike. Ojeda's rhetoric aligned him with the predominant strain of Cuban nationalism. Advocates, including José Martí, defined Cubanness as transcending racial differences, but decried race-based mobilizations as threats to national unity and sovereignty.
In the eastern province of Oriente, espiritistas de cordón responded to neocolonial plans with the construction of healing compounds. These centros espirituales challenged the schemes for urban renewal and agro-industrial expansion that the government promoted in Santiago de Cuba's suburb of Vista Alegre and in newly established sugar plantations. The centers afforded a small number of insurgent veterans access to housing and plots of land, and gave victims of the war a chance to build communities in line with their aspirations of eastern insurgents. Their regional understanding of national liberation called for racial equality without demanding silence. Despite such differences, early 20th-century espiritismo offered Cubans in Oriente and Havana futures beyond those that government officials and developers sought to build.
Exile in 19th-Century Haiti
Matthew J. Smith
Of the many conditions pronounced that have been strongly featured in the Caribbean experience since the ending of slavery in the 19th century, exile ranks as one of the most profound. Its impact is far-reaching. The circumstances that encourage exile are well known and involve either a willful decision to leave one's country as a result of political and economic distress or a forced departure sanctioned by the state in an effort to quash internal dissent. There is also the case of political exile of state leaders who fall from grace, a situation associated more with Haiti than with other countries in the Caribbean. Whatever the reasons, exiles and refugees—like other migrants from the Caribbean—brought the Caribbean experience to wider attention. People from the islands surrounded by the Caribbean Sea have since the first days of colonial rule made of that sea a highway for travel to other places, an escape and entry into the wider Atlantic.
The personal impact of exile is manifest in several domains, but most obviously in Caribbean culture. The Rastafari faith in Jamaica has as one of its fundamental beliefs that blacks in the Caribbean are in a state of displacement, taken by force to an oppressive Babylon. The Rastafari desire for repatriation to Africa as necessary to bring to an end centuries of exilic life in the Caribbean is not uncommon, nor is their spiritual and cultural preoccupation with exile. Caribbean writers have consistently written about exile and a yearning to return to an imagined home: Barbadian writer George Lamming's The Pleasures of Exile, Martinican Aimé Césaire's Return to My Native Land, Jamaican Thomas MacDermot's poem "A Song for Exiles" (written under the name Tom Redcam), or Bob Marley's Exodus document the exile experience from several perspectives. Common to all these examples is a melancholic sense of rootlessness and guilt that exile creates among those who have left. There is also a persistent theme of the Caribbean exile as wanderer, moving in and out of different locations across the Atlantic while searching for both a spiritual and physical home and a rationale for their condition. It is a perceived inability to settle completely in a foreign country that produces this guilt. Bob Marley captured this perfectly in "Running Away," the most poignant of his songs recorded during his exile from Jamaica in 1977: "You must have done something wrong / Why you can't find a place where you belong?" which is followed later by the rationalization of the decision to leave—"It is better to live on the house top than in a house full of confusion."
The longing to return, whether to Africa, Europe, or Haiti, has been a constant theme in Haiti and the Caribbean, and it is linked to the long centuries of slavery. Metaphors of slavery and its associated sense of displacement are replete in the literature on exile not only in the 20th-century writings of Depestre, Dany Lafferière, Danticat, the art of Edouard Duval-Carrié, and the music of the Haitian diaspora, but also in references to the social conditions of the Caribbean's populations during the period of slavery. If exile has been a persistent theme in Caribbean history, popping in and out of narratives of the nation at various points on a temporal map of the region, in Haiti it has been woven completely into the fabric of Haitian national history. Exile has always carried a powerful resonance in Haitian culture because it has been a pervasive aspect of Haitian political life. Twentieth-century cultural references to exile and displacement are numerous. In the decades since the coming to power of François Duvalier in 1957, which precipitated mass migration from the island, the theme of exile has been consistently and most powerfully articulated by Haitian writers and singers. From Réne Depestre's famous poem "Exile," in which he compared the country itself to a departure gate in an airport with people waiting to leave, to Edwidge Danticat's novels, the theme is ever-present. Rodrigue Milien's painful song of exile in the Duvalier years, "Nostalgie," sung in both Creole and English, poignantly captured the loneliness of the Haitian exile: "When someone leaves his country far away and life is mistreating you and you want to kill yourself … take me back to Haiti, take me back to Haiti."
