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Secrets of Succeeding at Visual Marketing on Pinterest, YouTube and Instagram
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In a content-rich world, a single image is worth the proverbial thousand words, and a video can condense a whole story into a narrative more stunning than simple plain text. Brands increasingly find that their customers crave visual content, as evidenced by the popularity of social platforms such as Instagram, Pinterest and YouTube.
Study their secrets so you, too, can drive an active and engaged audience that loves your brand.
Feature your fans: As one of the best Instagram accounts in 2015 and finalist in last year's Shorty Awards, Benefit Cosmetics is killing it in terms of tying audience engagement and loyalty to selling their products. In 2013, their #Realsies campaign resulted in thousands of fans wearing Benefit's "They're Real!" mascara and sending in selfies, which were then published on Benefit's website and Instagram account. Their strategy of publicly featuring their Instagram fans allowed them to boost visibility of their product, gain brand loyalty and increase sales.
Hold contests and giveaways: Another way to garner excitement around your products is to hold contests and giveaways that require your fans to engage with your brand's Instagram account. Fans could be chosen to win giveaways through likes, comments, reposts, or photo challenges. In an unexpected yet brilliant move earlier this year, Turbotax hosted a photo contest to promote their their free tax filing service. Fans simply had to take a creative picture depicting three zeroes to enter the contest, and the winner would receive $500. The move led users to become aware of Turbotax's free service and motivated them to utilize the software to approach an ordinarily daunting task.
Never underestimate the power of the hashtag: Like on Twitter and Tumblr, don't forget to utilize hashtags on Instagram to increase engagement. Make sure that your hashtag is short, memorable and ties back to your product. Red Bull's #givesyouwings hashtag fits these criteria perfectly. It incorporates the company's long-standing motto, thus making the product top-of-mind for consumers.
Make sure all content is high-quality and aesthetically pleasing: According to eMarketer, Pinterest has nearly 50 million users. No matter who you are or what you use Pinterest for, one experience is the same for you and 50 million others: seeing a homepage full of immaculate, flawless pictures. From food to fashion to home improvement, content producers on Pinterest know that photos must be beautiful. Nordstrom does a great job curating quality content into individually-themed boards and making sure their products are advertised in the best light possible. Similarly, Target consistently posts captivating photos and also utilizes metrics from their Pinterest account to create their Awesome Shop, which highlights the most-pinned products and directs customers to where they can purchase them.
Get creative about your brand image: With the ability to create different boards within one Pinterest account, you can showcase different sides of your brand. Ben & Jerry's does not just feature pretty pictures of their ice cream or exclusive behind-the-scenes looks at their factories in Vermont. They also have boards dedicated to telling the history behind Ben & Jerry's and showcasing charming pictures of little-known people behind the brand, like the delivery staff and "flavor gurus." They even have a board highlighting their stances on various social causes, like marriage equality and sustainable, fair-trade food. Their creative utilization of Pinterest humanizes the brand even further and provides consumers with an in-depth look into the brand.
Be inspirational: Pinterest is all about giving people the inspiration they need to cook better, create dazzling homes and keep up with the latest fashion trends. Giving your audience motivation through your Pinterest will convert casual browsers into dedicated fans. GE's Pinterest account is exceptional when it comes to inspiring their customers with engaging campaigns like #GetFit, #SeeInsideIt and #GEInspiredME, focused on health, science, photography, and innovative technology. Additionally, the #WhatWorks project promotes philanthropy and community development, urging its Pinterest audience to make positive changes in their local communities.
Active participation and engagement with audience: When Felix "PewDiePie" Kjellberg, the most-subscribed user on Youtube, shut down comments on his videos, people had strong reactions. After complaining about the switchover to a new commenting system and voicing frustrations about receiving too much spam in his comments sections, he then urged his fans to go to other forums and social media sites to engage with him. However, he quietly turned comments back on about a month later. What happened?
The message is clear: participation and audience engagement on YouTube's comments section is absolutely vital to your brand's success. Anthony Bucci, co-founder of RevZilla.com, whose YouTube channel reviews motorcycle paraphernalia, said that the comments section is "where we directly interact with and engage our community," helping to keep it active and growing. He also emphasized the importance of responding to fans in a helpful and authentic way.
Know your audience and gear content strategically: Christopher Ratcliff at Econsultancy suggests making content specifically for your audience. He wrote, "Keep the brand message in the background, [and] just concentrate on content that's either entertaining, useful or unique. Users who respond to your content will naturally gravitate to your brand in other channels and areas of commerce."
Lowe's Home Improvement's YouTube channel is a fantastic example of this phenomenon. The channel offers tutorials, DIY tips, and ideas geared towards to folks who are looking to improve their home and would obviously gravitate towards Lowe's for advice. In several of the comments sections of their how-to videos, it shows that various local home improvement stores from Denver, Colorado to Knoxville, Tennessee to Calgary, Alberta, have shared the video to their audiences via Google+ and other social media sites, thus increasing brand awareness and the audience for Lowe's.
Publish a lot of content: According to a study by Pixability on the top 100 brands on YouTube, the most successful brands publish about 78 videos per month instead of simply relying on one or two videos to go viral. They also found that the most effective brands in terms of audience size created new video content on one channel instead of using more than one channel. Brands like GoPro and Marvel are constantly updating their channels to increase the likelihood that new users will see their content and subscribe. They also create new types of content to keep their audiences entertained, engaged and up-to-date about the latest news regarding their products.
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A Big Blue exec sees power consumption continuing as a central concern.
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Pimple-faced video gamers and anal-retentive system administrators both owe a debt of gratitude to Lisa Su. A 10-year veteran at IBM (SUNW) - Get Report, Su managed the PowerPC processor business, which makes the chips that run the back-end technology at many corporations, and was influential in developing the new Cell processor at the heart of Sony's (SNE) - Get Report upcoming PlayStation 3 game console.
As head of the semiconductor research and development center at IBM, Su is in the unique position to drive the semiconductor roadmap both at Big Blue and throughout the industry. She recently chatted with
TheStreet.com: What are some examples of markets and applications where the Cell processor's multicore architecture is going to have an impact?
Lisa Su
: We feel like the Cell processor has a lot of different applications. It may start first in the consumer area, but there are some higher-end applications as well, and that's where we're looking to expand and innovate.
Certainly, with the Cell processor we'll start with the games market. We also see it in some fairly high-end applications, for instance, weather forecasting. Being able to do lots and lots of computations in parallel is a good thing, and that's what you can do in multicore technology: Doing sort of complex simulations, financial simulations, a whole bunch of stuff like that.
We also see the capability, once you have a framework like this, to apply the same principles to multiple markets. So, you can see at the higher end you may use more Cell processors and at the lower end you may use fewer processors, but the framework is the same.
Power consumption has been a key driver in microprocessor design recently. On the portable side, will new battery technologies alleviate some of the need for microprocessors to focus on power consumption?
I think power will continue to be one of the places where we require a lot of innovation.
I would love to have better battery technology, but I think that this perhaps will not move forward quite as fast as we would like it to do. I would say we need innovation on all sides: semiconductors, cooling, packaging, system processor design, all of us have to be focused on power.
Now that the industry is moving to this multicore architecture, what does the design road map look like? Is it just about increasing the number of cores per socket?
The number of cores is one thing. I think also we like to look at just how much work you can do in a given piece of silicon area. So, from that standpoint, there are a lot of efficiencies that you want to get on the process technologies side. What we want to do is continue to keep shrinking the chips and put more devices on a given chip.
How is the business itself changing for companies in the microprocessor industry?
I think as technology is getting more complicated and as processor design is getting more complicated, there are actually advantages that will come into play for some of the more integrated companies.
The reason I say that is the design and technology is so hard to pull apart now, that you need constant communications and constant tradeoffs. You can't look at it as sort of I'm going to do my little piece, somebody else is going to do there little piece and we're going to put it together at the end.
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Top grades almost twice the national average at Fortismere
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THE number of pupils achieving A* and A GCSE grades at a Muswell Hill School is almost twice the national average. A fantastic 42 percent of pupils scored the top two grades at GCSE at Fortismere compared to the national average of 22 percent. Three pupil
THE number of pupils achieving A* and A GCSE grades at a Muswell Hill School is almost twice the national average.
A fantastic 42 percent of pupils scored the top two grades at GCSE at Fortismere compared to the national average of 22 percent.
Three pupils in particular will be celebrating this morning after scoring 11 straight A* grades.
The school also saw their results improve overall.
Three quarters of pupils achieved the government benchmark of five A* to C grades including English and maths this year, three percent up on 2009's figures.
Again, 99 percent of pupils passed their exams, as they did last year.


