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Duke of Wellington visit to the town!
Tuesday, 24 September, 2019
Good news is always refreshing and there is genuinely great progress to report in relation to my campaign in conjunction with the National Trust and the community of Wellington to restore the iconic Wellington Monument. I was delighted to have kick started the £4m restoration project by securing £1m from the Libor fund which was match funded by the Trust, subsequently leading to a community initiative that has helped raise the profile of the Monument, raise funds locally and engage a wide range of individuals, groups and schools including Court Fields and Beech Grove Additional grants have been attracted and I am also pleased that I have been able to work closely with the current Duke of Wellington himself (the great, great, great grandson of the first Duke) on issues relating to the restoration project including bringing His Grace to Wellington a number of times.
This week the Duke accepted my invitation to join the Town Council to commemorate the 200th Anniversary of the first Duke of Wellington's only recorded visit to the town from which he took his title. The actual date of the visit was thought to be 29th September 1819 and the erudite curator of the Wellington Museum gave an informative insight into the event as well as showcasing some fascinating artifacts relating to the Iron Duke held in the Museum.
We finished the event with a walk to the Monument (in the driving rain) to meet some of students from Court Field school and the enthusiastic Monument Ambassadors from Beech Grove school who have been involved in some innovative Wellington inspired activities (encouraged by Emma Jones, Monument community lead) including the Welly Walk and painting welly boots. Owing to positive progress the Monument will soon be clad in scaffolding with a giant crane moving in to remove the pointed top of the obelisk for mending.
Special thanks to all involved especially the Trust for recognising this as one of their top three national priorities. Onwards and upwards to raise the final £600,000 required. As I've said for the outset, this is much more than a Monument and we owe to the local community and indeed the whole nation to restore it.
Local MP Rebecca Pow welcomes Sports Minister to Taunton
Tuesday, 23 July, 2019
Rebecca Pow MP, Minister for The Arts, Heritage, and Tourism and Member of Parliament for Taunton Deane was delighted to welcome Mims Davies MP, Minister for Sport and Civil Society to Taunton on July 19th.
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The cover of our October 2005 issue showed dancers and drummers at that year's Alvechurch Alight festival. More pictures from the event appeared inside.
The steering committee for the Barnt Green Parish Plan were thrilled with the interest in their Open Day, which saw more than 200 residents turn up to learn more.
Meanwhile, our postbag was full of complaints about litter in the villages – and we also reported that a Burcot fundraiser was planning an inter-village "It's A Knockout" tournament.
* A group of students from South Bromsgrove High School undertook a canoeing expedition in Scotland as part of the Duke of Edinburgh Gold Award.
Supported by teacher Neil Dixon (above, centre), Carol Starkey, Tom Parker, John Dearden and Adam Heason co-ordinated and completed the challenge using their own initiative and enthusiasm.
* Five-year-old Elliot Nott, of Blackwell, had cleaned up at the Midland Association of Riding Clubs' Bromsgrove & District Championships, despite being too young to have full membership of a riding club.


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HomeRe-watching: Red Riding: In the Year of Our Lord 1974
Re-watching: Red Riding: In the Year of Our Lord 1974
June 5, 2015 June 5, 2015 bryancyr British Noir, Movie, Neo-NoirAndrew Garfield, Anthony Flanagan, Daniel Mays, David Morrissey, David Peace, Eddie Marsan, Julian Jarrold, Neo-Noir, Peter Mullan, Rebecca Hall, Red Riding: In the Year of Our Lord 1974, Robert Sheehan, Sean Bean, Sean Harris, The Red Riding Trilogy, Tony Grisoni
The Red Riding Trilogy is an interesting concept, which I like very much. This Trilogy is based on the books by the same name written by David Peace. I've read the books years ago after watching these movies when they came out on DVD. There is actually 4 books but they cut one of the books out of this series to make it 3 films. The books are also very good and worth checking out. The other thing about this trilogy is that all 3 films were made in the same year, by three different directors. The directors all have a different feel and look for each of the films. All three screenplays are written by Tony Grisoni so there is continuity throughout the films. This works really well, since every film is from a different year and all look unique.
1974 is directed by Julian Jarrold and stars Andrew Garfield as our main character for this installment. As we go we meet what seems to be minor characters, but pop up in the next two films as key parts to the continuing plot. This installment has a very distinct Yorkshire accent by all the characters. This can make some parts hard to understand what they are saying and/or what the slang means.
This story revolves around Garfield's Eddie Dunford who is a rookie journalist. He is on his way to his Father's funeral, but stops off first for a press conference for a missing young girl. He gets assigned to the story and starts to put together that this may be a serial killer. Two other girls around the same age have gone missing before this one. He starts to link the three cases and is warned by a co-worker played by Anthony Flanagan to watch his step. Soon this co-worker is killed in an auto accident, Dunford doesn't think it's an accident. He starts looking into this story as well and finds the two stories may be connected. The story involves corrupt cops, and corrupt journalists, as well as a business man, played by Sean Bean, that this all revolves around. Dunford also falls for the mother of one of the little girls that has gone missing, played by Rebecca Hall. She is definitely Dunford's femme fatale for this film.
Some of the other character's you will want to pay attention to in this first installment are Maurice Jobson played by David Morrissey, BJ played by Robert Sheehan,Jack Whitehead played by Eddie Marsan,Michael Myshkin played by Daniel Mays, Martin Laws played by Peter Mullan and Bob Craven played by Sean Harris as well as others.
This film and the other two are well worth your time. A well sorted out trilogy always designed to be a trilogy and not just a good first film followed by two sequels. This is something unique to noir, I can not think of three films designed to tell one big story like this in the noir genre. I think all fans of noir will enjoy these. They do take some effort to follow but that is part of the joy of these. I will return with a review of the second film tomorrow.
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bardconstantine says:
My only question: Does Sean Bean's character die?
bryancyr says:
I don't like to give anything away, but it is Sean Bean and yes he does die! lol.
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When Holland America Line announced the building of this new class, it was intended to built six ships. The class was already referred as the Vista-class and this caused a problem, because the ships would be called after the points on the compass: Zuiderdam, Oosterdam, Westerdam, Noordam and ehh... Because parent company Carnival Corporation is very good in transferring ships between her daughters, this problem was eventually solved when Holland America recieved four ships, Cunard Line one and the last one was cancelled (first, later to be added again in another shape). These ships would be the biggest ships ever built for the old Dutch company, surpassing the 60.000 GRT Rotterdam-class by 20.000 tons. What makes the Vista's directly recognizable is an unusual feauture of modern ships and that's two working funnels. This was last seen on the transatlantic Italia-liners Michelangelo and Raffaello in the mid 60's. Also, the glass elevators on the outside are innovative, though not brandnew. We've seen them a little bit earlier on Celebrity's Millennium-class.
What you hear among Dutch people is that they do not like the looks of modern ships, especially the HAL-ones, but the Vista-class looks are pretty good. Of course it helpes that the second Vistaship Oosterdam was named in Rotterdam, spectated by thousands of people along the riverbanks and the Erasmusbridge.
The first Vista-ship was the Zuiderdam of 2001, named 'Zuiderman' due to little mistake by her godmother. The ship measures 82.305 tonnes and started sailing the Caribbean. She was followed by Oosterdam in 2003, with 81.769 tonnes somewhat smaller in size then her older sister. This ship was named in Rotterdam on the 29th of july, where she was joined for the occation by her fleetmate and flagship Rotterdam. It was the first time since 1958 that a Holland America ship was named in the Dutch port and it was also the first time in decades that two HAL-ships were berthed together in the big city. Her godmother is Princess Margriet of The Netherlands.