This article considers the roots of exile in Haiti's long 19th century, which Haitian scholar Patrick Bellegarde-Smith has suggested began with independence in 1804 and ended with U.S. military occupation in 1915, through the personal experiences and writings of three prominent 19th-century exiles: Joseph Balthazar Inginac (Mémoires, 1843), Edmond Paul (Les causes de nos malheurs, 1882), and Anténor Firmin (Lettres de Saint-Thomas, 1910). None of these men were ever president of Haiti, but they all wielded political and intellectual influence. Common to all three was their forced departure from Haiti for political reasons. They each settled in locations across the Caribbean at different times. Notably, none of these writers settled in North America or Europe. From afar they wrote extensively on Haiti's predicament and the impact of exile on Haiti and their personal lives. Through a reading of their experiences in exile it is possible to arrive at a fresh perspective of the place of exile in the unfolding of Haiti's post-independence development.
The Galíndez Case in the Dominican Republic
Elizabeth Manley
On March 12, 1956, Basque National and Columbia University lecturer Jesús María de Galíndez Suarez disappeared from New York City never to be seen again. While no conclusive evidence was ever uncovered, it has been widely accepted that he was taken by functionaries of the regime of Rafael Trujillo in the Dominican Republic, flown to the island, tortured, and killed. Galíndez, who had worked for the Trujillo regime after fleeing Spain in 1939 and subsequently immigrated to the United States in 1946, had just completed a dissertation on the Trujillato at Columbia. The regime did not look kindly on his chosen perspective and set in motion a plan to have him disappeared. Following his abduction, many U.S. solidarity activists joined forces with Dominican exile groups to push for greater attention to the atrocities of the Trujillo regime as well as for a closer investigation into Galíndez's disappearance. While Trujillo had similarly disappeared a number of individuals in the United States and other Latin American countries, the Galíndez case is unique for several reasons. First, Galíndez's life offers a prime example of a transnational identity, of someone who juggled multiple identities and causes, crossed physical and ideological borders, and operated daily with conflicting alliances and allegiances. Second, the murder of the Basque national mobilized a significant collective of solidarity activists in the United States, garnered considerable national press, and built a foundation for future activism. Moreover, as Galíndez had been working as a U.S. intelligence operative since before his arrival in the United States, his story complicates the traditional nexus of solidarity work. Finally, the case offers a unique window onto the geopolitics of the early Cold War (prior to the Cuban Revolution) and the intricacies of the second half of the Trujillo regime.
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Marion C. Barry passed away on Oct. 20, 2011, at the age of 87. She was pre-deceased by her daughter Barbara Mc Lees.
She leaves behind three children, Robert Barry, Joseph Schultz (Catherine) and Vincent Schultz (Amy), as well as two nieces, three nephews, six grandchildren and seven great-grandchildren.
She was retired from the Carmel High School for 21years.
Visitation and a funeral service were held at Balsamo-Cordovano Funeral Home 15 Church Street (off Route 6), Carmel, followed by a private cremation service. Hope there's a Bingo Jackpot in heaven for you and you will always and forever be in our hearts.

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I didn't know my hair was heat damaged until I stopped getting my hair straghtened and doing it myself..I started doing that when I colored my hair in feb and now I see my natural curl textures and the older hair isn't the same and is more like frizzy loose curls..it looks like I relaxed my hair or something I guess since ppl always ask that when I get it straightened or do a braid out..I'm trying to grow my hair out and don't want to cut it off b\c most of it is damage.it'd probably take 3 years to get it the length it is now with natural healthy curls.
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Easily grown, Lily of the Valley plants will take a couple of years to establish and may not flower the first year. But their creeping rhizomes will soon spread rapidly, making a lovely ground cover even under large trees. These hardy perennials thrive in zones 3 through 7.
Lily of the valley prefers well-drained but moist soil and does best in partial shade. It will grow in sun if soil moisture is consistent, but the foliage may not look its best.
Often used in nosegays, Lily of the Valley can be utilized in fragrant spring wedding bouquets.
