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Before anyone gets upset by the above title, I'm not having a go at bloggers or trying to upset any indie authors out there. Instead I want to write a post to explore the reasons why book bloggers might refuse to review books, and this is especially the case sometimes with indie titles.
Not all book bloggers refuse to review books, not all book bloggers refuse to review indie books, but sometimes they do. And when a blogger does, there's no point in being upset, if you're an author, as there are always reasons behind it.
Below are 10 random reasons, some by own, others I've found online, for why bloggers might, and I stress might, refuse to review a book. If you're an author, especially an indie author, it might be worth reading this, and if you are a book blogger, do you agree?
The following reasons are all addressed to an unknown author, so please don't get offended by the way it's written -it's just written this way to get the message across (remember: not all reasons are my own)
"Why I refuse to review all indie books"
So you've checked out a blog and seen a 'closed to all review requests' or 'closed to all indie review requests' on someone's blog. This may really upset/annoy some authors but it's important to remember there are reasons…
1. I'm too busy
It may sound ridiculously obvious but the most common reason for blanket ban on all review requests is simply: We're too busy. I know that authors are busy writing, editing, marketing, selling books, etc. and that you have to make a living out of such things but guess what?….So are bloggers. Book bloggers devote a large amount of their free time to their blogs, reading and reviewing books all takes time and beyond that, most of us, have offline lives happening too, so don't be too upset if a bloggers is closed to all reviews. And if they seem closed to just indie books then maybe the blogger can only handle the books their getting through a publisher, without adding titles they didn't expect to their list.
2. Indie books aren't popular enough
Yes it stings but a lot of bloggers won't review your work because indie books aren't very popular or well known. I recently found a discussion about this and having taken a look at my stats, I know from personal experience of running this blog versus my old one (which had more indie book reviews than this one) that indie books just don't have the same popularity as traditionally published ones. While an indie book review may net a large amount of hits on the day of the post, and a few days later, I rarely get any hits at all for my reviews of indie books, but there's often a random search engine hit from someone who had been looking for the review of a book by a well known publisher.
3. I've been spammed by indie author requests before
Too many indie author requests at once, especially when it's clear you haven't read my review submissions policy beforehand, will guarantee a blogger burn out eventually. Bloggers who've been burnt by indie authors who don't seem to care how they treat us might just decide enough is enough, and stop reviewing indie titles altogether. This may seem unfair, especially of you haven't done anything bad and are always a nice and fair person when approaching bloggers, but unfortunately some indie authors out there aren't so well meaning and you should blame them, not us.
4. You won't give me a hard/physical copy of your book
Some of us like to read physical books. Yes we know you authors can't always afford to send us hard copies, especially if we live in another country from you, but there are plenty of book bloggers that'll be happy to review digital texts so you'll have to find one of them. There are always reasons why some bloggers can't read digital books, from personal preference to, in my case, not being able to due to reoccurring eye problems and headaches, and these reasons, whatever they are, should be respected. However there are some rather unpleasant authors out there who love to complain about bloggers even going so far as to suggest that we want the hard copies in order to sell them on for profit. This is a rare thing that happens (if it even does) and the majority of us will either keep the copies or maybe share them which means more exposure for you and your book.
"Why I refuse to review your book"
So, you've found a blogger willing to review indie books but after requesting, they've turned you down (or maybe never even contacted you back!). This may leave you feeling upset, especially if you see them reviewing other indie books, but there's always a reason why they turned you and your book down. And if it isn't one of the above reasons, it could be one of these…
5. You got my name wrong
I really, REALLY don't like being called 'Kent, Reviewer, Blogger, Mavis, etc.' My name is clearly on my about page and it only takes you a few minutes to find it and address me by my name in your email. However plenty of authors still get our names wrong and the above are ALL names I've been called before (apart from Mavis) – Kent being the most insulting as I'm clearly not male and that was my location in the UK! If you don't know a blogger's name just leave it out, or say "Hi" in your email instead. It's better not to mess up this part of your email to a blogger, or they might not even bother to read the rest.
6. I don't review your genre
Well it's obvious you didn't read the submissions policy as I clearly stated which genres I will and will not review. This has happened to me on numerous occasions on my old blog, with authors contacting me with book review requests for genres I didn't review. It's important to read (and then re-check if necessary) a bloggers submissions policy, or their contact/about page if isn't one, before contacting them as any genre preferences will be listed there. Some authors try to contact reviewers anyway, but all you're doing is wasting a bloggers time as we won't read and review books in genres we don't like.
7. You didn't contact me via my contact page
I don't know how many bloggers agree with this one but it's very annoying to get a review request via twitter, facebook, etc. My social media has links to my blog, as it did on my old one and it doesn't take long for you to find the submissions information on the blog and see that I like to be contacted via email. But plenty of authors, on my old blog, tried contacting me with review requests via twitter without ever checking out the blog, this was even more annoying as it was often for a book which I really didn't want to read!
8. You hate reviewers/complain about reviews
As much as some authors hate negative reviews you have to live with them and there's no point in arguing about it on Amazon or Goodreads by leaving comments. Still some authors choose to do this and it is off putting, especially when those comments are clearly nasty/ranty. Another thing that puts me off personally is that some authors, I won't name names, complain non-stop on their blog about their negative reviews. While a short rant about a particularly horrible negative review may be valid and understandable, some authors I've known go so far as to suggest that all reviewers are horrible and we take great pleasure in giving negative reviews. Believe it or not as a book blogger I check out your blogs and websites when I learn your name and if I see a ranty author who hates reviewers, do you really think I'm going to review your book?
9. You apparently love my reviews but have never read one at all
Don't get me wrong, there's nothing wrong with saying that you enjoy reading my reviews, or a specific review I've written, in fact it makes you more friendly and I'm more likely to say yes, however if you've never read my reviews or only skim read one, don't go saying that you've enjoyed reading my reviews. Worse still are the authors who tell me that they've been following my blog/reviews for a while now and enjoy reading them…Okay, that' s great, but would it kill you to 'like' a review every once in a while, or post a comment on my blog to make me see that you care and that you do indeed read my posts?
10. I just don't want to read your book
Sometimes there's no reason other than…'I just don't feel like it'. Sometimes there's no specific reason a book blogger refuses to review a book other than they just don't feel a vibe for the book or just don't feel like doing it. Just like sometimes you may not feel like going for a run, eating healthily, writing, editing, etc., us bloggers sometimes just don't want to read your book, and sometimes we just want to stop reading for a while, full stop and if that happens when you've requested a book, well, that's just unfortunate timing.
