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The episode gave Guts interpretation of SK's comment on Casca. Guts thinks she might not actually wanted to be healed by thinking "Yes, she could not accept it, that is why she went out of her mind" which I think is kind of interesting.
Am I the only one finding Farnese is getting more out spoken especially when she made a rough comment on Guts.
It makes me wonder (as it's been mentioned) if Skellig might be attacked by apostles or if the gang intend to use a similar form of transport to make their way to Falconia later on.
PLease don't let these 2 pair up, if that day comes I'll quit reading the manga !
I doubt that the boy is Griffith himself spying on them, but maybe he's his son, too? Because I'm starting to think that Griffith didn't only "demonize" the baby during the rape, but actually added a bit of himself to it, becoming a third parent somehow (probably not by purpose).
Since he was already belonging to another dimension during the intercourse, the resemblance to him only appears in the boy's astral form, while his physical body is a mix of Casca and Guts.
Maybe, that's why the boy now seems to follow Griffith's orders or something
Maybe Griffith only realised that it's his son after incarnating, so he gave him a body and manipulating him somehow.
It seems to be a very specialized phenomena: the boy's power + the full moon + the tree. I doubt it's something just _anyone_ can do.
Nah, she's becoming more confident. Really confident, as opposed to her posturing when she was head of the H.I.C.K. It's really nice to see how far she's come. Truly a master work of character development.
I wouldn't assume they would be using the same method as the boy, but since he's someone other than SK that now has a fast method of moving around, maybe there could be something at Skellig for the group to achieve something similar? Not entirely likely, but not entirely impossible.
Anyway, what do you make of the boys look from below the moon?I can't quite put my finger on it, but he looks... worried? Concerned?
Almost as if he knew something.
How old do you think he his now, not in terms of actual years, but in terms of child development (can I say it like this?). He seems to grow up a lot faster than normal humans would.
Since so far (if I'm not wrong) we seem to be seeing him on full moon nights. Now I don't think the trip to Elfhelm will last one a couple of weeks (we don't know how big the island is nor how long will they take to find Elfhelm on Skellig) So, do you guys think we'll see him one more time when they are the island (assuming that Schierke is wrong with her assumption that he might be himself the King of Flower Storm)
I'm quite sure that we won't see him again until they reach Elfhelm, and I'm also certain that it'll be during a full moon. The real question is whether we will see him in Elfhelm or not (will he be willing to show himself there?). I hope we will.
Will we see him in Elfhelm since I don't think their trip there will last a couple of weeks.
Oh I was also thinking how big is Elfhelm? Is it a part of Skellig?
I wonder if the kid can be detained... Imagine if they somehow got him to stick around AFTER the full moon...
Skellig is the name of the island on which Elfhelm (a village/town/home of elves) is situated.
Am I the only one who never thought that there was really a Ganishka-Tree in this episode? Having his tree-body completely obliterated by Femto, I don't believe that there's been any Ganishka-Tree roots left behind on Earth even in residual astral form,
In my opinion, those wormhole portals that we saw in the last few pages are what may just be the very threads of Causality themselves, leading into the living world from the depths of Abyss, and via which Guts' and Casca's son is able to temporarily travel to the living world and visit his parents.
What do you guys think the chances are that the story will switch back to Griffith for a little bit now? It seems like a good place for a transition. I'm hoping for more Guts though.
Though I wonder what else is on Skellig.
Having his tree-body completely obliterated by Femto, I don't believe that there's been any Ganishka-Tree roots left behind on Earth even in residual astral form, to serve as some kind of "portal" for Moonlight Boy.
In my opinion, those wormhole portals that we saw in the last few pages are what may just be the very threads of Causality themselves, leading into the living world from the depths of Abyss
I guess you're confused that we're calling it the Ganishka Tree? Because there's certainly a tree that appeared in place of Ganishka when Falconia appeared. And there's no reason to believe it's not around anymore.
You should really re-read episode 307.
Oh, the World Tree, which had appeared after Ganishka's death.
After a second read through, I got a question. When Guts wakes up after he his flashback the beast shows up. I'm wondering if that's just Guts thinking of the beast or the beast itself? I was under the impression the beast was laying low.


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In trying to get to grips both with Bryden Black's argument (which I unashamedly lean towards) and Tobias Haller's argument (which I unhesitatingly respect as reasonable and fair) I shall try to be fair!
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A few reflections (some of which I think I have already made inter alia among previous comments).
1. I think it an error to call up the interpretation of the ancients on Genesis 1:27 (Haller) to rebut a (so-argued) novel reading of Genesis 1:27 (Black) in the context of arguing for a novel interpretation of marriage (Haller). It is quite fair and reasonable that a review of the biblical material on marriage towards adopting same sex marriage is a free review of all material, including the possibility that a new reading of Genesis 1:27 counts against that adoption.
2. Although it took me a while to understand the force of Tobias' argument that the third line of the three line statement about creation imago dei in Genesis 1:27 is in 'opposition' rather than 'apposition' to the two previous lines, I understand him to be arguing that God created adam in God's image but did not create humanity divided into the sexes in God's image. That is, what we 'image' is neither the diversity of God through being diversely gendered nor the creativity of God through being humanity-enabled-to-be-procreative-by-being-male-and-female. A strong argument which claims properly that it is a plain and careful reading of the words of the three lines.
3. The apposition argument from Bryden is that God creates humanity-that-is-male-and-female in his image. (Funnily enough, yesterday reading a book about Jacques Ellul, I noted that Ellul understood Genesis 1:27 in the apposition way, God created one person in two forms (with obvious analogy back towards God-one-being-in-three-persons).) The strength of this argument is that it allows the word 'created' to be what it is, a connection between all three lines so that the third line is an extension of the second line rather than an opposition to it: in the image of God he created him = adam = male and female.
That male and female each bear the image of God is the least the third line means (and thus we read what we read in 1 Corinthians 11:8: the man images God, the woman images the man who images God) but might we also take account of Genesis 5:1-2,
'This is the list of descendants of Adam. When God created adam, he made him in the likeness of God. Male and female he created them, and he blessed them and named them adam when they were created.'
Humanity is expressed by the adam (man) but the writer of Genesis 5:1-2 understands humanity in its gender diversity, composed of zcr and tqbh, male and female, as created by God: not (as in Genesis 2, reflected in 1 Corinthians 11) primarily male with female derivative from male (or female as an improvement on male), but both together.
Genesis 5:3 is then important:
'When Adam had lived one hundred and thirty years, he became the father of a son in his likeness, according to his image, and named him Seth.'
