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Marketing Collateral for Banks
Lessons From the Most Successful Marketing Initiatives
November 12.2018 7 minutes
In July 2017, Gartner said that banks were struggling to produce content that would appeal to millennials. In fact, UBS had even gone as far as truncating their content creation budgets in favor of content distribution.
While brands like Netflix and Amazon have mastered the art of customer experience by pampering their customers with extremely personalized offerings, banks have not been able to replicate the same success. It is no surprise then that only 40% of banks know how customer experience is mapped to their business goals.
Banks are large enterprises that sit on such large mountains of data that you'd think would enable them to create a lot of content aimed at their customers. A Worldwide Business Research study says that 60% of banks can consolidate their customer data to determine who their ideal customer is.
But, they will struggle to put it to good use because they often lack the tools to deliver the right content in the right context. Part of the problem is because they are so large with archaic systems and processes that getting them to produce content for their B2B audience is a herculean task.
They're also bogged down by the need to run their marketing efforts by the legal and compliance teams before they go live. Only specific executives are approved to appear in videos or author content pieces. In the era of on-demand business, it is inconceivable to have to go through such processes to create marketing collateral.
Furthermore, in a mature industry such as banking, it is quite difficult to pinpoint which marketing collateral is working its magic on its target audience.
Yet, banks must shed their lethargy and continuously evolve to create marketing collateral that their audiences can easily consume – because today's consumers have already gone through 60% of their journey before they buy from a business.
In this post, we will look at the best practices that the largest banks are following to produce and distribute content effectively.
Lesson #1: The Breadth of Marketing Collateral
No content is irrelevant for the big banks.
With revenues of $108 billion, JP Morgan is one of the biggest banks in the corporate world. Having witnessed quite a lot of ups and downs in its 219-year-old history, JP Morgan surely knows a thing or two about producing effective marketing collateral.
Finding their business lines on their website is quite some task, which shows how much real estate is being devoted to things that are not central to their business – women in banking, student priorities, startup investing, social causes and a lot more.
The bank has a separate 'Institute' section that houses research and insights on topics that affect everybody including healthcare spending, small business, consumer spending, family finances, business travel etc. The word 'Institute' makes it a niche place for their audience to look up content – a place where everybody can learn stuff for free.
Similarly, Société Générale has content that is extremely insightful. Their YouTube channel features a video series called 'Let's talk' where young women entrepreneurs seek ideas/suggestions from experienced professionals (also a lady) on their business. Each video is just 5 minutes long and produced in partnership with HEC Paris, an ideal partner for hosting a knowledge series.
By publishing content on broad topics that their audience will find fresh, original, and yet unexplored, JP Morgan and Société Générale have positioned themselves as leading visionaries.
Lesson #2: It's All About Themes Honey!
No matter the size of the bank, it is important to bucket the marketing collateral under various themes.
Goldman Sachs does this quite well. All their content under their 'Insights' section is divided into categories such as Economic Outlooks, China, Commodity, Millennials, Drones, Blockchain, Science, etc.
Within each of these topics, there are more marketing collaterals subdivided into various sections named as Talks at GS – recordings of talks hosted with experts on various topics, Briefly – excerpts from longer insightful versions, The Long & Short of It – short videos of interviews and opinions by Goldman Sachs bankers.
Lesson #3: Thinking Differently
Content is more than getting new business.
All banks produce content that does not conform to their natural business instincts. The idea here is to engage with the audience at a level that is much more than mundane business. That is because their target audience is looking for newer insights from innovative avenues.
That doesn't mean they produce marketing collateral that is quirky, instead, it should be knowledgeable and fun at times. For example, JP Morgan has published a list of books for 2018 suggested by their client advisors. The authors of these books are professionals in leading organizations like The New York Times, GigaOM or academicians in leading universities.
HSBC has put out the expat explorer report that has the opinions of 22,000 expats in HSBC on their lives and experiences living away from their home country. They have dedicated a separate website for it that captures the survey results in its entirety. It clearly has a business angle to it – HSBC can draw from its deep research of expats and offer services aimed at them. When you have an organization that is spread across 37 countries and 6 continents, you might as well make good use of the geographical spread.
Or, consider HSBC's Elevator Talks & Guides aimed at small entrepreneurs. With a view to cater to the small business segment, they launched a marketing campaign where small business owners could send in 90-second videos of their business pitch for £150k in prize money. They even helped participants to get it right with a YouTube video series on how to pitch correctly, the art of storytelling, knowing their audience etc.
It is not an absolute must to have this sort of content, but it certainly adds a lot more flavor to the marketing collateral strategy followed by banks. It is bound to bring in newer audiences and viewership.
Lesson #4: The Tools That Titans Use
Banks deal in finances that people are always trying to organize – either for themselves or for their business. As a result, people want to know how their finances will look like a few years down the lane. Or, how it impacts their business.
That is why interactive tools used for data visualization, scenario planning, and frameworks can be useful for banks to better engage with customers.
JP Morgan's exchange rate visualization tool helps viewers visualize how the EUR/CHF rate changed due to unexpected regional events within a timeframe. Bank of America's Spending Analysis Tool developed in association with Khan Academy explains the constituents of monthly expenses and their patterns. HSBC has launched a tool called Export Readiness Questionnaire that helps exporters determine how they could be export-ready.
In this aspect, the World Bank is the mother for all macro and micro-level data. Their website hosts data on social protection, climate change, global consumption and a lot more content that economists will crave for. It makes World Bank a much-vaunted authority for such data. Users can visualize development indicators through graphs and charts and even download them.
These tools empower customers with data and to evaluate where they are in their journey towards reaching their financial goals. For the World Bank, it is a must-have because they act as a lighthouse for governments, universities, and banks. However, it could cost a bit of money to develop these tools, but they have the potential to be a hit amongst customers in the long run.
Lesson #5: The History That Made Banks
Banks are not makers of history, they are made by history.
Our research on the marketing collateral produced by the largest banks revealed that most of them have a rich history behind them. It is important to showcase this rich history that is associated with their existence. It helps customers understand that they're banking with an institution that has been witness to a lot of historical events and know their way around.
Bank of America was founded in 1904 as Bank of Italy in San Francisco. They have duly created a separate webpage dedicated towards their origin, roots, the modern era, technological innovations and their role in the development of modern America. That also includes a post of how the bank helped rebuild Chicago after the Great Fire of 1871 and one on how the American national anthem was preserved through the years.
UBS, the Swiss bank that was formed by the combination of more than 300 banks, also have a 156-year old rich history. They have a separate image library that shows the journey of the bank since 1840. It shows how the seeds of modern-day Swiss banking were sown, leading them to become the custodians of the world's biggest secrets.
JP Morgan has a separate category for their history on their YouTube channel. It features short videos of the bank through the years of its existence.
HSBC has a 36-page file that documents its history through the ages that include rare images from the past. The document is replete with anecdotes and stories that have made HSBC a modern banking behemoth.
The birth of contemporary banking took place many centuries ago. But, by bringing to life the images of the bygone era, it assumes extraordinary significance in the eyes of its customers. The next time somebody reads about the Great Fire, they know how it is associated with Bank of America.
Lesson #6: The Age of Communities
Banks thrive because of their customers, who in turn thrive in communities.
That is why banks dedicate a lot of real estate on their website to the communities that they support. For example, HSBC's webpage titled 'Our approach' shows the different causes that they're associated with.
UBS talks about how they help society move forward with their penchant for discovering innovations that have the potential to create an impact. The bank has categorized them into buckets such as communities, philanthropy, finance, business etc.
Société Générale has a section on their website called 'Building Tomorrow' that is sub-divided into sections such as Support Startups, Instants Africains, fighting climate change etc. Each of these sections has stories about individuals who have been successful in their journeys.
In today's economy, it is no longer enough to merely support social causes. It is equally important to spread the word about it too so that more people know about it. As more people learn about it, people will bank more and ultimately, as the communities grow, banks will grow along with it too.
Lesson #7: Get the Videos Out
Videos must be so impactful that users must feel they got more than what they gave. Moreover, marketing collateral such as videos, that is easily consumable is also a preference for customers.
All banks that we researched have a lively YouTube channel. JP Morgan's channel has content around topics like careers (that has intern stories), customer stories, insights, successful women etc.
Bank of America shows that it cares for the community at large by creating videos that feature war veterans. For example, in one video, they got a NASCAR driver take a war veteran for a spin in his car on the race track. There are videos that can help customers improve their finances, and help small businesses too. While these videos featured individuals, they are aimed to woo an entire community.
HSBC has a playlist to showcase their sports sponsorships and how they promote endurance sports. Société Générale has playlists devoted to Africa, the rugby teams that they support, entrepreneurs and innovation. UBS's pinned up video is that of Nobel laureates talking to a group of students about solving the challenges faced by today's economies.
It is no longer about a sports gear company producing a video to suit their business. These videos go to show how banks have moved away from publishing a lot of academic or economic content to ones that their audience will love.
We have a word of caution here. What marketers at banks must keep in mind while creating these videos is that people may not willfully look up for their videos. So, it is important to promote them strategically so that people look at one and are urged to watch more of them.
Lesson #8: The Art of Creating Situational Content
Being at the right place at the right time matters.
Banks have created marketing collateral to educate their customers after a financial disaster like the 2008 subprime crisis or in the aftermath of Brexit. But, they will have to go much deeper than that because such crises are not everyday occurrences.
Marketers at banks will have to be nimble enough to create content based on the situation. For example, if a bank notices their clients are not planning for their life post-retirement, then content could be created aimed at showcasing the benefits of investing for the long term.
In January 2018, United Overseas Bank launched a bank branch in the Tampines area focused towards millennials because millennials accounted for 15% of residents of the area. The bank created infographics aimed at kickstarting the investment journey for millennials.
In September 2014, Barclays launched a program named 'Digital Eagles' aimed at senior citizens in the UK to adapt to newer technological developments. The bank noticed that their elderly clients were having difficulty in using recent technology. It promptly tied up with a charitable organization to train the elderly on the use of iPads and laptops.
Even chatbots can deliver content effectively to banks. A chatbot that answers basic queries could be trained to lead the customer to more detailed content elsewhere on the bank's website.
Banks are the engine for the economic prosperity of a country. They have a responsibility to guide their customers in every way possible.
However, banks often face the challenge of dealing with marketing collateral topics that are dry and arcane at times. They might even run into legal hurdles to get the marketing collateral. Moreover, unlike B2C businesses who are able to build stronger relationships
That is why it is imperative that banks must be creative in producing top-notch content that customers find useful. Promoting a brand is a necessity, but unless it adds value to customers, there's no use producing marketing collateral.
Banks must look for the hidden stories within their customers and bring them to life so that their customers are aware of it. Customers will then be encouraged to keep coming back to engage with them
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When we were looking for a new church following moving, we visited several churches. It seemed they either didn't have the music which Billy Ray needs to calm him enough for him to stay reasonably quiet during the rest of the service or they were not able to accept his occasional speaking out.
Finally, I started calling pastors and inquiring before we visited because the process was difficult for Billy Ray and his Mom. When I called Pastor Ray Jones, then pastor at Soul's Harbor Church of the Nazarene, to inquire how receptive his congregation would be to Billy Ray he asked if I had considered attending without Billy Ray. I said an emphatic "no". In all fairness to Pastor Ray I have to tell you that this church was his first pastorate and he was new out of Bible College.
We visited Soul's Harbor. Billy Ray was always treated okay but it took a while for him to be totally accepted. The thing that seemed to bloom immediately was his relationship with Pastor Ray and his wife Christine. It seemed Pastor Ray was working Billy Ray into his sermons on a regular basis. One time he said "we want more of the Billy Ray's in our church." Another time he was preaching on relationships and he eluded to his relationship with Billy Ray as something very special and it truly was.
The relationship with Christine was very special to Billy Ray. I remember the first time he tried to take her hand unexpectedly she sort of cringed. I was not shocked by that because putting myself in her position I could see that it was a bit strattled for basically a strange man to run up grabbing at her. His love for Christine was so clear to her and others. She called him her biggest fan because he would become agitated when we had special music preferring Christine to sing. He had to know she was at least there even if someone else was singing.
During the six years we are at that church Billy Ray was quite ill. He was too sick to be in church. I told Pastor that Billy Ray was saying "I want Christy-deen to sing to me". They had a CD that Christene had made several years before and Pastor made a copy for Billy Ray. He loved it so much it wore out and Pastor had to make him a new copy.
You can see the awe in his eye contact (which he doesn't often have for others) in the above picture taken at that church the last Sunday before we moved to LaPine. Billy Ray loved to give Christine flowers on her birthday or following a muscial presentation. Here is he is giving her one last bouquet.
It is amazing the beauty that can occur when you put forth the effort to help your complex child establish relationships. Sometimes it can feel awkward but it is well worth it.
What a precious picture! His adoration for her is so obvious and sweet. He is very lucky to have experienced such meaningful relationships.


