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There's never been a better time to do public relations.
Organizations of all sizes and in all industries can mount successful PR campaigns, efforts that yield real results. These PR programs can be used to bolster reputation, fill your sales pipeline, react to crises and a host of other business-critical goals.
But there's a catch. In order to be successful, you must pick those PR activities that work for your particular organization. This is where most companies veer off course.
The problem is context. Most businesspeople think of PR in a one-dimensional way: traditional media relations. This is understandable, since for many years reaching out to newspapers, magazines, TV and radio with press releases was the bulk of what PR had to offer. If you got clips for your outreach, success! If not, failure.
Fortunately, the game has changed. Today, PR does not have to rely upon traditional media relations. We can create our own content and make it available through a variety of channels, some of which we create ourselves. We can tap into social media networks with audiences so large they easily outstrip the reach of the traditional media. In other words, we have options. The key is selecting the right ones.
Traditional Media Relations. Let's start with the most well-known first. Here, we are in the realm of reaching out to reporters and producers with stories of our own creation, hoping to get quoted or interviewed. This tends to work best for certain kinds of organizations:
- Well-known companies/individuals with established brands and reputations.
- Companies operating in industries with a lot of media attention, such as financial services.
- Organizations with a "celebrity" CEO or founder.
- Local companies serving a distinct geography.
There are lots of organizations that fall outside these categories, though. Successful, innovative companies in industries that don't get much of a following in the traditional media, for example, can have a very difficult time winning traditional media attention. Midsize companies in an industry full of giants can also have difficulty breaking through. Technology startups, likewise, can have a hard time with the mainstream press. You get the idea.
Content-Based PR. This is an exciting area where companies literally create the stories, videos and audio interviews that the traditional media would have done instead. Importantly, when you create your own, there's no reporter or editor to get in the way of your message. Tis definitely the season for this type of approach, as the tools and talent needed to pursue such a strategy are available in abundance.
For example, a company that wants to announce new service offering could create a YouTube video interviewing its CEO and then email the link to prospective clients, existing customers and other influencers. The video could also be posted to social networks and the company's website/blog. This won't reach as many people as, say, appearing on CNBC. But it will reach the right ones.
In fact, in terms of hitting the right audiences, content-based PR may be significantly more effective. It works for organizations of all sizes and in all industries.
Social Network Outreach. Here I am referring to Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn and the like. Social networks today are huge, reaching millions upon millions of users. They are a direct line to your customers and influencers in a way that has never before been possible.
Creating a following on these networks does take a bit of work, but the payoff is pure PR gold. You can put your content — produced just as you wish — directly in front of a large and targeted audience.
There are two keys to being successful in this area. First, you must spend the time to build a following, whether friends, followers or contacts. Second, you must have something interesting to say to these individuals. Exactly what this is depends a great deal on what your business is all about and what kind of content you are able to produce. Obviously, social network outreach works hand-in-hand with content-based PR.
Again, social networking works for organizations of all sizes and in all industries. The key is to just stick with it.
OK, so what's the next step?
Let's say you have a midsize company that is national in scope but in an industry that is relatively obscure, without a lot of media coverage. Be honest in assessing this. An industry story every six months in The Wall Street Journal is not a big-time media focus.
In this case, traditional media relations probably won't move the needle. It's perhaps worth some effort, but it should not be a major focus of your PR efforts. You need something that can consistently create value. What should that be? A content-based program might be a good fit. You could start a podcast, newsletter or video series. Create stories that will add value to your audience and highlight your expertise.
Then, add a social media component by creating a Facebook page and a Twitter account. Engage with your new audience and share the content you've created in these networks. Continue to build your following over time and the value of your content-based PR will expand exponentially.
This won't be the perfect strategy for every organization — as each should do its own analysis — and there are details and approaches that I've skipped over for brevity.
However, the overall concept holds true no matter who you are and what you are doing. Assess your organization and industry environment honestly and then create a PR program whose components are the best possible match. Stick with your program and watch the results accrue over time.


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Ultimately, the benefits of web tools are an increase in efficiency and productivity for your business. By combining many business practices into one tool and allowing it to be accessed anywhere, anytime, as long as there is an internet connection, web tools can provide a 360 degree view of your business, customers, clients, staff and resources.
Webtools can improve productivity in many ways:
By saving time
Use web tools to generate invoices on site at the end of a job, rather than returning to the office and emailing or faxing and invoicing from there. This can save time between completing a job and being paid, potentially improving cash flow.
Faster response to customers
Online communication tools such as feedback forms and social media channels, as well as the comment function on a blog or website, can be set up to automatically email your office or nominated account if a customer queries them. This allows you to be notified without logging on to each individual network and also allows you to see any queries instantly.
More effective scheduling
Work flow management software such as simPRO and GeoOp can allow you to more effectively schedule staff, equipment, resources and jobs through their workflow tools. These two job management systems are highly popular in the construction and electrotechnology industries, as they allow businesses to manage staff, resources, inventory and jobs scheduling in one location.
Ensuring accuracy of information
Cloud based document and file storage systems such as Box, DropBox and Google Drive allow businesses to maintain master documents, so everyone has access to the same version, all the time. This has the added benefit of only needing to enter data and documents into your system once, as you no longer require duplicates for different staff members or departments.
Reporting and accessing reports
Web tools such as Customer Relationship Management (CRM) systems can generate reports for a customer's marketing, financial or other movements, giving you a 360 degree view of each and every customer. They can also pull reports for outstanding invoices or work, and be customised with forms unique to your business.
Working from anywhere
One of the major reasons web tools can increase efficiency is by allowing staff to work from anywhere. Without the need to download software on individual computers or devices, you simply need to give your staff a login where they can access all program files via the cloud. Instant messaging programs even allow you to check in with staff online while they are on a job site. As long as an internet source is available, your staff and yourself will be able to work from any location, with remote logins.