Lily of the Valley is easily divided when dormant in spring or fall. Simply dig up the small rhizomes (called pips), gently separate, and replant 4 inches apart; plants will fill in quickly. Water well after transplanting. Sometimes you can find another gardener who is willing to share clumps of their established Lily of the Valley. Watch on Craigslist and Freecycle or ask family and friends if they have any they would like to share.
Lily of the Valley can also be grown from seed. After blooming in early spring, red berries form. The seeds are inside the berries. Seed germination requires almost one year, so growing them from rhizomes is faster and easier.
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Cadillac Allante Forum Discussion, fuel filter location in Past Cadillac Vehicle Discussion; Hello I have an 89 Allante I am unable to locate the in line fuel filter...
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Hello I have an 89 Allante I am unable to locate the in line fuel filter
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Since you dont seem to be getting a great response I would suggest (as on most 80 caddies) you might find filter on the frame, by the drivers side rear wheel, between
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Coulter: "Liberals love America like O.J. loved Nicole"
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In her January 6 nationally syndicated column, titled "Liberals love America like O.J. loved Nicole," right-wing pundit Ann Coulter attacked liberals for "heaping insults on America." Coulter claimed that The New York Times "was sticking with [calling the United States' response to the December 26 earthquake and tsunami] 'stingy.'" But the Times' criticism of the U.S. as "stingy" came in response to the United States' $35 million aid pledge, and the newspaper has since openly praised the U.S. for raising that pledge tenfold.
Coulter attacked the Times for a December 30, 2004, editorial titled "Are we stingy? Yes," writing that even though U.N. undersecretary-general for humanitarian affairs Jan Egeland had "retracted" his comment about "stingy" Western nations, "the New York Times was sticking with 'stingy.'" (As Media Matters for America has noted, Egeland did not single out the United States as "stingy" and was specifically referring to foreign aid budgets not related to the tsunami.) Coulter continued: "In an editorial subtly titled 'Are We Stingy? Yes,' the Times said the U.N. sponge [Egeland] 'was right on target.' This followed up a patriotic editorial a few days earlier titled 'America, the Indifferent.'"
The Times editorial, however, was written after the U.S. announced a pledge of $35 million in aid (up from its original pledge of $15 million), which the paper criticized as "a miserly drop in the bucket ... in keeping with the pitiful amount of the United States budget that we allocate for nonmilitary foreign aid." After the U.S. increased its aid pledge to $350 million, a January 4 Times editorial titled "Raining money" praised the action as part of "[t]he greatest outpouring of disaster relief on record" by stating: "President Bush, who embarrassed Americans with his initial offer of a piddling $15 million, should be commended for increasing the government's pledge to $350 million."
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Sir Isaac Newton Making a Pi Table.
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Very good one. Add some shadow to the hand.
The earth is brighter than the hand. The hand is backlight. There would be no shadow except on the backside of the hand, as I have it, except for the "thumb" which is lit from the earth and would cast no shadow into space.
Thanks. I'm disappointed, I'll admit. I loved this one.
Funny Newton's Cradle Digital Art
This little office toy came out in the 70's and they sold like hot cakes. I can't remember the name of it, if anyone knows let me know, however, I do remember playing with it and watching the balls go back and forth. How easily amused we were in those days.
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Very Cool Bob. It was called Newton's Cradle. I believe you have an extra ball added to your version...but that's good, you get more 'bang' for your buck. Newton's Cradle
Thanks for that slapshot, especially the link and I got the cradle design wrong. But the memory wasn't that far wrong.
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Grazie... ma mi è venuto un ematoma sulla spalla.. a forza di "pacche"
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please give some advice and view in full.
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Steve Jobs = the owner of Apple Inc. It's the play on word "Apple"
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Tiger of Sweden's spring / summer 2013 runway show was unveiled on one of the many catwalks of Stockholm fashion week (SFW) and Fashionising.com was there to capture each look.
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The consumer surplus for online media (value compared to price paid) amounts to about $970 for each U.S.-connected consumer each year, or about 2.5 percent of the average annual U.S. income, according to The Boston Consulting Group.
The comparable consumer surplus for offline media is approximately $900, according to new research by The Boston Consulting Group.
Some might interpret those findings to imply that there's potential for a new annual revenue stream of about $1,000 a year for online video and other applications. That probably is a bit of a leap.
