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"If there's one thing you have if you run a small business, it's time. If there's one thing you probably don't have, it's money."
I have to credit the above statement to Will Critchlow, it condenses what I'm about to discuss in a simplified way.
Essentially social media costs nothing but can be a fairly time consuming practice depending on how many platforms you choose to use. Social media is also the key way for a small business to develop awareness, raise its profile, gauge its market and interact with existing and future customers.
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Should you spend time and money on an outside source to come and do your social media for you? Heavens no. Who knows your business better than you or your immediate colleagues (probably your friends and family) who helped you set up your business in the first place?
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The business may not be so small anymore, but owner Will Beckett still runs Hawksmoor's Twitter page which is essentially a customer service channel. Hawksmoor has just opened another restaurant called Foxlow. Its Twitter page is equally as personable, but ramps up the humour somewhat:
The Scottish based craft-beer company Brewdog also runs a brilliant Twitter page.
As far as I can tell, Brewdog responds to every single mention and tweet that comes its way, always with friendliness and good humour.
This is an extraordinarily thorough and time consuming strategy, but its also the reason why its achieved 38,868 followers and is becoming a ubiquitous brand in all the trendiest pubs and bars.
You don't have to pay for expensive tools to measure engagement, just listen to people and chat to them.
In a recent study, it was discovered that 72% of customers expect complaints to be answered within one hour on Twitter and 53% expect a response in an hour if it's just a standard query. Your business is in a prime position to satisfy that large percentage of users.
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- Punctuation: avoid multiple exclamation marks, text speak, abbreviations (where possible) and for goodness sake, read back through your tweet before pressing send. Chances are you spelt something incorrectly in a rush.
- The conversational approach is best: you'll encourage responses and represent yourself in the best, most approachable and friendly light. Which is of course an accurate reflection of your business, right?
Consider Twitter only discount offers. Online clothes retailer Bonobos offered an exclusive one-day only Twitter sale. They called it a 'Twixclusive' and teased it a few days in advance.
Bonobos encouraged followers to retweet the offer, and once the retweets had reached a certain target, only then did the sale go live.
The rewards for Bonobos: 80 retweets in eight minutes, 100 first time buyers, 1,200% ROI and, this being a major benefit for a small business, it was 13 times more cost effective then any other marketing effort that Bonobos had previously tried.
When promoting a sale or discount, if you want to reach maximum engagement, be sure to do the following:
- Tease the sale in advance to raise interest.
- Respond to followers to keep the conversation going.
- Don't forget to carry on tweeting during the campaign to keep up the momentum.
Content strategy
Find relevant content to share with your community: engaging and replying to followers is a must, but also pro-actively sharing with them useful content is important too.
Getting the balance right between using Twitter as a marketing/broadcast platform and an engagement platform isn't that difficult. Basically don't broadcast your own content too much, just engage with your community in an open manner, then the occasional marketing tweet, written in your identifiable tone of voice, will achieve a much better and positive response.
Mix it up. Go off topic. Share content that isn't even your own. Entertain your community and you'll retain their interest and loyalty.
If you're tweeting a link to something with a particularly unwieldly URL, use a shortening service like bit.ly or Google's own URL shortener. It means you won't have to sacrifice valuable characters, and indeed 'character' from your tweet.
Promote your Twitter page on your website
Make sure there are clear links on your homepage to your Twitter account. Use share and follow buttons on individual pages or pieces of content. Your consumers will be checking their own Twitter feeds much more often than visiting your website after all.
Consider hosting your Twitter feed on your homepage, it provides regular updates on your activity and show that you're constantly active online and open to enquiries, when your website may not appear so lively.
Promoted Tweets
"If you can Tweet, you can advertise on Twitter" stated Twitter product manager Ravi Narasimhan.
As of this November, Twitter's own advertising network is now open to all, not just US businesses. It's a pay-per-action (or in fact, pay-per-follow) advertising platform where marketers will only be charged when users retweet, reply, favourite or follow your account via your promoted tweet.
Twitter also offers you targeting options by interest, gender, geography, device, and also offers its own analytics package to track your advert's progress.
Is this for you?
Theoretically you won't have to pay anything if your promoted tweet fails to achieve any engagement.
The bidding process is similar to other paid search networks so you can budget accordingly and never exceed your maximum bid.
Do promoted tweets work?
The Twitter for Business team sent out an email recently using a Hockey themed clothing company called Gongshow Gear as an example. It claimed an increase of 20% in website traffic following its promoted tweets.
According to a study by Compete, Twitter users who were exposed to a retailer tweet who then visited that retailer's website had a much higher intent to buy, over just regular search traffic or regular Twitter traffic.
That may seem obvious, as users clicking-through on an advert are of course interested in the product itself, but it shows that the right targeting can have a positive impact on your conversion rates.
Other useful tips:
Don't forget to tweet at the weekend: sure, traffic is low, but that also means there's less competition for follower's attention. The big brands don't bother tweeting at the weekend, that's why you should.
Twitter handles: don't forget to include the twitter handle of fellow colleagues, businesses or other important business figures when you mention them in tweets, this way they will receive your missive and give them a chance to interact with you or at least raise awareness of your business.
Be visual: more and more we're realising the power of visuals when it comes to capturing attention (we'll take a look at Pinterest for small businesses in a later post), so use the new image functionality of Twitter to your advantage. At the moment Twitter is using a letterbox style teaser for all images on its platform, so make sure you're aware of this when uploading images. Here's 10 brands using preview images creatively on Twitter.
Page layout: take a look at the design of your Twitter page. Don't spend a lot of time on it, as users rarely actually see it, but do make sure you have a good, clear profile picture that represents your company's logo. Also use a similarly iconic picture for your header, and for your background try these 20 wallpaper tips. This may seem blatantly obvious, but do make sure you have plenty of clear links to your website in the Twitter description or on the background image itself.
