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This week Tim Hortons uploaded a series of commercials to Youtube featuring Nova Scotia hometown boys, Sidney Crosby and Nate MacKinnon serving up coffee at the Dartmouth Tim Hortons Drive Thru. The stunt was called "Sid and Nate: Drive Thru rookie". The pair bumble their way through orders, charmed surprised patrons, and peppered their speech with just enough "sorry's" to make something already pretty Canadian, even more so. It's a series of ads destined to be aired more widely, but not before the chain ensures they garner lots of word of mouth plus a good dose of media tossed in. If you haven't seen the spots, have a look at the Youtube link here.
The original stunt was conducted and filmed back in July. Here is a tweet from July 28
It garned CBC TV coverage at that time. Have a look here.
But the timing to leverage additional WOMMM + M (word of mouth, mouse & mobile + media) was now, because that's when hockey season is set to ramp up. Plus, as the weather turns colder and Canadians head to the rink, coffee is perhaps more on their mind then in the summer.
Here's a sample of media received just this week:
So, weaving all this back to lessons for word of mouth, mouse & mobile + media, let's consider why this campaign works so well.
- Strong visual: Twitter, Instagram and Facebook posts with visuals helped fuel the initial WOMMM + Media. But it was arguably the Youtube video that injected the latest round of coverage. All these media had strong visual components. So did TV and newspapers that got on board. And let's face it; Crosby and MacKinnon are not hard to look at. Plus they're hockey heroes. Any picture with them will garner interest.
- Use of a #hashtag: Normally things that go viral have a #hashtag. I've looked, and as best I can figure on Twitter and Instagram, this campaign DID NOT receive one! It screams for a #DriveThruRookies. Perhaps a missed opportunity by Tim Hortons? I'm pretty sure their ad agency would have suggested one! Hashtags help channel content so that people who hear about it through media or WOM can quickly tune into the conversation.
- They understood timing: While WOM is subject to timing for tapping when people might care more, the media is absolutely governed by it. Media looks for stories that play out well for when their audience will care. Canadians care about hockey at the end of September. Back in the summer while camping and travelling, hockey was not top of mind. There is far more mileage to this campaign uploading those videos and generating media now then back in the summer.
- It got the attention of powerful social media users: Tim Hortons has over 350,000 followers on Twitter, over 120,000 followers on Instagram, and over 2.7 million likes on Facebook. There are about 10,000 subscribers to their Youtube channel. Simply by promoting it through their social channels, they got immediate exposure. Add to that, some well-known sports and media folks in those databases, and the exposure became exponential.
- Media monitor online media for stories: Both online and traditional print and broadcast media monitor online for stories to cover. Twitter is heavily used by reporters to find breaking news. Because they are in the business of gaining readers, listeners, viewers or followers, they need to know when something is "hot." Twitter is their tool to find stories and detect if they are growing. Online feeds traditional media, and traditional media such as print and TV or radio broadcast, in turn feeds online again. It becomes a vicious circle of momentum building. That cycle explains why the story got exposure back in July and again gained momentum this past week.
- Discredit authority, poke fun at a hero: It's fun to watch two guys who are stars playing hockey mess up the simplest of orders. The heroes are made humble, which makes them more personable.
- The use of humour: Of course the spots are heavily edited, but that was done to make them fun and entertaining. I have a hard time believing Sid the kid is that funny all the time. The repetitive "sorry's" left me chuckling.
- Media craves the bizarre or unusual: Driving up to a Tim Hortons Drive Thru is pretty usual for most Canadians. Being served by your hockey hero is not. In the face of ISIS terror, faltering economies or an election campaign running a marathon, lighter news sells. This one delivered surprise and everyday Canadians response. We lapped it up.
- The use of celebrity: Not only did the spots feature celebrities, they tapped their social media circles, which had extensive reach.
- The power of storytelling: It's human nature to love a story. This one had classic story composition: A hero or villain, a tragedy or challenge, a climax and resolution. The people entering the drive through were characters that helped flush out the richer details through their reactions and responses. They became heroes along with the hockey stars. It's a story that will continue to unfold, as the people who were filmed continue to tell their story of meeting these hockey stars at the drive thru.
Ultimately it was a very Canadian feel good story. A perfect match for the Tim Hortons brand in Canada. And it followed the 10 point formula for going viral perfectly. Here's my question to you: How could you tell your story using these 10 points, to generate more word of mouth, mouse, mobile plus media?


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BUNDABERG'S favourite reptiles put on a perfect performance for the Today Show's live weather broadcast from Mon Repos turtle rookery yesterday morning.
Bundaberg North Burnett Tourism spokesman Greg Barnes said the national exposure had helped put Bundaberg back on the map as a tourist haven for animal lovers seeking a close encounter.
He said the weather crew were chuffed as hatchlings emerged to make their first ocean journey just before some new mums crawled up the sand to nest.
"The fluke of this happening in daylight all in the space of two hours is just unheard of," the beaming councillor said.
