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Happy Friday, good people. Do you want the best articles, posts, tips, and more from around the world of marketing and fundraising? Of course you do! This week I have more trends for 2019, marketing to millennials, free tools for nonprofits, and Ryan Reynolds.
Kivi shares Tech Trends for Nonprofit Communicators in 2019 over on the NTEN blog.
Care2, hjc and NTEN have also just released the 2019 Digital Outlook Report.
You should apparently Prepare to Say Goodbye to Facebook Ad Set Budgets.
Here are 8 Actionable Nonprofit Social Media Tactics.
Remind your supporters why they should give with a few of these 37 Giving Quotes That Will Re-Energize Your Nonprofit Community.
Salesforce has created an infographic outlining 5 Steps to Creating Your Marketing Strategy for Millennials.
If you are having trouble with survey or focus group results translating to success in the real world, read The Treachery of Surveys.
Heather Mansfield at Nonprofit Tech for Good put together a list of 106 Free or Low-Cost Online Tools and Resources for Nonprofits.
And finally find out how funny man and Deadpool himself, Ryan Reynolds, Has Quietly Become One of the Best Marketers on the Planet.
Find out how to create a professional development plan that puts you on the path to success.

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happy friday, good people. do you want the best articles, posts, tips, and more from around the world of marketing and fundraising? of course you do! this week i have more trends for 2019, marketing to millennials, free tools for nonprofits, and ryan reynolds.
kivi shares tech trends for nonprofit communicators in 2019 over on the nten blog.
care2, hjc and nten have also just released the 2019 digital outlook report.
you should apparently prepare to say goodbye to facebook ad set budgets.
here are 8 actionable nonprofit social media tactics.
remind your supporters why they should give with a few of these 37 giving quotes that will re-energize your nonprofit community.
salesforce has created an infographic outlining 5 steps to creating your marketing strategy for millennials.
if you are having trouble with survey or focus group results translating to success in the real world, read the treachery of surveys.
heather mansfield at nonprofit tech for good put together a list of 106 free or low-cost online tools and resources for nonprofits.
and finally find out how funny man and deadpool himself, ryan reynolds, has quietly become one of the best marketers on the planet.
find out how to create a professional development plan that puts you on the path to success.


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The party ended about two hours ago and most of the dishes have been washed and will be put away in the morning. Eighteen people came for our farewell dinner party for our friend – he leaves the day after DH and I start our journey.
It’s late and I’m sitting here, listening to James Taylor sing soulful jazzy-folksy songs about love and longing, humor and sadness. His music puts me in a very mellow place. and I can’t write because I listen to his music too intensely. The harmonies, the lyrics, the new twists and turns in old songs are too compelling for me to put into the background. My brain listens too closely.
“. . . unbelieveable you, impossible me . . .” Whom shall I decide he’s singing about? Me and my DH? Me and God?
If little things mean a lot, then I am being overcome by little things.
Will one and a half liters of water be too much to carry? Should I stick to one liter? How many shirts should I bring? Two? Three? If they weigh next to nothing, wouldn’t it be proper to dress nicely for Masses when I am in towns? Socks – how many pairs are too many? Three? Four? What about sock liners?
Maybe I can bring music. James Taylor reminds me how much peace music brings me. My little iPod Shuffle weighs next to nothing – it will probably get lost, it’s so small. Should I bring it? Earphones.
Handkerchief or tissues? Camera and phone or smart phone?
Do I blog along the way or just take a paper journal and write everything at journey’s end? Will I remember everything by the end?
This entry was posted in Fitness, Religion, Travel and tagged backpack, Camino de Santiago de Campostella, God, hiking, trip preparation, women hikers over age 60, writing. Bookmark the permalink.
Rider, thank you so much for your words of encouragement! I’ve got so much to do, so little time, LOL. Yet, I know it will all be good.

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the party ended about two hours ago and most of the dishes have been washed and will be put away in the morning. eighteen people came for our farewell dinner party for our friend – he leaves the day after dh and i start our journey.
it’s late and i’m sitting here, listening to james taylor sing soulful jazzy-folksy songs about love and longing, humor and sadness. his music puts me in a very mellow place. and i can’t write because i listen to his music too intensely. the harmonies, the lyrics, the new twists and turns in old songs are too compelling for me to put into the background. my brain listens too closely.
“. . . unbelieveable you, impossible me . . .” whom shall i decide he’s singing about? me and my dh? me and god?
if little things mean a lot, then i am being overcome by little things.
will one and a half liters of water be too much to carry? should i stick to one liter? how many shirts should i bring? two? three? if they weigh next to nothing, wouldn’t it be proper to dress nicely for masses when i am in towns? socks – how many pairs are too many? three? four? what about sock liners?
maybe i can bring music. james taylor reminds me how much peace music brings me. my little ipod shuffle weighs next to nothing – it will probably get lost, it’s so small. should i bring it? earphones.
handkerchief or tissues? camera and phone or smart phone?
do i blog along the way or just take a paper journal and write everything at journey’s end? will i remember everything by the end?
this entry was posted in fitness, religion, travel and tagged backpack, camino de santiago de campostella, god, hiking, trip preparation, women hikers over age 60, writing. bookmark the permalink.
rider, thank you so much for your words of encouragement! i’ve got so much to do, so little time, lol. yet, i know it will all be good.


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lowercased: 4th floor 2 bedroom 2 bath condo with intracoastal view. hurricane impact widows, updated bathrooms, tiger wood real wood floors.. palm beach house offers the only private beach on flagler drive,, a fishing dock, pool overlooking the intracoastal waterway, tennis, beachside tiki hut and barbeque, gym, sauna, game room, free boat mooring subject to availability. few minutes to island of palm beach, cityplace and i95, 15 minutes to palm beach international airport. .brightline train now 40 mins to fort lauderdale, 60 mins to miami.


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After parking in the Crown Court car park, face the main building and walk towards it aiming at the left hand corner.
Once you reach the left hand corner of the car park there is a short cut through, which takes you behind the military museum. You will see the words University of Chester etched on the stonework.
Walk through the cut through and you should now find yourself on a cobbled street with a church to your right (St Marys centre).
If you walk towards the right following the cobbled path and then look straight ahead you should now see The Old Rectory Building.
At the entrance to the building (red door) there is an intercom system to your left. You will see 3 Hares Clinic on the in/out board. On the intercom key pad please press no. 1 and we will buzz you in.

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after parking in the crown court car park, face the main building and walk towards it aiming at the left hand corner.
once you reach the left hand corner of the car park there is a short cut through, which takes you behind the military museum. you will see the words university of chester etched on the stonework.
walk through the cut through and you should now find yourself on a cobbled street with a church to your right (st marys centre).
if you walk towards the right following the cobbled path and then look straight ahead you should now see the old rectory building.
at the entrance to the building (red door) there is an intercom system to your left. you will see 3 hares clinic on the in/out board. on the intercom key pad please press no. 1 and we will buzz you in.