The writer of this essay just graduated from Seattle University. She writes about growing up as a white American in Tokyo, and this essay is in every sense a love story about the city. She writes of how in Tokyo she walked everywhere, and as she walked–to school, to the store, to meet friends, to go home–she noted the vibrant colors, sounds and people around her, and she thought, about everything. She lets you hear her thoughts, and you get to see Tokyo through the eyes of someone who adores its every street.
That's what makes the essay cool–she puts her heart on paper and lets you share it. The essay also talks about the culture shock she experienced in moving back to America and how it took her two years to figure out that she was sad because she missed walking everywhere, everyday in Tokyo. This is an uplifting tribute to growing up and discovering who we are and how much the things we love can mean to us.
This student goes to Hamilton College, studies science, and wrote easily one of the most dry and wry college essays I have ever read. Perhaps he is British. The premise of this essay, which we have listed in its entirety on the Essays page of CollegeMapper, is that this science guy goes to the museum and is handed a worksheet on "How to Appreciate Fine Art".
Thrilled to finally understand what his esoteric, poetry-loving cohorts revel in, he approaches the museum optimistically, armed with his step-by-step formula, and walks through tests like "make the faces the people in the paintings are making" and "consider which sounds would accompany this work of art." He gives up when his trusty worksheet asks him how the red and blue light bulbs make him feel. I think what always worked for me about this essay if that you see this logical guy really, really wanting to understand poetry and art, and you see him really give it an open-minded try until he affirms that being a scientist is just fine with him. This essay is optimistic, adventurous and curious. It is also confident; the student is comfortable being who he is, but he is curious about new points of view. And it was hilarious, always a plus.
Favorite. Essay. Ever. She talks about how she would read novels like Anna Karenina in the shower, beneath a clear plastic shower cap, because her Asian parents forbid her to read small books, and insisted that she read big books like SAT practice tests. The essay is evocative and powerful because you see this student's determination to read. You see her disappointment when she finally gets a drivers license and goes to the library to get her own card only to learn that the limit is really 14 books, not the 7 she was always told by her parents. You hear her talk about Jane Eyre and Odysseus like siblings and uncles, the family that, as an only child, she always longed for. You see her grow up reading feverishly and fervently, but nowhere in the essay does she ever even hint at disrespect or disregard for her parents. It is a powerful look into the mind of an avid reader, set against the backdrop of a pretty difficult childhood. Touching, poignant, and uplifting. She went to Columbia University.
This debater went to Dartmouth, and the essay he used to get there talked about years of long car rides with his dad, listening to This American Life on NPR. When he no longer rode with his dad, and when school activities claimed more of his time, he missed the show and started to download the podcasts to his iPod. He writes of how Ira Glass taught him to look at the small things everywhere and every day. He shares some of his favorite episodes and some of the things he learned. What I like about this is that it sounds profoundly simple, but the reader sees what matters to this kid. You hear him thinking about fun topics, sad topics, and touchy topics. You learn that he is a thinker, and because he talks about what he values, you also learn that he is a good person. A point worth mentioning is that this student was a minority with foreign-born parents and a very ethnic name, so writing about a topic so fundamentally American made it clear that America was his beloved home and that he would have no problems of cultural adjustments at the college since he grew up here.
Hilarious. The kid gets his first real job at Ben and Jerry's and is so excited he can't sleep the night before. All goes well for this Scooper in Training, until a group of 13-year-old girls, celebrating the end of the school year, decide to start flirting with him while ordering their ice cream. The dialogue is classic. You can read the essay on the CollegeMapper site. While attempting to remain professional, he has to handle this awkward situation that was clearly covered nowhere in his thoroughly-read employee handbook. I don't know what made me laugh more: their awkward attempts at flirting with a Senior, or his cherry red face as he tried to deflect their public attention. This essay shows the author in a tough spot, albeit a funny one, but the reader sees that he is not so proud that he can't share an embarrassing moment (always endearing!) and that he is clearly able to keep his cool and think on his feet (always a plus). Everyone loves ice cream, so I'm already in a good mood when I read this (plus 1 for the kid) and who can't relate to being excited about their first real job? A terrific success.
What all of these have in common is that you really learn about this person by hearing them reflect on one simple facet of their life. By the time you finish the essay, you think, "I'd like to meet that kid!" They sound like neat people, fun people, nice people. These essays are not earth-shattering, they are honest. They are not about superheroes but real people. Take a page from these authors' books and write about what matters to you, and who you are. Let the reader get to know you a little, through a typical moment in your life. Sincerity is always successful. The only thing you need to be in a college essay is you.
Ah the way you described the essays made me really want to read them! Is there a way i can do that?