The image of God 'became the father of a son in his likeness, according to his image.' Inherent in the understanding of being made in the image of God is the creative power to make others in that image. That happens because humanity is male and female. Without being male and female, humanity could not act in this God-like manner. Humanity male and female is a creation in God's image because together (and only together) male and female act like God in themselves procreating sons and daughters in their likeness.
If we are going to talk about plain reading of texts, are we not reading plainly as Trinitarian Christians when we see humanity as one person (adam) in two forms (zcr, tqbh)?
In sum: while seeing the strength of Tobias' argument against reading Genesis 1:27 as God made humanity male and female in his image, I am not overwhelmed by that strength. The apposition argument may not be so strong as to sweep the opposition argument before it, but it is a strong argument.
(As an aside, it is ironical that the NRSV, much valued for its inclusive approach to translation, makes Genesis 1:27 perfectly suited to support Bryden's argument! 'So God created humankind in his image, in the image of God he created them; male and female he created them.')
4. I accept that in heaven there will not be marriage and thus sub species aeternitas (from the perspective of eternity) marriage is a temporal phenomenon. Yet this observation needs care. Our physical bodies, for example, are also temporal (beyond the grave we will have new spiritual bodies). But dare we treat them as a kind of passing phenomenon? If we did, we could be quite cavalier about each other's bodies: I know this will kill you but it is only your temporal body ... of course not!
The precise paradox of temporality of the phenomena of this world is that we respect one another as God's creatures and do all in our power to prolong each other's lives, through health, through peace-making, etc while understanding that (in a sense) all this is in vain as all die and all institutions of this life fail (save for the church?). Gender and marriage may not survive death and judgment but that does not and should not lessen the importance we attach to them in this life.
5. One importance which attaches to marriage is that it is a great and repeated metaphor for the very relationship between God and God's people and between Christ and Christ's church. But how does this metaphor work? It works from an understanding of marriage in which the two parties to the marriage are differently gendered so marriage consists of a male husband and a female wife, a point reinforced in (say) Ephesians 5:23 where marriage is understood to involve headship, a specific relationship between husband and wife which itself mirrors and sheds light on the headship of Christ over the church. The great mystery of marriage, Ephesians 5:31, is then both the 'one flesh' coming together of the man-who-leaves-his-mother-and-father and the woman to whom he is 'joined' as she becomes his wife and he her husband. Paul does not quite say it, but the great mystery likely includes the way in which two are one flesh even as one is head of the other: this is a great mystery for how are the two joined in marriage equal partners in one flesh while being unequal (or 'unequal') in respect of headship.
Whatever we make of headship and of the understanding and application of Paul's teaching about it in today's world, the point is that marriage is understood here (and elsewhere in Scripture) to be gender differentiated. This is not merely as a matter of biology (the coming together of which differentiated bodies to form one united body through intercourse is basic to 'one flesh'), or psychology (the coming together of two people to form one couple united in heart, mind and will is also reasonably included in the meaning of 'one flesh'), but also of relationship to one another in the gendered roles of husband and wife. Husbands are to love their wives; wives are to respect their husbands. Men in marriage are asked to be responsible for their wives in a specific way, women in marriage are asked to be responsible to their husbands in a specific way.
This approach to marriage works well in terms of metaphor. Christ is not the church; the church is not Christ, yet Christ loves the church (like a husband loves his wife), the church submits to Christ (like a wife submits to her husband) while Christ and the church are united as 'one flesh', a head (Christ) and a body (the church) forming one entity. There is indeed a great mystery here.
Now polygamous marriage would not offer a metaphor here and nor would same sex marriage. The important question then, I suggest, working from the Haller-Black debate, is whether the approach to marriage taken in Scripture rules out the possibility of same sex marriage.
Obviously same sex marriage is not ruled out just because it cannot be invoked metaphorically in the service of Christ and the church. Further, we observe that polygamous marriage finds a place in the Bible. But polygamous marriage has a checkered career through the history of Israel (and no place at all in the movement of Jesus). The focus on marriage in Ephesians 5, anchored as it is into Genesis 2, rules out the possibility of Christianity endorsing and promoting polygamy: Christ is one and there is one church.
Having connected marriage to christology and ecclesiology in the manner of Ephesians 5, there is no going backwards for the church to re-think marriage as re-extendable to incorporate polygamy. The consequence of involving marriage as a metaphor for Christ and the church is that Christ and the church confines understanding of marriage to rule out polygamy. In case of doubt one may also refer to the teaching of Christ himself on marriage which in similar fashion (including anchoring on the rock of Genesis 2) only envisages marriage being between two people, not more.
What bearing then does Ephesians 5 have on same sex marriage? I suggest it makes it that bit harder to say that the Bible in the end is indifferent to the gender of parties to a marriage.
6. Nevertheless arguments will spring forth (and back) re the expandability of the definition of marriage. Sticking with Ephesians 5, for example, the case can be made (as Tobias does) that the connection between husband and wife in terms of roles re 'love' and 'respect', betokening as it appears an inequality, is lessened today if not done away with, so that consequently a distinctive aspect of gender difference in marriage is done away with. Cue the possibility of marriage indifferent to gender.
But this works in another way. Engaging with Ephesians 5 (and not only with Ephesians, but simplicity keeps me focused on this chapter) directs us to the particular significance of marriage between a man and a woman, a marriage which creates a husband and a wife, both with attendant responsibilities and potent metaphorical attribution. Is this form of marriage sui generis? If 'marriage' is a word to also be used of a relationship between two men or two women, do we need another word for what Ephesians 5 talks about?
7. Another way to put my concerns at this point is this: if we approach the definition of marriage by testing what is essential and what is inessential we find a case mounts for gender differentiation to be placed in the inessential rather than essential category. Ergo, same sex marriage is plausible as marriage. But if we approach proposals for what constitutes marriage (e.g. heterosexual marriage, same sex marriage, polygamous marriage) and ask whether heterosexual marriage, that is, the embodied union of two differentiated genders, is a distinctive class or category of marriage, then answer is affirmative. The question then is not whether all marriages fit an agreed definition of marriage, but whether we have the right names for distinctive relationships.
In part this question will be answered by the course the English language takes. In another part the question could be answered by theologians finding a specific word or phrase to describe the marriage between a man and a woman.
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Jeep Cherokee XJ - 10 Day Jeep Speed Racer Part 2Posted in Project Vehicles on January 23, 2007
Our story so far: JeepSpeed racer Jason LaFortune and his crew at Temper-Mental Racing (TMR) hit us with an intriguing question-could they build a fully operational desert race truck out of a tired, 140,000-mile Forest Service XJ in just 10 days? The pitch was a strong one-LaFortune accomplished a similar feat in 2004, but in 14 days, not 10-and we were curious to find out if he could truly work the same magic in about two-thirds of the time.
