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The Lunatic Line
Some good railway stories courtesy of Nairobi Railway Museum for you…
The Lunatic Line was the nickname given by the British newspapers during the colonial era for what was seen as the rather mental undertaking to build a railway line from the coast of Kenya right through to Uganda. The railway museum in Nairobi "celebrates" this mammoth feat – although celebrates is a difficult word for something that cost the lives of, on average, 4 men per mile of track… bearing in mind this track is 580 miles long.
What is more, 140 of those lives were lost at the jaws of two fearsome lions known as the man-eaters of Tsavo (Tsavo being the land where the incidents took place). 140 people! Two lions!
Rather terribly the Brits weren't particularly concerned at first when the mainly Indian workers started going missing, presuming it to be the result of in-fighting over wages. However, when the first British General got snapped up they began to take things a bit more seriously. The result was a lion hunt that served up two remarkable rugs for the captor.
But the highlight of the Railway museum has to be the First Class train coach that one British Sergeant used as his hide-out during a lion hunt. This Sergeant had the grand plan that he would camp out in the coach over night with a couple of buddies, leaving all the windows and doors open so as to spot the lion when it approached and shoot with ease.
Unfortunately, the old boy fell asleep on the job. And his friends could only watch in terror as the hunted became the hunter, sneaking into the coach and dragging his nemesis off into the night. It really was incredible to sit in this tiny coach and think of the massive beast that had once stood in it!
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Hardly Strictly Bagels
Artisan bagel makers on a roll in San Francisco
By Andy Altman-Ohr | May 10, 2013
In the wake of the announcement last month that Schmendricks was folding up shop on its Brooklyn-style-bagels pop-up operation in San Francisco, a couple of other local bagel makers are ramping up their operations.
The artisan bagels made by Dan Graf of Baron Baking (www.baronbaking.com), a staple at Saul's Deli in Berkeley for 11 months with a growing number of East Bay vendors carrying them, are now available at two San Francisco locations: Shorty Goldstein's deli in the Financial District and (as of May 15) Real Food Co. grocery on Fillmore Street.
Meanwhile, Danny Gabriner of Sour Flour in San Francisco (www.sourflour.org) is expanding his production. Beyond his giveaways of a few dozen bagels every Monday (yes, free!) at La Victoria Bakery in the Mission District, he is starting to make more bagels per week. Many are used in sandwiches for sale at La Victoria, and soon the bagels will be offered for sale and delivery on www.GoodEggs.com.
Both men say Schmendricks' departure has nothing to do with their increased production, while conceding that it's an interesting dynamic right now.
"There's a large market in San Francisco of people who are looking for good bagels," said Gabriner. "It's not the easiest market, but I think there's a lot of demand for something that is currently not there."
"I hope this is the start of something bigger," said Graf, who on June 1 will move Baron into a commercial kitchen located in a new microbusiness project in an industrial part of Berkeley. "There are a lot of opportunities across the bay. I could even see opening another small wholesale bakery in South San Francisco or the Peninsula."
Graf and Gabriner have similar approaches: organic products, a resting period for the dough, hand-rolling, an overnight fermentation process and, of course, boiling before baking. Each baker has his own twists, such as Graf's smidgen of lye in his boiling water and Gabriner's hand-mixing of the dough.
Graf's crispy, chewy bagels — part of a New York Times article last year headlined "In the Bay Area, Bagels as Good as Brooklyn's" — are newly available at Local 123 café (Berkeley), Driver's Market (Sausalito) and the restaurant Lungomare (Jack London Square). They also are featured in employee cafeterias at the Gap and Pixar, and are at Stag's Lunchette and Chop Bar (both in Oakland) in addition to Saul's.
Graf is making 600 bagels a day, up from 250 a few months ago, and with only one other employee, he is hand-rolling each bagel like a speed demon: 600 in 70 minutes, or 8.5 bagels per minute, he says. His delivery orders range from 24 per day (Shorty Goldstein's) to 300 every Sunday (Saul's).
Gabriner, the leader of a four-person staff, said his plan is to make about 50 to 80 bagels per day this month and see how it goes. In addition to Good Eggs, he said he'd like to get his flavorful, chewy products into some restaurants and cafés.
"Some people might call them a New York bagel," Gabriner said. "But really it's just a well-made bagel, naturally fermented, which can provide for some good flavor."
A BIGGER HOUSE: Last month, the original House of Bagels in San Francisco purchased New York Bagels, a wholesale operation in Richmond that also makes cookies, pastries and breads and has about 250 accounts (grocery stores, cafés, bagel shops, etc.).
House of Bagels also bought Marin Bagel Co. in 2009, and for the last four years had been making those bagels at its Geary Boulevard location.
Now production has been shifted across the bay to the New York Bagels site. Each "brand" has retained its own name, but the bakery is pumping out more than 30,000 bagels per day, owner Mike Fuentes said. All are boiled before being baked.
Some places — including House of Bagels on Geary — prefer to have the raw-dough bagels delivered, so they can do their own boiling and baking and serve the bagels hot and fresh.
NO MORE PASTRANOMY: The Napa-based food truck Pastranomy is no more. "Our one-year lease on the truck expired and it went back to L.A.," said restaurateur Michael Dellar, one of three owners of the business.
Dellar tells me Pastrami Boys LLC is looking for a brick-and-mortar location for the Jewish deli fare the truck offered. They are targeting Napa but also looking at high-traffic areas in San Francisco and elsewhere.
Dellar said pastrami and Reuben sandwiches and matzah ball soup were the truck's biggest hits, along with items such as latke tots and Reuben balls.
"The experiment was an aesthetic success and gave us proof of the concept," he said. "All of our feelers are out for the right place, and when we find it, we'll come back with something more permanent."
Save room for …
Three interesting sandwiches you can find in San Francisco:
The Sloppy Jew. Offered sporadically by the Bay Area's Old World Food Truck. A takeoff on the Sloppy Joe, it's brisket cooked in a tomato-based sauce with bread-and-butter pickles, pickled onion and mustard-mayo on an Acme bun.
The Spicy Blue Bird. Every Tuesday through the summer, Wise Sons Deli will have a different type of turkey sandwich at its Ferry Building pop-up. Last week it was turkey with avocado, pastrami bacon, harissa (a North African hot sauce), blue cheese slaw and a pickled onion on rye.
The Chicago Fresser. Devotees of Moishe's Pippic in San Francisco know that the 25-year-old deli cooks up a mountain of beef brisket every Friday, the only day this sandwich is offered. It's hot pastrami, hot corned beef and hot brisket on an onion roll.
Potential good news for people planning to attend Israel in the Gardens: As of this week, organizers were close to deals with two food trucks (the Old World Food Truck and La Falafel). The event is June 2 at San Francisco's Yerba Buena Gardens … Wise Sons Jewish Delicatessen in San Francisco has been serving beer (and mimosas on the weekends) for the past few weeks, now that it has a beer-and-wine license. Look for bottles of Anchor Steam, Almanac Biere de Chocolate and Dogfish Head 90 Minute IPA, with He'Brew coming soon. Wine will be available when Wise Sons starts dinner service in the coming months, and they plan to start producing breads and other baked goods at their new 22nd Street location by the end of May … Max's Diner and Bar in Oakland's City Center, which was open only on weekdays and only until 7 p.m. at that, abruptly shut down a few weeks ago when the franchise owner "went broke," according to Max's World president Dennis Berkowitz. Max's on the Square in San Francisco closed last year, and Max's Café in Corte Madera recently switched concepts to a Mexican restaurant, but Max's still has seven locations in Northern California. Berkowitz said the company is working on reopening and running the Oakland location (but first needs to reacquire a liquor license), and is also looking for a site in San Francisco's Financial District … The buzz on Hodo Soy Beanery in Oakland grew even louder recently when local Chipotle restaurants added Hodo's tofu to its menu. Want to try Hodo in a Jewish setting? Order the breakfast scramble at Saul's Deli in Berkeley; it's Hodo tofu served with a North African sauce inspired by a recipe in the cookbook "Jerusalem." Ingredients involved include asparagus, cilantro, sun-dried tomato, z'hug, roast garlic and paprika … Because of some red tape, the Authentic Bagel Co. is no longer part of the Upper Haight Farmers Market, but now the shop at 463 Second St. in Oakland is open an extra day; hours are 9 a.m. to 3 p.m. Fridays through Mondays … For a video trailer on an in-the-works documentary about the Streit's factory in New York City, titled "Streit's: Matzo and the American Dream," visit www.tinyurl.com/matzofilm … A video of the recent talk at the JCC of San Francisco given by Mark Russ Federman, of the famous New York Jewish eatery Russ & Daughters, can be seen at www.tinyurl.com/btyxmxx . — andy altman-ohr
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Shorty Goldstein's brings real deli to downtown; S.F. Schmendrick's bagels closes up shop for good
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Top tips on writing engaging mobile content
By James Murphy | Content, Content Marketing
Today's constantly-connected consumers crave content that's simple to digest and can be accessed from anywhere, and from any device. Hence why mobile is booming.
Rather than me try to put forward a convincing argument, I'll let the figures speak for themselves. The latest IAB and PwC Digital Adspend report, which we contribute to each year, unveiled that half of UK internet time is now spent on smartphones. This has caused mobile's share of digital ad spend to rocket from 35% to 43% in just one year, or £2.37bn.
Mobile's growth means that it now accounts for 57% of all display ad spend and a whopping 77% of all content and native ad spend.
If you're yet to optimise your content for the small screen, you're already missing out on an unprecedented opportunity to win over your target audience.
So, if you want to perfect your penmanship skills and fine-tune your mobile copy, here are some top tips for writing compelling content to engage your readers:
Short 'n' snappy
Did you know that humans have shorter attention spans than goldfish? Which, coincidentally, has been blamed on our use of digital devices. Mobile readers don't want the arduous task of scrolling through lengthy paragraphs – they'll switch off in seconds. So, break up the text into short, digestible chunks whenever there's a natural break. Just remember the golden rule: say what needs to be said, using as few words as possible.
Hook 'em with headlines and subheads
Continuing the short-and-sweet theme, your headlines need to be to the point, pack a punch, and have a pinch of mystery to them that'll encourage readers to click through. I know, it's a lot to ask. The best piece of advice I can give is to think like you're tweeting (even though you're not). You want your headlines to be worthy of a re-tweet – scan the social site when you next have five minutes for some inspiration.
Now you've got your readers' interest, you need to keep hold of it with equally engaging subheads. The most effective ones guide readers through the article; they're snappy, yet provide new and insightful information. Tie-in your subheads with the title, make the font bold and you've got yourself a seriously scannable piece of content.
Frontload fantastic copy
In the same way, a film trailer entices us to watch the full-length flick, the first few sentences of your article are absolutely crucial for drawing readers in. And so, it must be your very best, attention-grabbing writing. You need to tee-up your article in an original and exciting way. Potential readers will be asking, 'How will this article benefit me?' and it's your job to answer them.
Break it up with bullet points and visuals
Subheads make for scannable content, but you can break up the text even further with bullet points and images. Bullet points, for their part, allow you to convey the article's key messages in a more digestible manner. They can be used to summarise the content, explain product features and/or benefits, or as a checklist in an advice piece.
Readers can't get enough of visual content. When people hear information, they're likely to remember 10% of it three days later. But add a relevant picture and they'll remember 65% of that information. And, get this: articles with an image every 75-100 words receive double the social media shares as articles with fewer images.
As consumers are so stimulated by visual content, you should strive to embed engaging, relevant images and videos within your articles whenever possible.
Writing marvellous mobile copy doesn't mean writing fewer words. Instead, it's about making every single word on that digital page count. It's about formatting articles in an eye-catching way, whilst communicating original ideas that'll resonate with your audience long after they've closed the page.
Why native advertising is having an identity crisis
By James Murphy | Banner - Advertisers, Banner - Content Creation, Banner - Native Video, Banner - Reporting, Banner - True Native, Native advertising
I've just read an extremely thought provoking article on what I believe to be the biggest challenge to both the native advertising industry (publishers and networks) and media agencies looking to sell native in to clients.
I didn't just read Chad Pollitt's piece 'Native Advertising has a Terminology Problem. And It's Not Pretty.' once through – I read it three times. Not because Chad didn't make sense, but because we've got to the stage where even for someone in the thick of this industry, I was still briefly confused.
If someone who works day in, day out in native advertising is having to re-read definitions, then what hope do media buyers (working across multiple platforms, media and formats) have? If one person's native is Outbrain, and another's long-form content on a premium publisher, then we have a problem. And that's before we even look at the myriad of hybrids in the UK market.
Perhaps, it's best to start with what most people agree is the definition of native advertising:
"Native advertising is paid advertising (media) where the ad matches the form, feel and function of the content of the media on which it appears." (Native Advertising Institute)
This snappy description seems bulletproof, but it only tells half the story. It accurately describes the sponsored headline unit, the social media sponsored post – the shop window if you like. It's what happens next which really defines the native format. What happens once the user has read the headline and clicked?
It's all about the content
This brings us to the content. There's long been confusion in the market between content marketing and native advertising.
This is one of the easier definitions to solve: Content marketing = your brand content. Native = the distribution channel. I could get into content marketing vs advertorial here (not overtly mentioning your product vs it being all about your product) but that will have to wait for another day.
Social media is somewhat 'ronseal' – a sponsored tweet looks like any other tweet, the same for Instagram, Snapchat or Facebook. These usually contain heightened CTAs such as the 'Learn more' or 'Shop now' banner on Instagram, before clicking to brand sites. Often, the post is simply re-targeting.
There is content, right?
So, what about the traditional publisher's site? This is where it gets confusing for media buyers. I'd argue it's all about what happens post-click. This is where the definition of native advertising seems to be far too broad. Any of the following could happen – the headline unit:
leads to content on the same publisher's site
leads to content hosted on the brand site
opens up a lightbox containing brand content
plays video
doesn't actually lead to any content at all. It's a headline unit that simply clicks to a product page!
Essentially, your headline unit could behave in several different ways and in some instances, is no more than a re-badged direct response banner ad.
Here's my attempt to clarify the main (non-video) formats on publisher's sites:
Native advertising (sponsored content)
Non-programmatic, publisher direct sold headline units that lead to article pages in the same premium environment.
True Native (sponsored content)
Non-programmatic, ad served headline units that lead to article pages in the same premium environment.
Native display
An in-feed headline unit on a publisher site that clicks to a brand site which may or may not contain content marketing. Usually programmatic demand from exchanges and often re-targeting.
Content recommendation
The likes of Outbrain, Taboola and Rev. Self-serve headline units which click out, usually in blocks of 6 or 12 at the bottom of article pages. Usually DR campaigns or arbitrage.
Should 'native advertising' be redefined?
Chad argues that the confusion in the market is all about the definitions of types of content, I'd argue that there's far more confusion over what a headline unit does.
Perhaps now is the time to separate premium sponsored content (in editorial environments) from what recent IAB UK native conference called 'next generation display advertising'. Perhaps, the term 'native advertising' has had its day!
Has programmatic become problematic?
By James Murphy | Brand Safety, Content Marketing, Marketing, Native advertising