An economist's notion of "consumer welfare" or "consumer surplus" is not always identical to "consumer willingness to pay" for a product. Consumer surplus is the monetary gain perceived by consumers when they're able to purchase a product for a price that is less than the highest price they'd be willing to pay.
In other words, consumer surplus is the difference between "regular price" and "on sale" price. The concept might also be said to include the "value" of products or services that are tough to evaluate, because the products are available "for no extra charge."
The surplus might be said to include the value consumers themselves place on a media-related activity or product over and above what they pay for it.
E-mail, instant messaging, online shopping or social media might provide relevant examples. People likely place high value on such apps and activities, but may not be willing to pay much incrementally to keep using such products.
For that reason, third-party revenue models are highly likely. Consider the high surplus ($311) users say they get from user generate content and social networks (Facebook and YouTube).
Consumers put a high value on this content, and the direct cost to them is essentially "free" (no incremental cost beyond the requirement for a device and Internet access). But access to an "audience" paying attention is valuable to advertisers.
Likewise, a user of a free app that might be "just about to buy something" is useful to a retailer.
The point is that "consumer surplus" might well be said to exist, even for "free" products such as Facebook or YouTube. But that does not necessarily mean people will "pay" significantly more than they presently do, for such value.
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GFCI problem
I have a tester that is used to check that a receptical is wired properly and a button on it to "trip" a GFCI to make sure it is working properly. I used it in my daughter's room to check the outlet and in doing so i "tripped" a GFCI somewhere which shut off the electrical to her room. There is no GFCI anywhere near her room. I checked the breakers to make sure they weren't faulty and they all work. I have a feeling that the previous owners hid a GFCI somewhere, but i have no idea where. Is there any way to locate it other than banging holes in the walls?
Any ideas would be great.
You shouldn't have to bang any holes! You just need to find that GFI. It should not be burried anywhere. Did you look outside or in the garage?
One other thing it could be. Are the wires just pushed into the holes in the back of the receptacles? There is a very common problem that the connection goes bad at these holes. By checking the receptacle you may have inadvertantly caused the connection to fail. Try to find the first recpetacle on that circuit and see if the wires have power.
Been there. Good luck!
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Mavunga was 10-10 for the night also capturing 13 rebounds, five blocks, and three assists. DeShields sparked a first half-ending scoring streak that pulled the Tar Heels ahead by 22 points and to the point of never looking back in the 54-point margin win.
The Tar Heels opened the game with a 5-0 run, starting with a three-pointer from Xylina McDaniel followed by a long jumper from Mavunga. Coastal Carolina finally got on the board with a field goal at 18:41.
With under five minutes to play in the first half, DeShields sparking a scoring run with back-to-back-to-back field goals for six points, one steal, and an assist off a McDaniel lay-up. To finish the first half, Alisha Gray (14 points, four steals) and Jessica Washington (11 points, three assists, three steals) each sunk three-pointers to push the first half lead to 46-24.
Danielle Butts made her first appearance for the Tar Heels this season coming back earlier than expected from injury. Unfortunately Butts committed back-to-back fouls in her first two minutes of play. Butts made up for it in the second half going 4-5 (4-7 overall) for field goals and 3-4 from free throws for 11 points.
The Tar Heels came out strong in the second half with a Mavunga lay-up and another McDaniel three. The scoring margin continued to grow ultimately reaching 56 points with under a minute to play in the game.
Carolina held Coastal to 22.2-percent shooting for the night while shooting 51.7-percent. The Tar Heels also handed out 30 assists compared to a mere 14 turnovers, the best ratio the team has put out in 2013-14.


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Yarn evolution. felting sisters, and a glimpse of Enid
Going in reverse, just because widdershins is so much fun, let's introduce you to our newest employee at the Good Ol'
Salt Mines Yarn House of Knit Purl:
Enid. I barely had to corner her or anything. What a refreshing change. Enid says "hi". She spins and knits, so expect to see her getting into mischief with the rest of us around here.
Next on the list (gotta keep this short, 500 million things To Do), the Noni Trunk Show has arrived:
We've got the whole new Fall line and a bunch of accessories for the patterns (handles and clasps for purses, etc) for interested knitters to peruse. An interesting aspect of this season is the sheer number of garments they released, instead of accessories. Most of them still retain the trademark Noni Dr. Suess-ish look, but in a more accessible way.