The following benefits can apply across all aspects of business activity:
- Estimating – generate fast, accurate quotes and estimates on the job
- Invoicing – automate invoicing, for faster payments and cash flow management
- Scheduling – having the right people in the right place at the right time
- Project management – keep projects on track from start to finish
- Purchasing and stock management – stores inventory lists that can be automatically updated in the office
- Asset maintenance
- Account integration
- Service management.

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In January the Port Townsend Gallery features The Annual All Gallery Members Show
Start the New Year viewing the All Gallery Show featuring the art of members including oils, watercolors, ceramics, woodworking, photography, acrylics, collages, jewelry, and weaving. The Port Townsend Gallery is a fine arts cooperative gallery featuring many of the best artists in the area. Take this opportunity to visit with the members to learn more about the artist's work and the stories behind the work. The member artists take pride in the gallery. Join the members to celebrate the 22nd year of providing art to the community.
The Port Townsend Gallery at 715 Water Street is open from 10 to 5 Sunday through Thursday, and Friday and Saturday 10 am to 6 pm. Please join the artists for the Gallery Walk from 5:30 to 8 pm on Saturday, January 5th. For more Gallery information, phone (360) 379-8110 www.porttownsendgallery.com.


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Lipper analyses Aberdeen European High Yield Fund
Jake Moeller, Lipper's head of Research for the UK & Ireland reviews highlights of a meeting with Ben Pakenham, senior investment manager at Aberdeen Asset Management.
Many asset allocators are struggling to interpret the bond market at the moment. Fear of a bubble and a structural shift to an increasing-interest-rate environment present investors considerable food for thought. For Aberdeen's Ben Pakenham (pictured), however, the view is refreshingly straightforward: high-yield bonds are the most removed from the bond bubble risk. "If you believe QE is effective in creating inflation growth and normalizing the economy," states Mr. Pakenham, "yields will have to rise, and European high-yield bonds for income investors provide the best haven for this risk."
Mr. Pakenham joined Aberdeen in 2011 from Henderson; he manages the €700-million Aberdeen European High Yield Fund with his colleagues Steve Logan (Head of European High Yield) and Mark Sanders (Senior Investment Manager). This fund has been a recent success story for Aberdeen (which has faced a number of recent outflow headwinds in its emerging markets business), and it has both a strong performance track record in a competitive sector and a gross yield to maturity (as of June 30, 2015) of 5.5%.
Diversification benefits of high-yield bonds are a recurring theme in Mr. Pakenham's thesis. He recognizes there is some equities-type risk with the asset class, but he thinks the "pull to par" of a bond will result in a lower volatility profile. Certainly, there is a broader diversification benefit evident over the last ten years. There has been a 50% correlation with investment-grade bonds and a negative correlation with government bonds, and although these correlations have begun to increase in the risk-on/-off period of the last 12 months, Mr. Pakenham has been able to avoid sensitivity to government bonds by maintaining a comparatively lower duration in the fund (2.9 years against the market of 3.8 years).
Of particular importance to Mr. Pakenham are the structural differences between the U.S. and the European high-yield markets. He cites the progress of QE (Europe has just started its program as the U.S. winds up its) and the collapse of the oil price. With 15%-20% of the U.S. high-yield market forming funding for shale and gas companies, this has been significant. Europe has had virtually no exposure there. With the European high-yield market consisting of two-thirds of its assets rated in BB and approximately 40% of the market with a market capitalization of €30 billion or more, Europe is robust. It also has a higher average rating than the U.S. (less than 50% of the U.S. market is BB, and it contains three times as much CCC-rated debt).


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Proletkult - exhibition of Soviet design
25 Feb 2017 – 26 Feb 2017
PROLETKULT - an exhibition of Soviet design
To mark the centenary of the Russian revolution, Modern Folk presents PROLETKULT, an exhibition of original Soviet-era posters and folk art. The vintage posters are priced from just £50 (£80 framed), and they include iconic images of Lenin and the revolution.
As soon as they seized power, the Soviets began using visual culture as a tool to educate and inspire. Communism was a revolutionary new way of governing, and it needed a means of expression that was just as radical. The government was looking for a new 'PROLETKULT,' or proletarian culture – something fresh and new, but not intimidatingly avant-garde., which was fresh and new but not intimidatingly avant-garde.
State sponsored artists developed Socialist Realism, a genre that combined striking modern design with realistic, figurative imagery. The government released countless posters in this style, depicting the glories of the revolution or illustrating the social and technical advances of the Communist regime. They featured wholesome Leninist teens and brave soldiers, alongside factories, agriculture and even spacecraft. The exhibition includes a group of posters issued to artists working on state commissions. Each one combines multiple images and motifs, juxtaposing grand state buildings with Communist symbols and pictures of new technology.
The exhibition will also feature handicraft items, including vintage pieces made in the Communist era. The USSR was keen to support craftsmen making traditional folk products, which were also seen as an example of working-class culture, or PROLETKULT. The government organised maker's cooperatives, offered development loans for new equipment and staged exhibitions. The unique folk traditions of each country was celebrated as part of a united Soviet state.


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"The translations deliberately avoid the highly wrought and affectedly poetic; their idiom is contemporary....They have life and speed and suppleness of phrase."—Times Education Supplement
"These translations belong to our time. A keen poetic sensibility repeatedly quickens them; and without this inner fire the most academically flawless rendering is dead."—Warren D. Anderson, American Oxonian
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David Grene (1913-2002) taught classics for many years at the University of Chicago. He was a founding member of the Committee on Social Thought and coedited the University of Chicago Presss prestigious series The Complete Greek Tragedies.Richmond Lattimore (1906-1984) was a poet, translator, and longtime professor of Greek at Bryn Mawr College.


