A marijuana delivery service called Briteside is using 'mom life' to promote their business while poking fun at annoying pharma ads, but is pot right for moms?
Are you familiar with TV drug advertisements?
Of course you are – they're those super annoying ads that pop up during just about every commercial break and feature fun scenes of people living completely normal lives with something like foot bunions, but only thanks to some crazy drug that causes heart palpitations, explosive diarrhea, hair loss and other side effects that usually outweigh the benefits.
They are also usually accompanied by happy music and a calming voiceover.
Well, those commercials were the inspiration for the Oregon start-up, Briteside.
This new marijuana delivery service promises to deliver weed in just 90 minutes to residents of Portland, Bend and Ashland, Oregon. The twist that makes their ad Oh Mother worthy, though, is the fact that they used a mom to advertise their business.
The ad, which is 90 seconds, starts on the soccer field where mom is a volunteer of some sort and is watching a crazy mom scream at the kids. It then pans to the mom worrying about bills and her aging father – making the point that being a mom and running a household is really tough.
Then, she orders her package of marijuana from Briteside, inspects it, closes the door and immerges calm, happy and ready to smell the flowers and play guitar.
It ends with mom sitting on the soccer field giggling uncontrollably with juice box in-hand.
While it seems a bit ridiculous to push pot on moms, the commercial isn't totally wrong. Between keeping little humans alive, putting a roof over their heads, and being judged for just about every decision that you make, being a mom is one tough job, and sometimes it's nice to be able to take a minute and just chill.
Now, I'm not saying that all people need to get high to deal with their problems. Personally, I'd recommend opting for meditation or yoga before medication, but hitting the bong or taking a puff might be a better option for some people that need to take a chill pill without actually taking a chill pill.
We're just starting to understand that marijuana can be used to treat certain ailments. It is possible that stress could be one of those ailments and if weed works, it seems to be a bit safer than the sphincter blowing happy pills that Big Pharma is pushing in their direct-to-consumer drug ads, which, for the record, are only allowed in two developed countries: America and New Zealand, according to the FDA.
Honestly, mom is a big girl. She can make decisions on how to deal with her stress on her own, we just recommend not doing it in front of the kids.
What do you think of this ad and would you use weed to deal with stress? Let us know in the comments.


Les Délices du Moulin Joli is an open-air restaurant under a marquee at the heart of a tropical garden.
It offers Creole, Chinese, and Mainland France cuisine. Seating for 150 diners at lunch, 50 diners at dinner, and 250 people for receptions. Parking for 100 cars.
Environment / Access : Access from La Possession carriageway.