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A Preston County man and a Tucker County juvenile are the first persons charged and convicted with violating a wildlife law passed this year by the West Virginia Legislature. Division of Natural Resources Police Officers Sgt. Gary Johnson and Officer Josh Rhodes charged Mike A. Chapman, 22, from Aurora, W.Va. and an unnamed Tucker County juvenile in Preston County magistrate court in July, 2010. Both were charged and convicted of spotlighting, carrying loaded firearm in a vehicle and illegal killing of wildlife. The deer was killed in the Aurora area of Preston County and had antlers in velvet that measured almost 16 inches at the widest point. Fines, court costs and replacement costs totaled $2,414.80. In addition, the two are required to perform several hours of community service.
The new law, which went into effect in June, provides that additional replacement costs be collected from persons who are convicted of illegally killing wildlife, with the additional costs being based on the antler size of an illegally killed deer. The old law provided for a $200 replacement cost for all deer that were illegally killed regardless of antler size. Persons who are convicted of illegally killing a deer are still assessed the $200 replacement costs. If the deer has antlers in which the main beams measured at the widest point equals 14 inches but less than 16 inches, the replacement is $1,000; 16 inches and less than 18 inches is $1,500; 18 inches but less than 20 inches is $2,000; and greater than 20 inches is $2,500.
"The purpose of the enhanced replacement costs is to act as an additional deterrent to slow the illegal killing of deer that are considered to be trophies and that are a valuable natural resource of this state," according to DNR Law Enforcement Section Chief David Murphy. "Many people come to West Virginia to hunt for trophy whitetails. They spend a lot of money in our state, purchasing licenses, eating in our restaurants, buying food, gasoline and other items at stores and staying in motels, and they have every right to expect that resource to be protected from poachers."


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[From Business Week] "It's March Madness time, all right. But the competition in the Smithsonian Museum of Natural History in Washington had absolutely nothing to do with basketball. This annual event, March Madness for the Mind, is organized by the National Collegiate Inventors & Innovators Alliance (NCIIA), a network of more than 200 universities that promote innovation by underwriting and mentoring teams of college student inventors.
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Jack Perconte is today announcing the launch of a free authority website for both professional and amateur baseball coaches.
Minooka, IL -- (SBWIRE) -- 09/27/2012 -- For twelve years, Jack Perconte played professional baseball with the Dodgers, Indians, Mariners and White Sox – averaging 270 in the Majors. Today, he is launching something equally as legendary.
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We were sent to Vietnam to kill Communism. But we found instead we were killing women and children.
-- John Kerry, "The New Winter Soldier"
John Kerry represents the VVAW at the "People's State of the Union" in Washington, D.C.
Audio Clips: John Kerry testifies about American "war crimes" in Vietnam -- April 22, 1971 (1:32)
John Kerry admits to committing atrocities in Vietnam -- April 18, 1971 (0:31)
Vietnam War WINTER SOLDIERS Hearing: John Kerry Testimony - Vietnam Veterans Against the War (1971)
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April 22, 1971, Kerry was the first Vietnam veteran to testify before Congress about the war, appearing before a Senate committee hearing on ending the war proposals. He was still a member of the United States Navy Reserve, holding the rank of Lieutenant Junior Grade. Wearing green fatigues and service ribbons, he spoke for nearly two hours with the Senate Foreign Relations Committee in the Fulbright Hearings...
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July 22, 1971, John Kerry held a press conference in Washington, DC, calling on President Nixon to accept Madame Binh's 7-Point Peace Plan
the event was reported in The New York Times July 23, 1971 article included a photograph of Kerry surrounded by POW family members recruited to promote his message..
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The total reversal was as obscenely dishonest and politically convenient as today Kerry's US chief of strategic communications, aka propaganda
That substitutes enemies from 'communists' to all-inclusive 'terrorists'
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...In April, the VVAW stormed Washington in a week-long protest. At its height, spokesman John Kerry went before the Senate Committee on Foreign Relations to accuse the United States military of committing massive numbers of war crimes in Vietnam. The appearance launched Kerry's political career. The charges he made shocked and sickened a nation, changed the course of a war and stained the reputation of the American military for decades.
But the mass murder of civilians was never American policy in Vietnam. War crimes were the exception, not the rule. And the Winter Soldier tribunal itself -- which John Kerry had helped moderate -- turned out to be "packed with pretenders and liars."
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January 25, 1972 John Kerry represents the VVAW at the "People's State of the Union" in Washington, D.C.
April 19 - 22, 1973 ...the "rabidly anti-American" VVAW-Anti-imperialist (VVAW-AI) " dominated by the Maoist Revolutionary Union", broke from VVAW...Historian Andrew Hunt said [VVAW] was "an ineffectual fragment of its former self...it continued to exist... It split, dwindled, and underwent transformation...it did not fold."...it has influenced medical treatment and gained extensions of treatment for veterans, as well as current military members...Several VVAW members moved on to prominent positions In 1978 Bobby Muller co-founded the Vietnam Veterans of America (VVA) . 1982 John Kerry was elected Massachuseyys Lt. Governor of Massachusetts and a US Senator in 1984. Ron Kovic wrote his autobiography, Born on the Fourth of July... adapted as a 1989 movie it won an Academy Award...
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In The Wall Street Journal, Norman Podhoretz writes that Obama is still the same anti-American leftist he was before becoming president.