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If you have been keeping up with the media recently you would be forgiven for thinking that Coronation St was only good for producing people who managed to get embroiled in and cleared of sex abuse charges – by my reckoning the current tally is four. However it would be unfair to label the soap as such because it also features people who are famous for acting. In my previous life as an actor I had the pleasure of working with a couple of smashingly talented former corrie actors in a one off drama for the BBC – there are clips online and whilst I'm self absorbed enough to mention them, I'm not self absorbed enough to include a link.
Anyway sex abuse and acting isn't the whole story, Coronation St also brought Sean Wilson to public consciousness and being a versatile chap he put acting behind him and started to make cheese. I haven't yet tried his cheese, but I hope to soon and will report back in due course. Sean also created a bread sauce packet mix which is stocked exclusively in B&M for the bargain price of 29p. Sean proudly tweeted about it here stating it was part of his Signature Range, but for all my internet searching I have yet to find any other products that feature in this range thus making it a range of one thing and therefore not a range at all.
Bread sauce for all it's apparent simplicity is a tricky thing to get right, it can end up just being hot milk with soggy breadcrumbs and lacking any flavour at all, or at the other end of the scale it can be gloopy gruel with an overwhelming blast of mouth numbing clove. There is a fine line to tread when it comes to the texture of bread sauce, it ranges from sloppy baby sick to lumpy porridge, with perfection sitting somewhere close to lumpy porridge. All that is to say, that as a product in a packet it is not easy to get right, but then if Sean has mastered cheese, bread sauce shouldn't be too tricky.
The packet says "We have sourced the very best, clean ingredients possible.". I did a double take – they have sourced "clean ingredients"! Is it just me or is that a really odd thing to stress? I mean I'm all for hygiene and keeping away from filthy, disease riddled ingredients but I've never bought a product before that has felt it necessary to highlight the fact they only use clean ones. They also go on to say "… we believe we have brought you the easiest and the best Bread Sauce available today!" which is quite a claim, so being safe in the knowledge that the sauce was not only clean it was also the best it was time to get cooking.
The bread sauce is very easy to make, all you need to do is mix the stuff in the packet with half a pint of milk, bring to the boil, simmer for 1 -2 mins and serve. The sauce had a decent texture sitting a good few notches above baby sick, but resembling Ready brek more than adult porridge, but sadly that is where the positives end. It smelt of onion rings and the flavour was overwhelmingly of onion flavouring coupled with an unwelcome sweetness. There was no hint of clove, bay or pepper and it was a one dimensional pan full of milky coloured gruel that I was going to let nowhere near my delicious roast chicken.
Why when the cheese making was going so well for Sean, did he allow his name to be put to this stuff I have no idea and if I do ever find any other products in the signature range I won't be in any hurry to try them.
Sean Wilson Bread Sauce 29p for a 40g packet


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she sat on the steps and looked at the sky. It was still above her as she gently rested her fingertips in the cold strings of her guitar. Her hair hung in front of her eyes as she played, masking her face from the familiar stories she told with each note she sang.
The air was old and soft, and smelt of the city that she had grown up in. The music seemed to spill out of her palms each time she strummed a chord, the sound barely audible and lingering in the warm evening air. Each word spoken held its purpose and read like a poem drifting slowly around her small form nestling in the darkness of the evening.
She never thought when she sang. She just carried the music from her guitar, and let it free into the space around her, as it bounced off the brick walls and iron railings, old cars and rusty bikes crumpled against the neighbouring buildings, making each surface tingle with the new sensation of music.
The street transformed with each song. She sang louder and with more honesty as the guitar seemed to play itself, her movements pushing and pulling the notes until her voice merged with the music and she seemed to disappear into the street scene, as the focus faltered and the music took hold. The sky swam, her words softened and slowly the music created a picture of its own, resting above the harsh forms of the city, colouring them with ideas of love and truth and pain that helped create the rooms behind each door of her street.
The people pushed their ears up against their keyholes, their letterboxes and the cracks in the windowpanes to hear the sound of honesty filling the street in which they lived. The music called to each soul that was lost, confused and yearning for a familiar story to their own. The words filled their eyes and ears and covered their skin with colours they had forgotten existed. Shapes danced in the sky. Light danced on the concrete steps on which the girl sat. People danced behind their curtains, swaying their shoulders, loosening the knots that had tied themselves to the people they had come to believe that they are.
The girl sat on the steps and looked at the sky, her eyes open, her heart full and her notes on their way up to tell the moon a story of their own.


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This year is Japan's Nankai Electric Railway's 130th year in business and is an important turning point. We were all expecting something extraordinary, and Nankai has not let us down. The train that fans have been waiting for is now here.
On November 20, it was not the usual blue-colored train which arrived in Nankai's Suminoe Depot in Osaka, but a jet black express train titled "Rapi:t."
The feature express train of Nankai which links Kansai International Airport and Namba Station in Osaka has been quite popular since its debut in 1994. The secret is its cutting-edge design. Its "iron mask" like front is the only one in the world.
According to Nankai's public announcement, "the design of Rapi:t shows a mixture of strength and speed;" however, many fans think that the train's front end looks a lot like the mask of Darth Vader. With the train having the same black color as Darth Vader's uniform and headgear, it certainly makes sense that people would assume it was modeled after the famous villain.
The long-awaited new Star Wars film Star Wars: Episode VII - The Force Awakens premieres on December 18, nine years since the conclusion of the last series. As a part of this campaign, Nankai decided to cover one of its Rapi:t trains in Star Wars decor. This unique Star Wars clad train will run from November 21 to May 8.
