Andøya Airport, Andenes (ANX) currently has only 1 runway.
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Andøya Airport, Andenes handled 48,254 passengers last year.
The airport is located at an elevation of 13 meters.
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Goldplat plc, the AIM quoted gold producer, with international gold recovery operations located in South Africa and Ghana and a gold mine in Kenya, is pleased to announce an operational update for the three months ended 31 December 2018 (the 'Quarter' or 'Q2 2019').
As was forecast at the end of the previous quarter, production levels at Goldplat Recovery during the period returned to normal levels with both the by-product sections as well as the carbon-in-leach ('CIL') circuits exceeding planned production. This was due to the sourcing of material from clients returning to normal as well as the focus on processing built-up inventory in the plant during the period.
Gerard Kisbey-Green, CEO of Goldplat, commented: "Overall the production numbers for the Quarter were good and importantly, showed a dramatic turnaround when compared to the previous quarter. Goldplat Recovery had a very good Quarter and this momentum has carried through to the current quarter. Although the situation in Ghana has improved, our teams are focussed on improving the predictability of sourcing material, including from within Ghana, elsewhere in West Africa as well as South America. Unfortunately, Kilimapesa continues to report poor results and the Company hopes to progress financing discussions to a point where plans can be shared with the market and our investors during the current quarter.
10% increase year on year ('YoY') to 7,034 ounces (Q2 2018: 6,380 ounces of gold and gold equivalents produced during the quarter).
Large volumes of inventory, not including strategic stockpiles, were processed during the Quarter, monetising inventory previously "dormant" due to the nature of the material or economics of final processing. This clean-up has continued into the second quarter.
The alternative option for reprocessing and final deposition of the Tailings Storage Facility ('TSF') continues to be evaluated.
The initial expenditure of US$1.5 million that was required to be made by 31 October 2018 has been verified and Ashanti has exercised the initial option to take up 51% of Goldplat's interest in the project. Ashanti has notified Goldplat that they will not elect the Subsequent Option for an additional 24% of the project and the parties will, according to the agreement, form a Joint Venture to manage the project going forward. Details regarding structure will be announced once decided and concluded.