In our last issue, we kicked off the buildup coverage with some drivetrain work and frame bracing. During Days 4 and 5, the suspension and rollcage start to take shape.
Day 4: Prior commitments kept us out of the Temper-Mental shop on Day 3, so we had some catching up to do. The most obvious change: the Jeep came off the lift and into the shop's second bay. The lower altitude meant the crew could start locating the axles. At the rear, the Currie 9-Plus racing 9-inch was moved into position. The rearend is fitted with 35-spline axles, 5.14 gears, and a spool. The suspension is cycled with only one leaf on each side.
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Go to the artist's site. Soak in the beauty.
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Often we receive questions as to how one calculates an "Absorption Rate" for Montana Real Estate and Homes.
Calculating SW Montana Homes Absorption Rate for 2011:
1. Time Frame is total days from January 1 to December 31 = 365 days
2. All Sold SW Montana Homes, all Areas from January 1 to December 31 = 1,910
3. All Active SW Montana Homes, all Areas at the end of December 31 ≈ 1,250
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Rate of SW Montana Home Sales ≈ .1911. Therefore, ONE SW Montana home is sold approximately every .1911 DAYS. This number is calculated in this way: divide 365 by 1,910 ≈ .1911 (Time Period/Number of SW Montana Homes Were Sold, precluding Recreational, To Be Built, and Timeshare properties.)
Absorption Rate ≈ 239 DAYS, about 7.96 months, so we'll round to 8 MONTHS as the Absorption rate for the year 2011. This number is calculated in this way: multiply 1,250 times .1911 ≈ 239 days (Total Active SW Montana Homes x Rate of SW Montana Home Sales.)
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Little Sci is at the door
Tom Cruise continues to work on One Shot in Pittsburgh so his family, including wife Katie Holmes, their daughter Little Sci Suri, and son Connor were there for Halloween weekend. Katie was charged with managing the festivities on Saturday, seen here with Connor and Suri, in costume, trick or treating in the neighbourhood.
Imagine your doorbell rings and it's Little Sci Cruise holding out her pumpkin bucket asking you for candy?
So...I don't mean to judge but as far as celebrity children and Halloween costumes go, Suri's is pretty ordinary. The Alba turned Honour into a pretty kick-ass genie. And I saw many varieties of awesome faeries, bees, ducks, dogs, wizards, and witches all over the photo agencies. Suri's princess outfit on the other hand looks like her own clothes.
No, actually, I'm wrong. If I were Little Sci, with her clothing budget, I'd want to wear them all the time, even on Halloween too. Remember, she gets her Roger Viviers custom made.
Anyway, after all the trick or treating with ordinary people, Katie and Connor hit up the Chipotle. A lot people swear by Chipotle over Baja Fresh. Really? I've only been to Chipotle once and it didn't make me want to break up with Baja. What am I missing?


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The portions published Thursday focus mainly on questions about the dossier's claims about Aleksej Gubarev, a tech executive who Steele alleges took part in the hacking of Democrats' computer systems. Gubarev has vehemently denied the claim and sued Steele and BuzzFeed News, which published the dossier on Jan. 10, 2017. U.S. District Court Judge Ursula Ungaro, who handled the lawsuit, ordered a slew of previously sealed documents to be made public Thursday. Ungaro dismissed the lawsuit on Dec. 19 but did not weigh in on whether the dossier's claims about Gubarev were accurate. It is unclear whether Steele's entire deposition will be released. A source familiar with Steele's interview tempered expectations of any bombshells in the document, saying that Steele avoided going into detail about his efforts to create the dossier and his sources. A deposition given by former State Department official David Kramer was perhaps the most enlightening document contained in the dump. Kramer, a longtime associate of late Arizona Sen. John McCain, was BuzzFeed's source for the dossier. Kramer shared the dossier with at least 11 other reporters, including CNN's Carl Bernstein. (RELATED: John McCain Associate Gave Dossier To A Dozen Reporters) Kramer obtained the dossier in late November 2016 after visiting Steele in London. Steele acknowledged that Kramer and McCain were picked as conduits to pass the dossier to then-FBI Director James Comey. McCain met with Comey on Dec. 9, 2016 and provided all of the dossier's memos that had been written up to that point. "I think they felt a senior Republican was better to be the recipient of this rather than a Democrat because if it were a Democrat, I think that the view was that it would have been dismissed as a political attack," Kramer said in the deposition when asked why Steele and his business partners at Fusion GPS wanted McCain to meet with Comey. Via Washington Examiner… Former British spy Christopher Steele admitted that he relied on an unverified report on a CNN website for part of the "Trump dossier," which was used as a basis for the FBI's investigation into Trump. According to deposition transcripts released this week, Steele said last year he used a 2009 report he found on CNN's iReport website and said he wasn't aware that submissions to that site are posted by members of the public and are not checked for accuracy. A web archive from July 29, 2009 shows that CNN described the site in this manner: "iReport.com is a user-generated site. That means the stories submitted by users are not edited, fact-checked, or screened before they post." In the dossier, Steele, a Cambridge-educated former MI6 officer, wrote about extensive allegations against Donald Trump, associates of his campaign, various Russians and other foreign nationals, and a variety of companies — including one called Webzilla. Those allegations would become part of an FBI investigation and would be used to apply for warrants under the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act. During his deposition, Steele was pressed on the methods he used to verify allegations made about Webzilla, which was thought to be used by Russia to hack into Democratic emails. When asked if he discovered "anything of relevance concerning Webzilla" during the verification process, Steele replied: "We did. It was an article I have got here which was posted on July 28, 2009, on something called CNN iReport." "I do not have any particular knowledge of that," Steele said when asked what was his understanding of how the iReport website worked. When asked if he understood that content on the site was not generated by CNN reporters, he said, "I do not." He was then asked: "Do you understand that they have no connection to any CNN reporters?" Steele replied, "I do not." He was pressed on this further: "Do you understand that CNN iReports are or were nothing more than any random individuals' assertions on the Internet?" Steele replied: "No, I obviously presume that if it is on a CNN site that it may has some kind of CNN status. Albeit that it may be an independent person posting on the site." When asked about his methodology for searching for this information, Steele described it as "what we could call an open source search," which he defined as "where you go into the Internet and you access material that is available on the Internet that is of relevance or reference to the issue at hand or the person under consideration." Steele said his dossier contained "raw intelligence" that he admitted could contain untrue or even "deliberately false information." Steele was hired by the opposition research firm Fusion GPS to investigate then-candidate Donald Trump in 2016. Fusion GPS was receiving funding at the time from the Clinton campaign and the DNC through the Perkins Coie law firm. The series of memos that Steele would eventually compile became known as the "Trump Dossier." The dossier was used in FISA applications to surveil Trump