The rise of programmatic advertising has been nothing short of spectacular, with the IAB predicting that programmatic will account for 80-90% of display ad sales by 2019.
Its rapid growth is unsurprising given the problems it has solved, namely audience targeting and unsold inventory. By introducing real-time bidding (RTB) on every ad impression, advertisers can bid for the eyeballs of each individual user based on their browsing history and other data sources. Want to reach a 47 year old female, earning a fair whack who likes sports cars? No problem…
Brand safety becomes the hot topic
Except there was a problem. In March, The Times ran the headline: Big brands fund terror through online adverts. Their investigation focused on sites including YouTube where programmatic ads for major global brands were found to be alongside extremist content.
The fallout grew greater each day as more and more media agencies pulled their ads from Google's ad exchange. As we noted on this blog when ads were pulled from alleged 'fake news' sites:
"Finding audience at the expense of losing control of the environment, suddenly doesn't seem quite as smart."
But it's not just user-generated content sites like YouTube, Facebook, Tumblr or Instagram that represent a potential danger for brands. There's also been an exodus from editorial sites like Breitbart – the controversial Alt-right news organisation – and copyright-infringing sites such as those streaming live sport without owning the rights. Ads have also been found on pornographic sites.
I don't suppose brand safety concerns were top of the agenda for most programmatic buyers; performance by way of finding the target audience trumped everything, but one thing's for sure – it's now their number one priority.
Good news for traditional publishers?
Ironically, one of the campaigns which first sparked this controversy was for a publisher. The Guardian pulled ads for its membership scheme from Google's Adx ad exchange when they were discovered next to extremist content.
Ironic, because it's traditional publishers which stand to benefit the most from the fallout. News UK's chief executive, Robert Thompson didn't hold back with his take on the tech giant:
"It is risible, no, beyond risible, that Google/YouTube, which has earned, literally, hundreds of billions of dollars from other peoples' content, should now be lamenting that it can't possibly be held responsible for monitoring that content – monetizing yes, monitoring no." Press Gazette
1XL, which represents local newspaper publisher's Johnston Press, Newsquest, Archant and DC Thompson issued a statement suggesting that agencies place ads with them rather than:
"blind programmatic ad buying which is placing household brands next to extremist content and fake news".
What next for advertisers?
Over the past few weeks I've had many calls and emails from media agencies asking us to confirm where their client's ads are running.
As we operate our own network with direct publisher integration, I can easily list every site down to individual sections and placements – in short, we can offer complete transparency and brand safety. I suspect others in the digital space have probably not had such an easy ride.
What many advertisers don't realise is quite how many exchanges their ads are passing through before being spat out at the other end. Knowing where your ad is being served when bids and ad calls are being made in a fraction of a second on millions of websites is nigh on impossible.
So perhaps it's time to take another look at the walled garden traditional publishers can offer, after all, could it be that the environment your ad is served in is as important as the targeting?
Essential for native
Thus far, the programmatic problem has only affected display advertising, but
with some display being tweaked to look more like native, it seems obvious that native advertising should be leading by example. After all, when sites are associated with your content, they should be completely brand safe.
As a final thought, I'll leave you with three things I'd be asking any native provider:
Can you provide me with a full site list?
Can I blacklist any sites I don't consider right for the brand?
Can you pause campaigns down to individual placements by next impression?
If they can't answer all three, I'd be looking elsewhere.
5 trends for native advertising in 2017
By James Murphy | Content Marketing, Marketing, Native advertising, Technology, Videos
Having firmly established its place on media plans over the past year, content & native in-feed advertising accounted for an impressive 29% of display in 2016. So, what does the new year hold for native? Here's 5 trends we'll be keeping a close eye on:
Measurement, Measurement, Measurement
When someone as gigantic as Facebook struggles with metrics, the spotlight really falls on if a 3 second video view really is engagement, or simply someone scrolling past to consume more of the thing they were actually there for in the first place? There's also been plenty of talk about moving away from obsessing over clicks, so perhaps 2017 will be the year when quality of engagement trumps sheer quantity.
Viewability remains a red hot topic
I'm sitting in a coffee shop writing this, having just purchased an Americano. Unsurprisingly it filled the cup. Had it only have been 70% full, I'd have asked why and certainly wouldn't have paid full price. Remarkably, media agencies are still asking 'how viewable' our inventory is so they can price this in. We've always delivered native on a vCPM (a 100% viewable CPM) – others are moving towards a CPV or CPE (costs per view or engagement) – one thing is for sure though, the days of charging for unseen impressions must finally be coming to an end.
Trust becomes ever more important
In the new era of 'fake news' the credibility of brand content becomes increasingly important. Spammy headlines that lead to unrelated content are bad news for both the sites they appear on and the companies using them. Expect to see big brands becoming more cautious about placements and being seen alongside other campaigns with less credible clickbait creative.
Picture-perfect! The increasing use of visual formats
Video distribution has been one of the fastest growing areas of online advertising so it's easy to forget the power of great photography. We've already worked with some great photo essays for brands. There's also plenty of hype around 360 VR – our team has been experimenting with this on mobile and it looks fantastic – expect to see more.
Rejection of interruptive formats
Ad blocking continued to be the hot topic during the past year. It was hard to find anyone to disagree with the fact that the industry had brought this upon themselves by annoying the hell out of people – obscuring the content that audiences were there to consume. Many publishers are turning their backs on these formats realising that it creates massive UX issues.
Stay-on-site True Native is just one way to create a non-interruptive user experience whist maintaining revenues. If 2016 was the year of interruption, 2017 is definitely shaping up to be the year of usability and engagement. The two really do go hand in hand.
To create, or to curate, that is the question
By Adam Knoyle | Content Marketing, Native advertising
With native advertising and sponsored content now being the tool of choice for so many leading brands, the debate is now moving to an advanced discussion of the choice of strategy.
One of the first decisions will be whether to create, or to curate your content. Are you going to write brand new material, never before seen or read, that takes a fresh approach? Or do you curate your content, making use of your own assets and changing the way you share them; the product guide from last year, that video from the YouTube channel or the images from your social media channels.
In the beginning there was creation
One of the plus points of creating content is the chance to take a new direction; perhaps you want to capture a different audience or talk about a new topic. Good quality, fresh content will always attract followers who are searching for answers or to be entertained with new ideas. As you own it you can share it as you like, potentially increasing the opportunity to convert passing visitors to genuine leads.
As always success will be down to the quality of the content, there's no room for vanity publishing here. If the work is up to scratch and offers genuine value to readers and rewards them for their efforts, then content creation is a great way to build your own credibility as a source of expertise.
Curating the existing collection
Curating existing content works to a different set of rules; in this approach you are driving more value from those existing brand assets. It's a skill that develops from not only knowing your market extremely well but also being able to predict how that market will evolve; in effect the brand itself is becoming a publisher.
For some sectors curating will be the most appealing, particularly in areas such as fashion, motor and travel, where there is already so much content out there. Why invent the wheel, right? But it's important to make it your own and develop a consistent brand voice that you can use throughout all your materials.
Room for both
Your content strategy should of course always be linked to your business objectives. It's important for advertisers to create new content so you can stay ahead as the source of expertise and continue to deliver more value and better solutions. Nevertheless curating content has its place too! Your success here will depend on the editorial skills you bring to selecting the right material and then how you present the whole.
Over the longer period, think of your complete content strategy like a loaf of bread, sharing slices of interest specific stories to the market whose interest you share.
So, the answer is definitely to use both. It may be creating, it may be curating, they are both very powerful strategies when applied in the right context.
At TAN Media, we create and curate content for a range of brands across almost every vertical. We want to share our expertise and data insights, so you can make the most of content and engage with your target market. We would welcome the opportunity to discuss your content needs to compliment your current brand strategy.
Great content – that's what women really, really want
Marketers are at long last waking up to the fact that there is no such being as 'woman' and that taking a homogenous approach to the female of the species is not just plain insulting but extremely poor marketing as well.
Here are a few facts that might make some of our leading brands have another look at their marketing strategy sooner rather than later.
Wealth and market disruption
In the UK women are directly responsible for around 60% of all spending but are actually the decision maker in an estimated 85% of purchase decisions.
Even in the notoriously male automobile market women are recognised as being the decision maker in 60-80% of car purchases, according to Aston Martin, who are rethinking their models to better meet the preferences such a powerful lobby. Porsche quote similar research and back it up with incredible statistics; over half of total sales for this iconic sports car manufacturer come not from the iconic sports cars but their SUV, the Cayenne, with the growth being accounted for disproportionately by women buyers.
Even in the middle of the market Nissan put the figure at around 70% globally and, of particular interest, say that the percentage of women making the buying decision is higher in the developing and new emerging markets.
Only the beginning
We know that some of this is due to the changing face of work; 67% of women now work either part-time or full-time (for men that figure is 77%) up from 62% twenty years ago and with pay inequality gradually declining with women forecast to earn 82% of a male equivalent by 2017, up from 79% now; suggesting total equality is actually in sight.
So, increasing financial independence is part of the explanation for the huge purchase influence but, according to Marketing magazine (6.3.2015), the real explanation is far more complex and challenging than simple economics.
This, they say, is the tangible result of the growth in confidence of women globally, no longer prepared to accept a stereotypic role as a male accessory, a mother figure and homemaker as so many religions and cultures have traditionally portrayed women.
A technical marketing challenge
For the marketer this requires a fairly fundamental rethink on a number of levels. Firstly many women do not think that products and services are designed for them; even in a market as asexual as financial services 75% of women respondents complained about product relevance and targeting.
According to She-conomy, US specialists in marketing to women, "Women don't want to see a lot of "cutesy" pink floral imagery in advertising. Instead, marketing that features a strong and confident woman is much more appealing to this demographic".
And that takes us back to the title; what women really, really want is great content that designed to appeal to and respect the incredible range of differences to be found within the female gender itself. According to She-conomy and Marketing magazine this means that future marketing efforts must be relevant to them as individuals, as people, and woe betide the marketer who does not pursue a less historically based understanding of their female customers.
However, there is one issue of relevance, although a slight anomaly as it once again homogenises women, but according to She-conomy, women think about purchases differently to men. Men, they say, have technical needs and want instant gratification; women, on the other hand want endorsement and 'confidence through conversation'.
Which is why native content is so suited to the challenge. Content that speaks the language of the reader, content that is designed to complement the editorial, content that is crafted, and always has been, to create a conversation and build confidence.
Native Content Best Practices
There are some who see native content as simply advertorial with a new name for a new generation. But for those who are prepared to dig a little deeper will be the reward; a treasure chest of thinking and understanding about how we new centurions communicate with each other.
Making comparisons with even the recent past is always, if not dangerous, then certainly unwise for planning purposes. Technology moves so far in such a short time that even basic terminology such as 'marketing' or 'communication' mean subtly different things than they did thirty or so years ago. In the latter half of the twentieth century marketing pretty much meant 'selling' and communication meant 'telling'. Advertorials were still fairly blunt weapons, using brand names and images as often as possible between steps on a bland path to appearing witty and on the consumers' side. Half-way along the first quarter of the twenty-first century and marketing is rather more about creating brands that reflect the lives' of their target markets and communication is certainly more about listening than it is about talking. New methodologies need a reappraisal of the tools we use. Our approach and our introduction, especially in headlines, has to reflect the lightning fast filter of those whose attention we crave. Here are some native content best practices…
Headlines that work
No more than 60 characters, or about seven words, with sub-heads where the context takes a different angle. Make sure they're relevant and current and use the under-rated colon to avoid a filler of joining words. Using multiple headlines for one article can really help drive engagement. The current data shows that content with between 1 to 5 headings drives a CTR (click through rate) of 0.83%; but that escalates to 1.3% with 11+ headlines. That means a benefit for tactical diversity when structuring your content.
Don't be shy in testing a number of images for your previews (as long as they are relevant!); again the research supports the power of imagery. One preview image is linked to a CTR of 0.79% but two or more alternatives push that to 0.98%; it needs more response analysis but that could well reflect the depth of relevance perceived by the audience.
Don't be afraid to pose emotive questions in your headlines
Questions are important, it's the way you show you're listening; and the emotion you invoke, it's the way you show you actually care.
Always call for action
Having made the investment in engaging your audience, any seasoned marketer knows that the next step has to be really simple. The call to action (CTA) has to be direct but not in a 'buy it now' sort of way; instead a 'we'd love to chat longer' contact or hyperlink keeps the customer in control. Thinks about adding additional CTAs in the body of the piece; if you've already hooked the fish why wait to reel them in?
If you'd like to discuss your native content or native advertising strategy, why not get in touch?
Follow the leader; a game for thoughtful natives
Like most imports from the United States, ideas tend to arrive on a tsunami of garish promotion liberally smothered with a dressing of wild enthusiasm. Sometimes though, just to mix a few metaphors, the present inside is actually more interesting than the wrapping.
One such import is the idea of 'thought leaders'; not, as you may fear, a band of fiendish aliens controlling our minds and stealing our souls, but quite simply a bunch of folk who actually know what they're talking about – and enjoy talking about it.
Call them thought leaders, call them icons, call them experts, whatever you want to call them we all have people in our mental contact list who we would turn to for advice. What's more, we are ourselves probably the thought leaders, in our small way, for a number of stakeholder groups, such as our kids, our colleagues or our neighbours.
The point of all this is that, if we work on being thought leaders, we might just find that our community of thought followers starts to grow; and if we really know our stuff and put it out there in an easy to digest and easy to find fashion, our following could start to grow very quickly indeed. Read More