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P&G's Marc Pritchard: Public Relations Can Reinvent Brand-Building
The world's most powerful marketer opens up on PR challenges, agency models and the changing nature of creativity ahead of his headlining slot at PRovoke18.
Arun Sudhaman 31 Aug 2018 // 12:00PM GMT
Widely considered the world's most powerful marketer, Marc Pritchard probably wields the biggest global PR budget too, as part of his overarching remit as chief brand officer of consumer goods giant Procter & Gamble. But it is not just Pritchard's spending power that commands respect. His long tenure — he has led P&G's brand-building efforts for a decade now — gives him a unique vantage point on marketing disruption in an era when many CMOs last for considerably less time in their roles.
Pritchard has learned to use this influence to significant effect, regularly challenging and provoking agencies, media platforms and his own teams about the need for reinvention at all levels. Neither is this confined to rhetoric alone; his efforts include high-profile initiatives to create new agency models, increase marketing efficiency and improve digital media transparency.
Pritchard will headline the Holmes Report's PRovoke18 Global Summit in Washington, DC, on 24 October. Six years ago, at his last Global PR Summit appearance, he called on the PR industry to take on more of a leadership role. This was just one of the issues discussed when we caught up with him this week for an extensive interview that explored agency challenges, the PR industry's opportunity, reputation management in the fake news era, the changing nature of creativity, employee ambassadors, the fear of failure and much more.
In 2012, you challenged the PR industry to take on a leadership role, using 'Thank You Mom' as an example. Has the industry risen to that challenge? How is that demonstrated in P&G's work?
I think the PR industry has absolutely been stepping up to reinvent brand communications and the industry can feel quite good about it. We're reinventing brand-building to move to more one-to-one marketing and, frankly, a lot of that is being driven by the expertise and skills and competencies from the world of PR. If you think about our SK-II 'Change Destiny' campaign, it has stories and content developed like the 'Marriage Market Takeover' and 'Expiry Date', but it's fuelled by influencers who do content creation and advertising for the brand, and that's a PR skill.
The revitalisation of the Olay brand is another great example. They've moved from doing several different ads on mass media but ended up going to one, but they pivoted to several different influencers, where they ended up doing content. The 'Fearless 9', who are also being advocated for and talked about through PR and influencer content. Things like the Tide Super Bowl [campaign], there was a team of people around. You definitely had a lot of PR people at the command centre fuelling content throughout that entire effort. Back to the Olympics, that is largely driven by PR and influencers. We created this wonderful Thank You Mom asset — #LoveOverBias — with a family home that is in the actual Olympic Park, which is really a PR and content hub that is distributing and creating news and stories and endorsements that happen. Bottomline, I think the industry has stepped up quite a bit.There's still plenty of things that need to happen in terms of stepping up. The content space is very wide open. Content and media partnerships. It's right in [the PR industry's] hands. Don't blow it. It's yours to lose.
You also said at the same event that the PR industry needs to lose its inferiority complex, particularly where creativity is concerned. Do you still think that is a concern?
I hear far fewer concerns about that these days. There used to be a lot of discussion about having a seat at the table. But I hear that less, because more PR pros are grabbing the wheel and showing their creative brilliance. Everything I just cited represented a lot of PR creativity that was integrated throughout the entire programs. 'The Talk' — that was almost completely fuelled by PR, including when there were some tough discussions we needed to have about that. The PR professionals stepped up. I think what's happening today is that creativity is becoming so integrated that it's starting to get hard to discern where the ideas are coming from. I was in Latin America last week and I saw this great program from Secret — 'No Sweat, Move Forward' — challenging conventional stereotypes about women, and it's very much powered by PR.
How hard is this equation for PR firms if advertising agencies are typically viewed as the brand guardians? How has P&G addressed this challenge?
One of the things we've done is reinvent our agency partnerships. We had been outsourcing too much of our work to all agencies. And our brand people had become too much like project managers. We want them to be brand entrepreneurs. Our expectation is that those brand entrepreneurs are the brand guardians. So we're moving from outsourcing to getting our brand entrepreneurs' hands on the keyboard. That means they are the ones leading it. We've changed the expectation and our agency models. We're talking now about a fixed and flow model — one fixed agency retainer partnership and then you flow different firms coming in as needed and that gives PR firms a much more direct shot at doing the work and, in many cases, doing it with the brand leader as opposed to another agency.
Our fabric care model brings in the best from various shops. In that one, it turns out MMC is a core partner and very much at a leadership level for that. The other thing is we've really invested in content partnerships that start to reinvent advertising to be less 'ad like' and more authentic. So, partnerships with Katie Couric Media, which today released her first instalment of 'Getting There', which is much more editorial in nature. And we have a relationship with Queen Latifah. Partnerships with VaynerMedia and BuzzFeed. It's changing the nature of the creativity.
On fabric care, you have trialled a model that puts different holding company agencies under one roof. How is that working and will you look to extend it?
We call it a people first model. We brought them all together under one roof, one banner. It's still pretty early days, but it's off to a very strong start. It's probably too early to decide whether we want to expand it but certainly we would be absolutely open to it. I've already seen the behaviour change in that it is really an integrated team effort where they are focused on solving business problems through creativity and there's not this siloed distinction between the ad agency, PR agency, design agency, the instore agency. It's really an integrated team of passionate people who are solving problems. Just recently for example, we brought some content creators here and members of that team showed up to engage with them.
Does this kind of initiative negate the power of an agency brand or does that not concern you?
I'm not concerned about it because what I see is these people still feel very connected to their agency. Because creatives want to be with other creatives within their other agencies. But then they come and work on this. It helps keep them connected to their other agency partners.
One of the PR industry's big concerns is being able to demonstrate the effectiveness of its work. Are you happy with solutions that claim to link content to commerce, whether that's in China or elsewhere?
I still think there's more work to be done. But what I think is that we're making more progress than we've made in the past. We're reinventing media and advertising and what this has done is give us consumer databases which enable us to more directly connect with audiences and consumers with much greater precision. We're better able to see the instant effect of content so that helps us better connect PR activities with sales outcomes.
Impressions are good to know because you get a general sense of whether something was popular, but that's still pretty blunt. The more we move to mass reach with one-to-one precision, the more valuable PR is, because it's actually directly linked to sales outcomes. We're starting to see this as we get into more of the, for want of a better term, 'performance brand building'. We're seeing influencer posts drive engagement on a particular asset and then ultimately connect to the sales. We're getting much closer to daily, business outcome activities and that bodes well for the PR world.
A couple of years ago, you whittled down your global PR roster to five agencies. Has that been as effective as you hoped in terms of driving stronger outcomes for your brands, and what could agencies be doing better in this structure?
That was part of our overall agency reinvention which we're feeling is really making a difference. The fixed and flow model also applies to the PR world. All agencies, including PR, have really stepped up. They have invested in creativity which is what we wanted and focused much more on working together with each other and taking out the unnecessary touches. We just absolutely have no time for all the extra touches. We still need to constantly step our game up for content creation that is moving at the speed of popular culture. We need more people stepping up and getting their hands on the keyboard. That requires a greater degree of agility and, in some cases, as part of this model we are using smaller, more agile boutique shops where needed.
Brands these days are expected to be a force for good as well as a force for growth. It's one thing making that case externally, but how do you turn your 95k employees into brand advocates?
As we make the case externally that same case is made internally. Our 95k employees are also consumers and they are as interested in what the rest of our consumers are interested in too. They are looking for companies and brands to have a point of view and express that point of view and serve consumers with our superior products. But, go beyond that to do good for the world, whether that's gender equality, racial equality, environmental sustainability. And what we see is tremendous pride in our company.
We just did our annual survey and 90% of our employees say they are proud to work for P&G and that they use our products and recommend them to family and friends. Our internal PR pros created a brand ambassador program that is thousands strong and growing every day. Literally every time we do something, they go ahead and distribute that to their social networks. I really believe that P&G's people are P&G's most valuable asset. What we've had is the opportunity where we've been able to have some of our own people be spokespeople on our products. Like Sara Giovanni, the researcher and scientist who created Pampers Pure. Doing something good for her own babies inspired her to create Pampers Pure. We filmed her and made her an Instagram ambassador.
People take tremendous pride in #LoveOverBias, #WeSeeEqual advertising. Gus Kenworthy on Head & Shoulders. The Vicks campaign featuring the transgender mom [#TouchOfCare]. That stuff, people are jazzed by and that's what gets people to be advocates, when they are proud of work that our brands do, they talk about it with their family and friends.
You want your brands to be trusted. But how much harder is reputation management in a world where fake news has become weaponised and more of a threat than ever before?
We really go back to our core values. We have a set of values and principles. One of which is integrity. As a result of that, and this is something we always think of in the PR world, we are a company and a set of brands that focus on substance, and proof and action to be useful, not just talk. In this world, our belief is that eventually the truth prevails. So that's why we stick with this integrity point. And why it's so important and ingrained. Eventually, it all works out.
Agency complexity, as you have pointed out, should not be your problem. But should client complexity — whether that's different silos or budgets or fiefdoms — be an agency's problem?
You know...no. One of the biggest enemies for all of us, is unnecessary complexity. The world is complex enough. What that does require is all of us to be constantly diligent at eliminating unnecessary touches. One of our agency partners talked about this — we want more focus on creativity. We want agencies to focus more of their resources on creativity. What that does is reduce the amount of client service we expect. So we had a buddy system, where every P&G person had a client service buddy. We've really had to focus on reducing that. The whole mindset of getting our hands on the keyboard to do the actual work starts to facilitate that. Then we want to work with the partners in our agencies who can make that go faster. It increases speed, it cuts down on cost and it accelerates brilliant creativity. For the influencer model, you need to be moving at the speed of the market. You don't have time for complexity.
Why is P&G trying to trademark textspeak acronyms like LOL for its products?
IDK. I guess you'll have to wait and see. You'll see. There's some good creativity involved in that. Smiley face emoji after that.
You've often said that marketers need courage. What is it they fear most and has that changed at all in your decade overseeing P&G's marketing?
There are a lot of people who have tremendous courage to try things. What I've tried to encourage people to do is, every once in a while, stake your career on something. If you have the courage of your convictions go for it and trust your instincts. What I think people may fear, and I just had this conversation with a group of brand people, they are afraid of failing. That is a bit of human nature.
So, we're adopting lean innovation techniques. We went to Silicon Valley and learned from the likes of Steve Blank and Eric Ries about how startups operate and we've started applying those techniques. You're doing a lot of experiments on a small scale, so you have to try and be willing to fail, pivot and eventually hit the winner, and expand. It brings the cost of failure down.
What has happened in the mass marketing world is that it has involved such big bets that there is a high cost of failure. That's one of the reasons many spend a lot of time trying to qualify something before it gets to market. What we've done is try to flip that. Act like a startup, take the small bet, learn, fail, pivot, learn, expand. That is quite exciting. People get to make things happen, they get to see the effect immediately, failures are not catastrophic, and that's bringing an explosion of creativity.
Zevo is a startup brand. Olay Skin Advisor is a classic example of an app we've created. We've bought Native. We've bought First Aid Beauty. We have more than a 100 different small scale experiments going on in totally different types of innovation. It's pretty pervasive now. A lot of the influencer work we did on Olay was taking that approach.
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Hearthstone: Battlegrounds Review
Posted: 10 weeks ago, last updated 9 weeks ago.
Author: Ben Kendall and @GeekDadGamer.
Battlegrounds is a strategic fighting game mode in Hearthstone, where you collect and upgrade cards and pit your deck against 7 other players. Buy and sell the best cards, upgrade their abilities and more as you uncover winning strategies in this highly tactical and skill-based game.
Hearthstone: Battlegrounds is one of the latest additions to Hearthstone. It's a collection of card-based mini-games set in the Warcraft universe, you face off against 7 other players, and use cards, each representing characters, powers and abilities, to be the last one standing. Each game is split into rounds, during which you face off against a single opponent, the winner of which plays the winner of a different 1-versus-1 until an ultimate victor emerges.
During each one of these 1-versus-1 matches, you have the chance to buy and exchange minions (cards), each of which has unique abilities, and then place them down in specific areas. These minions then fight each other, until one player has no minions left and the other player can deal damage. The 1v1 match ends when one player has no health left. Before you recruit minions, each turn you can upgrade the tavern, where you buy the minions, making them more affordable and stronger.
It's a complex game filled with strategy, tactics and critical thinking, that has a unique set of rules and game mechanics that make it a novel offering.
Other game modes within Hearthstone, which offer different types of multiplayer and solo combat, include the following:
Arena, where you use a single set of 30 cards you select from 90 and see how many opponents you can beat in a single streak.
Dungeon Run and the multiplayer equivalent, Duels, where you build a deck of 15 of your own cards and use them to battle opponents.
Mercenaries, which focusses on party-based combat through procedurally-generated dungeons.
Platforms: Android, Mac, PC and iOS
Genres: Fighting, Strategy and Turn-Based
Accessibility: 17 features
Developer: Blizzard Ent (@Blizzard_Ent)
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You don't need a platform subscription to play this game online. In Hearthstone, you can buy items that have a chance to give you rare cards. the price of these packs, and other in-game purchases, ranges from £1.79/$1.99 to £44.99/$49.99.
Hearthstone is rated PEGI 7 for Violence and Fear. There are references to "destroying" and "damaging" one's opponent and players can shoot elements towards each other's cards. Sometimes, a skull is shown, indicating that their character has been defeated. No violence is seen, as the characters are still and non-sentient, although it is implied. The game includes a scene showing a character holding a beer keg. The game features the use of themed playing cards that contain images of characters drawn from the World of Warcraft. The images depicted might be scary or frightening to younger children.
Hearthstone is rated 12+ on the Apple App Store for Infrequent/Mild Alcohol, Tobacco, or Drug Use or References, Infrequent/Mild Cartoon or Fantasy Violence, Infrequent/Mild Profanity or Crude Humor, Infrequent/Mild Mature/Suggestive Themes, and Infrequent/Mild Horror/Fear Themes.
You don't need a platform subscription to play this game online.
There aren't any individual actions that need fast reactions, but the "recruitment" phase, where you get the minions for that turn's combat, has a time limit of a few seconds to minutes.
There are several sections of the same where the text is both small and low contrast, making it difficult to read. Because all of the game's information is conveyed visually, no sound is needed to play.
The game has a matchmaking system that automatically finds people of a similar skill level to you, so the difficulty shouldn't ever be too overwhelming, even though there aren't dedicated difficulty settings.
Our Hearthstone: Battlegrounds Accessibility Report documents 17 accessibility features:
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2 Getting Started accessibility features
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1 Navigation accessibility feature
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2 Audio accessibility features
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Before Johnny Mize played a game for the Cardinals, they gave up on him and gave him away to the Reds.
Fortunately for the Cardinals, the Reds gave him back.
During six seasons as the Cardinals' first baseman, Mize would win a National League batting title (.349 in 1939), a RBI crown (137 in 1940) and twice would lead the league in home runs (28 in 1939 and 43 in 1940).
In three consecutive years (1938-40) with the Cardinals, Mize led the NL in slugging percentage and total bases. Nicknamed "The Big Cat," Mize was a four-time all-star with St. Louis. He would be elected to the National Baseball Hall of Fame.
The story of how Mize transformed into one of the Cardinals' all-time sluggers is filled with a dizzying array of twists and turns.
In 1934, Mize, 21, was with the Cardinals' minor-league Rochester (N.Y.) affiliate. His season was cut short because of a groin injury. In 90 games, Mize hit .339 with 17 home runs.
Larry MacPhail, the Reds' brash general manager, needed sluggers for a team that ranked last in the major leagues in runs scored (590) in 1934. MacPhail saw Mize as a cornerstone for that rebuilding project.
Jim Bottomley was the Reds' first baseman. Bottomley, who would be elected to the Hall of Fame, had been a standout for the Cardinals, helping them win two World Series titles (1926 and 1931) and four pennants. The Cardinals traded him to the Reds in December 1932.
Though he hit .284 with 31 doubles for the 1934 Reds, Bottomley, 34, had peaked as a run producer.
Powel Crosley, the Cincinnati radio manufacturer and broadcasting titan, had purchased the Reds in 1934 and was willing to spend money to revive a franchise that had finished in last place in the NL that year. In December 1934, MacPhail approached the Cardinals and offered $55,000 for Mize.
It was an astonishing sum at a time when the nation still was staggered by the economic hardships of the Great Depression. MacPhail's offer topped the $50,000 the Yankees had paid the San Francisco Seals a month earlier for their highly touted prospect, outfielder Joe DiMaggio.
The Cardinals, who had won the 1934 World Series championship, were quite willing to accept such a large sum for a hobbled player who never had appeared in the big leagues.
On Dec. 13, 1934, the Cardinals sent Mize to the Reds.
As spring training started in February 1935, Mize told reporters he was "entirely recovered" from the groin injury. The Sporting News speculated Bottomley would be traded to the Cubs or Giants.
After watching Mize perform, though, it became evident something was wrong with him. It later was determined spurs had developed on his pelvic bone, restricting his movement and causing pain.
On April 15, 1935, the Reds voided the deal, returning Mize to the Cardinals the day before the start of the season.
Assigned to Rochester, Mize played in 65 games and hit .317 with 12 home runs until the pain became too intense to continue. With his career in jeopardy, Mize agreed to surgery after the season.
The report was accurate. Mize opened the 1936 season with the Cardinals and soon after took over from Rip Collins as the everyday first baseman. The rookie hit .329 with a team-leading 19 home runs and 93 RBI for the 1936 Cardinals.
In six seasons with St. Louis (1936-41), Mize batted .336 with 1,048 hits in 854 games. His .600 slugging percentage with the Cardinals ranks third all-time in franchise history and first among left-handed batters. The only players with higher career slugging percentages as Cardinals are Mark McGwire (.683) and Albert Pujols (.617).
Mize also ranks fifth all-time among Cardinals in career on-base percentage. At .419, Mize is just below Pujols (.420) and just ahead of Stan Musial (.417).
On Dec. 11, 1941, seven years after they sent him to the Reds, the Cardinals traded Mize to the Giants for catcher Ken O'Dea, first baseman Johnny McCarthy, pitcher Bill Lohrman and $50,000.


