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|Ocean View Phuket is a 10-minute walk from Patong Beach.
It boasts an outdoor pool, bar and free private parking. A charming
hotel ideally located on the first heights of Patong beach. An oasis
of tropical trees and exotic flowers that offer calm and serenity.
Resort offers a combination of qualities and benefits: amazing sea view sea view from all rooms and terrace, pool and bar where you can enjoy the breakfast and later watch the sunset around a delicious cocktail.
Hotel very confidential, private access and its size and location will provide you security, serenity and privacy.
"Ocean View Phuket hotel" is the wise choice for those who want a stunning sea view on the Patong bay and the serenity and relaxing atmosphere while remaining close to the beach and entertaining/nightlife (2 minutes driving, 10 min walking). The Franco-Thai management will offer you advices and support in case of any difficulties you may have during your stay on the Phuket Island.
Ocean View Phuket Hotel is a 20-minute drive from Phuket Town and about 32 km from Phuket International Airport.
|All hotel rooms are spacious (30 to 42 m²) have sea view and balcony, individual air conditioning, king size bed (185cm wide) or twin beds (2x105cm). Concept design and contemporary modern Thai style décor provide comfort and guarantee a good night.
Superior Room with KitchenRoom Size: 40 square meters
Bed Size(s): 1 King size
Superior rooms with Kitchen are located on the ground floor and offer a sea view. Offering rooms with 32-inch flat-screen TVs their comfort and large dressing are especially appreciated by residents, alone or in couples, wishing to stay for long periods (several weeks to several months).
Superior RoomRoom Size: 36 square meters
Bed Size(s): 1 King size Or 2 Single
Superior rooms are located on the first floor of the Hotel and feature panoramic views over the bay of Patong Beach. Comfort and functional aspects are combined with a very reasonable price.
Deluxe RoomRoom Size: 36 square meters
Bed Size (s): 1 King size Or 2 Single
Deluxe rooms are on the second and final level of the hotel. One of the most beautiful panoramic view of Patong Beach. Large dressing room, 32 inch LCD Flat TV, DVD player with USB. Contemporary design and modern Thai style decoration. Rooms completely renovated in 2010.
Suite RoomRoom Size: 48 square meters
Bed Size (s): 1 King size
Stunning sea view, located on the top floor of the hotel. The suite room has a very large wardrobe with safe high capacity, large terrace, lounge area with LCD TV 40 inch screen and DVD player, a spacious bar with large fridge and microwave. Rooms completely renovated in 2010.
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offers a swimming pool in an area where exotic
flowers and tropical gardens and sea view over the Patong bay are a
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The bar is located next to the pool. Breakfast is served poolside with great sea view.
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The reception of "Ocean View Phuket" and the bar and terrace overlook the Patong bay and surrounding hills.
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Hotel provide also laundry service and car/motorbikes rental: the best way to visit the island.
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|A charming hotel ideally located on the first heights of Patong beach. An oasis of tropical trees and exotic flowers that offers calm and serenity.


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For decades, the world has thought of Canada as America's friendly northern neighbor -- a responsible, earnest, if somewhat boring, land of hockey fans and single-payer health care. On the big issues, it has long played the global Boy Scout, reliably providing moral leadership on everything from ozone protection to land-mine eradication to gay rights. The late novelist Douglas Adams once quipped that if the United States often behaved like a belligerent teenage boy, Canada was an intelligent woman in her mid-30s. Basically, Canada has been the United States -- not as it is, but as it should be.
But a dark secret lurks in the northern forests. Over the last decade, Canada has not so quietly become an international mining center and a rogue petrostate. It's no longer America's better half, but a dystopian vision of the continent's energy-soaked future.
That's right: The good neighbor has banked its economy on the cursed elixir of political dysfunction -- oil. Flush with visions of becoming a global energy superpower, Canada's government has taken up with pipeline evangelists, petroleum bullies, and climate change skeptics. Turns out the Boy Scout's not just hooked on junk crude -- he's become a pusher. And that's not even the worst of it.
With oil and gas now accounting for approximately a quarter of its export revenue, Canada has lost its famous politeness. Since the Conservative Party won a majority in Parliament in 2011, the federal government has eviscerated conservationists, indigenous nations, European commissioners, and just about anyone opposing unfettered oil production as unpatriotic radicals. It has muzzled climate change scientists, killed funding for environmental science of every stripe, and in a recent pair of unprecedented omnibus bills, systematically dismantled the country's most significant long-cherished environmental laws.
The author of this transformation is Prime Minister Stephen Harper, a right-wing policy wonk and evangelical Christian with a power base in Alberta, ground zero of Canada's oil boom. Just as Margaret Thatcher funded her political makeover of Britain on revenue from North Sea oil, Harper intends to methodically rewire the entire Canadian experience with petrodollars sucked from the ground. In the process he has concentrated power in the prime minister's office and reoriented Canada's foreign priorities. Harper, who took office in 2006, increased defense spending by nearly $1 billion annually in his first four years, and he has committed $2 billion to prison expansion with a "tough on crime" policy that ignores the country's falling crime rate. Meanwhile, Canada has amassed a huge federal debt -- its highest in history at some $600 billion and counting.
Liberal critics like to say that Harper's political revolution caught many Canadians, generally a fat and apathetic people, by surprise -- a combination of self-delusion and strategic deception. That may be true, but though Canadians live in high latitudes, they're not above baser human instincts -- like greed. Harper is aggressively pushing an economic gamble on oil, the world's most volatile resource, and promising a new national wealth based on untapped riches far from where most Canadians live that will fill their pocketbooks, and those of their children, for generations. With nearly three-quarters of Canadians supporting oil sands development in a recent poll, Harper seems to be selling them on the idea.
THE RESOURCE UNDERWRITING many of these ugly behavioral changes is bitumen, a heavy, sour crude mined from oil sands. Deposits of the badly degraded asphalt-like substance lie under a forest the size of Florida in northeastern Alberta and comprise the world's third-largest petroleum reserves. Over the last decade, as oil prices increased fivefold, oil companies invested approximately $160 billion to develop bitumen in Alberta, and it has finally turned profitable. Canada is now cranking out 1.7 million barrels a day of the stuff, and scheduled production stands to fill provincial and federal government coffers with about $120 billion in rent and royalties by 2020. More than 40 percent of that haul goes directly to the federal government largely in the form of corporate taxes. And the government wants even more; it's pushing for production to hit 5 million barrels a day by 2030.
Never mind that the entire process is a messy and wasteful one. It takes copious amounts of water, capital, and energy to dig out the carbon-rich sands, let alone upgrade and process the heavy crude, which can't even move through a pipeline until it is diluted with an imported gasoline-like condensate. With brazen cheek, the government nonetheless defends the Alberta megaproject as "responsible" and "sustainable" -- "an enterprise of epic proportions, akin to the building of the pyramids or China's Great Wall. Only bigger." Bigger indeed: Approved bitumen mining projects could potentially excavate a forest area six times as large as New York City. Reclamation and reforestation remain an uncertain and costly proposition. To date, oil companies have already created enough toxic mining sludge (6 billion barrels) to flood the entirety of Washington, D.C.