Post Labor Day and we're back on the road. We were up and about at a reasonable hour and managed to get our act together sufficiently to prepare for a day of driving. We'd connected the car and performed oil and tire pressure checks yesterday, so that took a few "to-do's" off our list.
Bob rolled wheels at 0837 and headed north on TX 146 into Livingston where we turned onto TX 90 west. Our route took us thru town and continuing west along the north shore of Lake Livingston. Ours was a somewhat ziggy and zaggy route that included TX 30w / TX 6s / FM 2181w / FM 60w / TX 60n / TX 21w. We got to drive thru College Station, home of Texas A&M. A very interesting town.
TX 21 took us to the town of Bastrop where we stopped at Buc-ees and added 87.8 gallons of diesel to our 100 gallon tank. The price was "only" $2.669/gallon, a good price for diesel these days. While at Buc-ees we bought two of their famous BBQ sandwiches and feasted in the comfort of our coach (with the generator running the air conditioning!).
Back on the road we continued west on TX 21 to TX 304, which we took south to I 10 west and then TX 46 north to New Braunfels, today's destination. We pulled into River Ranch RV a few minutes after three and got assigned to a pull thru site. Today's drive was 266 miles with a fuel economy of 7¾ mpg.
New Braunfels is located along the I 35 corridor from San Antonio (to the south) and Austin (to the north). We plan to stay a few days nosing around.