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Gamer's log: A Mind Forever Voyaging - Day 2
Gamer's log: Planescape Torment - Day 1
Final thoughts on A Mind Forever Voyaging
For information on this project, be sure to check my post, In search of narrative, character, and empathy. You can find my first two entries on AMFV here and here.
"A mind forever voyaging through strange seas of thought, alone." --William Wordsworth, 1850
To anyone under the age of 30, text adventure games are a ridiculous proposition. You are expected to traverse and chart a complex environment with no map or help system (sold separately via mail order). You are provided no visual framework aside from words on a screen, and you are offered no opportunity for character creation or customization. NPCs won't talk to you if you use the wrong words. If you get stuck or lost, the game is more likely to ridicule you than help you. And if you're prone to typing errors, you're in for a brutally frustrating experience. How can I possibly find what I'm looking for in such a game?
Despite these obstacles (and partially because of them), Steve Meretzky's A Mind Forever Voyaging succeeds where many modern games fail. It tells a rich, thematically ambitious story with a fully articulated point of view. It goes places very few video games have dared or bothered to go.
AMFV is a meditation on the dangers of paranoid nationalism and religious extremism. Written in the era of Reagan, AMFV asks the player to contemplate real contemporary social and political issues. Unlike games that only purport to do so, Meretzky's masterpiece stakes its claim on relevant issues like the expansion of presidential powers, the elimination of the social welfare system, the dangers of border militias, and the insidiousness of conservative religious fanaticism. Meretzky doesn't simply toss these issues around as in-game newspaper headlines. He advances a particular position on them, painting a dire picture of a future America that uncritically embraced Reagan's "new dawn."
A Mind Forever Voyaging proves that a video game can place a player squarely in the middle of a complex set of social and moral issues without dumbing them down. And because the player is free to explore each era in whatever way he or she chooses, the immersion you experience is largely the product of your own curiosity and vivid imagination. Your relationship with Dr. Pereleman--your creator--acquires a new dimension as you discover the political imperative he has charged you with, and the game rewards you for seizing the initiative and pushing forward on your own. You are not forced to do anything. You choose your own way.
Having completed AMFV (I cop to leaning on a downloaded game map after several hours of inept cartography), I found myself wondering: why do so many modern, graphically sophisticated video games say so little? Final Fantasy XII is a terrific and well-designed game that seems to be full of important weighty stuff, but in the end we're left with the same old overcooked hash. The shelves at Gamestop are filled with such sweeping epics "full of sound and fury, signifying...nothing."
Is such thematic timidness really all about the market ("political" games won't sell) or have we gamers decided to settle for the glitzy easy stuff? It should be noted that AMFV was not commercially successful when it was released, so it would be inaccurate to suggest we once lived in an enlightened age of gaming. I do think, however, that the very existence of interactive fiction suggests a certain willingness on the part of gamers to tackle heady themes, and a small but thriving community still exists for these text-based games.
I mentioned in my last post a bit of concern about my emotional attachment to AMFV. I can't say much without revealing key narrative elements, but certain things happen to PRISM (you) and family in the second half of the game that do raise your level of empathy considerably. Having said that, AMFV wisely steers clear of sentimentality...but at the cost, perhaps, of my full emotional engagement. Playing as a sentient computer is fascinating in itself, but it may detract somewhat from the humanity of the game. This is by no means a fatal flaw.
I went looking for rich narrative, complex characters, and empathy in a prior-era video game and found them in A Mind Forever Voyaging. Interactive fiction isn't for everyone, and I've had mixed success assigning it to my students. Games like Planetfall, Zork, and Leather Goddesses of Phobos present a series of gameplay challenges that many contemporary gamers will find onerous. But if you're willing to climb the text adventure mountain, I think you'll discover it's well worth the effort. And the view is spectacular.
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Russia and China Declare Closer Military Ties in 'New Stage' As They Resist U.S.
By Tom O'Connor On 5/30/18 at 11:39 AM EDT
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Russia and China—the two leading rivals of the U.S. military—vowed in their latest meeting to pursue new defense ties as they faced heightened pressure from Washington in the form of military dominance and economic sanctions.
In recent years, Chinese President Xi Jinping and Russian President Vladimir Putin have invested heavily in building up their own armed forces and enhancing bilateral military cooperation. Major General Shao Yuanming, deputy chief of staff of the Joint Staff Department of China's Central Military Commission, and Colonel General Sergei Rudskoy, chief of the Main Operational Directorate of the Russian military's general staff, co-hosted the 20th round of strategic consultation between the two nations Wednesday in Beijing.
"The two sides exchanged views and reached broad consensus on current international and regional hotspot issues and on further deepening China-Russia military cooperation under the new situation," a statement on the official China Military Online read.