And, finally, here's something to make most knitters squee:
Chameleon Colorworks has started dyeing Optim yarn for handknitters who don't spin (we also have their Optim roving). This stuff is gorgeous. I immediately bough a skein, in "Indian Wedding". The colors and texture are fantastic. As is the yardage – 154y to 2oz. I'm thinking a hat would be nice with my little happy skein…
Evolution isn't not on the website yet, but is on the New Wall, if you're desperate to try some. And, at $13.25 a skein, it's not an expensive experiment, either.
That's everything for now. More news on Thursday. I'll also bring out my Seraphim Shawl. Miriam Felton is coming to town to teach two workshops for us, and I thought I'd knit a shawl to celebrate. That's my story, anyway, and I'm sticking to it.
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Should Armwood ultimately be forced to relinquish the Class 6A state title it won in December, it won't be due to any recruiting-related improprieties, the head of Florida's prep sports governing body said Wednesday.
In a phone interview with the Times, Florida High School Athletic Association executive director Roger Dearing said his group's five-month investigation into the Hawks program is "95-percent complete," with the probe centering on potential residency violations.
"We don't suspect anybody from Armwood recruited," Dearing said.
Instead, Dearing drew an analogy to the high-profile case involving Lakeland High, forced to forfeit its entire 2010 season last fall for residency — and not recruiting — infractions.
In that case, the FHSAA ruled in part that three transfer students — two of them football players — allegedly falsified addresses and failed to make a full and complete move into Lakeland's geographic school district per FHSAA bylaws.
"We found that nobody at (Lakeland High) had anything to do with it," Dearing said. "It was totally an issue of three parents being deceptive."
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Moving Washing machine to utility room
Wonder if someone could help ....
We're just about to move into our very first home (awwww!) and want to move the plumbing for the washing machine into a little room we're calling "the utility" (cause we're getting right posh like)!
Anyway - the only thing is the room is on the opposite side of the wall to the drain which is past the external kitchen door. SO, I know we'll have to poke a hole through the wall to the outside - but how do we lead the waste pipe to the drain ... Im guessing the water pressure wont manage to push it up and over the door and back down the other side ... yet I don't fancy having to step over the pipe when taking a trip to the garden.
Would we have to dig it into the ground and maybe pave over it - while obviously not cementing it in ...
How is thie type of thing done?
It would be helpful if you could post some pictures.
I think you will need to extend the underground drains and put in a back entry gully, it might be worth getting some quotes for the work, or consider re-sighting the washing machine.
Just had another thought? You can get pump units to handle washing machine waste, and pump it through a 22mm pipe Sani-flow or Grunfoss do one). It might be the cheapest and simplest option.
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UPDATE 3: West Seattle's Michael Stusser and Marty Riemer appeared on the Katie Couric show Tue. June 25
Sleeping with Siri documentary and the Digital Blackout experiment getting national attention
UPDATE June 25
The clip from the Katie Couric show featuring West Seattle's Michael Stusser has been posted online. Stusser, and Marty Riemer created the now award winning documentary Sleeping with Siri and it drew the attention of the talk show host. The segment 4:24 long can be seen at this link: http://www.katiecouric.com/videos/could-technology-be-hurting-you/
UPDATE June 24
The air date for the appearance of West Seattle's Michael Stusser and Marty Riemer on the national Katie Couric show has been moved up to June 25.
You can catch the show at 3pm on KING5 TV.
UPDATE June 7
The well known Marty Riemer podcast on June 7, now four years old, the first following the visit of Riemer and Michael Stusser to the Katie Couric show. The pair who partnered in the production of a now award winning documentary film Sleeping with Siri were part of a "Is tech ruining your life" show by Couric which will air Thursday, June 27. Stusser was interviewed for the show.
On the podcast they recounted their experience on the show. They said they had some funny and odd experiences with other guests in the green room for the show, and talked about how the producers prepared him (or not) for his appearance. Riemer was in the audience for the show.
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West Seattle's Michael Stusser and Marty Riemer assembled a documentary film called Sleeping With Siri, (profiled in the West Seattle Herald in March). That film is continuing to win accolades and awards for its exploration of the potential problems of a constant digital connection.