"I have been a huge fan of Star Wars ever since I watched the first film (Episode IV) when I was a college student. Of course I watched all five of the following episodes in the series after that," says Tetsuro Kanamori, Senior Managing Director and Chief Director of Sales . It is therefore probably no surprise that Kanamori was the ringleader of this idea to decorate the Rapi:t train. As this is the 130th year anniversary of the company, he thought, "If we are going to do it, it has to be now." It would be the perfect time to do something grand and elaborate.
Characters Kylo Ren and Rey adorn the train's body. There are also images of C-3PO and R2-D2. The Star Wars designs were essentially wrapped around the body of the train; but it was too difficult to wrap the front of the train, so it was painted. This painted "face" of the train is what people are saying looks exactly like Darth Vader's mask. Despite the resemblance, Kanamori insists that the Rapi:t was not actually fashioned to look like Darth Vader and was actually intended to represent a "star field," thus the universe. Anyway, Darth Vader is not even in the new Star Wars film.
Kanamori explains that the theme of Rapi:t Express is closely tied to the adventurous nature of the Star Wars flicks. The Rapi:t's connection to Kansai Airport allows everyone who rides the train to have access to the rest of the world. Perhaps it's like a starship, in a sense?
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Interestingly enough, Wakabayashi was not even thinking about using the color blue for the body of the train when he first designed Rapi:t. The color he intended to use was Tasmanian brown, a deep brown color which is almost black. When he received the order, the first images he conjured in his mind were those of a transcontinental locomotive and a bullet train which he had seen as a child. "I felt that black metallic would be very dynamic. I wanted my train to have the image of the iron on a locomotive," says Wakabayashi.
Nankai asked him to give them three color choices based on his final designs, and so he did: his own choice of Tasmanian brown, Nankai's image color of green, and blue as the image of Kansai's sky and sea.
Nankai's management immediately chose blue, and Wakabayashi agreed. Blue seems to be a good color for Rapi:t. Since then, Rapi:t trains have been running with a blue body for 20 years. However, this time, there is a Rapi:t in the color which Wakabayashi originally envisioned. He must be quite excited to see it run.
Of course Wakabayashi has heard that Rapi:t is said to resemble Darth Vader, but he did not design the train particularly with Darth Vader in mind. Regarding the similarity, he explains, "Darth Vader's mask was designed to look like a Japanese samurai mask. This shiny black mask may look like the head of a bullet train."
When the Star Wars campaign period ends, the designs will be peeled off, and the train will return to its usual blue color. However, once images of the Star Wars Express are distributed on You Tube and other social media outlets, fans from all over the world may be inspired to travel to Japan to see this unique train in person.
If this ends up being the case, Nankai may decide to leave it as a black Rapi:t even after the campaign finishes. This could be Osaka's newest tourist attraction.


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BOSTON, Mass. – Bentley University junior Stephanie Mattson (Smithfield, R.I./Smithfield HS) broke her own school record while qualifying for Saturday's finals in the 400 meters during the New England Indoor Track and Field Championships at the Reggie Lewis Center Friday afternoon.
Mattson, one of eight to advance, finished sixth of 32 in the prelims with her time of 57.83 seconds improving on the Bentley record of 58.41 that she set during the 2017 Boston University Valentine's Invitational. It was the sixth best recorded by a Northeast-10 Conference runner so far this season and less than a second out of the top three.
Mattson's day also included finishing third among Division II student-athletes and 21st overall in the long jump (17'4.75").
The top finisher for the Bentley men was senior Seamus Higgins (Randolph, N.J./Randolph HS), who posted a clocking of 15:30.52 in the 5,000. That was 15th overall and second among Division II competitors.
Freshman Robert Moritz (Singapore) had Bentley's best time in the men's 400 (50.96, 22nd) and freshman Richard Crowley (Walpole/Walpole HS) was the Falcons' top finisher in the 500 (1:10.26, 23rd).
Going back to the women's side, junior Tina Touri (Watertown/Watertown HS) was the first Falcon to finish in the 800 (25th, 2:26.77).
The New Englands continue on Saturday with Mattson running the 400 finals at 2:15 pm and Bentley competing in both 4x400 relays later in the afternoon.


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Complacent – Word Of The Day For IELTS Speaking And Writing
Complacent: (Adjective) /kəmˈpleɪsnt/
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pleased with a situation, especially something you have achieved, so that you stop trying to improve or change things – used to show disapproval
Pleased, Satisfied, Self-righteous
With noun: complacent attitude
For IELTS Speaking:.
"It is claimed that the lack of competition and market discipline induces a complacent attitude in both management and the workforce"
"As long as the presence of doubt is detected anywhere, neither faith nor knowledge can ever be complacent."
"He said that we have become complacent about child labour, and that the situation is much worse than it appears."
For IELTS Writing:
"But people do it; then things blow up; then people are careful for a while; then people get complacent."
Match the word below to complete these sentences.
catastrophe, complacent, obligatory, retribution, fireball, aberration
- The losses this year are an ………………………….. and the company will continue to grow
- The jet exploded in midair and turned into a ……………………..
- The Black Sea is facing ecological ……………….. as a result of pollution
- It is …………………………… for companies to provide details of their industrial processes.
- The 4-0 Vikings had one this week to allow Warren Moon to tell all his young teammates not to get ………………………….
- Victims are demanding …………………… for the terrorist attacks.
Answer keys
- aberration
- fireball
- catastrophe
- obligatory
- complacent
- retribution
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March 25, 2011
There'll barely be a Labor Party left after the NSW election (Andrew Clennell, 3/25/11, The Daily Telegraph)
NSW Labor will be wiped out in its worst electoral defeat in 110 years tomorrow and will only just retain party status by winning a paltry 14 of 93 lower house seats.
That was the finding of a final Daily Telegraph-Galaxy poll, which has Labor's primary vote at just 22 per cent - down one point from three weeks ago - compared to Barry O'Farrell's Coalition, unchanged at 51 per cent.
