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Philly: Farm Raised Organic Eggs
Anyone know where I can find them in the Rittenhouse Square area, other than at the farmers market.
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February 13, 2013
Thanks so much, all. I'll let you know what I find.
February 12, 2013
I would second trying Reading Terminal. What sort of eggs are you looking for? I find eggs at Whole Foods and other places with organic and certified humane stickers, but I understand if you're looking for something beyond that. I live in the Rittenhouse area too and I hope you'll let me know what you find!
The other thing you can try, if you're looking for the Joel Salatin style farm, is Wyebrook Farms. They are a sustainable, rotation-type farm, and they deliver to Cook restaurant, at 20th and Rittenhouse. I've gotten beef and pork from there, and in the summer when they have pasture they'll do chicken too. Really good quality stuff. I do not know if they deliver eggs, but no harm in emailing and asking. Check it out! http://www.audreyclairecook.com/farm.html
Bill F.
February 12, 2013
There is a place in Harrisburg that I'm pretty sure ships free range organic French copper Marans eggs.
February 12, 2013
You could try searching this site: http://www.farmtophilly.com/
usuba D.
February 12, 2013
No, I understand. You are looking at those eggs from small farm running around outside, Joel Salatin style vs an operation that is not idealistic as Joel's. Reading Terminal may have what you are looking for. If not, contact PCO (Pennsylvania Certified Organic)or PASA (Pennsylvania Assoc of Sustainable Agriculture) for a list of farms that may be selling in Phili.
usuba D.
February 11, 2013
BTW, All organic eggs will be raised on a farm.
February 11, 2013
I think we're probably referring to farm raised in different ways. Neither Whole Foods nor Trader Joes carry the farm eggs I am used to getting in NYC from farmers markerts, Elis, or other specialty stores.
usuba D.
February 11, 2013
Reading Terminal, Whole Foods, Trader Joe's . . .plenty of sources
February 10, 2013
Go onto the main food52 site and click on one of the partner sites called real time farms. I've found it to be really thorough where I live (/have lived). Great resource for finding local.
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As kids these days, we're lucky, because the generations that came before us took Traditional Tattoos from the shadows into the mainstream. And while they were paving the way for our easy access to ink, they littered that path with enough cheesy, Traditional Tattoos to fill the lower backs of all of our ancestors. So what exactly constitutes a clichéd tattoo? I asked accomplished tattoo artist JR Tubbs of True Till Death Tattoo Co. in Ashtabula, Ohio. He had great advice: "Traditional Tattoos right now are pretty much anything you're printing off of Pinterest and bringing in to your artist. The little arrows, the flower turning into birds …"
He has a point. How original could your tattoo be if it has been passed around social media by a million people (or more)? You want your tattoo artist to get excited about your design, not roll their eyes and yawn because your super special, meaningful tattoo was the same super special and meaningful tattoo of nine other random people this week.
So does it mean that you suck at life if you have a Pinterest tattoo? Of course not. Any tattoo, whether trendy or not, can be great if it's well-done and meaningful to you. And Tubbs admits that he doesn't hate doing trendy tattoos. He just wants to make sure that you put a good amount of thought into what you're getting. Totally reasonable, considering how you're adding permanent art to your body. When in doubt, Tubbs recommends that you veer toward traditional and go with "classic, bold, timeless designs. Things that won't go out of style in five or ten years. Designs that our grandfathers and great grandfathers wore."

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bee teapot
Originally uploaded by Bridgman Pottery
Yesterday was my college roommate's birthday. I made this teapot for her as a housewarming gift (for the house she and her husband bought a year and a half ago- I'm a little slow), but sent it for her birthday. She'd requested a bee teapot on one of her visits to Memphis several years ago when I first began making teapots.
I think I made this in November, but the glazing never was right, then my kiln decided to take a 4-month break. Kiln is now working properly again, and a fixative added to my glaze solved most of the streaking/ too thin spots that I had issues with, so after I fired it for the third time last weekend, I loved it up for a little bit then packed it up to send to Hester on Monday. I love the bees peeking through the glaze, I love how the handle fits right above the spout. Sometimes I have problems with handle placement, but this guy may be my archetypal teapot. Even the lid fits perfectly.
I made four honeypots that were fired in this load, but two of the lids broke (I dropped them on concrete) after firing. I hope I'll be able to make new ones, but the rate of shrinkage and the fact that I didn't note the dimensions of the wet pieces mean that making replacements might be difficult. I learn more about what I should be doing with my pottery every day, mostly through my mistakes.
Oh, and here's another fun tidbit. The "not picardie" tumbler may be a gift to the universe. Yesterday I was at a birthday party at the playground at my son's school. The tumbler was in my car, so I used it for water instead of using a disposable cup. Four year-old parties always seem to end in meltdown, so the tumbler was left on the playground. Gary dear went to see if it was still there on his way home. It was not. One of the teachers rescued it, took it home, and said that she'd bring it to school tomorrow. If she doesn't, that's okay. I'm releasing it. Sortof like the cake plates, warped during their glaze firing, that we left on a bridge over a creek in our neighborhood. I was distraught about their Dali-like forms, so Gary decided to gift them to anyone who wanted them. They were in the creek the next morning. I wonder how long it will take for them to be worn down into pebbles. . . .


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Nicole Hallissey MS, RDN, CDN
1 cup quinoa, rinsed
1 onion, diced
1 red pepper, chopped
1 green pepper, chopped
1 jalapeño pepper, seeded and chopped
2 – 15 ounce jars crushed tomatoes
2 cup low sodium chicken broth
1.5 cup kidney beans, soaked and drained
1.5 cup black beans, soaked and drained
1.5 cup fresh or frozen corn
1 tablespoon olive oil
2 garlic cloves, minced
2 teaspoons siracha sauce
1 teaspoon chili powder
2 teaspoons ground cumin
1 1/2 teaspoons paprika
1/2 teaspoon cayenne pepper
½ teaspoon salt
1 teaspoon ground black pepper
¼ cup fresh cilantro, chopped
1. Heat olive oil in a large pot over medium heat. Add onions and cook until translucent, approximately 3 minutes. Season with cumin, paprika, cayenne pepper, black pepper and salt.
2. Add garlic and cook for another minute to release the flavor. Add peppers and jalapeno and cook until peppers become soft. Add siracha sauce, chicken broth, crushed tomatoes, kidney beans, black beans and corn.
3. Bring to a boil and add quinoa. Cover and simmer for 15 or until quinoa opens.
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Thursday, April 25, 2013 05:45 am
Celtic folk
Celtic duo Switchback performs at the Hoogland Center for the Arts on April 26. The musical group featuring Brian FitzGerald and Martin McCormack will play Americana and traditional Celtic tunes. One of the pair's songs from their first album was used by Chevrolet to promote their Chevy Blazer. "The Fire That Burns" was selected as one of Performing Songwriter Magazine's top choices for 2003. The group has opened for acts such as The Moody Blues, Leon Russell, Lee Greenwood, John Hartford and BeauSoleil. Central Illinois Irish Step Dancers will also perform.
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Many years back I worked on one of the sequences for the Natural World episode 'Queen of Mantas'. I was working in the Maldives with the 'Big Wave TV' team to capture a newly discovered aggregation of feeding mantas.
Andrea: Queen of Mantas tells the remarkable story of thirty-year-old Andrea Marshall who gave up everything for a life in Mozambique observing the largest popuation of manta rays in the world. From dramatic feeding frenzies, remarkable courtship behavior to the discovery of a giant new species, Andrea's findings are set to rock the world of marine biology. Andrea: Queen of Mantas is the revelatory true story of one young woman's determination to understand and protect these remarkable creatures.
"Breathtakingly beautiful testimony... every ripple seemed part of an elegy…" - Guardian
"Manta Rays are extraordinary. For a start they look like an alien spaceship that's inadvertently plunged into the ocean… superb underwater photography." - Radio Times
"Watching them in numbers is indeed like watching a flock of birds. Beautiful." - Daily Express Magazine
"Congratulations – really excellent figures… It looked fantastic going out last night, and I caught up with the Woman's Hour piece – Andrea's amazing – what a smart lady. Well done to all the team!" - Tim Martin, Commissioning Editor, BBC
"A truly inspiring, informative and beautiful film" - Di Williams, BBC NHU
BLUE Ocean Film Festival:
Finalist, Marine Animal Behaviour
Festival de l'Oiseau et de la Nature:
Special Distinction for Passion and Involvement
Green Screen Film Festival:
Best Marine Film
New York Festivals:
Silver Award for Nature and Wildlife
Missoula IWFF:
5 x Merit N Winner
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Bernie Sanders announces huge January fundraising haul
Bernie Sanders' campaign said Sunday that the Vermont senator brought in more than $20 million in January in donations to his 2016 presidential campaign.
The campaign said that the money was made up almost entirely of online contributions, which averaged $27 apiece. There were more than 770,000 individual contributions, bringing the total number of individual donations for his campaign to 3.25 million.
"The numbers we've seen since Jan. 1 put our campaign on pace to beat Secretary Clinton's goal of $50 million in the first quarter of 2016," said Jeff Weaver, Sanders' campaign manager. "Working Americans chipping in a few dollars each month are not only challenging but beating the greatest fundraising machine ever assembled."
Part of the announcement from Sanders' campaign also criticized Clinton for raising a significant amount of her money from donors who contribute the maximum and for the fact that there is a super PAC supporting her campaign. Sanders consistently reminds voters that there is no super PAC bolstering his efforts.
"As Secretary Clinton holds high-dollar fundraisers with the nation's financial elite, our supporters have stepped up in a way that allows Bernie to spend the critical days before the caucuses talking to Iowans about his plans to fix a rigged economy and end a corrupt system of campaign finance," Weaver said. He pledged that Sanders campaign is "built for the long haul" and said it will bring "millions" of people into the Democratic Party.
Sanders' campaign also said Sunday it will file its year-end report with the Federal Election Commission saying it raised almost $33.6 million in the final quarter of 2015, with 70 percent of donations coming from contributors who gave $200 or less. Just 1.3 of its donations that quarter came from donors who contributed the maximum amount ($2,700 per election).


