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❤ Gender: Baby Boy
❤ Skin Tone: Caucasian
❤ Height: 20''/50.8cm from head to toe, with a soft touch of the vinyl head, face, and limbs, weighted body for a real baby feel and the kids can hand her to everywhere.
❤ Weight: 1.34 kg
❤ Hair: Hand-painted hair
❤ Eyes: Eyes closed, like a sleeping baby
❤ Eyebrow: 100% pure hand-drawn
❤ Nail: 100% handmade nails, pink nail bed, translucent nails
❤ Scent: Soft baby talcum powder smell, the babies' smells come from vinyl material, it's non-toxic and environmentally friendly
❤ Reborn Doll Series: Levi
❤ SAFETY CERTIFICATION: Conforms or exceeds the safety requirements of ASTM F963 and EN71 for ages 3+, which is safe for your children.
❤ GREAT FOR: Festival gifts, birthday gifts, children play with toys, grandpa or grandma accompany doll, lovers and collectors collection.
❤ Baby Doll Has 2 Kinds Of Style To Choose From
Cloth body Cloth body dolls have no gender. The babies' shoulders and body are made of high-quality cotton, and the interior is filled with PP cotton; the arms and legs are made of gentle touch vinyl, and the limbs are not detachable. They can sit and lie down easily but can't stand or take a bath.
Vinyl body It's a boy! These babies' bodies and limbs are made of gentle touch vinyl, and their limbs are detachable. They can easily sit and lie down. Also, they can be put into water, so you can bathe them.
Yes, our "heartbeat" baby doll is coming! Dolls with heartbeats and coos will be more like real-life babies. There's nothing as heartwarming as a sleeping baby breathing while she peacefully dreams the night away! Cloth body doll available, take her home today!
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The doll's clothes in the picture are only used for shooting, the clothes are not in stock, so the doll's clothes will be randomly sent. Detailed information is by the final product.
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❤ 1 x Baby doll❤ 1 x Baby's clothes❤ 1 x Baby's bottle❤ 1 x Pacifier❤ 1 x Birth Certificate
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Have a question related to reborn dolls or creating your own reborn? Trying to get started in the fun and rewarding hobby of reborn dolls can be confusing and downright difficult at times. With limited stores and shops selling reborns, many newcomers are left with more questions than answers, which is why we created this page. Here we'll have an ongoing FAQ where we'll be answering some of the most common questions regarding reborn dolls. Of course there's a good chance we won't have an answer to EVERYONE'S question, but we promise we'll do our best to answer any that you have. If there's a question that's burning a hole in your mind, shoot as an email through our contact form and we'll try to post it here.
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How Much Do Reborn Dolls Cost?
There's no denying the fact that reborn dolls vary greatly in price. Because they're made by both skilled doll artists and big-name doll companies, they're sold in a wide range of prices.
Who Invented Reborn Dolls?
The history of reborn dolls is shrouded is shrouded is speculation, as no one knows who the first person to ever create a reborn doll is. However, we do know that the hobby of making lifelike dolls exploded during the late 80s to early 90s, and as a result, the term "reborn doll" was created. Dolls that were made to look as realistic as possible were then called reborns, and so the craze began.
Why don't our domain name and logo match?Our registered trademark is Realistic Sweet Gallery®, which aims to design and produce the most realistic sweet reborn dolls in the world and enrich our website to make it a gallery of realistic sweet reborn dolls. And dollreborns.com is a collection of the initials of each word, plus dolls to emphasize our industry, making it short, easy to remember and rich in meaning.
Is It Hard To Reborn a Doll?
If reborning was easy, I think more people would be doing it. The fact is, though, that a high-quality, lifelike reborn doll takes 30-40 hours to complete. You have to find a doll, remove all the features, carefully add multiple layers of paint to it, weight it down, etc. In addition to the excessive time it takes to reborn a doll, the supplies are also going to cost extra money. If you're interested in reborning a doll, you should start with a kit that includes everything you need. These aren't going to give you us much freedom as starting from scratch, but it's easier and less expensive for beginners to use.
Can I Style My Reborn's Hair?
It really depends on the type of hair used and how much the artist rooted on their head. Typically, mohair has some realistic properties that allow the individual to move and style it around a bit. You can even use gel, pomade and other hair care products on your reborn as long as you wash it out afterwards.
How Do I Get a Pacifier To Stay In My Reborn's Mouth?
So, you've seen pictures and videos of reborns with pacifiers in their mouth but can't get one stay in your reborn's mouth? The trick is to place a magnet behind the doll's mouth when you're making it. You can then place another magnet strip behind the pacifier; therefore, allowing you to add and remove the pacifier as you please. Unfortunately, however, reborn dolls sold without this magnetic strip won't have this option.
Do Reborn Dolls Move?
Most traditional reborn dolls don't have any mechanical or moving parts. However, there are some which have unique features built-in that allow them to make noises, move and even cry.[such as our heartbeat and coos dolls] As you can expect, these dolls typically costs a bit more than traditional dolls without any extra moving parts.
Can Children Play With Reborn Dolls?
Absolutely they can, but remember that reborns are more of a collectible and less of a toy. If they're mishandled or treated without care, they can become easily damaged. To make matters worse, it's oftentimes difficult to fix such damages, as you may not be able to find a perfect match for the paint, limbs, eyes, etc. Teach your child what's acceptable and what's not with reborns to ensure they don't damage it in any way.
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I knew it would be hard, but I did not know it would hurt so much. But it does. After a week of excitement, fun with my parents and brother and the party of the year – our vow renewing ceremony, the time came to say goodbye to a few close friends.
They came from all over Germany just for our party and of course to say farewell. We knew we would not be seeing a few of them for – well for a while. Although the word was not spoken, because who likes to say goodbye to dear, dear friends, we had tears in our eyes. With promises of seeing each other on Skype regularly, we knew it was just a deviation to make it stop hurting so bad.
Well after a merry week, last week saw us fall into a little pit of wistfulness. We're clinging on to memories and in between packing boxes we can't help but reminisce of all the wonderful times we had in Weimar. Tom has left to Essen to get acquainted with his team here in Germany. The Qatar team called yesterday – they need him soon – the project is going to start. So, he'll be heading for Doha in a couple of weeks. Soeren and I – well we have 6 weeks to go!
And we're clinging to those 6 weeks. My girlfriends are planning all sort of things to do before I go.
"We need to spend the last few weeks more intensive with you, Meeta!"
Aww shucks girls! Don't make it harder than it already is! My chicas are the best and I am really going to miss them!
Today, I packed up my photo studio. All my props, colored papers, fancy napkins, lights, bounce and other items. I had to laugh though because it was exactly one year ago that Tom and Soeren surprised me with this wonderful gift for my birthday. My own photo studio. Tomorrow it's my birthday again and I will be clearing up the last traces of my photo studio! Funny how just one year can change so many things.
I do remember my first birthday though. In Bombay and I was the princess and my mum the most gorgeous star.
Instead of cake I decided to celebrate with fruity brownies. Who can resist chocolate and fresh summer fruit. I am a summer girl with a bad chocolate habit and so this is just the thing I need on my day. Come on over and grab a piece!
Chocolate Raspberry & Peach Brownies
Printable version of recipe here.
100g bittersweet chocolate, coarsely chopped
250g fresh raspberries
2 ripe peaches, cut into cubes
5 eggs
80g all-purpose flour
200g sugar
1 vanilla bean, insides scraped
125ml + more oil
Pinch of salt
1 teaspoon baking powder
20g cocoa powder
100g almonds, coarsely chopped
- Pre-heat oven to 180 degrees C. Brush a square springform (20 x 20 cm)with a tiny amount of the oil.
- Melt the chocolate in a water-bath or a double boiler.
- Using an electric whisk, whisk eggs, sugar, vanilla innards and pinch of salt until thick and creamy – about 8-10 minutes. Then incorporate the oil and continue to whisk.
- Mix flour, baking powder and cocoa powder then sieve into the creamy egg mixture. Add the almonds and melted chocolate, then gently beat into a homogeneous mixture.
- Pour the batter into the springform and spread out the raspberries and peach cubes over the batter.
- Bake in the oven for approx. 25-30 minutes on the middle rack. Remove from the oven and allow to cool completely, then cut into equal squares – 5 x 5 cm.
While these brownies certainly will not last long a quick word – these will keep only 3-4 days due to the fruit. Store in air-tight containers, preferably in the fridge to keep them as fresh as possible.
These will put a smile on anyone's face lucky enough to get their hands on these fruit filled chocolate brownies. For me they will ease some of that parting pain. The fruit keeps the brownies lusciously moist and the mix between the tart raspberries and sweet peaches against the bittersweet richness of the chocolate is pure bliss.
Someone special to me did make me a birthday cake though. The perfect one just for me – it's pink, girly and a lot of fun. Ivonne I love you for the special gift!
