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Richard WAGNER (1813-1883)
Parsifal opera in three acts (1882) [258:35]
Parsifal Gary Lehmann
Kundry Violetta Urmana
Gurnemanz René Pape
Amfortas Evgeny Nikitin
Klingsor Nikolai Putilin
Titurel Alexei Tanovitski
Mariinsky Orchestra and Chorus/Valery Gergiev
rec. 5-13 June 2009, Mariinsky Concert Hall, St Petersburg. DSD
[4 CDs: 68:55 + 43:32 + 67:29 + 78:39]
I came to this set from the wrong end, so to speak. Gergievs Parsifal was released in 2011 but it rather passed me by at the time. I was inspired to seek it out after hearing his recent Walküre, which bowled me over, and I wanted to hear if I was missing anything with Parsifal. Its fascinating to compare them side by side. For me, they share strengths and make very interesting companions.
The first thing you notice is the shimmering, transparent quality to
the recorded sound. This really helped to open up the textures of Walküre
and expose things that I never knew were there before. Sound quality
is even more important in an opera like Parsifal, and the Mariinsky
Hall and engineers triumph in these hybrid SACDs. Every orchestral detail
is clear and evident, right from the earliest, shimmering repeat of
the love feast theme at the start of the Prelude, and the power of
the orchestral climaxes - bells and all - resonates thrillingly in the
big moments in the Grail Hall. The differing perspectives for the grail
scenes work very well too, especially the voices entering from the
apex of the dome, for example, and the echo surrounding Titurels appearance
is equally effective. It all helps to create a sound-world that fits
the opera perfectly. As I said, this is more important for Parsifal
than it is for many operas and we should be grateful that the Mariinsky
engineers (led by producer James Mallinson) have done such a good job.
None of this would count for much were it not capturing a musical performance of great distinction. For a start, the playing of the Mariinsky orchestra is superb. They understand fully that this is a work that inhabits a number of different worlds and interpretations at once, and they shade their playing to match that. For example, in Gurnemanzs great narrations in Act 1 they play in a fairly four-square way to match his story of the orders history, but as soon as he mentions Klingsors magic or alludes to Kundrys enchantments, a more slippery, ill-defined quality enters the sound, and later on they dart hither-and-yon as the music enters Klingsors castle at the start of Act 2. This chameleonic quality is something that is found in the very best Parsifal orchestras, and with Gergiev at the helm, and with such excellent sound, they can give any of their western colleagues a serious run for their money.
The cast are excellent too. Anchoring the set is the richly authoritative Gurnemanz of René Pape. He sings the role with gravitas and a grizzled sense of stature, but never a hint of age or of being past it. This is a knight who, in the first act at least, is still vigorous and capable of heroic deeds. At times during the main narration in Act 1 the top notes challenge him a little, though this could be his vocal acting as he remembers, with a stab of pain, the shame that has now fallen on the brotherhood. He remains a great singing actor too, and sounds genuinely appalled when he berates Parsifal for shooting the swan. By the time of the third act we feel as though this is a Gurnemanz who has aged and declined, but he is still dynamic and compelling, and the anointing scene is exultant in both its drama and its musical power.
As Parsifal, Gary Lehmann grows admirably into the role as he personifies
its different stages. His fragmentary contributions to Act 1 sound delicate,
even childlike at times, as does his encounter with the Flower Maidens,
but after his moment of enlightenment there is more strength, and he
comes across as weary at the start of Act 3, having suffered from his
long pilgrimage. His voice is not a naturally beautiful one, though,
and there is a hint of gravel that grates a little on the ear, and a
not dissimilar problem affects Violetta Urmanas Kundry. She is brittle
and wounded in Act 1, rising impressively to her histrionic utterances
at the start of the act, then delicately withering away towards the
end of her scene. She is repeatedly impressive in the great dialogue
of the second act, but her voice lacks the luxuriant aspect needed to
really convince us that Kundry is the great sexual temptress. The greatest
Kundrys, such as Waltraud Meier (Barenboim) or Christa Ludwig (Solti)
manage to transform the character into a sensual aural feast for the
second act. Urmana cant manage that, but she has clearly thought about
the words and she charts the characters emotional trajectory very successfully.
Nikitins Amfortas is a wounded, damaged creature. In this recording at least, the voice is not beautiful, but the gravelly character helps to underline the kings suffering, and he manages singing of heroic scale and stature for the two great scenes in the Grail Hall. He encompasses the full scale of the characters sufferings in the final act, reminding us that Wagner was taking this character to the furthest extremes of experience, and his pathetic sense of deflation is very impressive for his collapse at the end of the Act 1 monologue. Nikolai Putilin is a brilliant Klingsor. His brief appearances capture all the characters nastiness, but he does so in a vigorous, interesting way. We are repelled by the sorcerer but fascinated by him at the same time, and he is very exciting to listen to at the start of Act 2. The Mariinsky Chorus also do a great job as the Knights and Flower Maidens, and the recording helps us to hear the inner textures of the choral lines admirably.
At the centre of it all is Gergiev, and here he shows himself to be a master with this score, every bit as much as in Walküre. He conducts with surety but is also unafraid to impose his own individuality onto the score. The prelude, for example, begins fairly quickly as the first theme unfolds, and then again when the suffering theme first emerges, but Gergiev isnt afraid to broaden out expansively for the first appearance of the faith theme. Some might think that this sounds wilful or that it holds up the progress of the musical flow, but I found it enormously exciting and it resonated with me in a way that made the music come alive rather than jar. Gergievs individual touches come up again and again in the work, reminding us that he is a highly skilled dramatist as well as a superb if controversial musician. Listen, for example, to the way the lower strings lean into the downward phrase at the first appearance of Amfortas, underlining the kings agony and emphasising his pain, or the meandering, care-worn manner with which the conductor shapes the Prelude to Act 3. A genuine question mark seems to hang over the orchestra upon Parsifals entrance in Act 3, but this is then released in a deeply moving wash of string sound when he removes his visor and reveals his identity. Touches like this show us that Gergiev has thought deeply about this score and, while they may not put him in the same league as Knappertsbusch or Thielemann, they confirm that he is an opera conductor of the highest league. The only fly in the ointment is a tremendous amount of groaning which, I assume, comes from the conductor himself, and which you have to learn to tune out.
The Parsifal pantheon is a large and distinguished one. Few collectors will want to be without Knappertsbusch at Bayreuth (twice) or Thielemann from Vienna. I have enormous affection for Solti and for Karajans Berlin recording - still my favourite, even though it has fallen out of favour for many. More recently Marek Janowski has also argued a very convincing case for his own reading of the opera, but I think that Gergiev is worthy to stand alongside him. This recording of Wagners final music-drama is a revelation and well worth exploring. It helps, by the way, that full texts and translations are included in an attractively packaged box.
Simon Thompson


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An Accidental Affair
James Thicke is a man whose mysterious past runs as deep as his violent streak. He's channeled the intensity of his soul into twin passions-success as a screenwriter, and marriage to movie actress Regina Baptiste. In the midst of filming his latest script, starring Regina and leading man Johnny Bergs, James receives a video of his wife caught in the most compromising of situations.
Hours later, the clip of the on-set infidelity has hit the Internet and gone viral in the blogosphere and across all channels of social media. James responds to the affront by savagely attacking Johnny Bergs, and the spectacle has both the paparazzi and the police amassing at the married couple's estate. James goes on the run, but only as far as the city of Downey, California. As James tries to protect Regina from Hollywood's underbelly, lust, blackmail, and revenge become his constant companions. Does an accidental affair spell permanent danger?