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OMNIVI3E's latest album 'For The First Time' features Byron Major's latest collaboration with Andy Whitmore with the song 'Paradise'.
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OMNIVI3E's latest album 'For The First Time' released on 4th February with Byron Major's latest collaboration with Andy Whitmore (Eternal, Lemar, Elton John, and Peter Andre) with the song 'Paradise'.
Byron Major is a singer-songwriter who music takes on elements from Motown to Alternative R&B and Soul. You can clearly hear the musical influences of Prince, John Lennon, Michael Jackson and Stevie Wonder in his vocals and musical arrangements. At the age of 17, he made it to the Top 24 of South African Idols. The new song "Paradise" is now available globally to download and stream on all major music platforms.
Byron Major has achieved quite a lot during his musical career – he's performed his original song 'South Africa' at Nelson Mandela's Boston Massachusetts birthday celebration in 2013. He shared a stage with Pavarotti during his farewell tour in South Africa as part of the Drakensberg Boys Choir, made it to the Top 24 of South African Idols at the age of 17, and sang alongside Grammy Award-winning songwriting Paula Cole at a songwriting showcase while attending the prestigious Berklee College of Music in America.
In Jan 2022, he released a track entitled "4EVERMORE", which reached number 4 on the charts of the UK Talk Radio station and number 8 on the Urban Fire Charts of BMS Radio Chicago. His dream is to perform at the Brits alongside Ed Sheeran, Mick Hucknall & Jamie Cullum.
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Wehrwirtschaftsführer (WeWiFü) were, during the time of Nazi Germany (1933–1945), executives of companies or big factories called rüstungswichtiger Betrieb (company important for the production of war materials). Wehrwirtschaftsführer were appointed, starting 1935, by the Wehrwirtschafts und Rüstungsamt (department for implementing the policy of directing the nation's economic activity towards preparation for and support of the war effort, including armaments) being a part of the Oberkommando der Wehrmacht, that was pushing the build-up of arms for the Wehrmacht. The purpose of the appointment was to bind them to the Wehrmacht and to give them a quasi-military status.

After 1938, the  appointed the Wehrwirtschaftsführer. From 1940 on, this title was given more and more also to leading employees in companies not belonging to the armament branch, also to demonstrate that those companies were contributing to the wartime economy.

Especially before 1940, appointments did not indicate the political attitude of the person receiving the title. They also gave no information saying that their company was important for the armament.

If a manager was appointed Wehrwirtschaftsführer, their company could more easily use negative employment laws for the workers and employees.

Appointees

 Gustav Böhme, owner of Dr. Ing. Böhme & Co., Metallwarenfabrik, Minden-Lübbeckerstrasse
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 Carl Friedrich Wilhelm Borgward
 William Borm
 Carl Bosch
 Max Brose
 Richard Bruhn (Auto Union)
 Heinrich Bütefisch (I.G. Farben)
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 Claude Dornier
 Gerhard Fieseler
 Friedrich Flick
 Edmund Geilenberg
 Berthold Geipel, founder of Erfurter Maschinenfabrik (ERMA)
 Alfred Freiherr von Harder
 Ernst Heinkel
 Jost Henkel
 Paul Henrichs (Carl Zeiss, Jena)

 Hans Kohnert
 August Kotthaus (Carl Zeiss, Jena)
 Carl Krauch
 Alfried Krupp von Bohlen und Halbach
 Gustav Krupp von Bohlen und Halbach
 Heinz Küppenbender (Carl Zeiss, Jena)
 Friedrich Linde, of Linde plc

 Wilhelm Emil Messerschmitt

 Heinrich Nordhoff

 Ernst Poensgen
 Ferdinand Porsche
 Günther Quandt

 Hermann Röchling
 Willy Sachs

 Philipp Alois von Schoeller

 Kurt Tank

 Ludger Westrick
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Wehrwirtschaftsführer after the war
After the end of the war, most military leaders were punished by the Allies, but were soon reinstated in key posts of reconstruction under Cold War conditions. Symptomatic of this was the return to power of Friedrich Flick, the greatest business leader of the Third Reich and the most prominent leader of the military economy. After seven years of captivity, he again became the greatest entrepreneur of the Federal Republic, awarded the Grand Cross of Merit with shoulder strap and star.

Literature
 Paul Erker: Industrieeliten in der NS-Zeit: Anpassungsbereitschaft und Eigeninteresse von Unternehmen in der Rüstungs- und Kriegswirtschaft, 1936 - 1945. Passau: Wissenschaftsverlag Rothe, 1993, 120 p.
 Kurt Pritzkoleit: Gott erhält die Mächtigen - Rück- und Rundblick auf den deutschen Wohlstand. Düsseldorf: Karl Rauch Verlag, S. 430, pp. 95 -123 (comprehensive list of World War II "Wehrwirtschaftsführer" and their role in German economy and politics which was firmly established again after the war).

References

Economy of Nazi Germany

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To start off the weekend, here is a fun guest post from Jen of Tiny Urban Kitchen, about making sushi that is not exactly what it seems to be!
This is not what you might think it is. Yes, it looks like sushi - almost too similar. But guess what? It's mochi! It's mochi with various fruit pieces posing as fish.