The Greens sit at 12 per cent and other minor parties and independents 15.
On a two-party preferred basis, the Coalition was up two points, leading 66 to 34.
A party is required to win 10 seats in the Legislative Assembly to give it party status, allowing the opposition leader and deputy opposition leader to be paid more than an ordinary backbencher.
The Galaxy poll found Labor will squeak over the line - with three more members than a cricket team.
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When I was in LA last month I was able to go and see the wonderful exhibition Chagall: Fantasies for the Stage at LACMA. The exhibition runs until January 7, 2018. It is a wonderful opportunity to see the costume and set designs created by Marc Chagall. Chagall: Fantasies for the Stage showcases 41 costumes and nearly 100 designs… Continue reading Chagall: Fantasies for The Stage
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Karinska's cottage in the woods
I recently found out that legendary designer and costume maker Barbara Karinska had a summer cottage in the Berkshires - in fact just down the road from Jacob's Pillow! If that was not cool enough I then found out that it was in this cottage that George Balanchine and Maria Tallchief spent their honeymoon in… Continue reading Karinska's cottage in the woods


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Gloria Steinem, Moving Beyond Words: Age, Rage, Sex, Power, Money, Muscles: Breaking the Boundaries of Gender (1994).
Through a collection of essays, this book challenges social inequalities and their barriers. Readers are encouraged to redefine their own roles outside of commonly accepted norms. The essays range from discussions about women and sports, the impact of the advertisement industry, social class, economics, growing older, and an imagining of a matriarchal world of female dominance through the fictional Dr. Phyllis Freud. Through the essays, Gloria Steinem proposes fundamental new ways of re-conceptualizing gender.
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Whitehall 5 Piece Drum Kit Reviews
5 Piece Drum kit w/hardware included. Price paid was $250.00. Good set to learn how to play and for low budget, but nothing more than that.
Good set to purchase if you are a beginner without a clue on how to play...and, if you are working with a low budget. However, if you are beyond the beginner stage by the slightest, expect the hardware to break down within weeks of purchase.S. Geger rated this unit on 2004-02-22.
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I did a little work on the seat today. I rough cut the wood to length. It is 1 7/8 thick and the seat on the
original is 1 ¼.
I did the initial cutting with the TS slowing inching the blade taking deeper and deeper cuts until I got to the maximum depth. Then over to the BS to get rid of the remaining section holding the two pieces together.
While using the BS the blade kissed my finger . . . well a little more than kiss. I am so very happy that I had my gloves on as the damage would have been much worse. It is a very deep cut just above my knuckle. Here it is after DW did some bandaging up. I now have a splint (actually a short piece of dowel) taped to the underside to restrict movement. DW says I should go for stitches . . . I don't think its that bad.
The BS blade never even cut through the glove. Look at the third finger from the top. For some reason the BS has had something against me lately . . . I gotta have a chat with it to see what is wrong.
After I got bandaged up I wanted to do a little more work in the seat. There was a strip of wood on the seat sections left over from the difference in the TS blade width and the BS blade width. I used my el cheapo mastercraft plane to remove it. A quick one-handed sanding and we have a seat blank.
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So I recently wrote a thing for Very Smart Brothas about how I want my easily impressed sisters and brethren to be more discerning with our cookout invites and mindful about who we're showering with praise.
Look, I know blackness is the gift that keeps on giving. I know how awesome we are, and can understand why sweet potato pie tops pumpkin pie, that we effortlessly create and inform pop culture, and why folks set aside their good sense and pride to get next to us or be like us. And I also know that in these anus-mouthed-gargoyle-electing times, the smallest acts of humanity—even the most fleeting abandonment of ain't-shitness—can feel like a sign of kinship, a victory, a mark of someone deserving of trust.
I get the fatigue from contending with normalized terribleness and buffoonery and reading about and coexisting with people who vote for professional life ruiners. Truly, I do.
But stop inviting everybody to the motherfucking cookout. Love yourself and respect your blackness a little bit more. For the kids, the community and the perseverance of the already limited supply of ribs. As I told Tonja Stidhum (one of the writingest wimmenz I know), I'll be damned if I miss out on the macaroni and cheese because you niggas are out here inviting everybody who smiles at you and hugging Nazis at the cookout. Go-go gadget: higher standards.
Read the rest over at Very Smart Brothas.
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Structure and Function of Calcium Release Channels, Volume 66
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PART 1: RyR Ca2+ Release channels
- RyRs: their disposition, frequency and relationships with other proteins of calcium release units (Clara Franzini Armstrong).
- Electron Microscopy of Ryanodine Receptors (Terrence Wagenknecht and Zheng Li).
- The ryanodine receptor pore: is there a consensus view? (Carney, J; Mason, SA; Viero, CL and Williams, AJ)
- Regulation of the RyR channel gating by different modulators (Derek Laver).
- Regulation of Ryanodine Receptor Ion Channels through Post-translational Modifications. (Gerhard Meissner).
- Crosstalk via the sarcoplasmic gap: The DHPR - RyR interaction (Manfred Grabner and Anamika Dayal).
- Ryanodinopathies: RyR-linked Muscle Diseases (Lan Wei and Robert T. Dirksen).
- Structure of IP3 Receptors. (Irina I. Serysheva and Steven J. Ludtke)
- Molecular Architecture Of The Inositol 1,4,5-trisphosphate Receptor Pore. (Darren Boehninng)
- Adenophostins: high-affinity agonists of IP3 receptors. (Ana M. Rossi, Andrew, M. Riley, Barry V. L. Potter and Colin W. Taylor)
- Regulation of IP3R channel gating by Ca2+ and Ca2+ Binding Proteins (J. Kevin Foskett and Don-On Daniel Mak).