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January 8th, 2004 issue #0301
January 8th, 2004
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COVER SIDEBOX- Station celebration: O. Winston Link MuseumOrganizing curator: Tom Garver, an art historian and former Link agent who assisted Link on three photo/sound junkets in the late 1950s Museum manager: John M. "Jay" Saunders Jr. Location: Former N&W passenger station next to famed Hotel Roanoke Size: 15,000 in a 27,000-sq.-ft. building Built: 1905 Re-built: 1947 by renowned industrial designer Raymond Loewy in the art moderne style Heyday: 1950s when passengers could board five main rail lines in all directionsread more
COVER SIDEBOX- Winston himself: Portrait of the artistO. Winston Link; the "O" stands for Ogle Born: December 16, 1914, in Brooklyn, New York Died: January 30, 2001, outside a train station (really!) in Katonah, New York. Driving to a doctor's office, he pulled over and suffered a heart attack. Trained: As a civil engineer Hint o' future: Served as photo editor of both the student newspaper and the yearbook at the Polytechnic Institute of Brooklyn Career: Public relations; commercial photographyread more
Hell-mates: Sad tale of Winston and ConchitaThe final years of the world's foremost railroad photographer were not all peaceful. O. Winston Link, the man who chronicled rural life and steam trains, spent nearly a year in the early 1990s as a prisoner, a slave, or both, according to some of the late photographer's associates. "I'm surprised no one's written a screenplay yet," says New York gallery owner Robert Mann. "It's an amazing story."read more
Linked up: Museum adds sparkle to Star CityThe Star City is about to get a jewel. On January 10, Roanoke officials will join railroad buffs in cutting the opening ribbon for a new museum showcasing the stunning photographic achievements of the late O. Winston Link.read more
Maybe someday: Amtrak disses Roanoke (for now)A railroad helped turn a little town called Big Lick into a major rail city called Roanoke. But one thing is still missing: passengers. After the Norfolk & Western Railway was born from the merger of two major railroads in the 1880s, Roanoke became not just the headquarters for N&W, but also the nexus of a burgeoning passenger system whose famed trains included the Cavalier, the Pocahontas, and the Powhatan Arrow.read more
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S3 Graphics Releases Linux Driver With OpenGL 3.0, VA-API
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Originally posted by sreyan View PostATI seems to be making progress. I checked out radeon hd code today from a git repo and it seemed to have some 3d support for my radeon 2600. If this extends to the r700 series too, I will absolutely buy an ati card in the price range of the chrome 540.. Hopefully one of those new rv740 based cards.
All 3 of which retail for less, come with 128 or 256 bit, GDDR3 or GDDR4 memory and all 3 will kick the crap out of the 540 up and down the block. I'm not actually sure which one is the most powerful of the 3.
But I'd wager that the 3 are fairly close in raw performance, since the HD3 series wasn't that powerful, the HD3870 usually coming in around the performance of the 8800GT and 9600GT, so the 9600GO and HD3850 should be fairly close, the HD4670 looks pretty close as well and should have a notably lower power draw then the HD3850.
You can check the GPU chats http://www.guru3d.com/category/vga_charts/ sucks that they haven't updated the charts on ET:QW though due to it's quick fall off in popularity since it's pretty much the most demanding game on Linux...
Oh and for anyone interested, here's a preview review of the new AMD HD4750/rv740 gpu http://www.guru3d.com/article/radeon...-preview-test/ It looks to fall between the HD4830 and the HD4850, so if you have either its prolly not worth it to you.
I've long believed that Nvidia and VIA/S3 should merge, so what if we lose them dropping docs, it's not like anyone will actually knowingly buy and S3 hardware these days, not to mention the fact that you can't find any VIa hardware in normal shops, I've only ever sen it for sale on shops that specialize in sff and *-ITX sized mobos in the last 3+ years. They don't even seem to make AMD or Intel chipsets anymore.
Why should they merge with nVidia? Simple we could use a 3rd real competitor in the cpu and mobo market that offers a complete system, AMD already has their complete low to high end cpu+chipset+gpu platform, Intel is going to complete their final piece of the puzzle with the release of Larabee, this leaves nVidia out in the cold since they licensed SLi to Intel for the X58 chipset, but Intel wont let them make chipsets for the i7 series CPUs.
nVidia also can't just go out and make their own x86 CPU, due to Intel controlling who gets license to the designs, only having signed out those licenses due o IBM and government contract requirements of having a 2nd supplier for hardware. After years of failed companies in the tech market I think the only ones with x86 licenses are AMD and VIA.
VIA merging with nVidia would allow them to enter the cpu market and allow them to offer at least a high end chipset and gpu market to start with while they apply nVidia's knowhow to the VIA Nano to get a decent performer out of it, its already a pretty good cpu at the low end, but with a little help form nVidia's team theres no reason that they couldn't have a competitive mid to high end platform within 5 years.
Originally posted by Duo Maxwell View PostVIA merging with nVidia would allow them to enter the cpu market and allow them to offer at least a high end chipset and gpu market to start with while they apply nVidia's knowhow to the VIA Nano to get a decent performer out of it, its already a pretty good cpu at the low end, but with a little help form nVidia's team theres no reason that they couldn't have a competitive mid to high end platform within 5 years.
nVidia could also flex their immense performance muscle and move away from x86 to produce really high performance CPUs if they wanted, there are other licensable CPU specs (MIPS/POWER) which can be made much more efficient and powerful than the aging x86. Problem will be how to market it (and get [commercial] support for such platform[1]), not to mention that even though nVidia's big, Intel is MUCH bigger (and not even they were able to shift consumer PCs architecture from x86).
Back to VIA's S3 500 series, I welcome their efforts for competing in this rather tough market, however, only 64-bit bus width is a bit too low (nowadays low-to-mid range cards use 128-bit bus width. I really hope they'll produce improved versions and price them more in tune to AMD/nVidia, however they can price their products much lower due to the volume they sell, so VIA would have to make a heavy investment in this regard to be able to price these products competitively.
[list=1][*]We know Linux is most likely to support it, provided there is enough information released.
Thats the problem though, due o the windows monoculture all other cpu archs have gone under, even the last holdout in the consumer market, Apple with the IBM Power4 derived G5 gave up and went to x86. The only place you're seeing other archs these days in the consumer market is in stand alone devices like game consoles like the Cell in the PS3.
Nviida already has the ARM based Tegra platform http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nvidia_Tegra but you won be seeing that powring anything more powerful then your next cellphone.
As far as my stated 5 year mark, yes, that is an eternity in tech years, but with curent trends the CPU is becomming less and less important, while the GPU is becoming more and more essential. I do't see why the couldn't though have a version of the Nano die shrunk between 55-45nm and at least dual core running 2.5Ghz within a year, which would at least get them in the door at the low end with the Pentium dual core a few of the low end C2Ds and the AMD X2 line. The would be able to hold onto their gpu position for a while as well to remain profitable while they claw their way up. The real challenge though is if they can get it into the OEMs, nvidia has had little trouble getting their GPUs and chipsets into the OEMs for the last few years, I've seen more of them recently there then I've seen Intel GPUs and AMD gpus when poking around the laptops at the local worst buy.
But seriously you don' think t'd take close to 5 years for them to get a cpu that would be within a few flops oft the best that AMD and Intel have to offer at the time? By then we'll be up to 12-16 core CPUs pushing something close to 4.5Ghz a core. It's not something anyone could build over night.
Maybe someday soon we'll get multicore multicore cpus that will have several different archs running oon the same die ith some level of interpreter that decides what arch to execute what code fore some truly amazing cpu power. But alas, I think the difficulty of making such a cpu will leave it an infeasible pipedream...
No matter what it's an uphll battle for both nVidia and VIA since its now much harder to pull out an antitrust on Intel for monopolistic practices since AMD bought ATI. The only thing we can hope is that AMD has something up their sleeve to retake the cpu market and maybe a new chipset that can give us at least 4x16xPCIe slots, or even better, a 7x16xPCIe chipset with 2x CPU sockets, anything to get them more market space ahead of Intel. Just think if you could get a 14 way crossfire mobo with 2x 4-4.5Ghz OCd quads and 12Gb of tri channel DDR3. Sure theres no real reason for it, but it would get AMD more much neded advertising all over the web on various tch forums and it'd allow them to just brute force games like Crysis Warhead into actually running lol.