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Nooksack Indian Tribe
Two versions have been put forth to define the name Nooksack. One is that it means mountain men, the name given by Indians on the coast to this Salish tribe. The other version is that the tribe is named after noot-sa-ack, the bracken ferns that were one of their dietary staples. In either case, the Nooksack are a Native American tribe in Whatcom County in the northwest corner of Washington State.
The tribe has a reservation 17 miles east of Bellingham, centered at the small town of Deming. Like most Northwest Coast indigenous peoples, the pre-contact Nooksack subsisted on fishing, hunting, gathering and trading.
For millennia before trappers, traders, lumbermen, gold seekers and homesteaders came to the Nooksack River valley, the Nooksack people resided in numerous villages at the banks of the Nooksack and Sumas. The earliest Nooksack scooped out semi-subterranean dwellings of up to a dozen feet deep, then capped them with pitched bark roofs. Subsequent generations constructed aboveground longhouses of cedar boards.
Their fishing grounds extended from today's Bellingham Bay to British Columbia. They used nets and fish traps in the rivers to harvest various species of salmon. During the fish runs in the fall and spring, a number of families typically shared a smokehouse on the riverbanks next to the fish traps. They cleaned, hung up to dry, and smoked numerous salmon. The Nooksack also dug up clams, gathered meadow berries, stalked mountain goats for food and skins, and grew wild carrots (sbugmack).* However, the majority of their diet consisted of fish, roots and ferns. The Nooksack reverenced the earth and its bounty in religious ceremonies.
The expansion of a family's complex of kinship, ceremonial and trading ties was closely connected to its status and affluence within the Nooksack social structure. The Nooksack language, which belonged to the Salishan family of languages, was predominant in much of the upper Fraser River Valley in British Columbia.** They spoke the same dialect as the Squawmish from whom, it is believed, they parted ways.
On their far-ranging trading trips, Nooksack paddlers adroitly navigated the streams in shovel-nosed canoes crafted from Western red cedar. Their usual trading allies were the Chilliwack, Matsqua, and Sumas tribes in British Columbia. On a smaller scale, they bartered with coastal Lummis, Semiahmoos, and Skagit Valley clans.
In 1790, the Spanish claimed the region, then over the following several decades, the Northwest fell into the hands of the Russians, English, and Americans. Explorers, fur trappers and traders were the first to appear, and the Hudson's Bay Company became a trading presence from 1825 to 1846. Like virtually all of the indigenous cultures in the Northwest and elsewhere, contact with Euro-Americans profoundly altered the Nooksack way of life predominantly for the worse.
In 1860, reports of gold prompted a party of white explorers to investigate the area east of Whatcom County, up to the Nooksack River's middle fork headwaters. They made their way through the densely treed South Fork valley before prospecting at the north and middle fork confluence. In following years, other gold seekers and early explorers pushed into the county's hills and valleys, followed by homesteaders. The wilderness and its original inhabitants yielded to the hegemonic culture that staked claims and cleared the land. Sawmills became commonplace.
The Nooksack never signed a treaty with the U.S. that would have given them a reservation, because they had been overlooked. Thus they were vulnerable with no treaty to offer them any protection and lost their lands to white settlers. It was not until 1958 that, though landless, the Nooksacks won compensation for the loss of their lands, whose value was pegged at 1858 dollars. In 1873, a U.S. government attempt was made to relegate the Nooksack to the Lummi reservation. However, the Nooksack returned to their upriver sites because they felt no close affinity with the Lummi.
At the turn of the 20th century, Nooksack and other native children were taken from their homes by Bureau of Indian Affairs officials to attend boarding schools, in order to assimilate them into the wider society. Nearly a century later, Assistant Secretary of Indian Affairs Kevin Gover apologized for the manner in which those schools were conducted:
"This agency forbade the speaking of Indian languages, prohibited the conduct of traditional religious activities, outlawed traditional government, and made Indian people ashamed of who they were. Worst of all, the Bureau of Indian Affairs committed these acts against the children entrusted to its boarding schools, brutalizing them emotionally, psychologically and spiritually."
In the mid-1930s, the Nooksack tribe voted to accept the provisions of the Indian Reorganization Act (1934), which had secured new rights for Native Americans, and began to work on a tribal constitution. Since they lacked a land base, they were denied federal recognition as a tribe. In 1971, however, the Nooksack Tribe won full federal recognition, and a reservation was founded on one acre at Deming. Since then, the tribe's holdings have expanded to 2,500 acres, which include 65 acres of trust land.
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A few cups of plain rolled oats (not instant or quick cooking)
1 cup roughly chopped nuts (any combination, such as almonds, walnuts, hazelnuts or pistachios)
A good handful of mixed seeds (such as pumpkin, sunflower, linseed)
1 cup roughly chopped dried fruit (such as apricots, peach, cranberries, dried cherries, sultanas, raisins)
1/2 cup apple juice (though any juice will do really)
2 tbs honey + 2 tbs maple or golden syrup (or 4 tbs honey if preferred)
2 tbs oil or melted butter
Small handful of dried coconut (shredded of flaked)
1 tsp Cinnamon
1 tsp vanilla extract
1 pinch salt
A large handful of rice bubbles, wheat flakes, chocolate chips or any other preferred additives
Preheat the oven to 180 degrees celcius (35o farenheit). Lightly mist 2 large baking trays/sheets with cooking spray.
Combine the oats and cinnamon in a bowl until you???re happy with the proportions (no need to be too precise).
In a separate small bowl, combine the juice, vanilla extract, honey, syrup, salt and oil/butter. Add this to the dry ingredients, and stir well. Taste, and if it seems a little dry or not as sweet as you would like, add a touch more juice or honey (the mix should be moist and combined, though not saturated).
Spoon evenly into two large baking trays, and bake for approximately 20 minutes ??? or until almost dry and golden. At this stage, add the nuts, seeds, dried fruit and coconut (stirring in to combine and break up the baked mix slightly ??? you want a mix of small pieces and chunks). Bake for another 10-20 minutes, or until the nuts and dried fruit look slightly baked (do keep checking regularly, as the fruit can quickly burn) and the whole mix is a nicely crisp and golden.
Allow to cool completely in baking trays, then stir through rice bubbles (or whichever ???unbaked??? ingredients you wish) ??? these will lighten the whole mix, and add another textural layer against the crunchy oats.
Makes 2 large mason jars worth.
I saw this over on A Girl A Style, the delightful world of Miss B, makes you want to jump right on that health kick, right?! Yum! http://agirlastyle.com