VVAW and Hanoi: Joined at the hip?
By Jeremy Reynalds posted November 1, 2004
In an explosive article on the web site www.wintersoldier.com, writers Jerome R. Corsi and Scott Swett claim two recently discovered documents captured from the Vietnamese communists during the Vietnam War strongly support the existence of a close link between the Hanoi regime and Vietnam Veterans Against the War (VVAW) -- all while John Kerry served as the group's leading national spokesman.
John Kerry testifies as a Vietnam Veterans Against the War director to the U.S. Senate Foreign Relations committee on April 22, 1971
Corsi and Swett say the first document is a 1971 information sheet distributed by the Vietnamese communists within Vietnam. It discusses strategies to coordinate their national propaganda effort with their orchestration of the activities of sympathetic counterparts in the American anti-war movement. Specifically, the document notes that the Vietcong and North Vietnamese delegations to the Paris Peace talks were being used as the communications link to direct the activities of anti-war activists meeting with them in Paris....
Willing Partners: the VVAW and the Vietnamese Communists
Other examples of the VVAW's advocacy of Vietnamese communist positions during the period of John Kerry's leadership abound. The group issued a proclamation in February 1971 calling for mass civil disobedience and military mutiny if American forces entered Laos. After the war, North Vietnamese military leaders acknowledged that one of their greatest fears was that America would move significant forces into Laos to interdict the Ho Chi Minh Trail. The VVAW's eagerness to comply with the wishes of the Vietnamese communists even extended to its choice of nomenclature. The VVAW's Executive Committee stated in a July 1971 meeting that the terms "Vietcong" and "North Vietnamese" were not to be used in VVAW press releases and communications. Instead, "PRG (Provisional Revolutionary Government)" and "DRV (Democratic Republic of Vietnam)"... "are to be used by us to reflect our acceptance of their designations." And the VVAW's unremitting insistence that American forces were mass-murdering Vietnamese civilians perfectly echoed the primary propaganda theme put forth by the Vietnamese communists, their international communist allies, and their Soviet sponsors.
The newly uncovered documents help clarify the relationship of the North Vietnamese, the Vietcong, the PCPJ, the Communist Party of the USA, and John Kerry's VVAW. They indicate that these organizations worked closely together, using the Paris Peace Talks as a central point of communication, to employ the strategy and tactics devised by the Vietnamese communists to achieve their primary objective: the defeat of the United States of America in Vietnam.
-- by Jerome R. Corsi and Scott Swet
Whether a political ploy, or real, Kerry's "anti-war" conversion narrative by major "news" sources, reveals some ways this seamless propaganda works. Seamless information war, far beyond US and mainstream media, now headquatered in Silicon Valley, is the survival bedrock of US finance capitalist global hegemony --- as digest readers know and new readers can explore using the burbankdigest.com search.
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...Rhodes..."It is hard for many to absorb the true magnitude of change in the news business — 40 percent of newspaper-industry professionals lost their jobs in the past decade... readers can absorb all the news they want from social-media platforms like Facebook..." newspapers used to have foreign bureaus. Now they don't. They call us to explain to them what's happening in Moscow and Cairo. Most of the outlets report on world events from Washington.... [Ned Price his assistant.]..
The easiest way for the White House to shape the news...is from press briefing podiums, each with its own dedicated press corps. "But there are also "force multipliers" ..." our compadres, I reach out to a couple people, and you know I wouldn't want to name them "...Rhodes strategized and ran the successful Iran-deal messaging campaign, helped negotiate the opening of American relations with Cuba...and been a co-writer of all of Obama's major foreign-policy speeches speeches" ...the longest-tenured member of the National Security Council speechwriting corps, told me. On the largest and smallest questions alike, the voice in which America speaks to the world is that of Ben Rhodes....The narratives he frames, the voices of senior officials, columnists and reporters whose work he skillfully shapes and ventriloquizes, the president's own speeches and talking points, are dots of color in a much larger vision about who Americans are and where we are going that Rhodes and the president have been formulating the past seven years. When I asked ...Obama's lead speechwriter in the 2008 campaign... whether he or Rhodes or the president ever thought of their speeches and bits of policy making as part of some larger restructuring of the American narrative, he replied, "We saw that as our entire job."...
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John Kerry and the VVAW: Hanoi's American Puppets?
Two recently discovered documents captured from Vietnamese communists during the Vietnam War strongly support the contention that a close link existed between the Hanoi regime and the Vietnam Veterans Against the War (VVAW) while John Kerry served as the group's leading national spokesman....
July 22, 1971, John Kerry held a press conference in Washington, DC, to call upon President Nixon to accept Madame Binh's 7-Point Peace Plan. Kerry surrounded himself at the press conference with POW wives, parents and sisters who had been recruited to promote his message. The event was reported in The New York Times of July 23, 1971 and the communist Daily World of July 24, 1971 each included a photograph of Kerry surrounded by POW family members.