Originally posted by deanjo View PostMore like they are waiting for the foss to get their act together and update their supporting code to todays standards.Last edited by kraftman; 03-01-2009, 10:21 AM.


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Is Transparency Good for You, and Can the IMF Help? »
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Volume/Issue: 2003/132
Series: IMF Working Papers
Author(s): Yongseok Shin , and Rachel Glennerster
Publisher: INTERNATIONAL MONETARY FUND
Publication Date: 01 June 2003
DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.5089/9781451855401.001
Keywords: publication, institutions, sovereign spreads, SDDS, ROSC, GARCH, news effect, role of the IMF, credit ratings, borrowing costs
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Silicon Valley billionaire buys record-setting $201 million life insurance policy
Is it Larry Ellison? Elon Musk? Zuck?
Somewhere in Silicon Valley, a "mystery billionaire" has bought what the Guinness Book of World Records says is the most valuable life insurance policy in history: A pact that will pay his survivors a cool $201 million.
Guinness officials said the figure more than doubles the previous record set in 1990 for a policy on the life of an unnamed "entertainment industry figure." In this case, too, the name of the buyer is being closely guarded.
"We don't want hit men running around Palo Alto trying to find him - or members of his own estate," quipped Dovi Frances, the Southern California financial services provider who sold the policy.
Actually, make that more than two dozen policies, underwritten by 19 different insurers. Frances said if any single company had to pay out such a lavish benefit, it could be crippling.
He wouldn't say how much his client will pay in annual premiums - "the insurance companies will kill me" - but he allowed that it's in the single millions of dollars.
Frances won't be hauling in a percentage of the sale. His firm, Santa Barbara-based SG LLC, charges clients a flat (and one can assume, steep) annual fee for advisory services ranging from asset management to alternative investments. He's worked with the client in question for four or five years "and he was kind enough to allow us to broadcast this news without mentioning his name."
Guinness, Frances said, spent six months determining the policy was real before awarding the world record.
Although SG has offices in Moscow, Frances wouldn't bite when asked if the buyer was Russian billionaire Yuri Milner, who helped fund Facebook and later paid a record $100 million for a mansion in Los Altos Hills.
SG's LinkedIn page notes that it's an investor in venture capital funds run by Google Chairman Eric Schmidt and Palantir Technologies co-founder Joe Lonsdale, but Frances demurred when asked if either man bought the policy.
A spokeswoman for Musk, the man behind PayPal, Tesla and other high-flying startups, declined to say whether or not her boss was the mystery buyer. An email seeking comment from Oracle CEO Ellison was not answered by press time.
Frances wouldn't even hint how old the buyer is, although he said his client was hoping to offset federal estate taxes that could take 45 percent bite out of his heirs' high-end inheritance.
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I'm sure you're aware of the recent Cologne Germany court ruling that non-medical circumcision of a minor is a criminal act. While it doesn't apply to other districts, Berlin hospitals have been turning away parents until legal clarity has been reached
Now mamalas, if you've ever read my columns you know I'm a sucker for irony. However, this particular irony isn't in the least bit funny. The uber irony takes chutzpah to the 100th "Power."
The nudnik handling German PR should be switched to sausage stuffing.
Germany's reasons? Holm Putzke, a professor of criminal law at the University of Passau who has argued for the ban said that he hoped the ruling would prompt a discussion about "what should be given more weight -- religious freedom or the right of children not to have their genitals mutilated." Officials have also pointed to a young boy who had some bleeding after being circumsized. The chairman of the Secular Medical Forum, Dr. Antony Lempert, said "We urge you not to let such emotional blackmail (petitions in opposition have been circulated worldwide, along with truly rotten press) persuade you to change the law or criticise the court's decision." Still others have pointed to the psychic "trauma and harm to the child" of the ritual, and claim this is not anti-Semitism.
Fortunately, due the outcry (and yes, more than a few references to the Holocaust) German Chancellor Angela Merkel has warned that Germany could become a laughing stock if it fails to overturn the ban.
The ban probably won't win, but the nudnik handling their PR should be switched to sausage stuffing.
Infamous Nazi "alleged" war criminal, Laszlo Csatary, who served during World War II as a senior Hungarian police officer in Kosice, then under Hungarian rule, is accused of being complicit in deporting almost 16,000 Jews from Nazi-occupied Czechoslovakia in early 1944
to Auschwitz, which cost them their lives. In 1948, a Czech court condemned him to death after a trial held in his absence, as he had fled to Canada, working as an art dealer using a false identity before being unmasked in 1995 and forced to flee. Yet, hiding out in Budapest, the 97-year-old eluded justice for 70 years, and was finally "unmasked" by The Sun, acting on information released last September by the Weisenthal Centre. When its reporters confronted him on his doorstep, he denied any crimes and slammed the door in their faces, the paper reported.
A Hungarian prosecutor said that investigating an aged Nazi war criminal found "alive and well" in Budapest was problematic because the events took place so long ago and in a different country.
To the Sun reporter, however, time did not diminish Csatary's guilt.
Hear "let's go for coffee" and what you think of? Starbucks! It's the mega-java miracle idea that's turned what was once a humble brew into a five-star gourmet libation. But like good Jews the first question that we have to ask is "Is it kosher?" Well the leading amateur anywhere on the subject of Kosher Kaffeination (my term) is Uri Ort, a 26-year-old Orthodox Jew who lives on the Lower East Side of Manhattan, and runs kosherstarbucks.com. His site tells us what products Jews may consume at Starbucks without risking a treif mistake.
Coffee beans and hot water are kosher. The kink here is that Starbucks offers other items, such as breakfast sandwiches with ham, and flavored coffees. So we have the "treif tainting" problem as kosher laws dictate that dishes can also obtain the status of non-kosher.
To sort these complicated matters, Ort started a Web site to guide us through "treif vs. kosher" at America's favorite coffee house by marking Starbucks products with a green or red light. The Frappuccinos-- red lights. The Tazo teas -- green lights. Hot chocolate -- green light (but white hot chocolate, red light.) The Vivanno smoothie? It depends on the flavor. Mocha drizzle on top — yes! Caramel drizzle, no. Yes to whipped cream.
Surprisingly, the Eggnog Latte is okay, (though he recommends checking the eggnog certification).
So caffeine addicts go, enjoy! But remember, Frappucinos are frum forbidden.
Recently, Haifa played host to a controversial beauty pageant, the "Miss Holocaust Survivor" contest, featuring 14 Jewish women survivors (age 74-97) who were finalists out of 300 competitors. About 600 spectators attended, including two Israeli Cabinet ministers.
The event, while billed as a "celebration of life," drew criticism.
Colette Avital, chairperson of Israel's leading Holocaust survivors' umbrella group and a former Member of Parliament thought it was "macabre." She said: "I am in favor of enriching lives, but a one-time pageant masquerading (survivors) with beautiful clothes is not what is going to make their lives more meaningful." She also took issue with the contest sponsor, a cosmetics company pushing its products. Other naysayers wondered what sort of precedent was being set by the pageant. "This is one step short of 'Survivor-Holocaust' or 'Big Brother Auschwitz'," wrote an influential Israeli blogger. Organizer Shimon Sabag, who heads a charity that helps Holocaust survivors in need, disagrees, pointing out that appearance was only about 10 percent of the overall score when compared with their stories of survival. Naysayers said "beauty" shouldn't have been considered at all.