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"The Hateful Eight": review
"The Hateful Eight" (hereinafter H8fl8) is Quentin Tarantino's eighth film (depending on how you count, and depending on which Tarantino films in his oeuvre are counted). It's the tale of a blizzardy night in Wyoming during which a group of people, most on their way to the town of Red Rock, find themselves trapped inside a stagecoach lodge called Minnie's Haberdashery. The film stars Samuel Jackson as Major Marquis ("markwiss") Warren, Kurt Russell as John "The Hangman" Ruth, Jennifer Jason Leigh as Ruth's prisoner Daisy Domergue ("Dahmer-goo," not the French "do-mairg"), Walton Goggins as the putative Sheriff Chris Mannix, and Damián Bichir as Bob the cryptic Mexican. Tarantino regulars Tim Roth and Michael Madsen also appear, along with hoary legend Bruce Dern and blushing Tarantino-newbie Channing Tatum. Superpowered stuntwoman Zoë Bell, her Kiwi accent in full flower, has a minor role. 1980s heartthrob Lee Horsley—looking unrecognizably old—also has a part, as does James Parks, son of chameleonic actor Michael Parks, who played two roles in the "Kill Bill" movies—those of a sheriff and a Mexican drug lord.
A carriage is seen chugging through the snow, trying to stay ahead of an oncoming blizzard. Inside the carriage are bounty hunter John Ruth and his prisoner Daisy Domergue; OB (Parks) is driving. The carriage is forced to stop and eventually pick up Major Warren, another bounty hunter who is trying to take three frozen bodies into Red Rock to collect his massive $8,000 bounty.* It turns out that Warren and Ruth remember each other; Ruth cautiously invites Warren into the carriage, and the band heads to Minnie's Haberdashery, the closest place to hole up for the duration of the blizzard.
During the long ride, we quickly learn that Ruth and Warren were on the Northern side while Daisy was a Southern partisan who doesn't hesitate to call Warren a "nigger" every chance she gets. In return for these epithets, Daisy gets her face smashed in with brutal frequency by Ruth, and sometimes, evil creature that she is, she seems to enjoy the attention. Ruth also expresses curiosity about a letter that Warren possesses: it's correspondence from Abraham Lincoln himself. Warren and Lincoln were apparently pen pals, you see, and to Ruth, this letter is almost talismanic in nature (there's more about the letter further into the story). We also find out that Ruth is called "The Hangman" because, instead of killing his quarry, he always brings them in alive for hanging, and he always stays to witness the executions.
A bit farther along the path, another passenger is picked up: Chris Mannix, a militiaman who fought for the Southern "Lost Cause," now claiming to be the new sheriff of Red Rock, which ostensibly makes him the man who will pay both Ruth and Warren their bounties. Thus our first group of characters arrives at Minnie's Haberdashery, just ahead of the blizzard, and at the lodge itself we meet our other group. There's sullen, silent General Sanford "Sandy" Smithers (Dern), an old Confederate; Oswaldo Mobray (Roth), a cheerful British man claiming to be Red Rock's current hangman; John Gage (Madsen), a man claiming only to be a cowpoke writing his memoirs; and Bob, an unreadable Mexican who claims to be watching the place while Minnie is away.
That's the setup, and it takes a while to reach this point. I don't want to spoil the rest of the film, but suffice it to say that some of these folks know each other; some are secretly working together; and there are folks we don't initially see who play significant roles later on. For me, one of the central questions was whether Daisy was going to end up outsmarting everyone and getting away, escaping into the blizzard to a dubious fate. There are whodunit tropes at work here, too: coffee gets poisoned; plush armchairs are uncovered, revealing bloodstains and causing suspicions about who exactly is running Minnie's Haberdashery (and where the hell Minnie herself is); wounds from the recent North-South conflict (the movie takes place some time after the Civil War) are scratched hard and reopened.
All the Tarantino tropes are there: black humor, sudden and explosive violence, snatches of the French language, overuse of the N-word, nonlinear narrative, Mexican standoffs, and even Tim Roth on the ground, writhing in pain the way he did back in "Reservoir Dogs." (I wonder if Roth felt his career had come full circle.) To that extent, the movie felt instantly familiar. Plus, this effort followed hard on the heels of "Django Unchained," so we're still in Tarantino's version of a Western. We haven't left the genre. Yet.
The plot takes a long time to build, but once the momentum is there, the story picks up and gains interest, especially as the viewer finds himself morbidly trying to predict who's going to live and who's going to die—and how. The patterns of interaction between the characters is also fascinating: while there aren't any true friendships, there are alliances and associations that shift as erratically as the currents of trust and suspicion gusting randomly among the group members. By the time the cast's numbers are whittled down to only three, the two characters who are united against the third character are a most unlikely pair (with only two testicles between them).
Most of the movie feels like a stage play, mainly because most of it takes place inside the haberdashery. It's Sartre's Huis Clos, but with guns and knives and poison, and hell is definitely other people. This sort of ambiance makes everything a bit more intimate. Strangely enough, the stage design is capacious and intricate, and much of the haberdashery goes unused: the action is confined to just a few principal areas. That's not an insight I had during my viewing of the film; the intuition came to me only later. Not that I really mind all the wasted space; when you make a movie, a lot of ideas are thrown onto the screen, and only some of them get used with any measure of thoroughness.
I mentioned how familiar the movie felt, but it's important to note that H8fl8 differs from other recent Tarantino flicks in one major respect: it's not about revenge. Oh, no, Precious. If anything, it's a return to Tarantino's "Reservoir Dogs" roots: it's not revenge, but rather money, mutual suspicion, and plans gone awry that dominate. Arguably at the center of it all, pulling strings without pulling strings, is Daisy Domergue, a little black hole of evil, an attractive force that drags everything into its sinister ambit.
So let's talk about the screenwriting and the acting. Tarantino is known for having an ear for dialogue, but I think he's at his best with modern repartee; his attempts at capturing various 1880s-era dialects aren't nearly as assured as what he can do in a modern urban setting. There are, of course, the usual orotund speeches (I think Tarantino would be a great choice for adapting Tom Robbins's novels: Robbins, too, likes to make his characters give sermons), including the most magnificent speech in the movie, delivered with triumphantly evil glee by Samuel Jackson's Marquis Warren as he describes a very, very bad thing he did to the son of one of the people in the lodge. Jackson isn't an actor with a lot of range: like Clint Eastwood and Gene Hackman, he tends to play himself no matter what film he's in. But like Eastwood and Hackman, Jackson is excellent within the narrow range he inhabits, and in this film—a film in which he finally gets top billing—he's marvelous, and he really should have been nominated for an Oscar. Jennifer Jason Leigh, who is Hollywood's go-to gal whenever they need an actress to play a weirdo or whacko, does her best possessed-Linda-Blair impression throughout the story. She's accused of being a murderess many times over, and we never get to see her massacring folks (although she does end up shooting one guy in self-defense), but she very effectively radiates evil, and it's nearly impossible to look away from her. I had more trouble with the spoken performances by Kurt Russell and Walton Goggins: their accents and cadence felt weird and exaggerated. Russell seemed to be doing a John Wayne impression, and Goggins's country-boy accent was obnoxiously in-your-face for most of the film before it resolved itself into something quieter by the final reel.
Unfortunately, I saw "The Hateful Eight" on my tiny laptop's monitor, which means that all the gorgeous retro-style Panavision cinematography (I think Colorado stood in for Wyoming) was lost on me. Ennio Morricone was persuaded to come back and score this film (he'd apparently had enough of Tarantino after "Django"), and he ended up winning both a Golden Globe and an Oscar for his work (some of which, ironically, was recycled from his old, unused sheet music for films like "The Thing"). Personally, I found Morricone's music obnoxious and intrusive at times; it was a relief when most of the lodge's interior shots were done without any music at all. Silence can sometimes be its own reward.
Overall, because the movie started slowly and built itself steadily up over time, I wasn't too thrilled about the beginning, but I did warm up to the plot as events rolled along. While "The Hateful Eight" lacks the intensity of films like "Pulp Fiction" or "Reservoir Dogs," it exudes its own miasma of morbid fascination, with JJ Leigh's Daisy Domergue as the gravitational center, the axis around which all the characters eventually turn. I recommend the movie; a bit like a cancer, it'll grow on you.
*The video's trivia notes remark that this sum is anachronistically high: it would be the equivalent of several hundred thousand dollars today.
Posted by Kevin Kim at 3/18/2016 10:30:00 PM
John from Daejeon said...
I found the movie to be enjoyable, but it seems that Quentin Tarantino had to revisit his vast stores of film history in bringing Bruce Dern full circle (watch "The Cowboys"--the n-word is used by Dern a lot in his interactions with Roscoe Lee Browne and there's the brutal death of scene of John Wayne by Dern that Tarantino draws inspiration from). Then, there's the killing off of Jennifer Jason Leigh with rope similar to the way Rutger Hauer dispatched her in "The Hitcher." Well, one was horizontal and the other vertical.
At least Tarantino isn't all about film. He must have familiarized himself with Walton Goggins' exemplary television work on both "The Shield" and "Justified" before utilizing him in his last two films.
And as for the overbearing soundtrack, you were spot on. How Ennio Morricone won for this and not for Once Upon a Time in the West is just another example of Oscar's usual miscarriages of film justice. I just hope that the sci-fi thriller, Midnight Special, isn't another miscarriage of Oscar justice because it may the best film of the year. I doubt it will make it to South Korea. But if you can track it down, you won't be disappointed.
March 20, 2016 at 2:49:00 PM GMT+9
Bratfink said...
:-O
Sheldon turned me on to Tarantino. Not a huge fan, but I DO adore 'Kill Bill'.
The Maximum Leader said...
Don't you think that the movie could have used a good editor? I think it could have been 30 minutes (or more) shorter and be a better movie. I think Tarantino has become a little too enamored of his own voice for the movie viewers good. I enjoyed the film, but felt it rambled.
March 22, 2016 at 3:05:00 AM GMT+9
Kevin Kim said...
Yeah, I agree. As I wrote, I felt the movie had a slow buildup, but it was indeed very talky throughout, and many scenes should have been tightened up. Tarantino risks becoming the filmic version of Stephen King: a bigwig whom everyone is afraid to edit.
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Want to be a proofreader? Wondering about proofreading training? Are you a possible client wondering about my professional qualifications?
In this episode I go into more detail about my ongoing training to develop my proofreading business. If you haven't read the other blogs in this series, find them on my website – https://proofnow.co.uk/blog-tall-tartan-tells/.
If you are confused about what proofreading training to do (and training is VITAL to show your professionalism) this blog may help you make up your mind. Especially, if like me, you have no background in publishing.
After three decades as a Primary School teacher, I had succumbed to work-related stress and was on sick leave for five months. Then I had to come to terms with a dawning and daunting fact: a life I had known for 30 years was coming to an end. I was desperate to find a Plan B.
The medication for my newly discovered heart problem (atrial fibrillation) was taking time to embed, and I looked for something to take my mind off my worries. I saw an advert in a magazine for a proofreading course and thought – marking's my thing, why don't I try it?
*It* was the Chapterhouse Correspondence Course in Proofreading and Copy-editing. I was eager to change direction. I pottered through the course while 'lunching with ladies', enjoying my recovery. It took me six months to undertake each section of the four modules. I was happy with what I learnt in the proofreading basics: the 2005 BSI proof correction marks, shorter and longer exercises to practise using the symbols. The exercises are all done on hard copy with red and blue pen! However, copy-editing confused me.
What was my grade? I was just below the threshold for a pass.
This all happened before my business and website was a twinkle in my eye. But the thought was in the back of my mind. I registered as unemployed, and as detailed in Episode 2, subsequently applied for the New Enterprise Allowance.
Become a member of the SfEP.
Of course, if I had known then what I know now … NOW I am aware that the SfEP (Society for Editors and Proofreaders) and the PTC (Publishing Training Centre) offer the most creditable training in proofreading and copy-editing.