Late in 1970, a defecting Vietcong organizer described a communist plan to use Vietcong sympathizers in the US to recruit family members of American POWs held captive in North Vietnam. The following summary of his interview was provided to the House Foreign Affairs Committee: {digest: NO LINK)
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Recently I visited family in England with my youngest son. The days leading up to the vacation were hectic. Trying to finish work projects, the craziness of the end of the school year, and prepping for the trip left me feeling frazzled. However, I have always been able to relax once I am finally sitting on the plane. Even with the person in front reclined in your lap, and the knees of the person behind you in the back of your seat, the small bottle of wine you are handed by the cabin staff feels like the best wine you have ever tasted. Stress begins to leave you as the biggest decision you face is which movie to watch and when to go to the loo!
On that 10 hour plane journey there is much time to reflect on life and also get a fresh perspective on what's important to you. The trivial day-to-day problems seem so much smaller as you look out the window above the clouds. The hugs and warm welcome from family we haven't seen in far too long, as we arrive at Heathrow airport, are priceless. It always feels like you have never left. I sleep in my childhood room when I visit England. The room has been redecorated many times over the years, the posters of my youth long gone, but the peaceful feeling I get snuggled in that bedroom are the same.
Those famous words "There is no place like home" are even more important to me in middle age. Home, to me, whether in the US or UK, is where they know your stories and love you, and you them, unconditionally.


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Cancer is when cells in the body change and grow out of control. To help you understand what happens when you have cancer, let's look at how your body works normally. Your body is made up of tiny building blocks called cells. Normal cells grow when your body needs them, and die when your body does not need them any longer.
Cancer is made up of abnormal cells that grow even though your body doesn't need them. In most cancers, the abnormal cells grow to form a lump or mass called a tumor. If cancer cells are in the body long enough, they can grow into (invade) nearby areas. They can even spread to other parts of the body (metastasis).
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The thyroid gland is part of the endocrine system. It helps control hormones in your body. It's in the front of your neck, over your windpipe (trachea). It's under your Adam's apple and above your collar bone. You often can't see or feel your thyroid. It faces the front, but it's underneath your skin.
It's shaped like a butterfly with 2 lobes, a right and left lobe. The lobes are joined by a bridge of tissue, called the isthmus.
The thyroid is made up of 2 main types of cells. The follicular cells make and store thyroid hormones. Thyroid hormones control your metabolism. The C cells, or parafollicular cells, make the hormone calcitonin. This helps control calcium levels in your body.
Thyroid cancer starts in the cells of the thyroid gland.
There are 4 main types of thyroid cancer (carcinoma):
Papillary carcinoma. This is the most common type. It affects women more than men.
Follicular carcinoma. This is a more aggressive form of thyroid cancer. It accounts for about 10% of all cases.
Medullary thyroid carcinoma. This is a rare type of thyroid cancer. It produces a lot of calcitonin and tends to spread.
Anaplastic carcinoma. This is a very rare type of thyroid cancer. It grows quickly and tends to spread. It can be hard to treat.
Changes in the thyroid gland are often easy to see and feel. Lumps or bumps, called nodules, are common. They may not need to be treated. Not all of them are cancer. Growths that are not cancer don't spread from the thyroid to other parts of your body.
Thyroid adenomas are small nodules that start in the cell layer that lines the inner surface of the thyroid gland. They are not cancer. The adenoma itself may produce or secrete thyroid hormone. If it produces enough thyroid hormone, it may cause hyperthyroidism. This is a condition where your body has too much thyroid hormone. This may need to be treated.
Some signs that a nodule may be cancer and not an adenoma include:
A thyroid scan shows the nodule is not working
The nodule is solid instead of filled with fluid, like a cyst
The nodule is hard and not tender
The nodule grows fast
Lymph nodes around the thyroid gland are enlarged
When thyroid cancer spreads outside the thyroid gland, it typically goes to nearby lymph nodes. It can also spread to nearby blood vessels and other tissues in the neck. Over time, it can spread to distant parts of the body, such as the lungs and bones.
If you have questions about thyroid cancer, talk with your healthcare provider. Your healthcare provider can help you understand more about this cancer.
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Champions Germany were sent crashing out of the World Cup after suffering a stunning 2-0 defeat by a tenacious South Korea on Wednesday that saw them eliminated in the first round for the first time in 80 years.
Germany would have progressed with a win at the Kazan Arena but barely looked capable of scoring against the Koreans, let alone going on to successfully defend the title they won in Brazil four years ago.
Stoppage-time goals from Kim Young-gwon and Son Heung-min finished off Joachim Loew's sorry Germany side, who finished bottom of the group on three points.
They have won four World Cup titles and also finished runners-up four times and entered this year's tournament heavily backed to retain their title.
Instead they will head home after a stunning failure, having been unable to break down the South Koreans and after a shock 1-0 loss to Mexico in their opening group match.
Sweden won the group after thrashing the Mexicans 3-0.
Germany's Toni Kroos, the free kick hero in the 2-1 win over Sweden, tried desperately to spark his side into action in the second half but was denied by South Korea's heroic Cho Hyun-woo in the 88th minute, one of a number of fine saves by the keeper.
But it was Kim Young-gwon who broke the deadlock in added time when he found himself alone in front of goal after a corner and he poked the ball home from close range.