The finalists did share their survival stories as they were judged by of three former beauty queens and a geriatric psychiatrist. Taking home the tiara was 78-year-old Hava Hershkovitz, who suffered three years of severe hardship at a Soviet detention camp. "It puts us at the centre of attention so people will care," she said. "It's not easy at this age to be in a beauty contest, but we're all doing it to show that we're still here."
Uplifting or Upsetting? You Be the Judge.
Aly Raisman, captain of The Fab Five in U.S. gymnastics, was the last competitor in the floor exercise, the final obstacle between them and gold!
American and particularly Jewish Americans held their collective breath as Jewish gymnast, Raisman nailed it, with 75 seconds of an almost flawless performance that brought her team in first place for the all-around women's gymnastics at the 2012 London Olympics.
More, she won it to the tune of "Hava Nagila!" A song she chose because of its excitement and to show her Jewish pride. Said Raisman, "It's a huge honor to be the first Jewish gold medalist of the 2012 London Games." Her victory continued the Jewish Midas Touch established by Kerri Strug in the 1996 Atlanta Olympics.
When I interviewed Kerri's mom, Melanie, in my book "Yiddishe Mamas: The Truth About the Jewish Mother" (shameful promotion), she strongly emphasized the fact that you can't be an athlete your whole life: "School was always number one with us. Gymnastics was not going to be her future." Kerri went on to get her MS Degree from Stanford. A Jewish kid who can run, jump, leap … and beat a strange horse with no head?
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Career consultant Maggie Mistal is a big believer in a well thought-out transition, whether it's for her own life or the lives of her clients. Because she created her own strategic plan when she left the corporate world, her clients know they can trust her to guide them through this new world.
"Transition is critical," said Mistal, who hosts her own showon Martha Stewart Living Radio Sirius XM. "Sometimes clients ask, 'Should I take a job just to pay the bills?' I say, 'If it's part of a strategic plan, then yes.'"
With so many women redefining success by leaving corporate America, often to start their own companies, their stories have some similar themes. They are looking for freedom — not from hard work but to be in charge of their schedule and work location. The decision is often sparked by a major life shift like a layoff or a baby. They are working toward not only creating an acceptable work-life balance, but building a successful business.
Mistal's own push from the corporate world came when she was laid off from Arthur Andersen when it became ensnared in legal issues over its auditing of Enron. An accountant who switched to consulting and who wanted to do it on her own, she put in motion her strategic plan to break away from corporate. She moved to Martha Stewart Living Omnimedia, working as a senior trainer instead of a manager.
"I took a 35 percent pay cut in the transition," Mistal said. "I spent four years at the [MSLO] day job. People think that's a long time, but opportunities came up along the way, like radio."
For Melissa Wildstein, president of The Matchstick Group, the pivotal moment came when her daughter was born. A senior vice president for an advertising agency in New York, her commute from her home in Hartsdale, N.Y., to New York City took 90 minutes each way.
After a three-month maternity leave in 2010, she went back to working long, demanding hours. Late one night in the office, with the lights being turned off around her, she realized that her daughter had been in bed for three hours and she was still working.
"I said, 'This is not the life I want,'" Wildstein recalls.
The one she did want was actually something she had been preparing for for years. Knowing that some day she might want to open her own shop, in 2006 she had created an LLC. Never quite ready to make the break, the company lay dormant for several years. But the reality of her family life brought the idea to the fore. Now, she's running an advertising/consulting agency that specializes in the positioning, branding, and strategic development for medical device companies.
"It's definitely harder than I thought it would be," Wildstein said. "You find a different skill set as an entrepreneur. You're the one who's hustling and calling the shots."
That's one of the things CEO Danielle Dobin likes about running active wear company Apifeni (pronounced "epiphany"): It calls for using "every part of your brain."
A lawyer who worked at Skadden, Arps for two years, Dobin earned a master's degree in real estate development/investment at New York University then started Monarch Real Estate. More than eight years after she started the company, the real estate downturn, combined with the birth of Dobin's youngest son, prompted her to consider other business opportunities.
With no prior fashion experience, she founded Apifeni. Because of the nature of her products, activities like going to the latest yoga or barre classes are part of the job, not just for her but for her nationwide workforce.
"They are 100 percent in control of their own schedule," Dobin said. "It's great for the body, the spirit and for business."
The flexibility piece is life-changing for Wildstein as well.
"Portability is so crucial," she said. "I like to say, 'Have laptop, will travel.' I work whenever and wherever I want to. I can Skype with clients in Switzerland and they don't know I'm talking to them while I'm on my bed with the dog locked in the basement."


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We all know that The American Academy Of Pediatrics does not suggest any screen time before the age of 2 years old! What I find so funny is many families we service are in a state of shock! Today, families are resorting to screen and television time at extreme rates. Can we remember when children were entertained without it? I sure do! We know, you say well what do I do with my children, then you say does it really matter what they watch? Then you ask what if it is a children's show, because there are so many of those now. Sorry to burst the bubble, all are the same and it is not healthy for brain development. We are going to explain to you why and hope that you will rethink your ideologies. Trust, it is only difficult because we see it everywhere today, even in our home we make a conscious habit of turning it off. So let's jump right in!
According to The New Yorker, by The American Academy Of Pediatrics "Since the AAP made its original recommendations in 1999, passive entertainment screens — televisions, DVD players, computers streaming video — have become ubiquitous, and the average 12-month-old gets between one and two hours of screen time per day. (Interactive screens, such as iPads and other tablets, are considered in the new recommendations.) The 0 – to 2-year age group has become a prime target for commercial educational programming, often used by parents convinced that it's beneficial". This should say a lot to your family! Whoa, who would have thought? So why are so many families engaging in excessive screen time and how do we fix it?
- Screens are not to be used as rewards or punishment – Doing this will allow your children to feel as if it is more important, it should not be an important object in your home. This also gives you as a parent time to see where else you can stop using certain items as reward or punishment. Allowing it to be seen as a sometimes event will maximize the conversation, while your family engages in any screen time. Use this time to communicate with your child, ask questions, what do they like or dislike? How are their emotions while watching? If age-appropriate you can even discuss TV ads and commercials and get an understanding of your child's thought process.
- Allow children to problem solve, and entertain themselves – Did you know that even an infant can be allowed time to entertain themselves? Learning problem solving and enhancing cognitive skills is a life lesson for your child. According to Dr. Ari Brown, media, even in the background distracts infants and toddlers from play. There have been studies proven that language development can be diminished and developmental delays may become present. Children's brains grow profoundly in the first 5 years of life. The issues come when children can be learning how to interact and engage and we do not allow it. Proven fact, is that a paren speaks about 940 words per hour to their small children and with screens even in the background that number drops between 600-700. Do you want to take those risks with your children? If you are what you eat, then you are what your brain experiences a philosopher once said. Even though infants and toddlers stare, their brain is incapable of making the connections and sense of what is going on with screen time.
- Make all meal times, family time – This can be such a lifelong lesson in your home, use the time to engage in physical touch, use eye contact, positive words and modeling behavior. This also allows you the on-on-one time with your child to get to understand and know them better. Doing this will help with language and self-compassion. Try not to create separation in your home just for screen use.
—Jessica Howard, Little Pnuts Educational Play Blogger, Founder and CEO of Kid's Night Out Parent's Night Off in NYC.


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See how the current use of cellular telephony and it's related services bypasses socially accepted codes of conduct, and how we can make future communication systems that are more socially responsible towards the direct and indirect users and globally towards our society.
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Tomas Dorta, Université de Montréal
Bigger version (left, cap off) to validate and present the concept. On the right, the final working version near 1:1 scale.
The units detect and vibrate with an incoming mobile phone call.
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Final model/prototype made with rapid prototyping (SLA - stereolithography), then painted and fitted with screenshot.
Keyboard rotates and glows to reflect the user's status (available, busy, offline).
Piggyback mount under the watch ensures proper skin contact and good vibration transmission.