campaign associate Carter Page. When asked whether he warned Fusion GPS that the information in the dossier might be "Russian disinformation," Steele admitted that "a general understanding existed between us and Fusion … that all material contained this risk." Steele also described his interactions with Sen. John McCain's aide, David Kramer, whose own deposition showed that he provided BuzzFeed with a copy of the dossier and had spoken with more than a dozen journalists about it. "I provided copies of the December memo to Fusion GPS for onward passage to David Kramer at the request of Sen. John McCain," Steele said. "Sen. McCain nominated him as the intermediary. I did not choose him as the intermediary." When asked if he told Kramer that he couldn't "vouch for everything that was produced in the memos," Steele replied, "Yes, with an emphasis on 'everything.'" When asked why he believed it was so important to provide the dossier to Sen. McCain, Steele said: "Because I judged it had national security implications for the United States and the West as a whole." Liked it? Take a second to support The Duran on Patreon! Continue Reading Latest Trudeau's Top Bureaucrat Unexpectedly Quits Amid Growing Corruption Scandal In a scathing letter to Trudeau, Wernick said that "recent events" led him to conclude he couldn't hold his post during the election campaign this fall. Published 21 hours ago on March 19, 2019 By Tyler Durden Via Zerohedge… Since it was exposed by a report in Canada's Globe and Mail newspaper earlier this month, the scandal that's become known as the SNC-Lavalin affair has already led to the firing of several of Trudeau's close advisors and raised serious questions about whether the prime minister was complicit in pressuring the attorney general to offer a deferred prosecution agreement with a large, Quebec-based engineering firm. And according to the first round of polls released since the affair exploded into public view… …it could cost Trudeau his position as prime minister and return control to the conservatives, according to the CBC. Campaign Research showed the Conservatives ahead with 37% to 32% for the Liberals, while both Ipsos and Léger put the margin at 36% to 34% in the Conservatives' favour.Since December, when both polling firms were last in the field, the Liberals have lost one point in Campaign Research's polling and four percentage points in the Ipsos poll, while the party is down five points since November in the Léger poll. Meanwhile, as the noose tightens around Trudeau, on Monday another of the key Canadian government officials at the center of the SNC-Lavalin scandal has quit his post. Michael Wernick, clerk of the privy council, the highest-ranking position in Canada's civil service and a key aide to Justin Trudeau, announced his retirement Monday. Trudeau named Ian Shugart, currently deputy minister of foreign affairs, to replace him. In a scathing letter to Trudeau, Wernick said that "recent events" led him to conclude he couldn't hold his post during the election campaign this fall. "It is now apparent that there is no path for me to have a relationship of mutual trust and respect with the leaders of the opposition parties," he said, citing the need for impartiality on the issue of potential foreign interference. According to Bloomberg, the exact date of his departure is unclear. As we reported in February, Canada's former justice minister and attorney general, Jody Wilson-Raybould, quit following allegations that several key Trudeau government figures pressured her to intervene to end a criminal prosecution against Montreal-based construction giant SNC. Wernick was among those she named in saying the prime minister's office wanted her to pursue a negotiated settlement. Wernick has since twice spoken to a committee of lawmakers investigating the case, and during that testimony both defended his actions on the SNC file and warned about the risk of foreign election interference, as "blame Putin" has become traditional Plan B plan for most politicians seeing their careers go up in flames. "I'm deeply concerned about my country right now, its politics and where it's headed. I worry about foreign interference in the upcoming election," he said in his first appearance before the House of Commons justice committee, before repeating the warning a second time this month. "If that was seen as alarmist, so be it. I was pulling the alarm. We need a public debate about foreign interference." Because somehow foreign interference has something to do with Wenick's alleged corruption. Incidentally, as we wonder what the real reason is behind Wernick's swift departure, we are confident we will know soon enough. Anyway, back to the now former clerk, who is meant to be non-partisan in service of the government of the day, also criticized comments by a Conservative senator and praised one of Trudeau's cabinet ministers. Wernick's testimony was criticized as overly cozy with the ruling Liberals. Murray Rankin, a New Democratic Party lawmaker, asked the clerk how lawmakers could "do anything but conclude that you have in fact crossed the line into partisan activity?" Green Party Leader Elizabeth May said he seemed "willing to interfere in partisan fashion for whoever is in power." Whatever Wernick's true motives, he is the latest but not last in what will be a long line of cabinet departures as the SNC scandal exposes even more corruption in Trudeau's cabinet (some have ironically pointed out that Canada's "beloved" prime minister could be gone for actual corruption long before Trump). Trudeau had already lost a top political aide, Gerald Butts, to the scandal. A second minister, Jane Philpott, followed Wilson-Raybould in quitting cabinet. Separately, on Monday, Trudeau appointed a former deputy prime minister in a Liberal government, Anne McLellan, as a special adviser to investigate some of the legal questions raised by the controversy. They include how governments should interact with the attorney general and whether that role should continue to be held by the justice minister. As Bloomberg notes, the increasingly shaky Liberal government hasn't ruled out helping SNC by ordering a deferred prosecution agreement in the corruption and bribery case, which centers around the company's work in Moammar Qaddafi's Libya. Doing so would allow the company to pay a fine and avoid any ban on receiving government contracts. That decision is up to the current attorney general, David Lametti; of course, such an action would only raise tensions amid speculation that the government is pushing for a specific political, and favorable for Trudeau, outcome. 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The open event saw three scientists from the International Council for the Exploration of the Sea (ICES), and from the Scientific, Technical and Economic Committee for Fisheries present the latest biological and economic information as well as results from surveys of the sea. Participants ranging from representatives of the fishing industry and environmental organisations as well as journalists and citizens had the opportunity to discuss the latest information with experts and Commission officials whilst the Commission presented its methodology and approach to managing fisheries for sustainability.
European Commissioner for Maritime Affairs and Fisheries, Maria Damanaki, has welcomed the continued improvement in the state of the stocks in northern areas and in the profitability of the fisheries, whilst identifying the current state of stocks in the Mediterranean Sea as an issue for concern.
"Hard choices have been made in the northern seas, stocks have improved and the industry has grown more profitable as a result. This is a vindication of the hard work put in by scientists and the fishing industry to protect and recover stocks. But the Mediterranean stocks are as overfished as those in the northern areas were a decade ago. The Mediterranean countries now need to get moving quickly to sort out this overfishing before it leads to serious collapses and environmental damage."