Oosterdam is 290 meters long, 32,25 meters wide and her draft is 7,9 meters. She was built at the Fincnatieri wharf at Marghera, Italy, as yardnumber 6076. Her 11 passengerdecks accomodate 1848 passengers and 812 crew and her maximum speed is 24 knots, although she normally sails at 22 knots. She is propelled by two ABB Azipods, powered by five Sulzer diesel electric engines and one gas generator. There has never been an Oosterdam before in the Holland America Line history, the only point of the compass that was never awarded a shipname for them before the Vista class came into being. There has been an Oosterdijk, though. In HAL history, passengerships names ended at 'dam' and freighters ended their names at 'dijk' (or the more international 'dyk').


Well we are on a roll now... here is box number 3 of the break, our first box of Topps Lineage!
Finally we have our hits! The Giants get a nice auto, as do the Cardinals with playoff hero Jason Motte and then we have an Uggla sighting, not a bad year for the 2nd baseman even with the horrendous start that he had.
I officially hate another closer with a beard...Motte.
That was the entire team set of Red Sox, you pulled all 9. I'll have to remember that for next year. Maybe I can get them all in a single hobby box and save some money, lol.
Oh, and I think you mentioned that the Browns became the Orioles. I think they actually became the Cardinals.
"In 1899, the St. Louis Browns became the St. Louis Perfectos. That season, Willie McHale, a columnist for the St. Louis Republic reportedly heard a woman refer to the team's red stockings as a "lovely shade of Cardinal." McHale included the nickname in his column and it was an instant hit among fans. The team officially changed its nickname in 1900."
"The Baltimore Orioles are a professional baseball team based in Baltimore, Maryland in the United States. They are a member of the Eastern Division of Major League Baseball's American League. One of the American League's eight charter franchises in 1901, it spent its first year as a major league club in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, as the Milwaukee Brewers before moving to St. Louis to become the St. Louis Browns. After 52 mostly hapless years in St. Louis, the Browns moved to Baltimore in 1954 and adopted the Orioles name in honor of the official state bird of Maryland."
Thanks for the great hit! I was debating whether I should buy that card or wait till after the break. I am happy I waited.
Bring on the last box!
Yeah Pederson, I had the 1900 Browns and the 52 Browns mixed up. Damn you Ken Burns! So much history, I can't keep it all strait, lolol.


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November - A Look Ahead at Deer Stalking Across the UK
November 1st is one of the most significant dates in the deer stalkers calendar, Peter Jones explains why.
On your marks, get set…..
The 1st November is possibly the most significant date in the deer stalkers calendar and represents the starting date from which the young are finally considered to be weaned and independent of their mothers, stalkers can therefore now finally do something about the female of the species.
In Scotland this significant event occurs a little earlier on the 21st October.
Not only are these important dates for serious deer managers, who up until now have been unable to do anything about deer population growth, they are also significant dates for thousands of recreational stalkers who are now able to access more affordable stalking.
Stag and Buck stalking, with the associated trophy fees, can be expensive, however to professional stalkers and sporting estates, females are usually considered to be a less valuable commodity than their male counterparts and so this means that for the beginner, or for the recreational stalker who simply wishes to access affordable stalking, November 1st is the start of a season that lasts through until 31st March in England & Wales and 15th February in Scotland.
With that said, unlike in Scotland, where the Stags are now protected, in England & Wales the season is not exclusively confined to females but encompasses both sexes. Fallow Buck, Sika & Red Stag, Muntjac Buck and Chinese Water Deer Buck are also in season. In fact, the only animal that is protected at this time of year is Roebuck.
With all of these deer now in season the result is that success rates go up, as virtually all of the animals that you see become shootable in line with a sound management plan.
However, a word of warning, Roebuck are starting to cast their antlers and so do not assume that a Roe deer devoid of antler is a doe. Look carefully for the 'anal tush' of the female before taking your shot. Its an easy mistake to make, but a costly one. These animals might potentially be next year's prize winners and so great caution should be applied when Roe stalking.
On to this month's film which is one we've been meaning to produce for some time.
Venison is a healthy, sustainable and nutritional meat and all of us that hunt, should know how to prepare a shot carcass for the food chain, and so at long last, we give you a guide to the basics of carrying out both a ground and suspended gralloch. Follow this link to watch the film - 'How to Gralloch a Deer': training-films
IN Season in England & Wales: Roe Doe, Fallow Doe & Fallow Buck, Sika Stag & Sika Hind, Red Stag & Red Hind, CWD Buck & CWD Doe, Muntjac Buck & Muntjac Doe.
OFF Season in England & Wales: Roebuck.
In Season in Scotland: Fallow Buck, Fallow Does, Roe Doe, Sika Hind, Red Hind.
Off Season in Scotland: Red Stag, Sika Stag & Roebuck


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MCS has published the Winter 2019 edition of the newsletter.
MPs, Peers and the Solar Trade Association have called on Energy Minister Claire Perry to respect the right of ordinary people to a fair minimum floor price for the electricity they export to the grid. The consultation on the new scheme for rewarding exports from small-scale low-carbon generation closed last night, sparking debates in both the Lords and the Commons.
MCS has today published its response to the Smart Export Guarantee (SEG) consultation from BEIS.
A number of MCS members have been in contact to help raise awareness of recent fraudulent activity.
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NATIONAL CERTIFICATION scheme MCS (Microgeneration Certification Scheme) has today announced its development of a certification scheme for battery energy storage systems in a move set to complement their certification of other microgeneration technologies.
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Lijmberta "Bertha" Aaltje Valkenburg (1862-1929) was a Dutch artist.

Biography
Valkenburg was born on 5 January 1862 in Almelo, the daughter of painter . She attended the Rijksakademie van beeldende kunsten (State Academy of Fine Arts) and the Rijksnormaalschool voor Teekenonderwijzers (National Normal School for Drawing Teachers). She studied with August Allebé. In 1910 she married Hendrik Willem Adriaan Krook van Harpen. She was a member of Arti et Amicitiae and .

Valkenburg died on 1 March 1929 in Laren, North Holland.

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Episode 1: How to Infuse Storytelling into All Your Content with Emily Hackeling of Front
I'm excited to bring Emily Hackeling to you for Episode 1 of the What's Working Now podcast! Emily is Content Marketing Lead at Front, a collaborative team email SaaS company based in San Francisco that supports over 6000 customers. They've received $138 million in venture funding, and they've been featured in a variety of news stories, including by the New York Times.
I've been working with Emily and her team for a couple of years now and I've watched them just crush it — both from a product standpoint and with their marketing. I know you'll enjoy hearing what she has to share.
(3:25) Focus on the customer for successful rebranding.
[Two branding agencies] helped us to craft our narrative to uplevel our brand and come up with something that actually matched what our true customer base is and was feeling. The platform has really evolved, and our brand did not reflect the new offerings. This was a really cool process to discover what our users are truly getting from Front and how we can convey that with our brand.
(6:52) Become a leader in your industry by providing resources that help your customers get better at their jobs.
One of the things that's part of our brand ethos is to help educate the people who are in our community. We're evolving ourselves into, hopefully, a leader in this customer communication and customer relationship space.
(11:14) Maintain your brand voice by working with content creators that are aligned with your culture.
The way we handle voice and tone has evolved over time, over the last several years. We do have a style guide with a vocabulary of the words that we use, words that we don't use, bad examples, good examples, all that fun stuff that you would typically have in a style guide. But what it really comes down to is finding people whose opinions and perspectives align.