Unsurprisingly, Ottawa has become a master at the cynical art of greenwashing. When Harper's ministers aren't attacking former NASA scientist and climate change canary James Hansen in the pages of the New York Times or lobbying against Europe's Fuel Quality Directive (which regards bitumen as much dirtier than conventional oil), his government has spent $100 million since 2009 on ads to convince Canadians that exporting this oil is "responsible resource development." Meanwhile, Canada has bent over backward to entice Beijing. Three state-owned Chinese oil companies (all with dismal records of corporate transparency and environmental sensitivity) have already spent more than $20 billion purchasing rights to oil sands in Alberta.
The kowtowing to China, now the world's largest oil consumer, highlights Canada's big bitumen dilemma: how to get dirty, landlocked oil to global markets. The United States, Canada's biggest customer, doesn't seem to need it as much anymore; imports declined by more than 4 million barrels a day between 2005 and 2011, and with pipeline projects to the United States like Keystone XL stuck in the mud, Harper's vision of being an "emerging energy superpower" appears in danger. Unsurprisingly, Harper has recently jettisoned criticism of China's human rights record. As a secret foreign-policy document leaked last fall to the Canadian Broadcasting Corp. (CBC) makes clear, Canada has new priorities: "To succeed we will need to pursue political relationships in tandem with economic interests even where political interests or values may not align."
In 2012, Canada quietly signed a controversial trade agreement with the People's Republic and approved a $15 billion takeover of Nexen, an oil sands player, by the state-owned China National Offshore Oil Corp. And, perhaps to warm Canadians' hearts to the Chinese, the government recently lobbied to rent two traveling pandas at a cost of $10 million over the next 10 years.
Now that oil sands mining accounts for nearly 10 percent of Canada's greenhouse gas emissions, Ottawa can't really brook any discussion of a carbon tax, though a majority of Canadians would support one. Harper described the Kyoto Protocol as "a socialist scheme" and a "job-killing, economy-destroying" accord before pulling out of the agreement altogether in 2012. Many of Canada's ministers are now die-hard skeptics even about the science behind climate change. As Natural Resources Minister Joe Oliver recently explained to the Montreal newspaper La Presse: "I think that people aren't as worried as they were before about global warming of 2 degrees.… Scientists have recently told us that our fears [on climate change] are exaggerated." To silence any would-be exaggerators, the government simply stopped funding the Canadian Foundation for Climate and Atmospheric Sciences, disbanded Environment Canada's Adaptation to Climate Change Research Group, and eliminated the role of chief science advisor. And since 2008, political minders have vetted all media requests for the country's 23,000 federal scientists.
After the government barred a federal scientist from talking about the discovery of a large Arctic ozone hole, a 2012 editorial in the influential science journal Nature demanded that the Canadian government "set its scientists free." It seems Harper heard "cut them loose" instead: His government summarily closed the world-famous Experimental Lakes Area research station, a gem of Canadian environmental science that has helped spur global policy on acid rain, to save the princely sum of $2 million a year (though the Ontario government is working to keep it open).
THE SINGLE-MINDED PURSUIT of this petroproject has stunned global analysts. The Economist, no left-wing shill, characterized Harper, the son of an Imperial Oil senior accountant, as a bully "intolerant of criticism and dissent" with a determined habit of rule-breaking. Lawrence Martin, one of Canada's most influential political commentators, says that Harper's "billy-club governance" has broken "new ground in the subverting of the democratic process." Conservative pollster Allan Gregg has described Harper's agenda as an ideological assault on evidence, facts, and reason.
To be fair, Harper's government does have a plan for climate change -- pumping the problem to the United States and/or China. Oil sands crude transported to the United States by the proposed Keystone XL pipeline, for example, could over a 50-year period increase carbon emissions by as much as 935 million metric tons relative to other crudes. And the planned $5.5 billion Northern Gateway pipeline from Alberta to the Pacific Ocean would result in up to 100 metric tons of carbon dioxide emissions a year, from extraction and production in Canada to combustion in China -- more than British Columbia's total emissions in 2009. The 2012 National Inventory Report by Environment Canada, the country's environmental department, actually boasts that Canada has partly reduced overall emission intensity in the oil sands "by exporting more crude bitumen."
All this underscores Canada's new reality: Just about any kind of rational evidence has now come under assault by a government that believes that markets -- and only markets -- hold the answers. Any act that industry regards as an obstacle to rapid mineral extraction or pipeline building has been rewritten with a Saudi-like flourish. One massive omnibus budget bill alone changed 70 pieces of legislation, gutting, for example, the Fisheries Act, which directly prohibited the destruction of aquatic-life habitats but stood in the way of the Northern Gateway pipeline, which must cross 1,000 waterways en route to the Pacific Ocean. Meanwhile, funding for Canada's iconic park system has been cut by 20 percent in what critics have called a "lobotomy." The CBC, the respected state broadcaster long scorned by Harper as an independent check on power, has suffered a series of cutbacks. The Health Council of Canada, which once ensured national health standards and innovation across Canada's 13 provinces and territories, also got the ax. Furthermore, with the élan of a Middle Eastern petroprince, Harper appointed the head of his security detail to be ambassador to Jordan. And he did it all with nary a peep from your average Canadian.
More than a decade ago, American political scientist Terry Lynn Karl crudely summed up the dysfunction of petrostates: Countries that become too dependent on oil and gas riches behave like plantation economies that rely on "an unsustainable development trajectory fueled by an exhaustible resource" whose revenue streams form "an implacable barrier to change." And that's what happened to Canada while you weren't looking. Shackled to the hubris of a leader who dreams of building a new global energy superpower, the Boy Scout is now slave to his own greed.


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Just Make Sure They Know It's An Ad
Podcast listeners prefer native host-read ads to recorded units, according to new research from the IAB and Edison Research. According to this new study, 55% of podcast listeners expressed a positive sentiment to hearing an ad discussed by the show's host, while 34% had the same response when asked how they liked "pre-recorded advertisements from a brand, company or sponsor." If the advertiser was positioned as the sponsor of a show they liked, the listener's response was favorable 61% of the time.
Podcast listeners put a lot of weight in ads read live by hosts. One interesting note about this is, I know from talking to some podcast publishers, that those ads are often recorded, but with the design and intention of having them sound like part of the program. One person told me the ad is actually recorded when the program is recorded, but separately. This, so that scheduling, starting and stopping a campaign, and dynamic ad insertion can happen. Good idea. New ads each time, with the same tempo of the day's program.
Podcasters have developed a really great niche in native ads. That comes from a few places. First, let's give credit to public radio, one of the early sources of great podcast content. Public radio folks are all about host read ads that don't really sound like ads, born out of the requirements of publicly funded on-air broadcasting. That training made them approach ads in podcasts from a different place – a live, host read, irregular length, soft sell approach that feels like part of the program, not part of a commercial stop-set.
Second, native ads were born from necessity, since the first advertisers that were willing to invest in the space were direct response brands who were evaluating the success of the campaign based on the results. That made podcasters work hard to make it work.
Native ads are great for podcasting – they make listeners happy, and happy listeners spend more time listening. They make advertisers happy, and that makes them spend more. As demand for the inventory grows, and it will because audience is growing, it will be important for advertisers and sellers to remember the importance of the native sounding approach to listeners.