You might like these brownies from WFLH:
Chocolate Mocca Brownies | Classic Brownies | White Chocolate Raspberry Brownies |
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Mung Bean is BIG in Ayurveda. As I read through I see whole green mung(moong) dal referred to having magical and powerful effects. It seems to be as magical as the magical bean of Jack and the Bean Stalk.
"Mung bean soup pacifies all three doshas and is nutritious yet easy to digest. Mung Bean Soup recipe is used to clear even the most chronic, troublesome digestive issues and used to enhance overall health and vitality."
Really ??? You say to yourself. Those tiny shiny green beans and they want you to make a soup of it, a dal actually, and that dal is supposed to get rid of the toxins in your body ??? Whoa, and you fall right into it and before you know you have this big pot of green moong dal bubbling on the stove and you are having a bowl full of it everyday. It does not exactly detox if you follow it up with cut mirchi bhaji and samosas with your afternoon chai but what the...
Actually the green mung(moong) dal is pretty delicious. Made the Ayurvedic way without the onions and garlic, makes it not rich but very tasty. I deviated from the recipe a little and followed my Mom's way,added vegetables like cauliflower and carrots. I think greens like spinach would be a very good idea too.
The split and hulled moong dal, which is the yellow moong dal has equal magical properties and you can use that instead of whole green mung beans. The yellow moong dal cooks faster and is also easier to digest.
When you are making the mung bean soup and you want to follow the Ayurveda detox regime you need to determine which category you fall in. Depending on the dosha you have you have to use different spices. The recipe I have here is loosely based on Kapha Balancing Mung Bean Soup. I have used whole green mung and also the pressure cooker. You can use yellow moong and do it in a regular pot.
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Green Mung Bean Soup
Wash and soak 1 cup of whole green moong beans for couple of hours or overnight. You can skip the soaking if in a hurry.
Pressure cook the beans with double the water, little salt and 1/4 tsp of turmeric powder
Heat Ghee in a soup pot. I used Olive Oil about 3 tsp
Temper the oil with
1/2 tsp of Whole Cumin/Whole Jeera
1/2 tsp of Whole Fennel/Whole Saunf,
6-7 whole Fenugreek seeds/Whole Methi seeds
and a pinch of asafoetida/Hing.
If adding vegetables add them now and saute for a few minutes
Add the cooked mung beans
Add 1" ginger grated or pounded in a mortar and pestle
Add 1/2 tsp of fresh corriander powder and salt to taste. Mix well. Add about 2 cups of water and let the dal come to a boil. At this point you can blend the dal to make a puree, I do not.
Adjust for seasonings. Squeeze juice of a lime quarter and enjoy hot.
Skip step 2 i.e. do not pressure cook the dal at the beginning. Instead start the whole process in a pressure cooker and pressure cook the dal after adding all the spices.
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With Republican House leaders lining up behind President Obama's planned U.S. military strike on Syria, the chances for congressional authorization seemed higher on Tuesday than they did over the weekend.
Still, despite Speaker John Boehner's and Majority Leader Eric Cantor's full-throated support for Obama, approval of military action is far from certain. An attack on Syrian President Bashar Assad's regime is unpopular, to say the least. A new Pew Research Center poll indicates 48 percent of the American public opposes such strikes; only 29 percent approves.
A "no" vote in Congress could still happen, then, especially in the GOP-led House, whose members all face re-election next year and where those on the ideological right and left tend to be more distant from the political center than senators.
What would happen if Congress, or one half of it, voted against authorizing a punitive U.S. strike against Syria?
A view shared by the Obama administration and Sen. John McCain, R-Ariz., alike is that it would prove disastrous to U.S. standing and trust. After meeting with Obama Monday, McCain said outside the White House:
"If the Congress were to reject a resolution like this, after the president of the United States has already committed to action, the consequences would be catastrophic in that the credibility of this country with friends and adversaries alike would be shredded. And it would be not only implications for this presidency, but for future presidencies as well."
McCain's point seems self-evident. Congressional rejection of military action against the Assad regime would diminish Obama and the U.S. on the world stage. There'd be less reason for the globe's bad guys to take U.S. warnings seriously.
A loss in Congress for Obama on the Syria authorization could also damage what's left of the president's power to achieve his second-term domestic agenda. Obama still must negotiate with Congress on fiscal matters like raising the debt ceiling and funding the government next year. An immigration overhaul remains a much desired goal, too.
Of course, there's always the possibility that the House could vote against a U.S. military strike and Obama could go forward with it anyway, especially if he gets a strong Senate vote in favor of punitive attacks. Some lawmakers, like Rep. Peter King, D-N.Y., and McCain have argued that Obama would have the constitutional authority to order strikes without Congress' authorization. Obama has said so himself as well.
Such action, though, could heighten accusations from the Tea Party and other Obama critics that he was acting outside the Constitution and exacerbate tensions between Obama and many on Capitol Hill.
But if Obama abided by a "no" vote, a loss on Syria could very well cause the smell of well-cooked lame duck to emanate from Obama's presidency.
Based on presidential history, Obama will be hard-pressed to get substantive new legislation during his second term, anyway, Stephen J. Wayne, a Georgetown University political scientist, told me in an interview.
Second terms tend to be about consolidating first-term gains, not initiating major new legislation that gains passage, he said.
Wayne actually sees an upside for Obama and the nation if Congress were to vote down authorization. "Presidents can't admit they're wrong. They can't say that," Wayne said.
But "privately, he may have realized that he made a statement that he shouldn't have made last year about the red line and chemical weapons and the only effective way for him to back off that is to have the people through the Congress tell him that," Wayne said.
Obama says Syria crossed that red line on Aug. 21, when Assad's forces allegedly used sarin gas to kill more than 1,400 people, including hundreds of children, in the Damascus suburbs.
But if Congress votes no, Obama "can then say: 'Well, leadership is not about solely imposing your will. It's also about following the will of the people and this is a democratic electoral process and that's what I'm doing now,' " says Wayne.
"It does seem to me the public might be relieved if Congress said no," Wayne continued. "I think [seeking congressional approval] was an astute political move by a guy who placed himself in a no-win position."
So Obama "would be weakened by the [no] vote but the country might be saved by the experience," Wayne said, exaggerating for effect.
Copyright 2020 NPR. To see more, visit https://www.npr.org.


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WASHINGTON—In response to the downing of Malaysian Airlines MH17 in territory controlled by separatists in Ukraine, members of the Commission on Security and Cooperation in Europe (U.S. Helsinki Commission) today called for unfettered access to the crash site for international investigators in order to establish responsibility for the killings in order to hold those parties accountable.
"The downing of Malaysian Air flight 17 is an unspeakable tragedy. It did not have to happen and those responsible must be held accountable," said Senator Ben Cardin (MD), Chairman of the U.S. Helsinki Commission. "As we mourn for those lost and share our heartfelt prayers with the victims' families, I encourage international efforts to establish what happened and who was responsible. In particular, I welcome the efforts and courage of the OSCE's Special Monitoring Mission team which has made its way to the crash site. I am extremely disappointed to learn that they were forced to depart after a mere 75 minutes due to aggression by the Moscow-sponsored separatists.
"This heinous crime is a direct consequence of Russia's unjustified aggression in Ukraine which began with the annexation of Crimea nearly five months ago and has continued in two regions in eastern Ukraine, in violation of OSCE and other international norms. It is a direct result of Putin's destabilization of Ukraine. The top three leaders of the so-called Donetsk People's Republic are all Russian citizens and two of them are Russian intelligence operatives," continued Chairman Cardin. "Russia has continued to sponsor these terrorists with heavy weapons, equipment and men continuing to flow across the Russian border into Ukraine. If Russian involvement is confirmed, serious consideration needs to be given to designating the Donetsk People's Republic a Foreign Terrorist Organization and the Russian Federation a State Sponsor of Terrorism."
Co-Chairman of the Commission, Representative Chris Smith (NJ-04), stated that "Our hearts go out to the family and friends of the 298 innocent victims, including 80 children, who perished, likely at the hands of Russian operatives. I urge the President to vigorously work for full access for identification and removal of victims' remains, and international investigation. The entire area should be treated as a crime scene – as the plane appears to have been shot down by a surface-to-air missile launched from a separatist-controlled area. This follows a pattern of actions where the rebels have shot down Ukrainian military planes and helicopters, most recently a Ukrainian military cargo plane earlier this week, for which they took credit."
"I am profoundly saddened and outraged at the senseless loss of innocent civilians on Malaysian Airlines Flight 17," said Commissioner Representative Michael Burgess (TX-26). "I am extremely disturbed by the lack of access for international observers and first responders and by reports of looting and of people contaminating the crash site. Not only must we be able to conduct a proper investigation, but the remains of the victims must be treated properly and with the utmost respect. I am also troubled by reports that there may be other efforts by the separatists and Russian authorities to cover up what really happened."


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Fast Tracks Printable Track Templates are an invaluable tool for designing and hand-laying trackwork.
