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2010 was a year that many rescues and shelters dabbled in social media with varying amounts of success. For those who haven't created a presence on Facebook, Twitter, Linked In, YouTube, or any of the other myriad social media portals, why not? Statistics say that the demographic that most rescues and shelters want to reach out to are probably on social media of some sort.
I have noticed that, of rescues who are utilizing social media, the largest number feel safest wandering into Facebook first. So I'll focus on this social media outlet for today. Note the following statistics:
- There are over 500 million people who have accounts with Facebook.
- 250 million people log in on any given day.
- 200 million people access Facebook on mobile devices (phones and pads).
- The fastest growing demographic is women over the age of 55.
- More than 30% of Facebook users are over 35.
- More than 30 billion pieces of information are shared each month. (Is any of that information about you?)
If even a tenth of one percent of these users (50,000) were in your state, interested in your breed or species and potential adopters, donors or volunteers, don't you think it's worth it to have your message out there for them at no cost, other than time (which I understand is always in short supply)?
I recommend the following as you start to concept your plan for entry into social media.
- Determine who your audience is – donors, potential adopters, volunteers, interested public or all of the above?
- Is your message very local (your city or state) or do you have some things you'd like to say that have global interest?
- How many of your current supporters use Facebook, My Space, Twitter, You Tube…
- Do you have a trustworthy volunteer or staff member who is already spending a lot of time on social media that would enjoy helping you to create a presence there?
If you are just getting started in Facebook, here are some things to keep in mind:
- Set the page up as a group page and not as a personal page.
- This will allow you to set up multiple admins, track likes and watch statistics about how your page is being viewed.
- You will have the ability, as you grow, to set up more group related tabs and apps.
- Don't post more than 1-2 pieces of information a day. Your followers are interested in you but are also likely interested in their friends and multiple other groups or interests and don't want to see you hogging their "Wall".
- Social media is a two-way conversation, not a mode of posting bulletins with no interaction. Allow and encourage people to interact with you through open-ended questions.
- Make a decision early on about the "voice" you want to have.
- Neutral 3rd person – "PETCO Foundation supports Rescue X".
- 1st person – "I support Rescue X". We recommend posting in the 3rd person but keep it conversational "We are so excited about all the great work that Rescue X is doing". Initially you may personally know the 10-12 people who follow your group's page, but eventually you may not know everyone and could alienate people who don't feel on the inside circle of who "you" are.
- Try to sprinkle in more fun posts than not – this is a "social" network. A general rule of thumb (er…paw) is that only 20% of your posts should ask for money or convey business information.
- People love to see the fuzzy, feathered and scaly faces of your adoptables. However, we caution you to post no more than 2 a day. No one wants to open their Facebook to an entire wall of homeless pets that they have to scroll past before they can see what anyone else posted that day. The average person has 130 Facebook friends and is connected to 80 community pages, groups and events. They are looking to see more than just your posts.
- Don't assume that most users are viewing your posts from your actual page. Most are viewing them in their news stream on their own walls or even on mobile devices. Avoid use of directional words – "see the post above", "see the photos below", "click on the link to the left".
- Keep your posts short (unlike this article). People don't have long attention spans.
- Don't automatically delete negative posts. They are often an opportunity to engage or educate.
- If you have an avid following, they will often also jump in to defend your group or contradict the stand the person has taken.
- If it is a claim that someone is making that you can address from a customer service standpoint, ask them to send you an email and address the issue outside of the public facing Facebook.
- However you handle the post, do be as polite as possible, as they've already shown a propensity to air discontent on your page.
- When linking to a url from a post, read the default text that comes up associated with that link. You can click in and change any of it from within your post to be more relevant.
- Make use of the ability that Facebook offers to limit some posts to the walls of people in a specific city or state (beneath the Status update box, click on the icon that looks like a lock. Choose Customize. From there, drill down to an audience as specific as you want.) There is no need to post an adoption event in Tallahassee on the walls of followers in Oahu.
- Remember weekly to click on the Options link under the status updates and click on Spam. This will show you posts that got tagged as spam before getting onto your wall. Unfortunately a lot of rescue posts get thrown into the Facebook spam filter.
- Don't worry about how many followers you have. It's better to have 100 loyal followers than 1,000 followers who sign up to follow you but then never interact with you again.
If you already have a presence on Facebook but are looking for ways to expand:
- Consider divvying up the posting responsibilities; but have a plan so that you are not over-posting and so that your message and "voice" stays consistent:
- One person posts event photos (making sure to tag them with volunteer and pet names)
- One person posts adoptables
- One person creates events
- One person submits educational tidbits about your breed, species, spay neuter or national news of interest
- Try doing a small contest. People are happy to win just about anything. The cost can be as small as a new toy or leash plus postage. The contest should have a goal:
- Draws in new followers ("we will draw a name from all people who post on our wall today")
- Helps your followers learn more about you ("look on our website and the first person to post the name of one of our adoptables wins")
- Is just fun and engaging ("post a photo of your adopted pet doing something silly and then get your friends to Like your photo. The person with the most likes at x time wins").
- Encourages donations ("everyone who donates $5 today towards x cause, will receive a free gift"). Note that social media is typically not a strong fundraising tool so make fundraising requests sparingly here.
- Please note that Facebook rules with regard to contests on their site change often. Read up to make sure you are staying within their guidelines.