Moments later Son sprinted to retrieve a long ball, with Germany keeper Neuer having left his goal to try to help his side get a goal, and the Korean striker fired a low shot into the net to wrap up the win and leave the Germans distraught.
Germany were thus eliminated from a World Cup in the first round for the first time since the Second World War. Leaving aside Uruguay -- who won the inaugural World Cup in 1930 before not travelling to Italy for the 1934 edition -- it is the sixth time in the history of the competition that the reigning champions have failed to make it past the first hurdle.
Italy had won back-to-back World Cups before the Second World War got in the way, and much had changed by the time the 1950 tournament came around in Brazil.
Out of shape after the long journey by sea, the Italians played just two matches, losing 3-2 to Sweden before beating Paraguay 2-0. Sweden topped the group, and Italy went home.
Pele's great Brazil side rocked up in England having won the previous two World Cups. They would win the 1970 trophy too, but 1966 was a disaster.
France came to the World Cup in Japan and South Korea with a wonderful side that had won the trophy on home soil in 1998 and then won the European Championship in 2000.
However, nothing went right for Les Bleus as they went home with their tails between their legs having failed to score a goal never mind win a game.
After the miracle of 2006, when the Azzurri won the trophy in Germany despite the chaos being caused in their domestic game by the Calciopoli scandal, 2010 in South Africa was a spectacular disaster for the Italians.
The presence of veterans like Gianluigi Buffon and Fabio Cannavaro and that of Marcello Lippi on the bench could not prevent Italy from being humbled in the group stage as they failed to win any of their matches.
The curse of the champions struck again four years ago in Brazil, as Spain's all-conquering side were stopped in their tracks.


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Repairs to the Eagle Hall Carriage House have generated a lot of interest and many questions as to why Historic Harrisville chose to undertake the extraordinary measures necessary to keep the original structure standing rather than take it down. The bowing walls and sagging roof made it clear to even the most casual observer that the building was standing out of habit. The decision to save the carriage house, and the choices made in determining how to approach it, are based on Historic Harrisville's commitment to preserving the quality and historical significance of the village. Preserving historical significance requires that the historic design and setting of not only the buildings, but also of the group of buildings, is maintained. Each building is part of the pattern of village life and the loss of a building erodes the overall pattern and thereby the national historical significance of the village. Although the earlier changes had reduced its significance as an individual building, the carriage house continues to hold its place in the landscape, in the setting of the village, and as part of the store building complex.
When the carriage house was acquired as part of the store complex it had been altered to meet the requirements of a change in use to housing. The need for a place to keep a horse, carriage, and tack had long since passed by the 1980s when the carriage house was converted to housing by its previous owner. At that time, the wide openings for carriage and hay doors at the façade were closed in and double-hung sash installed; changes were also made to the other elevations and to the interior, to accommodate residential use. The conversion notwithstanding, it is still possible to read the site and the building and understand the purpose for which the carriage house was built.
Once the decision was made to save the carriage house, the options for treatment were:
1. preservation, which focuses on the maintenance and repair of existing historic materials; 2. restoration, which depicts a property at a particular period of time in its history, while removing evidence of other periods; or 3. rehabilitation, which acknowledges the need to alter a property to meet continuing or changing uses while retaining the property's historic character.
The choice of treatment depends on a variety of factors, including the property's historical significance, physical condition, proposed use, and intended interpretation. Since there was little historic material to repair, no reason to interpret the building at an earlier period of time, and the carriage house had been changed to accommodate a new use, rehabilitation was the choice.
A concrete foundation was poured, the wall framing extensively repaired, and the roof reframed before the installation of a new roof. An application was filed with the Historic District Commission seeking approval to replace the quadruple casement window at the southwest corner with three new double-hung frames and sash, re-fit the existing 1980s window openings at the façade with new six-over-six, double-hung sash, and install louvers in the oculus and cupola. The possibility of re-establishing the large carriage house door on the façade was considered. To do so without putting back the hay door above it and eliminating the 1980s window openings would create an appearance for the building that never existed. It would also have reduced the viability of the residential use that was established in the earlier conversion. The cupola, removed from the roof and moved to Fred's shop for repairs, will be lifted back onto the roof in the spring when the work on the exterior is completed. Its wingless, bullet hole-ridden eagle is likely facing replacement, a rare occurrence for anything that lands in Fred's shop.
Like the carriage house, the nearby St. Denis Church and the old Selectmen's Office have outlived the purposes for which they were built. With the help of the Planning Board we hope to determine how these buildings on Church Hill can best serve the needs of the village.
Sadly, the rehabilitation of the Eagle Hall Carriage House is the last project that Rick Monahon designed for Historic Harrisville. In a very small way it reflects his 40-year interest in what he, in his master's thesis, termed "Adaptive Re-use of Residual Built Form." The thesis presents a broad view of mills that includes their history, settings, design, buildings, materials, technology, energy production and consumption, arguments for adaptive re-use, and pretty much everything else having anything to do with mills and mill villages. How fortunate for Harrisville that Rick came along when he did and that he stayed. By Linda Willett


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Friday morning saw a nationwide two-minute silence at 7.28am, the time when the British, Commonwealth and French forces went over the top a century ago on the first day of The Battle of the Somme.