At the same time, podcasters and advertisers should be aware of the FTC guidelines for truth in advertising. It has to be clear that it's an ad. Sounds easy, but with host-read ads it can get a little tricky. It's a good idea to very clearly identify the ad as an ad to avoid any confusion. For more information, you can check out the guidelines from the FTC here.
New York Life Touts Results from WNYC Podcast Ads
The Podcast Upfront earlier this week, produced by the IAB, was the best one day audio conference the industry has ever seen. Set in the beautiful auditorium at the Time Inc building in NYC, the second annual event brought tons of energy and excitement for podcasts to the audience of potential advertisers. It featured many presentations – each segment was great – some due to celebrity podcaster presence, some due to really great insights. Highlights of the day included celebrities: Katie Couric, Ira Glass, Malcolm Gladwell, Questlove, Abby Wambach, Shaquille O'Neal, Marc Maron, Adam Carolla, Amber Rose, and others, all touting their podcasts and ad opportunities. Michael Rapaport from Play.it podcast I Am Rapaport stole the show as the host for the afternoon. And information – new research from Edison and IAB, a case study from New York Life, insights on audience and advertising from WNYC, a great immersive audio experience from Wondery, and more, more, more. It was an incredibly dense, powerful day for podcasting full of hip, fun, interesting, diverse energy. When the show wrapped up after almost 8 hours of stagetime, the seats were still as full as they were when the show started – evidence of the high quality of the program.
One of the most meaningful segments was WNYC's presentation which was chock full of really great data on their podcast platform, which sees 30 million downloads a month. CFO Margaret Hunt had several really great data points to share that advertisers were sure to take note of:
- 91% of listeners to their podcasts complete the program they are listening to.
- 95% of their listeners have taken action as a result of hearing an ad in a podcast
Hunt then introduced Kari Axberg, VP Strategy & Experience at New York Life, who presented a case study on a podcast campaign they ran with WNYC which netted tremendous results, including:
- 14% lift in brand awareness
- 47% lift in brand favorability
- 33% lift in purchase consideration
Impactful stuff. Possibly the most meaningful info of the day in terms of motivating the advertisers in the room to spend more in the medium.
The day ended with a loud and lively cocktail reception featuring a live podcast experience with Adam Carolla and Shaquille O'Neal. There were photo ops all over the place. Katie didn't come to the party, but I did get a selfie with Abby Wambach that made my daughter jealous 🙂
Download Data on Podcasts
Most downloaded podcasts are consumed within the first 72 hours after download, according to new info published by podcast hosting platform Blubrry. Working with data from the 35,000 podcasts they support, other interesting insights include the fact that 60% of podcasts are downloaded for on-demand consumption. Blubrry has also broken out the four major types of consumption:
- Mobile Apps – consumption within mobile apps accounts for about 72% of listening.
- Desktop Apps account for 13%
- Desktop browsers account for approximately 11% of consumption (streaming and downloads)
- Mobile browsers, tv apps – have about 4.5% of the consumption
So – most of those downloads (85%) take place within podcast apps to desktops and mobile devices. The trend toward mobile is not surprising, and also not surprising is the fact that most of the consumption takes place within apps, which download new episodes automatically over connected devices to subscribed podcasts.
An important strategy for the increasing growth of podcast listening is subscriptions. Once a listener is subscribed, new episodes get downloaded onto devices automatically, in the background. This obviously drives listening, letting a listener know when a new episode has arrived and linking new episodes within the app so that they play consecutively.
The role of subscriptions, and in fact the meaning of a subscriber to the podcast industry is pretty different than on the streaming side of connected audio, where a subscriber is generally paying a monthly fee. It's very interesting to stop and take notice of the fact that 85% of podcast listening is done by subscribers to the programming. On the streaming audio side, using Pandora as an example, less than 5% of listeners are subscribers, but all are registered users.
These days I'm thinking hard about the Digital Connected Audio universe as one space, and analyzing the similarities and differences between the streaming and podcast varieties through that lens. This is an interesting piece to stop and think about..
Gold Medal Podcasts About The Olympics
The Olympics have a way of cutting through the summertime haze and grabbing our attention like few other things. With so many events and talented athletes, the Olympics provide a lot of great interesting content for podcasts as well. For the first time in weeks, winners like Michael Phelps and Simone Biles are at the top of our mind, replacing the negative day to day updates on Trump and Clinton with positive reports about talented athletes performing at the top of their games. The Internet is crazy about the games – NBC has livestreamed more than one billion minutes of the games so far. Everyone's talking about them on facebook and twitter too.
Which is why it's surprising that there are not more podcasts about all the amazing things happening in Rio. There are a few, and some are pretty good:
- Sports Illustrated's At The Games – this daily podcast features hosts Mitch Goldich and Alex Abnos chatting through a recap of each day at the games. It's chatty and interesting, and despite not being at the games, these guys cover a lot of what's going on – with perhaps a little tmi on rugby, and occasional interviews.
- USA Today's Going For Gold – Rachel Axon and Nancy Armour of USA Today Sports are on site in Rio. This podcast is produced every few days, and offers highlights from the games.
- Yahoo Sports Grandstanding – Is a regular twice weekly podcast that has been all about Olympics since the games opened. It's hosted by Greg Wyshynski, who is in Rio, and it's pretty interesting.
It seems to me that there should be more, given all the great content there is to talk about. In particular, I would think some radio stations could muster the talent necessary to produce some pretty good updates for their listeners. Perhaps it's the short term of the Olympics, but producing recaps like this in podcast form is a great way to expand digital offerings, grow audience, and look for new sponsors. You might even call it a gold medal opportunity…
What's Your Podcast Strategy?
When it comes to building a community to support your business, Another Mother Runner gets it done. AMR is an online business that targets moms that run – providing a community and connecting with their audience through a daily newsletter, facebook page, books, podcasts and more. When it comes to connecting with new members of their community and growing their brand, their podcast strategy is critical. Sarah Bowen Shea and her partner Dimity McDowell have been podcasting since 2011, which makes them trailblazers of the audio variety (as well as being actual trailblazers!) Their most recent weekly podcast was their 221st.
They credit their podcast, which is hosted by Acast, and available on iTunes and Stitcher as well, as one of the most effective ways to get new audience. "I think a lot of brands don't realize the power of the podcast." says Bowen Shea. She says the podcast helps them grow and strengthen their community, while at the same time entertaining women as they run. Get that? The goal of their podcast is to grow their community.
Their formula for success is to offer lots of ways for running moms to connect – through the online store, books about running and being a mom, podcasts, the Train Like a Mother club, and on-site appearances at races. It's working. Their facebook page has 59,000 likes, and their daily newsletter goes out to 13,500 subscribers. Their podcasts get 80-95,000 listens a month. One of their newest brand extensions is to offer archived podcast content behind a paywall through Acast+ for $2.99 a month – an option available through Acast that Bowen Shea says they are really excited about.
AMR's approach to advertising is as holistic as their approach to their content. Another Mother Runner has about a dozen corporate sponsors, who are visible on the site, and have native ads in the podcasts as well. It's a highly integrated approach to sponsorship that no doubt creates lots of value for the advertiser.