- If you are a larger organization, consider multiple accounts. PETCO and PETCO Foundation have corporate Facebook accounts but then also have designated official spokesters who are able to post as themselves under a name that identifies them as official. I can post on the main PETCO Foundation or PETCO pages as the administrator, however I have a separate account and am also able to respond as a person to the PETCO Foundation posts or posts on our partner's pages as "Kim At PetcoFoundation". Make sure that these additional people are not admins on your Group page or they will only show up as posting as your group and not as themselves.
- Follow or subscribe to one of the many organizations that now provide information about all the things that can be done with social media. I often read the posts of the Social Media Examiner http://www.facebook.com/smexaminer . They don't necessarily specialize in non-profit but have some good, commonsense articles that span a variety of topics.
Whatever you decide to do, have fun with it and stay consistent to build a loyal base of followers.


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So, I've been in DVD production for about 15 years now, but, the days of DVDs are numbered.
The last few shoots I've done, I've put all the images on a DVD for girls, but, two of them don't have anything to play them on! I'm still 'old school' and have a DVD player in my computer, but the times, they are a changing…which gives me the chance to play Bob Dylan, singing over the opening credits of Watchmen, the last good movie by Zack Snyder (don't get me started).
Any excuse. 🙂
So, from now on, a DVD of all the images will be on offer, but as default, I will be giving you your images on a USB stick, since pretty much all computers have them. If you're only on a tablet, you can still download them via my private site, which is password protected.
Please note…the USB sticks I use will NOT be doughnut shaped, they will be boring shaped.
Oh the times they are a changing…
So, I've been in DVD production for about 15 years now, but, the days of DVDs are numbered.


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07 Jan ESDi students Álvaro Moreno and Gemma Trellisó win the Campari Award of the Design Market
The Design Market also had the participation of our alumni Isona Ten
Besides Álvaro and Gemma, the ESDi community was also present in the Design Market thanks to the participation of Isona Ten. The alumni and director of the Postgraduate in Jewelry Design exhibited her jewelry collections together with the most creative independent designers, artisans and artists of the city.
We also took advantage of the opportunity to ask her some questions about the event and the artisan jewelry sector:
1. You have already participated in several editions of the Design Market. What does it mean to you that your brand is among the curated selection of the FAD? It has already been three editions that I participate and it is a pleasure to collaborate. The fact of being selected fills me with satisfaction. Seeing that your product is well valued in the world of design is a joy and a stimulus to continue working.
2. Jewelry is one of the areas with more participating exhibitors of this edition. Do you think there is a certain boom of independent jewelry designers in Barcelona? It is true that many jewelry designers have participated in this market, but we are very different in terms of design, style, types of materials… I think we give a global vision of the current jewelry within the parameters of individual creation. Keep in mind that one of the associations of the FAD is the Goldsmiths (within crafts). This aims, among other objectives, to spread the trend of contemporary jewelry through different media, and the market is perhaps one of them.
3. Do you think that the conventionalism of the jewelry sector is being left behind in some way? How do you see the jewelry scene? The concept of jewelry has changed in recent decades. Jewelery linked to luxury and ostentation has given rise to a design concept where the use of new materials, textures, volumes... And this brings to the creation of pieces a ludic rather than sumptuous air. The change of concept has favored that the jewelry is not restricted to a certain public, it has been socialized. Design reaches a wider range of people and is part of everyday clothing.
4. As a creative designer of your own brand, what should it be promoted from the design schools in this regard? We live in a time of change and the world of jewelry is no stranger to this fact. The introduction of digital design programs, 3D printing, etc. and the constant innovation in the production and diffusion systems increases the complexity in the field of jewelery, but at the same time facilitates the designer's task. For those of us who have set up our own brand and work with proximity workshops, our strong point must be the combination of the two aspects, artisanal and digital. They are complementary tools that favor the development of jewelry design and manufacture.
Congratulations for your participation in the Design Market! And many thanks for sharing your projects with the entire ESDi community!


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Mainstream Media Confirm Dalai Lama is A CIA Asset
That the Tibetan Dalai Lama is a CIA asset was just a conspiracy theory, has now been confirmed as fact by the Los Angeles Times and the agency itself.
This brings to question how much of what the media consider as theory now would end up later on as fact?
How much of what the media consider as "fake news" right now would end up later on as the accurate account of an event?
In short, what gives them the authority to determine what is factual and truthful when their own journalistic standards and ethics include telling their readers mere half-truths for a while, i.e. when it is in the best interest of other institutions they are still working with in the interim?
The Los Angeles Times reports,
WASHINGTON — For much of the 1960s, the CIA provided the Tibetan exile movement with $1.7 million a year for operations against China, including an annual subsidy of $180,000 for the Dalai Lama, according to newly released U.S. intelligence documents.
The money for the Tibetans and the Dalai Lama was part of the CIA's worldwide effort during the height of the Cold War to undermine Communist governments, particularly in the Soviet Union and China. In fact, the U.S. government committee that approved the Tibetan operations also authorized the disastrous Bay of Pigs invasion of Cuba.
The documents, published last month by the State Department, illustrate the historical background of the situation in Tibet today, in which China continues to accuse the Dalai Lama of being an agent of foreign forces seeking to separate Tibet from China.
The CIA's program encompassed support of Tibetan guerrillas in Nepal, a covert military training site in Colorado, "Tibet Houses" established to promote Tibetan causes in New York and Geneva, education for Tibetan operatives at Cornell University and supplies for reconnaissance teams.
Is the mainstream confirmation of the Dalai Lama as a CIA asset now can be considered the whole truth, or is there something more to the story?