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Political activist Tawakkul Karman has brought Yemen’s revolution to New York, speaking directly on October 20 with Secretary-General Ban Ki-Moon and organizing rallies at the United Nations headquarters in lower Manhattan, the largest of which is slated for the afternoon of October 21. The purpose of her visit is to keep pressure on the UN Security Council to adopt a resolution that reflects the aspirations of the overwhelming numbers of Yemenis who have sustained peaceful calls for change for the nine long months since protests began in late January. Arriving newly anointed by the Nobel Committee, which named her as one of three recipients of the 2011 Peace Prize, Karman fears -- as does much of the Yemeni opposition, in its many forms -- that the UN will merely reiterate the approximate parameters of the Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) initiative put forth in April. That plan, which has enjoyed support from the United States, as well as Yemen’s GCC neighbors, would allow legal immunity for President ‘Ali ‘Abdallah Salih, whose crimes against Yemeni protesters have multiplied in the months since the spring. For this reason, Karman will end her week in New York as she has ended so many weeks in Sanaa in recent months -- at the head of a protest.
That the Yemeni revolution is now led symbolically by a woman is an attractive concept to many international observers. Karman’s biography, however, and her record of activism are more complex than the Nobel Committee’s citation would suggest. She is unquestionably worthy of the international recognition attending the Peace Prize, but not necessarily for the reasons given. The Committee recognized Karman, along with two Liberian activist women, Ellen Sirleaf Johnson and Leymah Gbowee, “for their non-violent struggle for the safety of women and for women’s rights to full participation in peace-building work.” Yet Karman is at the UN demanding trenchant political reform, of the kind that will enhance the political freedoms of Yemeni men, women and children, and produce a new regime more accountable to the public. She is decidedly not calling for “women’s rights.” In its citation, the Committee reduced the scope of the work of a multi-dimensional activist whose efforts have been resisted inside and outside the party from which she emerged. Without understanding Tawakkul Karman as both a cause and an effect of change in state-society relations in Yemen, it is difficult to see precisely what she represents or why so many Yemenis from different backgrounds have been so responsive to her call for sustained non-violence.
Yemen’s revolution has developed into a post-partisan affair, but its origins undoubtedly lie in the decade of partisan opposition and alliance building that preceded it. Whereas today’s revolutionaries are calling, first and foremost, for the end of the Salih regime, the partisan opposition was primarily focused on procedural reforms that would expand their opportunity to hold the country’s leadership accountable. There is good reason for drawing this distinction between reformist and revolutionary activism, because the failures of the reformist project fed the frustrations that have sustained the revolutionary movement, even as partisan actors have stepped in to help organize (and, according to some, attempt to coopt) the momentum of the youth.
The partisan opposition is composed of several small leftist and nationalist parties, as well as the Yemeni Socialist Party, which has performed poorly in elections, but nonetheless carries weight as the ruling party of South Yemen prior to its 1990 unification with the north. But by far the largest opposition party is the Islamist Yemeni Congregation for Reform, or Islah.
Beginning through a series of informal linkages between mid-level and senior leaders of the Socialists and Islah as early as 2002, a robust (if procedure-minded) political opposition named the Joint Meeting Parties (JMP) alliance became an important feature of Yemen’s political landscape in the succeeding decade. After running a candidate against Salih in the 2006 presidential election, however, the grand coalition has been unable to achieve most of its political aims. Its letdowns stem largely from divisions among (and within) the constituent parties, and what critics have viewed as a preoccupation with the court politics of Sanaa, at the expense of constituencies in the periphery, particularly in the south. Feeling neglected by their nominal representatives in the capital, southern activists mounted massive popular demonstrations beginning in 2007, demanding greater autonomy and redress of perceived inequality with the north.  The grassroots Southern Movement caught the JMP leadership in the capital by surprise and contributed to its internal divisions, with party chiefs uncertain about whether and how to support the independently developed movement.
The eventual postponement of the 2009 parliamentary elections -- a delay agreed upon by Salih’s government and the JMP -- was probably the most poignant sign that the opposition was unlikely to reach its goals through status quo institutions. The JMP had lobbied for a series of electoral reforms that would level the playing field, allowing the opposition parties a fighting chance against the ruling General People’s Congress. The government, unwilling to level that field, was concerned that a boycott by the JMP would tear apart even the few shreds of democratic credibility that it hoped to retain. So government and opposition agreed to a postponement -- the JMP to avoid going forward without reforms, and the government to avoid going forward without opposition. For many Yemenis, the deal marked the end of hopes that political change could occur through elections, at least if the Salih regime was a participant.
Islah’s position on women’s rights -- to the extent that it is possible to speak of a single position, given the deep cleavages within the party, among tribal, Muslim Brother and salafi factions -- is equivocal. On the one hand, the party has been more successful than any other Yemeni party in mobilizing women as voters. And its parallel institutions have afforded them (gender-segmented) opportunities for leadership far greater than those enjoyed by women in the secular and leftist parties. From the perspective of many women (and men) from the south, where there was a tradition of state feminism under the Marxist regime before unification,  Islahi activism has meant a regression in political rights and freedoms for women, evidenced in educational segregation, an Islamized family law and a general Islamization of public space. At the same time, for many women in the north, Islah has been central to advancing a “rights consciousness” whereby women have been encouraged to know and seek “their rights” and to view the state, in theory if not in practice, as the guarantor of those rights.  That does not mean, however, that these rights are always conceptualized by Islahis as equal rights, in the sense meant by many women’s rights advocates in the secular and leftist parties, or by those in government. Indeed, disagreements over this question within Islah and among the opposition parties helped to widen the gaps among the parties making up the JMP.
Instead, the politics of the JMP have focused not on women’s rights, but on citizen rights, with implications for women. The procedural reforms of the JMP platform have been transformed in the post-partisan context of the revolution into a more forceful version of the same -- those who are protesting are doing so for their dignity as Yemeni citizens.
In retrospect, despite the fractiousness of the partisan sphere (and, arguably, Yemeni society) regarding the rights and roles of women, it should not be entirely surprising that a woman activist has played such an essential role in mobilizing the post-partisan revolutionary movement. As the opposition parties became mired in internal debates over women’s rights (among other issues), many Yemeni women -- again, including Tawakkul Karman -- shifted some of their energies to the associational sector, taking up the cause of reform through their work as journalists or through various civil society organizations, and building dense networks of personal and professional alliances. Growth in the number of women leading such organizations helped to shift the substantive focus of “women’s rights” work: Whereas, in the 1990s, this work strove for reforms that would improve the lot of women as wives and mothers, the new activities sought to frame women’s rights as human rights or to expand the reach of civic and economic freedom in general.
Tawakkul Karman’s organization, Women Journalists Without Chains, founded in 2005, reflects this shift in its commitment to freedom of expression and civil rights. Staging weekly protests each Tuesday from 2007 until the beginning of the revolution in 2011, Karman called for inquiries into corruption and other forms of social and legal injustice; the lifting of limitations on press freedoms; and more. When the partisan opposition of the JMP came under fire from the government, Karman and her associates rallied to their aid, often working with other Yemeni and international organizations. And when she and other opposition journalists faced pressure, even arrest and detention, the partisan opposition did the same for her. The migration of women into associational sector activism and the ties they forged -- illustrated by Karman’s own multi-faceted persona as Islahi, journalist and activist -- have been central to laying the groundwork for the network-reliant post-partisan opposition movement that has sustained the revolution for these many eventful months.
That Tawakkul Karman is the public face of this movement -- and has now become, perhaps, the most recognized Yemeni after President Salih himself -- may have a lasting impact on the ultimate inclusivity of conceptions of citizenship and equality in the future. At this stage, however, there is no particular reason to view this question as resolved, just as the success of the revolutionary movement itself is still very much in doubt amid the ongoing violence in Yemen and the limited international support for the insurrection. Throughout the revolution, Karman has continued to embody the fraught question of women’s rights and roles. She has been a lightning rod for criticism: from salafis within Islah for her public role and unseemly visibility; from those on the secular left who distrust her Islamist leanings; from those who resent what they see as Islah’s effort to dominate the revolutionary movement.
For these reasons and more, the language of unity and the focus on areas of procedural agreement seem to be taking pride of place in Karman’s approach to the revolution, as well they must in these movements of great uncertainty and risk. Her work has been essential to the revolutionary movement and she is a resonant exemplar of the vision of Yemeni women. But recognizing her for work on behalf of Yemeni women has been a controversial gesture, one which bypasses the other ways in which Yemeni women have pursued progress for their sisters over the two decades since unification (and still others under the distinct regimes of North and South Yemen before then). Two of these women have died in 2011: Fawziyya Nu‘man, who worked within the system to pursue essential reforms in girls’ and women’s education, and Ra’ufa Hasan, who worked at great personal cost to retain her independence in the associational sector, as both the regime and Islah launched campaigns against her. Both of these women, and the many others who have followed their respective trajectories, might take issue with the idea that Tawakkul Karman is being honored for her work on behalf of women’s rights, but they would probably also join Mashour and the many others who carried Karman’s image at the celebration in Sanaa’s Change Square following the Peace Prize announcement. These men and women, in their the tens of thousands, admire Karman for the work she has done in transforming Islah, as a party, and advancing the rights of all Yemenis, regardless of gender or political creed.
 Susanne Dahlgren, “A Snake with a Thousand Heads: The Southern Cause in Yemen,” Middle East Report 256 (Fall 2010).
 Stacey Philbrick Yadav, “Segmented Publics and Islamist Women in Yemen: Rethinking Space and Activism,” Journal of Middle Eastern Women’s Studies 6/2 (Spring 2010).
 Susanne Dahlgren, Contesting Realities: The Public Sphere and Morality in Southern Yemen (Syracuse, NY: Syracuse University Press, 2010).
 Interview with Amat al-Salam Raja’, Islah Women’s Directorate, Sanaa, October 6, 2004.
 Interview with Houriyya Mashour, Women’s National Committee, Sanaa, January 7, 2009.
 Stacey Philbrick Yadav and Janine A. Clark, “Disappointments and New Directions: Women, Partisanship and the Regime in Yemen,” Hawwa: International Journal of Women in the Middle East and Islamic World 8 (2010).