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Hope Mill Theatre moved from private ownership to operating as a registered charity this week. The charity – A Factory of Creativity will operate the award-winning theatre which was founded by William Whelton and Joseph Houston in 2015, with the support of a board of trustees, made up of individuals who have supported the venue since it opened. Whelton and Houston will continue in their roles of Executive Director and Artistic Director respectively with the board of trustees supporting and guiding the charity as it moves forward.
In a joint statement Whelton and Houston said: "Hope Mill Theatre was set up four years ago with a £10K start up loan and has been operating since then as an independent business, receiving no local or national funding. In a small amount of time we have grown rapidly and have struggled to keep up with the expectations and sheer demand of operating such a large endeavour. It has become increasingly hard to support the level of work that we produce in-house as well as supporting a thriving arts community locally.
"Hope Mill Theatre is now in a very crucial stage of its journey with many exciting opportunities, as well as an ever-evolving and developing local landscape. We, along with our small team, recognise the importance of having the venue expand, which will allow us to focus more on nurturing new work and supporting artists. It is our ambition to secure the venue's home for many years to come and well as engaging more with our community and making our work accessible to varied audiences. We believe moving forward as a charity will allow us to achieve these ambitions."
The theatre will continue to build on its acclaimed partnership with Katy Lipson of Aria Entertainment, with Hope Mill Theatre and Aria continuing to work together in the future, both at Hope Mill Theatre and around the UK, with their most ambitious show to date – Mame starring Tracie Bennett – which has it's official opening this week.
Also announced is the news that award-winning writer Russell T Davies and stage and screen actress Denise Welch are to join Olivier Award-winning actress Tracie Bennett as a patrons of the theatre.
Russell T Davies said: "I'm thrilled and honoured to become a patron of Hope Mill Theatre. It's an amazing place, and I've followed Joe and Will's journey right from the start. Their productions are wonderful, and I love their support for new writers and talent. I think the future's full of Hope!"
Denise Welch said: "I'm delighted to become a patron of Hope Mill Theatre. My love of theatre was formed in a company that started like this one and I'm thrilled to be a small part of Joe and Will's journey. Coming to Hope Mill is not just a night at the theatre – it's an experience from the minute you arrive, and the productions are first class. Exciting and vibrant…..just like me!"
Tracie Bennett said: "Being from the north myself, it is awe-inspiring to see the true and heartfelt passion and vision of mavericks Joe and Will, and the work they have done in creating Hope Mill Theatre. I had been following their work and have admired from afar the creation of this exciting new venue. I have long thought that a project of this ilk was a long time coming to Manchester. The work they are doing for regional theatre and musical theatre is extremely exciting not only for the city of Manchester but also the industry itself."
First Look Photos – MAME
First look photos -MAME *Credit Pamela Raith
In the first few months as a charity, there are planned funding applications to fund the purchase and upgrade of lighting and sound equipment. A 'fund a chair' scheme will be launched to help replace the venue's current seating – to help make watching theatre at Hope Mill a more comfortable and accessible experience. There are plans to also apply for funding to install hearing loops in the venue, as well as an upgrade of the ticket system used to improve the booking experience. There are also plans to launch 'Friends of Hope Mill Theatre scheme.
Whelton and Houston concluded: "It's now time to allow Hope Mill Theatre to grow and flourish as it enters the next phase of its very exciting future, regionally and nationally."
For more information on Hope Mill Theatre please visit Hope Mill Theatre
Aria EntertainmentDenise WelchHope Mill TheatreJoseph HoustonKaty LipsonMameManchesterPamela RaithRussell T DaviesTheatre newsTracie BennettWilliam Whelton
Calendar Girls
October 31, 2018 openingnightreviews 1 Comment
Opening Night verdict ⭐⭐⭐1/2
There can't be many people who don't know the magnificent story of the Rylstone & District Women's Institute and their impressively innovative way of raising funds; but, if there are then lucky for them writer Tim Firth and long-time friend Gary Barlow have worked their collective storytelling magic to create a musical about the ground-breaking WI ladies.
When Yorkshire lass and WI member Annie (Anna-Jane Casey) loses her beloved husband John (Phil Corbitt) to leukaemia a seed is planted by best pal Chris (Rebecca Storm) to raise funds for a comfy sofa for the visitor's room at Skipton General. These funds won't be raised with a traditional raffle or tasty bake sale, but by the girls creating their very own 'alternative' calendar for distribution across the Dales.
There are tender moments throughout this moving piece, where tears threaten as the cruelty of life is played out, none more so than during Anna-Jane Casey's emotional delivery of Kilimanjaro. These poignant moments are interspersed wonderfully with witty laugh out loud moments which firmly remind us that in life if we want to experience the highs we must also accept the heart-breaking lows.
As the idea of the ladies baring all inches closer to becoming a reality we see them wrestle with their own insecurities and daily battles offering the realisation that we all face similar difficulties and obstacles in life.
Firth and Barlow's pairing is an impressive one, the script is warm, genuinely funny and entirely relatable while accompanying songs flow seamlessly as lyrical extensions of the script.
The reworking of this piece from its original 2015 incarnation sees some notable changes. The decision to opt for a celebrity based cast works well in part with each actor enormously likeable and engaging however the multitude of accents robs the production of its down to earth, grass roots charm and at times is distracting from the story. As the Yorkshire grit and determination is lost so its authenticity is watered down.
Likewise designer Robert Jones has scaled back the previous touring set, the green drawers and cupboards which created the rolling Yorkshire hills now replaced with a regularly opened gate, effective still but its impact not comparable.
Despite these quibbles Firth and Barlow's superb storytelling still shines through as the cast take us on an inspirational story which turns tragedy into triumph.
Anna-Jane Casey and Rebecca Storm as best friends Annie and Chris are hugely impressive, pals through thick and thin their pairing is convincing and genuinely touching.
Karen Dunbar as Cara is hilarious, add to this a superb turn from the legendary Ruth Madoc who delights in every opportunity to raise a laugh.
There's also a wonderfully written comedy sub-plot in which the younger members of the cast fight their own battles of teenage angst, first love and the absolute worst….embarrassing parents. Isabel Caswell, Danny Howker and Tyler Dobbs as Jenny, Danny and Tommo respectively are joyful to watch.
Calendar Girls portrays the inspirational story of the courageous women of Yorkshire with wit and genuine warmth, while there is sadness the bloody-minded defiance of these strong Northern women is there for all to see. Heart-warming in its delivery and inspiring in its message.
Calendar Girls is on at The Lowry until Saturday 10th November tickets available here.
Anna-Jane CaseyCalendar GirlsDanny HowkerDenise WelchFern BrittonGary BarlowIsabel CaswellKaren DunbarPhil CorbittRebecca StormRuth MadocSara CroweTim FirthTyler DobbsWIYorkshire


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Georg Schlotter (* 23. Februar 1889 in Hildesheim; † 5. Dezember 1915 in Göttingen) war ein deutscher Maler und insbesondere Blumen- und Figurenmaler.

Leben
Schlotter war der jüngere Bruder des Bildhauers Heinrich Schlotter (1886–1964). Nach seinem Schulbesuch wurde er zunächst auf die Hildesheimer Handwerker- und Kunstgewerbeschule, anschließend nach Berlin an die dortige Unterrichtsanstalt des Kunstgewerbemuseums geschickt, wo er bei den Malern Max Koch und Emil Rudolf Weiß studierte.

Noch zur Kaiserzeit schuf er 1914 für die Kölner Werkbundausstellung Malereien (Gelbes Haus und Weinrestaurant).

Während des Ersten Weltkrieges kämpfte Schlotter in Frankreich, wo er 1915 schwer verwundet wurde. Nach seinem Transport in ein Lazarett in Göttingen verstarb er dort am 5. Dezember desselben Jahres an Verblutung.

Im November 1920 wurde posthum eine Gedächtnisausstellung mit Werken des verstorbenen Künstlers im Roemer-Museum Hildesheim gezeigt.

Literatur

 Eberhard Schlotter (Text): Der Maler Georg Schlotter. Geboren am 23. Februar 1889, gefallen am 5. Dezember 1915. Zum 70. Todestag. Herausgegeben von der Familie und der Eberhard Schlotter-Stiftung Hildesheim, 104 überwiegend illustrierte Seiten, Hildesheim, 1985.