(15:00) Accessible training content creates marketing opportunities and advocates for your brand.
With Classroom, customers have a dedicated place where they can find a learning pathway, depending on what team they're a part of. If you're a part of a support team, a sales team, success team, etc., you can find all the content you need and find examples from other customers on what they're doing with Front.
(18:06) Tell your stories in different ways to attract new audiences.
We've really worked on expanding the ways we tell different stories. Sometimes just changing the format can give you a totally new piece of content or a new audience that is looking at the same content. I think my advice would just be to not get stuck in a rut of telling the same types of stories in the same ways.
(20:56) When your product serves different types of users, use cases highlight the features most beneficial to a particular group.
We have many verticals, and they all use Front in a different way and have a different set of features that they love. So we have to break that down for people rather than overwhelming them with this product that can use for many different things.
(23:12) For great content, write from a unique, strong point of view.
Something that I would leave with everyone is that great content comes from that strong point of view that makes your content different than others. And if you can find a way to share your point of view with your writers, you'll be able to scale much more quickly.
(Laura 0:51) Welcome to Episode 1 of What's Working Now! I'm excited to bring Emily Hackeling to you for this episode. Emily is Content Marketing Lead at Front, which is a collaborative team email SaaS company based in San Francisco supporting over 6000 customers. They've received $138 million in venture funding, and they've been featured in a variety of news stories, including by the New York Times.
I've been working with Emily and her team for a couple of years now and I've watched them just crush it — both from a product standpoint and with their marketing. I know you'll enjoy hearing what she has to share. Emily, thanks so much for coming on today!
(Emily 1:37) Hey, Laura, thanks for having me. It's great to be here. Happy Friday!
(Laura) Happy Friday to you! Let's start with a snapshot of what Front offers and the role that you play there.
(Emily) Sure! So Front is just like you said, a collaborative email product for businesses. Teams that use Front are those who rely on email for their everyday processes and need to collaborate in shared inboxes or via comments and through complicated workflows and automations. Front is really a customer communication platform — you can manage more than just your email in it. You could plug in SMS texting, live chat, and any other messaging channel that you might use to message your customers.
At Front, I lead the content marketing team. We are a small but mighty team of two in-house. But we rely heavily on freelancers, such as Laura, who does an amazing job helping us out.
I help manage our blog at Front, which is called Front Page and has newly launched in the last two months. I also manage the rest of our lead-gen content. We have a video series that we're launching soon, and we have a podcast coming out. I help with a lot of our product messaging, and just generally any words that need to be written.
(Laura 3:19) And Front rebranded recently, right?
(Emily 3:25) Yes, we did. We went through a really cool process with a company called 21st Century Brand Agency, as well as a company called, I lost the name for a moment. But anyway, we worked with these two great brand agencies, and they helped us to craft our narrative, do some user research, and talk to different customers around the country. What we wanted to do was really uplevel our brand and come up with something that actually matched what our true customer base is and was feeling. Because as Front has grown. We began as sort of a shared inbox tool, but the platform has really evolved into something different, and our brand did not reflect what that new offering was. So this was a really cool process to discover what our users are truly getting from Front and how we can convey that with our brand. And, how should that tone of voice come out in our content?
(Laura 4:37) Nice! And I love the focus on the customer. It's easy to get carried away with all these ideas for branding. But really, it's all about the customer, so starting there is a really smart strategy.
(Emily 4:51) Yes, I love that they did that. And it was just amazing to be able to speak to customers who we never normally would have been able to. Many of our users are companies that are very far away from where our offices are based, so it was really enlightening for us.
(Laura 5:09) So, let's talk about Front Page. It's a blog, but it's actually a lot more than that. And storytelling is really central. So can you tell us a little bit about what you're doing with it and the strategy behind it?
(Emily 5:22) Sure! I am thrilled about Front Page and what it is right now and what it should become. It's really going to be Front's media brand. So, right now, we have content on there that is mostly written. A lot of the projects we're working on right now are in the multimedia space. As we grow and begin to launch some of these new multimedia projects, Front Page will really be the centralized hub for people who want to learn how to strengthen the heart of their business (that's what we're calling it), [and] for customer-facing leaders who want to strengthen relationships with their customers. They can come to Front Page and get inspiration, get tips, and understand how other companies are better serving their customers and strengthening those relationships. We aim to evolve it into something much larger. This is just the beginning.
(Laura 6:26) Awesome. That's smart to base the education and information on the key pieces your product helps with. Helping them get better at their jobs.
(Emily 6:52) Absolutely. One of the things we wanted to do that's part of our brand ethos really, is to help educate the people who are in our community. And by doing that, evolve ourselves into, hopefully, a leader in this customer communication and customer relationship space. Even if someone isn't ready to buy Front right now, we want to be able to help them with whatever they're working on and give them inspiration. And then maybe 10 years down the road when they are in a position, then they'll think of Front as being the best solution. So that's really the long term strategy with Front Page.
(Laura 7:37) Now, I know a lot of SaaS companies really struggle with thought leadership. I think because they have a hard time figuring out how to fit it into their strategy overall. But having a strong point of view can really help build your brand. And I know that your CEO, Mathilde, is doing a lot with thought leadership. So can you tell us a little bit about that and how it connects with your content strategy overall?
(Emily 8:08) Absolutely. Part of the reason I love working at Front is that the company is very invested in content. And that really starts from the top down. So Mathilde has, from the moment I interviewed with her, been very invested in the voice and the tone, and the thoughts coming out from the company — the points of view — and she remains invested in it today. Which makes my job very easy and extremely fun. Her platform is really incredible, and the position that she takes is very genuine. So her content comes straight from her. It's all true things that she's learning and feeling as she is developing this company.
And six years later, that remains true today. We're not forcing her to publish things on behalf of the marketing team. I think that is really our take on thought leadership: if it's going to work and actually inspire people, it needs to be real. So that genuine element is just something that we will maintain forever here at Front. And I think that's actually what has made her content and her thoughts so successful here thus far.
(Laura 9:31) Yeah, that's awesome. And it really comes across. You're doing a lot with multimedia in that regard as well — featuring her thoughts in videos. And really, having her out there in front of Front, I think it really does something for your brand. So, that's a really cool strategy.
(Emily 9:56) Thank you. Yeah. What has been really neat for us, is taking some of her point of view from her platform and translating that to the rest of the company. So, we think about it as separate points of view. Mathilde has her platform and her opinions, and then Front, the company, has its own opinions that are obviously very aligned with hers, but it's a separate tone. And then Front Page that we are developing will have its own tone as well. And so there's a lot of different ways there that we can share similar ideas from different perspectives. And that's kind of the hope with the separate media brand is that we can develop another point of view there.
(Laura 10:43) So that brings me to another question. Talking about voice and tone, I know a lot of companies struggle with it. If they have a style guide, they have trouble actually getting people to follow it and create cohesiveness. You mentioned that everyone kind of has their own unique tone but it's cohesive. You can recognize this person as a Front person. How are you guys accomplishing that?
(Emily 11:14) That's a great question. I think that's something I'm always working to get better at. We do have a style guide. We have a vocabulary of the words that we use, words that we don't use a lot, bad examples, good examples, all that fun stuff that you would typically have in a style guide. But what it really comes down to, I think, and what I've seen work in the past, is finding people who you align with, their opinions and their perspectives.
So for Front Page, for instance, we did a kind of initial search to find different writers and contributors. And in talking to lots of different writers across the country, and then some in Europe as well, we just found people who were really excited by the mission we have, which is to enable people to feel their impact at work and enable these businesses to become stronger and closer to their customers. When you find people who align with your purpose, and are excited by that, no matter where they're coming from or what they're doing for their work, or where they grew up, or whatever, they will bring a really cool perspective to the company. And that's something we're working to evolve on Front Page.