Generated from the same CAD file used to build the assembly fixture, this printable track template is an accurate representation of an HO #6 Turnout, and is an invaluable tool for designing your layout and building hand laid trackwork.
The file is a full resolution PDF file that can be printed on any inkjet or laser printer. Adobe reader is required to view this file.
If it is necessary to assemble multiple sheets together, follow these simple steps below.
On one of the pages, trim the template to the middle of the last tie. Its OK to cut off a bit of the printed portion, this will actually help in aligning the sheets.
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Once assembled, the turnouts can be cut from the sheet, or the entire assembled sheet photocopied on paper stock large enough to fit the entire turnout.


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The newsroom at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory is beginning to thin out as the Mars Science Laboratory transitions from an exciting news story, to a long duration — possibly very long duration — exploration of the geologic and environmental history of Mars.
For the reporters still in the newsroom, fatigue is beginning to set in. BBC science correspondent Jonathan Amos has been at it nonstop for 30 hours. I feel a bit guilty for stepping out and getting a few hours sleep.
Reporter fatigue is matched by the scientist and engineers who stayed up for the landing and that had to go back to work preparing for ground operations. They have the added problem of going on Mars time. The Martian day is 24 hours and 39 minutes long, so if you're on Mars time, you have to stay up an extra 39 minutes a day. That doesn't sound so bad at first, but after a while on the schedule you find you're going to bed when the sun is shining, and you face a case of non–stop jetlag.
In the hours before landing the newsroom was packed. I mean packed. While engineers fretted about a safe landing, reporters fretted about deadlines. We all knew when landing was supposed to happen, 10:31 p.m. Pacific Daylight Time. But what would we report if there were no signal? And just as important, when would we report it? Many reporters, including me became instant experts in the rover's X-band and UHF capabilities for sending a signal about its status back to Earth.
Happily we never had to use that knowledge.
This is the fifth Mars landing I've covered. They have all been successful. I didn't cover Mars Polar Lander and it crashed. There's a tradition at JPL to break out peanuts just before a planetary landing. I think peanuts are no longer needed. All they need to do is make sure I cover the landing.
(Joe Palca is a science correspondent for NPR.)
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UPDATE: Theo Epstein got married?! Last month?! How did no one hear about this? That Theo: So cagey! Mazel tov! (Extra points to anyone who can find out where they're registered.)
Super Bowl XLI Media Day Hangover: Is there anything more annoying or disingenuous than the sports reporters who gripe about the circus that has become Super Bowl Media Day?
Here's a big, fat STFU: First of all, they're covering the Super Bowl in
*The "15 minutes of fame" pop-culture reporters: This year, the two American Idol rejects (this year's William Hung) -- Kenneth Briggs and Jonathan Jayne – who are now comically connected forever.
*The inevitably hot Latino TV reporter. This year: Inez Sainz of TV Azteca. (She isn't even "hot for sports media," as so many would-be hotties are. She's legit.)
*Mo Rocca, who continues to find work despite being unfunny.
*Players interviewing themselves.
*The inevitably off-the-wall questions.
Screw it: This is what makes Media Day remotely interesting. God knows that the sports reporters won't be able to do it. And it beats hearing about "real" stories like Tank Johnson.
More SB XLI: I am so wary of any player who expresses a sense of "Just happy to be here." Anyone catch any players doing that?
Peyton Manning was the big Media Day attraction among players: Is he the league's biggest star right now? (Consider his TV-ad binge this season.) He's a little too polished, his answers to 150 questions in an hour a little too pat.
So: Who else finds it easy to root against Peyton? I think he's destined to be this generation's Dan Marino -- arguably the most talented QB of his era... but never winning that Super Bowl ring.
XLI X-factor Debate: I had coffee this morning with a big Bears fan, and he's got me thinking that Devin Hester (combined with the Colts' piss-poor special-teams, aside from Adam V) is going to be the difference in the game. Is Devin the new Desmond (Howard) – the special-teams player who wins MVP honors?
More of today's biggest storylines:
Gilbert Arenas for MVP: 36 points, 11 assists, 7 rebounds and the best-in-East Wizards beat the Pistons – and that was mostly without Antawn Jamison playing for D.C. Eddie Jordan: "We kicked their butts." Wow: That's so uncharacteristic of
Bonds clause: If he's indicted, the Giants can get out of the new contract. But if he's close to passing Aaron, would they want to?
(By the way, Barry Bonds' agent said that he has no plans to retire and could reach "1,000" home runs. That's kind of ludicrous, but if you just stop and think about that number for a second, it's wild.)
Cowboys coaching search: Yeah, yeah, they talked to Singletary. But everyone agrees it was a sham to satisfy the Rooney Rule. The good news for Singletary: He'll be a head coach by this time next year; he's better off not being in
OJ Mayo plays: He scored 19 points and his Huntington (WV) team beat national Top 15 team Artesia (CA) at Cameron Indoor Stadium.
Way bigger: Does that position No. 2 Huntington to take over the national top spot? No. 1 St. Benedict's (NJ) lost to No. 4
Carmelo-vs.-Shanoff MySpace Challenge Update: As of 9:30 this morning, I'm at 220 friends. Carmelo is at 30,737. It's a moving target, but that puts me a mere 88 friends from reaching my "1 percent" goal. Have you checked out the page yet?
(Meanwhile, here's an interesting tidbit you can only know by perusing MySpace pages: One of Carmelo's featured "friends" is Marc Spears, the Nuggets beat reporter for the Denver Post. Now, I'm no journalism ethics prude and I'm all about the new realities of new media, but that strikes me as a strange manifestation of even the most elastic version of "objectivity.")
My 9-month-old son, the Sex Cannon: Do any readers in
UPDATE: Thanks for the quick response, everyone. $40 makes me want to retch, but I might just convince myself into doing it.
Check that: What a waste of money. I could create a Photoshop image of the phrase "Future Sex Cannon" and iron it onto a onesie for free. And it would be much more fun. Who knew selling out my kid for my own enjoyment would be so easy and fulfilling?


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As a business professional, you've probably heard about LinkedIn. You know it's a social networking platform that's great for networking and connecting with other business professionals in your field, outside of your field or companies and jobs you may be interested in. You probably have a personal profile—you might even have a business page.
But there's just one thing you can't figure out: how to get people to actually connect with what you're putting on LinkedIn. You share articles and thoughts, with little to no response rate. How can you drive natural interaction through your LinkedIn page and foster relationships? Today, we have some tips on how to maximize your LinkedIn engagement.
1. Share interesting articles.
If you want to increase engagement with your followers on LinkedIn, then you need to provide content that is actually worthwhile for them. As LinkedIn focuses on business networking, share interesting business articles that your followers can connect with. What are good networking tips? How do companies build their culture? How can individuals apply for their dream jobs?
Share articles related to topics like these and watch as comments, likes and shares come flooding in. Whether or not these articles are written by you personally, your small business blog or a top company is up to you, but sharing valuable content with others is a great way to get your engagement up and going.
2. Analyze, don't just report.
When sharing information on LinkedIn, take some extra time to actually put your thoughts into the post. Don't just report information, but actually analyze it. What does this mean for you personally? How can other people connect? How does it relate to different topics?
For example, if an article says, "5 Ways to Use Guerrilla Marketing," mention an example of guerrilla marketing you've seen recently. When you connect the article with yourself and your followers, you're more likely to drive engagement on the post.
3. Post often.
As with most social media sites, post often. Create a content calendar and schedule out your posts if you have to. You should be posting regularly—if not daily—on LinkedIn to demonstrate yourself as a professional in your field and gain more views for your profile. The more active you are, the more likely individuals are to stumble upon your page.
Of course, don't oversaturate, and don't post worthless content. But, do make an effort to really be active on the site and provide consistent value to your followers' feeds.
4. Post at the right time of day.
It's also important to consider what time of day drives the most engagement with your posts on LinkedIn. Sharing content willy nilly (say, perhaps at 1:30 in the morning when you can't fall asleep) is not going to guarantee any more engagement for you.
Instead, post during "busy" times for social media—morning, lunch hour and evening time are all great options when users will have some downtime to check their feeds. Using a scheduling tool for LinkedIn is also a great option to have content regularly scheduled, without having to try and remember to post during these specific times.
5. Share video.
Finally, use video. WordStream states that 85% of the entire U.S. Internet audience watches video online. One-third of all online activity is spent watching video. That is a huge market to engage with. Whether you're sharing your own video or a YouTube video, be sure to segment a portion of your posts to video. This will drive up your engagement and increase followers.
Now that you have a LinkedIn account, it's time to start engaging with it. Use these tips to grow your follower base and expand your network of relationships.


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Loop-Loc's founder, Bill Donaton, co-invented the safety swimming pool cover in 1957, after a business associate complained about finding small animals drowned in the waterlogged solid vinyl cover on his pool. The key, Bill envisioned, was to create a new type of pool cover that would allow water to drain through, rather than collect. The first mesh safety swimming pool covers were marketed in Connecticut in the fall of that year, and an industry was born. In 1977, Bill founded Loop-Loc with five employees. Today, Loop-Loc boasts a 190,000-square-foot headquarters in Hauppauge, New York, and 300 employees. The company has sold safety swimming pool covers on every continent on earth except Antarctica.