Hashtags: essentially Twitter's bread and butter, but also its most irritatingly overused feature. Be careful with it. Don't jump on every single trending hashtag as you'll appear desperate, also don't multiple hashtag in a single tweet. It's annoying. Instead remain relevant, smart and funny with your hashtags, and only use them if there's point in it. It's impossible to pick or start a hashtag trend, so don't even bother as it will only do your company more harm than good. Here's nine simple tips for creating Twitter hashtags.
In conclusion…
Of course, one day if all goes well, you'll end up becoming a big brand too. Then you won't have any time at all. But you will have money.
How do you maintain the same values you had when you were just a start-up? Just remember the lessons you learnt from those days hunched over a computer, fielding complaints and desperately trying to pare down a witty one-liner into 140 characters and remember it's those users and that interaction that got you here in the first place.
In fact, try and pare down that witty one-liner to less than 140 character. It makes it easier to retweet.
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"If there's one thing you have if you run a small business, it's time. If there's one thing you probably don't have, it's money."
I couldn't disagree more. It's the other way around. Running a small business means you don't have the burden of huge payroll costs and vast premises to be maintained. And small businesses can survive on very low profit margins because their costs are fixed and predictable, whereas corporates can get knocked sideways when a penny gets added to the price of a litre of petrol because they might be burning up a billion litres a year.
But one thing you don't have when you run a small business is time. If you're running a small business, in all likelihood you work late and you're no stranger to working weekends and quite possibly you can't remember the last time you had a holiday.
Great article but just to add to @Jon's comment I think using the right tools is absolutely essential as it makes you infinitely more productive and able to turn even a few minutes spent each day on Twitter in to meaningful ROI.
Morning all,
Some great advice and examples here.
But i'm with Jon - as a small business owner myself, time is not a luxury i enjoy, rather the rapid passing of it as the miriad of fun things i want to do to promote my business escape me.
SOcial media is critical to who i am and what i do but even as an ecommerce consultant who knows what can and should be done, i struggle to do it as well as i could if time was on my side. A small business owner is the owner, manager, bus dev person, admin assistant, web manager, customer service agent, marketer etc.
I do agree that taking ownership of your own social media presence is important, leaving it to external support alone isn't sensible as you need to drive how you present yourself. However, for some small businesses, a specialist social media person can help them put a sensible plan in place and take advantage of the platform features they don't have time to get to grips with.
@James - that's a great and balanced viewpoint, cheers.
@Jon - the statement wasn't meant to sound quite so controversial, I just wanted to push the point that personalisation is key to social media, and that any amount of time, no matter how small, spent engaging with users on an honest, one-to-one level, has a huge amount of value, heck even if it's just a couple of tweets a day. But of course every small business is different, and time is more limited for some than others.
And as @Justin says, there are plenty of tools out there that can make things more efficient and speedier.
Thanks for your input.
Well this small business doesn't have loads of money to throw around and unfortunately we don't have much time either!
Great article. I would also add that social - especially Twitter - relies on being disciplined with yourself. It's very easy to spend hours trawling Twitter feeds looking for stories to share, or broadcasting yourself. Limit yourself to an achievable amount of time to spend and stick with it.
Great insights here as always from the Econsultancy team!
Too many businesses approach social media because they view it as a necessity without really stopping to consider the thought and strategy that needs to be put in to make it worthwhile.
Completely agree with Rachel - it is easy to lose hours trying to find the perfect story to share with your audience or tweet to favourite. Limit yourself to a time budget. Half an hour a day to maintain your account or a couple of hours throughout the week to schedule tweets.
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The text arrived about 30 minutes after my column went live on redeyechicago.com. It was my buddy G, a Vikings fan. He was not happy.
"I want you to know I take personal offense to your column," he wrote. "You went too far."
We'd been smack talking all day both privately and on Twitter, and perhaps I was still channeling that mindset when I wrote my postgame column about my dislike of the Vikings. I'd imagine my disrespect of the Vikings wasn't what bothered him, though, but rather my disrespect of Vikings fans:


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After a slightly slow patch for both theater and concerts, this week things are heating up — especially for those looking for something with gay appeal.
Gay crooner Jay Brannan returns to Dallas on Monday for an appearance at Sons of Hermann Hall, and The Voice's Nakia is generating buzz in the bear community — he'll be at All Good Cafe Friday night. And the local singers are nothing to sneeze at, either, as the Voice of Pride contest has its final round in the Rose Room on Sunday night.
Over at Level Ground Arts, John de los Santos directs Andi Allen and Shane Strawbridge in Sondheim's masterpiece, Sweeney Todd. Meanwhile, the very gay-friendly shows Present Laughter, The Importance of Being Lovely, Avenue Q and Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat continue their runs (Joseph closes on Sunday). Then on Tuesday, Chicago opens at the Winspear for a two-week run.
The Bourne Legacy — the espionage series reboot with Jeremy Renner as the new superspy — opens Friday alongside Zach Galifianakis as a superfey congressional candidate in The Campaign.
On the more interactive side, both AWOL — The Leather Knights' A Weekend of Leather event — and Fruit Bowl get underway this weekend. Whichever you go to, expect to see a lot of balls.


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The US Center of Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) has issued an interesting report regarding the economic impact of motorcycle helmet laws, based on data from 2008-2010.
While the takeaway shouldn't surprise anyone, as it doesn't take a genius to understand that more riders helmeted means fewer fatal crashes from motorcycles, the figures coming from the CDC with that observation are a bit shocking.
According to the statistical analysis done by the CDC, riders wearing helmets during a motorcycle crash were 37% less likely to receive fatal injuries than riders that were not wearing a helmet.