- Regulation of IP3R channels through phosphorylation/ATP (Matthew J. Betzenhauser and David I. Yule).
- Role of thiols in the structure and function of Inositol trisphosphate receptors (Suresh Joseph).
- Inositol 1,4,5-tripshosphate receptor, calcium signaling and polyglutamine expansion disorders (Ilya Bezprozvanny).
PART 2: IP3R Ca2+ Release channels
This volume of Current Topics in Membranes focuses on Membrane Protein Crystallization, beginning with a review of past successes and general trends, then further discussing challenges of mebranes protein crystallization, cell free production of membrane proteins and novel lipids for membrane protein crystallization.
This publication also includes tools to enchance membrane protein crystallization, technique advancements, and crystallization strategies used for photosystem I and its complexes, establishing Membrane Protein Crystallization as a needed, practical reference for researchers.
Membrane Protein Crystallization, a volume of the established Current Topics in Membranes serial. This volume is edited by Dr. Larry DeLucas, University of Alabama at Birmingham.
- No. of pages:
- 372
- Language:
- English
- Copyright:
- © Academic Press 2010
- Published:
- 11th August 2010
- Imprint:
- Academic Press
- Hardcover ISBN:
- 9780123810373
- eBook ISBN:
- 9780123810380


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Chinese takeout has a way of being delicious and terrible at the same time. This homemade version of General Tso's isn't quite as fast as takeout, but it has a depth of flavor and spice that really shines and leaves you satisfied.
Low-sodium soy sauce is an absolute must in this recipe. Otherwise, it gets very salty to the point of being unpleasant.
To make this vegetarian friendly, swap out the chicken for tofu (extra firm) and the chicken broth for vegetable broth. Both versions are delicious! Increase the amount of chili-garlic sauce or sambal oelek to increase the heat.
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OK, the playoffs are here, and you're stuck at work. Worry not!
We'll be live blogging all the day games this week, and we kick you off with today's Phillies-Rockies tilt at Citizens Bank Park. It's Cole Hamels for the Phillies and Jeff Francis for the Rockies. And your live blogger is John Bolster, sports editor at Penthouse magazine. After the jump, enjoy, and, of course, play along in the comments. (You can also email him right here)
(UPDATE: Mr. Bolster's Internet connection has collapsed. So we're sorry, but the live blog is all kaput. It happens. The early evening game will work smoother. Frankly, we're having a good enough time watching the commenters keep us updated. But nevertheless: We apologize. We recommend you check out The 700 Level's live blog. Sorry.)
Top of the Second Inning
Welcome to the playoffs, Todd Helton. He greets Hamels with a first pitch triple. Atkins drives him in. Torrealba drives him in with a bloop single to center. A walk to Matsui loads the bases. Hamels walks in a run. ... More glitches folks. Sorry. Hamels strikes out Holliday to end the inning but the damage is done.
Rockies 3, Phillies 0
Bottom of the First Inning
Technical difficulties, folks. Sorry. Jeff Francis struck out the side—Rollins, Victorino, Utley.
Rockies 0, Philllies 0
Top of the First Innning
Cole Hamels is a beast, with a wicked fastball, curve and changeup—and a hot wife in former Survivor girl Heidi Strobel, but this is easily the biggest game of his career. He gets Kaz Matsui on a grounder to short, then makes Troy Tulowitzki look silly on a changeup. Two down. Matt Holliday dribbles one down the first base line, tough play for Hamels and he doesnt look likely to make it. Ryan Howard bails him out with a nice pickup and lunging tag. 1-2-3 for Hamels.
Rockies 0, Phillies 0
And a good day to you all, Deadspinners! Welcome to the first game of the 2007 playoffs. But of course for these two teams it seems like the playoffs have been going for weeks now. They're each riding a tidal wave of momentum, and as long as one or both of them isn't completely drained, this should be a bang-up series.
Hey, in our MLB Preview (April 2007 Penthouse) we picked the Phils to win the NL East. Outside of Jimmy Rollins, we were pretty much the only ones to make this call. Of course the Rockies and their entire organization—huge fans of ours—are well aware of this:
So it's gonna be Schmidt's in here all afternoon, no Coors Light.
We've got a man at Citizens Bank Park to file on-site reports, but he's having technical difficulties right now. We'll keep you posted.


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Ongoing clinical studies show new value for patient social networks
Traditional clinical trial patient recruitment can be time-consuming and expensive. Social networks of willing patients are making that process quicker and easier.
It turns out that social networks are good for something other than sharing what's for dinner, notifying the planet what flavor of coffee's in your cup or looking up old pals from high school. Two clinical studies recently published in peer-reviewed journals tapped patients from different social networks to participate in what the studies are calling "citizen science." They challenged traditional assumptions about patient recruitment, sometimes a costly and time-consuming endeavor.
Boston Children's Hospital Informatics Program researchers Elissa Weitzman and Dr. Kenneth Mandl coauthored a study testing the willingness of TuDiabetes.org users to share glycemic control data (indicated by A1c stats) for the sake of public health surveillance. More than 1,600 patients -- 17% of the site's worldwide users -- signed up for the project, which was just the first study coming out of the ongoing surveillance project.
Users ported their A1c data to the study via TuAnalyze, an application the authors describe as "Facebook-like" in an article published in PLoS One.
"I think everybody recognizes that it's increasingly difficult and costly to obtain and maintain research cohorts, and the [traditional] model of research cohorts we've been working with is top-down, it's inflexible, [and] there are disparities between investigator and subject," Weitzman said in an interview with SearchHealthIT.com. "I don't want to say [it's] a dinosaur -- but I'm not sure it's going to be the way of the future. It's certainly not sustainable and scalable. We have an opportunity here to test a model that's very different."