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Have you ever watched one of those miracle-home-improvement shows where they take a house that is a good foundation, but that has been neglected for a bit too long? Nothing's better than real world practical examples. So, we thought we'd take that approach and apply it to an existing report from the real estate industry and do a little makeover to see if we could make a dramatic improvement. You be the judge.
We found a particular report on realtor.com and we said to ourselves "Self: this data shows a lot of potential!" We really loved it for a few reasons: There is a lot of great information, over 100 different markets, expert commentary and pretty interesting to anyone owning a home or investing in real estate in the U.S. Even still, it feels lacking. What if instead of just making the data available, this report answered some specific questions on the minds of homeowners and investors as well as provided it to them in an easy way to consume this rich information?
Selecting a real estate example wasn't completely random for us. With friends and family at Colliers, TelesIntelligence, Berkshire Hathaway Home Services and Keyes, we know there are a lot of opportunities to make real estate data more valuable.
Here is the link to realtor.com's existing report. Our version of the report can be found here. We downloaded the .csv file that they make available and took it from there. We applied some Juice design principles and help the data answer some specific questions.
Our approach was threefold:
- Make the report more readable and attractive
- Offer the reader more guided exploration
- Offer visualizations that permitted comparisons across markets
Before we did anything we did do a little transformation on the data. We added a dimension for region and broke out city and state into separate columns. This permits another layer of data exploration.
Below are some screenshots of our report makeover. You can see, and interact, with the makeover version here.
First, we gave the commentary section of the report a little help. Using the Simple Font Framework, we improved the titles, highlighted some of the key trends, downplayed some of the contextual information. Just below that we provided some overall metrics, so that users could compare markets to the U.S. overall averages.
Next, we posed questions that we thought the audience might be most interested in knowing and then applied a visual that would answer that question. In the case of the map the user can toggle the metrics between the month to month and the year over year change in median price. As you notice Maryland stands out on the map, while finding this on the original report takes a little effort.
As with most decisions, homeowners and investors can't rely on just a single measure to inform their opinion. The leaderboard visualization below allows the reader to view rankings across multiple metrics. In the highlighted example below we compared Denver, Colorado to Seattle, Washington.
The finished version (found here) also provides some additional visualizations and a global filter at the top, but you get the idea. Not brain surgery or something we would use to make actual real estate investments; however a quick 60 minute makeover to call out some of the beauty trapped in this data.
So, what do ya think? Worthy of the Extreme Makeover moniker?


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Bicycling is becoming increasingly popular among adults in the Valley, yet many motorists continue to ignore the rights of cyclists to ride in the roads. This can lead to dangerous situations where a collision between a cyclist and a vehicle can occur, often resulting in serious or even fatal injuries to the cyclist.
When an accident leaves an injured victim, whether that victim is in a car, on a bicycle, or walking as a pedestrian, the victim may be entitled under Phoenix and Arizona laws to bring a claim against the responsible person for their damages. Often, this includes any medical bills incurred by the victim and any pain and suffering that results from injuries. Lawyers in the Valley can help victims determine whether they may be able to bring a claim after a bicycle accident.
It appears that one such tragic bicycle accident occurred in Scottsdale on Tuesday where a bicyclist and a car collided. Police are still investigating the incident but at this time, it appears that the car and the cyclist were traveling in the same direction on Thomas Road in the area of 58th Street when a collision occurred. Police suspect that the driver of the car may have been under the influence of alcohol at the time of impact in violation of local and state laws.
It is not clear whether the driver of the car was injured but the bicyclist was critically hurt and was transported to a local hospital with life threatening injuries. The accident halted traffic in the area for several hours.
Too often, the negligence of one driver causes others to become seriously injured and in need of help. After an accident, it may feel like no one is on the side of the victim but it does not have to be that way. Accident victims are granted certain rights and protections under the law, including the right to retain a lawyer of their choosing to represent them in a civil case to recover damages on their behalf.
At Abels & Annes, P.C., we believe that all accident victims deserve proper compensation and we fight for our clients' rights daily. After an accident, we offer a free case consultation to all injury victims without any obligation on the victim's part. If you have been injured, call us 24 hours a day at (602) 819-5191 or toll free at (855) 529-2442. We never charge a fee unless we make a recovery on your behalf and we are available to take your call seven days a week.
If you have been hurt in an accident, do not let yourself continue to be victimized. Make sure you have an advocate on your side to represent your interests and your legal rights. Call us today to take advantage of our free consultation and let us help you get a recovery you deserve.
Prior Blog Entry:
Actor Paul Walker Killed in Car Crash, Phoenix Injury Lawyer Blog, published December 2, 2013.
Bicyclist hospitalized after colliding with car, Fox 10 News, published December 3, 2013.


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Battle of the Pelennor Fields
|Battle of Pelennor Fields
The Battle of the Pelennor Fields as depicted in Peter Jackson's film adaptation of The Return of the King
|Conflict: Battle of the Pelennor Fields
|Date: March 15, 3019 T.A.
|Place: Minas Tirith and fields of Pelennor, Gondor
|Outcome: Victory of Gondor and Rohan
In Minas Tirith: Minas Tirith Garrison and Northern Army of Gondor (strength unknown) supported by small southern contingent (<3000). 6,000 Rohirrim cavalry arriving from the north at dawn, later reinforced by an unknown number of Men of Southern Gondor under Aragorn arriving from the south
Unknown total strength, but vast numerical superiority to Gondor's forces in Minas Tirith.; possibly over 200,000. Forces consisting of Orcs, Trolls, Wargs, Oliphaunts, the Nazgûl, 18,000 Haradrim, and thousands of Easterlings (men of Rhûn, Variags of Khand, etc.)
Battle of Pelennor Fields was the greatest battle of the War of the Ring, and indeed the largest of the entire Third Age.
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After the fall of Osgiliath there was no longer a barrier against the forces of Mordor, which moved on the Pelennor Fields before the city on March 15, 3019 of the Third Age as the Great Darkness blotted out the sun.
Mordor's troops consisted of more than 30,000 Easterlings and Haradrim, numerous oliphaunts, and thousands of Orcs; The defenders' numbers were considerably less despite the addition of about 8,000 men from southern Gondor in the days before the battle.
The attackers used catapults not only to attack the city, through bombardment and flames, but also to fire the heads of slain men from Osgiliath and other places Mordor's armies had passed through into it. Later on, the great battering ram Grond (named after Morgoth's weapon from the First Age) was put into action.
Before dawn Grond was used to break the city's main gate, and the Witch-king rode into the city unchallenged, save by Gandalf. Before Gandalf's strength was put to the test, however, the cock crowed and the horns of Rohan were heard as around 6,000 of their riders joined the battle. Mordor's strategy for keeping Rohan out of the battle had failed twice, both through the defeat at Helm's Deep and the blockade in Anorien. So the Witch-king was forced to ride out and attack them instead of fighting Gandalf and destroying the city.
King Théoden's charge drove the Mordor forces from the northern half of the field, and charging the Haradrim cavalry he slew the Southron chieftain, the Black Serpent, and cut down his standardbearer.
When the Witch-king's fell beast attacked King Théoden of Rohan, the king's horse Snowmane lost control, and was hit by an arrow. Snowmane fell with the king atop him, and the horse landed on him, which proved fatal. The warrior Dernhelm, defending the king's body, slew the fell beast and challenged its rider. The Witch-king mocked him, telling him that no living man might slay him, but the Hobbit Meriadoc Brandybuck (Merry) wounded him with a sword that had been forged centuries before during the war between Arnor and Angmar and which contained spells against the Witch-king. The spells finally found their target, for the Witch-king was distracted and possibly seriously weakened. He was then slain by Dernhelm, now revealed as Théoden's niece Éowyn and thus no man at all. The Black Breath caused both Merry and Éowyn to become gravely ill, and they were sent to the Houses of Healing in the city. Command of the Rohirrim then passed to Théoden's nephew and heir, Third Marshall Éomer.
At the same time, Faramir, son of Denethor, Steward of Gondor, was also gravely wounded. Despairing at the visions of defeat that Sauron had sent him via his palantír, and believing Faramir to be beyond aid, Denethor prepared to burn himself and his son upon a funeral pyre. Only the intervention of Peregrin Took and Gandalf saved Faramir, but Denethor immolated himself before they could prevent him.
Meanwhile, the battle turned against the Rohirrim. The Southrons charged with their Mûmakil (Oliphaunts) and wherever they went horses went wild with fear or were trampled underfoot, and the forces of Mordor rallied around them like islands of defense that the Rohirrim cavalry could not overtake. Éomer, grim after the death of Théoden but shocked by the unexpected (seeming) death of his sister Éowyn, the last living member of his family, flew into a berserker rage and charged his cavalry headlong into the larger enemy forces. So great was the wrath of the outnumbered Rohirrim at the death of their King that they broke through the superior Mordor forces, hammering deep wedges into the Mordor legions' front lines. However, this soon turned against Éomer: his cavalry had pierced the Enemy front lines so quickly that his company was now cut off from the other two, and surrounded between Mordor's front lines and their reserves. Fighting their way to the docks near the Harlond south of the city, Éomer desperately circled up his men on a hill and prepared to fight to the death, when he saw enemy reinforcements sailing up the River Anduin, and let out a defiant cry at his approaching end.
One of the visions that Denethor had seen was of a fleet of enemy ships with black sails arriving at the landings to the south of the Pelennor in the Rammas, but what he had not seen was that they were actually manned by Aragorn and other Rangers of the North, Gimli, Legolas, Elladan, Elrohir and many reinforcements from southern fiefdoms of Gondor. As Aragorn's army drove north a great part of Mordor's forces were pinned between Aragorn and Eomer's cavalry, and were "caught between the hammer and the anvil". Aragorn's army then linked with Eomer's, and with their aid the tide of battle was finally turned, and a brief respite was won until the Last Battle before the Black Gate.
There is no clearly stated final death toll for the Battle of Pelennor Fields. There is a definite figure for the cavalry of the Rohirrim that came to Gondor's defence; it consisted of 6,000 riders, and a full 2,000 were killed in the battle, including Théoden. Of the 5 to 6 thousand Gondorian defenders of Minas Tirith, and the large relief force of Gondor's southern provinces led by Aragorn, no definite figure remains. Two days after the battle, Aragorn led an army out to attack the Black Gate that consisted of 7,000 men (When he reached the Black Gate he had less than 6,000); 2,000 Rohirrim and 5,000 Gondorians. The size of Aragorn's relief force may have been over 10,000 or as little as 1,000, it is never stated. However, even a conservative estimate would place total Gondorian losses at 3,000, and more probably 5,000.
As for enemy losses, again, the size of Sauron's great army is not definitely known. There were at the very least 60,000, and this is almost surely an overconservative estimation. In Peter Jackson's movie adaptation, the enemy numbered over 200,000, and this may be accurate with the number present in the text. It is known that there were some 18,000 Haradrim. (The Rohirrim, consisting of 6,000 riders, were "thrice outnumbered by the Haradrim alone".) The Enemy's army was utterly destroyed on the field: all War Mûmakil were killed, the Lord of the Nazgûl was slain, numerous Trolls, and perhaps all of the Orcs (which composed the majority of the army) were killed, those that retreated drowning in the River Anduin. Many Easterlings and Haradrim proudly fought to the death when the tide turned, even as the Orcs were cowardly running away, with few escaping to send news of the power and wrath of Gondor to lands east and south.
The Films
The battle is the major centrepiece of Peter Jackson's The Return of the King, although some of the events described above are simplified or altered for cinematic purposes. Importance is given to the charge of the Mûmakil, the death of Théoden and the Witch-king's demise at the hands of Eowyn.
The battle begins with Sauron's forces marching on city and firing a volley of severed heads over the walls (as in the book). Initially, both Sauron's army and the defenders of Minas Tirith exchange fire by way of catapults and trebuchets. The flying Ringwraiths then descend from the skies, spreading fear throughout the city and destroying many catapults. Seeing Mordor's overwhelming army, Denethor despairs and Gandalf assumes command of the defenders. He helps them hold out until Théoden and over six thousand Rohirrim arrive, decimating the invading orcs. However, Sauron's reserves soon arrive with several Oliphaunts, commanded by the Haradrim, who turn the tide against the Rohirrim. Fortunately, Aragorn arrives with the Army of the Dead (see Paths of the Dead), who crush Sauron's forces. This is an alteration from the book, in which the Dead depart after they defeat the Corsairs and liberate Pelargir, after which Gondor's Southern Army is now free to rally to Aragorn. Peter Jackson likely wanted to make the Army of the Dead more of a focus in the story, giving them greater impact in the overall scheme of events and, thus, giving greater significance to Aragorn's decision to take the Paths of the Dead, as well as his trials therein. In the theatrical cut of the film, the scenes at Pelargir are cut entirely. The filmmakers felt that tension would be better maintained by not letting the audience know whether or not Aragorn was successful in recruiting the Dead Army. The Pelargir were restored for the extended cut of the movie.
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The Yankees have acquired outfielder Greg Golson from the Texas Rangers for infielder Mitch Hilligoss in a swap of 24-year-old minor leaguers.
Texas also got between $15,000 and $20,000 cash in Tuesday's trade.
Golson played one game in the majors last year. He hit .258 with 20 stolen bases in Triple-A. He was designated for assignment last week when Texas signed infielder Khalil Greene.
Hilligoss hit .233 in 51 games for Class A Tampa last season and missed action because of a broke right hand. He is a two-time MVP in minor league All-Star games and had a 38-game hitting streak in 2007.