Ok, so I hope no authors were offended as no offense was meant by this post. There are plenty of reasons why a blogger may refuse to review books, I'm personally not open to most requests at the moment due to the high amount of books I already have from publishers. But whatever the reasons that a blogger may have, there's no point in grumbling, mumbling about it and being upset. Just move on and find another blogger to ask for a review as there's always plenty who will say yes, you just need to look for them. 🙂
Are you a book blogger? Have you come across some of these issues? Do you agree with the reasons for why we refuse review requests? What other reasons can you come up with? Or…
Are you an author? Have you had trouble getting reviews? Do you agree with these reasons? Are you guilty of any, or have you come up with additional barriers when trying to get reviews? Let me know I'd love to hear from you 🙂
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Of particular communion with the Holy Ghost — Of preparation thereunto — Valuation of the benefits we receive by him — What it is he comforts us in and against; wherewith; how.
The way being thus made plain for us, I come to show how we hold particular communion with the Holy Ghost, as he is promised of Christ to be our comforter, and as working out our consolation by the means formerly insisted on. Now, the first thing I shall do herein, is the proposal of that which may be some preparation to the duty under consideration; and this by leading the souls of believers to a due valuation of this work of his towards us, whence he is called our Comforter.
To raise up our hearts to this frame, and fit us for the duty intended, let us consider these three things:—
First, What it is he comforts us against.
Secondly, Wherewith he comforts us.
Thirdly, The principle of all his actings and operations in us for our consolation.
First. There are but three things in the whole course of our pilgrimage that the consolations of the Holy Ghost are useful and necessary in:—
1. In our afflictions. Affliction is part of the provision that God hath made in his house for his children, Heb. xii. 5, 6. The great variety of its causes, means, uses, and effects, is generally known. There is a measure of them appointed for every one. To be wholly without them is a temptation; and so in some measure an affliction. That which I am to speak unto is, that in all our afflictions we need the consolations of the Holy Ghost. It is the nature of man to relieve himself, when he is entangled, by all ways and means. According as men's natural spirits are, so do they manage themselves under pressures. "The spirit of a man will bear his infirmity;" at least, will struggle with it.
There are two great evils, one of which doth generally seize on men under their afflictions, and keep them from a due management of them. The apostle mentioneth them both, Heb. xii. 5, Μὴ ὀλιγώρει παιδείας Κυρίου, μηδὲ ἐκλύου, ὑπ' αὐτοῦ ἐλεγχόμενος, — "Despise not the chastisement of the Lord; neither faint when thou art reproved." One of these extremes do men usually fall into; either they despise the Lord's correction, or sink under it.
(1.) Men despise it. They account that which befalls them to be a light or common thing; they take no notice of God in it; they can 260shift with it well enough: they look on instruments, second causes; provide for their own defence and vindication with little regard to God or his hand in their affliction. And the ground of this is, because they take in succours, in their trouble, that God will not mix his grace withal; they fix on other remedies than what he hath appointed, and utterly lose all the benefits and advantage of their affliction. And so shall every man do that relieves himself from any thing but the consolations of the Holy Ghost.
(2.) Men faint and sink under their trials and afflictions; which the apostle farther reproves, verse 12. The first despise the assistance of the Holy Ghost through pride of heart; the latter refuse it through dejectedness of spirit, and sink under the weight of their troubles. And who, almost, is there that offends not on one of these hands? Had we not learned to count light of the chastisements of the Lord, and to take little notice of his dealings with us, we should find the season of our afflictions to comprise no small portion of our pilgrimage.
Now, there is no due management of our souls under any affliction, so that God may have the glory of it, and ourselves any spiritual benefit or improvement thereby, but by the consolations of the Holy Ghost. All that our Saviour promiseth his disciples, when he tells them of the great trials and tribulations they were to undergo, is, "I will send you the Spirit, the Comforter; he shall give you peace in me, when in the world you shall have trouble. He shall guide and direct, and keep you in all your trials." And so, the apostle tells us, it came to pass, 2 Cor. i. 4–6; yea, and this, under the greatest afflictions, will carry the soul to the highest joy, peace, rest, and contentment. So the same apostle, Rom. v. 3, "We glory in tribulations." It is a great expression. He had said before, "We rejoice in hope of the glory of God," verse 2. Yea, but what if manifold afflictions and tribulations befall us? "Why, even in them also we glory," saith he; "we glory in our tribulations." But whence is it that our spirits are so borne up to a due management of afflictions, as to glory in them in the Lord? He tells us, verse 5, it is from the "shedding abroad of the love of God in our hearts by the Holy Ghost." And thence are believers said to "receive the word in much affliction, with joy of the Holy Ghost," 1 Thess. i. 6; and to "take joyfully the spoiling of their goods." This is that I aim at:— there is no management nor improvement of any affliction, but merely and solely by the consolations of the Holy Ghost. Is it, then, of any esteem or value unto you that you lose not all your trials, temptations, and affliction? — learn to value that whereby alone they are rendered useful.
2. Sin is the second burden of our lives, and much the greatest. 261Unto this is this consolation peculiarly suited. So Heb. vi. 17, 18, an allusion is taken from the manslayer under the law, who, having killed a man unawares, and brought the guilt of his blood upon himself, fled with speed for his deliverance to the city of refuge. Our great and only refuge from the guilt of sin is the Lord Jesus Christ; in our flying to him, doth the Spirit administer consolation to us. A sense of sin fills the heart with troubles and disquietness; it is the Holy Ghost which gives us peace in Christ; — that gives an apprehension of wrath; the Holy Ghost sheds abroad the love of God in our hearts; — from thence doth Satan and the law accuse us, as objects of God's hatred; the Spirit bears witness with our spirits that we are the children of God. There is not any one engine or instrument that sin useth or sets up against our peace, but one effect or other of the Holy Ghost towards us is suited and fitted to the casting of it down.
3. In the whole course of our obedience are his consolations necessary also, that we may go through with it cheerfully, willingly, patiently to the end. This will afterward be more fully discovered, as to particulars, when I come to give directions for our communion with this blessed Comforter. In a word, in all the concernments of this life, and in our whole expectation of another, we stand in need of the consolations of the Holy Ghost.
Without them, we shall either despise afflictions or faint under them, and God be neglected as to his intendments in them.
Without them, sin will either harden us to a contempt of it, or cast us down to a neglect of the remedies graciously provided against it.
Without them, duties will either puff us up with pride, or leave us without that sweetness which is in new obedience.
Without them, prosperity will make us carnal, sensual, and to take up our contentment in these things, and utterly weaken us for the trials of adversity.
Without them, the comforts of our relations will separate us from God, and the loss of them make our hearts as Nabal's.
Without them, the calamity of the church will overwhelm us, and the prosperity of the church will not concern us.
Without them, we shall have wisdom for no work, peace in no condition, strength for no duty, success in no trial, joy in no state, — no comfort in life, no light in death.
Now, our afflictions, our sins, and our obedience, with the attendancies of them respectively, are the great concernments of our lives. What we are in reference unto God is comprised in them, and the due management of them, with their contraries, which come under the same rule; through all these doth there run a line of consolation from the Holy Ghost, that gives us a joyful issue throughout. How 262sad is the condition of poor souls destitute of these consolations. What poor shifts are they forced to betake themselves unto! what giants have they to encounter in their own strength! and whether they are conquered or seem to conquer, they have nothing but the misery of their trials!