To "dispel" the Dalai Lama supporters' doubts, the representatives of the Tibetan leader claimed in an interview with The New York Times on October 2, 1998 that "the subsidy earmarked for the Dalai Lama was spent on setting up offices in Geneva and New York and on international lobbying."
However, the devil is in the detail.
Verkhoturov emphasizes that the denial was intended for those unfamiliar with the documents and facts. The documents say that in 1963 the CIA allocated considerable funds for the Dalai Lama's entourage in Dharamsala, India, where his residence was located. There were no offices at Geneva and New York at the time.
Furthermore, soon the role of the CIA in the 1959 Tibetan Uprising and the formation of the government in exile also surfaced.
The US government viewed Tibet as a potential bulwark against China since 1949, when Chinese Communist leader Mao Zedong declared the creation of the People's Republic of China (PRC).
According to Memorandum for the 303 Committee (1968), the so-called CIA Tibetan program was partially initiated in 1956 "with the cognizance of the Committee, is based on US Government commitments made to the Dalai Lama in 1951 and 1956."
"The program consists of political action, propaganda, paramilitary and intelligence operations, appropriately coordinated with and supported by [less than 1 line of source text not declassified]," the document read.
The declassified memorandum stated that in September 1958 the 303 Committee approved the "CIA covert support to Tibetan resistance" — just a year before the all-out uprising in the region erupted.
According to the publicist, the Dalai Lama's exile opened the door to the CIA's covert program aimed at recruiting and training the Tibetan leader's followers and supporters in reconnaissance operations, sabotage, guerilla tactics, data encoding and radio operator skills. According to some estimates, about 170-240 Tibetans had undergone this special training.
The Memorandum for the Special Group (1964) reveals that the CIA planned to create a spy network in Tibet, including "approximately 20 singleton resident agents… two road watch teams in Tibet to report possible Chinese Communist build-ups, and six border watch communications teams."
Verkhoturov believes that this spy activity could have targeted China's nuclear program and the country's first nuclear tests on October 16, 1964.
However, China's Cultural Revolution — a sociopolitical movement that took place in the People's Republic of China from 1966 until 1976 — dealt a heavy blow to the Tibetan spy network and eventually brought an end to the espionage activity in the region.
As a result, the budget of the CIA's Tibetan program decreased to $1,165,000 in 1968.
According to Jonathan Mirsky, a historian of China, the CIA program finally ended with President Richard Nixon's visit to China in 1972.
Still, in the early 1970s the CIA continued to allocate funds directly to the Dalai Lama, however, the amount of these subsidies remains shrouded in secrecy.
"In 1999, I asked the Dalai Lama if the CIA operation had been harmful for Tibet," Mirsky wrote in 2013, 'Yes, that is true,' he replied. The intervention was harmful, he suggested, because it was primarily aimed at serving American interests rather than helping the Tibetans in any lasting way. 'Once the American policy toward China changed, they stopped their help,' he told me, 'Otherwise our struggle could have gone on'."
Indeed, there's more to the story and so, we need to continue exposing the false idols right at their own home turf.
Beyond the Dalai Lama's engagement with the CIA, his conviction to his own teachings has come to question when he was caught wearing a Rolex while he preached about the great scourge of materialism in this world.
What Kind Of Man Wears Rolex?
When you think of Political figures who wear a gold Rolex you might think of U.S. Presidents, Dwight Eisenhower, Lyndon Johnson or Bill Clinton, or even former U.S. Vice President Dick Cheney. When people think about Civil Rights Leaders who have worn yellow gold Rolex watches, they might think about Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., or Jesse Jackson. One man who might surprise people with wearing a Yellow Gold Rolex President, is no other than His Holiness, The Dali Lama of Tibet.
As mentioned, The Dalai Lama typically goes out of his way to make certain his watches never appear to be fancy or ostentatious. His holiness does so, by typically putting them on inexpensive stretchable Speidel Twist-O-Flex watch bands. In this recent photo, we see the Dalai Lama with Prince Charles, and the Dalai Lama is wearing a yellow gold Rolex Day-Date with a cobalt blue dial.
From another site glorifying his love for watches…
"The Second War was still going on, and the Allies wanted to make a road over Tibet from Assam, in India, to China. So two American military representatives came with a letter from President Roosevelt and a box containing a gold watch. A Patek Philippe. I was very excited. It was a very beautiful, very smart model. I still have it and it still works."
The watch is most likely a Patek Phillipe Perpetual Calendar Ref. 1526 from around 1942. No doubt it has been opened and dismantled more than once in it's lifetime.
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Besides this cherished first watch, His Holiness has also been photographed in public wearing a Rolex Day-Date and this two tone Rolex Datejust with a jubilee bracelet. I can only speculate what his collection might be worth should it ever go up on auction.
What about the holiness of his preachings on vegetarianism and non-violence?
Well, the CIA didn't just finance his rebellion against China, the agency also trained and supplied arms to those who were willing to fight for him, according to Newsweek:
In the midst of this cold-war playground was Gyalo Thondup, who helped choose the first batch of trainees from Kalimpong. But the big brother kept his younger sibling — the Dalai Lama was then in his early 20s — in the dark about the spook business.
"I didn't inform His Holiness about my contacts with the CIA and Indian intelligence," says Gyalo Thondup. "This was very dirty business."Under a full moon in October 1957, the first two-man team of CIA-trained Tibetans took off from an old World War II grass airstrip in East Pakistan, near Dhaka. They rode in a B-17 "sanitized" of all markings.