A second study, released by PatientsLikeMe.com and published in the journal Nature Biotechnology, tackled a much broader concept -- a post-market drug study that refuted previous research suggesting that off-label use of lithium carbonate could effectively slow ALS, or amyotrophic lateral sclerosis. Almost 600 ALS patients previously signed up for the study, which tracked results of patients on the drug and collected almost 13 million data points, said PatientsLikeMe founder Jamie Heywood.
The Children's Hospital study simply examined patients' willingness to share data with researchers and each other. The PatientsLikeMe ALS study received mixed evaluations from experts. Yet the clear outcome of both was that patient social networks can connect researchers with willing participants. Ultimately, this might cut recruitment costs and trial times for research hospitals, who often expend much of both just getting a cohort who can give viable data, in the estimation of Nobel Prize-winning scientist Leland "Lee" Hartwell.
Weitzman said the default settings at the TuDiabetes site were established with high levels of privacy, with options for users to change them if they wanted. About 84% of users opted to share their de-identified A1c data with the other diabetes patients participating in the study. This also afforded participants more features, such as GIS Web mapping of their own data in relation to others who also opted to share.
"We found this very high level of what we called 'information altruism,'" Weitzman said. "People were willing, in a privacy-preserving model, to make individual decisions about how they were going to share their data."
It's very easy to do surveys or get data from online things, but we're well aware of how biased those can be from polling and other environments and how easy they are to manipulate the results.
Jamie Heywood, founder, PatientsLikeMe.com
About 30% of study participants went further, she continued, opting to publicly post current A1c test data to a public profile on the site. Not surprisingly, people who were doing better with their glycemic control were more willing to publicly display their A1c stats.
Weitzman and Mandl theorized that giving the users a choice of privacy settings helped engage the diabetics who participated -- and made it clear to participants they were sharing data for the sake of enriching public health.
That, and the fact that it was online, period, Mandl added. Since so few people answer land lines, or even keep them, conducting health surveys over the phone is difficult.
"If we are going to have the ability to do surveillance, we need to find people where they live -- which is online now," Mandl said. "These online health communities are engaging individuals by the hundreds of thousands. That's just in diabetes. And they're existing external to the health system."
Likewise, Heywood found PatientsLikeMe users willing to share details of their health issues with other patients in the online community -- even in cases when they ordinarily would not share such details offline. Moreover, a recent poll among PatientsLikeMe users also revealed other, more practical reasons they are uncomfortable sharing personal health information with employers and even physicians.
In this way, patients can achieve the compartmentalization and privacy they seek in their lives while living their offline social life "apart from their illness," as Heywood noted.
Patient social network takeaways for hospital CIOs
For CIOs at research hospitals, Mandl and Weitzman recommended that projects collecting and using patient data gathered through social networks start with traditional institutional review board (IRB) approval and also apply the usual HIPAA privacy and security protections, even though research projects don't always necessarily fall under HIPAA. In more patient-care-oriented projects, IRB approval might not be needed but HIPAA protections would be.
While meaningful use reporting requirements for diabetes patients will probably be satisfied using International Statistical Classification of Diseases (ICD) codes moving forward, Mandl sees patient social networks as an "important adjunct" to the public health surveillance objectives of the HITECH Act and meaningful use.
Heywood, too, sees some value for hospital IT folks who want to tap social networks to recruit patients for research studies. He also believes they can offer patient access that is hard to duplicate in the offline world.
However, Heywood views PatientsLikeMe more of an online Phase IV clinical research platform rather than simply a patient social network. He thinks it probably would not be simple for a hospital to duplicate his site's data collection successes overnight.
"It's very easy to do surveys or get data from online things, but we're well aware of how biased those can be from polling and other environments and how easy they are to manipulate the results," Heywood said.
"The 'social network thing' I always have mixed feelings about, even using it as a term. We didn't build PatientsLikeMe to be a social network. We happened to let it do that, but there was a point in time early on where we [discussed], 'Are we even going to have a forum, or are we just going to let them talk on other forums?'' Heywood added. "It's easier to add a social network to a clinical research platform than to think about adding a clinical research platform to a social network."
Let us know what you think about the story; email Don Fluckinger, Features Writer.


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Featured: Top 10 Android Apps for Musicians
Whether you're just starting out, looking to involve some technology in your musical lifestyle, or you just need a little help, our list of Top 10 Android Apps for Musicians should have something for you.
Tuner – gStrings
One of the first apps that people think of is some sort of tuner for their stringed instrument, most commonly a guitar. For this sort of thing, you want something that's accurate, reliable and a little versatile. That's why gStrings is still one of the best options out there, as it can tune your violin, viola, violoncello, bass, guitar or piano as well as some wind instruments. A great tuner that does exactly what you want it to, gStrings is a no-brainer for this sort of thing.
When learning to play a song, or getting one of your own creations just right, timing is one of the most important things you can't forget. Having said that, there's not always a metronome to hand, unless you're a metronome salesman. Not many of you I take it, so this simple Metronome will prove a big help to a lot of you. Perfect for your smartphone and tablet, this allows you to take a Metronome wherever you need one and it's a fun-looking one, too.
An obvious choice, perhaps, but one that could no less open your eyes and ears to a whole new world you didn't know existed. I use YouTube to help me with Guitar tutorials and learned some of my first songs using the service. It's great for advice, connecting with other musicians and can be an excellent way of getting your music out there, especially if you've got some friends to help out with a music video or two. YouTube is also good for gear reviews as well, which can help you more effectively spend what's probably a small budget on much-needed gear.