Mrs. Jewell Marie Graves, age 78, passed away Thurs., Jan. 29, 2009 at Sumner Regional Medical Center. Funeral services for Mrs. Graves will be Sun., Feb. 1 from the Robert's Tabernacle Church, with Bro. Bobby Sutton and Bro. Tim McCaleb officiating. Interment will be in Robert's Tabernacle Cemetery. Mrs. Graves is survived by her daughter Dianne (Chris) Collard of Westmoreland; son Lloyd Graves of Westmoreland; Grandchildren Missy (Ronnie) Wiley of Viloa Rica, GA and Matt (Ginger) Cummins of Gallatin; Great-Grandchildren: Katie Wiley of Viloa Rica, GA, Isaac Wiley of Viloa Rica, GA, Walker Cummins of Gallatin and Georgia Mae Cummins of Gallatin; Step-Great-Grandchildren Cody Shaw, Sierra Thompson and Alexus Shaw of N.C. she is preceded in death by her parents Garland and Lillie Rippy Clark; husband James William Graves. Mrs. Graves retired from Marlene Industries.


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China's secretive military cracks open door for glimpse inside
By chankaiyee2 on July 23, 2014 • ( 2 )
A tank is driven down a slope during an organised media tour at a People's Liberation Army (PLA) engineering academy in Beijing July 22, 2014.
With dancing robots and smiling soldiers and to the strains of British singer George Michael, China cracked open the door on its secretive armed forces on Tuesday during Beijing's annual attempt to assuage worries about its growing military might.
China has jangled regional nerves over the past few months with an increasing assertiveness over territorial disputes in the East and South China Seas, set against the backdrop of rising defense spending.
But on a yearly trip for foreign reporters to a Chinese military base, this time to an engineering academy in Beijing's southwestern suburbs, officers went to great lengths to put a non-threatening face on the world's largest military.
"It is not necessary to pick an enemy or an opponent for combat while developing ones military. I think the People's Liberation Army's development is in line with China's overall development," base commander Xu Hang told reporters.
During a carefully escorted tour of the leafy base, soldiers stopped to chat and patiently answer questions about everything from their salary to why they wanted to join up.
At one point a group of cadets proudly showed off miniature dancing robots they had designed, as piped Western pop music played in the background, including a musak-version of George Michael's "Careless Whisper".
"When I was small I wanted really badly to be a soldier," said a beaming Liao Guofeng, 26. "In China soldiers get respect and now my dream has come true."
The base, though, exists for a more serious purpose — to train up and coming officers for leadership with a specific focus on tanks.
The base also sits very close to one of China's most potently symbolic sites, the Marco Polo Bridge, where a skirmish in 1937 sparked an all-out Sino-Japanese war and which today is a place of somber remembrance.
China-Japan ties are at the lowest ebb in years due not only to the dispute over a group of uninhabited islets in the East China Sea, but also friction over a shared bitter wartime past.
Commander Xu said his cadets made regular visits not only to the bridge but other places of historic importance.
"It is a normal practice for us to educate cadets about the fine traditions of the People's Liberation Army and bring them to important locations that tell the history of the military and the country," he added.
Despite the military's attempts at openness — this visit was the seventh of its kind for foreign journalists — a culture of secrecy and suspicion remains deeply embedded in China.
That had added to concern that China is not telling the whole truth when it comes to defense spending, a figure that this year will rise by 12.2 percent to 808.2 billion yuan ($130 billion), a number many governments and analysts say is not representative of the country's true defense outlays.
Defense Ministry spokesman Geng Yansheng brushed off such worries, saying Beijing was committed to transparency and explaining itself to the outside world.
"We've noticed in recent years that along with China's international influence increasing so has exposure globally to its military. But there are some reports on China's military which are not quite accurate or are mistaken," he told reporters. "So giving foreign reporters this experience is extremely necessary."
Still, Geng prevaricated when asked if next year's trip might be to visit China's first aircraft carrier, the Liaoning.
"I can't say that this possibility does not exist," Geng said. "At this time of year there are lots of military exercises going on, so perhaps going now would not work."
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/**
 * @class strange.extensions.command.impl.EventCommandBinder
 *
 * A subclass of CommandBinder which relies on an IEventDispatcher as the common system bus.
 */