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Wallace and Gromit: The Curse of the Were-Rabbit
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Wallace & Gromit: The Curse of the Were-Rabbit is a 2005 clay-mation animated film, the first feature-length Wallace and Gromit film. It was produced by Aardman Animations and USA produced by Dreamworks Animation. The film was directed by Nick Park and Steve Box and shot entirely in Britain. It was released in the United Kingdom, United States and Hong Kong in October 2005 to almost universally rave reviews, including "A" rating from Roger Ebert and Ty Burr.
The film won an Academy Award for best animated feature film of the year at the 78th Academy Awards on March 5, 2006. The Curse of the Were-Rabbit is in part a parody of the horror genre, and contains many images that parody or pay homage to specific horror films. One of the television advertisements for the film is a montage of these parody images and scenes. Peter Sallis (the voice of Wallace) is joined in the film by Ralph Fiennes (as Lord Victor Quartermaine), Helena Bonham Carter (as Lady Tottington), Peter Kay (as PC Mackintosh), Nicholas Smith (as Rev. Clement Hedges), and Liz Smith (as Mrs. Mulch). Gromit remains silent.
Nick Park told an interviewer that after separate test screenings with British and American children, the film was altered to "tone down some of the British accents and make them speak more clearly so the American audiences could understand it all better [1]."
The vehicle Wallace drives in the new film is an Austin A35 van. In a collaboration with Aardman in the Spring of 2005, a road going replica of the model was created by brothers Mark and David Armé, founders of the International Austin A30/A35 Register, for promotional purposes. In a 500 man hour customisation, an original 1964 van received a full body restoration before being dented and distressed to perfectly replicate the model van used in the film. The official colour of the van is Preston Green, named in honour of Nick Park's home town. The name was chosen by the Art Director and Mark Armé.
This film is marketing partners from: Burger King featuring Kids Meal only and SC Johnson featuring Raid
In the town where Wallace and Gromit live, the annual Giant Vegetable Competition is approaching. All are eager to protect their giant crops until the contest and the duo are cashing in by running a vegetable security and humane pest control business, "Anti-Pesto". However, they are faced with two problems: the first is Wallace's weight problem and the second is the space for the captured rabbits. Wallace comes up with a terrific idea — use his "Mind-Manipulation-O-Matic" to brainwash the rabbits, allowing them to run freely without harming everyone's gardens. While performing the operation, he presses the wrong switch and something goes terribly wrong. Soon, the town is threatened by ... the "Were-Rabbit"! It is now up to Gromit to stop it, because he realizes who's the Were-Rabbit....
Peter Sallis - Wallace/Hutch
Ralph Fiennes - Victor Quartermaine
Helena Bonham Carter - Lady Tottington
Peter Kay - PC Mackintosh
Nicholas Smith - Reverend Hedges
Liz Smith - Mrs. Mulch
John Thomson - Mr. Windfall
Vincent Ebrahim - Mr. Caliche
Geraldine McEwan - Miss Thripp
Edward Kelsey - Mr. Growbag
Dicken Ashworth - Mr. Mulch
Robert Horvath - Mr. Dibber
Pete Atkin - Mr. Crock
Ben Whitehead - Mr. Leaching
Noni Lewis - Mrs. Girdling
Mark Gatiss - Miss Blight
Chapters Edit
Anti-Pesto
Tottington Hall
Rabbit Rehabilitation
Vegetable Carnage
More...Alluring
Detective Gromit
Totty's Garden
Wallace's Transformation
Rabbit Ears
Lady Tottington's Visit
At the Competition
References, in-jokes, goofs and mistakes Edit
In the town meeting after the first strike of the Were-Rabbit, Totty has a bible behind her and a lamp above her head, giving her angel wings and a halo, and Victor has two devil horns.
Monsters in Reverend Hedges' book have comical Latin names: for example, the Loch Ness Monster is "Touristus trapus".
The book on obscure monsters is authored by Claude Savagely.
Real aerial dog fight noise are incorporated into the Snoopyesque fight between Gromit and Victor's dog Philip.
Gromit and Philip interrupt the fight to load a 10-penny into a toy plane, reminiscent of A Grand Day Out.
Many of Totty's outfits make her look like a vegetable or flower.
Hutch says "the bounce has gone from his bungee". Wallace says exactly the same thing in A Close Shave.
The climax of the film is reminiscent of the climax of King Kong, which was also created with stop-motion animation.
Many other horror and action movies are parodied, including Indiana Jones, Jurassic Park and Screamers (a moving bump of earth following a vegetable).
The box Gromit holds up to cover the naked Wallace has a sticker saying "may contain nuts".
Wallace is shown reading a copy of Ay-Up! magazine. "Ay-up" is northern English for hello.
The eyes in the portraits of the Anti-Pesto clients flash just like those of the Tracey brothers in Thunderbirds.
The buttons on the car radio spell "mutt".
The car's license plate says "Hop 2 It".
The fridge is a Smug instead of a Smeg; the drill is a Botch instead of a Bosch.
Co-writer Bob Baker wrote for the BBC's science fiction television series Doctor Who several times throughout the 1970s. The "death" of the Were-Rabbit towards the end strongly resembles a "regeneration" as seen in the programme.
Totty defends Wallace by applying "pansy spray" to Victor.
Books in Wallace's collection include "East of Edam", "Fromage to Eternity", "Swiss Cheese Family Robinson", "Waiting for Gouda" and "Grated Expectations".
A large carrot sign advertises "Harvey's" vegetable shop, a play on the film Harvey, about a man who befriends an invisible six foot three and a half inches tall rabbit
"PC Mackintosh" was never said or mentioned. PC Mackintosh never said what his name was.
This was the last DreamWorks movie to use full opening credits.
This was the only DreamWorks movie to be rated G.
This was the last DreamWorks Animation movie to be distributed by DreamWorks Pictures.
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A contrarrelógio por equipas mistas no Campeonato Mundial de Estrada de 2019 disputou-se em Yorkshire (Reino Unido) a 22 de setembro de 2019 sobre um percurso de 28 quilómetros, baixo a organização da União Ciclista Internacional (UCI).