So, for instance, some of the writers we talked to — one was the principal of an elementary school. Some are classic B2B tech freelance writers, some are leaders at other companies who are leading customer-facing teams. We've talked to people who are in the logistics industry who are leading a shipping and trucking team. So, all these people have different perspectives, but they align with our mission, and that helps create a tone that we really like and that we hope to evolve on Front Page.
(Laura 13:31) So it's really about the culture and not necessarily dictating all of the points in fine detail. If they're aligned with the culture and where you guys are headed, then you know however they come across is going to be aligned with the brand.
(Emily 13:49) Absolutely. And on that same note, we use a lot of perspectives from within our company, which helps create that genuine feel like I was mentioning before with Mathilde. So, we have content from our head of HR, from our head of engineering, from engineers, who are just starting their careers. We have content from our workplace experience manager — she's helping us write something right now, actually. So, support managers, people on the marketing team, salespeople — we tap into individuals at the company who want to share their perspectives. Obviously, they're aligned to our mission by nature of working here.
(Laura 14:47) I also really love what you guys are doing on the customer side of things with Front Classroom. Can you share a little bit about that and how it works with Front Page?
(Emily 15:00) Absolutely. So, that's an amazing initiative that was launched recently by one of our product marketing managers, Logan. She's done a fantastic job with it. It's our guided learning hub for people who want to learn how to get the most out of Front. The part of the strategy around this in relation to Front Page is that we wanted a place for some of our thought leadership content and our educational content around customer relationships, in general, to be separate from tips and tricks and in the weeds content about Front itself. We didn't want to have a confusing experience of like, "Am I learning about Front? or Am I listening to a podcast with other leaders?" We didn't want to confuse people in that way.
Customers, now with Classroom, have a dedicated place they can go to and find a learning pathway, depending on what team they're a part of. If you're a part of a support team, a sales team, success team, etc., you can find all the content you need. And find examples from other customers on what they're doing with Front.
So, I'm really excited about Classroom because it's an amazing tool for our customers, but it's really great for prospects as well. On the lead generation side, if somebody is on the verge of buying and considering Front, we can send them a lot of that content, and they can get a really clear understanding of what they'll get from Front from there.
(Laura 16:40) Very cool. And I love the examples from customers and how they're using it. Seeing how customers are using it in unique ways, especially with all the different integrations and all of that, just allows people to get new ideas. And for prospects, get them excited about what they could do.
(Emily 17:02) Absolutely, it's kind of like, let's jump into the world of possibilities — here are some of the things you can do with Front. And that's what we try to do for prospects when they're close to closing. Really open up that world and say, you know, this could grow into something really big for you.
(Laura 17:19) Really everything you're doing revolves around storytelling, and it's such an effective way to do content. I feel like storytelling is a buzzword, but you rarely see B2B companies doing a good job of it. So many people stop at traditional case studies. And then that's the end of storytelling. You guys are doing a really good job at that. So I was wondering if you could share any advice for other SaaS companies that are looking to do more storytelling. What advice would you have to share with them?
(Emily 18:06) Yeah, that's a great question. I think we're always working to do more of it, too, and expand the ways we tell different stories. Because sometimes, just changing the format can give you a totally new group of a new audience that is looking at the same content. I think my advice would just be to not get stuck in a rut of telling the same types of stories in the same ways. And a good tangible way to do that is to take your customer stories as they're written on your website and just say, "All right, what's another format I can put this in so that I can put it on a different platform and get it in front of a new audience?" And that might mean taking a clip from the customer while you were having the interview and saying, "Hey, can we post this on our YouTube channel?" Looking for new outlets for you to get that content out there. And it's a new interesting way to tell the story.
Another thing I would say is, I'm continually looking at examples from other sites, but I try not to limit myself to companies that are like ours. So I'm not just looking through competitors' blogs and things like that. I'm instead looking at how I can take ideas from B2C companies, or how I can take ideas from industries that our customers are in, like logistics or the travel space, or marketing agencies, and tell stories in ways that they tell stories. And that often brings a lot of cool ideas to the forefront. So, it might be like an animated infographic we made recently. Or writing up an interview and publishing it on an external publication. So those are some ways that we try to mix things up and tell stories in different ways.
(Laura 20:31) That's awesome. In addition to the zoomed-in customer stories where you're featuring a specific customer and how they're using the software, I've noticed that you guys also do a lot with use cases — how different personas or different industries could use the product. Can you explain a little bit about how you're using those use cases?
(Emily 20:56) Yeah, so one of the many challenges of marketing Front is that it can be used by so many different types of customers. And that's also one of the things I love about it — it's a very wide-open market. But in order to help people understand how Front would be valuable to them and create an urgency for them to purchase the product, we do have to do a lot of storytelling to animate and bring to life the possibilities for them in particular.
So that's our reasoning for creating use cases and building content around them. We have many verticals, and they all use Front in a different way and have a different set of features that they love. So we have to break that down for them and make sure that we're not overwhelming them with this product that can do many different things. For instance, we have customer support teams, customer success teams, operations, sales teams. On our website, right now, we also build content specifically for logistics teams, and marketing agencies, financial companies, things like that. We have all these different verticals. And depending on where each of them like to find their content, we build content for them in different ways.
For instance, the logistics use case — they like to attend conferences and events. So that's something that we do more of now as well. We'll attend events with them and get in front of their eyes there, rather than spending a lot of time creating blogs for them or creating ebooks, because that's not their preference. I think creating that use case content allows us to tell the same story. It's the same product, it has the same features, but we get to put it through a different lens for a different audience.
(Laura 22:59) This has been great. Is there anything else that you'd like to share that I haven't given you the opportunity to talk about?
(Emily 23:12 ) You know, this has been awesome. I think that one thing I have been learning, especially over the last year is the importance of relying on external help when you're scaling a content program. And that's why I work with Laura here. But I think that has really enabled us to grow.
Also having a strong point of view at Front. We actually have a document that's called Hot Takes that we've been building up right now — it's all of our opinions on various things from anything like, "Is it good to hit inbox zero?" to "Do we like working from home?" So that's going to be something that we share out broadly with all of our freelance writers in hopes that it can really help people understand where the company is coming from and be able to write content from that point of view.
So that's something that I would leave with everyone: great content comes from that strong point of view that makes your content different than others. And if you can find a way to share that with your writers, you'll be able to scale much more quickly.
(Laura 24:34) And that goes so much further than just a style guide, It's like you said with the point of view and the thought leadership.
(Laura 24:48) Well, this has been amazing. Emily, thank you so much. I know that people will be really energized by the ideas that you've shared. And I thank you so much for coming on.
(Emily 24:59) Of course. Thanks for having me, Laura.
Learn more about Emily at www.linkedin.com/in/emilyhackeling/, and check out Front's marketing content at frontapp.com/.
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Punk Goes Pop Vol. 6 (2014)
Опубликовал: popcorn
The train doesn't stop at Volume 5 for the Pop Goes Punk series. After a release date and artwork leak of Volume 6 appeared on the internet today, I think it's safe to say that Fearless Records is going to keep the series going this year. Slaves, Upon A Burning body and Slaves are just a few of the bands you might find on this (very believable but still unconfirmed) tracklist.