The second thing considerable, to teach us to put a due valuation on the consolations of the Holy Ghost, is the matter of them, or that wherewith he comforts us. Now, this may be referred to the two heads that I have formerly treated of, — the love of the Father, and the grace of the Son. All the consolations of the Holy Ghost consist in his acquainting us with, and communicating unto us, the love of the Father and the grace of the Son; nor is there any thing in the one or the other but he makes it a matter of consolation to us: so that, indeed, we have our communion with the Father in his love, and the Son in his grace, by the operation of the Holy Ghost.
1. He communicates to us, and acquaints us with, the love of the Father. Having informed his disciples with that ground and foundation of their consolation which by the Comforter they should receive, our blessed Saviour (John xvi. 27) shuts up all in this, "The Father himself loveth you." This is that which the Comforter is given to acquaint us withal, — even that God is the Father, and that he loves us. In particular, that the Father, the first person in the Trinity, considered so distinctly, loves us. On this account is he said so often to come forth from the Father, because he comes in pursuit of his love, and to acquaint the hearts of believers therewith, that they may be comforted and established. By persuading us of the eternal and unchangeable love of the Father, he fills us with consolation. And, indeed, all the effects of the Holy Ghost before mentioned have their tendency this way. Of this love and its transcendent excellency you heard at large before. Whatever is desirable in it is thus communicated to us by the Holy Ghost. A sense of this is able not only to relieve us, but to make us in every condition to rejoice with joy unspeakable and glorious. It is not with an increase of corn, and wine, and oil, but with the shining of the countenance of God upon us, that he comforts our souls, Ps. iv. 6, 7. "The world hateth me," may such a soul as hath the Spirit say; "but my Father loves me. Men despise me as a hypocrite; but my Father loves me as a child. I am poor in this world; but I have a rich inheritance in the love of my Father. I am straitened in all things; but there is bread enough in my Father's house. I mourn in secret under the power of my lusts and sin, where no eyes see me; but the Father sees me, and is full of compassion. With a sense of his kindness, which is better than life, I rejoice in tribulation, glory in affliction, triumph as a conqueror. Though I am killed all the day long, all my sorrows 263have a bottom that may be fathomed, — my trials, bounds that may be compassed; but the breadth, and depth, and height of the love of the Father, who can express?" I might render glorious this way of the Spirit's comforting us with the love of the Father, by comparing it with all other causes and means of joy and consolation whatever; and so discover their emptiness, its fulness, — their nothingness, its being all; as also by revealing the properties of it before rehearsed.
2. Again: he doth it by communicating to us, and acquainting us with, the grace of Christ, — all the fruits of his purchase, all the desirableness of his person, as we are interested in him. The grace of Christ, as I formerly discoursed of at large, is referred to two heads, — the grace of his person, and of his office and work. By both them doth the Holy Ghost administer consolation to us, John xvi. 14. He glorifies Christ by revealing his excellencies and desirableness to believers, as the "chiefest of ten thousand, — altogether lovely," and then he shows them of the things of Christ, — his love, grace, all the fruits of his death, suffering, resurrection, and intercession: and with these supports their hearts and souls. And here, whatever is of refreshment in the pardon of sin, deliverance from the curse, and wrath to come, in justification and adoption, with the innumerable privileges attending them in the hope of glory given unto us, comes in on this head of account.
Thirdly. The principle and fountain of all his actings for our consolation comes next under consideration, to the same end; and this leads us a little nearer to the communion intended to be directed in. Now, this is his own great love and infinite condescension. He willingly proceedeth or comes forth from the Father to be our comforter. He knew what we were, and what we could do, and what would be our dealings with him, — he knew we would grieve him, provoke him, quench his motions, defile his dwelling-place; and yet he would come to be our comforter. Want of a due consideration of this great love of the Holy Ghost weakens all the principles of our obedience. Did this dwell and abide upon our hearts, what a dear valuation must we needs put upon all his operations and actings towards us! Nothing, indeed, is valuable but what comes from love and good-will. This is the way the Scripture takes to raise up our hearts to a right and due estimation of our redemption by Jesus Christ. It tells us that he did it freely; that of his own will he hath laid down his life; that he did it out of love.360360 1 John iv. 9, iii. 16; Gal. ii. 20; Rev. i. 5. "In this was manifested the love of God, that he laid down his life for us;" "He loved us, and gave himself for us;" "He loved us, and washed us from our sins in his own blood." Hereunto it adds our state and condition, considered as he undertook for us, — sinners, enemies, dead, alienated; then he loved us, and died 264for us, and washed us with his blood. May we not hence, also, have a valuation of the dispensation of the Spirit for our consolation? He proceeds to that end from the Father; he distributes as he will, works as he pleaseth. And what are we, towards whom he carrieth on this work? Froward, perverse, unthankful; grieving, vexing, provoking him. Yet in his love and tenderness doth he continue to do us good. Let us by faith consider this love of the Holy Ghost. It is the head and source of all the communion we have with him in this life. This is, as I said, spoken only to prepare our hearts to the communion proposed; and what a little portion is it of what might be spoken! How might all these considerations be aggravated! what a numberless number might be added! It suffices that, from what is spoken, it appears that the work in hand is amongst the greatest duties and most excellent privileges of the gospel.
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Wife of the fifth Lubavitcher Rebbe, Rabbi Sholom DovBer Schneerson, and mother of the sixth Rebbe, Rabbi Yosef Yitzchak, Rebbetzin Shterna Sarah (1860-1942) lived through the upheavals of the first half of the 20th century. She fled the advancing front of World War I from Lubavitch to Rostov, where her husband passed away in 1920 at age 59. In 1927, she witnessed the arrest of her son by Stalin's henchmen the night he was taken away and sentenced to death, G-d forbid, for his efforts to keep Judaism alive throughout the Soviet empire. After Rabbi Yosef Yitzchak's release, the family resettled in Latvia and later, Poland; in 1940, they survived the bombing of Warsaw, were rescued from Nazi-occupied city, and emigrated to the United States. Rebbetzin Shterna Sarah passed away in New York on the 13th of Shevat of 1942.
On January 27, 1945, the Russian army arrived in Auschwitz, the most infamous of the Nazi death camps, and liberated some 7,000 survivors—those left behind as unfit to join the evacuation "Death March."
This week's Torah reading contains the "song at the sea" sung by the Children of Israel upon their deliverance from the Egyptians, when the Red Sea split to allow them to pass and then drowned their pursuers. Hence this Shabbat is designated as Shabbat Shirah, "Shabbat of song."
Our sages tell us that the birds in the sky joined our ancestors in their singing; for this reason it is customary to put out food for the birds for this Shabbat (to avoid the possibility of transgressing the laws of Shabbat, the food should be put out before Shabbat).