Esta nova disciplina mudou a contrarrelógio por equipas comerciais que se vinha realizando desde o ano 2012.

A contrarrelógio por equipas de relevos mistos esteve composto por equipas nacionais de três corredores masculinos e três corredores femininos. Todos os corredores podiam ser sub-23 ou de categoria elite; e para poder participar o país deve ter convite ou ter solicitado o convite ante a UCI.

A particularidade desta carreira é que não todos os corredores saem no mesmo momento, os homens partiram primeiro e as mulheres os substituíram no caminho tão cedo como o segundo corredor masculino tivesse cruzado a linha de meta. Os tempos finais da contrarrelógio por equipas mistas tomaram-se quando a segunda mulher ciclista cruzou a linha de meta e a equipa mais rápida que fazia menos tempo seria declarado ganhador. Finalmente, outorgaram-se t-shirts arco-íris aos seis corredores da nação vitoriosa, a diferença dos conjuntos comerciais onde só se dava a medalha de ouro.

Este evento outorgou pontos para a classificação mundial UCI e foi clasificatorio para os Jogos Olímpicos de Verão de 2020. Também se outorgaram 166.000 euros em prêmios a todos os membros dos dez melhores equipas.

A medalha de ouro foi para a selecção dos Países Baixos, a de prata para a selecção de Alemanha e a de bronze para o Reino Unido.

Percorrido
O percurso foi um circuito de 14 quilómetros pela cidade de Harrogate no condado de Yorkshire do Norte, onde os corredores darão duas voltas (28 kms ao todo) ao circuito.