There follows a brief summary and my take on each course. These have contributed to my upgrade from Entry Member to Intermediate. For all the SfEP courses, you are appointed a tutor and given login details to a forum for students within the course section, to ask questions within a safe environment.
Here is the link to the Training page of the SfEP website.
By 2016, as I had already got the basics in proofreading knowledge, I headed towards the online course 'Proofreading Progress'. (Then P2. Now the final of three.) I learnt LOADS more, got confused many times, then thankfully reached surprising clarity and confidence. Grade: Pass!
I was now able to add my qualification to my website with pride.
My main motivation for doing this particular course was that up, until now, I had worked solely with students, proofreading theses and dissertations. I could justify charging more for services if I could offer more skills. As with all the SfEP courses, I found out that there was much more to references than I imagined.
It is an online self-assessment course which means that you learn the facts, take the test at the end of each exercise, check the answers, and move to the next exercise. The concepts covered include the systems of author-date, short-title, and number systems. A useful tip I picked up was to use the software Edifix.
Finally, you print the certificate to confirm completion of the course. It was the hardest course I have ever done. I didn't enjoy the experience at all. But I learnt a massive amount about a huge variety of references. I completed the course by October 2017. My notes will be referred to when I need them.
Sophie O'Rourke – Managing Director at emc design. She covered what freelancers need to know about the current requirements of educational publishers.
Astrid deRidder – Head of Global Custom Publishing at Macmillan Education [international/ELT focus]. Very entertaining and knowledgeable about making educational textbooks relevant to international and particular cultures.
I had come across the concept of live tweeting at the end of the SfEP 2018 Conference. I just thought, naively, that some folks couldn't put their phone down, ignoring the speaker. Au contraire. It turns out I am old-fashioned. Some folks like to make notes by live tweeting. I just don't get it … I had pen and paper. Credit to Caroline Orr of Durham – she was especially skilled at it. I found out when I checked my phone afterwards, on the way to the tube station, and saw her continuous streaming of a well summarised speech.
Anyway, back to Education. As someone who has used textbooks in the Primary classroom for decades, I find the development of e-learning materials most interesting. For at least the last 10 years, starting with the installation of interactive whiteboards and projectors, and each teacher being given a laptop, the developing complexity of technology has been exciting. Coupled with the changing National Curriculums from the government of the day has led to startling, but inevitable changes in the way teaching and learning happens in the classroom.
The arrival in schools of banks of iPads added a new layer of excitement when used as a resource in subjects like ICT (Information and Communication Technology). Though now I think it's just called Computing (Primary Curriculum 2018). The devices made Guided Reading group sessions very popular, using the Pearson scheme called Bug Club.
My favourite new technology is augmented reality, e.g. pictures in books being brought to life by an app. I think. I first saw this in practice in an EYFS (Reception) class of 4-5 year olds. It really got their attention!
I have been fortunate that I have been able to invest in my ongoing Continuing Professional Development (CPD) with the SfEP over the last three years. What's the expression? You have to 'speculate to accumulate'. The importance of training was expressed well in the most recent SfEP Editing Matters.
My hope is to save enough over the next few months to take part in the Mentoring Scheme as a mentee. Plus attend the SfEP 2019 Conference. Booking is nearly open! We'll all be asking questions. How about a blog about my last two conferences? Alright, if you insist.
This fourth episode details the business of preparing for proofreading jobs, and the administrative and accounting side of my proofreading business.
In previous episodes, TTT1, TTT2, and TTT3, I detailed my voyage towards becoming a freelance providing proofreading services after decades as a primary school teacher.
Who admits that they actually like paperwork?!
a recording system for paid invoices.
If you read this blog all the way to the end, you will find the link to free resource templates on my website, which you are welcome to tweak.
You soon discover, as a freelance, that you wear many *hats*. Well, my job as a teacher was very similar – time had to be managed efficiently to fit it all in. One of the many *hats* you wear as a freelance sole trader is that of business admin.
Once I had built a basic form of my website, I registered as self-employed for self-assessment with HMRC, then prepared the documents. Now I was ready for my first client … eek!
Where to find freelance jobs?
I signed up for Find a Proofreader. This was the directory I preferred to use to register my services. There is a wide selection of directories out there. There are also strong views about the poor rates offered. They are good to start with for experience. But that's not for now.
Initially, I targeted students, as education is my specialism. I followed the advice of Nick Jones (owner of FAP), from his session at the SfEP 2017 Conference, to make my profile as relevant as possible. Sadly, I have never been quick enough to land a proofreading job with this site. Your application has to be very quick off the mark – as soon as a query is sent out!
Universities are another source of work from students. I googled many universities and, in some cases, found the relevant proofreading guidelines page with their policy. I could, therefore, gauge the advice students were being offered.
I confess I didn't know much about marketing when I first started my business. So, imagine my joy, three months after I had applied to be on the Register of Proofreaders at a major university in East Anglia, to receive a query from a student.
Once I had seen a sample, we agreed a rate per 1,000 words and the deadline for the return of the dissertation. She agreed to my T&Cs. And I conscientiously got on with the job with fervour.
I finished the job in good time. When I returned her checked writing, I attached a copy of my invoice. I was lucky that she was a prompt payer; also that she was happy to give me a good testimonial about my thorough approach. An excellent first job. Phew!
Since then I have done proofreading for about 10 students, checking for errors and inconsistencies in spelling, punctuation, grammar and context.
Of course there are issues around proofreading for students … How much of the writing do you change?
One non-English speaking student wasn't happy with my proofreading when I sent the proofed dissertation chapter. He pointed out the *errors* I had *missed*. After enquiring, it transpired that he wanted his English to be improved. I recommended that he look for an editor with the permission of his supervisor.
As a result of the misunderstanding on his part, I tweaked the wording on the website page for student clients. To make my terms absolutely clear. I emphasised my role: to indicate errors only. With the permission of the supervisor. The SfEP have excellent guidelines on this area called 'Proofreading Theses and Dissertations'.
A question many people ask is "Will I earn enough to pay the bills?" The answer: It depends … Probably not to begin with, as, on average, it can take up to two years to grow your business to something sustainable. In fact, many people have a part-time job alongside editing or proofreading. I go out every afternoon to tutor Primary children – the change of scene does me good. Two other members of my family also have a *portfolio* of jobs: my husband, for example, has a gardening business to pay the bills alongside his other vocation of art. His week is a mixture of both.
How much you charge is another debate. A popular guide from the SfEP is 'Pricing your Project'.
Bank transfer is the usual preference as a payment method by clients. Some freelances prefer, depending on circumstances, Paypal or Stripe, amongst others. Again I have observed many views on this subject amongst Freelance Heroes on Facebook (link in TTT3).
A tip I have picked up from fellow SfEP-ers is to charge a deposit if the project is large, or going to be split over a few weeks. For one student client, I have charged 50%. But it depends on the freelance and client. For example, that student wanted to send me module 1 to proofread immediately, then, a month later, module 2. She was happy. I was happy.
I have got used to spreadsheets. I record the invoice number next to the client name, the amount paid and when. This way my accounts are accurate and up-to-date for tax purposes.
Creative paperwork – no not that kind!
Now (two years later) I have evolved with my business. More SfEP training and a wide range of networking has encouraged me to psych myself up to try a variety of marketing strategies. 'Imposter syndrome' has a lot to answer for.
Cold email local businesses, such as Chambers of Commerce, to advertise my availability.
Advertise myself to more educational publishers to proofread Primary textbooks, now that I feel competent enough.
Provide proofreading specialisms to publishers of children's fiction and non-fiction. I have discovered that this really excites me!
Therefore, my next job is to add to my spreadsheet of publishers to contact.
This involves listing the publisher/packager name, project manager/editor contact email, date of my introductory email sent, date of reply (if any). I am pleased to say that, out of the first 15 publishers I emailed, I had a positive reply from two! So have a 13% success rate. Which I'm told is good!
But it does mean investing a huge amount of emotional energy, which most of the time isn't rewarded. But so worth it for the 10%. Learn to develop patience, persistence and perseverance. Or, put another way, 'a dropped pebble starts ripples'.
Find free resources for newbie editors on my website. It can be very daunting starting your own business. If you want to ask questions or to share experiences, I'm here.
Credit: My resources are tweaked from the resources available on the website for the Society of Editors and Proofreaders.
This episode describes the stage with my new proofreading business when I proclaimed my arrival! Building a website, social media and content marketing are skills I used to announce to the world my services as a proofreader.
In previous episodes, here (1) and here (2), I detailed my voyage towards becoming a freelance offering proofreading services after decades as a Primary school teacher. In this blog, I describe how I decided on my marketing strategy.
As a newbie freelance business owner, I know some folks who cringe at the thought of putting any personal details 'out there', on the interweb. But, in my opinion, how else are you going to advertise your services or get business unless you are a presence on-line?
"A website is essential: you need a 'shop window' to display your business". These were the words of my Business Mentor at my local Job Centre when they helped me set up as a self-employed proofreader two years ago. So the process of choosing a website domain, a host, and designing my website, plus researching the content marketing world of social media has been a steep learning curve. This is what I did.
By January 2017, my NEA (New Enterprise Allowance) Business Plan (with People Plus) had been approved, and I was told to go and build a website. The only domain name which was available and that I liked the sound of was Proofnow. So that was the easy part. Proofnow Proofreader was born!
"How do I build a website?" I was heard to ponder. I asked around. Two years later, this is a question I hear asked many times in freelance forums. My only experience had been editing my class page on the school website where I taught.
"I hear Godaddy are good," was one response back then. (If I had known then what I know now … isn't foresight a wonderful thing?) Fair enough, the building of each page was fairly straightforward: I added Services, Pricing and About pages, with a few photographs for variety. I could add a couple of testimonials after six months.
But, although I was pleased with the look of the site on the desktop of the PC, and on the screen of my Android tablet, it looked dreadful on my mobile.
By December 2017, I knew I wasn't going to renew with Godaddy. So I did some fairly intense research on who would host my website next.
I copied everything over from the soon-to-be-expired website, probably using old-fashioned techniques, and not how a designer would do it … But, after a couple of phone calls to Siteground customer service, who were very supportive, I was up and active with my new host. Phew!
Next, I won a website audit with Ahmed Khalifa (a Digital Marketing and WordPress expert). Receiving a friendly critique with excellent tips; followed by more research with other website gurus, including Dave Smyth and James Devonshire (Freelance Heroes), gave me the courage to tweak the theme and wording even more.
I am now even happier with my website and proud of what I have achieved so far. It is easy to manage, and looks great on a mobile! I mention this because statistics show that mobile devices are used more for browsing websites than any other. Folks want to look up a linked site spontaneously and even instantaneously. So, it is essential that your website works, and looks good. Anywhere. On any device.
how does a new client get in touch with you?