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Apparel inventories were released by the Census with Mish updating the various charts. One point to note is that apparel inventories to sales continue to sit at historic highs. What does this mean for apparel retailers and brands?
- Huge markdowns and sales for the holidays to clear inventories
- Off price and discount apparel players will have their pick of the litter from wholesale brands and licensees. Everyone from TJX to Ross to Burlington will have large inventories to pick from.
Looks like this will be another holiday with low margins for traditional retail and huge discounts for shoppers. The world is awash in apparel.


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Losing hope | #Brexit
Today I woke up in a different country.
I first moved to the UK about five years ago. I came as a 19 year old full of hope, expectations, enthusiasm. I couldn't believe my luck that I got into a British university. I was happy, elated, excited to get away from a country that promoted racism, bigotry, that played with the lives of the poor and made a mess out of everything.
This country has given me a lot. It's given me an education that was pretty great, a degree in Journalism where I had the opportunity to explore, to be academically challenged. It's given me jobs that paid more than I could have got at home doing the same things. While my friends were working for as little as £1 an hour, I was making a living. Thank you, Great Britain, for being here for me to pursue the truly idealistic view of making a change.
However, today I realised I've had just such a privileged view of this country. Its working class is in shambles, disillusioned and blaming immigration for all of their troubles. Of course, I've known and been victim of this first hand before, but the extent of the matter hadn't hit me until today.
Everyone hates the establishment – and I'm the first one there on the picket line when it comes to that. The EU isn't the perfect institution that brings only joy and happiness and unity.
But for me, it's done some great things.
As a 19 year old from a poor European country, I had the opportunity to get a great education. I worked my ass off for it and I'm paying back every cent with interest, but the EU made it so easy for me to just pack up and go. And you like that, Britain, don't you? You don't mind the tens of thousands of EU university students that come to the UK every year and buy into thousands of pounds of debt instead of paying into their own countries. We are the kind of enthusiastic, skilled workers you can't wait to snatch up. My university hired people to recruit from other EU countries and that's at the heart of its strategy for expansion. Should I mention that, so ironically, the majority of students employed by the university were also from the EU? Was that because we had privileged status? No, it was because British students were going back home for the summer while we were hanging around, trying to make a living to pay back our student fees and pay our rent.
Secondly, the EU made it possible for me to gain a qualification in the UK as an English teacher and then (in a week after finishing my course) to get a job in Spain. No equivalency needed, no paperwork, just pack up and go. Is that going to be possible in a Brexit world? I don't think so. Bureaucracy will take over and slow down anyone who wants to pursue a bigger dream than staying at home their whole lives or moving up the street.
The same EU then provided funding for a project which allowed volunteers from all across Europe to come to Bristol, European Green Capital 2015, and help out small charities and organisations which promote environmentalism in the city. My bias is clear here – I benefitted directly, I was paid by the EU to come and do something I loved in a city that I admired.
And that's exactly my point. There are many more just like me. People who look for opportunities, who want to be part of an international community without the hassle of visas, discrimination and so on. We are the new generation who doesn't see borders, who grew up in online communities where we empathise, befriend and admire people all around the world. We care about the environment, we care about the poor not only in our own countries, but in every country.
Maybe I'm not the right person to speak here. Maybe I come from a place of lower middle class and I've never struggled enough to have a say. Maybe I'm thinking only about myself and how I'm pissed off to be living in a worse country today than I was yesterday.
But I've found the best things I've had in this life have been because of opportunities. Those opportunities were there because people worked together. I am now giving back my share by working, volunteering, campaigning. I do wish the generation growing up now will have at least the same chance I had…but from the looks of it, they'll just have to stick to this lonely island.


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Here's what I wrote in Bang…
…make sure you never ejaculate inside her, even if she is on the pill. Not only is the pill not 100% effective, no girl is perfect with taking it every day. Because you don't want your player career to end prematurely with a newborn, don't ejaculate inside a girl unless you accept the chance of having a baby with her.
I wrote that when I had a good job and a girl wouldn't mind having my baby since I had the means to support it, but boy have times have changed. There is a new exception to my previous ejaculation rule…
The poorer you are compared to her, the safer it is to ejaculate inside her.
The reason is obvious: she does not want to have the baby from some deadbeat who can't even buy diapers. While I don't remember the last time I ejaculated inside a girl, if I got into a relationship with a lawyer you better believe that I'm busting inside her every night. "Cool keep the baby if you want. Hey can I borrow two bucks to take the bus back to my Dad's basement?"
But let's say she's a Polish au pair in America for a short amount of time. Absolutely no creampies for her even if her tubes are tied. While I'm poor by most standards, to a Polish au pair I'm middle class and having my baby would mean a potential green card if I marry her. The incentives for her are just too great to keep the baby and the last thing in life I need right now is a little Rooshy running around.
Ejaculation safe professions: Lawyer, engineer, publicist, human resources manager, government worker above GS-10, model/actress, doctor, urban planner
Ejaculation unsafe professions: Teacher, retail clerk, artist, writer, barista, bus driver, storekeeper, librarian, secretary, social worker
Sometimes you can tell just by looking at the girl…
It's ironic that the more likely a woman can support a baby on her own the safer it is to spread your potent seed inside her. I think we can
blame thank feminism for that.