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JAMAICA, NY--(Marketwire - March 2, 2010) - JFK INTERNATIONAL AIRPORT -- Baltia Air Lines, Inc. (OTCBB: BLTA) announced today that they have entered into a fuel agreement with SOVEX for the purchase and delivery of jet fuel at Pulkovo airport in St. Petersburg.
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Richard E. "Dick" McAninch
Richard E. "Dick" McAninch, 74, of Grove St., Johnsonburg, and recently of Pinecrest Manor, St. Marys, died on Thursday, Sept. 23, 2010, at Elk Regional Health Center after a lengthy illness.He was born Dec. 8, 1935, in Johnsonburg, son of the late Howard Sr. and Goldie (Updyke) McAninch.He was a lifelong resident of Johnsonburg and graduated from Johnsonburg High School. He served in the U.S. Army from 1958 to 1962. He retired from the Johnsonburg Paper Mill in 1997, where he worked in the storeroom. He was a member of the Johnsonburg United Methodist Church and Central Hose Company.He is survived by a brother, Charles "Bill" McAninch of Wilcox, and several nieces and nephews.Besides his parents, he was preceded in death by a sister, Imogene Biel and two brothers, Carl and Howard Jr.Funeral services for Richard McAninch were held at the Ubel Funeral Home, Johnsonburg, on Saturday, Sept. 25 at 11 a.m., with Pastor Jeff Little officiating. Interment was in the Wardvale Methodist Cemetery.Military honors were accorded by the Johnsonburg/Wilcox Servicemen's Detail. Visitation was at the Ubel Funeral Home, Johnsonburg, on Saturday, Sept. 25 from 10 to 11 a.m. The family suggests memorials to Johnsonburg United Methodist Church.


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Guest post by epidemiologist Laura Schieve, Ph.D., of the National Center on Birth Defects and Developmental Disabilities, at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
In recent years, several reports have suggested that children with autism or other learning or behavioral developmental disabilities are more likely than typically developing children to have health conditions such as respiratory or gastrointestinal illnesses.
However the studies behind these reports were often small and showed inconsistent findings. Some of their methods had limitations. One of the biggest problems was that they didn't adequately compare children with different types of developmental disabilities. Because of these limitations, many public health professionals and healthcare providers have been skeptical about whether children with autism or other behavioral developmental disabilities truly faced an elevated risk of other medical problems.
My colleagues and I wanted to help paint a clearer picture of this important public health issue. Our study, recently published in the journal Research in Developmental Disabilities, compared the medical conditions and healthcare needs of children with developmental disabilities with those of children without developmental disabilities. We also compared children with autism with those who had other developmental disabilities.
We assessed children included in the National Health Interview Surveys from 2006 to 2010. Households throughout the United States are randomly selected to participate in this annual survey. In households with children, one child is randomly selected to participate. Each child's parent or other primary caregiver is interviewed in-person about the child's health and development. Interviewers asked whether a doctor or other healthcare provider has ever told them the child has certain conditions including autism and several other developmental disabilities. We also ask if the child has a health condition such as asthma or has experienced other symptoms such as frequent diarrhea or colitis in the past year.
We included more than 41,000 children aged 3 to 17 years in the study. Of these, 5,469 had one or more of the following five developmental disabilities: autism, intellectual disability, attention deficit and hyperactivity disorder (ADHD), learning disability or other developmental delay. As a group, these children had higher than expected rates of all of the medical conditions we studied. More specifically, they were:
* 1.8 times more likely than children without developmental disabilities to have ever had an asthma diagnosis,
* 1.6 times more likely to have had eczema or a skin allergy during the past year,
* 1.8 times more likely to have had a food allergy during the past year,
* 2.1 times more likely to have had three or more ear infections during the past year,
* 2.2 times more likely to have had frequent severe headaches or migraines during the past year, and
* 3.5 times more likely to have had frequent diarrhea or colitis during the past year.
These increased rates of health conditions held true even for children diagnosed with ADHD or learning disability, but not diagnosed with autism or intellectual disability.
However, one finding stood out in particular when we compared the developmental disability groups to each other: Children with autism were twice as likely as children with ADHD, learning disability or other developmental delay to have had frequent diarrhea or colitis during the past year.
They were seven times more likely to have experienced these gastrointestinal problems than were children without any developmental disability.
This detailed assessment demonstrates that children with autism or many other types of developmental disabilities do, in fact, face an increased risk for many common health conditions.
This, in turn, provides evidence that children with developmental disabilities require increased health services and specialist services, both for their core functional deficits and for health problems beyond their core developmental disabilities.
Reference: Schieve LA, Gonzales V, Boulet SL, Visser SN, Rice CE, Van Naarden-Braun K, Boyle CA. Concurrent medical conditions and health care use and needs among children with learning and behavioral developmental disabilities, National Health Interview Survey, 2006-2010. Res Dev Disabil. 2011;33:467-76. Read more autism research news and perspective on the science page. Explore the studies Autism Speaks is funding with our Grant Search. And thanks for making this research possible!


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The 2011 Page Turner contest is coming, and this year its focused on Fiction.
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Department Industrial Design
Phone 216.421.7929
Courses Industrial Design 1.1 | Industrial Design 2.1 | Industrial Design 2.2 | Industrial Design 3.1 | Industrial Design 3.2
Degree BFA, Cleveland Institute of Art
Dan is a designer, educator and entrepreneur. He consults in the area of industrial design, design strategy and user experience, and is an expertwitness in IP litigation. He is the Founder and Principal Designer of nCamp, an outdoor goods company and Abeo Design LLC, a design firm focusing on responsible products. He is the former Director of Design at Altitude, Inc, an award-winning product development firm in Boston, MA, and he worked as a consultant for Arthur D. Little, an international management and product development consulting firm. He has won several IDSA/IDEA awards and holds multiple patents. He has written for Innovation Magazine, The Design Management Institute Journal, and is co-author of the book 'Process, Materials and Measurements.' He has lectured in Mexico, The United Kingdom, China, and around the US.expand collapse
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Department Industrial Design
Phone 216.421.7929
Courses Advanced Automotive Design Language 2.2 | Automotive Design Language 1.1 | Industrial Design 3.2 | Transportation Design (EP)
Degree Master's degree in design arts and Bachelor's degree in Industrial Design, Guangzhou Academy of Fine Arts (GAFA)
Haishan Deng comes to CIA from the School of Industrial Design at Guangzhou Academy of Fine Arts (GAFA) in China where he was hired to establish its transportation design program in 2007. By 2009, the program was the first in China to have student work featured on the website Car Design News and his students have been featured there four times since.