Parting of the Red Sea
Miriam: Tambourines of Rebellion
There is a beast inside. It awaits you for its tikkun.
How do you fix up the human beast? First with prayer, then with food, but ultimately by doing business.
You need to start with meditation and prayer, because that beast inside needs to experience not only wonder, but even love for G‑d. The problem is, in prayer and meditation you have not yet met that beast on its own ground.
Next, eat your breakfast like a human being is meant to eat—a step higher than the food you consume, raising it up rather than letting it pull you down. Then, yes, you have met your human beast on its own ground. But not on its own terms. You are still fighting with it—against its desire to be pulled down into the food.
So then go out into the world and provide goods and services of value, and do that with integrity.
No longer are you fighting against the human beast. You are working with it and from within it, with all the talents and skills you have. Because otherwise, you are not providing the value for which others are paying, and that is not integrity.
Now you can understand why the very first question asked of the soul when it returns from its mission in this world is not "How did you pray?" or "How did you eat?" but "Did you do business with integrity?" For that is when you truly fixed up this world.


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My grandma on my dad's side was known for a couple Christmas cookies, and this was one of them — "wreath cookies," as we called them. It's one of my dad's favorites, so we made it in our house growing up, too. I vividly remember eating the soft, pale green sweets out of an old cookie tin my grandma always seemed to have on hand this time of year.
My Grandma Stark was very German, so it makes sense that one of her annual treats was what's known as a "spritz." The name for this cookie comes from the German word spritzen, or "to squirt." These cookies are made using a cookie press, which means that a soft dough is pushed (or squirted) through a cylinder to create designs.
The cookie press made its way to my kitchen over the years, and I use it still to make these cookies. I have my grandma's original recipe card, too, which contains some charms. The first ingredient listed is "oleo," another term for margarine. She calls for a cherry garnish, and says to use "drink cherries in jar." The recipe is very simple, and the addition of cream cheese gives the shortbread-like cookies just a little something extra. If you don't have a cookie press, you can make wreaths by pinching of pieces of dough and rolling them into logs, then forming into circles.
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Holly Wreaths
1/2 cup margarine or butter
4 ounces cream cheese
1/4 cup sugar
1/2 teaspoon vanilla
1 cup flour, sifted
Green food coloring
Maraschino cherries
Heat oven to 325 degrees.
Cream margarine and cheese. Add sugar and cream well. Then add vanilla.
Slowly add the flour. Mix well. Add a couple drops of green food coloring, and mix.
Fill cookie press half full. Form cookies onto an ungreased baking sheet using the star-shaped plate.
Hold press in a semi-horizontal position and form wreaths by moving press in a circular motion. Gently push ends of dough together to form wreaths.
Cut cherries into very small pieces and put a piece on each cookie where the ends meet.
Bake for about 10 to 12 minutes, until slightly browned on the bottom.
Makes about 2 dozen.
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Entering their 7th year, The Dirt Days are a monthly series of group mountain bike rides held at local Chicago and nearby Wisconsin trails throughout the summer months. It's a perfect event for women of all skill levels to meet up, enjoy friendly, non-competitive rides and get some time on the trail, learning from one another.
Rides will alternate locations throughout the summer, and we ride rain or shine (if it rains, we will ride the multitrack). If the weather is nice, bring a lunch and we'll picnic after.
These rides organized and led by Becky Mikrut and Jen Mosley, supported as a joint initiative between Skunkworks Racing and Half Acre Cycling.
Visit us on Facebook for individual event postings with a place to post up for ride sharing and conversation.
Dates for 2016 are:
- May 7th - Southern Kettles, John Muir Trailhead
- June 4th - Palos Forest Preserve, Wolf Road Woods lot
- July 9th - Southern Kettles, John Muir Trailhead *bonus skills clinic*
- August 6th - Palos Forest Preserve, Wolf Road Woods lot
All rides start at 9 am. Please arrive early to get your bike and yourself ready to ride.
We are thrilled to be adding a beginner's basic skills clinic to the Dirt Days in July. Our dear friend and IMBA Level-2 certified MTB instructor from north of the cheddar curtain, Nicki Lock, has graciously offered to host this clinic to attendees of the Dirt Days.
The clinic will be about 2 hours, including 1.5 hours of instruction/ skills & drills, followed by a short trail ride and some playing in the skills section at the John Muir Trailhead. Nicki will cover 5 basic drills including body position, braking, shifting, and cornering. This is ideal for new riders getting to know the sport.
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Musikmesse 2015: Music4Kids
Musikmesse 2015: Music4Kids fosters enthusiasm for making music in all age groups
Extended offering for youngsters, young adults and families on Friday and Saturday
Extensive programme of new live events, music workshops and interactive concerts for all visitors to the fair
From pump organ to samplophone: as part of Musikmesse in Frankfurt, Music4Kids sends its visitors on a musical voyage of discovery with unusual instrumental creations, sound experiments and tonal installations. From 13 to 18 April 2015 – in other words two days before the official opening of the fair – the special area at Musikmesse playfully awakens an interest in making music. For 2015, the concept will undergo further fine tuning: a wealth of interactive musical events, workshops and concerts will turn Music4Kids into a major attraction, not only for the very young, but also for young adults and visitors with a previous knowledge of music.
On the Friday of the fair, which is open continually for the first time to the general public, Music4Kids addresses groups from secondary schools, vocational schools and music schools. On both days that the fair is open to the general public (17 and 18 April 2015) the special area is accessible to all interested visitors. In this way, families with older and younger children, as well as advanced musicians, are given the opportunity to immerse themselves in worlds of sound that are completely new. In addition to the interactive show on these days, the offering also includes instrument courses, performances by well-known artists and newcomer-bands, contests and many other highlights, all with the aim of promoting and consolidating the musical urge for action.
From Monday to Thursday (13 April to 16 April) Music4Kids offers the customary opportunity for registered groups from kindergartens, crèches and primary schools to explore the world of sounds, to try out instruments and playfully take their first musical steps under expert pedagogical guidance.
In this way, Music4Kids provides an area for musical experimentation for all age groups, inviting them to engage in an experience full of discovery and surprises. Generating a rhythm with painted patterns or creating changes in pitch using one's own body weight are just two of the many devices that make it possible to constantly expand the collection of around 40 interactive installations and a wide range of instruments. With Music4Kids, Musikmesse underscores its commitment to the effective promotion of young talents and thus makes a contribution to the further development of the musical instrument industry. The project is overseen by Michael Bradke, the renowned music teacher and exhibition organiser, and supported by numerous sponsors from the business. In 14 years Music4Kids has so far put more than 100,000 participants in touch with the fascinating world of music-making.