In the end, Another Mother Runner's podcast strategy is one to admire because it's not content for content's sake – it's a way to stay connected with their community and grow their brand. And yes, it helps that runners have lots of time on the road when they're looking for company and something engaging to listen to. AMR's podcasts keep them company. And, as they promise, they keep talking on the uphill…
IAB Announces Podcast Upfront
The Interactive Advertising Bureau (IAB) will host its second annual Podcast Upfront on September 7th and expand from a half to full day long program. The Second Annual Podcast Marketplace will feature 12 podcast companies, selected from a larger group based on their proposals to participate. Attendance is by invitation for advertisers and media agency executives.
Selected sponsors will each have a 20 minute presentation that will spotlight marketing opportunities for advertisers in podcasting. Last year's event was very successful, and the expanded format for this year promises to be just as exciting.
Selected presenting sponsors include:
- AdLarge
- Authentic (formerly Podtrac)
- CBS Radio's Play.it
- HowStuffWorks
- Midroll
- Panoply
- PodcastOne
- Time Inc.
- WNYC Studios
- Wondery
The content of the presentations will feature an impressive list of some of the most popular podcasts:
- The Adam Carolla Show
- Engage: The Official Star Trek Podcast
- Entertainment Weekly: Game of Thrones
- ESPN: Fantasy Focus Football
- TED Radio Hour
- Jim Breuer's The Metal In Me
- Malcolm Gladwell's Revisionist History
- Radiolab
- Stuff You Should Know
- This American Life
- WTF with Marc Maron
No word on which presentations will include their personality hosts, but I do know that the intial RFP encouraged companies that were interested in participating to make their pitches as appealing as possible in order to be selected, so I'm guessing quite a few podcast personalities will be on stage. It's bound to be a great day for podcasting. Read more about it here.
Why Millennials Like Podcasts
The study showing that Millennials listen to less radio than older generations is hardly news. Other studies have shown similar trends, and you need to look no further than your favorite Millennial to know that they're all about connected consumption of all their media.
Meanwhile, we have the growing body of data showing that the very same folks like podcasts. The Podcast Consumer study released by Edison Research shows that 35% of podcast listeners are in the 18-34 demographic. In fact, comScore data shows that same demographic is 44% more likely than the average smartphone-owning adult to listen to podcasts on their device at least once a week. And podcasts are even more popular with younger demos – while 18-34 year olds are more likely than the general population to be podcast listeners, 12-17 year olds are almost twice as likely to listen.
Just this morning I had a conversation with my favorite Millennial about podcasts. She listens at work, and she works in an environment where she can't be connected all day long. Each day, she downloads her daily diet of podcasts and brings them with her. She says playlists get too boring.
The most fascinating part of this is that Millennials – as well as folks in the younger 12-17 demographic – are listening to podcasts, which are primarily talk programming. The very same programming that on broadcast stations is relegated to the AM dial and listened to mainly by 35+ demographics. How can that be? I'm thinking there are a few things that make podcasts so attractive to younger demos:
- It's all about the device. The younger you are, the more attached you are to your device. If the content is available on your device, it's worth your attention.
- On demand content is the everything. No matter what they're consuming, younger demos are consuming it on their terms: what they want, when they want it.
- Shared content is important. Not only do Millennials like to share, they like to like what others share. Listen, and share with your friends.
- Non-fiction and reality content is a thing with Millennials.
Back to the Millennial that I live with. When she's home from college I really enjoy an evening in front of the tv with her. It used to be easy to pick a movie that we both wanted to watch. But more and more, our tastes diverge, with hers preferring shows about cooking competitions, or brides picking dresses. If it's fiction, she's looking for crime and thrillers. The latest Jane Austen novel remake? Not so much.
Offering appealing content in a form that this age group likes to consume is the key to the success of podcasts with younger demos.
Podcasts have struck a chord with Millennials, and it has to do with several things, not the least of which is audio content that they like. While broadcast radio assumes that what they want to hear is the latest hits, it turns out they also want to hear great non fiction programming, on their phones, when they want it. If you podcast it they will listen..
Is YouTube the Next Frontier for Podcasts?
Podcasters are finding YouTube a friendly place to distribute their content. With a billion monthly users, YouTube's an attractive place to woo listeners. Libsyn, a podcast hosting company, recently introduced a feature that enables podcasters to easily turn their audio files into video and send them to YouTube at the same time they send them to other distribution services such as iTunes and GooglePlay.
But YouTube is a video platform, right? Although it's often disregarded in a conversation about streaming audio listening, YouTube is by far the largest on demand streaming audio service. It makes sense the podcasters would offer their content on the giant on demand streaming platform as well. YouTube also has some other features that make it a great platform for podcasters – such as search and sharing.
This American Life offers all of its content on YouTube, as do many others. Some, like The Moth, and NPR podcasts like The Hidden Brain and Invisibilia, have organized all of their content into YouTube pages that you can subscribe to, while others, like 99 Percent Invisible and Reply All, are not quite as organized, but easy to find through search.
YouTube also offers recommendations – when I subscribed to Modern Love, produced by WBUR and the New York Times, I got recommendations for a Ted Talk, and a podcast by The Minimalists.
From the looks of the numbers of subscribers to some of the podcasts, it's early in the idea that YouTube is a podcast distribution platform. The Moth's 47,000 subscribers seems huge compared to This American Life which has 8562 subscribers. Meanwhile Serial has only 216(!). But Youtube sure seems like a ready-made distribution platform for podcast content. Maybe it's the next frontier..
Branded Podcasts Come in Several Flavors
Brands are getting serious about podcasts as a content marketing strategy. Podcasts lend themselves well to branded content – their storytelling nature is engaging, appealing to brands seeking a better way to connect with consumers.
Branded content strategies in podcasts can vary greatly, from subtle approaches where the sponsor is barely mentioned, to shows where the sponsor is prominently featured within the editorial, with several alternatives in between.
Branding by Association – A subtle approach to content branding relies simply on a connection with clever, innovative and appealing content to establish a brand's connection. GE's The Message is a best in class for this type of content marketing. The podcast was hugely successful and very innovative. The sponsor branding was very subtle – GE Podcast Theater was the producer of the show along with Panoply Networks. GE's presence in the podcast is very understated, which in this case may well have added to both the success of the series and the effectiveness of the branding. It is really artful branding for sure.
Editorial Branding – A more overt type of content marketing is employed by eBay in the recently launched Open for Business by Gimlet Media. This type of branded podcast features the sponsor's name and company within the podcast, and in fact, features an eBay partner business within the episode. The editorial content of the podcast is focused on entrepreneurship, and reportedly, the company had input into and final say over the direction and content of each of the six installments. It's well done, with strong and interesting reporting elements that exemplify Gimlet's expertise in the space.
Sponsor Produced Podcasts – In this approach to branded podcasts, the sponsor produces its own content, with or without the help of outside resources, and focuses entirely on the sponsor's business. The McKinsey Podcast, produced by the inhouse McKinsey Publishing, focuses on educating its audience. It's a well done B2B podcast that discusses topics like the customer experience or the Chinese consumer. It's a great example of using podcasts to expand a customer base by positioning the sponsor company as a thought leader.
Sponsored Content – This most common approach to content marketing in podcasts is the one that familiar podcast advertisers like Mailchimp and Squarespace employ. Those companies employ native ads within popular podcast series like Serial to establish their brand. The native ads, often done by the podcast hosts, are personal and effective. I think the branding for Squarespace in the podcast series Reply All is particularly good. Hosts PJ Vogt and Alex Goldman create quirky websites using Squarespace, and then talk about them. (Has PJ met Alex's son yet is one, and Goldman.gripe is the other). It's funny and, as I am demonstrating right here, memorable.