using System;
using strange.extensions.command.api;
using strange.extensions.dispatcher.eventdispatcher.api;
using strange.extensions.pool.api;

namespace strange.extensions.command.impl
{
	public class EventCommandBinder : CommandBinder
	{
		public EventCommandBinder ()
		{
		}

		///
		override protected ICommand createCommand(object cmd, object data)
		{
			injectionBinder.Bind<ICommand> ().To (cmd);
			if (data is IEvent)
			{
				injectionBinder.Bind<IEvent>().ToValue(data).ToInject(false);
			}

			ICommand command = injectionBinder.GetInstance<ICommand> () as ICommand;
			if (command == null)
			{
				string msg = "A Command ";
				if (data is IEvent)
				{
					IEvent evt = (IEvent)data;
					msg += "tied to event " + evt.type;
				}
				msg += " could not be instantiated.\nThis might be caused by a null pointer during instantiation or failing to override Execute (generally you shouldn't have constructor code in Commands).";
				throw new CommandException(msg, CommandExceptionType.BAD_CONSTRUCTOR);
			}

			command.data = data;
			if (data is IEvent)
			{
				injectionBinder.Unbind<IEvent>();
			}
			injectionBinder.Unbind<ICommand> ();
			return command;
		}

		override protected void disposeOfSequencedData(object data)
		{
			if (data is IPoolable)
			{
				(data as IPoolable).Release();
			}
		}
	}
}

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This interactive two-day course is designed to support those planning to take the Certified Professional in Healthcare Quality® (CPHQ) Certification Examination. Based on the current CPHQ content outline, this course engages participants in a review of the examination material and offers valuable tips on how to best prepare for test day. Participants should begin this course with functional knowledge in areas identified on the CPHQ content online. Completion of this course does not guarantee a passing score on the examination. Earn 16 CPHQ CE credits upon completion and evaluation of the course. CPHQ CE is available only to current CPHQs.
The course begins at 8:00 AM and concludes at 4:30 PM on both days. The course fee includes breakfast and lunch on both days and electronic access to handout materials for one year. This course is being held in collaboration with Virginia Association for Healthcare Quality.


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About 33 lakh unauthorised plots regularised in Tamil Nadu in three years
The DTCP has jurisdiction over the entire state except for Chennai and its suburbs that fall in Chengalpet, Kancheepuram and Tiruvallur districts.
Yogesh Kabirdoss
Updated: March 03, 2020, 15:00 IST
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CHENNAI: Nearly three years after the state government launched an amnesty scheme, about 33 lakh unauthorised housing plots across Tamil Nadu have been regularised by the directorate of town and country planning (DTCP). The DTCP has jurisdiction over the entire state except for Chennai and its suburbs that fall in Chengalpet, Kancheepuram and Tiruvallur districts.
Official sources said a chunk of these applications were from Coimbatore and Vellore. "Owners of 38 lakh independent plots had sought regularisation. And, 33 lakh have been regularised. The rest are pending for want of documents with the applicants," a senior DTCP official told TOI.
Construction sector players said with the regularisation would reflect in more authorised housing plots coming up for sale. Builders Association of India's southern centre chairman S Ramaprabhu said a majority of these plots were part of unauthorised layouts, parts of which had already been sold. "Planning permissions to construct houses would be issued only for approved and regularised plots," he said.
The state government had announced an amnesty scheme after the Madras high court imposed a blanket ban on registering plots lacking statutory approvals in September 2016 following rampant conversion of agricultural land as residential plots all over Tamil Nadu. Owners of unapproved plots and unauthorised layout promoters were warned that houses coming up there would lose power connection, water supply, and drainage facilities.
Meanwhile, the DTCP is also witnessing a jump in the number of layout applications in the last three years, thanks to curbs on unapproved plots. For instance, Kancheepuram, Chengalpet and Tiruvallur districts have recorded an increase in registration of 50 authorised layouts every year between 2017 and 2019 when compared to 2016, when 100 layouts were approved.
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I made an attempt to draw and use my water colour pencils. I'm not the best. But I sure tried.
Someone commissioned a portrait of Marisella for me. I am beyond blown away by the artwork and how lovely she has gotten the pose, the dress and the little details right! Also the entire theme of the picture is very floral. So perfectly suitable for a Gaian!
I was thinking Ashaxei(not sure I spelled this right suddenly). I didn't like the butterflies they were teaching on paint night. so I did a dragon. Lol. Ashaxei was the inspiration. Idk. Achaea! Dragons! Because I'm a nerd and butterflies are lame.
what happens when you cross a dragon and a butterfly?
@Tysandr thought of that. I wasnt feeling it.
Something super old I made for an artisanal but didn't place and I had completely forgotten about. I found it again looking to see if I could find my old GUI.
A very fantastic person from Aetolia drew Ayja for me. I love it, aaa.
I need to be studying, so of course I spend 30 minutes doodling Hau.
Artists out there! Please feel free to share tips! I'm sure there are perspective things I did all wonky Also, self image of Hau is a work in progress. Needs more tattoos, and a big mean Cuddlezeen - but I don't have time to draw it all out right now!
so! I had this commissioned as a present for @Solnir, but he's currently lost in time and space so you guys get to see it before he does.
it's a really nice family portrait of him glaring at her and her glaring back, but sticking her tongue out at him defiantly. don't ask why.
A quick, messy doodle of my boy.
Kill it with fire aggh!
I got bored waiting for something, and ended up doing a quick doodle on my computer.
Despite the picture, Lasher's head actually didn't roll, because Seortiae is real nice and Lasher bribes her with food and fresh tea every time she sends her a letter.
The silver animal thing on Seortiae's hair is supposed to be her "silver panther's head clasp". Except I realised after I drew it that it's supposed to be just the head and it's not actually a hairclip. Oh well.
The fuzzy thing on Lasher's head is supposed to be the fancy headdress she's wearing these days. I don't even know; Lasher's like my furball of weirdness rolling out from hiding at times.
I will attempt to do proper Achaean drawings some day. Silly doodles are so much fun though.
Many thanks to Seortiae for being awesome!
@Xae made my dae. I asked for a sketch on a whim, and she nailed the look of pouty contempt.
And again! I commissioned this from Mikao a few months ago, but the wait was worth it and I'm completely in love. I'm just dazzled by how Mhaldorian it is, down to the smallest details. The colours! The lighting!
It looks like a fresco.
A rare moment of repose for Stheno and @Reyson in their cathedral.