Wireless vibrating device piggybacks under the user's watch.
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Aztecăz´tĕk˝ [key], Indian people dominating central Mexico at the time of the Spanish conquest. Their language belonged to the Nahuatlan subfamily of Uto-Aztecan languages. They arrived in the Valley of Mexico from the north toward the end of the 12th cent. and until the founding of their capital, Tenochtitlán (c.1325) were a poor, nomadic tribe absorbing the culture of nearby states. For the next century they maintained a precarious political autonomy while paying tribute to neighboring tribes, but by alliance, treachery, and conquest during the 15th and early 16th cent. they became a powerful political and cultural group. To the north they established hegemony over the Huastec, to the south over the Mixtec and Zapotec and even ventured as far as Guatemala. Their subjugation of the people of Tlaxcala in the mountains to the east was bloody but only intermittent, and the Tlaxcala people later became allies of the Spanish against the Aztec. Only in the west, where the Tarascan Indians severely defeated them, did the Aztec completely fail to conquer.
Sections in this article:
- Introduction
- The Aztec Civilization
- Bibliography
- Spanish Conquest
The Columbia Electronic Encyclopedia, 6th ed. Copyright © 2012, Columbia University Press. All rights reserved.
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Dogen writes: Do not suppose that what you realize becomes your knowledge and is grasped by your consciousness. Although actualized immediately, the inconceivable may not be apparent. Its appearance is beyond your knowledge. Zen master Baoche of Mt. Mayu was fanning himself. A monk approached and said, "Master, the nature of wind is permanent and there is no place it does not reach. When, then, do you fan yourself?"
"Although you understand that the nature of the wind is permanent," Baoche replied, "you do not understand the meaning of its reaching everywhere."
"What is the meaning of its reaching everywhere?" asked the monk again. The master just kept fanning himself. The monk bowed deeply.
Taigu comments ...
In this video, we look at Dogen's take on practice (fanning) as the only way to manifest awakening (air). Even this little corner of the big Universe is reached and touched by reality itself. No need to take this too far, to travel far, the simple actions of our life, the daily moves we make, the ten thousand activities we display are unfolding this awakening. The simple and bare practice is the Dharma gate. It also shows that tradition matters, we are not asked to get rid of the fan but to pick it up.
Todays Sit-A-Long video follows at this link. Remember: recording ends soon after the beginning bells; a sitting time of 20 to 35 minutes is recommended.
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Bank of England policymakers have kept interest rates at emergency lows and held off from further economy-boosting measures, despite fears of a triple-dip recession.
The Bank's Monetary Policy Committee (MPC) remained in "wait and see" mode again this month, holding rates at their record low of 0.5% and maintaining its quantitative easing (QE) programme at £375 billion.
Its decision comes amid mounting concerns that Britain's economy slipped back into the red in the final quarter of 2012 following figures suggesting the dominant services sector contracted in December for the first time in two years.
The MPC is expected to hold off from any further QE action until the picture becomes clearer, although some economists believe dire economic news could see it push the button in the first half of the year.
Savers are also unlikely to be offered any respite from painfully low interest rates for the foreseeable future, with experts at investment banking giant Citi recently saying they believed rates would be held at historic lows until mid 2017.
Anna Leach, head of economic analysis at the CBI business group, said: "A change in monetary policy was unlikely this month, given that the UK economy continues to send out mixed signals. We're not expecting any change in monetary policy over the next few months, unless compelling evidence of a renewed downturn emerges."
The Bank has held rates at 0.5% since March 2009 as the economy has struggled to recover from the financial crisis.
A gloomy report from Markit economists recently estimated UK gross domestic product (GDP) contracted by 0.2% in the final three months of 2012 in a marked reversal of the 0.9% recovery the previous three months.
With a very real risk that the first quarter of 2013 might not prove much better, the economy could be heading for two consecutive quarters of declining output which would mark an unprecedented triple-dip recession.
But there has been a glimmer of hope on the global economic outlook after America's recent fiscal cliff deal to avoid automatic tax hikes and spending cuts, a recent easing in eurozone debt tensions and recent data showing a far stronger-than-expected trade performance by China last month.


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Of all my various food fears, there's one that I thought I'd never conquer: baking.
In my entire life, I have baked one cake — and it was from a mix. All I've ever heard from baking friends is that it's easy. Easy, that is, unless you mess up one tiny measurement. Then a cupcake explodes in your oven and you cry.
Another reason I stayed away was that I'm not a sweets person. Give me a handful of potato chips over a piece of cake any day.
But when I do find a dessert I like, I tend to love it passionately. Tiramisu. The custard at Shake Shack. And recently, it was the banana chocolate chip muffins at a cafe near my apartment. …


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Sandberg to take aggressive approach to replay
CLEARWATER, Fla. -- After attending a meeting on expanded instant replay, Phillies manager Ryne Sandberg made it clear that he's given a lot of thought about how he plans to utilize the new challenge system.
"The first thing I'll look for is an impact type of a play in the game, even in the first inning. A bases-loaded double that is fair and it's really foul. There would be a problem there," he said. "I think we're going to have five TV games where I'll be able to practice it. I'll also find myself in Spring Training games just looking at some plays and getting the wheels turning about what I would do in that situation."
Sandberg anticipates that he'll be aggressive in making use of his challenges, even early in games.
"First of all, my tendency is to go right away on a play and react, so that's where the communication with the bench will be important. I'm not one to let a play happen and then lay back," he said. "All that will be second nature as far as going out there and talking with the umpires and possibly have them gather up and get some other angles, which is standard. Then the next thing would be to work around and get a look at the bench and see what they say and what the video shows and then make a judgment whether to challenge or not."


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Jul 1, 2019 - Menstrual patterns can be an indicator of overall health and self-perception of well-being. Primary amenorrhea, defined as the lifelong absence of menses, requires evaluation if menarche has not occurred by 15 years of age or three years post-thelarche. Secondary amenorrhea is ...
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Apr 1, 2019 - Abnormal uterine bleeding is a common symptom in women. The acronym PALM-COEIN facilitates classification, with PALM referring to structural etiologies (polyp, adenomyosis, leiomyoma, malignancy and hyperplasia), and COEIN referring to nonstructural etiologies (coagulopathy, ovulatory ...
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Strauss declared himself "mortified" and "profusely sorry" after he was heard referring to Pietersen as a "c**t" in what he thought was an off-air conversation.
But while the exchange occurred during a break in Sky's coverage of the Lord's Bicentenary match between a Rest of the World XI and MCC, it was broadcast to overseas listeners on an audio feed.
Pietersen, who has a rocky personal history with Strauss due to the 'textgate' row two years ago, was batting for the RoW team while Strauss described the action with Nick Knight.
Pietersen was fined by the England and Wales Cricket Board for tweeting critical comments about Knight in May 2012, but it was Strauss whose views were inadvertently aired.
When he returned to the commentary box later in the match Strauss addressed the controversy, saying: "I apologise unreservedly, particularly to Kevin Pietersen. I am mortified and profusely sorry."
Sky Sports had earlier made their own apology, tweeting: "Earlier comments were made during a break of play which were heard overseas. We apologise for the language used."
Piers Morgan, a close friend of Pietersen and a champion of his cause on social media since he was sacked by the ECB in February, called for Strauss to lose his job if the comments were verified.
The broadcaster tweeted: "If Strauss story is true then he'll have to be fired, surely? Or is a commentator calling @KP24 a 'c**t' on air acceptable @SkyCricket?
"After all, Strauss himself axed KP from his England team for allegedly saying similar things about him that were't even broadcast."
Morgan's latter comments refer to a troubled past between the former team-mates.
In 2012 Pietersen was dropped after sending messages to friends in the touring South Africa side which he admitted were "provocative".