The recipient of 12 design awards – including one from the German Association of the Automotive Industry, and a Michelin Challenge Design Award – Deng is also the author of Drive to the Future, a book on transportation design education published in China. His work is featured in four other design books, one each published in the U.S., Germany, Switzerland, and Denmark. He has published research papers at conferences and in professional journals and his work has been featured in 15 different periodicals and websites, including Business Week and Scientific American.
Deng, who refers to himself as a "cross-boundary designer," has designed more than 50 products – including electronics, household and leisure products, sporting goods, and toys – for worldwide clients including Honeywell, Philips, and DeLonghi. In addition to his teaching and administrative duties at GAFA, since 2002 he has served as chief industrial designer and creative director at Topwave Design Co., and industrial design consultant for Lasko Products, Inc. In 2007 he served as vehicle exterior designer for a German firm (F.X. Meiller Fahrzeug-und Maschinenfabrik-GmbH & Co. KG) where his responsibilities included superstructure design for Mercedes-Benz and Volvo dump trucks.
Deng earned a bachelor's degree in industrial design from Guangzhou Academy of Fine Arts in 1998. He spent one undergraduate year studying transportation design as an exchange student at University of Art and Design, Linz, Austria. He earned his master's degree in design arts at the Guangzhou Academy of Fine Arts in 2007.
Title Professor
Department Industrial Design
Phone 216.421.7929
Courses Design Center (EP) | Industrial Design 1.1 | Industrial Design 1.2 | Industrial Design 2.1 | Industrial Design 2.2 | Industrial Design 3.2
Degree MS, Biomimicry, Arizona State University
BFA, Industrial Design, Cleveland Institute of Art
Biomimicry Professional Certificate, Biomimicry 3.8
Doug Paige has been both a practicing design professional and educator with a focus on design process. His current research incorporates biomimicry into design methodology, including the Biomimicry Professional program with Biomimicry 3.8, undergrad and graduate education, and his own product design work. His current work includes exploring how nature can help solve human problems in both industrial and developing communities. Along with his studio classroom projects, doug has been developing new models of education, collaborating with local organizations to bring together students and the community for special projects including; pallet furniture, urban bike racks, studio furniture from deconstructed houses and using natural systems to study the Cuyahoga River bulkheads and fish health. Doug brings together his diverse backgrounds in industrial design, product development, education and biomimicry to create a unique lens for exploring complex problems.
Doug holds an MS in Biomimicry from Arizona State University, with a Biomimicry Professional Certificate from Biomimicry 3.8. along with a BFA in Industrial Design from The Cleveland Institute of Art, along with a Biomimicry Professional Certificate from Biomimicry 3.8. As an Associate Professor of Industrial Design he has built collaboration with the University of Akron's Integrated Bioscience PhD program to help create the first PhD program in Biomimicry. His teaching experience also includes working with Biomimicry 3.8 in the B-Specialist program. Before joining the Cleveland Institute of Art Faculty in 1998, Doug spent 16 years as a practicing designer with Thomson Consumer Electronics and consulting firms in California and Ohio, designing a variety of products including: consumer electronics, medical equipment, luggage and a day cruise ship for the Hawaiian Islands. In addition to teaching, He maintains a design consultancy with technical, medical and outdoor sporting goods manufacturers.expand collapse
Title Adjunct Faculty
Department Industrial Design
Phone 216.421.7929
Courses Ergonomics + Design | Marketing + Design
Degree BS, Industrial Design from Central School of Art and Design in London; MBA, Cleveland State University
Carla Blackman is a designer, artist and adjunct faculty at CIA. She is the founder and principal partner of Design Interface Inc., an award winning design consultancy specializing in industrial, graphic, package and web design.
She enjoys expressing herself through fine art. Her process follows a path of inspiration, usually through photographs from her travels. Then on to sketching, from there to painting in both water color and oils.
Carla has been an adjunct faculty member since 1985 in the Industrial Design program at CIA. She graduated with a degree in Industrial Design from Central Saint Martins School of Art and Design, London, England. She also holds an MBA in Marketing from Cleveland State University.expand collapse
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Title Adjunct Faculty
Department Industrial Design
Phone 216.421.7000
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Department Industrial Design
Phone 216.421.7000
Courses 3D Modeling 1.1 | 3D Modeling 1.2 | 3D Modeling 2.1 | 3D Modeling for Transportation 1.1 | Industrial Design 3.1 | Transportation Design (EP)
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Title Lecturer
Department Industrial Design
Phone 216.407.0734
Courses Communication Skills | Industrial Design 1.1 | Industrial Design 2.2 | Industrial Design 3.1 | Industrial Design 3.1 | Industrial Design 3.2 | INTA Communication Skills 2
Degree BFA, Industrial Design, Cleveland Institute of Art
Dennis is an visiting instructor in Industrial Design at CIA. He has worked with clients such as Coleman, Ames, Weber, Proctor and Gamble, Sherwin Williams, and Moen. He has produced over 100 products and is named on 31 patents. His several awards include having the number 1 National New Product of the Year at Sherwin Williams for the Plastic Paint Container.