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01. Tyler Carter (feat. Luke Holland) - Ain't It Fun (Originally Performed By Paramore)
02. August Burns Red - Wrecking Ball (Originally Performed By Miley Cyrus)
03. We Came As Romans - I Knew You Were Trouble (Originally Performed By Taylor Swift)
04. Upon A Burning Body (feat. Ice-T) - Turn Down For What (Originally Performed By DJ Snake & Lil Jon)
05. Set It Off - Problem (Originally Performed By Ariana Grande feat. Iggy Azalea)
06. Crown The Empire - Burn (Originally Performed By Ellie Goulding)
07. Oceans Ate Alaska - Drunk In Love (Originally Performed By Beyonce feat. Jay Z)
08. Youth In Revolt - Royals (Originally Performed By Lorde)
09. Volumes - Hold On, We're Going Home (Originally Performed By Drake feat. Majid Jordan)
10. Knuckle Puck - Chocolate (Originally Performed By The 1975)
11. Slaves - Sweater Weather (Originally Performed By The Neighbourhood)
12. State Champs - Stay The Night (Originally Performed By Zedd feat. Hayley Williams)
13. Palisades - Happy (Originally Performed By Pharrell Williams)
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Ford touts fresh look, more features for new Ranger
Pickup will be unveiled on Nov. 24
Ford released a teaser picture of the Ranger showing modern-looking LED driving lights framing the headlights. Underneath the model is expected to retain the traditional ladder frame chassis.
Ford said its new Ranger pickup has been given new features that boost its practicality, capability and versatility.
"The next-generation Ranger is designed to go more places, work harder and offer more comfort and refinement than ever before," Ford said in a statement on Monday.
The pickup also will have a rugged new look, the automaker said.
Ford did not disclose any more details about the pickup ahead of its online unveiling on Wednesday, Nov. 24.
The pickup will be sold in 180 countries including Ford's European markets.
Ford has not said if the latest version will be sold in the U.S. where the current Ranger is sold alongside the vastly more successful F-150 full-size pickup, but the company is expected to add the new model at a later date.
The Ranger was developed by Ford's design center in Australia.
A plug-in version will also be launched by 2024 as part of Ford's decision that its commercial vehicle range in Europe will offered with full-electric or plug-in hybrid versions by 2024. The electrified Ranger is expected to be a plug-in hybrid rather than a full-electric model.
Ford currently dominates the relatively small European pickup market with the Ranger after competitors such as Mitsubishi, Nissan and Renault axed or scaled back models.
Ford sold 12,000 Rangers in Europe in the first quarter, compared to 8,890 for the next best-selling pickup, the Toyota Hilux, according to data from JATO Dynamics market researchers.
Ford recently launched the smaller and cheaper Maverick pickup in the U.S. on a unibody platform. The company has said it will not offer the new Maverick in Europe.
The Ranger also will form the basis of the next Volkswagen Amarok as part of an industrial co-operation between the two automakers.
Ford will build the Ranger for Europe alongside the VW Amarok at its newly expanded Silverton plant in South Africa. The company is investing $686 million into the factory to increase annual capacity to 200,000 units from 168,000, Ford said earlier this year.
VW has said the Amarok will be "clearly different" from the Ranger in terms of styling.
The Ranger will be the first Ford-developed model that will also form the basis for a VW version under the automakers' alliance, announced in 2019.
The first VW-developed model to be launched by Ford will be the recently announced Tourneo Connect compact passenger van based on the VW Caddy.
The tie-up also includes plans for Ford to engineer and build a new VW Transporter van alongside its next Transit Custom van, with production starting in 2023 in Turkey.
Ford is also using VW's MEB all-electric platform to build EVs at its plant in Cologne, Germany, starting in 2023.
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Madonna Heads To Grammys After 'Rebel Heart' Success: Will Lady Gaga Join Her?
Daryl Deino
Madonna must be in a celebratory mood. Despite what many consider faux controversies over her latest album Rebel Heart, Billboard has confirmed that Madonna's sudden Rebel Heart pre-order release has been a major success.
"The result of Rebel Heart's 48-hour turnaround? The album preorder topped the iTunes charts in more than 40 countries — including the United States, where three of the six released tracks entered Billboard's Hot Dance/Electronic Songs chart dated Jan. 3, despite just two days of eligibility. To date, the six tracks have sold a combined 131,000 downloads, according to Nielsen Music, with preorders for Rebel Heart at a robust (considering the situation) 50,000 to 60,000, according to industry estimates."
Madonna also has some other good news: Her single, "Living for Love," is taking off strongly, especially in the U.K. where it has been added to Capital FM's playlist, and is receiving excellent feedback from listeners, despite not being officially released yet. Madonna will officially launch "Living for Love" in the United States on February 10, after she performs the song at the Grammys on February 8. Idolator, one of the most respected music sites, talks about what Madonna may wear according to leaked information from the designer.
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Fans of both Madonna and Lady Gaga have been wondering if both of the singers will perform together after Madonna recently posted a message indicating she has absolutely no problem with the singer.
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The Madonna and Lady Gaga feud has been going on since 2011, but it has mostly been between the fans. Madonna, like others, realizes the feud is ridiculous. After all, both singers are heroines when it comes to freedom of expression and gay rights. Madonna and Lady Gaga are both great performers who inspire millions. They also have millions of haters who likely project their insecurities on both of these strong women.
If Madonna and Lady Gaga perform together, it's likely that Madonna won't allow Gaga to steal the show. Perhaps Gaga could play piano on "Living for Love." Would you be happy to see Madonna and Lady Gaga perform together? Tell us in the comments section.
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Aleksandr Pietrowicz Klimow (ros. Александр Петрович Климов, ur. 1914 we wsi Czerniczenki w guberni włodzimierskiej, zm. 7 września 1979 w Moskwie) – radziecki polityk.

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Prop 13 Change?
by Jim the Realtor | Jul 15, 2017 | Jim's Take on the Market, Prop 13, The Future | 1 comment
Hat tip to W.C.Varones for sending in this article. I read it, and all of the supporting documentation, but didn't find any surveys or data to back up the president's claim below that well over 1 million additional properties will change hands – he just made that up.
If you can afford the cost and hassle of moving up, the increase in property taxes isn't going to be what stops you. If we're going to change Prop 13, let's do it based on surveys and valid research, not some cheerleader popping off:
Local Realtors President Bob Kevane, who unveiled the Proposition 13 change, said he has been touting the idea for a decade and believes it is needed more than ever because of low inventories.
"I think the majority of California property owners who have owned their homes for five or six years are not moving because of Proposition 13," he said. "It's basically locking them into their current residence and not providing the normal move-up markets we've had in the past."
In the first two or three years after changing Proposition 13, he said, "You would see well over 1 million additional properties change hands."
Under Kevane's proposal, buyers would carry over their own tax basis plus what's owed on the difference between the sales prices on the old and new properties. (If the new value is less than the old value, the old tax bill would apply.)
Kevane offered this example for a move-up buyer:
Home 1: Purchased for $300,000 in 2000. The original tax bill of $3,000 has now risen to $4,000 because of the annual assessment adjustments plus any permanent improvements. It sells for $500,000.
Home 2: Purchased for $600,000. Current law would set the tax price at $6,000. But Kevane's proposal would reduce it to $5,000 — $4,000 carried over from the Home 1 bill plus $1,000 covering the tax difference between the two home prices.
The break is similar to a senior discount enacted in two Proposition 13 amendments. But under those provisions, owners aged 55 or older can keep their old tax base only if their replacement home price is no more than their sold property's price. That senior discount can be invoked only once for a couple or individual.
In effect, Kevane's proposal would make the senior discount available to all sellers every two years without age, income or price restriction. Older owners would also benefit because they no longer would be limited to invoking the tax discount once and children who inherit their parents' homes could continue enjoying the lower tax base if they choose to move.