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political activist tawakkul karman has brought yemen’s revolution to new york, speaking directly on october 20 with secretary-general ban ki-moon and organizing rallies at the united nations headquarters in lower manhattan, the largest of which is slated for the afternoon of october 21. the purpose of her visit is to keep pressure on the un security council to adopt a resolution that reflects the aspirations of the overwhelming numbers of yemenis who have sustained peaceful calls for change for the nine long months since protests began in late january. arriving newly anointed by the nobel committee, which named her as one of three recipients of the 2011 peace prize, karman fears -- as does much of the yemeni opposition, in its many forms -- that the un will merely reiterate the approximate parameters of the gulf cooperation council (gcc) initiative put forth in april. that plan, which has enjoyed support from the united states, as well as yemen’s gcc neighbors, would allow legal immunity for president ‘ali ‘abdallah salih, whose crimes against yemeni protesters have multiplied in the months since the spring. for this reason, karman will end her week in new york as she has ended so many weeks in sanaa in recent months -- at the head of a protest.
that the yemeni revolution is now led symbolically by a woman is an attractive concept to many international observers. karman’s biography, however, and her record of activism are more complex than the nobel committee’s citation would suggest. she is unquestionably worthy of the international recognition attending the peace prize, but not necessarily for the reasons given. the committee recognized karman, along with two liberian activist women, ellen sirleaf johnson and leymah gbowee, “for their non-violent struggle for the safety of women and for women’s rights to full participation in peace-building work.” yet karman is at the un demanding trenchant political reform, of the kind that will enhance the political freedoms of yemeni men, women and children, and produce a new regime more accountable to the public. she is decidedly not calling for “women’s rights.” in its citation, the committee reduced the scope of the work of a multi-dimensional activist whose efforts have been resisted inside and outside the party from which she emerged. without understanding tawakkul karman as both a cause and an effect of change in state-society relations in yemen, it is difficult to see precisely what she represents or why so many yemenis from different backgrounds have been so responsive to her call for sustained non-violence.
yemen’s revolution has developed into a post-partisan affair, but its origins undoubtedly lie in the decade of partisan opposition and alliance building that preceded it. whereas today’s revolutionaries are calling, first and foremost, for the end of the salih regime, the partisan opposition was primarily focused on procedural reforms that would expand their opportunity to hold the country’s leadership accountable. there is good reason for drawing this distinction between reformist and revolutionary activism, because the failures of the reformist project fed the frustrations that have sustained the revolutionary movement, even as partisan actors have stepped in to help organize (and, according to some, attempt to coopt) the momentum of the youth.
the partisan opposition is composed of several small leftist and nationalist parties, as well as the yemeni socialist party, which has performed poorly in elections, but nonetheless carries weight as the ruling party of south yemen prior to its 1990 unification with the north. but by far the largest opposition party is the islamist yemeni congregation for reform, or islah.
beginning through a series of informal linkages between mid-level and senior leaders of the socialists and islah as early as 2002, a robust (if procedure-minded) political opposition named the joint meeting parties (jmp) alliance became an important feature of yemen’s political landscape in the succeeding decade. after running a candidate against salih in the 2006 presidential election, however, the grand coalition has been unable to achieve most of its political aims. its letdowns stem largely from divisions among (and within) the constituent parties, and what critics have viewed as a preoccupation with the court politics of sanaa, at the expense of constituencies in the periphery, particularly in the south. feeling neglected by their nominal representatives in the capital, southern activists mounted massive popular demonstrations beginning in 2007, demanding greater autonomy and redress of perceived inequality with the north.  the grassroots southern movement caught the jmp leadership in the capital by surprise and contributed to its internal divisions, with party chiefs uncertain about whether and how to support the independently developed movement.
the eventual postponement of the 2009 parliamentary elections -- a delay agreed upon by salih’s government and the jmp -- was probably the most poignant sign that the opposition was unlikely to reach its goals through status quo institutions. the jmp had lobbied for a series of electoral reforms that would level the playing field, allowing the opposition parties a fighting chance against the ruling general people’s congress. the government, unwilling to level that field, was concerned that a boycott by the jmp would tear apart even the few shreds of democratic credibility that it hoped to retain. so government and opposition agreed to a postponement -- the jmp to avoid going forward without reforms, and the government to avoid going forward without opposition. for many yemenis, the deal marked the end of hopes that political change could occur through elections, at least if the salih regime was a participant.
islah’s position on women’s rights -- to the extent that it is possible to speak of a single position, given the deep cleavages within the party, among tribal, muslim brother and salafi factions -- is equivocal. on the one hand, the party has been more successful than any other yemeni party in mobilizing women as voters. and its parallel institutions have afforded them (gender-segmented) opportunities for leadership far greater than those enjoyed by women in the secular and leftist parties. from the perspective of many women (and men) from the south, where there was a tradition of state feminism under the marxist regime before unification,  islahi activism has meant a regression in political rights and freedoms for women, evidenced in educational segregation, an islamized family law and a general islamization of public space. at the same time, for many women in the north, islah has been central to advancing a “rights consciousness” whereby women have been encouraged to know and seek “their rights” and to view the state, in theory if not in practice, as the guarantor of those rights.  that does not mean, however, that these rights are always conceptualized by islahis as equal rights, in the sense meant by many women’s rights advocates in the secular and leftist parties, or by those in government. indeed, disagreements over this question within islah and among the opposition parties helped to widen the gaps among the parties making up the jmp.
instead, the politics of the jmp have focused not on women’s rights, but on citizen rights, with implications for women. the procedural reforms of the jmp platform have been transformed in the post-partisan context of the revolution into a more forceful version of the same -- those who are protesting are doing so for their dignity as yemeni citizens.
in retrospect, despite the fractiousness of the partisan sphere (and, arguably, yemeni society) regarding the rights and roles of women, it should not be entirely surprising that a woman activist has played such an essential role in mobilizing the post-partisan revolutionary movement. as the opposition parties became mired in internal debates over women’s rights (among other issues), many yemeni women -- again, including tawakkul karman -- shifted some of their energies to the associational sector, taking up the cause of reform through their work as journalists or through various civil society organizations, and building dense networks of personal and professional alliances. growth in the number of women leading such organizations helped to shift the substantive focus of “women’s rights” work: whereas, in the 1990s, this work strove for reforms that would improve the lot of women as wives and mothers, the new activities sought to frame women’s rights as human rights or to expand the reach of civic and economic freedom in general.
tawakkul karman’s organization, women journalists without chains, founded in 2005, reflects this shift in its commitment to freedom of expression and civil rights. staging weekly protests each tuesday from 2007 until the beginning of the revolution in 2011, karman called for inquiries into corruption and other forms of social and legal injustice; the lifting of limitations on press freedoms; and more. when the partisan opposition of the jmp came under fire from the government, karman and her associates rallied to their aid, often working with other yemeni and international organizations. and when she and other opposition journalists faced pressure, even arrest and detention, the partisan opposition did the same for her. the migration of women into associational sector activism and the ties they forged -- illustrated by karman’s own multi-faceted persona as islahi, journalist and activist -- have been central to laying the groundwork for the network-reliant post-partisan opposition movement that has sustained the revolution for these many eventful months.
that tawakkul karman is the public face of this movement -- and has now become, perhaps, the most recognized yemeni after president salih himself -- may have a lasting impact on the ultimate inclusivity of conceptions of citizenship and equality in the future. at this stage, however, there is no particular reason to view this question as resolved, just as the success of the revolutionary movement itself is still very much in doubt amid the ongoing violence in yemen and the limited international support for the insurrection. throughout the revolution, karman has continued to embody the fraught question of women’s rights and roles. she has been a lightning rod for criticism: from salafis within islah for her public role and unseemly visibility; from those on the secular left who distrust her islamist leanings; from those who resent what they see as islah’s effort to dominate the revolutionary movement.
for these reasons and more, the language of unity and the focus on areas of procedural agreement seem to be taking pride of place in karman’s approach to the revolution, as well they must in these movements of great uncertainty and risk. her work has been essential to the revolutionary movement and she is a resonant exemplar of the vision of yemeni women. but recognizing her for work on behalf of yemeni women has been a controversial gesture, one which bypasses the other ways in which yemeni women have pursued progress for their sisters over the two decades since unification (and still others under the distinct regimes of north and south yemen before then). two of these women have died in 2011: fawziyya nu‘man, who worked within the system to pursue essential reforms in girls’ and women’s education, and ra’ufa hasan, who worked at great personal cost to retain her independence in the associational sector, as both the regime and islah launched campaigns against her. both of these women, and the many others who have followed their respective trajectories, might take issue with the idea that tawakkul karman is being honored for her work on behalf of women’s rights, but they would probably also join mashour and the many others who carried karman’s image at the celebration in sanaa’s change square following the peace prize announcement. these men and women, in their the tens of thousands, admire karman for the work she has done in transforming islah, as a party, and advancing the rights of all yemenis, regardless of gender or political creed.
 susanne dahlgren, “a snake with a thousand heads: the southern cause in yemen,” middle east report 256 (fall 2010).
 stacey philbrick yadav, “segmented publics and islamist women in yemen: rethinking space and activism,” journal of middle eastern women’s studies 6/2 (spring 2010).
 susanne dahlgren, contesting realities: the public sphere and morality in southern yemen (syracuse, ny: syracuse university press, 2010).
 interview with amat al-salam raja’, islah women’s directorate, sanaa, october 6, 2004.
 interview with houriyya mashour, women’s national committee, sanaa, january 7, 2009.
 stacey philbrick yadav and janine a. clark, “disappointments and new directions: women, partisanship and the regime in yemen,” hawwa: international journal of women in the middle east and islamic world 8 (2010).