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Title Adjunct Faculty
Department Industrial Design
Phone 216.421.7000
Courses Communication Skills | Communication Skills | Communication Skills: Transportation 1.1 | Industrial Design 1.2
Degree BFA, Industrial Design from Michigan State University
Bob is an adjunct faculty member in Industrial Design at The Cleveland Institute of Art. He has worked as a designer at Huck and Studer Design, Babcock and Schmid Associates, Louis and Partners Design, and RGM Design where he is also the Director.
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Art meets asphalt next weekend as Asphalt Arts performs "Food for Thought" — a work featuring spoken word, drama, dance and audience participation — at Warehouse 1005. It's part of the 2012 Phoenix Fringe Festival that kicks off Fri, March 2 — and includes more than 20 original works performed at five different venues.
"Food for Thought" was created in collaboration with homeless youth served by the Tumbleweed Center for Youth Development. Asphalt Arts also collaborates with ArtsWork: The Kax Herberger Center for Children and the Arts, a program of the ASU Herberger Institute for Design and the Arts, to bring "the expressive power of the theatre and digital story-telling" to Tumbleweed youth.
Actors Alchemy also performs three short plays during this year's festival. Their "Short Play Festival" consists of "The Yard Sale," "Holly," and "Make This Go Away." Sounds like a tour of my garage, though I'm certain it's something more. "Short Play Festival" is being performed March 2-4 at Space 55.
Come Thurs, March 8, you can enjoy a performance of "The Weekend Pilots' Musical Comedy Show," the only other Fringe offering at Space 55 that looks tame enough to mention here (though looks can be deceiving). These three snappy dressers (pictured in pink above) promise a "fusion of comedy, rock, rap, electronica, dancing, and costumed characters." Let's hope they leave a certain politician's new hairdo out of the mix.
This year's Phoenix Fringe Festival has a pair of offerings particularly well-suited to dance and music lovers. Dulce Dance Company performs March 2 & 4 at Warehouse 1005. The venue welcomes "Cool Like That: A Tribute to Miles Davis" March 2, 3 & 10. It's "a poetic narrative by and about Miles with chronological sequencing that reflects upon the social and political climate of his time." Think poetry/spoken word, live music, vocals and dance.
Five works are being performed at Modified Arts and three at the FilmBar in Phoenix. The four works being presented at The Studio at Phoenix Center for the Arts include "The Other Side of History," written and performed by The Soul Justice Project and "SWAN dubstep" performed by SWAN (Devan Martinez).
The Soul Justice Project describes their work as a piece of hip hop theatre that fuses poetry, dance and music to "address key political issues facing the AZ community." Martinez is "on a mission to educate the world about common misconceptions" surrounding pop music (think Top 40 tunes).
Learn more about the 2012 Phoenix Fringe Festival, and their projects supporting Tumbleweed Center for Youth Development, at www.phxfringe.org.
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Great-granddaughter Isabella Bissett, 6, helps with the harvest.
Bissett's pear and apple trees produce bushels of fruit, which he shares with family.
Two-year-old Sophia Lemerise, another great-granddaughter, enjoys the Granny Smith harvest.
The Bosc and Bartlett pear trees and the tart Granny Smith and Golden Delicious apple trees pump out bushels of fruit each fall to share with his 13 grandchildren and nine great-grandchildren, almost none of whom were born when the trees were planted.
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What a waste. What a horrible waste.
Less than two weeks ago, Hadiya Pendleton was leading her classmates in the King College Prep School Marching Band down Pennsylvania Avenue on the afternoon of President Obama's second inauguration. It would be an opportunity of a lifetime for any 15 year old, but for Pendleton, it was her last. On Tuesday, she was gunned down in a park a few blocks from school on the South Side of Chicago, less than a mile from the first family's home.
It's always a horrible waste and it happens way too much. As I said at the time, the children at Newtown are no more (or less) of a waste because there was a larger than usual number of them for a single event. There are way too many Hadiya Pendletons in Chicago.
And there's the school bus driver in Alabama who did his best to prevent a guy with a gun from causing harm to the children on the bus and was shot and killed.
Charles Albert Poland Jr., was driving a school bus for the Dale County Board of Education on Tuesday afternoon, a job he had done full-time since 2009.
At about 3:40 p.m. a gun-wielding man boarded the bus carrying 22 students near Destiny Church on Highway 231.
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This is probably one of the hardest reviews I have had to write for Chocolate Mission.
Let me get this straight from the start...this is a great tasting chocolate bar...bottom line.
Though let me also get this straight from the word go...this is not an 'an innovative bar' nor is it really 'innovation' as we have been led to believe by Cadbury in their press releases.
With wording like that from their marketers I was actually really quite excited about this bar and forked out 55p to get my hands on it...ok this is not exactly breaking the bank but this is relatively more expensive than your average Cadbury bar...hmmm I seem to remember paying 38p just a few weeks ago for a Cadburys Dairy Milk with Creme Egg.
55p later and further inspection of the snazzy looking wrapper revealed some intriguing facts... the 'Twisted' had exactly the same nutritional information than the Cadburys Dairy Milk with Creme Egg..surely not...!? YEP down to the last gram!...coincidence!?
Opening the bar it had a sweet fragrant Dairy Milk cocoa aroma - apparently according to the wrapper, Dairy Milk contains min 20% Cocoa Solids- news to me. The bar itself is smaller than your standard Dairy Milk bar...further research has show that it is only a few grams smaller at 43g in weight though - it was really quite a filling bar anyway so no complaints there.
As you will see in the picture above the bars' name is obviously derived from its shape. Its shaped identically to a Mars Delight bar - a long rippled finger...though as you can guess this its quite alot thicker...at least it looked more impressive than the Cadburys Dairy Milk with Creme egg.