Weblinks
 World Biographical Information System (WBIS) Online: Georg Schlotter (zum Einloggen ist ein Abonnement erforderlich)

Einzelnachweise

Maler (Niedersachsen)
Person im Ersten Weltkrieg (Deutsches Reich)
Deutscher
Geboren 1889
Gestorben 1915
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Ao Haru Ride (2014)
Veröffentlicht am 23. August 2018 23. August 2018 von MikaYuu Hyakuya
Blue Spring Ride
by Ai Yoshimura
Futaba Yoshioka used to be an attractive girl in middle school who was quite popular by the boys, but hated by the girls. However she didn't care because the true matter was Kou Tanaka. A shy classmate she met during a rainy day and with whom she has shared many great memories. She planned to meet him at the summer festival, but he never showed up and after that he completely disappeared. So Futaba was alone without any friends. In high school she has changed everything from avoiding unwanted attention to acting tomboyish instead of girlish and adorable. Nonetheless, the appearance of the one and only boy she ever loved upsets her plans. However this time everything is different, not only his named changed into Kou Mabuchi but also his personality is completely different.
The anime series is filled with many serious topics where the main topic is definitely friendship. It is about choosing the right friends who share the same feelings and emotions. However, the ugly truth is you will get excluded if you don't behave like the majority. In other words, you have to adapt to your classmates to avoid any exclusion. One example are shy girls who are mainly excluded from others. A further negative aspect shown in the series about 'friendship' is jealousy. However, also the opposite side or rather the good side of friendship is also shown: real friendships or real friends are good for your health and well-being.
Many funny scenes and interactions are seen especially between Kou and Futaba. The awkwards moments of Futaba bring many laughter. In addition, classmates of them also show an awkward relationship speaking of Kominato being in love with Murao who does not show any interest. One of the funniest episode is as the class participates in a camp which is really amusing to watch because it somehow ends up in a catastrophe.
As being a romance anime, clearly many emotions are included whereas most of them are dealing with love and falling in love. The main protagonist Futaba is not really sure if she should love Kou or not because as he ditched her at the summer festival; she is quite confused and unsure about her feelings. Moreover, she also doesn't want to hurt another classmate Yuuri who is also in love with him. In addition, there are also hints of some 'forbidden' love: Murao is in love with a teacher Yōichi Tanaka who is Kou's elder brother. Not only love but also tragedy cannot be lacking in a romance series. The reason of Kou's drastic change in personality is very sad and dramatic. So the heartbreaking part is the burden he has to bear.
We really love the different personalities of the high school students. Firstly, the main character Futaba is very indecisive and acts unfeminine whereas her friend Yuuri has a more cute and shy personality. Kou seems to have a more cool and sarcastic attitude. SPOILER ALERT: Kou has made a drastic character development. As having been a very shy guy, he turns into a more self confident and completely different boy. Even though he shows mostly a rude attitude towards Kou, he still cares for her. Not only Kou has changed but also Futaba has changed her personality. She starts being no longer cute or rather attractive to boys. She mostly proves this by eating very much in front of everybody which is seen as not cute. For her this change is an important restart in her life.
The art of 'Ao Haru Ride' is neither bad nor astonishing. The background lacks a bit of details. Therefore we think it could have been a bit better. However we like the cute faces of the characters especially Kou is very lovely drawn. In contrast to the art of animation the opening theme and music are very beautiful. The opening and ending themes are amusing and entertaining and we like the fact that they don't contain any spoilers.
We also have some negative critics about the anime series. SPOILER ALERT: Kominato's feelings for Murao and vise versa are put into the background especially in the second part of the anime. Moreover, there are also many hints for love confessions which end to be only hints and nothing more. Therefore, we do not like the ending at all.
The fact that the anime series is a shōjo anime, it consists of mainly romantic elements and attracts therefore more female audience. Beside romantic, many drama scenes are also included such as crying. However, the series also shows some suspenses such as: when is Futaba going to confess or will she ever do it? What does Kou feel for Futaba?
One can say that the most important element in the anime is the strong friendships between the characters. The anime contains many exciting and funny scenes however the end could have been a bit better because it is like an open end where you can guess what will happen next. The anime itself is not that bad, but we would rather not watch it again because for us it is a bit too kitschy.
Schlagwörter: Anime, ao haru ride, blue, Drama, emotions, Friendship, Love, Manga, Romance, springKategorien: Anime Series
4 Kommentare zu "Ao Haru Ride (2014)"
Karandi sagt:
This one did get a bit too into teen drama. I enjoyed parts of it, but felt it was a bit rough in execution. Nice review and thanks for sharing your thoughts.
yeah it was a bit too much drama.
thanks and you're welcome 🙂
mimimouse96 sagt:
i love it! the story is so sweet 🙂
yeah, it's lovely!
VorherigeTonari no Totoro (1988)
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Dr. Yuxiang Liu
Director of Health Education
DACM, MAOM., Dipl. O.M. (NCCAOM),L. Ac.
Licensed Acupuncturist & Herbalist
Bilingual Language: English, Chinese Mandarin
Work Accomplishments
Dr. Liu holds the degree of Doctor of Acupuncture & Chinese Medicine (DACM). She is a licensed Acupuncturist and Herbalist in the State of Texas. Dr. Liu received her training and studies in acupuncture, herbology, Tai Ji, Tui Na,Pediatric Tui Na and Qi Gong in American College of Acupuncture and Oriental Medicine (ACAOM).Dr. Liu holds a Doctorate in Acupuncture and Chinese Medicine (DACM) from the ACAOM. She has a Diplomate in Oriental Medicine through the National Certification Commission for Acupuncture and Oriental Medicine (NCCAOM). Dr. Liu is a member of the National Certification Commission for Acupuncture and Oriental Medicine (NCCAOM).
Field of Specialty and Expertise
Dr. Liu's prolonged study and training enables her to collect all data and provide a comprehensive treatment strategy for current case. In particular, she has been focusing on the Women's health and pain management in her clinical practice.
Education Achievements
American College of Acupuncture & Oriental Medicine Acupuncture & Chinese Medicine DACM
Qiao Lin
MAOM., Dipl. O.M. (NCCAOM),L. Ac., R.N
Licensed Acupuncturist & Herbalist, Registered Nurse
Bilingual Language: English, Chinese Mandarin & Cantonese
Mr.Lin Worked in the clinical lab with eight years of experience as a lab technologist and has over twenty years of experience as a registered nurse worked in several major hospitals in New York City and Texas respectively. At Current, he is a clinical nurse in MD Anderson Cancer Center Hospital, Houston, Texas.He is a licensed Acupuncturist and Herbalist in the State of Texas.
Mr.Lin applied his learned knowledge of Chinese medicine into private family practice for more than twenty years. Has a great respect to the value of Chinese medicine, its importance and significance to promote human health and quality of life in general. He is knowledgeable in western medicine and Chinese medicine, and at combining acupuncture and herbal medicines, and passionate at tackling healthy issues and promoting healing process in this arena.
He has insightful vision and skillful in managing several disorders, such as: Cardiovascular related symptoms, Common cold, Asthma, Insomnia, Generalized weakness, Poor digestion, Constipation, Skin problem, Woman's related Menopausal issue, Weight Control and Chronic pain. He is Knowledgeable and proficient with herbal therapies for sport injuries, various joint pain, old injury pain, gingivitis, skin infection, acute hemorrhoid pain and anal fissure.
University of Guangzhou(China) Biology BS Degree Graduated in 1982
University of Chinese Medicine Acupuncture and Tui Na Certification Completed in 1987
of Guangzhou( China)
Hunter College of City University Medical Lab Science BS Degree Graduated in 1993
Hunter College of City University Science in Nursing BS Degree Graduated in 1998
American College of Acupuncture Acupuncture & oriental Medicine M.A.O.M Graduated in 2018
& Oriental Medicine
Xiaotian Lin
M.S., M.D.( China), Dipl. O.M. (NCCAOM), L. Ac.