A program developed by Riemer called Digital Blackout intended to take high school students through a brief but powerful digital detoxification experiment actually preceded the film (and Stusser's extended written piece about the idea in the Seattle Weekly). Now their efforts are getting national attention. Stusser and Riemer will appear on the Katie Couric show. Tentative air date is June 27.
Riemer explained, "We've been working with the producers at the Katie Couric Show since last August when we heard they were putting together a Tech Show.
The program was delayed numerous times, producers came and went, and we were fairly confident that we'd get drop-kicked to the curb at some point. But last Friday morning they called up and said the show was happening (next Monday taping) and they wanted us to be a part of it. Michael will be representing talking about his experience doing the Sleeping with Siri experiment, and the school-based Digital Blackout campaign that inspired it.
Our goal is to take our show on the road and help facilitate Digital Blackouts at schools all across the country. We already have a sponsor to make this happen in five cities. If it works there – the term "works" yet to be defined – we continue to take over the world. Sounds reasonable, right?"
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I found this somewhere on the forums, I forgot on which marketplace of envato, but I have the code and I thought I share this with you. I made the code easier to edit and better to understand.
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- as far as I tried it, referrals don't work
- change only the 5 links > "audiojungle.net/item/file-name"
- the item page links have no "http://"
- you can see it good on that link example " http://twitter.com/home?status=http%3A%2F%2Faudiojungle.net/item/file-name " Click it if you like
- I would place it at the very top, to get as many hits as possible
- if you have a little knowledge you can customize it and add some text to it… more social icons and links, or just change the style of icons to the one you like
"Then good luck, and remember the sky's the limit."
Cool I will try it
you're welcome it would be nice if this thread would be a sticky… then this would be seen by more people
this is very useful! thanks daniel
Thanks for sharing. Quite a useful thing.
I might use this, thanks for sharing.
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Picked up new '13 X6 50i yesterday (8/11/2012)
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My 2009 has the active steering and adaptive drive (The AD was part of the sports package in the early years, before they added the word activity to the package title and made it only cosmetic). For me the active steering went from an 'i don't know what this feature is' when i bought the car to a 'must have.' I quite literally almost can't drive the g/f's 530 with standard BMW steering after acclimating to my car. Just backing out of the driveway takes so many more wheel turns. The AS makes a large SUV feel more nimble and on point than any medium sized car I have ever driven. It feels about like what I suspect people with a mini cooper have when it comes to maneuverability. I can see what you are saying with mid-speed cornering, but overall, to my senses, the tightness and the resistance of the wheel remain about the same through the speed range with the nice BMW characteristic heft or weight to it. At slower speeds though the steering input just takes a much smaller amount of rotation that the results is less work, even though the 'effort' or force required seems to me to be consistent. As I said, to me, its a must have feature now on all future BMW's I may get.
There are more than a few threads on this forum that debate the merits of Active Drive and what all it affects in the suspension (roll vs damping and ride). Having test driven an X6 without and now owning one that has it, I say it does improve the ride while also mitigating roll. Frankly if you are a performance and handling enthusiast, you should pony up to have it when offered. IMHO it is where BMW has put all there development and handling expertise on current BMW models that they have been historically known for. There standard non-dynamic setups are cheaper to keep their lineup prices appealing to the masses only interested in a luxury marquee and a luxury oriented ride. For performance in the twists AD stands out. And AD with the torque vectoring rear end on the X6 make these SUV's dance through corners in ways that have me grinning ear to ear...
Mostly mirror what you're saying. After a couple weeks...
Adaptive Drive - Had on '09 and specifically ordered on '13 - still love and would not want to live without
Active Steering - LIKE it a lot, but could probably take it or leave it. Don't get me wrong, it is great--practical and useful/usable, but still don't (yet) have the feeling it is a must have item for all future vehicles... If it's already on there or bundled, I'll take it. If it were it's own a-la-carte item at a charge, I might skip unless really low cost. I got it this time since it was the only way to get Adaptive Drive!
Oh yeah, torque vectoring rear as standard... I have always thought this was a real differentiator! Has this made it onto the X5 or other BMW models (I don't want to know badly enough to check/research, but just wondering aloud)? Torque Vectoring + XDrive + Adaptive Drive + Active Steering + giant summer performance
that come on the car does indeed make for the ultimate (system assisted) driving machine!