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If you are blind in one eye, that's the eye that you turn toward something you don't want to see.
Your other eye is perfectly capable of seeing. So this has to do with pretending not to see by speaking of an eye that is blind and, by implication, an eye that is not blind.
If you keep an eye on someone, you don't look at them with both eyes. Then they would know that you are watching them. Keeping an eye on someone has to do with somewhat secretly watching with one eye while going about your normal routine using the other eye. That way it is less obvious to the person being watched that he is being watched.
Can u give me some examples.
I am not able to reach what is turn a blind eye..
Welcome to English Forums, Kingsingh.
'The referee turned a blind eye to the player's fouls on the field.' -- the referee chose to ignore the fouls for some reason: perhaps to keep the game in action.
'The mother turned a blind eye to her child's faults, even though the teacher repeatedly complained of poor classroom behaviour.' -- the mother refused to acknowledge her child's imperfections in the face of the evidence.
Thanks for CJ's excellent explanations. I got it.
And also thanks for Mr. M's contributions. I appreciate it.
There is a theory that 'turn a blind eye' is an allusion to Nelson's action at the battle of Copenhagen in 1801, where he supposedly disobeyed his superior's signal to disengage by putting his blind eye to his telescope and saying 'I really do not see the signal'.
That said, I don't know how true it is. Nelson is often associated with the phrase when it turns up in BrE newspaper articles, etc; but it wouldn't surprise me if it had a longer history.
Well, what an interesting story! Did Nelson get any punishment?
He now paced the deck, moving the stump of his lost arm in a manner which always indicated great emotion.
"Do you know," said he to Mr. Ferguson, "what is shown on board the Commander-in-Chief? Number Thirty-nine!" Mr. Ferguson asked what that meant. "Why, to leave off action!" Then shrugging up his shoulders, he repeated the words--"Leave off action? Now, damn me if I do! You know, Foley," turning to the captain, "I have only one eye,--I have a right to be blind sometimes:" and then putting the glass to his blind eye, in that mood of mind which sports with bitterness, he exclaimed, "I really do not see the signal!"
Presently he exclaimed, "Damn the signal! Keep mine for closer battle flying! That's the way I answer signals! Nail mine to the mast!"
Imagine the paperwork, if that happened nowadays.
Do you really think it DOESN'T happen sometimes?
Decline, Turn Down, Refuse, Reject?
Can You Check My Homework Before I Turn It In.?
Why Inversion? (Meets The Eye)?
Turn Left Vs Turn To The Left?
General Manager Vs Managing Director?
On Your Own Vs By Yourself?

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if you are blind in one eye, that's the eye that you turn toward something you don't want to see.
your other eye is perfectly capable of seeing. so this has to do with pretending not to see by speaking of an eye that is blind and, by implication, an eye that is not blind.
if you keep an eye on someone, you don't look at them with both eyes. then they would know that you are watching them. keeping an eye on someone has to do with somewhat secretly watching with one eye while going about your normal routine using the other eye. that way it is less obvious to the person being watched that he is being watched.
can u give me some examples.
i am not able to reach what is turn a blind eye..
welcome to english forums, kingsingh.
'the referee turned a blind eye to the player's fouls on the field.' -- the referee chose to ignore the fouls for some reason: perhaps to keep the game in action.
'the mother turned a blind eye to her child's faults, even though the teacher repeatedly complained of poor classroom behaviour.' -- the mother refused to acknowledge her child's imperfections in the face of the evidence.
thanks for cj's excellent explanations. i got it.
and also thanks for mr. m's contributions. i appreciate it.
there is a theory that 'turn a blind eye' is an allusion to nelson's action at the battle of copenhagen in 1801, where he supposedly disobeyed his superior's signal to disengage by putting his blind eye to his telescope and saying 'i really do not see the signal'.
that said, i don't know how true it is. nelson is often associated with the phrase when it turns up in bre newspaper articles, etc; but it wouldn't surprise me if it had a longer history.
well, what an interesting story! did nelson get any punishment?
he now paced the deck, moving the stump of his lost arm in a manner which always indicated great emotion.
"do you know," said he to mr. ferguson, "what is shown on board the commander-in-chief? number thirty-nine!" mr. ferguson asked what that meant. "why, to leave off action!" then shrugging up his shoulders, he repeated the words--"leave off action? now, damn me if i do! you know, foley," turning to the captain, "i have only one eye,--i have a right to be blind sometimes:" and then putting the glass to his blind eye, in that mood of mind which sports with bitterness, he exclaimed, "i really do not see the signal!"
presently he exclaimed, "damn the signal! keep mine for closer battle flying! that's the way i answer signals! nail mine to the mast!"
imagine the paperwork, if that happened nowadays.
do you really think it doesn't happen sometimes?
decline, turn down, refuse, reject?
can you check my homework before i turn it in.?
why inversion? (meets the eye)?
turn left vs turn to the left?
general manager vs managing director?
on your own vs by yourself?


text: How is this for a beautiful cake and topper for Mr & Mrs G's wedding recently. This personalised and custom designed cake topper is featured beautifully on Courtney's Cute Cakes traditional cake. Just beautiful.

lowercased: how is this for a beautiful cake and topper for mr & mrs g's wedding recently. this personalised and custom designed cake topper is featured beautifully on courtney's cute cakes traditional cake. just beautiful.


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Self-service reporting with Query Builder was impossible for non-technical users and IT staff who could use the tool found it inefficient and extremely limited. Users could only examine small amounts of data at one time, queries were difficult to customize and report outputs were challenging to modify. Along with spending a large amount of time fulfilling user requests for reports, IT staff also experienced challenges with data integrity and security, never knowing if data was accurate or secure in their database.
Staff at Passaic knew they needed a better solution for handling their reporting needs. Users needed a reporting tool that was truly end-user friendly, relieving IT from time-consuming report requests. IT staff needed a better way to manage and audit their databases to ensure data was accurate and secure. After reviewing several tools and unsuccessfully implementing another solution, Passaic selected Entrinsik Informer due to various recommendations from other colleges.
With Informer’s intuitive interface, adoption across campus spread quickly with end-users in various departments finally able to access data previously unavailable to them. Users especially loved the ability to connect to multiple data sources simultaneously, one-click mapping of files and fields from their Colleague database, auto scheduling of reports, email functionality, report sharing capabilities, and security settings at every level.
After implementing Informer, users At Passaic now find it easier and much less time consuming to access the information they need, all without IT intervention. Informer allows staff to view and analyze greater amounts of information from multiple sources, enabling more ad-hoc, multidimensional analysis of data and creating a data-driven decision making environment.
For example, Informer helped to improve management of the course schedule allowing Passaic to offer 6% less courses than the previous year. This streamlined the schedule and provided savings to the college while still maintaining the appropriate number of courses to meet students’ needs.
Dashboard of Key Performance Indicators, helping assess how well the college is achieving its mission and goals.
Admission and Enrollment reports/dashboards keep enrollment up to date on targets, goals, and opportunities.
Registrar reports for data integrity and analysis.
Advising Department reports to identify students at risk and shorten the turn-around time to contact them.
Data-driven tracking of progress reports.
Academic Affairs – Course and Enrollment Tally reports.
IR Office – Sure Data snapshots and reports for the state and federal Government.
GL File suites, Enrollment Snapshots, Sure Data file suites and dashboards to compare data across multiple terms and years.
With their newfound reporting abilities, Passaic staff found more ways to accomplish their daily tasks and company goals than ever before. Informer allows both IT and non-technical users to create, customize, and share information within and across departments, leading to self-sufficiency, time and money savings college-wide.