Podcasts as branded content can take many different forms and create really great exposure for advertisers. These deeply creative approaches add enormous value and impact for the brands, and generate both quality content and great buzz that is no doubt part of the momentum driving expanding interest. May they thrive..
Podcasting's Tipping Point
A few days ago Slate's Panoply Network launched a new series with best-selling author, speaker, and quirky, insightful social scientist Malcolm Gladwell called Revisionist History. The day it launched it hit number one on the iTunes Podcast Chart. The podcast series of ten episodes will be released week by week and examine past events that were mis-interpreted the first time around – Gladwell will attempt to "correct the record."
This is a big score for Slate's Panoply Media, and for the podcasting industry. Panoply's Andy Bowers thinks Gladwell's big name will bring new listeners, who haven't already listened to a podcast before, not to mention new advertisers.
The launch of the program came with a live reading at the iconic 92nd Street Y in New York by Malcolm Gladwell. Attendees were given a handout with instructions on how to download to a podcast on Apple's purple podcast app – the Revisionist History podcast series is sponsored by Apple's iBooks, another remarkable aspect of the show. Apparently, Gladwell was thinking about writing a book about these misunderstood historical events, but was convinced to do the podcast series instead.
Everyone is hoping the new series will see the same kind of blockbuster success that Serial saw in its first season. In addition to the live reading, Gladwell's been tweeting about the series to his 373,000 followers – "My mother says it's amazing!" Meanwhile, his motives for producing the series are characterized as kind of a lark, more of a challenge than producing another bestselling book.
It just might be a social experiment as well. Gladwell just might be hoping his new series hits at The Tipping Point for podcasting. In his book The Tipping Point, Gladwell examines "that magic moment when an idea, trend, or social behavior crosses a threshold, tips, and spreads like wildfire." Podcasting is arguably at its Tipping Point – as Tom Webster of Edison Research pointed out in his presentation on the Podcast Consumer a few weeks ago. Podcast listening has been growing modestly for a bunch of years, but this year things have taken off, says Webster, citing the 24% growth in monthly listening and referring to a possible hockey stick pattern in growth. (All hail to Gordie Howe)
When a product reaches the tipping point, "the moment of critical mass, the threshold, the boiling point," it can spread like wildfire with a few simple factors, which Gladwell calls "agents of change." The podcasting pot is arguably ready to boil. I'm thinking this new show Revisionist History is both a new podcast and a social experiment, where Gladwell is looking to be one of the agents of change that propels podcasting into epidemic status. Read the book and see what you think…
This week I listened to the intro and first episode of Revisionist History, and also listened to Lena Dunham's Women of the Hour.


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WASHINGTON — Within a week of taking office, President Barack Obama had called his top national security officials and military brass together at the White House for an urgent meeting on a single subject — Afghanistan.
American casualties were at their highest levels of the war. The Taliban was gaining strength. Pakistan had done little to eliminate the Taliban and al-Qaida safe havens across the border.
After each of the top advisors laid out their outlook for the war, the president scanned the room and asked what would seem to be the obvious question, "What is the end game?"
In other words, for the United States, how does this war end? When no one could provide him a satisfactory answer, Obama ordered a full scale review and a new strategy that included both Afghanistan and Pakistan.
Saddled with two wars, with little or no military contact or experience, President Obama appeared determined to provide the kind of decisive leadership that the situations demand. But how radically different would his policies be from the Bush administration?
Time to start coming home
A little more than a month after taking office, President Obama stood before battle-hardened Marines at Camp LeJeune, N.C., and told them it was time to start coming home from Iraq.
"Let me say this as plainly as I can: by August 31, 2010, our combat mission in Iraq will end," Obama declared.
Under Obama's plan, that would leave up to 50,000 U.S. military forces on the ground to hunt down remnants of al-Qaida, assist the Iraqi military, and protect the diplomats and civilians serving in the U.S. embassy in Baghdad.
That's not much different than the long-range plans of the military under the Bush administration, and well short of Obama's original campaign promise to pull all U.S. troops out of Iraq.
But now as commander in chief, his responsibilities extend well beyond his political constituents. And as we've so painfully learned in more than 6 years of the war in Iraq, no original battle plan, and certainly no timetable, survives the first encounter with the enemy.
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Gen. Ray Odierno, the top U.S. military commander in Iraq, had already asked to keep the current level of about 130,000 American forces in Iraq until after the Iraqi national elections in December. This was a hedge against any possible spike in violence.
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Animated Boehner: 'There's nothing complex about the Keystone Pipeline!'
House Speaker John Boehner became animated Tuesday over the proposed Keystone Pipeline, castigating the Obama administration for not having approved the project yet.
- Budget deficits shrinking but set to grow after 2015
- Senate readies another volley on unemployment aid
- Obama faces Syria standstill
- Fluke files to run in California
- Animated Boehner: 'There's nothing complex about the Keystone Pipeline!'
Video: Obama: Iraq combat mission ends in 2010 But Odierno didn't have to wait that long.
Within the past week alone, scores of Iraqi civilians have been killed in a series of suicide bombings. As a result, the U.S. and Iraq are already planning to delay the withdrawal of all U.S. forces from Iraqi cities by the end of June, essentially putting off the first critical step toward a total withdrawal.
In a Baghdad visit this past weekend, Secretary of State Hillary Clinton promised Iraqis the U.S. will not desert them as it starts to pull out troops, declaring "The United States will stand with the people of Iraq."
So despite President Obama's pledge that the combat mission in Iraq will end by August 2010, it does not rule out the very real possibility that some number of American forces will still be fighting beyond that deadline.
In his Camp LeJeune speech to Marines, even President Obama cautioned, "There will surely be a difficult period" that will result in what he called, "tactical adjustments."
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The President's ambitious strategy for Afghanistan faces even more daunting challenges.
Video: Gen. Odierno on increasing violence in Iraq Having declared that the war against the Taliban and al-Qaida in both Afghanistan and Pakistan is "a war we must win," Obama ordered a major shift in America's focus from Iraq to Afghanistan. Following the strategy review, Obama agreed to deploy an additional 21,000 soldiers and Marines to Afghanistan. At the same time Obama ordered a "civilian surge" of non-military U.S. government employees to help rebuild and stabilize the Afghan government.
Recognizing that no strategy in Afghanistan can succeed without eliminating the growing threat from the Taliban and al-Qaida safe havens in Pakistan, President Obama pledged billions of dollars in military aide to the struggling Pakistani government.
But after the government in Islamabad granted the Taliban the right to impose the strict, Islamic fundamentalist Shariah law in the SWAT valley, Secretary Clinton last week accused the Pakistani government of "abdicating to the Taliban and extremists," and declared Pakistan a "mortal threat" to the United States.
In these first 100 days of the Obama administration, senior Pentagon and military officials generally give Obama high marks, not only for his decisiveness, but also for his flexibility and willingness to alter his course if necessary. According to one senior military official, "He listens."
But he has yet to be tested. And when the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan present inevitable challenges and demands, ultimately it will be up to President Obama to provide the answers.