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A new round of stats about the US economy have been released recently, and they tell a familiar 'good news, bad news' story. The good news is that both GPD (blue line) and corporate investment (red line) have rebounded well past their pre-recession highs (which are indexed to 100 in the graph).
I'd add lines for corporate profits as further good news, but they'd skew the graph too much: if total profits outside the finance industry equalled 100 before the Great Recession hit in December of 2007, they're at 129.6 now. Including the financial industry, they're at 139.3.
The bad news is captured by the green line, which measures how many people have jobs in America. This number is still not back to its pre-recession peak, which was almost six years ago.
So companies are generating revenue in a growing economy, and spending plenty of it on gear while still making healthier profits than ever.What they're not doing is hiring lots more people in order to grow revenues and profits.
A major reason for this, I believe — no, the major reason — is that technology and automation have advanced so much that companies in most (if not all) industries simply don't need to be as labor-intensive as was was previously the case. To put it quite simply, the gear is substituting for the employees.
Erik Brynjolfsson and I discuss this phenomenon in our 2011 book Race Against the Machine. In our new book The Second Machine Age: Work, Progress, and Prosperity in a Time of Brilliant Technologies (out in January; available for pre-order now) we fit it into the larger trends of technology-induced economic and societal change. The Second Machine Age makes the point that while most of the news about this phenomenon is great, it will bring with it some labor force challenges.
One of these challenges is the fact that many people seem to be dropping out of the workforce in recent years. This is easy to see if we take our graph back further in time and add one more line to it: the black line below is the civilian labor force participation rate, or the percent of working age Americans who have work or are looking for it (once you stop job hunting, go back to school, or otherwise leave the labor force you're no longer included in the black line).
Labor force participation has been declining with depressing steadiness since the Recession, and is now at 63.2%. It's not been this low since the summer of 1978, when women had not yet entered the American workforce in large numbers.
I wish I could see what's going to make that black line change direction and start heading up. Economic growth and stellar corporate profits don't seem to be enough. Any ideas what will be?


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Who needs a celebrity perfume Drew launches Barrymore Pinot Grigio (and the wine is already winning awards)
19:26 GMT, 25 April 2012
The fragrance market may be the celebrity cash cow du jour, but Drew Barrymore has quietly been putting her name to an entirely different kind of product.
The actress, 37, who is currently believed to be pregnant with her first child, is behind Barrymore Pinot Grigio, set to go on sale for $20 a bottle in New York next month.
The tipple, which is a blend of grapes grown in the Triveneto region of north-east Italy, is said to have 'hints of fresh apricot and lively citrus flavors'.
New venture: Actress Drew Barrymore has put her name to a white wine named Barrymore Pinot Grigio; the 2011 vintage will go on sale from next month
It seems it has already proved a hit with oenophiles; last month, the 2011 vintage was awarded a gold medal in the prestigious French Le Challenge
International du Vin.
Niccolo Salvadori, a partner in SGC Group, the official licensee for Barrymore Wines, told the New York Post that the star has been working on the project for the past two years.
'She herself is a pinot grigio drinker, and she created a wine reflecting her style,' he said.
Award-winner: Barrymore Pinot Grigio is said to have 'hints of fresh apricot and lively citrus flavors'
'Drew made numerous trips to Italy, spent time with the facility and was
involved with the wine at every level.'
The white wine is described in marketing materials as a pale straw colour, and has a relatively low alcohol content at 12per cent.
The bottle bears a modern label with the Barrymore family crest, designed by street artist Shepard Fairey.
Speaking about the product to Wine Spectator magazine last month, Ms Barrymore said: 'I love wine, and it's always fun when you can do something in your
work life that you love in your personal life.'
Ms Barrymore, who is engaged to art consultant Will Kopelman, is by no means the first star to venture into the wine business.
She joins an illustrious list that counts Olivia Newton-John, Antonio Banderas, Dan Aykroyd and Dave Matthews, among many others.
It is Francis Ford Coppola who has won the most critical acclaim, though, for his organic wine from the Inglenook estate in Napa Valley, California.
But Mr Coppola aside, many experts remain cynical about celebrity-owned vineyards.
Christopher Shipley, director of sales at
Joanne Bordeaux USA, who is yet to taste the Barrymore Pinot Grigio,
told the Post he was skeptical.
Wine-lover: Ms Barrymore has spent the past two years creating the product
Hands-on: The star is said to have been heavily involved with every step of the wine-making process
'On the one hand, she could have bought a really nice property and hired
a wine-making team, and the fact that her name is on it is beside the
point,' he said.
'On the other hand, it could be some sort of money grab where she
licensed her name and bought some juice on the spot market. Those are
the two extreme [scenarios].'
Six thousand cases of the Barrymore Pinot Grigio 2011 vintage have been produced so far.
It is already on sale in California, where Ms Barrymore and her fiance are based, and hits New York wine stores on May 3.
Francis Ford Coppola
The director has owned a property and organic vineyards in Napa Valley since 1975.
Dave Matthews
The historic Blenheim vineyards and
farm in Albermarle, Virginia, was purchased by the singer in 1999. It
grows Viognier, Chardonnay, Cabernet Franc, Cabernet Sauvignon, and
Petit Verdot grapes.
Lil Jon
Though the rapper admits he is no wine connoisseur, he founded the Little Jonathan Winery in California with winemaker Alison Crowe in 2008. It makes a Merlot and a Cabernet Sauvignon.
Olivia Newton-John
The Australian actress and singer started Koala Blue Wines in 1983 with business partner Pat Farrar. It makes a Chardonnay and a Cabernet Sauvignon, but the wines are not available to buy outside of Australia.
Gerard Depardieu
The French actor purchased Chateau de Tigne in Anjou, France, in 1989. The surrounding vineyards produce grapes for several different Cabernet and Chardonnay varieties.
Dan Aykroyd
The Canadian comedian joined forces with winemakers in Sonoma County, California, to launch Dan Aykroyd Wines in 2007. The resulting Chardonnay and Cabernet Sauvignon have since won high praise from critics.