Those messages were reported to be highly critical of Strauss, though suggestions that they included advice on how to get the opener out have been denied by Pietersen.
After a dramatic draw with the Proteas at Headingley, Pietersen started a memorably tetchy press conference by declaring he would not wait for skipper Strauss, who was also due to speak.
Speaking after the incident, Pietersen said: "I apologise to Straussy and the team for the inappropriate remarks at the press conference and for the texts. I truly didn't mean to cause upset or tension. I need to rein myself in sometimes."
Strauss, who retired soon after, reflected on the issue in his autobiography, Driving Ambition.
He wrote: "For me, he had crossed the line. He seemed to be at best destabilising and at worst undermining our carefully cultivated team environment.
"I did...have issues with him criticising me to the opposition. That felt like talking out of school, not to mention giving the opposition a way to drive a wedge between Pietersen and myself and the team."
Strauss has been conciliatory about Pietersen in much of his commentary work since then but it seems he may simply have been concealing less savoury views.


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A Thermocouple is a device which measures temperature. It is made up of two wires of different metals that, when joined together, create an electrical junction. When the temperature changes at this junction it creates a voltage which can be interpreted to read the temperature. This is also known as the Seebeck effect. You can read more about these tools in our bespoke Thermocouples Guide
Types of thermocouples
There are various types of thermocouples, each with different characteristics, such as temperature range and their robustness. Each thermocouple is defined by a letter such as K. Common types include J, K, L and T. The letters refer to the type of materials used and therefore the temperature they are usable at. For example, type J is iron and copper-nickel and is useable from around 0°C to 816°C, depending on other characteristics. Some thermocouples come with an additional sheath which provides protection to prolong its life.
Thermocouples are ideal tools for temperature measurement as they are robust yet affordable solutions.
What are Thermocouples used for?
- Thermostats
- Hospital thermometers
- Vehicle diagnostics
- Boiler/heating sensors
- Oven safety features
- Food thermometers
- Industrial probes/sensor


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The Port Colborne Historical and Marine Museum is currently closed and continuing to do its best to maintain services while keeping the health and safety of our staff and residents a top priority. If you require assistance with your membership, memorial donation, or the possible donation of an artifact please contact staff at firstname.lastname@example.com or call 905 246 0895.
For COVID-19 updates, including facility closures and service delivery disruptions, visit http://portcolborne.ca/page/covid-19
Port Colborne Historical & Marine Museum
The Port Colborne Historical & Marine Museum and Heritage Village is the focal point of many special events throughout the year.
During the spring, this active museum hosts Arabella's Pie Social, History Fair and every summer draws thousands to its annual Canal Days. In December people gather from far and wide to celebrate a Grand Old Christmas Festival and enjoy a taste of traditional Christmas Pudding in Arabella's Tea Room.
The Museum and Heritage Village feature a century of heritage buildings in a landscaped setting of historic gardens, pathways, trees and flowers, picket fences, and a memorial pavilion with picnic tables and benches.
The Village includes the original 1869 Georgian-revival style Home and Carriage House of Arabella Williams which houses the main exhibit galleries, Humberstone's first log schoolhouse where school tours are held, the 1850 log home of John and Sally Sherk, the F.W. Woods and Sons 1880 Marine Blacksmith Shop, a 1915 Edwardian Cottage, which is the home of Arabella's Tea Room, where volunteers serve Afternoon Tea with hot homemade tea biscuits and preserves, a Marine Exhibit Lighthouse, a reproduction of the parapet of Port Colborne's Lighthouse, which displays marine artifacts and ship models, and a Heritage Resource Centre which holds the Museums Reserve Collection and is open for research by appointment.
The Museum interprets and exhibits the history of Port Colborne and the Welland Canal. Marine artifacts include the Wheelhouse from the Yvon Dupre Jr. Tug Boat, the anchor from the Raleigh and a Lifeboat from the S.S. Hochelaga.
The Museum is the home of Canada's Century Car, the 1901 Neff Steam Buggy, one of Ontario's oldest existing automobiles, built by Benton Neff at the Neff Foundry in Humberstone, which is part of Port Colborne today.
This little steam buggy had a 100-year adventure across North America, before returning home to Ontario on Sept. 8, 2001, exactly 100 years to the day it was put on the road Sept. 8, 1901.
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The Museum, Heritage Village
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Arabella's Tea Room
Currently Closed in reposnse to COVID19
Tours offered on request.
Handicapped washrooms available.
Lots of Free Parking.
Membership Fees
Seniors & Students: $ 3.00
Individuals: $ 5.00
Families: $ 10.00
Life Patron:$ 100.00
Donations of $20.00 or more receive an Income Tax Receipt
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Bequests are recognized by name and date on our Bequest and Memorial Plaque.


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Professional Community for Car Dealers, Marketing, Advertising and Sales Leaders
Content marketing is an umbrella term encompassing all marketing formats that involve the creation and sharing of content in order to attract, acquire and engage clearly defined and understood current and potential consumer bases with the objective of driving profitable customer action. Content Marketing's basic premise is to "provide some valuable information or entertainment – "content" – that stops short of a direct sales pitch or call to action, but which seeks to positively influence a customer in some way."[1] This information can be presented in a variety of media, including text, video, Q&A's, photos, etc.
Content Marketing has steadily risen in popularity with marketers. According to a study by the Content Marketing Institute, over 90% of Business-to-Business (B2B) and 86% of Business-to-Consumer (B2C) markers use one or more methods of Content Marketing[2] , including social media, eNewsletters, and articles on a company website.
By embedding information that refers to the Brand, often with a "brought to you by" message, persuasion occurs because the media consumer's experience with the content is positive, and so becomes associated with a positive experience with a Brand.
Other forms of advertising, particularly online, may be intrusive. One study notes that 61% respondents noted that banner ads "distract them and take them away from what they are doing"[3] , in addition to fears of spam, viruses, or simply receiving content that is not engaging.
Content Marketing provides an alternative to intrusive advertisements by offering branded content endemic to a users browsing experience. By intertwining the content with a brand's equity, users are engaged by and create a positive correlation experience with the Brand, making them more likely to purchase the Brand.
Another advantage of Content Marketing is that the Millennial Generation (the largest, currently composed of 1.8 billion people) has expectations of media that are often better met by Content Marketing than by traditional advertising. In an Edelman Survey, 8 in 10 millennials expect brands to entertain them, while 31% expect brands to create "online content, such as videos, photos, games, and blogs"[4]
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Because The Web has democratized access to publishing (Wikipedia a case in point), and computers have democratized the creation of content, anyone can create content and publish it online. This creates a large diversity of content quality online.
In the domain of commercial content, normally created to support advertising, content is developed by publishers etc. Content is referred to as "original" by its publisher if the publisher created it or paid for its creation. A related trend is Curation, in which content is selected from one place, and put onto another. The downstream publisher may or may not have explicit rights to use the curated content.
In the ad industry, before content is created or sourced, an advertiser and its agencies work together to coordinate which content will align to brand equity and identify the intended audience. Ad agencies will work with the brand to develop the overall creative strategy for the advertising campaign, while media agencies (like Carat, OMD, and Razorfish) will be tasked with implementing those initiatives across multiple media.
In commercial advertising, content creation is executed by editors, or an editorial process for print media, and much of online media. For video, directors supervise the content creation.
Once content is created, it must be published. Clearly the intent is to attract an audience to the content. A content creator thinks of publishers as distributors. The overall intent is to connect content with its intended audience. There are various means to do this:
Social Platforms: Facebook, Twitter, and MySpace, among others, allow content to be shared fluidly and rapidly between social communities.
Search Engines: Google, Bing, and AOL are three premier search engines which people use to find content. Search Agencies are intimately familiar with such sites, and enhance a brand or content's SEO to be optimized on these sites.