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Moving forward with plans for second high school
Bentonville school board members have decided a second high school is the best option for the district
A big decision was made Monday night at the Bentonville school board meeting. Now, they're moving toward with plans to build a second high school.
The vote came as somewhat of a surprise on Monday. In fact, it wasn't on the agenda, but the motion was made, and it passed 6-1. The plan to build a second high school is music to the ears of many parents in the Bentonville school district.
"The community and everybody I speak to wants a second high school. I want a second high school. I want them to figure it out, and I want them to get moving on it quickly so we can resolve this," Dedria Ried said.
Ried and many other parents say Bentonville schools have become overcrowded. Superintendent Mike Poore agrees.
"Administration is being tasked to work solely on what a second high school would look like; looking at whether it's demographics, capacity, comparisons with other schools. Our focus is on having two high schools within the Bentonville school district," Poore said.
They've got a lot to do moving forward. A new millage will be voted on at some point. They're working on a capacity study and looking at demographics to predict future growth of the area. They'll also compare costs of other new high schools. Then, they'll get the whole community involved.
A millage vote to help fund a new school failed last year, but Poore says only 20 percent of Bentonville parents are registered to vote, and he hopes to change that by the next election.
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dirndl stained by the splashed droppings of the cattle she so lovingly tends, were to
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"Boomerangers" as a buzzword has been around for a while -- it used to refer to kids who graduated from college and moved back to the parental homestead to smoke weed and aspire to a job at the gas station. No more! Things are so bad, 40-year-old lawyers are moving home. With their spouses and kids! And Time's interview subjects are fairly happy with the living arrangement for the most part -- though they definitely see it as temporary. So take heart, potheads, D&D freaks, and virgins: Living in your parents' basement may yet lose its stigma .


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BRIDGEVIEW, Ill. – For 97 minutes of the Chicago Fire's 1-1 tie against San Jose on Saturday, there was no doubt in Chicago Fire goalkeeper Sean Johnson's mind that he'd saved every shot that came at him.
Whether it was Simon Dawkins' volley that looked destined for the back of the net, a header from Alan Gordon that skimmed the ground in front of him and jetted toward goal or a chip from Dawkins that looked like it had him beat, Johnson knew he was going to save each shot as it left his opponent's foot or head.
Until Steven Lenhart's volley was fired hopelessly past him in the eighth minute of stoppage time, Johnson stonewalled the Earthquakes with 10 saves.
"The only one I knew I couldn't get to was the one that went in the back of the net," Johnson told MLSsoccer.com on Monday. "Gordon's header in the second half was a tough one because it was going down on a line and back away from me. You try to have a mentality that you'll save everything that comes your way."
WATCH: Johnson dominates vs. SJ
Johnson leapt and dove to cover almost every inch of the goal with his 6-foot-3 frame while the man who taught him to be a professional looked on from the other end of the field.
In preseason of 2010, San Jose goalkeeper Jon Busch was a seasoned veteran and the incumbent starter in the Fire's preseason camp, while Johnson was an unproven, third-string rookie.
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"He honestly taught me that you have to work hard every day," Johnson said. "I honestly couldn't tell you someone who works harder every day to get better. He pushes himself and he pushes everyone around him. His advice to me was just, 'Stay humble and keep working, and never settle for being good, you always want to be great.'"
Busch's advice is part of the reason Johnson isn't letting his confidence get too high after his almost other-worldly performance. Similarly, he doesn't get too low after making mistakes.
"I was a lot more active than I've had to be in the past," Johnson said when asked if Saturday's game was the best of his career. "Did I have a perfect game? Absolutely not. You look at the game as a whole and not just certain moments. You look at every decision on the field, and no one has a perfect game."
Johnson is still working on things like positioning, distribution, and dealing with crosses. At 23 years old, he's still working on learning what it takes to be a professional goalkeeper.
He's learning how to deal with both mistakes and success, both of which he's had in abundance during his three-year career.
While Johnson wouldn't give himself too much credit after one game, his mentor on the other end of the field made put his performance into context.
"Sean was awesome tonight," Busch told reporters after the game. "He has a bright future ahead of him. He is a future senior national team goalkeeper and I told him that. He was fantastic."


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Spiced pork & potato pie
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Although many emergencies and disasters are often unpredictable, much can be done to reduce their health impact by reducing the risks and by strengthening the response capacity of communities at risk.
Population growth, expansion into previously uninhabited areas and environmental degradation have all increased the exposure of most countries to natural hazards including cyclonic storms, floods, and famine, while exposure to hazards such as earthquakes and tsunamis is ever-present in many regions of the world.
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The Cane Creek AngleSet is an interesting, innovative and strange beast, as it's a threadless headset that gives you the ability to change the effective head angle of the frame, allowing one to slacken or steepen the geometry as desired, with up to six different offset angles. In a nutshell, the system uses upper and lower bearings that are housed in gimbals, which then self-adjust themselves within the headset cups (sort of like a ball joint), one of which has an offset for the actual angle setting.
Cane Creek AngleSet
The AngleSet headset system can transform the head angle of a bike in six offset angle adjustments, +/- 0.5°, +/- 1.0°, +/- 1.5° over its stock geometry, for steeper or slacker settings. It's head-tube length independent and fits the most popular head-tube and forks, in both tapered and standard sizes. The self-aligning feature between the system's main components, the bearings, gimbals and cups, and the steerer tube ensures a proper fit, and easy fork installation. When the system first came out, only forks with straight steerer's could be used, because they were equipped with their ZeroStack cups (ZS) which had insufficient space for a tapered setup, but they recently released External Cup (EC) versions, which have a larger diameter, and more room for the offsets. A straight 1-1/8″ fork can be installed on the EC version, by using their optional conversion crown race. Depending on the particular model of the AngleSet, the eccentric or offset cup may be on the top or bottom. In addition, each model comes in two different kits, one includes only a 1.0° offset cup, while the other has all three sizes, 0.5°, 1.0°, and 1.5° (Note: for EC44 has no 1.5° ). The cup sizes are designated by the size of their top and bottom head tube inside diameter, such as 44mm, 49mm and 56mm, and either EC (External Cup) or ZS (ZeroStack). For example, my test unit was the EC44-EC49/40, which meant it was for a head tube with 44mm top and 49mm bottom (tapered 1 1/8″ – 1.5″), and a 40mm crown race for a tapered fork (1 1/8″ – 1.5″).
Available Models (Top ID -Bottom ID/Crown Race):
- EC44-ZS44/30 – straight steerer
- ZS49-ZS49/30 – straight steerer
- ZS49-EC49/40 – straight or tapered steerer
- ZS44-ZS49/30 – straight steerer
- ZS44-ZS56/30 – straight steerer
- EC44-EC49/40 – straight or tapered steerer
- ZS44-EC56/40 – straight or tapered steerer
They just came out with a trick measuring tool called the Gary Gauge, which allows you to measure every conceivable headset and fork steerer parameter, so that you choose the properly sized components. Once you get the hang of using its very useful, and it makes all the confusing headset and headtube standards and sizes measurable. You can watch Gary use the simple, cheap and cool tool at https://www.canecreek.com/tech-headsets?view=gary-gauge.


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It will be here before you know it...and by it I mean Halloween!!!
What a darling image for Halloween cards...very festive!