The forum for agreeing common fisheries management measures among all the states concerned is the General Fisheries Council for the Mediterranean (GFCM). The Commission will use that forum to promote a new, more local approach to phasing out overfishing, so that appropriate solutions can be found for each fishery.
The seminar formed part of the preparation of decisions for fisheries regulations in 2014, including fishing quotas. The decisions will be the first round of regulations being decided under the reformed Common Fisheries Policy.
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We're through a couple of weeks of free agency and that means that the market of available players has thinned to the point where cost-conscious teams can start shopping for veteran help at low prices.
The Cowboys are going to be doing just that this week. Bryan Broaddus of the team's website reports that safety Will Allen and linebacker Justin Durant will be visiting the team on Monday.
Allen has spent the last three years with the Steelers and started seven times last season as Troy Polamalu battled injuries. The Cowboys hope to have Barry Church healthy, but there's not much else on hand after releasing Gerald Sensabaugh earlier this offseason. Safety's a spot where the Cowboys need to improve this offseason, something signing Allen would not accomplish on its own.
Durant has started 26 games over the last two years for the Lions and recorded 103 tackles for the team last season. The Cowboys need someone to go with Sean Lee and Bruce Carter in their new 4-3 look, something Durant could provide if the price is right.


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Waynesboro qualified two golfers to the 2013 District 3-AAA Boys Championship, and both made the cut after the first day of competition at the 6,608-yard, par-72 Briarwood East Course.
YORK — Waynesboro qualified two golfers to the 2013 District 3-AAA Boys Championship, and both made the cut after the first day of competition at the 6,608-yard, par-72 Briarwood East Course.
Tyler Bricker finished the first 18 holes in a two-way tie for 12th place with a score of 39-36—75. Teammate Nick Franki is in a three-way tie for 14th place with a 39-36—76 after the first day.
The cut was 80.
"Tyler and Nick are in a great position," said Waynesboro coach Ryan Henderson. "Both faced adversity during the round and both found a way to persevere and get it done. If they post similar numbers on Saturday, we could be going to regionals."
Chambersburg's Austin Green (T-8th) and Max Bell (T-8th) also survived the cut. Green carded a 40-34—74, while Bell shot 39-35—74.
Ryan Dornes of Manheim Township leads the field of 33 golfers who made the cut with a 38-31—69 after the first round.
The second round was scheduled to begin at 10:50 this morning.
In the girls' district championship, Greencastle-Antrim's Ellie Kotrady and Waynesboro's Erika Cauffman both made the cut. Kotrady finished with 42-42—84 and is in a three-way tie for 10th place. Cauffman carded 45-44—89 and is tied for 16th place, one stroke ahead of the cut.
"Ellie played real solid from tee to green today," G-A coach Jeremy Eby said. "She putted very well and we're excited about her position in trying to qualify for regionals."
Allison Cooper of Central Dauphin leads after the first day after shooting even-par.
"Erika picked a great time to break 90 for the first time," Henderson said. "Her 89 was the exact number she had to shoot to make the cut for day two. The expression on her face was priceless.
"I am excited for all three players."
A total of 16 girls will vie for a spot in the regional championship. Eight of the 16 advancing golfers are from Mid-Penn Conference teams, including three from Central Dauphin.
The next step is the PIAA East Region Golf Championships on Oct. 15 and 16 at Golden Oaks Golf Club in Fleetwood.
The top eight District 3-AAA girls and top 16 AAA boys advance to the regional championships.


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Nitwits really don't care about the numbers. Ask any of them and they don't remember how many blankets, hats, gloves, socks or sweaters they have made.
It's because they aren't nitwits; they are the Knit Witts.
Barbara Daniels says it's been at least 15 years since she proposed a weekly knitting group at the Pilgrim Senior Center. "They told me it wouldn't last," she said Friday afternoon. But the Knit Witts keep coming and the group keeps growing. With the exception of a couple of Fridays during the holiday season, the now more than 30-member group meets every week year-round. When they started off, seven or eight Knit Witts fit easily into a partitioned section of one of the center's larger rooms. As it grew, additional sections of the room were opened until there were tables stretched like an assembly line down the middle of the room. Knitters face each other and tend to gather at the ends in small bunches. On Friday, about 20 Knit Witts were busily knitting, needles clicking and fingers flying, or talking and knitting.
"It gives us an outlet," said Daniels. There are few requirements to being a member. Gender is not a consideration – Mike was with the group on Friday – nor is it speed or the level of skills. In fact, those wanting to learn and beginners are welcome.
But, as Daniels makes clear, if donated yarn is used, then the items produced go to one of the several causes supported by the group. Donations of yarn come from individuals and various retailers, but Knit Witters can also bring their own yarn and donate those creations, too.
Some are speedy, if they put their minds to it.
Eleanor DeAvilla (Daniel's mother, who at 94 is the senior member of the group) can knit a hat at top speed.
"I can make one in an evening, if I don't fall asleep," she said.
There's a team effort to some projects, with members taking on different aspects of the job. Nancy Zinkiewicz, a member for five or six years, has earned the title of the "Pompom Queen." On Friday, working with small scissors, she trimmed pompoms that will adorn one of the baby hats for Women & Infants Hospital.
"It gets me out of the house, and I'm doing something creative," she said, and laughed, "And I need someone to clean my house."
Others gathered around and the banter begins.
Maggie DeCesare, who lives in Coventry and is also a member of the Linus knitting group in the center there, loves that the groups are helping one another. DeCesare always has her knitting needles with her.
"I used to work for a living," she says, "but I don't do that anymore; I don't have time for it."
Nearby, Ginger Stapleton knit a blanket. She prefers that to the more difficult hats, socks or sweaters, as she is legally blind.
"It's all by feel," she said, running fingers over the work.
The conversation shifts to the airport and Stapleton, who lives on Warwick Pond, talks about the changes to the area her neighborhood will see with the relocation of the Winslow Park playing fields. She paused in her knitting but, compelled by the urge to finish another project, picked it up again.
Many projects have been completed in the past year. Daniels produced a copy of the Pilgrim Senior Center News that noted that last year the Knit Witters made 1,233 hats that went to Women & Infants Hospital for newborns; 32 lap robes for nursing homes; 120 pairs of slippers for residents of the Sunny View Nursing Home; and 375 hats, 128 scarves and 43 pairs of gloves and mittens for the needy and homeless.
But the numbers are only a part of the story.