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Something magical happens to pasta when you combine it with a creamy butternut squash puree, a little Parmigiano Reggiano, leeks, garlic and sage.
I found this out by accident.
This started from a mistake, a butternut squash puree that was far too thin and liquidy. A very HAPPY mistake!
Sauteed leeks and a good quality cheese make this simple savory pasta dish a HUGE success, even if you're not a fan of butternut squash. You'll swear this is full of cream and butter… but it's not. This is perfect for Meatless Mondays, or any night of the week.
It's super easy to make with only a few ingredients, and is very filling. To speed this up, you can buy pre-cut butternut squash. I was craving a thick spaghetti, but any pasta shape would work. Whole wheat of gluten-free pasta would also be great! My family isn't a fan of whole wheat, so I use Ronzoni Smart Taste or Dreamfield's low carb pasta.
And by the way… if you want a chance to win a Blendtec Blender, head on over to Skinny Bits[1]! One lucky winner will have a chance to win this amazing blender (ends October 28th).
Spaghetti with Creamy Butternut Leek Parmesan Sauce
Servings: 4 • Size: 1/4th of recipe • Old Points: 5 pts • Points+: 7
Calories: 266 • Fat: 3.5 g • Carb: 56 g • Fiber: 9 g • Protein: 9.5 g • Sugar: 2 g
Sodium: 97 mg (without salt)
- 1 lb butternut squash, peeled and diced
- 1 tbsp light butter
- 8 oz spaghetti of your choice (use brow rice pasta for gluten-free)
- 1 (1 cup) large leek (white part only)
- 2 cloves garlic, minced
- 1/4 cup fresh shaved parmesan cheese
- 4 sage leaves, sliced thin
- kosher salt and freshly ground black pepper, to taste
Bring a large pot of salted water to a boil. Add butternut squash and cook until soft. Remove squash with a slotted spoon and place in a blender, blend until smooth.
Add pasta to the boiling water and cook according to package directions for al dente, reserving 1 cup of the pasta water before draining.
Meanwhile, in a large deep non-stick skillet, melt the butter, sauté the leeks and garlic over medium-low heat until soft and golden, about 5 – 6 minutes. Add pureed butternut squash, season with with salt and fresh cracked pepper and add a little of the reserved pasta water to thin out to your liking. Stir in parmesan cheese and sage and mix in pasta until well coated.
Serve with additional parmesan cheese on the side.
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More information on the Brooklyn native behind Navy Yard shooting rampage
Aaron Alexis was said to have mental problems
WASHINGTON— The former Navy reservist who slaughtered 12 people at the Washington Navy Yard had been hearing voices and was being treated for mental problems in the weeks before the shooting rampage, but was not stripped of his security clearance, officials said Tuesday.
Aaron Alexis, a 34-year-old information technology employee with a defense contractor, used a valid pass to get into the highly secured installation Monday morning and started firing inside a building, the FBI said. He was killed in a gun battle with police.
The motive for the mass shooting — the deadliest on a military installation in the U.S. since the attack at Fort Hood, Texas, in 2009 — was a mystery, investigators said.
U.S. law enforcement officials told The Associated Press that there was no known connection to international or domestic terrorism and investigators have found no manifesto or other writings suggesting a political or religious motivation.
Alexis had been suffering a host of serious mental problems, including paranoia and a sleep disorder, and had been hearing voices in his head, according to the officials, who spoke on condition of anonymity because the criminal investigation was still going on.
He had been treated since August by Veterans Affairs for his mental problems, the officials said.
The Navy had not declared him mentally unfit, which would have rescinded a security clearance Alexis had from his earlier time in the Navy Reserves.
The assault is likely to raise more questions about the adequacy of the background checks and security clearances of contract employees and others in sensitive government positions — an issue that came up most recently with National Security Agency leaker Edward Snowden, an employee with a defense contractor.
In the hours after the Navy Yard attack, a detailed profile of Alexis began coming into focus.
A Buddhist convert who had also had flare-ups of rage, Alexis, a black man who grew up in New York City and whose last known address was in Fort Worth, Texas, complained about the Navy and being a victim of discrimination. He also had two run-ins with the law over shootings in 2004 and 2010 in Texas and Seattle.
In addition to those killed at the Navy Yard attack, eight people were hurt, including three who were shot and wounded, authorities. Those three were a police officer and two female civilians, authorities said. They were all expected to survive.
Monday's onslaught at a single building at the Navy Yard unfolded about 8:20 a.m. in the heart of the nation's capital, less than four miles from the White House and two miles from the Capitol. It put all of Washington on edge.
"This is a horrific tragedy," Mayor Vincent Gray said.
Alexis carried three weapons: an AR-15 assault rifle, a shotgun, and a handgun that he took from a police officer at the scene, according to two federal law enforcement officials who spoke on condition of anonymity because they were not authorized to discuss the investigation.
The AR-15 is the same type of rifle used in last year's mass shooting at a Newtown, Conn., elementary school that killed 20 students and six women. The weapon was also used in the shooting at a Colorado movie theater that killed 12 and wounded 70.
For much of the day Monday, authorities said they were looking for a possible second attacker who may have been disguised in an olive-drab military-style uniform. But by late Monday night, they said they were convinced the shooting was the work of a lone gunman, and the lockdown around the area was eased.
"We do now feel comfortable that we have the single and sole person responsible for the loss of life inside the base today," Washington Police Chief Cathy Lanier said.
President Barack Obama lamented yet another mass shooting in the U.S. that he said took the lives of American "patriots." He promised to make sure "whoever carried out this cowardly act is held responsible."
The FBI took charge of the investigation.
The attack came four years after Army psychiatrist Maj. Nidal Hasan killed 13 people at Fort Hood in what he said was an effort to save the lives of Muslims overseas. He was convicted last month and sentenced to death.
The dead in the Navy Yard attack ranged in age from 46 to 73, according to the mayor. A number of the victims were civilian employees and contractors, rather than active-duty military personnel, the police chief said.
At the time of the rampage, Alexis was an employee with The Experts, a company that was a Defense Department subcontractor on a Navy-Marine Corps computer project, authorities said.
Valerie Parlave, head of the FBI's field office in Washington, said Alexis had access to the Navy Yard as a defense contractor and used a valid pass.
Alexis had been a full-time Navy reservist from 2007 to early 2011, leaving as a petty officer third class, the Navy said. It did not say why he left. He had been an aviation electrician's mate with a unit in Fort Worth.
The Washington Navy Yard is a sprawling, 41-acre labyrinth of buildings and streets protected by armed guards and metal detectors, and employees have to show their IDs at doors and gates. More than 18,000 people work there.
The rampage took place at Building 197, the headquarters for Naval Sea Systems Command, which buys, builds and maintains ships and submarines. About 3,000 people work at headquarters, many of them civilians.
Witnesses on Monday described a gunman opening fire from a fourth-floor overlook, aiming down on people on the main floor, which includes a glass-walled cafeteria. Others said a gunman fired at them in a third-floor hallway.
Patricia Ward, a logistics-management specialist, said she was in the cafeteria getting breakfast.
"It was three gunshots straight in a row — pop, pop, pop. Three seconds later, it was pop, pop, pop, pop, pop, so it was like about a total of seven gunshots, and we just started running," Ward said.


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The Tagruato website has been hacked. The title was changed to "TAGRUATO IS DESTROYING OUR OCEANS", and the regular picture of Ganu Yoshida has been graffiti-ed - adding devil horns to Ganu, a tidal wave destroying a city, and various sea life.
Interestingly, the wave and sea animals all have roman numerals hidden on them, and the sea animals have hidden words indicating type of animal it is:
- Tanner Crab
- Irukandji Jellyfish
- Dumbo Octopus
- Ogre fish
- The Wave, which is similar to Hokusai's "Great Wave Off Kanagawa" (神奈川沖浪裏)
This reminds me of "The Lost Experience", when Rachel Blake hacked the Hanso Foundation website.
BTW, If you want to look anything up on the old Tagruato website, I have created a mirror of the old Tagruato site here: Tagruato.CloverfieldClues.com
* Thanks to everyone for emailing me about this, and thanks to Justin for poining out the fish names


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Chocolate - caramel - chocolate - caramel.
Have I gone ga-ga? No!!
It's the end of the month and that means we unveil another incredible Daring Bakers challenge for the rest of the blogoshpere. This time a fantastic tart that tantalizes my chocolate addiction. Paired with caramel, it simply goes down as the most extravagant creations to date.
This month it was the beautiful Veron co-hosting with the lovely Patricia who chose the challenge. A tart taken from Eric Kayser's hot cookbook Sweet and Savory Tarts. After I made this tart, I went out and got myself a copy of this and believe me it is hot!