You will also see in the cross section above that the chocolate was really quite thick - it provided a nice solid coating to the bar and stopped any of the fondant centre seeping out (a common problem I always had with the Dairy Milk with Creme Egg variant). The fondant centre had a smoother texture than you will find in the standard creme egg - to be honest I preferred the smoother feel.
Tastewise...guess what???? Its Dairy Milk with Creme Egg fondant centre...this of course is a good thing. The Dairy Milk chocolate was its normal creamy self, a combination of a smooth but rich cocoa taste...always a winner in my book. The fondant centre was also its usual tasty self, of course ever so sweet, but again like in the Creme egg, its correctly proportioned with the chocolate, making for a good balance of flavours. Anything missing here!??? ahh yes that marketing buzzword...'innovation'!
Overall its been very hard to score this bar. As I said above its damn tasty and on this basis alone I would recommend it to anyone...this is where my recommendations on this bar stop though because in truth I feel cheated. This is not the innovative product we were promised..this is the Cadburys Dairy Milk with Creme Egg bar but with a snazzy wrapper and new bar appearance. Even if these changes are admittedly for the better, this does not excuse the fact we are now paying around 20p more for these irrelevant changes. At the end of the day this is simply a bit of 'marketing magic' that I'm sure I will not be the only victim of. Cadbury have managed to create a buzz about a product that already exists, and are charging a higher price for it. In relation to the standard Creme Egg it just doesn't have the same magic...it doesn't look as good and the value isn't a great. Despite all this its a great tasting bar..but if your expecting something ground breaking your going to be left disappointed.
8.0 out of 10


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DUBAI (Reuters) - An Iranian scientist held for more than a year in California on charges of violating U.S. sanctions arrived in Iran on Saturday, Iranian media reported, after being freed in what the Omani foreign ministry said was a humanitarian gesture.
Mojtaba Atarodi, 55, an assistant professor of electrical engineering at Iran's Sharif University of Technology, had been detained on suspicion of buying high-tech U.S. laboratory equipment, previous Iranian media reports said.
The trade sanctions were imposed over Iran's nuclear program, which Iranian officials say is for peaceful energy purposes only but Washington says is secretly geared to developing the capability to produce nuclear weapons.
Iran's semi-official Mehr news agency said Atarodi arrived in Tehran on Saturday, after a stopover in Muscat on Friday.
Upon arriving at Tehran's Imam Khomeini airport on Saturday, Atarodi told reporters that he had tried to buy simple equipment for his personal lab to conduct academic research when he was detained by U.S. authorities, according to state-run Press TV.
There was no immediate U.S. comment on Atarodi's case.
Oman, a U.S.-allied Gulf Arab state which also enjoys good relations with Tehran, has previously helped mediate the release of Western prisoners held by the Islamic Republic.
Omani authorities had worked with U.S. officials to speed up Atarodi's case and return him home, the foreign ministry in Muscat said in a statement carried by local media.
He was released after follow-up approaches by Iran's foreign ministry, its spokesman Ramin Mehmanparast was quoted as saying by the Iranian Students' News Agency (ISNA).
In a report on its website dated January 7, 2012, Press TV said Atarodi was taken into custody on his arrival in Los Angeles on December 7, 2011, accused of buying advanced lab equipment.
Iran and the United States severed relations after the 1979 Islamic Revolution that overthrew the pro-Western monarchy in Tehran.
In 2011, Iran freed into Omani custody two U.S. citizens who had been sentenced to eight years in jail for spying.
Josh Fattal and Shane Bauer, among three people arrested while hiking along the Iraq-Iran border in 2009, were flown to Oman after officials there helped secure their release by posting bail of $1 million. They denied being spies.
The third detainee, Sarah Shourd, had been freed in September 2010, also by way of Oman.
(Reporting by Saleh al-Shaybani and Sami Aboudi; additional reporting by Zahra Hosseinian in Zurich and Yeganeh Torbati in Dubai; Editing by Mark Heinrich)


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Modesty — in pure acquisitional terms — is not something we humans come by easily. Even we Canadians, supposedly more pragmatic and unpretentious than our neighbours to the south, have been running up the debt charges lately, mostly to finance ever grander living quarters, our domiciles now roughly twice the size of what our parents considered homey.
But does more always mean better? And, more apropos, should we really always aspire to more? I, for instance, created all manner of consternation for my bank's loan officer who, seeing what I had managed to save (over 20 years) for the downpayment on my first home, was positively askance at the modesty of my anticipated acquisition. "Why, Mr. Booth," went the refrain, "you qualify for so much more." The fact that two bedrooms was all I needed didn't seem to resonate one little iota, not when I could have, well, so much more.
The same, of course, applies to cars. We are all getting used to more modest automobiles, more of us choosing four cylinders when six would be preferred and even more eschewing eight when six will do. It's not something we do voluntarily, the world of increasingly high fuel prices and onerous fuel economy regulations forcing modesty on a populace that would still prefer to be profligate. We'd like more, but we often settle for less.
I'd counter that, in at least one case, less is actually more. And not just more in prosaic advantages such as fuel economy and cost but in luxury and performance. The car in question is BMW's 7 Series. Having driven the entire range of the company's recently massaged flagship, I'm convinced that the lesser of the series, the 740, is superior to the 750 and 760 that BMW peddles for so much more cash. Of course, I am violating some form of gear head ethic that maintains that bigger is better and more, especially horsepower, is always superior. But despite sacrificing both pistons and turbochargers — the 740 has but six of the former and one of the latter, while the 750 and 760 have eight and 12, respectively, and both sport twin turbochargers — I'll take the six every time.