After this silence, the emotion and poignancy of the #Wearehere tribute evoked a truly human response. Created by Jeremy Deller and Rufus Norris, it was a 'human memorial' of the battle, sending silent 'ghost' soldiers into cities and towns.
Young men, immediately conspicuous because they were dressed in the dull-green uniforms of World War I mixed with people going about their Friday morning business. They were just there: not speaking, not even moving much. Waiting, expressionless, for who knows what.
A small crowd gathered, taking photographs. A woman caught the eye of one of the men. She tried to speak to him. Without speaking or dropping his gaze, he pulled a small card out of his pocket and handed it to her. It gave the name, rank, age and battalion of a solider who died at the Somme, as well as their place of death.
There was no narrative. They were a presence. Shortly afterwards, the men, as if by some unspoken sign, began to sing, to the tune of Auld Lang Syne, We're here because we're here because we're here because we're here – a song of weariness and resignation that was sung in the trenches, and they moved off.
Fought between 1 July and 18 November 1916, the Battle of the Somme was one of the defining events of the First World War. It was the largest battle on the Western front. It saw over one million wounded, killed or missing on both sides of the battlefield – affecting the lives of millions more back home.
There were 19,240 British dead as night fell on the Somme frontline on 1 July 1916, a human catastrophe on an unthinkable scale. The British plan had been that heavy artillery rained down on the enemy defences for days beforehand would make it possible for the British to walk, starting at 7.30am, across no man's land to take German trenches in time for a good lunch.
The plan failed. German defences were far better than anticipated. German troops had hidden safely in deep dugouts during shelling the previous week and emerged quickly, catching the Allies by surprise and shooting them down in vast numbers.
The Battle of the Somme continued for another 140 days as Britain's attempts to consolidate its gains quickly degenerated into a series of bloody piecemeal fights for scraps of woods and villages. There was an average British casualty rate of 3,000 a day. Finally, winter weather brought it all to a sodden halt on November 18. The net gain was a strip of land twenty miles wide and six miles deep.
Over the years, it has become the defining symbol of the First World War – of horror, stupidity, and futility, a pessimistic narrative bubbled up through the memoirs of old soldiers and the provocations of writers and artists. A German officer, Friedrich Steinbrecher, put it succinctly: Somme. The whole history of the world cannot contain a more ghastly word.
Its key moments – the charge 'over the top', the waves of men cut down, the stupid optimism and the shattering disillusion – are the central images of the conflict. Look no further than the moving final sequence of Blackadder Goes Forth, in which the protagonists charge into the camera and into nothingness. The battle is never named, but it is unmistakably a picture of first day of the Battle of the Somme.
On 1 July 1916, as cricket was being played in Accrington, 584 men from the town were dead or wounded on the Somme. Several British 'pals battalions' – units made up of men all from the same local areas – suffered losses that were devastating for their communities at home
The Accrington Pals is the best remembered of the battalions raised in Lancashire in the early months of the War back in 2014 in response to Kitchener's call for a volunteer army. Groups of friends from all walks of life in Accrington and neighbouring towns enlisted together to form a battalion with a distinct local identity.
A month after the outbreak of war, the Accrington Observer & Times of 8 September 1914 reported that the War Office had accepted an offer made by the mayor of Accrington to raise a complete battalion. When recruitment began on 14 September, 104 men were accepted in the first three hours. Brothers, cousins, friends and workmates enlisted together; by 24 September the Accrington battalion had reached a full strength of 1,100 men.
The Pals were ordered to France, to take part in the attack on the Somme, the objective was to capture the hilltop fortress of Serre, and form a defensive flank facing north. In the early evening of 30 June, the 11th East Lancashires left camp at Warnimont Wood for an arduous seven-mile trek to the trenches of Serre. At 2.40am on Saturday 1 July, they reached the front line trenches.
At 6.30am, the British artillery commenced its final furious bombardment of the German front line. At 7.20am, Captain Tough led the Pal's first of the battalion's four waves 100 yards into No Man's Land. A few minutes later, the second wave followed, led by Captain Livesey.
At 7.30am, the leading waves rose and walked in line towards the German positions. Machine gun and rifle fire immediately tore into the advancing lines of infantry. One British observer likened the lines of dead to swathes of cut corn at harvest time. Incredibly, groups of Pals defied the machine gun fire, threaded their way through the barbed wire and dropped into the German front line.
All was in vain. Behind, the third and fourth waves suffered dreadful losses before reaching No Man's Land. The leading companies were cut down, some of the Pals – their officers killed or wounded – pressed on towards Serre, never to be seen again. The remaining survivors in the German front line, bereft of reinforcements, were forced to withdraw. By 8am, the battle for Serre was effectively over.
In its first major action, the Accrington Pals battalion suffered devastating losses. When the roll was called by RSM Stanworth that evening, less than one hundred men answered their names. Records show that out of 720 soldiers who took part in the attack, 584 were killed, wounded or missing. The Accrington Pals were effectively wiped out in a matter of minutes.
Four members of the regiment were awarded the Victoria Cross for gallantry – drummer Spencer John Bent; Private William Young; Second Lieutenant Alfred Victor Smith; Second Lieutenant Basil Arthur Horsfall.