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Chris Christie will cap his landslide reelection in New Jersey by taking the reins of the Republican Governors Association, a platform that promises to enhance his stature as a leader of the Republican Party and 2016 frontrunner but also threatens to tether him more firmly to the tattered GOP brand.
In assuming the chairmanship of the association later this month – the highest-profile position in the party that Christie has taken on – Christie will be able to travel the country and tout the successes of a rare collection of bright spots in the GOP the past three years – its governors.
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And that will mean, implicitly or perhaps even explicitly, Christie trumpeting his own legislative and electoral success as a Republican leader in a Democratic state. If he can do it, part of the governor's message will undoubtedly be, so can the party at large.
( SEE RESULTS: 2013 elections)
Yet selling that message of pragmatism could be more difficult on the heels of two closely-watched gubernatorial contests – his own and the race in Virginia. Ken Cuccinelli's unexpectedly narrow loss is almost certain to prompt outrage among his supporters about what might have been had national GOPers, including the RGA, not bypassed spending on the race in the final weeks.
Christie's team at the RGA is expected to keep valued staffers such as Executive Director Phil Cox. It is also likely to dramatically curtail the involvement of certain vendors, chief among them the Bobby Jindal-advising firm OnMessage Inc.
The position will give Christie cover to get outside of his home state in support of other candidates over the next year — ahead of an almost-certain presidential campaign that his supporters and aides have done little to tamp down expectations about on the way to his reelection rout. The association had a budget of nearly $40 million in the bank, with a fundraising goal of at least $100 million next year.
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"He has more of the abilities to be a strong RGA chairman than many governors, because he is from the New York media market, so he's much better known in the business community than the average governor," said former Mississippi Gov. Haley Barbour, whose stint as RGA chairman at the beginning of the tea party wave was widely praised. "In each case, that gives him a big leg up for one of the more important roles of the RGA chairman, which is raising money."
Yet Christie will also have to brace for some new realities. He will be more closely connected to the national GOP by virtue of being a committee chairman. And he will be under intense scrutiny as the early frontrunner for his party's nomination in 2016, likely facing whispers, as Mitt Romney did when he was RGA chair, about using the committee to further his own career.
( SEE RESULTS: 2013 New Jersey governor's race)
That all amounts to a potentially tough challenge for Christie, who has developed a party-of-one reputation, fairly or not, over the course of his first term in office.
"He doesn't really allow a lot of other people in his playpen," said GOP strategist Alex Castellanos, who worked with Romney in his 2008 presidential run. "But very few of them do."
The RGA has proven to be a mixed bag as a platform for other candidates. For instance, Romney got the support of just one fellow governor in his 2008 campaign, fresh off his stint as RGA chairman, because his colleagues simply didn't like him.
And Christie could give elevation and credibility to the message of another Republican who's considered a potential 2016 hopeful, Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker, by talking about getting elected in a blue, pro-union state as a budget-buster. The New Jersey governor could end up inadvertantly helping Walker, a theoretical national rival.
( Also on POLITICO: Christie to critics: 'I've governed conservatively')
What's more, Christie could be creating a trap for himself by offering his own campaign in New Jersey – in which his opponent was literally abandoned by her own party – as a model not just for other statewide races, but for 2016. The electability argument has worked for few national candidates, and some Republicans believe Christie will have to outline a deeper message.
Still, the risk for Christie in the job is minimal, Castellanos argued.
"The danger would be does he become seen as a defender of the Republican establishment and I say there's zero chance of that because he" is so established already, Castellanos said, calling him the "classic outsider." "I don't see much of a downside for him. It's a great platform."


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The other two, slight air, and purging fire
Are both with thee, wherever I abide;
The first my thought, the other my desire,
These present-absent with swift motion slide.
For when these quicker elements are gone
In tender embassy of love to thee,
My life, being made of four, with two alone
Sinks down to death, oppress'd with melancholy;
Until life's composition be recured
By those swift messengers return'd from thee,
Who even but now come back again, assured
Of thy fair health, recounting it to me:
This told, I joy; but then no longer glad,
I send them back again, and straight grow sad.
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The other two elements, light air and purging fire, are with you, wherever I may be. The first is my thought, the other my desire. They slide easily between us. When those faster elements are away on a loving mission to you my life, which is made of four, left with only two, sinks downwards to death with depression until it's revived by the return from you of those swift messengers. Even now, making sure that you're in good health, they've just returned to tell me that. Hearing that I rejoice but then I become sad once more and send them back again and immediately fall into a depression.
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I was contacted by good friend Chris Adams the other day to help publicise the next London Cleanweb event taking place on Monday Feb 25th next (2013).
It occurred to me to not only mention it on Twitter, as Chris had requested, but because the half-life of Tweets is getting shorter and shorter, it might be an idea to write about the event here, where the post will last longer (and hopefully generate more eyeballs for Chris).
Then, thinking about it a little longer, I realised it would be a good idea if I made this a more common practice – to promote cleantech/sustainability related events here.
So I have created an Events category on this blog where I will list Cleantech/Sustainability related events that I am aware of. Obviously I reserve the right not to list an event if I don't feel it is deserving, but in general I will list.
So, back to the upcoming London Cleanweb event – it will be a talk on sustainable cities, followed by Lightning Talks and on afterwards to Brewdog for some fantastic beers!
Check out all the details of the event on Meetup.com and head along, if you can at all, you won't regret it. And if you can't make it along, the event will be ivestreamed, so definitely check it out.
By the way, the venue is laying on free pizza and beers!!! They won't be Livestreamed 😉 so you'll need to head along for those.


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America's diner is always open—but one Wisconsin man took this slogan a little too far when he impersonated a Denny's general manager and cooked his own cheeseburger and fries at the northeast Madison restaurant on Tuesday.
James B. Summers, 52, faces charges of fraud hotel or restaurant keeper, according to the Madison police department.
Summers, who entered the diner carrying a briefcase and sporting a tie and long black trench coat, told workers that he was the new general manager, Channel3000.com reported. The diner's current manager told Summers she had not heard anything about him from corporate and that he probably had the wrong restaurant.
As the manager was calling her supervisors, Summers started to cook himself dinner, police said. He was in the process of eating a cheeseburger and fries when the manager discovered that he was not a Denny's employee and called 911.
Summers was walking away from the restaurant when authorities arrived. He told police that it was a misunderstanding and agreed to return to the restaurant to sort out the details. When officers determined that Summers was not, in fact, the new general manager, they took him into custody.
Summers, who police said was carrying a stun gun that he did not have a permit for, also faces charges of possession of an electric weapon, disorderly conduct and possession of drug paraphernalia.