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Folgende Höhlen sind unter dem Namen Zwergenhöhle (häufiger alternativer Name: Zwergenloch) bekannt:

 Zwergenhöhle (Lindlar)
 Zwergenhöhle (Herrenstrunden)
 Zwergenhöhle unterhalb der Schönen Höhe
 Zwergenhöhle (Bielefeld)
 Zwergenhöhle im Heiligenstädter Stadtwald
 Zwergenhöhle bei Könneckenrode
 Zwergenhöhle bei Hollenberg
 Zwergenhöhle (Wuppertal), nicht mehr existent

Zwergenlöcher:
 Skalky skřítků (Zwergenlöcher) bei Kyselka, Tschechien

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The Innokin Kroma-A Zenith Kit contains both a 75W TC capable vape mod, along with Innokin's Zenith Sub-ohm tank. It's a small and compact device that fits comfortably in hand, and also features a "grip" finish to help those with clumsy hands.
The Innokin Zenith Vape Tank is the result of a collaboration between vaping personalities Phil Bursardo and Dimitris Agrafiotis, along with manufacturer Innokin. The Zenith vape tank has a simple-to-use top-fill twist design that automatically shuts the liquid flow off when it's being filled to prevent flooding of the coil.
The tank comes with both a 0.8Ω sub ohm coil, as well as a mouth-to-lung coil with a resistance of 1.6 ohms.Innokin Zenith Vape Coils are available to buy separately in packs of five.
The Kroma A Plus Kit features a Plexus Z Mesh coil, in place of the standard Zenith coil in the tank. This offers a larger surface area for increase flavour and an extended life span.
Powered by Innokin's Aethon chipset to reduce dry hits, the Kroma A does away with the recessed 510 connector from the previous model, instead featuring a flush 510 connector ensuring most vape tanks will sit on top with ease.
>This device is designed for sub-ohm vaping. It requires more vaping experience to use safely, and extra care should be taken when using a sub ohm tank. Sub Ohm coils will only work on a mod capable of firing sub ohm atomisers, and Ni200 coils will only work on devices capable of Temperature Control. Please ensure that your batteries can handle the extra power requirements and that your mod can handle the amps.
No.51 eLiquid by Beard Vape Co.
Love this vape it's every thing I've been looking for. Switched to vaping just over a month ago after smoking for over 20 yrs and with this kit I haven't looked back. My first kit (the pocketX) was ok but I never felt 100% happy with it so after some serious research online I decided the Innokin Kroma with the zenith tank was what I'd go for. Right off the bat the flavour hit me and i new I was on to a winner, the mesh coil really does the job, although it didn't last as long as I expected (just shy of two weeks) but that may have been down to me switching flavours so much and forgot to top the juice up once. Using the 1.6 coil now and it's really good too. The mod is really simple to use even for a newbie like me and the battery life goes nearly all day and charges very quick. Overall I'm really pleased, I don't crave cigs and I've reduced my nic content from 18 to 12. Well worth the money. Thanks vapeclub for the excellent service and delivery time.
Before getting this I had a cheap entry level vape stick worth about £20, the jump from that to the Kroma is amazing. I can actually taste the flavours now and its so much smoother!
I get better value from both liquids and coils with the Kroma. My first coil is yet to die after over a month while coils in my cheap vape would last 4 days at most.
No leaks, great value and a solid machine.
I've been using the t22e for about 18 months now and so I know all it's kinks and quirks, what a pleasure to vape on the Zenith, don't get me wrong the t22e is fully usable but the Zenith is better, I'm highly impressed with it so 5 stars.
I've been issuing this for over a week and I can't fault it. Very easy to fill and it hasn't leaked at all. It's very comfortable in the hand, the buttons and display are a good size and it's very easy to use. The coil is also easy to change and produce good clouds.
I'm quite a heavy vaper so I do have to refill it often but it's easy to do. I've spent a lot of money on kits before and this one is worth the money. I bought the blue one.
I wanted to give up smoking for the past year. I bought my first e-cigarette/vape kit last year and it was a rocky road. I was on and off the e-cigarette and the cigarettes.
My older tanks were the naulitus 2 and the naulitus X. I ran into some issues with them tanks. The naulitus 2 kept leaking and not only that, sometimes when it came to refilling the tank seized and wouldn't open without a pilers. Sometimes upon opening the coil would come away with the head too. It's not ideal when out and about. The flavour from the naulitus X tank was muted and I didn't like the tip and the tip didn't take other tips.
It was time for a new tank. I decided on the innokin zenith. I decided to spend a little bit more money and buy the kit - the tank and mod.
I wish I did it sooner. I love the build of the tank and I can see this working for me without giving problems that I experienced before. Already I see a difference. My preference for juice is relatively high VG - 60/70%. The coil in my tank is 3 days old now and I'm still getting nice flavour from my juice. This is giving me a nice smooth vape.
I've been ordering juices from vape club for many months now because I can't find anything that I like in my home country. Delivery is always quick. Delivery with this order was quick as well. I went for the express delivery. Expensive but worth every penny. It was dispatched and I received my order in the west of Ireland the following morning. I'm delighted with vapeclub and my new e-cigarette.
I have just bought this as I began vaping a few months ago and my vape was a small rubbish one. This one has arrived in good time and it is sleek and easy to use. The only bad thing I'd have to say is the tank is not able to come completely apart to clean but that is something that can be easily overcome when I was it out. I really recommend this to anyone who is starting out or has been vaping for a while and wants an upgrade!
I absolutely love this kit. It performs 100% everytime, it never leaks and is so smooth. Great battery life, charges in no time and lasts for ages. I vape at around 14w which is powerful enough for me. Flavour and clouds are spot on. You wont be disappointed if you purchase this kit.
This is my third vape kit that I have and after a year fighting a old Nautilius X with leaking and filling I have just received my Innokin Kroma-A Zenith and already in love with it. Ordered and dispatched were very quickly as well as delivery. Thanks very much VapeClub you have earned a new loyal costumer.