"How it's going to benefit lower-income people is it's going to free up all the houses that have not been on the market for years," Kevane said.
Kevane said the state association is expected to announce the ballot campaign by Aug. 22, the deadline set to launch statewide citizen initiatives. But he also said he will speak with state Sen. Toni Atkins, D-San Diego, and other legislative leaders to see if they will put on the measure on the ballot directly.
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"Three changes are likely to be brought up, said Mary Lydon, spokeswoman for the Housing You Matters coalition of industry, environmental and community leaders:
–relaxed rules on building granny flats and home additions;"
Providing the opportunity for airbnb, as well as stacking undocumented immigrant families into a one bedroom microhome, which limits parking, thus providing the city ample opportunity for $75 tickets on cars parked two blocks away from the owner's residence who forgot to wake up early to move their cars on street-sweeping days.
"–speeding up building permits for affordable units;"
"Affordable units" built by the lowest bidder, often a friend or political contributor of a councilman or mayor, who creates these units, tacky bare-bones soul-crushingly cheap as possible, to turn into broken-down depressing eyesores within 10 years and remain so because they're too big/politically complicated to tear down. The building will then change hands repeatedly by corporate interests that only care about the bottom line, and think of their tenants as numbers to be manipulated, who have no economic choice but to continue living in their depressing hovels.
"and a $1,000 fee to file environmental appeals, up from the current $100."
You older ladies who remember how San Diego quality of life used to be, with a lot of time on your hands to monitor weasely shenannigans at council meetings, if you don't like what you see, you will have to make a decision: Pay the inflated, retributive fee, or feed your cats. Your call. Before you make it, just look at those hungry faces! Who loves you?!


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This year we were honoured to have as our guest speaker Adam Bouland, a student at MIT in Boston who worked with Engineers Without Borders in Cameroon. Adam gave a very interesting and informative presentation on the water project with specific details to the structural and planning processes involved. His excellent powerpoint accompanied the talk and he clarified some questions raised by the audience with clear and meaningful responses. It was evident from Adam's presentation that he has knowledge of the process involved, the respect for the hard work and commitment of the villagers, awareness of the intense manual labour required to complete and maintain such a project.
Anne Lalonde and Hilder Langwa coemceed the event and the programme moved smoothly amid food, raffles, ticket sales, silent auction bids and thank yous to the donors. The event concluded with a thank you to all who were in attendance, the volunteers and the committee who organized the event as well as the Centurion Conference and Event Center staff for the well organized room and the excellent food preparation.
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Stupid in America: Students are so Bad, Professor Can't Grade Them
Published on April 1, 2016 April 2, 2016 by Selwyn Duke
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What does it say when in two days a teacher exhausts the ink in his red pen? Since a nation cannot be "ignorant and free," as Thomas Jefferson put it, it perhaps means we face a threat graver than the Red Menace.
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Apathetic or even hostile students, dumbed-down tests, often incompetent and ideologically driven teachers, Cracker Jack-box degrees, morally toxic curricula, revisionist history, the new math — education has collapsed in America. And one of the sincere educators, wandering amidst the rubble, recently provided a window into this academic apocalypse.
Eileen F. Toplansky, an English professor at Middlesex County College in Edison, New Jersey, laments that a good number of her students are so bad that it's difficult to even grade their work. She provides many examples of undergraduates definitely not smarter than a fifth grader (the ones on TV, anyway), but opens with this striking unedited submission:
Attached is the actual outline for my ruff raft. Please, account this as credit therefore I'll prove my academic progression as acknowledgment for satisfactory of the course. The presentation shall be captivating with visualization being a current pet owner of a fish too!
Wow, this student is obviously very excited — about what I have no idea.
Professor Toplansky then reports that when "discussing illegal immigration and a concomitant rise in disease, another student writes this indecipherable 'sentence'":
The introduction gets a reader's attention by wondering what is the cause of the nice lady starving from times to time and what will the government to about the health benefits services at the end.
Perhaps the cause is that the nice lady received a faux education and had no marketable skills.
Many of Toplansky's students haven't even learned basic grammar, punctuation, or even capitalization rules. As she writes, often "'White House' is not capitalized, nor is 'American,' 'Christian,' or 'English.'" Of course, this problem is greatly exacerbated when a generation is immersed in social media in which 140-character, Twitter-esque communication is the norm. Yet its root cause is far more troubling.
The professor also complains of "racial animus," providing an example of prejudice that makes Archie Bunker appear articulate: "I do believe immigrants are what makes this country great is more of a culture thing I find Americans to be boring in most areas immigrants bring a certain color to an all-white canvas so to speak," one student wrote.
Then there are the excuses for apathy, such as that made by a young man who didn't read newspapers and proudly rationalized that he wouldn't open the New York Times because it was owned by "rich people." (There are good reasons to avoid the Times — that's not one of them.)
More troubling still were the emotion-driven, nailed-shut minds. Toplansky mentions one girl totally unmoved by Dr. Thomas Sowell's explanation of how the minimum wage hurts the poor and by information indicating that McDonald's supports the wage "because it will substitute machinery for labor." As the professor related, "Denial was in full swing. When I asked her to refute the findings, she merely spluttered and yelled that it is the 'greed, greed, greed' of the companies."
Of course, this phenomenon is nothing new. As satirist Jonathan Swift observed three centuries ago (I'm paraphrasing), "You cannot reason a man out of a position he has not reasoned himself into." Yet it certainly has worsened in modern times. Just consider that a 2002 Barna Group study I've often cited found that among Americans, "the most common basis for moral decision-making was doing whatever feels right"; moreover, wrote Barna, "More than half of the young adults (52%) and teenagers (54%) base their moral choices on feelings and beneficial outcomes compared to just one-third of adults 36 and older who do so (32%)." Likewise, there was an interesting correlation. The study's focus was moral relativism, and Barna determined that only 22 percent of adults and six percent of teens believed in moral absolutes; this and other data indicate that relativism is also gaining ground over time.
It's no surprise that relativism and emotionalism are increasing correspondingly. When people believe in Truth (by definition absolute), they generally strive to use it as their yardstick when making moral decisions. When oblivious to this eternal guide, however, man is left with no more appealing an arbiter than his feelings. After all, they certainly are real — especially to the individual — and without anything transcendent and inerrant to go by, who is to say they're wrong?
It's as if we subscribed to "dietary relativism" and thus believed there were essentially no rules governing human nutrition. How could we then differentiate among foods other than by our palate's preferences? Our credo would become "If it tastes good, eat it." Similarly, is it any surprise that a characteristic mantra of our relativistic age is "If it feels good, do it"?
And the fact that hard work generally doesn't feel good — and disciplining kids doesn't, either — help explain our educational woes. A teacher posting under Toplansky's article provided his own testimonial, writing about a third grader who "refused to do anything in my class. If I asked students to take out their math books, he would just sit there and do nothing. If I put a book on his desk, he refused to look at it. He would not look at me while I was lecturing." This never would have happened in ages past; the boy would have found working preferable to frequent appointments with a backside-bound switch. Instead, such children today remain uncivilized and ill-behaved, becoming ever more brazen as the unanswered will, until their misbehavior crosses a line and action is finally taken by the only ones now empowered to do so — the police — and prison may be their lot.
This brings us to an oft-missed point. Obedience and discipline, two dirty words currently, are prerequisites for education for a simple reason:
How can someone learn from you if he's not first willing to listen to you?
Listening comes before learning.