The tart is a simple layering of a chocolate crust flavored with cinnamon, layered with a wonderful soft caramel, then topped with a fluffy chocolate mousse layer and finally, sprinkled with crunchy caramel fragments.
Chocolate - caramel - chocolate - caramel.
Out of this world!
As is always the case we were allowed a few modifications, otherwise everyone had to stick to the recipe given by Veron and Patricia.
Allowed Modifications:
- Caramel fragment toppings were optional but make sure that the caramel-cream and chocolate layers are true to the recipe
- If we had no luck with the dry method of making the caramel, then we were able to use the alternate method shown at the end of the recipe.
- The cinnamon can be eliminated if we did not like the spice.
- Recipe ingredient exception allowed only if allergy or an ingredient not available or cost prohibitive in our region
This time I waited a while to go ahead with the challenge. Normally I've had the opportunity to finish it off on the first-second week but this time there were a few other things that needed tending to.
I realized there were a few advantages and disadvantages to both sides.
Completing the challenge earlier in the month allowed me to relax, sit back and help out others in the group with what I had experienced. Disadvantage here was that you had to learn from your own experiences. Doing it a little later on in the month meant that others were able to help out and you used their experience not to make the same mistakes. Disadvantage was that you are a nervous wreck by the time you decide to make the cake because of all the horror stories you have read on the DB blog!
In the end though I think many of us completed this challenge with success. Without much ado - I present the Daring Baker challenge for August 2007.
Milk Chocolate and Caramel Tart
Recipe Quantity: One (1) 9" Square or one (1) 10" Round tart
Chocolate Shortbread Pastry
Note: The Chocolate Shortbread pastry can make 3 tart shells. If you would like to cut that recipe into thirds then you may do so, however there is no guarantee it will scale down properly.
Preparation time: 10 minutes
Refrigeration: overnight
250g (1 cup ) unsalted butter, softened
150g plus 2 tablespoons (1 cup) confectioners' sugar
50g (½ cup) ground hazelnuts
2 level teaspoons ground cinnamon
2 eggs
400g (4 ½ cups) cake flour
2 ½ teaspoons baking powder
1 ½ tablespoons cocoa powder
A day ahead
In a mixing bowl of a food processor, cream the butter. Add the confectioners' sugar, the ground hazelnuts, and the cinnamon, and mix together. Add the eggs, one by one, mixing constantly.
Sift in the flour, the baking powder, and the cocoa powder, and incorporate well. Knead the dough with your hands and form a ball, cover in plastic wrap, and chill overnight.
This was the easiest method we've used to prepar dough in the DB challenge. The dough was made within minutes and I really thought that I did something wrong because it was so easy. LOL!
You will notice that the chocolate dough is very soft, but don't worry it hardens well after refrigerating.
Milk Chocolate and Caramel Layers
Preparation time: 40 minutes
Baking Time: 30 minutes
Refrigeration time: 1 hour
250g (½ lb) chocolate shortbread pastry (see recipe above)
300g (1 ½ cups) granulated sugar
250g (1 cup) heavy cream (30-40 percent butterfat) or crème fraiche
50g (¼ cup) butter
2 whole eggs
1 egg yolk
15g flour
300g (1 ¼ cups) whipping cream
250g (½ lb) milk chocolate
Preheat oven to 160 degrees C (325 °F). Line the baking pan with the chocolate shortbread pastry and bake blind for 15 minutes.
I did not have any trouble rolling the dough out, what gave me a bit of problems was trying to get the dough into the pan. I had floured the counter top well but it kept cracking up on me every time I tried lifting it to line the pan. In the end I managed it well, just had to use a bit of patchwork for some sections of the crust.
In a saucepan, caramelize 200 g (1 cup) granulated sugar using the dry method until it turns a golden caramel color. Incorporate the heavy cream or crème fraiche and then add butter. Mix thoroughly. Set aside to cool.
This is the method I used rather than the alternative method mentioned below. I took on the challenge head on. I had no trouble melting the sugar. After reading several comments and statements on the DB blog I kept my cream out to get it to room temperature. However, after adding it to the melted sugar, the caramel went rock hard. But the trick was to keep it on the heat, stirring continuously. Soon I had the most awesome colored cream caramel mixture with no lumps. I dipped my finger for a taste - heaven was in my saucepan!
In a mixing bowl, beat the whole eggs with the extra egg yolk, then incorporate the flour. Pour this into the cream-caramel mixture and mix thoroughly.
Before doing this my advice here would be to make sure the caramel has cooled down considerably. Then once ready temper the egg mixture. Simply take a few tablespoons of the caramel mixture and add it to the egg mixture, stirring all the time. Once the egg mixture has almost reached the temperature of the caramel mixture simply pour the egg mixture into the saucepan.
Spread it out in the tart shell and bake for 15-20 minutes until the caramel has set. Remove from oven and allow to cool.
Prepare the milk chocolate mousse by beating the whipping cream until stiff. Melt the milk chocolate in the microwave or in a bain-marie, and fold it gently into the whipped cream.
Pour the chocolate mousse over the cooled caramel mixture, smoothing it with a spatula. Chill for one hour in the refrigerator.
My mousse was a bit on the thin side and I was a bit worried if it would set well. It did eventually but took more than an hour. It was OK though as I was serving it the next day.
Caramel Fragments:
Melt 100g (½ cup) granulated sugar in a saucepan until it reaches an amber color. Pour it onto waxed paper laid out on a flat surface. Leave to cool. Break it into small fragments and stick them lightly into the top of the tart.
My word of advice here would be to do this on each slice of cake separately. I stored the caramel bits in an airtight container and just before serving sprinkled the slice with the fragments. I noticed that if you spread the fragments all over the cake and then refrigerate the caramel kind of disintegrates into the cake. Leaves you with outlines of where the bits were but no crunchy bits to bite.
Alternate Caramel Method:
If you have problems with the dry method, you may use this method.
1 cup sugar
1/2 cup water
1 tablespoon corn syrup
Set mixture in a pot over medium-high heat and stir slowly. When the mixture comes to a boil, stop stirring and leave it alone. Wait till desired color is attained .
Proceed with the rest of the recipe.
A fantastic recipe. It was fun and easy to make. In between the stages I even was able to clean the entire house top to bottom!! I enjoyed this recipe the most and would call it my current favorite. The caramel was lovely - ooey and gooey just like I imagined it to be. The mousse was fluffy and light. Together it melted in the mouth like silk.
The only bit of a down was the extreme cinnamon flavor in the crust. It really stood out. I have nothing against cinnamon, being an Indian have had it in all sorts of things that most people would not pair it with. But it was always just an hint. In this tart it was quite over-powering. Another thing about the tart is that it is amazingly filling. A little piece and it's all you can take. I brought this as dessert to a pot luck barbecue party at one of our neighbors' and served it in little square bite sizes. This was the ideal way as people were able to indulge in it a little more than just one huge piece. All in all it came off with everyone really well and I know many of the guests will be tuning in today to check out the recipe.
Would I make this again?
Yes, actually I already have plans to make this again for another party next month. This time I will cut down the cinnamon amount so that it's not as intense. There was nothing about this recipe I did not enjoy. The only shock second I had was when the caramel went hard as soon as the cream hit it, but I relaxed after it all started melt into the right consistency again.
What did I learn from this challenge?
That a food processor is my best friend when it comes to making dough. I have been one that always kneads with the hands or uses the kneading hooks on my hand mixer. The food processor has been used only a very few times to actually make dough. This challenge reminded me that I should use it more often.
I thank both Veron and Patricia for choosing this brilliant challenge for us and also for answering all questions so promptly. If you would like to get more of a chocolate and caramel rush then I would advice you to work your way down the list over at the Daring Bakers' Blogroll.
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Six Signs it's Time to Change Your Pet's Food
Change Can Be Good
1. Dull, Flaky Coat
Diets rich in essential fatty acids are a key component in keeping a pet's skin healthy, and therefore his or her coat, in tip top shape. Many pet foods are designed with skin and coat improvement in mind. Look for a diet containing both Omega-3 and Omega-6 fatty acids to make your pet's coat shiny and bright in no time.
2. Lethargy/Weakness
If your pet had recently undergone a stressful event, illness, or surgery, he may understandably be a little worn out. Diets with high levels of antioxidants can help boost the immune response to accelerate your pet's recovery and get them back on their feet in no time. Remember: a pet who is suddenly acting lethargic and weak should be evaluated by a veterinarian before making dietary changes.
3. 'Senioritis'
Depending on the size of the animal, pets are considered middle-aged to senior around 5-7 years. And as our pets age, their nutrient requirements change too. Senior diets, for example, are generally lower in calories but higher in fiber, and often have supplements specific to this lifestage such as joint support and antioxidants. AAFCO does not have requirements for senior pets, however, so look for a food labeled for "adult maintenance." This is because an "all life stage" food is formulated with kittens and puppies in mind. It will also deliver too much fat and nutrients your senior pet does not require. In fact, the pet food could even be harmful to a senior pet.