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AADR Statement on Administration's Decision to Rescind ICE Policy Barring International Students Taking Online Courses
Tuesday, July 14, 2020 0 465
The American Association for Dental Research (AADR) is pleased to learn of the administration's decision to walk back a new policy that would have required international students taking classes exclusively online courses in the fall 2020 semester to transfer or leave the country. This was an important and necessary step by the Department of Homeland Security and U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE).
AADR Joins Amicus Brief Opposing ICE's July 6 Directive on International Student Visas
Alexandria, Va., USA – The American Association for Dental Research and 15 other scientific societies joined the American Physical Society amicus brief pledging support for the lawsuit brought by Harvard University and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology to block new U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) visa rules that bar international students taking online-only courses from residing in the United States.
AADR Opposes SEVP Modifications to Temporary Exemptions for Nonimmigrant Students
Thursday, July 9, 2020 0 359
Alexandria, Va., USA – The American Association for Dental Research (AADR) strongly condemns the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) Student and Exchange Visitor Program (SEVP) modifications to temporary exemptions for nonimmigrant students taking online classes during the fall 2020 semester, announced on July 6, 2020. Among the modifications is that nonimmigrant F-1 and M-1 students attending schools operating online may not remain in the United States. This misguided policy—released amid a global pandemic—has consequences that negatively impact students, academic institutions, communities, the scientific enterprise, and the U.S. economy.
Petros Gebreselassie
Tuesday, July 7, 2020 0 509
"Underrepresented minority groups account for disproportionately smaller percentages of people in research and development. Professional associations such as AADR can play pivotal roles by helping the participation and advancement of minorities in research and development."
Read the full interview.
- Petros Gebreselassie, Ashland Inc., Bridgewater, N.J.
July 2020 – Luciana Shaddox
Luciana Shaddox joined the University of Kentucky, Lexington, Division of Periodontology as a professor with tenure in July 2018 and she became the Associate Dean of Research for the College of Dentistry in July 2019. Shaddox obtained her D.D.S., M.S. at University of Campinas, Brazil, and her Ph.D. at University of Florida, Gainesville, in 2004. She completed a post-doctorate in Oral Microbiology at University of Florida in 2005, became a full-time faculty member in the department of Periodontology in 2006, was tenured in 2012 and remained with the University of Florida until July 2018, when she joined University of Kentucky. Currently, Shaddox directs all research activities, actively participates in Periodontology courses and several college and national committees and has an intense clinical translational research program supported by NIH since 2009. Her main research focus is aimed at evaluating immunological, microbiological and genetic factors involved with localized aggressive periodontal disease in children and adolescents. She has over 60 publications, has been an ad-hoc member of several NIH study sections and is the recipient of several research student-mentored awards and personal awards, including the prestigious American Academy of Periodontology Teaching Award and the University of Florida Professorship Award.
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Londt Park Squash Club has always prided and identified itself as a family club where parents can bring their children to play (squash or otherwise) in a safe and friendly environment.
The following facilities are available:
– Ten glass back squash courts that compare favourably to any other courts in South Africa
– Hall with braai facilities, available for functions
– Fully licenced bar
– On-site Pro-Shop which provides various services to the club and members
– Electronic court control and access system and online booking facilities
– Ample off-street parking with security guards at night
– Secure play area for children (while parents are playing squash)
– Membership, leagues, tournaments, etc.
Some general information relative to the club for noting:
– Currently, the club has a membership base of 420 members – which makes it the largest club in Port Elizabeth and also ranks amongst the top clubs nationally
The club has a number of fully qualified and registered coaches available for all age groups
– The club currently makes its facilities available to 4 schools (Framesby, Westering, St Marks, Sunridge)
– Londt Park has the most winter league teams entered in the province out of all the clubs (24 men's teams and 8 ladies teams for 2015)
– The club is often the preferred choice for local tournaments because of the facilities on offer
– On Saturday mornings a "pitch and play" is available for members and players from other clubs – players of all strengths are accommodated and it gives everyone an opportunity to play against new opponents at different levels
– Companies that want to get involved with squash as a form of team building and social interaction can be accommodated through a corporate league structure which the club is most willing to assist with.
Ralston Road
Port Elizabeth, Eastern Cape 6045
Proshop Hours: Tel 041- 3643737
Monday—Friday: 14:30–19:30PM
Saturday 11:00am–13:00pm