As The Somme passes over the horizon of living memory, I was struck by a number of thoughts from the commemoration of that first day of battle around the humanity of teamwork. It was the camaraderie that struck me as the lifeblood to the cohorts of soldiers. It is what fuels that spirit of unity and togetherness at times of extreme challenge, and what must have been distress, creating a palpable connection.
However, there were a number of other thoughts I had reflecting on the battle, which I think we can take into our everyday business thinking.
Relationships mean everything During the most adverse encounters a team will ever face, the relationships and friendships between its members bind them together. Hardships create strong bonds within a team, which in turn, serves to strengthen the team even more. Trusting one another will inevitably lead to teams that will overlook individual motives in place of team objectives. Simply put, interaction fuels action and a collective resolve, mental strength in a crisis.
Listen to everyone, but trust your own judgment Imagine the military briefings at 7.28am on 1 July 2016. Leaders gather to discuss mission parameters, variables, strategies and tactics, and while everyone weighs in with their opinion, ultimately, the highest-ranking officer makes the decision. In business, one bad decision may not mean 'life or death', but it can have a detrimental impact on the fate of your business.
Every situation you encounter and every decision you make is different. There is no easy or single formula for success. The best leaders are those who listen to everyone, are receptive to advice and seek to learn from others – yet have an unwavering trust and confidence in themselves to always make the best decision possible. At the end of the day, you are accountable for your business, and, as such, trusting your own judgment is paramount.
No one is left behind Wounded and dead soldiers were carried on comrade's backs and inside crowded vehicles to safety, on to a proper burial, although the names of 72,000 dead and missing soldiers at the Tiepval Memorial shows the scale of the deaths at The Somme.
Everyone counts, and everyone looks out for each other. Everyone crosses the line together. That makes for a highly effective team and for a sense of safety despite the perilous circumstances, just knowing that someone's got your back. Pulling each other together and watching for each other's success.
Leading from the front Many of the videos show officers leading the charge out of the trenches and going over the top first. In the Somme, some 17% of the officers were lost, refuting the criticism that they didn't stand in line. They were often the first to die on the charge up the field. This was literally about leading from the front, and in such circumstances, decision-making isn't a democracy – the leader is in charge and their behaviour shows this.
Camaraderie In business as in the military, teams have a well-honed sense of camaraderie that helps team members read one another's signals, move as one, and watch each other's backs. This sense of commitment and connection is an essential component of effective teams. The more people value their relationships with one another, the better they will perform for one another and thus for the organisation.
We can only imagine the camaraderie that existed in The Accrington Pals, a collaborative and collegiate culture that got things done, working as one. Camaraderie is about creating a common sense of purpose and the mindset that we have a common goal and shared destiny.
Trust Trust in business is an essential ingredient for an organisation to function, a vital element in the emotional contract between leaders and their co-workers, and between colleagues. Without trust, an organisation is morally bankrupt, as the lack of trust eventually manifests itself in customer relationships. Imagine standing in the trenches at The Somme. The need to trust everyone around you, and for them to trust you, to perform and support the effort, must have been absolute.
The 100th anniversary year of The Somme reminds us of the loss of so many ordinary men and their sacrifice, and the devastation suffered by the Pals battalions. The stories show the soldiers worked and lived together, creating an atmosphere and culture of unity, underpinned by empathy, peer camaraderie and trust.
Each aspect of the relationship between the solders offers in their own way insights in terms of how humanity and emotional engagement pervade even the most abhorrent environment. If you replicate the qualities and culture seen in 1916 in your business today, they will effectively leverage collective talents into strategies that will elevate your business performance beyond your competition. #Wearehere, who would have thought that 'Pals' would resonate with legacies for business 100 years later?


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Why are community initiatives important for a social and coherent society?
Increasingly, local communities are taking matters into their own hands and work together to develop their neighborhood or community. They strive to make people feel at home and stimulate them to contribute to this community spirit. These social entrepreneurs create innovative, enterprising and creative places where neighbors from different backgrounds can get to know each other and learn from one another. This is established in different ways: meeting places created for and by local residents, neighborhood cooperatives and community companies. DOEN is convinced that these meeting places help to build a more socially inclusive society and contribute to mutual involvement of people in the neighborhood. Are you curious to see what kind of initiatives DOEN supports? Check out these examples!
Everyone is welcome
THUIS is a versatile and unexpected meeting place in the city centre of Wageningen. Initiators Tutku Yuksel and Elsje van de Weg wanted to create more togetherness and liveliness in the city. The central theme of THUIS is 'sharing'. Residents, (study away) students, elderly, artists, everyone is welcome. Tutku: "The door of the living room is always open. And we also offer a program of workshops and debates. It is all about creativity, sharing, and curiosity."
Garden center De Tuinkabouter as a green meeting place
In the village 'Oranje' in Drenthe the greenhouses of former garden center De Tuinkabouter are transformed into a creative meeting place by and for people of the village and the surrounding area. Various activities are organized, such as musical performances, exhibitions, neighborhood dinners and workshops that ensure that different groups of people meet each other, which has an positive impact on the village.