Content Sharing Tools: Different from Social Platforms, content sharing tools are explicitly utilized to share and promote existing content. Pinterest, Yelp, and Pixable are all tools which aggregate and promote content sharing.
Media: Media can be purchased which directs users of one publisher to content appearing on another publisher. Also, content can be placed directly in to Media units, such as display advertising.
Syndication: This is the process of putting the same content on multiple sites, destinations or platforms.
The following examples demonstrate early use of content to disseminate information about a brand, and build a brand's reputation:
1895 - John Deere launches their magazine, The Furrow, providing information to farmers on how to become more profitable. The magazine, considered the first custom publication, is a success and is still in circulation today, reaching 1.5 million readers in 40 countries in 12 different languages[5].
1900 – Published in France, Michelin develops the Michelin guides, offering drivers information on auto maintenance, accommodations, and other travel tips. 35,000 copies were distributed for free in this first edition[6]. Eventually, the company began selling these books, yet the publication set a precedent for both informative guides and content marketing distribution.
1904 – Jell-O salesmen go door-to-door, distributing their cookbook for free. Touting the desert as a versatile food, the company sees its sales rise to over $1 million by 1906[7].
The effectiveness of Content Marketing is determined through a variety of quantifiable measures, most of which are used to asses the value of advertising generally. These include traffic, time on site, brand equity surveys, etc.
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A massive subject to cover. Glad to be a part of this. Forget about SEO, it's all about SCM or Search Content Marketing.
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@Ralph We have BBS in common. Mine was called Community Business OnLine (CBO). CBO became a .com. Sold url to Credit Suisse.
Roosevelt - I was an avid user of the BBS access to defense contractor systems in the San Diego area in the 80's and early 90's. Yes, I did primarily post inventory, both new and used, along with service specials to employees of each company. However, that was at a time when there were no graphics and my posts were on BBS's that were primarily used for listing used items for sale by employees of that company.
Those old days of BBS's remind me a lot more of CraigsList.com than either email or blogging. Email was around then and blogging came later.
For those of us in the car biz, a familiar and valid example of true Content Marketing is the traditional publishing of articles in automotive magazines that are written by experts on a subject matter employed by a supplier... The articles are usually required by the magazine editors to be free of directly pitching products or services, but the content positions the author and their employer as an authority on a subject or topic relevant to what they sell or provide to car dealers.
@Ralph Understood. Meant content marketing is a derivative of detailed product descriptions without any purchase requirements and blogging is a derivative of email with more features. Remember the BBS system, showing my age, before the Internet?
Response to Comment by Roosevelt Gist: When I business posts detailed descriptions of products or services offered for sale, it is an Advertisement. When posting such offerings on social media, if the posts are not balanced with valuable content that is non-promotional, at least 8 times the volume, there are many people who describe it as "Social Spam". Content Marketing is not unpaid advertising, it is successful when the content delivers value to the targeted audience without requiring a purchase from your company.
Also, I do not consider blogging to be a "long form of email"... Blogging is visible to everyone, email is only visible to who you target it to... There are an infinite amount of things i would put in an email that i would never post on a blog and vice versa. Blog posts live on for n indefinite amount of time, email does not. And there are many more major structural and content differences.
@Ralph I thought when a business gave detailed descriptions of each product and/or services with proposed uses was content marketing? Is the term content marketing just another way to describe the above? Like blogging is a long form of email.
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Castaway's 16 months adrift on Pacific
Islanders on the remote Pacific atoll of Ebon do not see much passing sea traffic so when a battered fibreglass boat floated on to their reef, they were understandably curious.
To their amazement, an emaciated man, with long straggly beard and hair, dressed only in torn underpants, his skin weather-beaten from sun and salt, was inside the vessel, along with a turtle.
He had a remarkable story to tell, saying that he had survived 16 months adrift on the Pacific, eating turtles, birds and fish that he caught with his hands and drinking turtle blood and rainwater.
It is a story reminiscent of the Tom Hanks film Cast Away. And if details are confirmed, it is believed he will claim the record for surviving the longest time adrift after floating more than 8,000 miles from Mexico.
The details are still sketchy, not least as the man speaks only Spanish and there is only one telephone and no internet connection on the atoll, the southern-most outpost of the Marshall Islands.
He has communicated that his name is Jose Ivan and that he left Mexico for El Salvador in September 2012 with a companion who died at sea several months ago. His story was in turn relayed to the world by Ola Fjelstad, a Norwegian anthropology student conducting research on the atoll, who spoke by telephone to a news agency.
"His condition isn't good, but he's getting better," Mr Fjeldstad said. "The boat is really scratched up and looks like it has been in the water for a long time."
Mr Ivan indicated that he survived by eating turtles, birds and fish caught by hand as there was no fishing gear on board. He drank turtle blood when there was no rain.
The men who found him took him to the main island on the atoll to meet Ione de Brum, the mayor, who used the single phone to call foreign officials in Majuro, the Marshall's capital.
The castaway's voyage is not over yet. The government airline has only one plane that can land at Ebon but that aircraft is out of service for maintenance and not expected to be available before Tuesday. Officials may instead send a boat to pick him up and bring him to Majuro, from where there are international air connections.
"He's staying at the local council house and a family is feeding him," said Mr Fjeldstad. "We've been giving him a lot of water, and he's gaining strength."
Jose Ivan was given a basic health check and was found to have low blood pressure, but he is walking slowly with the assistance of islanders and does not appear to have any life-threatening illness.
Home to fewer than 1,000 people, Ebon is a coral atoll of 22 islands, with a land mass of just 2.2 square miles and a highest elevation of nine feet, strung around a deep lagoon. It is one of 24 atolls that make up the Marshall Islands, which have a population of about 60,000.
Mr Ivan's boat is a 24ft fibreglass vessel with propeller-less engines. Such craft are capable of circumnavigating the globe, although he clearly had no such plans when he set off.
It is not the only epic story of survival on the Pacific. In 1992, two fishermen from Kiribati were at sea for 177 days before they landed in Samoa.
In 2006, three Mexicans were found in a vessel near the Marshalls, nine months after setting out to catch shark. They survived on rainwater, raw fish and seabirds, their hopes buoyed by reading the Bible.
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They may not look exactly like their goofy, gangly ancestors on '60s TV.
But the robots have begun to arrive — and many of them are being sired right here in the Bay Area.
"The robotics community here is pushing envelopes all over the place," said Andra Keay with Silicon Valley Robotics, which supports the innovation and commercialization of robotic technologies and has about 40 members. "You've got a whole group of smaller startups in San Francisco, while the South Bay tends to do more industrial and health care robots."
At a group networking event earlier this month, many of the Bay Area's most creative roboticists were on hand to talk shop, show off prototypes and collectively ponder a future that robots will increasingly inhabit right alongside us.
"You've got companies trying to revolutionize manufacturing with robotic arms that will do things like riveting and are able to work in close proximity to people," Keay says. "That's one of the holy grails of robotics: having robots that are safe for humans to be around."
Here are three consumer-focused Bay Area startups that were on hand for the meeting:
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Their website home page says it all: "Our Mission is to develop the leading Personal Robot for the 21st-century consumer."
Or to put it more poetically, said CEO Martin Hitch as he stood nursing a beer near the front door of event host and robotics pioneer Bot & Dolly, "our robot will be the 21st-century version of Rosie on the Jetsons."
The robot — code-named "Project Mobi" — is still under wraps. Hitch cryptically calls it a "location platform," suggesting a smart device of some sort attached to a mobile base, and he says it will be formally unveiled next month. But don't expect a sophisticated maid right off the bat, Hitch says. "To get a robot to say to you 'Here's that beer you wanted' won't happen anytime soon.
"We're talking about the robotic extension of your iPhone, with the robot giving you information like the weather," he says. But "instead of looking down at your phone, you'll be interacting with the robot, through gestures and voice recognition." He says Mobi will eventually be able to serve as your personal docent at an art museum, talking about the artwork and "even using 3-D vision to avoid a crowded space."