Ms.Lin graduated with a master's degree majoring in Traditional Chinese Medicine from Liaoning University of Traditional Chinese Medicine(China). She has been a professor in teaching Foundation of Traditional Chinese Medicine, Acupuncture and Clinical Chinese Medicine in Traditional Chinese Medicine University in China, and a doctor and dean of Traditional Chinese medicine in Hospital for more than 20 years.she is a licensed Acupuncturist and Herbalist in the State of Texas. She has a Diplomate in Oriental Medicine through the National Certification Commission for Acupuncture and Oriental Medicine (NCCAOM). She is a member of the National Certification Commission for Acupuncture and Oriental Medicine (NCCAOM).
Lin has extensive clinical experience in Traditional Chinese Medicine for more than 20 years, especially in pain management, dermatology, gastroenterology, obstetrics and gynecology, cosmetology, physical conditioning, health care, weight loss and medicated diet.
Social Member
Member of American Traditional Chinese medicine Society.
Liaoning University of Traditional Chinese Medicine TCM BS Degree Graduated in 1990
Liaoning University of Traditional Chinese Medicine Integrative Medicine M.S. Graduated in 2007
Lisha Qiu
MAOM., Dipl. O.M. (NCCAOM),L. Ac
Ms. Qiu graduated from an accredited oriental medicine and acupuncture school in the United States. A profound understanding and experience in Chinese herbology, traditional acupuncture and electric acupuncture.
Ms. Qiu has experienced in performing acupuncture, acupressure, therapeutic massage, and prescribing Chinese herbal supplements.She has specialty in offering acupuncture for chronic pain that's designed to solve the source of painful issues such as lower back pain, neck and shoulder pain, Carpal Tunnel Syndrome and Tennis Elbow. She is a skilled professional to deliver gentle and accurate acupuncture for Women's health issues such as infertility and Pre-menopause.She has a Diplomate in Oriental Medicine through the National Certification Commission for Acupuncture and Oriental Medicine (NCCAOM). Ms. Qiu is a member of the National Certification Commission for Acupuncture and Oriental Medicine (NCCAOM).
Dongguk University Los Angeles M.A.O.M Graduated in 2003
Nguyet Nguyen
MAOM., Dipl. O.M. (NCCAOM),L. Ac.,R. Ph.
Licensed Acupuncturist and Herbalist, Licensed Pharmacist
Bilingual Language: English, Vietnamese
Ms.Nguyen is a licensed Acupuncturist and Herbalist in the State of Texas. She has a Diplomate in Oriental Medicine through the National Certification Commission for Acupuncture and Oriental Medicine (NCCAOM). She is a member of the National Certification Commission for Acupuncture and Oriental Medicine (NCCAOM). She is a Licensed Pharmacist under State Board of Pharmacy.
Gold Standard Certification for Constitutional Facial Acupuncture with Mary Elizabeth Wakefield
Zhu's Scalp Acupuncture Certificate for Stroke, Spinal Cord Injury, Internal medicine, Emergency Medicine, Pain, Neurological syndromes and others.
French Auricular Therapy Certification with Dr. Raphael Norgie.
Dr. Tan balance methods and Master Tung Acupuncture.
Dietary Therapy Certification with Master Jeffrey Yuen.
Experiences in both Chinese and Japanese acupuncture, TCM and classical acupuncture.
Experiences in vibrational acupuncture using tuning forks.
College of Pharmacy at University of Houston, Houston TX: R. Ph. Graduated in 1998
American College of Acupuncture & Oriental Medicine, Houston TX : Acupuncture & oriental Medicine, M.A.O.M Graduated in 2005
Institute of Lama Tsong Khapa, Italy: Master of Tibetan Buddhism. Graduated in 2013
What You'll expected during your Initial visit
During the first initial visit, the acupuncturist will assess your general health.
The investigative process will include questions relating to your current symptoms, past treatments, patient and family medical history, diet, digestive system, sleeping patterns and emotional health.
Also, the pulse on both wrists will be taken to determine how energies are flowing in the body.
As part of the diagnosis, the acupuncturist will assess the structure, color and coating of your tongue
During this comprehensive evaluation, the practitioner will observe your emotions, voice and self-presentation. This will further aid in the diagnosis and development of a treatment that will assist in harmonizing your overall energy.
The first session may last up to two hours. Subsequent treatments will last approximately one hour. Dietary and other recommendations will be discussed at appropriate times throughout the treatment process
Customized comprehensive treatment includes Acupuncture, Diet supplement, cupping, Moxibustion, Guasha, medical Tui Na, food therapy and exercise guideline.
What do all those letters mean?
The public are often confused at the very wide array of alphabet after a Chinese medicine practitioner's name. To make things easier to understand, here is a guide to the most commonly seen designations in the US.
L. Ac.
Licensed Acupuncturist. The highest tier of board certification is the Diplomate of Oriental Medicine(Dipl. O.M.), as it encompasses both acupuncture and Chinese herbal medicine. All Licensed Acupuncturist must accumulate a total of 350 patient visits with 100 new patient visits and are required to have 225 patients with recommended herbal prescriptions before they can graduate.
DACM
The Doctor of Acupuncture and Chinese Medicine (DACM) is a first professional doctoral degree in the field of Acupuncture and Chinese medicine. DACM students will graduate at the doctoral level with enhanced training and skills. Graduates of the program will be qualified to sit for the NCCAOM and licensing exams.
The DACM program is a degree program with 171 credits and 3267.5 hours on the professional didactic course and clinical training. The degree program is a 4-year degree program emphasizing traditional Chinese medicine, integrative approaches, and evidence-based research.
MAOM
Master of Acupuncture & Oriental Medicine (MAOM) is to train individuals to become a licensed acupuncturist. The entry level to practice Chinese medicine in the United States is a master's degree. The MAOM program is a degree program with 162 credits and 3067.5 hours on the professional didactic course and clinical training.
Dipl. O.M. (NCCAOM)
Diplomate of Acupuncture, Diplomate in Chinese Herbology, Diplomate in Oriental Medicine. These are board certifications given by the National Certification Commission for Acupuncture and Oriental Medicine. The highest tier of board certification is the Diplomate of Oriental Medicine(Dipl. O.M.), as it encompasses both acupuncture and Chinese herbal medicine. Choosing an NCCAOM National Board-Certified Acupuncturist™ means receiving excellent care from a professional and qualified practitioner.
How to Find a Licensed Acupuncturist
It's important to work with a licensed acupuncturist who has advanced education and training. To assist in your search for a licensed acupuncturist and help you understand acupuncture licensing and guide you how to search for licensed acupuncturists. Please check the following links for your referral.
The NCCAOM Registry is a listing of all NCCAOM certified Diplomates, designed to be used by state licensing agencies, insurance companies and the general public to verify that an individual is certified by the NCCAOM.
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I'm baaacckk!! Did you miss me? I'm sure you all managed. In fact I know you did because Mr SpunkyGuts provided one VERY fancy Fancy Friday.
We'll have to get his insights more often I think, though letting him loose on the keyboard is not without its danger.
Mr Spunky using his old laptop. His new one is pink he he.
Onto the fancy from my week.
Wow! So part of my hand-balling Fancy Friday last week was because I have been a little busy (little being a huge understatement). I am currently setting up a brand new yacht and it's a big task (monumental task actually, and this yacht is small by superyacht standards). I was tempted to climb into one of the beds at Ikea and have a sleep over to save on all the commuting back and forth. But, as busy and exhausted as I am I know that it's all going to come together in the end and I will have one organised galley and interior to show for it. This is fancy. It will be fancy.
Just enough room for me….lucky because the car won't drive itself!
Through a combination of not having time and wanting to maintain that beachy look I didn't wash my hair for a day or so….yay for fancy beach hair!
Yep I took a 'selfie' Ha!
After a sudden storm with pouring rain and heavy thunder…Mother Nature apologized. You are forgiven.
I'm so grateful for having the opportunity to team up with Food Man Chew and help to create a Hump Day Lunch Box. I do hope whoever tasted these creations enjoyed every mouthful and had a fancy Hump Day.
I know this sounds lame, but, I am sure plenty of gals will wholeheartedly agree when I say that there is nothing more frustrating that a poor pair of tweezers. Am I right? I misplaced my awesome Tweezermans recently….I thought I could manage without them. Nope. I splashed out and got myself a pair of these perfect tweezers from Rubis. The Swiss not only know fine watches and chocolate, but tweezers too. Ahh…fancy brows again.
Well, that wraps up Fancy Friday for another week. I'm glad I started writing these weekly posts. Not only is sharing a nice thing to do, but compiling the post reminds me of the joyful moments of my week.
Until next week, stay Spunky and be sure to enjoy the moments of fancy that come your way.
Wednesday. Hump-day. Time for lunch?