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The subject of American culture came up the other day. Actually, one of my staff here in Ireland made a bit of a joke about it:
Question: What's the difference between America and Yogurt?
Answer: After 400 years Yogurt would develop a culture!
It's actually quite a cute joke and I laughed hardest...but then I came back with, "If we have no culture in America, why are folks on this side of the Atlantic so keen on importing it?"
He had to concede that there was truth in the implication.
First, let me be clear: No offense was intended or taken by either party to this little dialog. We joke about our respective cultures around here a lot.
But I started thinking about it. We Americans actually take a lot of ribbing for our so-called lack of culture...from the French, the Germans, the Belgians, the English, the Irish, and it seems, everyone else in the world. We are constantly told that America has no culture. I've heard this off and on for 30 years of traveling the globe. I've never given it much thought beyond the "oh yeah, then why do you keep importing our fast food" stage.
And then I think I came to a sudden realization the other day:
The reason America seems to have no culture to other parts of the world is that we don't have A culture...rather, our name is Legion, for we are many (please feel free to insert snide biblical comment here).
When we look abroad, Americans see Irish culture, English culture, French culture, Japanese culture...all nicely monolithic. In fact, one can describe it as seeing a monoculture (to borrow a term from agribusiness)
But when you look at the US, you see eastern culture, midwest culture, california culture, southern culture, Mexican-American culture, African-American culture, Japanese-American culture, Chinese-American culture, Italian-American culture, German-American culture and Irish American culture. To name just a few ... go to Minnesota and discover Scandinavian-American culture...drill down a bit and discover Norwegian-American culture versus Swedish-American culture.
These are more than just politically correct ethnic labels. They attempt, perhaps clumsily, to capture the amazing and improbable fusion of a distinctly US culture (with its fascination for mobility and fast food, casualness and aggressiveness) and the culture of peoples who came into the US bringing and preserving aspects of their original culture. The result is a strange metamorphosis that is understandably difficult for outside observers to grasp.
Tex-Mex food is NOT, repeat NOT, Mexican food. Tex-Mex culture is NOT Mexican culture. it is a synthesis of two tastes, flavor sets, attitudes and points of view to create a third point of view that is new and different.
It is culture imported, sampled, modified, re-contextualized, and shot back at you. And consequently, there is so much of it, in myriad combinations, that it can be hard to see and recognize.
Our US culture is so Multi- that recognition of it is an NP-hard problem, perhaps. And when we look at other nations and cultures, we see an interesting, entertaining, but ultimately mono- culture. This is not necessarily a fair assessment, but, seen through American eyes, each country seems very ethnocentric in style and language and music and art and thought.
As compared to the diversity of culture I have to consume and respond to in a city such as San Jose, CA where there literally is no ethnic majority, walking down the street in Galway is a purely Irish experience, not a japanese-indonesian- mexican-californian-american one.
Galway prides itself on being culturally diverse as evidenced at a major parade this year and that is true. And it is very accepting and inclusive of other cultures, but the volume is so much greater in the US that it is suddenly understandable to me why non-Americans look across our land and fail to see an identifiable American culture. Is it Disneyland? Or Chicago? Las Cruces or Las Vegas? Salem, MA or Salem, OR?
All I can say to my friends on this side of the Atlantic is that you must look for an American Culture in the bizareness of our being. we ARE Tex-Mex and Philly Cheese Steak, Grunge and C&W, McDonald's and The Four Seasons, KFC and Sardi's.
We are the Kennedy Center and the Caesar's Palace, Falling Water by Frank Loyd Wright and Dancing Frogs in Carl's Corners.
So when you say America has no culture, what you mean is that it has no single culture. What it has, my friend, after 400 years, is myriad cultures, blended, stirred, sliced, diced, confused, and convoluted. Actually, it's a bit like that Yogurt would be; chaotic and VERY messy.
But a hell of a lot of people around the world seem to want a piece of it...and we happily export it. So feel free to take it up, import it, sample it, modify it, re-contextualize it, then shoot it back at us...and we will build a neighborhood around it.
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A stereotype is used to categorize a group of people. People don't understand that type of person, so they put them into classifications, thinking that everyone who is that needs to be like that, or anyone who acts like their classifications is one. I find it hard to believe that in 2015 stereotypes are still very much a thing.
It doesn't necessarily always have to mean something offensive but it definitely makes the person seem narrow-minded and ignorant when stereotypes are all they classify people as.
For example; I'm Irish. So when people who aren't Irish find out I'm Irish the typical stereotype is that we're all alcoholics. I find that actually really funny because coming from Dublin City where drinking is definitely one of the main social hobbies, I can somewhat agree. How and ever, because I don't look like the stereotypical Irish person (pale skin, red hair, freckles, green eyes) people refuse to believe I'm Irish. Okay I get it I don't fit the typical description but do you know how annoying it is being told you're literally not who you know you are? I'm mixed-race. My dad is Caribbean which means I have tanned skin, black curly hair and exotic features. But when I lived in Ireland my whole life, my family are Irish, Ireland is where I consider home and I have the thickest Dublin accent EVER how are you gonna let stereotypes control your judgement.
Anyways, enough about me, ha ha.
I have to admit, growing up in Ireland I was definitely the out-cast at times. In Ireland I was known as black Danielle but in Canada I'm known as Irish Danielle (ironic, isn't it?!) 😀 Ireland is 90% Irish people with the same beliefs, way of life, culture and most of the time way of thinking. So it's really easy to fall into the narrow-mind of judgement.
But now that I've been living in Canada almost two years (20 minutes from downtown Toronto) I have been exposed to EVERY culture possible. Every person here comes from a different background with different cultures and beliefs. All of my best friends here are different; Spanish, Egyptian, American, Italian, Polish, German, Asian, Pakistan… the list goes on. But one thing we all have in common? WE ARE HUMAN BEINGS.
Stereotypes are a huge thing for younger generations that are easy fall into a category without even realizing. For example:
- If you listen to heavy metal/punk/indie music you're automatically an emo or hipster
- If you wear revealing clothing you're a slut
- If you like to read books and study you're a nerd
- If you're outspoken you're a bitch
- If you're black you're a rapper
- If you'e blonde you're a bimbo
- If you're gay you're weird
- Most of all if you're different you're a freak
ALL of these are stereotypes but stereotypes are the reason for a lot of bullying. If someone doesn't fit in to what's considered "normal" then they're apparently an easy target for abuse.
Stereotypes will always exist and will never be changed in the mind of an ignorant person.
But what you have to do is BE YOU. Because there is no definition of what you want to be. Only you can choose that and you can accept how people define you, only you have the ability of doing that. Do you think people look at me and assume I have a loud Irish accent and crazy sense of humour? Hell no. 😉 But I refuse to fall into a stereotype- and so should you!
It ain't what they call you, it's what you answer to. – W.C. Fields


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When asking my fellow marketing peers whether or not they are familiar with Digital Asset Management (DAM), 1 out 10 say yes. The rest have no clue.
80% of all world's data has been produced in the last 2 years. Marketers are more challenged than ever when managing an increasing volume of content while having to prove ROI. As marketers pursue to engage and impress customers across multiple (online and offline) channels, they aim to take control over content production, content management, and knowing how and where it is used. Last, but not least, taking control of whom can get access to the content on specific channels.
The lines between marketing and IT are blurrier than ever. New tools are constantly emerging, while CMOs are shifting towards the CIO's grounds. However, marketers are still in the dark cloud when it comes to DAM. When shopping for new technology, digital asset management solutions are never on the top of the wish list. Marketers tend to leave the not-so-sexy parts to CIOs.
Why should you give a DAM?
Digital Asset Management is about taking control of your treasured rich media content (also called digital assets) that hold a value to your internal and external communication. Digital assets exist in many forms (videos, images, graphics, documents and logos) and they are business critical in terms of delivering your brand promise to the right people, on the right channels, at the right time.
DAM solves known struggles in marketing teams as well as in the rest of the organization. For instance, most marketers waste time and resources in the process of searching, managing and sharing content. This is demonstrated in the frequent emails you get from colleagues asking for the corporate logo. Or when you see your sales reps using outdated materials in meetings. Or when your partners try to send bulk emails with large attachments. Or when you are launching a campaign and use large amounts of video, but the videos are not formatted for all devices and screen sizes. Your end-users wind up with a poor experience. Not to forget: you have different versions of the same presentation on your desktop called "final", "new version" and "FINAL FINAL FINAL".
You have lost control of your rich media content, and your digital mess keeps growing. This is where digital asset management proves its value.
Take control and stay afloat in a sea of content
Digital Asset Management helps you centralize all your digital content in one place, while automating and optimizing digital processes from a single source. DAM supports your marketing team with a unified platform for each step in the content life-cycle: production, editing, management, distribution and reuse of digital content across a host of channels (CMS, social media, brand portals, webshops etc.). Ultimately, empowering you to provide relevant and timely customer experiences. With DAM, you take control back where it belongs. In a matter of seconds, you can share real-time customer experiences with anyone, on any channel. There is only one version of each file. You also have the power to replace content, when it's updated.
DAM is a long-term investment
Some may not find this area as 'sexy' as exploring new apps, marketing automation tools, or emerging social media channels. And let's face it, adding metadata to each file is not the most thrilling part of your day. But you will thank your future self that you did, enabling easy search for everyone 5-10 years ahead. What clever marketers find out eventually is that the 'not-so-sexy' choice always pays off in the long run. In other words: It's time to wake up and smell the DAM coffee if you don't want to fall off the track. Behind your competitors.
Still not sure? Consider the following gains:
- Take control of your corporate brand – one place for all branding materials
- Reach your end-users faster with relevant content - create a better customer experience across all devices
- Faster search and saved time in visual content management
- Increased productivity leaving time for more valuable tasks
- Avoid mistakes, removing bottlenecks and no more reproduction of content
- Break down silos in your company
- Use a powerful engine that supports your digital strategy
DAM plays well with other tools
Think about your current software solutions and tools you are using every day to manage your brand. Whether it's your CMS platform, social media channels, email marketing or webshop, you log into a new system each time. For each of these channels, you need rich media content to support your messages. So you upload the same image or video to all platforms manually. Wouldn't it be easier if you could share everything from one place on multiple channels simultaneously? To get most value from a DAM, you should integrate with the platforms you use the most:
- Content Management System (CMS)
- Product Information System (PIM)
- Social media management tools
- e-Commerce
- Database publishing, catalog production
- Enterprise Resource Planning System (ERP)
Think about how much time and resources it usually takes for your team to create, format, upload, manage and share content for all these channels.
Visionary approaches for the win
Let me give you an example. One of Denmark's leading retail chains chose to invest in a Digizuite™ DAM, which is fully integrated with their product information tool, webshop, app and customer club. Their time-to-market is faster than ever due to an automatic upload of all images that are automatically connected with product information. After approval, this information is visible on all external channels in the format that fits each channel. The retailer saves time in image processing and distribution, and their customers are happy because they are able to search and find products in a matter of seconds. When the company invested in Digizuite™, it was one of the most visionary efforts in Danish e-business. Today, the company is a proud winner of several e-business awards due to their ability of being one step ahead of competitors. Their success is caused by their approach of interconnecting key software systems to ignite intelligent data sharing to remove silos. The retailer has succeeded in understanding the necessity of a cross-organizational approach to digital. Their CMO and CIO work closely together, and that's why they are the winners.
Get in the DAM game
It's 2017. If you wish to stay ahead and bring operational efficiency, brand control and a faster time-to-market into your marketing department, DAM is not something you can avoid forever. By investing in DAM, you invest in growing the entire business. Customer experiences make or break a brand – if you are able to deliver the right content on right channels in the right formats, the customers will keep coming back. This is what we all want, but only a few succeed. Those who are visionary about digital and minimizing silos are the ones who win the golden medal.
Dear CMO – invite your CIO to play with you. You will be happy you did.
Ready to get in touch?
Would you like to know how to get started with a digital transformation?
Feel free to contact us.