"The two sides indicated that they will firmly implement the important consensus reached by President Xi Jinping and President Putin, further enhance the level of bilateral military cooperation and make positive efforts to help the strategic cooperation between the two militaries to take new steps in the new stage," it added.
Russian and Chinese marines train together during the joint Naval Interaction 2016 exercise in September 2016. Russian Ministry of Defense
Russia and China are often considered the world's second and third most powerful countries, respectively, behind the U.S. The Pentagon's massive budget and warfighting experience give it a sizable lead over its top adversaries, but Moscow and Beijing are taking advantage of a global power shift from West to East and are working together to increase their own military, political and economic clout.
As the world's largest communist powers at the onset of the Cold War, the Soviet Union and China joined a short-lived Treaty of Friendship, Alliance and Mutual Assistance. Mutual mistrust and ideological differences led to deteriorating relations, and the two even fought a brief conflict in 1969. A year into his first term as president, Putin signed a new Treaty of Good-Neighborliness and Friendly Cooperation with China in 2001 and the relationship has accelerated since Xi came to power in 2013.
Related: U.S. is Asia's strongest power, but China is catching up and Russia is helping
Like Putin, Xi has a vision to expand and modernize his country's armed forces. Russia's wealth of natural resources has helped to literally fuel China's rapid growth, and the two have pursued frequent joint military exercises to showcase the extent of their collaboration. This partnership, however, has been met with deep suspicion by the West—especially the U.S.
In his "America First" National Security Strategy, President Donald Trump said China and Russia challenge American power, influence and interests, attempting to erode American security and prosperity. They are determined to make economies less free and less fair, to grow their militaries, and to control information and data to repress their societies and expand their influence."
The 2019 National Defense Authorization Act drafted earlier this month by the House Armed Services Committee included new sanctions for both Russian and Chinese industries.
Russian President Vladimir Putin and Chinese President Xi Jinping shake hands during a meeting on the sidelines of the APEC summit in Danang, Vietnam November 10, 2017. Xi and Putin have become closer as President Donald Trump attempts to isolate them with sanctions. /Konstantin Zavrazhin/Kremlin/Sputnik/Reuters
Russia and China criticized the document and have resisted U.S. efforts to push back against their rise on the world stage. Igor Morgulov, a deputy of Russia's foreign minister, said Tuesday that ties between Russia and China "are undergoing their best period in all of history," calling them "an island of stability in the midst of a raging ocean."
Similarly, Russian Defense Minister Sergei Shoigu told his Chinese colleagues last month that "time changes everything, but fortunately, it does not change our relations both personally between us and between our states, and the very close, friendly relations of the heads of our states serve as a guarantee of this."
As for China, newly-appointed Defense Minister Wei Feng told the Moscow International Security Conference last month that he had "come to show Americans the close ties between the armed forces of China and Russia, especially in this situation. We've come to support you."
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Today sees the third and final installment of VIVa MUSiC's 10-year anniversary sampler featuring Eats Everything, Andrea Oliva, Emanuel Satie and MANIK. Arguably VIVa's biggest release to date, '10 Years of VIVa MUSiC: Decadedance' has so far featured label boss Steve Lawler and the likes of Groove Armada, Mathew Jonson, Catz 'n Dogz, Junior Sanchez and more.
As it draws to a close Steve Lawler now welcomes four more artists to contribute to the series: Edible boss Eats Everything, Desolat producer and ANTS resident Andrea Oliva, Knee Deep In Sound's Emanuel Satie and Ovum and Bpitch's MANIK.
Bristol's Eats Everything delivers first with 'Prog-Le-Matic', displaying bouncy bass riffs that give way to pumping filtered atmospherics. Next, Swiss Andrea Oliva serves up punching kick drums alongside circling low-slung aesthetics with 'Rider' before Emanuel Satie's 'Zombie Love' offers a display of rumbling low end enhanced by bubbling sound-design.
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Reality show seeks yogurt- and cookie-loving Salt Lakers
by Stephen Dark
A new reality show, where the customer gets to run the store, is seeking extroverts with ready-made opinions to appear in a program produced by TLC and the Oprah Winfrey Network.---
The focus of the yet-to-be named production is two struggling businesses looking to the local community for help. In Salt Lake City's case, according to a press release from the casting director for the show, Scott Goldstein, the show will revolve around Mrs. Fields Cookies and TCBY Frozen Yogurt.
The idea is that customers who love either of these brands will, according to the release, "be given the chance of a lifetime, to help a brand that they love re-establish itself. The show is extremely positive and allows the average everyday customer a chance to work with and help reconfigure one of their favorite companies."
You only need to be 18 or over and in love with Mrs. Fields or TCBY for a shot at appearing on the show. The chosen actors will be paid for their time. Goldstein notes in the press release it might even lead to a position in the company.
Contact Goldstein at castingscott@gmail.com or customercasting@gmail.com with your details.