Equipas participantes
Tomaram parte da contrarrelógio por equipas mistas 10 equipas nacionais e a equipa da UCI compostos por 6 ciclistas (3 homens e 3 mulheres). As equipas participantes foram:

Classificação final
 As classificações finalizaram da seguinte forma:

UCI World Ranking
A Contrarrelógio por equipas mistas outorgou pontos para o UCI World Tour de 2019 e o UCI World Ranking, este último para corredores das equipas nas categorias UCI World Team, Profissional Continental e Equipas Continentais. A seguinte tabela são o barómetro de pontuação e os corredores que obtiveram pontos:

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More than 10,000 killed in Burma cyclone
Updated May 06, 2008 09:44:00
Photo: Destroyed fishing boats lay in the port of Rangoon after cyclone Nargis. (Khin Maung Wia: AFP)
Photo: Residents queue to get drinking water in Rangoon. (Khin Maung Win: AFP)
Video: Over 10,000 die in Burma cyclone (ABC News)
Audio: Correspondent Karen Percy talks to a witness about the Burma cyclone (ABC News)
Audio: US offers Burma aid, chastises leaders (ABC News)
Audio: Burmese cyclone death toll rises (AM)
Audio: US first lady lashes out at Burma's rulers (AM)
Audio: Crean talks about Burma aid efforts (AM)
Audio: Aid groups begin tough task in Burma (AM)
Related Story: Australia awaits Burma's call for help
Related Story: Laura Bush criticises Burma's cyclone warning
External Link: Cyclone Nargis gallery
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Burma says more than 10,000 people died in the cyclone that battered the impoverished nation, whose secretive military rulers made a rare appeal for international help to cope with the tragedy.
Reeling from the weekend disaster, which also left thousands missing, the south-east Asian country, one of the world's poorest, warned that the staggering death toll could still rise further.
"There could be more casualties," said Nyan Win, foreign minister of the military junta which has ruled the country with an iron fist for decades, and normally puts tight restrictions on aid agencies from the outside world.
"We will welcome help like this from other countries, because our people are in difficulty," he said.
Governments around the world pledged help for a country that has more often earned the ire of the international community, not least for keeping democracy icon Aung San Suu Kyi in detention for much of the past two decades.
Even the United States, which tightened sanctions on Burma in the wake of a crackdown on anti-junta protests last year in which the UN says 31 people were killed, offered emergency aid and put a disaster response team on standby.
State television showed images of entire communities that had flooded since Tropical Cyclone Nargis struck late Friday near the mouth of the Ayeyawaddy (Irrawaddy) river, about 220 kilometres south-west of Rangoon.
"According to the latest information, more than 10,000 people were killed," Nyan Win said after briefing foreign diplomats.
"Information is still being collected, and there could be more casualties."
The United Nations said hundreds of thousands of people had been left homeless when the storm, packing winds of 190 kilometres per hour, ripped through the countryside, destroying whole villages in its fury.
Thousands of buildings were flattened as the cyclone tore powerlines to shreds, uprooted trees that blocked key roads and disrupted water supplies in the main city.
"I haven't seen anything like this in my whole life," one elderly resident told AFP.
The announcement of the new death toll came as aid organisations were battling the devastation on the ground and the difficulties of getting supplies and personnel into one of the world's most isolated nations.
The International Federation of the Red Cross said in a preliminary estimate that several villages had been destroyed, wiped out by one of the worst storms here in memory.
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First posted May 06, 2008 06:27:00