Not because it consumes less gas — anyone who can afford a 7 Series but still cruises Sunday mornings looking for cheap gas is the very definition of Howard Hughes crazy — but for the very qualities that separate the hedonistic luxury sedan from the prosaic econocar the rest of us drive. First of all, let's dispense with what will probably be my most contentious claim — that one simply doesn't need more motor than the 740's 3.0-litre in-line six. Yes, its 315 horsepower (and 332 pound-feet of torque) are mere pittances compared with the 500-plus hp often bandied about these days or the 443 hp and 536 hp boasted by the 750 and 760.
But there is never a moment, no matter how demanding the driver, that the 740 feels wanting. Indeed, in more than a week of motoring through Toronto's traffic-snarled streets to the wide open expanses of the 407 toll road, I don't think I ever used more than three-quarters throttle more than once. Acceleration, thanks to the prodigious low-speed torque, is forceful (zero to 100 kilometres an hour takes less than six seconds), passing power is reassuring and, when the revs are high enough, the six will motor along quite smartly. Yes, excess can be glorious, but when you already have more than enough, further increments seem a waste of pistons, not to mention fossil fuels.
Especially since the 3.0-litre's comportment is actually superior to the 750's V8. I've waxed lyrical many times on the magic of BMW's in-line six, but this may be its most inspired execution yet. Buttery smooth simply doesn't do justice to the almost creamy way the 3.0L motivates the 740. Imagine, the richest vanilla ice cream, freshly churned and stored at the perfect temperature melting in your mouth and you get some idea of how smoothly the 740's inline six revs. Electric car advocates are always claiming that EVs are so much smoother than internally combusting automobiles thanks to their lack of reciprocating parts. Clearly, they haven't driven a 740.
It's aided by a slick-shifting eight-speed automatic that all but disguises when it actually shifts gears. Indeed, in normal operation, it's almost impossible to feel the cogs disengaging, the only way to discern which gear you're in is to look at the digital readout in the gauge set. In fact, the 750, and the 760, both imbued with substantially more torque, both have to adopt shift strategies that limit the engine's output so responsive are they to even minor brushes of the throttle. BMW does manage to make their shifts smooth, but neither feels as perfectly calibrated as the 740's tranny. Like I said, the combination of the 3.0L in-line six and the ZF eight-speed is my choice for the perfect luxury car powertrain.
I am not, however, saying that the BMW is perfect. Far from it. The interior, though extremely well equipped and sumptuously leather clad, lacks a certain warmth or friendliness that I'd prefer were I forking over more than a hundred large for an automobile. Jaguar's aluminum-bodied XJ is lighter and offers a slightly better balance between ride and handling. Audi's A8, meanwhile, offers a superior sound system. And, well, the Mercedes-Benz S-Class has way more acronym-requiring safety systems to save us from our own ham-fisted driving selves. But none of them — no matter how many pistons or turbochargers they may boast — has a better powertrain.


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14 Oct '07
Perfect simmetry! Great shot!
Wow, excellent shot! Such unrelenting symmetry has a somewhat chilling effect on the viewer. Probably the architect's intention!
A fascinating photo – it draws you in, all those straight lines matching so well.
Perfect. What a great eye.
Perfect simmetry,great choice of the subject,I really like this pic!


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What happens when you're too late for sesame
Big City does the boiling before baking
Ian Anderson 1:45 p.m., Aug. 17
Will felt like he was being followed. He kept looking over his shoulder, thinking someone was in the bushes or hiding behind a eucalyptus tree. A full, near-Halloween moon illuminated the Balboa Park canyon. Shadows crept over the trail. The post-midnight breeze was not cold, but it did carry autumn's telltale edge of spectral knowledge — that air of inevitability, yawning smugly from the Other Side.
Will quickened his pace.
Maybe his coworker was right when she'd said it was a bad idea to walk through the park alone after they'd smoked cigarettes and chatted on the Robinson Street Bridge, the late-night traffic of State Route 163 rushing beneath them.
Maybe it was an omen, Will thought, an instinctual kind of thing. Or maybe the drinks he'd had after clocking out of work at a Bankers Hill cantina were playing tricks with his mind.
Will got out his phone and called his cousin. Sure, he'd walked the secluded path from his part-time job at Barrio Star to the Hillcrest home he shared with his father several times, but tonight was different. The conversation would calm his nerves.
Preoccupied with the phone call, Will Barton — a 20-year-old Point Loma High School graduate who spent his free time skateboarding, painting, hanging out at the beach, cycling, chasing girls, and taking art classes at City College — didn't notice a thing when, at 2:34 in the morning on October 29, 2012, a stranger jumped out of a car at the crossroads of Richmond and Upas and shot him point-blank in the throat, shoulder, and back of the head.
Will thought he was dead. Looking back on it, he vaguely remembers lying down on the sidewalk. It was like that part in The Big Lebowski when the Dude goes to Jackie Treehorn's place and they're throwing the chick into the air, and she's topless on this giant blanket, except every time he hits the blanket, he falls through to the Other Side and lands on another blanket — up, down, here, gone — until finally he bounces all the way up and he's coming out of a coma in the intensive-care unit, surrounded by family and friends, oblivious to the fact that he's overcome 99-to-1 odds of death.
"I was super-frustrated because I wanted to hang out and talk with everybody, but I could only mouth words," Will says four and a half months later, as he recovers in a wheelchair at his grandparents' house in Rancho San Diego.
He is tended to by his father, Will Barton, Sr, and mother, Marie Lonsdale (née Najera), both self-employed artists who've been fighting with hospitals and Marie's insurance company to get proper treatment for their son.
As of my visit on March 7, Will's been out of rehab for almost a week. He's regained use of his voice, limited use of some limbs, and is demonstrating remarkable cognitive improvements after spending time at Scripps Mercy and Vibra hospitals (both in Hillcrest); Scripps Encinitas; and with brain-injury specialists Learning Services, in Escondido.