I ADORE all of the Karen Middleton images... but this giggly little pumpkin Fairie is one of my faves.
I colored her with copic markers and sprayed some Smooch onto the image for some sparkle.
I punched out some leaves and pumpkins and added the sentiment with a rub on!
Here is a close up of this little darling.
Thanks so much for popping in and have a wonderful day!


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Dear RIF WG, The current SWC document uses the terms 'OWL Full Semantics' and 'OWL DL Semantics'. However, the OWL Working Group, in the recently published OWL 2 Recommendation, has tried to clarify these notions by separating syntax and semantics. In OWL 2, it is made clear that OWL 2 DL is a syntactic restriction and not, per se, a definition of a particular semantics. For semantics, we refer to the 'OWL 2 Direct Semantics' and 'OWL 2 RDF-Based Semantics', either of which could be applied to an OWL 2 DL ontology. We realise that this may come a bit too late in the process (and the OWL WG also acknowledges the issue of accepted terminology, see the thread at[1]). However, we wonder whether the RIF WG would still consider updating the RDF and OWL Compatibility document to reflect the terminology used in OWL 2 -- we believe that there would be a benefit to RIF in terms of increased clarity and consistency with the latest version of OWL. Note that the current discussion on the Semantic Web Coordination Group [2] that will provide generic URI-s for entailment regimes (and which may be an alternative to the URI-s listed in 5.1.1. of the document) will probably reflect the updated terminology. Sincerely On behalf of the OWL Working Group Ian Horrocks, Chair [1] http://www.w3.org/TR/owl2-overview/ [2] http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Member/w3c-semweb-cg/2009Oct/0051.htmlReceived on Monday, 2 November 2009 13:59:30 UTC
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Belledune is located on the border of the Restigouche and Gloucester counties in northern New Brunswick, it therefore draws on both of these jurisdictions for its labour force and support services.
Located right on the Bay of Chaleur this area offers one of the most beautiful vacation environments available! In the summertime, clean beaches, with some of the "warmest water north of Virginia", comfortable camping, water sports, hunting, fishing, cycling, hiking, birdwatching, or just relaxing by the sea - the Belledune area can make that "fun" vacation a very unforgettable one! In the wintertime, sleigh rides, ice fishing, snowmobiling, cross-country skiing and winter carnivals make for exciting family fun and adventure!


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I'm going to keep this as brief as I can today. My eyes have been bugging out a bit lately–just feeling really sensitive to light, watering/misting up easily, and they're not focusing in a reliably consistent way. It feels like I need one of those giant visors and wraparound blue blocker sunglasses whenever I go outside lately hehe. I honestly think it's just excessive screentime mixed with a bit of seasonal allergies. The summer-like temperatures just keep going here, which means plenty of pollen and dust riding through the air and into our open windows. Not gonna complain though :) #ForeverSummer
A little while ago, I casually asked my Instagram followers what their favourite part of the Thanksgiving meal was. I got the overwhelming impression that we all just love to smother carbs in gravy. Mashed potatoes, sweet potato casserole, a huge variety of stuffings, and plant-based gravy by the ladleful were the big winners. I'm a huge fan of these things as well. I live for thoughtful, 100% plant-based versions of classic side dishes at holiday meals. Those weird seitan/tofu holiday roasts always seem kinda goofy to me. Maybe because I just really love sides and vegetables in general? My bud Sophie told me about a pastry-encased vegetable "gravy pie" that her mother makes for Thanksgiving, and I kind of clung to the idea of OMG GRAVY PIE for weeks afterward.
When I imagined my own version of gravy pie, I thought about reversing the classic gravy and potatoes configuration–like a shepherd's pie in a way, but a little more saucy. So basically we make a big pot of mushroom gravy with hearty herbs, garlic, onions, some flavour bombs, and cooked French lentils for protein. We thicken it up, pour it into a baking dish, and give it a cute topper of garlicky kale mashed potatoes. The potatoes get a little bit golden and despite the kale addition, the whole thing is comfortingly/reassuringly beige throughout. Basically perfect holiday food.
Wishing my Canadians a happy and relaxing Thanksgiving this week. Hope you all get some great food and calm times with your favourite people. Also, if you're that person hauling the giant, beautiful bowl of salad to the family dinners because you know that you won't get your vegetable fix otherwise, please know that I'm with you in spirit and in practice. It's hard to strike that balance of slight self interest, thoughtfulness, but also not overbearing in your plant-loving ways when it comes to family, am I right? I just do a big, shredded salad (kale, brussels sprouts, root veg) with roasted delicata squash, some maple-candied pumpkin seeds and a bomb tahini dressing. It feels nutritionally complete for me personally and you get to help out by filling the token salad component hehe. Love you all. Sending my holiday hugs. xo
Print the recipe here!
NOTES: To make this soy-free, use coconut aminos instead of the tamari soy sauce.
-If you're feeling it and your dish is deep enough, this pie can handle double the amount of potatoes ;)
-You could use brown lentils in place of the French ones here. Alternatively, if you don't have lentils on hand, you could use 1 ½ cups of whatever cooked pulse you like. White beans would be so good!
-Corn starch substitutes perfectly for the arrowroot powder as our thickener here.
-Use whatever mushrooms you like. I went for a mix of cremini, shiitake & portobello.
-If you're using mixed dried herbs, go with half the amount specified (1 tablespoon).
-If you don't have a glass baking dish, metal or Corningware is also fine! As long as it's oven-safe and at least 2 inches deep.
2 cups chopped and packed kale (about 6-7 stems-worth)
½ cup dry French lentils, rinsed
1 ⅓ lbs (585 grams) yukon gold potatoes, peeled and chopped
3 garlic cloves, peeled and divided
3 tablespoons olive oil, divided
4 tablespoons unsweetened non-dairy milk, divided
sea salt and ground black pepper, to taste
1 small cooking onion, small dice
2 tablespoons minced, fresh hearty herbs (I used a mix of sage, thyme & rosemary)
2 ¼ lbs (1020 grams) mixed mushrooms, chopped
2 tablespoons balsamic vinegar
1 teaspoon gluten-free tamari soy sauce
1 teaspoon tomato paste
1 cup vegetable stock
1 tablespoon arrowroot powder
Bring a medium saucepan of water to a boil. Drop the kale into the water and simmer until kale is just-wilted and bright green, about 1-2 minutes. Using a slotted spoon, retrieve the kale and place it in a small bowl. Run some cold water over it before squeezing all of the excess moisture out. Set aside.
Drop the lentils into the saucepan of boiling water. Cook until lentils are tender, about 20 minutes. Drain and set aside.
Lightly wipe out the saucepan. Add the diced potatoes and one of the peeled garlic cloves to the saucepan. Cover the potatoes with cold water and place the saucepan on the stove over medium-high heat. Bring the potatoes to a boil and then simmer until very tender, about 18-20 minutes. Drain the potatoes.
In a large bowl, combine the drained potatoes, 2 tablespoons of the olive oil, 2 tablespoons of the non-dairy milk, and plenty of salt & pepper. Mash the potatoes with a masher until the potatoes have a mostly smooth texture and all ingredients are evenly mixed. Roughly chop the cooked kale and fold it into the potatoes. Set aside.
Preheat the oven to 375 degrees F. Lightly grease a 9×13 glass baking dish with olive oil and set it on a baking sheet.