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Five hundred years ago, Martin Luther rediscovered a treasure that has always been available to the world, but veiled… until he began reading the Bible. God's Word relieved his personal fears and quenched the thirst for a loving and gracious God. Luther chose to translate God's Word from Latin into the German language so everyone could discover God's saving Grace. Now today, the Bible has become the most translated and printed book in the world. The treasure of God's Grace is available to you! Whether you are opening the bible for the first time or have been meditating on the Word your whole life, our series, Discovering Grace, will invite everyone to grow in God's Grace as we read about His love in the opening chapters of Genesis and learn various methods to study and apply God's Word to our lives.
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Keith Haring's Last Great Masterpiece
During his tragically short but prolific artistic career, Keith Haring has left a deep mark in the world of contemporary art, inspiring generations of future artists. An artist who emerged from the vibrant dance-club and street-art scene of 1980s New York before becoming celebrated in galleries and museums worldwide, Haring became known for the unique energy and optimism of his art.
Only a few months before he died at the age of 31, Haring completed his last great masterpiece, a large-scale canvas titled The Last Rainforest.
The painting was initially supposed to be a part of 100 paintings Haring had planned to paint as his last project. After he was diagnosed with AIDS, he asked Tony Shafrazi, his long-term gallerist, to get him 100 canvases. Unfortunately, Haring managed to complete only three works before he passed away – Brazil, Walking in the Rain, and this last masterpiece, regarded as his most important one.
More complete, studied and detailed than any other Haring's work, The Last Rainforest is described as "a melting pot of sorts". It is one where all of the topics that had previously interested him as an artist and a person collide – violence, sexuality, environmental and societal issues, history, fantasy…
Keith Haring – The Last Rainforest, via artmarketmonitor.com
The Last Rainforest by Keith Haring – Fighting Stigmatization and Ignorance
The AIDS pandemics was a generation-defining experience for artists working in the eighties and the nineties. Viewed by many as a disease that was only for drug addicts, homosexuals and African Americans, it led to further stigmatization of these communities. The response in the form of political art and activism, coming from the artists who started to experience the disease first hand, brought art closer to politics and life.
Even before his own diagnosis, and particularly after it, Keith Haring reacted strongly against the way the society was perceiving the pandemic and fought hard to bring the disease out from under the shadow of shame and taboo. After being diagnosed with AIDS in 1988, he also founded The Keith Haring Foundation that contributed greatly to raising AIDS awareness and financially supported various programs for fighting the disease.
In the final years of his life, Haring enriched his art with a further complexity, feeling an increased need for more demanding content in his work. He increasingly employed AIDS symbolism in his work, personifying HIV as the horned sperm emblem, explored male sexuality and homosexual relationships and focused on the issues of homophobia that were closely related to the fear of AIDS. As societal dichotomies grew stronger, the division between healthy and sick became synonymous for the straight and gay polarization.
The Last Rainforest was painted during the last months of Haring's life, before he died of AIDS in February 1990. Out of 100 paintings he wanted to create as part of his grandiose parting project and the last piece of his legacy, Haring painted only three, working on all of them at the same time. In all of these works, there is a certain urgency. He realized his time was running out, and he still had so much to say.
However, The Last Rainforest is far more complex and virtuosic than any other work the artist has created in his entire career. Executed in a manner that demands the viewer's attention, it demonstrates his inexhaustible mental potential.
Left: Keith Haring – Walking in the Rain, 1989 / Right: Keith Haring – Brazil, 1989
A Dense Jungle
The most engaging work Haring has ever painted, The Last Rainforest seems almost overwhelming to the eye. Instead of one central figure, the surface of the picture is covered over and over with a texture of mutually entangled mini-scenes. Swarming with action and complex tessellation, the painting is a dense jungle full of obscure creatures and human beings that fall prey to their lust.
Lacking any axis or center, the painting evokes Pollock's all-over compositional method. However, panel's figurative nature is revealed in myriad episodes of individual action. Resembling pieces of technical apparatus, trees with labyrinthine branches occupy every inch of the canvas, punctuated by a plethora of figures and objects.
Creating a diffuse scenario of absurd but always interconnected links between men, beasts and nature, Haring offers a thought-provoking image of the rainforest and draws the viewer into an endless cycle of weaving interpretation.
Keith Haring – The Last Rainforest (detail)
Familiar and New Motifs
The Last Rainforest is a rainforest of nightmares, one that is inhospitable, perverse, and claustrophobic. And this crazy jungle is a home to a menagerie of fantastical beasts scattered across the canvas in the most unimaginable of poses.
Many motifs that appear are entirely unique to this work, such as a six-legged caterpillar with an electrical plug for a tail, a satanic satyr who has been run through with a roasting spit and set on fire, a gargantuan masturbating rat, or several giants serpents. All entwined with trees, they create a dark outlook and make up a scene that is consummately engaging.
On the other hand, there are also familiar recurring motifs in this work, including Haring's often-repeated Pyramid form, a lightbulb, or multiple television sets scattered around the canvas. The most famous of them all is his "radiant baby", a proxy for Haring's identity and a motif that seemed to sum up the joy and optimism of '80s New York.
However, this time, the baby is not crawling like in Haring's previous works, but it sits upright in a lotus position, cocooned within a womb-like hollow tree trunk. Well-hidden within the work, it appears to be at peace. It has reached its destination and seems enlightened, providing an optimistic moment in contrast with the nightmarish scenes that occupy every remaining inch of the canvas.
The radiant baby motif in The Last Rainforest
Summing Up His Artistic and Personal Interests
There are several themes running through this work. Death is one of them. Against a hellish background of fiery red and fronds of yellow, human figures are hanging and crucified, burnt or impaled, alongside smoking guns and stabbing knives, creating a rather morbid mood. No elegiac farewell to a world Haring was leaving behind, the painting sums up his anger about AIDS and the way society was reacting to it.
The piece also sums up Haring's fears over humanity's increasing use of nuclear power. Long viewing himself as "a child of the atomic age", he even feared peacetime use of nuclear technology. Forcing us to look at these horrifying mutants, he provides a prophetic vision of our post-apocalyptic future and reminds us of all the possible horrors of the so-called technical progress. This is summed up in a detail of a television screen showing a mushroom cloud that evokes the horrors of Hiroshima.
The painting is also linked to his environmental activism, following a 1980s wave of ecological awareness on saving the rainforest. Having traveled extensively in Brazil with fellow artist Kenny Scharf and his Brazilian wife, it was also a cause Haring personally identified with. With this work, but also two other ones from the series – Brazil and Walking in the Rain, Haring sends a message of environmental awareness and calls the viewer to take action and save the rainforests.
More designed, more painterly and more elaborate than any other work in the artist's oeuvre, it evokes numerous art history references. For its florid imagination, a masterfully hellish composition and despairing outlook on the future of the world, Hieronymus Bosch's Garden of Earthly Delights is the most obvious comparison. The piece features the same level of extraordinary detail and the same ingenuity for inventing fantastical potent creatures.
Apart from Bosch, the piece also recalls William Blake's Last Judgement and Francisco Goya's Disasters of War. Identifying himself with the great figures of art history, he interprets the apocalypse in a contemporary way appropriate for the atomic age he lived in.
Hieronymus Bosch – The Garden of Earthly Delights, 1503-1515
Breaking Sotheby's Auction
The Last Rainforest was first exhibited in Atlanta, at the Fernbank Museum of Natural History, in 1992. Since then, it's been shown at a number of institutions, including during Keith Haring: A Retrospective, which appeared at New York's Whitney Museum of American Art, Toronto's Art Gallery of Ontario, Miami's Museum of Contemporary Art, the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, Montreal's Musée des Beaux-Arts, and Wellington's City Gallery between 1997 and 1999. Most recently, it was part of Keith Haring: The Political Line, on view at San Francisco's de Young Museum, from April 2013 until February 2015.
Ever since 2001, the painting was owned by the photographer David LaChapelle, when he purchased it from Tony Shafrazi who represented both artists. As he explained, he fell in love with the painting at the very first sight, realizing its prophetic quality. Yet in 2016, he decided to sell the piece. After decades working at the top of the fashion industry, he relocated to a Hawaiian island in 2006. "I live in the rainforest in East Maui," he explained to the auction house. "My home is an open space – there's no glass, it's all screen. So the painting is sitting in a dark living room most of the time, which is not the place for a masterpiece." It was sold at Sotheby's London for $5,529,670.
Unlike his previous work known for its ability to convey a message clearly at first sight, The Last Rainforest demands attention and serious interpretation from the viewer. It invites us to look and think thoroughly. Interweaving personal stories with societal issues, The Last Rainforest should be viewed as Haring's artistic last will and testament, a socio-political warning to those who would outlive him. Identifying himself with some of the great figures of Western art history, he asserts his own place within the discourse with this magisterial piece that ties up his entire oeuvre.
Editors' Tip: Keith Haring by Jeffrey Deitch and Julia Gruen
Closely based on Haring's own concept for the monograph he wanted to publish before his untimely death, this volume represents more than a decade of research and contains a wealth of unpublished photographic and written material including drawings, studio photographs, and journal entries. From chalk drawings deep in the New York City subways to murals in Pisa and Berlin; collaborations with William Burroughs and the famous body painting of Grace Jones, this book follows the incredible trajectory of Keith Haring's artistic career. An incredibly prolific artist, Keith Haring created countless bold, provocative, endearing, and unforgettable images that continue to inspire artists. Tracing the arc from his early subway "tags" to his poignant work on social issues as diverse as AIDS, illiteracy and apartheid, this visually stunning book is the definitive work on Keith Haring.
Featured image: Keith Haring – The Last Rainforest (detail), via Wikimedia Commons. All images used for illustrative purposes only.
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The third book by Murjani Rawls, first in the Bucket List Traveling series, "Vegas", while written in a short time, embodied the synergy of traveling to Las Vegas, Nevada.
A short story with lots of pictures about a child's visit to Las Vegas. Skyler visits popular Las Vegas areas.
Skyler visits Las Vegas and sees some of the child centered Las Vegas attractions.


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July 09, 2019 History
The Weight of a Feather
Ross Perot, the Texas billionaire, founder of Electronic Data Systems, and third-party candidate for president in 1992 and 1996, died today.
He was the most successful third-party candidate since Theodore Roosevelt in 1912. While he did not win a single state's electoral votes in his 1992 campaign for the presidency, his 18.91 percent of the popular vote was enough to ensure that no candidate won a majority and Bill Clinton was elected with a mere 43.01 percent.
And Perot's appeal was nationwide. In every state, he won at least 10.09 percent of the popular vote (Tennessee) and as much as 30.44 percent (Maine). The result was that no candidate won a majority of any state except in Arkansas, where native son Clinton won with 53.21 percent.
We will never know for sure, but Perot's quixotic campaign probably deeply affected American history. It is not hard to see how many of Perot's voters in states won by Clinton would have gone to Bush if Perot hadn't run, tipping those states to the incumbent president. For instance, Georgia was carried by Clinton 1,008,966 to 995,252. Had Bush taken a mere 51 percent of Perot's 309,657 votes he would have won the state's 13 electoral votes.
And had Bush won re-election, there would have been no Clinton presidency, no Monica Lewinsky scandal, no Hillary Clinton candidacy, no Ruth Bader Ginsburg and Stephen Breyer on the Supreme Court, and on and on.
One of the fascinations of history is how much of it is determined by the weight of a feather.