This simple truth apparently eludes most modern academics. They instead distract themselves with new feel-good (feelings again) teaching paradigms, such as "outcome-based education," and social engineering. As an example of the latter, Professor Toplansky writes, "Teaching staff are bombarded with 'free panel discussions titled 'Whose Schools? OUR Schools! Support for Educators Building Safe Spaces for Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender, Queer, Inter-sex, Two-Spirit Native Americans and Gender Non-conforming Youth and their Peers through Pedagogy today.'" Or educators are told that "exams often are anxiety provoking" and that, consequently, "more on-task behavior and higher academic self-esteem" are necessary. Teachers are also often heard saying, "We don't' just teach 'facts'; we teach kids how to think" (no, they don't). Of course, demeaning facts is understandable when you're peddling fiction and avoiding the fact that schools today are often just waystations between daycare and prison or the public dole.
This educational degradation has gotten so bad that a famous octogenarian ex-college professor just proposed that we stop teaching algebra to American students because it's too hard. And with China already producing 10 times as many scientists as we do, this certainly should help — ease America into a fourth-rate, Third World mishmash of easily ruled serfs.
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Single Muslim Hipster Seeking Same? You May Be In Luck.
November 30, 2013 • For some young Muslims, balancing Islamic values with American traditions isn't always easy, especially when it comes to relationships. The new website Hipster Shaadi aims to help them find a match.
A recent study on data from a dating app found all women except black women were most drawn to white men, and men of all races (with one notable exception) prefer Asian women. iStockphoto hide caption
Odds Favor White Men, Asian Women On Dating App
November 30, 2013 • Researchers recently took data from the Facebook app Are You Interested and found that not only is race a factor in our online dating interests, but particular races get disproportionately high — and low — amounts of interest.
Matthew Diller, dean of Yeshiva University's Cardozo School of Law, talks with press about the New York Immigrant Family Unity Project in June. Cardozo School of Law hide caption
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New Pilot Program Gives Immigrant Detainees Public Defenders
November 29, 2013 • Unlike defendants in criminal trials, defendants in U.S. immigration courts aren't constitutionally entitled to an attorney. But New York City is piloting the nation's first government-funded public defender service for immigrants facing deportation.
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A Day In The Life: Blacks At The Cutting Edge Of Innovation
November 27, 2013 • Every day until Dec. 20, African-American tech thinkers will live-tweet about their day and answer questions in a special Twitter series hosted by NPR's Tell Me More. Join the conversation at @TellMeMoreNPR or #NPRBlacksinTech.
Music Is Motivation For Olympian John Carlos
November 27, 2013 • For Tell Me More's "In Your Ear" series, 1968 Olympic medalist John Carlos tells listeners about the music that's inspired him over the years. His favorites include Billie Holiday and Curtis Mayfield. This segment initially aired July 30, 2012 on Tell Me More.
This still from a video of an alleged "knockout game" assault has been played over and over on news reports on the supposed trend. HLN hide caption
'The Knockout Game': An Old Phenomenon With Fresh Branding
November 27, 2013 • Every so often, there's a new name for the phenomenon of young people targeting others for random assaults. But what is the effect of calling this type of behavior a "game"?
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After Years Of Pasta, Rice Returns To A Filipino Family Kitchen
November 27, 2013 • Growing up, Melanie Vanderlipe Ramil wanted to be as "non-Filipino" as possible. One way, she decided, was to stop eating rice. Now 31, Ramil has become the family's champion of its Filipino food traditions.
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Trove Of Artifacts Trumpets African-American Triumphs
November 26, 2013 • More than 35 years ago, Bernard and Shirley Kinsey began acquiring documents, artifacts and artworks that tell the story of the African-American experience. The collection, which spans more than 400 years, spotlights not black pain, they say, but the strength and resilience of African-Americans.
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End-Of-Life Conversations Not Easy, But Necessary
November 26, 2013 • A new report from the Pew Research Center's Religion & Public Life Project shows that Americans' attitudes about medical care at the end of life are changing. And there's still widespread resistance to talking about the issue. Host Michel Martin learns more about the study's findings and how to have these conversations.
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A History Of Indentured Labor Gives 'Coolie' Its Sting
November 25, 2013 • Although the slur today is used mostly in the context of the Caribbean, in the past it was often applied to low-wage, immigrant laborers in the United States.
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November 25, 2013 • The question of categorizing art by ethnicity or gender is at the center of a very public debate surrounding a new show at the Smithsonian called "Our America: The Latino Presence in American Art."
New Book Tries to Capture 'The Black Experience'
November 25, 2013 • Retha Powers spent nearly seven years compiling quotes from across the African Diaspora. The result is Bartlett's Familiar Black Quotations: 5000 Years of Literature, Lyrics, Poems, Passages, Phrases and Proverbs from Voices Around The World. Host Michel Martin talks with Powers about some of her favorite selections.
Miami-Area Police Force Accused Of Rampant Racial Profiling
November 23, 2013 • One man has been arrested 62 times for "trespassing." The only problem is that police claimed he was trespassing at his place of work.
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Rev. T.J. Jemison Remembered As Civil Rights Movement Pioneer
November 22, 2013 • Louisiana is paying tribute Friday to the Rev. T.J. Jemison, a strong and steady voice against unequal treatment for blacks in the Jim Crow South. Jemison helped organize a bus boycott in Baton Rouge in 1953 and later advised Martin Luther King Jr. and others on how to orchestrate the Montgomery boycott.
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If Twitter Existed In 1963: Follow Live Tweets From Nov. 22
November 22, 2013 • NPR's Code Switch blog is compiling moments from 1963 — a pivotal year in U.S. history — and is tweeting them as they happened then. Watch as the tragic events of John F. Kennedy's assassination unfold in real time.
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Alvin and the Chipmunks movie
Barbie & The Diamond Castle
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Barbie in the Nutcracker
The Swamp Stomp on my Fun House Fitness DVD
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Peace, joy and omelettes!
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Favorite episode: The Levitating Dog Leash of Nostradamus
Favorite season: Season 2, very closely followed by Season 3
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Cliff Richard backs gay marriage
Cliff Richard has come out in support of gay marriage.
The 71-year-old singer, who is one of Britain's best-known Christians, says he sees no reason why gay people should not have marriage equality.
He told BBC Radio 4: "I don't see why gay people shouldn't be married. I have got friends, same-sex couples, who have been together for decades. So for them it's marriage even though they can't call it marriage.
"It probably isn't marriage as such because we recognise it as a man and woman and having babies. [But] that's neither here nor there for me."
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We the people petition the Government to amend the current marriage laws so that marriage is legal irrepesctive of the gender of the couple. At the moment a Gay couple may enter into a civil partnership which grants them all the same rights as a married Heterosexual couple but they cannot be married, this is pointless discrimination rooted in age old bigotry
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Wedding card for Prince William & Kate
Gay couples want the right to marry too
Supporters of the Equal Love campaign presented a giant wedding card for Prince William and Kate Middleton outside the gates of Buckingham Palace yesterday, Monday 25 April.
As well as wishing the royal couple "congratulations" and "a happy life together", the campaigners highlighted the ban on gay civil marriage and urged Kate and William to support the right of same-sex couples to marry in a register office. Cupcakes with Equal Love logos were handed out to tourists and passers by. Dozens of people signed the card.
The card read:
"Congratulations William and Kate on your Wedding Day. We wish you a happy life together. You can get married, gay people can't. We are banned by law. We ask you to support marriage equality. Equal=Love."