Want a Hearst Castle of your own?
The President says the economy is improving, and even a Federal Reserve study released this summer shows an expanding economy. Despite what the numbers say, public sentiment paints a very different and rather ugly picture.
Fewer Americans now consider themselves 'middle class,' according to new numbers released by the Pew Research Center. The report says that in 2008, 72% of Americans considered themselves to be either middle class or upper-middle class. Today, however, that number has dropped to 57%. Worst of all, those who identify as lower-middle class or lower class increased from 25% to 40%.
Even more, income inequality continues to increase as the rich get richer. Why does one group continue to see positive growth and more money flooding their bank accounts, while the other group is frustrated and feels as if they're going nowhere fast?
At its root, it's a mindset.
The rich see money through the eyes of freedom, possibility, opportunity, and abundance. The middle class is looking at it from a fear and scarcity point of view. The rich are thinking about how to make more money, while the middle class is worrying about what they'll do if they lose their jobs, become ill and are unable to work and run out of money.
No matter what your situation, if you want to earn more money, it starts with your thinking.
Stop waiting to be rescued from financial mediocrity.
The middle class lives in a perpetual waiting game for outside forces to come to their aid and grant their every wish. They are operating at a level of consciousness that encourages them to passively wait for life to improve. The hero they are waiting for may be God, government, their boss, or their spouse. It's the average person's level of thinking that breeds this approach.
Start creating a daily plan of action that will move you closer to building financial independence. The rich are savvier about money because they follow a plan of action, not because they are more intelligent. They don't wait for their ship to come in. They build their own ship.
Here's to a new mindset.
The masses have a deep-rooted belief that wealth, prosperity, and great success is only for the chosen few who possess extreme talent, specialized knowledge, or just plain luck. The middle class struggles because they expect to struggle, and their expectations create a self-fulfilling prophecy. When they experience a windfall, achieve uncommon success, or get what they want unexpectedly, they're convinced it's a lark and their good fortune won't last. Years of middle class programming has created this losing cycle that usually follows them to the grave.
The wealthy have polar opposite beliefs that tell them success, fulfillment, and happiness are the natural order of existence. This single belief drives the great ones to behave in ways that virtually guarantees their success.
Do you expect to experience good fortune on a regular basis? Raise the level of expectation you have for your life and do not be surprised when good things happen. While the middle class experiences good fortune and can't believe it, the wealthy experience good fortune and wonder what took so long.
The masses are always looking for reasons why the wealthy are so much more successful, when the answer is staring them right in the face. In an effort to resolve the mystery of why some people are more successful than others and absolve themselves of the work it takes to get there, they search for unfair advantages granted only to those who are rich. If they can't find evidence to substantiate their hypothesis, they fabricate it. Examples are political favor, illegal shortcuts, and superior education.
After studying millionaires for the last 30 years, I can state with authority that their biggest advantage is their focus, dedication, and hard work. While on the surface this seems self-evident, the hard work I'm referencing is not back-breaking toil. Hard work to the rich is applying persistent thought day after day to solve seemingly unsolvable problems.
The rich know their most valuable asset is their ability to think, and because they use their mental powers so often, they become very good at it. Build your thinking muscles by pushing yourself every day to solve new problems that are directly related to amassing wealth.
The bottom line: There's no reason we should be seeing such disappointing numbers from Pew Research about a growing middle to lower class. Start examining how you look at money. If you change your thinking about money, you'll change your beliefs which will change your actions.
Ultimately, this will change how much money you earn. It's time to get mentally tough and pull up your bootstraps and get going. Remember, money flows to great ideas like water. The secret is learning to turn on the faucet.
Steve Siebold is the author of "How Rich People Think" and a self-made multi-millionaire who has interviewed 1,200 of the world's wealthiest people during the past 30 years.


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In Congress, Federal Equality Act as drafted faces feminist opposition
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Who really won the wedding cake case?
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Florist asks Supreme Court for remand in wake of cake decision
Attorneys for a Washington florist who refused to make a flower arrangement a same-sex wedding filed a supplemental brief in the wake of Monday's Masterpiece Cakeshop decision which left the question of balance between free exercise of religion and non-discrimination statutes unanswered.
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Iowa church drops transgender restroom lawsuit
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The Days the Music Died
It's All Bach's Fault! ...By V
Strap yourself in for some schooling, my dear friends. In this, the first of a series on music's ups and downs, triumphs and perils, I will reveal to you a crazy theory. A theory so far out of conventional wisdom, many of you will stop reading once I make the statement.
Johann Sebastian Bach killed music. Yes, THE Johann Sebastian Bach from the turn of the 18th Century, revered by all — except yours truly — to be one of the greatest composers to ever live, stabbed music in the back and twisted the proverbial knife. Now, catch your collective breaths. Grab a paper bag and breathe if need be… I warned you.
How can I make such a claim? Gather 'round ye lads and lasses, it's time for a little music history lesson.
In 1722 our friend Johann wrote a little exercise book called "The Well-Tempered Clavier". For you stoners out there, this is a collection of musical studies for keyboard players (no not Moog Organ players, you zealots) intended to teach and master technique. This collection of comprehensive compositions effectively helped usher in a tuning system known as 'well-tempered'.
What the hell is well-tempered? Simply, natural musical harmonics were altered so a keyboard instrument could seamlessly switch from key to key. For the slow kids, this means the keyboard could be "in tune" with itself. As an added bonus, composers could now write music flowing between keys with no issues of it sounding 'off'. As a result, other instruments had to tune using the well-tempered system in order to play "in tune" with keyboard instruments.
Our modern, western ears recognize this system as 'normal' music. Non-western music (like the meditation stuff your hippie girlfriend listens to while doing yoga in the basement and chanting 'om') is not based on this system and it is why it sounds weird or different to our ears… No, it's not the aroma of patchouli — which inevitably seems to linger whenever pumped through the head shop speakers — causing you to find the music odd.
Back to our friend Johann for a second. He was not the first composer to adopt and write for this new system (even though he likely had to be talked in to it, as he preferred a different system called 'equal tempered'). He WAS, however, the first to write a study for keyboard. The Well-Tempered Clavier is revered as one of the most significant works written for keyboard, and precisely the reason I place the knife in his hand. What followed was a sweeping acceptance of the new well-tempered system.
So why do I call this acceptance a death? Musical notes and harmonies, in their natural form, do not follow equal (or well) tempered divisions. Imagine a spiral, if you will… can you picture the smooth curve that never repeats, never intersects? Natural Music follows this same curve. The well-tempered system cut the musical spiral into equal little blocks, subsequently forcing all music after it to live in those boxes.
You are likely thinking, "What the hell, V? Rock-n-Roll is freaking awesome and this well-tempered stuff seems to be a good thing! We wouldn't have Zepplin without it, man!" And you'd be right. Believe me, I love a good Zepplin tune as much as the next stoner.. er I mean gal.
Death can be beautiful, much like the fallen leaf from a tree, it can breathe life in to what is to come. After all, anything new follows an ending. There are obvious benefits from placing 'music in a box' (coffin?). What would the world be like without the likes of Mozart, Beethoven… Chopin, Liszt… Debussy… Miles Davis… The Beatles… and on and on into much of the popular music of the 20th century (Zepplin, man)?
But, humor me for a moment and let's look at it a little deeper than just the musical implications…
Western Civilization has gradually, yet continually, moved away from natural states of being. We all live in our cushy, temperature-controlled boxes; drive around in our little bubbles to bigger boxes; stop en route to have rapidly prepared food shoved inside our bubble so we can cram it down our throats as we speed around on synthetic paths, not noticing anything that isn't right in front of our noses… You get the picture.
Music is no exception to human-kind moving further away from 'natural'. In fact, it may be one cog in the gigantic wheel of injustice against nature and humanity's continual fall from Eden. As soon as we decided to alter the tuning system in order to make it sound a certain way and fit perfectly into our perception of 'correct', we took another step on the path to fast food joints and gas-guzzling Chevys going to dry levees.
An avid music fan, of (nearly) every genre, and musician myself, I certainly enjoy the mass amounts of creativity, artistry and down right fun Western Music contributes to the world. However, I can't help but wonder if it is only serving as another distraction from our true state of being. Thus, the release of the Well-Tempered Clavier is the first Day the (natural) Music Died.
Then again… I write this as I listen to music coming from my enchanted plastic circle spinning round and round, cuing the band in the box to perform for me as I please, magically powered from a hole in the wall, channeling burned black rocks directly to my nice warm bubble…
**Namaste** ~V~
The peace-lovin-hippie-chick-music-freak.
*Thank you to my genius brother Dave for his input and suggestions.
*Other sources: Encyclopedia Brittanica, Wikipedia