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self-service reporting with query builder was impossible for non-technical users and it staff who could use the tool found it inefficient and extremely limited. users could only examine small amounts of data at one time, queries were difficult to customize and report outputs were challenging to modify. along with spending a large amount of time fulfilling user requests for reports, it staff also experienced challenges with data integrity and security, never knowing if data was accurate or secure in their database.
staff at passaic knew they needed a better solution for handling their reporting needs. users needed a reporting tool that was truly end-user friendly, relieving it from time-consuming report requests. it staff needed a better way to manage and audit their databases to ensure data was accurate and secure. after reviewing several tools and unsuccessfully implementing another solution, passaic selected entrinsik informer due to various recommendations from other colleges.
with informer’s intuitive interface, adoption across campus spread quickly with end-users in various departments finally able to access data previously unavailable to them. users especially loved the ability to connect to multiple data sources simultaneously, one-click mapping of files and fields from their colleague database, auto scheduling of reports, email functionality, report sharing capabilities, and security settings at every level.
after implementing informer, users at passaic now find it easier and much less time consuming to access the information they need, all without it intervention. informer allows staff to view and analyze greater amounts of information from multiple sources, enabling more ad-hoc, multidimensional analysis of data and creating a data-driven decision making environment.
for example, informer helped to improve management of the course schedule allowing passaic to offer 6% less courses than the previous year. this streamlined the schedule and provided savings to the college while still maintaining the appropriate number of courses to meet students’ needs.
dashboard of key performance indicators, helping assess how well the college is achieving its mission and goals.
admission and enrollment reports/dashboards keep enrollment up to date on targets, goals, and opportunities.
registrar reports for data integrity and analysis.
advising department reports to identify students at risk and shorten the turn-around time to contact them.
data-driven tracking of progress reports.
academic affairs – course and enrollment tally reports.
ir office – sure data snapshots and reports for the state and federal government.
gl file suites, enrollment snapshots, sure data file suites and dashboards to compare data across multiple terms and years.
with their newfound reporting abilities, passaic staff found more ways to accomplish their daily tasks and company goals than ever before. informer allows both it and non-technical users to create, customize, and share information within and across departments, leading to self-sufficiency, time and money savings college-wide.


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Having lately shot my first roll of black-and-white film in a decade, I thought now would be a good time to delve into the story of monochrome image-making and the various reasons artists have eschewed colour.
I found the recent National Gallery exhibition, Monochrome: Painting in Black and White, a great primer on the history of the unhued image. Beginning with examples from medieval religious art, the exhibition took in grisaille works of the Renaissance before demonstrating the battle between painting and early photography, and finishing with monochrome modern art.
Several of the pictures on display were studies or sketches which were generated in preparation for colour paintings. Ignoring hue allowed the artists to focus on form and composition, and this is still one of black-and-white’s great strengths today: stripping away chroma to heighten other pictorial effects.
What fascinated me most in the exhibition were the medieval religious paintings in the first room. Here, old testament scenes in black-and-white were painted around a larger, colour scene from the new testament; as in the modern TV trope, the flashbacks were in black-and-white. In other pictures, a colour scene was framed by a monochrome rendering of stonework – often incredibly realistic – designed to fool the viewer into thinking they were seeing a painting in an architectural nook.
During cinema’s long transition from black-and-white to colour, filmmakers also used the two modes to define different layers of reality. When colour processes were still in their infancy and very expensive, filmmakers selected particular scenes to pick out in rainbow hues, while the surrounding material remained in black-and-white like the borders of the medieval paintings. By 1939 the borders were shrinking, as The Wizard of Oz portrayed Kansas, the ordinary world, in black-and-white, while rendering Oz – the bulk of the running time – in colour.
Ironically Cardiff had never shot in black-and-white before, and he ultimately captured the heavenly scenes on three-strip Technicolor, but didn’t have the colour fully developed, resulting in a pearlescent monochrome.
Meanwhile, DPs like John Alton, ASC were pushing greyscale cinematography to its apogee with a genre that would come to be known as film noir. Oppressed Jews like Alton fled the rising Nazism of Europe for the US, bringing German Expressionism with them. The result was a trend of hardboiled thrillers lit with oppressive contrast, harsh shadows, concealing silhouettes and dramatic angles, all of which were heightened by the lack of distracting colour.
Alton himself had a paradoxical relationship with chroma, famously stating that “black and white are colours”. While he is best known today for his noir, his only Oscar win was for his work on the Technicolor musical An American in Paris, the designers of which hated Alton for the brightly-coloured light he tried to splash over their sets and costumes.
It wasn’t just Alton that was moving to colour. Soon the economics were clear: chromatic cinema was more marketable and no longer prohibitively expensive. The writing was on the wall for black-and-white movies, and by the end of the sixties they were all but gone.
I was brought up in a world of default colour, and the first time I can remember becoming aware of black-and-white was when Schindler’s List was released in 1993. I can clearly recall a friend’s mother refusing to see the film because she felt she wouldn’t be getting her money’s worth if there was no colour. She’s not alone in this view, and that’s why producers are never keen to green-light monochrome movies. Spielberg only got away with it because his name was proven box office gold.
A few years later, Jonathan Frakes and his DP Matthew F. Leonetti, ASC wanted to shoot the holodeck sequence of Star Trek: First Contact in black-and-white, but the studio deemed test footage “too experimental”. For the most part, the same attitude prevails today. Despite being marketed as a “visionary” director ever since Pan’s Labyrinth, Guillermo del Toro’s vision of The Shape of Water as a black-and-white film was rejected by financiers. He only got the multi-Oscar-winning fairytale off the ground by reluctantly agreeing to shoot in colour.
No, it doesn’t look real. Film itself [is a] heightened recreation of reality. To me, black-and-white takes that one step further. It gives you a view of the world that doesn’t really exist in reality and the only place you can see that representation of the world is in a black-and-white movie.
The following year, Logan director James Mangold’s black-and-white on-set photos proved so popular with the public that he decided to create a monochrome version of the movie. “The western and noir vibes of the film seemed to shine in the form, and there was not a trace of the modern comic hero movie sheen,” he said. Most significantly, the studio approved a limited theatrical release for Logan Noir, presumably seeing the extra dollar-signs of a second release, rather than the reduced dollar-signs of a greyscale picture.
Perhaps the medium of black-and-white imaging has come full circle. During the Renaissance, greyscale images were preparatory sketches, stepping stones to finished products in colour. Today, the work-in-progress slash dupe of Road Warrior and James Mangold’s photographic studies of Logan were also stepping stones to colour products, while at the same time closing the loop by inspiring black-and-white products too.
With the era of budget- and technology-mandated monochrome outside the living memory of many viewers today, I think there is a new willingness to accept black-and-white as an artistic choice. The acclaimed sci-fi anthology series Black Mirror released an episode in greyscale this year, and where Netflix goes, others are bound to follow.