Further information about Music4Kids can be found at
Musikmesse – Hands on music
Next event: 15 to 18 April 2015
Musikmesse is the leading international trade fair for musical instruments, sheet music, music production and music business connections. The spectrum of products on show covers every musical need from classical instruments, guitars and basses, wind instruments and percussion to electronic equipment, as well as hardware and software. At the last Musikmesse, 1,318 exhibitors from 51 countries made presentations at Frankfurt Fair and Exhibition Centre. Buyers from all channels of distribution can make contact with international customers and suppliers and network efficiently at Musikmesse. Musicians and music lovers have the chance to test the latest products and attend workshops, product demonstrations and concerts by well-known artists. Additionally, the range of complementary events includes awards ceremonies, seminars and lectures for basic and advanced training, as well as programmes designed to promote music making among young people and children. In 2014, 65,362 visitors attended the fair, 40 percent of them from outside Germany.
Background information on Messe Frankfurt
Messe Frankfurt is one of the world's leading trade fair organisers, generating around € 545 million in sales and employing some 2,000 people worldwide. The Messe Frankfurt Group has a global network of 28 subsidiaries and around 50 international Sales Partners, allowing it to serve its customers on location in more than 150 countries. Messe Frankfurt events take place at more than 30 locations around the globe. In 2013, Messe Frankfurt organised 113 trade fairs, of which more than half took place outside Germany. Comprising an area of 578,000 square metres, Messe Frankfurt's exhibition grounds are home to ten exhibition halls. The company also operates two congress centres. The company is publicly owned, with the City of Frankfurt holding 60 percent and the State of Hesse 40 percent.
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Waiting time charges are a difficult part of the removals process. They may not even be something that you are that well versed in, as they tend not to be that widely talked about for a few reasons. First of all, no one wants to go in to a removal assuming that there will be issues and that waiting time will occur, let alone that they would be charged for it. It is much the same mentality that stops people from signing a pre-nuptial agreement, as love is surely the only thing that matters at the time! On a similar note, the removals company will perhaps keep their waiting times charges as a lesser mentioned aspect of the removals deal, as they can sometimes use such incidents to make a lot of extra cash on the day. Waiting times charges work like over time. Essentially if there is an issue that is beyond the control of the removals company, then they will potentially want to charge you extra for the time that they are not able to work. This makes sense, as you have booked them to do a job, and if they can't do the job in the time that they allotted due to an outside issue, then they should be given due payment for the time that is being wasted of them. They will still end up going home later through no fault of their own. However, the difficulty comes in that the extra time can be charged at a rate that they set themselves, and if it is not discussed, but finds its way into the contract, which is then signed, then the removals company may well be in a position where they can take a lot of cash from you, and you are helpless to stop them.
Some removals companies will have waivers in place that will mean that you pay a little extra in the first place to remove the waiting times charge overall. If you feel like your solicitor or the other end of the house deal are particularly disorganized or slow, then this may be a clever precaution to take, depending on how much the waiver costs, and how high the waiting times charges are. Being particularly organized is usually a great way to prevent things going wrong, but in this case, the waiting time will usually be down to outsider issues, rather than your own. After all, most of the hanging around that you do as a group will be due to the removals company themselves, rather than your own faults.
So, the best thing to do really, is to be aware that the charges exist, and to talk over them with the company in advance of signing the contract. It may not sound like a big deal to have waiting charges of time and a half, but if the hourly rate is £20 per staff member, and you have 5 staff and have to wait three hours for the other property owners to vacate their property, then you have £450 worth of extra fees! Trying to get this rate down in advance or signing the waiver is obviously a great thing to be able to do. On the other hand, you could write it in to your property exchange that any waiting times incurred by the other party will be charged to them, which removes your own liability. You could do the same with the bank, estate agent and solicitors if ow feel that there is a potential for trouble in those areas as well.
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April 29, 2007
Letters to the Editor
It's ironic that the first cruise ship to call on Elliott Bay this season, Celebrity Cruise's Mercury, graced the cover of the P-I to illustrate the Port of Seattle's purported economic benefits of the cruise industry ("Cruise season sets sail," Tuesday). The photo caption didn't mention that Ecology fined Celebrity $100,000 last year for the Mercury's discharge of a half-million gallons of untreated wastewater into Juan de Fuca Strait in 2005.
Celebrity's president, Dan Hanrahan, stated in Ecology's Nov. 16, 2006, news release, "We sincerely regret that the location of the discharges were the result of a misunderstanding regarding the reach of Washington state waters."
Ecology crafted a voluntary memorandum of understanding (MOU) between the state, the cruise lines and the Port of Seattle.
The MOU is supposed to be updated annually, but this cruise season has gotten started without any of the updates in place. California and Alaska have both regulated cruise ship discharges because the Environmental Protection Agency and Congress have not.
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The time covered by the narrative itself is obviously a very short one, probably only a few days at the outside.
If the suggestion in Julius Africanus' letter to Origen is correct, Joacim, Susanna's husband, was none other than Jehoiachin, the captive king of Judah. But Africanus is not by any means confident of this; nor does Hippolytus so identify them, but contents himself with commenting on the statement of the text (v.4) that Joacim was a very rich man. Nor is there anything in the Greek of either version to indicate his royalty, though the assertion that |he was more honourable than all others| fits in well with the notion. But if the story was coëval in its first form with the events narrated in it, the fact might be taken as universally known; or it might be thought politic to suppress it, as likely to be unpalatable to the reigning Babylonian monarch, in the written record. Thus it is possible to answer to a great extent Bissell's objection on v.7, |that there seems to be no good reason why it should not have been definitely stated.|
His name is given as Ioakeim both here, in II. Kings xxiv.8, 12, and in I. Esd. i.43, exactly the same as that of his father and predecessor Jehoiakim in I. Esd. i.37 (39). Elsewhere the name is transliterated Iechonias and Ioachim (Bar. i.3, Jer. xxii.24, var. lect., II. Chron. xxxvi.8, 9). In Judith iv.6, xx.8 we have 'Iwakeim, without variation, as the name of the high priest.
If this identification be correct the date must be subsequent to 597 b.c., the year of Jehoiachin's captivity; and probably not long after, since Daniel, who was taken to Babylon in or soon after the third year of Jehoiakim's reign in 603-4, is represented as being still paidarion geoteron in v.45. This phrase is somewhat tautologically rendered by A. V. as a 'young youth,' an instance which might be cited in support of the view that the English of the apocryphal was less excellent than that of the canonical books ; but, strange to say, the awkward expression is continued in R. V.
Without necessarily implying it, v.2 might easily be taken to convey the impression that Jehoiaohin married in Babylon. Thus Hippolytus asserts, Ioakeim paroikos genomenos en Babuloni lambanei ten Sosannan eis gunaika (Migne, Patr. gr. X.689). And, on the same year' of v.5, Reuss gives the interrogative note, |Im Jahre der Verheiratung des Joakim?|
If Susanna's husband really be Jehoiachin, he is the Jechonias who finds a place in the genealogy of Christ, St. Matt. i.11, 12, Jehoiakim (Eliakim) being omitted. Bugati (Dan. p.166) argues that Joakim is not Jehoiachin because of the name: |quo circa erroris arguendus est Jacobus Edessenus, sive auctor scholii ad calcem historiæ Susannæ adjecti in codice Parisiensi, qui Joacem virum Susannæ eum Joachin rege confundat.| Bugati was probably unaware of the above-mentioned variations in the spelling of the name, which neutralize the force of his argument.