*1 This method of your 'About me' page not actually being 'About me' (ironically) has been repeated by many on social media. It has been a revelation in tweaking how my website is worded. I can't find the various links at the moment, but if someone can post them that would be appreciated.
*2 Advice from John Espirian and other content marketing gurus.
*3 Canva, recommended by Louise Harnby, is a design programme for those who have basic technical skills. I found it really useful when ensuring consistency in the design for my banners for marketing my website and social media profile pages (covered next). To my mind, this represents 'joined-up thinking'.
Everything I tried with my website was using trial and error, with the undo button at hand. Also with sheer surprise if something worked first time!
LinkedIn, Facebook, Twitter, …? What a minefield! What kind of content marketer are you? I know some folks who steer well clear. I know some folks who do it ALL, spread themselves EVERYWHERE. Is that a good idea? Does it work? Does it GET you work?
I have had a personal Facebook page for 10 years: I use it to stay in touch with friends and family, as well as previous and new colleagues met through networking. The first thing I did on Facebook when I started my business was to advertise Proofnow Proofreader as a business Facebook page because that was the medium I understood.
Then I met fellow SfEP-er John Espirian, and learnt A LOT more about how to use LinkedIn. For example, build a profile page using specific criteria as he describes here. He recommends liking and commenting on the posts of others to engage in conversation. This raises the visibility of your profile. To some, LinkedIn is seen as the conference side of social media, where important leads can be followed, and serious business connections are made. Work may even follow from said connections. This is my favourite way to share with colleagues as it feels more business-like. Here is my LinkedIn page. Judge for yourself. Why don't you try personalising your invite to connect? Then I will understand how we can help each other.
The main advice I have gleaned over the last two years is from content marketers such as Andrew & Pete of Atomic Creative Content Marketing, and MANY others. They say: do what works for you. If you can cover all (and it's not recommended – unless you have more than 24 hours in your day), fair enough.
I need to do one of them well. Do it with purpose. Do it with meaningful content. But, in my opinion, colleagues have their own preferences when it comes to social media, so sharing your content needs to cover all bases.
When I was teaching, and was so frustrated that I felt like shouting at the class or an individual, it was generally much more effective to whisper "When I say … I mean it." Pause. You could have heard a pin drop with the silence and anticipation. I hope that my whisperings of marketing are making a difference. Perhaps I should be shouting. I am certainly anticipating that doing all I can to market my business will result in getting my name out there, which should result in getting the work in.
When I married Tom, my artist husband, in the late 80s, my father asked him to which galleries he had touted his work. "I don't really work that way," was my husband's reply. Dad took it upon himself to go around many galleries in Glasgow (at the time we lived nearby in Ayrshire) to promote his son-in-law's art. I like to think that I have inherited my father's skills in marketing. He would be proud.
Having discovered a VAST array of tips in content marketing, I am still, not by any stretch, an expert. Everything I have learnt has been absorbed so much by osmosis. Much like a lot of newbie freelances I suspect.
These guides from the highly experienced SfEP members (Society for Editors and Proofreaders) support newbie editors; connections on LinkedIn; Freelance Heroes Facebook page is another gem for tips from website and marketing gurus, plus many other specialist freelances, where you may also find that others are interested in your services. I have found myself giving tips about LinkedIn to my local networking ladies, Winning Women in Chelmsford.
In summary, whatever medium you use, the algorithms love it if you like a post, comment and share what other small businesses are doing. It can't help but raise your profile and those of others.
Networking IRL (in real life) with local groups is a great way to get out and about while promoting your business. It is incredibly useful if you can offer business cards or leaflets which act as a reminder of who you are and the business services you are offering.
Moo.com was recommended to me as a business card provider. Their website is user-friendly, with professional-looking products. I'm on my n-th set of 50 cards and they are always complimented.
There is some debate as to whether off-line marketing (on paper) still serves a purpose. But I'm old-fashioned enough to market myself in as many ways as possible. All my social media links are on my cards (again, an area for debate is how much detail to put on them). Nevertheless, I am proud to say I give out my cards to all and sundry!
In my next blog, I recall answering my first query from a student. (Just trying to get a sample out of them, while they check if you're available, when they haven't actually written their thesis yet.).
Taking tiny steps as I adapted templates to compose my contracts, T&Cs, create invoices for payments and feedback forms.
As a freelance sole trader, you find that you have to be in charge of EVERY facet of your business: admin, IT, marketing, finance, … and that dreaded tax return.
I wish you a healthy and happy 2019!
Thank you to Lisa De Caux (Intermediate Member @The SfEP) for proofreading.
Welcome to my second blog. In Episode 1, I told you a bit about myself and how I became a freelance proofreader. This blog gives a bit more detail about my first goals: my business plan, training in proofreading, and how I got here.
'Here' is actually the dining room of our Victorian terraced house, which doubles as my office. Annoyingly, we have no extra room for a dedicated office, so, before dinner, I have to shift laptop and papers from the dining table to the sideboard, so we can eat a meal together.
Meanwhile, my husband has the luxury of his studio space, at the bottom of our 100 foot long garden, to paint. His studio is next to the chicken coop, so he has company down there, chatting away to the three clucking girls when stretching his legs. If you like birds, the theme develops, so … keep reading.
How did I get here to this point in my freelancing voyage? I remember that a fellow member of the SfEP (Society for Editors and Proofreaders) mentioned on one of the forums a while ago how they much they disliked the word 'journey' to describe how the process of going freelance had gone for them. I can't remember who or why, but it stuck with me. The word 'voyage' was much preferred as it sounded more adventurous.
So I have magpie-ed it (a term from my teaching days: shiny words borrowed from others to use in one's own writing). 'Voyage' describes the ups and downs of the last two years in my boat (business) called Proofnow Proofreader. Or, to put it another way, 'a rising tide lifts all boats'.
As a former Primary classroom practitioner, I was trained in the Primary 'Talk for Writing' project initiated by the poet, Pie Corbett. He was asked by the government of the day to raise standards in Literacy.
His theory was this: in shared writing sessions with the class, as ideas are being discussed and written on large poster paper, children are encouraged to write their own version simultaneously. The children get swept along with the enthusiasm of the teacher and the drama of the story, in whichever genre was current for the age of the child, at that stage in the term (e.g. fantasy). A buzzing atmosphere would ensue.
Over a week of Literacy lessons, a hanging washing line of beginning, middle and end posters stretched across the classroom. A growing story and a sense of achievement took shape, with – and here I come to the essence – ideas magpie-ed by the children. A few children felt secure when they knew that they could borrow ideas if all they had was a blank page in front of them. Don't we all need that reassurance? Evidence suggests that their independent writing would grow from practising together.
When I left teaching, I applied for the New Enterprise Allowance with the Job Centre. My Business Mentor helped me complete a Business Plan. Compiling the 20-page Business Plan took me a month of research and exploring strengths and weaknesses of the business I had in mind.
Googling 'proofreading' and finding The SfEP at the top of Google!
Second on Google's list was Louise Harnby and the treasures of her amazing website for editors and authors!
Doing a SWOT Analysis (Strengths, Weaknesses, Opportunities, Threats). Finding proofreaders and businesses who I first thought of as competitors, but later discovered how supportive and encouraging they are.
What was my marketing strategy going to involve? Was I going to have a website? Was I going to do social media? The answer was a resounding YES. EVERYTHING.
Describing the goals and objectives of my business over the short term (0-1 year), medium term (2-3 years), and long term (4-5 years).
Describing the trends in my chosen market (students, academic, businesses and educational publishers).
Predicted expenditure on equipment and training: how much was I going to spend? Predicted income from proofreading and tutoring: how much was I going to charge?
If you are deciding at this point whether to strike out on your own or not, the business tools from the Princes Trust are recommended by others setting up as a freelance. Planning and preparation are essential.
I have read so many jewels of advice about how important training is. Preferably from a respected organisation such as the SfEP or PTC (Publishing Training Centre). By January 2017, I had registered with the SfEP, and because it was vital that I train first, by May of that year I had completed my final SfEP Proofreading Course. Also important was learning how to use the BSI symbols (British Standard Institution marks).
There is much discussion as to whether the symbols are valid these days as businesses and non-publishers are unaware of them and have no need of them. But, I felt, knowledge of their use added professionalism in case I got an opportunity to work in publishing – education in my case. They are like learning a new language, but I was happy to add them to my skillset.
For those considering or currently doing the Proofreading Courses, other skills you will learn are: proofreading against copy; proofreading blind; proofreading tables and references; and proof-editing vs proofreading in Word. You will find that proofreading is SO much more than you first thought.
You may prefer copy-editing, which is also offered by the SfEP. Have a look at the wide range of courses offered – both core skills and editorial.
The courses consolidated my knowledge and confidence. I was ready to take on work as a proofreader. My newly hatched website was designed and updated with my qualification. Now I could build experience. So my next goal was looking for work in proofreading.
I was both excited and terrified about the possibilities, and of what the future would hold. Luckily, I have a supportive husband who would take on a regular job, while I struck out with my fledgling business, Proofnow Proofreader.
Initially I would focus my marketing efforts on students. Well it made sense, with education being my specialism. I also started tutoring Primary children in the afternoons to help pay the bills.
In my next blog, I will describe the process of choosing and designing my website and researching the content marketing world of social media specialists.
Hello – and welcome to my first blog as a freelancer. I know, it was a surprise to me too!
If I organised myself enough to commit to blogging once a month, once regular deadlines were met – planning needed.
If I could find enough topics to write about – turns out there's plenty of advice out there.
So I set about doing research into the skills of and theory behind being 'a blogger'. Following certain gurus on social media, 'bookmarking' marketing advice offered on their excellent websites such as Jammy Digital, John Espirian, and Louise Harnby, and a few more I could mention, I've done a LOT of reading. And persuaded myself to 'bite the bullet'.
when I carried out my first private tutoring job with a Primary pupil after not teaching for 18 months.
All nerve-wracking stuff. All to be developed in detail in my 'How I got to this point' blogs to follow.
Name for my blog – describe me?
So – to choose the name for my blog. As SfEP colleagues who attended the last two Annual Conferences will know, I stand out, because I am 6 feet tall. I can be spotted across a crowded room. Helen Stevens, a fellow lofty SfEP-er, and a huge support to all, commented to me at Conference, "It's good to talk to someone taller than me!".
I am also proud to have held onto my lilting Scottish accent: I spent my first 23 years living in Paisley, in the West of Scotland. I consider myself Scottish. Having said that, the last 30 years of my life have been spent in the pretty countryside of Essex, in East Anglia, immortalised in my husband's oil paintings. I could succumb to the accent of Estuary Essex … nah.
A family conference (about much more important matters) finished with me uttering, "So I've thought of a name for my blog. What do you think …?".
I look forward to sharing my experiences as a new business owner and proofreader with you, while giving useful tips along the way about what I've learnt. I'm sure, if you're a newbie freelancer, you will be having the same doubts, fears and excitements. Why not share them?
Have some flowers. My pleasure.