Shortly after he came to, Will learned of the killing spree carried out by Philip Martin Hernandez, a 40-year-old former Cal Fire firefighter, and his 18-year-old wife, Cindy Altamirano Garcia.
The couple, whose manipulative relationship reportedly began at a National City park when Garcia was 16, had been watching him as he walked home through the park that October night.
The official version of the story has it that Hernandez mistook Will for the police officer who had arrested him in Blythe last May, after Garcia — a sex-trafficking victim who was held captive in Guadalajara prior to meeting Hernandez — reported his possessive behavior and told authorities she wanted to get away.
"I think it's interesting that he thought I was a cop, because I'm very uncharacteristic of a cop," Will says.
"Yeah, you look like a skater kid," says Will Senior, an affable buddy-dad who, in his free time, surfs and paints stencil-style portraits of jazz legends.
Will notes that he'd been wearing a double-XL shirt, baggy pants, and sneakers — hardly typical garb for off-duty law enforcement.
More likely is the account that homicide detectives related to Will Senior, in which the couple had been arguing in their car when Will happened down the street.
"So, maybe she said, to distract him, 'Oh, hey, there's that cop,'" Will Senior says. "There have been thoughts about that. That's what she told the investigators. And who knows if what she's saying is the truth or not? She's trying to get out of a life sentence for being an accessory to the attempted murder of a police officer, the attempted murder of Will, arson, and grand theft auto."
The rampage started when Hernandez set out to kill an officer who'd arrested him on a sex-abuse warrant ten days prior to his attack on Will. Hernandez was facing four felony counts of having sex with a minor, after Garcia reported him to police. Prior to the crime spree, he cashed out his $40,000 retirement fund, took Garcia to Lake Tahoe to get married, and, according to Garcia, strapped her into a bulletproof vest, saying, "We're going to war."
Hernandez allegedly shot or pistol-whipped and then robbed an off-duty San Diego police officer at an Escondido ATM only hours before the shooting in Hillcrest. The officer sustained a non-life-threatening head wound.
The couple then reportedly carjacked a man at the College Grove Shopping Center, robbed multiple pedestrians, burned three getaway vehicles, and bought a white Craigslisted cargo van in Spring Valley.
Police raided Hernandez's mother's Escondido apartment on October 30, and officers countywide were provided with descriptions of the couple and the van.
Around 9:30 p.m. on October 31, the van was sighted outside downtown police headquarters but sped off before the couple was apprehended.
An hour and a half later, an officer spotted the van in Barrio Logan, where it began driving erratically before pulling over on Harbor Drive near Cesar Chavez Parkway.
Hernandez leapt from the van wearing a protective police vest, and fired what appeared to be a high-powered rifle on three officers. They returned fire, killing Hernandez.
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Our landscapes our constantly changing: from season to season and year to year. I love our seasonal changes in Kentuckiana. They keep us guessing. When I am tired of one season, the next is about to begin.
But there are other types of changes that affect the way we enjoy our gardens: over time sunny spots become shady as trees mature and landscapes evolve.
Many of our favorite flowering plants, both woody and herbaceous, require at least 6 hours of full sun in order to bloom well. When someone has a plant that won't bloom, the first question I ask is about the amount of sun it receives.
If you have this problem, now is the time to make a decision about moving the plant to a sunnier location.
October is a great time to move herbaceous perennials and woody ornamentals, because it is mild, but there is still plenty of time for the plants to reestablish their root systems before the ground freezes, if the ground freezes.
In fact, most woody plants can be transplanted easily in the winter as long as the ground is not frozen solid (and there are predictions of another mild winter this year). The advantage is that the roots are still actively growing but the top growth is dormant so being moved is less stressful for the plant.
Herbaceous perennials are not good candidates for a winter move, however anytime in the fall is perfect. Perennials need to get out some new roots before winter because their roots are so much closer to the surface.
If you have ever asked the question, "Why won't my peonies bloom?" There may be more to the problem than just the amount of sun they receive.
In fact the most common reason for failure to bloom is not the light requirements but the depth requirements. Peonies prefer to be left alone but sometimes we must dig, divide or move and fall is the time to do it.
Some plants require adequate chilling during the winter months, and peonies are among them. If you know the plants are getting plenty of sunlight, then likely the problem can be blamed on the fact the peony is planted too deep.
If the "eyes" on the roots of the peony are planted deeper than 2 inches beneath the soil surface, adequate winter chilling does not occur. The red "eyes" should be planted about 1 inch to 1.5 inches beneath the soil. Once you dig your plant you will see exactly what I am talking about when I say red "eyes" on the roots…these eyes are the potential bloom for the following year.
In order to create the best culture for your peonies, choose a sunny, well-drained location with at least a three-foot diameter around the plant that is free of competition from other plants. Crowded plants never do as well because they compete for moisture and nutrients.
Dig a deep hole so you can amend the soil if necessary to improve drainage. Clayey soil is not suitable for peonies, if you want them to thrive in the long-term; amending planting holes for herbaceous plants is acceptable (although no longer recommended for trees and woody shrubs).
I advise filling the hole with water to check drainage and to make sure that the soil settles before you plant the peony. Remember, you don't want the eyes of the plant to settle below that 1.5-inch depth.
Peonies are infamous for flopping over in the rain and wind. The weight of their blooms seems to be their own worst enemy.
Fortunately, they make excellent cut flowers, so you can alleviate some of the "weight" by bringing some indoors. Placing support grids over the plant in early spring before the plant starts growing helps maintain a neater plant, Just be sure to place the support before the plant starts growing.
Check out gardening columnist Jeneen Wiche's work at www.SwallowRailFarm.com. You can find her columns also at www.SentinelNews.com/agriculture. She answers questions once a month in SentinelNewsPlus. To submit a question, send an E-mail to firstname.lastname@example.com type "Sentinel-News" in the subject field.
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