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One on One's NFL Friday: Week 12
11.23.12 3:38pm
Mack Rosenberg and Kenny Ducey
Mack and Kenny recap the Thanksgiving holiday, then dive straight into some Jets talk. Listen to why Kenny is optimistic for the rest of the Jets season, as well as what they guys think the Giants need to do to pull off a win against Green Bay.
In the general NFL segment, they look closer into the Thanksgiving games, then get into whether or not the Bears are for real, who should start for the 49ers, and whether or not the Texans are the best in the AFC.
As always Steve Simineri stops by to give his weekly fantasy advice to help you win your league, and the crew give their predictions for the week.
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|Rabbit / IgG, kappa
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|43653 Da
|Gene ID
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|Antigen NY-CO-13, BCC7, Cellular Tumor Antigen p53, LFS1, TP53, Transformation Related Protein 53 (TRP53), Tumor Protein p53, Tumor Suppressor p53
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|200ug/ml of recombinant MAb purified by Protein A/G. Prepared in 10mM PBS with 0.05% BSA & 0.05% azide. Also available WITHOUT BSA & azide at 1.0mg/ml.
|Store at 2 to 8°C.Antibody is stable for 24 months.
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|Acts as a tumor suppressor in many tumor types; induces growth arrest or apoptosis depending on the physiological circumstances and cell type. Involved in cell cycle regulation as a trans-activator that acts to negatively regulate cell division by controlling a set of genes required for this process. One of the activated genes is an inhibitor of cyclin-dependent kinases. Apoptosis induction seems to be mediated either by stimulation of BAX and FAS antigen expression, or by repression of Bcl-2 expression. In cooperation with mitochondrial PPIF is involved in activating oxidative stress-induced necrosis; the function is largely independent of transcription. Induces the transcription of long intergenic non-coding RNA p21 (lincRNA-p21) and lincRNA- Mkln1. LincRNA-p21 participates in TP53-dependent transcriptional repression leading to apoptosis and seem to have to effect on cell-cycle regulation. Implicated in Notch signaling cross-over. Prevents CDK7 kinase activity when associated to CAK complex in response to DNA damage, thus stopping cell cycle progression. Isoform 2 enhances the transactivation activity of isoform 1 from some but not all TP53-inducible promoters. Isoform 4 suppresses transactivation activity and impairs growth suppression mediated by isoform 1. Isoform 7 inhibits isoform 1-mediated apoptosis. Regulates the circadian clock by repressing CLOCK-ARNTL/BMAL1- mediated transcriptional activation of PER2 (PubMed:24051492).
|Cellular Location
|Cytoplasm. Nucleus. Nucleus, PML body. Endoplasmic reticulum. Mitochondrion matrix. Note=Interaction with BANP promotes nuclear localization. Recruited into PML bodies together with CHEK2. Translocates to mitochondria upon oxidative stress. Translocates to mitochondria in response to mitomycin C treatment (PubMed:27323408). Isoform 2: Nucleus. Cytoplasm. Note=Localized mainly in the nucleus with minor staining in the cytoplasm Isoform 4: Nucleus. Cytoplasm. Note=Predominantly nuclear but translocates to the cytoplasm following cell stress Isoform 8: Nucleus. Cytoplasm. Note=Localized in both nucleus and cytoplasm in most cells. In some cells, forms foci in the nucleus that are different from nucleoli
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|Ubiquitous. Isoforms are expressed in a wide range of normal tissues but in a tissue-dependent manner. Isoform 2 is expressed in most normal tissues but is not detected in brain, lung, prostate, muscle, fetal brain, spinal cord and fetal liver. Isoform 3 is expressed in most normal tissues but is not detected in lung, spleen, testis, fetal brain, spinal cord and fetal liver. Isoform 7 is expressed in most normal tissues but is not detected in prostate, uterus, skeletal muscle and breast Isoform 8 is detected only in colon, bone marrow, testis, fetal brain and intestine. Isoform 9 is expressed in most normal tissues but is not detected in brain, heart, lung, fetal liver, salivary gland, breast or intestine.
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Carrie Underwood wore B Brian Atwood Cassiane sandals to the 2012 American Country Awards. These heels feature chain-fringe embellishment, snake-print leather and back-zip closure. Cassiane is available online in gold at Nordstrom, Shopbop, Saks Fifth Avenue and Brian Atwood.
The country starlet looked cute in this Georges Chakra Couture Spring 2013 embellished dress. She also accessorized with diamond earrings by Lindell and carried a Swarovski clutch.
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'Businessweek' editor won't say whether they're making money, describes the 'luxury' of doing long pieces
Is long-form journalism doomed to being subsidized by traffic-baiting animal slideshows?
That was one of the questions lobbed at a panel of reporters and editors from Bloomberg Businessweek last night at Housing Works Bookstore.
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"If you look at magazines, oh, eight years ago, they demanded much longer stories because they were making more editorial pages," said editor-in-chief Josh Tyrangiel, by way of reply. "Most weeklies these days have gone down in pages."
But not Businessweek, whose deep-pocketed parent company didn't flinch when Tyrangiel asked, after landing the editor gig upon Bloomberg's acquisition of the title in 2009, that the magazine be increased from 58 total pages to 66 pages of editorial alone.
"We just have that luxury of being able to do long stories," he said. "And as it happens, while other magazines are doing shorter stuff, The New Yorker and Businessweek and The Atlantic and others are really thriving as a place where if you're a reader, you can go."
The fact that Tyrangiel works for a company whose reporters are required to fly business class on any flight longer than four hours was not lost on the guy who'd asked for Tyrangiel's thoughts on the future of their trade.
"I work at a money-losing long-form journalism operation," said the audience member. "I mean, I don't know if Businessweek's making money at this point?"
"Well I'm not gonna tell you right now," said Tyrangiel, to laughter from the crowd. "But what I would say is that certainly we're moving in the direction we want to be moving in."
That would be the direction opposite Businessweek's competitors: "I think for years and years people said, 'Fortune, Forbes, Businessweek,' and it was like, 'Well I'll get one of those,'" said Tyrangiel. "Publishing 6,000-word stories that really have something to say has helped differentiate us."
For most of the event, a special tech-themed Internet Week installment of Mark Armstrong's ongoing "Behind the Longreads" series, the assembled Businessweek scribes pulled the curtain back on their methods of executing such stories.
Outfoxing powerful companies that try to control the narrative?
"It's sort of like a reflex," said Silicon Valley veteran Ashlee Vance. "You take the input of the interview and the story they're trying to tell and you mix it up in the grinder with your own filter."
Getting around flailing companies that refuse to cooperate?