4. Hefty Midsection
It doesn't take much for a pet to wind up with some extra weight on their frame — and this is particularly noticeable with small pets. If your pet needs to lose a few inches, a diet specifically designated for weight loss will ensure that they still have the proper amount of essential nutrients, vitamins, and minerals while ingesting fewer calories. These diets take advantage of the latest research in pet weight management to ensure your pet is on their way to a healthier weight in no time! If your pet is extremely overweight or obese, however, it's best that you consult with your veterinarian for a therapeutic nutritional solution.
5. GI Disturbances
Chronic flatulence, loose stool, or rumbly stomachs can be the result of food intolerance or the low quality of food that you're feeding your pet. Some pets simply don't tolerate certain diets or ingredients as well as other ones. GI upset is an inconvenience to owners as well as being uncomfortable for your pet. If this is an ongoing problem for you, ask your health care professional to diagnose the problem. The solution may be as easy as switching to premium food or a sensitive stomach diet that's right for your pet.
6. An Itch that Won't Quit
Allergies are common in pets, and food is just one of several possible causes. Regardless of the cause, though, allergic pets may benefit from a low-allergen diet that reduces the amount of potential allergens they are exposed to. Your veterinarian can recommend either a prescription diet or an over the counter sensitive skin diet, depending on your pet's particular needs.
Plan for Success
Choosing the proper diet is one of the most important ways owners can ensure their pet's long term health, but it's no substitute for medical care. If you suspect your pet may have a medical condition that would benefit from a new diet, be sure to have a checkup with your vet to make sure you're on the right path before making any changes! Good food and good choices lead to a long, healthy, happy life.


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Coast Guard Museum Agreement Signed In Ceremony At Union Station
By Jennifer McDermott
The Day
February 19, 2014
Dana Jensen/The Day
Mayor Daryl Justin Finizio of New London, Admiral Robert J. Papp, Commandant of the
Mayor Daryl Justin Finizio of New London, Admiral Robert J. Papp, Commandant of the
United States Coast Guard, Gov. Dannel P. Malloy , and James J. Coleman, chariman of
the National Coast Guard Museum Association, sign the Memorandum of Agreement for
the National Coast Guard Museum during a ceremony at Union Station in New London
Wednesday, Feb. 19, 2014.
New London — The major players in the project to build a National Coast Guard Museum downtown said the new agreement they signed Wednesday should make it crystal clear that this museum will become a reality.
Mayor Daryl Justin Finizio said that when the site for the museum was announced in April, skeptics asked, "Is it actually going to happen?"
"If today's ceremony speaks to anything, it says loudly and clearly this is happening," Finizio said.
Adm. Robert J. Papp Jr. said Coast Guard men and women have done great things for the country, and their story deserves to be told.
"What better place than down by the water here in New London, Connecticut?" Papp, the commandant of the Coast Guard, said. "It will be done."
In the ceremony at Union Station Wednesday, as trains rumbled by, Papp, Finizio, Gov. Dannel P. Malloy and James Coleman, chairman of the National Coast Guard Museum Association Inc., signed a memorandum of agreement that outlines how the Coast Guard, city, state and museum association will cooperate and what their responsibilities will be.
Museum supporters filled the station for the ceremony. The site of the museum is a 0.37-acre lot behind the station. It could also jut out over the Thames River.
"We are finally doing what we should have done as a nation a long time ago to honor the men and women of the Coast Guard," Malloy said.
In formal language, the agreement explains why the public entities and the museum association believe it is important to build a museum to educate the public about the Coast Guard's maritime heritage.
The agreement describes how the city will give the land for the museum to the Coast Guard as a gift, the state will spend up to $20 million to build a pedestrian bridge across the railroad tracks for access to the museum and the Cross Sound Ferry terminal, and the parties to the agreement will work to ensure the barque Eagle can dock near the museum.
It also says the service may locate a Heritage and History Center there, which would be a hub for managing artifacts and a site for scholarly research. Plans call for building a four-story, 54,300-square-foot museum with four floors of interactive exhibits, event space, lecture rooms and a reception area with a gift shop and cafe, to be opened in late 2017.
Coleman said after the ceremony that the agreement charts the way forward. And with it in hand, he said, he can approach the large companies that have shown interest in supporting the project financially.
"It gives us credibility," he said. "… It's not only key to fundraising, but also to moving the museum forward."
U.S. Rep. Joe Courtney, D-2nd District, said the Coast Guard deserves a museum, especially since there are more than 90 Defense Department museums, two-thirds of which are Army-related. The Coast Guard is the only branch of the armed forces without a national museum.
"With the execution of this document, we are going to change that," he said. "It's going to be a good day for this region. It's going to be a good day for our country."
The Coast Guard cannot accept the land for the museum, however, until it finishes assessing the site, the agreement states. The Coast Guard is currently conducting an environmental review and a valuation and property survey for its financial records and to determine the legal parameters of the proposed property. The Coast Guard also has to follow the process for accepting the gift into its real property inventory, said Rear Adm. Steven D. Poulin, the service's director of governmental and public affairs.
Poulin said the hope is to complete the required reviews and surveys in time for a ceremonial groundbreaking in May.
The agreement is not a binding legal document. Bob Ross, executive director of the Office of Military Affairs and the state's point person for the museum project, said the agreement is a "high-level framework" that will help ensure everyone understands the major parts of the project and the relationships that have to be in place.
U.S. Sen. Richard Blumenthal, D-Conn., said in an interview that even without the force of contract law, the document is important because "handshakes still matter," and the memorandum is a handshake between parties that "respect each other's word and whose word is their bond." Blumenthal also pledged to fight for federal funding to support the museum.
Two important stakeholders, Union Station and Cross Sound Ferry, did not sign the memorandum because the focus for this agreement was the public entities involved, Ross said. But he does expect the station and the ferry service to be a part of future agreements that will be binding.
Todd O'Donnell, who served as the master of ceremonies, said he and Barbara Timken, the station owners, are "ready to start talking as soon as they want to."
"We think the Coast Guard Museum is the biggest thing in this region," he said after the ceremony. "We will work with them to make that happen."
As the next step in the process, Ross said, the state will sign an assistance agreement with the museum association so state funding can be used to design the pedestrian bridge.
A consultant hired by the state is exploring seven options for the bridge, the most promising of which is for a bridge to be built over the station platforms, leading into the museum and ferry terminal, Ross said.
The consultant, Milone & MacBroom Inc., is also looking at whether the bridge should be built across Water Street, which Ross said would not be ideal because it would divert pedestrian traffic away from local businesses downtown, and is considering different locations for the bridge and whether the bridge should be a tunnel instead.
The state has not ruled out any of the alternatives, and the consultant's report should be available in about a month, Ross said.
In early May, the museum association is planning a ceremonial groundbreaking so Papp, who made the museum a top priority, can take part before he is relieved as commandant May 30.
Papp told the group in the train station that he was thinking about New London last November when he was in another train station on a beautiful waterfront, drinking coffee in a Starbucks.
There were historic buildings that had been restored, mixed among modern architecture, Papp said, and buses, ferries and trains full of people arriving in Malmo, Sweden. He visited an industrial museum where families were spending the day, and a restored fort.
Papp said he saw many similarities between Malmo and New London. What New London needs, he said, is "one central attraction, that museum, a modern building built within all that New London has to offer."
"All those things that I saw in Malmo, that I've seen in a dozen other seaport locations across the world as I've traveled, why not New London?" he said. "Well, it's going to be New London. I'm confident of that."


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Students in middle schools across New Jersey are embarking on a new academic year, taking on fresh challenges in the classroom while finding their place in the social fabric of their school.
More than 5,000 miles away, a Nigerian production company is making a movie that will be the latest offering from the popular Nollywood film industry. By January, tens of thousands of DVD copies of the movie will appear in Nigerian local markets, casting a spotlight on the nation's contemporary culture.
From her office in Green Hall on the Princeton campus, Elizabeth Paluck, an assistant professor of psychology and public affairs, is focusing on these disparate settings as the latest sites of her research in exploring how peoples' actions are affected by what they sense about the beliefs of those around them.
Paluck is asking important questions involving social dynamics: Can ideas shared by researchers with a few students filter through their social network and make conflict less acceptable throughout a school? Can a movie about societal relationships change the way people feel about reporting government corruption?
"The uniting idea of my work is that our behavior is often driven by our perceptions of social standards and [what we interpret about] our peers' beliefs or actions," said Paluck. "Media is one way we find out about social standards and direct observation of peers is another. I'm interested in all the different ways we learn about these [social] norms."
Paluck, who joined the Princeton faculty in 2009, earned her Ph.D. from Yale University in 2007 in social psychology, which focuses on understanding individual behavior in a social context. At Princeton, she has taught undergraduate and graduate classes on the psychology of social change, as well as how psychology can inform policy analysis and implementation.