The parachutists were Athar Norbu and another Tibetan named Lhotse–"Tom" and "Lou" to their handlers. They were equipped with everything from dried beef to radios, from signal mirrors to folding-stock submachine guns.
They landed smack on target, 60 miles from Lhasa, and quickly hooked up with the local resistance leader, Gompo Tashi Andrugtsang, an influential trader whose legendary Khampas had been battling the Chinese for years.
The ragtag resistance waged a desperate struggle. In early 1958 many guerrillas were surrounded by 1,000 Chinese soldiers with artillery.
"All our leaders were wounded, including Gompo Tashi," says one survivor. "We kept hoping the CIA would drop us some weapons, but they never came.
… Help was on the way. In 1958 more than 30 Tibetans began training secretly at Camp Hale, not far from Leadville, Colorado. Here about 300 Tibetans in all–assigned names like "Jack," "Rocky" and "Martin"–were schooled in the black arts of covert warfare, from spy photography and sabotage to Morse code and mine-laying. "We had great expectations when we went to America; we thought perhaps they would even give us an atom bomb to take back with us," said one trainee, Tenzin Tsultrim.
Enjoying the benefits of conniving with a certain entity while feigning ignorance of what crimes that same entity has committed is the height of one's hypocrisy.
It's not only that one practices what one preaches, but the same must clean his own house first before he ventures out into the world, and begin finding faults against another.
This week it was reported that a five-year old Tibetan girl had been allegedly raped by two Tibetan adult males in the settlement of Mundgod, South India. As shocking as the alleged crime was the revelation that the Mundgod camp officer and settlement officer had encouraged the father of the child not to pursue criminal charges against the men. Why? Out of fear of shaming HH the Dalai Lama and the Tibetan people. Sadly, I and others living in the Tibetan community in exile were not surprised to learn this.
HuffPost web cached article, "Not in the Name of the Dalai Lama: Tibetan Reaction to Child Rape Reveals a Deeper Malaise"
Kalu Rinpoche says that he was molested by elder monks…"sexually abused by elder monks," and when he was 18 his tutor in the monastery threatened him at knifepoint. "It's all about money, power, controlling. . . . And then I became a drug addict because of all this misunderstanding and I went crazy."
A gang of older monks who would visit his room each week…..This was hard-core sex, he says, including penetration. "Most of the time, they just came alone," he says. "They just banged the door harder, and I had to open. I knew what was going to happen, and after that you become more used to it."
It wasn't until Kalu returned to the monastery after his three-year retreat that he realized how wrong this practice was. By then the cycle had begun again on a younger generation of victims, he says. Kalu's claims of sexual abuse mirror those of Lodoe Senge, an ex-monk and 23 year old tulku who now lives in Queens, New York.
"When I saw the video," Senge says of Kalu's confessions, "I thought, 'Shit, this guy has the balls to talk about it when I didn't even have the courage to tell my girlfriend.'" Senge was abused, he says, as a 5-year-old by his own tutor, a man in his late twenties, at a monastery in India.
False idolatry and false institutions are two great scourges on this planet. Both have created a strong, opaque barrier between the mind and the Truth it is seeking.
The only way to know the Whole Truth and free humanity at last is to launch a great rebellion against them both.
Be prepared for what the mainstream media are doing right now, which is to publish some chosen truths to regain the people's trust, as they start filtering the social media networks for "fake news". Let's not fall for this shenanigan, not anymore.
Aside from the fiat monetary scam and bloodsoaked petrodollar, another significant source of funds for the Nazionist Khazarian Mafia is the "healthcare" industry which registered a whopping $3.09 trillion in 2014, and is projected to soar to $3.57 trillion in 2017, in the US alone. We believe that this is just a conservative figure.
We can all help the revolution by avoiding all Khazarian pharmaceutical drugs, defeat any viral attack and scaremongering, like the Zika virus, easily by knowing how to build our own comprehensive antiviral system. Find more about how we can kill three birds with one stone, right here.