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Workplace Violence and Crime
Each year, between 1992 and 1996, more than 2 million U.S. residents were victims of a violent crime while they were at work or on duty. (Bureau of Justice Statistics. (1998, July). Workplace Violence, 1992-96. From data gathered by the National Crime Victimization Survey. Washington, DC: U.S. Department of Justice.)
More than 1,000 workplace homicides occurred annually between 1992 and 1996. (Ibid.)
The most common type of workplace victimization was simple assault, with an estimated 1.5 million occurring each year. U.S. residents also suffered 51,000 rapes and sexual assaults and about 84,000 robberies while they were at work. (Ibid.)
Annually, more than 230,000 police officers became victims of a nonviolent crime while they were working or on duty. (Ibid.)
Intimates (current and former spouses, boyfriends and girlfriends) were identified by the victims as the perpetrators of about 1 percent of all workplace violent crime. (Ibid.)
The National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health reports that murder is the leading cause of death for women at work, and third leading cause of death for men. (Office for Victims of Crime. (1998). New Directions from the Field: Victims' Rights and Services for the 21st Century. Washington, DC: U.S. Department of Justice.)
In 1996, 912 Americans were victims of workplace homicide (includes murders by co-workers, personal acquaintances or by persons in the commission of other crimes). Of this number, 742 victims were male, and 170 were female; 66 percent of victims were white, 19 percent black, 14 percent Hispanic, 10 percent Asian Pacific Islander and 5 percent other or unspecified. (Researchers note that persons identified as Hispanic may be of any race; therefore, detail may not add to total.) (Bureau of Justice Statistics. (1998). Sourcebook of Criminal Justice Statistics, 1997, p. 298. Washington, DC: U.S. Department of Justice.)
Guns were the primary weapon in 82 percent of workplace homicides that took place in 1996, followed by stabbing and beating. (Ibid.)
Victims pay about $44 billion of the $57 billion in tangible nonservice expenses for traditional crimes of violence. Employers pay almost $5 billion because of these crimes (health insurance bills, sick leave and disability insurance), and government bears the remaining costs through lost tax revenues and Medicare and Medicaid payments. (U.S. News and World Report, July 1, 1996.)
The U.S. Department of Labor reports that homicide was the second leading cause of death of workers killed on the job in 1993. (Hutchinson, T. (1995, April). "Vetoing Violence in the Workplace". Solutions Magazine, p. 41.)
Boyfriends and husbands, both current and former, commit more than 13,000 acts of violence against women in the workplace every year. (Anfuso, D. (1994). "Deflecting Workplace Violence." Personnel Journal, 73, 10:66.)
Note: OVC makes no representation concerning the accuracy of data from non-Department of Justice sources.
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Mandeville"s travels
Sir John Mandeville
translated from the French of Jean d"Outremeuse
by Sir John Mandeville
Published 1919 by Published for the Early English Text Society by Kegan Paul, Trench, Trübner and by Humphrey Milford, Oxford University Press in London .
Statement edited from MS. Cotton Titus c. XVI in the British Museum by P. Hamelius.
Series Original series (Early English Text Society) -- no. 153, Original series (Early English Text Society) -- no. 154
Contributions Hamelius, Paul, 1868-1922., Jean d"Outremeuse, 1338-1400., British Library.
LC Classifications PR119 A2 no. 153-154
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Lisa Park is an interdisciplinary artist living in New York City and Seoul, South Korea.