Paluck says her work is motivated by the idea that social psychology theory can offer useful tools for changing society in constructive ways. One important way to develop and assess this theory is to study attempts to change society, which is why Paluck puts those ideas to the test in her large-scale field research.
Paluck's dissertation, for example, was based on a yearlong field experiment in post-genocide Rwanda that examined the use of a radio drama to encourage Rwandans to express dissent and not blindly obey direction from authorities. That research found that the radio program did little to change listeners' personal beliefs but still made them more likely to raise dissent and less likely to defer to local officials when addressing problems where they lived — results that point to the significance of social norms in shaping a person's actions.
In another research project, Paluck used specially edited versions of a Spanish-language soap opera, "Más Sabe El Diablo," (The Devil Knows More), to test whether a storyline that offered positive views of the U.S. census could encourage U.S. Latinos to participate in the 2010 count. That research found that viewing scenes that were supportive of the census led to viewers expressing more favorable attitudes toward it.
Such real-world experiments are a hallmark of Paluck's work, said Deborah Prentice, Princeton's Alexander Stewart 1886 Professor of Psychology and Public Affairs and chair of the Department of Psychology.
"Betsy takes up fundamental questions about the psychological processes that underlie social change, questions that cannot be addressed in the laboratory, and pursues them in real-world settings," Prentice said. "The fact that she is able to collect data in these settings that enable her to speak to what's going on in people's heads is what distinguishes her as a researcher."
Getting a read on the social fabric of New Jersey schools
This academic year, Paluck and her research team are focusing on 60 New Jersey middle schools to explore the social norms that allow conflict — including harassment, bullying and disrespect — to become a major part of a school's culture. To understand the social dynamics of each school, Paluck and her team will survey more than 25,000 students and create a map that attempts to show where every student fits in a school's social network.
The researchers will use that information to identify influential students in the school — both those who have lots of connections across the school and those who have intense connections within a smaller group.
"We're interested in those students because we think one of the ways people figure out the culture of a setting is by watching these very well-connected people and their behavior," Paluck said.
Some of those influential students will be invited to participate in a training program that will encourage them to help develop and put into action tools to reduce conflict in their school. These students will help launch an online and face-to-face campaign about acceptance of differences, tolerance and walking away from conflict without shame. They will also be given a variety of challenges that involve different ways to influence views about conflict.
"Essentially what we're trying to get these students to do is to make it cool to not use conflict as a way to gain or maintain status," Paluck said.
Three surveys taken through the school year will help the researchers measure how the training program has affected the students' perceptions of conflict as an acceptable, or even desirable, part of the school culture.
"We'll be able to follow these students, their friends, their friends' friends to watch the diffusion of these ideas across the social network," Paluck said.
Six research associates are working on the project with Paluck and Hana Shepherd, a postdoctoral research associate at Princeton's Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs. In addition, at least five Princeton undergraduates will be hired as research assistants. One likely task for the undergraduates: collecting and studying yearbooks from each of the schools included in the project, which Paluck said are a rich source for information about the culture of each school.
"I think the [undergraduates] can get very excited about these kinds of projects, especially when they relate to real-world policy issues," Paluck said. "In this case, I imagine they may also have some recent memories of things that happened in high school and middle school that could inform our work."
At the end of the year, all the participating schools will be offered training to continue the conflict-reduction program. The project is funded by an award from the William T. Grant Foundation, the Spencer Foundation, the Canadian Institute for Advanced Research and the Educational Research Section at Princeton.
Shepherd said she has learned valuable skills from her collaboration with Paluck on the current project and an earlier pilot program in a Connecticut high school.
"Betsy has so much experience running field experiments that it has been an amazing opportunity for me to be able to learn how large-scale projects work in a totally hands-on way with her," Shepherd said. "This is an enormous project. Surveying 25,000 students three times during the year, in addition to running an intervention program, is a huge undertaking both intellectually and logistically."
Prentice said the schools project shows Paluck's willingness to tackle such challenges.
"For years, the field of social psychology has assumed that the way to change social norms is to target the most socially connected people, and then allow the change to diffuse through the group," Prentice said. "That makes good sense, but does social change really work that way? Nobody has bothered to put the assumption to a rigorous test, mainly because it is very difficult to do so.
"Testing that assumption requires a wide range of methodological and statistical skills, considerable resources, strong organizational abilities, and many, many months of hard work. And, of course, there is no guarantee of success; the assumption might prove to be wrong. Very few researchers, at any career stage, are prepared to take on such an ambitious project. That is Betsy's signature."
Gaining insights into societal perceptions in Nigeria
Paluck's other current major research in social dynamics presents many challenges of its own. Nigeria is awash in cash from oil and natural gas production, but living standards of average Nigerians are lower than those of people in comparable developing countries. According to Paluck, a big part of the problem is government corruption, but Nigerians in general are reluctant to report such wrongdoing.
Paluck is interested to test whether popular media can change how people perceive the acceptability of reporting corruption. She and her colleagues, including Princeton graduate students Rebecca Littman, in psychology, and Graeme Blair, in politics, are working with a Nollywood company on a film that will be released in two versions: one will include scenes of people speaking out against government corruption and reporting it, while the other won't include those scenes.
The different versions of the movie will be distributed randomly to village markets across southern Nigeria. While the movie is being produced specifically for use in the research, Paluck said it will match the production value of other Nollywood films and is being made by top Nollywood directors and scriptwriters.
"We learn about social standards by consuming this kind of popular entertainment," Paluck said. "Our guards are down. We don't feel like we're being preached at. We just feel that we're observing members of our society and we're learning about their stories and their backgrounds and their actions. That's how we learn about our peers' ideas and social standards."
Community members in rural and urban areas of Southern Nigeria will be surveyed before and after the release of the movie, to measure whether their views have changed about whether it is appropriate to report corruption. Some viewers of the movie that includes the anti-corruption scenes will also be shown a phone number they can use to send text messages about government corruption to a well-known anti-corruption group, Paluck said. Data about how that tool is used will help paint the picture of the film's impact.
Back on campus, Paluck shares the lessons from her far-flung research with students in a variety of ways. Along with her teaching, she speaks regularly with student groups involved in research and works closely with undergraduates who are writing their junior papers and senior theses on topics in her field.
"I really want this tradition to continue in psychology of engagement with real-world projects and evaluation of how psychological ideas play out in a very pragmatic kind of way," Paluck said.


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Russian Orthodox Mission in China
The Russian Orthodox Mission in China, also known as the Russian Ecclesiastical Mission, was the effort by Church of Russia to bring Orthodox Christianity to China. The mission originated in the seventeenth century after the forces of Chinese Emperor Kangxi (Kang Hsi) brought Russian captives, including an Orthodox priest, to Beijing, China after the capture of the Russian fortress Albasin. The Mission continued until the Church of China formed in 1956 after the Communist Chinese government required the departure of non-Chinese church officials.
The Russian Orthodox Mission in China had its beginnings with the capture of forty-five Russians when the Chinese Emperor Kangxi (Kang Hsi), of the Qing dynasty, captured Albasin, a Russian fortress on the Amur River. Among those captured was Fr. Maxim Leontev, an Orthodox priest. He was brought with the prisoners to Beijing late in the year 1685. There he settled in the ambassadorial quarters in the north eastern section of the city and served his small community for twenty years, using a converted Chinese temple as his chapel. The chapel was consecrated to the Holy Wisdom of God. In 1695, Fr. Maxim received documentation from the Metropolitan of Tobolsk recognizing the consecration of the church and directed Fr. Maxim to commemorate the Chinese emperor and to begin preaching to the Chinese. Fr. Maxim reposed in 1712, thus ending his informal mission.
With Fr. Maxim's passing, a formal Orthodox Mission was formed that acted as the official representative of the Russian government. The activities of the mission were subordinated to the Russian government diplomatic and political interests. This period lasted until 1860. During this period the composition and head of the mission changed about every ten years and was generally composed of four clergy and six laymen. The laymen were usually students whose duty was to learn the Chinese and Manchu languages and then became interpreters and eventually consuls for the Ministry of Foreign Affairs. The mission was financed by, and received direction from the government. This situation directly affected the missionary activities of the clergy. As the relations between Russia and China were defined formally, the work of each member of the mission was clearly defined. Under such circumstances, the missionary efforts of the Mission were greatly hindered and the number of conversions, evident in the small number of baptisms, was not significant.
Each change of the head of the mission has been identified serially. During the period to 1860 the number of changes was thirteen. Beijing being on the end of a long caravan route, communications with Russia were infrequent, only two to four times each year. This hampered the receipt of funds for the operation of the Mission.
Although hampered as missionaries by the political limitations, the succession of archimandrites and bishops who headed the Mission successfully introduced the cultural, ethnographical, and statistical information to Europeans through translations of Chinese literature. Among these works were the translations and compositions of Fr. Ioakinf (Bichurin) and a Chinese dictionary by Fr. Daniel Siviloff. During this 150 year period the Russian Orthodox Mission was confined to the mission center in Beijing. This confinement resulted in less than two hundred conversions of Chinese which included many who were descendants of the Albasin prisoners.