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text: Home Books Katy Holder Dinner Like A Boss Share on Facebook Share on Twitter Share on Pinterest Share on Google+ Email this page Dinner Like A Boss ByKaty Holder Contains57 recipes Published byHardie Grant Books ISBN9781741175325 PhotographerBenito Martin Share on Facebook Share on Twitter Share on Pinterest Share on Google+ Email this page Add to my collections When you're juggling kids, work and after-school activities, who has time to cook? Dinner Like a Boss is food writer and stylist Katy Holder's collection of more than 50 quick, easy and healthy meals for busy families, featuring meat, fish and vegetarian dishes from around the world (and some sweet treats, too). In no time, you'll be making dinner like a boss! In this book INTRODUCTION Read this Chapter LIGHT DISHES, SALADS, WRAPS & FLAT THINGS Read this Chapter Chicken and noodle rice paper rolls with hoisin-peanut sauce Colourful vegetable and haloumi fritters with lemon and garlic mayonnaise Ricotta and pumpkin fritters Crunchy quinoa and vegetable fritters with lemon and herb mayonnaise San choy bao Warming vegetable and bean soup with pesto Moroccan lamb or chicken Couscous salad with grilled haloumi Maple-roasted pumpkin, chicken and pasta salad Crunchy vegetable gado gado salad Quinoa and rice salad with bocconcini or haloumi Fragrant Thai noodle salad 'Pulled' chicken in tortilla wraps Pizzas for the whole family NOODLES, PASTA & RICE Read this Chapter Aromatic chicken noodle soup Teriyaki salmon with udon noodles and stir‑fried vegetables Chicken and vegetable stir-fry Hidden gem meatballs with spaghetti and tomato sauce Marinara pasta with napoletana sauce Vegetable and bocconcini pasta bake Zoodles with chicken and pesto Basil pesto Roasted capsicum and parsley pesto Dairy-free pesto Honey soy chicken with ginger rice and vegetable medley Family-friendly massaman chicken and vegetable curry with rice Pork with rice and black beans Bibimbap rice bowl Bacon and pea risotto Vegetable fried rice with sweet chilli omelette MAINS Read this Chapter Roast chicken with orange butter rub, roasted vegetables and creamy gravy Crumbed chicken with roasted vegetables and crispy kale Slow-cooked lamb shoulder with cannellini beans and hummus Quick hummus Yummy beef patties and wedges Red onion relish Smoky Mexican chicken burgers with avocado and salad Thai pork patties with noodles Beef kofta in pitta pockets with yoghurt dressing and tomato and cucumber salad Fajitas with tomato and avocado salsa Panko-crumbed fish burgers with crunchy coleslaw Chilli and caper mayonnaise Lulu's fish pie with peas My ultimate fish cakes Fish and vegetable bake Chickpea and feta burgers with lemon yoghurt dressing Lemon yoghurt dressing Corn and capsicum shakshuka with potato bites Roast pumpkin, zucchini and parmesan frittata Creamy pea and potato Spanish omelette Mild Indian vegetable fritters with minted yoghurt sauce and carrot salad DESSERTS & AFTERNOON TREATS Read this Chapter Sweet ricotta fritters with orange-honey syrup Coconut ice cream or popsicles Baked custard with blueberry compote Greek yoghurt lime and vanilla panna cotta Crunchy fruit crumble Fruity lemon curd Eton mess Recipes in Dinner Like A Boss More recipes Chicken and vegetable stir-fry Pizzas for the whole family Warming vegetable and bean soup with pesto Family-friendly massaman chicken and vegetable curry with rice Maple-roasted pumpkin, chicken and pasta salad Yummy beef patties and wedges Panko-crumbed fish burgers with crunchy coleslaw Chickpea and feta burgers with lemon yoghurt dressing Slow-cooked lamb shoulder with cannellini beans and hummus Moroccan lamb or chicken Ricotta and pumpkin fritters Add to my collections Share on Facebook Share on Twitter Share on Pinterest Share on Google+ Email this page Like this page? Back to top


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American Life in Poetry: Column 012
Perhaps your family passes on the names of loved ones to subsequent generations. This poem by Andrei Guruianu speaks to the loving and humbling nature of sharing another's name.
Dead before I came into this world, grandfather,
I carry your name, yet I've never met you.
I hear my name, and know
that somehow they refer to you.
When I scribble those six letters
fast, to sign some document
or print them neatly in a box,
I feel your presence flow with the ink
stain and burn through the paper,
forever imprinted in my mind.
Late summer nights
gathered around the dinner table,
leftovers being cleared away,
faces clouded in cigarette smoke,
I hear voices pass the word
back and forth in reverence.
Somehow I know it's not me
the little one grabbing for attention.
They speak of you, Andrei,
the one I've never met,
whose name I carry.
We do not accept unsolicited submissions. American Life in Poetry is made possible by The Poetry Foundation (www.poetryfoundation.org), publisher of Poetry magazine. It is also supported by the Department of English at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln. Reprinted from Paterson Literary Review by permission of the author. Andrei Guruianu is a reporter for the Binghamton Press & Sun Bulletin in Binghamton, N.Y. Poem copyright © 2003 by Andrei Guruianu. Introduction copyright © 2020 by The Poetry Foundation. The introduction's author, Ted Kooser, served as United States Poet Laureate Consultant in Poetry to the Library of Congress from 2004-2006.


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text: Two months post my birthday, I am sharing with you my birthday cake for this year. I hadn't planned to make anything necessarily, but I happened to have buttermilk and cream that needed to get used, so this was a good recipe for it. Plus, it was something I had been wanting to make. I was able to make it in a few stages, which helped since the Fudgelet and I were both super sick and naps weren't happening. He actually helped me make it. I asked if he wanted to "help Mommy bake" and he stopped playing with his cars, pointed where we keep his stool and said "over there" (for me to move the stool over where I was working). I figured he would like to help since there was some whisking involved (his favorite part).


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Downed wires and trees could make trick or treating dangerous on Halloween
Downed wires will make trick or treating dangerous
@Byline:By JOHN PENNEY
As towns continue the laborious and potentially risky business of clearing roads of fallen trees and downed electrical wires, officials have another issue to monitor: an influx of trick-or-treaters heading out into power-damaged areas.
"Halloween is a big concern for us this year," Plainfield First Selectman Paul Sweet said.
"We've got sub-divisions that are dark and a lot of areas with generators running. And most of these kids tend to head to populated areas where they can get big hauls of candy."
Sweet said he had no authority to "postpone" Halloween, but is urging residents to take extra precautions this year.
"People have to be careful," he said. "They need to bring flashlights and children and teenagers need to be attended by an adult. This is a serious thing."
Plainfield Police Michael Suprenant said the department typically keeps extra officers on staff during Halloween.
"We'll have a patrol in every village," he said. "And we'll have extra officers in populated areas this year. We're urging people to stay away from downed trees and places marked with caution tape."