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The occupation of Arkansas
Posted: October 5, 2019 | Author: helytimes | Filed under: history, war |Leave a comment
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Traveling through Arkansas last spring, I tried to wrap my head around the Civil War as it played out there.
Like, what happened here? At some point did a Union army march through here?
In Arkansas in 1860, there were 435,450 total residents counted in the census.
Of these, 111,115 or about 20% were slaves.
There were 11,481 slaveowners in Arkansas.
And 144 free colored people.
Much of Arkansas at that time was wilderness. The big plantations were down in the Delta, the low bottom country in the south and east of that state, along the alluvial Mississippi floodlands, seen here on Raven's excellent topographical map.
Here on the 1861 Coast Survey map of slave population, we can see where Arkansas slaves were:
Everyone needs a getaway once in a while. A getaway from the job, the house, the day-to-day routine and yes, even those that mean the most to us – our families.
reads the copy on this guide to touring the still-standing plantation houses of Arkansas. Presumably a getaway was not an option in 1860 for the 111,115 slaves.
In May, 1861, Arkansas seceded from the United States. At the secession convention, Isaac Murphy was one of the few no votes:
The convention voted to take Arkansas out of the Union, but Murphy and four other delegates opposed this step. The convention chair called on the five to switch their votes. All four of the other "nay" delegates changed their votes, but Murphy refused. Initially his position was popular in Huntsville, but as the war went on, Confederate sentiment increased.
About a year later, in spring, 1862, Union General Samuel Curtis marched in from Missouri, leading volunteer regiments from Missouri, Illinois, Ohio and Indiana (mostly). At the battle of Pea Ridge he drove back the Confederate forces sent to stop him.
Curtis kept on marching his army across Arkansas, following more or less the course of the White River.
As Curtis marched along, he picked up thousands of freed slaves.
Curtis was stifled in his effort to capture Little Rock by lack of supplies (his guys were pretty much living off the land) and by the forces raised by Confederate general Thomas Hindman.
Gregory J. W. Urwin summarizes:
Hindman's General Orders Number 17 instructed "all citizens from this district" to organize themselves into ten-man companies under elected captains and start killing Yankees. An estimated 5,000 men responded to this summons by August 1862. They may not have been a decisive factor in Samuel Curtis' failure to take Little Rock, but they aroused the ire of Union forces by picking off sentries and couriers, ambushing small patrols and foraging parties, and firing on gunboats and transports. Federal commanders announced that they would hold civilian responsible for any guerrilla activity occurring in their vicinity. When warnings failed to restrain the irregulars, details of Union soldiers and sailors began burning small hamlets or individual houses and barns. This retributive strategy caused many Arkansans to abandon their homes in the delta and north of the Arkansas River, but it did not suppress guerrilla depredations.
Curtis and his army (and irregular army of freed slaves) crossed the state, and reached Helena, on the Mississippi river. From there he could be resupplied by river since by now the Confederate river navy had been pretty much destroyed. Memphis had fallen, giving a clear path along the Mississippi north of Vicksburg.
As for Hindman, he got a fort named after him, at Arkansas Post, where the Arkansas River forks off and heads towards Little Rock. This was in important spot, and some Confederates from Texas held it until the Union Navy came up there in January, 1863, and blew it away.
Hindman was replaced by Theophilus Holmes
Jefferson Davis begged Holmes to bring his troops out to help relieve the tightening siege at Vicksburg, across the river in Mississippi. But Holmes had his own problems. Says Wikipedia (lifting from Walter Hilderman's biography):
For the most part, the Confederate forces in this remote area were little more than a disorganized mob of militia scattered across all corners of the state. There were few weapons available and even fewer modern ones. The soldiers for the most part had no shoes, no uniforms, no munitions, no training, organization, or discipline, a situation worsened by the fact that many communities in Arkansas had no government above the village level. People did not pay taxes or have any written laws and strongly resisted any attempt to impose an outside government or military discipline on them. Soldiers in the Arkansas militia did not understand the organization of a proper army or obeying orders from above. Even worse, many of them were in poor physical condition and unable to handle the rigors of a lengthy military campaign. Holmes for his part believed that he could muster an army of about 15,000 men in Arkansas, but there would be almost no competent officers to lead it anyway. Further compounding his difficulties were multiple Union armies converging on the state from all sides. In this situation, Holmes wrote to Richmond that if by some miracle, he could organize the Arkansas militia into an army and get them across the Mississippi River, they would simply desert as soon as they got to the east bank.
On July 4, 1863, Vicksburg fell. On that day, a bit late, Holmes attacked the Union forces at Helena, Arkansas
present day Helena via Google
but they were blasted away both by Union troops in the city and massive gunboats in the river. A disastrous, pointless defeat, too late to do any good even if it hadn't failed.
With the fall of Vicksburg (and the last ditch failure at Helena) the Union had control of the entire Mississippi River. Gen. Fredrick Steele was sent out across the river and into Arkansas:
colorized Steele photo lifted from Colorized Past
Steele and his army of Wisconsins, Illinoisians, and German immigrants arrived in Little Rock by September, 1863. The Confederate state capitol had been moved to Washington, Arkansas.
When spring began in 1864, Steele marched his army toward Washington, AR. (Here is an excellent map of how this went down). Steele had something like 7,000 soldiers. Steele was supposed to eventually meet up, in Shreveport, Louisiana, with General Nathaniel Banks and his 30,000 guys from the Department of the Gulf.
Traveling cross country in this hot and hostile part of the world was not easy. By the time Steele got to Camden, Arkansas, his guys didn't have anything to eat, and word reached him that Banks' army had been stopped anyway.
Steele had with him the 1st Kansas Colored Infantry, and he sent them out to collect some food. At Poison Spring, they were surrounded by the Confederate Second Indian Brigade or Choctaw Brigade.
I'll let Confederate Colonel Tandy Walker tell the story:
I feared here that the train and its contents would prove a temptation too strong for these hungry, half-clothed Choctaws, but had no trouble in pressing them forward, for there was that in front and to the left more inviting to them than food or clothing—the blood of their despised enemy.
They set on the 1st Kansas Colored.
In all, the 1st Kansas lost nearly half of its numbers.
After this defeat, running out of food, with the planned meetup unlikely to come off, Steele decided to retreat back to Little Rock. When he got as far as Jenkins Ferry, in the pouring rain, he realized the Confederates were about to catch up to him. So he had his guys dig in. Steele's troops killed some unknown number of the attacking Confederates.
source: JERRYE & ROY KLOTZ MD
What a mess that must've been. After the turnaround of the Camden expedition, the Union army stayed near their bases in the cities. Confederate marauders rode all over the place. Colonel Marcus LaRue Harrison led the Unionist 1st Arkansas Cavalry:
Harrison established a network of fortified "farm colonies," populating them with the families of men who swore to serve in home guard companies. Anyone living within ten miles of a colony had to join it or was assumed to be a bushwhacker.
I agree with Naval Institute, interviewing Shelby Foote.
Naval History: It has always been frustrating that the Western rivers get hardly any play in Civil War History.
Foote: Well, the whole Western theater gets hardly any play. I sometimes think that the people in this country who know less about the Civil War than any other one group of people are Virginians. They may know a little more than South Dakotans, but that's about all.
They think that the war was fought in Virginia, while various widespread skirmishes were going on out West. The opposite is closer to the truth
Looking for more info about Jenkins Ferry I found this picture on the Grants County Museum page, seems like the situation in that area has improved.
Most of the Confederate regiments raised in Arkansas served in the western theater. An exception was the 3rd Arkansas Infantry Regiment was sent to Lee's Army of Northern Virginia.
When General Robert E. Lee surrendered at Appomattox Courthouse on April 9, 1865, only 144 men of the Third Arkansas remained out of the 1,353 mustered into it from the start of the war
Here is their battle flag.
After the failure of the Camden expedition, the Confederates had about 100 encampments in south Arkansas. Where do I get that number? From this incredible book:
This book is a digitized version of the maps Confederate engineer Richard M. Venable made in 1864. Venable and his guys were only able to reconnoiter the southern 29% of the state. I'm not sure whether that was because the northern portion was in Union hands and they couldn't go there, or if that was just the resources they had, at a time when the Confederates in Arkansas were operating in the south, and might have to make moves further south or west.
The maps in this book are incredibly detailed, you can see, for example, which homesteads in Lafayette County had female heads of household, and which were the houses of widows.
Here's a thorough review of the book. I was really impressed by it, it's rare to find historic maps at this level of detail and readability, as the review notes, this was "obviously a labor of love." How much need you have in your home for a detailed atlas of 1864 Arkansas is for you to determine, but for me it did make the past come alive. If you're doing any traveling in the state of Arkansas and you've read this far in HelyTimes, consider investing in a copy. (hell I'll loan you mine.)
When did the Civil War really end in Arkansas? In a special election in 1863, Isaac Murphy was elected governor:
He presided until 1868. By 1874 there was close to an armed conflict over who would run Arkansas, and that was pretty much the end of Reconstruction in the state.
The following 35 governors of Arkansas, ruling for a total of 90 years, were all Democrats, until Republican Winthrop Rockefeller became governor in 1966 defeating James D. Johnson.
Maybe the Civil War ended in Arkansas when federal troops integrated Central High School in Little Rock in 1956-7.
Or maybe it ended with the election of Arkansas governor Bill Clinton.