The Treaty of Tianjin (Tientsin) in 1858 changed the situation of the Beijing mission radically. The treaty admitted to China representatives of foreign governments and rights of residence in China to Christian missionaries. In the new period diplomatic and religious activities of the Beijing Mission were separated. Translations of the Scriptures began to appear. The Mission head, Archimandrite Gury (Karpov), participated actively in the negotiations of the Beijing Treaty of 1860 under which Russia gained lands along the Amur River. Having studied Chinese for many years he was active also in translating the New Testament into Chinese, as well as collecting earlier translations of Orthodox books for re-translation into the Chinese spoken language. He expanded preaching and lecturing in church, reaching areas beyond Beijing.
While the literary and translation efforts continued through most of the later part of the nineteenth century, the missionary work in the later part of the century lagged due to inadequate funding for preaching outside of Beijing, as well as the arrival of new missionaries whose Chinese language skills were inadequate. The era of an all-Russian clergy ended when a Chinese priest, Fr. Mitrophan Ji, was ordained in Japan by Bp. Nicholas of Tokyo on June 29, 1882. Fr. Mitrophan died a martyr in the June 11, 1900 Boxer uprising in China. The nearly 500 baptisms that had been performed by the Mission and the establishment of two new churches, one each in Hankou and Kalgan (Zhangjiakou) had not contributed significantly to the Mission's missionary efforts.
With the arrival of Archimandrite Innocent in March 1897 the situation changed abruptly. Fr. Innocent immediately undertook reforms in the Mission: he established a monastery, instituted daily services in Chinese, established support for Albasins with business abilities, organized parish activities, dispatched preachers to the hither lands outside Beijing to spread the Gospel, and established charity efforts among the local poor. While Fr. Innocent's arrival began a period of active missionary efforts, the beginning of the twentieth century also brought serious troubles for the Russian Orthodox Mission, as it did for other Christian missions. The Boxer (Yihetuan Movement) revolt in 1900 resulted in the destruction of the buildings in Beijing, Dongdingan, and Kalgan (Zhangjiakou). The riots caused the death of more than 200 Orthodox faithful. The losses also included the extensive library in the Beijing compound begun by Archimandrite Peter during the tenth mission. The Mission survived, and by 1902 there were 32 churches in China with nearly 6,000 members
Rising out of the ruins of the Boxer revolt, a new Mission attitude was established through the efforts of Fr. Innocent and with the support of the Holy Synod in Russia. Having been recalled to St. Petersburg for consultations concerning the mission, Fr. Innocent was consecrated bishop and returned to Beijing as Bishop of Beijing in August 1902, with jurisdiction over all the churches along the Chinese-Eastern Railway.
Rebuilding the mission began immediately, funded by the Chinese government as compensation for the damages caused by the Boxer Revolt. Additionally, nearly all of China was opened to missionary work. New churches and chapels began to appear. A church and school were opened in Yongpingfu in Zhili province. Also in Zhili province some twenty chapels were opened by a Chinese priest. In Weihuifu, a church and school were founded through the gratitude of a Henan province official who had received protection from Russians during the revolt.
By 1916, the Russian Orthodox Mission in China had grown greatly. In Beijing, three monasteries were established: Dormition Monastery, the Hermitage of the Exaltation of the Cross in Xishan (Western Hills near Beijing), and a women's monastery. There were nineteen churches including four in Beijing and 32 missions including 14 in Zhili province, 12 in Hebei, four in Henan, one in Xi'anfu, and one in Mongolia. The Mission also controlled 17 schools for boys and three for girls. In addition the Mission maintained a number of institutions relating to the publication of books, and various work shops.
Evangelization of Chinese increased, and by 1916 the number of baptized Chinese numbered 5,587, including 583 who were baptized in 1915. The vast majority of teachers in the Mission schools were Chinese.
Following the Bolshevik revolution in Russia in 1917, the Mission lost its support base and had to fend for itself. At the same time the arrival of many Russian refuges in China greatly increased the number of Orthodox believers. The number of churches also increased, largely to support the Russian arrivals. This led to the establishment of new dioceses. In China, dioceses were established around the cities of Shanghai and Tianjin, in addition to Beijing. A diocese in Harbin had developed out of support for the Russian colony associated with the Eastern China Railway.
During the years after the Bolshevik Revolution many of the Orthodox bishops joined with the exile Russian Orthodox Church Outside of Russia, that was initially headquartered in Karlovci, Yugoslavia, but later in Munich, Germany and then New York in the United States. At the end of World War II, and with the arrival of Soviet forces, particularly in Manchuria, the Moscow Patriarchate gained jurisdiction over the Russian bishops in China and Harbin.
In 1949, after establishment of the People's Republic of China that was under the control of the Chinese Communist Party, treaties between the Soviet and Chinese governments led to transfer of jurisdiction of the Russian churches to the Chinese. While many of the Russian expatriates were arrested by the communists for return to the Soviet Union, many returned voluntarily. Other families and clergy escaped to the non-communist world, many under the leadership of Bishop John of Shanghai.
In 1956, in fulfillment of agreements between the Soviet Union and Communist China, the Moscow Patriarchate granted autonomy to the Church of China formally ending the Russian Mission in China. At that time the Church of China had two Chinese bishops, a number of priests, and an estimated 20,000 faithful. Having remained under the jurisdiction of the Moscow Patriarchate, Abp. Victor of Beijing, the last Russian bishop in China and leader of the last Spiritual Mission departed for the Soviet Union in 1956, closing the three hundred year old Russian Orthodox Mission in China.
Currently, the site of the mission in the district of Dongzhimen (Eastern Straight Gate) of Beijing is occupied by the Embassy of Russia.
Heads of mission
Period of diplomatic representatives
- First mission (1716-1728). Archimandrite Ilarion (Lezhaisky) Reposed in Beijing in 1717.
- Second mission (1729-1735). Archimandrite Antony (Platkovsky).
- Third mission (1736-1745). Archimandrite Illarion (Trusov). Reposed in Beijing in 1741.
- Fourth mission (1745-1755). Archimandrite Gervasy (Lintsevsky).
- Fifth mission (1755-1771). Archimandrite Amvrosy (Yumatov). Reposed in Beijing in 1771.
- Sixth mission (1771-1781). Archimandrite Nikolai (Tsvet).
- Seventh mission (1781-1794). Archimandrite Ioakim (Shishkovsky).
- Eighth mission (1794-1807). Archimandrite Sofrony (Gribovsky).
- Ninth mission (1807-1821). Archimandrite Iakinf (Bichurin). Reposed in 1853.
- Tenth mission (1821-1830). Archimandrite Peter (Kamensky). Reposed in 1845.
- Eleventh mission (1830-1840). Hieromonk (later Archimandrite) Veniamin (Morachevich).
- Twelfth mission (1840-1849). Archimandrite Policarp (Tugarinov).
- Thirteenth mission (1850-1858). Archimandrite Pallady (Kafarov). Also led the fifteenth mission.
Period of limited missionary activities
- Fourteenth mission (1858-1864). Archimandrite Gury (Karpov). In 1866, consecrated vicar Bishop of Cheboksary, Kazan Eparchy; In 1867, Bishop of Tauria and Simferopol; 1881, Archbishop; Reposed in 1882.
- Fifteenth mission (1865-1878). Archimandrite Pallady (Kafarov). Reposed in 1878 in Marseilles during return to Russia due to illness.
- Sixteenth mission (1879-1883). Archimandrite Flavian (Gorodetsky). In 1885, consecrated vicar bishop in the Don Diocese; In 1892, elevated to archbishop when ruler of the Diocese of Kholmsky and Warsaw; In 1903, elected Metropolitan of Kiev and Galicia; Reposed in 1915.
- Seventeenth mission (1884-1896). Archimandrite Amfilohy (Lutovinov).
Period of active mission
- Eighteenth mission (1896-1931). Archimandrite Innocent (Figurovsky). In 1902 - elevated to the rank of Bishop of Pereyaslav, vicar of the Vladimir Eparchy; later elevated to Metropolitan of Beijing and China; Reposed in Beijing in 1931.
- Nineteenth mission (1931-1933). Archbishop Simon (Vinogradov); In 1919, consecrated Bishop of Shanghai; Reposed in Beijing in 1933.
- Twentieth mission (1933-1956). Bishop Victor (Svyatin). In 1932 consecrated Bishop of Shanghai; In 1938 he was elevated to the rank of archbishop and to Metropolitan in 1961. Reposed September 18, 1966.
See also
External links
- w:Albazinians
- Orthodoxy in China
- Russian Mission in China 1685-1745
- Russian Mission in China 1745-1755
Further Reading
- Eric Widmer. The Russian ecclesiastical mission in Peking during the eighteenth century. Harvard Univ Asia Center, 1976. 262 pp.