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Wrestling & MMA
PRO WRESTLING: Artist Rob Schamberger, Stone Cold Steve Austin, WWE helping Connor's Cure with auction
Famed wrestling artist Rob Schamberger teamed with WWE and Stone Cold Steve Austin to put an end to pediatric brain and spinal cancer.
Schamberger donated his painting of Stone Cold -- which he painted during WWE SummerSlam Weekend in August in Los Angeles -- for a WWE auction with 100 percent of the net proceeds going to The Children's Hospital of Pittsburgh Foundation, benefiting Connor's Cure.
The cause is named after WWE superfan Connor The Crusher Michalek, an 8 year-old boy who died from Medulloblastoma, a rare tumor that affects the brain and spinal cord. Donations to Connor's Cure will provide funds for pediatric brain and spinal cancer research, and medical care for children and their families.
Schamberger said, "I couldn't be more proud and humbled to be a part of such an amazing cause. Connor 3:16 says we're going to whoop cancer's ass!"
Bidding closes on Tuesday, Sept. 30.
Go to auction.wwe.com
(link to just charity items: http://auction.wwe.com/iSynApp/auctionDisplay.action?auctionId=350445 ) to bid on this and the many other historic pieces of memorabilia available for this worthy cause.
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■ BASE News ■
■ Worth Noting, Worth Reading ■
Canadian chapter conference
Renee Levine participating with industry colleague Serge Micheli on a panel at the Association Management Companies Institute – Canadian chapter conference January 23, 2019.read more
Look who crashed our client conference in Montreal!
Photo credit: Jason Christophersonread more
Delegates get up to the craziest things!
photo credit: Hilary Robinsonread more
30th ANNIVERSARY!
This is Base Consulting's 30th anniversary! It has been an exhilarating whirlwind. We joke that there is never a quiet time of year except for Christmas, when we can take a break and be fairly confident that our clients and partners will do the same. ...read more
Strategic Partnership Announcement
We are thrilled to announce that Ruth Abrahamson is an Alliance Partner with Arlington Partners International. Arlington Partners is a premier management consulting firm that specializes in exceptional Board, CEO, Legal and Senior Executive Search, Talent Management...read more
Ruth Abrahamson is featured by AMCI
Ruth Abrahamson is featured by AMCI (Association Management Companies Institute) in their "Member Spotlight". We are proud to be active members of this industry association, sharing best practices, information, education and standards with fellow association leaders...read more
Long-time Base Consulting Office Manager retires!
Nina Freitas started to warn us of her impending retirement a few years ago! Our long-time Office Manager has been such an integral part of our team and has helped guide us and grow us to where we are today, that we couldn't quite get our heads around this news. ...read more
Global Trends Impacting Associations and AMCs
Ruth Abrahamson thanked Keynote Speaker Glen Hodgson, Senior Fellow & Former Chief Economist Conference Board of Canada, who spoke on Global Trends Impacting Associations and AMCs: The State of the World at the Association Management Companies Institute (AMCI) and...read more
Starting the conversation on Human Trafficking
The Base Consulting team is proud to be engaged with trailblazer Sandy Biback and multiple other events industry colleagues in opening a forthright conversation about human trafficking. Follow the link below for an update on a very important first step in starting to...read more
Announcing the new Base Consulting website!
Base Consulting and Management Inc. is pleased to reveal our newly updated website. We encourage you to visit us at www.baseconsulting.ca. . Our new website is more agile, interactive, and easier to navigate on your computer, tablet and mobile devices. We're quite...read more
Volunteerism and Transparency
Some thoughts for Volunteer Week: Can we be more transparent about the rewards for volunteering in the not-for-profit sector? Most not-for-profit associations could not accomplish a fraction of what they do without the major contributions of their volunteers/members....read more
Ruth Abrahamson and Emma Roberts Share Virtual Work Expertise
The Canadian Society of Association Executives (CSAE) Trillium Chapter recently turned to Base Consulting and Management's Ruth Abrahamson and Emma Roberts for their insight on the virtual operation of international associations for its Forum newsletter. The following...read more
Passionate JVS Ambassador Ruth Abrahamson Honoured with Shem Tov and Volunteer Service Awards
The UJA Federation of Greater Toronto has paid tribute to Ruth Abrahamson, CEO, Base Consulting & Management Inc., with the Shem Tov (Good Name) Award, recognizing leaders representing the highest levels of excellence in volunteer service in Toronto's Jewish...read more
Ruth Abrahamson Receives Ontario Volunteer Service Award
Ruth Abrahamson received a 10-year Ontario Volunteer Service Award for demonstrating "great dedication and commitment" to JVS. The Honourable Michael Coteau, Ontario Minister of Citizenship and Immigration, presented this award to Ruth at the Elgin and Garden Theatre...read more
Not-For-Profit Governance Institute Partnership
Toronto, February 2015 – Base Consulting and Management Inc. is pleased to announce a partnership with The Not-For-Profit Governance Institute™ to present a pivotal educational series for Board Members of Not-for-Profit professional and trade associations, charitable...read more
Ruth Abrahamson Presents at Schulich School of Business
Base CEO Ruth Abrahamson (right) shared her insight about the unique needs of not-for-profits with Professor Jane-Michèle Clark's MBA marketing class at the Schulich School of Business at York University November 13, 2013. Ruth delivered the lecture with Don Newsham,...read more
Renee Levine Receives Award of Excellence
Base Consulting and Management Inc. is proud to congratulate Renee Levine on her recognition from the International Academy of Mediators. This Award of Excellence was presented to Renee by IAM President Eric Galton to recognize her outstanding contributions as...read more


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Ambassadeur Alphamar LC-16
In addition to a mechanical line counter that displays the amount of line out in feet, the Alphamar LC Syncro incorporates a highly adjustable syncro drag system. By cranking the handle 1/3 of a turn in a counterclockwise motion, a 50% decrease in drag pressure is achieved. This feature is especially useful when using downriggers as it allows baits to be dropped easily without having to disengage the reel.
- 2 stainless steel ball bearings provides smooth operation
- Carbon Matrix drag system gives smooth drag performance
- Syncro™ drag allows drag pressure to be quickly reduced without changing the drag setting
- Machined aluminum spool provides strength without adding excess weight
- Extended throw paddle handle for increased power
- Duragear™ brass gear for extended gear life
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Cross-training during injury/
As we head into peak #marathon training season, there may be occasions when your #endurance #training is reduced or temporarily stopped due to injury or bad weather. Although training adaptations are reversible and may result in reduced performance when training resumes, it's important that you don't panic.
A well-planned and structured cross-training programme can help maintain your physiological and psychological fitness until you're back on your feet again.
Short term (<1-2 weeks) reductions in training (i.e. due to bad weather) are unlikely to cause any issues with your level of fitness. The first stage of de-training is likely to occur within 2-3 weeks and may result in a reduction of VO2max (5-7%). These changes occur at a 'central' level (i.e. at the heart rather than in the skeletal muscle) and so alternative exercises can be introduced to prevent de-training and the reduction in VO2max. The second stage takes place over a longer period of time (8-10 weeks) and may result in VO2max returning to pre-training levels. Any rate of decline depends on your training status prior to your injury (Mujika & Padilla, 2000). This second stage of de-training is more specific to skeletal muscle and may mean that your body becomes less efficient at utilising fat stores. This places greater reliance on muscle glycogen during exercise at the same intensity. There may also be significant increases in blood lactate levels at the same work rate and decreases in muscle mass during longer periods of de-training (>8 weeks).
So, what should you do if you have to reduce your training?
Any cross-training programme should be planned in consultation with your GP, consultant or physio. As a rule of thumb, cross-training should be a sport specific as possible whilst avoiding any further aggravation of your injury. For runners, a treadmill is the obvious option provided there is no injury risk. Always ensure the gradient is set at 1% to take the lack of air resistance into account when running indoors (Jones, 1996). Cross-training using an elliptical trainer may be a suitable, sport-specific option. For all cross-training sessions, it's important to maintain the same frequency, relative intensity (i.e. 80% maximum heart rate), and duration as your normal training sessions. If you are unable to take part in sport-specific exercise due to injury, arm cranking or deep water running in a swimming pool may help maintain VO2max or prevent a significant reduction. In some cases, you may be able to reduce workload (i.e. by 50%) rather than have a complete break and still maintain aerobic performance for up to 3 weeks. This shows that enforced time off should not always be viewed negatively provided low intensity exercise can be maintained.
For more information on managing an enforced break from training, contact me by email: email@example.com or tweet me at: @PUREsportsperf


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diffusing capacity of lungs (DL)
the volume of a gas that diffuses from the lung across the alveolar-capillary membrane into the bloodstream per minute per mm Hg difference in pressure across the membrane. The normal DL for oxygen averages 20 mL/min/mm Hg. Also called transfer factor of lungs.