In Norwich, City Manager Alan Bergren said officials are also assessing storm damage, and clean-up efforts will continue through the week. Debris, including fallen tree branches and low-hanging wires, is still prevalent in some areas.
"People are clearing all that out, but we're still advising caution," Bergren said.
He suggested families hold Halloween parties inside homes, and that trick-or-treaters stick to familiar neighborhoods that have been inspected during daylight for any potential hazards.
Norwich Police Sgt. Peter Camp said the department will have extra patrols in several city neighborhoods tonight, but urged parents to be cautious of their surroundings as evening approaches.
"We don't want to lose Halloween for the second year in a row," he said, referring to last year's crippling October snowstorm. "But we want to make sure everyone out there is safe. As always, if anybody sees wires or trees down, keep a good, safe distance."
Joe Diroma, who lives in Lisbon's Strawberry Field sub-division — a local Halloween hot-spot — said he's anticipating more children than ever knocking on his door this year.
"What better way to celebrate the end of the storm," he said. "We handed out more than a thousand pieces of candy last year, so I'll be heading out to get extra for Wednesday. I have a feeling we'll be seeing kids from those areas still out of power."
In Colchester, Halloween has been moved to Nov. 7 because of the dangerous conditions of town roads.
"Since there are still and will continue to be downed power lines throughout the town for the next couple of days, public safety personnel, CL&P, and myself did not feel it was safe for children to be walking around darkened streets," First Selectman Gregg Schuster said.
Adam Benson and Ryan Blessing contributed to this report


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Based on your organisational analysis and scan and with reference to writers and research and from Assignment 1, you are asked to develop, discuss and validate a strategic plan for your EC organisation for the next 3 years. This will involve a convincing discussion and rationale, addressing the reason for the implementation of a number of strategies to strengthen your organisation and move it into a more sustainable position for the future. It will also include detailed discussion on the process for the implementation of these strategies, covering financial and staffing implications.
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Liberty News
Hall of Fame quarterback Jim Kelly and family share faith journey
When Pro Football Hall of Fame quarterback Jim Kelly took the stage at Liberty University Convocation on Friday, he did so as more than a legendary football player, businessman, philanthropist, and cancer survivor. He joined Liberty as one of its own — as a parent. The university's Vines Center was packed with students, many of whom were joined by family members to kick off the annual Fall Family Weekend.
As Convocation began with a time of worship and prayer, Kelly clasped hands tightly with his wife Jill, and daughter, Erin (a junior at Liberty) — a reminder of how close the family has clung to God and each other through the difficult seasons of their lives.
Before the Kellys shared their story in a panel moderated by David Nasser, senior vice president for Spiritual Development, the crowd was met with some surprises.
Jim Kelly's longtime friend and teammate, fellow Hall of Famer Bruce Smith, introduced his "brother."
|Bruce Smith, a Hall of Fame defensive end and longtime teammate of Jim Kelly's, introduces Kelly at Convocation on Friday.
Smith said he knows Jim Kelly as more than a Buffalo Bills legend who led his team to four-straight Super Bowl appearances, but as a "living testament of what God can do for you in your life."
"I lived that firsthand with him, I saw his struggles, I saw his trials and tribulations that he had to endure with his family," Smith said. "He is an incredible source of strength (and) encouragement… and even through these trials and tribulations, his faith has not wavered. And that is what is the most impressive thing to me."
Jim Kelly showcased some of his old form by tossing footballs — autographed by both Kelly and Smith — to the crowd.
Only months ago, Jim Kelly was battling cancer, but was declared cancer-free by doctors in September.
"Don't stop fighting," Kelly told the students. "I live every day like it's my last, but I enjoy every day. So enjoy every day that you can and be blessed with what you have."
Before Jim's battle with cancer, the Kellys' son, Hunter, was diagnosed with Krabbe Disease shortly after his birth and was only expected to live a couple years. He died at 8-and-a-half years old in 2005.
The family shared how their faith in God was developed, and ultimately strengthened, through the seasons of hardships, beginning with Hunter's diagnosis in 1997.
"Every day that we woke we did not know if our son was going to be there or not," Jim Kelly said. "It was driving us crazy. … Then we decided, we were going to treat him like he was living."
That decision helped them to make Hunter's eight years meaningful and full of fond memories.
The family explained that before they were met with hardship, they were not a family of faith. When Hunter was diagnosed, Jill Kelly said she immediately thought that Jim's status, talent, fame, and money could somehow fix their situation.
"The worldly foundation that I have stood on my entire life came crumbling down in an instant, and I praise God for that," she explained. "Because if there was a worldly answer, if there was a cure or a treatment or something like that, in that moment that is what I would have continued to put my hope in."
She said that while she selfishly came to God in that difficult time because she only wanted assurance that she would someday be with her son in Heaven, He accepted her with open arms.
"He allowed me to chase after the things of this world that are absolutely empty, because at the end of all the emptiness that's there, He is still there," she said. "It took the suffering of our only son to bring us to the only suffering that matters and that is the suffering of God's one and only son."
Jim Kelly said it was his wife's transformation by God's grace that led him to find peace in Christ and is what gave him a foundation he would later need to endure treatments for cancer in his upper jaw.
He was so confident in God's love that he told NBC last year that he was not afraid to die. That was something that resonated with Erin.
"I remember growing up, my dad always said to me, 'You have to be Kelly Tough,'" Erin said, citing the family motto and the title of her upcoming book. "I didn't understand the fullness of what that meant until I actually saw my earthly father be weak. It just drew me to seek the strength of my Heavenly Father.