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A tribute of loving respect to the memory of Comrade Samuel Glyde Swain of Company E, Twelfth Wisconsin Regiment, Veteran Volunteer Infantry : died at Winona, Minnesota, April 6, 1904.
SAMUEL GLYDE SWAIN 43
patriotic American citizen. As a generous comrade no one excelled him. He was ready always to share his blanket with an¬ other or divide with him his last hardtack. If a comrade were sick he would help him carry his load and cheer him up with pleas¬ ant words. He was always ready to do duty when his name was called, or to take the place of one not able, and he did all these things with so cheerful a spirit that he made us all love him.
He often came to our tent to join in a song with three or four of us who liked to sing. In this way we used to pass away many a pleasant hour. And we used to have many a chat about home and friends. He was always the same genial and cheerful soldier, and his character was in every way such as to command the respect of both officers and men. I remember how sad we were  to   lose   him  from   Company   E,
Title A tribute of loving respect to the memory of Comrade Samuel Glyde Swain of Company E, Twelfth Wisconsin Regiment, Veteran Volunteer Infantry : died at Winona, Minnesota, April 6, 1904.
Source Title A tribute of loving respect to the memory of Comrade Samuel Glyde Swain of Company E, Twelfth Wisconsin Regiment, Veteran Volunteer Infantry : died at Winona, Minnesota, April 6, 1904.
State WI
People Swain, Samuel Glyde
Description Samuel Glyde Swain (1835-1904) enlisted as a private of Company E of the 12th Wisconsin Volunteers Infantry. In 1864 he was appointed a lieutenant in the 58th Regiment U.S. Colored Troops. This 80-page eulogy contains a short biographical abstract, a description of the funeral service, tributes of respect from members of the Company E Association, his family and friends, and a tribute from the 12th Regiment Association. The amount of narrative recollection is modest. This is one of only three known copies.
Place of Publication Milton, Wis.
Source Publisher Company E Association
Full text SAMUEL GLYDE SWAIN 43 patriotic American citizen. As a generous comrade no one excelled him. He was ready always to share his blanket with an¬ other or divide with him his last hardtack. If a comrade were sick he would help him carry his load and cheer him up with pleas¬ ant words. He was always ready to do duty when his name was called, or to take the place of one not able, and he did all these things with so cheerful a spirit that he made us all love him. He often came to our tent to join in a song with three or four of us who liked to sing. In this way we used to pass away many a pleasant hour. And we used to have many a chat about home and friends. He was always the same genial and cheerful soldier, and his character was in every way such as to command the respect of both officers and men. I remember how sad we were to lose him from Company E,
A tribute of loving respect to the memory of Comrade...
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Sketch of Life and Service
Comrade Swain's Enlistment
The Funeral Services
A Favorite Hymn
Tributes of Respect From Members of the Company E Association


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Latvia competed at the 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing, China. It was Latvia's 9th appearance in Summer Olympics.

Medalists

Athletics

Men
Track & road events

Field events

Combined events – Decathlon

Women
Track & road events

Field events

Combined events – Heptathlon

* The athlete who finished in second place, Lyudmila Blonska of the Ukraine, tested positive for a banned substance. Both the A and the B tests were positive, therefore Blonska was stripped of her silver medal, and Grabuste moved up a position.

Basketball

Women's tournament

Roster

Group play

Canoeing

Sprint

Qualification Legend: QS = Qualify to semi-final; QF = Qualify directly to final

Cycling

Road

BMX

Judo

Modern pentathlon

Shooting

Men

Swimming

Men

Tennis

Volleyball

Beach

Weightlifting

References

External links
Official page of 2008 Latvian Olympic team

Nations at the 2008 Summer Olympics
2008
Summer Olympics


The Evanston City Council may vote on a proposal later that would take a recent statewide ban on cell phone use while driving one step further in the coming weeks.
The council is slotted to act on the proposal, which will make talking on a cell phone without a hands-free device while driving illegal, on Jan. 25. The Human Services Committee recommended approval of the ordinance, which was originally proposed by Ald. Jane Grover (7th), on Jan. 5.
Grover said she believes passing the ordinance would be beneficial for drivers and pedestrians.
The proposed ordinance comes in light of Illinois' recent ban on text-messaging, checking voice mail and browsing the Web on a mobile device while driving. The statewide ban, which went into effect Jan. 1, also prohibits the use of cell phones when driving in construction or school zones.
Evanston Bicycle Club President James Heller said limiting cell phone usage for drivers would make the roads much safer for bicyclists.
The group bikes together as often as every day of the week during good weather, with a leader directing the members, Heller said. As the cyclists approach an intersection, they attempt eye contact with drivers. But if drivers are on their cell phones, it is harder for the bikers to stay safe, Heller said.
Although nearly 6,000 people died in distracted driving incidents in 2008, the number of cell phone-related cases is unknown, according to the department. Additionally, a 2008 survey by the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration found an overall increase in the use of electronic devices among drivers.
"It's a significant problem, so naturally not only do we support (the ordinance), but we want to go further and have all cell phone use banned," Heller said, referencing the rates of distracted driving incidents.
In Illinois, drivers cannot even use their cell phones on the road until they are 19 years-old, said Tracey Wallace, a classroom instructor at Evanston's American Defensive Driving School.
Grover said she would like to completely ban all cell phone use—hands-free or not.