A place where neighbors can realize their dreams together
That is Het Vogelnest in Dordrecht: a meeting place for everyone who wants to make the Vogelbuurt area a more beautiful and more creative neighborhood. Local residents meet in creative and social activities, such as cooking, gardening or sewing courses. Recently, the Vogelnest opened a coffee bar on the central square in the neighborhood, which is run by local residents. Through all these activities, the neighborhood becomes more attractive and people feel more involved with each other and with the neighborhood.
Other examples
In an old school building Tugela85 in East Amsterdam artists and cultural entrepreneurs rent workspaces and develop an enterprising and cultural meeting place.Read more
CultuurWerkplaats Tarwewijk
CultuurWerkplaats Tarwewijk contributes to mutual involvement in the community and plays a connecting role.Read more
Creative and innovative community initiatives
DOEN is always looking for innovative community initiatives where people are stimulated to contribute to the community in one way or another. This doesn't always need to be a physical meeting place, it can also be something that enables people to meet each other. More importantly, the initiative needs to have an entrepreneurial approach and it should be sustainable. So, a one-off project or initiative won't be eligible. Furthermore, we love plans that are creative, innovative and original!
Applying to DOEN?
Please first read the criteria of the New Meeting Places programme.
If you would like to find out more or have a question, send an e-mail to Alianke van de Wal, Team officer, email@example.com


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A Movie Review of the old 1966 Sergio Leone film.
Yes, this is the first time I've seen this film. I came across the title when I was browsing the web for some of the top rated movies of all times. And considering that the film came out before I was born, I didn't think it such a big deal that I never saw this film before. It actually lay untouched on my list of films "to-watch" before I finally upped and clicked the play button.
The first thing that struck me was realizing that this was actually the source of that well-known musical theme. I've heard it countless times before, whether in spoofs or in ringtones, mostly from western or cowboy afficionados. I knew it came from a movie somewhere, but I didn't really bother to check where it came from. The second thing that struck me was that Clint Eastwood, when he was young and in his prime, was really a handsome bloke.
The movie itself is a toss up between a comedy and an irony. It featured the antics of three characters, oft-identified enough in the movie as "the good," "the bad," and "the ugly," all of whom were thrown together by a strange twist on the trail of two hundred thousand worth of gold. Lee Van Cleef starred as Angel Eyes, the "bad," who wouldn't stop at killing or torture in order to get his hands on good money. As far as I can tell, he seemed to be the only character who actually pulled a trigger to kill other unarmed, supporting, albeit unfortunate-to-get-in-his-way characters. He did, however, keep to a strange code of finishing the job once he agreed to take it, even if it takes him back to killing the man who just paid him to kill somebody else.
Clint Eastwood starred as the "good," a.k.a. Blondie, the quiet and confident, and seemingly divinely protected, clever cowboy who got away with everything. He got his head stuck in a noose, practically dying of dehydration and sunburn on the desert plains, and yet he got away with all of it in his quiet, confident - one might say arrogant - style. Towards the end, I realized that the adjective "good" wasn't referring to his set of morals (though it did seem to apply perfectly to the "bad" Angel Eyes), but to the combination of talent and fortune that allows him to get the most of any situation. Riding away at the end of the movie, having taken care of any and all opposition and greedy former partners, with four heavy bags of gold, shared equally in order to prevent retaliation, you just had to say that this man really was "good!"
And finally, there was Eli Wallach, the "ugly" Tuco, who practically carried the movie's continuity with his personal history, his comic slapsticks and asides, and his unspoken yet ill-concealed desire for a reliable "partner." I have to say that of the three main characters, I disliked Tuco the most at the beginning of the movie, mostly on account of his overly exaggerated performance. Towards the end, however, one can't help but empathize with the man. He is the only character of whose difficult history we know a little something about, which doesn't make it a surprise that he is the only character one can empathize with. And yet, you just can't help but cheer him on. After what was apparently a hard life, and after having been swindled by Blondie and beaten to a pulp by Angel Eyes, you just wanted him to get something good, too, in the end.
On the other hand, there was the strange phenomenon of the war looming in the background. All three characters didn't seem to know what to do with themselves, caught between the two sides. Mostly they tried to outwit it, just so they can get on with going after the gold. There have been too many times when they simply shook their heads at the mass slaughter of men going off to fight each other wholesale. I thought it did a passable irony of it - you didn't know what to make of the war in the background because the characters themselves didn't know what to make of the war, other than to avoid it. Which, I suppose, is really the way most people treat war, wherever it pops up.
On the whole, I liked the movie. I found it yet another reason for combing through the archives of classic films to watch good and quality entertainment. There wasn't any more outright violent killing than there needed to be - a far cry from the unrestrained violence and bloodshed of modern day action films. Back then, in the old west, you got the feeling that people killed just to survive, and not because of a psychotic attachment to taking life. They killed thriftily - not wasting unnecessary bullets, and tried to make each shot count. The humor was silent yet potent, and when it got really ridiculous, like when the cannon call took out the wall of the building just when Tuco was about to hang Blondie, well, it was just so outrageous that you can't help but laugh.