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Meal in a Mug. Rebecca Levingston's prawn cocktail in a mug
25 October 2013 , 7:00 PM by Christopher Welsh
Friday is when we use a microwave and experiment cooking in a mug. It is our 'Meal in a Mug'.
At least that is what we usually do, but this Friday we are casting our meal in a mug reputation to the wind.
Evenings Presenter on ABC local radio Rebecca Levingston has challenged our cooking rules and instead of cooking, she is assembling in a mug - a retro prawn cocktail
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Don't you want to be a rockstar?
Sunday, January 11, 2009
A few days ago, Olivier left a comment to Amber's post, and stated:
I am really starting to get concerned that with all this talk of SocMed, many people out there are losing track of its actual value: Creating and growing relationships.
The point is really to help people connect better. From a personal standpoint, it's about the exchange of ideas opinions and information. It's about helping people find each other and stay connected. From a business standpoint, the idea is to re-humanize relations between companies and the public at large in such a way that everyone involved benefits (customers gain more value from their relationship with a company - better info, faster service, friendlier touchpoints, etc. - and companies have the opportunity to reach more customers and give them reasons to develop a stronger sense of loyalty, for starters).
I think Olivier raises a good point. Back in 2005 and 2006, the majority of the talk around social media on blogs such as this one was about the theory of how social media could help a company better connect with its customers and build lasting relationships with them. At some point, the tone of the space changed to 'we need to move away from talking about what COULD happen, and give companies case studies so that they will see the benefits of social media'. Thankfully, we started getting case studies in 2007 and 2008, and the discussion shifted in that direction. But I think along the way, we have perhaps gotten a bit too far away from discussing the real benefits of social media.
There's a reason why I constantly talk about certain examples of companies using social media, such as what Fiskars/Brains on Fire are doing with the Fiskateers, and what Tim Jackson is doing with Masi. Because these companies and people are using social media as a channel to connect with their customers, and build relationships with them.
Olivier has nailed it, at its core, social media are communication tools that allow us to connect with one another. Companies should realize this, and leverage these tools as a way to start building relationships with their customers. And remember, the better you understand your customers and they you, the more effective your communication efforts will be, which leads to more efficient marketing. Which means your marketing costs go down.
One of the first posts I left on this blog back in 2006 included this thought, which is still relevant today:
That's the power of being a part of the community. And it goes beyond the obvious; that being a part of the community means you better understand your customers. What happens when you better understand your customers is that you can better serve them by anticipating their wants and needs. And the best part? As we correctly anticipate the consumers' wants and needs, and fill them, a trust is developed, which leads to the consumer lowering their defenses and letting us interact with them on a deeper level. This leads to a greater understanding of their needs, which means we can more quickly and effectively meet these needs, and thus the cycle is created.
Extra point: With that higher level of trust comes the creation of a barrier to entry for your competitors.
Don't focus on using social media to 'create' community, focus on using social media as a way to connect with your customers and join them in THEIR space. Willie Davidson was once asked if Harley Davidson does any market research to better understand their customers. Davidson responded "Oh sure we are in constant contact with our customers, we ride with them all the time".
Forget using social media to sell more stuff. That's small potatoes. Think about the ability that social media affords you to connect with your customers, to build relationships and to create evangelists for your company. People that are so excited by the interactions they have with you, and the direction of your company, that they will go out of their way to promote you to others. These are literally FANS of your company.
Your goal should be to use social media to create as many FANS of your company as possible. Forget being a better marketer, it's time to be a rockstar.
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posted by Mack Collier @ 12:00 PM,
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- At 12:10 PM, said...
Nice post - I will retweet.
Phyllis R. Neill, www.shementor.com
- At 12:36 PM, Warren said...
Excellent points, thanks for keeping us focused and grounded. Connect with your customers on their turf, creating and growing your relationships with them.
- At 12:39 PM, Will Scott said...
I totally thought you were going a different way from the title. I thought you were going to be preaching the gospel of Rockstar as Teacher (as in them that can, do; them that can't ...).
Clearly that's my own coloring on "Rockstar"s in marketing.
That said, I think there's a critical distinction to be made:
The brand or company is the Rockstar, not the social media consultant / marketer.