Two other doubtful indications of time are given by Hippolytus, viz. that Chelchias was Jeremiah's brother, making Susanna therefore his niece (Westcott's art. Chelcias, Smith's D. B.), and that 'a fit time' in v.15 intimated the feast of the Passover. Unsupported tradition and conjecture look like the grounds of these two indications respectively. Bardenhewer (op. cit. p.75) not unreasonably deems that Hippolytus is thinking of Christian Baptism in connection with Easter, and so throws back the idea into the bath' and the fit time' of the Passover.
The Harklensian Syriac (W, Walton's second Syriac ) asserts both in vv.1 and 45 that Daniel was twelve years old at the date of the story; also that Susanna was a widow after a married life of a few days only (v.5), a statement to which neither Greek version lends any countenance. In fact, v.63 (Th) supposes Joakim to be alive at the end of the tale. Now we know from II. Kings xxv.27 and Jer. xxviii. (xxxv.) 1-4 that Jehoiachin lived some years at least after his deportation. These Syriac insertions therefore as to Daniel's age and Susanna's widowhood are hardly compatible with one another on the supposition that she was the wife of Jehoiachin, king of Judah.
It has been pointed out in the Speaker's Commentary, xlvib, that the insertion of twelve years old' into the text of the Syriac of Susanna may be due to |Christian re-handling,| as also the extension of the final verse about Daniel's fame, |and he increased in favour with the family of Susanna,| etc., so as to produce a correspondence with St. Luke ii.42, 52. This is a possible theory, but one lacking, so far, the support of evidence. The condemnation of Susanna |at the ninth hour| (v.41) might likewise be attributed to the same Christian influence. This was no doubt operative here, as it was with Hippolytus.
In this connection it is worthy of note that in the longer recension of the |Ignatian| Epist. ad Magnes., § iii., Daniel is spoken of as dodekaetes when he gegone katochos to theio pneumati, a phrase evidently reminiscent of the history of Susanna. Bishop Lightfoot notes on this: |His age is not given in the narrative, and it is difficult to see whence it could have been derived.| He dates the longer Ignatian epistles in the second half of the 4th century (I.246), while Thomas of Harkel lived in the 6th and 7th centuries. But, though so much later, this Syriac translation may perhaps afford some clue to the ultimate discovery of Ignatius', or rather his expander's, source of information. The words paidarion neoteron do not of course necessarily imply such extreme youth as twelve years; nor are we in any way tied to the accuracy of this or other Harklensian variations.
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Interloop Pakistan Job Management Trainee Officers Program 2018 Form providing for those who have the ability of self creation. The interloop is one of largest hosiery manufacturers of the world. It deals in all the products especially the interloop manufacture best quality yarn. The socks prepare by this yarn are the very best quality socks in the world. interloop make its main office in Faisalabad and start functioning on a very large scale consisting on complete variety in house spinning, yarn dyeing, knitting and finishing facilities. It houses over 3500o knitting machines including ring spinning, knitting machines, the current number of employees working in the chain of interloop are approximately more than 13000. The company provides a wide range of socks having various quality and prices for all type of customers. In Pakistan its Branches exists in Lahore and Faisalabad and on unit of this company is functioning in Bangladesh that is why the company is making its rank as a multinational company. So every year when jobs for management trainee programs a number of fresh graduate relating to different fields submit their forms for taking admission, well if you are also wants to be a part of this organization you have to complete the admission process according to the following criteria.
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On November 8th, A Place to Be came to NOVA Loudoun to present Behind The Label. This powerful show reminded us to look inside people and ourselves, and realize that we are more than just labels.
A Place to Be, a performance-based music and drama therapy program in Virginia, describes their show Behind the Label:
"40 powerful minutes filled with monologues and music that explain what it's like to live with various challenges including Autism, Down Syndrome, ADD, Anxiety, Cerebral Palsy, Depression, Traumatic Brain Injuries, Heart conditions, Dyslexia, and many other medical and life challenges. Written by the brave young people who struggle and triumph over their challenges every day, the goal of the project is to help teach people to see beyond diagnosis, beyond labels, and into human beings. "
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When you search images for Mindfulness on the Internet, this is what you come up with... A man or woman sitting calmly and quietly and contemplating life. Being still enough to see and understand what is happening around them.
But let's be realistic. This is not what most of your day looks like. If you meditate or journal or sit quietly sipping coffee in the morning, then you get a taste of this, and it can make a HUGE impact on your day.
But the real question is, how do we bring this feeling along with us throughout the rest of our hectic schedule?
What does Mindfulness really mean?
The dictionary says Mindfulness is "the quality or state of being conscious or aware of something." That works ok when you're sitting still in a quiet room, focusing on your body and quieting your mind. But how the heck do you keep this going at your day job, while cooking dinner, while cleaning house and checking work emails and texting someone back and seeing what that notification noise meant on your cellphone, and, and, and, and........
How can your mind be full of all of these things at once?
You know the answer.... IT CAN'T! It can only pick and choose and jump back and forth. And none of that will get you the powerful, focused result your desire.
Let's think about it from another angle. Have you ever been in a coffee shop trying to work and the people next to you are having a loud conversation, or worse are both slurping their coffee in a slightly different rhythm? Or what about trying to have a conversation in a crowded restaurant? This is how your brain feels every time you feed it 5Xs the information it can handle at once.
So while Mindfulness has lots of various meanings, connotations, and religious/ metaphysical associations, its simplest definition just means a mind not empty and not overflowing. A mind just full enough to do it's best work.
Where do you find yourself being MindLESS or being Mind-OVER-full?
I have a huge tendency to try to accomplish things "efficiently," by which I accidentally mean too quickly. Sometimes I have to stop and breathe and refocus. Sometimes I make a mistake and have to take extra time to fix it. I plan to spend the next few months finding ways to quiet my mind and get it running at optimal speed. My current best practice is to realize when my mind is racing, find a calming oil, and sit quietly for 2-3 minutes reciting an Affirmation. Then I've just spent a couple minutes to refocus, with the likelihood of saving many more minutes I would have spent in chaos or frustration!
On the other end of the spectrum, I know a huge part of MindLESSness that I struggle against is social media scrolling. It's so easy to head onto Facebook or Instagram for business and then waste 30 minutes scrolling. I've found my best tool so far is to write down what I'm going to post for the day and then only go on when I'm posting or replying to a comment. It doesn't necessarily fix the scrolling, but it minimizes the number of times I head to social media.
I'd love for y'all to share where you are with MindFULLness. What areas of your life create the most resistance to this balance? Do you struggle with feeling rushed or with wasting time on Social Media. Perhaps you have totally different challenges than me. And if you have tips that work for you let us know that too!