She received her BFA in Fine Arts Media from the Art Center College of Design, Pasadena, California. She also holds an MPS from the Interactive Telecommunications Program (ITP) at New York University's Tisch School of the Arts.

Career
On her own website, Lisa Park said she "has been working with biofeedback devices (heart rate sensors, commercial brainwave headsets) to display auditory and visual representations of physiological measurements. These performances explored the possibilities of self-monitoring her physical and psychological states."

For example, she did some works visualizing emotive states and the subconscious. In Eunoia and Eunoia II, she controlled pools of water with her brain-waves. This was done by using electroencephalography (E.E.G.) data to create sound-waves which were pushed through pools of water, causing them to ripple. Park sat in the center of the pools as this occurred. For Eunoia, Park separated the E.E.G. data into five emotions, each of which fed into one of five pools of water. For Eunoia II, she expanded her conception of brain activity to cover forty-eight pools of water, matching the forty-eight emotions described by philosopher Baruch Spinoza. Also, while Park strove to control her emotions in Eunoia in order to keep the pools of water still, she changed her approach in Eunoia II to focus on expressing emotions.

She collaborated with fellow student Adria Navarro to create "I Wish I Said Hello," a work that used physical locations mentioned in classifieds such as Craigslist to map out places where people missed connecting with each other.

In 2017 she participated in "Flatland: A Journey of Many Dimensions", a group exhibition at the Mana Contemporary in Miami, Florida.

Exhibitions

Awards and fellowships
Park was the recipient of a 2014 New York Foundation for the Arts Fellowship

Park was a member at the New Museum's by-application-only incubator, NEW INC, from 2015 to 2017. Park was selected to be an artist-in-residence at Nokia Bell Labs in 2017 as part of their Experiments in Art and Technology residency program with NEW INC. As part of the residency, Park was commissioned to create, "Blooming," which was featured in the exhibition Only Human at Mana Contemporary in May 2017 and written up in Wired. Blooming was an official selection of SXSW Art in 2019.

References

External links

 Lisa Park on NEW INC
Biohacker Lisa Park Has Art On The Brain on VICE
Beautiful Thoughts: Artist Lisa Park Manipulates Water With Her Mind on Colossal

Living people
Artists from New York City
Year of birth missing (living people)
Artists from Seoul
Place of birth missing (living people)
Interdisciplinary artists