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The Milky Way - tomography of a barred spiral galaxy
Our home galaxy, the Milky Way, is still enigmatic. Scientists at the Max Planck Institute for Extraterrestrial Physics have now modelled the components in its interior, linking new observations of projected star counts with the three-dimensional distribution of the stars: in the middle of an elongated bulge, extending some 10 000 light-years across the Milky Way centre, there is a dense, almost round distribution of stars about 4000 light-years in diameter. Further out the bulge transforms into a bar reaching out to about 15 000 light years and interacting with the Milky Way's spiral arms. In the model, these components form naturally during the intrinsic development of a disk galaxy and consist of stars made originally in the disk. Our Milky Way therefore could have started out as a pure disk galaxy.
Figure 1: The galaxy NGC 1073 is a spiral galaxy with a bar-shaped bulge in the middle. If we could observe our Milky Way "from above" it would look very similar.
© NASA & ESA
Our Milky Way, like many other spiral galaxies, consists of a disk with spiral arms containing relatively young stars, and an elongated "bulge" in the central region with predominantly old stars. In addition, the Milky Way also contains a "bar" as do about two-thirds of all spiral galaxies (see Figure 1). This overall structure of our Galaxy has been known for some time, but it is difficult to measure the spatial distribution and properties of distant stars because our Sun and Earth are located right in the Galaxy's thin disk of gas and dust. Distant stars are therefore often hidden behind gas and dust clouds, particularly in the direction of the galactic centre at a distance of 25 000 light-years (Figure 2).
The best view of the inner Galaxy is at near-infrared wavelengths, where the clouds become transparent. Such observations of a certain class of giant stars, the so-called red clump stars, have given us the best information about the Milky Way's inner regions so far. These stars have very uniform absolute luminosity and colour, therefore their distances and the residual dimming by dust can be determined from their apparent brightness and colour. With this information, their distribution along the line of sight can be reconstructed.
Figure 2: This 360-degree panoramic image, covering the entire southern and northern celestial sphere, shows the disk of the Milky Way, where the light of the bulge stars is hidden behind filaments of absorbing dust.
© ESO / S. Brunier
Asymmetries in the distributions of these stars on both sides of the Galactic centre led astronomers to believe that the stars are arranged in a bar-like structure. The data even suggested two barred components, an inner elongated bulge, and an outer bar in the disk, with different orientations. Recent observations from the VVV survey at the ESO VISTA telescope have now shown that the asymmetries in the distributions of the red clump stars change again within about 2000 light-years from the Galactic centre. Does this imply a new nuclear bar component in the innermost Milky Way? And how could all these structures in the inner Milky Way have formed?
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Figure 3: Computer model of a disk galaxy resembling the Milky Way. The image above shows a side view of the simulation, as one would see the galaxy from the position of the Earth. In the bottom left image the entire simulation is shown with a size of 50 000 light years on a side, the image at bottom right shows the central region with 16 000 light years on a side. In the left image, the distortion of the elongated bar is clearly visible, as it interacts with the spiral arms. The zoomed image on the right shows the structural changes near the centre where the stars have a rounder distribution.
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The simulation includes one million particles, which were initially arranged in an exponential disk and surrounded by a halo of dark matter. Over the course of 1-2 billion years instabilities develop that first lead to a bar-shaped structure and finally to a thickening in the centre, the elongated bulge. The fact that several of the structures in the Milky Way as seen from our position within the disk emerge naturally in such a simulation supports the hypothesis that our Milky Way started out as a pure disk galaxy and evolved without any large outside influence.
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De Christopher creates chiseled stories out of stone; Part of the "Wide Awake" exhibition at the Pulp Gallery with artist Nora Riggs
By William H. Pegues on	 December 31, 2021 Fine Art
When he left New York in 1979, Turners Falls stone carver Tim de Christopher received goodbye advice from his former boss Arturo DiModica, the Sicilian creator of Wall Street's legendary "Charging Bull".
"Hi … Stai Furbo"DiModica said to de Christopher, with one of those accompanying Sicilian body gestures: a pulled lower eyelid with an index finger exposing the lower part of his eyeball. "Be careful. Take care. Take care of yourself," it said, an expression the outgoing artist had never heard.
Stai Furbo is one of the stone sculptures in Wide Awake, an exhibition of about a dozen of de Christopher's stone works in Holyokes Pulp Gallery. The exhibition, which also includes paintings by the Florentine artist Nora Riggs, opened on December 11th and will run until January 9th in the gallery at 80 Race St.
Stai Furbo, on a steel base that increases the height of the man wearing a tank top to about five feet, gestures his silent warning with a raised right index finger, a cigar held discreetly in his left hand underneath. He's actually Stai Furbo II. An earlier version literally lost its head while being carried on de Christopher's forklift, as if to reinforce DiModica's warning. When Stai Furbo swung straight from the forks of the lift, he also landed on the foot of a helper and broke three of her bones, laments de Christopher. In the meantime he has had the forklift's steering and brakes overhauled.
Most of the works in the Holyoke exhibit are smaller tabletop devices. But they still weigh heavily with de Christopher's signature quirky humor.
There are two molded crew boats (or are they galley ships?): "Come Away My Brothers" and "Fther Along". The crews have raised their arms or shoulders in front of them. There are also "Factory Boat" and "Industrial Boat" inspired by Mühlenstadt. Floating stone factories mirroring the tall, abandoned Turners mill buildings? No problem.
"I have no real explanation. I don't even know what it's about, "admits the artist about his stone boats, which were originally planned for a large" cathedral project "that turned into an unrealized" testament "inheritance project.
The exhibition includes a recent work, "Two Guys Fighting," based on one of hundreds of stored napkin sketches from the time de Christopher moved to New York in 1977 to study design at Cooper Union. You can tell by the look on their faces that they are really kicking with enthusiasm.
De Christopher has exhibited at the Oxbow Gallery and William Baczek Fine Arts in Northampton, the De Cordova Museum in Concord, Chesterwood in Stockbridge and the New England Spring Flower Show in Boston.
Dean Brown, who opened the Pulp Gallery in 2019, discovered de Christopher through the artist's three-part sculpture "Rock, Paper, Scissors" from 2017 on Avenue A in Turners Falls, and "It stopped me in my footsteps. You don't see stone carvings very often. It was magical and permeated with the essence of folk art. "
He sees de Christopher's art stylistically similar to that of William Edmonson, the first African American artist to have a solo exhibition at New York's Museum of Modern Art who "told stories related to spirituality."
To de Christopher, Brown said, "There is an unfiltered beauty to his work. Something about it resonates (with the viewer) because it is so accessible. It invites you. "
Urged to start carving
De Christopher grew up in the San Francisco Bay Area, the son of a graphic, toy, product, and interior designer who also had his own drawing show on television. His grandfather had worked as a stone mason in the quarries in Italy from the age of nine before immigrating to this country as a teenager.
"He did the traditional things: Mary, Joseph and Jesus," said de Christopher, who never saw his grandfather at work. "I grew up with all sorts of stories about my grandfather, the stonemason from Italy," who founded a memorial shop with his brother in this country. "We played hide and seek and ran around the tombstones in his front yard."
During his sophomore year at Cooper Union, de Christopher gave in to the urge to start carving and traveled to work on the side artesiani in Italy.
"I was a foreigner, an artist, but I worked with the craftsmen. Some of her works were architecture, others were pure sculpture, "he recalls.
He returned to this country to finish college, then worked in the making of architectural models for five years before graduating from Columbia University with an architecture degree. But the carving virus caught him again.
Work on the Columbia campus on St. John the Divine Cathedral, resumed in 1979 after a long hiatus, included a Steinhof Institute to train stonecutters downtown youth.
"I'm there as a student with all the other architecture students," remembers de Christopher, "and there are 'my people' who carve stones."
A year and a half after graduating, the ambivalent architect asked during his training whether a carver was needed for the summer. He was hired and dropped out of architecture studies. Instead, he worked for two years at Cathedral Stoneworks, which also took private assignments.
Two gargoyles he had carved there – a monkey and a devil – were moved to a new wing of the Jewish Museum on Fifth Avenue.
When two colleagues from his New York crew invited him to their cabin in Heath for a weekend, de Christopher discovered Franklin County and moved to Shutesbury and later to Northampton the following year, 1992.
At the beginning he took on commissioned work from Cathedral Stoneworks, which closed in 1994 until he took over his own sculptures and commissions. In 2001 he moved from a studio in the Greenfield Venture Center to his first studio in Turners Falls, the former Williams Garage.
Shortly after he moved, New York's Steinhof said it was cleaning up and offered de Christopher his limestone. He ordered six semi-trailer loads – 120 tons of limestone blocks – to be brought to Turners Falls. And he's been using it ever since. When he moved to smaller K Street in 2018, he gave them to a friend in Greenfield.
As heavy as this limestone is, many of de Christopher's stone carvings have an unmistakable lightness that over the years has included loaves of bread, fish, elephants, dogs and clumsy everyday people – like those whose faces emerged from the windows of his 2017 "Stone, Paper , Scissors "paper mill. It is the same blatant playfulness with which the artist transforms stories into sculpture.
"I carve something and say, 'Oh look: there's a little guy!' And I'll carve the little guy. Sometimes I am very spontaneous with material that is not quite as spontaneous. I see a reflection of light from an angle and think, 'Oh, that looks like a nose in the shadow.'
De Christopher admits that his chiseled stories are often obvious when he is at the carving stage, with his pneumatic hammer or a host of other implements.
"Seldom is it ever totally predetermined," he said.
In contrast to the napkin sketches, in which he captures a first glimpse of his design, the limestone he is cutting from "has its own requirements and definitely changes as you make them. You have to make decisions all the time while carving. It's the fragility of the stone: it doesn't have the molecular strength of granite. It's softer, a looser bond, and it's delicate. If you hit it wrong, it breaks off. "
The smaller works in this exhibition reflect de Christopher's adaptation, as his multiple sclerosis, first diagnosed in 1987, has increased dramatically in recent years. He's walking with a stick now. But after a short break in the last few years, the stonemason began to work hard again with the approach of this exhibit last year.
Art by Nora Riggs
Riggs, who moved to Florence seven years ago, is from Massachusetts and worked as an artist in New York and then Los Angeles and Pasadena before returning to New York. She has degrees in art from the Rhode Island School of Design and Indiana University.
Her paintings and drawings have been shown in New York, California, Georgia and elsewhere.
The Pulse exhibition of her graphite, ink and colored pencil drawings – works that she could quickly create on the dining room table while she couldn't get to her atelier for Brushworks Art and Industry in Florence – is her first exhibition in the field.
Brown described Riggs' work as complimenting de Christopher's "naïve quality, not highly polished" that focuses on domestic scenes.
"Your characters have an extraordinary inner workings," he said. "You can't help but wonder what is happening."
Riggs, 49, said that instead of painting and drawing from life, "everything in my head is made up of memory and imagination."
She likes the "immediacy and emotional strength" of primitive art and said, "I want my work to have this and direct accessibility. I try to show a kind of inner strength and energy in everyday life, a beatification of the everyday. "
The stories told in a light folk art quality by de Christopher's stone carvings and intense, naive domestic scenes complement each other in this pairing in the Pulp Gallery, which is intended to keep the visitors "wide awake".
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Tobias Churton is een Engels auteur en filmmaker. Hij studeerde enige tijd theologie in Oxford. Churton toont grote belangstelling voor esoterie en aanverwante onderwerpen. Hij koestert grote sympathie voor de gnosis, in het bijzonder de gnostiek, en is verder een druk vrijmetselaar. Volgens Churton is de gnosis de werkelijke kern van het christendom. Hij kan tot de hedendaagse neognostieke stroming gerekend worden.

Churton maakte enkele films over magie en esoterische onderwerpen. Enige bekendheid verwierf hij met een film over de gnosis. Churton is oprichter en redacteur van het blad "Freemasonry Today" (Vrijmetselarij Vandaag).

Werk
boeken:
 The Golden Builders: Alchemists, Rosicrucians, and the First Freemasons
 Gnostic Philosophy: From Ancient Persia to Modern Times
 Magus: The Invisible Life of Elias Ashmole
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 Fama Fraternitatis: The true story of the Rosicrucians

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