P.S. Want to join me over the next few months as I focus on Mindfulness? Join the Creativity Club for our upcoming workshops and daily Facebook activities!


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Alnylam Pharmaceuticals, Inc. (ALNY - Free Report) announced that it has initiated a phase III APOLLO-B study on its lead drug Onpattro (patisiran) for the treatment of transthyretin amyloidosis (ATTR amyloidosis) with cardiomyopathy. The primary endpoint of this global placebo-controlled study is to see the change from baseline in the 6-minute walk test (6MWT) at month 12.
Shares of Alnylam were up almost 1.3% following this announcement on Monday. In fact, so far this year, the stock has rallied 16.2% against the industry's decline 1.7%.
We remind investors that the FDA and the European Commission approved Onpattro, an RNAi therapeutic, for the treatment of the polyneuropathy of hereditary transthyretin-mediated (hATTR) amyloidosis in adult patients during 2018. The drug is the first and the only FDA-approved treatment for this indication.
In June 2019, the Japanese Ministry of Health, Labour and Welfare (MHLW) approved Onpattro for the treatment of hATTR amyloidosis with polyneuropathy.
During the first half of this year, Onpattro generated sales of $64.5 million. The initial uptake of the drug has been encouraging with more than 500 patients worldwide having received Onpattro treatment since its launch as of Jun 30, 2019. Label expansion of the drug should further boost sales for the company.
Alnylam has inked several collaboration deals for the development and commercialization of its broad pipeline of RNAi therapeutic candidates. Notably, Alnylam has an alliance with Regeneron Pharmaceuticals (REGN - Free Report) to discover, develop and commercialize new RNAi therapeutics for diseases of the eye and the central nervous system.
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In an era dominated by digital downloads and music streaming services, the local record shop has gone the way of 8-tracks, flip phones and Atari game systems. But one local entrepreneur is bucking the industry trends by bringing a new record store to Austin.
Story and photos by Bryan Rolli
Dan Rudmann opened Studium in November with the help of several other local businesses that operate out of the store's East Fifth Street location. The shop primarily carries music released by Punctum Records, its counterpart label that Rudmann founded, but it also stocks select works from national artists that match its eclectic vibe. By showcasing local talent and fostering all types of creativity through concerts, readings and other events, Rudmann hopes for Studium to become a significant community presence.
Andrew Stevens, who buys all the records for Studium, says he tries to strike a balance between style and profitability. "It's not a grab bag," he says. "It is picked out by me and bought by me for retail."
Since Studium is a relatively small store that appeals to a niche audience, Stevens tries to buy records that will make it stick out from the myriad of other shops in Austin. "I try to avoid stuff that other people have," he says. "Because I don't have room to copy Waterloo or End of an Ear."
Rudmann says the emphasis on curating a cohesive record collection will also help customers and casual visitors connect with Studium more. "It's supposed to tell a story," he says of the shop's inventory. "You have all of these objects organized in a way that there's narrative between them, and that's kind of our goal."
Establishing a distinct identity is crucial for a record store like Studium – as well as a local label like Punctum – in a time where music is so readily available through other mediums, Rudmann says. "You can go on something like Spotify, and you can download the entire history of recorded music," he says. "What a label can do – and I think why people get excited about something like K Records [another Austin record label] or us – is that we've helped identify things that match an aesthetic that we're trying to build."
Studium invites customers to leisurely browse through its carefully picked selection of records, one of which the staff will often play throughout the store. If the weather is nice, they can mingle outside and enjoy a cold beer or hot cup of coffee from the neighboring Wright Bros. Brew & Brew as well. "It's like a clubhouse," Stevens says of the atmosphere at Studium. "This place is turning into a cool hang spot."
Although it's too early to determine their biggest source of income, Rudmann says the store already sells a decent amount of vinyl. "People are buying records, and that's very encouraging for somebody who runs a record label," he says. "There's always talk about that, you know, waxing and waning, but right now, people are psyched on it."
Rudmann's observations reflect a national trend. Newsweek reported in November that in the first half of 2014, vinyl record sales in the United States totaled 4 million compared to the 2.9 million sold in the same period last year, and a 400 percent increase from the 900,000 moved in 2006. Newsweek also reported that the best-selling vinyl albums of 2014 so far are Jack White's "Lazaretto" and the Arctic Monkeys' "AM." Both were released this year, demonstrating an increased demand for new records by a younger audience.
While 4 million albums might seem like an impressive figure, it's a far cry from the 500 million vinyl albums and singles sold in 1978, as music magazine Spin reported in May. It also pales in comparison to the 70 billion songs streamed in the first half of 2014, according to Newsweek. Still, although vinyl's glory days may be long gone, its recent sales hike suggests there is room is today's musical climate for a niche store like Studium.
Rudmann said he first started thinking about Studium after bringing several local bands to New York City for a series of shows in the spring. "It became more apparent, having these Austin bands in this context of New York and seeing it all together, that we have something very unique and special here in Austin," he says. "And to have a more permanent base for that in Austin became a priority."
Besides serving as a home base for Punctum Records, Studium also works with several other local businesses, including Attendance Records, a non-profit, student-run record label. Jenna Carrens, executive director of Attendance, says its goal is to "bring creativity back into the classroom" through a program called Schoolyard Birds, where a music therapist works with students ages 6 to 10 to help them write a song, which they perform onstage at Studium.
Rudmann and Carrens first worked together during South by Southwest 2014 to create a two-day artist showcase. She said they both envisioned Studium as a community presence that supports all types of art. "We'll do readings, we'll do music shows, we hope to do film stuff," she says. "We want it to be a collaborative space for all of Austin's creative minds."
Studium may have a firm grasp on its aesthetic, but the key to financial success is still elusive. As record buyer, Stevens says it will be a while before he figures out what works best for the shop financially, whereas more established stores like Waterloo Records can predict consumer habits more accurately. "They can look at the linear curve of everything," he says. "They've done it for so long that they have their own business concept, and since we're only six weeks old, that's new for us. I probably won't get a good beat on what the customer is really wanting in a more generalized sense till next year sometime. Bigger means better profits, but I'd rather be sitting at the computer eight hours a week doing orders because we're running out of stuff than knowing that I bought enough to get us through."
For Rudmann, Studium is just as much a collaborative space for Austin artists as it is a budding business. "I think the big thing is fostering a community," he says. "We all want the same things for each other, and we know that if one of the bands in Austin has a light shine on it, it helps everybody here."


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Advent Givings Update/
Thank you to everyone who gave so generously to our Advent projects! A cheque for $2,275.00 was sent to CBM for "Help Build a Home for a Syrian Refugee Family".
All of the many, many items that you gave for the Mustard Seed were delivered along with a cheque for $125.00 to buy bus tickets, gift cards & backpacks.