With that distinction clear, I totally agree.
If the SM messaging reinforces the brand then the fans are fanatical about the right topic, the brand.
The risk is the marketer outshining the brand they represent.
- At 12:46 PM, Mack Collier said...
Will that's the point I was trying to make. Willie Davidson understands his customers not because he combs through volumes of 'market research', but because he and the rest of his company are a PART of the culture of Harley riders. His company belongs to the same community of customers that they sell to. That is INCREDIBLY powerful, and a big reason why the Harley Davidson brand has such enormous equity. It's not about an individual marketer/consultant, it's about a company adopting the mindset of joining their customers in their space.
- At 1:32 PM, Kim said...
Excellent points throughout. I'm not convinced by the title and conclusion, though.
As a customer, I don't care for the "creating fans/rockstar" analogy. I don't want a rockstar company. I want a human one. I'd rather think that companies want to use social media to make friends of their customers rather than fans.
- At 1:42 PM, Arik C. Hanson, APR said...
Engage your customers/stakeholder where they live and breathe--same concept the Big Four (namely E&Y, if I remember correctly) employed as they sought to bolster their recruiting efforts with college grads and seniors. Instead of the standard career fairs and outreach (which I'm sure they still do, to an extent), they found kids where they were living. On Facebook. They joined the conversation and found out what they looked for in an employer. They offered advice, when asked. And obviously they discussed the benefits of working for E&Y. Your point, put into action. Good post. And thank you @brandbuilder for inspiring Mack!
- At 1:47 PM, Mack Collier said...
Kim I hear you, but my point was that I want a company to want to connect with me and have my best interests in mind, to be my friend.
And as a result, I will probably be a big FAN of that company.
- At 5:09 PM, JustinSMV said...
Exactly! Just because a company dives into getting into all the Social Media sites does not mean they will jump ahead of all the competition. Social Media is just a path to use to connect with your clients and associates.
- At 6:12 PM, thebrandbuilder said...
100% Yes. :)
(And thanks so much for the props, mack! Very kind of you.)
My favorite part - and one that is extremely easy for many people to miss - is this:
"Don't focus on using social media to 'create' community, focus on using social media as a way to connect with your customers and join them in THEIR space."
Way too many companies still waste time building their own corporate space that they can control and wall-up... and then spend a great amount of resources to attract people to these spaces. This is a complete waste. Social Media isn't inside the moat, it's outside of it, out there in the real world. Let go, already. :D
Excellent post, Mack. Dead on target.
- At 7:06 PM, Csalomonlee said...
You hit the nail on the head. Most people are asking "how do I create a community" vs. seeing if there is already a community out there to PARTICIPATE in. That is where companies/brands can start first. Participate in the communities where your customers are. Your customers will recognize your participation and be more open to hearing what you have to say. And isn't that what we want to do as marketers? =)
- At 2:39 AM, Henriette Weber said...
Great post! - It's all about meeting customers on their side of the field instead of creating a community of your own. Soon there will be no reason for people to sign up for a new community, because we're allready a part of so many. It's an art of being where people are.
Oh about the rockstar/fans approach - I have in december published a free ebook about rockbandism for companies entitled "why every company should be a rockband".
- At 10:58 AM, Paul Chaney said...
Wow, Mack, there must be some kind of socialmediasphere mind meld going on.
My post today asks the question of what is the real value of social media. Your post answers it quite nicely. I suggest conversations with customers and you use the term connection. We're talking about the same thing.
It's a new way of marketing...or maybe just an old way reinvented.
I do think there is value in both "getting a seat at someone else's table" (i.e. participating in existing communities) and "setting a table of your own" (creating your own community). The former more than the later, but both have relevance imo.
Great post! Bama should play football as well as you blog. :)
- At 3:54 PM, Spike Jones said...
Thanks for the Fiskars love, Mack. Some people may think it's an old story, and maybe the creation of it is - but the beauty of it is that almost 3 years later, it's still growing and thriving, with 80+% growth just in the past 12 months!
And then there are also countless, priceless gems like this - http://www.fiskateers.com/community/topic/13560
It's a mature movement now, like Rage Against the Haze is in it's 6th year. Amazing to see these acorns grow into mighty oaks.


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