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Marie Geneviève Charlotte Thiroux d'Arconville: Selected Philosophical, Scientific, and Autobiographical Writings
Edited by Julie Candler Hayes
244 pages, 6.00 x 9.00 x 0.70 in
Marie-Geneviève-Charlotte Thiroux d'Arconville combined fierce intellectual ambition with the proper demeanor of the wife of a leading magistrate. Bemoaning her lack of a formal education in childhood, as an adult she read widely, studied languages, and sought out mentors among the scientific elite of the day. Always publishing anonymously, her works included moralist philosophy, scientific and literary translations, original scientific research, fiction, and history. Recently, a trove of unpublished essays and autobiographical writings from her final years, long thought to have been lost, has come to light, revealing her as a writer of insight, wit, and feeling.
Edited and translated by Julie Candler Hayes
The Other Voice in Early Modern Europe: The Toronto Series, volume 58
In her edition and translation of writings by Marie-Geneviève-Charlotte Thiroux d'Arconville (1720–1805), Julie Candler Hayes provides an important look at a remarkable woman writer, thinker, and scientist. D'Arconville was a "true woman of the Enlightenment" — a woman of wide-ranging interests, concerned with moral, societal, and philosophical issues, such as the role of self-love (amour-propre), perspectives on history, and the value of friendship versus marriage. Her published writings are extremely significant, but perhaps even more intriguing are the recently rediscovered manuscript texts that she wrote late in life, offering a glimpse into the mind of this fascinating woman who was married at a very early age, took charge of her own education, and outlived the Revolution.
—Sharon Diane Nell
Professor of French and Dean of the School of Humanities, St. Edward's University


Irish women are now incubators. Even in death.
Consent is not for Irish women: once a person in Ireland becomes pregnant, their right to refuse or to choose medical treatment is null and void. Self-determination is not for Irish women: once a person in Ireland becomes pregnant, they may no longer choose the direction of their lives within our borders, and if they do not have the right to leave their borders their lives become the property of our state. And as of today, even the right to be laid to rest after our deaths is not for any pregnant person in this country.
At first glance, it doesn't seem that way. December 26th marked a High Court ruling on the case of a brain-dead woman who has been kept on life somatic support since her death on December 3rd. She has been kept breathing, despite the unanimous wishes of her partner and family, because at the time of her death she was ~14 weeks pregnant, and Ireland's constitution demands that the right to life of a foetus must be protected. Because of this constitutional provision- which I'll go into in more detail in a moment, don't you worry- none of her doctors would allow her life support to be turned off. Her family- including her two young children- have been forced to watch as the condition of her still-breathing corpse deteriorated grotesquely, waiting for the High Court to deliberate and make its decision.
It's a hell of a way to spend Christmas.
On the morning after, though, the High Court ruled in favour of the woman being taken off somatic support. At face value this is a positive thing. It allows the woman to finally have some kind of dignity in her death, and for her family to begin to grieve her and move on. They're not stuck with grotesque daily updates on the deteriorating condition of her body and the foetus inside it.
It looks positive- in as much as you can use a word like that in a situation like this- unless you actually read the High Court ruling. When I say "then it becomes terrifying", I want you to understand that I am not exaggerating for effect. The implications of this ruling are terrifying, and they are macabre, because although it provides for somatic support for this woman to be switched off, it also creates precedent for the corpses of pregnant people to be sustained in future. And within this, there is no consideration whatsoever given to the wishes of the person being used this way.
I said that consent is not for Irish women. With this ruling, neither consent nor the right to a dignified and final death are for any pregnant person in this country.
I guess it's time to explain.
The Eighth has been around since 1983. As you can see, it equates the life of a pregnant person to that of the foetus or embryo that they're carrying, and makes precisely zero mention of health, dignity or (god forbid*!) self determination. That's important.
According to this interpretation, then, the rights of a deceased pregnant person and their loved ones, family and next of kin must be seen as secondary to those of the foetus. Our dignity matters, but our status as incubators matters more.
If that is so, then why did they agree to turn off life somatic support?
This unfortunate unborn has suffered the dreadful fate of being present in the womb of a mother who has died, and in which the environment is neither safe nor stable, and which is failing at an alarming rate.
Elsewhere in the ruling were detailed descriptions- if you want to read them you'll have to look yourself, but I really don't recommend it- of the condition that this woman's body was in. There was simply no hope that this foetus could survive.
However, two far more disturbing things are being done here. First, there is an imputing of experiences onto the foetus that doesn't seem to have much basis in fact. Phrases like "suffering a dreadful fate" feel overly emotive when used to describe something that couldn't be said to have the ability to understand what suffering, fate or misfortune are in the first place. Then again, we're talking about a country that grants legal representation to foetuses, so it's unsurprising.
However, it's when you combine this with the way that the woman is described- an environment in which a foetus is located- that the real implications of this ruling, and the Eighth Amendment, start to show themselves. A uterus and a body are simply locations. While the foetus's purported personhood is emphasised consistently, that of the mother- who was a person, who had a life in every sense of the word- is deemphasised. She has lost her life, and becomes merely a place.
It seems reasonable to consider prolongation of maternal somatic function to be futile if the pregnancy is of less than sixteen weeks gestation at the time of maternal brain death, given the absence of reports of successful delivery of a live foetus in these pregnancies.
There you have it. This is what was ruled. In a country where from the instant of conception a pregnant person's life is equated with the fertilised egg implanted within them, if you die pregnant then neither you (if you can state your wishes) nor your next of kin (if you cannot) not your doctors have any say over what happens to your body after your death. It's predetermined. Before sixteen weeks, the machine is turned off. After that, it's kept on. Regardless of your wishes, for weeks on end, until either your foetus is delivered or your body degrades past the point where we can use it.
This law is grotesque. The Eighth Amendment, more so.
Too bad all the Irish women can't just up and leave. Or maybe try Lysistrata's strategy. Arrgh, where's a civilizing influence when you need one?
Except that why should we have to up and leave? This is our home as much as it is anyone else's.
(eyeroll) obviously, that wasn't a serious suggestion. But if you want a serious answer – obviously women are second-class citizens, so it's not your home as much as it is men's.
I'm not overly familiar with the Irish health care system, but I hope that families forced into this won't be stuck with mounting medical bills to keep their loved ones alive against their will (to say nothing of any legal fees amassed). And even that would be the least heinous side effect of this horrible policy.
Oh my gawd, I hadn't even thought of that. But YES. This woman's death caused her fetus to 'suffer a dreadful fate'. How dare she die, right?