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Something amazing was seeing my wife as the mother of my children for the first time. She was the same woman I had always loved, but now the love had been given this three-dimensional quality. Not only did I love her because she loved me, but because she loved this new mysterious person we had brought into the world together.
It has been something like this watching my mom become grandmother to my girls. Early on, she was clear that she was too young to be called "Grandma," but would go by the moniker "Gweppy," a random name I made up for her as a kid. In honor of her birthday on Sunday, here are just a few reasons why my mom rocks as Grandm--as "Gweppy," that is.
- She stockpiles snails for the girls to play with whenever they come over.
- The last time we dropped the girls off for our weekend getaway, our daughters were shooing us away so they could get on with the grandparents play. This is a good sign.
- At the end of such a weekend the girls often have more clean laundry than we brought in the first place.
- She just got new carpet in the house and still lets our girls hang out there.
- She works her butt off playing with them.
- When we're over, she takes care of her four boys (you can't forget my Dad) and my three girls with an incredible grace.
- She builds Lincoln Log cabins.
- She still likes to color.
- She is great at puzzles.
- She feeds them squash and healthy stuff--and they like it.
- She makes Christmas incredible.
- She disciplines them.
- She throws a bath party every time they stay with her, which our girls ask for regardless of how recently we've bathed them.
- She and my Dad give us a great play-by-play of the girls' cute quotes and activities whenever we pick them up.
- She pulls them in the wagon till she's dizzy.
- She leaves the pop-up sprinklers strategically popped up when she knows we're coming over, so her granddaughters can push them down.
- She is low-drama to no-drama, essential among my little drama princesses.
- She knows not what it means to complain about hard work.


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Lauren Johnson and Ted Ottaviano of Book Of Love have a new band called The Myrmidons. The group is rounded out by vocalist/guitarist Lori Lindsay and has have launched a website at http://www.themyrmidons.com/. We'll be running a full interview with the band soon, but in the meantime asked Lauren to briefly tell us about the project.
"We got the name from a Shangri Las compilation called The Myrmidons of Misery…we thought that was such a cool sounding word. Historically they were a bunch of martyrs who fought tooth and nail against the Trojans in that war and lost miserably. We don't think of ourselves that way but we do care about the plight of popular music.
Ted and I have been writing on our own and always the stuff we did together seemed different than what we did in BOL, even though it's still us. We were lucky to have found Lori because she really is an old soul and draws from some of the same pools… but she definitely brings the material alive in a way we never even expected!
We are presently looking for a home for this, in the meantime probably in the next two months we will have some vinyl (7″inches) and the limited edition cd to follow shortly after- both will be available through the website."


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October 5, 2009 in Online Social Media | Tags: Design, Doug Powell, Entrepreneurship, Jackie Huba, MIMA Summit 09, Online Social Media, Seth Godin | Leave a comment
After a weekend at AIGA Minnesota's Design Camp (which I'll blog about later this week), I'm now spending Monday at the Minnesota Interactive Media Association's (MIMA) Summit. The event, in it's seventh year, is sold out at 1,000 attendees…many of whom I'm sure were lured by keynote speaker and social media rock star Seth Godin. Of course, social media is topic number one. I'll be live blogging throughout the day.
First keynote speaker: Jackie Huba
Web is democratized, BUT, 1% of visitors to a site actually create content—they become very influential.
41% of people on Facebook between ages 26-44
Fastest growing age group on Facebook: Women 55+
Most trusted form of advertising:
1. Friends
2. Online opinions (anonymous)
3. Websites
4. Editorial content
5. Brand sponsorships
Strong correlation between word of mouth activity and company growth
Measuring customer loyalty ladder:
Ownership (customer feels like they are part of the company)
Satisfaction (just measuring "satisfaction" not adequate)
Story: Domino's "booger" video
Blog readers actually alerted company of video and helped identify where the store was.
CEO posted apology video to YouTube
46% polled before video would by a Dominos pizza
15% after
24% after CEO video
Story: Motrin Moms
Key learning: LISTEN
Story: Bacon Salt
Early activity exclusively through social media
Obscurity to Oprah in 2 years
Key learning: PEOPLE ARE THE MESSAGE
Story: Fiskars
Fisk•A•Teers—ambassadors for campaign=virtual salesforce
6,250 members in 50 states
1,000 certified volunteer demonstarators
Stores with Fisk•A•Teer activity have 3x the sales
13 new product ideas per month
85% of Fisk•A•Teers likely to recommend brand
Key learning: PARTICIPATION
1. Listen
2. Attract (don't interrupt)
3. Participate (involve customers)
Breakout Session: Creating a Social Media Workshop
Laura Chavoen, Imagination
No rules in social media
Social media shift causing dramatic disruptions across business world
Most customers don't know the difference between a blog, a forum, a wiki…and they shouldn't have to.
Human nature doesn't change—human behavior DOES
Markets consist of unique human beings, not demographic sectors—don't overvalue data
Media is no longer just a source of information, but is now also a site of coordination
This all means there is a NEW OPPORTUNITY for marketers
Huffington Post has integrated content with social media—all within their domain
Road Map:
1. Objectives (why)
2. Audience (who)
3. Strategy (how)
4. Tactics (where)
Case Studies:
Pepsi Innovation Day:
Invited social media experts for inside tour of operations and the LISTENED to what they said afterward online
Very active on Twitter to pose questions about customer service
Navy for Moms
Robust community
Online community turned into place for customers to talk about kids and parenting
Graco had an ear into R&D opportunities
Little Debbie
Sent product to bloggers and saw huge spike in online activity
1.2 million people upload data to site
30,000 online running groups
Community encourages me to run…buy product
T-shirt designs voted on by users
Netflix Prize
$1 million prize for improving recommendation engine
Winning team—many had never met in person
Listening to customers is no longer an option: it's a must!
Must build into your cycle the time to listen, learn and adjust
The only thing more popular than using social media is questioning it
Coke didn't have a Facebook group, but they're customers created one—Coke reached out to organizers and supports it
Reality: They are already talking about you
If you trust someone to work for you, trust them to use social media
Key: give them guidelines
Fear: we'll lose control of our brand
Reality: you'll learn what your brand is really about
Starbucks is number one brand on Facebook (3.6 million fans)
"we are gaining ROI from this effort"
Fear: our audience doesn't use social media
Reality: Then you don't have an audience (79% of US is online)
Fear: we don't have time for social media
Reality: Remember how we felt about email?
Start small and let it grow and prove its value
Fear: if we make a mistake it will haunt us forever
Reality: It's accountability (take responsibility)
It's never too late to improve
Fear: How do we measure ROI?
Reality: Ramifications of ignoring
Social media has changed measurement:
Now we measure engagement, involvement, interactions, intimacy, influence
Quantifying Success:
Dell reaches $1 million in revenue from Twitter stream
Carnival invites community members to be first to ride on new ship—most successful launch ever
If you learn what's important to your customers, you'll learn what's important to your business


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