Selected by the Jubilee Auditoria Society for 2019, showcasing the series "Reverie". Displayed on the 1st Floor Alcove, the series will humbly accompany performances of other artistic modalities at the Jubilee, such as the Calgary Philharmonic Orchestra, The Alberta Ballet and a variety of visiting Artists.
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The Alexander Palace / Re: Alexander Palace Restoration
Breath-taking, I never thought I would live to see this, can't wait to visit. Funny the Imperial Bedroom looks smaller than I imagined.
Films and TV shows about the Romanovs and Imperial Russia / Re: The Last Czar
This a regurgitation of the known and usual. Last period in Yekaterinburg, badly done and rushed! It has its merits in places and does a good job with the war period. I am not sure about Father Gregori and AF, seems a little to familiar to me, knowing AF as I do from reading and researching since I was 9, nearly 60 now. But worth an afternoon watching. Shame as I was expecting The Crown. Its to easy too just regurgitate the old rumours and falsehoods.
Palaces in St. Petersburg / Re: Winter Palace
I agree, I believe the frieze may still be there.
The Windsors / Re: Royal Interiors
Exactly Douglas, Her Majesty The Queen, used her fathers GPO 300 series telephone until very recently. The Pabx switchboard and the old system was only replaced a few years ago. Her Majesty and the household resisted the change.
The White House used to have a lovely switchboard. I used to speak to the Telephonists there a lot, a long time ago now but they were all lovely and very professional.
Grand Duchess Elizabeth Feodorovna / Re: Ella's grave in Jerusalem & her relics
To the poster who was wondering about statues in Westminster Abbey, there are many tombs etc, but in the Chapel of Our Lady of Pew, there is a statue of the Virgin. You have to remember it was the Puritans who hated all such things and Cromwell and his mob that hated such things. There are tow traditions within the CofE High Church and Anglo Catholic and the Low Church. If you were to come to my Church Holy Redeemer in London you would think that you are in a Roman Catholic church, but it is in the Anglo Catholic tradition and our mother church is St. Paul's Cathedral, we even have an icon to St. Elizabeth in a side chapel (see other post re robes).
I was at mass today and chatting to my Priest afterwards in the Kitchen. I was saying how if ever in Jerusalem I would visit St Elizabeth's grave. To which he replied well you know she visited Holy redeemer. Well I was shocked ....pleasantly and he told me the story. Elizabeth Feodorovna visited a community of nuns close to our church in Lloyd baker Square. She wanted to see the community and how it was run. This must be just after Grand Duke Segei was killed.
She went to see the convent and afterwards came to a service at Holy Redeemer. The church built along the lines of the of a Roman basilica. It is a very beautiful church and our services are in the Anglo Catholic tradition.
The surprises do not stop there. The special golden vestments of our priests are made from the court dress of a lady of the Imperial Family. They are made from tissue of gold and beautifully embroidered. I know that when EF took the veil, she sold most of her worldly possessions and gave away many things too. We know the robes are over 150 years old (approx) and my preist and I are wondering if the robes were made from one of EF's court dresses.
We have an icon of EF in one of our smaller chapels.
You would be surprised how much they care about wear and tear. The first time I went to Buckingham Palace they still had electric fires from the 1940's in the fire places. The wiring on most of the lamps was ancient and GPO telephones were still in use.
Wear and tear on a wooden floor no doubt. carpets can be replaced.
I have a book published when our present Queen was Princess Elizabeth Heir Presumptive, it is about Clarence House and has photographs of the newly refurbished rooms for the young couple and their family. Its called Clarence House and was by Christopher Hussey.It was published by Country Life in 1949.
It also gives a full and interesting history of the house and its occupants. There is a plan of the house and its buildings from 1792 by Sir John Soane and was part of a survey of St. James's Palace.
I don't know if anyone else knows of this book?
David L. Newell, London
The Windsors / Re: The Royal Train
PS. I have a book somewhere from the museum in York. I will try and find it.
I have seen all the Royal Trains, they are kept at York Railway Museum (National Railway Museum). They are really well worth the visit. My favourite is the new train for George VI, very simple and art deco inspired. I think our Queen used it until the new train was made available about 20 years ago. Certainly as I child I remember the Royal Train at Liverpool Street Station in London. They must have been going to Sandringham. My mother always called it the Kings train, so I am assuming it was the train that was made in the 1930's and adapted and strengthened for the war.
Yes the new train is simple, but elegant and our Queen does not like ostentation.
The Final Chapter / Re: what would the grand duchesses bedroom have looked like at ipatiev house?
I have seen the Gibbes collection when it was at Luton Hoo, I have a brochure somewhere I will dig it out.
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Happy Easter to you all, its been a dreadful year so far for so many, job losses, people loosing their homes and families split up because of it. Unrest and trouble in so many places. I wish you all a lovely Easter and I hope you are spending it with those who are dear to you. But we have much to be thankful for, a new President and America back in the middle of all the important issues we as a world have to address. So from here in London my best wishes to you all, God Bless.
David Newell, London
Palaces in St. Petersburg / Re: Private rooms of the Winter Palace
Oooh I would have loved that, I had a private tour like that of the White House once and the tiny rooms in the attics at Versailles.
Alexandra Feodorovna / Re: Alexandra's Personal World
Just lovely, I know AF had some beautiful Galle vases as well but I have only evidence of these being at the Winter Palace. I know some were gifts from the French around 1896 and this would make sense as they lived at the WP a lot before 1905. Shame we do not have more on the inventories of the WP. I know several were done.