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having lately shot my first roll of black-and-white film in a decade, i thought now would be a good time to delve into the story of monochrome image-making and the various reasons artists have eschewed colour.
i found the recent national gallery exhibition, monochrome: painting in black and white, a great primer on the history of the unhued image. beginning with examples from medieval religious art, the exhibition took in grisaille works of the renaissance before demonstrating the battle between painting and early photography, and finishing with monochrome modern art.
several of the pictures on display were studies or sketches which were generated in preparation for colour paintings. ignoring hue allowed the artists to focus on form and composition, and this is still one of black-and-white’s great strengths today: stripping away chroma to heighten other pictorial effects.
what fascinated me most in the exhibition were the medieval religious paintings in the first room. here, old testament scenes in black-and-white were painted around a larger, colour scene from the new testament; as in the modern tv trope, the flashbacks were in black-and-white. in other pictures, a colour scene was framed by a monochrome rendering of stonework – often incredibly realistic – designed to fool the viewer into thinking they were seeing a painting in an architectural nook.
during cinema’s long transition from black-and-white to colour, filmmakers also used the two modes to define different layers of reality. when colour processes were still in their infancy and very expensive, filmmakers selected particular scenes to pick out in rainbow hues, while the surrounding material remained in black-and-white like the borders of the medieval paintings. by 1939 the borders were shrinking, as the wizard of oz portrayed kansas, the ordinary world, in black-and-white, while rendering oz – the bulk of the running time – in colour.
ironically cardiff had never shot in black-and-white before, and he ultimately captured the heavenly scenes on three-strip technicolor, but didn’t have the colour fully developed, resulting in a pearlescent monochrome.
meanwhile, dps like john alton, asc were pushing greyscale cinematography to its apogee with a genre that would come to be known as film noir. oppressed jews like alton fled the rising nazism of europe for the us, bringing german expressionism with them. the result was a trend of hardboiled thrillers lit with oppressive contrast, harsh shadows, concealing silhouettes and dramatic angles, all of which were heightened by the lack of distracting colour.
alton himself had a paradoxical relationship with chroma, famously stating that “black and white are colours”. while he is best known today for his noir, his only oscar win was for his work on the technicolor musical an american in paris, the designers of which hated alton for the brightly-coloured light he tried to splash over their sets and costumes.
it wasn’t just alton that was moving to colour. soon the economics were clear: chromatic cinema was more marketable and no longer prohibitively expensive. the writing was on the wall for black-and-white movies, and by the end of the sixties they were all but gone.
i was brought up in a world of default colour, and the first time i can remember becoming aware of black-and-white was when schindler’s list was released in 1993. i can clearly recall a friend’s mother refusing to see the film because she felt she wouldn’t be getting her money’s worth if there was no colour. she’s not alone in this view, and that’s why producers are never keen to green-light monochrome movies. spielberg only got away with it because his name was proven box office gold.
a few years later, jonathan frakes and his dp matthew f. leonetti, asc wanted to shoot the holodeck sequence of star trek: first contact in black-and-white, but the studio deemed test footage “too experimental”. for the most part, the same attitude prevails today. despite being marketed as a “visionary” director ever since pan’s labyrinth, guillermo del toro’s vision of the shape of water as a black-and-white film was rejected by financiers. he only got the multi-oscar-winning fairytale off the ground by reluctantly agreeing to shoot in colour.
no, it doesn’t look real. film itself [is a] heightened recreation of reality. to me, black-and-white takes that one step further. it gives you a view of the world that doesn’t really exist in reality and the only place you can see that representation of the world is in a black-and-white movie.
the following year, logan director james mangold’s black-and-white on-set photos proved so popular with the public that he decided to create a monochrome version of the movie. “the western and noir vibes of the film seemed to shine in the form, and there was not a trace of the modern comic hero movie sheen,” he said. most significantly, the studio approved a limited theatrical release for logan noir, presumably seeing the extra dollar-signs of a second release, rather than the reduced dollar-signs of a greyscale picture.
perhaps the medium of black-and-white imaging has come full circle. during the renaissance, greyscale images were preparatory sketches, stepping stones to finished products in colour. today, the work-in-progress slash dupe of road warrior and james mangold’s photographic studies of logan were also stepping stones to colour products, while at the same time closing the loop by inspiring black-and-white products too.
with the era of budget- and technology-mandated monochrome outside the living memory of many viewers today, i think there is a new willingness to accept black-and-white as an artistic choice. the acclaimed sci-fi anthology series black mirror released an episode in greyscale this year, and where netflix goes, others are bound to follow.


text: 1982 Embossed Cover Original. Glossy Unplayed Condition. Nikolaus Harnoncourt Conducting The Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra.

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211 guestrooms are appointed with mahogany-stained furniture, upholstered armchairs and ottomans and a soothing palate of colors. Luxurious touches include pillowtop mattresses and down comforters. Bathrooms offer complimentary Gilchrist & Soames toiletries. Each room includes 20-inch, flat-screen televisions with premium channels, a refreshment center with microwave, mini refrigerator, coffeemaker and complimentary bottled water. High-speed Internet access is available for a fee. In-room laptop safes are available. Deluxe Rooms offer one queen bed or two double beds and work area. Deluxe Studio Suites are equipped with one queen bed and a queen-sized sofa bed in separate sleeping and living areas.
The Sofia Hotel meets the needs of today’s business traveler, with high speed Internet access, in-room laptop safes, work desks and ergonomic chairs. Earn points with the Friends of Sofia loyalty program.

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211 guestrooms are appointed with mahogany-stained furniture, upholstered armchairs and ottomans and a soothing palate of colors. luxurious touches include pillowtop mattresses and down comforters. bathrooms offer complimentary gilchrist & soames toiletries. each room includes 20-inch, flat-screen televisions with premium channels, a refreshment center with microwave, mini refrigerator, coffeemaker and complimentary bottled water. high-speed internet access is available for a fee. in-room laptop safes are available. deluxe rooms offer one queen bed or two double beds and work area. deluxe studio suites are equipped with one queen bed and a queen-sized sofa bed in separate sleeping and living areas.
the sofia hotel meets the needs of today’s business traveler, with high speed internet access, in-room laptop safes, work desks and ergonomic chairs. earn points with the friends of sofia loyalty program.


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So many times I’m asked if the Art of Pregnancy Photography is a new thing. While relatively so, I’ve been working with pregnant women and their families for nearly 18 years. Perhaps Seattle is on the cutting edge, but I think what’s new is our comfort with documenting and then publicly sharing this once private, almost forbidden form.
Since Annie Leibowitz made natural the sharing of Demi Moore’s beautiful, pregnant AND voluptuous form, I’ve seen an enormous increase in sessions per year. Above all reasons to photograph, I feel most honored and humbled when chosen to capture this fleeting, often emotional, miraculous evolution.
Maria - Impresive works! I like the feeling of this photos.

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so many times i’m asked if the art of pregnancy photography is a new thing. while relatively so, i’ve been working with pregnant women and their families for nearly 18 years. perhaps seattle is on the cutting edge, but i think what’s new is our comfort with documenting and then publicly sharing this once private, almost forbidden form.
since annie leibowitz made natural the sharing of demi moore’s beautiful, pregnant and voluptuous form, i’ve seen an enormous increase in sessions per year. above all reasons to photograph, i feel most honored and humbled when chosen to capture this fleeting, often emotional, miraculous evolution.
maria - impresive works! i like the feeling of this photos.


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Very surprised, happy and she just let it happen as everything was already organized so she could simply enjoy.
I don't remember hearing this story before, Mary. How awesome. Did mom love it?
I bring a blow up bed and for the cold months a thermal sleeping bag, I'm the queen of camping Then in the morning I leave it in whatever place I'm staying for the night. I do this because a good sleep is essential for me, but if you're not like that you could probably go with a blanket like others have said Then during the day if it's cold I bring a jacket and during the show I put it into a little bag or wrap it around me. For not very important stuff that I need during the day but I can't take into the show, such as an umbrella or my sleeping bag when it's raining/cold, I hide it behind a bush near the place on my last trip to the toilet I never had a problem getting it afterwards, if I had it it's only an umbrella at the end of the day, it's better than getting wet for the full day. I hope this was helpful!
Didn't you get on stage in Berlin 2012??? I thought you did!
US: Chicago, Toronto, Detroit (seated), Columbus, Sayreville, Upper Darby and Berkeley.
Europe: Firenze, Bologna, Milano, Zurich, Leeds, Manchester and London.
I'm thinking about getting the California Zephyr train to go from New York to San Francisco.... non stop for 52h and it costs $167 (plus a 50€ flight New York to Chicago)... Am I going crazy???? I can't even imagine what it's like to be on a train for 52 hours, but apparently people do it???
My Amtrak senses are tingling! It's absolutely doable. There's plenty of room in the seats compared to planes and it can be a wonderful journey. You go through the Rocky Mountains and the scenery is amazing. I saw a bald eagle soaring over water next to/below us when we went in April, for example. If you're willing to shell out more, you can get a roomette with a bed that folds out, privacy and your meals included. It's wonderful. October isn't a big travel season, so prices shouldn't be too bad. And if you're not in a hurry, you can take the train to Chicago from New York.
PM me if you have any more questions!
Wait, now that I think of it, since the LA show is before Berkeley, maybe you'd be better off on the Chief! Another beautiful route, and usually cheaper than the Zephyr.
Yeah, she really enjoyed it so this time around we're doing Paris together. And she also was excited when she heard about them touring again.
and tomorrow I will try to buy early entry for Cracov!
Will there be early entry for both newly added shows?
I've seen them in the options on polish eventim. for prague I haven't checked because I don't think I will go... try!
Ok, thanks. I haven't seen anything about ticket options so far, that's why I asked.
I think there won't be early entry for Prague because the organizers stated that the prices will range from cca 44€ to 59€, which seems too cheap for an EA ticket... They didn't reveal the actual ticket options yet, so I guess we will only know for sure tomorrow morning when the tickets go on sale.
OK, I really am crazy. I've booked accommodation in Krakow, Prague, Oslo and Stockholm. I don't have tickets and I have no money right now but I'll get them one way or another. I haven't even properly talked to @basketcase4933 about it but she's coming too because I'm sure I don't need to ask if she wants to.