"It allowed us (as a family) to look to God's strength and say, 'Lord, you are good even in the midst of this, you are good and you are taking care of every detail and we have nothing to fear because we know that in death we can have life.'"
Jim Kelly said that the opportunities God has given him to impact others through this journey have been just as much of a blessing to him.
"If I can make a difference for kids out there, if I can make a difference for adults out there by what I am going through," he said, "thank the good Lord. Because I tell you what, all those people out there that write me letters and send me emails, thank you, because you help me."
The Kelly family wanted to encourage anyone in the crowd who is going through hardship or uncertainty. As Convocation ended, Jill Kelly asked anyone who wanted that support to stand and she prayed for them.
After Convocation, the Kellys interacted with students and signed copies of their books.
Later in the day, the Kellys visited the Liberty Flames Sports Network studio and filmed segments for upcoming episodes of Game On, LFSN's daily sports talk show. Jim Kelly had the opportunity to talk football with the hosts. He then spent time interacting with the Flames Football team and its head coach, Turner Gill, a friend of Kelly's.
The Kellys plan to enjoy Fall Family Weekend events together at Liberty this weekend.


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Gustavo Saba became the most successful driver in Rally de Erechim history today by claiming his fifth overall win in southern Brazil, where the third round of the FIA Codasur Championship was held.
The Paraguayan ace, co-driven by Argentina's Fernando Mussano, has now been on top of the results with four different models of three manufacturers: Mitsubishi Lancer Evolution X in 2011 and 2012, Škoda Fabia S2000 in 2013, Škoda Fabia R5 in 2018 and Volkswagen Polo GTI R5 this year.
Predictably, Diego Domínguez and Héctor Nunes planned an early attack from their runner-up spot. The Hyundai i20 was quickest in the ninth special stage and reduced the gap to 10.9s, but Saba replied with two fastest times in SS10 and 11, admitting that the pressure almost made him roll in a corner.
Meanwhile, Domínguez suffered a rear tyre puncture in the penultimate test. The remaining pieces of rubber cut a brake pipe near the end, leaking all the fluid.
Alejandro Galanti and Marcelo Toyotoshi emerged fastest in the last Stage, called Verduleiros, getting a steady third position and controlling top Ford Fiesta user and fellow countryman Augusto Bestard, here co-driven by Edgardo Galindo.
With the Fabia brought from Bolivia, Roberto Saba and Claudio Ocampo completed the event in fifth. Augusto D'Agostini and Juan Pablo Carrera finished sixth with a Volkswagen Polo Maxi Rally, leaving RC2N victor Eduardo Peredo (Mitsubishi Lancer Evo X), top local entry Juliano and Rafael Sartori (Polo MR), Carlo García (Lancer Evo X) and RC4 winner Diego Domínguez Jr. behind.
Federico Ensslin, only Uruguayan competitor, took his production Mitsubishi to eleventh place. In Asunción, Miguel Cabral is a traumatologist and Ramiro Ayala a lawyer, but here they clinched the RC3 title in advance driving a Honda Civic Type R. So did Domínguez Jr. in RC4 at the wheel of a Peugeot 208 R2.
In RC5, Brazilian André Allegretti claimed the win in a Ted Racing Fiat Palio. Team mate and manager Luis Tedesco dominated almost the whole way, but near the finish he voluntarily got a penalty and allowed Allegretti to score maximum points, based in the fact he is not competing in the Sudam series on a full-time basis. Paraguay's Martín Tomas (joined in this rally by Uruguay's Sebastián González), won the second leg and secured third position.
Gustavo Saba took 1h37m35.6s (96,47 kmh his average speed) to beat Domínguez by 18.3s and Galanti by 48.4s.
After the retirement of Milton and André Pagliosa in their Mitsubishi Lancer Evolution X, the Sartori duo celebrated a win as far as the Brazilian Championship is concerned. They took RC2 honours and finished 2m14.7s over Vítor Fischer's Lancer Evo IX with Roberto Reijers in third (Peugeot 208 MR).
The other classes were won by Tedesco (RC4) and Evandro Carbonerra (Fiat Palio, RC5).
Finally, the regional Gaúcho Championship showed Julian Sartori heading the standings again, followed by Fischer y Carbonerra. Cristiano Beus (Fiat Palio) and Mauricio Jarczeski (Volkswagen Gol) were quickest in RC3 and RC4, respectively.
The South American Rally Championship resumes in Santa Cruz (Bolivia), 23-25th August.
Colaborou: Juan Cruz Mathus


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Lubbock, Texas: Silent Wings Museum
A restored WACO CG-4A is one of the exhibits about World War 2 combat uses of gliders. The museum is on the site of a US Army glider pilot training field.
Turkey, Texas: Restored Phillips 66 Gas Station
An original filling station in tiny Turkey, restored with non-working old pumps and signage.
Snyder, Texas: White Buffalo Statue #3
A memorial to the oops-sorry-about-that shooting of a local sacred white buffalo. The newer (2001) downtown statue is in the courthouse square.
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While in development, the Bentley R Type was referred to as the Mark VII, as it succeeded to the Mark VI model. The new model was introduced in 1952 and produced until 1955, in 2,323 units. The Bentley R Type was fitted with a standardized body—although a few models were consigned to individual coachbuilders—and the whole car was assembled at the Crewe factory in England. The Mark VI and the R Type were similar in design for the front of the car, but the trunk was twice as big. The engine was an F-head, 6-cylinder, 4.5-liter unit, coupled to a four-speed manual transmission standard, with an automatic option. The chassis featured independent suspension in the front and semi-elliptical leaf springs in the rear.