I get many e-zines in my inbox every week, and they all offer useful information. But there are some I enjoy more than others.
What do the ones I love have in common?
They feel like they come from a REAL person. These publishers put some heart-and-soul into their e-zines. They share information about themselves. And because I feel like I know them personally, I'm more likely to buy from them at some point.
I can also share with you that once I began sharing a bit about ME in my e-zine, my response rates increased dramatically. More readers wrote me back, more clicked on my links, and more bought my products and services.
So, how can YOU put more you in your e-zine? Very easily. Here are a few ideas to get you started.
Quick: Think of three things going on in your life right now that you could share with your readers. Have you won an award? Were you mentioned in a national newspaper? Did you pull a hamstring doing Tae Bo? Are you teary-eyed because your daughter's wedding is right around the corner? These are all events your readers can relate to and will appreciate you sharing.
One e-zine I used to get a real chuckle out of was Dave Balch's "Big Bucks in a Bathrobe." (Unfortunately, his business has changed so he no longer publishes it.) In each issue, Dave not only shared useful information on running a profitable business, but also hysterical stories about "life on the ranch." Dave and his wife own many animals, including horses, dogs, and "the parrot that just won't die." Whenever I saw Dave's e-zine in my mailbox, I read it right away because I knew it would brighten my mood.
Have a question you'd like answered? Why not ask your readers for help? Example: I recently began shopping around for a convertible, and I mentioned it in my e-zine a few weeks ago. To help me with my decision, I asked my readers who owned convertibles to share their experiences with me.
You wouldn't believe how many people wrote me back, telling me about their own cars, how much they love them, and what new convertibles they recommend! I was delighted with the response.
Readers also love quick polls that allow them to give you their opinion. For a fun survey mechanism, try www.SurveyMonkey.com.
Photos help your visitors and your e-zine readers feel closer to you instantly -- it's as if they know you better than before.
In one issue I mentioned to my readers that I had a new headshot taken and would love their opinion of it. Hundreds of people clicked through to see the photo, and many of them wrote me to say they thought it was great!
Unless you're ugly as a toad, a decent photo will only help your business. If you publish an HTML e-zine, put your photo in your top banner if you have room.
Also don't be afraid of sharing photos of your family, pets, business associates, etc. You'll be surprised how often your readers will click-through to see them. Example: "Click here to see me in action at my first swing dancing competition!"
Real people have real opinions. So voice yours, and people will perk up. I've found that my readers often respond best when they're provoked and encouraged to see things in a new light.
If some don't agree with you (and some won't), their response can lead to a brand new discussion or article topic. Remember, if someone takes the time to write you back to disagree with anything you've said, be happy. It means they're actually reading your e-zine!
A great place to put this personal information is at the beginning of your e-zine in an "editor's note" or "welcome message." This welcomes the reader with a warm greeting from you and is the perfect spot to share these positive, personal tidbits.
Once you get the hang of giving more YOU to your readers, you'll come to enjoy the art of sharing and the increased reader-interaction it brings. Just make sure that it doesn't take over your e-zine. The bulk of your content should still be your main article, list of tips, etc. Think of your personal information as the introduction that leads up to the main event!
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Bushel Bob Gives His Crops Away Rather Than Pay Taxes On Them
Ohio farmer Bob Williams is fed up with the government making a profit on his hard work so that it can buy more "bombs and bullets." He'd rather give his produce away than make a profit Washington can leech.
So that's what he's going to do.
A local farmer has taken anti-war protests in a new direction this summer and declared that he's not selling anything until the United States stops fighting wars.
Bob Williams' farm, on the corner of Route 20 and Quarry Road, is "closed for peace."
Williams, who calls himself "Bushel Bob," decided to suspend his farm stand because it was indirectly supporting activities he didn't like.
"I was filling out my Schedule C and I realized this farm money was buying bombs and bullets," Williams said. "It's bad enough they get money out of me at the gas pump."
His realization posed a problem.
"I thought, 'This is terrible, I don't want to open,' " Williams said. "Why should I make this extra money?"
But he couldn't just stop growing food; he needed another way to resolve his dilemma. His solution was to donate the food to a charity, the Santa Elena Project of Accompaniment (SEPA), a coalition of churches, organizations and individuals.
"This year, rather than have it open, I'm just growing for SEPA," Williams said. "They come on Friday, pick everything and sell it."
Williams met the members of SEPA at Oberlin Farmers Market, where they were fellow vendors. He chose the organization because of its work with human rights in Guatemala and for an important financial reason — the group is nonprofit.
"They can sell (the produce), and they don't pay taxes," Williams said.
This is not Williams' first foray into peace projects.
An Air Force veteran, Williams helped to organize the Veterans for Peace post at the Oberlin Public Library.
Closing his stand, which he opened in 2003 , was the right choice for Williams, but it was still a difficult one to make.
"I kind of miss it," Williams said. "I miss the people."
But he stands fast to his decision, looking forward to the day when he can open again.
"I don't want to support war and killing. I want to grow things," Williams said.
Ethan and Rima Vesely-Flad share their experience of war tax resistance with readers of LoHud.com. Excerpts:
Ethan Vesely-Flad and his wife stopped paying a portion of their taxes two years ago as a protest against the U.S. participation in the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan.
The Internal Revenue Service collected the missing funds from their 2006 taxes, along with about $500 in penalties and interest, by withholding money from Ethan Vesely-Flad's paycheck for six months this year.
In a sense, it was a moral victory, Vesely-Flad told members of the Rockland Coalition for Peace and Justice last night during the organization's operating committee meeting at the Fellowship of Reconciliation's headquarters.
"It was about trying to do something that would deal with our conscience," Vesely-Flad said to the 14 people at the meeting. "It's a very minor thing and may not have done much, but we are educating ourselves. If others are inspired to do likewise, it could help to clog up" the system.
Over the past two years , the couple put nearly $5,000 in an escrow account held by Quakers, who maintain similar accounts on behalf of tax protesters. They took out a portion of that money to recoup what the government took from them, but are getting help from friends and groups to pay the penalties and fees.
The IRS already is sending them letters asking for 2007 taxes.
Miscellaneous tax resisters → individual war tax resisters → Ethan & Rima Vesely-Flad
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War tax resisters bask in the news media spotlight on Tax Day, including coverage from Portland, Oregon; Berkeley, California; the Lower Hudson Valley of New York; Vermont; and St. Louis, Missouri.
Even more Tax Day aftermath, with reports from Eugene, Oregon; Berkeley, California; Rockland, New York; Glynn County, Georgia; Austin, Texas; New York City; and Manchester, New Hampshire.
Miscellaneous tax resisters → individual war tax resisters → "Bushel" Bob Williams
Okay, so you believe me that the Religious Freedom Peace Tax Fund Act is a rotten idea. But do I have any better ideas? Yes indeed; here are three. Also: highlights from the new issue of NWTRCC's newsletter, including reviews of "We Won't Pay" and "American Quaker War Tax Resistance."
Greg Reagle touts tax resistance on Adam Kokesh's show, Wendy McElroy ponders tax resistance in light of the Planned Parenthood funding debate, the I.R.S. is noticing more tax evasion and fraud this year, "Bushel Bob" shuts down his produce market to avoid paying war taxes, more Tax Day action reports, 10 reasons not to pay U.S. taxes, and the curious case of the Oath Keepers. Also: A Quaker in 1900 takes pains to avoid revenue stamps. And: a dispatch from the Hut Tax War of 1898.
Tax resistance movements have often coordinated with labor strikes, business shut-downs, or consumer strikes as a way of further restricting government resources, demonstrating solidarity, and freeing up the time of resisters to engage in more campaign-oriented activities. Here are several examples.


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Bollywood superstar Salman Khan is set to create his 90s hit number Oh Oh Jaane Jaana.
Salman will dance to the song once again for the Bollywood debut of Katrina Kaif's sister, Isabelle Kaif, Hindustan Times reported.
Isabelle's debut film is titled Time To Dance and stars Aaditya Pancholi's son Sooraj Pancholi, who also had Salman crooning a song in his debut movie, Hero.
Oh Oh Jaane Jaana from 1998's Pyaar Kiya Toh Darna Kya was a hit amongst the masses. Originally composed by Jatin-Lalit, the new version will be worked on by Shivay Vyas. Singer Kamaal Khan will take on the vocals this time. The new version of Oh Oh Jaane Jaana will be picturised on Isabelle, Sooraj and Salman together.
The announcement for Isabelle's Bollywood debut was made last week when Sooraj shared her picture on Instagram and revealed that she is the female lead of Time To Dance.
The film will mark Stanley D'costa's directorial debut and is set to go on floors in second half of April in London.