The Robot App Store
Robots need apps, too. And in the year since Israeli-born Elad Inbar, 38, launched the online store and moved his operation to the Bay Area, this self-styled "first marketplace for robot apps" has quickly grown to feature software from 150 developers around the world. Some 10,000 users have already downloaded about 600 different apps, many of them designed to work with specific robots already in the marketplace. For example, he says there are apps that teach Roomba, the vacuum-cleaning assistant from iRobot, "to dance and sing songs like 'Happy Birthday' while it vacuums."
Inbar says there are apps that can teach a robot to read your emails out loud and then send a reply email on your behalf. You can download apps that let you steer remote-control robotic devices while you record video from them on your smartphone. And there are plenty of other apps to bring robotic toys like the French-made Nao to life, including "Nao Emotions Collection! — Disappointed Behavior!"
You guessed it. This app enables your programmable humanoid friend to display "disappointed movement and sound" in case "the user gave a wrong answer, or did something wrong."
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How dare you to want fries with that!
Momentum, the brainchild of Alexandros Vardakostas, is hard at a work on a sort of robotic Rube Goldberg device that he hopes will change the face of the American burger joint, one patty at a time. A prototype of "The Burgeon" sits in a warehouse in San Francisco's South of Market neighborhood. But Vardakostas is quick to give props to Silicon Valley, "which has been disrupting all kinds of industries for years now. We want to do that with fast food."
Vardakostas, a 27-year-old physics graduate from UC Santa Barbara, says the Burgeon can crank out a burger every 16 seconds. It grinds the meat, stamps out the patty, sends it along a conveyor-belt grill, toasts the buns, squirts on the condiments, slices and drops in pickles and tomatoes and lettuce, then pops the finished burger into a bag, all in under five minutes.
And, says Vardakostas, "we're trying to bring it down to a completed burger every 10 seconds."
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Harwinton's second annual Hometown Holiday Celebration set for Dec. 1
Harwinton >> Santa and Mrs. Claus, the elves, the reindeer and Christmas spirit are on their way to Harwinton as the town prepares for its second annual Harwinton Hometown Holiday Celebration on Dec. 1 from 4 to 7 p.m. at the Town hall and Library complex located off Bentley Drive.
The event will include many holiday festivities, many of which are deemed classics to celebrating Christmas time, especially for children.
There will be a tree lighting with Santa and Mrs. Claus, and residents are encouraged to bring a hand-crafted ornament to hang on the tree.
Gingerbread house demonstrations will give participants the opportunity to watch and even decorate their own gingerbread houses, while the Grinch will read the classic children's story "The Grinch Who Stole Christmas" at the Harwinton Public Library.
Children will be able to send their Christmas lists to Santa just in time for Christmas as there will be a letter writing station and a special "elf mail drop box."
The celebration is geared as a community event for everyone.
"It's really a wonderful way to gather the community," said Steve Criss, chairman of the Harwinton Holiday Celebration Committee. "People will have a chance to meet and talk with their neighbors before the Christmas craziness begins."
"It's good quality, family time for people to take some time out from their busy schedules and every day stresses to enjoy a wonderful event with their family," said First Selectman Mike Criss. "Harwinton is a gem and we like to take every opportunity we get to remind people what a special place we live in and just how special our residents are."
The overall goal is "to bring the community together in order to help build community and Christmas spirit and awareness," according to the first selectman.
Hundreds of luminaries will light the pathways to the celebration as a way to honor a loved one who passed away and help fund the event for all residents to enjoy.
The event began last year with the help of the Economic Development Committee as a way to give back to the community and start off the new administration, with Mike Criss as its new first selectman, on the right foot.
Last year the celebration attracted 1,500 people. Organizers hope that last year's success will continue with at least 3,000 members of the community participating in the many festivities.
Hayrides, a circus troupe, face painting and other interactive activities along with live holiday music will entertain people of all ages. Families can get their Christmas cards done as there will be holiday pictures with Santa.
Harwinton Youth Sports Association is providing burgers, hot dogs, fried dough, coffee and hot chocolate for a small fee. A holiday open house and wreath and craft sale will be at the Harwinton Library from 9:30 a.m. to 2 p.m. that day as well.
Parking for the event will be on-site at the Town Hall parking lot, at the library and in the recreational field's complex.
Overflow parking will be available at Harwinton Consolidated School and an All-Star Transportation shuttle bus will be available to pick-up and drop-off at the event. Guests should plan to check in at the information booth located adjacent from the town gazebo for a complimentary program book and activity map. A rain date is set for Dec. 2 from 4 to 7 p.m.
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Standard & Poor's decision to cut Spain's credit rating to one notch above junk status is weighing on markets, but analysts see a silver lining here — it could push a reluctant Madrid into asking for a bailout and thus alleviate pressure on its borrowing costs.
"Spain has been dragging its feet and the potential positive outcome from the S&P downgrade is that Spain could come to the table faster because markets are likely to put pressure on the bond market again," said Ray Attrill, global co-head of foreign exchange strategy at National Australia Bank in Sydney.
S&P cut Spain's sovereign credit rating for a third time this year, moving the long-term rating to BBB-minus with a negative outlook, citing a deepening recession that limits Spain's options to bring its economy back on track.
The news that came out late on Wednesday knocked the euro , which fell to its lowest level since Oct. 1, and was expected to put pressure on Spanish bond prices when European markets open later on Thursday.
Both S&P and rival ratings agency Moody's now have Spain's ratings one notch away from junk status, a level that would imply an increased possibility of a debt default and prompt investors to ask for a higher rate of interest for holding risky Spanish bonds.
Moody's is expected to come up with its latest update on Spanish ratings sometime this month.
"It does look like a game is going on between Spain and perhaps the European Central Bank and the Brussels policy regime. I think that these things will play out over time," Paul Sheard, chief global economist at S&P Ratings Services, told CNBC from the sidelines of the International Monetary Fund's semi-annual meeting in Tokyo. (Read More: Spain Finance Minister 'No Bailout' Remark Sparks Laughter.)
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"Moody's may be waiting to see if Spain goes for help and if nothing happens, then we could see a downgrade," said Attrill.
Kathy Lien, managing director for foreign-exchange strategy at BK Asset Management, said Moody's has been reluctant to report on Spain because it does not want to be responsible for forcing Madrid into accepting a bailout, which would be inevitable if the rating is cut to junk status.
"Spain has been holding onto its investment grade rating by a very thin thread and (the S&P) announcement will push Moody's to make a decision soon," she said in a note. "It also pressures the Spanish government to ask for bailout because 10-year Spanish bond yields will most likely tick higher when they open (on Thursday)," she said in a note.
Spain's economy is in recession, unemployment is near 25 percent, and with tax revenues falling, the government has struggled to get its budget deficit down. (Read More: Spain's Troubles Worsen, Spark New Phase for Euro Crisis.)
Spanish yields, which surged above 7 percent in July to unsustainable levels, have steadily fallen as steps taken by the ECB and euro zone policymakers calmed jittery markets.
Analysts expected the euro, which fell to a low of $1.2824 on Thursday, to remain under pressure.
"If we get Moody's downgrading Spain's bonds to junk status… that could have a strong psychological effect and take the euro below the $1.28 mark, which has proved to be a strong price support in the past few sessions," David Rodriguez, quantitative strategist at DailyFX in New York told CNBC Asia's "Squawk Box."
A Moody's downgrade could also see the calm in markets that the ECB has strived to achieve in recent months ebb away, analysts said.
"If Moody's downgrade Spain to junk status that could cause some panic and some re-think of the Spanish situation," Kelvin Tay, regional chief investment officer, southern APAC, UBS Wealth Management, told CNBC.
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