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very surprised, happy and she just let it happen as everything was already organized so she could simply enjoy.
i don't remember hearing this story before, mary. how awesome. did mom love it?
i bring a blow up bed and for the cold months a thermal sleeping bag, i'm the queen of camping then in the morning i leave it in whatever place i'm staying for the night. i do this because a good sleep is essential for me, but if you're not like that you could probably go with a blanket like others have said then during the day if it's cold i bring a jacket and during the show i put it into a little bag or wrap it around me. for not very important stuff that i need during the day but i can't take into the show, such as an umbrella or my sleeping bag when it's raining/cold, i hide it behind a bush near the place on my last trip to the toilet i never had a problem getting it afterwards, if i had it it's only an umbrella at the end of the day, it's better than getting wet for the full day. i hope this was helpful!
didn't you get on stage in berlin 2012??? i thought you did!
us: chicago, toronto, detroit (seated), columbus, sayreville, upper darby and berkeley.
europe: firenze, bologna, milano, zurich, leeds, manchester and london.
i'm thinking about getting the california zephyr train to go from new york to san francisco.... non stop for 52h and it costs $167 (plus a 50€ flight new york to chicago)... am i going crazy???? i can't even imagine what it's like to be on a train for 52 hours, but apparently people do it???
my amtrak senses are tingling! it's absolutely doable. there's plenty of room in the seats compared to planes and it can be a wonderful journey. you go through the rocky mountains and the scenery is amazing. i saw a bald eagle soaring over water next to/below us when we went in april, for example. if you're willing to shell out more, you can get a roomette with a bed that folds out, privacy and your meals included. it's wonderful. october isn't a big travel season, so prices shouldn't be too bad. and if you're not in a hurry, you can take the train to chicago from new york.
pm me if you have any more questions!
wait, now that i think of it, since the la show is before berkeley, maybe you'd be better off on the chief! another beautiful route, and usually cheaper than the zephyr.
yeah, she really enjoyed it so this time around we're doing paris together. and she also was excited when she heard about them touring again.
and tomorrow i will try to buy early entry for cracov!
will there be early entry for both newly added shows?
i've seen them in the options on polish eventim. for prague i haven't checked because i don't think i will go... try!
ok, thanks. i haven't seen anything about ticket options so far, that's why i asked.
i think there won't be early entry for prague because the organizers stated that the prices will range from cca 44€ to 59€, which seems too cheap for an ea ticket... they didn't reveal the actual ticket options yet, so i guess we will only know for sure tomorrow morning when the tickets go on sale.
ok, i really am crazy. i've booked accommodation in krakow, prague, oslo and stockholm. i don't have tickets and i have no money right now but i'll get them one way or another. i haven't even properly talked to @basketcase4933 about it but she's coming too because i'm sure i don't need to ask if she wants to.


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"to reposition the party in the center. They gambled that discontent with Obama alone would be sufficient to propel them back to power."
The Republicans and their corporate cronies miscalculated the American resolve. "We" may have serious issues with both party's but the Republicans made it clear. No recovery for American's. Corruption as usual.. Continue the wealthy welfare fiasco..More wars of convenience..
"We" voted for US! If there were a strong third party would that have changed history? Can't say since "We" have yet to build a strong foundation under a third party ..
I was impressed with some of the third party candidates. Rocky Anderson makes clear headed sense.. Jill Stein was tenacious and willing to go to jail if need be..
If you believe in the need for a third party, I know I do, then build a strong foundation for a third party to stand on..Otherwise, if you "Dare", clean up the two party system..It's up to US!
In the meantime "We" have work to do! I'm not going to pull myself into a shell because some feel there's no hope!
"Where There's Life, There's Hope". America's waking up! Time to Rumble America.. We've only just begun to spread our wings and fly..
It appears there is a low voter turnout here on Care2 from our friends on the Right here today.
When you lie, steal, cheat, and resort to every dirty trick in the book to win an election, but still lose, it has to be a very bitter pill to swallow.

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"to reposition the party in the center. they gambled that discontent with obama alone would be sufficient to propel them back to power."
the republicans and their corporate cronies miscalculated the american resolve. "we" may have serious issues with both party's but the republicans made it clear. no recovery for american's. corruption as usual.. continue the wealthy welfare fiasco..more wars of convenience..
"we" voted for us! if there were a strong third party would that have changed history? can't say since "we" have yet to build a strong foundation under a third party ..
i was impressed with some of the third party candidates. rocky anderson makes clear headed sense.. jill stein was tenacious and willing to go to jail if need be..
if you believe in the need for a third party, i know i do, then build a strong foundation for a third party to stand on..otherwise, if you "dare", clean up the two party system..it's up to us!
in the meantime "we" have work to do! i'm not going to pull myself into a shell because some feel there's no hope!
"where there's life, there's hope". america's waking up! time to rumble america.. we've only just begun to spread our wings and fly..
it appears there is a low voter turnout here on care2 from our friends on the right here today.
when you lie, steal, cheat, and resort to every dirty trick in the book to win an election, but still lose, it has to be a very bitter pill to swallow.