If you were to step outside into your yard right now and close your eyes, what would you hear? Traffic, maybe, or the bark of a nearby dog, and almost certainly a gentle chorus of birds. These winged citizens of your neighborhood are so prevalent that they're easy to overlook unless you take the time to pick them out, but their contribution to the local ecosystem is invaluable.
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In addition to a hearty diet of seeds and nuts, birds eat a wide variety of insects that may not be welcome in a yard or garden. Aphids, mosquitoes, spiders, earwigs, beetles, moths and more are natural food sources for birds. Encouraging birds to be in your garden can help reduce, or even remove, the need to use harsh chemicals.
Hummingbirds, orioles and other birds that sip nectar are efficient pollinators of garden flowers. Other birds will naturally spread pollen as they move between trees and bushes.
Finches, towhees and sparrows love to eat weed seeds, making them effective landscaping assistants to help control unwanted plants. Attracting birds like these can be as simple as planting seed-bearing flowers; this can also give them a natural food source to enjoy and reduce how often you you'll need to refill your bird feeders.
Fruit trees like apples, peaches, plums and pears provide excellent foliage for nesting. Birds flying between trees will also help pollinate the fruit blossoms, giving your harvest a nice boost.
Planting a landscape that's appealing to the local birds means making use of native plants and available resources in environmentally conscious ways. Native plants require less water and are more resistant to disease, making them better for the local ecosystem and requiring less work to maintain.
As more natural habitats become threatened by urban development, attracting birds to your yard provides a critical oasis for both your local birds and migrating species. This helps preserve birds on both a local and national (or even global) scale.
A home that is well-maintained with appropriate native landscaping that attracts birds has better curb appeal and is a good value for homeowners. This helps keep neighborhood home values rising and is a great investment for real estate sales.
Watching birds, interacting with them, listening to their songs and taking time to work outdoors improving their habitat can help relieve stress and promote well-being. Time outdoors also helps boost your vitamin D levels and encourages you to breathe fresh air.
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You may have seen birds in and around your yard on their way to somewhere else, but how can you turn your yard from flyover zone to bird destination?
When designing a landscape to attract birds, it's important to provide places where they can hide or take cover from the weather. During the spring and summer, birds also need nesting sites. Twiggy shrubs and small trees offer many appealing nesting options, but keep in mind that nesting birds means hungry mouths and parents who will need a strong source of food. Here are some great options to provide all of the above.
Conifers provide cover, winter shelter and summer nesting sites. Some also provide sap, buds and seeds.
Grasses and legumes provide cover for ground-nesting birds if the area is not mowed during the nesting season. Some also provide seeds.
These attract nectar-sipping birds like hummingbirds and orioles. Hummingbirds especially like tubular red flowers, such as fuchsia, bee balm, coral bells and penstemon.
These include cherry, honeysuckle, raspberry, serviceberry, grape and plum. They attract birds like brown thrashers, robins, thrushes, waxwings, woodpeckers, orioles, cardinals, towhees and grosbeaks.
These can include dogwoods, mountain ash, winterberries and cotoneasters. They are used by both migratory birds preparing to leave and non-migratory species preparing for winter.
These plants provide food and nesting habitat. They include oaks, hickories, buckeyes, chestnuts, butternuts and walnuts.
Hold off on cutting back flower beds until spring so goldfinches, titmice, doves, quail and other birds can shelter in them when searching for seeds and insects in winter. Instead of getting out the clippers every few months, learn to love the natural look of a free-form hedge. Birds will appreciate it, and you'll appreciate the birds bringing life to your yard, every season of the year.
Birds are attracted to water for drinking and bathing, especially if that water is moving. If you already have a birdbath, consider adding a bubbler to it. If you don't, consider installing an outdoor fountain instead. A fountain will provide the attraction of moving water and add an appealing feature to your garden. Installing a small pond with a solar-powered fountain or a recirculating waterfall will draw birds in from blocks away.
Providing food is incredibly important for attracting birds, especially as our climate continues to change. According to data compiled by the Audobon society, nearly 60 percent of the 305 widely distributed bird species found in North America during the winter have shifted their ranges northward by an average of 35 miles.
Each day birds spend between four and six hours scouring their natural habitat for food. During the winter, a night in the cold will drain their fat supplies – and about 10 percent of their body weight – trying to keep warm.
You can ease that challenge by providing both seed and suet feeders year-round, but especially during the colder parts of the year. If you have steady visitors, you may even begin to notice their patterns change depending on the weather. For instance, many species will feed intensely before bad weather rolls in.
A basic seed feeder is perfect, but if you have kids that you want to start introducing to wildlife, you can try making these cute suet feeders in your kitchen.
Poke a hole in the center of the bottom of 12 cupcake liners.
Cut 12 pieces of twine into 12-inch lengths.
Tie a knot at one end of one length of twine, and pull the other end through the hole in the bottom of a cupcake liner until the knot is at the base of the liner. Repeat for all cupcake liners.
Place one cupcake liner in each section of the muffin tin.
Melt the lard in a saucepan over low heat until it liquifies.
Put the melted lard and the wild bird food in a mixing bowl, and then stir with a spoon until well combined.
Spoon about 1/4 cup of the birdseed mixture into each of the prepared cupcake liners. Gently lift the twine so that it sticks out of the top of each cake.
Once the cakes are solid, remove them from the muffin pan and peel away the cupcake liner.
Use the string to hang the feeder on low tree branches to feed birds.
Place only a few cakes outside. Freeze the rest until you're ready to use them.
If you have both suet and seed feeders present, but neither are getting any steady traffic, you may need to consider relocating them to a different part of the yard. Birds need to feel safe in order to approach a feeder. While it may not be apparent to us, certain placements may represent a high-risk venture for a bird. For example, there may be a feral cat or hawk who has been staking out the feeder at certain parts of the day.
Experts recommend placing feeders at about 10 feet from the closest cover. This provides birds a nearby haven when startled and a place to use when approaching the feeder, from which they can scan for trouble. But it's also far enough away that cats and other ground predators lose the advantage of the sudden lunge.
Other considerations when placing a feeder are visibility (you do want to see the birds, don't you?), and convenience for refilling. If you make the location too hard to reach, it will be hard to stick with the routine over the long haul.
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Come in to any one of our South Bay Area locations and talk to our experts about how you can attract birds to your home. SummerWinds staff are knowledgeable about different feeders and seed mixers, as well as creating a bird-friendly landscape with native plants, water features and more!