HD Audio Recorder
Sure, your fancy Android smartphone already comes with a voice recorder, but if you're looking on using your smartphone to the best of its ability, it's well worth looking into getting your heads on a proper app. HD Audio Recorder is a good choice, it has a good-looking interface that's easy to use and allows you to record 16-bit audio (the highest Android itself supports) into all manner of difference formats and can help you record things on the go to a good idea of something you want to make better back at the studio or at home.
One for classical lovers, MuseScore can help you practice reading sheet music, pick out which parts to learn how to play and more. Specifically designed for tablets, this is an Android app that will make the most of your large screen friend and hopefully improve your playing. It's an interesting app and allows you to store all of your scores in a folder just for you which allows you to handily allows you to replay your friends whenever, wherever you are.
Metronome Widget
From the same developer of gStrings comes a Metronome on your homescreen. Wherever you want it, whenever you want it, this little app can help you bring up a metronome and keep time faster than anything else, which is perfect for those impromptu play sessions. A nice and simple app, it does what you want it to.
Walk Band
Walk Band is an app that we recently reviewed and we really enjoyed it because it allows you enjoy a number of different instruments no matter where you are. As such, it's a great way of being able to experiment with drum beats or even guitar chord arrangements that are your in head on the way home or whatever. It's also just a lot of fun to mess around with, but as I found out in my review there's a lot of depth here and yes, you can use this to record your creations while on the move, too.
Perfect Ear 2
Perfect Ear 2 is one for those learning to play piano or keyboard, but it's also an excellent way of training your ears to recognize certain notes, chords and their forms and more. It's like boot camp for your ears, and it can really help improve your recognition and your memory when it comes to performing certain notes or chords. A nice little app that works well on tablets, Perfect Ear 2 is good for music students and budding musicians alike.
It goes without saying that if you're serious of becoming a recording and performing artist, you need to get your work out there. For that, SoundCloud is easily one of the best options out there. It's free, people can hear your music from the Android app, you can embed the player into websites, and easily share it throughout the web. Not just that, but it's insanely popular, which means that there's already an insane amount of people listening and looking for something fresh. We use SoundCloud for our podcast and some of the bigger artists out there still use SoundCloud to show off new work or whatever. A great option, SoundCloud could be just what you've been looking for.
Sheet Music Trainer
This app basically does what you think it does, and can help you learn how to read sheet music, while actually using your chosen instrument (mostly strings). With Sheet Music Trainer, you'll need to play the note that appears on the display in music and the app will listen to your note and let you know if you're right or not. Learning the music itself is one thing, but playing it on cue with your own instrument is a lot harder than you think. This is a great app, and taught me a lot while I was learning guitar over the summer, so take a look at my review and see if it's for you.
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Cocoapods is a dependency manager for Objective-C that will make it easy to add and update FairBid's SDK.
Install Cocoapods:
sudo gem install cocoapods
Close your Xcode project and use the terminal to navigate to your project's directory.
If you don't have one already, make a new file called Podfile with no extension:
touch Podfile
Add the FairBid SDK to your podfile
platform :ios pod 'Heyzap'
Install the SDK:
pod install
Open your workspace:
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Plasma 5 Add-Ons kde panel plasma title window
Source (link to git-repo or to original if based on someone elses unmodified work): https://github.com/psifidotos/applet-window-title/
This is a Plasma 5 applet that shows the current window title and icon in your panels. This plasmoid is coming from Latte land but it can also support Plasma panels.
You can install this applet directly from Plasma 5 Widgets Explorer
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or from applet settings->Behavior->Hide activity information to remove it totally
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Is it possible to get 'Title' to act as 'hide activity information', that is not to display, if you're displaying application title and window title in different widgets and they both have the same text?
For example, I can start Lollypop and both application name (from Window Active Control) and title name (from Window Title Applet) show Lollypop until I start playing a song whereas Title shifts to the artist. I would prefer title to not display until a song is played so it doesn't duplicate.
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Version 0.5.2 20 days ago
* fix bold font kerning issues
Version 0.5.1 3 months ago
* improve window title discovery for flatpaks
* do not show empty window title when there are information from the application
Version 0.5.0 5 months ago
* use Latte Windows Tracking interface when in Latte v0.9
* do not use icon size in computations when icon is not visible
* do not draw Application Name/Window Title separator when any of these two could not be retrieved
Version 0.4.1 7 months ago
* improve signaling for Broadcaster
* close ComboBox popup after selecting an item
* add some debug messages
Version 0.4 8 months ago
-- dont elide if there is free space in the panel
-- improve metrics and calculations for better visual results
-- support Unity behavior when used with Window AppMenu 0.4 in latest Latte master
-- update Appearance settings
Version 0.3 10 months ago
- improve defaults and behavior for Latte edit mode
- elide text if applet exceeds panel space
- elide only title when needed
- improvements for settings window
- synchronize scrolling for substitutions elements
- support new Latte Communicator mechanism from Latte git version
Version 0.2 1 year ago
- Fifth Text Style, "Do not show any text"
- Font option to capitalize first letters
- Multi-screen aware in order to locate active window in the current screen or at all screens
- Support user-set maximum icon size
- Double click to maximize/restore active window (for plasma panels)
- Option to hide Activity information when no window is active
- Split settings to Appearance and Behavior
- Show tooltip when hovering to provide more information
- Support Application Name substitutions in Behavior settings page
Version 0.1 1 year ago
- Four different text styles, [application, Title, Application - Title, Title - Application]
- Support both horizontal and vertical alignments
- Show window icon
- Maximize window icon to applet thickness (optional)
- Bold/Italic font
- Set maximum length in pixels or use all the required space to show all contents
- Set spacing between icon and title
- Left/Right or Top/Bottom margins
- Multi-screen ready
- Show activity name/icon when there is not any active window
- Double click in order to maximize/restore active window (for plasma panels)
- Latte v0.9 ready
- - support new painting
- - support maximize/restore active window
- - support dragging active window from latte panel