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Das Matthew Baird Mansion ist ein historisches Anwesen in North Philadelphia.

Das vierstöckige Anwesen hat 19 Räume und wurde von 1863 bis 1864 erbaut. Es umfasst ein rückwärtig anschließendes Hinterhaus und einen Pferdestall am anderen Ende des 160 Fuß breiten Grundstücks, dessen aus Sandstein gearbeitete Frontfassade 40 Fuß breit ist. Es war eines der ersten repräsentablen Stadthäuser, die Philadelphias reiche Industriellen innerorts in der Nähe ihrer Firmenzentrale erbauten, einige davon ebenfalls an der Broad Street. Matthew Baird Mansion lässt Stilelemente verschiedener Richtungen, wie zum Beispiel Romanesque, Second Empire und Italianate erkennen. Ein prägnantes Merkmal sind die unter anderem in Rundbögen auslaufenden Friesbänder, welche das Fenstersims bilden.

Bauherr Matthew Baird war ein Erfinder für Bauteile von Dampflokomotiven bei dem Unternehmen Baldwin Locomotive Works. Nach dem Tod von Matthias William Baldwin 1866 wurde er alleiniger Besitzer des damals weltweit größten Unternehmens dieser Art, das fortan als Baldwin Locomotive Works, M. Baird & Co. auch unter seinem Namen firmierte. Nach seinem Tod 1877 lebte die Familie noch zehn Jahre in Matthew Baird Mansion.

Am 29. Dezember 1983 wurde Matthew Baird Mansion in das National Register of Historic Places aufgenommen.

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Denkmal im National Register of Historic Places (Pennsylvania)
Bauwerk in Philadelphia
Erbaut in den 1860er Jahren
Bauwerk des Historismus in den Vereinigten Staaten
Wohngebäude in Pennsylvania

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La Résolution 335 est une résolution du Conseil de sécurité de l'ONU votée le  concernant la République démocratique allemande (RDA) et de l'Allemagne de l'Ouest (RFA) et qui recommande à l'Assemblée générale des Nations unies d'admettre ces pays comme nouveaux membres.

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Dévastée par la deuxième guerre mondiale (même si le potentiel industriel du pays est encore énorme grâce à Albert Speer qui a refusé d'appliquer la politique de la terre brûlée souhaitée par Adolf Hitler), l'Allemagne et Berlin sont divisés en quatre secteurs, trois étant chacun contrôlé par l'une des nations victorieuses (États-Unis, Royaume-Uni et Union soviétique) et un par une nation libérée (France). Après plusieurs propositions pour une nouvelle Allemagne (comme le plan Morgenthau), elle est finalement divisée en deux parties durant toute la Guerre froide : la RFA (République fédérale d'Allemagne) créée le  à l'ouest avec Bonn pour capitale et siège administratif, et la RDA (République démocratique allemande) créée le  à l'est avec Berlin-Est pour capitale. Les territoires à l'est du fleuve Oder et son affluent Neisse de Lusace ont été intégrés à la Pologne et à l'URSS.

Le creux démographique provoqué par la guerre est rapidement compensé par l'arrivée d'environ 13 millions d'Allemands expulsés des anciens territoires d'Allemagne-Orientale et des pays d'Europe de l'Est. Ces millions de réfugiés ont été intégrés dans la société d'après-guerre des territoires de la RFA et la RDA. Ils venaient principalement des anciennes provinces allemandes de la Silésie, de la Prusse-Orientale et aussi de l'est de la province de la Poméranie. En outre ils venaient de Pologne, notamment des anciennes provinces de la Prusse-Occidentale et de la Posnanie. Ils venaient encore des régions qui autrefois appartenaient à l'Autriche-Hongrie : de la Tchécoslovaquie - notamment des régions de Bohême, Moravie et Silésie Tchèque (Allemands des Sudètes) -, ainsi que de Hongrie et de Roumanie (Transylvanie). Par ailleurs ils venaient du territoire de Klaipėda (Memel), en Lituanie.

Sous l'impulsion du plan Marshall (1948-1952), l'Allemagne de l'Ouest renoue rapidement avec la croissance économique, au contraire de l'Allemagne de l'Est. L'amitié franco-allemande naît avec Konrad Adenauer et Charles de Gaulle, et est considérée encore aujourd'hui comme le moteur de l'Europe. À la chute du mur de Berlin le , prélude à la réunification de l'Allemagne, les deux pays de RFA et de RDA ne possèdent pas le même niveau économique. Cette différence persiste aujourd'hui, les Länder de l'Est (ancienne RDA) demeurant plus pauvres que ceux de l'Ouest. Le coût de la réunification a entraîné d'importantes difficultés économiques pour le pays depuis les années 1990. Son unification a cependant permis d'en faire une nation politiquement incontournable au sein de l'Union européenne et la première puissance économique du continent. (Issu de l'article Allemagne).

À la suite de cette résolution ces pays sont admis à l'ONU le 18 septembre 1973.

Texte
 Résolution 335 Sur fr.wikisource.org
 Résolution 335 Sur en.wikisource.org

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Voir aussi

Articles connexes
 Organisation des Nations unies.
 Conseil de sécurité des Nations unies.
 Résolution du Conseil de sécurité des Nations unies.
 Résolutions de l'Assemblée générale des Nations unies.
 Liste des résolutions du Conseil de sécurité des Nations unies.
 Liste des résolutions du Conseil de sécurité des Nations unies par pays.

Liens externes

  Résolution 335 sur le site des Nations unies.
 Charte des Nations unies sur le site des Nations unies.

Résolution du Conseil de sécurité des Nations unies de 1973
1973 en droit
1973 en Allemagne
Juin 1973


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Il Superflat (Superpiatto) è un movimento artistico postmoderno, influenzato dai manga e dagli anime, fondato dall'artista giapponese Takashi Murakami. È anche il nome di una mostra d'arte del 2001 curata da Murakami, esposta a West Hollywood, Minneapolis e Seattle.

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"Superflat" è un vocabolo usato da Murakami per riferirsi a varie forme appiattite presenti nell'arte grafica, nell'animazione, nella cultura di massa e nelle belle arti giapponesi, oltre alla "superficiale vuotezza della cultura di consumo giapponese". Il movimento Superflat si propone di analizzare la cultura giapponese del dopoguerra attraverso la cosiddetta sottocultura otaku.

Tra gli artisti del "Superflat" figurano: Chiho Aoshima, Mahomi Kunikata, Sayuri Michima, Yoshitomo Nara, Aya Takano, Mr. e Takashi Murakami. Inoltre, anche alcuni disegnatori di anime e mangaka hanno presentato dei loro lavori in esposizioni Superflat, in particolare Kōji Morimoto, e l'opera di Hitoshi Tomizawa, autore di Alien 9 e Milk Closet. Il movimento è stato abbracciato da vari artisti statunitensi che hanno creato un ibrido chiamato "SoFlo Superflat".

Murakami definisce il termine "Superflat " a grandi linee, di conseguenza l'argomento in oggetto è molto vario. Alcuni lavori esplorano il consumismo e il feticismo sessuale che sono comuni nella cultura giapponese del dopoguerra. Questo spesso include la cosiddetta arte "lolicon" che è parodiata da lavori come quelli di Henmaru Machino. Questi lavori sono un'esplorazione della sessualità "otaku" attraverso immagini grottesche e/o distorte. Gli altri lavori riguardano più la paura di crescere. Per esempio, il lavoro di Yoshitomo Nara spesso raffigura giocosi graffiti su antichi "ukiyo-e" giapponesi eseguiti in modo infantile. Altri lavori si concentrano sulla struttura e sui desideri alla base che costituiscono l'otaku e in generale la cultura giapponese del dopoguerra.