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I have to write about that, but first I have to pull some wedding pictures off the camera, which is way over there.
So instead, a quick navel-gaze: according to fan mail and a vague sense of the Ommatidia Facebook community, my writing tends to attract people who are a) very clever and gifted and b) much, much younger than me. Like, around a decade younger than me, because a lot of them are in late high school or early college.
Does this say something about the genre-trappings of the stories, the methods by which fandom propagates, or just the appeal of the format? The hoary journalistic trope to fall back on here is a bunch of rumbling about Kids These Days and Short Attention Spans and Nothing Longer than a Text Message, but I am resisting that because it's dumb.
I suspect the reason is simpler: many of my favorite books are YA novels, because those are the best ones to read if you like stories where people do stuff and things happen. I write stories that I think I would like, and the influence of YA authors is heavy upon them. By definition, then, they appeal to young adults.
I think that is awesome. I wonder how long I can keep getting away with it?
Speaking of decades and youth, I've been a fan of Erika Moen's for almost ten years now, since Scott Thigpen linked to Vera Brosgol who in turn linked to her. (Man, look at the arc of those three careers alone!) Erika just ended DAR, her autobiographical webcomic; it was sometimes explicit, always brutally honest, and very, very funny over its six-year run. I'll miss reading it.
But I'm very excited about her new projects, in part because one of them is a graphic novel that I'm scripting! This is the most exciting thing that has ever happened! Erika broke the news first, and I'm not going to give too many more details than she did: it's called Grimm, it's YA, and it will probably run around six to eight "issues." Not sure yet whether she'll be posting a weekly page or one whole arc at a time a la Octopus Pie. Very sure that it is going to be great!


This is great web site you have developed. I am a water resources planning specialist in Vietnam. I saw on the website that I want to add all meteo-hydrological stations in Vietnam country on this web (windyty). Could do we do? If yes, I will send you the name and coordinate of these stations or give me instruction how to do. Thanks you so much.


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College town - Central upstate New York, 60 miles southwest of Syracuse. July, August and June are the most pleasant months in the 13102 zip code, while January and February are the least comfortable months.
-Attractive downtown
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-Educated population
-Clouds and rain
-Harsh winters
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Ithaca is most noted as home to Ivy League Cornell University. As might be expected, the town is attractive and progressive, activities are plentiful, and educational attainment is high. The location, at the south end of the Finger Lakes region, affords access to nearby outdoor recreation, interesting landscapes, and a number of wineries. The economy is growing, bolstered by the university and the many small new-economy businesses it attracts.
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Downtown is clean and prosperous, although a recent shift towards large retailers on the outskirts has some locals concerned. Cost of living is reasonable for the region. Larger cities, such as Syracuse, can be hard to get to in bad weather, but Ithaca has good air service for its size. Ithaca loses points for climate, a soft job growth picture, and cost of living, but for those who can navigate the climate and economic challenges it is a solid choice.
Ithaca sits at the southern tip of Cayuga Lake in a hilly area of central New York. The city itself is located on a flat to moderately rising shoreline area, growing into the dense deciduous-wooded surrounding hills. The Lake Ontario-influenced, humid continental climate produces frequent precipitation- almost 1 day in 2 on average year-round.
Summers are warm but seldom oppressive, with typically cool evenings when breezes come off the lake. Winters are cold, long and dreary, with only a few sub-zero readings each year. Snowfall is moderate but may become heavy at times, and snow cover persists most of the winter, especially in the hills. Valley effects may bring rain in Ithaca when it is snowing in the hills and outlying areas. Clouds and valley fogs are common. First freeze is in early October; last is in early May.
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County: Tompkins County
Metro Area: Ithaca Metro Area
Political Ideology: Leaning liberal
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Zip Codes: Mc Lean (zip 13102)
Time zone: Eastern Standard Time (EST)
Elevation: 836 ft above sea level
The unemployment rate in Mc Lean (zip 13102) is 3.7% (U.S. avg. is 3.9%). Recent job growth is Positive. Mc Lean (zip 13102) jobs have increased by 2.8%. More Economy
Compared to the rest of the country, Mc Lean (zip 13102)'s cost of living is 5.9% lower than the U.S. average. More Cost of Living or Compare Mc Lean (zip 13102)'s Cost of Living
July, August and June are the most pleasant months in the 13102 zip code, while January and February are the least comfortable months. Today's Weather | Climate Averages
Tompkins county voted Democratic in the previous five Presidential elections. More Voting Stats
Mc Lean (zip 13102)'s population is 20 people. Since 2010, it has had a population decline of 76.5%. Learn More...
Average Commute time is 18.6 minutes. The National Average is 26.4 minutes. Learn More...
The median home cost in Mc Lean (zip 13102) is $202,400. Home appreciation the last 10 years has been 0.5%. Check out the homes in the area
Mc Lean (zip 13102) public schools spend $19,685 per student. The average school expenditure in the U.S. is $12,383. There are about 10 students per teacher in Mc Lean (zip 13102). More Education
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