Heat the remaining olive oil in a large, heavy pot over medium heat. Add the onions to the pot and saute until slightly soft and translucent, about 3 minutes. Mince the remaining garlic cloves and add them to the pot along with the herbs. Stir until garlic is fragrant, about 30 seconds. Add the chopped mushrooms and stir. Place a tight-fitting lid on the pot and let it sit for 2 minutes.
After two minutes, remove the lid and season the mushrooms with pepper. Stir. Place the lid on and let the pot sit for another two minutes.
The mushrooms should have reduced in volume by at least a third at this point. Add the cooked lentils to the pot. Stir the mushroom and lentil mixture and then add the balsamic vinegar, tamari, and tomato paste to the pot. Stir and scrape up any browned bits at the bottom of the pot. Season the mushrooms liberally with salt at this point.
Add the vegetable stock to the pot and stir. Bring the mushrooms to a boil. In a small bowl, stir together the arrowroot powder and remaining 2 tablespoons of non-dairy milk to combine. Add the arrowroot slurry to the pot and stir. Let the mushrooms simmer until the surrounding liquid is slightly thickened, about 3 minutes.
Pour the mushrooms and gravy into the prepared glass baking dish. Dollop the mashed potatoes on top, and then gently spread them over the entire surface of the mushrooms with a spatula or the back of a spoon.
Drizzle the pie with olive oil and sprinkle with some black pepper. Carefully transfer the pie to the oven and bake until the filling is bubbling and the potatoes are lightly browned, about 25 minutes. Carefully remove the mushroom gravy pie from the oven and let it sit for a minute or two before serving.


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Are you involved in afterschool school or community organizations? This is a great idea for a FREE afternoon outing that will bring your group to the heart of Cambridge, Massachusetts to experience one of the true treasures of the Boston area - the Harvard Museum of Natural History! Groups are encouraged to come to the museum on Wednesdays between 1-5pm to explore the natural history of our planet and have hands on experiences with our collective past!
Discovery Guides will be available to escort you on a tour of the museum galleries that would include:
- A 1,600-pound amethyst geode from Brazil
- The world's only mounted Kronosaurus, a 42-foot-long prehistoric marine reptile
- The Goliath beetle, largest beetle on Earth
- The 6 million-year-old shell of Stupendymus geographicus, the "astonishing turtle," over seven feet long
Hands on activities encourage participants to handle museum specimens, which will lead to a better understanding of how scientists learn about the world that is and the the world that was!
Gallery Activities are designed to engage kids by encouraging exploration and following their own curiostiy. Activities are divided in age brackets and include:
- Forest Explorers (Pre-K, Kindergarten) teaches young children about the forest habitat and the creatures that live there
- Museum Safaris (Pre-K, Kindergarten, 1st Grade) encourage kids to explore the museum with short activities that last 10-30 minutes
- Animal Detectives (Grades 1-6) will hone observation skills by comparative analysis of different animals
- Gallery Games (Grades 1-6) will allow kids to get up close and personal with objects found in the exhibits throughout the museum and encourages them to think and develop memory skills.
- Mineral Hall Activities (Grades 2-5) teaches children about rocks, minerals, and the processes that create them. Cans can handle and see gems, minerals and even meteorites!
- Animal Trackers (Grades 3-5) challenges kids to use their skills of observation and comparison to identify tracks left behind by animals that are common to New England.
- Evolution Exploration (Grades 6-8) students will develop their understanding of the magnitude of time, and explore many of the concepts that are part of evolution like adaptation, extinction and co-evolution.
Repeat visits are actually encouraged due to the sheer volume of material available to the kids during each visit. Groups can range in size from 10 to 30 students with an ideal adult to children ration of 1:5.
Reservations are required and space is limited. Use the link to find out more information regarding scheduling and booking!


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King Juan Carlos I is a regular patron, but informality reigns at Botafumeiro. Not even Spain's suave monarch could manage to look elegant while dining on the always succulent, often unwieldy shellfish for which this seafood mecca is known.
When José Ramón "Moncho" Neira opened Botafumeiro on a narrow street north of Barcelona's grand Avinguida Diagonal in 1964, the restaurant had 60 seats. Now it has 350, a Michelin star and a reputation as the best marisquería (shellfish bar) in the city.
Botafumeiro's tongue-in-cheek nautical decor begins just inside the entryway, where you're eyeballed by a tank of doomed lobsters. The long bar, inhabited by more diners than drinkers, runs the length of one wall before giving way to a gleaming, ultramodern kitchen, then to the spacious, split-level dining area. Here, paintings of ominous seascapes share wall space with portraits of salty old men. White-jacketed waiters scurry to the kitchen and back, dodging immense mobile carts of shellfish and each other. Large groups carry on at long banquet tables, and strolling flamenco guitarists labor to be heard above the din.
There's plenty of fish on the menu and even a few lonely meat dishes, but just about everyone orders shellfish, which is flown in daily from the owner's native Galicia on Spain's North Atlantic coast. Neira, who is also the chef, uses few spices, preferring to let the fish's natural flavor dominate. (A warning to fat-conscious Americans seeking a light fish dinner: Neira, like most Spanish chefs, believes there's no such thing as too much olive oil.)
We start with a glass of cava, Catalonia's answer to the famous Champagnes produced by its northern neighbor. The best cavas are rich and crisp; this one brims with delicious apple flavor. The mostly Spanish wine list offers more than 20 cavas, plus a reasonably priced array of red and white varietals from Galicia, Rioja and Penedés.
The steamed octopus appetizer, served over potatoes in olive oil, has perfect texture without being too chewy. Lobster salad with avocado, tomato and thin-sliced scallions is tossed in a lighter-than-it-looks egg-and-mustard dressing.
Botafumeiro offers half rations of most entrées; this is the way to order. Enormous sautéed prawns are a garlic lover's dream, and anglerfish served over diced tomatoes is simple but tasty. Broiled lobster is where Neira's laissez-faire style really shines--the lobster is so rich with natural flavor that we're almost through eating when we notice the roasted red pepper sauce it's served with. King crab and spider crab (a larger and even more expensive variety) are also on the menu, as are several types of seafood paellas and a selection of clams and oysters. The waiter will bring any item to the table for a pre-order inspection.
Save room for dessert. On our visit, the special pastry is a tall, flaky monument of chocolate, prunes and apricots in a sauce of mango juice and honey. As if that's not enough, it's served with vanilla gelato on an almond cookie and a scoop of palate-cleansing lemon sorbet.
Spain is possibly the most cigar friendly country in the world, and Botafumeiro is no exception. Post-meal cigars were smoked at no fewer than four tables in our vicinity, without a sideways glance from other diners. Reflecting the general preference of Spaniards for small cigars, Botafumeiro's humidor is stocked with Montecristo Nos. 1, 4 and 5; Cohiba Lanceros, Coronas Especiales and Panetelas; and Partagas 8-9-8s.
Reservations are a must, especially for the large private dining rooms in the rear of the restaurant. But don't make reservations for earlier than 10 p.m. unless you want the place to yourself. Spaniards, and especially Barcelonans, begin dining long after most Americans have finished dessert and are thinking about bed.
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Phone: (011-34) 218 42 30
Dinner: $75 to $100 per person, with wine


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