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The past couple of weeks have seemed a bit wonky ... I'd been waking later then normal and generally mornings seemed harder, I'd put it down to post-holiday-getting-back-into-a-routine thing BUT this morning I awoke before the alarm, enjoyed getting up in the morning sunlight and I feel back on track and ready to start my week.
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The East Asian Library is located on the first floor of Doheny Memorial Library on the University Park Campus. The closest campus entrance is Entrance #3, located at the intersection of Figueroa Street and McCarthy Way. This entrance is open 24 hours a day. public parking is available in Parking Structure X for $12.00. See the University map and the USC parking reservations sites for more information.
The East Asian Library directly supports the research and teaching needs of the East Asian faculty and students at USC and includes in its collections Chinese, Japanese and Korean-language materials in all fields, but with an emphasis on social sciences and humanities. The Library's location on the first floor of Doheny Main Library supports a broader mission of promoting the integration of East Asian perspectives into the learning and experience of the University community as a whole.


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Thursday morning city leaders celebrated the inaugural ride of the Q, Fresno's bus rapid transit system.
"Our new Q bus service will make daily transit service experience more appealing, attractive and accessible. It is a great addition to our city and our community," said Fresno Mayor Lee Brand.
The Q stands for quick and quality.
Riders will notice the brand new bus stops along Blackstone Avenue, Kings Canyon Road and in downtown Fresno.
City leaders say the new Q route is an investment in public safety each stop has surveillance cameras and lighting.
Getting from Point A to Point B in Fresno will be faster and easier on the "Q" Today on @ABC30 Live at Four the expectations from city leaders and businesses. pic.twitter.com/dCWNjuQINF— Reuben Contreras (@reubencontreras) February 22, 2018
"There are 18 police officers now patrolling the streets of Fresno along this corridor and along the Ventura/Kings Canyon corridor who would not be here or would not be out on the streets today if it wasn't for this investment," said Interim Assistant City Manager Bruce Rudd.
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Effects of density-dependent dispersal behaviours on the speed and spatial patterns of range expansion in predator-prey metapopulations
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Dispersal can strongly affect the spatiotemporal dynamics of a species (its spread, spatial distribution and persistence). We investigated how two dispersal behaviours, namely prey evasion (PE) and predator pursuit (PP), affect the dynamics of a predator–prey system. PE portrays the tendency of prey avoiding predators by dispersing into adjacent patches with fewer predators, while PP describes the tendency of predators to pursue the prey by moving into patches with more prey. Based on the Beddington predation model, a spatially explicit metapopulation model was built to incorporate PE and PP. Numerical simulations were run to investigate the effects of PE and PP on the rate of spread, spatial synchrony and the persistence of populations. Results show that both PE and PP can alter spatial synchrony although PP has a weaker desynchronising effect than PE. The predator–prey system without PE and PP expanded in circular waves. The effect of PE can push the prey to distribute in a circular ring front, whereas the effect of PP can change the circular waves to anisotropic expansion. Furthermore, weak PE and PP can accelerate the spread of prey while strong and disproportionate intensities slow down the range expansion. The effects of PE and PP further enhance the population size, break down the spatial synchrony and promote the persistence of populations.
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What can employers do to help employees overcome barriers to health? In my last two posts, I broke down member-reported barriers to care and healthy eating, and what employers can do to help their employees live happier healthier lives. Today, I'm going to dive into the top three barriers our members report when it comes to physical exercise: time, energy and motivation.
What can you do about employees time?
Approximately half of Pack Health members report time as a barrier to exercise. With employees spending over a third of their week at work, employers have ample opportunity to address this barrier. One way to reduce this barrier is with flexible schedule policies. This allows employees to exercise before, during, or after their workday, based on personal preference.
Another way to help employees find time for exercise is by encouraging walking meetings and exercise breaks. It's worth noting that exercise breaks don't have to take up too much time to be effective. Short bursts of activity are just as effective as 30+ minute sessions, and can actually improve focus and creativity!
Exercise and energy
In addition to time barriers, 58% of Pack Health members expressed a lack of energy as a barrier to exercise. The good news here: brief exercise breaks combined with adequate sleep can actually improve energy levels. To get employees on the right track, consider incorporating benefits like digital health coaching to help employees master goal setting, time management, and self-monitoring skills. These skills are the key to breaking the cycle and achieving sustainable results.
Motivation, Motivation, Motivation
Another common barrier to exercise is individual motivation, with 54% of members reporting a lack of motivation as a barrier to exercise. Environmental, structural, and communication changes can increase motivation by supporting a culture of wellness within the workplace. Environmental changes such as lighting and artwork in stairways can make exercise a more enjoyable experience. Structural and communication changes such as designated walking paths and posted signage near elevators to encourage stair use can provide a visual reminder that triggers exercise throughout the day. Design structural changes by creating walking paths, and including their route and distance along the way to provide opportunities for employees to move more. Finally, activities can be planned, such as organizing a team for a charity walk, to mobilize the team spirit and get people moving outside of the daily grind.
Stay Tuned for More!
We have a few more member-reported barriers to dig into, and I'm excited to share more practical tips to employers to minimize these barriers for employees. My next post will be on Medication Adherence – subscribe to our Perspectives series to learn more!