"You approach someone from a non-judgmental position," said Felix Gillette, who has chronicled the struggles of MySpace and BlackBerry, "and try and ask what went wrong and all the different ways it went wrong."
And when even the winning companies refuse to talk, it helps to have a boss who's willing to agitate for you.
Tyrangiel cited notoriusly press-averse Apple, which has but five P.R. people for the entire company, he said, a sign that it's not very interested in dealing with the media. Tyrangiel spends a lot of time on the phone with flacks whenever Businessweek has an Apple story in the cooker, he said.
But as any journalist will tell you, the unoffical channels often prove more fruitful.
"In the end," said Tyrangiel, "there are so many smart people out there who want to talk."


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Word Choice Matters!
Submitted by jgazis on Thu, 2013-04-18 14:19.
I've been reading a few small business newsletters I happened to get today. They have interesting and engaging content, but their impact is marred by bizarre mistakes in word use.
People, please! Spell check doesn't always know what you mean. If you're not sure of a word, for goodness' sake look it up! Misuse of language like this is just as bad for your image as wearing pajamas to a meeting. If you can't write well, hire someone who can.
What I'm Writing Now
Submitted by jgazis on Sat, 2012-08-25 08:31.
I'm now doing some blogging for local blog Park Slope Stoop. I'm also writing up our family backpacking trip on my own blog Sticks, Rocks and Dirt. In addition, I write two columns for Examiner.com, on Brooklyn Wildlife and Brooklyn Scouting.
Looking Forward from "Credibility 101"
Submitted by jgazis on Fri, 2011-12-16 10:03.
There's a lot of buzz around content matters these days, but not always a lot of hard facts. The folks at Content Science are aiming to change this with a study on Content and Credibility. Meanwhile, here's their recap of what we already know:
"Consumer Reports sponsored a study of web credibility in the U.S. nearly 10 years ago. The result was a set of tips that we consider to be 'Credibility 101.'
Your Website is the Key to Your Business
Submitted by jgazis on Tue, 2011-10-18 12:45.
"In today's information age of Marketing and Web 2.0, a company's website is the key to their entire business."
How's yours?
Why Content Strategy Matters
Submitted by jgazis on Tue, 2011-05-03 20:38.
If your client or boss doesn't understand why you need a content strategy, s/he sure won't get the what, why, and how. There's a nice summary of pitching content strategy over at Intentional Design's Content Strategy blog, with a downloadable PDF. I especially like the last page of the presentation:
"How much content is out there with your company/organization's name on it?
If You're One of the Majority of Marketers Who Aren't Testing...
Submitted by jgazis on Fri, 2011-03-11 14:20.
... Do the next best thing by checking out the results of other people's tests at Which Test Won?, marketing guru Anne Holland's entertaining and informational A/B testing site. It's short and to the point and sometimes surprising. Find out what kinds of small differences can make or break response rates and click-throughs.
Email Marketing Best Practices
Submitted by jgazis on Fri, 2011-02-04 13:07.
I've been trying to mow down the profusion of weeds that is my inbox, and - as previously noted - it's surprising how non-user-friendly some sites make it to unsubscribe. Shop It To Me, on the other hand, absolutely nails it.
Grammar Matters
Submitted by jgazis on Sun, 2010-12-12 21:28.
My 8yo was reading the Bearitos tortilla chips package, which says "Wholesome corn organically grown, stoneground, cooked, and packed the same day!" and he asked me "Mom, how do they grow the corn in one day?" It ought to read "Wholesome, organically-grown corn, stoneground, cooked, and packed the same day!"
I guess the apple doesn't fall far from the tree ;-)
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Fast, Good, & Cheap—Pick 3
Submitted by jgazis on Thu, 2010-10-28 13:22.
A graphic designer I worked with years ago used to quote a printer he had worked with, who said "You can have it fast; you can have it good; you can have it cheap—pick two." This wonderful bit of conventional wisdom would have you believe that there are always trade-offs between quality, timeliness, and expense. And it's usually true, there almost always are.
Old & New Marketing Strategies
Submitted by Jean E. Gazis on Tue, 2010-08-03 10:11.
I'm amused that Intermarkets is sending me direct mail - actual paper postcards - promoting their online advertising opportunities. Each card features a different summer drink recipe.
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Get ready for some perspective on what it's really like to be going through a tough time. Darlene Gant is dying of breast cancer. And as she told drug company Genentech in a video that's gone viral on YouTube, all she wants is one more Mother's Day with her 11-year-old son.
You don't even have to see the video. Just typing those words was so hard that I'm not surprised Genentech agreed to give Gant their new cancer drug, pertuzumab, immediately even though it's yet to get final approval from the FDA.
The drug company's decision falls under what's called compassionate use, and the FDA has signed off so the 46-year-old could begin taking the medication last week. The drug is expected to get that stamp of OK from the FDA in June, but Gant's doctors didn't think she could make it even that long. Their decision to skip that last step for her sake feels right. Who could deny a little boy a chance to spend one last Mother's Day with his mom? Who could deny a mother just a little more time with her son?
More from The Stir: Breast Cancer Survivor Thrown in Jail for Unpaid Bill Should Enrage Us All
But it's important people understand not just the bond of mother and son but the reasoning behind the decision to release the cancer drug early. Social media and viral videos are not a new way to get drugs pushed through the FDA process. If it were, that could wreak havoc on an already flawed system. People should not take this as a sign to start similar petitions for just any old drug for any old reason.
No. Darlene Gant's plea, and the resulting decision to grant her request, is that exception that proves a rule. This is very literally last chance effort, and sadly, unfortunately, it is not necessarily going to save Darlene Gant's life. But it should give her time to spend that last Mother's Day with her boy. It should give her little boy a little more time with his mom. That's the definition of having compassion, isn't it?
Here's Darlene Gant telling her own story:
If you knew a drug would give you more time but hadn't yet gotten FDA approval, what would you do?
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Ridiculous Fishing Trailer YouTube (6 seconds!!)Vlambeer recently announced via a six-second Vine video that its follow up to Radical Fishing for iOS, dubbed Ridiculous Fishing, will release March 14. In creating this micro-trailer, the developers also practiced distilling some of the most important parts of their game and thereby respecting its viewers' time, with the help of notable video editor Kert Gartner.
The game is finally seeing a release, after two years of development by Vlambeer (Super Crate Box), Zach Gage (Spelltower, Bit Pilot, Unify) and Greg Wohlwend (Hundreds, Solipskier, Gasketball). Despite Vine not providing stats, the levels of coverage the video and game received this week suggests, at least in part, that the micro-trailer was a success.
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