Uno sguardo sovversivo all'otakuismo non è un fattore decisivo delle gallerie Kaikai Kiki; Bome, uno dei più importanti artisti coinvolti nella prima vera mostra del Superflat, è un famoso scultore di action figure e il suo lavoro, basato sugli attuali personaggi anime bishōjo, è stato presentato in molteplici gallerie compresa una personale presso la Kaikai Kiki Gallery. Mr., uno dei membri del movimento si autodescrive un artista di "lolicon" e considera il suo lavoro non una testimonianza culturale ma una rappresentazione delle sue personali fantasie.

Note

Bibliografia
 Murakami, Takashi, ed. (2003). Little Boy: The Arts of Japan's Exploding Subculture. New York: Japan Society. ISBN 0-913304-57-3.
 Murakami, Takashi, ed. (2001). Superflat. Last Gasp. ISBN 4-944079-20-6.
 Michael Darling (2001). "Plumbing the Depths of Superflatness". Art Journal. College Art Association. 60 (3, Autumn): 76–89. JSTOR 778139. doi:10.2307/778139.
 Store A, ed. (1999). Takashi Murakami: the meaning of the nonsense of the meaning. New York, NY: Center for Curatorial Studies Museum, Bard College, in association with Harry N. Abrams, Inc., Publishers. ISBN 0-8109-6702-2.

Collegamenti esterni
 Kaikai Kiki Co., Ltd.—Takashi Murakami's official site featuring Superflat artists
 Superflat Japanese postmodernity by Hiroki Azuma
- on blog.emilkerie.com
 Superflat Japanese Postmodernity (Archived) — essay by Hiroki Azuma.
 Plumbing the Depths of Superflatness
 Inspired works from Superflat
 Overthinking Superflat

Terminologia degli anime e dei manga
Movimenti artistici
Arte contemporanea
Estetica giapponese


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Following are some of the incidents reported to the Harvard University Police Department (HUPD) for the week ending May 28. The official log is located at 1033 Massachusetts Ave., sixth floor, and is available online athttp://www.hupd.harvard.edu/.
May 24: Graffiti was reported at 8 Story St. Harassing phone calls and e-mails were reported received at Eliot House. A bicycle was reported stolen from the Science Center.
May 26: Two bicycles were reported stolen from the New Research Building. At North Harvard Street and Soldiers Field Road, officers assisted the Boston Police and Fire departments with a vehicle fire. A laptop was reported stolen from the School of Dental Medicine.
May 27: Two unattended laptops were reported stolen from Currier House Dining Hall and Mather House.
May 28: Officers observed three individuals acting suspiciously near the bike rack of Harvard Hall. Officers heard the sound of a cable being snapped and observed one of the individuals putting an object into their backpack. After being questioned, the individual handed over the backpack to the officers, who observed a pair of bolt cutters inside. The individual was run for warrants with negative results and issued a trespass warning for all Harvard property. The individual then attempted to get onto a bicycle. The officers advised the individual that the bicycle was going to be confiscated and impounded until the individual could provide proof of ownership.


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Ба́ннівська сільська́ ра́да — колишня   адміністративно-територіальна одиниця та орган місцевого самоврядування в Болградському районі Одеської області. Адміністративний центр — село Баннівка.

Загальні відомості
Баннівська сільська рада утворена в 1944 році.
 Територія ради: 55,32 км²
 Населення ради: 1 211 особа (станом на 2001 рік)
 Територією ради протікає річка Котлабух

Населені пункти
Сільській раді були підпорядковані населені пункти:
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Населення
Згідно з переписом 1989 року населення сільської ради становило  , з яких   та  .

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Розподіл населення за рідною мовою за даними перепису 2001 року:

Склад ради
Рада складалася з 20 депутатів та голови.
 Голова ради: Генчев Віктор Петрович
 Секретар ради: Стоєва Ніна Степанівна

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Примітка: таблиця складена за даними сайту Верховної Ради України

Депутати
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With so much to offer and being located within close proximity to the beautiful city of Murcia, the Trampolin Hills Golf Resort in Campos Del Rio was supposedly intended to be a British expat's paradise.
There was a golf course and over 2,500 units planned, the first of which was purchased in 2005, and over the next few years demand remained high; by 2008 the majority of the properties had been sold.
Buyers were also given the option to purchase a 'package' that consisted of many valuable assets including the home itself, a luxury car, and shares in the golf course.
In addition, the development was heavily promoted by The Trampolin Group, and was also marketed to British buyers. Aside from this, it had the full support of the planning office at the local town hall, as reported by Spanish Property Insight at the time. Everything appeared to be in place.
However, this never came into fruition. These buyers now have nothing to show for the money that was spent.
Around 1,700 off-plan homes were sold at Trampolin Hills Golf Resort. Buyers on these homes in deposits and stage payments spent a total of 53 million euros. People who bought these homes even moved to Murcia early in order to wait for their homes to be completed.
These buyers are still waiting for those homes that were never built.
Only show homes were constructed and work never developed past the land movement phase. It was at this point that problems became apparent – administrative fraud was exposed and financially the company was just about ready to collapse.
It wasn't just British buyers who were affected either; this ordeal also hit Finnish, French and even local Spanish buyers just as hard. Because of the large number of victims, which included Spanish locals, Trampolin Hills Golf Resort found itself under the intense scrutiny of the Spanish media – something that doesn't happen a lot when it comes to this type of case.
If you lost your deposit when you bought your property in Trampolin Hills Golf Resort, then this letter can help you to understand how you can recover your deposit.
I bought an off plan property at Trampolin Hills Golf Resort (Campos Del Rio, Murcia) and lost my deposit, can I get my money back?
Yes. If you are one of the buyers who lost your deposit in Trampolin Hills Golf Resort, now is the right time for recovering your lost investment.
When the banks realised that Trampolin Hills Golf Resort had financial problems they decided not to comply with the obligation to grant individual guarantees.
Has Trampolin Hills gone into Bankruptcy?
Yes, under the Court file number 20/2009, dated 13/10/09, Trampolin Hills Golf Resort, S.L (with Company Registration number B-73345746), was declared bankrupt.
Six years after (May 2015) the company has finally gone into liquidation, which basically means that the company will definitively not be able to pay any of the monies back to its creditors.
If the builder has gone into Bankruptcy, can I recover my lost deposit?
Yes, it is during the liquidation phase when the bank's responsibility to pay creditors begins.
The jurisprudence (Judges decision) has progressed and fortunately it has become clear that if there is a General Insurance Agreement signed between Trampolin Hills Golf Resort and the banks, an individual bank guarantee is not required as the Agreement covered all the creditors payments transferred.
Which banks were involved with Trampolin Hills?
There were two banks that received deposits from Trampolin Hills Golf Resort homebuyers. Those banks involved were Caja Mar and Caixa bank.
They were the banks that received creditors deposits when buyers transferred money over to Spain.
What is the actual situation with the claim against Caixa Bank?
As I have mentioned before, one of the most important pieces of evidence in the Case is the Agreement signed between the bank, and Trampolin Hills Golf Resort. We can now ensure clients that Caixa Bank signed a General Insurance Agreement with Trampolin Hills Golf Resort and for that reason Caixa Bank should have guaranteed all the deposit received by the buyers.
It is important to mention that we keep in our premises a copy of the Agreement signed between the Banks concerned and the builder, which is the most important evidence on the Case.
What is the current situation with the claim against Caja Mar?
We have requested Court the Agreement signed between Caja Mar and Trampolin Hills Golf Resort, as we need to make sure if Caja Mar was obliged to guarantee clients deposits transferred to them.
Have our law firm won a case against any of those banks?
We proudly say, that last December 2016 we won our last Case against Caixa Bank and on behalf of our clients who bought in Trampolin Hills Golf Resort. Clients are more than welcome to request the Judgment from us.
It is difficult to say as once a Case is presented in Court, a Judge will make the final decision.
However, if your deposit was sent to Caixa Bank (as we have already won a Case against them) there is a chance to settle an agreement with them before a hearing date. We believe this Case will not take more than 12 months.
In the event you have sent your deposit to Caja Mar, as soon we have received from Court the agreement signed between themselves and the Trampolin Hills we will be ready to start the Case.