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Ever since my friend introduced me to Bakerella few years ago, I had a whole new opinion on store bought cake mix and ready-made icing. I am not a huge fan of icing on cakes especially the ones that come in a can…they are too fluffy and sweet for me. However if the fluffy icing is mixed with cake crumbs and rolled into a dense ball, it's just so much more delicious!
I made cake pops many times before this post, but I am never confident enough to blog about them because my chocolate melting skills are not great. Baking and rolling them into balls were the easy parts…but dipping them into candy melts drove me crazy and also crazy time consuming. I don't know if its the candy melts are hard to work with…but they are always turn out dense so it's really hard to coat the cake balls. I tried adding warm heavy cream once, and I think that helped thin it a bit.
Anyway, despite my previous struggle with cake balls…my friend and I decided to challenge ourselves by making a Christmas tree cake ball tower for her Christmas dinner party. We saw this creative idea on Foodgawker. We used about 2 boxes of cake mix and made about 60 cake balls! We made sure we rolled our cake balls nice a round and equal in size. However when it came to dipping them…it didn't go as smoothly as we wanted. But we managed to hide the cracks and imperfections by putting the ugly balls on the bottom.
This was mine longest baking project, it took us 3 days!
Day 1: Baking and rolling the cake balls
Day 2: Dipping and decorating balls and and initial assembly
Day 3: Final assembly!
For full recipe and instructions please visit this blog.
They also have a great troubleshooting page for making cake pops!


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AmerisourceBergen Approves Quarterly Dividend
Forward-Looking Statements
This news release contains forward-looking statements about
AmerisourceBergen's future business and financial performance, estimates
and prospects. These statements are based on management's current
expectations and are subject to uncertainty and changes in
circumstances. Actual results may vary materially from the expectations
contained in the forward-looking statements. The following factors,
among others, could cause actual results to differ materially from those
described in any forward-looking statements: changes in pharmaceutical
market growth rates; the loss of one or more key customer or supplier
relationships; changes in customer mix; customer delinquencies, defaults
or insolvencies; supplier defaults or insolvencies; changes in
pharmaceutical manufacturers' pricing and distribution policies or
practices; adverse resolution of any contract or other dispute with
customers or suppliers; federal and state government enforcement
initiatives to detect and prevent suspicious orders of controlled
substances and the diversion of controlled substances; changes in U.S.
legislation or regulatory action affecting pharmaceutical product
pricing or reimbursement policies, including under
AmerisourceBergen Corporation
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Bilingual Hypnotherapy | 801-660-9960 | Bilingualhypnotherapy.com
Eliana Castillo offers hypnotherapy for Spanish and English speakers to provide her clients valuable life-coaching. Through treatments, many patients experience positive spiritual, mental, physical and emotional healing. Bilingual Hypnotherapy is customized to clients' needs. Some of the things hypnotherapy addresses include phobias, smoking cessation, depression, anxiety, insomnia, physical trauma, relationship issues, increased business sales, clarity, motivation, personal empowerment, addictions, childhood trauma and pain.
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Golf season is finally here! Straight Flight Golf provides golf lessons and coaching programs for golfers of all ages and experience. Programs include seasonal junior programs, after school programs, ladies only, and couples/private sessions, too. Straight Flight Golf begins with an on-the-course analysis of your golf game, then builds a customized improvement program. The Ladies Golf Academy begins April 9, and junior seasonal programs, plus four junior tournaments, begin in May. Call today to start improving your game!
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The Design House Interior Design caters to discerning clientele, specializing in residential, boutique commercial and hospitality projects. With interior design degrees and strong backgrounds in architecture and construction, Susan Nicole Thompson and her team create environments with a natural flow and cohesive result. Their unique design process reinforces the idea that design should be able to stand the test of time. By getting to know their clients' needs, each client is reminded of the company's motto "Do it once. Do it right. Love the result." Visit TDHID.com to learn The Design House Interior Design can help you transform your space.


text: I'm GB. Originally from Indiana I started my apprenticeship on Fort Myers Beach in 2001. I have always enjoyed any color pieces whether cartoon, anime, horror, or animals and have in the last few years found dotwork and illustrative blackwork pieces to be an enjoyable change from my usual tastes. I am a lifelong nerd and love being able to bring my love of horror, Japanese culture, comics, and anything 80s related into my tattooing whenever possible, but I've also just loved tattooing in general my whole life so no matter what the subject is I will put all my focus and ability to make sure it is to the best of my ability.


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About FARGO
Fargo. A stop on a road trip. A spot on the map. Inspiration for a better goggle. A windshield view of Fargo in the winter shows more than you would ever believe. Cold plains, long views and an endless horizon all inspired the design that epitomizes this goggle. From the sweeping peripheral in the Optimum lens, to the horizon-inspired frame structure, FARGO proves sometimes a quick stop in a small place leads to more than you would have ever expected. Ski and ride inspired this winter.
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Here is the money quote from Kates as to what is going on in this country:(full story at legalinsurrection.com)There is an Alinskyite Marxist in the White House who has undoubtedly pulled punches in his first term to maximize the likelihood of winning a second term. He is possibly the worst economic manager in American history and is overseeing a series of foreign policy disasters that have left the U.S. in an incomparably weakened position in relation to every major issue in the world today.
Yet for all that Obama is still the favorite to win in November. I have been astonished at the ability of the Obama administration to manipulate the electorate almost at will.
Individual liberty anywhere is a threat to the Progressive-Collectivist Cause everywhere.
Obama Maximus 2012
Iconic Chicago community organizer cited
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I am here with a quick how-to make a no sew simple kitchen curtain. If you go all the way back here to before I started remodeling the kitchen, you can see that one of my initial goals was to put up a new kitchen window treatment.
Here's a photo of the kitchen before.
So we did some shopping at Joanns Fabric. You can go here to see us looking at the fabric at Joanns.
I ended up picking out this bright orange and green fabric.
All you need is a piece of fabric, a curtain rod and I used Stitch Witchery- Fusible Bonding Web which is a tape that bonds the fabric together and takes the place of sewing! (Yeah!!!)
My kitchen window is 35 inches across and I wanted the curtain to be about 10 inches long. To make room for the hemming tape, I added two inches to each side. So I measured 39 inches of fabric across and 14 inches of fabric long.
Here is the cut piece of material.
Then I measured two inches on each side and put a mark on the fabric. The two inches extra is for when I fold the fabric over the hem tape.
Here the hem tape is in place and ready for ironing.
Three sides done. You will want to leave an opening at either end of one side of the curtain to slide the curtain rod in.
Finished and ready to hang.
Slide the curtain rod in the open end.
Finished and hanging in window! (I need a better photo…I couldn't get the right lighting so I will put one up of the new curtain when I capture the right pic.)


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Birthday Parties
Celebrate Together
We love celebrating with kids, and hope you choose to have your next birthday with us!
C'mon offers use of our birthday party room for children of all ages and interests. Birthday parties can be scheduled on a weekday or weekend, during the day.
Have a question? Call (239) 514-0084.
Birthday Party Room Rental
|Museum Birthday Party
|$250/non-member, $225 / C'mon Member*
|Number Of Guests
|Maximum 30 guests
- Bring your own cake, drinks and decorations (restrictions apply)
- You will have 15 minutes of setup time prior to the start of your party and 15 minutes to breakdown/clean up after the end of your party
- You and your guests will have use of the birthday party room for up to 1 1/2 hours. Choose from the following:
- Monday – Tuesday, Thursday – Saturday options: 10:00 – 11:30am, 12:30 – 2:00pm, 3:00 – 4:30pm
- Sunday options: 11:30 am – 1:00 pm; 2:00 pm – 3:30 pm
Party Preparation
- Party is limited to the maximum number of 30 guests.
- 15 C'mon admission passes are included with the birthday party room rental, good for all day admission (15 adults or children, C'mon Members are not included in the 15 passes).
- A $100.00 deposit and an additional $50.00 refundable security deposit will be required at time of booking to secure date and time.
- Decorations may not be affixed to the walls, ceilings, lights or doors.
- Sodas and alcohol are prohibited in the museum.
- C'mon requires 1 adult chaperone for every 5 children. Adult chaperones must be 18 or older to assist with your birthday party.
- Please no balloons, confetti, glitter, piñatas, or bubbles.
- For safety, we do not allow any lit candles in the museum.
- Contract and any unpaid amount remaining is due the day before the scheduled party.
|Prior to 30 business days
|Full refund
|15-30 business days in advance
|50% refund
|Less than 15 business days
|No refund, however the balance can be credited to a future event