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Actor William Shatner was the closing keynote speaker at the Content Marketing World conference, which drew more than 1,750 people from 40 nations to Cleveland, and contributed an estimated $3.9 million to the local economy over the past week.
CLEVELAND, Ohio -- Spending time with Joe Pulizzi, founder of the Content Marketing World conference, means being interrupted mid-sentence by attendees who hand you their iPads and ask you to take pictures of themselves with him.
Pulizzi is used to the attention. He's the public face of Content Marketing Institute, the upstart digital marketing company that brought more than 1,750 people from as far away as Australia and Thailand to the Cleveland Convention Center this week.
Pulizzi said his conference, which drew attendees from 40 nations, is the largest content marketing event on the planet. "And the best part? Seventy-five percent of them had never been to Cleveland before," he said.
CMWorld founder Joe Pulizzi always wears something orange.
"Cleveland's the center of the content industry," he said, shrugging. "I started using that term in 2001 before it became hip." He calls himself the "Godfather of Content Marketing."
Positively Cleveland, the region's convention and visitors bureau, estimates the economic impact from CMWorld at $3.9 million over the four-day conference.
That includes nearly 2,500 room nights at seven hotels, dining out at local restaurants, and other spending, but not the conference registration costs of up to $2,495 per person.
Content Marketing Institute is ranked 468 on Inc. magazine's list of America's 5,000 fastest-growing private companies for its 989 percent growth over the past three years. It reported revenues of $3.1 million in 2012. Its 14-member staff, all of whom work from home, balloons to 34 during CMWorld.
Dressed in his signature orange shirt, shoes and pocket square, Pulizzi presides over the convention like a celebrity, and even carries around a fine-point orange Sharpie to sign autographs.
Many of those who approach him do so toting copies of his latest book, "Epic Content Marketing: How to Tell a Different Story, Break Through the Clutter and Win More Customers by Marketing Less."
Of the attendees, "10 percent of the people have the word 'content' in their titles. The others are marketing directors, social media directors, or people who in some way, shape or form are responsible for content," he said.
They're the kind of people who, when actor William Shatner took the CMWorld stage on Wednesday night, they sent out more than 1,212 tweets an hour about it.
Vijay Palaparty, a 1998 graduate of Westlake High School who now works as director of communications and finance writer for NACHA, the Electronic Payments Association in Herndon, Va., was a first-time attendee.
"We all have stories to tell, we all have content. But how do you use that in effective ways to connect with the right people?" he asked.
Kate Eidam, a business lead at Akhia Public Relations in Hudson, put it this way: "Consumers are accustomed to ignoring advertising. It's often just background noise. At the same time, they demand more from brands in terms of relevant information, transparency and responsiveness."
"This leaves a gap, which is, in turn, an opportunity for marketers to reach customers with authentic, relevant, helpful and engaging information and conversations," she said. "Content marketing is at the core of filling this gap, as well as helping brands increase revenue, conversion and awareness."
"It's the best conference I've been to in years," she added. "The idea-gathering, creation, curation and exchange has been unprecedented. It's one of those conferences you leave feeling re-energized and more excited than ever about the work you do every day."
"Who knew Cleveland was so nice?"
The third annual Content Marketing World conference drew more then 1,750 people to the Cleveland Convention Center, 75 percent of whom were first-time visitors, according to organizers.
This is exactly the kind of tech-savvy crowd Pulizzi envisioned when he and his employees hosted the first Content Marketing World gathering here in 2011.
They reserved a room at the Renaissance Cleveland Hotel hoping 100 to 150 people might show up. "We ended up getting 660, and took over the Renaissance," Pulizzi said.
The next year, they were forced to move the conference to Columbus. "As a Cleveland guy, I wanted it in Cleveland, but there was no venue that could hold us," he said. "It was kind of depressing when you think about it, for a city of our size."
So when the $465 million Cleveland Convention Center announced it was opening last month, CMWorld was among the first to jump aboard.
"What we're hearing from attendees is 'It's so clean!' 'Who knew Cleveland was this nice?' 'There's so much history here' 'It's so easy to get around'" Pulizzi said. "Of course, we only showed them the good stuff," he joked.
CMWorld is the second-largest event of visitors, after the 2013 National Senior Games, that the Convention Center has hosted so far, said Dave Johnson, director of public relations for the Convention Center and the Global Center for Health Innovation.
"This is a significant event because it illustrates the direct economic impact a convention center can have on a city," by bringing back a conference it wouldn't have been able to attract before, Johnson said. "Any time you bring people in from outside the seven-county region, they're spending money and leaving their money behind."
It also stretched the convention center's capacity to provide audiovisual, WiFi, food and beverage, custodial and other services required for a group of its size, he said. The fact that there were no major hiccups bodes well for future gatherings.
"As of today, there are 155 events scheduled here through the end of calendar year 2014, with 213,000 attendees and 89,000 group hotel room nights," Johnson said.
Joe Pulizzi walks around the Content Marketing World like a celebrity, and even carries a fine-point orange Sharpie around with him to sign autographs.
Among them is the 2014 Content Marketing World conference, from Sept. 8-10.
Pulizzi said his group is only a small piece of what could be a much bigger comeback for Cleveland. "We have so many amazing corporations, and all of them have events: Lincoln Electric, Sherwin-Williams, Eaton, the law firms.
"Why are they not bringing their events here?" he asked. "That's what I'd like to know."

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actor william shatner was the closing keynote speaker at the content marketing world conference, which drew more than 1,750 people from 40 nations to cleveland, and contributed an estimated $3.9 million to the local economy over the past week.
cleveland, ohio -- spending time with joe pulizzi, founder of the content marketing world conference, means being interrupted mid-sentence by attendees who hand you their ipads and ask you to take pictures of themselves with him.
pulizzi is used to the attention. he's the public face of content marketing institute, the upstart digital marketing company that brought more than 1,750 people from as far away as australia and thailand to the cleveland convention center this week.
pulizzi said his conference, which drew attendees from 40 nations, is the largest content marketing event on the planet. "and the best part? seventy-five percent of them had never been to cleveland before," he said.
cmworld founder joe pulizzi always wears something orange.
"cleveland's the center of the content industry," he said, shrugging. "i started using that term in 2001 before it became hip." he calls himself the "godfather of content marketing."
positively cleveland, the region's convention and visitors bureau, estimates the economic impact from cmworld at $3.9 million over the four-day conference.
that includes nearly 2,500 room nights at seven hotels, dining out at local restaurants, and other spending, but not the conference registration costs of up to $2,495 per person.
content marketing institute is ranked 468 on inc. magazine's list of america's 5,000 fastest-growing private companies for its 989 percent growth over the past three years. it reported revenues of $3.1 million in 2012. its 14-member staff, all of whom work from home, balloons to 34 during cmworld.
dressed in his signature orange shirt, shoes and pocket square, pulizzi presides over the convention like a celebrity, and even carries around a fine-point orange sharpie to sign autographs.
many of those who approach him do so toting copies of his latest book, "epic content marketing: how to tell a different story, break through the clutter and win more customers by marketing less."
of the attendees, "10 percent of the people have the word 'content' in their titles. the others are marketing directors, social media directors, or people who in some way, shape or form are responsible for content," he said.
they're the kind of people who, when actor william shatner took the cmworld stage on wednesday night, they sent out more than 1,212 tweets an hour about it.
vijay palaparty, a 1998 graduate of westlake high school who now works as director of communications and finance writer for nacha, the electronic payments association in herndon, va., was a first-time attendee.
"we all have stories to tell, we all have content. but how do you use that in effective ways to connect with the right people?" he asked.
kate eidam, a business lead at akhia public relations in hudson, put it this way: "consumers are accustomed to ignoring advertising. it's often just background noise. at the same time, they demand more from brands in terms of relevant information, transparency and responsiveness."
"this leaves a gap, which is, in turn, an opportunity for marketers to reach customers with authentic, relevant, helpful and engaging information and conversations," she said. "content marketing is at the core of filling this gap, as well as helping brands increase revenue, conversion and awareness."
"it's the best conference i've been to in years," she added. "the idea-gathering, creation, curation and exchange has been unprecedented. it's one of those conferences you leave feeling re-energized and more excited than ever about the work you do every day."
"who knew cleveland was so nice?"
the third annual content marketing world conference drew more then 1,750 people to the cleveland convention center, 75 percent of whom were first-time visitors, according to organizers.
this is exactly the kind of tech-savvy crowd pulizzi envisioned when he and his employees hosted the first content marketing world gathering here in 2011.
they reserved a room at the renaissance cleveland hotel hoping 100 to 150 people might show up. "we ended up getting 660, and took over the renaissance," pulizzi said.
the next year, they were forced to move the conference to columbus. "as a cleveland guy, i wanted it in cleveland, but there was no venue that could hold us," he said. "it was kind of depressing when you think about it, for a city of our size."
so when the $465 million cleveland convention center announced it was opening last month, cmworld was among the first to jump aboard.
"what we're hearing from attendees is 'it's so clean!' 'who knew cleveland was this nice?' 'there's so much history here' 'it's so easy to get around'" pulizzi said. "of course, we only showed them the good stuff," he joked.
cmworld is the second-largest event of visitors, after the 2013 national senior games, that the convention center has hosted so far, said dave johnson, director of public relations for the convention center and the global center for health innovation.
"this is a significant event because it illustrates the direct economic impact a convention center can have on a city," by bringing back a conference it wouldn't have been able to attract before, johnson said. "any time you bring people in from outside the seven-county region, they're spending money and leaving their money behind."
it also stretched the convention center's capacity to provide audiovisual, wifi, food and beverage, custodial and other services required for a group of its size, he said. the fact that there were no major hiccups bodes well for future gatherings.
"as of today, there are 155 events scheduled here through the end of calendar year 2014, with 213,000 attendees and 89,000 group hotel room nights," johnson said.
joe pulizzi walks around the content marketing world like a celebrity, and even carries a fine-point orange sharpie around with him to sign autographs.
among them is the 2014 content marketing world conference, from sept. 8-10.
pulizzi said his group is only a small piece of what could be a much bigger comeback for cleveland. "we have so many amazing corporations, and all of them have events: lincoln electric, sherwin-williams, eaton, the law firms.
"why are they not bringing their events here?" he asked. "that's what i'd like to know."


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