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The person who wrote that message has plenty of company. She described herself as "shy" and "sensitive," easily hurt by other people. Question: To what degree is God responsible for your problems? Is He guilty because, as our friend suggested, He put her in a dysfunctional family, or put you in a poor family, or a family where a dad split and a mother is left to raise the five children?
Now, I want you to know that I'm not making light of the seriousness of the perception of the problem. Individuals who write letters anonymously, such as the one I quoted, are genuinely troubled. They just don't know what to do about it.
Sure, you can say, "Look, nobody chooses his parents any more than they choose to have a nose that is a plastic surgeon's delight." It's easy to give advice, saying, "Just get on with your life," but that doesn't help the pain.
There's a deeper issue. It is this: To what degree should we expect God to change the difficulties of our lives? Should I expect that at all? I've noticed a common theme. People are disappointed with God because He didn't exempt them from the consequences of irresponsible decisions. Such was the girl who blamed God for her pregnancy because the man who fed her a line about her being the answer to his dreams walked away and left her with a baby and a nightmare.
Lest I be unclear, God does answer prayer. He often saves us from ourselves. He is a refuge and a shelter to whom we can flee in times of trouble. But even a casual reading of the Bible tells us in no uncertain terms that He does not always deliver us from the consequences of irresponsible decisions. God doesn't turn the stock market around because I made a bad investment, or turn the oil well which started pumping briny water into black gold, or reverse the process of aging and let my hair grow back in. He doesn't automatically remove the calories when I overindulge or prevent me from getting into trouble financially when I spend money I don't have.
"Well," you may be thinking, "what does God promise to do?" Ah, good question. Without question, He promises to do exactly what He said He would do in the pages of the Book–which is why we need to rediscover the Bible. He tells us that what we sow we reap, and that the law of the harvest will be rewarded by the fruit of our labor. He does tell us that He is a God who forgives our sins and gives us the strength to live righteously. He is a faithful God whose mercy is extended to a thousand generations. It's still true today.


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Home » Volcano touts "excellent diagnostic efficiency" for drug-free ischemia detection system
Volcano touts "excellent diagnostic efficiency" for drug-free ischemia detection system
November 15, 2011 By MassDevice staff
Volcano Corp.'s (NSDQ:VOLC) instant wave-Free Ratio coronary lesion detector proved highly effective at diagnosing coronary lesions, according to the results of the company's Advise trials.
The instant wave-Free Ratio (iFR) system, under investigational device exemption in the U.S., aims to provide a pharmaceutical-free alternative to the gold standard fractional flow reserve (FFR) method for assessing narrowed blood vessels.
The results of these assessments are used to determine whether a particular patient needs a stent or other therapy.
FFR systems require that patients receive an injection that excites the heart, which can increase the cost of a procedure and cause patient discomfort, according to a press release.
In a study of 157 lesions in 131 patients conducted alongside researchers at Imperial College London, the iFR system demonstrated 88 percent overall diagnostic accuracy, the company revealed at the Transcatheter Cardiovascular Therapeutics symposium in San Diego this week.
"In an environment where decision-making in the cath lab is increasingly questioned, Volcano is committed to delivering tools that give physicians what we call the 'moment of proof': a quantifiable measure of lesion severity that is more precise than angiography and justifies the use of a stent based on each patient's individual physiology," general manager of functional management for Volcano Joe Burnett said in prepared remarks.
The results were accepted for publication the Journal of the American College of Cardiology.
Filed Under: News Well, Research & Development Tagged With: Clinical Trials, Investigational Device Exemption (IDE), Transcatheter Cardiovascular Therapeutics symposium (TCT), Volcano Corp.
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La tour est un édifice située à Hautefage-la-Tour dans le département de Lot-et-Garonne, en France.

Historique
La tour d'Hautefage a été construite par deux évêques d'Agen de la famille des della Rovere : Leonardo Grosso della Rovere, cardinal, évêque d'Agen de 1487 à 1519 et son successeur, Antonio della Rovere, évêque d'Agen de 1519 à 1538.

La tour a été conçue pour servir de résidence aux évêques d'Agen. La construction n'a probablement pas été terminée.

Dès le , la tour a servi de clocher à l'église Notre-Dame située en contrebas.

Dans la seconde moitié du , elle est considérée comme semi-ruinée. C'est l'état que décrit Georges Tholin dans son article sur la tour dans la revue de l'Agenais de 1889.

Des travaux de restauration sont entrepris à partir de 1888 en lui donnant la forme actuelle avec une balustrade, les contreforts d'angle surmontés de pinacle et la couverture conique en ardoise ajoutée dans les années 1910.

La tour est transformée en château d'eau en 1957 en plaçant un réservoir en béton armé au troisième étage. Le réservoir est abandonné dès 1974.

Des chutes de pierres en 2007 entraînent des travaux de restauration. La couverture a été refaite. Le réservoir d'eau a été cassé en 2013 et un plancher a été restitué. Les cloches ont été replacées au troisième étage. Les planchers doivent être réaménagés en même temps que les différents niveaux de la tour

L'édifice est classé au titre des monuments historiques en 1883.

Description

La tour d'Hautefage est un bâtiment étonnant, difficile à classer. Bâtiment isolé, il n'était pas destiné à la défense. En l'absence de pierre d'attente, la tour n'était pas destinée à être un élément d'un château plus vaste.

Placée à la rencontre de deux coteaux, elle domine une vallée profonde. la plus grande fenêtre ouvre vers le couchant.

La tour devait donc servir de résidence aux évêques d'Agen. Son emplacement et sa vue devaient le rendre très pittoresque, mais très inconfortable, fantaisie d'un évêque grand seigneur.

La tour a un plan hexagonal. Son implantation à flanc de coteau fait qu'un étage de la tour se trouve en-dessous de la route. À partir de l'arête du coteau, la tour se compose d'un rez-de-chaussée et de trois étages dont les divisions sont rendues apparentes à l'extérieur par des cordons. Une tourelle renfermant l'escalier à vis de 122 marches distribuant les étages est placée à l'extérieur dans l'angle sud-ouest.

La porte en plein cintre est surmontée d'un fronton dont les ornements ont été détruits.

Le premier étage est éclairé par deux fenêtres de style Renaissance. Celle s'ouvrant vers l'ouest est coupée par deux meneaux en croix et surmontée d'un fronton. Celle qui lui fait presque face est plus étroite, est partagée par un seul meneau horizontal.

Le deuxième étage a trois fenêtres à cintre brisé et tréflé.

Le troisième étage est percé sur toutes ses faces de larges baies.

Références

Annexes

Bibliographie
 Georges Tholin, La tour d'Hautefage, , Revue de l'Agenais, 1889, tome 9 ( lire en ligne )
 Stéphane Thouin, 082 - Hautefage-la-Tour, tour et village, , revue Le Festin, Hors série Le Lot-et-Garonne en 101 sites et monuments, année 2014

Liens internes
 Liste des monuments historiques de Lot-et-Garonne
 Liste des châteaux de Lot-et-Garonne

Lien externe

 Hautefage-la-Tour : Histoire et patrimoine

Monument historique en Lot-et-Garonne
Monument historique classé en 1883
Tour monument historique en France


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Thank you Camron and Helen for choosing me to capture your beautiful family!


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Talk:Kerrek
Revision as of 21:15, 25 September 2014 by 76.22.31.84 (Talk)
1 Homeland Security is Burninated
3 Am I the only one...
4 Gannon
5 Always Smitten?
6 Kerack
[edit] Homeland Security is Burninated
Tom Ridge's replacement in the 2004 US Cabinet is named Bernard Kerik. I expect to see a lot of punny references to this from Homestar fans before too long. --codeman38 18:29, 2 Dec 2004 (MST)
The Kerik appears to have been smitten by the Trogdor of scandal, and has withdrawn his name from consideration. --68.169.5.247 10:34, 12 Dec 2004 (MST)
[edit] User
User:Islayedthekerrek --TheThingé 16:36, 24 February 2006 (UTC)
[edit] Am I the only one...
..who thinks it's really weird that there's some random person out there named "Kerrek" and this HR character is named after them? I'm also pretty sure it's been used in a video game or something, as a reference to HR. AlliterativeAssociate 18:10, 22 May 2006 (UTC)
I'm sure there's not actually a person named Kerrek, but knowing that its spelled the same backwards (kerreK) as it is forwards, then It probably wasn't from a video game. I googled it and found nuttin' but Homestar stuff. DevonM(talk·cont-ribs) 00:20, 13 June 2008 (UTC)
[edit] Gannon
Couldn't the Kerrek's physical appearence be a refference to Gannon, since TBC are avid Nintendo fans? I think it makes sense. 20X6 GEM 23:15, 12 June 2008 (UTC)
With the central forehead horn he looks like a kubanochoerus.
[edit] Always Smitten?
"Someone (either Trogdor or Rather Dashing) smites the Kerrek in each of his appearances"
in for kids, Strong Bad (playing as Rather Dashing) is killed by the Kerrek instead. Should this be taken into account? Mesmerickiwi
I'm gonna remove it, it's a pretty badly-worded and nitpicky line anyway. — Defender1031*Talk 23:51, 14 August 2008 (UTC)
[edit] Kerack
I think I know where the Kerrek got its name. Just look at this Wikipedia article: wikipedia:Kerack (It's in the last sentence of the plot summary.). --66.205.143.105 04:01, 19 February 2009 (UTC)
You're forgetting that Kerrek was the name of an email sender. — It's dot com 04:16, 19 February 2009 (UTC)
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