"As well as wishing the royal couple happiness, our card highlighted the fact that William and Kate can marry, but same-sex couples cannot. In democratic society, we should all be equal before the law. The ban on gay marriage is discrimination and should be repealed," said coordinator of Monday's 12 noon event, Peter Tatchell of the Equal Love campaign.
"The public response was amazingly supportive. Everyone outside the palace expressed support for marriage equality. We didn't get a single negative reaction.
"William and Kate are a modern young couple. They have gay friends. I am sure they would not wish them to suffer discrimination. Denying gay people the right to marry is unjust and unreasonable discrimination.
"Kate and William had a choice. They could get married, or not. They chose to marry. Great. Same-sex couples don't have this choice. We are banned from marriage by law.
"We are urging the royal couple to find a way, within official protocol, to indicate their support for marriage equality. If they did this, they'd be the first royal couple to do so.
"The majority of the British public now support gay civil marriages in register offices.
"Three of the couples involved in the Equal Love legal campaign were present outside Buckingham Palace today, including Rev Sharon Ferguson and her partner Franka.
"In February, four gay couples and four heterosexual couples filed the Equal Love application in the European Court of Human Rights, seeking to overturn Britain's legal prohibitions on same-sex marriage and opposite-sex civil partnerships.
"Even if people disagree with the monarchy and marriage, the prohibition on gay marriage is homophobic and should be overturned. We must not let the government dictate that lesbian and gay couples cannot get married.
"Equally, we object to the way heterosexual couples are prohibited by law from having a civil partnership. Perhaps William and Kate might have preferred a civil partnership? It is wrong that they were prohibited by law from having this option.
"This event is an affirmation of our opposition to discrimination in marriage law. We want to show our support for the right of everyone to be able to choose whether or not to get married," said Mr Tatchell.
Today's celebration was organised by the Equal Love campaign, which seeks to overturn the twin bans on gay civil marriages and heterosexual civil partnerships: www.equallove.org.uk
It is supported by the LGBTI human rights group OutRage! and the Peter Tatchell Foundation.
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Giant Royal Wedding Card
Posted on April 25, 2011 by brett
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London – 25 April 2011: Equal Love campaign. Supporters of lesbian and gay marriage presented a giant wedding card to Prince William and Kate Middleton outside Buckingham Palace. The card read: "Congratulations William and Kate on your Wedding Day. We wish you a happy life together. You can get married, gay people can't. We are banned by law. We ask you to support marriage equality. Equal=Love."
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Royal Wedding – Join us for gay marriage rights
If you oppose the same-sex marriage ban, celebrate with us on Monday
12 noon to 2pm
Buckingham Palace (in front of the main entrance)
Sign up to join the event on Facebook:
http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=198721503499425
End the ban on same-sex marriage. Supporters of marriage equality will hold a celebration in front of Buckingham Palace on Easter Bank Holiday, Monday 25th April, from 12 noon to 2pm. It is a public holiday. We invite you to join us.
Coordinator of the event, Peter Tatchell of the Equal Love campaign, said:
"We plan to deliver a giant wedding card to William and Kate. As well as wishing the royal couple every happiness, we will highlight the fact that William and Kate can marry, but same-sex couples can't.
"Our event will urge the royal couple to support moves to end the ban on gay marriage. We want equal marriage rights for all couples, regardless of sexual orientation.
"Kate and William had a choice. They could get married, or not. Same-sex couples don't have this choice. We are banned from marriage by law.
"All welcome. Bring your friends for a party in front of Buckingham Palace. Come with flowers, rainbow flags and pink jack flags.
"Some of the couples involved in the Equal Love campaign will join us on the day.
"Even if you don't agree with marriage, the prohibition on gay marriage is homophobic and should be overturned. Don't let the government dictate that LGBTI people can't get married.
"The 25 April is not a celebration of the monarchy or marriage (many of us are critical of both). It is an affirmation of our opposition to discrimination in marriage law. We want to show our support for the right of everyone to be able to choose whether or not to get married, said Mr Tatchell.
Next Monday's event is organised by the Equal Love campaign, which seeks to overturn the twin bans on gay civil marriages and heterosexual civil partnerships: www.equallove.org.uk
It is supported by the LGBTI human rights group OutRage! www.outrage.org.uk and the Peter Tatchell Foundation www.petertatchellfoundation.org
Peter Tatchell to address Gay Humanist meeting on Marriage Equality
On Friday 18th March at 7:30 pm Peter Tatchell will be giving a talk entitled "Equal Rights"-are we there yet?" at a meeting at:
London WC1R 4LR
This event is organised by the Gay and Lesbian Humanists Association (GALHA) with the official support of Outrage and The Peter Tatchell Foundation. Some of the couples involved in this campaign are expected to be present. We hope to confirm soon that a guest speaker who is a legal expert on gay marriage/partnership law in Europe will also be present.
Derek Lennard (GALHA Events co-ordinator) commented:
"This event will focus on the "Equal Love" campaign which has taken the legal bid for gay marriage and for heterosexual civil partnerships to the European Court of Human Rights. Peter Tatchell will report on the progress of the campaign."
This event is organised by GALHA with the official support of Outrage and the Peter Tatchell Foundation. Some of the couples involved in this campaign are expected to be present. We hope to confirm soon that a guest speaker who is a legal expert on gay marriage/partnership law in Europe will also be present.
GALHA has consistently supported marriage equality between gay and straight couples since long before this became an issue with mainstream support.
Some humanists strongly support marriage as a social institution. Others see Civil Partnerships as more relevant. However humanists generally agree passionately that both gay and straight couples should have equal access to both marriage and civil partnerships.
For more details of the meeting please see: http://www.galhameetup.com/events/16576277/
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Equal Love Application to ECHR
European Court of Human Rights application filed today – London 2 February 2011
"Eight British couples – four gay and four straight – today filed a joint application to the European Court of Human Rights, in a bid to overturn the UK's twin bans on gay civil marriages and heterosexual civil partnerships," announced human rights campaigner Peter Tatchell of the lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender (LGBT) human rights group OutRage!. "We are confident that the European Court will eventually rule in our favour and require the British government to end sexual orientation discrimination in civil marriage and civil partnership law," he said.
A copy of the submission can be downloaded (in PDF format) here: equalloveapplicationtoechr
Equal Love case filed to European Court
Legal bid for gay marriages and heterosexual civil partnerships
Eight couples submitted joint legal appeal on 2 February
Professor Robert Wintemute outlines the legal case sent to Europe
"Eight British couples – for gay and four heterosexual – filed a joint legal application to the European Court of Human Rights today, Wednesday, 2 February, seeking to overturn the twin bans on gay civil marriages and heterosexual civil partnerships," announced human rights campaigner Peter Tatchell of the LGBT human rights group OutRage! and coordinator of the Equal Love campaign.
The Equal Love campaign – www.equalove.org.uk – seeks to end sexual orientation discrimination in both civil marriage and civil partnership law. It is supported by the Peter Tatchell Human Rights Fund. Continue reading →


The fall harvest has always been something to celebrate. For me, it is also important that my daughter understand where food comes from and how to transform food. Those are a few reasons that I wanted to inspire you to do the same thing with these images from a beautiful autumn day spent with friends pressing cider.
Our hostess made a delicious Paleo-friendly lunch with two soups; a pumpkin soup and a spinach and sausage soup and she whipped up grain-free pumpkin spice donuts with a chocolate glaze.
The kids also were able to make warm, homemade applesauce using a food mill– which is a fabulously fun and delicious activity for preschoolers. Head to the local pumpkin patch (roasted sugar pumpkin is amazing!) or apple orchard to experience how much fun transforming food can be for your whole family. Memories were certainly made for my own Paleo Kid.